Changes: Praetor (Space Marine)

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A Praetor is a bygone rank for a senior Astartes officer of the Legiones Astartes. They were the mightiest warriors and battle-leaders of the ancient Space Marine Legions, second only to the god-like Primarchs in martial skills and generalship. These lords of the Imperium held the power of life and death over whole worlds, with the direct control of entire war fleets and armies in their hands. Each was a vastly experienced warrior and warlord, unique in character, who has written a legend in blood for themselves, and carried into battle the finest wargear and weapons known to humanity. In their ranks could be found Chapter Masters and Lord Commanders, First Captains, Khans and Tribunes as the traditions of their Legions dictated. They were the masters of war and hve commanded the hosts of the Great Crusade that have conquered worlds unnumbered.

History

During the Great Crusade, Space Marine Legions were vast engines of war whose super-human warriors numbered in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of fighters. The full panoply of war of a Legion was a terrible thing to behold, and was capable of obliterating entire civilisations through a variety of deadly means ranging from sheer brute force and numbers, armoured assault waves, murderous siege-craft or overwhelming and relentless attacks from close orbit. The particular methods of such exterminations were overseen and by the high commanders of the Legions, select individuals that brought decades of experience and acquired tactical acumen to the ruin of Mankind's foes.

Notable Praetors

Legion Number	Legion	Title	Name	Loyalty	Status
I	Dark Angels	Master of Caliban	Luther	Traitor	Banished to Caliban following an attempted assassination attempt on the Dark Angels' Primarch Lion El'Jonson, Luther was charged with being the active Regent of Caliban and the selection and training of new recruits for the Dark Angels. Ironically, Luther would eventually betray the Lion after allowing himself to be seduced by the offers of Chaos, rallying a good portion of his fellow Dark Angels to his cause. Jonson confronted the Chaos-corrupted Luther, and in a great conflagration, Caliban was destroyed in the aftermath. Deep within the bowels of The Rock the remnant of the I Legions' homeworld, and now their mobile Fortress-Monastery, within cell, kept alive for ten thousand years inside a stasis field, languishes the broken man who was once Luther.
III	Emperor's Children	Lord Commander	Eidolon	Traitor	Alive
III	Emperor's Children	Lord Commander	Vespasian	Loyal	Deceased
III	Emperor's Children	Lord Commander	Anteus	Loyal	Deceased
III	Emperor's Children	Lord Commander	Cyrius	Traitor	Deceased
III	Emperor's Children	Lord Commander	Iddinam	Traitor	Deceased
III	Emperor's Children	Lord Commander	Illois	Loyal	Deceased
III	Emperor's Children	Lord Commander	Teliosa	Loyal	Deceased
IV	Iron Warriors	Warsmith	Forrix	Traitor	Deceased
IV	Iron Warriors	Warsmith	Berrosus	Traitor	Deceased
IV	Iron Warriors	Warmsith	Barabas Dantioch	Loyal	Unknown
IV	Iron Warriors	Warmsith	Kroeger	Traitor	Deceased
IV	Iron Warriors	Warmsith	Harkor	Traitor	Deceased
IV	Iron Warriors	Warsmith	Barban Falk	Traitor	Ascended to Daemonhood as a Daemon Prince
IV	Iron Warriors	Warmsith	Honsou	Traitor	Commands a massive Chaos Warband
IV	Iron Warriors	Warsmith	Kolvax	Traitor	Deceased
IV	Iron Warriors	Warsmith	Toramino	Traitor	Alive
IV	Iron Warriors	Warsmith	Zhorisch	Traitor	Leads a massive Chaos Warband that plagues the Jericho Reach
V	White Scars	Khan	Jubal Khan	Loyal	Stood by his Primarch Jaghatai in the stalwart defence of the Imperial Palace during the Battle of Terra.
VI	Space Wolves	Wolf Guard	Bjorn the Fell-Handed	Loyal	Following the disappearance of Primarch Leman Russ, he became the first Great Wolf of the Space Wolves Chapter. Mortally wounded and interred within a Dreadnought. He awaits the day of the Wolf King's return.
VII	Imperial Fists	First Captain	Sigismund	Loyal	Stood by his Primarch Rogal Dorn in the stalwart defence of the Imperial Palace during the Battle of Terra. Following the Second Founding, became the first Chapter Master of the Black Templars Chapter.
VIII	Night Lords	Fist Captain	Jago "Sevatar" Sevatarion	Traitor	Killed during the Battle of Terra.
VIII	Night Lords	First Captain	Zso Sahaal	Traitor	Designated by the Night Lords' Primarch Konrad Curze to serve as his successor as leader of the Legion just before his assassination on the world of Tsagualsa following the end of the Heresy in the early 31st Millennium. Current whereabouts are unknown.
IX	Blood Angels	Chapter Master	Raldoron	Loyal	Stood by his Primarch Sanguinius during the stalwart defence of the Imperial Palace during the Battle of Terra. Became the first Chapter Master of the Blood Angels Chapter following the Second Founding.
X	Iron Hands	First Captain	Gabriel Santor	Loyal	Killed during the Drop Site Massacre of Istvaan V by the traitor Emperor's Children First Captain Julius Kaesoron
XII	World Eaters	First Captain	Khârn the Betrayer	Traitor	Became a Chaos Champion of Khorne the Blood God. Sundered his Legion following the Battle of Skalathrax, scattering the World Eaters into separate Chaos Warbands. Earned the epithet Betrayer for turning on his own brothers.
XIII	Ultramarines	First Captain	Marius Gage	Loyal	Gage became the first Chapter Master of the reorganised Ultramarines Chapter following the death of their Primarch Roboute Guilliman at the hands of the Daemon Primarch Fulgrim of the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion.
XIV	Death Guard	First Captain	Calas Typhon	Traitor	The first Astartes of the Death Guard to turn to the service of Chaos in his desire for power, First Captain Typhon became the corrupted Typhus, Herald of Nurgle and the Host of the Destroyer Hive, perhaps the most terrible of the many pestilences unleashed on the universe by Nurgle the Plague God.
XV	Thousand Sons	First Captain	Ahzek Ahriman	Traitor	Following the destruction of their homeworld of Prospero at the hands of the Space Wolves during the Burning of Prospero, the Thousand Sons were brought to a planet prepared for them by their patron Chaos God Tzeentch. As the Thousand Sons began to suffer from extreme corruption, Ahriman enacted the spell known as the Rubric of Ahriman, halting his Legion's corrupting mutations, but resulted in the creation of the Rubric Marines. Ahriman seeks to gain access to the Black Library, the Eldar's forbidden repository of knowledge in regards to the nature of Chaos.
XVI	Sons of Horus	First Captain	Ezekyle Abaddon	Traitor	Following the defeat of Warmaster Horus by the Emperor during the conclusion of the Horus Heresy at the Battle of Terra, First Captain Abaddon fled with his Legion to the Eye of Terror. While there, he rebuilt his Legion and cast off their old identity, becoming the Black Legion. Abaddon became known as Abaddon the Despoiler, a Warmaster of Chaos and the most powerful Chaos Lord within the Eye of Terror. He has continued to fight the Long War against the hated Imperium of Man leading thirteen Black Crusades over ten thousand years.
XVII	Word Bearers	First Captain	Kor Phaeron	Traitor	First Captain and Black Cardinal (High Priest) of the Word Bearers Legion, It was Kor Phaeron's influence and continuing devotion to the Colchisian Old Faith -- a faith dedicated to the Dark Gods -- that corrupted his Primarch and the XVII Legion into repudiating their oaths to the Emperor of Mankind and becoming willing pawns of Chaos. Now resides as a council member of the Dark Council, the ruling body that leads the Word Bearers from the Daemon World of Sicarus.
XVIII	Salamanders	First Captain	Numeon	Loyal	Became the first Chapter Master of the Salamanders following the disappearance of their Primarch Vulkan.
XIX	Raven Guard	Commander	Branne Nev	Loyal	Following the Drop Site Massacre of Istvaan V, Comander Nev led the mission that resulted in the successful combat extraction of Primarch Corax and the few Raven Guard Astartes who survived the Drop Site Massacre. Branne was appointed by Corax to serve as the Legion's new Master of Recruits.
XX	Alpha Legion	Primarch	Omegon	Traitor	Commander of the Effrit Stealth Squad, Omegon often operated under various disguises to keep secret the existence of the Alpha Legion's twin Primarchs as well as performing clandestine operations for his Legion. One of the twin Primarchs were killed after confronting Ultramarines' Primarch Roboute Guilliman, and the other assumed the mantle of sole leadership of the Legion, although it is not clear whether Alpharius or Omegon was killed.

Wargear

Artificer Power Armour
Bolter
Combi Weapon
Volkite Charger
Melta Bombs
Digital Lasers
Combat Shield
Refractor Shield
Boarding Shield
Iron Halo
Jump Pack
Space Marine Bike
Legion Jetbike

Optional Wargear (Terminator)

Cataphractii Terminator Armour
Combi-Bolter
Power Weapon
Volkite Charger
Power Fist
Lightning Claw
Chainfist
Thunderhammer
Paragon Blade
Digital Lasers
Iron Halo

Optional Wargear

Volkite Serpenta
Plasma Pistol
Archaeotech Pistol
Heavy Chainsword
Charnabal Sabre
Power Weapon
Power Fist
Single Lightning Claw or Pair Lightning Claws
Thunderhammer
Paragon Blade

Sources

Imperial Armour - The Horus Heresy Betrayal - Book One by Alan Bligh, pg. 188

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 A '''Praetor''' is a bygone rank for a senior Astartes officer of the [[Legiones Astartes]]. They were the mightiest warriors and battle-leaders of the ancient [[Space Marine]] [[Legion]]s, second only to the god-like [[Primarch]]s in martial skills and generalship. These lords of the Imperium held the power of life and death over whole worlds, with the direct control of entire war fleets and armies in their hands. Each was a vastly experienced warrior and warlord, unique in character, who has written a legend in blood for themselves, and carried into battle the finest wargear and weapons known to humanity. In their ranks could be found [[Chapter Master]]s and Lord Commanders, First Captains, Khans and Tribunes as the traditions of their Legions dictated. They were the masters of war and hve commanded the hosts of the [[Great Crusade]] that have conquered worlds unnumbered.
+==History==
+During the [[Great Crusade]], Space Marine Legions were vast engines of war whose super-human warriors numbered in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of fighters. The full panoply of war of a Legion was a terrible thing to behold, and was capable of obliterating entire civilisations through a variety of deadly means ranging from sheer brute force and numbers, armoured assault waves, murderous siege-craft or overwhelming and relentless attacks from close orbit. The particular methods of such exterminations were overseen and by the high commanders of the Legions, select individuals that brought decades of experience and acquired tactical acumen to the ruin of Mankind's foes.
 ==Notable Praetors==
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 |[[Luther]]
 |Traitor
 |Banished to [[Caliban]] following an attempted assassination attempt on the Dark Angels' [[Primarch]] [[Lion El'Jonson]], Luther was charged with being the active Regent of Caliban and the selection and training of new recruits for the Dark Angels. Ironically, Luther would eventually betray the Lion after allowing himself to be seduced by the offers of Chaos, rallying a good portion of his fellow Dark Angels to his cause. Jonson confronted the Chaos-corrupted Luther, and in a great conflagration, Caliban was destroyed in the aftermath. Deep within the bowels of [[Rock, The|The Rock]] the remnant of the I Legions' homeworld, and now their mobile [[Fortress-Monastery]], within cell, kept alive for ten thousand years inside a stasis field, languishes the broken man who was once Luther.
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 |[[Abaddon|Ezekyle Abaddon]]
 |Traitor
 |Following the defeat of [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]] by the [[Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]] during the conclusion of the [[Horus Heresy]] at the [[Battle of Terra]], First Captain Abaddon fled with his Legion to the [[Eye of Terror]]. While there, he rebuilt his Legion and cast off their old identity, becoming the Black Legion. Abaddon became known as Abaddon the Despoiler, a Warmaster of Chaos and the most powerful [[Chaos Lord]] within the Eye of Terror. He has continued to fight the [[Long War]] against the hated [[Imperium of Man]] leading thirteen [[Black Crusade]]s over ten thousand years.
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 |XVII
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 |[[Kor Phaeron]]
 |Traitor
 |First Captain and Black Cardinal (High Priest) of the Word Bearers Legion, It was Kor Phaeron's influence and continuing devotion to the Colchisian Old Faith -- a faith dedicated to the [[Dark Gods]] -- that corrupted his Primarch and the XVII Legion into repudiating their oaths to the [[Emperor of Mankind]] and becoming willing pawns of [[Chaos]]. Now resides as a council member of the [[Dark Council]], the ruling body that leads the Word Bearers from the [[Daemon World]] of [[Sicarus]].
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 |XVIII
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 |Numeon
 |Loyal
 |Became the first [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Salamanders]] following the disappearance of their [[Primarch]] [[Vulkan]].
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 |XIX
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 |Branne Nev
 |Loyal
-|Following the [[Drop Site Massacre]] of [[Istvaan V]], Comander Nev led the mission that resulted in the successful combat extraction of [[Primarch]] [[Corax]] and the few Raven Guard Astartes who survived the Drop Site Massacre.  Branne was appointed by Corax to serve as the Legion's new Master of Recruits.
+|Following the [[Drop Site Massacre]] of [[Istvaan V]], Comander Nev led the mission that resulted in the successful combat extraction of [[Primarch]] [[Corax]] and the few Raven Guard Astartes who survived the Drop Site Massacre. Branne was appointed by Corax to serve as the Legion's new Master of Recruits.
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 |[[Alpharius Omegon|Omegon]]
 |Traitor
 |Commander of the Effrit Stealth Squad, Omegon often operated under various disguises to keep secret the existence of the Alpha Legion's twin Primarchs as well as performing clandestine operations for his Legion. One of the twin Primarchs were killed after confronting [[Ultramarines]]' [[Primarch]] [[Roboute Guilliman]], and the other assumed the mantle of sole leadership of the Legion, although it is not clear whether [[Alpharius Omegon|Alpharius]] or Omegon was killed.
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