Sol Invictus

Crafted specifically for the Primarch Solaris in the wake of his founding, the Sol Invictus is a mighty Gloriana-class Battleship, designed by the Mechanicum, but made by the Supernal Seraphs, shielded from the eyes of the Mechanicum by guile and psychic warding. Soon, the battleships hull plating was inscribed with runes of immeasurable power, transcribed by Solaris himself before being etched by hosts of mind-scrubbed servitors. Alongside this, the multitude of plasma weaponry, something the vessel focuses on almost to the exclusion of all else, has been further modified, the fuel-cells empowered with the psychic essence of the legion just as their plasma weaponry on the ground is.

All of this adds up to make the vessel extremely powerful at close range, powering forward safe from enemy fire, the runes in its hull bolstering the power of those within, supplementing the void shields with kine shields of immense power and scope, sometimes empowered further still by the might of Solaris himself. As it closes, its first weapon opens up, mounted along the vessels spin as other ships may mount nova cannons. Hundreds of plasma weapons akin to plasma blastguns or plasma obliterator found on super heavy vehicles or bastions are arrayed in a rotating pattern, spun up to speed as the ship advances. When it finally fires, it fills the void with millions of individual bolts of contained plasma in the space of a few moments. Individually, these shots are weak, at least in void terms, all but useless against ship-level armour and merely dissipating against the hull. When fired against a raised void shield however, the effect is very different, even the most powerful of shield arrays folding before such ferocious power.

With their shields stripped away, the Sol Invictus can demonstrate its true power, turning to reveal banks upon banks of macro-plasma cannons, far larger and more powerful than the spinal array, organised in two colossal broadsides on either side of the ship. When they fire, armour and hull plating simply melt away, entire vessels being left as little more than rapidly solidifying slag drifting in the void, fit for little more than melting down as scrap metal, few ships able to be salvaged after a pass from the flagship of the Lightbringer.

Even outside of battle, the vessel is nearly always on an alert footing, its corridors patrolled by ceaseless, unfeeling Mechanicum robots or servitors, each one altered with great psi-matrix’s and slaved to the will of the watch captains, freeing up the majority of the Supernal Seraphs on board to conduct their own experimentation into the warp. There is another level of the ship however, sealed from all but the highest of the Supernal Seraphs, and indeed all outsiders, including Nocterra herself, that holds the true secret of the Sol Invictus.

Buried deep inside the ship where a warp engine usually would sit is a strange ball like construct, crackling with purple energy stolen from the warp itself. This is the engine of the Sol Invictus, capable of more efficient, precise, and accurate Warp jumps than any other known warp engine. The engine has never been named by Solaris, for it named itself, the sentinel warp engine, Tuchulcha.

Tuchulcha was found by Solaris shortly after he discovered the Mantle of Deliverance above his homeworld, the Primarch travelling to his new star through means unknown. There, deep within the crystalline structure, was Tuchulcha, the pair conversing at length in those days, Solaris confiding in the strange entity far more than he did with Nocterra. When the Emperor finally arrived at Noxim, Solaris bowed deeply, hiding the existence of Tuchulcha, before ordering its secretive installation into the newly created Sol Invictus, the engine remaining in place from that day, until Solaris’s eyes were opened to the truth of Chaos, the engine removed once more to fuel Solaris’s ascension.

The ship itself seemed to lament such a loss, and though it reaped a fearsome tally amongst the Angelis Noctem fleet when they came to oppose its master, its greatest weapon had now been ripped from it. Clashing with the Blade of Salvation, the vessels defences were peeled back by the psychic might of Nocterra herself, the psy-fuel overloading in its guns as its kine shields strengthened to deny all fire, both inward and outward. Finally, the ship detonated, Nocterra maintaining the shields around it to protect her fleet, only allowing them to drop when nothing remained within save the atoms of the once mighty ship.

Technical Specifications

 * Length: 24km
 * Role: Frontal Assault Ship
 * Date of Construction: M30.940