How old is admiral Spire?

[Morsum]

I have seen picture where angry looking man is watching how his fleet sails in space. This man looks lot like admiral Spire from Battlefleet 1. If he is Spire, how old is he? I think dark crusades dont happen very often

[Jerroser]

Pretty sure they said somewhere that Spire's ship was lost in the warp following the campaign of the first game.

Timeline wise I think there was around 1000 years between the 12th and 13th Black Crusade. And with mechanical/genetic augments some humans lifes can be extended to a few hundred years. So normally he would have did passed away through one means or another, but was pretty much frozen in time in between the two games as far as the plot is concerned.

[Pyro Fennec]

Originally posted by Morsum:

I think dark crusades dont happen very often

Abaddon's managed to squeeze 13 of the bloody things into the last ten thousand years, but... eh. The 12th was 139 to 160.M41, while the 13th was in 999.M41.

Space marines or techpriests might last that long, but a regular human, generally, would not, even with what miracles of science the Imperium still has left. We can probably attribute Spire's presence to the Warp messing with the passage of time - that is to say, less time passed for him than for everyone else.