{{Otheruses|USE=specialised units of [[Salamanders]]|OTHERUSE=[[Ordo Xenos]] specialists|OTHERPAGE=Inquisitorial Pyroclast}}{{otheruses|USE=specialised units of [[Salamanders]]|OTHERUSE=[[Space Marine Company|Company]]|OTHERPAGE=3rd Company (Salamanders)}}[[Image:PyroclastPyroclastArt.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Salamanders Pyroclast{{Fn|2}}]]The '''Pyroclasts''' were specialty infantry within the [[Salamanders]] [[Space Marine Legion]] during the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]]. {{Fn|1}} ==Overview==Shunning conventional [[Space Marine Destroyer|Destroyer]] units within his legion (save a small force for [[Xenos]] extermination operations) due to the unclean and tainted nature of the weapons they wield, [[Vulkan]] instead created the Pyroclasts and gave them powerful thermal-incendiary weapons of his own creation, the [[Pyroclast Flame Projector]]. To the Salamanders fire itself has almost a mystical function and truth, embodying purity, rebirth, and redemption. But for the renewal to occur, what has gone before must be purged by fire. The Pyroclasts embody the last concept faithfully.{{Fn|1}}

*{{Endn|1}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre]] , pg.248*{{Endn|2}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Four]], pg. 162*{{Endn|3}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20231130235229/https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/Salamanders-Legion-Pyroclasts Warhammer Webstore : Salamanders Legion Pyroclasts] (saved archive, last accessed 01/12/23)