Monarch of Fire
The Monarch of Fire was a Battle Barge in the Imperial Fists Legion's fleet[1].
Its reactors, whose workings were a mystery even to the Mechanicum, allowed it to fire raw plasma from its numerous cannons. It contained such a devastating arsenal that during the Horus Heresy, it was only behind the Phalanx in the amount of firepower it could deliver upon the Imperial Fists' enemies. The Monarch of Fire was later part of a battlegroup commanded by the Primarch Rogal Dorn during the Battle of Pluto, when the Alpha Legion attacked the Sol System, and while fighting beside the Phalanx, the warpship greatly aided the Imperium's forces[2a] in defeating the Traitors' fleet[2b]. As the Solar War began, the Monarch of Fire served as Captain Halbrecht's command ship, as he led the warfleet of Terra's Second Sphere defenses.[1] Following the loyalist defeat in the Solar War, the Monarch of Fire fled to the edges of the Sol System along with the Phalanx under Niora Su-Kassen.[3]
See Also
Sources
- 1: The Solar War (Novel), Chapter 2
- 2: Praetorian of Dorn (Novel):
- 3: Mortis (Novel) - Chapter 5
