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History
The Adeptus Custodes were known originally as the Legio Custodes or Custodian Guard. The original Custodians were the first genetically and psychologically altered warriors to appear in the Emperor's armies during the Terran Unification Wars, where they served as the Emperor's personal bodyguard. The first known appearance of the Custodes was early in the Unification Wars during the fall of Techno-Barbarian fortress at Nas'sau. However the origins of the Custodian Guard are shrouded in myth and legend. Some say that the Custodian Guard are to the Emperor what the Space Marines are to the primarchs; that the Emperor's own genetic matrix was used in their Gene-seed creation and through this, their loyalty to him is assured. Others argue that the Custodians are not like the Emperor in the way that a Space Marine is like his primarch, and that some other source was used as a template for their physical and psychological form, a source that was lost during the anarchy of the Age of Strife. The truth will likely never be known.
The genetic enhancement that forms the Custodes is different from and predates that developed to create the Space Marines. Each Custodian is a unique work of art, the product of genetic lore collected over many lifetimes. During the Great Crusade, the Custodes always kept a contingent with the Emperor for his protection, but also traveled individually as envoys. The Emperor valued the Custodians above all his other warriors, and while he was willingly to expend countless of his servants he was always hesitant to bleed his Praetorian's. Since the Emperor's breach in the Webway, the Custodes rarely venture out in numbers as their presence is ever required in the impossible city.
Organization
The warriors of the Adeptus Custodes are answerable only to the Emperor and their own leaders. The organization's leader carries the title of Captain-General. Individual squads of Custodes are overseen by Shield-Captains. The Custodes' nerve center and command & control headquarters is the Tower of Hegemon within the Imperial Palace while a small elite of three hundred Custodes, known as the Companions, form the Emperor's personal bodyguard and never leave his side.
Although the Legio Custodes originally numbered ten thousand, around five years into the War Within the Webway they had been reduced to around a thousand.
Ranks & Titles
The ranks of the Custodian Guard are noted as somewhat informal, as much gestures of respect towards veterans and gifted individuals as a true command structure.[15i]
-Captain-General - Chief Custodian to the Emperor
-Tribune - Senior Officer
-Proconsul
-Prefect
-Lictor
-Shield-Captain - Squad Leader. These are the most veteran and experienced Custodians. The rank exists concurrently with other Custodian titles such as Prefect, Lictor, Proconsul, and Tribune.
-Custodian
Castes
Custodians belong to a caste determined by their wargear and battlefield role.
Hykanatoi- The main strength of the Custodian Guard. These are Guardian Spear-equipped heavy infantry. Their numbers included the Custodian Guard proper as well as several specialized units
Sentinel Guard - The defensive formations of the Custodes, used to defend emissaries and special facilities. During battle, they would be charged with holding the line against enemy onslaughts and as such had a greater level of teamwork than the rest of the Custodes. Sentinels were normally equipped with Praesidium Shields and Sentinel Blades.
Hetaeron Guard - The elite inner circle of the Custodes. The Hetaeron Guard formed the personal guard of the Emperor himself and frequently acted as his aides and confidants. The Hetaeron Guard would only leave the Emperor's side under the most dire of circumstances.
Kataphraktoi - Jetbikers. They form fast attack and reconnaissance units known as Agamatus Jetbike Squadrons. The Kataphraktoi also operate the Custodes fighters and gunships.
Moritoi - The smallest unit of the Custodes, they consisted of wounded brothers interred within Dreadnoughts
Tharanatoi - Terminators. They serve as elite shock troops, siege units, and counter-attackers.
Sagittarum Guard - A shadowy sub-unit of the Tharanatoi Caste, they were among the least common Custodes. Their primary role was the slaying of enemies from a distance and with the use of devastating heavy firepower. In addition, they were known as the sentries of the outer perimeters of the Imperial Palace.
Ephoroi - A highly secretive order tasked with covert operations, counter-intelligence, assassination, and infiltration. During the Great Crusade it was said that they commanded the Officio Assassinorum.
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