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Ultimaris Decree

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The Ultimaris Decree was a proclamation made by Lord Commander Roboute Guilliman, to aid the beleaguered Deathwatch and was issued some time after his revival at the end of M41.[1]

When Guilliman learned of the existence of the Deathwatch, he realized two things: the necessity of the Chapter, and how thinly stretched their resources were. As such, he created the Ultimaris Decree, so that every newly-founded Chapter created during the Ultima Founding would be bound to provide Space Marines for the Deathwatch in perpetuity. The Decree also directly reinforced many Watch Fortresses across the Imperium with Primaris Space Marines. In total, several thousand of the new generation of Space Marines were distributed to the Chapter's Watch Masters, nearly all of whom accepted the new Marines without question.[1] Since then, however, some Ultima Founding Chapters have annulled their Ultimaris Decree and have instead enacted individual alliances with the Deathwatch.[2]

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