Sword Armada

the Sword Armada

The Sovereign's undefeated Jupiter-bound war fleet under Roque au Fabii—her instrument of fear, and Darrow's chosen prey.

Story so far

The Sword Armada is the greatest fleet the Sovereign wields short of the Sceptre Armada at Luna—the iron hand by which she binds the worlds. Sent hundreds of millions of kilometers to Jupiter to crush the Rim's Second Moon Rebellion, it carries over two million souls, ten thousand Obsidian, two hundred thousand Grays, and three thousand Peerless Scarred, reinforced by Antonia. Commanded by Roque au Fabii, it has shattered every fleet thrown at it—Mustang's, the Telemanuses', the Arcoses'—and never been defeated.

Because it hangs isolated a billion kilometers from support, Darrow chooses it as the target that will 'rip the beating heart out of the Society war machine.' When the nuke evidence turns Romulus against the Sovereign, Roque, denied the Rim's surrender, vows the Armada will darken the Moon Lords' worlds and burn Ilium—declaring a battle of annihilation in forty days.

Appearance

A vast war fleet of Society dreadnoughts, torchships, and destroyers, over two million crew, bristling with the Sovereign's Peerless knights and legions, unbeaten and far from home.

Role

The Sovereign's undefeated Jupiter fleet; the war machine's heart Darrow means to destroy at Ilium, commanded by the poet Roque.

Relationships

Roque — Its brilliant, undefeated Imperator, who commands it against Rim and Rising alike.

Darrow — The Reaper who abandons Mars to hunt and destroy it in the moons of Jupiter.

Romulus au Raa — The Rim Sovereign it besieges, turned against the Society when its nuclear cargo is exposed.

Antonia — The Julii traitor dispatched to reinforce it in Roque's campaign against the Rim.

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Chapter 42

The Sovereign's undefeated Jupiter-bound war fleet under Roque au Fabii—her instrument of fear, and Darrow's chosen prey.