Shatterer-Class Grand Cruiser

The Shatterer class is an imposing yet relatively swift design of frontline Grand Cruiser designed by the Forge World of Novae IV, assembled to the specifications of the Primarch of the Second Legion and based on the Corinus class. It is mostly only found within the expeditionary fleets of the Obsidian Wyrms who commissioned it. It is armed with a massive Nova cannon as well as numerous Lance batteries and launch bays, allowing it to be a threat to larger battleships and clustered squadrons of smaller Voidships from extreme range. In addition to their role at the forefront of battlefleets, they are also more than capable of supporting a variety of ground assault and operations.

Core Components
At the heart of each Shatterer is a Class 8.4 Jovian Plasma Drive that is capable of providing immense amounts of power while still being shielded by complex failsafes, internal bulkheads, and superstructure reinforcement to protect it from the inevitable battle damage that any frontline ship is equipped to weather. Its bridge is similarly protected with thick extra layers of Adamantine. For faster-than-light travel, the Shatterer is equipped with a Miloslav H-616.b Warp Drive, allowing it to navigate the warp much more quickly than the average ship. Though it is said that these drives dangerously attract the attention of Warp predators, the time the ship actually spends within the Immaterium is reduced enough to make it difficult to prove any such effect. Moreover, Emergency Gellar Fields are capable of deploying themselves automatically if any form of anomaly is detected in Realspace.

Through the use of a triple Void Shield array, the Shatterer's shields are durable enough to be on the level of Imperial Battleships, allowing it to stand in the line of battle among such larger contemporaries if desired. Further reinforcing the already formidable resilience of the design achieved with previous components, the use of Clemency-patter Life Sustainers, which feature dispersed emergency void suit stations all across the ship, help prevent crew losses to depressurization were the shields and armor to both be breached. Its relatively spacious crew quarters and the bonding of ratings into cohesive clan or brotherhood unit ensures higher morale, loyalty, and that even the more humble menial will be ready to fight in case of boarding attempts. Finally, it mounts BG-15 assault scanners to bring its fearsome weaponry to bear against planetside targets and space stations.

Weapon Systems
The most fearsome weapon carried by the Shatterer class is a mammoth Nova Cannon running along its keel and outfitted with rift-spawning Vortex Warheads capable of crippling capital ships in one hit. So potent is the weapon that it can mangle entire squadrons of smaller escorts flying in close enough formation. The cannon is supplemented with several batteries of Godsbane pattern Lances, with each on its side and another set mounted on dorsal turrets and capable of firing in any arc. With these, the Shatterer is capable of rending apart heavy capital ships from a long distance. Finally, two Lathe-pattern landing bays round out the ship on each side, providing both a screen against hostiles and yet another means of striking at -or capturing - foes from extreme range.

Like any ship of the Legiones Astartes, the Shatterer allocates a decent amount of internal space to sizable barracks that can house either Legionnaires or Auxiliaries and their full equipment. A drop pod launch bay equipped with the versatile and reliable Anvillus pattern Dreadclaw allows this lethal complement to be dropped at the heart of any battlefield just as easily as they can serve as assault boats in boarding operations. The Grand Cruiser also features a large medicae deck given over to the Apothecarion of the Legion.