Volkite Culverin

The Volkite Culverin is a type of Volkite Weapon, and is the heaviest man-portable type known to have been available. Volkite Weapons are a class of powerful thermal ray weapons whose technology is pre-Imperial in origin and dates back to the Age of Strife. These weapons were always difficult for the Imperium to manufacture, even for the most able of the Mechanicum's forges had difficulty keeping up with the demand, and as the expanding Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium swiftly overwhelmed the supply of these relic-weapons they became increasingly uncommon on the battlefield. Once relatively common within the fledgling Space Marine Legions, Volkite Weapons had fallen largely from favour by the time the Horus Heresy began in the early 31st Millennium and had been superseded by the far more easy to produce Bolter.

The Volkite Culverin is the most potent man-portable iteration of all known Volkite technology, and was used by the ancient Legiones Astartes Legion Heavy Support Squads and their Contemptor Pattern Dreadnoughts. The Volkite Culverin, like all Volkite Weapons, was a thermal ray weapon of ancient provenance, with its beam having a devastating effect on organic matter, explosively burning flesh into ash and jetting fire.

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