Editing Imperial Navy Escort (section)

==== Fire Ship ====

[[File:FireShip.jpg|250px|right|thumb|When you want to blow the opposing fleet the fuck up. Accept no substitutes.]]

Giant kamikaze ICBMs. 

No really, these are considered as one of the most cost-effective ways for the Imperium of Man to repurpose its ships no longer considered viable in the line of duty; where even a retrofit into a different class is no longer viable.

Like the Fire Ships of old. 40k's Fire Ships are old vessels that are packed with incendiary explosives and then guided into the heart of an enemy fleet and detonated. The resulting explosion causes massive damage to any nearby ships. Although, it’s not a suicide mission as the skeleton crews are provided with plentiful escape pods/boats. The Imperium is willing to spend any number of lives but usually genuinely tries to spend as few as strictly necessary, contrary to common belief and popular memes. Some captains or crews decide to stay to the end anyway to make sure they get into just the right detonation position.

Fire ships were first used in the [[Gothic War]] during the defence of Delos, when Commodore Kurtz used two of them to cripple the Unforgivable. You'd think someone would have reinvented this [[Age of Terra]] technique way before the 140's M41, considering the sheer amount of vessels that must have become unsalvageable over the millennia. If anything, M41 seems more like the millennium after The Scouring than the War of the Beast did.

*'''Length:''' 1-8km
*'''Mass:''' 0.9-24 megatonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' 50-300 crew
*'''Acceleration:''' 5.6-7.1 gravities max sustainable acceleration; approx