My fellow grimdark Admirals, at this time be taught of the dread vessels that lead the twisted Emperor’s Kids fleet.
The Emperor’s Kids are led by a number of key vessels, used for each Legion command and private missions.
Delight of the Emperor
The Delight of the Emperor was a Gloriana Class Battleship and the Flagship of Fulgrim, Primarch.
Structure & Design
Richly embellished inside and outside, with armor plates inlaid with gold being its most blatant extra-normal characteristic. Constructed-in the shipyards of Jupiter, it was a bit over 160 years outdated initially of the Horus Heresy. It was hand-crafted to actual specs The vessels’s development took twice so long as that of comparable vessels, and was overseen by the Fabricator-Basic of Mars himself. Such honour was paid to it for a easy motive. The Delight of the Emperor was supposed to be the Flagship of III Legion from the second it was laid down.
The primary passageway of the vessel was the Triumphal Manner. A large processional, tiled in cool marble and supported with onyx columns. The columns have been inlaid with gilt lettering that recounted the victories of the Legion, and statues of Legion heroes lined the partitions. In between the statues have been later added work created by the remembrancer contingent current with the twenty eighth Expeditionary Fleet. Interspersed with the statues at mounted intervals have been an honour guard of Emperor’s Kids House Marines, every armed with a throwing spear. The Triumphal Manner terminated on the Phoenix Gate. The primary entryway to the council chamber often called the Heliopolis.
Heliopolis
The Phoenix Gate was a big bronze gateway guarded by extra Emperor’s Kids. Upon the doorways was engraved a mural displaying the Emperor presenting Fulgrim with the image of the Imperial Eagle. Passing by it, one arrived within the Heliopolis, a big round chamber designed as the primary assembly room of the Legion officers. Additionally lined with pale marble partitions, and black terrazzo flooring and supported by pillars and bronze statues, the Heliopolis additionally featured a closely mosaiced ceiling that dripped purple and gold banners. The middle of the domed roof featured a window port that allowed starlight to penetrate the room when the illuminators have been doused. Oil-burning censers have been spaced all through the room. Rows of benches have been organized in a round formation, in a banked collection that supplied seating for 2 thousand. A chair of black marble sat within the very middle of the room. The seat of the Primarch. The nearer one sat to the ground and the Primarch, the upper one’s perceived rank and standing. Fulgrim usually gave his speeches right here. On the times earlier than a battle, a feast, in addition to celebration, was held throughout the Heliopolis.
A century after the Heresy on the Battle of Thessala the Delight of the Emperor had been grotesquely reworked by the corruption of the Warp. The vessel was a sick intimidation of what it had as soon as been within the Emperor’s service.
Historical past
Serving because the flagship of the Emperor’s Kids all through the Nice Campaign, the Delight of the Emperor noticed quite a few actions together with the Cleaning of Laeran. Later within the early phases of the Horus Heresy when Fulgrim tried to show Ferrus Manus to facet with Horus and the 2 sides got here to blows, the Delight of the Emperor managed to badly harm the Iron Arms’ flagship Fist of Iron. The Delight of the Emperor then led Fulgrim and the Emperor’s Kids into the Eye of Terror alongside Perturabo and the Iron Warriors to the Crone World of Iydris.
Through the Nice Scouring the Delight of the Emperor was on the forefront of the Emperor’s Kids fleet led by Fulgrim towards the Ultramarines. The vessel engaged in a vicious duel with the Ultramarines Battle Barge Gauntlet of Energy. It was finally the positioning of the battle between Fulgrim and Roboute Guilliman that noticed the loyalist Primarch mortally wounded. Through the battle, loyalist forces crippled the Delight of the Emperor.
Andronius
Andronius, typically referred to as Andronicus, was a Strike Cruiser of the Emperor’s Kids in the course of the Nice Campaign and Horus Heresy. It was the Legion’s second flagship after the Delight of the Emperor. It was destroyed by ramming by the Iron Arms Strike Cruiser Sisypheum in the course of the Heresy, while en path to the Crone World of Iydris.
Structure & Design
The Andronius was commanded by Lord Commander Eidolon in the course of the early phases of the Heresy. It led the Emperor’s Kids contingent within the Battle of Isstvan III.
In its authentic type, it held the Gallery of Swords which ran the size of the ship, with a clear roof and lined with tons of of statues to heroes of the Legion. Following the Legion’s change of allegiance, these statues have been altered, a few of them being crudely modified to resemble bull-headed monsters.
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Following Fulgrim’s order to pursue genetic experimentation on the Legion, Apothecary Fabius carried out his work from a analysis facility beneath the Gallery of Swords. This space was accessed by a hidden entrance contained inside an enormous mosaic within the Central Apothecarion depicting Fulgrim’s victory at Tarsus.
Wage of Sin
The Wage of Sin is a Battle Barge utilized by the Emperor’s Kids. Courting again to the Nice Campaign, the Wage of Sin is the present flagship of Eidolon who leads one of many largest and most organized Emperor’s Kids warbands. The ship incessantly performs raids to seize slaves to feed the appetites of the hedonisic Emperor’s Kids. The vessel boasts a big retinue of Noise Marines. Nonetheless it additionally maintains shut ties with the Black Legion. It has been seen alongside the ships of Abaddon the Despoiler on a number of Black Crusades.
Vesalius
The Vesalius was a Gladius Class Frigate captured and renamed by Fabius Bile. Since coming into his possession it has undergone substantial modifications with captured xenotech and different heretical applied sciences. Its machine spirit nears a degree of consciousness bordering on Abominable Intelligence.
~ Report any exercise of those Heretic vessels instantly to your nearest Battlefleet Sector HQs!
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