Damnation of Apostasy

Damnation of Apostasy was one of many Brute Commandeered CAS class Assault Carriers present in the early stages of the Great Schism. Deployed too late to partake in the Battle of Earth, the Damnation of Apostasy was instead fielded against Covenant Separatists, serving as a flagship for the ad-hoc Fleet of Annihilation led by the War Chieftain Crassus. 
Midway through the Loyalists' Wako Offensive, the Damnation of Apostasy was the target of Operation: BUTCHER, a joint operation between Fireteam Iblis and the local forces of Zar 'Kalan to initially destroy the vessel. However, the massive flagship was instead captured and commandeered by 'Kalan keep. It would serve the Swords of Sanghelios until its final destruction in the waning years of the Created conflict.
== Built to Slaughter ==
The Damnation of Apostasy was one of the many new Medural-pattern vessels built in secret in preparation for the inevitable genocide of the Sangheili. Largely crewed by Jiralhanae, the Damnation, like many of her sister vessels, was designed to be a suitably crude cudgel with enough advantages over the many other patterns of Assault Carrier. 
Chosen to command her was the staunchly religious, at least on the surface, Chieftain Crassus. Motivated more by hatred of the Sangheili and an obsession with power, he nonetheless was perceived as loyal enough to be given command of the vessel alongside the rest of his pack. Granted hundreds of menials and mercenaries, the vessel had left the Assembly Forges and was fully operational and its crew by December 6th, 2552. 
With the news of the total destruction of the Covenant Invasion of Earth and the loss of the final Hierarch, the Loyalist's moral had tanked significantly. Crassus, however, maintained his crew's spirits up with cries to avenge their holy figures, inciting them into a total war against the Sangheili that had slaughtered him after the near salvation of all faithful followers of the Gods.
== Avenging the Hierarchs ==
Aligned with the Minister of Reconstruction's hastily assembled Retaliation Fleet, the Damnation of Apostasy would be the spearhead of the Prophet's campaign against the most distant and scattered of Sangheili colonies, inflicting much of the same apocalyptic glassing that had once been limited to Human worlds on those he deemed traitors and apostates. 
Rallying around Dosiac, Eayn, and other key worlds, the Retaliatory Fleet was the largest success of the Covenant in the second stage of the Great Schism. It was only a disastrous battle at Sangheilios that ultimately served to ravage the fleet and break the Covenant's chances of recovering from its fatal loss on The Ark. 
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