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==History==
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It had been in the use of the secret order of [[Assassin]]s known as the [[Officio Assassinorum]] and thus served as a black ops vessel. In order to maintain its disguise, the ship was registered on beacons as the ''Hallis Faye''; an oxygen tanker out from Ceres and part of the Belter Coalition habitat. By the end of the [[Great Crusade]], [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]] turned against the [[Emperor]] and gathered an army on the march for [[Terra]]. Despite repeated attempts at assassinating him, the Officio's various Clade agents had failed in their objectives at which point a bold new strategy had been adopted. At the advice of the hidden [[Adeptus Custodes|Legio Custodes]] Captain-General [[Constantin Valdor]] and insistence of the [[Grand Master of Assassins|Master of Assassins]], it was decided that an [[Officio Assassinorum Execution Force]] was to be assembled in order to eliminate the renegade [[Primarch]] at [[Dagonet]]. This strike force was under the command of the [[Vindicare]] [[Assassin]]-at-Marque [[Eristede Kell]] and consisted of [[Fon Tariel]] of [[Vanus Temple|Clade Vanus]], the Protiphage [[Iota]] of Clade [[Culexus]], the [[Garantine]] of Clade [[Eversor]], the shade [[Koyne]] of Clade [[Callidus]] and secluse [[Jenniker SoalmSolam]] of [[Venenum Temple|Clade Venenum]]. After recruiting Tariel, Iota and Garantine, the ''Ultio'' was presented to the group without ceremony at [[Jupiter]].{{Fn|1a}} The ship later journeyed among the moons of Jupiter in order to arrive at Saros Station in order to find the Callidus assassin Koyne.{{Fn|1b}} From the [[Auspex]] magno-scan, Tariel determined that the shapeshifter had come under attack from combat mechanoids of the [[Legio Cybernetica]] after the Callidus had assassinated [[Gergerra Rei]].{{Fn|1c}} Despite refusing the help of the Execution Force, the ''Ultio'' moved in to extract him after he was blown into space and the Callidus cocooned its own body in its skin to survive temporary exposure to space.{{Fn|1c}} After retrieving him, the ''Ultio'' journeyed back to Terra for the Execution Force to recruit Soalm from Clade Venenum.{{Fn|1d}}
Once assembled, the strike team recieved their instructions from Captain-General Valdor via hololithic projection to the ''Ultio'' that briefed them on their assassination mission on Dagonet.{{Fn|1e}} Before departing the Solar System, the Infocyte Tariel was provided with a cargo pod filled with weapons that was transported to the starship in order to equip the Execution Force for its mission. The ship later departed into the [[warp]] and exited the boundaries of the [[Segmentum Solar]] where the Navigator took the vessel down barely-charted passages in the Immaterium that was known only to the higher echelons of the Imperial government. These routes were too small for larger vessels to travel through as their larger crews tended to attract the attention of [[Daemon|entities]] within the warp. However, the ''Ultio''s much smaller size along with crew allowed it to be a phantom-ship with its Geller-field protecting it from the predatory intelligences of the Immaterium.{{Fn|1f}} After passing into the Taebian Sector and entering the Dagonet system, the vessel went into an the hulk of an abandoned space station where the drive section was detached with the Astropath along with the Navigator remaining behind whilst the pilot-cyborg took the crew section towards the target world.{{Fn|1f}} Among the components in the cargo pod in the crew section included the Lance which was to be used by the Vindicare Kell in eliminating Horus.{{Fn|1g}} Following the failure in the mission, Tariel returned to the ''Ultio'' in order to rearm with weapons to better combat the seemingly supernatural assassin known as [[Spear]].{{Fn|1i}} Being the only survivor of the team, Kell later transmitted all the contents of the mission to the crew on the drive section and gave the a ''Protocol Perditus'' priority command that was to be released only under Omnis Octal authority.{{Fn|1j}}
