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[[Image:ScarabOccultArt8th.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Post-Heresy Scarab Occult]]
The '''Scarab Occult''', also known as the '''Sekhmet'''{{Fn|1a}} and '''Magnus's Veterans''',{{Cite this}} were the [[Tactical Dreadnought Armour]]-equipped [[Terminator]] elite of the [[Thousand Sons]] [[Space Marine Legion]], active for much of the [[Great Crusade]]{{Fn|1a}} and the [[Horus Heresy]].
==Overview==
Belonging to the 1st [[Chapter|Fellowship]] of the legion, they were under the command of 1st Fellowship [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Ahzek Ahriman]]. Proud and devoted warriors, they were veterans of both battle and the Thousand Sons' psychic discipline system, with no member being of lower [[Cults of the Thousand Sons|cult]] grade than Philosophus. This meant that each warrior was able to mentally transcend their personal tastes, likes, and dislikes to achieve a form of emotional purity that resulted in warriors both extremely loyal and calm, perfectly willing to obey every order given to them. This practise was commented on by some of the [[primarchs]] who witnessed them fight during the Great Crusade; [[Jaghatai Khan]] called them "automatons," [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]] decried their fighting spirit, while [[Ferrus Manus]] called them "robots" - thought in a complimentary way.{{Fn|1a}}
The total number of the Sekhmet is unknown, but the force present with Ahriman on [[Aghoru]] numbered eighty-one.{{Fn|1c}} Aghoru was one of the first times that they deployed their newly issued [[assault cannon|rotary cannons]], although they deliberately chose to continue to refer to the weapon by the name of the previous Terminator-issue support cannon, the [[Reaper Autocannon|Reaper]]. This was due to the numerological significance of the word ''reaper'', which fitted perfectly with the philosophy of the Thousand Sons.{{Fn|1b}} Following the [[Council of Nikaea]], the Scarab Occult took to cutting a vertical scar through the right lenses of their helmets in their primarch's image.{{Fn|1d}}
