For those who know even less... dreadnoughts are huge, walking, armored chassis which are used to house the bodies of Space Marines who are not
quite killed, but too badly injured to fix with bionics and surgeries. Cpl Kendall's av is an example - more info
here. As a size reference - the rectangular box that projects in front of the chassis (in the first pic at that link, it's the section with the skull and cross decoration) is itself a coffin for a three-meter-tall person.
Anyway, I was thinking of fun RP opportunities as well as not being too Mary-Sue with my final selection: Librarian
Ashok originally of the
Angels Sanguine chapter, currently seconded to the
Deathwatch. Librarians are Space Marines with psychic (ususally offensive) powers, but still genetically, psychologically, and surgically engineered to be superhuman warriors. Ashok himself is a powerful Librarian and one of the only members of the Blood Angels or successor chapters to overcome the
Black Rage, but its effects can and do pop up at any time, turning him into an indiscriminate ball of incredibly powerful physical and psychic violence, a danger to friend and foe alike. He first succumbed before being seconded to the Deathwatch during a battle between the Angels Sanguine and a brood of Tyranids - he subsequently destroyed an entire cave complex full of the beasts, along with three of his own battle-brothers. He is on constant guard against (and in constant fear of, if a Space Marine can be said to have fear) the Black Rage taking hold, and takes steps to avoid it - he also tends to separate himself somewhat from his Deathwatch kill-teams when possible, sometimes having worked on secret agendas for his Inquisitorial masters.
I was thinking of a
terminator but we already have Deep for heavily-armored short-range firepower and close combat ability, and I didn't really want to have that degree of invulnerability. Standard Space Marine power armor is more than sufficient, and Ashok's flaws and mistrustful nature sound like fun. Detailed physical description will be included in his intro post.
Deep - are you talking about pre-Heresy Death Guard, or a Chaos marine?... *EDIT* never mind.
