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The '''''Terminus Est''''' is the flagship of [[Typhus]], Herald of [[Nurgle]].

==History==

The ''Terminus Est'' was one of the first capital ships assigned to the [[Death Guard]] by the [[Emperor]]. It was of a unique design that pre-dated the [[Great Crusade]] and which was copied in M36 as part of the Gareox Prerogative to create the [[Despoiler Battleship|Despoiler class]]. As might be expected the older vessel was considerably more powerful than the later copy, although nothing definite is now known of the pre-Heresy configuration of ''Terminus Est''.

The role of Terminus Est during the [[Horus Heresy]] is better known. At [[Isstvan V|Isstvan]] the ''Terminus Est'' engaged and destroyed the [[Shadow of the Emperor]], the flagship of the [[Raven Guard]]. It is argued that this engagement was the earliest recorded conflict between battleships specialised to carry attack craft. The engagement was swift and deprived the embattled loyalist forces of any air support in the massacre that followed.

When the ''Terminus Est'' was sighted as part of the armada that followed [[Horus]] to [[Terra]] it had changed. The Mark of Nurgle was upon it and all the other vessels of the Death Guard. While [[Mortarion]] led the assault on the Lion's Gate starport, Typhus controlled the Plaguefleet and it is suspected actually began the orbital bombardment of the Emperor’s Palace.

Along either side of the ''Terminus Est'', row upon row of festering pustules, hives, boils and sores erupt outwards from the ship’s cankered skin. These growths cover the rusted remains of what was presumably once the ship’s main broadside batteries, growing in a diseased parody of these weapons like coral over rock. They seep and bloat, periodically erupting violently and hurling a mixture of corroded debris, ammunition and filth out into space.

==Sources==

*[http://www.specialist-games.com/battlefleetgothic/rulebook.asp Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook] by [[Andy Chambers]] and [[Matt Keefe]].