Port Maw - Notable Vessels of the Port Maw Armada: Triumph of Reason (Unique Battleship, Unknown Class) - The Triumph of Reason was a vessel with a long and twisted history. Built from the wrecked hulls of two prior Legatus-class Battleships that had been mauled early on during the Great Crusade, the Triumph of Reason was easily the biggest voidship in the entire Segmentum Obscurus Armada. Rebuilt using a unique pattern, the Triumph of Reason was designed from the start to become the flagship of the entire Segmentum Armada and much weight and space was given over to communication and Auspex devices. Stationed at Port Maw for the greater part of its career, placed under the command of Grand Admiral Ospeus LaBray for most of its early years, the Triumph of Reason was equipped with countless cryo-chambers to harbour Ogryn Charonites, the only troops at the admiral's disposal that would prove superior to traitorous Legiones Astartes in case of boarding actions. The Triumph of Reason would participate in the early hours of the Horus Heresy at the notable Treachery at Port Maw Incident where it would assume control and command of the entire Port Maw Armada and its allies once the destruction of the Mechanicum Panopticon at the heart of the treachery had been confirmed. It would be from the bridge of the Triumph that Grand Admiral LaBray would coordinate the battle against the Sons of Horus' fleet, even engaging the lauded Vengeful Spirit of the Warmaster Horus himself. Outmanoeuvred by the Vengeful Spirit, the Triumph of Reason came under attack by Sons of Horus boarding parties and even the Archtraitor Horus Lupercal himself after the first assault wave had been nearly thrown back by the hundreds of Charonites held in the Triumph’s depths. Seized from within and with LaBray slain in his failed attempt to abandon ship, the Triumph of Reason would remain at Port Maw for the remaining years of the civil war, its communication hub needed to replace the destroyed Panopticon. The once-proud Imperial vessel became a glorified, if macabre, throne room for Horus' chosen regent, a Sons of Horus line captain by the name of Taloc Thorne, who renamed the battleship The Lash and took the title of Tyrant of Port Maw.Kurga (Dictatus-class Battleship) - The Dictatus-class was an ancient class of ram-battleship that had slowly become obsolete as the Great Crusade wore on. The Dictatus-class was almost primitively barbaric in its design as its main role was to ram enemy ships and shred their hulls like an ancient seaborne predator with its enormous jaws -- a tactic that seems more suitable for the dreaded Orks than the Emperor's servants. Mounted on a set of hydraulic platforms these "jaws" comprised a row of nearly thirty-metre-long teeth-spikes, while its "mouth" supported scores of rocket-powered Melta-barbed harpoons not unlike the more massive Ursus Claw that was the pride of the World Eaters flagship, the Conqueror. The Kurga was present at the Treachery of Port Maw from which it remained one of the few Loyalist ships that succeeded in making good its escape, despite having to crush a mutiny on board. It remains famous to this day for having ripped the Mechanicum Panopticon tower away from the surface of Port Maw which Traitor elements had used to sabotage the Armada's communication network and targeting arrays. The Kurga would go on to fight with distinction in the years after the Treachery, its powerful drives and unorthodox tactics proving a valuable asset in the dark years to come.