was it the Radical's Handbook? Ascension?

or even a Rogue Trader book?

**** I need an index It was some old pale ship or with 'pale' in its name IIRC which transports the dead to their final resting place (nobles), and has many holds with nothing but coffins, mausoleums and freezers. Maybe it was called Pale Sepulchre or something.

Does anyone know which book?

Radical's Handbook, pg 139 under The Pale Sepulchre.

I don't have this book myself. Is it a mausoleum ship or does it tranport to Cemetary Worlds?

Face Eater said:

In short, it's a hearse... in spaaAAAAaace.

In long, it's a massive kilometer long ship maned by a very small crew known as the Keepers -gray robed scribes with faces like fine tallow, who book the passengers’ in and out in gigantic leather bound ledgers. It's passengers are the dead and dying who's families have made contracts and pacts with the captain of the Pale Sepulcher to insure their loved ones are brought to their home world, the hallowed ground of a shrine world, or any where else for their final rest. Though everyone knows it only carries the dead and almost dead, a few powerful individuals use it's services to travel discretely and make planit fall without arousing any suspension.

Thank you,

I knew that some thing had to operating the service of taking people to these planet wide cemetaries but it's never been touched on before to my knowledge.

Graver said:

Well not THAT massive compared to some of the ships in the Calixis Sector... a Kilometre isn't really too much to boast about. Most Imperial ships are bigger! Check out the link, which (hopefully) will take you to a comparative size chart I did a while back for a few Calixian vessels...

http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/2314/miserichord.png

Lightbringer said:

Although ships like the Miserichord and Pale Sepulcher are large for non-navel vessels (which are frequently larger)? At least that's the impression that I got.

Yeah, I think you're right: the Misericord and the Bountiful Beast are unusually large civilian vessels. I think the "average" transport ship in the Imperium is 2-3 kilometres long. The Vagabond class transport from Rogue Trader is about 2km long, and is described as "small." Battlefleet Koronus does describes a very large class of transport, a Universe class mass conveyer which is 12 km long, though.

Many military vessels are very large. A cruiser is over 5 km long, Grand Cruisers are around 7 km long. We don't yet have figures for battleships, but I'd guess we'd be looking at around 8, 9 or even10km. Escort vessels like destroyers and frigates are about 1-1.7km long.

So in context, even though the misericord is unusally big, the Pale Sepulchre is an unusually small ship.

Eh, perhaps the other ships are just even more massive ;-p I think I just have a habit of starting any and all discriptions of anything at all 40k with "a massive"...

"You come to a massive gothic arch leading into a massive chamber dominated by a massive column of skulls in-front of which stands a massive and powerful man with a massively tall hat and massive skull-decked pauldrons sitting on his massive shoulders. In his hands is a massive bolter..." I could probably benefit from a thesaurus.

A massive thesaurus?

Where is the information on the Bountiful Beast and Miserichord?

The information on the Misericord can be found on p- 308-309 of the Dark Heresy Core Rulebook, while some details about the Bountiful Best are given on p. 30 of The Radical's Handbook.

Aside from that, part of the novel "Innocence proves Nothig" takes place on board of the Misericord.