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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 level of innate psychic ability to operate the armour is unclear, save that it is above that of an average Space Marine but still well below that of a [[Librarian]].{{Fn|36}}
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, [[Phoebe]].{{Fn|34}}{{Fn|36}} 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}}, though it first appeared on the battlefield in meaningful numbers in [[Salamanders]] use during the [[Drop Site Massacre]].{{Fn|35}} After witnessing its immense destructive power in Salamanders use on [[Isstvan V]], [[Perturabo]] quickly issued Saturnine Armour into his own ranks en masse. By the time of the [[Siege of Inwit]] there were entire heavy assault companies of the [[Iron Warriors]] equipped with this pattern.{{Fn|37b}} The [[Blood Angels]] soon followed suit, as seen with units such as the [[Colossi]].{{Fn|38}}
For armament, the Saturnine Pattern was equipped with an array of devastating energy weaponry which could be effectively wielded thanks to its powerful reactor.{{Fn|34}} These weapons included twin-linked [[Heavy Disintegrator]]s, [[Plasma Bombard]]s, and [[Saturnine Disruption Fist]]s with optional [[Particle Shredder (Imperial)|Particle Shredders]]{{Fn|33}}. [[Praetor]]s equipped in Saturnine Armour also utilized [[Plasma Blaster]]s, [[Saturnine War Axe]]s, and [[Saturnine Concussion Hammer]]s.{{Fn|35}} They also utilized [[Teleportation Synchroniser]]s to allow for teleporting throughout the battlefield.{{Fn|29}}
**{{Endn|37a}}: pg. 34
**{{Endn|37b}}: pg. 43
*{{Endn|38}}: [[Liber Astartes (3rd Edition)]], pg. 217
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