Daemonship - Notable Daemonships: Veritas Ferrum - The Veritas Ferrum was originally a Strike Cruiser of the Iron Hands Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. The Veritas Ferrum took part in the battle for the orbital space above Isstvan V during the Drop Site Massacre. Commanded by Captain Durun Atticus, the Veritas Ferrum was part of the second wave of Iron Hands vessels to arrive at Isstvan V, having been too damaged by the Emperor's Children ambush in the Callinedes System to join their Primarch Ferrus Manus in the first wave of assault. After its translation from the Warp above Isstvan V it was immediately attacked by the Traitor Legions' fleets. In the massacre that followed most of the second wave of Iron Hands vessels were destroyed, with the Veritas Ferrum taking fire as its crew desperately tried to escape after receiving word that their primarch had been slain in the battle on the world's surface. As the Veritas Ferrum made its escape, it suddenly received a vox hail from two Thunderhawks bearing survivors from Isstvan V's surface and, after being convinced by Sergeant Khi'dem of the Salamanders 139th Company, moved to recover them. While coming under continuous fire the Veritas Ferrum recovered the survivors, which cost the Iron Hands more lives in lost crewmen than the ones they had just saved, before finally making an emergency jump into the Warp as the Traitors' ships closed in. The Veritas Ferrum later traveled to the Death World of Pythos as part of the Shattered Legions expedition there under the command of Captain Atticus. At Pythos, the Veritas Ferrum along with the Legionaries on the damned world were claimed by the daemon Madail. Following Madail's capture of the ship, the daemon transformed the Veritas Ferrum into a corrupted daemonic monstrosity, a true Daemonship. The vessel became far larger than it originally was and grew seemingly organic features such as jaws, tentacles, and eyes. The damned warship became the center of Madail's fleet as he terrorised worlds across the galaxy. During the Second Battle of Davin with a combined Imperial fleet led by the Primarchs Roboute Guilliman, Lion El'Jonson and Sanguinius, the Veritas Ferrum materialised above that cursed world as the flagship of a fleet of other Daemonships, laying waste to the Loyalist armada and destroying the Ultramarines' acting flagship Samothrace. When Davin was destroyed by Cyclonic Torpedoes, the physical anchor keeping the fleet in the Materium died with it, and the Veritas Ferrum and its daemonic escorts vanished back into the Warp.Terminus Est - The Terminus Est was one of the first capital ships assigned to the Death Guard Legion of Space Marines by the Emperor of Mankind. It is of a unique design that pre-dates the Great Crusade and which was later copied in the 36th Millennium as part of the Gareox Prerogative to create the Despoiler-class Battleship. As might be expected, this ancient vessel was considerably more powerful than its inferior successor. Few vessels conjure such dread in their foes as does the Terminus Est. Its very name is a curse upon the lips of Imperial ship captains and commanders across the Imperium. It has been present at some of the greatest betrayals and bloodiest days in Imperial history.  The Chaos Lord Typhus sits upon its command throne, overseeing its filth-encrusted cannon and infected crew. The Terminus Est has become a harbinger of the Plague God, its appearance above a planet heralding disease and ruin for the citizens below.  From its bloated launch bays and pustule-studded holds, rusting dropships are vomited down in putrid brown waves. Inside, Death Guard Plague Marines hunch over corroded blades and pitted bolt guns, waiting for their chance to carry out the will of Nurgle.  More than merely a vessel, the Terminus Est is a vile legend and symbol of fear for the people of Imperium. Even a whisper of the ship's presence in a sector can send planetary governors and system lords screaming to the Astra Militarum and Imperial Navy for protection. However, when the Terminus Est darkens the skies of a world, there is little that can save its people -- their fate sealed as the terrible attentions of the Plague God fall upon them.