Battlefleet Innsmouth

Battlefleet Innsmouth is the permanent Imperial Navy formation within Innsmouth Sector. Like all other Battlefleets, it is assigned to protect the planets and space lanes of the Imperium within its assigned region. The High Command of the Battlefleet is located on the Ramilies-class Starfort Admiral Philips, orbiting Hive World Innsmouth. It's current commander is Lord Admiral Praxis von Sturm. Given its connection to Ultima Fleet and their Segmentum headquarters at Kar Duniash, Battlefleet Innsmouth's cruiser contingent contains a high quantity of Dominator-class Cruisers.

From the Ashes of Civil War
Battlefleet Innsmouth officially traces its lineage to the loyalist vessels & crews of the Armada Imperialis that refused to join the Horusian forces at the outbreak of the Heresy. The brave men & women aboard these vessels stood firm against the traitors during their desperate bid to prevent Innsmouth Sector from being overcome during the period of the Ruinstorm. Once this massive warp storm was defeated, the loyalists within the fleet were the first in line to bring their mighty guns of destruction to bear on the settlements and space stations that had supported the traitors. It is thought that the loyalist Armada Imperialis killed more suspected traitors during the Innsmouth Scouring than any other military formation.

When the Imperial Army was broken up in 021.M31, the Armada Imperialis forces within Innsmouth Sector largely remained in position and simply conducted a rebadging of all vessels and uniforms. Whilst ten millennia of attrition has inevitably resulted in many of those vessels being replaced with newer counterparts, some of the ships still in service with Battlefleet Innsmouth stretch back to those days of glory and tragedy.

Post-Heresy Activities
Aside from the uncountable minor skirmishes that all vessels of the Imperial Navy encounter in their duties, Battlefleet Innsmouth has been involved in several notable conflicts:

560.M41 to 575.M41 - Pauldron Rebellion; In the mid-M40s, several of the richer solar systems of Innsmouth Sector maintained their own System Defence Fleets. in the Pauldron Sub-Sector, these fleets fell to rebellion as part of a wider uprising when several Planetary Governors decried the Imperium and pledged their allegiance to the bordering Tau Empire. Battlefleet Innsmouth engaged in a war of extermination against these fleets, paving the way for the recapture of these wayward planets before Tau forces were able to exploit the disarray.

747.M41 - The Indrigo Incident; in the aftermath of the destruction of Hive Fleet Behemoth at the Battle for Macragge in 745.M41, the Tyranid fleet is shattered into splinters that scatter in all directions. One splinter finds its way across Ultramar space and enters Innsmouth Sector in this year. The Indrigo Incident was the first encounter between Behemoth Splinter (Innsmouth) and Battlefleet Innsmouth in the Indrigo system of Innsmouth Sub-Sector.