>>5245709I kinda feel like finding the Speranza may be more useful/feasible. It had a very awake machine spirit, more than usual, and isn't lost in the warp but on a forge world.
Probably Mars might also get us connected enough to get a different Ark Mechanicus if finding a lost one is too hard.
Kinda sad QM wants Ark Mechanicus' to be small(er) or consistent in size but I understand if that's how he wants to balance. Their size varies in some of the book lore where a few are continent/approach glorianas.
What I'd love to do is instead of getting an Imperial Gloriana ship, we try to upsize an Ark Mechanicus into an Ark-Gloriana. So we have a faster battleship to traverse the galaxy with where the Blackstone fortress is our slow and heavy hitter. And unlike all the other primarchs, we don't have to haggle with Mars when we ourselves become the Fabricator General.
Not like Dorn traveled around everywhere on the Phalanx, he mostly kept it around earth IIRC.
