Hekaton Land Fortress

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Hekaton Land Fortress^[5b]

Hekaton Land Fortresses are the main battle tanks of the Leagues of Votann and also serve as transports for its forces.^[1]

Overview

The Hekaton symbolizes the maximalist design of the Votann, who are some of the greatest engineers in the galaxy.^[4] It was originally designed to carry bulk material or haul armoured carriages, but it has been efficiently adapted as a combat vehicle and troop transport.^[5a]

Hekaton Land Fortresses are heavily armed and armoured mobile bastions. The vehicle is protected by an inches-thick tricermatite adaptive plating of a bastium alloy skin with corpuscles of hexaphasic mineral. They are further protected by a weavewërke field lattice interleaved between the structural layers. All of this - plus the vehicle's sheer size and weight - means that it can build up incredible momentum and force while on the move. The vehicle itself is driven by six dual-core traction units.^[5a]

Beneath its heavy protection, the Hekaton also hosts a plethora of advanced systems. Proximity nets sweep for encoraching foes, enabling semiautomated targeting of its sponson-mounted weapons. Multiple COGs are wired into the vehicle's independent cogitator core to provide tactical assessments and monitor other subsystems. Panspectral scanners, cybershield comms arrays, and even limited empyric shielding are amongst the other support systems present within the Hekaton. Cradled in support harnesses within its troop compartment, up to fourteen^[5c] standard Kin can be safely transported. Unlike the smaller Sagitaur, the Hekaton's compartment can also carry warriors clad in Exo-Armour or even bulky Ironkin Steeljacks. Besides its troop transportation role, the Hekaton is also proficient at moving heavy cargo.^[4a]

While ferrying troops across the battlefield is an important duty in its own right, the Hekaton is also a battle tank in its own right. Land Fortresses are heavily armed, equipped with weapons such as the Cyclic Ion Cannon, Heavy Magna-Rail Cannon, SP Heavy Conversion Beamer, MATR Autocannon, and smaller mounts of Bolt Cannons and Ion Beamers for point defence.^[3] Its Pan Spectral Scanner can be traded out for a variety of Missile Launcher options, including the haywire Ancestor's Vengeance Warhead, anti-armour Mountain Breaker Warhead, or anti-infantry Kin's Wrath Warhead.^[4] For protection, they are equipped with Void Armour.^[1] Hekatons are piloted by a Kin driver and Ironkin co-pilot.^[4]

Images

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  Hekaton Land Fortress^[2]

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  Missile options from left to right: Ancestor's Vengeance, Mountain Breaker, and Kin's Wrath Warheads^[4]

Trivia

The following information is not to be regarded as officially sanctioned and/ or is not written from an in-universe point of view. A detailed explanation of the term "Trivia" as used in the Lexicanum can be found here.

• Hekaton is proto-Greek/ proto-Hellenic for "one hundred".

Sources

• 1: Warhammer Twitch Channel: Warhammer Preview Online NOVA Open (Posted on 31/08/2022) (Last accessed on 31 August 2022)
• 2: Warhammer Community: NOVA Open Reveal – The Leagues of Votann Unveiled (Posted on 31/08/22) (Last accessed on 31 August 22)
• 3: Codex: Leagues of Votann (9th Edition), pg. 98
• 4: Warhammer Community: This Ain’t Your Ancestor’s Land Train – Take a Closer Look at the Hekaton Land Fortress (posted 18/10/2022) (last accessed 18/10/2022)
• 5: Codex: Leagues of Votann (10th Edition)
  • 5a: pg. 65
  • 5b: pg. 41
  • 5c: pg. 129