Venatari

The Venatari were the huntsmen of the Legio, Custodians who forsook heavy plate for kinetic-arrestor jump packs and struck from the air with tri-fold clave weapons and kinetic destroyers. Where a battle-line had to be turned or a fleeing quarry run down, the Venatari fell upon it from above, their aim unspoiled by the speed of their descent. They favoured the decapitating strike (the officer cut down, the standard toppled, the psyker silenced before he could work his art) and then were gone before a counter could form. In the ruin of Terra they hunted through the broken skyline, dropping into traitor rear-echelons to sow terror among those who had thought themselves safe. Swift, precise and merciless, the Venatari embodied the Legio's preference for ending a fight with a single clean stroke rather than grinding it out. They were the Emperor's hunting hawks, loosed only at prey that mattered.