The Imperium is under siege. Times are so dire that even Ultramar is hard pressed, and with Roboute Guilliman busy overseeing the Indomitus Crusade, the defence of the Five Hundred Worlds falls to its people. While others push out to reclaim its lost borders, one illustrious captain is tasked with securing its critical interior, a task made ever more difficult when a terrifying spectre of the lost Necron empire returns to plague the galaxy.
Captain Demetrian Titus, Master of the Watch
That’s right – Captain Titus, no longer the humble Lieutenant he was in Space Marine 2 and the Secret Level animation. He’s certainly going (back) up in the world and, as Master of the Watch, is tasked with the defence of Macragge and Ultramar’s soft interior, which brings him to the story at hand.
As for Captain Acheran, the former leader of the Second Company… well, there’s usually only one way Space Marine jobs open up, and we’ll be taking a closer look at that next week.
Even the most exceptional men cannot rule alone, and Titus’ adventures have taught him that humans and Space Marines alike have plenty to offer his command team. His new miniature comes with an entire unit of helpful advisors and confidants – known as the Wardens of Ultramar – some of whom you may recognise.
The Wardens of Ultramar
Newly promoted at Titus’ express recommendation, despite his relative youth among veterans, Ancient Gadriel hefts the massive banner of the Second Company and can always be found in the thickest fighting alongside the Captain’s mentor, Veteran Sergeant Metaurus. Both have ample experience fighting alongside Titus, and he values their advice above all others.
On the shorter side, Gaius Silva commands a vast fleet of Ultramarian defence ships and is an expert at handling the tensions between an overworked mortal crew and their often-pitiless masters, making him an essential part of Titus’ muster.
Amelia Minervas is a highly respected Legatus in the Ultramar Defence Auxilia and serves as the command team’s liaison to its legions of human soldiery. Lucia Vestha joins Titus’ war councils as a valued plenipotentiary and diplomat whose keen negotiating skills have saved the Second Company from needless battle on countless occasions, while the sharp-tongued and forthright Dainal Kornelius is a veteran Astropath who has served survived for over 100 years in the Ultramarines’ employ.
Titus will need all the help he can get, as a malign presence has awoken, and now moves with great haste towards the worlds of Ultramar, bringing bloodthirsty hordes of robotic destroyers in its wake. Even other Necrons fear its passage, and to them, it is known by one name – Ammentar.
Nekrosor Ammentar
Nekrosor Ammentar is thought by many to be the genesis of the Destroyer curse, and by others to be entirely mythological – a parable of guilt and betrayal that hearkens back to the shattering of the C’tan. Strangely, all memories of its origin appear to have been forcibly removed from the collective Necron psyche, though only the Silent King has the authority to make such sweeping modifications, and he’s not the most talkative of people…
Ammentar is very real, however, and labours with surprising lucidity on its crusade to eradicate all life from the galaxy. It harbours an extreme affinity for the C’tan known as the Nightbringer, and aims to reunite its scattered shards to one day revive the ancient star god in full. This is widely considered to be a bad idea, especially by the Necrons themselves.
The very presence of the Nekrosor is enough to corrupt the minds of Necrons – from the humblest Warrior to the noblest Overlord – and it commands vast hordes of enthralled soldiers. A selection of those converted into brutally efficient Destroyer warriors can be yours to command with the new 500 Worlds Battalion: Necrons box, containing a Hexmark Destroyer, three Skorpekh Destroyers, three Ophydian Destroyers, and two Lokhust Heavy Destroyers, along with a pair of attendant Plasmacytes.
You may have seen the next chap already, but pretend you didn’t so it’s just as awesome and unexpected as it would have been if he didn’t slip his bounds a little too early. It’s the C’tan Shard of the Nightbringer!
C’tan Shard of the Nightbringer
Turns out, even a premature reveal can’t dampen how impossibly cool this miniature is – a Miniature of the Year contender if ever we’ve seen one. The emergence of this shard of Nightbringer is a real worst-case scenario for the Ultramarines, and Ammentar can’t wait to set his spectral nightmares loose on the 500 Worlds.
Nightmares? Yeah, he has more than one shard. The battle between Titus and Nekrosor Ammentar is a seismic event, big enough to command its own set of campaign books.
500 Worlds: Titus
Captain Titus takes up arms in 500 Worlds: Titus, the next major narrative expansion for Warhammer 40,000. Presented as a set of four books enclosed in a decorative slipcase, 500 Worlds: Titus tells the story of the Ultramarian Reclamation and the embattled Vespator Front, where Titus and the Ultramarines Second Company are locked in a desperate struggle against a Necron force rife with the Destroyer curse.
In addition to the headline book packed with lore, miniatures photography, and glorious new artwork, the 500 Worlds: Titus set includes War on the Vespator Front, a complete campaign system for Warhammer 40,000 that pits three alliances against each other in a bid to control territories and capture critical locations across a large campaign map included in the set.
Also in the slipcase is Dread Incursions, a Boarding Actions supplement with new missions and maps that can be played independently or as part of a Vespator Front campaign, and a book of six new Warhammer 40,000 Detachments for the Space Marines and Necrons.
It’s a lot to take in, and we can’t wait to share more about these exciting books and miniatures with you. That’ll have to wait for now as there’s still loads more Warhammer Preview stuff to see, so head back to the reveals hub and check out everything else we’ve shown off today. Titus will be back, we promise.
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