Editing The Bulwark (section)

=Division Fleet=

Sebastion's focus on preserving his Division and its members as long as was possible lead to a doctrine of every Bastion supporting each other, and this extended to the fleet; by the end of the Great Crusade and into the beginning stages of the Crucible, over 48% of the Division's fleet was composed of ships that had been in service since the inception of the Division or longer, as some were carried over from pre-Division status. Arelon's many Industrial Worlds contributed to this; Sebastion personally oversaw the modification of his Legion's battleships and Battle Barges to support more advanced Void Shield technology and thicker armour. To retain the size and format of each Battleship, any weapons that required their own energy source to power them were removed, and their power sources were re-diverted to the newly improved Void Shields. Though this often put the Legion at a disadvantage due to their reliance on solid-slug and mass driver technology, the survivability of the fleet was welcomed as an even trade.  


*'''Force of Will''' (Gloriana Class Flagship)

Received as a parting gift from the Heralds, the flagship of the Division, a ''Gloriana'' class battleship dubbed '''''Force of Will''','' was modified heavily, as is usual tradition amongst the Legions. In particular, it possessed no primary weapons other than the enormous mass driver that ran through the ship from stem to stern; dubbed ''The Persuader'' by Sebastion himself, its primary purpose was to destroy a single planet within a system, thus hopefully driving the rest of the system to surrender. An adamantium slug would be launched into the heart of the planet, causing mass disruption and eventual destruction. The threat of firing it was often enough to cause mass surrender in rebellious systems.

Rumours abound that in times of dire need, the flagship could even detonate the sun within a system, causing a super-nova and obliterating any tactical usefulness the system may have once possessed. Of course, these are merely rumours, as logic dictates that the flagship would need to be far too close to the sun to accurately detonate it; it would likely be caught in the blast along with the dying system.

This painfully specialized system also prevented the flagship from being of any real value during void battles, relegating it to a rear-line command center and occasional fire-support platform.
 
*'''Battleships:'''

Magnificent Terminator (Apocalypse Class)

Hand of Wrath (Apocalypse Class)

Vigilant Destroyer (Apocalypse Class)

Arrogant Artifact (Apocalypse Class)

Harbinger of Victory (Emperor Class)

Progenitus Rex (Emperor Class)

Acheron Unending (Retribution Class)

Flanking Rider (Retribution Class)

*'''Battle Barges:''' 

The Usual Suspect 

Defilade of Arelon

Tower of Might

Gateway of The Rex

Alonzarius


Battle Barges of the Bulwark were usually not used in primary assault formations, instead acting as interference against enemy Strike Cruisers and support craft for the primary landing shuttles of planetary invasions.

*'''Strike Cruisers:'''

The Bulwark fielded around 5 Strike Cruisers per Battleship, so their numbers tended to number in the lower hundreds. Their primary purpose was to run interference to the larger ships; they were seldom used for ground assaults, leaving that to the Battle Barges, instead. 

*'''Escort Vessels:'''

Escort Vessels were often seen as expendable, a rarity in the Bulwark. Due to this, their crew never contained any Astartes. These Escort Vessels were often used as a screen as their larger counterparts assumed their formations; the mortality rate for Escort Vessels was often over 75% during any major void battle.