Webber

Webber^[1]

The Webber, also known as a web gun or strangler,^[6] is a weapon designed to restrict the movement of whatever its shot comes into contact with.^[1a]

Overview

It fires a chemical which expands into fibrous strands which entangle and immobilise anyone under it. The fibres then shrink and contract the more the victim struggles, until they are crushed. Some webs contain anaesthetic, meaning the prey will not struggle, making it better for hunting. Webbing can be dissolved with a special web spray.^[1a]

There are also relative forms of this weapon - the web pistol^[3] and the heavy webber.^[1b]

Variants

• Astartes Webber
• Razor Webber — Launches a web net mixed with razor-sharp strands that rips the victim apart as they try to free themselves.^[2]
• Andreloid Pattern Webber - A favoured wide-muzzled variant that constricts on contact with air, throttling or suffocating those trapped in its cloying embrace.^[5]
• Heavy Webber - covers a larger area in web material.^[1b]

Images

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  Genestealer Cultist with Webber^[4]

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  Moebian 6th trapper with web-gun^[7]

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  Heavy webber^[1b]

Trivia

The following information is not to be regarded as officially sanctioned and/ or is not written from an in-universe point of view. A detailed explanation of the term "Trivia" as used in the Lexicanum can be found here.

• The Andreloid Pattern Webber is likely a wordplay of the famous Broadway Music Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber

See also

• Web weapon
• Web Grenade

Sources

• 1: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader:
  • 1a: pg. 80
  • 1b: pg. 85
• 2: Black Crusade Core Rulebook, pg. 161
• 3: Warhammer 40,000: Wargear (2nd Edition), pg. 18
• 4: White Dwarf October 2016, pg. 13 — Genestealer Cults Neophyte Hybrids
• 5: Codex: Genestealer Cults (7th Edition), pg. 98 — Web Weapons
• 6: Inquisitor: Conspiracies - The Cirian Legacy, pg. 62 — Exotic Weapons
• 7: X-Twitter: Darktide40k