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Falx
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Falx is hand weapon which was favored by the [[Echvehnurth]]. This weapon was described as being a some sort of polearm of two and a half meters long, a hybrid spear and a straightened out scythe. With half of its length straight handgrip and the other half a long blade with a slight bias hook, the inside curve of which was razor sharp and it could go through almost any metal. The only way to break those blade was to use [[lignite]] - a mixture of liquid nitrogen which when it was sprayed on the falx blades made them brittle to the point they could be shattered under a foot.{{Fn|11a}} The use of falx by [[Echvehnurth]] in combat involved a technique of spinning and sweeping like a flail which resulted in lopping off limps, heads and even bisecting the whole torsos.{{Fn|1a}} When the members of the company [[Dancers]] of the [[Geno Five-Two Chiliad]] were attacked during the siege of the capital [[Tel Utan]] on the planet [[Nurth]], members of the [[Alpha Legion]] in plain clothing and armed only with falx counterattacked and drove the [[Echvehnurth]] away.{{Fn|1b}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Legion (Novel)|Legion]] by [[Dan Abnett]], :**{{Endn|1a}}: pg. 30**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 31