


The technology for Exo-armour was originally developed during Mankind's Dark Age of Technology. Alongside these developments, the Emperor initiated a programme to develop a system of armour that would provide even greater protection than that offered by Power Armour for Space Marine Legionaries on the field of battle - Tactical Dreadnought Armour. Part of these plans included the re-equipping of the Space Marine Legions with a far more sophisticated fighting suit that Imperial historians have dubbed Mark II "Crusade" or "Crusader Armour". The first suits of Space Marine Power Armour were developed from the primitive powered armour worn by the savage techno-barbarians that fought alongside the Emperor and later, worn by the first gene-hanced Thunder Warriors.įaded techno-arcana of the Mechanicum tell that even before the Age of Strife had ended, the Emperor had started to make provisions for his Great Crusade. Saturnine Terminator Armour is a variant of Tactical Dreadnought Armour created during the hellish wars of Terran Unification Wars fought by the Emperor's legions of pseudo-Astartes, known as the Thunder Warriors, to reunify Terra under His rule. A Tryzub Shield-Terminator of the Warbringers Legion arrayed in Saturnine pattern Terminator Armour.
