he venerable Land Raider has served the forces of the Astartes since their earliest beginnings, with countless variants and patterns recorded in the data-stacks of Mars. Adepts of the Adeptus Mechanicus collectively refer to the oldest of these as the ‘Proteus’ patterns, relics from a time when this phenomenally-powerful armoured transport was a mere scouting vehicle, used to explore hostile and hazardous worlds in humanity's Golden Age. Regarded by many as the finest war machine in the Imperium's arsenal, the Land Raider is all but impervious even to heavy weapons, and can operate freely in