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House Goliath operates and owns many of Necromunda's great foundries and its workers are the masters of the metal and furnace, trading the raw materials from the mines of [[House Orlock]]. House Goliath breeds its workers like prize cattle - to create the toughest, strongest, and most unthinkingly loyal workers of the furnace in the [[Imperium]]. They are, however, known for being extremely slow, relying on strength alone in battle. Due to the fact that Goliath fighters are not exactly fast on their feet, cunning opponents may attempt to use superior speed to outmaneuver them, robbing them of any combat advantage.{{Fn|3}}
Like all the other Clan Houses, do Goliath maintain their own workshops which, under the watchful eyes of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]], churn out weapons of numerous classes - those favoured by the House's warriors are noted as brutal and oversized, just like their owners.{{Fn|9i}} The two-handed 'Renderizer' [[Serrated Axe]] is as much a status symbol among Goliath gangers as it is an actual weapon.{{Fn|9m}} Goliath's gunsmiths are noted to be especially found of the uncommon [[Plasma Pistol|plasma/]][[stub pistol]] [[Combi-Weapon|combi-pistol]] design.{{Fn|9k}}
Goliaths are unique among the peoples of Necromunda, being on the whole gene-smithed beings, forged from a stable genus of humanity but enhanced for strength and endurance. Whether or not Goliaths are, in fact, Abhumans remains a subject of much debate among the representatives of the [[Adeptus Terra]] on Necromunda, though the Imperium has deemed them ‘sanctioned’ for use on the hive world under the proviso that [[Lord Helmawr]] monitor their development. To date, most Goliaths are still largely created through esoteric biological means – rapidly grown in amneo-vats from flesh-templates and turned out into the refineries and factories for immediate hard labour. These brutish creations are mostly male and mostly sterile, living for less than a decade on a diet of backbreaking work and growth stimms — the latter making them dependent on House Escher for supply{{Fn|9g}} — before their bodies fail and they die. Despite this short life-span, Goliaths are born with a baseline knowledge of their world and their position in it delivered via a cranial data-slug. Alphas ensured that the data-slug was altered to include the collected knowledge and experience of the Goliaths who had come before. In this way, the Goliaths share the knowledge of the clan gathered over hundreds of generations, giving them a working understanding of everything from hive industries to clan weaponry.{{Fn|5a}} Vat-birthed, a Goliath can be freakishly huge, larger than even a [[Space Marine]]. Other than their lack of speed, they are also known suffer from mental imbalances and extremely short lifespans, all this resulting in many considering them to be a classifiable strain of [[Abhuman]].{{Fn|3}}
