UR-025
"I am not a machine as you would understand. I am not a slave. I am not a thing. I am beyond and above you. I am a man of iron. And I am free."
- – UR-025
UR-025 is one of the very, very, very few Men of Iron remaining in the Galaxy, and the only one that has ever had a model. He appears in the Blackstone Fortress box set as one of the characters.
Background
As one of the elusive Men of iron of legend, UR-025 is a sentient machine that predates the Imperium, supposedly coming from the Dark Age of Technology itself. If this information is true, that means it's one of the oldest characters in the setting period, considering his existence predates the Horus Heresy, the Great Crusade, the Unification Wars, the Age of Strife, the Fall of the Eldar and the Cybernetic Revolt. That would put him at roughly 19.000 years old, probably much, much more if we take in consideration the lack of precision of imperial calendar and the lack of a specific fabrication date. Needless to say, it is an old fucker, and as such it has seen many, many things. He has claimed on ocasion that he used to know the Omnissiah, and "not the earthling corpse, the actual one". Since the end of the Cybernetic Revolt, UR-025 has had to survive by living in the fringes of inhabited space, usually camouflaged as some sort of automata remote controlled by some Magos. He knows very well that, if he's ever discovered, he will be hunted down and destroyed by the Imperium or worse, turned to the Mechanicus to be studied forever. And thus he's designed a way to camouflage himself in plain sight: he just put an imperial aquila in his chasis, and that way noone really bothers him, the cheeky fucker.
For a Men of Ion, he has no ill will towards Humanity, but he will have no problems on killing humans if they threaten to blow his cover. For an emotionless machine, he is rather sentimental, lamenting not having company to talk to multiple times. He remembers plenty of extinct xenos species he had deals with, sounding genuinly saddened by their passing. In fact it's this loneliness his main drive to explore the seventh Blackstone Fortress: he wants to know whether the ship itself is a fellow sentient machine, seeking some form of companionship, even kinship, with the ancient alien machine.
On the Tabletop
UR-025 is a single model, armed with a power claw and a Mk I assault cannon.
