05-24-2007, 09:01 PM
I think i know why Wanzer compared the Adeptus Astartes Dreadnoughts to Protoss Dragoons. Dreadnoughts are basically mobile coffins that contain the body of a mortally-wounded Space Marine, who's body is too damaged to continue on. These fallen warriors are entombed into a four to five meter tall ceramite-armored walking battlesuit armed with storm bolters, power fists, multi-meltas or lascannons.
Being placed into a Dreadnought also greatly enhances the marine's already long-lifespan. It isn't common for a Dreadnought to exist for thousands of years or more. One of the longest-serving Dreadnoughts is Bjorn the Fell-Handed of the Space Wolves chapter. He was one of Leman Russ's lieutenants during the Horus Heresy of the thirty-first millenium and is still alive and functional ten thousand years later.
It's pretty much the same as what the Protoss do to fallen zealots and other warriors. Barely-alive warriors are placed in the quad-legged Dragoon armored walkers. I dunno just how long they live though.
Hey, Orcs and Eldar also have their own version of the Dreadnought armor. Can't remember what they're called at the moment.
Being placed into a Dreadnought also greatly enhances the marine's already long-lifespan. It isn't common for a Dreadnought to exist for thousands of years or more. One of the longest-serving Dreadnoughts is Bjorn the Fell-Handed of the Space Wolves chapter. He was one of Leman Russ's lieutenants during the Horus Heresy of the thirty-first millenium and is still alive and functional ten thousand years later.
It's pretty much the same as what the Protoss do to fallen zealots and other warriors. Barely-alive warriors are placed in the quad-legged Dragoon armored walkers. I dunno just how long they live though.
Hey, Orcs and Eldar also have their own version of the Dreadnought armor. Can't remember what they're called at the moment.
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