Canoptek Acanthrite

A Canoptek Acanthrite is an autonomous Necron war construct which resembles a monstrous, artificial insect enfolded in shadowed wings of tenebrous force that propel it through the skies. Canoptek Acanthrites are often encountered in the vanguard of Necron assault spearheads and extermination campaigns. When deployed, their numbers vary from a mere handful to vast hosts of these abhorrent machine-locusts, capable of stripping a city down to rubble and slaughtering its inhabitants in a merciless tide of destruction.

Although the Imperium had unconfirmed reports of these constructs elsewhere, it was during the Orphean War that Imperial forces first bore witness to widespread deployment of these highly distinctive and unique large buzzing war machines. Capable of extended periods of fast anti-grav sustained flight, and operating in a manner analogous to predatory insect swarms, their principal armament is a short range and highly powerful thermic Cutting Beam which they use both for the destruction of armoured vehicles and troops, as well as the systematic and rapid dismemberment of bunkers and fortifications. This armament, in combination with their size and speed, has led to the Acanthrite to be classified as a primary threat target by Imperial tacticians. On the battlefield, Canoptek Acanthrites will often be found moving stealthily through the air before launching aerial attacks that slices apart armoured vehicles with their cutting beams, before descending to smash and hack apart survivors with bladed limbs and energy wreathed stingers.

Armament
All Canoptek Acanthrites are armed with the following:
 * Cutting Beam – The Cutting Beam mounted within an Acanthrite’s thorax is capable of firing a short range, highly concentrated shaft of thermic energy ray that is able to slice apart the toughest materials’ dissecting steel, stone and flesh with equal ease and with the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel blade. These lances of burning heat are similar to those of an Imperial Meltagun, except only far more focused and prolonged.
 * Voidblade – A Canoptek Acanthrite carries a tail-mounted Voidblade, the blade of which phases in and out of existence. This allows it to easily slice through molecular bonds and disintegrate foes where they stand.

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