Zadakine Volta
Zadakine Volta was a High Magos of Stygies VIII who was a highest racnking Adeptus Mechanicus representative on Otto Ivan Gustavus staff during the Taros Campaign.[1a]
Volta was part of the command involved in the preparation and conduct of the Taros Campaign. In particular, Volta's responsibilities included collecting intelligence and other information, including the planet growth, climate, atmospheric conditions, volcanic activity, weather patterns, orbital cycles, etc. Information collected by Volta and his team of Lexmechanics and Logis stretched back to the Great Crusade time. Any information that could help in the invasion was collected, studied, analyzed and after six months of thorougth compiling was submitted to Gustavus.[1b]
Next, Zadakine Volta promised to enlist the help of an entire Legion of the Titans. However, Volta had some problems with this enterprise. Legio Honorum, whose forces he wanted to join the forces on Taros, were fully involved in other campaigns. But Volta had already sworn an oath to bring the Titans to help, so he had to use his whole mind and his connections, turning for help to the rulers of Mars, and personally to Fabricator General. But here difficulties arose. Most of the units of the Titans left for the front to the Cadian Gate, where a new and much more dangerous threat arose for humanity in the form of a full-scale Chaos invasion. However, Volta managed to convince the Fabricator General that humanity also needed help on Taros, and that the honor of the Adeptus Mechanicus, whose help he vowed to provide for this campaign, was at stake. In the end, Fabricator General gave up and provided Volta with a small battle group from the Legio Ignatum, under the command of Princeps Jernay. Only four Warhound Titans were included in this battle group, hardly the powerful support that the Taros Campaigns expected, but still better than nothing.[1a]