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The '''Pyroclasts''' were specialty infantry within the [[Salamanders]] [[Space Marine Legion]] during the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]]. Shunning conventional [[Space Marine Destroyer|Destroyer]] units within his legion (save a small force for [[Xenos]] extermination operations) due to the unclean and tainted nature of the weapons they wield, [[Vulkan]] instead created the Pyroclasts and gave them powerful thermal-incendiary weapons of his own creation, the [[Pyroclast Flame Projector]]. To the Salamanders fire itself has almost a mystical function and truth, embodying purity, rebirth, and redemption. But for the renewal to occur, what has gone before must be purged by fire. The Pyroclasts embody the last concept faithfully.{{Fn|1}}