The Zar-Quaesitor was a great Adeptus Mechanicus freighter-hulk, mass-conveyor and Ark Mechanicus that served as the flagship and mobile laboratory of Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl in his time with the Indomitus Crusade Fleet Primus.
The Zar-Quaesitor is capable of holding armies of the Mechanicus within itself, as it provided several Skitarii and Legio Cybernetica armies as well as three lances of House Taranis Knights during the course of the Indomitus Crusade.
History[]
At the start of the Indomitus Crusade, Belisarius Cawl's own Adeptus Mechanicus fleet joined Primarch Roboute Guilliman's Fleet Primus, headed by theZar-Quaesitor, that carried within its massive hull a vast number of Primaris Marines still in stasis hibernation.
As the Indomitus Crusade penetrated deeper into the galaxy, Archmagos Cawl kept his automaton workers on overdrive, risking meltdowns with their accelerated speeds. Locked deep in the labyrinthine holds of Zar-Quaesitor, thousands of Primaris Space Marines -- some comprising entirely new Chapters and others designated as reinforcements for existing Firstborn ones -- were awakened out of stasis and made ready to join the fray.
Despite cleaving a wide path through the darkness that beset the Imperium in the Era Indomitus after the birth of the Great Rift, the Indomitus Crusade eventually began to break down. When the vast holds of the Zar-Quaesitor were at last emptied of their precious contents, Archmagos Cawl departed from Fleet Primus, for he had many more secret vaults to activate in order to complete the Ultima Founding.
Sources[]
- Codex Adeptus Astartes - Space Marines (8th Edition), pg. 19
- White Dwarf 35 (July 2019), "Indomitus Crusade Fleets," pp. 40-45
- White Dwarf 39 (November 2019), "Dawn of the Era Indomitus," pp. 46-51