Cadence Arms and Incunabula

Although nominally a commercial enterprise, many would
label Cadence as some form of secret society or even
heretical tech-cult, whose services may be bought by the
highest bidder. Based in the rarefied halls of Nova Castillia
on Fenksworld, Cadence is also known to have offices and
agents in dozens of hives and chartist vessels. Cadence offers
weapons, servitors and other arcane devices of the highest
order and sophistication to its private clientele (among
which elements of the Holy Inquisition are whispered to
number) and it is said they are able to fashion any device
a buyer might desire for the right price. Certainly, many
of their creations seem to “skirt the edge” of techno-heresy.
Just why the Cult Mechanicus hasn’t clamped down on
them remains something of a mystery, and the tech-priest
authorities remain curiously and firmly silent on the matter.
==Unique Equipment==
Cadence “Widower” Dart Caster Device
Class: Exotic (Widower)
A weapon of assassination that grew out of the bitter guild
vendettas in Hive Magnagorsk on Fenksworld, the Widower
is another unique design created by the mysterious artisan
cult known as Cadence and is now perhaps their most widely
known creation. Using a much more powerful version of the
magnetic/las impellor found in Imperial needle weapons, the
caster fires not a crystalline poison sliver, but an armor-piercing
adamantine dart, fractal edged and designed to penetrate light
body armor with ease. The darts are subsonic, their passage
sounding only a slight hum as they speed through the air,
and the weapon itself makes no flash whatsoever when fired,
making it an excellent killer from the shadows.
The profile listed here assumes a standard razor-dart,
although poisoned or explosive darts are not unknown.
Cadence supplies the weapon with an attachable frame-stock
and a long-barreled impellor that turns it into a two-handed
Basic type weapon with a base range of 150m and a weight
of 4.5 kg (although its Damage, etc., remains the same.)
Razor darts are also Rare items with a base cost of 15
Thrones each.
Pistol, 35m, S/–/–, 1d10+3, R, PEN 4, Clip 1, RLD Full, Accurate, WT 2kg, Cost 1,000, Rare
Cadence Promethium “Destroyer” Incineration Device
Class: Pistol (Flame)
A weapon produced only to order by special commission
by the artisan-masters of Cadence, the Destroyer is a highly
advanced pattern of hand flamer that uses force-compression
technology similar to that of a plasma weapon to create a
superheated thermal-incandescent blast that burns far hotter
and with greater fuel efficiency than that of a usual flamer. If the
stories are to be believed, the first commissioner of this weapon
was none other than the legendary Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Ark-
Ashten, although this is likely to be apocryphal.
Pistol, 15m, S/–/–, 1d10+5, E, PEN 2, Clip 5, RLD 2Full, Flame, WT 2.1kg, Cost 750, Very Rare
Cadence “Spectre” Assault Device
Class: Basic (SP)
One of the few widely known weapons produced by
Cadence. Technically, the Spectre Assault Device is an autogun
and chambered to standard caseless rounds. However, the
Spectre is far more than a mere “standard” rifle. Featuring a
tri-mag shot selection system, it not only has a huge capacity
of fire, but the flexibility of freely switching between multiple
loads. Beneath the blocky barrel-shroud, the Spectre also
mounts an integral shotgun unit giving the user even more
options for dealing death and a hidden heavy punch. The
weapon still has its detractors who consider it a “poor cousin”
in comparison to the raw firepower of a bolter or hellgun.
The Spectre may fire either as an autogun or shotgun,
but not both during the same Action. The Spectre has three
magazines and has a fire selector.
Basic, 80m, S/3/10, 1d10+3, I, PEN 0, Clip 20(×3), RLD Full (each), WT 6.5kg, Cost 375, Rare
As Shotgun: 30m, S/–/–, 1d10+4, I, PEN 0, Clip 4, RLD 2Full, Scatter