Zarkit
Zarkit was an Ork Mekboss, whose hordes took part in the War of Beasts on Vigilus and invaded the Megaborealis Hive-sprawl's Bore-Hive Scelerus. Capturing the Hive would give the Orks access to the rest of the Hive-sprawl and as a result Megaborealis' commander, Archmagos Nesium Caldrike, ordered the entire sprawl's Adeptus Mechanicus forces to engage Zarkit's hordes. The Orks' attack also caused the Genestealer Cult known as the Writhing Wyrm, to make their move to seize the Hive, but they were all no match for Zarkit's hordes. This allowed the Orks to push further into the Hive and they began using its factories to create warmachines, that were quickly used against the Hive's defenders. With this advantage, Zarkit would have won his battle for the Hive - had the Imperial forces of Chapter Master Calgar not arrived to aid Vigilus. Soon Imperial reinforcements came to defend the Scelerus Hive and they began to take a heavy toll on Zarkit's hordes. Despite this, the Orks still outnumbered any other force within Scelerus and Zarkit's hordes pressured him to order a final attack, that would allow them to capture the Hive. He gave in to their demands and the Mekboss' hordes began an unstoppable advance, that forced the Imperial forces into an inescapable corner of the Hive. As the Imperials desperately asked Calgar for more aid, Zarkit began to give the order to finish them off, when the Cultists of the Writhing Wyrm appeared and launched a suicidal attack to destroy the Hive with a Rad bomb. Though both sides fired upon the Cult and prevented them from reaching Scelerus' thermal core, the Cultists were able to active the bomb, which devastated the Hive. Scelerus still stood, in the aftermath of the explosion, but both the Imperials and Zarkit' hordes were devastated by the explosion, which ended the Mekboss' threat to Scelerus and Megaborealis.[1]
Source
- 1: Urban Conquest, pgs. 19-21
