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A Fortress-Monastery is where a Chapter will safeguard its heritage and keep its trophies of war. It is rare for more than a fraction of a Chapter to be in residence at any one time, since most of the Chapter’s companies spend years away campaigning across the Imperium. Consequently, life in a Fortress-Monastery tends to follow ancient traditions and faithful routines of prayer and devotion that have gone long unchanged. The Codex Astartes teaches that, to be a great warrior, a Space Marine must be more than his weapons and armour, more than the genetic gifts of his Primarch and more than the war machines provided by his Chapter. He must be strengthened with faith in the Emperor and shielded by indomitable courage. What time a Space Marine does not give over to training will mostly be spen

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rdfs:label	Fortress-Monastery
rdfs:comment	A Fortress-Monastery is where a Chapter will safeguard its heritage and keep its trophies of war. It is rare for more than a fraction of a Chapter to be in residence at any one time, since most of the Chapter’s companies spend years away campaigning across the Imperium. Consequently, life in a Fortress-Monastery tends to follow ancient traditions and faithful routines of prayer and devotion that have gone long unchanged. The Codex Astartes teaches that, to be a great warrior, a Space Marine must be more than his weapons and armour, more than the genetic gifts of his Primarch and more than the war machines provided by his Chapter. He must be strengthened with faith in the Emperor and shielded by indomitable courage. What time a Space Marine does not give over to training will mostly be spen
dcterms:subject	Imperium Space Marines F Imperium Space Marines F
abstract	A Fortress-Monastery is where a Chapter will safeguard its heritage and keep its trophies of war. It is rare for more than a fraction of a Chapter to be in residence at any one time, since most of the Chapter’s companies spend years away campaigning across the Imperium. Consequently, life in a Fortress-Monastery tends to follow ancient traditions and faithful routines of prayer and devotion that have gone long unchanged. The Codex Astartes teaches that, to be a great warrior, a Space Marine must be more than his weapons and armour, more than the genetic gifts of his Primarch and more than the war machines provided by his Chapter. He must be strengthened with faith in the Emperor and shielded by indomitable courage. What time a Space Marine does not give over to training will mostly be spent in prayer; even rest is a secondary concern to the rituals of devotion. As a result, a Fortress-Monastery is designed for these needs, its halls studded with alcoves and shrines and its vaults filled with combat arenas and firing ranges. So that the battle-brothers might concern themselves only with honing their body and spirit, the menial tasks of the Fortress-Monastery are dealt with by Chapter Serfs. These lay-servants are drawn either from local populations or sometimes from failed recruits, allowing them to serve despite not becoming Space Marines. They clean the vast vaulted chambers and prepare the battle-brothers’ spartan meals. When work is too intricate or complicated for servitors, it is the Chapter Serfs who tend to the task for their super-human masters, moving like shadows through the halls and catacombs of the monastery. Though they have a trusted place beside the battle-brothers they serve, they remain largely invisible to them, just another function of the monastery which allows them to focus on the needs of their warrior life.

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