Banner of Macragge

The Banner of Macragge is the ancient Battle Standard of the Ultramarines Space Marine Chapter. It was touched by the Emperor's own hand when he presented it to the XIII Legion's Primarch Roboute Guilliman at the beginning of the Great Crusade. The Ultramarines have preserved it for ten millennia through fire and war and decimation, each generation passing it on to the next as a burning torch of their love for the immortal Emperor who made them. It has languished in dull stasis chambers and flown beneath the suns of a thousand alien worlds. It has flown on Macragge itself, whenever the whole Chapter is gathered together and it has been carried forth whenever the Ultramarines brethren have fought as one against the direst of foes. It is said to be made of a strange material known only to the ancients; light as silk but strong as steel, flame cannot burn it and where it is rent asunder it re-spins itself as perfect as the day it was first made. It is marked with the names of all seventy Chapter masters; beginning with Guilliman and ending with young Calgar, it carries an honorific for each Victorix Maxima of the Chapter which has been declared at the Imperial Palace on sacred Terra.