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where are they now? and why is calgar the boss? surely the 4 Tets would have inherited ultramar?

unless im missing something]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6693286.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6693286.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6693547.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6693547.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6694566.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6694566.page GMT
They are "powerful" since any other, normal marine officer is essentially just a soldier: he leads men because he is useful to someone else, he goes where someone else tells him, and the only way he can become more "powerful" is someone else noticing him and promoting him to a different job. It doesn't matter if you're captain of the first company, you still do not get to do whatever you want and can be demoted or have your ships reassigned at about any time.


Tetrarchs are different. They do not have a military unit. They can build things. They have military units assigned to do their bidding, they are the agents of state who employ military units to protect the enormous industrial base and billions of citizens in ultramar.

Tetrarchs don't run the ultramarines because they have better things to do. That said, Calgar is effectively the remaining tetrarch in church of the eight systems.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6700150.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6700150.page GMT
the tetrachs were astartes and they fought commanding ultramarines throughout the five hundred worlds.

so why not carry on that legacy?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6703721.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6703721.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6728825.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6728825.page GMT
Fluff answer, those 4 world's the tetrachs were going to rule most likely do not exist as either part of the ultramarines anymore, or have been destroyed during or since the hh, another reason could be that a chapter master from one of the ultras many offshoots could be called a tetrach as that was who started then off, like castellan and the black Templars.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6732481.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588163/6732481.page GMT