Talasa Prime is an Imperial Fortress World located in the Talasa System of the Realm of Ultramar in the Ultima Sector of the Segmentum Ultima. It has been gifted in perpetuity to the Ordo Xenos of the Inquisition and the Deathwatch Chapter by the Ultramarines. It now serves as the foremost watch fortress of the Deathwatch and one of the primary training centres for that Chamber Militant of the Ordo Xenos.
Talasa Prime, the archetypal training world for the Deathwatch, maintains an Aquila pattern watch fortress in addition to dozens of attendant watch stations. It has a wide variety of kill-teams, each tested against those xenos races that would encroach upon Ultramar's borders. Overall command of the watch fortress as watch commander is entrusted to Watch Master Mordelai, a humourless and extremely efficient proponent of the Malleus war doctrine, who has the long-standing trust of Chapter Master Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines himself.
Like most watch fortresses, Talasa Prime maintains five Watch Companies, numbered Primus to Quintus, comprised of four kill-teams of varying types each. The fortress' order of battle can be seen below.
History[]
Following the gift of Talasa Prime to the Inquisition by Macragge, the Ordo Xenos constructed a massive Inquisitorial Fortress upon the world which its Inquisitors now share with the Astartes of the Long Vigil.
Talasa Prime serves as the headquarters watch fortress and foremost training world of the Deathwatch Chapter -- not just a void station, but a whole planet sited in the Realm of Ultramar. The lords of Talasa Prime's Deathwatch keep their own counsel, though their wars against the Tyranid hive fleets and the T'au Empire have proved critical to the safety of the Imperium in the galactic east. The watch fortress also recruits, trains and equips kill-teams composed from the nearby Ultramarines, Scythes of the Emperor and Lamenters Chapters for service against the Tyranids.
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. Rumours suggest the watch fortresses of Praefex Venatoris and Fort Excalibris now share the responsibility for training those Deathwatch members that are active in the blighted realm of the Dark Imperium.
It was at Talasa Prime that the Deathwatch, under the direction of Watch Commander Mordelai, first integrated the Primaris Space Marines into its kill-teams, by creating the first Fortis Kill-teams. Later, Mordelai refined his ideas, and also created the Primaris Indomitor and Spectrus Kill-teams to better make use of the single-armament squads used by Primaris Marine forces.
Notable Personnel[]
- Mordelai, Watch Commander of Talasa Prime - Mordelai is the watch commander of Talasa Prime who was seconded to the Long Watch from the Imperial Fists. Talasa Prime, the archetypal training world for the Deathwatch, maintains an Aquila pattern watch fortress in addition to dozens of attendant watch stations. It has a wide variety of Firstborn and Primaris Marine kill-teams, each tested against those races that would encroach upon Ultramar's borders. Overall command is entrusted to Watch Master Mordelai, a humourless and extremely efficient proponent of Malleus war doctrine, who has the long-standing trust of Chapter Master Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines himself. It was Mordelai who first devised the Fortis Kill-team structure for the Primaris Marines who joined the Deathwatch after the Ultimaris Decree of Primarch Roboute Guilliman. He would later go on to help devise other Primaris kill-team patterns as the new transhuman warriors proved their value and capabilities again and again during the conflicts of the Era Indomitus.
Sources[]
- Chapter Approved 2003, pg. 74
- White Dwarf 306 (UK), pg. 30
- Codex Adeptus Astartes - Space Marines (8th Edition), pg. 25
- Codex Adeptus Astartes - Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 15
- Codex Supplement: Deathwatch (9th Edition), pp. 16, 52-53
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