Kill Team Caelius

Deathwatch Armorial

### **Purpose**

Kill-Team Caelius's composition, in terms of what role its members perform in combat and the culture of the chapters they originate from, lends itself to operations such as decapitation strikes, high value asset recovery or capture, and Space Hulk Purgation.

Watch Fortress Surgegate, also known as Fort Surgegate, is a bastion of the Deathwatch, lying within the treacherous Caligari Sector. As the sentinel of the Ordo Xenos within the hazardous and forgotten zone, Fort Surgegate is a hub of Inquisitorial activity, and its Kill-Teams are constantly active, attempting to purge the dangerous sector of the plague of the Xenos.

Kill Team Caelius is one such Kill Team. Aulus Caelius is the leader of Kill Team Caelius, providing experienced command with an iron will to his brothers from around the galaxy and of different progenitors, uniting them in stoic dedication to the Golden Throne and the good of humanity. His voracious appetite for learning tactical battle data and doctrines leads him to usually be found in the archives of the Watch Fortress, studying relentlessly to improve the odds of his team's survival and success.

On the Kill Team is Artificer Dorcha Teicneo, an experienced Bloodmoon Hunter who has advanced Techmarine Training and the zeal of a Chaplain. He provides spiritual support and technical expertise to the Kill team as well as a heavy dose of Fire power with his modified Plasma Cannon. Brother Harrion von Maul of the Imperial Sentinels Chapter joins Kill Team Caelius as a heavy weapons expert and a wealth of experience. Corio Vexa of the Adamant Wardens is the most flexible of the Kill Team providing generally Long Range Sniper Support.

Kill Team Caelius is no place for anyone but the zealously devoted and hardened contemptful of the xeno and heretic. Focused on shock assaults through Caesus Assault Rams or Thunderhawk Gunships to highly dangerous and important objectives or killing or capturing High Value Targets, Kill Team Caelius makeup is one of the more unique even among the fluid Deathwatch formations but known for its ferocity in the impetus in creates on the attack, frequently securing beachheads for the Battle-Brothers of Watch Fortress Surgegate's Kill Teams. Aulus and Harrion are serving out their time in the Deathwatch as penance for which they provide a grim understanding of failure. Conversely Dorcha and Corio were seconded to the Long Vigil for honors and education, a time of humility await these expert killers of the Xeno menace as they learn their is more in the Imperium besides their Chapter's wars. They bring zeal and death while learning further the arts of fire and fury with their brothers on Kill Team Caelius.

## Members of Kill Team Caelius

### Aulus Caelius

**Watch-Sergeant Aulus Caelius** is an infamous Veteran Decanus Brother-Initiate of the Ordinators Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. He was seconded to Deathwatch and the Ordo Xenos as a penitentiary sentence for his costly failure in a battle against a raiding fleet led by the Dark Eldar Kabal of the Screaming Heart in a raid on an Imperial Chartist Convoy carrying pilgrims and wounded patients to the Azuran Sector Ecclesiarchial Hospital and Shrine world of Encendion while fleeing unrest in the Southwestern Segmentum Pacificus that was deemed to have resulted in the death of his Inmintanii (Veteran Ranged-Combat Specialists) Squad, six other Ordinators, over 400 serf crew, and nearly 60,000 Imperial pilgrims and voidsmen. He has dedicated his life since to redeeming himself and is both an insatiable scholar of the Ordo Xenos archives as well as highly protective of the well being and condition of his squad.

### Harrion von Maul

**Brother Harrion von Maul** is a Sternguard Devastator of the Imperial Sentinels Chapter, seconded to the Deathwatch in the year 994.M41 as punishment for insubordination during combat. Despite the bravery and honor of his actions with his Chapter he had committed a grave sin, refusing a direct order in a combat scenario from his superior. An example had to be made, that to be a member of the Templar Brethren was an honor and a responsibility, each to be held to a higher standard than others. More so for one who had served under the Chapter Master directly. His current sergeant wished for his demotion to a reserve company, however the Chapter council decided instead as punishment he would among those seconded to the Deathwatch, Chamber Militant for the Ordo Xenos the next time the Black Brothers demanded their tithe. He is currently over 150 years into that sentence, serving the Long Vigil with quiet dignity, declaring that had he been given the choice he would do it all over again.

### Dorcha Teicneo

**Artificer Dorcha Teicneo** is a member of the Deathwatch, seconded from his original Chapter the Bloodmoon Hunters soon after becoming one of their Artificers. With his heavy weapons and his vast knowledge of the xeno and imperial technology, he provides valuable knowledge and skills to the Deathwatch. His abilities with heavy weapons and especially figuring out the tactics of the opponents his chapter faced on top of his technical skills made him a favorite for hunting parties. Gaining both notice and notoriety for his abilities beyond his peers, his Forge Lord decided it was time for service to the Deathwatch to give Dorcha more exposure to the wider Imperium. While assigned to the Watch Fortress, Dorcha crossed the Rubicon and became Primaris.

### Corio Vexa

**Brother Corio Vexa** is a Line Warden (Tactical Marine) of the Adamant Wardens chapter, seconded to the Deathwatch - the Chamber Militant of the Inquisition's Ordo Xenos - relatively recently, under the requirement of the Apocryphon Oath, based upon his xenos-murdering expertise. Corio went on to become a decently useful Warden in the tactical field, getting several notable accolades and facing a number of xenos threats overall. Soon this expertise came into examination and his Master-Captain ordered him be seconded to the deathwatch for a ten-year extendable vigil, being sent off with a salute and a few parting words to a Watch-Fortress.