Editing Duniya Kanaash (section)

===War in Sol===
''The existence of Man is an existence of war, fighting both for their beliefs and causes and against external enemies. For proof, look no further than the Sol System during the Age of Strife.''

-Kunaash, Galactic War, Coda 1.7.7


The Mechanicum had been born in war, war had forged and tempered the Machine Cult into the power it had become, and those who made war were highly regarded within the Mechanicum, none more than the Myrmidons, an order of Techpriests who had devoted themselves solely to the arts of war. Duniya Kanaash was one of many who chose war as his profession. Of his life before the Myrmidons nothing is known, but somehow as a menial he impressed the Myrmidax enough that he was let into their number and given the mark of the Skull and Cog.

Thanks to the meticulous records Kanaash kept of himself which were freely given to those who wished to study them, his war service during the Unification Wars is well known. He fought against the Forge Lord of Nili Patera and the Master of Mondus Gamma, He battled Xenos Raiders striking from their bases in Jupiter against the Martian Mines in the Asteroid Belt, and he was part of the Mechanicum force that assaulted Luna to steal the secrets of Pallas Eugenesis’ gene-forge. Throughout all this he fought because that was what he did. Neither he nor any other Myrmidon stopped to ask why they were fighting, for what cause and towards what end. They had been made to fight wars, and that was all they would do.

Most importantly for his future Kanaash was present on Terra twice, both times having a major effect upon him. The first time he was a lowly Secutor who was part of the force sent to defend the Outpost of Iota-Pi 6-0 while the archeotech horde stored there was evacuated to Mars. There he fought hand to hand with the most deadly warriors in the Sol System at the time, the Thunder Warriors. Kanaash lost an arm there, and was left with a deep impression of the savage gene-bred warriors of the Terran Emperor. Of all the foes he had faced, they were by far the deadliest. During his recovery he spent much time examining the records of the engagement, as well as fragmentary reports of the Terran Emperor's conquests of Terra. It was at this moment that he first deducted that the Terran Emperor was the most dangerous foe the Mechanicum had ever faced and one who could even conceivably bring Mars itself to its knees. When he returned to service he found himself with the most unlikely of things: a cause. He was strident in his calls for a preventive war to keep the Terran Emperor from upsetting the delicate balance of power, and began pressing his fellow Myrmidons to join him in petitioning the Fabricator General to make the Terran threat his prime concern.

He found himself with an unlikely ally in the form of Valran Burija, Forge Lord of Urbis Juventas. Burija met several times with Kanaash, pouring over Kanaash’s research into the Thunder Warriors and discussing how easily the Emperor was overrunning his Terran foes. To Kanaash, Burija alone could also see the rising storm. The Terran Emperor could not be underestimated, and nor could he be ignored. To others within the Ordo Myrmidon, Kanaash was too preoccupied on the Terran threat. The Xenos Overlords of Jupiter were considered a greater foe, especially after they tried and failed to raid the Deimos Forges. Kanaash continued to make strident calls for a greater focus on Terra and followed with interest any news from the Homeworld, but for all that he was seen as a crackpot.