Steel of Determination

The Steel of Determination is the personal voidcraft and flagship of Raven Halmer, Chapter Master of the Night Hammers and Bane of the Warmaster. Found in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy by the Astartes while in the service of the Black Legion, the 600-metre frigate fought often against the loyalist fleets of the Imperial Navy and the Space Marines.

Design
The design of the Steel of Determination is not something that would be associated with an Imperium warship. Standing at only 600 metres long and about 120 metres wide, her angles are elegant and sharp compared to the blockiness of many modern warships in M42. However, her size contains a power that even many cruisers and battleships can barely match up to. Steel of Determination is a vessel from the Dark Age of Technology, equipped with ancient and powerful technologies. The most prominent of these is the Stealth Cloak, a generator that can make the ship go invisible both to sensors and to the human eye. Another is the Jump Drive, an arcane device that allows the ship to go FTL and jump without using the Warp. This reduces the crew count considerably.

Weapons are also not to be laughed at. For ship-to-ship engagements Steel of Determination has a mix of kinetic artillery, lance batteries and dark matter phase beams able to slice through most ships like a hot knife through butter. Energy point defences are included to counter boarding craft, torpedos and fighters. The ship does rely on these point defenses for protection as the ship has no void shields and little plating.

Seven hangars, three on each flank amidships and one massive dorsal hangar, provide shelter for transport craft and fighters.