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[[Image:VortexMissile.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Vortex Missile]]'''Vortex Missiles''' are a type of [[Vortex Weapon]] which can be launched by a [[Deathstrike Missile Launcher]], [[Imperial Titan]], or an [[Aquilla a Strongpoint]].{{FNFn|3}}. They are a product of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] and one of the rarest weapons available to the [[Imperium]].{{Fn|1}}

==Overview==These weapons are as rare as they are powerful, tearing apart the very fabric of reality to create a gaping hole that sucks everything its touches into the [[Warp]]. Vortex missiles are constructed by using [[Psyker]]s to channel the raw energy energy of the Warp into an intercontinental ballistic missile.{{Fn|5}} Vortex missiles mounted on Deathstrike Platforms are so valuable that they are guarded at a minimum by an entire [[Imperial Guard Platoon#Infantry Platoon|infantry platoon]], charged with concealing the weapon from enemy saboteurs and kill-teams. Nominally only [[Segmentum Command]] can sanction their use, and the launch codes are entrusted solely to the [[Lord Commissar]] in charge of the missile, as only these individuals combine loyalty to the [[Imperium]] with the resolution to fire this doomsday weapon at any cost.{{Fn|2}} Vortex missiles like other support missiles mounted on Titans take up one carapace slot, although if it is destroyed before being fired it will prematurely activate and create a vortex field.{{Fn|4}}

==ReferencesHistory==Due to the dangers of assembly and the uncontrollable forces involved, it was once the sole responsibility of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] to manufacture vortex missiles. By the end of [[M31]], they were officially only to be constructed on [[Mars]], [[Graia]] and [[Gryphonne IV]]. There, the warheads would then be exported to other [[forge world]]s where they could be combined with their missile housings, before being distributed to the necessary [[regiment]] or fortification. Because of a clerical glitch of the [[Departmento Munitorum]], other forge worlds soon began constructing whole vortex missiles. By [[M35]], almost all forge worlds in the Imperium had at least some expertise in its assembly.{{Fn|5}} ==Sources==

*{{Endn|3}}: [[Stronghold Assault]], page pg. 36*{{Endn|4}}: [[Adeptus Titanicus (Game)]], pgs.36-37*{{Endn|5}}: [[Munitorum: Vortex Missiles (Background Book)]]