The Plasma Annihilator is a vast Plasma Weapon mounted only on Emperor Battle Titans. It can lay down extremely heavy fire, but also at high rates of fire. The ability to devastate a large area alone would make the weapon worthwhile, however the sheer power provided by the Titan's plasma reactors charge the weapons to their ultimate, devastating potential.[1]
The plasma unleashed by this weapon explodes upon impact with all the power of a miniature sun, forming craters hundreds of meters in diameter and turning sand into glass.[3] Simply firing the weapon is destructive in and of itself as it produces a deafening roar which shatters glass for a kilometer in all directions. Lesser Titans such as Gargants are reduced to little more than melted sludge by the sunfire emitted from a Plasma Annihilator.[4] Even when only damaged by enemy weaponry, a Plasma Annihilator can unintentionally vaporise a hundred troopers stationed nearby by simply having clouds of superheated vapour stream downwards from the damaged sections.[5]
The Sunfury Plasma Annihilator is a smaller version mounted on Warlord Class Titans.
Sources
- 1: Apocalpse Datasheets: Emperor Battle Titans in Apocalypse
- 2: Codex Titanicus (1st Edition), pg.52
- 3: Fulgrim (Novel) by Graham McNeill, pg. 462
- 4: Helsreach (Novel) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, pg. 346
- 5: Storm of Iron (Novel) — Iron Warriors: The Omnibus (Omnibus), Tor Christo, Chapter Three