
Icon of the Blood Angels Chapter
Skyfall is a planetoid-sized, Ultrus-scale Imperial starport, orbital fleet dock, shipyard and defensive void station of the Blood Angels Chapter that is located within the Baal System in orbit of Baal.
Its surface is etched with a star map of the Imperium. The statue of an angel twenty miles tall, with a sword another seven miles long held aloft above its head, stands atop the starport.
Skyfall is under the command of the Blood Angels' eighth captain, who is known as the "Lord of Skyfall," and it has undergone a number of major renovations during the Era Indomitus. This was done to both repair the immense damage caused by the Tyranid invasion of the Baal System during the Devastation of Baal, and to transform Skyfall into a hub for starships based in and transiting through the star system.
Commander Dante intends for the Baal System to become the capital of the Imperium Nihilus since he was named as the regent of the Dark Imperium by Roboute Guilliman. Skyfall now reflects that new role for the Blood Angels, as the starport has been transformed so that thousands of orbital jetties now project from it. These allow Skyfall to service a massive number of starships simultaneously and also serve as the base of operations for the Blood Angels' newly-raised Fleet Nihilus armada.
Thousands of Adeptus Mechanicus Tech-priests drawn from numerous Forge Worlds of the Dark Imperium populate it. Their primary purpose is to repair, maintain and refuel the starships docked there.
Skyfall possesses the capacity to construct new Imperial warships, activity that is also overseen by the Mechanicus' Tech-adepts. The Blood Angels' own battle barge Baal's Fury was among the vessels constructed in the orbital docks of Skyfall.
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- Dante: Darkness in the Blood (Novel) by Guy Haley, Chs. 11, 15, 17, 25