The Legion Deredeo Dreadnought entombed a dying hero within a broad-shouldered chassis built not for the charge but for the vigil, and the Dark Angels revered these ancients as guardians of the Order's threshold. Where a Contemptor sought the foe, the Deredeo held the ground its brothers had won, its autocannon batteries and aiolos missiles filling the air above the First Legion with a lattice of interlocking fire that no aircraft or assault could pass unscathed. Calibanite artificers linked its targeting cogitators to the Legion's own auspex-web, so that the interred knight saw every threat before it struck. Hooded serfs tended its sarcophagus with hymns older than the Crusade, and in the silence between battles the Deredeo brooded like a statue upon a monastery wall — patient, watchful, and utterly without mercy for those who trespassed upon its charge.
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