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STRIKE FORCE ULTRA
The formation designated as Strike Force Ultra is made up of the elite of a
Codex Chapter’s 1st Company, a powerful force deployed to crush the enemies
of the Imperium. Combining the might of Space Marine Terminators with the
formidable strength of a Venerable Dreadnought, and supported by heavy
armour in the form of a Land Raider and Stormraven Gunship, a Strike Force
Ultra is a truly fearsome weapon of the Adeptus Astartes – one capable of
defeating any foe known to Mankind.
CHOSEN OF THE CODEX
When success must be measured in the survival of whole worlds or the fate of star
systems, it is to a Strike Force Ultra that a Chapter Master turns. Led by the Captain of
the Chapter’s 1st Company and comprising twenty of its finest veterans, a Strike Force
Ultra is a lightning bolt cast into the heart of the Emperor’s foes. Clad in unyielding
Terminator armour and supported by a Stormraven Gunship, Land Raider and mighty
Venerable Dreadnought, the warriors of the strike force hit with the strength of an orbital
barrage. More than one army has been turned to bloody rout as its arrogant commanders
and proud war machines were pulverised under the crackling power fists and roaring
storm bolters of the strike force, the Space Marines crushing the morale of their enemies
just as they smashed flesh and bone to ruin.
The origins of the Strike Force Ultra formation can be traced back to the dark days of the
Horus Heresy, when the Space Marine Legions were tested as they had never been before
in a war that engulfed the fledgling Imperium of Man. Following the Heresy, Roboute
Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, created the Codex Astartes, a book which would
become the foundation upon which all Space Marine Chapters would be built and
organised. More than just a tome detailing the military formations of the Adeptus
Astartes, the Codex was filled with strategic and tactical lore gathered by Guilliman as a
result of the many brutal wars of the Heresy. Conflicts such as the Isstvan V Dropsite
Massacre, the Battle of Calth and the Siege of the Emperor’s Palace all proved hard
lessons which would further refine Guilliman’s already superhuman military genius. The
devising of the Strike Force Ultra was the result of but one of the innumerable tactical
insights he reaped from the darkest point in the history of the Space Marines.
The Ultramarines were the first Chapter to master the use of the Strike Force Ultra and
develop its potential as an effective tool of war, but in time, almost all of the Codex
Chapters would adopt it. Following Guilliman’s teachings on the use of extreme force,
Codex Chapters would often gather together their most powerful weapons into single
formations. Each Strike Force Ultra utilised the finest warriors of a Chapter’s 1st
Company, equipped with its best wargear and armour, and supported by its most potent
war machines. These elite warriors or armoured squadrons were able to bring staggering
amounts of firepower to battle, turning entire enemy armies into seas of mangled bodies
or reducing towering alien war machines to piles of smoking scrap. The Strike Force Ultra
became the ultimate expression of the Space Marines’ superiority over their enemies;
even greatly outnumbered or working in isolation, they were able to defeat their foes with
sudden, brutal strikes, often appearing in a blaze of light before swiftly killing anything
that moved. In this way, even a handful of veteran battle-brothers could effectively take
on deadly and perilous missions that other Space Marine strike forces might have been
hard-pressed to complete.
‘Strength is greatest when focussed into an unyielding fist.’
- Obsidian Glaives 1st Captain Dynares

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