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The Predators originally employed by the [[Emperor]]’s forces were only slightly different to those employed today, and it is a testimony to functionality of the original design that it has changed so little over the course of ten thousand years. The first Predators were equipped with a small passenger-carrying capacity, but during the prolonged campaigns of the [[Great Crusade]] it became obvious that this meager facility was of less importance than the ability to carry greater amounts of ammunition, especially if the vehicle in question was to be fitted with side sponsons. By the time of the Great Crusade, a great number of Standard Template Constructs had been lost, and it was another five millennia before the template for the Razorback, a vehicle dedicated to the role of infantry fighting vehicle, was discovered. In the meantime, Imperial tactics sacrificed transport capacity for firepower, fielding Predators as light support vehicles alongside the Rhino APC.{{Fn|5}}
Some [[Tech-Priest]]s claim that one of the more exotic and unusual weapons of the Predator was a [[Graviton Cannon]], though there are no examples of it existing in the [[M41]] and the ability to re-create it remains unknown to this day.{{Fn|88a}}
==Predator Destructor==
The side sponsons can mount a variety of weapon though the most common - either [[Heavy Bolter]]s for close defense or [[Lascannon]]s for additional anti-tank firepower. The sponson weapons are remotely controlled from the turret and aimed through similar surveyors.{{Fn|1a}}
Some Tech-Priests speculate that once the main auto-loading ammunition feeds were more efficient and able to cycle rounds at a faster rate than the Predator's systems of M41. Even if it is likely true, the older pattern of autoloader is thought to be long lost, though extant examples are still hidden somewhere and waited for the technology hunters to find them.{{Fn|88a}}
===Armour===
===Technical Information===
{{Imperial Vehicles
|Vehicle Name=Predator Destructor{{Fn|1a8b}}
|Forge World of Origin=[[Mars]]
|Known Patterns=I-XII
*{{Endn|6}}: http://web.archive.org/web/20031205150223/http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/predator.htm ''(saved archive page, dated December 2004, last accessed 10 February 2016)''
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (7th Edition)]] - ''Space Marine Vehicle Equipment''
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes]], **{{Endn|8a}}: pgs. 61-62**{{Endn|8b}}: pgs. 66-67
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