| rdfs:comment | - The deck spaces of the Hrafnkel, vast as cityscapes, constantly heaved with activity. Hundreds of thousands of naval ratings, Space Wolves thralls and Servitors worked to status-sweep the colossal voidship from its last translation out of the Warp and prep it for the next immaterial transfer. Deck plates and interior struts were constantly examined and reinforced. Powerlines were tested. In some stretches of companionway, inspection plates would be lifted in forty- or fifty- metre long trenches. In the lofty arming chambers, veritable cathedrals of war, automated hoists raised payloads of void munitions from the armoured magazines to delivery points where gunnery trains coiled like sea-worms, waiting to thread the service arteries of the ship and deliver the titanic warheads to the Hrafnke
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| abstract | - The deck spaces of the Hrafnkel, vast as cityscapes, constantly heaved with activity. Hundreds of thousands of naval ratings, Space Wolves thralls and Servitors worked to status-sweep the colossal voidship from its last translation out of the Warp and prep it for the next immaterial transfer. Deck plates and interior struts were constantly examined and reinforced. Powerlines were tested. In some stretches of companionway, inspection plates would be lifted in forty- or fifty- metre long trenches. In the lofty arming chambers, veritable cathedrals of war, automated hoists raised payloads of void munitions from the armoured magazines to delivery points where gunnery trains coiled like sea-worms, waiting to thread the service arteries of the ship and deliver the titanic warheads to the Hrafnkel's batteries. Regiments of men, dwarfed by the arched vaults, would unpack weapons and lay them out in rows along the deck to be stripped and hand-checked before distribution to the troop contingents. The moaning shiver of the warship's vast engines would rise and fall, swelling and dying away, making the intensity of the deck lights rise and fall as its powerful Warp-Drive was tested.
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