Zi zhi Baoqi

The ***Zi zhi Baoqi*** in the native tongue of Jinning, or the ***Son's Wrath*** in Gothic, is the flagship of the Primarch Lu Yueh Zhi Zi, the Jade Father of the Blight Wardens Legion. As much of a mobile factory as it is a warship, the *Zi zhi Baoqi* is capable of producing the full scope of the numerous chemical weapons that the IInd Legion uses as it wages the Great Crusade, equipped just as fully to deploy such weapons in combat, either over a single battlefield, or else blanketing an entire world in a choking toxic miasma.

## History

The *Zi zhi Baoqi* is the flagship of the Primarch Lu Yueh of the Blight Wardens Legion, completed shortly after his reunification with the Imperium. As with all Gloriana-class Battleships, the *Zi zhi Baoqi* was created to Lu Yueh’s exact specifications, and to the surprise of none, this manifests in the form of some of the greatest chemical laboratories in the known universe, stretching throughout the ship, intermingling with the chemical plants and vats for holding yet more of the IInd Legions creations.

This specialisation required phenomenal internal upgrades, Lu Yueh insisting that there would be no expense spared to mitigate any issues from his sons experimentations well in advance of them arising. Each laboratory was a self-contained unit, supplied with their own air supply that was totally independent of all others, as well as individual climate controls and strengthened bulkheads. In practice, this meant that each could be sealed in a heartbeat, anything being worked upon within contained, and able to be purged with in built flamer units mounted along the ceiling.

Beyond these laboratories, the ship is a work of intricate art, travelling to Jinning after it was constructed for further work, Lu Yueh allowing no other world to work on the ornamentation of his vessel. Jade blocks cover much of the surface, the ship matching the armour of the Blight Wardens themselves, Greens mixing with bright, royal reds and glorious golds. Sharp corners were likewise removed, replaced instead with the smoother aesthetic of Jinning, this trend continuing on the outside of the vessel as well, external ornamentation giving the ship a more bulbous look, shielding the harsher, crag sided vessel from sight.

In combat, the *Zi zhi Baoqi* is the perfect fleet control ship, rivalled only by the *Herald of Destruction* of the Star Guardians, or the *Pythonis Mertricius* of the Consuls Exemplar. Sitting in the centre of a fleet, the *Zi zhi Baoqi* delivers thunderous blasts from its lance batteries or optimized long guns, the ships around it moving to exploit any openings like a living organism would, drawing inexorably closer to the world that has drawn the ire of the IInd Legion and the Jade father.

## Notable Features

### The Chemical Laboratories

The Chemical Laboratories of the *Zi zhi Baoqi* are perhaps its most famous feature, some of the greatest innovations in the Imperium’s history of chemical warfare coming from these workstations, sprung from the mind of the Blight Wardens. While many of these are used by the Imperium as a whole, yet more are reserved purely for Lu Yueh’s sons, kept away from outsiders eyes, and unleashed only when the Jade Father permits it.

Each laboratory is equipped with the very best equipment known to the Mechanicum, many Forge Worlds not being as well equipped in the chemical arts as the flagship of the IInd, and many a Magos Chemistitian has put in requests to merely see such facilities, something Lu Yueh always denies, preferring to keep his sons private sanctums private. This has drawn no small amount of ire from these sects of the Mechanicum, but Lu Yueh refused to relent, the Emperor eventually backing his decision and silencing the Mechanicum on the issue.

### Lu Yueh Zhi Zi's Astropathic Pod

While the Laboratories of the *Zi zhi Baoqi* were its most famed feature, and one of its most vital as well, there was another area of the ship that was arguably more integral to the Blight Wardens way of war, but also one that most within the Imperium had no idea existed, that being the Astropathic Pod of Lu Yueh himself.

Few outside the legion knew of the connection that Lu Yueh shared with his sons, far more than any other Primarch, and over short distances, he could speak to their minds as if they were beside him. Over long distances however, such as the distances between distant parts of a fleet, this was reduced to almost irrelevance, at least until the Emperor took Lu Yueh to Terra, revealing to him part of his gift to his newly found son.

Trained partially in the way of the Astropath, Lu Yueh learnt how to project his thoughts over a far greater distance than he was previously able to, and while it was not as clear as his true communications with his sons, it was sent with far greater accuracy than most astropaths were capable of. When further bolstered by the technology of an astropath’s control pod, Lu Yueh can dictate fleet movements at near the speed of thought, few able to match such communication speeds outside of the Mechanicum’s rare and experimental noospheric link.

## Technical Specifications

* Length: 20 Kilometers
* Role: Fleet Command and Control, Chemical Experimentation and Creation, Chemical Bombardments
* Date of Construction: M30.953