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===Military Employment===
The Cyclops was designed to be a superior anti-armour or strongpoint-destroying vehicle. The Colossus hull was essentially rebuilt around the Hellfury cannon, and getting this ultimate Titan-killing weapon into position is the main purpose of the vehicle. However, the Cyclops' armament was comprehensively packed out with other varieties of weaponry. Two other forward-fixed guns complement the Hellfury; these powerful [[Melta Cannon]] s could be deployed against enemy armour that is not worth a Hellfury blast. A rapid-firing [[Battle Cannon]] was mounted on a turret atop the vehicle, providing all-round firepower. Six fearsome [[Doomstorm]] missiles are racked at the rear of the vehicle, whose plasma warheads can obliterate armour and packed ranks of infantry with ease. And finally, there are several pintle-mounted [[bolters]] placed at fighting galleries around the exterior of the vehicles' superstructure.
Such a military investment has a high degree of protection; metres-thick armour plate covers all points of the vehicle, with there being no particularly weaker parts of the armour. 5 banks of [[void shields]] are also operated, powered by the immense plasma reactor that is also needed to run the Hellfury cannon. Lastly, the Cyclops possesses a sophisticated fire-control system that allows most weapons to be rapidly fired at the same time even whilst the vehicle is moving.<sup>1-p.11-12</sup>: