BATTLESHIPS Battleship (BC) CRUISERS Grand cruisers (CC): Cruisers (CA): Cruisers are the backbone of most interstellar fleets. Big enough to engage anything short of a battleship in open combat. The Lunar-class cruiser is the most common major comb… more »

On the few occasions where the learned adept has a need for explaining the working of the warp to a layman he often resorts to using the parable of the ocean: The ocean is the warp and the voidship is just a ship sailing across the watery surface. Solar… more »

MERCHANT CHARTERS Each merchant ship serves its fleet under an arrangement called a merchant charter. The different types of charter are described below. They all take the form of a feudal oath sworn to the fleet authorities on behalf of the Emperor. A… more »

The chartist vessel the Misericord is easily the most infamous civilian ship in the Calixis sector. It is an ugly and enormous starship, looking like a barnacle- encrusted, spacefaring whale, from which jut haphazard clusters of engines and towers, and… more »

The galaxy has a million different types of starship weapons, but they can be grouped into the following broad categories based on their role and performance: Torpedoes: Torpedoes are massive guided missiles. How massive depends on the size of the vess… more »

MARINE SPACE ASSETS The Adeptus Astartes is not the Imperial Navy; it was never intended to fight fleet actions on its own. Marines do, however, have their own organic transport capability and support vessels. In this they differ greatly from the G… more »

The Mars-class Battlecruiser is an older STC-pattern that is currently out of favor with the Lord Admirals at Cypra Mundi, but remains an important part of Battlefleet Calixis. With few exceptions the Mars is the most potent warship available to a Calix… more »

The Sword-class Frigate has been an important part of Battlefleet Calixis even since before its founding. Numerous Sword-class vessels accompanied Angevin's armies into the Carlyx Expanse. Their role was to scout out new systems and watch out for enemie… more »

The Cobra-class destroyer is one of the smallest battle-worthy ships in Battlefleet Calixis, with a main hull measuring a little over 500 meters in length (the forward 'beak' and plasma baffles are in addition to this). As a military ship the Cobra is f… more »

The Imperial Lunar-class Cruiser is an uncomplicated but highly effective Cruiser that forms the backbone of the Imperial Navy, with over six hundred in service with the Imperium in Segmentum Obscurus alone. More than twenty served in the Gothic War. Pe… more »

The Imperial Dauntless-class light cruiser is optimized for scouting and escort duties. The Dauntless forms the mainstay of the CL component of Battlefleet Calixis, with an aestimated <censored> number of ships in active service at any given time.… more »

Space travel is certainly exotic and dangerous, but not to the extent that you've been led to believe in various heretical publications. If the interstellar ships are so rare and the trip so fraught with danger, it would mean that any interstellar commer… more »