Emporer class battleship Sword of Ravira

The ninth battleship to be used in battlefleet Valhalla and the third to carry the flag. She is commanded by Admiral Ivan Potenko, a veteran of over 55 years in naval service, and the venerable ship herself has seen over 500 years of service since she was christened and replaced her Oberon class predecessor. Sword of Ravira has seen seven encounters with Ork Hulks, and 125 greater and minor encounters with other Xenos races in her time in the Valhallan sector.

At the start of the war in the Armageddon Sector, the Sword and her primary escort squadrons, as well as two additional cruisers, were in the sector for the Mechanicus to make routine inspection and maintenance that could not be performed in orbit over Valhalla. The operations were completed 5 hours prior to the first alert of Ork presence, and subsequently, Admiral Potenko refused to leave the sector. The Valhallan expeditionary force found itself operating closely with responding Space Wolves fleets, providing an anvil the Space Marines required to stem the flow of inbound Ork ships.