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[Post New] 2011/10/11 23:16:12
    Subject: Do Strike Crusiers/ Battle Barges/ Imperial ships ever enter the atmosphere?
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Compel wrote:According to The Chapters Due (a book that almost made me like the Ultramarines as a chapter!) Strike cruisers (which are basically just light cruisers, remember, and merely around what? 2.75 km long?) can enter the upper atmosphere but it err... Isn't a recommended maneuver, shall we say.

The Battle Barge, Caesar, also does it earlier in the book... Well, lets just say, in the next chapter, it talks about 'The survivors of the Caesar...'


This guy has it spot on, although Strike cruisers can enter the atmosphere it is very risky.

Below is an extract from The Chapters Due, when the cruisers entered orbit. Great read.

Spoiler:
The sky was a shimmering vault of purple, red and gold, the heavens alive with colour as something broke through the clouds in a fiery was of unimaginably bright light. He blinked at the sight, unable to process what he was seeing. It was too awesome, too unbelieveable and too magnificent to be real.
Yet it was real.
It was real and it was the most wonderous thing imagineable. Two Ultramarines strike cruisers falling from the heavens like fire wreathed comets. Streamers of fire and molton metal trailed from the enourmous vessels as they plunged headlong through the lower atmosphere. Their shields and hulls screamed in protest as forces they were never designed to endure threatened to tear them apart. It was the most reckless, glouriously insane piece of flying Calgar had ever seen. Flocks of Thunderhawk gunships erupted from the cruisers' launch bays and for one beautiful moment, the fighting in the valley ceased. Calgar's face lit up with renewed hope as he recognised the blocky angular shapes of these mighty vessels. Valin's Revenge of the 2nd and the Vae Victus of the 4th.

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