Ark of Omen
Arks of Omen are Failbaddon's new copeship needed to aid his faltering Black Crusade after he raged-quit and yeeted his last remaining (And priceless!) Blackstone Fortress on Cadia. These things were for all intents and purposes, Space Hulks. Literally, that's what they are. Except, rather than being filled with mushrooms and cockroaches, they are now filled with literal edgelords.
- Length: 20-60+km
- Mass: 0.3-2.1+ gigatonnes; approx
- Crew: 600,000+ crew, 140,000 pilots and support staff; approx
- Acceleration: 1.2 gravities max sustainable acceleration
Overview
Being nothing more than a colossal Black Legion void craft, they were unleashed to reinforce the Black Legion's Balefleets and seize the Nachmund Gauntlet from the Imperium.
Each Ark of Omen is heavily weaponized and augmented with a piece of Vashtorr's own fleshmetal, granting its master as much control over the craft as any other voidship could offer. Abaddon the Despoiler awards them to a favored War band – seeded, naturally, with loyal enforcers and informants – and he also dispatches the Arks to claim fragments of a mysterious superweapon known as "The Key", which would grant him power beyond mortal imagination if reassembled. For a long time, it was unknown what exactly this Key was, as Abaddon had kept its true nature a secret even from his most trusted lieutenants- the only hint about it he has given is that it makes the servants of the Emperor greater traitors than any Chaos Space Marine could ever be. At the end of the Arks of Omen narrative though the key's identity was finally revealed to be the Dark Angel homeworld of Caliban which apparently had once been the so-called “dissonance engine” a piece of tech left behind by the Old Ones that can reshape worlds and open portals into anywhere including parts of the Webway which Vashtorr believes to be the hiding spot of an ancient vault full of knowledge and weapons from the War in Heaven that he wants to raid in order to become a Chaos God. After finally gathering all the pieces of the broken world together Vashtorr reassembled it and turned it into a Daemon World which Vashtorr rechristened as Wyrmwood. Before the Dark Angels or their newly returned Primarch Lion El'Jonson could try and kill Vashtorr or his Chaos allies for this offense Vashtorr activated the Dissonance Engine and opened a new portal into the Webway that absorbed Wyrmwood and thus allowed him and his allies to escape. Now the rest of the galaxy can only hope and pray that someone amongst them can track Vashtorr down and stop him before he can locate the Webway vault and uses it to ascend to godhood.
| Vessels of the Traitor Legions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spaceships | ||
| Space Station | Blackstone Fortress | |
| Super Battleships | Abyss | |
| Battleships | Battleship (Gloriana - Planet Killer) - Ark of Omen | |
| Cruisers | Light Cruiser - Cruiser Heavy Cruiser - Grand Cruiser | |
| Escorts | Escort | |
| Others | Silver Tower of Tzeentch | |
| Combat Spacecraft | Doomfire Bomber - Swiftdeath Fighter | |
| Landships | ||
| Siege Carriers | Siege Carrier | |
| War Machines | Chaos Harvester - Nurgle Plague Tower - Woe Machine | |
| Titans | Questor Scout Titan - Slaanesh Subjugator Feral Scout Titan - Ravager Battle Titan Chaos Warlord Titan - Chaos Emperor Titan Skull Reaper | |
| Troop Transports | Mastodon | |
| Superheavy Tanks | Baneblade - Fellblade - Plaguereaper Tower of Skulls | |
| Airships | ||
| Flying Fortress | Harbinger | |
| Aerospace Vessels | Stormbird | |
| Seaships | ||
| Oceanic Battleships | Oceanic Battleship | |