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'''Lord Commander''' is a rank which occurs several times, past and present, in the upper echelons of the [[Imperium]].
==Imperial Navy==
Occasionally referenced as Lord Militant Commander and also referred to as [[Lord High Admiral]]{{Fn|11}}, a '''Lord Commander of the [[Imperial Navy]]''' has jurisdiction over the Imperial Navy in a [[Segmentum]] of the Imperium.{{Fn|7}} Of these, the Lord Commander of the Segmentum Solar is the foremost, and is often appointed to a position on the [[High Lords of Terra]].{{Fn|7, }}{{Fn|9}}
===Notable Lord Commanders of the Imperial Navy===
===Notable Lord Commanders of the Imperial Guard===
* [[Phillips]] Lord Commander [[Segmentum Solar|Solar]]* [[Macharius (Character)|Macharius]] , [[Lord Commander [[Segmentum Solar|Solar]]* [[Sebiascor Ebongrave]]* [[Zuehlke]]
==Imperial Army==
During the [[Great Crusade]], a '''Lord Commander of the Expedition Fleet''' was a position in the [[Imperial Army]], the highest of its kind. A Lord Commander was in charge of an entire [[Expedition Fleet|expedition fleet]], unless a Primarch was attached to it; in which case the Primarch took precedence and the Lord Commander was chiefly in charge of the soldiers of the Imperial Army.{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|5}}
===Notable Lord Commanders of the Imperial Army===
* [[Hektor Varvarus]] (63rd Expedition Fleet)
* [[Archite Palatines#Notable Regiment Members|Thaddeus Fayle]] ([[28th Expedition Fleet]])
* [[Teng Namatjira]] (680th Expedition Fleet)
===Notable Lord Commanders of the Astartes===
'''Emperor's Children'''
* [[Eidolon (Emperor's Children)|Eidolon]]
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Horus Heresy: Visions of War]], {{Cite This}}*{{Endn|2}}: [[Index Astartes]]: Emperor's Children, {{Cite This}}*{{Endn|3}}: [[Horus Rising (Novel)]] by [[Dan Abnett]], {{Cite This}}*{{Endn|4}}: [[Fulgrim (Novel)|Fulgrim]] by [[Graham McNeill]], {{Cite This}}*{{Endn|5}}: [[Legion (Novel)|Legion]] by '''Dan Abnett''', {{Cite This}}*{{Endn|6}}: [[Codex: Ultramarines (2nd Edition)]], by [[Rick Priestley]], {{Cite This}}*{{Endn|7}}: [[Eye of Terror (Novel)]], by [[Barrington J. Bayley]], {{Cite This}}*{{Endn|8}}: [[Mechanicum (Novel)|Mechanicum]]by '''Graham McNeill''', {{Cite This}}*{{Endn|9}}: [[White Dwarf 140 (UK)]], ''The Stellar Fleets'', by [[Jervis Johnson]], [[Andy Jones]], [[Simon Forrest ]] and [[Rick Priestley]]*{{Endn|10}}: [[Codex: Imperial Guard (5th Edition)]] , pg.7*{{Endn|11}}: [[Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook]] , pg.86===Uncited==={{Uncited}}*[[Codex Imperialis]], by '''Rick Priestley'''
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