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The '''Fragment of Typhus''' is a piece of the [[Death Guard]] [[Typhus the Traveller]]'s [[power armor]], which he gifted to the [[Human]] population of [[Maypax]].{{Fn|2}}
==History==
This was after the [[Herald of Nurgle]] visited the world and its population began worshiping him as a god. [[Typhus]] later left [[Maypax]] after he had corrupted it, but he gave the now [[heretical]] population a fragment of his [[power armor]] before doing so. The Fragment of Typhus contained a portion of the Herald's dark power and was placed in the '''Temple of Typhus''', that had been built to honor honour the Traveller. However , soon afterwards, [[Warp Storm]]s appeared and cut off Maypax from the wider [[Galaxygalaxy]] for five centuries. {{Fn|2}} When the Warp Storms finally cleared, the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] discovered the Fragment's existence and sought to claim the powerful artefact for themselves, before it fell into unwise hands. The first [[Explorator]] team it sent to Maypax, though, fell prey to the dangers the world now held, which included the [[Orks]]. Another Explorator team was then sent, but Mechanicus agent [[Jamona Hilt]] was charged with acting as a backup plan, in case the team failed as well. This led the Mechanicus to insert him into the expendable [[Catachan]] [[19'ers]] [[Platoon]], whose [[Regiment]] was among the [[Astra Militarum]] forces that were now fighting the Orks on Maypax.{{Fn|2}}
When [[Jamona Hilt|Hilt]] later learned that the second [[Explorator]] team had been killed, before retrieving the Fragment,{{Fn|1}} he began putting his plans into action.{{Fn|2}} The [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] agent then led the [[19'ers]]' [[Imperial Guard Captain|Captain]], [[Obdant]], to the Explorators, where a dying member of the team asked him to find the temple and the artefact it contained. After the Explorator died,{{Fn|1}} Hilt began manipulating Obdant into raiding the temple, so that he could claim the Fragment for the Mechanicus, by telling the Captain{{Fn|2}} how valuable the artefact could be. The possible wealth they could obtain, convinced Obdant to undertake the risk and he took Hilt and a small number of the 19'ers to find the artefact.{{Fn|1}} With their help, Hilt reached the Fragment of Typhus and then turned on his former comrades. The Mechanicus agent was then going to shoot them, after explaining the origins of the Fragment and himself, when the 19'ers member [[Moom]] attacked Hilt. The [[Ogryn]] knocked Hilt unconscious, but in doing so the Mechanicus agent hit the pillar the Fragment of Typhus was floating on. This caused the temple to begin to collapse and as the 19'ers made their escape, Obdant ordered that Hilt and the Fragment be taken as well, as he thought they could be useful.{{Fn|2}}
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Warhammer Monthly 68]] - ''The 19'ers - Part Five''
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