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Librarian - Primaris Librarian: A Librarian of the Primaris Space Marines serves essentially the same function among Primaris Astartes as does his Firstborn Astartes counterpart. The only difference beyond his physical enhancements lies in his wargear, as it does for all Primaris Marines.The Primaris Librarian blends the noble bearing of the Primaris Captain with a wealth of occult detail and baroque cybernetics indicative of a darker, more mysterious kind of warrior.He serves as both a combat psyker and Chapter lorekeeper and is identical in function to the Firstborn Space Marine rank.
Librarian - Librarian Wargear: Power Armour (Any Firstborn pattern)Bolt PistolForce Weapon (of any type)Frag GrenadesKrak GrenadesPsychic HoodPlasma Pistol (as replacement for Bolt Pistol)Bolter (as replacement for Bolt Pistol)Jump Pack (if required for orbital drop or other assignment)If serving as a Terminator, the wargear available to the Librarian changes as follows:Terminator ArmourStorm BolterForce Weapon (of any type)Storm Shield (if in Terminator Armour and using a melee weapon)Psychic HoodA Storm Bolter can be replaced with one of the following:Storm ShieldCombi-flamer, Combi-melta, Combi-plasma or Combi-grav
Librarian - Primaris Librarian Wargear: Mark X Tacticus Power Armour or Mark X Gravis Power ArmourPsychic HoodBolt PistolForce SwordFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesIf a Primaris Librarian is wearing Mark X Phobos Power Armour, the wargear available changes as follows:Mark X Phobos Power ArmourPsychic HoodBolt PistolForce SwordFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesCamo Cloak
Librarian Consul - Librarian Consul: Librarian Consul was an officer rank of the Space Marine Legions used during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy for an Astartes battle-psyker of a Legion's Librarius Corps. Librarian Consul was one of several specialty ranks that fell under the generalised banner of the mid-tier Legion officer rank of consul, formally known as a Legiones Consularis in High Gothic, which was awarded to an individual Astartes who was recognised for their unique talents and hard-won skills.For many years the Legions maintained cadres of Astartes battle-psykers in their ranks, warriors who fused these esoteric powers with a Space Marine's transhuman physical power. But many within the Imperium's hierarchy were troubled by such dangerous and unstable potential, and after dark events in the later days of the Great Crusade, such adepts were forbidden from the use of their arts and arcane lore by the Emperor Himself at the Council of Nikaea.These edicts were later violated and many Librarian Consuls began to use their abilities once more due to the Loyalists' need for psykers to defeat the malign powers of Chaos utilised by the Traitors during the Horus Heresy.
Librarian Consul - Librarius Project: The Imperial records concerning the origins of the Space Marine Librarius Corps are murky and mired in legend rather than hard facts like much of the history of the Imperium's early days. While Sanctioned Psykers had been used as part of the Great Crusade from its earliest days, their use had always been limited and never extended to the Legiones Astartes as a whole, or with any formality. Some emergence of psyker talent had been noted in several of the Legions, notably the Blood Angels and the Night Lords, although in numbers almost inconsequential to that found in the Thousand Sons. The Librarius Project sought to fuse together the manifest use of psychics in battle and the superior mental strength and physical prowess of the transhuman Space Marines, and regulate their function.While Primarch Magnus the Red was not the project's originator, he became undoubtedly the project's chief architect and proponent, outwardly at least basing many of its tenets not on his own Prosperine culture but on other sources, perhaps less suspect to outsiders, and by this and his reasoned argument, Magnus persuaded a number of his brothers of the Librarius Project's virtues. The willingness and backing of several of the primarchs he swayed seems likely to have carried the day, and the project was sanctioned by the Emperor.Members of several Legions who manifested psychic potential were then trained by the Thousand Sons in an adapted form of the Prosperine psychic disciplines and practices, fused with Terran- and Baalite-derived and Emperor-sanctioned lore. After completing this training, the Librarians were placed back into their Legions and trusted to further disseminate what they had learned to others of their brethren discovered to possess the abilities of a psyker. Though the greater mysteries of the Thousand Sons' arts were clearly withheld in retrospect, the newformed Librarians of the Legiones Astartes soon proved their worth.Librarians were ultimately the psychic specialists of the Space Marine Legions, channelling the fury of the Immaterium into bolts of lightning, gouts of searing flame, and all manner of spectacular supranormal techniques. Given the sheer power at their fingertips, these Warp-wielding warriors commonly rose to high ranks within their Legions. Few primarchs entirely shunned their skills until the Edicts of Nikaea were formally pronounced by the Emperor.
Librarian Consul - Horus Heresy: Unfortunately, after the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, it soon became clear that the Traitor Legions and the other forces of Chaos could not be defeated unless the Loyalists were also able to draw upon the power of the Warp.Forced to break the Edicts of Nikaea, many of the Loyalist Legions were forced to reinstate their Librarius Corps in order to battle the malefic abilities of the Traitors as well as their summoned Daemonic allies. Every Loyalist Legion made use once more of their Librarians at some point in the galaxy-spanning civil war of the Horus Heresy. These warriors, still highly-trained experts in the use of the power of the Empyrean, proved invaluable during the conflict in the use of esoteric psychic powers that could annihilate foes in storms of ætheric lightning, or shield allies from devastating attacks.
Librarian Consul - Unit Composition: 1 Librarian Consul
Librarian Consul - Wargear: Power Armour (Any Firstborn pattern)Terminator Armour (Optional) (Any pattern)Psychic HoodForce Weapon (Either Force Sword, Force Axe or Force Stave)A Librarian Consul may take the following weapon options if he is not wearing Terminator Armour:Psyk-Out GrenadesArchaeotech Pistol
Librarian Dreadnought - Librarian Dreadnought: A Librarian Dreadnought is a variant of the Furioso Dreadnought combat walker used by the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter and their Successor Chapters. Dreadnoughts are cybernetic combat walkers that house the mortal remains of a fallen Space Marine hero so that he may continue fighting for the Emperor and his Chapter even after his body has been fatally crippled. Librarian Dreadnoughts differ from standard Imperial Dreadnoughts in that their occupants are Astartes Librarians that have been crippled in combat.Librarians are the psykers of the Adeptus Astartes who survive a Chapter's rigorous screening and training process and learn to bend the powers of the Warp to their will for the benefit of their fellow Battle-Brothers and in service to the Imperium and the Emperor of Mankind. These Dreadnoughts are perhaps the most fearsome of all the Dreadnought variants, as they combine the Librarian's psychic might with the unyielding cybernetic body of a Dreadnought. Librarian Dreadnoughts have the ability to call upon the same psyker powers that they and many of their fellow Astartes Librarians would call upon during combat.
Librarian Dreadnought - Armament: Librarian Dreadnoughts are armed as Furioso Pattern Dreadnoughts in that their armament always consists of two Dreadnought Close Combat Weapon arms. Librarian Dreadnoughts are the only known Dreadnought variant that makes use of Dreadnought Force Weapons, which are larger, Dreadnought-sized versions of the Force Weapons used by Librarian Astartes. Force Weapons are advanced, psychically-attuned close combat weapons that are only effective in the hands of a psyker. Force Weapons effectively act as deadly, psychic extensions or amplifiers of the wielder's own Empyrean-spawned powers.They are designed to allow a psyker to channel deadly Warp energies into their victim, acting as a conduit between the wielder's mind and the flesh of his target. Large alien monstrosities and daemons that are resilient to conventional weapons can be slain outright by a single wound from a Force Weapon, as their bodies and minds are destroyed by the unearthly powers of the Immaterium. The most common known Dreadnought Force Weapon wielded by Librarian Dreadnoughts is the Dreadnought Force Halberd, although there may be other types used.The other Dreadnought Close Combat Weapon used by Librarian Dreadnoughts is usually a Bloodfist or a Blood Talon close-combat weapon. These weapons are also outfitted with either an under-slung Storm Bolter, Meltagun, or Heavy Flamer. A Librarian Dreadnought is also outfitted with an in-built Psychic Hood for its former Librarian occupant, to better protect him from other psychic assaults.
Librarian Dreadnought - Deathwatch Service: It is nearly unheard of for Blood Angels Librarian Dreadnoughts to serve in the Deathwatch. This has only occurred under nearly unique circumstances, notably when a Librarian has fallen while standing the Long Watch and a sarcophagus has been available in which to inter his ruined remains. Most Battle-Brothers who fall in such a manner are of course returned to their Chapters, but on a handful of extremely rare occasions the Librarian has insisted he remain at the Watch Fortress, his wishes expressed not through burned and bloodied lips, but through mind speech communicated directly to his brethren.The spirits of such warriors are invariably so indomitable and mighty that not even the Watch Commander would gainsay their wishes, and the wounded hero is interred with a Dreadnought so that he may continue to stand his Vigil until it is over and his remains may be returned to his homeworld. Some choose to remain long after their Vigil is completed and their Apocryphon Oath discharged, slumbering for centuries on end within the stasis-sealed vaults at the heart of the Watch Station until such times as they are required to fight once more.
Librarian Dreadnought - Adeptus Mechanicus Technical Specifications: Librarian DreadnoughtVehicle Name:Librarian DreadnoughtMain Armament:2 Arm-mounted Dreadnought Close Combat WeaponsForge World of Origin:BaalSecondary Armament:Built-In Weapons (varies)Known Patterns:UnknownTraverse:360 degreesCrew:1 PilotElevation:-90 to 90 degreesPowerplant:Thermic ReactorMain Ammunition:UnlimitedWeight:12 Tonnes (approx)Secondary Ammunition:Unknown (varies)Length:2.2 metresArmour:Width:3.4 metresHeight:3.7 metresSuperstructure:75 millimetresGround Clearance:N/AHull:75 millimetresMax Speed On-Road:10 kilometres per hour (approx)Gun Mantlet:N/AMax Speed Off-Road:5 kilometres per hour (approx)Vehicle Designation:UnknownTransport Capacity:N/AFiring Ports:N/AAccess Points:N/ATurret:N/A
Librarius Omnis - Librarius Omnis: The great Librarius Omnis, also known as the Libraries Omnis, is a subterranean, continent-spanning library located beneath the sands of Mars which contains vast information from Mankind's history stretching back to the Dark Age of Technology.It has been the subject of several Techno-archaeologist expeditions over the millennia. According to legend, at the dawn of the Imperium of Man, the great Techno-archaeologist Arkhan Land led an expedition into this labyrinth of catacombs that lasted for three standard years with the intention of finding an intact and functioning Standard Template Construct database.During his long sojourn beneath the surface of sacred Mars, his expedition mapped a region of the catacombs equivalent in size to a small nation.Ultimately, he did not succeed in this quest, but made two discoveries which were to revolutionise Imperial technology for millennia to come. The first of these was a near-complete dataslab image of STC information pertaining to a heavily armoured main battle tank, named the "Land" Raider in honour of its originator.Secondly, Land unearthed valuable information on the design and manufacture of anti-gravitic plates, leading to the construction of the first "Land" Speeders.When he returned to the surface of the Red Planet, Land also possessed extensive plans for the Crawler Pattern agriculture harvester. His awed superiors requested that he give a presentation on this design to various worthies from the most important Forge Worlds.The new vehicle was not merely efficient in its use, it was also an icon of the trifecta of mass-production utility: inexpensive to construct; simple to maintain; and easy for untrained users to safely control. Its use would greatly improve productivity on the newborn Imperium's Agri-worlds in the generations to come.Arkhan Land met his end leading a second expedition into the Librarius Omnis. It is believed that he and his party were picked off one by one by some mysterious predator, although it is still a matter of much debate whether this was some kind of living beast, a psychic entity or perhaps even a sentient virus. For most, it is simply proof that the secrets of the Dark Age of Technology are best left to lie undisturbed.
Library Sanctus - Library Sanctus: The Library Sanctus is the name of a vast Imperial archive of ancient knowledge located on Terra. Within its vaults, it holds information on some of the most ancient and sinister events and artefacts of the galaxy, including the history of the sentient robots called the Men of Iron and the Necron device known as the Ymga Monolith.
Libricar - Libricar: A relatively newly-fanned flame of Radicalism founded from an unexpected source in the Calixis Sector, a Libricar is a member of a faction of the Inquisition that is a relative newcomer to the clash of Inquisitorial ideologies and doctrines.Libricaranism is a doctrine that earns its fanatical counter-reformers an often outcast status in the Holy Ordos. An extremist outgrowth of the Puritan Amalathians, for the Libricar it is not enough to preserve the existing institutions of the Imperium, but also necessary to ensure that those who rule and maintain them are ceaselessly watched, mercilessly judged, and made pure in the eyes of the God-Emperor by bloodshed.To a follower of the Libricaranist doctrine the sacred pattern of the Imperium, as divinely ordained by the mind of the Emperor, has become weakened from within by petty political corruption, factional strife, and beset by arrogant ideology, not least of all within the Holy Ordos of the Inquisition itself.Above all, the Libricar despise those proponents of change who presume to second-guess the will of the divine or betray their Emperor-given power and privilege for petty personal vice. For the Libricar, true order must be restored and Imperial tradition venerated and the path to this sacred goal is clear -- and if they must take it into their own hands and become judge, jury, and executioner in order to show the way, then so be it.
Libricar - The Promise of Gathalamor: To understand the root causes and origins of the Libricaranist doctrine, it is first necessary to understand the origins and concerns of the more widely accepted and acclaimed Amalathian ideology from which it springs. The opening years of the 41st Millennium have been described by some adepts as a brief summer of spiritual and physical resurgence for the Imperium of Man as a whole, and a key part of this renewal was the great conclave held on the Shrine World of Gathalamor, at Mount Amalath.At this conclave thousands of military, political and religious leaders of every stripe and corner of Imperial space, from sector governors to a score of Chapter Masters from the mighty and aloof Adeptus Astartes all gathered to reaffirm their faith in the God-Emperor's vision and reswear their oaths of allegiance to the High Lords of Terra. Gathalamor was the birthplace of many portentous events that followed it, from the foundation of what would become the Macharian Crusade to the final ending of the bloody Suzerain Reformation Wars, but perhaps the most subtle and widely influential was the birth of what became known as the "Amalathian" movement.The movement formalised a long-standing groundswell of belief held by many Inquisitors that the Imperium's existing structure and direction was fundamentally sound. As a salient doctrine and society of peers, the Amalathians, taking their name from the mountain bedrock on which they stood, cohered in part as a reaction against the growth of more Radical doctrines, and prospered in the groundswell of optimism and impetus the conclave had come to embody.Large numbers of Inquisitors joined the Amalathian movement and subsequently returned to their home sectors, spreading the conviction that it was their sacred duty to protect and nurture the Imperium's resurgent strength throughout much of the Inquisition. Unfortunately as the 41st Millennium has progressed, the Age of the Imperium has grown ever darker, and much of Gathalamor's light has been since swallowed up in shadow.While many Amalathian Inquisitors have gone on to show the courage of their convictions despite this and held true to their beliefs, others have fallen by the wayside and either given up on the Amalathian principles in favour of other, more militant or more Radical doctrines. Of these the Libricar movement is perhaps the Amalathians' most extreme and bitter outgrowth, born by the perceived betrayal of Gathalamor's promise by the venal and petty corruption of the Imperium's ruling classes.
Libricar - Amalathian Doctrine: The Amalathian viewpoint is one of the widest-held and best accepted of the diverse dogmas and ideologies to be found present within the Holy Ordos of the Inquisition, and its adherents found across all the differing Ordos Majoris and Minoris. The fundamental position of the Amalathian doctrine is that the Imperium as it stands in the 41st Millennium is valid, divinely-ordained by the Emperor, and worth fighting for. Amalathian Inquisitors therefore strive to maintain the current balance of political power and the structure of the Imperium's military, church, and state.Change other than the slow glacial pace of history is for them an anathema and revolution an unthinkable blasphemy against the divine order. This doctrine leads Amalathian Inquisitors in scouring out and destroying any individual or agency that might destabilise or damage the greater Imperium both from without and within its domain.As a result, Amalathian Inquisitors often rank the crimes of bodily and spiritual corruption, witchery, and personal heresy as being of a lower priority for their attentions than wider threats against the status quo or ones that endanger or corrupt the standing institutions of the Imperium either on a local or interstellar level.One marked characteristic of those that follow the Amalathian doctrine is their tendency to operate "within the system" and display a tolerant conservatism for the traditional rights and domains of the Imperium's various arms of governance and authority (where they have not become openly corrupt or overstepped their bounds).This approach commonly sees them working successfully in close co-operation with the Adeptus Arbites, the Adeptus Ministorum, and local authorities such as the Imperial Governors and planetary law enforcement. They also maintain good relations with notoriously independent powers in the Imperial social structure such as the Cult Mechanicus and the Navis Nobilite.Compared to all the ideologies prevalent within the Inquisition, Amalathism has remained one of the most stable, and perhaps the one closest to the founding conception of the Inquisition; the Imperium should find strength through unity, and unity through strength. Although over the years there have been self-professed Amalathians who have strayed far from the path into Radicalism of their own accord, or have in the judgement of their peers "gone too far," they have been few true splinter doctrines from the Amalathian root.Radicals tend to react against this conservative and Puritan creed rather than adopt it. As such, the development of Libricaranism amounts to a disturbing and unexpected development in the eyes of many. Most Amalathians would prefer to see this ironically Radical cancer and mutation of their beliefs cut from the body of the Inquisition.
Libricar - Current Conspiracies: After suffering the nadir of their influence in the Calixis Sector some solar decades ago, the small but fanatical Libricar presence in the Calixian Conclave has been slowly and carefully plotting its return and cautiously expanding reach. Until recently, the faction included no more than a handful of disparate outcasts who have either hung on bitterly after the harrowing of the late Inquisitor Lord Monke's former allies or come to the doctrine on their own.However, while few in number, the Libricar are starting to organise and meet in secret once more to affirm their accords. This quiet resurgence is in no small part due to a growing perception by some Inquisitors (particularly independents of an Amalathian mindset) that the Calixian Conclave has become ever more divided and plagued by schism and infighting over recent years, while the threats to the sector have only multiplied and grown.Although by no means a coherent movement yet, nor with any great overarching plan, these new Libricar are notably distinct from their forbears in the caution they take in how loudly they profess their cause and their immediate willingness to circumvent Inquisitorial procedure and authority to enact their judgments.
Libricar - Barsapine Project: Although the Calixian Libricar have no true leader as of yet, the front runner for the role is an up-and-coming member of the Ordo Hereticus named Constantos Trevelyan. A former loyal servant of the noted Spectarian Inquisitor Globus Vaarak (himself one of the sector's most respected Amalathians), Trevelyan came to prominence during the Tranch War where he garnered notice for his single-minded pursuit of the scattering witches and mutant rebels of the Pale Throng.It was in fact his experience with the corruption on Tranch that swung him to the Libricar cause, although this is a fact he has kept largely hidden. Charismatic and meticulous, Trevelyan has in recent years been given the rank of Planetia Inquisitor for the minor Hive World of Baraspine after destroying a Pale Throng uprising there and executing the infamous malefic sorcerer who sponsored it.Since taking up his post, he has quietly and covertly begun the project of building up a power base there and converting a significant percentage of Barsapine's Conclavian Council to his favoured doctrine. His plan is slowly progressing, and through a diligent mix of overt and fully-sanctioned Inquisitorial vigilance and secret "Star Chamber justice" administered by a Moritat assassin sub-cult he has nurtured there, the "Barsapine Project" is bearing fruit.
Libricar - Kaede Sanction: One of the first actions of the newly-allied Calixian Libricar has been to mark the flamboyant Inquisitor Vownes Kaede for death. Although nominally a Puritan, Kaede's eccentricities, cavalier attitude to external authorities, and repeated flouting of his fellow Inquisitors when it comes to spiriting young psykers away for service to him or the Imperium, not to mention his public and repeated criticism of the Libricar cause have all served to sign his execution warrant as far as they are concerned.He is the epitome of a "rogue agent" in the Libricars' eyes, wrongly tolerated by his fellow Inquisitors rather than recognised for the Heretic he is. Rather than come after him publicly and denounce him in conclave as they might have once done, instead the Libricar have opted to slowly pick apart his organisation and leave him vulnerable for a final death stroke.As a result, several Libricar sympathisers have already moved against him and begun the task of infiltrating Kaede's support network and tracking his movements. In recent solar months one of his notoriously militant Acolyte bands was drawn out and ambushed while investigating a Heretek cult in the Sinophian hinterlands.They were slaughtered to a man, and the hot-blooded Kaede has vowed to avenge their deaths -- little realising the true nature of the culprits responsible or the trap being laid for him. Nor is his the only name on the Libricars' death list among the other Inquisitors of the Calixian Conclave.
Libricar - Libricar and the Holy Ordos: The doctrine of the Libricar is not one that garners much by way of respect or recognition within the Inquisition as a whole, relegating its advocates to the status largely either of lone voices or small localised groups pouring out their vitriol on their fellows when the opportunity arises. This lack of influence or acceptance has made even the most idealistic Libricar Inquisitor more than a little bitter and willing to test the bounds of their authority where they can.In terms of role and placement within the Holy Ordos, their ideological isolation often garners those of this faction the role of independent Inquisitor-at-Large, whether they wish it or not. Notable exceptions to this are Inquisitors who have come to the Libricar position late in their career, managing to maintain their prior ordo affiliation (although often earning the disdain of erstwhile friends in doing so) and small cliques of Libricar Inquisitors and their tacit supporters which have formed within the Ordo Hereticus in some locales.The Libricar's detractors in the Inquisition see their doctrines as hopelessly simplistic and reactionary, and the rallying cries and denouncements of the few Libricaran Inquisitors are viewed by many moderates as divisive demagoguery of the most dangerous sort. However, some on either side of the Puritan/Radical divide have taken delight in using the Libricar's unsubtle ideology and lack of broad support as a lever to make its proponents their cat's-paws in their own rivalries, vendettas and intrigues.The Libricar's greatest enemy in the wider Holy Ordos, and the principle reason its membership is largely ostracised and kept on the fringe of Inquisitorial affairs, is the strong antipathy presented to them by many of the Puritans of the Amalathian creed from which the Libricar themselves spring.Many Amalathians see the Libricar doctrine as a dangerous corruption of the true way; a naive folly that would do infinitely more harm than it would good for the Imperium, risking creating the very anarchy and schism it would claim to prevent in its heedless, reactionary stampede. Worse still for the Amalathians are those Libricar who go beyond merely raising riot in conclave or disrupting the steady rule of an Imperial world with an unwarranted "fishing expedition" against relatively harmless political corruption.Some Libricar covertly or overtly step outside the bounds of the Inquisition's authority to pursue their doctrine. Unsanctioned assassination pogroms, disguised sabotage campaigns, and even black operations against fellow Inquisitors; all these charges have been laid against Libricar agents in the past. In every case, it is the Puritan Amalathians who are among the first to call for inquest and declare the culprits' lives forfeit as Heretics if evidence of guilt is found.
Libricar - Libricar and other Inquisitorial Factions: Without exception, all the major Inquisitorial factions considered Radical by the mainstream Puritans are as openly contemptuous of the Libricar as they themselves are of the other Radicals, seeing them as petty and spiteful counter-reformers, mindless fanatics unworthy of an Inquisitorial Rosette. Nor do they garner much open support from the Puritan mainstream as a whole, with the Amalathians in particular singling them out for antipathy.The Libricar, for their part, have a strange relationship with their ideological forbears. This ranges from disgust at their weakness to a burning desire to "prove them wrong," while they also have little time for what they see as the deluded ramblings and wishful thinking of the Thorians.Of the other Radical factions, all are considered woeful and worthy of the Libricars' ire for the simple crime of attempting to "second guess" the will and divine plan of the Golden Throne. In particular, the Recongregators are singled out for the Libricars' righteous fury, as they are the arch-proponents of revolution and change.In the Calixian Conclave, the disdain and outcast status the Libricar suffer has long become almost institutionalised to the point where even some known Radical Xanthites are likely to get a fairer hearing in the conclave than a known Libricar.This in turn has led some of those who have come to embrace the Libricar doctrine to almost revel in the role of Inquisition outsider, and the strange freedom and enforced self-sufficiency such a position can bring despite its dangers. Other Libricar equally have learned to keep their own councils with the like-minded in secret.
Libricar - Acolytes of the Libricar: The Libricar pick their Acolytes by no selection criteria other than their demonstrated love of the God-Emperor and the willingness to embrace wholeheartedly the faction's reactionary doctrinal standpoint on what must be done to preserve the Imperium in its present state.The assumption of the Libricar doctrine may also be arrived at naturally regardless of an Acolyte's master or their own past leanings, as the answer it offers can easily appeal to those who have been forced time and again to confront the paradox of defending a political and economic system but despising the weakness and corruption of those who populate it.Within this broad base can be found Acolytes of every calling and speciality. The Libricar emphasis on justice without favour and the strict adherence to the Emperor-ordained traditions of Imperial power speaks most readily to those with a background in the Adeptus Arbites, members of the more independent orders of the Adeptus Ministorum, as well as idealists and bitter pragmatists regardless of their origins.
Lictor - Lictor: The Tyranid bioform known as the Lictor (Tyranicus chameleo) is a specialised evolutionary development of the Tyranid Warrior, highly adapted to a role as a scout in the vanguard of any Tyranid swarm's advance. Lictors move ahead of the swarm, seeking out pockets of resistance to be eradicated and native life forms to be absorbed.Able to move swiftly and without sound through even the densest terrain, and concealed by a chameleonic carapace that renders it all but invisible to the naked eye, a Lictor can remain hidden until it chooses to strike. It can wait motionless for solar days, unnoticed by its victims, an unseen herald of approaching disaster.A Lictor also serves as a prime source of intelligence for the Hive Mind, able to use its Feeder Tendrils to extract a victim's brain matter and cerebrospinal fluid so that it can sift through and analyze their memories for crucial strategic information it can pass on.
Lictor - Neurolictor: A Neurolictor is an evolution of the standard Lictor strain created by the Hive Mind to make use of psychic abilities to enhance its utility as a terror weapon for the hive fleets.Carefully orchestrated evolution by the Hive Mind has given Neurolictors highly developed neural organs that emit a wave of psychic dread. When struck by them, even the most iron-willed warriors experience an atavistic terror response to the Neurolictors' presence.These bioforms also possess the psychic ability to confound their enemies' senses, which not only masks the Neurolictor's presence, but also renders their foes hapless when the main Tyranid force arrives.
Lictor - Sources: Codex Tyranids (5th Edition), pg. 41Codex Tyranids (9th Edition), pg. 102Dark Heresy: Creatures Anathema (RPG), pg. 93Deathwatch: Mark of the Xenos (RPG), pg. 37Warhammer Community - Warhammer Preview: Stealthy Lictors Leap Out of the ShadowsWarhammer Community - Sunday Preview: The Hive Mind is Coming to Get You
Lieutenant (Space Marines) - Lieutenant (Space Marines): Lieutenant is an officer rank first found amongst the formations of the Space Marine Legions during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, before it fell out of use after the Second Founding in the Time of Rebirth. The rank was revived in the Era Indomitus for the formations of the Primaris Space Marines, then later expanded to include the Firstborn.In the wake of the resurrection of Primarch Roboute Guilliman in ca. 999.M41 and his revisions to the Codex Astartes, the rank has been introduced to all the Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes since the start of the Indomitus Crusade. In the 41st Millennium an Adeptus Astartes lieutenant serves as a demi-company leader, with two assigned per full company of 100 Space Marines.Lieutenants act as the right hands of their captains by providing flexibility and helping to direct their battle-brothers in engagements. Space Marine Battle Companies are frequently divided into two Battle Demi-companies of 50 Astartes each in order to spread their forces across multiple combat zones. In most Chapters, command of each demi-company falls to a lieutenant, who leads his brothers unflinchingly into battle.Some Space Marine Chapters assign additional roles for lieutenants. The Salamanders, for example, have given these warriors a ceremonial duty as bodyguards to their company's captain, the three fighting as one.Some Chapters have specialised titles for their lieutenants. Within the Iron Hands Chapter they are called "naysmiths," and are charged with questioning their captain's battle plans so as to probe for Human errors within his logic.Among the Space Wolves they are called "battle leaders," while the Black Templars call them "Castellans" and maintained use of the rank long after other Second Founding Chapters had eliminated it.Among the Dark Angels, the lieutenants assigned to the Deathwing company are called "strikemasters," and the lieutenants of the Ravenwing company are "talonmasters."Vanguard Space Marines have their own lieutenants known as Vanguard Lieutenants.
Lieutenant (Space Marines) - Unit Composition: 1-2 Firstborn Lieutenants1-2 Primaris Marine Lieutenants
Lieutenant (Space Marines) - Lieutenant Wargear: Power Armour (Any Firstborn mark)ChainswordMaster-Crafted BolterBolt PistolFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesAny Pistol (including Plasma Pistol, Bolt Pistol or Grav-pistol as replacement for Master-Crafted Bolter)Any Combi-weapon or Storm Bolter (as replacement for Master-Crafted Bolter)Any Melee Weapon (including Chainsword, any Power Weapon, Thunder Hammer or Lightning Claw as replacement for Master-Crafted Bolter)Any Melee Weapon (including Chainsword, any Power Weapon, Thunder Hammer or Lightning Claw as replacement for Chainsword)Jump Pack (if leading a combat drop)
Lieutenant (Space Marines) - Primaris Lieutenant Wargear: Mark X Tacticus Power ArmourMaster-crafted Auto Bolt RifleBolt PistolFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesPower Sword (Optional replacement for Master-Crafted Auto Bolt Rifle)Master-crafted Stalker Bolt Rifle (Optional replacement for Master-Crafted Auto Bolt Rifle)Power Fist (Optional replacement for Master-Crafted Auto Bolt Rifle)Neo-Volkite Pistol (Optional replacement for Bolt Pistol)If a Primaris Lieutenant is wearing Mark X Phobos Power Armour, the wargear available changes as follows:Mark X Phobos Power ArmourBolt PistolMaster-crafted Occulus Bolt CarbinePaired Combat BladesFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesGrav-ChuteIf a Primaris Lieutenant serves as a Reiver, the wargear available changes as follows:Mark X Phobos Power ArmourBolt PistolHeavy Bolt PistolCombat BladeFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesSmoke Grenades
Lieutenant (Space Marines) - Battle Leader: A battle leader is an officer rank of the Space Wolves Chapter equivalent to that of lieutenant in Codex Astartes-compliant Chapters. Aside from choosing their personal bodyguards among their Wolf Guard, a Wolf Lord also selects from amongst their Great Company a pair of veteran warriors; champions of renown to act as mentors for the younger and less-experienced Space Wolves. Possessed of battlefield experience, tactical acumen, preternatural talent or some combination of these attributes, they make excellent role models.Often, the two battle leaders in a Great Company will have complementary natures -- a fiery, passionate warrior may be teamed with a cool, calculating tactician. Battle leaders with an overabundance of charisma or dominant personality are assigned to lead several packs of Space Wolves and guide them in the arts of war.The most heroic battle leaders, typically those judged by their Wolf Lord as born to the role of command, are sometimes assigned the control of an entire Space Wolves strike force. Should such a battle leader prove himself capable of excelling above and beyond his liege's high expectations, he may find himself next in line when his Wolf Lord finally passes into legend. Battle leaders have traditionally been drawn from the warriors of the Wolf Guard.Upon gaining this honour, some Wolf Guard battle leaders adopt new wargear better suited to their position as the alpha of several Space Wolf packs (squads). Some even take a Thunderwolf as a mount, particularly those in the Deathwolves. In recent times battle leaders of the Chapter have also been drawn from packs of Primaris Space Marines. These warriors, though relatively new to the Great Companies in the Era Indomitus, have already proven their worth on countless battlefields.
Lieutenant (Space Marines) - Unit Composition: 1 Firstborn Battle Leader1 Primaris Marine Battle Leader
Lieutenant (Space Marines) - Wolf Guard Battle Leader Wargear: Power Armour (Any Firstborn mark)Bolt Pistol (Can be replaced with Bolter, Plasma Pistol, any melee weapon or any Combi-weapon)BolterPlasma PistolChainsword (Can be replaced with Plasma Pistol, Storm Shield or any other melee weapon)Frag GrenadeKrak GrenadeAny Melee Weapon (including Chainsword, any Power Weapon, Thunder Hammer or Lightning Claw as replacement for Chainsword)Jump Pack (if leading a combat drop)
Lieutenant (Space Marines) - Primaris Battle Leader Wargear: Mark X Tacticus Power ArmourBolt PistolBolt CarbineMaster-crafted Auto Bolt RifleMaster-crafted Stalker Bolt RiflePower AxePower Sword
Lieutenant (Space Marines) - Wolf Guard Battle Leader Terminator Wargear: Terminator Armour (Any pattern)Teleport HomerPower SwordStorm ShieldStorm Bolter
Lieutenant (Space Marines) - Wolf Guard Battle Leader on Thunderwolf: Power Armour (Any Firstborn mark)Bolt Pistol (Can be replaced with Bolter, Plasma Pistol, any melee weapon or any Combi-weapon)BolterPlasma PistolChainsword (Can be replaced with Plasma Pistol, Storm Shield or any other melee weapon)Frag GrenadeKrak GrenadeAny Melee Weapon (including Chainsword, any Power Weapon, Thunder Hammer or Lightning Claw as replacement for Chainsword)Thunderwolf
Lieutenant (Space Marines) - Sources: Dark Imperium (Novel) by Guy HaleyCodex Adeptus Astartes - Space Marines (8th Edition), pp. 12, 62, 147Codex Adeptus Astartes - Space Wolves (8th Edition), pp. 48, 90-91Codex: Space Marines (8th Edition) (Revised Codex), pp. 62, 113-115Codex Supplement: Black Templars (9th Edition), pg. 68The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 190Warhammer Community - Primaris Space Marines: GamingWarhammer Community - A New Breed of HeroWarhammer Community - Primaris Space Marines: FAQ.
Life Extension Technologies - Life Extension Technologies: Life Extension Technologies, often simply called rejuvenat in common Imperial parlance, represent all the methods that Mankind has developed over the Terran millennia to extend the Human lifespan long past its natural duration. In the Imperium of Man death is always present, and for the vast majority of Humanity life is often brief and bitter.However, those lucky few with sufficient funds and access to certain biochemical and augmetic technologies can extend their lives for many Terran centuries, though death always claims them in the end.The desperate, gifted or insane search for true immortality, a pursuit in which both failure and success can lead to damnation.
Life Extension Technologies - Biochemical Rejuvenation: The use of rejuvenating drugs and stem cell-derived genetic repair treatments, usually referred to as "rejuvenat" treatments, is commonplace amongst the middle and upper classes of all technologically advanced Imperial worlds. With regular use they can slow or even reverse Human aging dramatically for Terran centuries by repairing damaged DNA strands with specific enzymes and regularly cleansing the build-up of cellular and metabolic toxins from the Human body.But sooner or later even the most expensive biochemical treatments fail to hide the ravages of age. At that point the subject becomes more vulnerable to infections and organ failure. After 400 standard years of life few Human beings within the Imperium can survive without mechanical assistance.
Life Extension Technologies - Technological Augmentation: The flesh is weak, but with proper maintenance rituals, machines can last forever.By exchanging a subject's organs with mechanical substitutes an individual Human being's life can be greatly extended, though the price is the loss of a part of their Humanity. With the aid of micro-cogitator implants even the Human mind can be partly replaced as age takes its toll on deteriorating neurons.The Adeptus Mechanicus both uses and produces a majority of the Imperium's cybernetic augmentations and the most advanced augmetics are reserved for the Machine God's own servants. Simpler implants are available for those with the right amounts of money and connections, but the price is such that cybernetic augmentations are actually passed down as heirlooms for generations.For those whose fear of death knows no bounds there are a few extreme measures that even Tech-priests fear to use:Rite of Setesh - At about 500 years of age the strength of most human bodies is utterly spent and death becomes inevitable. However, some Imperial potentates refuse to accept their fate and instead they choose to invoke the Adeptus Mechanicus' Rite of Setesh. The subject's body is mummified alive and permanently sealed within a coffin-like exoskeleton, where he or she can spend several Terran centuries in agony and claustrophobic horror before death finally claims the individual. Many members of the Mechanicus see the Rite of Setesh as a practice bordering on Tech-Heresy. Only the most radical Tech-priests would even consider performing the procedure on another person, and even then only in exchange for a fortune in money or political favours. The Mechanicus itself has no need for such cumbersome life-extending machinery. In their search for mechanical purity they have found better and more lasting ways to preserve their existence, by replacing the flesh entirely with machines rather then conserving it.Proteus Protocol - According to rumours amongst the galaxy's Hereteks there is a way to transfer a person's full intellect, and possibly even their soul, into a machine and thus achieve true immortality. This technology is considered by most Tech-priests to be a myth, but in 240.M41 Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn discovered the essence of the Arch-Heretic Pontius Glaw preserved in just such a device. The machine itself consisted of a crystalline core, containing the transferred intellect, connected to a Mind Impulse Unit (MIU) that enabled Pontius' mind to connect with exterior machinery and control it just as a Princeps mentally controls an Imperial Titan using the same device. Even in his bodiless state Pontius could still make use of his formidable psychic powers. The Renegade Magos-Inquisitor Cyrrik Scayl has for many years experimented with mind transfers and his studies indicate that only the mind of a psyker is strong enough to endure the process.Chronophagic Alloys - Weapons such as the Dawn Blade, wielded by Commander Farsight, are composed of unique materials known as chronophagic alloys and are capable of taking the natural lifespan of any person it cuts short, and adding it to the life energies of the wielder.
Life Extension Technologies - Warp-Related Life Extension Phenomena: The static matter of realspace always surrenders to entropy sooner or later, but the dynamic psychic energy of the Warp is eternal. By infusing a creature with the power of the Warp its existence can be strengthened and maintained, though usually at the cost of its sanity and soul.
Life Extension Technologies - Chaos Pacts: The Chaos Gods and their daemonic servants are more than willing to lengthen a Human life in return for his or her soul and absolute fealty. Valuable servants of the Ruinous Powers can live for many Terran millennia and even return from the dead if it pleases their patron, but such service invariably twists the soul (and often the body) into a cruel mockery of its original form.
Life Extension Technologies - Warp Exposure: Long-term exposure to Warp or Webway energy can have a rejuvenating effect on Human tissue. These phenomena are particularly evident in the Chaos Space Marines, who have fought the Imperium for more than ten Terran millennia from the Warp rift known as the Eye of Terror.Life in the Warp also causes space-time to shift in such a way that millennia can pass in the outside universe while only a few years of time may have passed subjectively for a person within the Immaterium.Of course, long-term exposure to the Warp can also lead to madness, death, mutation and utter damnation.
Life Extension Technologies - Daemonhood: The Human soul is potentially immortal, but in most cases is too weak to stand against the chaotic fury of the Warp after death. By absorbing large quantities of Warp energy during life a Human can strengthen their essence and thereby transform themselves into an immortal Daemon Prince.Daemonhood is usually a reward from the Chaos Gods to their most loyal mortal servants, but through dark rituals Heretics independent of service to Chaos can ascend to this elevated stage of existence on their own. Sometimes the Dark Gods provide daemonhood as a curse rather than a blessing.Plaguebearers and Furies are said to be products of this ironic cruelty: transformation into a Fury is reserved for those who wish to wield the power of Chaos but who refuse to become the servant of a particular Chaos God, whilst transformation into a Plaguebearer daemon is the only salvation Nurgle offers to Mankind to earn immunity from his virulent plagues.
Life Extension Technologies - Psychic Powers: A few psykers and sorcerers have mastered their art well enough to utilise the Warp's revitalising effect on their own bodies and thereby take control over the aging process.The greatest master of this ability is the Emperor, who as a Perpetual and psyker kept Himself alive for more than 40,000 Terran years before He was interred within the Golden Throne.He could even extend this power to preserve valued servants, such as Malcador the Sigillite, and this gift is still evident in many of the Living Saints of the Adepta Sororitas who use Warp energy to return continuously from death.
Life Extension Technologies - Halo Devices: On some Dead Worlds, in the volume of space at the rim of the galaxy known as the Halo Stars, travellers sometimes find alien artefacts left behind by long lost civilisations. The strangest and maybe the most powerful of these are the so-called Halo Devices.Many rich fools search for Halo Devices as an easy way to cheat death, but only the most unfortunate find what they are looking for. Prolonged contact between a Human and a Halo Device does form a bond that rejuvenates the physical body of the Human host, but at the same time it initiates a horrible transformation.The host stops aging and gains inhuman strength and resilience, but his body and soul begins to change. Visions of alien worlds fill his dreams and unholy thirsts plague his days. After years of use the Halo Device becomes an integrated part of the host body, which itself mutates into an alien monstrosity.In the end nothing remains of the host's Human personality, but the cunning xenos menace which has risen in its stead is practically immortal and can even return from the dead to serve its unknown purpose.