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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a [[Magos]] of the [[Forge World]] [[Gryphonne IV]]. {{Fn|1a}} Archivist Primus to Lord Explorator [[Traskel]]. Curator and Sator of the [[Oblivis Manifold]]. Author of A ''Treatise on the Epistemological Validity of Common Proto-Human Origins''.{{Fn|1c}} Lucanus was an archivist and theorist who spent the majority of his 300 year career as master datamancer of the [[explorator]] ship ''[[Almagest]]''. Like many adepts of the [[Cult Mechanicus]], his fixations had been broad and eclectic, shifting with each new document and artefact he obtained.{{Fn|1a}}
==History==
He proposed that at the centre of every allegorical narrative lay not the actions of fickle gods and djinn, nor the improbability of spontaneous biological inception, nor even the divine work of the Omnissiah, but a technology. A lost work of humanity’s mastery, employed in the first millennia when humanity extended its hand to claim the galaxy for its own. The knowledge and ability to seed life across barren earth.{{Fn|1a}} This was Magos Lucanus' most controversial theory.{{Fn|1b}}
==Plot==
Prior to the ''Almagest'''s entombment in ''Misery's Daughter'', Magos Lucanus would eventually come into the possession of an [[Eldar]] artifact, a blood-red crystal-fragment. It allowed for the spontaneous creation of life in a variety of forms. Lucanus used this artifact's power to bring to life grass and iron-infused trees within the command deck of the ''Almagast''.{{Fn|1c}} Lucanus would create his own personal garden paradise, as he describes it, within this portion of the ship. He would rule over the [[abhuman]] remnants descended from the ship's crew and give orders to them through the ship's vox-emitters.{{Fn|1c}}
Eventually, Explorator [[Talin Sherax]] would track down the trapped vessel in the hope of finding clues to track down the mythical source of Lucanus' world-seeding technology theory. She and her small party of tech priests would kill Lucanus and steal away the crystal-fragment in the hopes of finding its origin.{{Fn|1c}}
==Sources==
**{{Endn|1a}}: Misery's Daughter, Chapter Five
**{{Endn|1b}}: The Almagest, Chapter One
**{{Endn|1c}}: The Almagest, Chapter Seven
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