Dominus Victor
The Dominus Victor was an Imperial Navy Battleship that took part in Cadia's defense during the Thirteenth Black Crusade.[1]
The Fortress World was destroyed during the Despoiler's invasion though and the Battleship was among those ships used to evacuate both Cadia's surviving population and any remaining Imperium forces, before the world exploded. However, as the ragtag Imperium fleet retreated from Cadia, the plasma drives failed on the Agri-hauler, Pride of St. Cerephos. Though the fleet was pragmatically ordered by the Imperial Fists Captain Garadon to leave the Pride behind, the Captains of the Dominus Victor and the Emperor's Wrath refused and turned back to aid the stricken Agri-hauler. As the rest of the Imperium fleet continued to flee the Cadian System for safety, the two Battleships docked with the Pride and began evacuating the people within its holds. However, they would not finish before the Despoiler's fleet caught up with them and the Emperor's Wrath was destroyed before it could disengage from the Agri-hauler. Not wanting to share the same fate, the Dominus Victor's Captain gave the order to pull away from the Pride and the battleship then hurried to catch up with the retreating Imperium fleet, while being fired upon. It might have made it, had the Dominus Victor's Captain not been killed during one of the Despoiler's fleet's attacks, and command of the battleship had not then fallen to his terror stricken subordinate. As the Despoiler's fleet continued to purse the Dominus Victor, the subordinate ordered the battleship to make an emergency jump into the Warp — an act that forever doomed all those aboard it. Now the Dominus Victor, is trapped within the Warp and the unending panic of its doomed crew and passengers, is a delicacy for the thirsting Chaos God Slaanesh.[1]
Sources
- 1: Gathering Storm: Fall of Cadia, Chapter 3: In the Teeth of the Storm
