THE IMPERIAL NAVY IN WARHAMMER 40000

the Imperial Navy welcome gentle listener I am Voldemort your faithful servant and I wish to introduce you to the factions faces and forces while the Warhammer 40K setting the Grim darkness of the far future where there is no time for peace there is only time for war we also have channels from mythology and natural history links in the description so like subscribe and throw me a coin if you enjoy the video more than usual or Patron of course now before we proceed a brief advert to help fund a house move I'm afraid sorry about that rage Shadow Legends where you too can be a legend Reed has been a constant support to the channels through tough times so throw the ball to Bone and why not get stuck in gone stand the thingy the Techno thingy and you will not regret it raid is the Premier mobile game and earns the title with fast-paced action and mechanics that allow for Solo or team play through the clan mechanic you will not be alone and it contains in-game material such as facing off 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it is our fourth anniversary and I do adore the fleet I don't know as much about them as I should and I will Rectify that very soon so let us do this an introduction to the nearest concept of the Imperial Navy now let us talk about scale size and please do just shut your eyes and think dream imagine them all for my words are merely the doorway into your imagination I want you to just this once not just listen and Nod or use this as a mere sleeping prop but to take just a few moments out to truly imagine to dream to visualize that which I am about to tell you alas I am no man of science though I find it fascinating this is just the result of even basic investigation so please do follow up and expand your knowledge even further but I myself was staggered for things have moved on so much in so many Arenas if you leave it for about one decade the things you once believed completely are now dwarfed by the progress that has occurred in near any discipline when I was growing up the universe seemed so much smaller for we did not have Hubble and other incredibly powerful telescopes so then I was right the universe according to Arcane was indeed much more compact then to the basic everyday man like myself yet now the numbers the scope of it all it can be suffocating it can make one feel insignificant yet please remember in all of this you are nobody will ever be the same as you think like you feel like you and experience what you have when you have in the period you have so just hold that tight and do not be overshadowed by the immensity of what I will impart for your star in this universe and never forget it so space the void from what we can directly discern at this present moment there should be at least 170 to 200 billion galaxies in our range of enhanced detection or current visibility yet past where we can discern there may be up to or even Beyond two trillion galaxies Yes you heard that right two trillion not planets not systems but galaxies each Galaxy is between one thousand to one hundred thousand parsecs in diameter being approximately three to three hundred thousand light years across those spiral patterns in the skies are indeed galaxies some much larger a few smaller but many of a size with our own the Milky Way in the void between each of these galaxies are up to millions of parsecs called Mega parsecs imagine that just for a moment the sheer vastness of the Void or most infinite always expanding into what well I shall allow you to explore that for yourselves yet this is the grand the canvas so I can show that the numbers we are about to discuss about our own place of origin seem less unrealistic in comparison they are rather small yet vast almost Beyond human conception hence I ask you to imagine to dream to leave cognition behind and permit your spirit itself to feel its way through this Labyrinth of Mind scrambling yet expanding knowledge now so commonplace yet not all are aware for some do not conceive it as relevant but I assure you it is for we are a part of this Glory now let us explore our own galaxy The Milky Way for in this our very backyard so to put it there are between 100 and 400 billion stars of course the specific numbers are highly conjectural and debated yet there are likely to be planets around the majority if not all of these Stars although it is almost unfeasible to imagine that all of these stars have habitable worlds around them that still means that the Milky Way galaxy is 100 to 400 000 times larger than the Imperial worlds that are claimed but this is not what we are led to believe in the Grim darkness of the far future for in this setting it is stated that there are a million worlds in the Imperium this is just an estimation a nice figure to round things out vanhun truly know how large it is not even the high Lords of Terror yet the Imperium is stated to spoil from one end of the Galaxy to near the other there are the fringes but the Galaxy is beyond the light of the astronomicon but the majority is proclaimed to be under the thrall of humanity yet this is not actually true not nearly for there are vast orc Empires necron Holdings expanding worlds annihilated by The Great Devourer the tune it high Fleet and all of this is within the supposed control of the Galaxy commanding Imperium nor are the numbers correct by huge golf he said that those writing the setting were utterly ignorant of the real scope of the Galaxy well yes and no yes as in one million World sounds almost impossibly large so would be used as a benchmark of size in those days of the last century so it could have been cheery not knowing yet there is another way of looking at things yes the numbers we are now used to hearing are far more expensive than those days as our Collective knowledge as a race has expanded but it is also in my humble opinion only a way to allow for wiggle room for the reality is that the Imperium is entirely controlled and its course of expansion directed by the warplanes and Mandeville points of the warp when a Starship of the Imperium goes into the warp there are places that appear as well trodden paths with Gates into reality that are ancient and specific the Mandeville point of a system yet this begs the question what happens with worlds that are without such lanes and this does indeed seem to be the vast majority if the Imperium is a mere million systems for if there is no warplane a Mandeville point to take the ship turn and then release into real space then it can still be done it can still be visited ships can still travel to these stars and worlds but they must then either Take the Long Haul of sub-light travel or must guesstimate where they are in the warp something in The Navigators do not consider prudent this means that if a world is Off the Grid so to put it then how would one even know what was happening to the exploratory Fleet that may have sojourned out to it for communication is performed through the warp and warp Lanes via astropathic choirs or taken in person important ships but if using sublight speed engines then it would take thousands of years to reach their destination and by this token it would take thousands of years to then get out a message of any form whatsoever hence the majority of the Milky Way galaxy despite the claims of the Imperium is entirely Uncharted for all we know there are literally millions of systems under the control Of Orcs or Worse out there perhaps the cybernetic war was not lost by the forces of artificial intelligence perhaps they merely hopped over to the worlds not on the warplanes and by that didn't would practically disappear perhaps the slot or even the rangan sit behind this veil in the same galaxy yet growing and preparing a host of ships and forces that would dwarf even that of the great Crusade perhaps there is evil or order that exists in numbers and with power that will Swatch the Imperium of man should it ever merely deign to transfer its existence into the words that are fought over so much by the younger races the necrons do not use warplanes at all so could the necron stretch be the tip of the iceberg alone the majority of their forces Awakening on worlds that will never ever be discerned by the Imperium Food For Thought indeed but why oh follicly challenged one are you talking about this so much when the topic of the day is Imperial Fleet one simple reason to explain what the Navy must be aware of at all points for they are not alone and sets can come out of literally nowhere for the dispositions of the Imperial Fleet can seem nonsensical to some surely the Navy should be almost exclusively stationed around a front where they are needed most the tear Across the Universe gawka marks grin where the rent caused by Abaddon the spoiler in his 13th Black Crusade broke through the line across the Galaxy that is like the eye of Terror with warped bleeds directly into the realm of reality from where Ahmad is of chaos traitor ships erupt on a near daily basis surely these places should be where the bulk of the fleet Master ready to push back the chaos filth wherever it rears its despicable head yet this is not so The indominus Crusade Fleet are vast collections of ships and yes indeed they do indeed Sally Forth to cut the head from the enemy snake to confront chaos and reclaim systems as they go but the majority of the Imperial Fleet is broken down into sectors and sub-sectors withstanding fleets it is all due to this scale it is because they really do not know where an enemy will come from where or even how the pilots of humanity alone can entire regions and starve populations yet this danger is magnified by the deafter Nimble fleets of the Eldar corsairs once before the Imperium before the Crusade before the Eldar Fall From Grace the Corsair fleets were the Eldar Navy ships and groups far enough away from the Eldar core worlds that they were not consumed by slaanish upon Awakening they are disciplined organized and deeply able again York free Buddha fleets the randomly Rush across a Galaxy gaining speed and momentum as they go if not checked early they can develop into full-blown wires and this is never a good thing for the Imperium with fraud migrations anomalous minor Empires either of breakaway clusters of stars occupied by humans or from xenos races that have either returned or have evolved or developed into a threat like the Tau let alone with the chaotic nature of the appearance of Traitor fleets it has proven impossible for the Imperium to defend its Holdings unless they use a careful disposition of their forces for what point is there in taking the war to the enemy if they are burning everything behind your lines Ergo the fleet is widespread and locally LED for the most part anyway there are rare occurrences dire threats that might lead to immobilization on a segmental basis but these are incredibly rare or at least for the last 10 000 years this has been so but with the necron tyranid and Oak threat now escalating to a level never before witnessed by the Imperium it is becoming all too frequent sometimes Conquest is so much easier than holding a region as it has always been one might surmise yet now it is more vital than ever for the Imperium has always been able to win the vast majority of its Wars via attrition and one cannot maintain the output required for the style of combat unless you hold on to your means of production not only are the materials of War but also those able to wage it for The Great Devourer converts all it consumes into Warriors for the next War the necrons can enslave any population they dominate to such an extent that they can either use them as Cannon for her using mind-shackling creatures or even make them undergo biotransference at least in older law the loss of ground will make further losses all the more likely the Imperium has only one true option to fight for every last word star and system or they will shrink into nothing and be consumed for it too now many will confidently State as they should that a true gift of humanity is innovation we should progress and develop new technologies that will counter these threats the skill that there must be amongst us such a mind-bogglingly large collection of homo sapiens alas as I will explain in my entry for the adapter's mechanic as this fall it is not that simple for the Lords of Technology the priesthood of Mars and all forged worlds have a complete Monopoly of not only the maintenance of all Machinery but also all information that could lead to innovation and the priests of Mars are so far from even understanding most of that which they zealously and jealously protect the technology that they burn all who question them any who perform what they deem Tech heresy and that is anything whatsoever that has not come from the past achievements of our people if it is not rediscovered Knowledge from the Dark Age of Technology when Humanity was at its cultural and scientific Zenith well it is classed as an Abomination one that should be put down with extreme prejudice to even ask why something works the way it does could lead to the question of being hurled into a forge fire people do not seem to be so enamored of exploring new potentials and as such they cannot usually move forward in any way whatsoever cannot develop new answers to new threats the only exception to this being the archdominus call of course but we shall get to him another time this also means that for a million small and deeply human reasons the level of technology is regressing and so all the ships which in any other setting or reality especially our own current ERA would be less and less valuable as time goes by refit some modifications would usually be performed on older craft to bring them back up to scratch and be more competitive with their enemies this is the usual way but in the Imperium in the Grim darkness of the far future this is not the case for the older ships will have more efficient drives better weapons better shielding and resource management the newer the vessel is usually the weaker it is now there are exceptions to this rule of course I can imagine many will pipe up with their own pet exception and I indeed hope that those listening will share their knowledge in the comments section but it is the exception that generally proves the rule now how long this will continue is anyone's guess as each of the primarks returned to the Imperium it is less and less likely to the technological stagnation will be permitted to continue as so many of the sons of the emperor were Artisans and Builders not only are weapons of war but in all ways so perhaps the entire setting will be overthrown soon at a bright new dawn of progress returned but in my humble opinion again this will be a fundamental shift in the very DNA of the setting and but just people like to push things forward to their own tastes and dreams often their mutation will lead to losing that which made a story unique and compelling a difficult tightrope to walk let us hope that it is done with care and love for that which is not taken for granted and thus wasted in the full orally to please all that is never possible so only a fool would try but let us move on hence we know why The Fleets are stationed where they are and why they operate the way they do on a strategic and logistic level we should get to the Tactical and force disposition soon enough so now we get to the bones of the issue how should one think of the Imperial Navy and all space combat in the Grim darkness of the far future now I have to State immediately that there are many interpretations of this Vision as there are many authors visual artists fans and animators who all have visions that are equally valid to some it is a fast-paced whirly gig of a frantic Fray akin to a fighter Battle of Star Wars where Capital ships stomp at each other and huge gouts of fire erupt from a vessel as it is torn apart in moments the fighter is able to hit key locations and eradicate the entire officer's staff but to others it is more like a slow suffocating U-Boat battle more looking to the original series of Star Trek but of course it is one that is punctuated by flashes of mind-crushing violence and Carnage depositioning and approaches of these fleets take not moments but hours or even days the battles are akin to ballets to the more advanced or tactically astute races a destruction Derby to the more forthright or brutal races for me the imagery and description I have loved the most with that of a Darkly Romantic Era of sale so I choose the latter the ships are huge communities in space where hundreds of thousands or even millions of men women and children live and die under the flag of the Navy and the ship's design and structure the way they engage is more akin to a Hornblower novel where huge ships of the line are designated by how many guns they had and if they were a first second or third ship of the line massive Monsters of vessels that do not annihilate each other in a single or even repeated salvos they do damage of course but rarely sink each other easy and then there is always the option of the larger or more aggressive ship crew to then approach an even board the enemy one imagines visions of pirates and Redcoats using grappling lines and Swinging ropes to board and a mad sword and spittle Coast quarters duels break out across the entire deck and if you saw this in your mind you're not far from the truth for the battleships Grand Cruisers light and heavy Cruisers frigates and destroyers of Maritime martial might are all too well transposed to the Imperial Navy of the 41st millennium each has its place in the line of battle and this imagery goes so much deeper than one might imagine for such a futuristic setting before we all forget sometimes What machines do even for us today in the third millennium now imagine that with winches and pulleys sheer sweat broken from a hundred bent backs that weapons are turned and the elevation altered these weapons are so fast they are reloaded to the beat of a drum and the orchestrated synchronous activity of families and clans who were born and grew then finally took their ancestral job of merely being the muscle for a simple activity we would expect to be done at the flick of a switch some ships are more advanced older ones but some are as basic as one can imagine and this is the confusing juxtaposition of the incredibly Advanced Weaponry that has been maintained being operated by people who can no longer understand why they work unlike Stone Age man they do everything via muscle and exertion that Humanity through the adeptus mechanicus can still mass-produce ships of the line yet they do not truly understand how any of the technology jigsaw pieces all fit together anymore much less why they use standard template constructs plans from the Dark Age of Technology as it is called by the Imperium now there are quite a few fleets in space many have different methods of propulsion weaponry and their approach to war yet they too generally conform to a version of this feel of the age of sale the Elder are more like Swift Cutters who dip in and out of range at a speed almost impossible for the Imperial Navy to match the necrons can teleport and gain tactical advantages the tyranids are sheer clouds of ships that attack in waves yet the field can remain if the description is done with care the Imperial Navy has been many things but subtle is not one of them they are very much modeled on the British Navy when it ruled the waves as it was said the largest of the ships the ones who can sustain the most damage but also dish out in time barashes it's called a capital ship or ship of the line these ships are then usually supported by escort craft in the form of frigates and destroyers now imagine if you can that the smallest of these ships the Destroyer starts at about 750 meters long reaching to over sometimes 1.5 kilometers long that's right kilometers these are the smallest combat ships of the Imperial Navy the Cruisers come in many forms as well but usually start at about five kilometers and the battleships well they start at six arranged to eight kilometers and more there are larger vessels like the Phalanx and some of the old Gloriana class ships possibly iron Clans but not many hence when you think of the Navy think not in terms of thousands but hundreds of thousands to many millions of crew the citizens of the Void Craft on which they sail the loss of a squadron of ships is a misery the loss of a flotilla a Calamity the loss of a fleet unthinkable uncountable especially those ships that are of incredible Antiquity those are often the most powerful due to it so the Imperial Navy has a strange set of mandates indeed and current drives that are utterly at odds for the very nature of this much slower or more slogging and sinnest avoided war as something that can take a very long time indeed a fleet must come through the Mandeville point which is in many cases at the outskirts of the system then used a huge plasma sublight engines to approach the region of the system they need to be in this can take days or even weeks in some cases depending on the size of the system if the foe sees them coming which they will then they have every opportunity to clear out they can head around the fleet for the Mandeville point and sort off into the warp and off they go they can play hide and seek in the many asteroid Fields or around other celestial bodies planets moons and the like so that they can drag out a situation for weeks or even more they can then return to wherever they were bombing into Oblivion subjugating or extorting from orbit as soon as the Imperial Navy ships leave for leave they always must there are so many calls for assistance across any sector the prolonged engagements ought to be voided at all costs well nearly all and it is in the nature of the Imperial Fleet to want to get in close to their opponent and crush them in one drawn out decisive battle rather than elegant intelligent clashes for they need to resolve the issue immediately and then remove themselves and here is where the conflict is highlighted best the Imperial Navy likes up close nasty and Final yet they do not cannot truly risk some of their best ships it is only the skill and cunning experience and dedication of the Imperial officers that permits them to walk this Razor's Edge and you had best believed that their officers are some of the best Humanity has ever produced but we shall get into that in another video now to the general design ethos of the Imperial Fleet its design Dogma for I hope that you may have seen the visual prompts in this video or at least are aware of how they look should you be using this as noise alone but the designs you see or know are not purely aesthetic in their nature oh no those are very accurate depictions of exactly what these ships are one has only to look at them to know when a visceral feral instinctive level exactly what they do and it is not Gentile refined or subtle the majority of capital ships of the Imperial Fleet have a massive prowl on the front of their ships this is no fashion statement it is a weapon of War for these prows will have many feet sometimes ranging into hundreds of feet of armor this is for two reasons the first is because the Imperial Fleet like its British Naval equivalent will form a line and then plow through space towards the enemy the front armor is for when the void Shields May Crack and then not cycle up on time rareness this is it allows Imperial ships to sustain brutal amounts of damage before being truly affected let alone crippled or destroyed while the Imperial ships close with the Enemy they will launch huge Torpedoes like missiles into the void now more often than not they will miss but with huge proximity blast being able to be Unleashed from them a direct hit is not always required but when one of these massive missiles does hit it does damage on a level the terrestrial combatants would not dream possible they are more often than not used to fire above below port or starboard of the approaching or defending enemy shams they are used to cut off the enemy and final them towards the Imperial Fleet for this is where the second use of this massive prowl comes in if the enemy survived the front-facing Torpedoes and large fire as the lead ship or ships then the prowl is used as it was in The Aquatic days they Ram the enemy for there are a few ships in space that are as robustly constructed as those of humanity and that has been the end of many a xenos crew and vessel entire when they played chicken with an Imperial cruiser or above for they merely speed up and crash through the opponent with ease and then the true hell of the Navy has Unleashed for the middle elongated segment of each ship of any substance has a range of macro Cannon batteries there and they do just as one would expect they fire rolling broadsides into their enemy one gun after an hour firing down the line so as not to throw the firing vessel of course through recoil alone for any one of these cannons can be the size of a tower block a weapon that most cities would consider a cultural and technological Colossus and the Imperial Navy have entire Banks of them on their ships again as with ships of the pirate age yoho-ho the far from these ships at close range is able to tear through most ships across their entire access and many will not survive this event alas with the Imperial Navy flagships of its own caliber and design like chaos Trader ships of the line then engagements can go on for hours or even days if cunning maneuvering is performed as with the ships of the Spanish Armada versus their Ingress counterparts they may well far into each other all day and blow huge gouts out of their side but rarely is a ship sunk in these engagements not unless it is cut off from its allies surrounded and then pounded remorselessly so too is it with the larger Capital ships of the Navy when fighting their own kind it is a drawn out and horrific type of war that leaves only those on the bridges of the ships truly aware events being played out entire generations of families will huddle in the lowest decks while the armsmen prepare to board or be boarded the Gunners reload and fire reload and fire the engines are up kept and tortured for more power by the resident Tech Priests of Mars and none truly know how well or badly they have done one can guess of course if you are not sustaining hits that make the entire ship judder as if it were about to fall apart if your advantage to see out a window and somehow the enemy are close enough to witness and all is on fire apart from your own ship yes then perhaps one can know that you are winning but this is rare indeed most of the crew the very citizens of these vast Craft only know if they have won when they are told to stand down or they witness their ship being destroyed or lastly and this is all too common when fighting many opponents the first they know that things are lost is when a treated chain ex-wielding cultist or even a starty Space Marine distorting its way through them but to those of the officers on the bridge or at strategic points in some ships it is a desperate battle between two tribes and the only result possible is the death of one or the other the Imperial Navy may seem like a blunt instrument and perhaps I should denote more time to declaring all of their tactics that I know at this present moment but in reality I shall be displaying some of this in my ongoing narrative works again soon so wish to move on a bit if you do wish to see what a battle is according to me at least with my limited skills then go watch my videos on abundance tertiers I can assure you there will be much more Fleet action in the future the near future so let us push on there are many weapons that are just this style or more to put it they supplement it some ships have Nova cannons some have huge hangers filled with the attack craft the Navy use for void conflict in these cases those flotillas or freed assets that contain these weapons may be more likely to be at longer range punishing the enemy before they close at the very least now the capital ships especially but near all combat vessels of the Imperium have what are called void Shields ubiquitous invisible egg of power around any ship that is seen in so many science fiction settings yet the void Shields of the Imperium are as usual a little different a little more interesting because they are not just barriers of a sort of hardened energy so just for fun and Old Times Sake for the very Basics let us lean on existing wisdom to quote void Shields avoid tune is a special form of energy field employed by the Imperium of man's various military forces to protect void ships and super heavy Vehicles like Imperial Titans from enemy attacks void Shields use Imperial warp based technology to both power the Shields and then this space-ranged attacks by subtly distorting the localized space-time around the point of impact it is unclear whether Voyage yields neutralize the incoming projectile or Direct Energy beam in real space through the manipulation of gravitic or other physical forces transporting it directly into the warp or whether some other method is deployed to displace the damaging force of a physical attack upon the vehicle or vessel void Shields seem to be able to be penetrated in some instances if an incoming projectile is moving below a certain minimum speed Imperial void Shields act in the same manner as awk custom force fields though awk energy Fields like all green skin technology are far less reliable and tend to be inoperable by other intelligent species without access to the Gestalt wa energy once downed inversely Imperial void Shields can be reactivated after being collapsed even during battle in void combat void Shields do not protect from close combat assault or other vehicles moving through them to then attack the shielded vehicle or vessel void Shield generators can be used to protect a padside military installation as well such Shields are also used by Imperial military and civilian void ships to survive the hostile environment that is the vacuum of space Shields form an invisible band of energy around the vessel a variable layer of force can absorb radiation Interstellar dust and particle showers as well as weapon hits Voyage Shields have a maximum tolerance and can be overloaded by sustained weapons fire or massive collisions forcing the generators to shut down temporarily to vent the excess kinetic or Direct Energy leaving the ship's unprotected Hull open to attack on ships with multiple void Shields or void Shield Banks it has been said that the voyage Shields must be calibrated to overlap perfectly or weak spots can occur these chinks and the shields appear to be undetectable to anything but direct visuals and can cause catastrophic voyageured bank failure when shot at by titan-sized weapons or capital ship weapons void sheets are also said to whine audibly when active and physical against one another when touching or overlapping notable void Shield variants the triple void Shield array the ancient Grand Cruisers occasionally still operated by the Imperial Navy and certain fabulously wealthy Rogue Trader dynasties possess Titanic layered Banks of antiquated void Shields that fill cavernous field decks the size of small towns these are hellish compartments rank with the stage of ozone and prone to unpredictably deadly arcs of lightning from copper discharge points as the onion layered void Shields are pounded by enemy Ordnance Grand Cruisers are capable of mounting triple layers of void Shields making them more durable than all but battleships The Reflex Shield a reflex Shield is an ancient variant of void Shield technology that were used by The Starships of the Raven guard Legion as a cloaking device to protect them from detection by enemy sensors and even the naked eye The Reflex Shield technology was developed as a notable feature the shadow of the emperor The Raven guard legion's Flagship during the Great Crusade and Horus heresy and quote well that was Johnny now pushing on to the organization of the fleet the fleet is broken into five administrative zones the segmentum obscurus to the galactic north of Terror based out of cypromundi the segmentum Ultima to the galactic east of Terror based out of Cardenas the segmentum tempestness to the galactic South based out of Barca the segmentum pacificus to the galactic west of Taylor based out of hydropoor finally there is a battle feat of the segmentum solar based out of the Iron Ring of Mars itself battlefreed solar is the most prestigious and thus powerful of all the regions as the final step on most careers that lead to being on the high Lords Of Terror representing the Navy and Tire each of these regions are made up of sectors and sub-sectors with their own standing fleets and it is stated that the core of most sector fleets is between 50 and 75 Capital ships so that many Cruisers and battleships as the core the escorts can be in the many hundreds to support such a collection of ships of the line yet one would remember that each escort is often a kilometer itself it gives you the scale of a massed fleet-sized action now it would be exceptionally rare for the entire congregation to be called upon to fight the one battle it would take an existential threat to the region to permit this for each ship taken into such a mammoth Armada would then be drawn away from its Regional patrols unable to counter invasions Pilots xenos or emergencies of any form they would not be able to protect the trade gun voice that allow food and resources to travel from one system to another the Imperium is a massive entity and many of its worlds are utterly specialized so an agrarian world Farm world may well feed many many worlds in its near orbit if trade and resource allocation ends then that region will starve then stagnate hence any large-scale engagement often comes at the cost of countless words being gnawed away by opportunistic enemies it has been calculated by more than a few people very smart people that are numbers involved in the Imperial Navy are indeed staggering yet with the amount of space that they have to defend it is in reality not nearly enough and the Navy is also probably the most important of all for each world or system is akin to an island in the dark of the Void detached and alone and when you are an island then the Navy is a senior service and this is the same in the Imperium it may not be acknowledged at councils especially those of War but even the Inquisition think twice about interfering or attempting to commandeer a combat vessel and what point is as the meritarum the Imperial Guard without Transit how effective in a distant War are the Scions the knights or even Titans without transporter take them to The Fray for the history of the Navy is surprisingly simpler well it is to me today at the very least when the emperor burst from holy Terror he first moved on Mars he offered them near unlimited autonomy unbelievable at the time saw that his great Crusade would find many a scattered Forge World out in the distant Stars and that automatically these would be considered the possession of the mechanicum when met hence their mechanicum created the fleet and knights and Titans that would be required to transport and assist allegiance of Space Marines to conquer the Galaxy but then the fleet was subservient to the Emperor of course but also the primarks and other Regional Lords of the solar auxiliar when the Horus heresy ended when the scouring had run its course rebute Gilman reconstructed every wing of the Imperial War Machine and he broke them apart regiments of Imperial Army were not to be mixed arms anymore the artillery were cut from the Cavalry were separated from the Infantry etc etc the lesions were broken up into chapters and the Navy was unlashed from the all no longer could a general order them to give his forces transport by Breaking All of These Wings apart some might state that this created more levels of bureaucracy more delays on activity as men of equal rank but in different organizations would need to haggle or appeal to higher powers to force a cohesive response to any attack yet this was all done to limit the power of any one leader be they Primark War master or Regional general or Admiral none would hold so much power as they could wage war alone none could amass such loyalty from their forces as they would ever be tempted to mimic Sula a march on Rome none would have the power to challenge The Golden Throne and high Lords ever again so the Navy has been given the most powerful position in many regards for surely they absorb the greatest amount of resources in both materials rare technology and even in Manpower some might contend but I think the administratum and even the ecclesiarchy may have something to say about that but all this aside the cost of the fleet to maintain is eye-watering yet without this expense the other assets are utterly redundant there is only one force that does not rely on the ships of the Navy and that is the angels of death the chapters of the Space Marines they have their own strike Cruisers and battle barges are provided escorts as they require yet even these doubty Warriors will call upon the assistance of the Navy when required the estati's feet are lethal but it is often due to the weapons they carry their studies for boarding pods firing Space Marines into confined Quarters on an enemy vessel is often the last thing they see before being torn apart by chain swords and bolters few things in the universe can match the Marines in this conditions very few indeed but where an enemy may need encouragement to close to avoid fire or to be a lame duck to act as bait these staties will call upon their freed allies when necessary the Navy is where the true Firepower is the true versatility and in the dire circumstances where they do not require to fight it is a fool of a chapter master who believes he can take his Naval opponents lightly now I feel that we have the general gist of the fleet I shall wrap this one up for I think the ship classes and officer ranks the terrible weapons they use should be covered in the videos of the future and if I am honest I would really like to do much more reading before going into more of these ships they are more interesting than one might initially think and I would not want to sell even one of them short and I hope you will join me then I have been Voldemort your faithful servant a huge thanks to Ray sponsoring this video so do check the links in the description and get stuck in and you will also in the description find links to our mythology Channel which is presently doing the tail end of Greek mythology but 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Channel: Baldermort's Guide to Warhammer

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Keywords: Warhammer 40K lore, Warhammer 40000 lore, Warhammer Lore, Baldemort, Baldermort's Guides, THE IMPERIAL NAVY IN WARHAMMER 40000, imperial Navy in 40K, warhammer ships, Warships of the imperium, Imperial Fleets, Imperial Navy, Warhammer stories, Warhammer lore, warhammer 40K lore, War, Battleships, Cruisers, Frigates, Destroyers, History of the Imperial Fleet, Capital Ships in warhammer 4000, Baldermort's Guide to Warhammer, 40k

Id: -u9yh_v9v2c

Length: 49min 51sec (2991 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 18 2023