Caito Galenus

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Caito Galenus
Title(s) Master of the Marches
Species Human
Type
  • Unknown (Firstborn or Primaris Astartes)
Gender Male
Relatives
Occupation(s)
Affiliation(s)
Preceded by Fortunus
Succeeded by Phelian


Caito Galenus is the former Captain of the Ultramarines 5th Company.[1]

As the Master of the Marches, it was Galenus' task to guard the approaches to Ultramar and attend to threats building beyond the empire's borders. To this end, Galenus has built strong ties with the Chapter's Shipmasters. His company makes substantial use of orbital supporting assets, each strike force typically being assigned to a specific Sword-class frigate or Strike Cruiser for the duration of each tour outside of Ultramar. Galenus himself is a master of space warfare and has commanded numerous warships in his time. He is known for his expertise in zero-gravity combat, ship-to-ship boarding actions and planetary drop assault. Where possible he prefers to observe his enemies from afar, making substantial use of Vanguard forces to scout out the foe.[4]

Biography

Galenus was made a veteran sergeant of 5th company after Toll Grimion had died fighting the Tau.[9a]

Sometime shortly before the Siege of Zalathras[6] 5th company fought the Eldar Craftworld Karan-Ske. During the boarding battles Captain Fortunus was incapacitated and Galenus held the line squads together.[9a] At some point Galenus was in pursuit of the Craftworld in open space beyond Bathor. Calgar expected them to draw Galenus out as far as they could then make a stand. Despite knowing this Calgar ordered that Galenus pursue them to the death, as the craftworld was a threat to their flank.[6]

Years later Galenus was made captain of 5th company. Calgar chose him for his extensive void-combat experience, and how he held the line squads together when fighting Karan-Ske. Before the former captain Fortunus was interred in a dreadnought he was briefly conscious and gave Galenus his blessing as his successor.[9a]

Invasion of Ultramar

At the beginning of the Bloodborn Invasion of Ultramar Galenus was summoned alongside the other captains on Macragge to the chapter masters chambers. While waiting for the council to start he paced at the edge of the courtyard, visibly angry with his fists clenched.[7a] During the Council Calgar Revealed that he had not actually destroyed M'Kar on the star fort Indomitable, merely trapped him there. And with M'Kar attacking Ultramar Calgar told Galenus that the half of 5th Company that was guarding the star fort was almost certainly dead.[7b]

Galenus and what remained of 5th company were then deployed to Quintarn alongside Epathus and 6th Company, Chronus, and Cassius to fight the Bloodborn there.[7c] During a strategy meeting, Telion dropped in through a hole in the ceiling, Galenus was furious at Telion for not telling them that he was on the planet, and not attaching himself to their companies, believing that they can't make an effective strategy without knowing what all of their assets were. In response Telion pointed out how easy it would have been to kill Galenus and the other commanders if he was the enemy.[8] Cassius and Epathus won the argument with Galenus over this, and Telion was allowed to keep fighting as he was.[7c] In the 6 months after the destruction of M'Kar Galenus sometimes led assaults on Quintarn alongside Uriel Ventris.[7d]

Age of the Dark Imperium

Sometime in M42 he led an Ultramarines strike force to aid Vackenides, after it was invaded by the forces of Chaos. The world was later declared lost, however, and Galenus' strike force fought to buy time for hundreds of thousands of its citizens to be evacuated from the space port Helice. The Ultramarines then fought a horde of Heretics, that were aided by Chaos Space Marines and a Chaos Titan. Galenus' forces suffered numerous losses at the Titan's hands and even the relic Land Raider Fist of Guilliman was left heavily damaged. After Chaplain Tavian told the Captain that the Land Raider could not fall into the Heretics' grasp, Galenus ordered Tavian to take a small force to save the Fist. Afterwards, the Captain knew the Titan would slay them all, if it was not destroyed. In desperation he led his forces in a charge against it, hoping to get inside the Titan's shields so they could damage it. Though it raked them with fire, Galenus and his surviving forces succeeded and were able to destroy the Titan's plasma generators with their combined firepower. The Titan then exploded and while more of his Ultramarines were killed by the Titan's death, Galenus survived. He then continued to lead his remaining Ultramarines against the surviving forces of Chaos.[5]

Sometime later, Galenus was succeeded by Captain Phelian, but the circumstances for this are unknown.[3]

Trivia

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Conflicting Sources

The space marine Codexes for 3rd and 5th edition had Galenus become captain of the 5th company after the Battle for Macragge[1] and Sicarius' promotion to captain of second company.[2] The novel Calgar's Fury, which was released later, has him become captain significantly after the Battle for Macragge, and made his predecessor Captain Fortunus.[9a] This has been further reinforced by White Dwarf 498 which had captain Lucian Trajan take over second company following the Battle for Macragge, and stated that Sicarius wasn't even a captain at the time.[10]

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