Uriel Ventris

Captain Ventris

Uriel Ventris is the Brother-Captain of the Ultramarines Fourth Company (the Defenders of Ultramar), a descendant of Veteran-Sergeant Lucian Ventris of the First Company, and possibly the only Smurf not depicted as a full-blown Mary Sue Captain Motherfucking Titus. He is the main character in Graham McNeill's Ultramarine novel series. He is essentially the Fourth Company version of Captain Titus. He's pretty cool for that.

He wears a suit of Artificer Armor that might as well be Terminator Armor since he survived Honsou DROPPING AN ENTIRE FUCKING TOMB ON HIS HEAD WITH BARELY A SCRATCH.

The History of Captain Ventris

• Early Life - Born on Calth on the year of 876.M41 to a family of underground farmers. He is recruited into the Ultramarines for training and vows to be the greatest warrior Macragge has ever seen.

• Black Bone Road - The Fourth Company is tasked by an Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor to investigate the turmoil and sudden rebellion of the world known as Epsilon Regalis. Ventris and Captain Idaeus ask Inquisitior Markhov about the enemy they are facing, but being a regular Inquisition-fuckwit, he tells them jack shit. The Fourth Company is able to capture the psyker responsible for the world's rebellion (how one psyker mind-controlled a whole world into rebellion is a whole 'nother can of worms) only after having their anuses wrecked brutally by the psyker's might. But Inquisitor Markhov puts a holy collar on him (a collar with spikes in it that should have pierced his jugular and killed him) and they ship him away on a Rhino. However, the psyker still has some power left to make one of the Ultramarines manning the lascannon of a predator shoot at the Rhino carrying him (Brother Smurf, you team-killing fucktard!), killing Markhov as well. The psyker basically wrecks more of the Ultramarines shit, until Captain Idaeus finally pulls off the kid gloves and calls down an airstrike on their position. Ventris whines about it not being Codex maneuver, but Idaeus ignores him and does it anyway. The psyker's influence finally fades on the populace, and the Ultramrines leave Epsilon Regalis victorious. This event is was key in Ventris's life, as it showed him that a Marine did not have to think within the confines of the Codex Astartes to win a battle.

• The Thracia Campaign - The Fourth Company, under command of Captain Idaeus, are tasked with destroying a bridge. Captain Idaeus sacrifices himself to complete the mission and Ventris is placed in command in his stead.

• The First Battle for Pavonis - Captain Ventris and the Fourth Company are tasked with quelling a local rebellion on the mining world of Pavonis. Things are complicated when it is realized that Pavonis is a Necron Tomb World. Objecting to the Inquisitions desire to subject Pavonis to Exterminatus, Captain Ventris confronts the Necrons, but his actions release a shard of the Nightbringer upon the galaxy.

• The Battle of Tarsis Ultra - The Fourth Company, along with Imperial Guard forces, elements of the Mortifactors Chapter, Inquisitor Kryptman, and a Deathwatch Kill-Team, defend the world of Tarsis Ultra against a tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan. Captain Ventris and the Kill-Team capture a lictor for the inquisitor to experiment on and he is able to devise a toxin to use against the Norn-Queen. The leader of the Kill-Team, Captain Bannon of the Imperial Fists, was killed in action and Captain Ventris brings it upon himself to lead the Kill-Team. This decision is met by discontent from Uriel's battle-brothers, but he leads the Kill-Team anyway. The assault is successful, but Captain Ventris nearly loses his life. Victory is barely attained by Imperial forces and the death toll is heavy for everyone. When Captain Ventris returns to Macragge, he is immediately accused of heresy for breaking from the Codex Astartes (specifically, by abandoning his Battle-Brothers to join the Kill-Team).

• Trial of Uriel Ventris and Pasanius Lysanne: Upon returning to Ultramar, Uriel and Brother-Sergeant Pasanius Lysanne (his closest friend from their training) are charged with heresy for violating the Codex Astartes during his Captaincy. Cato Sicarius leads the prosecution, citing violations of Thunderhawk vehicle safety, unorthodox tactics, and abandoning his men on the eve of battle. First Captain Severus Agemman visits Uriel in his cell and talks with him, saying that the Codex Astartes ultimate purpose is not to make the ultimate Space Marine, but a loyal Space Marine, and that without having it to account for their actions, the Ultramarines would be no different than the Black Legion. Recognizing the seriousness of what he's placed the Chapter in, Ventris and Lysanne agree to forgo their right to defend their actions. Chapter Master Marneus Calgar orders them on a Death Oath to destroy the Daemonculaba, located in the Eye of Terror.

• Death Oath on Medrengard: Exiled, Ventris and Lysanne join a Macragge regiment heading for the Cadian Gate, but as the ship enters the Warp, its Gellar Field fails, allowing daemons to enter the ship. The Omphalous Daemonium, a Daemon Prince of Khorne, charges the exiled Astartes with bringing him the Heart of Blood from Medrengard. Ventris lies to the daemon, accepting and seeing it as a means to get to Medrengard. The former Ultramarines discover a group of renegade Astartes lead by Ardaric Vaanes of the Raven Guard, where they learn that the Heart of Blood is a Bloodthirster and rival of the Omphalous Daemonium, and bound to the fortress of a Warsmith of the Iron Warriors. Uriel convinces the renegades to join him and Lysanne. Their entry into the fortress is discovered, and Uriel Ventris meets Honsou, who is to become his archenemy. Placed within the Daemonculaba, Ventris defies expectations and breaks out with Lysanne, Vaanes, two Renegade Astartes, and two Imperial Guard slaves. They meet the Unfleshed, the failures of the Daemonculaba, who still love the God-Emperor of Mankind so much they built a shrine to God in the middle of Hell. With the Unfleshed and Colonel Leonid, the group breaks back into the fortress and destroy the wards holding the Heart of Blood. Which the Omphalous Daemonium had anticipated, just as planned. The two Daemons fight while Leonid stays behind to buy them time, as Ventris and Lysanne encounter Honsou and his lieutenants Cadaras Grendel and Onyx. The Heart of Blood is victorious, allowing Ventris, Lysanne, and the surviving Unfleshed to escape in the Omphalous Daemonium's train of the damned. Unknown to Ventris, Honsou survives, with a genetic clone of Ventris known as the Newborn, and recruits Vaanes to train the new Iron Warrior.

• Stay on Salinas: Being deposited on the Imperial world of Salinas by the Omphalos Daemonium's death train, Ventris, Lysanne, and the Unfleshed find themselves in an abandoned city which was clearly the site of a massacre. Their presence does not go unnoticed by the Imperial authorities, and they are taken to the capital of Barbadus to meet Governor Leto Barbaden. The governor agrees to let Ventris work with their Astropaths to send a message to Macragge, and then go to the Barbadus Gallery of Antiquities and find some Beakie armour Ventris gives some much needed attention to. While tending to the armour, the curator tells Ventris of who the Achaman Falcatas, an Imperial Guard regiment given the right of conquest, conquered Salinas, fighting an insurgent group known as the Sons of Salinas. The war ended when Barbaden, who was the regiment's Colonel at the time, utterly wiped out the city of Khartuian, where Ventris and Lysanne had arrived, which provoked the Sons leader, Sylvanus Thayer, into a homicidal rage and was easily led into a trap. However, Ventris and Lysanne's arrival weakened the barrier between the Materium and the Immaterium, allowing the still living Thayer to take control of the Unfleshed, who subsequently slaughtered the Screaming Eagles company responsible for the massacre. Ventris and Lysanne try to stop them, but are in turn captured by the Grey Knights. Brother-Captain Leodegarius tests Ventris's purity, mildly raping his mind and having him grab a holy dagger from a pot of boiling holy oils to test his loyalty and flesh. Satisfied that both are pure, Ventris and Lysanne are commanded to fight Leodegarius one on one to see if they can beat him, as only servants of Chaos can kill a Grey Knight. After make both Ultramarines his bitches, Leodegarius declares Ventris and Lysanne so pure of taint that the Grey Knights personally oversee them reclad in power armour. Removing Barbaden from power, Ventris and Lysanne join the Grey Knights in trying to kill Thayer, fighting through the Unfleshed to do so. After seeing images of the Killing Grounds massacre, Ventris convinces Leodegarius to lower the aegis shield preventing Thayer from attacking Barbaden, allowing the dead to kill the Governor, while Ventris gives the Lord of the Unfleshed the Emperor's Peace. Daron Nissato, the former regimental Commissar and current Chief of Police, is appointed the new Governor and issues an amnesty to the remaining Sons of Salinas, while Ventris and Lysanne are returned to Macragge by the Grey Knights.

• Second Battle for Pavonis: After being declared free of taint by the Apothecarion, Chaplaincy, and Librarius, Ventris is restored as Captain of the Fourth Company. Lysane, however, is reduced in rank for lying about his Necron tainted augmentic arm and placed in solitary confinement for 100 days. Ventris and the Fourth are redeployed to Pavonis, only to learn that Mykola Shonai, the former Governor who Uriel had ensured served out her term, invited the Tau to Pavonis in an attempt to revive its flagging fortunes. Ventris leads the Imperial defense, eventually confronting the Ethereal leading the invasion and forcing a Tau withdrawal under threat of Exterminatus, with Ventris realizing that he actually would use the measure to deny the Tau Pavonis. The campaign succeeds and all doubt about Ventris's loyalty is dispelled, but upon returning to the Fourth's Strike Cruiser Vae Victus, Ventris is informed that Tarsis Ultra has been destroyed.