Editing Space Marine Battle-barge (section)

==Notable Battle Barges==

===Bucephelus===

The Bucephelus is a giant, golden Battle Barge used by The Emperor himself as his flagship during parts of the early stages of the Great Crusade. It was apparently so large, that it generated its own gravity field.

One of the 3 vessels known to have been the Emperor's flagships, he eventually dumped the Bucephelus and used the Imperator Somnium as his flagship, which was ''even larger''. Despite its sacred history as being the personal steed of The Emperor himself and one of the Mechanicus' priceless works of art: nobody knows what happened to it, as if The Emperor just dumped it in a space parking lot somewhere and left it to rot while cruising in his new ride. However, considering the Imperial precedent for [[The War of The Beast|ignominious defeats]], if it ever were lost in battle, it's even odds that everyone would just [[Lost legions|agree not to talk about it]]. This is probably the case as even by the Siege of Terra series it remains unmentioned, unlike the aforementioned ''Imperator Somnium'' (which the Siege of Terra reveals that it was still in use by the Siege of Terra and was used as a massive [[DISTRACTION CARNIFEX|distraction carnifex]] to cover Corswain's Dark Angels' landing to retake the Astronomican). Its exact size isn't known but considering that it mounted 10 [[Nova Cannon|Nova cannons]] on its prow - when even Battleship-sized craft can only mount one - it's got to have been pretty huge.

Confusingly, it has been described as having been created on Terra before the Crusade even started.

===Daughter of Tempests===

A [[Lamenters]] Battle Barge deployed during the Corinth Crusade, in support of the Ultramarines.

While crusading the glorious motha-fukas of the most put upon Chapter in Imperial history learned of an Ork slave world cheerily named Slaughterhouse III. When the Lamenters were told that no other forces could be spared to free the world from the greenskin menace, they took it upon themselves to do so. When ''Daughter of Tempests'' jumped to the system, she intentionally emerged from the warp absurdly close to the Orkish defenses of the planet; the greenskins were taken by surprise and didn't get a shot off before the ''Daughter'' had disabled the orbital guns and deployed 300 yellow armored Sons of Sanguinius to the surface. She then assisted in the evacuation of 3 million survivors before the Lamenters declared [[Exterminatus]] to deny the Orks access to the planet's resources, [[Grimdark|including billions of other human survivors who could not be evacuated in time, but willingly chose to stay behind to allow the remaining Lamenters to escape the planet before being overrun by the Ork reinforcements.]]

She was taken as a prize during the Badab War by the [[Minotaurs]] who ambushed the Lamenters Chapter Fleet and brought the chapter to its knees during a brutal 17 hour boarding action.

The Minotaurs would later lose the ship to the Necrons during the war for the Orpheus sector.

===Vulkan's Wrath===

A Ship from the [[Salamanders]] that took part in the [[Commorragh]] Raid.

When [[Dark Eldar|"Those Knife Eared Assholes"]] swiped the Salamander [[Strike Cruiser]] ''Forgehammer'' from Real Space and stashed it in their City, ''Vulkans Wrath'' lead a fleet Of Salamanders, [[Howling Griffons]], and [[Silver Skulls]] into Commorragh itself to rescue their brothers. With the forces of 3 Chapters of Space Marines wreaking havoc in the streets, the missing cruiser was located, held down by an Electric Spire. [[Terminators]] deployed from ''Vulkan's Wrath'' teleported to ''Forgehammer's'' decks and loosed the cruisers missile battery on the spire. With ''Forgehammer'' free, ''Vulkan's Wrath'' lead the strike group out of the Dark City and into the safety of Imperial space.

===Tempestus===

The Flagship of the Astral Knights.

''Tempestus'' was the battering ram on which the Astral Knights rode to their Glorious Destiny in the battles against the [[World Engine]].

After the destruction of the World Engine and the entire chapter, ''Tempestus'' was salvaged and converted into an Imperial Shrine dedicated to the 772 Heroes of the Astral Knights on the world of Safehold, the last planet scoured by the World Engine.

===Seditio Opprimere===

Introduced in [[Battlefleet Gothic]], the ''Seditio Opprimere'' is an [[Ultramarines]] ship that alarmed the Administratum and the [[Imperial Navy]] due to the modifications done to it in the wake of the First Tyrannic War. Y'see, the ''Seditio'' is a dedicated Lance boat, with many of its launch bays replaced instead by massive [[Lance]] batteries.

While the Ultramarines gave (a perfectly valid) excuse that the modifications were for clearing the space-lanes of [[Ultramar]] of any and all lingering [[Tyranid]] bio-ships in the wake of [[Hive Fleet]]s Behemoth and Kraken, in ''practice'' this meant that the Smurfs now had a dedicated battleship killer, which the Space Marines (at that time of fluff) ''shouldn't'' have. Yes, for [[Ultramarines Honour Company|yet]] [[Genesis Chapter|another]] [[Tyrannic War Veterans|time]] the Ultramarines were violating the Codex of their own spiritual liege.

And kill battleships on the tabletop it did. It was ''so'' killy that it had to eventually be nerfed, with its Lance batteries replaced instead by much shorter-ranged Bombardment Cannons. Guess what? It didn't stop the rape train, it just made it less range but more [[Dwarf_Fortress|FUN]]