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[[Image:IronBlood.jpg|thumb|right|The Gloriana Class Battleship ''[[Iron Blood]]'']]
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The '''Gloriana Class Battleship''' was an ancient and powerful [[Battleship]] design used by the [[Legiones Astartes]] during the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]].
==Overview==
[[Image:IronBlood.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Gloriana Class Battleship ''[[Iron Blood]]'']]The Gloriana Class Battleship was an ancient [[Terran]] design which alongside similar vessels like the [[Promethean Class Cruiser]] and [[Tiamat Class Destroyer]] were forgotten technological relics, even by the time of the [[Great Crusade]]. They far surpassed the contemporary Imperial designs in capability.{{Fn|10b}} During the Great Crusade, as the fleets of the nascent [[Imperium]] reached the the core worlds of the [[Segmentum Solar]] and supply lines became stretched, the independently operating Gloriana and [[Victory Class Battleship|Victory]] patterns replaced the support-intensive designs of the [[Goliath Class Battleship|Goliath]] and [[Legatus Class Battleship]]s.{{Fn|19}}
These massive ships were frequently used as flagships for Imperial fleets and even [[Primarch]]s. The Gloriana Class vessels are the largest known Imperial warships after the ''[[Phalanx]]'' and [[Furious Abyss]]-class vessels.{{Fn|1}} Some of the largest known Gloriana-class vessels were the ''[[Vengeful Spirit]]'', ''[[Conqueror (Ship)|Conqueror]]'', ''[[Hrafnkel]]'', and ''[[Iron Blood]]''.{{Fn|4}} Due to their size, the contruction of a Gloriana class battleship was a costly procedure, close to five per cent of the entire output of the [[Forge World]] of [[Mars]] was used to complete a single ship.{{Fn|15}}
*'''Scylla''' pattern{{Fn|20}}
==Trivia=={{Trivia}}===Conflicting sources===*''[[The End and the Death: Volume III (Novel)|The End and the Death: Volume III]] '' states that only 20 Gloriana class ships were ever made.{{Fn|13}} There are however at least 25 named Gloriana class ships known (see list above, as of 30 September 2024).
==Sources==
*{{Endn|18}}: [[The Crimson Fist (Novella)]], (e-version) ''The day of the Battle of Phall''
*{{Endn|19}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Four - Conquest]], pg. 47
*{{Endn|20}}: [[Talon of Horus (Novel)]], Chapter{{CME}}
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