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Designed to provide an anchor for a [[Legio Custodes]] battleline, the Contemptor-Galatus is armed in similar fashion to the Custodes themselves – wielding a huge [[Galatus Warblade]] with its inbuilt twin-linked infernus [[incinerator]], and equipped with a vastly enlarged version of the Custodes [[Praesidium shield]]. Already able to withstand heavy assaults with its armour and [[refractor field]], the Praesidium shield allows the Contemptor-Galatus stand nigh on impregnable, enduring the enemy onslaught and reaping a murderous toll with its immense power blade.{{Fn|6}}
[[Image:Galatus.jpg|thumb|center|220px|A Contemptor-Galatus Class Dreadnought]]
===Contemptor-Achillus Class Dreadnought===
The Contemptor Achilus Dreadnought is another model used by the [[Custodian Guard]].
In those isolated cases where the body has been all but irrevocably destroyed but the Custodian’s mind remains intact and their will to survive undimmed, internment within the cold and unyielding body of a Dreadnought is the next step. To this purpose, the few Dreadnoughts of the Legio Custodes are as singularly advanced as their other wargear, outfitted with weapons and systems artificer-made by the servants of the Imperial Court. At the time of the outbreak of the [[Horus Heresy]], the most widely employed was the Contemptor-Achillus, a general battle unit which combined phenomenal strength and speed with the echoes of the interned Custodes’ own unmatched martial skill.
The primary weapon of the Contemptor-Achillus was the mighty [[Dreadspear]], a weapon modeled closely on the Custodes [[Guardian Spear]]. It was also equipped with two wrist-mounted [[storm bolter]]s, [[incinerator]]s or [[Adrathic destructor]]s.{{Fn|7}}
[[Image:CustodesAchillus.jpg|thumb|center|220px|A Contemptor-Achillus Class Dreadnought]]
===Contemptor-Mortis Class Dreadnought===
*{{Endn|5}}: [http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-ES/Contemptor-Cortus-Class-Dreadnought-Talon Forge World]
*{{Endn|6}}: [https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-IE/Legio-Custodes-Contemptor-Galatus-Dreadnought Forge World]
*{{Endn|7}}: [https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-IE/Legio-Custodes-Contemptor-Achillus-Dreadnought Forge World]
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[[Category:Vehicles (Space Marines)|Dreadnought, Contemptor]]
