Ana

Biodata

Background / History

Early Vigilus Campaign

Ana had only recently joined the Adeptus Mechanicus when she accompanied Sith and the 101st Regiment. Her handmade energy device became instrumental in melting a sealed Hive City gate, although its extraordinary output surprised even her. After it produced only a weak wisp under her control but immediately resumed full power for Sith, she recorded his personal operation as a necessary step for pleasing its Machine Spirit 4.

During the capture of a rebel supply depot, Ana used her Adeptus Mechanicus authorization to open a warehouse containing enough supplies for an entire Astra Militarum army. She subsequently compiled its inventory and participated in the force’s breakout planning. Her access to information also allowed her to identify their planet as Vigilus and confirm that no Ultramarines reinforcements had yet arrived 6 7 8 10.

Refugee Army and the Spire

As Sith recruited refugees around the cathedral, Ana supplied improvised black uniforms by dyeing civilian clothing with a mixture containing liquid fuel and promethium. She later accompanied the operation through rebel positions and inspected the Leman Russ supplied before the army’s departure from the Hive City 11 13 14.

During a later advance toward the spire, Ana repeatedly encountered incorrect door-opening commands. At the final gate, the nobles’ refusal to admit the battered force drove her to strike the communications console in anger. She then helped gather grenades and explosive rounds for Daviro’s attempt to breach the gate 22 23.

After Sith took control of the spire, Ana tested an alternative starch on recruits, supplying them with abundant food but turning their skin blue. She defended the product on the grounds that its biological flaw would not matter within the soldiers’ expected careers. Sith later ordered her to prioritize the nobles for this blue starch; Ana, who considered it a valuable invention, could not understand why he would give it first to people he disliked 24 28.

Water Crisis and Permanent Assignment

Ana continued handling supplies, communications, and reports as the situation on Vigilus worsened. She reported widespread unrest through the Adeptus Mechanicus’s internal communications network and, after Sith seized a nobles’ fortress, organized protected water tankers to carry its hoarded water to headquarters 30 31 32.

On the march toward Hyperia, her Servo-skulls confirmed that a ruined Chaos ritual site retained no Warp fluctuations. Confronted with the civilian dead, she suggested bringing flamers, but Sith refused to expend fuel needed for the coming fighting 41.

By the formation of the Black Watch, the Adeptus Mechanicus had permanently assigned Ana as Sith’s accompanying Tech-Priest. The appointment served both as a reward and as support for Calgar’s decision concerning Sith’s command. Ana began fitting Sith’s armour before the force departed for its boarding mission 45.

Survival in the Warp

Ana was aboard the damaged Sword-class Frigate when it was dragged into the Warp with its Gellar Field disabled. She survived the two-month ordeal, remaining hidden at the rear rather than fighting. After the Black Watch’s blessings transformed Sith’s equipment, she approached his armour and crimson sword with trembling fascination. She escaped into Realspace with the surviving force 47 48.

Appearance

• Scarlet Tech-Priest robes accompany her shoulder-mounted auxiliary augmetic 4.
• Round, expressive eyes visibly convey her confusion and excitement 13.
• Largely flesh-and-blood face, despite her Mechanicus membership and mechanical enhancements 41.

Personality

Ana takes exuberant pride in her inventions and readily calls herself a genius. When her energy device briefly appeared to work as intended, she skipped away to fetch a replacement power cell; when it failed under her own operation, she became visibly distressed. Her attachment to Mechanicus doctrine leads her to explain its inconsistent performance through the Machine Spirit rather than recognize Sith’s influence as something outside her procedure 4.

Her practical reasoning can be callous. She praises misleading anti-Ork propaganda for raising morale at virtually no cost, despite calculating that at least two-thirds of the soldiers would die before properly understanding their enemy. Likewise, she judges her starch acceptable because she expects its consumers to have short military careers 10 24.

Despite these attitudes, Ana remains emotionally expressive. She is nervous around Sith’s combat prowess and apparent coldness, furious at the nobles who leave their rescuers trapped, and troubled enough by the civilian victims of a Chaos ritual to suggest burning their remains 10 22 41.

Abilities & Skills

Engineering and Machine Operation

Ana builds experimental machinery and provides technical support for Sith’s force 4 14 33 45.

• Energy device: Constructed the device used to melt the Hive City’s alloy gate. Brunok compared its output under Sith’s control to a Knight’s main cannon 4.
• Operating procedures: Recorded Sith’s personal operation as essential after her own attempt produced only a thin wisp of energy 4.
• Vehicle inspection: Inspected the force’s Leman Russ before departure from the Hive City 14.
• Armour support: Received maintenance instructions for Sith’s Artificer Power Armour and later fitted his armour before deployment 33 45.
• Water equipment: Sith tasked her with making purification and recycling equipment during the clean-water crisis 31.

Chemical Processing

Ana develops improvised materials and food substitutes from available supplies 11 24.

• Uniform dye: Used liquid fuel and promethium to turn collected civilian clothes black; the dye also stained the wearers’ skin 11.
• Alternative starch: Processed promethium, chemical waste, and corpses into large quantities of food 24.
• Known flaw: Her experimental starch turned consumers blue and had an acknowledged biological defect. Its precise long-term consequences are not specified 24.

Analysis and Diagnostics

Ana uses observation equipment and Servo-skulls to produce calculations, examine patients, and survey locations 10 13 24 41.

• Calculated a 200 percent morale increase from the Departmento Munitorum’s anti-Ork handbook 10.
• Estimated a 97.26 percent probability that the rebels were pretending to sleep, though she initially could not explain their behavior 13.
• Scanned recruits, examined their eyes, and collected blood samples while investigating her starch 24.
• Used Servo-skull reconnaissance to confirm the absence of Warp fluctuations at a destroyed ritual site 41.

Logistics and Information Access

• Mechanicus authorization: Opened the captured supply depot’s warehouse 6.
• Supply administration: Compiled inventories, received incoming supplies, and carried out Sith’s allocation orders 7 28 30.
• Communications: Supplied battlefield information, transmitted a message preceding Brunok’s withdrawal to the tower summit, and handled reports for the Departmento Munitorum 10 27 31.
• Water transport: Directed guarded tankers carrying water seized from the nobles’ fortress 32.

Equipment / Items

• Auxiliary mechanical arm — Used for hands-on technical and medical work, including drawing blood 4 24.
• Servo-skulls — Provide calculations, biological scans, and reconnaissance; she deploys two during the starch investigation and the ritual-site survey 13 24 41.
• Observation equipment — Used to inspect recruits affected by her experimental food 24.
• Mechanicus communicator and data-slate — Used to receive internal reports and present projections on civilian unrest 32.

Relationships

• Sith — Commander and eventual permanent charge. Ana initially regards him as an indispensable “component” of her energy invention, fears his extraordinary abilities, and seeks his approval for her work. Her formal assignment includes fitting and supporting his armour 4 10 13 24 45.
• Brunok — Fellow member of Sith’s command group. He privately calls her a half-baked amateur and is wary of her improvisations, but consults her calculations during the rebel breakout 4 11 13 24.
• Daviro — Deathwatch ally. Ana relays his request for Sith’s presence and helps supply the explosives used in his gate-breaching plan 23.
• The nobles — Objects of her frustration over waste and obstruction. Their refusal to open the spire gate enrages her; she later fails to recognize the punitive intent behind Sith’s order to feed them her blue starch 22 28.

Notable Quotes

“To please the Machine Spirit of my genius invention, we have to include the step of having you operate it yourself!” 4

“False propaganda brings real morale.” 10

“But considering the career span of the soldiers under your command, my starch is perfect and pure!” 24