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'''Nullships''',<sup>2-p11</sup> also known as '''Null-ships''',<sup>1-p135</sup> are vessels used by the [[Imperium]] of [[Human|Man]].
The [[Inquisition]]'s Null-ships are also known to had penetrated into the Eye of Terror where their arrays psychic shields made them invisible to the denizens of the [[Warp]]. Those crew that return from such journeys have their conviction renewed and hold nothing but hatred for the [[daemon]]ic. Some, however, do not return from these voyages and are damned as both their physical and spiritual forms suffer torment at the hands of the cruel creatures of the Immaterium.<sup>1-p135</sup> The original and older series of nullships are known to had been constructed as an act of desperation and were believed to be the best that could be built at their time.<sup>5</sup>
Through irregular nullship probes, the Inquisition maintain a watch upon the systems within the eye of Terror. These spy vessels are hidden behind their screening shields and psychic barriers whilst they use their massive sensor arrays to take physical readings of the worlds within the warp filled region of space. This allows them to collect data on the [[Chaos Space Marines|Traitor Legions]] various bases and fortresses. Specially trained [[psyker]]s that are monitored for signs of [[Chaos]] contamination are attached to these expeditions who monitor the thoughts and feelings of the Traitor Legionnaires. Despite this account, much of this information gathered is fragmentary and many of them are lost to the natural hazards within the Eye or are the ships are destroyed by the psyker crews being driven insane by the images they have witnessed or even taken prisoner by boarding actions by the Traitor Legions.<sup>4-p244</sup>
Despite this being the case, such ships are periodically sent by the Inquisition where they raced through nebulas along with probeships that bore psyker adepts that could span on the cursed worlds within the Eye of Terror. Though filled with peril, some element of information is retrieved during such scouting runs that is later placed within the records of the [[Ordo Malleus]].<sup>3-p67</sup> Such vessels are used by the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] Exploritas who launched them deep into the [[Eye of Terror]] where they sent information of the events that occured in that realm. Their discoveries were known to had sent shockwaves in the higher levels of the Imperium which led to the [[High Lords of Terra]] debating long and hard on what action to take against this threat.<sup>2-p11</sup>
==Sources==
*<sup>3</sup>:[[Inquisition War Trilogy (Novel Series)]] Omnibus ''Draco'', pg. 67
*<sup>4</sup>:[[Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness]], pg. 244
*<sup>5</sup>:[[Eye of Terror (Novel)|''Eye of Terror'']] by [[Barrington J. Bayley]], Chap. 1
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