Resolute Spirit
The Resolute Spirit was a Mechanicus vessel of the fleet of Forge World Hephaesto, later captured by the Tek WAAAGH!.[2]
Being a less militant forge world, focused on STC research and integration, Hephaesto was unprepared when Waaagh! Badrukk came to loot the forges. Easily outgunned by Badrukk's own fleet, fleet Hephaesto was left with little in the way of strategic and tactical options. Most of the fleet pulled back to the asteroid belt, nominally to protect the asteroid mines, but factually because there was little else they could do to affect the outcome of the war, other than to await for Hephaesto to be evacuated or for reinforcements to arrive. Other fleet elements fled to seek help from the wider Imperium, and the Resolute Spirit was one of these vessels.[2]
Unfortunately, it encountered the Tek WAAAGH!. Da Meklord, already looking for such an opportunity, had other ideas. The Resolute Spirit was intercepted and boarded by forces under Nob Badgit Snazzhammer. Though Snazzhammer met his end at the hands of a Kastelan Robot, his mob managed to take the ship under the command of Badgit's successor Ufthak Blackhawk. Da Boffin, a mek seconded to the mob, attached his Warp Dekapitator to the ship's warp drive, causing a "katastrophic warp implosion" which took the entirety of the TekWAAAGH! back to Hephaesto. After several weeks of warp travel, the Mechanicus of Hephaesto, already fighting a losing war, were unpleasantly surprised to find Ork reinforcements dropping into system, lead by the Resolute Spirit.[1][2]
