VENERATOR

Description & Tech.Spec: LATHE

SPEED: 6 MANOEUVRABILITY: 25

DETECTION: 36 HULL INTEGRITY : 63

ARMOUR: 20 TURRET RATING: 1

SHIELDS: Repulsor Void Shield (2 or 4)

SPACE: 60 (used: 60) POWER: 60 (used: 60)

Weapon Capacity: Prow, Port, Stbd, Dorsal

Crew Disposition: Excellent Crew Quality: Competent (30)

Crew Max : 100% Morale Max: 100%

Achievement Bonuses: Trade + 100 ; Explore + 150

Skill Test Modifiers

Social 10, Command 10, CMD/Hit&Run 30, CMD/Hit&Run (Def) 30,

CMD/Boarding Action (Def) 10

Essential Components

Supplemental Components

Background Package

Thulian Explorator Vessel, Adeptus Mechanicus Crewed. Relic of Mars

Weapons

History

The Venerator a light cruiser based a design unearthed during the crusade that conquered the Calixis Sector. Provided to the Explorator Fleets of Magos Thule, the Venerator was at the forefront of the famed quest for a stable route into the Koronus Expanse. It was there, somewhere amongst the warp-tempests of the Great Warpstorms, that it was lost with all hands in 108.M41

Five hundred years later, a limping tramp freighter of Rogue Trader Darian Cromwell was forced to leave warp in the midst of its traverse of the Maw. There, drifting around the dead planet known as the Witch-Cursed world was the Eternal Venerator. The ship was dead, cold, and deserted – without a trace of its crew. Cromwell however, was unwilling to pass up the opportunity. His engineer managed to re-light her drive and a prize crew took her to Port Wander. Since then, the Venerator has served under a number of captains, passed down through the Cromwell dynasty – all reporting strange occurrences and an ill aura surrounding the vessel. Some say an echo of the former crew remains on the ship and certainly something constantly disturbs the low-decks crews. However, having such a stout and unflagging vessel under their command means captains were unwilling to overlook the rumours.

When the Venerator was the last remaining warp-capable vessel of the Cromwell Warrant of Trade, all that remained of what was once a great trading fleet – the fortunes of trade and conflict have not smiled on the last few generations of the Cromwells. Augustus Cromwell, the last known heir & Captain of the Venerator, said her ghosts kept her strong so she one day came back to Imperial glory.

When the assets of Cromwell were broken up, she fell back into Ad-Mech hands, where was refurbished, cleaned up, renamed from Eternal to Unblinking, her machine spirit primed and readied. She has been crewed with more Ad-Mechs in the engineering crew than the usual House contracts. She has been deeded to House Windsor to rekindle the old glory days of looting tech from the Halo Region, enriching both the House who flies her, and the Mechanicus who care for her.

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