Space Marine Power Armour has a long and glorious history, its origins dating back to the long-forgotten Dark Age of Technology before the Emperor of Mankind's Unification of Terra. Nothing is now known of this time, but it is speculated that suits of powered armour were worn by the techno-barbarians that fought alongside the Emperor as He battled to bring Terra under his rule in the late 30th Millennium. Over time, these suits were refined and improved, becoming the earliest incarnations of fully enclosed Power Armour. Alongside the development of a far more sophisticated suit of battle-plate, the Emperor initiated a program to develop a new suit of Power Armour that would provide even greater protection than that offered by the standard marks of Power Armour already employed by the Space