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Furious Abyss

Furious Abyss — a huge Abyss-class super-battleship built in secret in the shipyards of Thule (a hollow moon of Jupiter blown up for the sake of secrecy) and presented to the Word Bearers in order to hasten the assault on Macragge and cripple the Ultramarines before Calth. Destroyed by a loyalist boarding action (Ultramarines, Space Wolves, World Eaters and Thousand Sons) under Lysimachus Cestus, who overloaded the reactor; the traitors had to face undamaged Ultramarines at Calth.

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Ship
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Traitors
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Super-battleship of the Word Bearers (XVII); Abyss-class, the first of its class, built in secret at the Jovian shipyards of Thule by Kelbor-Hal’s Dark Mechanicum. Sister ships — _Blessed Lady_ and _Trisagion_.

Fate

DESTROYED before reaching Macragge — a loyalist boarding party under the Ultramarine Lysimachus Cestus overloaded its plasma reactor.

Key events

Sources

  1. WH40k Fandom: Furious Abyss
  2. Battle for the Abyss (Ben Counter)
  3. Atlas compilation · source check 2026
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