An Atomantic Deflector was an Imperial defensive energy field technology employed by the vehicles of the Space Marine Legions during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy.
Powered by the vast glut of energy from the compact Atomantic Reactor at its heart, many of the more advanced Legiones Astartes war machines entered the field of battle veiled in a protective shroud of energy that could deflect or disperse las bolts and kinetic munitions.
Yet, such was the power channelled through this little-understood device that, in death, these engines of war would erupt in fiery ruin, a danger to friend and foe alike.
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- The Horus Heresy - Book One: Betrayal (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 140