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* MadeASlave: It's common for Astartes Chapters to make use of slave labor for seeing to tasks that are viewed as beneath the battle-brothers -- technical maintenance, cleaning and hygene, food preparation, personal aideship to full Marines, and so on. Depending on the Chapter in question, these serfs may be treated well or seen as living tools, although in all cases they're put through similar mental conditioning as the Marines to ensure their loyalty. How they get them varies; some primarily use failed initates who didn't make the cut to Marinehood, although others like the Characarodons and Death Specters will just abduct civilians from warzones or frontier areas to use as forced labor.

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* DropTheHammer: Thunder Hammers are ginormous mallets wrapped in an electrical field that stuns whatever they don't pulverize.



* ThunderHammer: Thunder Hammers are power weapons whose power field, instead of being spread out along a blade, is concentrated on the hammer’s head and energizes on contact in a devastating concussive blast. Regular, armored Marines need two hands to wield these things, althought Terminators swing them about one-handed.



* DropTheHammer: Some Terminators carry Thunderhammers, power weapons whose power field, instead of being spread out along a blade, is concentrated on the hammer’s head and energizes on contact in a devastating concussive blast. Regular, armored Marines need two hands to wield these things, but Terminators swing them about one-handed.
* DungeonBypass: Terminators are specifically designed for such tactics (primarily space boarding actions) - they have teleporters to get past the enemy lines, the heaviest armor to keep them alive when away from support, and power fists and chainfists to make their own door whenever needed.

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* DropTheHammer: Some Terminators carry Thunderhammers, power weapons whose power field, instead of being spread out along a blade, is concentrated on the hammer’s head and energizes on contact in a devastating concussive blast. Regular, armored Marines need two hands to wield these things, but Terminators swing them about one-handed.
* DungeonBypass: Terminators are specifically designed for such tactics (primarily space boarding actions) - -- they have teleporters to get past the enemy lines, the heaviest armor to keep them alive when away from support, and power fists and chainfists to make their own door whenever needed.

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* AndIMustScream: Despite the high esteem most Dreadnoughts are placed in and being revered as sources of great wisdom and knowledge, being ''inside'' the thing is a whole different matter. The Space Marine inside a Dreadnought has to be so horribly wounded (i.e. having damage that would kill a normal person ten times over) that the only way to save him is to seal him forever in a life-support sarcophagus. This neither erases the pain the wounded veteran feels nor gives them comfort, and for the rest of his life, his entire existence is either sleeping in a deathless trance or rampaging around the battlefield in a walking tank.



* ManInTheMachine: Marines interred in a Dreadnought continue fighting even though their original flesh bodies are broken beyond repair.

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* ManInTheMachine: Marines interred in a Dreadnought continue fighting even though their original flesh bodies are broken beyond repair.repair (keep in mind that "beyond repair" for an 8' tall super soldier with advanced strength and healing would involve injuries that would kill a normal human ten times over).

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* BloodBrothers: Many chapters have blood-mingling rituals, which may involve imbibing the blood of their fellow Marines--this is possibly the result of their Omophagea implant, which allows them to process {{Genetic Memor|y}}ies of biological material they consume. In this manner, the Marines share traces of memory with each other, [[TrueCompanions further solidifying their bond with each other]], and the blood of the fallen will be consumed that [[DueToTheDead the living might better remember them]]. For some gene-seed strains, mutations in the Omophagea implant give them a greater thirst for blood, and their blood ceremonies are more frequent; the Blood Angels and their successors are the best known of these.


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* ThePowerOfBlood: Many chapters have blood-mingling rituals, which may involve imbibing the blood of their fellow Marines--this is possibly the result of their Omophagea implant, which allows them to process [[GeneticMemory genetic memories]] of biological material they consume. In this manner, the Marines share traces of memory with each other, [[TrueCompanions further solidifying their bond with each other]], and the blood of the fallen will be consumed that [[DueToTheDead the living might better remember them]]. For some gene-seed strains, mutations in the Omophagea implant give them a greater thirst for blood, and their blood ceremonies are more frequent; the Blood Angels and their successors are the best known of these.
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'''[[Characters/Warhammer40000ForcesOfChaos Forces of Chaos]]:''' [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosGods Chaos Gods]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosPrimarchs Chaos Primarchs]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosMarines Heretic Astartes]]\\

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'''[[Characters/Warhammer40000ForcesOfChaos Forces of Chaos]]:''' [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosGods Chaos Gods]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosPrimarchs Chaos Primarchs]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosMarines Heretic Astartes]]\\Chaos Marines]]\\
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* ArtifactOfDeath: Above other Dreadnought variants is the Leviathan Dreadnought. Much bigger and stronger than any other Dreadnought pattern, this artifact of LostTechnology was made on Terra instead of Mars and were designed to have force fields and tremendous amounts of firepower, including guns unique to them. However, they are rarely used as their systems take a dangerously high toll on the entombed Astartes' mind and body, spurring them to horrible violence and driving them to the brink of insanity, if not beyond. A Space Marine can live for centuries normally and are virtually immortal inside a standard Dreadnought, but only have a lifespan of a few years if they're encased in a Leviathan. Tbe Redemptor Dreadnought pattern of the Primaris Marines also have this issue of often killing its inhabitant over time.

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* ArtifactOfDeath: Above other Dreadnought variants is the Leviathan Dreadnought. Much bigger and stronger than any other Dreadnought pattern, this artifact of LostTechnology was made on Terra instead of Mars and were designed to have force fields and tremendous amounts of firepower, including guns unique to them. However, they are rarely used as their systems take a dangerously high toll on the entombed Astartes' mind and body, spurring them to horrible violence and driving them to the brink of insanity, if not beyond. A Space Marine can live for centuries normally and are virtually immortal inside a standard Dreadnought, but only have a lifespan of a few years if they're encased in a Leviathan. Tbe The Redemptor Dreadnought pattern of the Primaris Marines also have this issue of often killing its inhabitant over time.
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'''[[Characters/Warhammer40000Imperium Imperium of Man]]:''' [[Characters/Warhammer40000ImperialFounders Founders]], '''Adeptus Astartes''' ([[Characters/Warhammer40000AstartesChaptersFirstFounding First Founding Chapters]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000AstartesChapters Other Chapters]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000AstartesCharacters Characters]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000PrimarisSpaceMarines Primaris Marines]]), [[Characters/Warhammer40000ImperialGuard Astra Militarum]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000Sororitas Adepta Sororitas]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000Inquisition Inquisition]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000Mechanicus Mechanicus]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000CurrentImperialFactions Other factions]]\\

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'''[[Characters/Warhammer40000Imperium Imperium of Man]]:''' [[Characters/Warhammer40000ImperialFounders Founders]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000Primarchs The Primarchs]], '''Adeptus Astartes''' ([[Characters/Warhammer40000AstartesChaptersFirstFounding First Founding Chapters]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000AstartesChapters Other Chapters]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000AstartesCharacters Characters]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000PrimarisSpaceMarines Primaris Marines]]), [[Characters/Warhammer40000ImperialGuard Astra Militarum]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000Sororitas Adepta Sororitas]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000Inquisition Inquisition]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000Mechanicus Mechanicus]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000CurrentImperialFactions Other factions]]\\

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