The Blade of Infinity
The Blade of Infinity is a mysterious Human Cruiser built before the Horus Heresy. In 615.M33 it reemerged from the Warp, its re-entry signature suggesting that it had left the Materium over twenty thousand years previous. This predates the invention of Warp Drive by humanity during the Dark Age of Technology and suggest radical time distortion. It disappears and reappears several times in the following years, each time trying to communicate. Transmissions picked up suggest the Blade of Infinity tries to communicate warnings to the Imperium before major Chaos incursions.[1]
In 189887.M39, a similar vessel, from the Dark Age of Technology, called the Spirit of Eternity was discovered by Archmagos Vardoman Plosk (who noted that the Spirit of Eternity and the Blade of Infinity were of the same kind) within the space hulk Death of Integrity. According to the Spirit of Eternity's own sapient A.I., it had became lost in the Warp sometime in M24.[2][2a]
In 969.M41, the Blade of Infinity is once again sighted, this time near the Cando system. As it approached, the ship is mysteriously replaced by the Terminus Est, resulting in a massive outbreak of Zombie Plague running rampant across the system.[1a]
Notes
In the 6th Edition Rulebook, the Blade of Infinity is also referred to as the Blade of Eternity.[1a] Given the name of the only other ship of its' class being the Spirit of Eternity, this is likely a simple error confusing the two ships.
Sources
- 1: Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition Rulebook pg.169
- 1a: pg.175
- 2: Death of Integrity (Novel) pg. 121
- 2a: pg. 138 - 139
