Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-153.107.33.155-20130718023916/@comment-3055683-20160227200144

Let me refer everyone to the following link:


 * Planet Killer - Ship Design

As the article states: All technical details that are known or can be deduced from close range observation of the Chaotic vessel known as the Planet Killer are listed below:
 * Armageddon Gun Projection Barrels - These elements are unique to this vessel. Imperial analysts are no closer to understanding the manner of their operation. That they are capable of focusing and projecting an energy beam of immense power is beyond doubt. However, the type of energy involved and exactly where it is generated remains a mystery. The reason for the larger size of the central barrel is equally shrouded in uncertainty. Many hypotheses have been put forward but none bear up to close scrutiny or sustained logic.
 * Unidentified Central Structure - Postulated functions include tertiary Warp-core phasing accelerator or some kind of "charging-coil" for the vessel's primary weapon system. Certainly no identifiable system on this vessel is capable of generating the phenomenal levels of energy which the vessel's primary weapon must require.
 * Execration Pattern Tri-diotic Laser Array - This weapon system has been in continuous use since the mid-23rd Millennium, although it is currently classified Perdita by Imperial Naval Commissioners.
 * Torpedo Tubes - Unusually configured to allow a wider arc of launch than is standard on Imperial vessels. These are capable of launching a torpedo spread commensurate with the massive size of the vessel.
 * Macro-Projectile Weapon Systems - Massive calibre weapons capable of firing a large round to an extreme range. Other than their unusual size, these are of similar pattern to those observed on other Renegade vessels.
 * Unidentified Structure - Located aft of the vessel is possibly an extra-spatial sensor device of sorts. Some have hypothesised that these are simply communications and/or sensor arrays, in which case their configuration is such that interference from the Warp core would make them all but useless.

I know this doesn't exactly answer the 'how' it works, but at least it gives you a general idea the destructive firepower these behemoth of a vessel possesses. Based on the descriptions of the weapons, hopefully this will give the reader a general idea how it works. Considering it was built by Warp Smiths in the Eye of Terror, and like much of the daemonic technology created there, is both a mystery as well as defies the laws of physics. Therefore, it is impossible to determine exactly how this ship exactly works. Imperial vessels had a difficult enough time just trying to identify what weapons systems were being used.

Just my two cents...

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