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Phalanx is gargantuan, the largest starship known to have been constructed by Human hands, and something of its magnitude has not been seen since the Dark Age of Technology.

The Emperor duly welcomed Dorn then returned the massive spacecraft to the primarch after he was appointed as the commander of the VII th Legion. The massive vessel was given as a gift to the Emperor of Mankind when Dorn was discovered near the Ice Hives of Inwit by his gene-father during the outset of the Great Crusade. Originally, the Phalanx was discovered adrift in space by the Imperial Fists' Primarch Rogal Dorn. Officially, the homeworld of the Imperial Fists is always listed as Terra, but in reality, the Phalanx serves as the Imperial Fists' true base of operations.

The great mobile fortress-monastery of the Imperial Fists Chapter, Phalanx, in combat with the foe.

Venerable Phalanx has many more battles yet to fight and many more blows to strike in the name of Rogal Dorn. Though Phalanx is a wan shadow of its former glory, the starship's might still outshines any other vessel known to Mankind, and its name strikes terror into the hearts of the Imperium's foes. It has departed the Sol System only rarely in recent times, its venerable engines coaxed to life in service of great vengeance or dire need. Once, Phalanx bestrode the stars as a colossus of war, but now its zenith has passed. Despite the efforts of the Imperial Fists Techmarines, more of the mighty vessel's systems fail each standard year, and the skill required to repair them has long passed out of living memory. Yet the passing millennia have not been kind to Phalanx, and constant vigilance and warfare have taken their inevitable toll. Since that time, it has circled the Sol System, its orbit synchronous with that of sacred Terra, an ever-vigilant golden sentinel to safeguard the cradle of Mankind as the days grow darker. In the days of the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, its shadow fell across hundreds of worlds, the fury of the Imperial Fists following close behind. The secrets of Phalanx's construction are long-forgotten, though it is known that the Primarch Rogal Dorn brought it into the Emperor's service at the time of their first meeting, and it has performed proudly ever since. In form and scale, it is nearer a planetoid than a conventional vessel it is a mighty cathedral of war that dwarfs the largest Battle Barge, and wields the firepower of a formidable ﬂeet. Phalanx is essentially a mobile, pre-Imperial battle station that serves as both the Imperial Fists' Chapter homeworld and their foremost warship. Every surface was clad in solid armour plating and every angle was covered by more torpedo tubes and lance batteries than any Imperial battleship could muster' and with 'thousands of battle-honours and campaign markings all over the beak-like prow.' Two wings swept back from the hull, trailing directional vanes like long gilded feathers. It is also described as a ship that is 'many kilometers long, triangular in cross-section with its upper surface bristling with weapons and sensorium domes. These include a structure of 'towering forests of spires interlaced with flying buttresses' or a structure that leads observers to believe Phalanx 'might have been a planetoid or minor moon.' There are various descriptions of the general shape and exterior character of the great starship. The vast starship is completely mobile and capable of travel through the Warp and often follows the Imperial Fists Chapter as it moves throughout the galaxy. Phalanx is so large that it reflects light like the stars themselves, and it served as a symbolic representation of the Emperor Himself during the time of the Great Crusade. In many ways, Phalanx is the only vessel ever built by Mankind that comes close in size and complexity to that of the Aeldari's craftworlds.

The vessel is essentially a hive city in space, with its great spires reaching towards the stars, giving it the appearance of a giant mace-head. The size of a small moon or large asteroid, its foredeck can dock a dozen Imperial Navy cruisers around its circumference. Phalanx itself is gigantic, the largest starship known to have been constructed by Human hands, and something of its magnitude has not been seen since the Age of Technology. Phalanx is the massive starship that serves as the mobile fortress-monastery of the Imperial Fists Space Marine Chapter and was constructed many millennia ago by unknown hands during the Dark Age of Technology long before the Age of the Imperium. Phalanx, the mobile fortress-monastery of the Imperial Fists Chapter and the greatest starship in service to the Imperium.

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