Chained Souls

The Chained Souls is a slave ship in the Merchant Fleet arm of the Imperial Fleet and is under the command of House Hawkwood as part of their Hereditary Free Charter. Like many ships of the Merchant Fleet it is a large but slow ship specialising in moving one kind of cargo across the vast depths of the void by the use of warp- drive.

Background
All empires like buildings are built of something, the Imperium's bricks and mortar are bones and blood. The Emperor's fuel is the sweat of a trillion nameless souls toiling over a hundred thousand light years for the survival of the Mankind. From the penal legions convicts who face certain death in the name of the Emperor and for the chance of redemption.