Volkite Weapons

Volkite is an arcane term used by the  Adeptus Mechanicus to describe a class of powerful thermal ray weapons dating to the Age of Strife. These compact weapons possessed considerable killing power, surpassing most other armaments of their size. Volkite Weapons produced a deflagrating attack, and had a devastating effect on organic matter, explosively burning flesh into ash and jetting fire. Unfortunately, Volkites were difficult to manufacture, even for the most able of the Mechanicum's forges, and the demands of the expanding Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium swiftly overwhelmed the supply of these relic-weapons. Once relatively common within the fledgling Space Marine Legions, Volkites had fallen largely from favour by the time the Horus Heresy began in the early 31st Millennium and had been superseded by the far more flexible and utilitarian Terran Bolter. Those few examples of a Volkite that remained in service were the purview of only a few specialised units at the outbreak of the conflict that tore the Imperium apart in a galaxy-spanning civil war. Volkite weapons are exceedingly rare, and are scarcely even seen in the late 41st Millennium.

Volkite Variants

 * Volkite Serpenta - A pistol variant of a Volkite weapon.
 * Volkite Charger - An assault weapon variant of a Volkite weapon.
 * Vokite Caliver - A Volkite heavy weapon variant.
 * Volkite Culverin - A Volkite heavy weapon variant.