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The '''Shuriken Catapult''' is the basic [[Eldar]] weapon that fires a plasti-crystal material in the form of a 'shuriken'. It uses a solid core forced up into the weapon using a 'magnetic repulsor'. A series of rapid high-energy impulses are produced at the rear of the weapon which then launch down the barrel. This impulse then cuts a single molecule thick of the plasti-crystal into a shuriken shape and hurles it from the front of the weapon at very high speeds. This method of slicing the solid slug allows the weapon to fire up to a hundred rounds in one or two seconds and each core is good for around 10 of these bursts. The downside is the lack of rifling in the barrel reducing the accuracy drastically, thereby reducing it's minimum range to one well under that of it's Imperial solid slug counterparts. The Eldar term for this weapon is ''tuelean''.