Land Leviathan
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This article is about the Mechanicum vehicle. For other uses of Leviathan, see Leviathan (disambiguation). |
Land Leviathans are gargantuan vehicles used by the Adeptus Mechanicus[1] and the forces of Chaos.[2]
Though no two are exactly alike as they have been constructed on many different Forge Worlds, they do share common traits. All are over 50 meters tall and are as heavily armed mobile bastions, with most dating back to the Great Crusade. Some move on caterpillar treads while others walk on machine legs. The Tabularium, the Land Leviathan of Archmagos Lexell Kotov, stood on fifty trapezoidal feet arranged in parallel rows of twenty-five, each row 300 meters long.[1]
The Land Leviathan used by the forces of Chaos is easily the size of an Imperial frigate, moving on both tracks and spiked wheels. It has massive smoking chimneys on its spine and displays a grinning skull on a star in its centre, from which a massive lascannon is fired. This weapon is capable of downing a Marauder Bomber in a single shot. Besides the lascannon, the Chaos Land Leviathan is armed with a myriad of tracer-rounds firing gun.[2]
The Chaos Land Leviathan easily withstands the bombs dropped during a Marauder bombing run without any damage, thanks to its thick armour, but is destroyed by a kamikaze attack by a Marauder carrying an Atlas.[2]
Sources
- 1: Lords of Mars (Novel), Microcontent 3
- 2: Wings of Bone (Short Story) — On Wings of Blood (Anthology)
