Imperium (ship)

The Imperium was a ship in the service of the. A by design, the ship was repurposed soon after its construction. Rather than serve as a combat ship, the Imperium was instead used as a science vessel, essentially a massive spaceborne laboratory. It was aboard the Imperium that  ordered the resuming of research into  first manufactured by  over four thousand years earlier. However, the ship was attacked by the while orbiting the planet  and the virus, codenamed 'Blackwing', escaped and infected all aboard the ship.