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Those of [[human]] origin are relics of the [[Dark Age of Technology]]. Highly dangerous, few remain in [[Imperial]] use and the ones that do are revered beyond measure.{{Fn|1}} These brutal weapons disrupt the molecular bonding of the target, literally tearing it apart whether it be flesh or ceramite. Common during the dark years of [[Age of Strife|Old Night]], these weapons were valued as much for the psychological impact of their use as for the efficacy of their actinic bolts.{{Fn|2}}
Disintegration weapons appeared in the arsenals of the [[Thunder Warriors]] and proto-[[Legiones Astartes]] as well as anti-Imperial forces during the [[Unification Wars]], but was phased out for safer and more easily replicated [[Mars|Martian]] [[Volkite Weaponry]] during the [[Great Crusade]]. The [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] did not control disintegration weaponry technology and did not even recognize it as proper technology. The [[Emperor]] controlled all access to the technology, giving it to the [[Custodes]] in the form of safer [[Adrathic Weapon]]s. A number of [[Space Marine]] [[Legion]]s still used them by the outbreak of the [[Horus Heresy]] such as the [[Space Wolves]] and [[Dark Angels]]. Even then, it is still only used during extraordinary circumstances. During the subsequent Horus Heresy safer versions were deployed by boths ides both sides of the conflict.{{Fn|7}}
==Types of Disintegration Weapons==
