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[[File:Remus Ventanus.jpg|thumb|250px|Remus Ventanus, the Saviour of Calth.{{Fn|4}}]]
'''Remus Ventanus''' was the [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[Ultramarines]] [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]]'s 4th Company during the [[Great Crusade]] and the [[Horus Heresy]]. His actions during the [[Battle of Calth]] helped save the planet from complete destruction, cementing his status as an Ultramarines hero even into [[M41]].
==Biography==
===The Battle of Calth===
By the time of the Battle of Calth, Ventanus was Company Captain of the 4th Company. When [[Warmaster]] [[Horus|Horus Lupercal]] ordered the Ultramarines to join the [[Word Bearers]] in fighting the [[Ghaslakh]] [[Ork]]s,{{Fn|1a}} Ventanus was placed as head of the [[Erud]] Muster, which Ventanus assumed was part of [[Primarch]] [[Roboute Guilliman]] teaching him a lesson in transhuman responsibility; Ventanus considered himself best suited for combat, and part of him resented being assigned to administrative tasks.{{Fn|1b}} When the Muster began to receive shortfall{{Fn|1c}}, Ventanus and [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] [[Kiuz Selaton]] went to speak with the Seneschals from [[Numinus City]]. At the [[Holophusikon]], they met with [[Tetrarch]] [[Eikos Lamiad]], who introduced them to the Seneschals.{{Fn|1d}}
Ventanus and Selaton were at the Numinus Space Port when the fleet tender ''[[Campanile]]'' crashed into [[Calth Veridian Anchor]]. Ventanus and Selaton recognized the blink from the electromagnetic explosion and Ventanus covered Seneschal [[Arbute]], accidentally injuring her in the process.{{Fn|1e}} Taking her to a shelter, the two Ultramarines managed to make contact with [[Amant]] and the squads of 7th on guard duty at the port, but were cut off from First Chapter and Legion Command. Arbute asked what happened, and Selaton insisted it was an accident, but Ventanus was skeptical, pointing out that he couldn't do this much damage if he tried. They were heading for the old listening port which had powerful vox-casters when the ''[[Androdamicus]]'' fell on [[Kalkas Fortalice]], causing shockwaves.{{Fn|1f}} Ventanus, Selaton, Amant's squad, and the Seneschals resumed their way toward to the listening post when the Word Bearers attacked them, killing Amant and Arbute, forcing Ventanus and Selaton to jump out the tower.{{fn|1g}} Landing hard on the ground, Ventanus and Selaton discovered the corpses of an [[Space Marine Honour Guard Squad|honour guard]], killed while waiting to board a ship, proving to Ventanus and Selaton that the Word Bearers had deliberately staged the attack. Ventanus insisted on taking their [[Space Marine Standards|standard]].{{Fn|1h}} Ventanus and Selaton found a group of the [[Kaul Mandari]] [[Chaos Cult]] and were attempting to steal a [[Land Speeder]] when the Word Bearers [[Terminator]] [[Zorator]] attacked them. Despite Zorator's Cataphracti-pattern armour, Ventanus was able to kill him and steal the Land Speeder.{{Fn|1i}}
===Legacy===
Eventually, Remus Ventanus would die. He was buried in an elaborate [[Tomb of Ventanus|tomb]] (suspected to have been designed by Guilliman) in the [[Cavernas Draconi]] in Calth,{{Fn|2b}} buried with the Shard of Erebus.{{Fn|2c}} In the following ten thousand years, the Tomb's location was lost. [[Uriel Ventris]], the future Captain of the Ultramarines 4th Company, would eventually rediscover the tomb as a child, but told no one of his discovery, for to boast of it would have been to lessen the accomplishment. This knowledge would eventually be passed to [[the Newborn]], a [[Warp]]spawned clone of Ventris in the service of [[Warsmith]] [[Honsou]] of the [[Iron Warriors]].{{Fn|2b}}
During the [[Bloodborn]]'s [[Invasion of Ultramar]], M'Kar commanded Honsou to destroy the Tomb of Ventanus and his wargear.{{fn|2d}} Finding the tomb had suffered only minimal damage since then, Honsou investigated Ventanus's sarcophagus and discovered the Shard of Erebus, and realized that M'kar was afraid of it.{{Fn|2b}} Ventris's Ultramarines and Honsou's Iron Warriors would have a reckoning in the tomb, and Ventris discovered that Honsou had destroyed Ventanus's remains. But while Space Marines hold that "Only in death does duty end", both loyalist and traitor Marine alike discovered that even death had not stopped Ventanus, as his ghost and what appeared to be the [[Legion of the Damned]] soon arrived and turned the tide against the Iron Warriors. The specter of Ventanus himself would save Ventris from Honsou, then press the Shard of Erebus into Ventris's hand, and told him M'Kar's [[true name]]: Maloq Kartho. Upon accepting both the Shard and the knowledge, Ventris felt a potent sense discharged from specter, and when Ventris next looked, Remus Ventanus had disappeared, his duty finally completed.{{Fn|2f}} Using the knowledge, Ventris was able to save [[Chapter Master]] [[Marneus Augustus Calgar]] from being killed by M'Kar, and tossed the Shard to his Chapter Master, allowing Calgar to finish what Ventanus had started ten thousand years ago and finally kill Maloq Kartho in a [[True Death]].{{Fn|2a}}
** {{Endn|2e}}: Chapter 1
** {{Endn|2f}}: Chapter 21
* {{Endn|3}}: ''[[Rules of Engagement (Short Story)]]'' by '''Graham McNeill'''
* {{Endn|4}}: [[Horus Heresy: Collected Visions]], pg. 153
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