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==Fleet==

The [[Basilikon Astra]] of Solstice and Cognomen is both less numerous and far better equipped than the Imperial Navy.  Their warships patrol the Warp routes between Cognomen and Septiim, and Cognomen and its satrap worlds, with ceaseless vigilance and the best weapons money can buy.  Although their ancient flagship, the ''Archetype'', is long gone, the fleets of Cognomen are still formidable.  The Cognomen yards are enormous and growing, and although it will be another thousand years before they catch up to the current size of the great Fabique Forge Yards, they are already large enough to manufacture every model of common Imperial ship.

As is usually the case, the Mechanicus reserves its best ships for itself.  The cruisers that form the backbone of its flotillas are the most heavily armed for their tonnage in the Sector.  Its heavier warships, including the fourteen-kilometer-long [[Ark Mechanicus]] ''Comprehension'', are the toughest ships in their weight class in the entire Sector by far.  Its Basilikon Astra has better relations with Rogue Traders than its Council of Magi does, and sometimes works alongside them, the Navy, or the Daggers on complex missions, or projects of technotheological consequence.