ISV Atropos

A HAPSIS-operated Imperial survey vessel tasked with leading the Atropos Expedition to the planet Nairi in the Outer Perseus. Commanded by Sir Damien Aradhya and commissioned by Emperor Sebastian XII, the Atropos transported a team of magi, xenologists, and Legion engineers to excavate the ancient cliffside ruins of the Vaiartu, believed to house the tomb of a Watcher (Monumental). Aradhya and his team discovered the ancient civilizations worshipped these fallen Monumentals. Though initial reports were promising, contact was lost, and decades later the ship was discovered abandoned in orbit, its entire crew found dead on the planet’s surface in what was ruled a mass suicide. The mission marked the Empire’s first direct encounter with a Monumental and initiated the covert, centuries-long Operation Gnomon.