Marquis Lex
The Marquis Lex was a Mars Class Battlecruiser which served in Battlefleet Gothic during the Gothic War under Captain Luther Kent.[1]
One of only two Mars Class Battlecruisers in the fleet, its achievements tended to be overshadowed by the exploits of the other, the Imperious and its Captain, Compel Bast. While its more glorious sister-ship took part in a dozen major battles in the war, this was little action compared to the forty-eight smaller encounters the Marquis Lex had with Ork, Human, Eldar and Fra'al raiders.[1]
The Marquis Lex spent most of the Gothic War on anti-pirate duties, patrolling the Hammerhead Deeps and across the Quinrox Sound, and held the record for the ship on longest patrol (some one thousand, seven hundred and forty-one days) until 657.M41, requiring eighteen months of refitting after the Gothic War. Its Current Fleet Status is "Recommissioning."[1]
The Battlecruiser was probably built by and named after a planetary overlord as part of his tithe to the Imperium, as they normally take the opportunity to name such ships after their august selves.[2]
Sources
- 1: White Dwarf #232, "De'Aynes Fighting Ships of the Gothic Sector," pg. 15
- 2: Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook, pg. 108
