Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Navy (section)

=== Battlefleet Cloudburst ===

The flagship of the fleet is an Apocalypse, but it is not stock.  The ship, an Anvilus-built battleship, is a former test bed of the Navy.  Named the ''Vulpes Ferrum'', the ship appears stock from a distance, but closer inspection reveals a few small changes to its forward, ventral, and rear areas.  The armor around the engine nozzles is thicker, and the nozzles themselves longer.  The fighter bay has thicker armor around it as well, and the armored prow sports two extra frigate-weight fore-firing turbolasers.  The interior is more heavily modified.  The Navy sought to minimize the size of internal components whenever possible to increase carrying capacity, and also added four Lightning interceptors to the ship’s contingent, but the Mechanicus struck their test down as being too close to the crime of innovation, and so only one vessel was given the modifications.  Segmentum Command shunted it off into a backwater sector in M40, out of the way of potential embarrassments of the Navy.  The Navy of Cloudburst couldn’t care less about the Segmentum Battlefleet’s embarrassment, however, and gladly received the upgraded ship as their new flag-carrier.  Because of the widely-distributed nature of the Battlefleet Cloudburst, its supreme command never changes, and is always the office of the Lord Admiral on the ''Vulpes Ferrum''.  When Lord Admiral Maynard does need to station himself somewhere immobile, his preference is for the Coriolis anchorages, or those of Cloudburst itself.