Volkite Weapon

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Electric (Arc • Tesla) • Flame • Gauss • Graviton • Grenade • Ion/Plasma • Laser • Melta • Missile • Bolt • Ordnance • Projectile • Grenade launcher • Monofilament/Web • Sonic • Volkite

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"Volkite Weapon" is an arcane Martian term for a variety of powerful ray weapons whose origins date back to the Age of Strife.[23] They fire an energy beam;[31b] a thermodynamic ray.[31a]

Overview

A Space Marine fires their Neo-Volkite Pistol.[24]

Possessing a killing power surpassing most armaments of their size, Volkites were little-understood and difficult to replicate on even the most capable Mechanicus Forge Worlds. They date back to the Dark Age of Technology and were even older than the more complex but dangerous Terran Disintegration Weaponry.[28] Volkite weapons could deflagrate organic matter, explosively burning flesh into ash and jetting fire.[1] A direct hit by a Volkite weapon could cause a target to simply combust, often taking nearby comrades with them.[7] The rays fired from Volkite weapons could range from precision thermal beams[24] to arcing rays of exotic energy.[25]

At one point they were relatively common in the fledgling Space Marine Legions, indeed, after the unification with Mars, attempts were made to replace the more flexible and easy to manufacture Bolter[1][22] with more advanced volkite weaponry, and while many companies adopted this change, volkite weaponry was too complicated to manufacture en masse - limiting its supply - and too difficult to maintain in the field for the Legions to accept it wholesale.[22] By the time of the Horus Heresy they were a rarity.[1] By contrast, the Mechanicum made extensive use of refined Volkite technology, known as Voltlock weaponry.[32] The loss of Forge Worlds during the Horus Heresy sped the decline of Volkite weapons in the Imperium.[1f][7] The technology to create Volkite weaponry would later be reinvented by Archmagos Belisarius Cawl in the form of Neo-Volkite weapons during the Era Indomitus.[18]

A Volkite Caliver[3]

Telerac pattern weapons are far more ancient and ill-omened than even those designated 'Proteus', the name implying dark associations with the technological horrors of the Age of Strife. The shortage of reliable supplies of Volkite weaponry saw many Telerac pattern weapons restored to service, and carefully maintained in the Space Marine armouries.[6]

Volkite weapons are utilized by the Kin of the Leagues of Votann, where they are referred to as Volkanite Weapons. While the Adeptus Mechanicus believes these weapons to be based on older Martian desaigns, Kin volkite technology is in fact far older.[30]

Types

Imperial

Personal

Artellus Numeon raising his glaive, with integrated volkite weapon[14]

Support/Vehicle

War Engine

Leagues of Votann

Images

  • A Volkite Charger[2]

  • A Volkite Culverin[6]

  • Volkite Blaster

  • An Iron Warrior fires a Volkite Charger on Tallarn (centre right)

Sources

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