| rdfs:comment | - The Keys of Hel were the seals placed upon forbidden technological knowledge by Ferrus Manus, Primarch of the Iron Hands Space Marine Legion during the Great Crusade era of the late 30th Millennium. These included the true rites of cybernetic resurrection. Where such elements of forbidden technology or lore were encountered (and indeed recognised for what they were only by the Iron Hands), they were seized and suppressed by the Primarch's express order and withheld, it was rumoured, even from the Mechanicum. Few outside the X Legion knew of the ban placed by Ferrus Manus on such forbidden technology as the Sarcosan Formulae, the Progression of the Seventh Gate, and the Ophidian Scale. Even amongst his sons few knew more than the name and, of those who did know, most grasped only the shadow
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| abstract | - The Keys of Hel were the seals placed upon forbidden technological knowledge by Ferrus Manus, Primarch of the Iron Hands Space Marine Legion during the Great Crusade era of the late 30th Millennium. These included the true rites of cybernetic resurrection. Where such elements of forbidden technology or lore were encountered (and indeed recognised for what they were only by the Iron Hands), they were seized and suppressed by the Primarch's express order and withheld, it was rumoured, even from the Mechanicum. Few outside the X Legion knew of the ban placed by Ferrus Manus on such forbidden technology as the Sarcosan Formulae, the Progression of the Seventh Gate, and the Ophidian Scale. Even amongst his sons few knew more than the name and, of those who did know, most grasped only the shadows of dark possibility. Cyber-resurrection, ghola, death and life bound by field, woven by metal or sung by axioms of the unknown -- the names for forbidden technologies across the galaxy were legion. Created by man in the Dark Age of Technology, or by alien hands under cruel suns, their origin does not matter. They were the evolution of Mankind that Ferrus Manus had placed beyond his Astartes' reach, the lock upon a gate to a denied realm. But after the death of Ferrus Manus at the hands of his Chaos-corrupted brother Primarch Fulgrim of the Emperor's Children at the Drop Site Massacre on Isstvan V, some of the Iron Hands who survived the slaughter went mad with grief. They resorted to the use of these forbidden technologies and "turned the Keys of Hel," seeking out any advantage they could utilise against the Traitor Legions to exact their righteous vengeance for the loss of their gene-father.
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