Sevano Tomasin glowered at Uriel, searching his face for any trace of sarcasm. Finding none, the Techmarine nodded as he continued wiring the explosives, moving with a lop-sided, mechanical gait as both his legs and arms were heavier, bionic replacements.

The apothecaries had grafted these on after recovering his body from a wrecked Land Raider on Ichar IV after a raging carnifex had ripped it apart. The horrifying creature's plasma had flooded the interior of the armored fighting vehicle, detonating its ammo spectacularly. The carnifex was killed in the blast, but the explosion sheared Tomasin to the bone and , rather than lose his centuries of wisdom, the chapter's artisans had designed a completely new, artificial body around the rags of his remains

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