Vanquisher-class Battleship

What records survive indicate that the Vae Victus, a Vanquisher-class Battleship is a unique vessel constructed in the orbital shipyards of Hydraphur in the late 32nd millennium. Built at the request of High Lord Javor, the Vae Victus is the only Vanquisher Class Battleship to ever have seen service. No other vessel of this design has ever been recorded, although records are fragmentary others may have existed.

Following its construction the battleship saw action during the Pacification of Magdellan and the Saint-Saen Crusade. Whilst on this extended crusade the vessel was recorded as 'lost in the warp' with all hands. Believed thrown wildly off course by warpstorms the Vae Victis returned some two-hundred years later. Records do not detail the intervene years.

Over the next millennia the ship's design underwent an extensive refit, launch bays were removed in favour of forward torpedo rooms. The two antiquated bomber launch tubes are still visible on the vessel beneath the armoured prow. Following heavy battle damage to the ''Vae Victis' main engines the ship's propulsion system was radically redesigned. What could be salvaged was converted into the upper engine room, whilst a second lower engine was added. She then returned to patrol duty.

Aged and suffering continued problems with the twin engine units, the Vae Victis was mothballed as part of the fleet reserve in the 38th millennia and left in a stationary orbit around Drawkesd. Weapon and shield systems were stripped for reuse. For long years the battleship was left to decay in a forgotten back-world. Recently, increased pressure on Battlefleet Segmentum resources has led to the Vae Victis being recommissioned. She is currently undergoing rearmament and crew training before resuming active service.