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Terminator Armor Variants Explained

 Terminator Armor Variants Explained   Developed for the legiones astartes during the Great Crusade the tactical dreadnought armor, otherwise known as terminator armor, is the ultimate in personal armored protection. From the earliest saturnine armor to the later advancements of cataphractii and tartaros patterns the Imperium iterated on the basic concept of a "heavy" type of power armor repeatedly and the results would carve a brutal legacy across the battlefields of the thirtieth to the forty second millennium.  Saturnine Terminator Armor -Widely believed to be the earliest variation of terminator armor likely drawn from ancient examples of suits recovered during the wars of unity saturnine armor is closer to a walking tank than a suit of armor. The space marine within the armor requires significant cybernetic augmentation to integrate with and pilot the armor which enhances the already formidable size of a space marine to an extreme degree and even come close to matchi...
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Lost and Forbidden Technologies of the Legiones Astartes

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 Lost and Forbidden Technologies of the Legiones Astartes   Introduction    Much has been written about all the many achievements of the Great Crusade, the magnificent fleets, glorious monuments, great battles and the mighty heroes who won them. Yet the uglier aspects of the Great Crusade are often overlooked or intentionally erased. Civilizations annihilated, vast archives of history and culture burned, species rendered extinct and whole worlds wiped clean of life. The Great Crusade saw weapons unleashed on the galaxy that had not been used since the start of Old Night and the collapse of the ancient human galactic civilization. Many of the worst of these weapons were commonplace on Terra before the Emperor launched his Unification Wars, genetically modified killing machines, archaeotech weapons of unbelievable destructive power, rad-weapons, genophages, warp and temporal distorting weapons, the nightmares of Old Night were truly beyond the comprehension of most mor...
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Index Astartes: Deathsworn

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 Index Astartes: Deathsworn Founding: Ultima Founding Homeworld: Celestia Tertius-Sigma Fortress Monastery: The Jarlhalle (Vigilant Station) Origins The Deathsworn are one of a handful of known Ultima Founding successors of the Space Wolves chapter. Unlike most Ultima founding chapters however the Deathsworn are rumored to have been founded around a cadre of veteran firstborn sons of Russ. Where these warriors came from or how they came to be absorbed into a new primaris chapter are secrets closely guarded by the Deathsworn themselves. Some stories contend that the chapter's founders must have been a lost company, long isolated from their chapter brothers, while others contend they could have been Deathwatch veterans who were honored for their service with the opportunity to lead a new chapter rather than return to the Space Wolves themselves. Still other rumors suggest warriors displaced in time by the vagaries of warp travel or redeemed former renegades who joined the Lord Comman...
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