The banner of the Praefex Venatoris watch fortress
The Praefex Venatoris is a watch fortress of the Deathwatch Chapter located in the Imperium Nihilus region of the Segmentum Obscurus.
The Deathwatch of the Praefex Venatoris keep watch over a string of alien Webway portals used by the Drukhari of Commorragh in the Segmentum Obscurus. Their forces are constantly on hair-trigger alert, for they must move fast if they are to save the teeming Human worlds of Syracia Thrive from alien piracy and slave-taking.
Since the birth of the Great Rift at the start of the Era Indomitus, however, the influx of new Space Marines seconded to the Deathwatch from the Imperium Nihilus has all but stopped at Talasa Prime and the other major watch fortresses in the Imperium Sanctus. Rumours suggest the watch fortresses of Praefex Venatoris and Fort Excalibris now share the primary responsibility for training those Deathwatch members that are active in the blighted realm of the Dark Imperium.
Sources[]
- Codex Adeptus Astartes - Deathwatch (7th Edition), pg. 14
- Codex Adeptus Astartes - Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 16
- Codex Supplement: Deathwatch (9th Edition), pg. 16