Editing Power Armour (section)

===The Lost Mark: Imperial Armour===
[[File:ImperialSpaceMarine.jpg|200px|right|thumb|[[Rogue Trader (sourcebook)|The OG Armour]], which is [[What|not a Beakie, apparently]]. [[Awesome|It still commands respect and reverence, though]].]]
This interesting mark of old and exceptionally rare armour had the mother of all [[retcon]]s since the rewriting of the god-awful [[Khornate Knights]]. According to White Dwarf 469, this is a lost mark of power armour, dubbed the 'Imperial Pattern'. No, this isn't [[Meme|the Corvus Armour you're looking for]]; the power armour timeline in the HH2.0 rulebook states that the 'Imperial Pattern' was manufactured between the Mark II and Mark III patterns. Instead, it's a completely different thing all together.

This lost pattern carried with it multiple design idiosyncrasies, such as a helmet that came before the Beakie one [[What|but wasn't a Beakie helmet]], a "distinctly archaic arrangement of vents and joints", and a lack of the flared greaves seen on the rest of the Space Marines' power armour marks. Moreover, in these sources, the wearers of this class of power armour also bear a singular weapon thought to be related to the almost obsolete volkite, some manner of [[Disintegration Combi-Gun|disintegration beamer]] [[Disintegration Pistol|and sidearm]]. Now whether Marines issued this armour automatically came equipped with these weapons like a combo package is unknown. Given how rare these things are in the fluff, it wouldn't be surprising if only a handful still exist within the wider Imperium.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, the 'Imperial Pattern' is actually the mark [[Awesome|featured on the very first Space Marine model ever released way back in 1986.]] GW even updated the model for 40K's 30th anniversary, which you can see on the right.

Now ''why'' GeeDubs wanted to retcon what was once the Beakie armour from [[Rogue Trader (sourcebook)|Rogue Trader]] into something completely different, we have no idea. Good thing it doesn't detract from how fucking dope the armour is.
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File:Ultrawombles.jpg|<center>As it appeared in first edition</center>
File:LE2.jpg|<center>LE2 Imperial Space Marine, 1986</center>
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