Ultramarines - Heresy Era Personnel: Roboute Guilliman - Roboute Guilliman is the primarch of the XIII Space Marine Legion and its myriad subsequent Second Founding Successor Chapters. Guilliman was the primarch who single-handedly reshaped the Imperium of Man after the Horus Heresy during the Imperial reforms of the Time of Rebirth, taking the lead role in reforming the administrative and military apparatus of the Imperium following the internment of the Emperor of Mankind within the Golden Throne on Terra. Guilliman is perhaps best remembered for being the author of the Codex Astartes, a key volume that laid out the proper tactics and military organisation for the majority of Loyalist Space Marine Chapters now in existence. Guilliam served as the lord commander of the Imperium and Imperial Regent during the years of the Great Scouring, and would take up those roles once again for the Imperium after he was resurrected in the Era Indomitus. Roboute Guilliman is also one of the few Loyalist primarchs still alive. Following the Great Scouring, Guilliman and his Ultramarines met the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion at the Battle of Thessala in 121.M31, where his corrupt brother Fulgrim mortally wounded him with a slice to the neck made by that Daemon Primarch's Chaos-tainted blades. So it was that the dying Roboute Guilliman was put into temporal stasis on the verge of death and his body placed upon the throne that lay in the Temple of Correction on the Ultramarines' homeworld of Macragge. For the last ten millenia many pilgrims of the Imperial Cult travelled across the galaxy every standard year to visit the temple and see the body of a primarch, a blessed son of the God-Emperor Himself. Some pilgrims claimed that the grievous wound was slowly healing, though such an action was physically impossible within an activated stasis field. The Avenging Son was silently enthroned through the millennia as his father's Imperium decayed around him, waiting until such a time when one could come with the power to restore him. And that time has come. The primarch was resurrected during the Ultramar Campaign of the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41 by the technical prowess of Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl and the power of the Aeldari god of the dead Ynnead through his priestess Yvraine. Soon after, Guilliman launched the Terran Crusade from Macragge through the growing Warp instability of the galaxy as the power of Chaos waxed mighty once more with the birth of the Great Rift. After nearly being imprisoned for eternity in the Maelstrom and then almost slain by his brother the Daemon Primarch Magnus the Red on Luna, Guilliman finally arrived at Holy Terra. There, he entered the inner sanctum of the Imperial Palace and met with his father the Emperor for the first time in more than ten thousand standard years. What passed between father and son at that meeting is not known, but when he emerged, Guilliman announced that he was once more assuming the mantles of the lord commander of the Imperium and Imperial Regent, the first among equals on the Senatorum Imperialis and the de facto ruler of the Imperium. As the Great Rift's cataclysmic birth following the fall of Cadia disrupted interstellar travel and communications and the Noctis Aeterna closed like a shroud upon the galaxy, Guilliman moved swiftly to stabilise the faltering Imperium. He turned to Belisarius Cawl once more to complete a plan that had been over 10,000 standard years in the making, since the end of the Horus Heresy and Guilliman's last tenure as the Imperium's lord commander. Cawl had spent that time "perfecting" the Emperor's original genetic template for the Space Marines laid down before the Great Crusade, creating a new legion of hundreds of thousands of improved Astartes deep beneath the surface of his forge on Mars. This new breed of transhuman warrior, the Primaris Space Marines, were bigger, more physically powerful and possessed faster reaction times than their original Astartes counterparts. Cawl had also spent the intervening millennia pushing the very boundaries of Adeptus Mechanicus dogma in search of "innovation," creating new, more advanced power armour, wargear, and vehicles for the Primaris Marines. But before Guilliman could move to make use of his new armies, the Chaos God Khorne took advantage of the Noctis Aeterna to launch a Daemonic assault upon the Throneworld of Mankind, initiating the Battle of Lion's Gate. Though Guilliman led the Imperial defenders, including the Sisters of Silence and the Adeptus Custodes, in throwing back the howling servants of the Blood God, the brazen assault shocked the High Lords of Terra to the core. They realised that in this new age, no world was safe from the Ruinous Powers and the other foes of Mankind. In the wake of the Battle of Lion's Gate, Guilliman gathered the greatest fleet of Imperial warriors that had been seen since the Great Crusade. The largest component of this force included a massive new host of hundreds of thousands of Primaris Space Marines, divided half into new Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes and half into 9 Space Marine Legion-sized formations known as the Unnumbered Sons. The primarch launched this massive Indomitus Crusade out into the void, determined to throw back the forces of Chaos and the xenos hordes wherever they threatened the worlds of humanity. Guilliman set a winding course. Strike forces from over a dozen pre-existing Chapters of Space Marines, led by the Imperial Fists, also joined the fleet. Thus began many new legends as Guilliman travelled to aid beleaguered planets, breaking sieges and sweeping away Chaos and xenos invaders alike to bring hope back to the desperate defenders. The Indomitus Crusade would reach the end of its first major phase approximately twelve standard years later at the Battle of Raukos. Afterwards, Guilliman would turn his attention to helping his Realm of Ultramar defeat the forces of the Death Guard Traitor Legion and the servants of Nurgle in the Plague Wars, driving his traitorous brother Mortarion and the Death Guard from the region in ca. 012.M42. Before the conflict had ended, Guilliman announced that he had made a grave mistake when he had allowed the official borders of Ultramar to shrink so drastically to a single sub-sector in the days after the Horus Heresy. Instead, he reestablished the ancient ruling Tetrarch Council for Ultramar, and tasked its newly-appointed Tetrarchs, including his Primaris Space Marine Equerry Captain Decimus Felix and the Ultramarines First Captain Severus Agemman, with beginning to expand the territories of Ultramar to include all of the star systems that had once comprised the Five Hundred Worlds.Lord Commander Gren Vosotho - Gren Vosotho was a part of the first induction of Terran initiates for the newly formed XIII Legion when it was founded during the latter years of the Terran Unification Wars. Showing great promise as a leader, Vosotho was selected for high command, eventually rising to the esteemed position as the first Lord Commander of the XIII Legion, leading the "War-born" for over three solar decades during the Great Crusade. Vosotho met his fate when the XIII Legion were sent to put down the secessionist movement within the Osiris Cluster. Deemed an affront to the Legion's honour, Lord Commander Vosotho vowed to bring the matter to a swift resolution. Leading a deep strike onto the surface of the halo world of Septus XII, Vosotho hoped to end the rebellion in a single, bloody stroke. Drawn deep into the centre of the primary hive city, the unwary Legionaries were beset by a cunning xenos trap. A xenos fleet of unknown type waylaid the outmatched, orbiting 12th Expeditionary Fleet, destroying the Legion's flagship as well as several other vessels. When the fearful figures of the xenos "Osirian Psybrids" began to materialise on the surface among the attackers, Vosotho's final command was for the fleet to withdraw with as many Space Marines of the XIII Legion as could be recovered. Vosotho committed his life to the command of the rearguard on the surface, taking penance for his error, and his last act was to transfer Legion command to the most senior surviving commander present in orbit, Marius Gage.First Master Marius Gage - Marius Gage, known as the "First Master," was the Terran-born second Legion Master and later Chapter Master of the Ultramarines Legion's elite 1st Chapter, master primus of the XIII Legion and equerry to Primarch Roboute Guilliman during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy of the 30th and 31st Millennia. He was te Ultramarines' equivalent of the rank of "first captain" found in many of the other Legions of this era and served as Guilliman's second-in-command after the XIII Legion was reunited with its primarch. Gage was heavily involved in the events of the Battle of Calth.Captain Steloc Aethon - Steloc Aethon was the captain of the 19th Company during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. A native son of Calth, he was born to a proud family of underworld castellans and brought up in the principal arcology of Gallica Subdelta. With his eidetic memory, he became a master of the underground arcologies, earning the nickname "White Spider," for it was said he knew the labyrinths better than the arachnids that crawled their ceilings. He eventually went on to become a formidable warrior of the Ultramarines Legion, and quickly earned the rank of captain during the campaigns of the Great Crusade. By the time the Ultramarines and Word Bearers mustered upon Calth, Aethon had proved a gifted ambassador, and was awarded the title of praetor by unanimous accord. Following the Word Bearers betrayal and unprovoked attack, Captain Aethon's cool and methodical approach to war turned to fiery rage at the treachery unleashed upon his homeworld. When Calth's sun went nova due to the Word Bearers' perfidy, irradiating the planet's surface, the Ultramarine survivors were forced to seek shelter in the subterranean arcologies that threaded the planet's underworld. The surviving Word Bearers likewise headed underground, determined to complete their heretical work by hunting down every Ultramarine survivor. Under Captain Aethon's command, the Ultramarines rallied and counter-attacked, waging a desperate war in the darkness known as the Underworld War against the foes they once called brothers.Captain Erikon Gaius (KIA) - Gaius was the captain of the 21st Company during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, and he was known as the "Hero of the Hadir Uprising," as well as "Gaius the Strong" and "Gaius the Unflinching." During the infamous Battle of Calth, Gaius rallied his devastated company and counter-attacked the traitorous Word Bearers Legion, inflicting several casualties, but unable to halt their advance. He eventually gave his life heroically during the latter course of the campaign.Captain Lucretius Corvo - Lucretius Corvo was a highly honoured captain of the 90th Company, 9th Chapter. He led his company in countless successful engagements during the Great Crusade and served as one of the Ultramarines' Champions during the vicious fighting against the apostate Word Bearers Legion on the planet Astagar during the Horus Heresy. During this particularly brutal six-day-long battle, Corvo led a desperate counterattack against an enemy force many times his own unit's number. His chosen band managed to destroy a Traitor Warlord-class Titan and break the siege. As recognition for his tenacity and heroic actions, a Laurel of Defiance was awarded to Corvo by Roboute Guilliman himself. During the Second Founding, he would go on to become the first Chapter Master of the newly created Primogenitor Novamarines Chapter. The Novamarines use of a quartered livery is based upon Lucretius Corvo's own personal heraldry.Captain Lysimachus Cestus - Cestus was a captain of the Ultramarines and the fleet commander of the XIII Legion's 7th Chapter during the latter stages of the Great Crusade and the early stages of the Horus Heresy. He is notable for leading the valiant interception mission against the Furious Abyss, the massive battleship of the traitorous Word Bearers Legion, and ensuring its destruction before it could play a role in the Battle of Calth.Captain Teutona - Teutona served as the commander of the 15th Chapter at the time of the Battle of Calth. During the opening phase of the battle, the captain was slain by frenzied Traitor Imperial Army auxilia.Captain Tullian Aquila - Aquila was a Veteran battle-brother of the Ultramarines Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. He served as a sergeant during the Battle of Calth, stationed alongside his company at the city of Ithraca. When the traitorous Word Bearers struck after taking control of Calth's orbital defences, only Sergeant Aquila and two other battle-brothers survived the orbital barrage. During the subsequent fighting, Aquila was moved by the sacrifice of one of his battle-brothers and came to the realisation -- even though he himself was essentially already dead -- that he had a duty to protect the innocent and to suffer, so that they did not have to. Later on, then-Captain Aquila would become the founder and first Chapter Master of the newly created Doom Eagles Chapter during the Second Founding. The Doom Eagles quickly embraced their Chapter Master's sense of fatalism, and came to accept that death was inevitable, and that every mission performed on behalf of the Emperor must be pursued with both fervour and zeal in defence of the Imperium and its people before one's life was spent.Captain Oberdeii - Oberdeii, known as the "Warden of the Pharos," was the first Chapter Master of the Third Founding Scythes of the Emperor Chapter. Originally a Scout Marine of the 199th "Aegida" Company during the Horus Heresy, he would go on to be a part of the events surrounding the mysterious xenos artefact known as the Pharos on the Agri-world of Sotha during the dark days of the Heresy. Following the Battle of Sotha, he was promoted to Reconnaissance Squad sergeant by Primarch Roboute Guilliman personally. He would later be promoted to captain of the Aegida Company, which acted as a phantom 11th Company of the newly divided Ultramarines Chapter in defiance of the Codex Astartes on the orders of Guilliman himself. He would maintain his vigil over Sotha for many standard centuries, until the dawning of the 32nd Millennium. During the Third Founding, he was offered the choice to be reassigned as a part of the Ultramarines Chapter's 5th Company or to continue his vigil as Chapter Master of a new "Aegida Chapter." Oberdeii reluctantly accepted the latter choice, and became the first master of the newborn Chapter he renamed the "Scythes of the Emperor."Captain Remus Ventanus - Captain of the 4th Company, 1st Chapter during the Horus Heresy, Remus Ventanus was central to the Legion's fight-back on the surface of Calth during the Ultramarines' darkest moment. At the moment of the destruction of Calth's Veridian Anchor, Ventanus was inspecting loading operations at Numinus Port, and in the anarchic solar hours that followed, he rallied the 4th Company and warriors from other shattered formations into a force able to mount a fierce resistance against the Traitors. It was during this early phase that Ventanus linked up with Magos of Analyticae Tawren, the most senior surviving Mechanicum adept and the only Tech-priest able to perceive a means of regaining control of the Calth defence grid. Thanks to Ventanus' leadership and courage, Magos Tawren completed her crucial task. The captain's duties did not end with his victories at Leptius Numinus and the Lanshear Guildhall, for he fought on even as the bulk of the Ultramarines forces on the surface of Calth were evacuated at the order of his primarch. He led the counter-attack against the disordered Word Bearers, and as the extent of the wounds to the Veridian star became evident, Ventanus led his forces and as many civilians as he could contact into the subterranean arcologies of Calth. His deeds throughout the subsequent Calth Underworld War led to him becoming known as the "Saviour of Calth."Chief Librarian Aaroth Ptolemy - Ptolemy was the first and greatest Librarian of the Ultramarines and the founder of the Library of Ptolemy. Ironically, by the 41st Millennium little details remain about his life, though it is known that he might have been present for the trial of the Thousand Sons' Primarch Magnus the Red during the Council of Nikaea, but it is unknown whether he was one of the Red Sorcerer's accusers or defenders.Tylos Rubio - Tylos Rubio was an extremely powerful Space Marine psyker during the Great Crusade of the early 31st Millennium, who had once been a Codicier of the Ultramarines Legion before the Emperor's formal decree at the Council of Nikaea had banned the Astartes Legions' use of psykers, including their own corps of Librarians. Honouring his oath to the Emperor, Tylos surrendered his Librarian panoply and wargear, and returned to the lines as an ordinary battle-brother of the 21st Company. He would later be recruited by Nathaniel Garro, the former Death Guard battle-captain, during the infamous Battle of Calth at the outset of the Horus Heresy, and became one of Malcador the Sigillite's shadow agents, known as the Knights-Errant, and eventually one of the seven Astartes who would serve as the first grand masters of what would become the Inquisition's Grey Knights Space Marine Chapter.Apothecary Theon - Apothecary Theon served as a part of the Support Echelon, 3rd Chapter during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. He was deployed to his chapter's command post at the landing fields on the Bay of Lisko on Calth. At the moment of the destruction of Calth's Veridian Anchor, Theon and his brethren from the chapter's Apothecarion were embarking an orbital transport, but as the burning debris began to fall, they rapidly disembarked in anticipation of the casualties to come. Within the solar hour, the coastal landing zone was aflame and thousands of Legionaries, Imperial Army Auxilia and civilians were dead and many more were wounded. There was little Theon could do for the majority, but operational records state he served with courage and resolution that day, and recovered the progenoid glands of dozens of battle-brothers fallen in glory.Ancient Marcellus - A Deredeo Pattern Dreadnought, Ancient Marcellus was a former Consul-Centurion with three solar decades of service and numerous citations for valour during the Great Crusade. Captain Marcellus fell at the First Portresh Compliance when recidivist forces unleashed a bio-psionic weapon of forbidden provenance. On Calth, he was deployed to Ithraca City, where he mustered at Landing Zone Macro-Gamma during the Calth Cunjunction. Marcellus stood against the traitorous Calaq War Host at Macro-Gamma, his heavy-weaponry cutting down scores of Word Bearer Traitors. He was last recorded battling against waves of summoned Warp entities that slaughtered almost the entirety of the Loyalist forces mustered in that region, and while his remains were never located, his name was added to the roll of honour of the many thousands who fell during the Battle of Calth.Honoured Telemechrus - Known as the "Fury of Calth", "The Hero of Bloody Keep" and "The Last of the Old 92nd", this revered ancient was once Legionary Gabriel Telemach of the 92nd Company. He had only served his Legion for ten standard years when he was so grievously wounded in battle that he was granted the honour of internment within a mighty Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought. At the moment of the Word Bearers' betrayal at Calth, Telemechrus was quiescent, his armour deactivated and what remained of his body in suspended animation onboard a transit vessel in orbit. The violence of the death of Calth's Veridian Anchor awoke him but he remained blinded as his container plummeted through orbit and smashed into the surface. The Battle of Calth was Telemechrus' first war as an Ancient, a title he rejected. He soon mastered fighting as a Dreadnought, hard-won experience, which, combined with an unusually deep bond between the cybernetic machine sarcophagus and its occupant, empowered Telemechrus in ways not fully understood even by the Tech-priests of the Machine God who attended him. Surviving the plummet from on high after his transport was destroyed, Telemechrus fought at the side of the Tetrarch Lamiad through the slaughter-fields of Komesh. He then went on to lead the assault into Lanshear, reinforcing the 4th Company's attack on the Guildhall.Ancient Tyrennius - A Contemptor-Mortis Pattern Dreadnought, Ancient Tyrennius was born a Terran and was inducted from the Midafrik hive levies towards the end of the Emperor's campaign to bring Unification to Terra in preparation for the start of the Great Crusade. He served in the earliest solar decades of the Great Crusade before being appointed to command his Legion's commitment to the First Magellan Expedition. Tyrennius was among the few to return from that doomed endeavour, though he had sustained such terrible wounds that only interment within the armoured sarcophagus of a Dreadnought saved him from death. The Calth Configuration was to be Tyrennius' first campaign for over a solar decade, having been held in stasis for many standard years. Having been restored to full potency a mere ten solar hours before the Word Bearers' betrayal, he fought with bitter resolve throughout the Battle of Calth and was instrumental in the defeat of a large Word Bearers force assaulting the gates of Arcology XVk.Legate Castor Alcade (KIA) - Castor Alcade was a legate of the Ultramarines Legion during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. He served as the commanding officer of the 9th Division, II Battlegroup, 25th Chapter as a part of the Ultramarines garrison on the world of Molech. During the Battle of Molech, Alcade would serve as a major Imperial commander who played a pivotal role in the planet's defence against a large Traitor force comprised of the Sons of Horus and Death Guard Legions, four Traitor Titan Legions -- Legio Mortis, Legio Vulcanum I, Legio Vulpa and the Legio Interfector -- as well as a large Traitor Imperialis Auxilia force, Dark Mechanicum assets and the Traitor Questoris Familia House Devine. During the raging battle, Alcade and his warriors eventually encountered the Perpetual known as Alivia Sureka, who informed the Legionaries of her vital mission on Molech to protect a Warp Gate from Horus. Should the Warmaster enter this gate into the realm of the Ruinous Powers, he would acquire powers on par with the Emperor Himself. Alcade and his warriors valiantly gave their lives to hold the line against Horus' elite Justaerin Terminators at the foot of the Warp Gate. Alcade died in the final assault at the hands of Horus himself, with a single swipe of his giant Power Maul, Worldbreaker.Centurion Aerion Mersaror (KIA) - Aerion Mersaror served as the commander of the Vindicus Squad of the elite 1st Company of the Ultramarines Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. He was slain in the wake of the Battle of Calth when he sacrificed himself by using his Terminator Armour's homing beacon to provide crucial targeting assistance to the Ultramarines' battleship Macragge's Honour which led to the crippling of the Word Bearers' flagship Infidus Imperator, though at the cost of his own life.Centurion Proximo Tarchon - Proximo Tarchon served as a Centurion of the 9th Division, II Battlegroup, 25th Chapter as a part of the Ultramarines garrison on the world of Molech under the command of Castor Alcade. Soon the planet was best by a large Traitor Legion force led by Warmaster Horus himself. During the fighting, Tarchon's ship, the Guardian of Aquinas, was boarded by the Sons of Horus, and the Centurion was grievously injured at the hands of the Warmaster. Tarchon was captured and taken back to the Sons of Horus' flagship, Vengeful Spirit, in order to be used as a Daemonic sacrifice. Fortunately, Tarchon was soon discovered by a Knights-Errant squad that had secretly infiltrated the Traitor flagship, which freed him, and killed his tormentors. Tarchon then helped his fellow Loyalists with their mission to assassinate Horus. During the final battle in the flagship's Lupercal's Court, Tarchon managed to slay the Daemon-possessed Sons of Horus chieftain, Serghar Targost, though he was badly wounded during the subsequent fighting. Tarchon managed to escape alongside the surviving Knights-Errant, and was saved through the efforts of Ares Voitek, and put into a sus-an-induced healing coma, in order to heal.Invictarus Lucian Cassian (KIA) - At the time of the Calth Conjunction, Cassian was serving with the XIII Legion High Command and had recently completed service in the ranks of the Invictarus Suzerains having been identified as a candidate for company command by First Chapter Master Marius Gage himself. Cassian had served in the honour guard of the primarch on three occasions and fought in the ranks of the Suzerains in a dozen battles. Although he would never know the honour that was to be bestowed upon him, Lucian Cassian had been marked by Lord Guilliman for command of the 213th Company. During the Traitors' betrayal at the Calth Conjunction, Cassian was on board the Ultramarines flagship the Macragge's Honour. He and his squad were last seen rallying an ad hoc force of several dozen Legionaries and naval armsmen in defence of the starboard primary enginarium against a horde of Warp entities. While the vital location was saved, Cassian and his warriors gave their lives for victory.Invictarus Sarervan (KIA) - Legionary Sarervan was a member of the 15th Chapter Command Cadre at the time of the Calth Conjunction, a fully inducted member of the Invictarii, having served his Legion for three solar decades and earned the approbation of the primarch himself. Marked for high rank, Sarervan was serving in the command squad of his battalion's commanding officer, Captain Teutona, at the time of the Battle of Calth. When his immediate superior was slain by frenzied Traitor Imperial Army auxilia, Sarervan assumed command of the remaining Legionaries and led the dwindling force for a further six solar hours before the Dainhold Manufactoria fell.Sergeant Aeonid Thiel - Aeonid Thiel served as a squad leader in the 135th Company of the XIII Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. He was marked for censure prior to the Battle of Calth for running theoretical scenarios on fighting other Space Marines. Throughout this campaign, he used unorthodox tactics and strategy to wage war with all ferocity against the Ultramarines' former brethren, the Chaos Space Marines of the Word Bearers, who had woefully betrayed both the Ultramarines and the Imperium. When Roboute Guilliman led a boarding party of 50 Ultramarines aboard an orbital platform commandeered by the Word Bearers, Thiel ordered that the squad leaders accompanying him paint their helmets red because the Word Bearers' traitorous attack had demolished the Ultramarines' normal command hierarchy and because of unreliable vox communications. Roboute Guilliman wanted firm and simple visual cues for the chain of command in that situation. Following the events of Calth, Guilliman declared that from that time forward, in recognition of the heroism and original thinking displayed by this lone Ultramarines sergeant, the red-colouration of the helm would be considered a badge of honour instead of censure amongst the Ultramarines. In the ten millennia since the Battle of Calth, the sergeants of the Ultramarines and several other Codex Astartes-compliant Chapters continue to paint their helmets red to signify the honour accorded to the Astartes who achieve this rank. After the Heresy, Thiel rose to command the 2nd Company of the Ultramarines after its reorganisation during the Second Founding and was present at the Battle of Thessala in 121.M31 where Roboute Guilliman was mortally wounded and had to thereafter be placed into stasis. As the Chapter's First Captain had also died at Thessala, Thiel found himself the highest-ranking remaining officer of the Ultramarines. A chapel that exists deep in the bowels of the Fortress of Hera contains evidence that Thiel served the Ultramarines in multiple conflicts after Thessala, but little else is known of his deeds from that distant time.Legionary Krato Peleos - Legionary Peleos was a part of the Command Company, 7th Chapter of the Ultramarines Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. He took part in his Legion's campaign of vengeance against the baleful xenos "Osirian Psybrids". The bulk of the 7th Chapter was deployed on the Eurydice Retribution Taskforce aboard the warship Thunder of Hera and took part in the boarding assault against the alien nomad-ships. Legionary Peleos and his company fought as part of the second wave against the xenos vessel, moving through the interiors in the bloody wake of the 1st Chapter's Terminators, planting charges and performing a key role in the ultimate destruction of that vessel.Legionary Varinius - Legionary Varianius was a long-serving warrior of the 97th Company, 9th Chapter and marked for ascension to one of his chapter's Veteran Legion Tactical Squads. At the time of the Calth Conjunction, Varinius was serving in a Legion Breacher Squad assigned to shipboard security detail onboard the battle barge Phaunos, having displayed formidable skill in this role during the scouring of the nine orbital plates of Hydra's Reach in 001.M31. Varinius and his battle-brothers were especially noted for their expertise in counter-boarding actions, and it was in this role that they fought during the Battle of Calth, successfully repelling three separate breaching assaults against the Phaunos by Word Bearers boarding parties.Legionary Naevius - Legionary Naevius was a member of the 112th Company, 11th Chapter during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. He was recruited from Orpheus Prime having not only survived, but excelled in the ritual games associated with the annual tribal levy, and at the time of the Calth Conjunction was in his fourth standard year of Legion service, fighting in the ranks of the 112th Company. Having sustained calamitous losses at the outset of the Battle of Calth, the remnants of the 112th Company were rallied by Naevius' squad commander, Sergeant Anchise, at whose side he fought throughout the advance on Lanshear.Legionary Solon - Legionary Solon was a part of the 3rd Battalion, 12th Chapter Command Cadre, serving as the standard bearer, an honour earned in recognition of a solar decade of line service. Solon's Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour bore numerous honour marks, most notably the laurel and skull icon indicating that his rank was conferred by the hand of a chapter master. Legionary Solon served with distinction at the Battle of Calth, bearing his battalion's standard so that his battle-brothers could rally against the Traitors at Sylator. Solon's battalion faced the entire Traitor 199th Thorion Yeomanry, an Imperialis Militia unit serving under the Word Bearers and deployed to Sylator for the Calth Conjunction. Accounts of the clash between the desperately outnumbered force of Legionaries of the 12th Chapter and the thousands-strong host of inducted militia state that Solon never once faltered in his duty. Even when the enemy revealed formerly concealed munitions and unleashed the power of the Warp upon the Space Marines, Solon fought on and by his example Sylator was saved.Legionary Klion - Legionary Klion was a part of the 13th Chapter Elite during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. He had served his Legion for four and half solar decades at the time of the Calth Conjunction, and having been stationed on the outskirts of the Prohibited Zone had not set foot on any of the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar in almost ten standard years. Klion was a veteran of the xenocidal wars fought along Ultramar's frontiers and had sustained such heavy injuries fighting ravening xenos that he had been considered for internment within a Dreadnought. On each occasion, the 13th Chapter's isolation had necessitated arduous surgery and an extended recovery period, but Klion returned to the fray more determined in his duty than ever. Legionary Klion was clad in a Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour he had worn for the best part of the previous ten standard years, which for the muster at Calth was restored to nigh-pristine condition by the hand of his chapter's weapons-artificiers. At Calth, Klion was to sustain yet another, near-mortal wound in his long service, not by the hand of the xenos but, for the first time, at the hand of his brother Astartes.Legionary Kletos - Legionary Kletos was a part of the 2nd Destroyer Company, 22nd Chapter during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. He was deployed to one of the many muster camps scattered across the highlands of Thracius and served in one of the "Nemesis" Chapter's Destroyer squads. The 22nd Chapter numbered many specialised units, most of which utilised unconventional weapons and tactics, and so they were deliberately mustered far from Calth's centres of population.