Variant Deathwatch badge worn in the Era Indomitus.
Vilnus is a watch master of the Deathwatch Chapter who is the watch commander of the watch fortress at Haltmoat in the Segmentum Obscurus.
History[]
When the watch fortress of Haltmoat began receiving numerous reports of voidships disappearing near the Tiamet System, Watch Commander Vilnus sent a kill-team, led by Watch Sergeant Gjunheim, to investigate the system held by Hive Fleet Tiamet. Though the kill-team was able to infiltrate the system they soon met with disaster and were killed on the Jungle World of Ziaphoria. The kill-team's ship returned to the watch fortress, but it bore a final vox transmission by Gjunheim that warned of a nightmare biomechanical structure built by the Tyranids that they had discovered.
The watch sergeant reported that it spanned an entire continent on Ziaphoria and when the Astartes approached it, the structure pulsed and sent out a tsunami of psychic energy. This pulse caused the death of the kill-team's Librarian froma cerebral hemorhage, which alerted the hive fleet to their presence. The kill-team was subsequently torn apart by the Tyranids.
Once Vilnus finished the message, he transmitted it to the Ordo Xenos and it eventually reached the ears of the excommunicated Inquisitor Fidus Kryptman. The former Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos travelled to Watch Fortress Haltmoat and Vilnus agreed to meet with him. As they talked, Kryptman shared his own grim theories regarding the purpose of the unknown Tyranid structure on Ziaphoria and Hive Fleet Tiamet, and together the two began to formulate a plan to utterly obliterate whatever the Hive Mind was planning.
Sources[]
- Codex: Tyranids (8th Edition), pg. 38