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[[File:Space Marine power sword.png|thumb|1150px|A [[Space Marines|Space Marine]] using a power sword.]]
'''Power weapons''' are a type of advanced hand-to-hand combat weapon taking several forms but utilising the same basic technological principles. When activated the blade of the weapon becomes sheathed in a field of energy which disrupts solid matter, allowing the weapon to easily tear through armour, including even [[Terminator Armour]].
*[[Sollex-Aegis Energy Blade]] {{Fn|15}}: A weapon, the blade of which takes the form of coherent high-energy plasma.
*[[Thunder Hammer]]{{Fn|11}}{{Fn|10}}: A large, heavy hammer which gives off a huge burst of energy when it impacts.
*[[Astartes Executioner Axe]]{{Fn|16}}:Are a set of twelve of these large, heavy-bladed two-handed power axes contained in the armouries of Watch Fortress Erioch.
*[[Astartes Power Falchion]]{{Fn|16}}: A heavy power weapon found commonly among those Space Marines of the White Scars aboard Watch Station Erioch.
*[[Astartes Power Claymore]]{{Fn|16}}: Massive, two-handed swords, nearly as long as an average Space Marine is tall/
*[[Astartes Power Spear]]{{Fn|16}}: A power weapon that requires two hands to use and is rarely seen amongst the Space Marines of the Deathwatch. Some Space Marines of the Iron Snakes Chapter have donated these weapons to the armoury of Watch Fortress Erioch.
*[[Power Scourge]] - — A [[Chaos Space Marine]] weapon.*[[Battle-automata Power Blade]] - — A [[Legio Cybernetica]] weapon.
*[[Power Hammer]]
*[[Power Pick]]
*[[Power Knife]]
*[[Xenophase Blade]] - — An advanced and arcane form of power weapon sometimes utilized by Deathwatch kill-teams.
==Ork Powered Weapons==
[[Image:EldarPowerSword.jpg|thumb|right|190px|Eldar Power Sword{{Fn|17}}]]
==Eldar Powered Weapons==
*[[Diresword]]{{Fn|7}}{{Fn|8}}: A power weapon that increases its damage the more it hits the target. It is used exclusively by [[Dire Avenger]] [[Exarch]]s.
*[[Executioner]]{{Fn|7}}{{Fn|8}}: A two-handed power weapon that increases the user's strength. It is used exclusively by [[Howling Banshee]] [[Exarch]]s.
*[[Powerblade]]s{{Fn|7}}{{Fn|8}}: Power weapons that are attached to the arms of the wielder, and used in conjunction with any other close combat weapon. They are used by [[Warp Spider]] [[Exarch]]s.*[[Scorpion's Claw]]{{Fn|7}}{{Fn|8}}: A powered weapon with the same damage potential as a [[Power Fist]], and a built in [[Shuriken Catapult]]. It is used exclusively by [[Striking Scorpion]] [[Exarch]]s.
*[[Power spear]]{{Fn|3}}: A powered weapon in the shape of a spear used by [[Farseer]]s, [[Warlock]]s, and [[Eldar Corsair|Corsair]]s.
*[[Star Glaive]]: Used by [[Autarch]]s
**The [[Blessed Weapon|Axe of Chalcydon]]: Borne by [[List of Imperial Saints|Saint Jason]] during his crusade against the Eldar on [[Huale]].
**The [[Claw of the Desert Tigers]]: A unique [[power sword]] carried by [[Tallarn]] [[Imperial Guard]] [[Captain]] [[Al'rahem]].
**The [[Sword of Heironymo]]: An exceptionally strong [[power sword]], and an heirloom of the city of [[Vervunhive]] on [[Verghast]]. It is said that whoever leads Vervunhive's forces in battle must wield this weapon. After the death of most of Vervunhive's leadership - military and administrative - during [[Asphodel|Heritor Asphodel]]'s invasion in 769.[[M41]], the sword was given to Colonel-Commissar [[Ibram Gaunt]], the senior Imperial commander in Vervunhive (all of the others either dead or imprisoned). The sword remained in Gaunt's possession after the battle, gifted to him for his actions in the defence of Vervunhive during the Heritor's siege. A deadly weapon, it has never left Gaunt's side{{Fn|19}}.{{Lex-De|Destination= Sword of Heironymo}}**[[Liberatus]]: a powered sabre gifted to [[Warmaster]] [[Slaydo]] by the [[High Lords of Terra]], at the outset of the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]]. In the cataclysmic battle at [[Balhaut]], Slaydo defeated [[Archon]] [[Nadzybar]] in melee combat. The sword was saved by one of his bodyguards, and later presented to Slaydo's successor, [[Macaroth]]{{Fn|20}}.
*[[Chaos]]:
*[[Space Marines]]:
**The [[Axe Mortalis]] is a master crafted power weapon wielded by [[Dante]], the [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Blood Angels]].{{Fn|4c}}
**[[Crozius Arcanum|Blood Crozius]]: Assumed to be the weapon that was once wielded by the very first [[High Chaplain]] of the [[Blood Angels]]. [[Lemartes]] now possesses the master-crafted relic after it was given to him by [[Astorath|Astorath the Grim]]{{Fn|4a}}
**The '''Executioner's Axe''' is the weapon of choice for [[Astorath|Astorath the Grim]], [[High Chaplain]] of the [[Blood Angels]], when in battle and when ending the life of his battle-brothers that have succumbed to the [[Blood_Angels#Black_Rage|Black Rage]]{{Fn|4b}}
**The [[Fist of Dorn]]{{Fn|11}}{{Fn|10}}: A [[master crafted]] [[Thunder Hammer]] with a fist shaped between the hammer and blade. It is a relic of the [[Imperial Fist]]s Chapter, currently carried by [[Space Marine Captain|First Company Captain]] [[Darnath Lysander]].
**The [[Foehammer]]: A [[master crafted]] [[Thunder Hammer]] with a built-in teleportation device that allows its owner, [[Arjac Rockfist]] of the [[Space Wolves]], to throw it and have it return to his hand almost instantly.
**The [[Gauntlets of Ultramar]]{{Fn|11}}{{Fn|10}}: A pair of huge [[Power Fist]]s with built-in [[Bolters]]. Relics of the [[Ultramarines]] Chapter, they are wielded exclusively by [[Chapter Master]] [[Marneus Augustus Calgar]].
**[[Libertas]]: the power sword wielded by [[Death Guard]] [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Nathaniel Garro]];
**[[Morkai (Axe)|Morkai]]: a [[Great Weapon]] and [[Power Axe]] wielded by [[Logan Grimnar]], [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Space Wolves]].
**[[Raven's Talons]]{{Fn|11}}{{Fn|10}}: A pair of [[Lightning Claw]]s said to have been forged by [[Corax]]. A relic of the [[Raven Guard]] [[Chapter]], currently wielded by [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Kayvaan Shrike]].
**The [[Talassarian Tempest Blade]]{{Fn|12}}: The [[power sword]] that always accompanies [[Ultramarines]] [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Cato Sicarius]] into battle.
==Sources==
{{Cite}}
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Wargear]], {{Cite This}}
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Battle Manual]], {{Cite This}}
*{{Endn|11}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition)]], {{Cite This}}
*{{Endn|12}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]], pg. 85
*{{Endn|13}}: [[Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition)]] pg.60*{{Endn|14}}: [[Codex: Tau Empire (4th Edition)]] pg.33
*{{Endn|15}}: [[Dark Heresy: The Inquisitor's Handbook]], {{Cite This}}
*{{Endn|16}}: [[Deathwatch: Rites of Battle]], pg. 139
*{{Endn|18}}: [[Index Astartes I]], pg. 46
*{{Endn|19}}: [[Necropolis (Novel)]] by [[Dan Abnett]], Chapter Fifteen
*{{Endn|20}}: ''[[Regicide (Short Story)]]'' by [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]]
*{{Endn|21}}: [[Dawn of War: Dark Crusade]], Commander screen; Wargear section
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*[[Space Marine Weaponry (List)]]
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