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| - The Imperial Navy is by far the most important purchaser of warships in the Imperium of Man. The economies of entire sub-sectors are devoted to supporting the manufacture and supply of these mighty spacecraft, principally in regions which serve the greater Forge Worlds such as Mars or Cypra Mundi. It is extremely rare for private customers to have the resources to purchase a whole new Cruiser outright. Rare, but not unknown. The Imperium, despite its complex feudal hierarchy, does occasionally produce the extremely wealthy individual, or dynasties with the financial wherewithal to commission the manufacture of a bespoke Cruiser. These are not rusty and echoing mothballed, second-hand Cruisers from the wrecking yards or naval reserve fleets, but shining new vessels built to the quixotic spe
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| - The Imperial Navy is by far the most important purchaser of warships in the Imperium of Man. The economies of entire sub-sectors are devoted to supporting the manufacture and supply of these mighty spacecraft, principally in regions which serve the greater Forge Worlds such as Mars or Cypra Mundi. It is extremely rare for private customers to have the resources to purchase a whole new Cruiser outright. Rare, but not unknown. The Imperium, despite its complex feudal hierarchy, does occasionally produce the extremely wealthy individual, or dynasties with the financial wherewithal to commission the manufacture of a bespoke Cruiser. These are not rusty and echoing mothballed, second-hand Cruisers from the wrecking yards or naval reserve fleets, but shining new vessels built to the quixotic specifications of eccentric and boundlessly conniving individuals. The Ambition is representative of such a type of ship. A handful of warships of this rare class have emerged intermittently from the orbital Kormisoshi Dockyards of the Calixis Sector over the past thousand standard years, each a phenomenally expensive purchase. They are true Cruisers, with the ability to pack as much firepower as a Lunar or Tyrant-class ship of the Imperial Navy, though they have never been tested in combat against them, to anyone's knowledge.
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