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The Speranza is an Ark Mechanicus vessel, that led Magos Lexell Kotov's Explorator Fleet into the Halo Scar.[1]

A massive vessel the size of a continent, it houses vast manufactoria that makes it more of a mobile Forge World than a mere starship. The vessel possesses an ancient Machine Spirit that is far more advanced than the rest of its kind; even linking with the spirit risks ones mind being consumed wholly.[1a]

The vessel was discovered by the Mechanicum by accident at the Forge World of Palomar. After extensive explorations, it was revealed the vessel was incomplete. Lexell Kotov led the effort to complete the vessel. When activated, the vessels machine spirit unleashed a birth scream that saw the entire world of Palomar destroyed in a radioactive hellstorm. Its Machine Spirit became a gestalt entity, absorbing the many machines that made up its new structure. Complete with a deposit of knowledge from the Dark Age of Technology, the Speranza was equipped with radical weaponry which included temporal and black hole manipulation.[1a]

Kotov used the Speranza as his new mobile Forge World and it was the flagship of the Kotov Crusade to discover Vettius Telok's lost expedition and the mythical Breath of the Gods. In the final stages of the battle against the now-mad Vettius Telok, who was attempting to reach the Sol System to destroy it with the Breath of the Gods, the Machine-Mind of the Speranza sided with Kotov, and rejected Telok's attempt to take control of it. The ship was one of the few Imperial assets to survive the Kotov Crusade and return to Imperial space.[2]

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