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===Legio Custodes Variants===
====Contemptor-Achillus Dreadnought====
[[ImageFile:AbramHasrubal.jpg|thumb|220px|Contemptor-Achillus [[Abram Hasrubal]]{{Fn|7b}}]]
The '''Contemptor Achilus Dreadnought''' is a model used by the [[Custodian Guard]].{{Fn|7d}}
In those isolated cases where the body has been all but irrevocably destroyed but the Custodian’s mind remains intact and their will to survive undimmed, internment interment within the cold and unyielding body of a Dreadnought dreadnought is the next step. To this purpose, the few Dreadnoughts of the Legio Custodes are as singularly advanced as their other wargear, outfitted with weapons and systems artificer-made by the servants of the Imperial Court. At the time of the outbreak of the [[Horus Heresy]], the most widely employed was the Contemptor-Achillus, a general battle unit which combined phenomenal strength and speed with the echoes of the interned Custodes’ own unmatched martial skill.{{Fn|7d}}
The primary weapon of the Contemptor-Achillus was the mighty [[Dreadspear]], a weapon modeled closely on the Custodes [[Guardian Spear]] but larger and equipped with a [[Corve Las-Pulser]]. It was also equipped with two wrist-mounted [[storm bolter]]s, [[incinerator]]s or [[Adrathic destructor]]s.{{Fn|7d}}
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====Contemptor-Galatus Dreadnought====
[[ImageFile:VettranioShapura.jpg|thumb|220px|Contemptor-Galatus [[Vettranio Shapura]]{{Fn|7f}}]] Similar in aspect to the Contemptor Dreadnoughts of the [[Legiones Astartes]], the '''Contemptor-Galatus''' is a markedly superior war machine. The unrivalled skills of the warrior entombed within its sarcophagus notwithstanding, the Contemptor-Galatus is stronger, faster , and better armoured.{{Fn|7e}}
Designed to provide an anchor for a [[Legio Custodes]] battleline, the Contemptor-Galatus is armed in similar fashion to the Custodes themselves – wielding a huge [[Galatus Warblade]] with its inbuilt twin-linked [[infernus incinerator]], and equipped with a vastly enlarged version of the Custodes [[Praesidium shield]]. Already able to withstand heavy assaults with its armour and [[refractor field]], the Praesidium shield allows the Contemptor-Galatus stand nigh on impregnable, enduring the enemy onslaught and reaping a murderous toll with its immense power blade.{{Fn|7e}}
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==Notable Contemptor Pattern Dreadnoughts==
{{main|List of Named Dreadnoughts}}
