Plasma Burner
Plasma Burners were a type of Plasma Weapon used by Dark Angels Interemptors during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy.[1]
A dangerous offshoot of more common plasma technology, Plasma Burners vented plasma gas through a magnetic bottle in high-speed jets. Any enemy caught in the path of such a jet was quickly reduced to molten slag. Their flames burned many times more violently than the hottest star, and had unknown properties that made them effective at combating creatures infused with the power of the warp, with the immaterial shields and forms possessed by those entities shriveling and burning away under their fire.[3] However, the magnetic fields that keep the superheated gas contained were fragile and emitted a radiation, and as such the average Interemptor remained combat-viable for only a few short decades before requiring augmetic replacements or Dreadnought entombment.[2]
See Also
Sources
- 1: Warhammer Community: The Road to Thramas – Part 1: Wings of the Dark Angels (Posted December 9 2019) (last accessed 12/9/2019)
- 2: The Horus Heresy Book Nine pg.167
- 3: Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First (Novel) Chapter 10 Section VIII