Red Tear
The Red Tear was a Gloriana Class Battleship used as the personal flagship of the Blood Angels Primarch Sanguinius during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Seeing action during the Compliance of Murder[1] and the Battle of Signus Prime, it was said that the golden-clad ship was a beautiful sight to behold.[2a]
Red Tear crashed on Signus Prime after its commanding officer Athene Ducade, driven mad by the Chaos presence, killed her bridge crew and destroyed the controls. Most of the line crew died from Chaos-induced madness, during the descent, or on impact. Sanguinius then declared Covenant of Baal the new flagship and had Red Tear salvaged and converted to a groundside fortress.[2b]
After the Battle of Signus Prime, Sanguinius decreed that all evidence of the Blood Angels' presence be removed, including the Red Tear. It was raised and towed back to Baal.[2c]
Sources
- 1: Horus Rising (Novel) by Dan Abnett, Part 2: Chapter 7
- 2: Fear to Tread (Novel) by James Swallow
