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{{otheruses|USE=Ultramarine Captain|OTHERPAGE=Remus (disambiguation)}}
[[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]]'s [[4th Company (Ultramarines Legion)|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==
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}}
Ventanus and Selaton were increasingly losing escape routes from Numinus when they finally managed to link up with [[Skitarii]] forces under [[Magos]] [[Meer Edv Tawren]] and [[Master of Skitarii]] [[Arook Serotid]]. Establishing contact with Captain [[Lyros Sydance]] at [[Erud Station]] through the Skitarii manifold, Ventanus and Serotid coordinated moving the 4th (now totaling at seven hundred men) to [[Leptius Numinus]], which Tawren identified as having a cogitator potentially clean of [[scrapcode]]. To insure reliability of communication, Ventanus told Sydance to only trust messages from those who knew the number of the painted [[Eldar]], refering to the assault on [[Craftworld]] [[JeilthwaJielthwa]] when Sydance killed a dozen [[Harlequin]]s.{{fn|1j}} En route to Leptius Numinus, they managed to make contact with other Skitarii and XIII Legion forces under Captain [[Teus Sullus]] of the 39th Company.{{Fn|1k}} Word Bearers forces soon found them, forcing them to engage in a defense of the place while Tawren brought the cogitator online. Ventanus quickly recognized that Sullus was growing despondent and potentially unstable as a result of the Word Bearers treachery.{{Fn|1l}} As the Word Bearers looked to overwhelm the Ultramarines and Skitarii, the rest of the 4th Company arrived to augment them. Meeting with Sullus and Sydance after the battle,{{fn|1m}} Ventanus managed to make contact with [[Chapter Master|First Master]] [[Marius Gage]] on the ''[[Macragge's Honour]]'', flagship of the Ultramarines, to get a better theoretical on what was happening. Selaton then informed Ventanus that there was something he needed to see: [[Morpal Cxir]], [[Force Commander]] of the Word Bearers Host which had assaulted Leptius Numinus has surrendered. He offered terms of surrender to the Ultramarines, which Ventanus rejected. Cxir then began to goad the Ultramarines, insisting that Roboute Guilliman had died begging for mercy, enraging Sullus to the point that he stabbed Cxir. This was a ploy on the part on Cxir, allowing his corpse to serve as a host for the [[Daemon]] [[Samus]].{{Fn|1n}}
Blacking out from Samus's emergence, Ventanus awoke to find the daemon wreaking havoc on Leptius Numinus, essentially ignoring the bolter and las, and plasma fire the Ultramarines, [[Imperial Army]], and Skitarii forces were concentrating on it, even destroying a [[Shadowsword]] and wounding Sullus in the process. Using Cxir's [[athame]], Ventanus was able to defeat Samus,{{fn|1o}}, but Leptius Numinus was virtually defenseless. Additionally, Ventanus realized that there was something toxic about the athames, and ordered Selaton to destroy them. However, Tawren managed to make an important discovery: her predecessor, [[Uhl Kehal Hesst]], had managed to formulate a [[killcode]] which could purge the [[scrapcode]] in a civilian data-engine in [[Lanshear]] which could regain control of the weapons grid. But to use it, they would need to destroy the Word Bearers engine being used to control the grid. A small force under Sullus and Serotid would remain to keep Leptius Numinus's data-engine functioning. Reestablishing contact with ''Macragge's Honour'', Ventanus was relieved to hear the voice of Roboute Guilliman, and managed to relay that the Word Bearers had a data-engine controlling the grid, but vox-contact was interrupted before Ventanus could say where the target was.{{Fn|1p}}
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}}
==Trivia=={{Trivia}}== Canon Conflicts =Conflicting sources===In the opening chapter of [[The Chapter's Due]], Ventanus is referred to as "Ventanus of the lost 6th [[Chapter]]"{{Fn|2e}}, while in [[Know No Fear (Novel)|Know No Fear]], Ventanus commands the 4th Company, which appears to be part of the 1st Chapter under [[Marius Gage]].{{Fn|1w}}
==Sources==
*1: [[Know No Fear (Novel)]]
**{{Endn|1a}}: ''Target//Acquisition'', Chapter 2**{{Endn|1b}}: ''Target//Acquisition'', Chapter 3**{{Endn|1c}}: ''Target//Acquisition'', Chapter 7**{{Endn|1d}}: ''Target//Acquisition'', Chapter 5**{{Endn|1e}}: ''Absolute//Overwhelm'', Chapter 1**{{Endn|1f}}: ''Absolute//Overwhelm'', Chapter 2**{{Endn|1g}}: ''Absolute//Overwhelm'', Chapter 3**{{Endn|1h}}: ''System//Kill'', Chapter 1**{{Endn|1i}}: ''System//Kill'', Chapter 3**{{Endn|1j}}: ''Target//Engagement'', Chapter 3**{{Endn|1k}}: ''Target//Engagement'', Chapter 4**{{Endn|1l}}: ''Target//Engagement'', Chapter 5**{{Endn|1m}}: ''Target//Engagement'', Chapter 7**{{Endn|1n}}: ''Target//Engagement'', Chapter 10**{{Endn|10}}: ''Ushkul//Thu'', Chapter 1**{{Endn|1p}}: ''Ushkul//Thu'', Chapter 3**{{Endn|1q}}: ''Ruin//Storm'', Chapter 1**{{Endn|1r}}: ''Ruin//Storm'', Chapter 2**{{Endn|1s}}: ''Ruin//Storm'', Chapter 3**{{Endn|1t}}: ''Ruin//Storm'', Chapter 4**{{Endn|1u}}: ''Ruin//Storm'', Chapter 5
**{{Endn|1v}}: Epilogue
**{{Endn|1w}}: ''Dramatis Personae''
*2: [[The Chapter's Due (Novel)]]
**{{Endn|2a}}: Chapter 24
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Rules of Engagement (Short Story)]]
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Horus Heresy: Collected Visions]], pg. 153
*{{Endn|5}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Five- Tempest]], pg. 236
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