Ramses
The Ramses was a Lunar Class Cruiser in the Imperial Fists Legion, during the Horus Heresy.[1]
It was part of the Retribution Fleet sent by the Primarch Rogal Dorn to confront Horus, when the Heresy began. However, due to severe Warp Storms, the Fleet was left stranded in the Phall System and the Ramses later fought the Iron Warriors Legion, during the Battle of Phall. However the Fleet's Captain, Alexis Polux, later gave the order to retreat back to Terra before the Fleet became trapped due to the Warp Storms. The Ramses and its fellow Lunar Class Cruisers Pylades and Devastation, were unable to escape in time and were left behind by the Retribution Fleet. Now surrounded by nothing but the Iron Warriors' fleet and the wrecks of the two Legions' warships, the three Cruisers attempted to escape to the nearby Tarkovsky Epsilon System.[1]
The Iron Warrior's Primarch Perturabo, who was still angered by his failure to destroy the Retribution Fleet, refused to let the Cruisers escape and pursued them aboard his flagship the Iron Blood. As the Cruisers raced to safety, their crews devised a plan which would see the Ramses and Pylades escape into the asteroid field surrounding the gas giant Tarkovsky II. It was hoped that the Iron Blood would pursue them into it and allow the Devastation to launch a surprise attack on the much larger warship. This plan would fail, though, as the Iron Blood reached the Pylades and Ramses shortly after they neared the gas giant. The Iron Blood then destroyed the Pylades and afterwards Perturabo targeted the Ramses. However, the Primarch did not want the Cruiser destroyed and instead ordered its engines to be crippled. The Iron Blood successfully did so, and just as Perturabo had desired, the stricken Cruiser was grabbed by Tarkovsky II's gravity well. The Ramses was soon pulled within the gas giant and the Cruiser's crew suffered slow and painful deaths within its depths. Shortly afterwards, the Iron Blood destroyed the Devastation as well.[1]
