Editing Marneus Calgar (section)

==As of the Age of the Dark Imperium==
[[Image:Newcalgar.jpg|right|thumb|My exhausts are eagles, your argument is invalid.]]
His response to his Primarch getting back up and running things again has not been explored a great deal, although his first act was to transfer command to his Primarch in perpetuity, without any dispute or deliberation. So the guy who [[Games Workshop|GW]] has been plugging for decades as the guy that ''everyone else'' looks up to has now taken a back seat for someone better.

It was rather awkward when Guilliman reclaimed his personal quarters. Calgar had assumed everything within to be a "great relic" from the time of the great crusade, and would often take time to bask in their radiance. However, to Guilliman, these items were just mere tools (tools that, to his perspective, he had used mere days ago) and were of no more importance than the casing on a bolter shell. To Calgar it seemed like sacrilege that Guilliman would use what he thought were ancient relics haphazardly, while Guilliman couldn't understand why Calgar would venerate what is essentially his old trash.

Guilliman does note how competent Calgar is and decides to keep him around as an advisor. When the Terran Crusade begins he leaves Calgar in command of [[Ultramar]] in his original position of Chapter Master while he's gone (which due to Guilliman's early declarations of sovereignty is now close to its original ''500'' worlds, rather than just eight). So assuming Guilliman stays on [[Terra]] to assume control of the Imperium, Calgar has command over one of the largest territories and collective armed forces in the galaxy.

''Dark Imperium'' has suggested that he hasn't been taking it that well since the [[Indomitus Crusade]], even though he's been named head of the Ultramar Tetrarchs; he seems to be one of the first in the Chapter to realize Guilliman's not the infallible savior figure the Chapter has romanticized him as, and he took Guilliman's reorganization of Ultramar's government as a veiled criticism of his own governing skills. Further complicating things is Guilliman's currently unexplained choice to begin tutoring [[Cato Sicarius]] personally. This led Papa Smurf to assume he might be replaced in the future (it's actually because Cato reminds Bobby of another unruly Ultramarine from the Great Crusade era, Aeonid Thiel; and has nothing to do with Calgar's performance). It's only fairly recently that he's accepted that it was arrogant of him to think his actions had anything to do with his Primarch's recent choices, and while he's not taking it out on the people of the Imperium (which he had blamed at first) he's still feeling rather guilty about letting his old accomplishments give him a swollen ego. Intriguingly, this bears quite a few parallels to the case of [[Luther]] and [[Lion El'Jonson]] as well as Horus feeling distrusted by the Emperor when he returned to Terra. With the key difference being Calgar's continued loyalty even in the face of his personal doubts. [[Grimdark|For now]].

He also has undergone the procedure that turns regular marines into [[Primaris Marines]], an agonizingly painful ordeal that left him briefly dead before his new Belisarian Furnace kicked in to bring him back. So we now have PriMarneus Calgar as an excuse to give him a new <strike>over</strike>detailed $20 model (it actually doesn't look much more detailed than the old one). It's probably only a matter of time before the other named Chapter Masters are subjected/treated to the same; hopefully their models are as badass as Calgar's. ([[Kayvaan Shrike|hrmm]]...) When the process has a much reduced failure rate all Space Marines should do this. It isn't like a little thing such as agony would be enough to deter them in the slightest and being briefly dead is more like an intriguing experience than something to fear. Hell, at least one Chapter outright has dying and willing yourself back to life as both a final test and a promotion requirement. Can you imagine a million Primaris Marines with no questionable loyalties and millennia of accrued experience? Fuck YES!

The major downsides are that they can't use [[Deathwing|Terminator Armor]], <strike>[[Blood Angels| their tanks]], [[Ravenwing|or]] [[White Scars|Bikes]]</strike> We've got Gladiator Tanks and Outriders, y'all! Not good for chapters that have them as a major part of their operational doctrines. It'll be another decade until Games Workshops give Primaris Marines their own equivalents. Plus, we have no evidence of a how squad of Primaris would fare on a Space Hulk mission, where non Terminator Marines are cooked alive in their own armor by radiation - and, worse, everyone on the venture needs to be able to fit through doorways, something Primaris marines are notoriously bad at. Though that can be alleviated by slicing through bulkheads. Because cutting through every door you come across is a solution. Yes.

Anyways, during the [[War of Beasts]] Marneus Calgar was in charge of the Imperial forces on [[Vigilus]]. While he was able to just barely hold onto the planet when the Black Legion began its invasion, countless hive spires had to be destroyed to stop Chaos from taking them and Calgar himself was nearly killed in a duel with [[Abaddon]] (although the Despoiler was forced to withdraw before finishing him off due to a Hail Mary gambit involving hitting the ''Vengeful Spirit'' with vortex missiles with the help of the Eldar). He lost some fingers and Abaddon managed to cut open his chest and damage both of his hearts.

Things didn't look up, though, as Abaddon then sent a bunch of [[Possessed]] to finish the job. Calgar briefly woke up to backhand a Greater Possessed and then shoot it, before collapsing again. The Apothecaries managed to stabilize him enough so that he didn't die from his wounds. So far, the damage is a bit grim, but he's still up and commanding the Ultramarines, even if he's not on the front lines.