Nightmare of Celyx
The Nightmare of Celyx is a Night Lords Battleship, that holds thousands upon thousands of captured Astropaths, strapped into engines of torment.[1a]
They have been brutally tortured and mutilated by the Night Lords, driving them into a state of constant pain-addled frenzy. The Astropaths' combined psychic screams echoes out across the stars, interfering with long-range vox communications and scrambling the minds of ship-borne Navigators. The commander of the Celyx used this to spread havoc across any Imperial ships the battleship came across and it later took part in the invasion of the Talledus System. When Imperial reinforcements later tried to enter the system from the Warp, the captured Astropaths' screams pulled them off-course and caused their warships to emerge into the Tears of the Emperor asteroid field. There the Night Lords' warships laid in wait and ambushed the disorientated Imperials, turning the asteroid field into a killing field.[1a]
The Celyx had long been hunted by a White Scars strike force led by Jodagha Khan, which tracked the Battleship into the Talledus System. This began a long pursuit between the Night Lords and White Scars, as the strike force tried to destroy the Nightmare of Celyx.[1b]
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