Tesla Destructor

A Tesla Destructor is a form of Necron Tesla Weapon that unleashes a bolt of living lightning, which witnesses claim move as if a mind of its own, that crackles from foe to foe after hitting its target, charring flesh and melting armour. Tesla bolts feed off the energy released by the destruction, and the lightning discharge becomes more furious with every fresh arc. In some cases, these energetic projectiles have even been observed to crack ceramite and plasteel. These weapons have been code-named by the Imperium after the ancient Terran scientist Nikola Tesla, who was the first human known to experiment with this type of weapons technology; although the Necrons had perfected it long before humans even existed. A Tesla Destructor is a largest known type of Tesla Weapon, and so powerful are its blasts, and such is its shocking rapidity of fire, that the lightning fired is capable of leaping from target to target before they are finally grounded such that a single direct hit from a Tesla weapon might incapacitate an entire squad; leaving a trail of smouldering carnage across a broad swathe of the battlefield behind them. Due to a Tesla Destructors size, it is most commonly found mounted on vehicular platforms. An Annihilation Barge is renowned for its twin-linked Tesla Destructor primary armament, whilst both Night Scythes and Doom Scythes are armed with twin-linked Tesla Destructors built into their underslung turrets.