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Bloodstrike (Stormbird)

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The Bloodstrike is a Red Corsairs Stormbird and is the personal transport of the Warband's commander, Huron Blackheart.[1]

History

It originally served the Word Bearers Legion, during the Great Crusade and later the Horus Heresy. The Bloodstrike survived those conflicts and millennia of service led the Stormbird to become Daemonically possessed. Eventually its engine intakes and weapon barrels warped into the shape of howling maws, its Ceramite skin began weeping black blood when damaged and the Bloodstrike's two Word Bearers pilots became permanently bonded to the Stormbird. However in late M41, the Bloodstrike was captured by the Red Corsairs and the Warband's commander, Huron Blackheart decided to make the Stormbird his personal transport. He then had the Word Bearers pilots both physically and spiritually removed from the Bloodstrike and installed one of his Dark Mechanicum adepts into it. The adept Carazzalan was selected to the Stormbird's pilot and he gladly had his body and spirit permanently joined with such a venerable war machine, as the Bloodstrike.[1]

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