Editing Ark Mechanicus (section)

===Speranza===

The Ark Mechanicus of Archmagos '''Lexell Kotov''', the '''Speranza''' was actually found half-completed underneath one of the forge worlds that the magos oversaw. Kotov restored it to working order, and with it led an expedition to the Halo Scar to investigate the rumors of a [[Dark Age of Technology]] artifact called the ''Breath of the Gods'' supposedly located there.

The ''Speranza'' itself seems to predate the [[Dark Age of Technology]], and features a powerful if somewhat secretive [[Machine Spirit]], plus an unknown number of secret technologies far more advanced than ''anything'' the present-day Mechanicus can even dream of creating, such as a reactor that uses exotic anti-matter and graviton pumps to draw power from ''dark matter''. The most infamous of these are a ''black hole cannon'' that aim accurately in the middle of an electromagnetic storm, a gun that ''rewinds time'' so that its target destroys itself as its past and present versions collide, "chronometric cannons", "anti-matter projectors" and "hypometric weapons" so powerful it can cause vast regions of space to just '''not exist'''.

It was also especially large, even for an Ark Mechanicus, being large enough for a maniple of Titan to manuever inside with room to spare, along with millitary exercise yards big enough to simulate a small city.

Fittingly these technologies only make themselves known when the ship itself allows it, and are unusable otherwise. The Machine Spirit is actually a [[Men of Iron|full AI]] (or [[Omnissiah|something greater]]) with a complete STC database, and just chooses to lay low and wipe the memory of those who interface with it.

On a funny and/or derpy note of how the Imperium has been so out of their depth, after a major menial revolt the Speranza crew decided to implement *gasp* humane working conditions, which resulted in an increment of efficiency under normal non-STC-game-breaking conditions. The Mechanicus in charge still can't understand how treating their workers better could achieve such a thing with many showing BSOD in their optic implants from the sheer amount of computing power needed to grasp this, who would have guessed humane working conditions would be beneficial?

Also it's name literally means "Hope" in Italian.