Editing Battlefleet Victorum (section)

==A Brief History==
'''Battlefleet Victorum''' was once a by-word for honour, tenacity, and skill. But it fell from such lofty heights long ago, and the reputation of its betrayals has haunted it ever since. 'Twas the Age of Apostasy brought this storied establishment low; torn between faith and heresy, power and responsibility, Battlefleet Victorum went to war, first against the adherents and followers of Battlefleet Bakka, then against itself.

===Early Centuries===
The hallowed service sprang from the union of three precursor traditions: The Imperial Navy task force which prosecuted the Seventh Tempestus Crusade, the indigenous naval forces assembled by Saint Castor, and the descendants of the Imperial Army which survived the interregnum that followed the Horus Heresy. In this way, a battle-forged legacy of carrier deployment and commerce raiding would form the nucleus of the tactical and strategic thinking of Battlefleet Victorum. 

Like many sectors of the Segmentum Tempestus, Battlefleet Victorum's primary foes were not enemy battlefleets but pirates and raiders. Suppressing piracy, escorting convoys, and strengthening the grasp of the Imperium upon the sector would be the primary challenges faced by the fleet in its early days. Shaped by the experiences of crusading against ramshackle void fleets and hunting down lone marauders, the strategies and theories developed thereby were broadly indicative, though unique in detail, of the evolving corpus of Segmentum Tempestus naval strategy. This collection of theories would eventually be dubbed the "Insular School," for it was invariably championed by officers whose primary experiences were limited to the Segmentum Tempestus. In time, the sector naval base of Gareox would emerge as the locus of the Insular's School's political and material influence, blessed by its proximity to the Segmentum Solar and Holy Terra.

Though sidelined by their lack of influence in the Terran court, Victorum remained a powerful voice for the Insular School within the Segmentum itself. Far-ranging squadrons led spearheads for Rogue Trader expeditions, while ingenious captains won fame and acclaim throughout the stars for their skill in ship-to-ship duels against xenos raiders of the outer dark. The ideas and principles maintained by the fleet became a subject of study and admiration among Imperial tacticians.

===The Reign of Blood===
During the disastrous reign of Goge Vandire, the Segmentum Tempestus was thrown into multiple concurrent civil wars, all of which touched the Victorum Sector and Battlefleet Victorum in particular.

===Fleet of Hulks===

===41st Millennium===