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|Name ={{PAGENAME}}
|Symbol =HouseTaranisSymbol.jpg
|Affiliation =[[Imperium]]([[Adeptus Mechanicus]]){{Fn|2a}}
|Knight World=[[Mars]]
|Colours =Red (Post-Heresy){{Fn|2b}}{{Fn|5c}}<br>Blue/white (Heresy-era){{Fn|13b}}
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' are a [[Knight House]] of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]], located on [[Mars]].{{Fn|2a}}{{Fn|2b}}
==Overview==
The first Knight House, they trace their lineage back to ancient [[Mars]] during the [[Age of Strife]]. Having always been on the Red Planet, they have never been forced to survive alone on a frontier and are not nearly as isolationist as other Houses. They also do not utilize the feudal structure seen in other Houses, and their [[Throne Mechanicum|Thrones Mechanicum]] operate without the mind-altering technology seen across the rest of the Imperium that turned them into feudal overlords. They refuse to share how their Thrones Mechanicum operate, and the reasons why most Thrones Mechanicum bear this technology and why those of House
Taranis do not incorporate it are now lost to time. That has not prevented some from suggesting
that the first Nobles were already fiercely loyal to the Mechanicum and that they were an integral part of the
defenses of Mars.{{Fn|22}}
With the might of Mars behind them, House Taranis has some of the finest Knight suits in the Imperium including many rarer configurations. While they might not share the feudal lives of other Nobles, they are known to still be strong in faith and fanatical in their desire to protect their pre-eminence of the first and greatest of the knightly houses sworm to the Mechanicum.{{Fn|22}}
==History==
The first Knightly House to be established, House Taranis was founded on [[Mars]] before the formation of the [[Imperium]]. This truly ancient house predates any other by many hundreds of years. As the industries of the red planet developed into a vast metropolis of technological mastery, so too did it evolve to become the first and foremost of the forge worlds, and the Knights of House Taranis were its guardians. The [[STC]] technology supplied to many of the [[Expeditionary Fleet]]s during [[Dark Age of Technology|Mankind’s expansion]] across the stars included designs for armoured suits of exo-armour based on those first developed to be used by the Knights of Taranis. When the Knight worlds were first rediscovered during the Imperium’s [[Great Crusade]] many thousands of years later, it is likely that the Mechanicum used their intimate knowledge of the Knight suits worn by House Taranis to help win the loyalty of those worlds.{{Fn|2a}} By the start of the [[Horus Heresy]], Taranis fielded some 600 Knight suits, including large numbers of rarer [[Porphyrion]], [[Atrapos]], [[Magaera]], and [[Knight Styrix|Styrix]] Patterns.{{Fn|13a}} House Taranis remained loyal to the [[Imperium]] during the [[Horus Heresy]], taking part in the [[Schism of Mars|Battle of Mars]] on the side of the forces of [[Kane]]. All but two of them were killed, fighting the forces of the [[Dark Mechanicum]]. Two members of the Knights of Taranis survived and went into hiding, but their later fate is unknown.{{Fn|1d}}
During the [[Indomitus Crusade]], 3 lances of House Taranis Knights were deployed from the vessel ''[[Zar-Quaesitor]]''.{{Fn|8}}
*Battle of [[Ontoria XII]]{{Fn|9d}}
*Defence of [[Frontis]]{{Fn|11}}
*In 230.[[M41]], the Knights of House Taranis battled a [[Daemon]]ic incursion on [[Tarsok V]]. Despite heavy losses, they managed [[The Tarsok Incursion|to defeat]] a [[Great Unclean One]] and win the day.{{Fn|2c}}{{Fn|5b}}
*[[Indomitus Crusade]]{{Fn|12}}
*The [[Charadon Campaign]]{{Fn|14}}
*{{Endn|20}}: [[Genefather (Novel)]], Chapter 14
*{{Endn|21}}: [[Crusade: Nachmund Gauntlet]], pgs. 16-17
*{{Endn|22}}: [[Codex: Imperial Knights (10th Edition)]], pg. 42
[[Category:Indomitus Crusade]]
[[Category:Knight Houses|Taranis]]
