Zhrukal Androcles

Zhrukhal Androcles, known as the 'Siegebreaker', was the grim Captain of the Star Phantoms 9th Devastator reserve Company. During the internecine conflict known as the Badab War (904.M41-912.M41), Captain Androcles played a crucial role in the final battle of the Badab War, when he confronted the renegade Astral Claws Chapter Master Lufgt Huron and mortally wounded him with a point-blank Multi-Melta blast before dying from his wounds.

History
Zhrukhal Androcles was a grim and relentless warrior, even amongst his fellow battle-brothers where such aspects of character were commonplace. Zhrukhal Androcles first made his name as a Devastator Sergeant in the bitter wars of the Gallitzin Succession fighting traitor Imperial Guard elements of the Sentrek Freemen, where he and his squad accounted for no less than 58 tank kills in a single day's worth of fighting on Astrakhan. In another notable engagement, during the Battle of Orsha, Androcles breached the renegade's Leviathan with melta-charges and led an ad hoc assault force within, systematically butchering the traitor's command as the battle raged around them. He fought his way to the main gun deck and ripped apart the corrupted engineseers that manned the cannon with his Power Fist before turning the colossal war machine's heavy batteries against the traitors themselves, turning the tide of the battle. Zhrukhal Androcles's rise within the Chapter was meteoric and he quickly became appointed the commander of the Star Phantoms' formidable and respected 9th Devastator reserve Company, later earning the epithet 'Siegebreaker' during the counter-invasion of Muertar Prime.

During the climatic battle for the Palace of Thorns on Badab Primaris, Captain Zhrukhal Androcles was entrusted to the command of one of the strike forces attacking the heavily defended palace citadel. Androcles's Star Phantoms pressed on through the shattered cityscape in some of the fiercest close fighting of the war, battling their way through fierce counterattacks by the Astral Claws as well as multiple minefields and death traps, pressing on despite suffering huge casualties. As the citadel's lightning field began to fail, Androcles and his surviving Star Phantoms were in a unique position to force a breach through the maze of catacombs beneath the palace, and as dark fate would have it, Androcles' own detachment encountered none other than Lugft Huron and his bodyguard endeavouring to make their escape. The battle that followed was swift and bloody, and the Star Phantoms force was wiped out to a Marine, but recovered data from the aftermath reveals that with his dying strength Captain Zhrukhal Androcles managed to unleash a melta blast at point blank range into the Tyrant of Badab, dealing him a mortal blow.

Wargear

 * Power Armour
 * Power Fists
 * Combi-melta
 * Frag & Krak Grenades
 * Iron Halo