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Carnage-class Cruiser - History: Designed as a fleet support vessel, the Carnage-class was meant to provide supporting fire from long range for other Imperial starships. Unfortunately, the Carnage suffered from numerous problems during its construction, including many technical difficulties with the power systems for its long-ranged Phased Plasma batteries. These issues with the Carnage-class caused raging debate in the Battlefleet Obscurus, dividing scores of influential captains into opposing camps. Although these challenges were eventually overcome, numerous Carnage-class Cruisers have turned Traitor, beginning with the very first vessel of its kind. It is rumoured that there is some bizarre, maddening twist in the ship’s design that leads its crews inevitably towards discord and mutiny. Carnage Cruisers are feared opponents, able to cripple enemy ships with punishing salvos of long-range battery fire.
Carnage-class Cruiser - Armament: The Carnage-class Cruiser was designed as a fleet support vessel that utilises its long range Phased Plasma weapons batteries to stand off and provide supporting fire for other warships. The Carnage-class is especially good at destroying Eldar spacecraft by overwhelming their deceptive Holo-Fields with a sheer volume of weapons fire, though Carnage-class vessels fare relatively poorly against the heavily-armoured prows of Ork and Imperial warships.
Carnage-class Cruiser - Notable Carnage-class Cruisers: Initiate of Skalathrax - The first Carnage-class Cruiser ever built, the Initiate of Skalathrax was also one of the most infamous. Originally named the Relentless, when the Cruiser went into battle during the Skalathrax Landing, supporting six Imperial transports as they attempted to establish a beachhead on that contested world, as Traitor vessels from a Chaos warfleet moved in on the convoy, the Relentless turned its guns on the transports, destroying three. The remaining transports reached the surface but found that their landing site had been compromised and they were quickly overwhelmed by the Traitor forces. Renamed the Initiate of Skalathrax for its deeds, this Carnage-class Cruiser survived three millennia of blockades and convoy attacks until it was finally destroyed by Imperial agents whilst it was docked at the traitorous Darkstation space outpost in the Priam Sector during the Gothic War.Anarchic Vendetta - The Anarchic Vendetta became another Carnage-class Cruiser that turned to Chaos after a mass mutiny by its crew who left the butchered remains of their officers aboard Station 26/A, and then violently tore the ship out of dock. The Anarchic Vendetta then proceeded to deal heavy damage to the station until they were forced to disengage by the intervention of the Apocalypse-class Battleship Duke Helbrecht.Excessive - The Excessive fought and earned renown during the Gothic War.Mortis Ex Astra - Often sighted with Karrad Vall's command group in the Cineris Maleficum of theKoronus Expanse, the Mortis Ex Astra is a Carnage-class Cruiser with more than seven confirmed capital ship kills to its name, including the Sentinel, a Tyrant-class Cruiser. Calligos Winterscale's flagship battled the Mortis Ex Astra to a standstill in orbit over the planet of Hemelshot, but the Chaos vessel's uncanny accuracy eventually forced the Rogue Trader to withdraw. There is a substantial standing bounty for the destruction of the Mortis Ex Astra posted upon Footfall and Port Wander in the Koronus Expanse.Wanton Desecration - The Wanton Desecration fought and earned great fame during the Gothic War.
Carnage-class Cruiser - Dimensions: Hull: Cruiser.Class: Carnage-class Cruiser.Dimensions: Approximately 5 kilometres long, .8 kilometres abeam.Mass: Approximately 28.5 Megatonnes.Crew: Approximately 80,000 crew.Acceleration: 2.4 Gravities maximum acceleration.
Carnarvon - Carnarvon: Carnarvon was the High Chaplain and Master of Sanctity of the Flesh Tearers Chapter of Space Marines.He served as the warden of that Chapter's infamous Death Company, a special unit whose members are consumed by the permanent, debilitating psychosis known as the Black Rage, until his death on Baal in ca. 999.M41 defending the Blood Angels' homeworld from Hive Fleet Leviathan.
Carnarvon - History: High Chaplain Carnarvon is called the "Watcher of the Lost," for he is the lone Flesh Tearer entrusted with the sacred duty of commemorating every member of the Chapter who dies in combat or ultimately succumbs to the debilitating psychosis known as the Black Rage.He alone bears the terrible responsibility to watch over the remaining 400 Battle-Brothers of the Flesh Tearers Chapter for the onset of the Black Rage. He occupied that position for nearly 250 standard years and it was whispered by many that the strain of watching so many of his friends and comrades descend into that dreaded affliction had begun to take its toll on his sanity.Carnarvon had the final word as to who was to be inducted into the Flesh Tearers' Death Company and who amongst those afflicted brethren were to be permanently incarcerated in the Tower of the Lost because they had fallen so far into madness that even he could no longer control them.When not in combat, Carnarvon spent most of his time within the Lost Tower, watching over his charges, ostensibly to find a path that would allow them to rejoin the Chapter. However, his constant secrecy led a great many of the Flesh Tearers to question his motives.During the Devastation of Baal, Carnarvon ultimately succumbed to the Red Thirst and was inducted into the Death Company where he perished in battle with the forces of Hive Fleet Leviathan.
Carnifex - Carnifex: The Carnifex or Carnifex Primus (Carnifex voracio, Carnifex vorantii, Carnifex ululare, Carnifex arbylis, and the Carnifex bilius) is a monstrous creature that essentially acts as an organic main battle tank for the Tyranid hive fleets. It is armed with the most advanced Tyranid Bio-Weapons and is used primarily as a shock trooper to carry out starship boarding actions, frontal shock assaults on entrenched positions and for besieging fortified locations or enemy armour formations.As Tyranids are constantly evolving their forces, many different species of the Carnifex exist. However, all Carnifex share some common characteristics: they are very large creatures, standing significantly larger than a man; they have a thick carapace, which provides excellent protection from damage, and they frequently use some of the bio-weaponry utilized by the Tyranids.They are comparable to the Space Marine Dreadnought and Ork Killa Kan in tactical use. A Carnifex is a living engine of destruction that is impervious to small arms fire. Any Carnifex can be mutated to possess Thornback Armour, a Barbed Strangler, Spore Cysts, a Venom Cannon, or to project burning Bio-Plasma.
Carnifex - Variants: The standard Carnifex bioform is classified by the Ordo Xenos as the Carnifex voracio. However, the forces of the Imperium have encountered four other major sub-species of Carnifex: the Carnifex vorantii, the Carnifex ululare, the Carnifex bilius, and the Carnifex arbylis. These are more commonly known, respectively, as the:Thornback (Carnifex vorantii) - The Thornback Carnifex bears genetic enhancements that resemble large spikes or thorns and are used to push through an enemy's lines.Screamer-Killer (Carnifex ululare) - The Screamer-Killer was the first type of Carnifex encountered by the military forces of the Imperium. It is known for emitting a piercing shriek before shooting Bio-Plasma.Bile-Beast (Carnifex bilius) - The Bile Beast spews acidic fluids onto its foes before attacking in close combat using its huge crab-like claws.Stone-Crusher (Carnifex arbylis) - The Stone-Crusher is a variant of the Carnifex intended for use as a siege unit against fortified targets. It is armed with huge wrecking claws, capable of tearing down the thickest of fortifications, a heavier version of a scything tail, and battering rams; used for crashing into enemy ranks, and fortresses. Other sightings of this creature have been seen with a large wrecking-ball looking symbiont.
Carnifex - Notable Carnifex: Old One Eye - Old One Eye is a unique Tyranid Carnifex with the ability to regenerate itself from mortal wounds. Its body bears the scars of many blows that should have killed it, and rumours persist among Imperial forces of Old One Eye being killed more than a dozen times. It is armed with a pair of huge, crab-like claws capable of ripping even the hardest foe to pieces.
Carnifex - Sources: Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition)Imperial Armour Apocalypse Second Edition, pg. 74
Carnivore-class Titan - Carnivore-class Titan: The Carnivore-class Titan was a rare class of Battle Titan employed by both the Traitor and Loyalist Titan Legions during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. It saw heavy action in the Battle of Beta-Garmon, also known as the "Titandeath," during the Heresy.The Carnivore-class Titan stood in size somewhere between a Reaver-class Titan and a Nightgaunt-class Titan.
Carnodon - Carnodon: A carnodon is a large species of mammalian felinoid native to the world of Gudrun within the Helican Sub-sector that is very similar to the ancient prehistoric sabretooth tiger of Terra's Pleistocene epoch.It is between 5 and 6 metres long (approximately 20 feet) and can grow to be 800 to 900 kilograms (about 2000 pounds) in weight once it reaches adulthood. Its hide is striped like a Terran tiger and large tusks protrude from its maw. Carnodons are fierce and deadly predators, and one is easily capable of bringing down a Human. A carnodon is able to resist the cuts of blades or even more advanced weaponry due to its thick hide.Its name is composed of the Latin words carne meaning "flesh" and odon meaning "tooth". Little else is known about the species, though they are not considered to be an obscure animal species within the Human-settled galaxy, and examples can be found in zoos and nature preserves on many settled Imperial worlds.
Carnodon - Notable Carnodons: Gershome Carnodon - This carnodon was an old and sick member of the species that had escaped from a zoo on the world of Gershome. A carnodon near the end of its life expectancy, this animal preyed upon the weakest and most infirm of the population of the city of Tycho before it was finally brought down by an officer of the planet's Magistratum. After its death, the corpse weighed only 600 kilograms and the animal was riddled with the signs of old age and infirmity, including a poor coat of fur and tooth decay.Glaw Arena Carnodons - Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn and his retinue of Acolytes faced and slew two carnodons when they were captured and forced to fight the creatures in an arena following their failed raid on the House of Glaw on the world of Gudrun. During the battle, then-Interrogator Heldane had his face forever scarred after he was brutally mauled by one of the carnodons that he later killed. The other carnodon was slain by the nobleman Urisel Glaw when it broke free of the arena and began to slaughter spectators in the midst of Eisenhorn's escape.Ice Stalker - The Ice Stalker was a carnodon that was the Primarch Sanguinius' first kill during the Blood Angels Legion's pacification of the world of Teghar Pentarus during the Great Crusade. The Ice Stalker was described as being a far larger version of ancient Terra's extinct snow leopard. The pacification of Teghar Pentarus was the first battle Sangunius fought after being reunited with the Emperor and his Legion and the pelt of the beast was fashioned into a ceremonial war cloak for the primarch, which he is often depicted sporting in various works of art from the period.
Carrack-class Transport - Carrack-class Transport: The Carrack-class Transport is an FTL-capable freighter employed by the Merchant Fleets, Free Traders and Rogue Traders of the Imperium of Man to carry valuable cargo between the Human-settled star systems of the galaxy.The Imperium swarms with transport vessels. Millions of these civilian voidcraft plough the space lanes, ferrying pilgrims, ore, fuel, foodstuffs, weapons, materiel, machine parts and luxury goods to untold billions of eager consumers across the galaxy.There are countless classes of transport vessel, and even the mightiest Rogue Trader dynasty, replete with fleets of ancient warships, requires humble transport craft to carry the spoils of their conquests back to Imperial space.The Carrack is capable of having several small weapon systems attached to two hardpoints present on its dorsal side. These usually take the form of weapons batteries or small lances. But the vessel is ultimately not a warship, and no amount of modifications can really make it a very effective combatant.
Carrack-class Transport - History: The Carrack-class is a recent attempt to recreate the ancient star galleon concept. The increasing impression amongst commercial shipbuilders -- in common with many citizens of the Imperium -- is that the galaxy is becoming a more dangerous place, and that the end times are fast approaching. Certain Chartist Captains place their faith in solidly built, well-armed freighters, designed from the ground up to be capable of carrying heavy loads while also tackling light raiders or other miscreants.The Carrack-class is a product of the orbital shipyards that sit on the adjoining edges of the Calixis and Ixaniad Sectors in the Segmentum Obscurus, where travellers must often stand alone against the foulest of terrors that boil up from the depths of interstellar space. Robust and vigourous, these stout voidcraft give the lie to the trite accusation that Imperial shipbuilding is a dying art.Though the design is less than 1,000 standard years old, dating to the early years of the 41st Millennium, these ships are as bold and strong as any transport of their size in the history of the Imperium, and have driven off many ill-advised pirate raids.
Carrack-class Transport - Dimensions: Hull: TransportClass: Carrack-class TransportDimensions: 2.1 kilometres long, approximately 0.4 kilometres abeam at finsMass:  8.5 megatonnes approximatelyCrew: Approximately 19,500 crewAcceleration: 2.3 gravities maximum sustainable acceleration
Carrion Hounds - Carrion Hounds: The Carrion Hounds is a warband or vectorium of Heretic Astartes of the Death Guard Traitor Legion. Vast hordes of Poxwalkers screen the advance of the Carrion Hounds. The warriors of this vile host hold a great affection for the shambling monsters, and often assemble morbid "collections" of infected souls, such as defeated Astra Militarum regiments or entire noble families.
Carrion Hounds - Warband Colours: The Carrion Hounds' power armour is the same as that of the Death Guard, composed of decayed and cracked plates of ceramite in blight green with pale golden trim. The Carrion Hounds' Chaos Space Marines, like those of the Death Guard, often wear grotesquely warped suits of antique Mark III Iron Power Armour.
Carrion Hounds - Warband Badge: The Carrion Hounds' warband badge is usually a modified version of the standard Mark of Nurgle, similar to that used by the rest of the Death Guard.
Carrion Hounds - Sources: Codex Heretic Astartes - Death Guard (8th Edition), pp. 17Dark Imperium (Game), Death Guard Booklet, "Death Guard Vectoriums," pg. 13
Cartouche-class Light Cruiser - Cartouche-class Light Cruiser: A Cartouche-class Light Cruiser is a type of cruiser found in Necron fleets.
Carus Brom - Carus Brom: Carus Brom was the Imperial Guard Colonel tasked with overseeing the 37th Tartarus Planetary Defense Force (PDF) Regiment on the Civilised World of Tartarus when the Blood Ravens Space Marines arrived to deal with the Ork WAAAGH! ravaging the planet under the Warlord Orkamungus. The 37th Tartarus also assisted Blood Ravens forces throughout their time combating the force of Chaos Space Marines who were discovered to also be secretly operating on Tartarus.Brom willingly accepted commands from Blood Ravens Captain Gabriel Angelos with little hesitation, having a deep respect for the commander; however the mere presence of the Inquisitor Mordecai Toth was enough to make the veteran Colonel break out in nervous hives. It is believed Brom escaped off-planet with his remaining troops before the Warp Storm arrived that ultimately claimed the world and absorbed it into the Immaterium following the Blood Ravens' defeat of the Forces of Chaos that had been secretly operating on the world under the cover of the Greenskins' assault.In the slightly different events on Tartarus chronicled in the novelized version of Dawn of War, Colonel Brom instead turned to Chaos and attacked Captain Gabriel Angelos during his assault on the location of the Chaotic artefact called the Maledictum. Colonel Brom was not satisfied being put down on occasion by Gabriel's orders, resulting in the corruption of Chaos finding its way into his heart. Colonel Brom was slain by the Blood Ravens along with the corrupted PDF and Imperial Guard who had turned Traitor. Only a handful of Loyalist Guardsmen survived and joined with the Space Marines and the Eldar also present on the planet in the final battle to reach the Maledictum. Brom was armed with a Power Sword and Bolt Pistol.
Casophilians - Casophilians: The Casophilians, named after the spiritual experience of the Imperial Saint Casophili, are a Radical sub-faction of the Thorian sect of the Inquisition who dedicate their studies to the process by which the Human soul transitions from realspace to the Warp after death. The Casophilians know that Daemonic entities can pass through the barriers between the Warp and the mortal universe. This makes them profound experts in the arts of Daemonology with a special regard for ritual summoning rather than incidental or malicious possession.The Casophilians hope to find the means to bring back a deceased man or woman's soul to realspace. If these actions are successful, then it would be the first step in bringing the soul of the Emperor back into realspace in a suitable mortal form.
Cassia Orsellio - Cassia Orsellio: Cassia Orsellio is a Navigator and the heiress of the Navis Nobilite's House Orsellio. She was convinced by the most recent heir to the Rogue Trader dynasty of House von Valancius to serve as the new Navigator of the von Valancius flagship after her predecessor was killed during the Warp incursion that also resulted in the death of Lord Captain Theodora von Valancius and the new Rogue Trader's unexpected inheritance of the dynasty.
Cassia Orsellio - Personality: Among the God-Emperor's innumerable servants, few are as loyal or integral to maintaining and expanding Humanity's domain as those who populate the Navis Nobilite. They are steadfast in their duties, and they have memorised the organs of the vast political machine that is the Imperium of Man. But even more so, they are loyal to the Master of Mankind's designs to bring the torch of Human civilisation to all corners of the galaxy. This is an inclination further reinforced by the fact they are of a higher stock, members of the vast aristocracy that dominates the entirety of the Imperium.Because of this, Cassia Orsellio would be considered an adherent of the Puritan school of thought as the Inquisition defines such things.
Cassia Orsellio - Abilities: For those counted among the Navis Nobilite, there are many psychic powers and abilities that derive from their mutant origin as a Navigator. Many of these abilities come at the ghastly cost of further mutation over the course of their lives, a genetic instability that stems from and is caused by their third eye and its ability to peer into the Immaterium.But the powers Navigators gain over the course of their life make them a truly formidable foe to face on the field, even more so when they possess the ability to channel the unfiltered essence of the Warp from their third eye.
Cassia Orsellio - Wargear: Armoured BodygloveAutopistolFrag Grenade
Cassian Vaughn - Cassian Vaughn: Cassian Vaughn, known also as "Cassian Dracos," the "Fallen Master," the "Twice-Dead" and "The Avatar of the Sacred Flame," was the first Lord Commander of the XVIII Legion from the time it was founded on Terra during the Unification Wars until the discovery of the Primarch Vulkan on the world of Nocturne during the Great Crusade.Cassian was mortally wounded in battle against the Orks, but such was the esteem in which Vulkan held this warrior that he undertook to fashion for him a unique Dreadnought sarcophagus known as the Dracos Revenant, or the Iron Dragon.It was forged of a nigh-impregnable and unknown alloy said to come from deep beneath Old Earth that none save Vulkan was able to master and shape to his will.During the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V, Cassian fought with unmatched fury, first spearheading the attack against the enemy then, as the second wave showed their true colours as supporters of the traitorous Warmaster Horus, standing fast though all around him were slaughtered.Surviving where most of his Legion had perished, Cassian Vaughn's tale becomes intermingled with that of the famed Shattered Legions Strike Cruiser Ebon Drake, alongside which he would return to the battlefields of the 31st Millenium, most notoriously during the Third Siege of Mezoa.
Cassian Vaughn - The Dracos Revenant Endures: Cassian Dracos' final fate remains unknown. The Salamanders Chapter has continued over the millennia to have fallen Battle-Brothers interred within this Ancient's sarcophagus. Only the most highly individualistic, strong-willed and warlike-souls possess the remotest chance of surviving the Dreadnought's activation process.These fallen warriors' strength of will, combined with the dark Machine Spirit of the Dreadnought in which they are entombed for all eternity, make for a very potent warrior on the battlefield.The current occupant of the Dracos Revenant, known in the late 41st Millennium as the Iron Dragon, is Sokhar Bray'arth, called by his Battle-Brothers Bray'arth Ashmantle, a former Captain of the Salamanders 4th Company.
Cassian Vaughn - Wargear: The Salamander's Primarch Vulkan was a master of the forge without peer. He personally etched intricate detailing on the ornately carved and segmented armour plates of the Dracos Revenant Dreadnought and symbols associated with the Promethean Cult of Nocturne.The chassis is also fitted with a number of secondary flame projectors as well as its main armament, allowing the ancient Dreadnought to wreathe itself in flame, incinerating anything that strays too close.The Dracos Revenant also possesses the following weaponry.2 Dreadfire Heavy Flamers - Vulkan designed two unique arm weapons for this Dreadnought chassis that made use of Dreadfire Close Combat Arms, each of which had an in-built Dreadfire Heavy Flamer that represented the Dracos Revenant 's potent and unique armament.Extra Armour PlatingSmoke LauncherSearchlightNuncio Vox
Castellan - Castellan: A Castellan is a specialist officer rank that is unique to the Black Templars Chapter, and is the equivalent of a Space Marine lieutenant of a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter, ranking below a Marshal.A castellan is responsible for leading an entire "fighting company" of the Chapter on the field of battle during the numerous ongoing crusades conducted by the Black Templars.Larger Black Templars Crusades often comprise a number of the Chapter's fighting companies, each led by a Sword Brethren (Veteran) raised to the rank of Castellan. Only those Sword Brethren who have proven themselves as devotional warriors and inspirational leaders may rise to this esteemed rank.These hardened Veterans have earned their ascension to command rank through their bloody and zealous dedication to the Chapter's cause. As masters of the battlefield, Castellans are able to read its ebb and flow, and adjust their tactical formations accordingly.Leading from the front by example, a Castellan's Astartes know what it is to be a Black Templar and a dedicated warrior of Sigismund and the Emperor, and from studies of his leadership they learn the trade of battle and the craft of death.
Castellan - Notable Castellans: Castellan Adlar - Castellan Adlar commanded Fighting Company Adlar of the Solemnus Crusade during the Third War for Armageddon. Fighting Company Adlar deployed to the surface of Armageddon to stall the Ork invaders and search for the Red Scar Ork Tribe that had destroyed the Solemnus Chapter Keep. Castellan Adlar fell during the assault on the Blood Scar Tribe's Gargant factory, pinned by a crashed Ork Trukk. Brother Adlar used his Thunder Hammer to detonate the munitions stockpile of the Kannon emplacement where he was trapped and dying, and took every Greenskin in the vicinity with him.Castellan Draco - Draco first rose to prominence as part of Marshal Ludoldus's Sword Brethren during the bitter Vinculus Crusade in which he fought a Renegade Inquisitor named Lord Vinculus. Draco was badly wounded after the battle and his body was reconstructed with bionics. He was awarded the rank of Castellan and was given a relic suit of the Chapter's finest power armour for his valour. Draco's contributions were further recognised when he was presented with the former Inquisitor's blade as a mark of gratitude from the Ordo Hereticus. Unfortunately, Draco has since been declared Excommunicate Traitoris for deeds too horrible to recount.
Castellan - Wargear: Power Armour (Any Firstborn or Mark X pattern)Terminator Armour (Optional)BolterBolt Pistol (Optional)Crusader Seals - Crusader Seals are waxen or metallic tokens with vows of piety and Chapter blessings inscribed on hanging strips of parchment that are bestowed upon Black Templars Astartes of proven zeal and courage.Storm Bolter (Optional for Castellans in Terminator Armour)Close Combat Weapon (Choice of Power Sword, Chainsword, Lightning Claws, Thunder Hammer, Power Fist; if chosen weapon is one-handed, a Storm Shield may also be used)Frag GrenadesKrak Grenades
Castellan Axe - Castellan Axe: A Castellan Axe is a variant of the Guardian Spear, the signature weapon of the Adeptus Custodes, that incorporates a heavier, axe-like blade rather than a speartip. These weapons lend themselves to an elegant and brutal combat style that sees the wielder use their exceptional transhuman strength in conjunction with their axe's momentum, launching thunderous sweeps that switch direction with breathtaking suddenness to cleave through their victims' guard and hack off heads and limbs.The wielder can also fire concentrated volleys of bolter fire from the hafts of their weapons, scything down those who attempt to stay out of their blades' devastating reach. These deadly weapons are typically wielded by veteran Custodian Wardens, elite Allarus Custodians or Shield-Captains.
Castellan Axe - Notable Castellan Axes: Watcher's Axe - This master-crafted artefact weapon was fashioned in the wake of Constantin Valdor's disappearance and is traditionally passed on to each new Captain-General ever since. Watcher's Axe is a huge polearm blade that crackles with golden lightning and can bisect the sarcophagus of a Chaos Helbrute with a single swing. The axe's haft incorporates a master-crafted bolter weapon known as the Eagle's Scream, which fires adamantium-tipped penetrator bolts at a ferocious rate.
Castellan Axe - Sources: Codex: Adeptus Custodes (8th Edition), pp. 36-39, 44
Castellan Launcher - Castellan Launcher: A Castellan Launcher is a long-range, anti-infantry weapon employed by the Primaris Space Marines of a Desolation Squad of the Adeptus Astartes that is of particular use against enemies in cover.Desolation Marines all pack a little something extra under the barrel of their rocket launchers. The belt-fed Castellan Launcher can saturate the sky with guided bomblets that rain down on the enemy wherever they hide, catching them in a blast radius that extends beyond the wielder's line of sight.It is the perfect weapon for flushing out cowardly targets -- and it fires separately from a Desolation Marine's main rockets, allowing them to pick and choose their targets.
Castellan Rhino - Castellan Rhino: The Castellan Rhino was an ancient specialised siege variant of the Rhino APC and was used solely by the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion. The Castellan Rhino was designed by the Iron Warriors' Primarch, Perturabo, for use during siege warfare. The Castellan Rhino featured unfolding armour plates and impact bracing that turned them into miniature bunkers, whose modular construction allowed the Castellan Rhinos to be linked together in a chain, forming a makeshift fortified line when materials for more permanent emplacements were unavailable or a defence had to be fashioned quickly.During the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, the Iron Warriors would deploy many, sometimes thousands of Castellan Rhinos to encircle fortifications and cities quickly. During the Iron Warriors and Emperor's Children's siege of the ancient Eldar fortress of Amon ny-shak Kaelis the Iron Warriors deployed over 400 Castallen Rhinos as their defensive line. Current Imperial records do not indicate which Pattern of Rhino APC was used for the Castellan variant, although both the Deimos Pattern and the standard Mars Pattern Rhinos were used by the Iron Warriors during this era.
Castellans of the Rift - Castellans of the Rift: Castellans of the RiftSpace MarineChapterPrimaris Space MarinesUltramarinesUltima FoundingIt is the unenviable duty of the Castellans of the Rift, given to them by Roboute Guilliman himself, to maintain and defend the Nachmund Gauntlet, that stable channel through the roiling tides of the Great Rift that empties into the Vigilus System.They have engaged in numerous raids upon the Fallen Knight World of Dharrovar, and have fought at both the Imperium Nihilus and Imperium Sanctus ends of the gauntlet to drive back Renegades, Traitors and xenos raiders alike, at great personal cost.
Castellans of the Rift - Notable Campaigns: War of Beasts (Unknown Date.M42) - Since Primarch Roboute Guilliman despatched the Castellans of the Rift to the Nachmund Gauntlet, they have been locked in a struggle to drive back the hordes of daemonic war machines and Renegade Knights blighting that channel of space. When war broke out on the vitally important Imperial world of Vigilus, the greater part of the Chapter was engaged in warfare against the Heretic forces that had revealed themselves on the Knight World of Dharrovar. Still, two companies joined the war on Sangua Terra and a further two travelled to Vigilus. With experience fighting against the machinations of Chaos, in the third stage of the War of Beasts they hunted the dark cults of Storvhal with commendable efficiency and resolve.
Castellans of the Rift - Chapter Colours: The Castellans of the Rift wear pale green Mark X Power Armour. The Aquila or Imperialis on the chest guard is gold. The backpack and right knee plate are black. The shoulder trim is dark green.Chapter markings and unit designations are white. The white squad specialty symbol -- battleline, close support, fire support, Veteran or command -- is displayed on the right shoulder pauldron, while the left pauldron proudly displays the Chapter's iconography.The company number is displayed as a High Gothic numeral on the right knee plate on a field of black. These numerals reflect the Chapter's Ultramarines heritage.The black High Gothic numeral displayed in the centre of the squad specialty symbol on the right pauldron designates squad number.Battle-Brothers display pale green helms with a vertical dark green stripe down the centre. Sergeants wear red helms.Veteran Sergeants wear red helms with a white vertical stripe down the centre.Lieutenants wear pale green helms bisected by a large red stripe with a pair of smaller white stripes painted to either side.The faceplate of the helms is painted white rather than green, mirroring the skull that is part of the Chapter badge.
Castellans of the Rift - Chapter Badge: The Castellans of the Rift's Chapter badge is a white skull placed over a pair of crossed chains.The chains represent a symbolic barrier against the evil that these Astartes fight.
Castellans of the Rift - Sources: Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 25Imperium Nihilus: Vigilus Defiant (8th Edition), pp. 75, 79, 86White Dwarf 5 (October 2017), "Eavy Metal - Create your own Chapter," pg. 118
Castellax-class Battle-Automata - Castellax-class Battle-Automata: The Castellax-class Battle-Automata is the most common pattern of the widespread Castellan-type Battle-Automata in service to the mysterious Legio Cybernetica and serves as a general robotic battle unit developed during the Great Crusade from its ancient forebear.Primarily intended for siege work and shock assaults, the Castellax Battle-Automata is a hulking humanoid machine with a notoriously aggressive and responsive Machine Spirit, and an enviable reputation on the battlefield. The Castellax, employed in units of one to five robots by the Legio Cybernetica, has a standard configuration of bolter and Mauler Bolt Cannon armament that allows it to serve in a potent infantry support role.
Castellax-class Battle-Automata - History: The most common Castellan-type Robot in service with the Imperium is the Castellax-class. Developed from its ancient forebears, it was primarily intended for siege work and shock assaults. The Castellax Battle-Automata is a hulking humanoid machine thrice the height of a man, with a notoriously aggressive and responsive Machine Spirit and an enviable reputation on the battlefield.Its armoured endoskeleton is proof against small-arms fire and highly resistant to damage thanks to its durable design and the presence of the same Atomantic Shielding technology that features on the Legiones Astartes Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought. The Castellax, employed in large numbers by the Legio Cybernetica, has a standard weapons configuration of bolter and Mauler Bolt Cannon armament, and is able to maintain a punishing barrage of firepower as it advances.Rarer configurations, however, included Battle-Automata equipped with Flamer weapons or the arcane and powerful Darkfire Heavy Photon Thruster Cannon. During the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, many Solar Auxilia cohorts and Legiones Astartes units went to war accompanied by attached Cybernetica maniples. Some were bonded by compacts forged in the crucibles of war, and the Battle-Automata even bore the same colours and heraldry as the auxiliaries or Space Marine Legions themselves.The Castellax-class was a mainstay both of the Legio Cybernetica and the elite defensive formations of many Forge Worlds, who relied on its formidable power for their protection. Some in the Imperial hierarchy saw the steady increase in the number of these war machines as a sleeping threat to the supremacy of the Imperium should the Mechanicum ever default on its treaty of mutual support with the Emperor.History was to take a different course, and in a few short standard years with the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, thousands of these war engines would be broken on the wheel of war, and the Castellax was never to be seen again in such numbers.
Castellax-class Battle-Automata - Wargear: Mauler Bolt Cannon - The ancient Mechanicum utilised a variety of bolter weaponry which, while operating on similar principles to the standardised weapons of the Legiones Astartes, were often more sophisticated and difficult to maintain. Such weapons include the Mauler Pattern Bolt Cannon, a fearsomely-baroque and bulky automatic cannon using substantially larger and denser shells than a standard Heavy Bolter.2 BoltersShock Chargers - Used to augment the combat power of Legio Cybernetica Battle-Automata, these devices amplify the force of the Battle-Automata's physical blows with powerful electrostatic discharges which detonate like thunderclaps when striking their target.Atomantic Shielding - Certain Battle-Automata featured particularly powerful Atomantic Reactor cores designed to energise defensive field generators built into the Battle-Automata's exterior armour plating, as well as power its combat systems.
Castellax-class Battle-Automata - Upgrades: SearchlightInfravisor - This simple visor allows its user a wide range of spectrums. So equipped, they can see better in low-light conditions than a normal human could see in optimal daylight.Frag GrenadesEnhanced Targeting Array - Certain Battle-Automata are fitted with additional slaved Cogitators and sub-incunabula machine-spirits devoted to relentlessly tracking and targetting any and all potential threats in range.Darkfire CannonMulti-MeltaFlamers2 Battle-Automata Power Blades - These close-combat weapons are fitted to the primary weapon-limbs of some Battle-Automata. Their sabre-like blades use molecular disruption fields super-charged with power from the Battle-Automata's Atomantic Reactor core.Siege Wrecker - This is a general term for a specialised form of massive close combat weapon intended for Legiones Astartes Dreadnoughts and Mechanicum Battle-Automata. Wreckers are designed to enable these heavy assault units to smash through fortifications and easily crush armoured barricades and defences in siege warfare. The most common form of this weapon is a hydraulic ram or massive disruption field-augmented hammer, although specialised forms of heavy claw or drill systems are also used.
Castellax-class Battle-Automata - Sources: The Horus Heresy - Book Two: Massacre (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 274The Horus Heresy - Book Three: Extermination (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 212-213, 223, 284The Horus Heresy - Book Four: Conquest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 77, 291The Horus Heresy - Book Five: Tempest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 136-137The Horus Heresy - Book Six: Retribution (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 75The Horus Heresy - Book Seven: Inferno (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 159, 210, 213Forge World - Mechanicum Castellax Battle-AutomataForge World - Castellax-Achea Battle-Automata Æther-Flame Cannon ManipleForge World - Castellax Battle-Automata with Darkfire CannonForge World - Castellax Battle-Automata with Multi-Melta
Castigations of Golgotha - Castigations of Golgotha: The Castigations of Golgotha was a long-term campaign carried out by the zealous Fire Hawks Space Marine Chapter that consisted of a series of Imperial Crusades (totaling 13 castigations) between 228.M40 and 902.M41 through the benighted war-torn area known as the Golgothan Wastes. The last Golgothan Crusade ended just prior to the outbreak of the Badab War.
Castigations of Golgotha - History: Following the loss of their second homeworld when it was rendered uninhabitable, the Fire Hawks found themselves once again relegated to the status of a fleet-based Chapter. The Fire Hawks vowed to undertake repeated "castigations" throughout the Golgotha Wastes sector of space, located on the northwest border of the Maelstrom Zone in the Ultima Segmentum. These missions ranged in scope from the use of the full might of the Chapter fleet such as the war that ended the xenos domination of the Zharth-Omog Trinity in the Third Castigation of Golgotha, to the progress of the single Strike Cruiser Slaughtering Star which hunted the Renegade Space Marines warband known as the Damned Company of Lord Caustos in the Tenth Castigation.The last Castigation until 904.M41 was the Thirteenth, which saw the bulk of the Chapter's fleet spread out into three distinct spearhead formations passing laterally through the southern Golgothan Wastes, attacking and pursuing targets of opportunity as they came across them, notably locating and condemning the lost colony of Jenkin's Run to Exterminatus for the abominable taint that afflicted its once-human inhabitants. It was an out-riding vanguard cruiser, the Red Harbinger, of this last dispersed Castigation fleet that was sent to the Maelstrom Zone's edge at the request of the Karthan Satrap, Tanit Koenig, who wanted the Fire Hawks investigate the disappearance of Karthan shipping in the area.On a number of occasions in the past, the fleet-based Fire Hawks Chapter had used the vast orbital dockyards of the Karthan capital world of Sidon Ultra for resupply. They had also been invited by the Karthans to enact the Emperor's judgement upon wayward planets and minor alien threats within the sector, and it was on this relationship the Karthans relied upon for a favourable hearing. The volatile and bellicose nature of the Fire Hawks Chapter was widely known, and it is likely that this also figured in the Karthan Satrap's request. The subsequent attack and capture of the Red Harbinger when it entered the Endymion Cluster by the forces of the Mantis Warriors sparked the calamity of the Badab War that followed.
Castigator-class Titan - Castigator-class Titan: The Castigator-class Titan, also known as the "Father of Titans," was a highly-advanced relic of the Dark Age of Technology discovered upon the Forge World of Chaeronia in the 41st Millennium by the Grey Knights. It was a completely autonomous Titan, controlled by an artificial general intelligence, and it claimed to be the very first Titan ever built, from which all the patterns of Imperial Titans built by the Adeptus Mechanicus were derived, albeit far more crudely.The presence of the Castigator's pattern in a Standard Template Construct database also discovered on Chaeronia lent authenticity to this claim. The Castigator was ultimately destroyed by the Grey Knights after they learned the Titan had been corrupted by Chaos during Chaeronia's long sojourn in the Warp and possessed by a Daemon.
Castigator-class Titan - History: Discovered upon the lost Forge World of Chaeronia, the artificially intelligent Castigator-class Titan was a completely autonomous bipedal weapons platform, the first and only one of its kind ever built. Called the "Father of Titans," the Castigator claimed to be the "original" Titan, as it was first designed during the Dark Age of Technology, and that all subsequent Titan designs were but crude, incomplete copies of it poorly understood and recreated by the ancient Mechanicum of Mars.The Castigator was originally lost on what later became the Adeptus Mechanicus Forge World of Chaeronia during the Age of Technology and remained lost even when the planet was pulled into the Warp thousands of standard years later. During its time in the Warp, the artificially intelligent Titan made a pact with the Black Legion that had established an outpost on Chaeronia: by allowing a Daemon to possess it, it would be empowered by the Warp. The Castigator and Chaeronia remained in the Warp for a Terran millennia and its artificial intelligence forgot much of what happened during that time, including being possessed. The Castigator was discovered by the Imperium when the planet reemerged from the Warp by a force of Grey Knights led by Justicar Alaric and his battle-brothers.The only known Castigator-class Titan was ultimately destroyed by Alaric and his battle-brothers. When Alaric confronted the Castigator, its artificial intelligence did not believe it was possessed by a Daemon until Alaric convinced it of the truth, at which point the Titan's possessing Daemon appeared and it was slain by Alaric. Alaric then destroyed the Castigator while his battle-brothers Dvorn and Haulvarn destroyed the Titan's STC database to prevent either from falling into the hands of nearby Chaos forces. However, fragments of data from the Titan's STC were collected by the Adeptus Mechanicus for archiving and study.
Castigator-class Titan - Design: The Castigator's design was stored in a Standard Template Construct database also present on Chaeronia. As a result of its ancient provenance, the Castigator made use of highly-advanced, long-lost technologies such as rapid self-repair routines and a synthetic, muscle-like locomotive system.Standing larger than even the Imperator-class Emperor Titans, the head of the Castigator notably did not jut from its chest like on most Imperial Titan patterns but actually was above the shoulders, matched by an elegant yet super heavy and very well-armoured chassis and impossibly-graceful movement. It was indeed far superior to any class of Titan utilised by the Adeptus Mechanicus or any other intelligent starfaring species in the galaxy. It was also the only known Titan controlled autonomously by an artificial general intelligence rather than a Human princeps and other crew and the only known Titan to have been made by an STC.Its weapons included an arm-mounted melee weapon and a super-heavy, multi-barrelled cannon that fired Daemons. The ability to fire Daemons was later found to be due to the pact the Castigator's artificial general intelligence had formed with the Chaos Gods through the Black Legion.
Castigator Bolt Cannon - Castigator Bolt Cannon: The Castigator Pattern Bolt Cannon, or simply the Castigator Bolt Cannon, is a massive Bolter that is used by the combat walkers of the Questor Imperialis, the Imperial Knights, and by the Renegade Knights of the Questor Traitoris. This weapon is found only on the Cerastus Knight-Castigator.The Knight-Castigator pattern is used by those Knight Houses who are often faced by an overwhelming number of the enemy. The Castigator Bolt Cannon features two rapid-firing, rotary Bolt Cannons twin-linked together, and is capable of annihilating infantry formations and light vehicles in a thunderous hailstorm of mass-reactive shells.Castigator Knights are usually piloted by a Knight House's most venerable Scions, those who are skilled and trustworthy enough to conserve the Castigator's limited supply of ammunition, which is stored on the Knight's back in an armoured container, with an armoured feed line supplying it to the cannons.
Castigator Bolt Cannon - Sources: The Horus Heresy - Book Four: Conquest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 306The Horus Heresy - Book Five: Tempest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 130Imperial Armour Index: Forces of the Astra Militarum (8th Edition), pg. 98Imperial Armour Index: Forces of Chaos (8th Edition), pg. 60Forge World Webstore - Ceratus Knight Castigator
Castigator Gatling Cannon - Castigator Gatling Cannon: The Castigator Gatling Cannon is a powerful, rotary ballistic weapon deployed as a hull-mounted weapon on the Astra Militarum's Rogal Dorn Battle Tank.The Castigator Gatling Cannon is the perfect anti-infantry weapon, capable of scything down whole squads of foot soldiers in a single burst.
Castilos Nullifact - Castilos Nullifact: Castilos Nullifact, also called Fort Nullifact, is a watch fortress of the Deathwatch Chapter located in the Segmentum Ultima.This watch fortress is located in the northern Segmentum Ultima where its Astartes watch for the rise of the long-slumbering Necron dynasties. Forces from this watch fortress once assaulted a seemingly undefended Jokaero star-frame, only to be met by a fleet's worth of firepower.During the Era Indomitus, far-ranging patrols from Castilos Nullifact found evidence of a mobile Genestealer Cult travelling between fringe worlds aboard a fleet of voidships and posing as Rogue Traders. They set off on the trail of the so-called Bringers of Enraptured Joy, and fought several battles against the monstrously corrupted settlements the xenos-worshippers had seeded in their wake.