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====Reconciliation====

*A potential reconciliation is offered in [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition]]. According to the book, each bolt is contained in a "cartridge" loaded with a small conventional powder charge, which initially launches while igniting its solid fuel propellant, which is timed to do so once it is clear of the barrel. The cartridge is then ejected. It is feasible that spent bolt "casings" as depicted/described are instead these cartridges.{{fn|4}}

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|quote = <small>"Bloody Bolters! 'Mass-Reactive Caseless Ammuntion' says it right there in 40k, [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader|Rogue Trader]], right from the get go: caseless. What do artists always do with boltguns? Cases flying everywhere! Because it looks awesome, alright. Anybody whose seen particularly late 80-90s action movies - 'Dakka-dakka-dakka' brass flying everywhere - knows its one of those things that conveys kinetic violence happening. So when it comes to doing a static image that you're trying to show a guy firing a big rapid fire gun of course an artist is going to reach for having casings flying out of it or it's a heavy battle so there's loads of brass on the ground and things like that, because it's a visual key for people to clue into even subconsciously about what's happening. So actually 'caseless' was useless as a term to describe them because it fought against what the art wanted to do. So eventually we kind of lampshaded it basically, or I did, and wrote in that they use a little kind of like sabot thing to launch them out of the barrel kind of like RPG-7s do. So at that point it's fine, I no longer have to shout at artists whenever I see brass coming out of bolters cause it's fine, we need it, and it looks good."{{Fn|25}}</small>