Neutron Laser Projector
The Neutron Laser Projector is a powerful and rare weapon used by the Imperium. Mounted on Valdor Tank Hunters, Sicaran Venators, Sabre Strike Tanks, and Cerberus Heavy Tank Destroyers. Each is a meticulously wrought iteration of a relic[1] of the Dark Age of Technology recovered at the end of the Great Crusade.[9]
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Overview
These little-understood and highly unstable weapons emit powerful blasts that outmatch any other Imperial weapon of its size.[2] The projector fires a neutron beam capable of destroying even the densest material by explosive matter disruption, smashing apart the target's molecular structure and creating a massive electro-magnetic shock-pulse which can disable electronic systems[3] while the penetrating radiation disrupts any biological matter[5], though this effect works only against vehicles which lack the thick shielding and protective mass of Super-Heavy Tanks. They are almost as powerful as a Scout Titan class weapon, and are incredibly compact for their size.[9] While this makes the weapon perfect for tank-hunting, the neutron beam's unique nature means that if it fails to transfer its energy discharge entirely to the target vehicle, a dangerous feedback loop can cause damage to the weapon itself. The neutronic-coil arc-reactor which powers the weapon is also inherently unstable and, without the necessary reactor shielding, can be hazardous to operate.[3]
In times of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy this weapon was also installed on Sicaran Venators tanks[4] and Sabre Tank Hunter[6] though even then its systems and principles were barely understood by Tech-adepts.[5]
Neutron Blaster
The Neutron Blaster was a variant of the larger laser projector mounted on Sabre Strike Tanks. Constructed in the same manner as the larger neutron cannon employed by the Sicaran Venator, the intense radiation emitted by the capacitors and charge packs of the cannon is so deleterious that it will eventually degrade the Sabre's own control systems.[7]
Neutron Blasters were also mounted on other vehicles such as the Deimos Pattern Predator.[8]
See also
Sources
- 1: Valdor Tank Hunter (last accessed 3 February 2016)
- 2: The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal pg. 228
- 3: Imperial Armour Volume Seven - The Siege of Vraks - Part Three, pg. 119
- 4: Forge World (last accessed 3 February 2016)
- 5: Imperial Armour Volume Two (Second Edition), pg. 112
- 6: Warhammer Community: Tanks for the Reinforcements (Posted on 29/11/2019) (Last accessed on 29 November 2019)
- 7: Forgeworld: Sabre Strike Tank Rules (last accessed 12/9/2019)
- 8: Liber Astartes (2nd Edition), pg. 69
- 9: The Horus Heresy Book Four - Conquest, pg. 282
