Editing Spores of Madness (section)

=== ''Ark Defilement'' ===

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'''+++DISTRESS CALL FROM ADEPTUS MECHANICUS FACTORY VESSEL [#731/B9]+++'''

''"This is techpriest Reduktus Bata, calling out to any Imperial or Mechanicus ships in this sector, by the machine god, even Xenos would do! We are under attack, I repeat, we are under attack. We have a 90% chance of the attackers being heretics and traitors. They ambushed us when our ship entered the Gorvium system to collect ores from the asteroid belt. Clever bastards, they hid in the outer layer of a gas giant."''

''"Before we knew it, our frigates were blown to smithereens and our ship was boarded. As far as I know I am the only surviving Magos in this section. Please send assistance!"''

''"By the Omnissiah, they are melting the bulkhead! Please, send hel-"''

'''+++END OF DISTRESS CALL+++'''

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The stolen factory ship known as ''Ark Defilement'' is barren. Kind of. Its halls are wandered by the crew, Heretechs who bent the knee to Nurgle, and "The Magos". The rest of the population of the factory ship consists of a horrible amalgamation of Nurgle hive mind and unwilling techpriests ''fused to the goddamn walls''. The poor bastards were taken and fused into the horrid ship, and now all they can do is rot and make arms and ammo.

"The Magos" and his personal little retinue were linked to a separate hive mind, and now maintain the gear of the Warband. This includes first mate Ironsides.

==== The Think Tank ====

Deep inside the Ark Defilement is an area called "the think tank". Do not confuse this area with a place for research. Its purpose is much darker than that.

In that room are rows upon rows of vat tanks that have one single use: to grow experimental cultists and dark servitors for the fleet. The think tank's overseer is a former Magos Biologis called Erodas Vea. He managed to escape the forge world he was conducting his experiments on when the Techpriests found out about his "studies".

So far none of the clones have been able to be a fully capable and thinking human. The things that have come out have always been lifeless and soulless humans. However, following an accident involving a mug of Ol' Ironsides' brew and a exposed vat tank, some sort of cognitive motion has developed in the clones.

At the present date, the once sterile and clean vat tanks are now filthy, and the water that the clones now grow in has turned into a green and black sludge.

Both Erodas and Boil Beard are interested in what will come of the new batch of clones.