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==Phenex Prime==
The future of the Archeotect Collective was unearthed, without particular ceremony, on a distant world beyond the edges of known space – the largest sphere in a system of nine. The discovery made on that barren, airless world would forever change the disparate remnants that flew under the Archeotect banner, and immortalize those heading the mission, both figuratively and literally. The distant stars beyond the light of Segmentum Obscurus had long been the aspiration of many an Archeotect seeking to unearth some great secret of the ancient past, but few could claim to have made it as far as the outer systems, wary of the ancient horrors that and remnants of Old Night that roamed those cold starways. It took a man with nothing to lose – a descendant of the old Mechanicum by the name of Isador Vanth – to brave the territory and eventually land upon the surface of Phenex Prime. By all accounts a star fading far too soon, the captain’s career had been one of disaster, brushes with the fledgling Crusader States having destroyed much of his parent fleet and cost him the greater part of his crew. Whether he himself was strong of character or command is not documented, and matters little, for he returned from Phenex Prime with the blood of kings in his veins.

Amidst the dust of an ancient kingdom, Vanth and his fellows discovered a technology long lost to the varying empires of mankind. In the years after his transformation, in the turmoil that would follow, Vanth described how it called to him - how he and his crew seemed to sense some presence infringing upon their waking thoughts, twisting in the dark hours of sleep, guiding them into the light. When they finally made planetfall amidst the ruins of the fossilized city, the shadows of its inhabitants splayed across its walls and arches, they trekked for hours before finding the source of their strange visions, deep below the bedrock of the metropolis. It was a shifting shape of perfect, unreflective pitch, its angles shimmering from one form to another, from cube to sphere to dodecahedron. Vanth's writings would describe it as spitting static light and filling their eyes with visions and truths, speaking to them in mathematical sequence, its angelic language blasting apart neurons and reshaping them in its image, too sacred and potent to be comprehended by mortal minds. But he and his crew understood that every vision had significance, every aching burst of will had meaning, and as they stood, mesmerized by its glory, it accepted them into its presence, reshaping them.

Vanth and his crew returned from their long sojourn beneath the pale light of the outer stars as more than mere men and women, imbued with the strength and knowledge of an age long passed, and they brought their discovery to every Archeotect fleet they could find a way to communicate with. This would eventually lead to the birth of House Vanth, the first of the Apotheotect Lineages, and the formation of the Archeotect Collective as it exists today.