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[[Image:VindicatorArt.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Vindicator Siege Tank of the [[Space Wolves]]{{Fn|7}}]]
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The '''Vindicator''' is a short ranged siege tank used by [[Space Marine Chapter]]s. Based upon the [[Rhino]] chassis, it shares many of the same design features, though with equipment and armament optimized to deliver heavy ordnance at short range.
==History==
The origin origins of the Vindicator is are fragmentary, although the earliest records shows show it was developed along with the other Rhino [[STC]] variants during the [[Dark Age of Technology]]. The fragments at the request of [[General]] [[Vindictis]] were recovered from the [[Librarius Omnis]] and within this request the General asked for a self-mobile weapon of high calibre, capable of following up with advancing armies and able to engage well-protected targets with a high angle of fire. It is believed that General Vindictus was personally responsible for instigating the idea of the 'Vindicator' so the vehicle was thus named in his honour. The record states that on the planet [[Rostern]] 10 assembled Vindicators fought against raiding [[Orks]] and though 9 out of 10 were ultimately destroyed in the process, Imperial forces were victorious.{{Fn|1a}} Other records show that the Vindicator was first fielded during the early years of the [[Horus Heresy]] on [[Rostern I]], when massive [[Thunderer Cannon]]s were mounted onto remodeled Rhinos and used to blast heavily dug-in [[Traitor Legions|Traitor]] positions among the urban rubble.{{Fn|2a}}
Later records stated that Vindicators were mentioned very little and it's assumed that these machines fell out of favor. It seems that the production of Vindicators was halted during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy or that the manufacturing site was destroyed. Only when the mighty Primarch [[Guilliman]] mentioned the Vindicator in the [[Codex Astartes]] did the Siege tank reappear in the Space Marine Armies. Since the Heresy, the bulky Thunderer Cannon has been replaced with the more compact, but no less potent, [[Demolisher Cannon]], along with other minor modifications to armouring, fire control and driving systems.{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|2a}} The Vindicator has become a vital part of a Chapter's siege and urban combat capabilities, with most retaining a dozen or so vehicles within their [[Armoury]].{{Fn|2a}}
[[Image:CSMVindicator.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Chaos Space Marine]] Vindicator{{Fn|4}}]]
[[Image:DeimosVindicator.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Deimos Pattern Vindicator of the [[World Eaters]]]]
===Chaos Vindicators===
Vindicators were used extensively by the [[Traitor Legion]]s during the [[Horus Heresy]], specifically in the [[Siege of the Imperial Palace]], and have remained in service with Chaos Space Marine forces since then. The [[Iron Warrior]]s in particular, field many squadrons of Vindicators and deface them with defaced statuary of fallen cities they have conquered. The Vindicator can also be possessed by a bound daemon.{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|5}}
===Deimos Pattern Vindicator===
The '''Deimos Pattern Vindicator''' was an early type of Vindicator used by the [[Legiones Astartes]] during the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]], although many still operate as of [[M41]] in Space Marine [[Chapter]]s.{{Fn|6}}
===Vindicator Laser Destroyer===
*{{Mainmain|Vindicator Laser Destroyer}}
'''Vindicator Laser Destroyers''' is a powerful tank-destroyer variant of the Vindicator used primarily during the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]], though many are still in service today.{{cite this}}
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==Related ArticlesSee also==
*[[Space Marine Vehicles (List)]]
==Sources==
*1: [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition]],:
**{{Endn|1a}}: pgs. 67–69
**{{Endn|1b}}: pgs. 74–75
*2: [[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]]:
**{{Endn|2a}}: pg. 80
**{{Endn|2b}}: pg. 143
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition)]], pg. 43
*{{Endn|4}}: [http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Chaos-Space-Marines-Vindicator Chaos Vindicator] ''(last accessed 23 May 2015)''
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (6th Edition)]] , pg. 55
*{{Endn|6}}: [https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NZ/Legion-Deimos-Pattern-Vindicator Forge World] ''(last accessed 19 April 2016)''
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes]], pgpgs. 96-97
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Hunt for Voldorius (Novel)]], Chapter 9
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