Irradiation Projector

Irradiation Projectors, also known as Rad-Cleansers or Irad-Cleansers are a type of projected radiation devices used as potent anti-personnel weapons. These weapons are relics from the Dark Age of Technology and are used exclusively by the forces of the Adeptus Mechanicus, particularly during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras of the late 31st Millennium. These weapons are commonly comprised of a bulky generator unit that terminates in a dish-like projector that unleashes a powerful blast of deadly cross-spectrum radiations. Any organic victims caught in the blast of such a weapon suffer an appalling death as they are boiled alive from within – their tissues blasted apart on a cellular level. While thick barriers of solid matter between the beam and the target can provide some protection, victims who survive the initial blast will often die later of extreme radioactive contamination.

Types of Irradiation Projectors
The following are all known types of Irradiation Projectors that were once used by the ancient Mechanicum:


 * Lucifex Pistol - A pistol-type Irradiation Projector, these rare weapons were only carried by a high ranking Magos, such as a Magos Prime.


 * Rad-Cleanser or Irad-Cleanser - A rifle-sized Irradiation Projector, these weapons were the most common type carried by Mechanicum forces. These weapons were commonly found in use by many Mechanicum units such as Myrmidon Secutors and Destructors, Scyllax and Vorax Battle-automata, the mighty Questoris Knight Magaera and Styrix and the various Magos of the Omnissiah.


 * Irradiation Engine - The Irradiation Engine was the largest known Irradiation Projector used by the Mechanicum. These weapons were known to have been used by the fearsome Myrmidon Destructors and by the Macrocarid Explorator heavy transports.

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