Psyarkana Weaponry
Psyarkana[2a] weaponry were a form of anti-psychic armaments born from the darkest hours of Old Night or Dark Age of Technology, and used by the Order of Santales and Ironwing[2b] of the Dark Angels Legion.
Contents
Overview
Built at the pinnacle of mankind’s supremacy over the laws of physics, they had been constructed to eradicate not only their victim’s physical body but its reflection in the empyrean as well, weapons of such unholy potency that not even the memory of the slain could remain intact. Not since the darkest hours of Old Night had mankind’s mastery of the killing sciences been explored in such intimate minutiae. There was no consistency of design or uniformity of function. None of them had ever been, or would ever be, immortalised in the sequences of a Standard Template Construct. Every grip, sleeve and neural shunt belonged to an artefact that was unique in the Galaxy. Each was a singular terror, born from the infinite creativity of humanity’s apogee and never to be repeated since. These were weapons that attacked the mind and the soul.[1a]
The effects of these weapons were extremely agonizing for psykers or psychic entities, being able to shatter and dislodge souls.[1c] As each blow would punch deeper into the world of the unreal, no mental barrier or exercise could block their effects, as they had been built by the greatest war-lord scientists of humanity’s darkest age to the express purpose of overcoming such wards. They obliterated the psychic utterly, further saturating the materium with a null-effect that would take years to dissipate.[1c]
Known Types
- Gemynd Blasters[1a]
- Lucidiron Arc Rifles[1a]
- Personality Phage[1a]
- Ionophoric Eradicator[1a]
- Neural Whips[1a]
- Glass-Walled Grenade[1a]
- Nerve-Induction Shredder[1c]
- Mindphage[1c]
- Various examples of Bolt Weapons using Psychoactive Rounds, including the monstrous ancestors of the modern bolter faimly: Massive-barreled weapons built to be wielded by Men of Iron or other breeds of upgraded soldiers in the Dark Age of Technology.[1a]
- Flamer type weapons which fired psychically coloured flames.[1b]
- Psionic beam weaponry[1c]
- Missiles bearing payloads of Asphyx and Sinistrum compounds alongside conventional explosives which spread desolation and insanity even as they tore bodies asunder.[1c]
