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===Saturnine Pattern===
[[Image:SaturnineTermieArt.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Saturnine Pattern Terminator Armour{{Fn|29}}]]
The Saturnine Pattern is the tallest, heaviest, and most technologically advanced type of Tactical Dreadnought Armour. The Saturnine Pattern featured an additional exoskeleton frame to which slanted reinforced armor plates were attached.{{Fn|20}} Though slow and lumbering, they were nearly impenetrable to most forms of fire thanks to their heavy armour and [[Thermal Diffraction Field]]s.{{Fn|30}} The armour also possessed superior targeting systems that allowed its users to accurately aim and fire multiple weapons simultaneously. However like the [[Saturnine Dreadnought]], only a warrior possessing sufficient mental strength and discipline could utilize the armour pattern. It has also been suggested that the user required a measure of [[Cybertheurgy|cybertheurgic ]] resonance, although few are willing to speak upon this{{Fn|34}}
The exact origins of the design is a mystery, save that unlike other types of terminator armour it came not from [[Mars]] but from a banished [[Mechanicum]] tech-enclave on [[Saturn]]'s ninth moon.{{Fn|34}}{{Fn|Notes 2}} Early marks of Saturnine armour were known to have been deployed as early as the late [[Unification Wars]] and the first battles of the [[Great Crusade]]. The complexity and cost of its production however meant that it was soon overshadowed by the more numerous Cataphractii and Tartaros Patterns. Saturnine Armour was already fading into myth by the end of the Great Crusade until the [[Primarch]] [[Vulkan]] sought to recover the design. He was successful, and subsequently handed the revived pattern out to the rest of the [[Legiones Astartes]]. Saturnine Armour thus saw use on both sides in the [[Horus Heresy]].{{Fn|29}}
