The Abyss (1988) André Delvaux, Gian Maria Volontè, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe

Wow! This was really an interesting read. This is my first book by Peter Hamilton so I thought I would be safe to start here because it's only a two book series. Well, evidently I didn't read enough of the description because it might only have two books in this Chronicle of the Fallers series, but everything goes back to the books in the Commonwealth series. I got a little lost sometimes.

Horus sends the Worldbearer space marines to the planet Calth, where they are to ambush the loyalist Ultramarines. In addition to the main fleet, Horus sends a new doomsday battleship for use againsy the Ultramarines home world of Ultramar. A small strike force travels space and the warp to delay or destroy the doomsday ship to save the Ultramarines.

The intense rivalry in battleship building that took place between Britain and Germany in the run up to the First World War is seen by many as the most totemic of all armaments races.