The Divine Retribution is an oddity. Built in 113-175.M39 it was originally intended to be a Battle Barge for a freshly founded chapter. Work was well under way on the ship until two things happened: the first was the fact that said chapter had turned traitor. The second was that a medium size WAAAGH! attacked the forge world where the ship had been constructed. While it had been successfully repelled, considerable damage had been incurred both by the defending squadrons and the shipyards themselves. Even so, Segmentum Command's requirements for warships remained unchanged. As such, much of the components of the unfinished Astartes vessel was incorporated with more common systems to create a new Imperial Navy battleship.









Despite some awkwardness that made it more maintinece intensive and required nearly twice as many Techpriests as her more conventional counterpart the Divine Retribution served with distinction for the next nineteen centuries, being involved in engagements with the Orks, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Tyranids and the forces of the Ruinous Powers. Despite this, she was lost with all 1,300,000 hands and 100,000 passengers in 037.M42. It's wreckage was not recovered , though this in of itself was not unusual





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