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{{QuoteBox|quote='''"It was a vessel like no other, one of the rare Ark Mechanicus explorator vessels, and even among those behemoths it was reckoned large for its kind, a vast city in space, bristling with weapons, and containing manufacturing and research laboratoria beneath its adamantium skin to rival a forge world."'''<br>|source=—''- [[Decimus Androdinus Felix]], [[Tetrarch]] of [[Ultramar]]''{{Fn|1a}}}}The '''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is a massive freighter-hulk and [[Ark Mechanicus]] of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]. It serves as the flagship and mobile laboratory for [[Magos Dominus]] [[Belisarius Cawl]].{{Fn|1}} It is both Cawl's home and research facility.{{Fn|3a}}
==Overview==
For the better part of ten millennia, Cawl crafted legions of [[Primaris Space Marines]] inside its holds.{{Fn|3a}}
The vessel is capable of holding great armies within itself, providing several [[Skitarii]] and [[Cybernetica]] armies alongside three lances of [[House Taranis]] [[Knight]]s during the [[Indomitus Crusade]]. The entirety of the '''{{PAGENAME}}''''s crew has been [[mind-swept]] multiple times to maintain Cawl's desired level of secrecy.{{Fn|2a}}
There is no actual [[shipmaster]] aboard the '''{{PAGENAME}}'''. Instead of this it has the solid system created by Cawl, where the impressive "personality" of the ship interacts with the network consciousness of the ship's [[tech-priest]]s. Although Cawl does occupy the captain's post himself at times.{{Fn|2a}} The ship is able to make [[Warp Jump]]s with remarkable precision, exitting the warp within a [[system|system]]'s [[Zonality Gul Du Loc]] of the star and dangerously close to a planets while also avoiding any other orbital objects of said system and planets.{{Fn|3a}}{{Fn|3b}}
===Landing Bow===
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (8th Edition)]] pgpgs. 1920-21
*2: [[Genefather (Novel)]]
**{{Endn|2a}}: Chapter 18