Editing Tarkus (section)

==Overview==
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Tarkus himself is a [[Tactical Squad|Tactical Marine]] Sergeant in the Blood Ravens 4th Company. He has over 200 years of experience under his belt, and is an expert tactician as well as a rock-solid second-in-command, who serves the Dawn of War II [[Blood Ravens Force Commander|Space Marine Commander]] as an advisor and confidant. Amongst his fellow marines, Tarkus is renowned for his confidence and tough-as-adamantine resolve. Tarkus' prominent scars and tendency to be hard on himself stem from a personal tragedy: Tarkus was once convinced by an [[Eldar]] [[Eldar Ranger|Ranger]] to lead his squad straight into an ambush. The Ranger had approached him under the guise of a truce and had proposed they temporarily work together against their common enemy, the [[Orks]]. Suffice to say, in the proud tradition of the Eldar possessing the [[Eldrad|most hubristic fucks in the galaxy]], the Eldar betrayed the Marines the second the opportunity arose, and Tarkus' squad was cut down piecemeal - Tarkus was the sole survivor of the ambush, and has yet to forgive himself for this. Tarkus harbors a serious grudge against not only the Ranger (who escaped the battle), but against Eldar in general as a result, and his vendetta against them has not faded over the years.

Tarkus' first canon appearance was in [[Dawn of War|Dawn of War: Dark Crusade]], where he supposedly was one of the available Sergeants under the command of Captain [[Davian Thule]]. He and his squad were commended for their efforts during the assault on the Necron Stronghold on [[Kronus]], where Tarkus' squad held off wave after wave of [[Necron]] forces as Captain [[Davian Thule]] planted a Plasma Bomb so as to end the Necron threat to Kronus entirely; as a desperate act, Tarkus brought a [[Necron Destroyer|Destroyer]] down by shoving a frag grenade into its neck joints, earning yet more scars and the Crux Terminatus. Predictably, he lost his arm, but it was replaced with a cybernetic limb à la [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker]].

Tarkus' native world is Calderis, which is one of a handful of recruitment worlds for the Blood Ravens.