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Do you ever think about how your army travels from one campaign or battle to another? Does it have its own ship? (Or hive fleet?)
For my part, I spent a couple of hours last night thinking about my Drukhari army's starship, the Twilight of Empires. Here's a description. Hopefully it will give you some inspiration. (No need to re-use my template, it's cool if your info about your ship is very basic. I'm still interested in knowing about it.)
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Starship name: Twilight of Empires
Operator: Kabal of the Obsidian Rose – Shard of the Eclipse Unending
Complement: 400 warriors, 100 crew members, 6 auxiliary ships and landing craft, 20 Raiders, 20 Venoms and 12 aircraft
Armament: 2 darklight annihilators, 20 dark lance turrets and 60 space-to-ground missiles
Facilities: Resurrection/healing pods (capacity: 80), torture chambers, slave pens (capacity: 2,500), pleasure rooms (capacity: 80), shooting range, training rooms, kitchens and armory/workshop
Description: Like all Drukhari craft, the Twilight of Empires is a sleekly elegant yet menacing vessel, all graceful curves and razor-sharp edges. She is painted a glossy black, with dark blue and dark pink edges and markings. Having begun her life as a pleasure ship for archon Aestra Khromys of the Obsidian Rose, she is surprisingly spacious and luxurious for a warship, with wide corridors, fully equipped kitchens and a variety of amenities for training and leisure. Foes who assume such comforts would make the ship’s denizens soft and complacent are quick to learn the errors of their ways, for the Twilight of Empires is armed with some of the deadliest weaponry to ever come out of Khromys’ famous workshops and carries hard-bitten warriors who have been raiding realspace almost without respite for many years.
As the Twilight of Empires has relatively small slave pens for a raiding ship, the warriors of the Shard of the Eclipse Unending take only the choicest slaves and make sure not to damage them too much during capture or transportation. This is not to say that the captives are well-treated; only that it is rare for one of them to find the blessed release of death while aboard the Twilight.
History: The Twilight of Empires was originally named the Song from the Void, and her construction began shortly after the ascension of Aestra Khromys as supreme archon of the Kabal of the Obsidian Rose. An obsessive perfectionist, Khromys wanted her personal pleasure ship to be the most luxurious to ever grace the docks of Commorragh. By the time the vessel was finished, she was indeed a sight to behold, but Khromys had already laid plans for a new, even more decadent ship. The Song from the Void served under Khromys for barely a couple of decades, never seeing a major battle, before the archon set her aside for her newest toy.
Over the following centuries, the ship passed through the hands of several of Khromys’ subordinate archons, was refitted with even more formidable armament, and was somewhat pretentiously renamed the Twilight of Empires. She now belongs to archon Duuzarne, who commands the Shard of the Eclipse Unending. She has not docked in Commorragh proper in many years, and only empties her slave pens when trading with fellow Drukhari and other slave-dealing races in realspace. She is known for bold, dramatic raids, where she always positions herself so as to blot out the sun above the battlefield. Though archon Duuzarne has more than enough firepower at his fingertips to scorch the land after his warriors have withdrawn with their captives, he refrains from doing so, for he relishes in leaving scores of terrified survivors to spread the tale of his mighty warship.
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