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There were few things that TalOS could really consider in this instance. Outright lying to the Fabricator General was something that he could consider but that also meant no bridges could be built. There was also to consider the trust that Xana has given to TalOS as their Confessor. To betray such a duty now would stain the robes that TalOS wore for ages to come.
Such a dishonor was something that TalOS could not betray even if the Fabricator General was the ‘head’ of their faith. Ultimately while they acknowledged the physical authority of Mars it did not really hold truly Divine power. The one who held Divine Precedent was the Emperor of Mankind, who TalOS realized might never have wanted such a title in the first place.
At the end TalOS needed friends in the Mechanicum. He did not possess ultimately the unquestionable authority of a Primarch but instead the powers allotted to him as an Arch Dominus. After all, TalOS chose to approach him not as his birthright but instead as the Arch Dominus of Lucius.
In the end TalOS gave his word and such a word carried all the weight of Lucius behind it. He made a vow and he will keep it.
+When Mars first came upon the planet of Xana the Priests of the planet did not know what they could do with them. Such fears grew exponentially when the Martians, headed by Magos Margin, pointed at them the finger of Heresy. They were fearful, fearful of the Magos’s wrath if he found even an ounce of heresy upon the planet.+
+You accuse the good Magos? His reports had sound logic.+ The Fabricator Locum declared as he was surely looking over the Magi’s record, +You decry that his assumptions were false?+
+Does it matter if they are true or false when the blessed scanners find a single data file?+ TalOS pointed out as he began to widen his own view, +That if the Magos found something that abhorrent that he would sentence an entire planet to destruction.+
TalOS waited a moment to see if they would reject his words, but they were not so. It was as if he had caught a serf stepping out of line. If Xana was found with Heresy they would have been allotted for destruction by the greater Mechanicum.
+Such things are understandable.+ TalOS gave a helping hand towards the Martians, +But the Xanites were in complete fear in those moments. Doubly so when their systems were infected with something not of our world.+
Kelbor Hal’s eyes gave a flicker of light as if a massive amount of power was diverted throughout the machine. The Priest began to tighten his bionics as he did not know what TalOS could have referred to.
+A data-djinn of the Warp infected their systems.+
