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The Decimator is a brutal and hellish creation; the essence of a creature of the Warp bound and fettered within the armoured bulk of a bipedal war machine. Great slab-shoulders of tainted and defiled ceramite and adamantium, and a low-set ‘head’ give the Decimator a characteristic hunched posture which exudes brooding and vicious menace. ==Overview==Decimators are [[Daemon Engine|daemonic engines ]] of death, horrific amalgams of human and Xenos technology fused and brought to unholy life by the darkest warp
sorcery. Recorded in the forces of the Great Enemy as long ago as the mass genocides known in Imperial Lore as the Grief of Herodin in late M.35, they have
fortunately been rarely encountered, save within the damned cults and daemon fleets that plague the benighted reaches of the Nightmare Rifts far to the
Magos known as the Sepktraal Cult which legend has it was driven to the rifts beyond the Silent Abyss during the Great Scouring, while others insist that the
cult never existed at all except in the febrile myths of the forgotten age.
Inquisitorial savants do not know for sure what malefic party is responsible for this sinful innovation as the Decimator is capable of fielding a wide range of armament: rapid-firing Butcher Cannons, multi-barrelled Stormlasers, and great raking Siege Claws to name but a few. Towering over even the mighty Contemptor Pattern Dreadnoughts of the Adeptus Astartes, the Decimator is believed to be an attempt to bolster the ranks of such ancient devices that still serve the Traitor Legions. If this is the truth, then it is feared that many warriors of the Imperium will fall before these deadly war machines.
==See Also==
*[[Chaos Space Marine Vehicles]] (List)
*[[Daemon Engine ]]
==Sources==
