Emperor's Gaze

The Emperor's Gaze is a diplomatic vessel that was lost within the early days of the Achilus Crusade. Indeed, it became subsumed into Mortis Thule, yet somehow survive impact with the dreaded space hulk, along with its crew.

History
The vast mass of Mortis Thule is made up of starships of all types, as well as space borne rock and other debris. It has long been noted that much of the wreckage of which the space hulk is composed is destroyed beyond any hope of the crew having survived the calamitous accidents that drew their vessel to its doom.

Very occasionally, however, a ship caught up in the draw of Mortis Thule survives the impact and meld in such a state that many of its crew do too. Such was the rare example set by the Emperor's Gaze.

The ship was struck off of the crusade's fleet registry when it was determined that it had somehow become lost in the Warp.

Near the end of the 41st Millennium, however, doubts as to the ultimate fate of the Emperor's Gaze began to emerged, many of them voiced by the extended kin of the Navigator that was guiding the vessel through the Warp at the time of its loss.

In short, the Navigator's peers assert that had the soul of one of their own been claimed by the denizens of the Sea of Souls, then every other Navigator within a hundred light years would instantly have known of it and shared a portion of his torment. After decades of searching, the Navigator's family have come to believe that that vessel must still be adrift somewhere within the Jericho Reach, though beyond this they have no solid theories.