In Devout Abjuration
The In Devout Abjuration is a Sword Frigate in the Mentors Chapter, that was commanded by Amadeus Kaias Incarius as he was charged with checking on the status of the Emperor's Spears Chapter, in the aftermath of the Great Rift's creation.[1]
The Emperor's Spears' Homeworld, Nemeton, lay within the Dark Imperium though, and would require crossing the Great Rift to reach it. Because of the great danger involved in doing so, however, the Mentors' Chapter Master, Nisk Ran-Thawll, ordered that the only Mentor aboard the Abjuration would be Amadeus; he would not risk anymore of his warriors on a journey the Frigate was likely not to survive. The Abjuration would prove him wrong and survived crossing the Great Rift, but the journey heavily damaged the Frigate and killed nearly six thousand members of its crew.[1]
Once they reached the Dark Imperium, though, riots broke out aboard the Abjuration, as its crew realized they were now trapped there, as the damaged Frigate would not survive crossing the Great Rift again. Thousands would die before the riots were ended, and thousands more followed them, once the Abjuration's supplies became rotted or poisoned, as it traveled to the Emperor's Spears' Homeworld. This forced the Abjuration's living crew, to feed off the dead to survive and then burn their bodies afterwards, to keep the Frigate sanitized. By the time the Abjuration neared the end of its journey several months later, the Frigate smelled like a charnal house and only ten thousand, one hundred and seventy of its crew still lived. A sense of great relief swept through the Abjuration's surviving crew as it finally entered Nemeton's System, and the Frigate was then forcibly escorted to the Spears' Homeworld, by a small fleet led by the Strike Cruiser, Hex.[1]
Sources
- 1: Spear of the Emperor (Novel), Chapter 1
