Wanktastic Warhammer 40,000 Battleship

[NecronLord]

It's not impossible to reconcile; there's bound to be some huge and majestic stuff hanging around the Cadian Gate that shames more mundane vessels of the Imperium's navy.

Space marine legions had access to ships of that size back in the day. In Flight of the Eisenstein, there is a moon-sized ship ferrying Rogal Dorn around, so someone had top be able to build them huge.

That's Phalanx. It's a fortress monestary, it still exists in the 41st Millennium.

[[R_H]]

If you want an Ubership, its probably easier to have the chaos dudes snaffle a space hulk and pimp it out, its been done before, the things can be suitably, tremendously hugetastic, Purge the Unclean gives the known range of spacehulk mass from a single escape pod to things that are only outsized by the largest gas giants

Other than the Soul Drinkers, have any other factions in the Imperium used space hulks? Or are they considered too much of a pain to purge if not absolutely necessary?

[NecronLord]

Other than the Soul Drinkers, have any other factions in the Imperium used space hulks? Or are they considered too much of a pain to purge if not absolutely necessary?

Space Hulk can be anything. There's a number of recovered vessels in use. For a start, the aforementioned Divine Right was once part of a Space Hulk.

[Cykeisme]

Does Phalanx have to be towed by other warships, like those mobile drydocks described in Battlefleet Gothic, or can it travel under its own power?

If it travels under its own power, I think it's pretty much evidence of the existence of craft orders of magnitude above regular battleships.. and indeed, the monster ships in Bloodquest.

[[R_H]]

Does Phalanx have to be towed by other warships, like those mobile drydocks described in Battlefleet Gothic, or can it travel under its own power?

If it travels under its own power, I think it's pretty much evidence of the existence of craft orders of magnitude above regular battleships.. and indeed, the monster ships in Bloodquest.

If I'm remembering correctly (I'll check my copy of "Flight of the Eisenstein" in the morning), the Phalanx traveled under its own power.

[Connor MacLeod]

Oops. forgot about this.

I'm just goign to point out that finding a Space Hulk that is functional in the sense of say, the Brokenback isn't a definite proposition. you can't just have ships welded together willy-nilly and assume they'll be spaceworthy, so I'd be really leery of actually qualifying any of those as legit spaceships (or at least a reliable one.. the fact that races like the ORks can make them reliable doesn't mean anything.)

In fact, I've strongly believed the Brokenback is rather exceptional in that it was delibearetly discovered/created/bestowed on the Soul Drinkers, simply because for most of the first book (and most of the subsequent novles) they kept (And keep) getting led around by their noses by eveyone else. Deliberate intervnetion in such cases cannot be discounted (and I have no doubt that any Warp entity could, if he/she/it wished, manipualte such agglomerations in the manner they wish to make it functional.)

[Peptuck]

Does Phalanx have to be towed by other warships, like those mobile drydocks described in Battlefleet Gothic, or can it travel under its own power?

If it travels under its own power, I think it's pretty much evidence of the existence of craft orders of magnitude above regular battleships.. and indeed, the monster ships in Bloodquest.

If I'm remembering correctly (I'll check my copy of "Flight of the Eisenstein" in the morning), the Phalanx traveled under its own power.

Yeah, Eisenstein definitely shows the Phalanx moving from the outer reaches of Sol to Terra itself on its own power. And fast, too, getting there in a couple of hours at sublight speed.

[Luzifer's right hand]

If I'm remembering correctly (I'll check my copy of "Flight of the Eisenstein" in the morning), the Phalanx traveled under its own power.

The Phalanx is warp capable on it's own.
They even used it to travel as fast as possible to the Sol System which suggests that it is not slower than other Imperial vessels.