Revenant Rex
An interstellar beast. Bad omen of omens. A wanderer.[1]
The Revenant Rex was a Space Hulk infested by Orks of the Iron Klaw Clan that plagued Ultima Segmentum for millennia. It was sabotaged by Quetzel Carthach, destroying the Hulk along with one hundred of the Crimson Consuls' First Company Terminators, and their Battle Barge the Incarnadine Ecliptic.[1]
History
The Revenant Rex consisted of broken vessels from a range of various distant xenos species, twisted together with rock, mineral deposits from beyond the edge of the Galaxy, and ice said to be from before the beginning of time.[1]
Various Space Marine Chapters had tried and failed to stop it, including the Aurora Chapter at Schindelgheist, the Angels Eradicant at Theta Reticuli, and the White Scars at Martyrpeake.[1]
By the time it arrived at the Gilead Sector, it was considered a bad omen. At this time, Alpha Legion Harrowmaster Quetzel Carthach had been carefully plotting the destruction of the Crimson Consuls Chapter for a long while, and sabotaged the Hulk's Warp Engines to explode the next time it tried to jump, hoping that the Consuls would fall for the trap and send at least some Marines there.[1]
Grand Master Artegall of the Crimson Consuls sent the First Company Terminators to the Hulk after requests from Arch-Deacon Urbanto, Rear Admiral Darracq, Overlord Gordius, High Magos Zimner, and Grand Master Karmyne of the Angels Eradicant. This was beyond what Carthach had hoped for, and a hundred of the First Company Terminators were killed, including Captain Bolinvar, and wrecking their Battle Barge the Incarnadine Ecliptic.[1]
