Athanos, the Immortal Bastion

The story of Athanos starts with nothing out of the ordinary, a marine recruited from Khth’n after Araphel’s interaction, he was initially posted within the Third Chapter, as a Heavy Support Marine within the 4th Company. He always had an aptitude for heavy weapons, rising quickly within the ranks of the Third Chapter, however Athanos had always had a taste for glory which he felt could not be found within the often looked down on position within the Third Chapter.

During the Ullanor Containment in 000.M31, the First Legion suffered large casualties and due to his specialties, Athanos was quickly recruited into the First Chapter, making use of his skills with heavy weapons to trial new weapon and learn new tactics, often focusing his learnings on methods with which to dispatch heavy armour, or, tactical dreadnought armour to be more precise.

Being a member of the First Chapter meant Athanos was given the respect he felt was finally deserved. Very much an antithesis to the usual paranoid nature of the First Legion, he would fight for his brothers, often being the first one into the worst of battlefields and the last one out.

It was during one particularly nasty battle that Athanos stayed behind to give covering fire for his squad as they made their retreat away from a xenos-killzone. It was during this retreat that Captain Athanos’ purposely overheated his plasma cannon, bringing down a squadron of xenos and in a spectacular show of luck, not killing the Captain. It was hours later that the surviving members of his squad came back, finding Athanos missing his right arm and leg, as well as severe damage to his cranium, his left hand still gripped tightly to the stock of the plasma cannon.

First Captain Thaniel saw to it that Athanos was instituted within an experimental Leviathan Dreadnought chassis and placed into stasis. Whilst Athanos was still a truly devoted warrior within the Legion, his mind was damaged from the blast. The Captain still sees himself within that moment, fending off xenos from his squad as they retreat, still sees himself as a marine, limbs intact. To this day, squadrons deployed besides Athanos are protected by his presence, the captain laying down a hail of fire and not allowing his brothers to be harmed.

Thaniel saw fit to place Athanos within the ranks of the tenth chapter, allowing the chapter to place experimental weaponry upon the chassis, as well as to hopefully find new technology that might help Athanos reach his former glory.

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