Drogan

Drogan was a Radical Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos who developed an arcane, Warp-based power source and a device capable of opening up multiple portals into the Immaterium. Drogan was slain and his body possessed by a Daemon from the Warp at the direction of the Heretic Astartes and Chaos Sorcerer Nemeroth, who used him as a pawn to trick the Ultramarines who arrived on Graia to face WAAAGH! Grimskull to bolster the Forge World's defences into activating the device.

Drogan had deceptively named the device the "Psychic Scourge" and claimed that it could kill all of the Orks invading the planet by overloading the Greenskins' gestalt psychic field of WAAAGH! energy and destroy their minds. Instead the Psychic Scourge was actually intended to open portals into the Warp from realspace and bring Nemeroth, a horde of Daemons and the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the Chosen of Nemeroth to the Forge World so that Nemeroth might conquer it and ascend to become a Daemon Prince who would rule over Graia as a new Daemon World.

It is possible that Drogan was a Xanthite, a Radical faction of the Inquisition whose members believe in using Warp-based technology to benefit the Imperium.

Drogan was an important non-player character in the video game Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine and a Servo-skull that once belonged to him is an important non-player character in the video game Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun.

History[]

WAAAGH! Grimclaw[]

Long before the Ork invasion of Forge World Graia, Drogan was captured by a species of xenos and tortured for many standard years. This left a great hatred for aliens within his heart that left him resolved to spend the rest of his life seeking for a way to conclusively end all the alien threats facing the Imperium. During a journey through the Warp, Drogan, who was a psyker, let his psychic defenses down for a moment and a spark of Warp energy appeared before him. When he once more travelled through the Immaterium, he was able to summon another spark and capture it in a containment device. With the blessing of his Radical superiors in the Inquisition, Drogan decided to research a technological means to wield the power of the Warp against the enemies of the Imperium.

To that end, Drogan travelled to the Forge World of Graia. Drogan had convinced several Graian Tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to allow him to conduct his research there into Warp-related technologies, a clear violation of the orthodox doctrines of the Cult Mechanicus and a dangerous step into tech-heresy. However, Drogan's research and experiments soon drew the attention of the Ruinous Powers, and a Daemon of Chaos was sent forth to retrieve the spark of empyrean power in the Inquisitor's possession. The Daemon killed Drogan and took possession of his corpse, as was later made evident by Servo-skull hololithic recordings found by Captain Titus of the Ultramarines. What was left of Drogan was little more than an undead flesh puppet, a disguise of flesh for the Daemon to wear on its quest to aid the forces of Chaos in conquering the Forge World.

Before he died, Drogan had sent a distress signal for assistance as Graia came under the assault of WAAAGH! Grimskull. Captain Titus of the Ultramarines 2nd Company was the first of the Adeptus Astartes to answer. When the Space Marines arrived, the Daemonhost Drogan tasked the Ultramarines to help further his plan -- which was actually to open a Warp Gate on Graia and allow the Heretic Astartes warband known as the Chosen of Nemeroth under the command of the Chaos Sorcerer Nemeroth to come and seize the planet and its valuable resources, notably a manufactorum for Warlord-class Titans.

The Daemonhost told the Ultramarines truthfully that the power source technology he wanted them to reclaim for him drew upon the energies of the Warp, leading Leandros, a young member of Titus' Command Squad, to voice his displeasure at aiding the Inquisitor in violation of the Codex Astartes. Titus reassured Leandros that the Codex was merely a guide for the action of Space Marines, not holy writ, and that they should aid the Inquisitor.

The possessed Drogan led Titus to eventually load the power source into a launcher and fire the weapon, which would allegedly lead to a psychic scourge which would kill the Orks assaulting Graia by overloading the Greenskins' gestalt psychic field of WAAAGH! energy and destroying their minds. Instead, when the weapon was fired at a spire of a Mechanicus stronghold, which had been prepared by the Daemonhost to serve as a conductor for its power, it allowed an invasion by the forces of Chaos under the command of Nemeroth to begin by unleashing a Warp storm over the world.

It was in that moment that the charade finally ended, as the Sorcerer Lord Nemeroth emerged onto the soil of Graia and stripped his servant of its disguise. Drogan's actions eventually led Captain Titus to stop both the Ork invasion and to kill Nemeroth, yet his unsuauly resistance to the sorcerer's psychic powers led to suspicion of heresy against Titus and his being taken for questioning by Inquisitor Thrax after the Forge World had been secured.

Second Invasion of Graia[]

Years later, when Graia was once more assaulted by the forces of Chaos, this time under the command of the Sorcerer Lord Tumulus Samael, it was because rogue Tech-priests of Graia had experimented with the remains of the late Inquisitor Drogan's unique Warp-based power source -- a small cylinder wreathed in potent blue energies -- and the experiments resulted in the opening of another Warp rift that allowed the forces of Chaos to once more invade the Forge World.

This time, the Ultramarines Sternguard Veteran Malum Caedo was tasked by the Inquisition to reclaim the power source and defeat Samael, preventing him from using it to carry out Nemeroth's old plan for Daemonic ascension. To aid him in this endeavour, Caedo was granted a Servo-skull by Inqusitor Seibel that had once belonged to Drogan before his Daemonic possession.

Trivia[]

Drogan was voiced in Space Marine by the actor Danny Webb, who also performed the audio version of Dan Abnett and Graham McNeill's short stories The Dark King and The Lightning Tower.

Sources[]

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (Video Game)
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun (Video Game)