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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."'''
|source=—''[[Decimus Androdinus Felix]], [[Tetrarch]] of [[Ultramar]]''{{Fn|3a}}}}
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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}}
In [[M42]] the ark is now largely deserted with only a few tens of thousands of crew on the vessel. After taking part in the main crusade of the [[Indomitus Crusade]] Cawl had given the majority of his military assets to [[Fleet Primus]], most of Cawl's many magi clades had been despatched across the galaxy to sped his next great plan to fruition. The many great holds once bustling with magi and slumbering Space Marines were now empty.{{Fn|2c}}
During the [[Indomitus Crusade]], the ''{{PAGENAME}}'' was invaded and boarded by the forces of [[Fabius Bile]], who Cawl suspected was after the [[Sangprimus Portum]]. In truth however Bile sought [[Alpha Primus (Space Marine)|Alpha Primus]], the original [[Primaris Space Marine]], and was able to escape with the Marines [[Progenoid Glands]]. During Bile's attack the ''{{PAGENAME}}'' was invaded by large numbers of [[Beastmen]], [[Terata]], [[Mutant]]s, and other abominations and was subjected to a massive hacking attack that disabled most of its key systems.{{Fn|2b}}
==Crew==
*Scion Magnus [[Baron]] [[Roosev Maven Taranis]] of [[House Taranis]]{{Fn|2c}}
*[[Skitarii Marshal|Marshal]] [[Melissima Artos-Septus Iota]] — de facto commander of all the Mechanicus forces aboard the Zar Quaesitor.{{Fn|2c}}
*[[Wocolos|Wocolos the Integerarian]] — [[Tech-Priest]]{{Fn|2a}}
*Oswen — [[cartophraser]] to the '''Fourth Clade'''{{Fn|2c}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (8th Edition)]] , pgs. 20-21*2: [[Genefather (Novel)]] :
**{{Endn|2a}}: Chapter 18
**{{Endn|2b}}: Chapters 26-28
**{{Endn|3b}}: Chapter 5
[[Category:Fleet (Adeptus Mechanicus)]]
[[Category:Indomitus Crusade]]
[[Category:Naval Vessels]]
