Terminus Est - The Lord of Plague Cometh: In the Eye of Terror the Traitor Legions fought amongst themselves. It is the boast of the Death Guard that their Primarch-turned-Daemon Prince Mortarion conquered a mighty empire within the Eye and transformed it to his own tastes.In the millennia after the siege, the Terminus Est would appear again and again across the Imperium, alongside Death Guard invasions and daemonic incursions. The 35th Millennium saw the first confirmed sighting of Terminus Est after the Heresy, and coincided with the outbreak of the Destroyer Plague in the Agripinaa Sector. A wasting disease of terrible and lethal speed, it depopulated a dozen worlds within the space of a month. Each time the shadow of the Terminus Est was sighted lurking at the edge of the affected system.In the 36th Millennium an Adeptus Mechanicus expeditionary force succeeded in finding schematics of its design on the Perdita world of Barbarus, the ancient homeworld of the Death Guard Legion, and began building the Despoiler-class Battleship based on these designs.Little were they to know that the core architecture and design of the class' Gellar Field Warp shields hid a fundamental flaw. Only when in the following centuries the vessels of this class were either lost in the Warp or turned Renegade did the realisation strike home.In 497.M36 the Terminus Est stained the skies above Yermoth VIII as the Cult of Septica burned pyres of screaming Ministorum priests, while in 299.M37 it blasted the Dominus Aquila star fort to flaming fragments on the edges of the Celstorian Nebula.In 834.M37, during the assault on the asteroid cities of the Emperor's Halo, the Terminus Est fired plague-ridden torpedoes though the defenders' force domes. Finally, driven mad by the rot and death drowning their citizens, the Imperial overlords opened the domes to space.On thousands of worlds across a hundred centuries, the Terminus Est has become the spectre of death incarnate, the very will of Nurgle made manifest.The Terminus Est and Typhus did not assume a central role during the 12th Black Crusade, known also as the Gothic War. A single sighting near Anvil 206 was the only evidence of their presence. However, considering the later incidents traced back to Anvil 206 it is clear that a particular mission was accomplished.Typhus and the Terminus Est assumed a more protracted role during the 13th Black Crusade. Resurgences of the Curse of Unbelief and the large number of Plague Ships sworn to Nurgle amongst the many Chaos Warfleets unleashed during the conflict led to sightings of the Terminus Est coming in to Cadian High Command from all over the Cadian Sector.The exact nature of Typhus' participation in the 13th Black Crusade is unknown, as the only Inquisition-certified sighting of the Terminus Est was above the Shrine World of Kathur. During the battle for that world, the Terminus Est destroyed the Imperial Dominator-class Cruiser Depth of Fury and its escorts, as well as the Raven Guard Strike Cruiser Second Shadow.The Terminus Est suffered over 30% structural damage in the process, half of that from the impact of the Depth of Fury's Nova Cannon. Typhus had no worry, for he knew his ship would simply regenerate the damage as if it were a living thing thanks to Nurgle's blessings.