Omneus (Dreadnought)
"I shall wield this mighty vessel of iron as my weapon of defiance, and serve as fuel for the victory of the Imperium!""
Omneus is a Redemptor Dreadnought of the Ultramarines Chapter.[1b]
History
He is the second occupant of his Dreadnought and its machine spirit burns with an eternal fire of vengeance. It hates all forms of Chaos-corrupted machinery and is notable for having unique weaponry that has never malfunctioned in battle. Omneus and the Dreadnought's previous occupant reported that they felt as if they became one with the machine's weapons and could sense its killing blows. For his part, Omneus has become a skilled warrior and his zeal to destroy the Imperium's foes is always present. He is always eager to be in the front line of a battle in order to both engage the enemy and to use the Dreadnought to shield his Battle Brothers from harm. His approach to warfare, however, means that Omneus favors melee combat, over the using the ranged weaponry his machine is equipped with. Though Omneus knows his second life will someday end, he will use the Dreadnought to serve the Emperor for as long as possible.[1b]
He now serves in an Indomitus Crusade Fleet[1b] and has aided it in reclaiming many of the Imperium's lost worlds. However Omneus' service was nearly ended, when the fleet was ambushed by the Prophet's Black Legion warband. This left its Space Marine Commander with no choice, but to order the fleet's warships to escape into the Warp. Despite doing so though, the Sorcerer Lord tracked them within the Warp and launched an attack on the Commander's Battle Barge flagship. But as his forces fought the Imperials, the Prophet began secretly summoning Daemons within the Battle Barge. They materialized throughout the flagship and once he was done, the Sorcerer Lord ordered his warband to withdraw. Shortly afterwards, the Daemons caused catastrophic damage to the Battle Barge and the Commander enacted an emergency exit from the Warp.[1a]
While the Indomitus Crusade Fleet survived doing so, it was left scattered within an Imperium Nihilus Sector.[1a] The Commander then began regrouping his forces and as he did so,[1c] he learned that that very same Sector was now being invaded by the Prophet. The Commander then led Omneus and the rest of his forces against the Sorcerer Lord's warband, in order to save the Sector's worlds.[1d] Thanks to the Commander's leadership, the fleet was able to foil[1f] the Prophet's plot to pull the Sector into the Warp,[1e] though the Sorcerer Lord escaped before the Imperials could kill him.[1f] The vengeful Prophet then sought to free the imprisoned Daemon Prince Halphas, so that he could destroy the fleet and its Commander.[1g] However despite succeeding in doing so, the Imperials defeated the Daemon Prince. Afterwards, the Commander confronted the Prophet and once again defeated the Sorcerer Lord.[1h]
