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Brother Leonardus ''Killvector'' Vossgrave,
Marines Malevolent,
Wasps of Hate Killteam

Veteran Sergeant Eliminator, Third Company

Leonardus Vossgrave is renowned among the Marines Malevolent for his ability to eliminate targets through firing solutions his battle-brothers consider impossible. Where others see obstacles, Vossgrave sees only angles, distances, and impact probabilities. His reputation has been forged across decades of warfare, marked by near-superhuman accuracy and complete indifference to collateral damage.
Among the Chapter, it is often said that Vossgrave does not perceive human beings as individuals, but merely as variables in a ballistic equation. Allies, civilians, and enemies all occupy the same place in his mind: objects that may stand between him and his target.

His most infamous feat occurred during the Purge of Karthax. A rebel commander had entrenched himself within a heavily fortified industrial complex, protected by layers of steel, machinery, and hundreds of laborers used as human shields. While Imperial officers debated possible strategies, Vossgrave requested only a three-second firing window.
The shot passed through four industrial structures, ricocheted across multiple metal surfaces, and ended its flight inside the rebel commander's skull. Twenty-three civilian workers died along the projectile's path.

Following the operation, an officer of the Planetary Militia condemned the loss of civilian life and described the outcome as a tragic mistake.

Vossgrave listened to the accusation without the slightest sign of emotion.

"If they had been a mistake, it would mean I missed the target."
His helmet's targeting systems confirmed the kill.

"And I did not."

The incident was later recorded by the Marines Malevolent as an exemplary display of tactical efficiency.

Killvector

During the Indomitus Crusade, Leonardus Vossgrave and his Phobos squad of the Marines Malevolent were tasked with eliminating the leaders of a Chaos cult on Gethsemar Reach, operating alongside a squad of Intercessors. He was serving under Sergeant Lester.

After completing their mission, they discovered that the cult was merely a bait and they were ambushed by a Black Legion warband led by the Black Legionary Khal Vardek. Surrounded and heavily depleted, they fought a retreat through a promethium refinery still defended by the few remaining armed civilians.

Unwilling to waste even a moment on coordination procedures or encrypted communications, the Marines Malevolent killed the guards and forced their way directly into the facility. In doing so, the heretics unknowingly walked into a counter-ambush of their own.

During the fighting, a misterious Night Lord reached Vossgrave in close combat and disarmed him. Spotting a ritual knife lodged in the corpse of a cultist, Vossgrave hurled it, causing it to ricochet off a metal beam and then through the neck and skull of two Imperial Guardsmen before burying itself in the Terminator's throat through a damaged joint in his armour. The deaths of the two soldiers had been a deliberate calculation; the act caused a brief moment of hesitation in the Night Lord abomination, a window of barely half a second that proved fatal. The misterious heretic grabbed Vossgrave by the neck, not knowing the Marines Malevolent had the exact time to ignite a krak grenade.

The giant hand of the Night Lord already cracked Vossgrave's MKVI helmet, gouging his right eye. The Marines Malevolent kicked the Heretic right in the neck, managing to jump out of his grapple while throwing the Krak grenade in his face.

Recovering his rifle, with half of his face burned and scarred, Vossgrave then eliminated Khal Vardek by triggering the explosion of an industrial pipeline.

The surviving Marines detonated the refinery and escaped, leaving most of the Black Legion force buried beneath burning wreckage and collapsing debris.

Personality

Since the encounter with the Night Lord, something within Vossgrave has fundamentally changed. Once cold, distant, and almost entirely silent, he has become strangely talkative, often making casual remarks or dark jokes even in the midst of combat. The scar across his face has become, in his mind, a reflection of what he truly is: not a monster to be ashamed of, but a necessary monster willing to do what others cannot. Vossgrave has convinced himself that every atrocity he commits serves a greater moral purpose, and that if innocent lives must be sacrificed, then their deaths are simply the price of preventing something worse. He does not see himself as cruel, but as a good man willing to endure the burden of cruelty on behalf of others. The distinction between necessity and convenience has slowly begun to disappear, yet Vossgrave remains utterly convinced of his own righteousness. He may laugh while calculating an impossible ricochet, calmly explain to a dying enemy why their death was unavoidable, or cheerfully remark upon the efficiency of a particularly brutal solution.. The scar did not make him a monster. It simply taught him to stop pretending he wasn't one.

Vossgrave insists that he has never wished harm upon the innocent; indeed, he considers their protection one of his sacred duties. Yet in his mind, an innocent who dies by his hand was never truly his victim, only a life he was forced to spend in order to save others, a sacrifice he alone was strong enough to make.

Vossgrave's faith in the Emperor has become absolute, though deeply twisted by his own philosophy. He believes the Emperor does not demand purity or mercy, but results, and that those willing to bear the burden of necessary cruelty in His name are closer to true devotion than those who hesitate.

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