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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==
[[Magos ]] Nekane Lucanus set down a series of texts sometime in the early centuries of [[M41 ]] consisting of the accumulation and interrogation of creation myths. This was but one of his secondary interests – almost an idle hobby, in comparison with his greater works. Genesis. Kumulipo. Enuma Elish. Olodumare. Names given to the oldest of human myths, describing the seeding of life across celestial bodies. Told and retold by countless cultures as they rose and fell across the million worlds of the Imperium.{{Fn|1a}}
Several Imperial theologians subsequently incorporated elements of his work into their imperfect canon of worship. Lucanus had considered these not for their religious or anthropological significance but had collected and deconstructed them in support of a far grander thesis.{{Fn|1a}}
==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 verdant paradise, as he describes it, within this portion of the ship. He would rule and ruled over the [[abhuman]] remnants descended from the ship's crew and give as a god. Having enmeshed himself with the ship's systems, he gave orders to them the [[mutants]] through the ship's [[bihnaric]] 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}}
