Mars-class Battlecruiser - Kuznetsov

The Kuznetsov began life as a Tyrant-class cruiser, charged with patrolling the farthest border of the Valhallan sector - a long and desolate road seeing little action, but direly near to the Maelstrom. It was on one of her usual patrols that the Kuznetsov was ambushed by the newly-founded Red Corsairs. Her big batteries proved too much for the now renegade marines, and she was able to come about and begin a slow journey back to Valhalla. Her luck would not hold out, though, for a single ork Raider found her and cut her in half before moving off to find more worthy prey.

The Kuznetsov was salvaged and rebuilt as a Mars battlecruiser, sacrificing one of her great batteries for launch bays and gaining two dorsal lance turrets.