Deathwatch

The Deathwatch is a unique division of the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bound together by ancient oaths and who stand the long watch against the greater darkness that is still to come. Whle the rest of the Imperium turned its face from the Jericho Sector after it fell, the vigilance of the Deathwatch has never wavered. In the long millennia of the Age of Sahdow, they have stood sentinel from their Watch Fortress and scattered Watch Stations dotted across the fallen sector, sometimes the hunted but more often the hunter, a shodow within shadows. By their hands, many enemies of the Imperium have been denied and cast down amongst the Reach's forgotten stars, and many great threats ended before they rose up to beset the greater Imperium of Man, unspoken of and unknown even to the Deathwatch's distant masters.

The Deathwatch has at its disposal all of the resources of any other Chapter, and more, yet it is organised along entirely different lines more suited to its unique mission. The key tactical unit into which Deathwatch Space Marines are organised is the 'Kill-Team'. This small, highly flexible unit represents a band of warriors utterly dedicated to their mission and to one another. Their missions are assigned to them by a Watch Captain. A number of Kill-Teams are brought together under the command of a Watch Commander, who is responsible for coordinating the missions of all of the Kill-Teams under his command.