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List of Space Hulks
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The following is a list of known Space Hulks. The listed names are the codenames which the Imperium assigns to the otherwise nameless hulks they discover.
Name | Infestation | Notes | Sources |
Alveus Alpha Alpha Sextus | Orks | Carried Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka to Armageddon for Second War for Armageddon | http://www.armageddon3.com/English/History/history_free.html Battle for Armageddon board game (free to download) (there is no information on this page about subject - even with a help of webarchive) |
Amalgamation | Warp entities | See Amalgamation Schism | Codex: Crimson Slaughter (E-Book) - The Amalgamation Schism |
Blasphemous Voyager | Chaos Space Marines | Ultramarine Strikeforce Sejanus successfully stop Chaos Space Marines from invading the Shrine World of Salamantis VI, in the Salamantis System. By placing explosives in precise locations, the Ultramarines redirect the Space Hulk's trajectory into the system's sun. | Sacrifice, Warhammer Monthly #32 |
Brokenback | Unknown | Cleansed by the Soul Drinkers Space Marine Chapter. Base of the Soul Drinkers. | Soul Drinker Series by Ben Counter[Needs Citation] |
Captor of Sin | Chaos (Tzeentchian) renegades | Cleansed by Fire Claws (aka Relictors) | Index Astartes II[Needs Citation] |
Cauldron of Savagery | Unknown | Appeared out the warp to ravage the Drusus Marches of the Calixis Sector several times before finally being bombard and successfully driven into the primary star of the Pellucidan system | Rogue Trader Timeline pg. 3 |
Crimson Harvest | Chaos | The vast space hulk appeared on the edge of the Hadex Anomaly. Ships bearing the sigils of Chaos take flight from the dark forge of Samech and make their way to rendezvous with the craft, sparking a deadly series of running battles between the attack ships from the Achilus Crusade forces operating in the Acheros Salient and the Deathwatch. The Deathwatch Kill-team under Brother Sergeant Hurak of the Iron Hands sacrifices itself in order to plunge the Crimson Harvest into the heart of a dying star, thus denying the pawns of Chaos their prize. | Deathwatch Timeline, pg. 10 |
Damnatio Magellus | Subject #696 | A Deathwatch Kill-Team captured an unknown xenos type which has been codenamed Subject #696. | Deathwatch: Rites of Battle pg. 241 |
Death of Integrity | Genestealers, Hybrids | Cleansed by Novamarines and Blood Drinkers | Warhammer 40,000: Compilation[Needs Citation] |
Defilement of Honour | Genestealers | Was boarded by Blood Angels with unknown consequences | White Dwarf September 2016, Space Hulk - New Mission, Power Down |
Devourer of Stars | Chaos Space Marines (World Eaters) including Angron, Daemons and Cultists | Delivered Chaos Space Marines to Armageddon for First War for Armageddon | Chaos Attack board game (free to download) (accessed 26-05-2007); Codex: Chaos Space Marines (3rd Edition, 2nd Codex) pg. 8 |
Divine Purgatory | Unknown | Cleansed by Captain of the Blood Angels 1st Company Karlaen and his battle-brothers | Blood Angels Painting Guide – Sons of Sanguinius, pg. 8 |
Dolorous Tidings | Unknown | Boarded by Inquisitor Amberley Vail of the Ordo Xenos in the 920's M41. | Death Or Glory (Novel) by Sandy Mitchell, Chapter One |
Doom of Perdita | Tyranids | Cleansed by Captain of the Blood Angels 1st Company Karlaen and his battle-brothers | White Dwarf 88 (2015), Battleground: Doom of Perdita |
Doom of Vorgoth | Nurgle Daemon | The Nurgle Daemon Necrogolem had turned the space hulk into a playground of pestilence and disease. Karlaen of the Blood Angels eventually destroyed the creature by venting its sump-palace to the void and freezing Necrogolem in a tomb of its own filth. | Blood Angels Painting Guide – Sons of Sanguinius, p. 8 |
Endless Despair | Genestealers | The Blood Ravens' Librarian Captain Lanneus and his brothers were defeated there by Genestealers. Later Deathwatch Kill-Team brought revenge for them. | Deathwatch: The Known Unknown (Short Story) by Mark Clapham |
Fatum Posterus | Unknown | Boarded by the forces of Magos Eremor and Rogue Trader Solomon Haarlock in the Calyx Expanse. What the Magos discovered on the Space Hulk disturbed him greatly, regarding the role of technology and the corruptive nature of the Warp, and led him to create the Techsorcists Mechanicus sect in the Calixis Sector. | Dark Heresy: The Lathe Worlds pg. 21 |
Grim Scythe | Nurgle | Boarded by the Salamanders | |
Harbinger of Woe | Tyranids | The Dark Angels' Fourth Company battled Tyranids on the Space Hulk to destroy it before it reached the populated planets of Merro. They succeeded, but only one Dark Angel survived the battle. | Dark Vengeance (Novella)[Needs Citation] |
Hell's Last Duke | Chaos Space Marines | Used as a temporary invasion platform for The Purge | Apocalypse Dataslate - Centurion Siegebreaker Cohorts, pg.7 |
Herald of Grief | Chaos Space Marines | Destroyed by Ultramarines Honour Guard's seismic detonator on approach to Cadian system during the 13th Black Crusade. Estimated 200,000 dead Chaos forces. | The 13th Black Crusade[Needs Citation] |
Herald of Oblivion | Tyranids, Orks, Necron, Dark Eldar, Chaos Space Marines, Mutants | Squad Scipio, of the Imperial Fists, was tasked with destroying all threats aboard the Space Hulk. | Herald of Oblivion (Gamebook) |
Judgment of Carrion | Tyranids | Periodically appears from the Warp in subsector Aurelia, near the Blood Ravens recruiting worlds. Was involved in the heresy of that sector. | Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II |
Kaerux Erameas | Chaos warriors | Used to attack the Traxis Sector | Fantasy Flight Games teaser of the "Deadly Salvage" - War Pack for the Conquest Card Game (last accessed 7 July 2015) |
Kronos | Necrons | Kal Jerico was hired by his mother, Inquisitor Heleana Jerico, to aid her in searching the Space Hulk for xeno-tech. | Kal Jerico (Graphic Novel Series)[Needs Citation] |
Lost Hope | Chaos | In the Eye of Terror, serves as the base of operations for the Crimson Slaughter | Codex: Crimson Slaughter, pp. 20–21 |
Midnight’s Lair | Unknown | The space hulk has appeared several times in the Koronus Expanse. | Rogue Trader Timeline pg. 8 |
Monolith of Woe | Chaos Space Marines (Lords of Decay) | Currently pursued in the Mentieth sector. | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition)[Needs Citation] |
Mork’s Mangla | Orks | In 962.M41 this space hulk emerges out from the Warp, full with the horde of Orks and get going for Ankhabyr - the Necrons planet. | White Dwarf 44 (2014) - The Battle for Ankhabyr |
Mote of Darkness | Piratical Eldar raiders | Crafted by some gigantic xenos race, the cavernous tunnels and chambers of this space hulk were stormed by Captain Dynares of the Obsidian Glaives 1st Company and his Land Raider ‘Valour Maximal’ at the height of the Helrak Incursion of 548.M41. As a result of that attack every last xenos brigand was flush out and destroyed. | Dataslate: Space Marines Strike Force Ultra |
Nightmare of Paradox | Chaos Space Marines (Word Bearers of Leyak) | In quarantined orbit over Hermetica | Imperial Armour Volume Ten pg.109 |
Oblivion Shadow | Khorne Daemonkin | The Space Hulk of the Brazen Beasts | Codex: Khorne Daemonkin (7th Edition), The Bloodsworn Hordes - The Brazen Beasts |
Olethros | Space Hulk: Deathwing -video game | ||
Prison of Lost Souls | Chaos Space Marines | Previous failed assault by Space Wolves - Cleansed by Dark Angels | Deathwing (Short Story) |
Perdition's Flame | Genestealers | In order to lure Hive Fleet Leviathan into attacking the Ork Empire of Octarius, Inquisitor Kryptman planted a brood of Genestealers on board and then destroyed the moon of Gheist in order to divert the hulk's trajectory directly towards the Octarius system. The Genestealer's psychic signal soon drew a tendril of Leviathan towards them. | Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition), pgs. 28-31 |
Pinnacle of Savagery | Orks | The Space Hulk and it's supporting fleet, were destroyed in battle by the combined forces of the Calixian Mechanicus' Explorator fleets and Battlefleet Calixis at the edge of the Vaxanide system. Pieces of the Space Hulk were taken by Mechanicus forces for study. | Dark Heresy: The Lathe Worlds pg. 18 |
Port Matthias | Unknown | Purged by the Blood Ravens Chapter | Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising - Combat Teleporter, wargear selection screen |
Protean Horror | Used by the Eightscarred | Former Orks space hulk | Codex: Khorne Daemonkin (7th Edition), Chaos Lords |
Scion of Anguish | Possibly Chaos Space Marines/Aliens | Investigation attempted to ascertain the likelihood of life upon this hulk under the sway of Chaos. Investigated by Commodore Bale and his strike group with the Mordant 303rd Acid Dogs attached. Investigations centered around the Caeruleus Nebula. | The 13th Black Crusade[Needs Citation] |
Scylla | Orks | Base of operations of the Warlord Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub. Its Ork name is Ognazdreg Gargdurslagulk (translating to "Nazdreg's huge fortress settlement ship"). Supposedly Nazdreg's Mekaniaks had managed to modify the Hulk to allow the Orks to take control over its movement, which would explain its ability to have consistently outmaneuvered and escaped the Imperial ships sent to destroy it. It was crippled at Piscina IV and finally destroyed at Medusa V. | Codex: Orks (2nd Edition)[Needs Citation], Codex: Orks (3rd Edition)[Needs Citation] |
Sin of Damnation | Genestealers | Assaulted by Blood Angels First Company under Michaelus Raphael | Space Hulk (Game), 1989 |
Solace in Sorrow | Unknown | Cleansed by Captain of the Blood Angels 1st Company Karlaen and his battle-brothers | Black Crusade: Angel's Blade, Chapter 2, pg. 55 |
Sorrow's Hammer | Genestealers | Boarded by the Blood Angels over Xegist | White Dwarf 33 (2014) - Disable the Shields |
Soul of Damnation | Unknown | Held the stasis capsule of an ancient member of the Luna Wolves | Black Legion - A Codex: Chaos Space Marines Supplement (E-Book), A Legacy of Vengeance |
Spawn of Damnation | Genestealers & Orks | Assaulted by Reclaimers, accompanied by Commissar Ciaphas Cain | The Emperor's Finest (Novel) by Sandy Mitchell[Needs Citation] |
Spawn of Execration | Genestealers | Assaulted by Blood Angels First Company under Commander Borgia | Space Hulk (Game), second edition |
Torva Anser | Genestealers | Cleansed by Dark Angels' Deathwing Company | Dark Vengeance (Novella)[Needs Citation] |
Twilight | Dark Eldar | Agents of the Inquisition searched the space hulk, for the Luminous Reproach. A sacred blade, blessed by Saint Sebastian Thor himself. | Dark Heresy: Purge the Unclean[Needs Citation] |
Twilight Aegis | Unknown | Cleansed by Captain of the Blood Angels 1st Company Karlaen and his battle-brothers | Blood Angels Painting Guide – Sons of Sanguinius, pg. 8 |
Unholy Harbinger | Necrons | Breaks from warp near Cloras jump point | Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition),[Needs Citation] |
Wayward Warrior | Unknown | Located in Antian Sector | Fantasy Flight Games, Relic: Nemesis Expansion (last accessed 12 April 2015) |
Wurld Killa | Orks | Crashed into Armageddon | Waaagh! Ghazghkull: A Codex: Orks Supplement - Exodus |
Wyrmwood | Unknown | In M41 several squads of Dark Angels Deathwing boarded the hulk and were never seen again. | Codex: Dark Angels (7th Edition) - In the name of Absolution |