Gallatarix-Pattern Dreadnought

## Gallatarix Pattern Assault Dreadnought

The standard Gallatarix Pattern Dreadnought, armed with an Onslaught Bolter and smoke canisters.

## Vehicle

### **World of Origin**

Unknown, suspected creation by [Redacted] Astartes Chapter

### **Known Patterns**

Gallatarix Heavy Assault Pattern, Gallatarix Assault Pattern

### **Weight**

14.5 tons with assault armament, 15.3 with heavy assault armament

## Armaments

### **Secondary Armament**

various weapons including flamers, lascannons, and melta charge launchers.

### **Primary Ammunition**

Onslaught Bolter ammunition, High Explosive or Incendiary. Autocannon Ammo, High Explosive or Incendiary

### **Secondary Ammunition**

Various munitions including flamer fluid, lascannon charges, and melta canisters

## History

The Gallatarix Pattern Dreadnought was designed by the now-destroyed Steel Ghosts Chapter. It was designed by the Techmarine Veteran Archarion Balterox. His intent was entirely to design a faster dreadnought that was more maneuverable while preserving the standard armament of a dreadnought. His original goal was to enable the entombed marines to utilize the dreadnought's power in such a condensed format that they achieve the power of the venerated primarchs of olden legend. He was unsuccessful at his original goal. However, he succeeded in creating a weapons chassis that was capable of speeds previously unheard of from a dreadnought of such size.

In Techmarine Archarion's experimentation, he constructed, from STC files logged in his databases, several elements as small assemblies, such as weapons arms, bodies, and leg assemblies. After doing so, he began experimenting with both the combination of the components and the power sources for the dreadnought. He had troubleshot his way past 12 iterations when he discovered a set of Deredeo legs. Using them, he increased their leverage yield and power efficiency nearly to double their original yield. Then, placing a downscaled Castraferrum body onto the chassis, he made simple connections to expedite flow and neurolink communications. This had all occurred during the near-500 year long war with the Eldar on Exxolitar III, which had yielded an over-abundance of near-dead to enshrine within his machinations.

At the end of his final creation, he had developed two versions. The Gallatarix Pattern Dreadnought and the Gallatarix Pattern Heavy Assault Dreadnought were the refined versions of his original proto-dreadnought, and two of the most venerated of the Chapter. After their creation, Archarion attempted to create a comprehensive STC File of his design, but before he did so, he was killed in an Aeldari raid on his compound, which had become a frontline installation in the final stages of design and completion. The two Astartes incarcerated in the Gallatarix pattern dreadnoughts protected the outpost, but could do nothing to complete the STCs. As time wore on, the war slowly degenerated into a massacre. The dreadnoughts, found by the last remaining Steel Ghosts who lived as humans, deactivated them, allowing them to enter their sacred rest. In the end, the Steel Ghosts' fleet plunged into the surface of the planet, killing the majority of the Eldar, and taking the chapter with it. The research outpost that Archarion once occupied was hidden by the bulk of a frigate, and the growth of the planet covered the crashed ship and its contents.

## Armaments

The Gallatarix is armed with two forms of main weapon, Onslaught Bolter, or Dual Autocannon. Both options are interchangeable with each other. The variety of secondary weapons is numerous and impossible to fully name. However, the most common weapons used are their smoke launchers, flamers, and melta charge launchers. The chassis itself is an excellent platform for modification. Despite this, the occupants of the dreadnoughts prefer to keep their standard armaments, occasionally utilizing melee claws or underarm blades to augment their close-range lethality.