A Volkite Cavitor used by the Contekor Terminators of the Night Lords Legion during the Horus Heresy.
The Volkite Cavitor was a type of heavy Volkite Weapon employed by the Night Lords Legion during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. Volkite Weapons produced a deflagrating attack, in which subsonic combustion caused by a beam of thermal energy propagated through a target material by thermodynamic heat transfer so that hot burning material heated the next layer of cold material and ignited it. A Volkite Weapon's heat ray had a devastating effect on organic matter, explosively burning flesh into ash and jetting fire.
The Volkite Cavitor also usually had a small chainblade attached to the end of its muzzle to make it useful in melee strikes.
The Volkite Cavitor is a variant of the more common Volkite Weapons that were produced on Nostramo during the Great Crusade, a rare example of a lost technology recovered by the Imperium on that blighted world. The removal of certain safety features allows the Volkite Cavitor to project more diffused thermal beams at more limited ranges.
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- The Horus Heresy Book Three: Extermination (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 205
- The Horus Heresy Book Nine: Crusade (Forge World Series), pg. 181
- Horus Heresy Age of Darkness 2nd Edition: Liber Hereticus (Specialty Game), pg. 205