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Ark Mechanicus Battleship

Arks Mechanicus are incredibly large, nigh-mythical ships that are said to endlessly search the stars as part of the Adeptus Mechanicus' Quest for Knowledge.

Overview

Led by a Venerated Archmagos Explorator, they track down any hint that may lead to the Holy Grail of the Cult Mechanicus: a working Standard Template Construct (STC).[1]

Filled with the best technology that the Adeptus Mechanicus can create, the weapons of an Ark Mechanicus are stronger and longer-ranged than even Imperial Battleships, and their defences are significantly stronger. An Ark Mechanicus class vessel is equipped with a Nova Cannon, four Lance batteries, and two Weapons Batteries. This makes these rarely-seen ships truly mighty opponents on the rare occasions that their journeys are interrupted by battle.[1] So valuable is an Ark Mechanicus that the destruction of an entire Forge World, just to reawaken the ship's Machine Spirit is considered a small price to pay.[2b] The extreme rarity of these venerable ships is that to discover one intact is a miracle to rival that of finding a fully functioning STC system. as only a handful of Ark Mechanicus are said to exist.[2b]

Atleast one Ark Mechanicus, the Speranza, secretly contains a fully functional and still updating STC. Archmagos Lexell Kotov theorized that all Ark Mechanicus secretly contained intact STCs and STC databases, the very things they were sent to find, but the Mechanicus just do not realize it and do not know how to access those functions. The knowledge of the STC was wiped from Kotov's mind upon disconnecting.[2]

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