destruction in the NUMBER_TOKENst millennium so to begin with it seemed a decent idea to continue on with another example of the relic tools of the imperium but which were created in the later period of the heresy now in keeping with this series leviathan dreadnoughts are standard dreadnoughts if you like but essentially they're turned up to NUMBER_TOKEN. more resilient armor more powerful weapons and as i noted in the video discussing relic terminators these were steadily evolving during the crusade and the same could be said for space marine dreadnoughts dreadnoughts were conceptualized as a way to preserve and maintain some of the greatest astartes warriors who had fallen in battle but remained alive just having suffered injuries to such an extreme they would be certain to die otherwise the solution was to inter them within a dreadnought sarcophagus essentially an armored coffin providing advanced life support systems that would artificially preserve an astati's life the sarcophagi would then be placed within the exo-frame of a dreadnought a hulking bipedal war machine of truly devastating power armed with generally multiple heavy weapon systems thus enabling the greatest warriors of the emperor to continue on fighting beyond what would have otherwise been their death because only in death does duty end dreadnoughts are not necessarily a common sight on a battlefield because like most chapter relics they are held securely within an astartes chapter fortress monastery or whatever their equivalent is a fleet-borne force dreadnoughts are also generally kept in an ongoing period of stasis and that is to say suspended animation they're only woken from their sleep when threats facing the imperium at the most severe and this presents the strange and jarring situation of a dreadnought being awoken potentially millennia after their last engagement and to find their chapter having changed significantly or at least those they may have been familiar with and fought alongside now have disappeared similarly it can be strange and enlightening for newer studies or even say primaris to find themselves conversing with an ancient marine who perhaps walked alongside the emperor in the earliest days of the imperium and crusade the specifically exact origin of dreadnoughts is generally unknown although it is suggested that like so many things predictably they came out of the dark age of technology or at least the initial tech required it's not exactly surprising for that to be the case since you could arguably say that about most human tech post age of strife dreadnoughts were reportedly able to be controlled by non-astartes around the turn of the age of strife and unification wars but once the crusade began the focus was on astartes and of course they benefited from the neural interface plugs throughout their bodies enabling them to more directly connect with their armored suits to move them around more intuitively the ancient proto-dreadnoughts of era's past were likely more akin to an exo-suit of sorts perhaps for warriors who had similarly suffered terrible injuries and maybe used some kind of experimental mind and pulse devices like that of later dreadnoughts and lights or perhaps it was far more basic and
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