Index Chaotica - Terminus Est by Games Workshop Ltd

Author:Games Workshop Ltd
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Games Workshop Ltd
Published: 2013-12-03T16:00:00+00:00

HERALD OF DEATH

The Terminus Est is a truly ancient vessel, more than ten thousand years old. It has been witness to much of the Imperium’s history, from the Siege of Terra to the dawn of Abaddon’s 13th Black Crusade against the Imperium.

c.M30 The Emperor’s Gift

After the alliance between Terra and Mars, the Emperor commissions the creation of a vast fleet to retake the stars and reunite Humanity’s lost children. Some of the most skilled tech-artisans of the age create the Terminus Est in the shipyards of Luna. Its hull, armaments and engines incorporate countless advanced designs recovered from the Dark Age of Technology. The Emperor gifts the vessel to his Dusk Raiders Legion, as a reward for their loyalty. The Terminus Est becomes the Legion’s flagship as they embark upon the Great Crusade to unify the galaxy under the rule of Mankind.

c.M31 Shadow Falls

In one of its first acts of betrayal, the Terminus Est is present during the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre. The battleship participates in the virus bombing of the planet and turns upon the loyalist fleet. In the chaotic and brutal space battle that ensures the Terminus Est racks up an impressive tally of enemy kills, Typhon proving himself more than a match for his loyalist counterparts.

c.M31 Siege of Terra

After the battle on Isstvan, the Terminus Est eventually embarks for Terra to aid Horus in his assault on the Emperor’s Palace. Typhon slays the ship’s Navigator, promising his Primarch that he can personally lead the Death Guard fleet to Terra. Unbeknownst to his Legion, this is all part of Typhon’s plan to offer them up to the Plague God. Ultimately, Typhon becalms the Terminus Est in the Warp, leaving it to the mercy of his new master.

When the warship appears above Terra it has changed, the mark of Chaos clearly upon it. The warship rains devastating bombardments and virulent contagions down upon the fighting around the Emperor’s Palace. In the Warp, Nurgle cackles with glee to see thousands of defenders succumb to his gifts.

545.M35 A Nightmare Returns

Having been mistakenly thought destroyed after the Heresy, the Terminus Est descends upon the Imperium once more. The cursed vessel proves a formidable foe, more than a match for the Imperium’s finest vessels and most skilled captains. Worse still, when a battle is lost to the Terminus Est it heralds only more suffering to come as plague and sickness spread out of control.

216.M36 Mission to Barbarus

In response to Imperial Naval encounters with the Terminus Est the Adeptus Mechanicus seek out the ship’s ancient schematics, gifted to the Death Guard after the vessel’s creation. An expedition to Barbarus, the scoured remains of the Death Guard home world, finds the data the Mechanicus seeks and the Imperium creates the first Despoiler Class warships inspired by the formidable Terminus Est.

It is only much later that the Imperium realises that the design holds a fatal flaw, its Geller fields vulnerable after extended exposure to the Warp. Over the centuries, almost every Despoiler Class warship is lost to Chaos, its crew and captains subverted or corrupted by the Dark Gods.

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