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[[File:Chapter Master Marius Gage.jpg|thumb|300px|First Master Marius Gage.{{Fn|2}}]]
'''Marius Gage''' was [[Chapter Master|Master]] of the [[1st Chapter (Ultramarines Legion)|First Chapter]] of the [[Ultramarines]] [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]] (First Master of the Ultramarines) during the [[Great Crusade]] and the [[Horus Heresy]] and second-in-command to [[Roboute Guilliman]].{{Fn|1a}} A [[Terra]]n [[Space Marines|Marine]], Gage was one of the original recruits to the XIII Legion{{Fn|1b}}.
==Biography==
A [[Terra]]n [[Space Marines|Marine]], Gage was one of the original recruits to the XIII Legion.{{Fn|1b}} Gage was appointed as [[Lord Commander]] of his legion after the death of [[Gren Vosotho]] in the [[Osiris Rebellion]], but became second in command following the rediscovery of [[Roboute Guilliman]], holding the title of '''Chapter Master Primus'''.{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|5}}
Marius Gage was present for the muster on [[Calth]] in preparation for the joint Ultramarines/[[Word Bearers]] assault on the [[Ghaslahk Xenohold]]. He was present for a meeting with his Primarch and fellow Chapter Masters to discuss the state of the muster on the ''[[Macragge's Honour]]''.{{fn|1a}} He was present on the bridge of the flagship when the ''[[Campanile]]'' crashed into [[Calth Veridian Anchor]], knocking out the flagship's systems and rending her blind.{{Fn|1c}} In his haste to try and restore the ships systems, Gage forgot to simply open the blast shutters which had closed the viewports, only to see absolute devastation among the fleet. When Guilliman ordered the vox activated, he quickly realized that the Word Bearers had opened fire, something Gage could not believe.{{Fn|1d}}
In the subsequent daemonic invasion, Gage was injured by a daemon, losing his hand in the process. He was saved by [[Aeonid Thiel]], a sergeant marked for censure.{{Fn|1b}} Barely had Gage and the replacement crew of taken control of the ''Macragge's Honour''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s auxiliary bridge then they received vox contact with [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Remus Ventanus]] of the 4th Company.{{Fn|1g}} Barely had contact been made when there was a vox interrupt. At this point, Gage ordered kill teams to deploy and counter Word Bearer boarding actions.{{Fn|1h}} Thiel's team returned with Roboute Guilliman,{{Fn|1i}} who then spoke with Ventanus and learned about the enemy orbital that was controlling the defence grid.{{Fn|1j}} Gage's alternate plan for eliminating the enemy data-engine was to [[teleport]] a kill team to the enemy orbital and destroy it. Gage refused to let Guilliman to lead the kill team, but relented after a venomous glare from the Primarch.{{Fn|1k}} Once the Word Bearers' control over the Calth orbital defences was broken, Gage took the ''Macragee's Honour'' toward the orbital, but was ordered by Guilliman to take the flagship in pursuit of the ''[[Infidus Imperator]]'', the flagship of [[Kor Phaeron]]{{Fn|1l}}. By the time the rest of the Ultramarines fleet withdrew from the Veridian system, they had received no word from Gage or the ''Macragge's Honour''.{{fn|1m}}
After a grueling gruelling battle inside the [[Empyrean]], the Ultramarines' flagship succeeded in destroying the ''Infidus Imperator'', though Kor Phaeron and a small retinue managed to escape to [[Sicarus]]. Gage addressed the survivors of the ''Macragge's Honour'' crew, ordering them to repair the damage to the ship and promising that, though it might take years or even lifetimes, they would find a way back to [[realspace]] and return to [[Ultramar]].{{Fn|4}} Gage survived the Horus Heresy and managed to make it to safe harbour. Later, following the edicts set out in Guilliman's ''[[Codex Astartes]]'', the Ultramarines were [[Second Founding|split into a number of Successor Chapters]]. Gage became the first Chapter Master of the Ultramarines Chapter.{{Fn|6}} ==See also=====Related Articles===*[[List of Chapter Masters]]
==Sources==
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Macragge's Honour (Graphic Novel)]]
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar (Novel)]], Chapter One
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Of Honour and Iron (Novel)]], ''Pretext: The Thirty-First Millennium''
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