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Grav-cannon - History: The secrets of Grav-weaponry construction are known only to a precious few; their design is based upon the graviton weaponry many Space Marine Legions employed during the Horus Heresy era in the early 31st Millennium. Even then, these exotic and rare weapons were little understood by the Tech-priests of Mars. The term "Graviton-gun" refers to a group of gravity projector devices whose sophistication is such that the few that remained were relics of a lost age from before the birth of the Imperium of Man. These weapons proved extremely useful when fighting on a voidship or in a null-gravity environment. The power of the Grav-gun's highest settings was sufficient to rupture organs and crack bones even inside armour, but its primary use was to impede the enemy and damage machinery without the risks of secondary explosions.But the secrets of Grav-weaponry are still locked away in the deepest vaults on Mars. Only Techmarines who show the greatest promise are entrusted with the sacred binary psalms detailing the assembly and maintenance of such weapons. In battle, all forms of Grav-weaponry affects the local gravity field, using its victim's own mass against them, an ordeal that will stun those it does not kill outright. Heavily armoured targets find themselves crushed as if by the mighty fist of the Emperor Himself, while enemy vehicles are left as crumpled, smoke-belching wrecks.
Grav-Chute - Grav-Chute: A Grav-chute is a small, backpack-size anti-gravitic device that allows Imperial troops to float safely to the ground on a column of anti-gravitic force from any height in a world's gravity well, including sub-orbital heights.A Grav-chute contains a generator that emits anti-gravitic suspensor fields that can counter the force of gravity at the particle level and two small promethium-fueled thrusters on each side of the pack that provide some directional control as well as contribute to the chute's aerobraking effect.A Grav-chute is used to drop Imperial troops directly into combat from either a low-flying aircraft or from a vehicle operating in a planet's upper thermosphere. If required, a Grav-Chute can allow an Imperial soldier to hover above their target for one minute at a time.In many ways, a Grav-chute is a smaller and less capable version of a Jump Pack, but unlike that technology it is intended only to control a fall that is already in place rather than lifting a person's entire weight up some altitude into the air.A Grav-chute's solar battery power supply provides enough energy to operate the device for a solar hour before it needs to be replaced or recharged.Grav-chutes are most often used by Ordo Tempestus Tempestus Scions carrying out special forces infiltration operations and for the deep strike airborne raids initiated by the Astra Militarum's Elysian Drop Troop and Harakoni Warhawks regiments. Grav-cutes have also been integrated into the built-in Jump Packs of Primaris Marines' Mark X Gravis Power Armour and Mark X Omnis Power Armour and the detachable Intercessor Jump Pack used by Jump Pack Intercessors to increase the Astartes' maneuverability in atmosphere during flight or freefall.
Grav-Gun - Grav-Gun: A Grav-Gun, also known as a Graviton Gun, is a devastating weapon employed by the Adeptus Astartes based on ancient and forgotten technology dating back to the time of the Dark Age of Technology. Manipulating the very nature of gravity itself, a Grav-Gun turns a target's mass against it, crushing it to pulp under its own weight. This is especially shocking when used against heavily-armoured infantry like Terminators, as the hapless warrior is brutally crushed by the bulk of his ceramite plates until only a crimson trickle remains. Space Marine Chapters are among the few warriors of the Imperium to be gifted with the use of Grav-Guns, and it is considered a sacred honour to be able to wield such a potent weapon.
Grav-Gun - Operation: The Grav-Gun is the two-handed rifle form of Grav-weapon, and operates by firing a stream of graviton particles. This affects the local gravitational field of a target area, making the targeted object either far heavier or lighter depending on the weapon's setting. The Grav-gun also creates a bass rumble as the waves affect the local air pressure, causing the air to vibrate. The effect is generally non-lethal and can be used to incapacitate foes who need to be captured alive, but the power of the Grav-gun's highest settings is sufficient to rupture organs and crack bones even inside armour. Some living targets will be affected more variably; a very large creature may be killed under excessive weight, but most targets will either be slowed or completely immobilised. The Grav-Gun is very useful when fighting in a voidship or a null-gravity environment, as well as during demolition and siege work. This is because it is particularly effective against massive objects such as bunkers or fortifications, where the building's great mass can be used against it, causing it to collapse.
Grav-Gun - Sources: Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition), pp. 121, 123Dark Heresy: The Inquisitor's Handbook (RPG), pp. 133-134Deathwatch: Rites of Battle (RPG), pp. 137-138The Horus Heresy Book One: Betrayal (Imperial Armour), pg. 231The Horus Heresy Book Two: Massacre (Imperial Armour), pp. 76, 122Imperial Armour Volume Nine - The Badab War, Part One, pg. 153Rogue Trader: Core Rulebook (RPG), pg. 128Warhammer 40,000: Munitorum - Grav-GunsWarhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1st Edition), pg. 72Warhammer 40,000: Wargear (2nd Edition), pg. 24
Grav-Inhibitor Drone - Grav-Inhibitor Drone: A Grav-Inhibitor Drone (Kor'vesa in the T'au Lexicon) is a type of T'au Drone (small, sleek, disc-shaped, semi-sentient machines) employed extensively alongside T'au units in battle.Grav-Inhibitor Drones have to date only been deployed as part of Pathfinder reconnaissance teams during the Third Sphere Expansion. All Grav-Inhibitor Drones are equipped with a Gravity Wave Projector, which can emit a high-powered graviton wave that repulses nearby enemies, slowing their advance to a crawl or halting them in their tracks altogether.This allows Pathfinder Teams to move out of the way of an enemy assault and take the time to react to the assault in the most efficient manner.Grav-Inhibitor Drones consist of an advanced processor unit, which individually has only a basic intelligence (approximately equal to that of a small animal such as a pterasquirrel), and moves about by way of a small anti-gravitic generator and a smaller and much modified version of a T'au Jetpack.This allows the Grav-Inhibitor Drone to hover over the ground and skim over most obstacles. As they hover over landscapes, rotating back and forth, their sensor vane constantly transmits vital information about their surroundings.Grav-Inhibitor Drones that are attached to a T'au squad can be controlled by a Drone Controller, whether it is in the form of a support system for a T'au Battlesuit, or a hard-wired piece of wargear for T'au infantry. A Drone Controller is an electronic device that can be used by the T'au to further enhance their control over their robotic companions.A Drone Controller acts as a hub of digital communications between the drone's operator and any drones that are nearby the user. It serves as an advanced interface between the operator and the artificial intelligence (AI) combat programs of the drones, and is often used to direct the drones' firepower far more efficiently and with a level of accuracy far greater than would otherwise be possible on the battlefield.So deeply do the T'au believe in the Greater Good, that even their drones are programmed with self-preservation protocols. In the face of what the AI deems to be hopeless odds, a drone will attempt to escape rather than stand and fight.While in certain extreme circumstances drones might be deployed on high-risk missions likely to lead to their destruction or purposefully moved to block enemy advances on units of Fire Warriors, the T'au do not consider drones to be disposable units and the drone artificial intelligence will analyse every possibility in order to ensure its own survival.
Grav-Inhibitor Drone - Ordo Xenos Departmento Analyticus Technical Specifications: The technical specifications for this T'au unit have not been obtained or released by the Ordo Xenos.
Grav-pistol - Grav-pistol: A Grav-pistol, also called a Graviton Pistol, is the hand-held pistol version of a Grav-weapon employed by the Adeptus Astartes. Its effect is not quite as powerful as that of its larger counterparts, but it can still do enormous damage to targets possessed of a large mass. Grav-weapons are devastating graviton-based weapons employed by the Adeptus Astartes based on ancient and forgotten technology dating back to the time of the Dark Age of Technology. Manipulating the very nature of gravity itself, Grav-weaponry turns a target's mass against it, crushing it to pulp under its own weight. This is especially shocking when used against heavily armoured infantry like Terminators, as the hapless warrior is brutally crushed by the bulk of their ceramite plates until only a crimson trickle remains. Space Marine Chapters are among the few warriors of the Imperium to be gifted with the use of Grav-weaponry, and it is considered a sacred honour to wield such a potent weapon.All Grav-weaponry fires a stream of graviton particles which affects the local gravitational field of a target area, making the targeted object either far heavier or lighter depending on the weapon's setting. The Grav-weapon also creates a bass rumble as the waves affect the local air pressure, causing the air to vibrate. The effect is generally non-lethal and can be used to incapacitate foes who need to be captured alive, but the power of the Grav-weapon's highest settings is sufficient to rupture organs and crack bones even inside armour. Some living targets will be affected more variably; a very large creature may be killed under excessive weight, but most targets will either be slowed or completely immobilised. A Grav-weapon is very useful when fighting in a voidship or a null-gravity environment, as well as during demolition and siege work. This is because it is particularly effective against massive objects such as bunkers or fortifications, where the building's great mass can be used against it, causing it to collapse.
Grav-pistol - History: The secrets of Grav-weaponry construction are known only by a precious few; their design is based upon the graviton weaponry many Space Marine Legions employed during the Horus Heresy era in the early 31st Millennium. Even then, these exotic and rare weapons were little understood by the Tech-priests of Mars. The term "Graviton-gun" refers to a group of gravity projector devices whose sophistication is such that the few that remained were relics of a lost age from before the birth of the Imperium of Man. These weapons proved extremely useful when fighting on a voidship or in a null-gravity environment. The power of the Grav-gun's highest settings was sufficient to rupture organs and crack bones even inside armour, but its primary use was to impede the enemy and damage machinery without the risks of secondary explosions.But the secrets of Grav-weaponry are still locked away in the deepest vaults on Mars. Only Techmarines who show the greatest promise are entrusted with the sacred binary psalms detailing the assembly and maintenance of such weapons. In battle, all forms of Grav-weaponry affects the local gravity field, using its victim's own mass against them, an ordeal that will stun those it does not kill outright. Heavily armoured targets find themselves crushed as if by the mighty fist of the Emperor Himself, while enemy vehicles are left as crumpled, smoke-belching wrecks.
Grav-Raider - Grav-Raider: The Grav-Raider was an advanced variant of the Land Raider that utilised anti-gravitic plates for locomotion rather than the usual treads. The system had been designed by the famed Mechanicum techno-archeologist Arkhan Land himself. The variant was most often used by the forces of the Legio Custodes, though it was available to other elite forces among the Legiones Astartes of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, such as the voted-lieutenant who commanded the Dark Angels Legion's Deathwing.
Grav-Raider - Notable Grav-Raiders: Land's Raider - The appropriately named Land's Raider was the personal Grav-Raider transport of Arkhan Land. This Grav-Raider was larger even than a Spartan Assault Tank and was armoured with rare Martian alloys deemed too rare for use even by the Legiones Astartes. It featured an armoured turret with an array of four Volkite Culverins arranged in a quad-turret.Galatine - The Galatine was a Grav-Raider that served as the personal transport of the commanding voted-lieutenant of the Dark Angels Legion's Deathwing during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Voted-Lieutenant Holguin believed it to be a unique design that had been drawn from Caliban's ancient past.
Grav-Rhino - Grav-Rhino: The Grav-Rhino was an experimental variant of the basic Deimos Pattern Rhino armoured personnel carrier's chassis created during the era of the Great Crusade. The Grav-Rhino, unlike any other Rhino variant, makes use of anti-gravitic plates that are usually found on vehicles such as the Land Speeder. These plates allow the vehicle to hover off the ground and to fly for short distances.The Grav-Rhino used large propulsion engines to move around once it was in the air. This vehicle was designed by the Adeptus Mechanicus to be used by the Legio Custodes during the Great Crusade, yet there are no records of this vehicle ever serving in any campaigns other than the Battle of Terra. The vehicle was also used by the Silent Sisterhood, who worked closely with the Custodes.
Grav-Rhino - History: It is believed by some Imperial scholars that the Grav-Rhino was built with a specific purpose in mind, and some believe this purpose was to allow the vehicle, and the Custodians it carried, to travel into the Imperial Webway portal secretly created by the Emperor after He left the Great Crusade in the command of the Warmaster Horus and which was located deep beneath the Imperial Palace.The Imperial Webway portal lacked a vehicle-accessible ramp, and so vehicles would have had to fly or walk into the portal. During the Siege of Terra by the forces of Chaos, the Imperial Webway, which had been accidentally breached by the Warp when Primarch Magnus the Red tried to warn the Emperor of Horus' treachery, was flooded with Daemons trying to break into the Imperial Palace.The Emperor was able to close off the portal, but only after the Legio Custodes and the Sisters of Silence were able to push back the Daemons, including a Greater Daemon of Khorne. It was during this conflict, known as the War Within the Webway, that the Grav-Rhino was first used in combat, as the vehicle was able to quickly transport Custodes and Silent Sisters into and through the corridors of the Webway, and was also able to help evacuate the Mechanicum workers that were constructing the Terran extension into the Webway within the confines of the Labyrinth Dimension.It is believed that the Grav-Rhino is no longer used by the Adeptus Custodes, as they did not leave the Imperial Palace on Terra until the Era Indomitus and thus had little use for transport vehicles until just recently. The advanced anti-gravitic technology used in the creation of the vehicle is now lost to the Imperium, although it is believed that there may still be some Grav-Rhinos stored in the Armoury of the Adeptus Custodes within the Imperial Palace.
Grav-Rhino - Armament: The Grav-Rhino was a variant of the standard Deimos Pattern Rhino, which was used by the Space Marine Legions. The vehicle's only weapons were two turret-mounted bolters, which were controlled remotely from inside the vehicle.
Grav-Rhino - Notable Users of the Grav-Rhino: Legio Custodes - The Grav-Rhino was the primary transport vehicle for members of the Adeptus Custodes that were needed access into the Imperial Webway, it is unknown if they used this vehicle anywhere else.Sisters of Silence - The Silent Sisterhood, who worked closely with the Adeptus Custodes, also had access to the Grav-Rhino while they fought within the Imperial Webway.
Grav-Rhino - Adeptus Mechanicus Technical Specifications: Technical specifications for this vehicle are not available in existing Imperial records.
Grav-Spartan - Grav-Spartan: The Grav-Spartan was a variant of the Spartan Assault Tank used during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy by the forces of the Legio Custodes that made use of an anti-gravitic propulsion system in place of the standard tank's treads. This system had been devised by the famed Mechanicum techno-archeologist Arkhan Land following his recovery of ancient Human STC fragments containing the designs for the technology.Other than its anti-grav abilities, the tank was otherwise largely similar to its non-gravitic counterpart in abilities and available weapon loadouts. It was deployed by the Custodians for the same tactical roles in which it was used by the Legiones Astartes -- heavy armoured assaults of entrenched enemy positions.
Grav-weaponry - Grav-weaponry: Grav-weaponry, also called Graviton Weapons, or just Grav Weapons, are devastating graviton-based personal and vehicular weapons employed by the Imperial Adeptus Astartes and the Collegia Titanica and the military forces of the Leagues of Votann based on ancient and forgotten technology dating back to the time of the Age of Technology. Manipulating the very nature of gravity itself, Grav-weaponry turns a target's mass against it, crushing it to pulp under its own weight.This is especially shocking when used against heavily armoured infantry like Terminators, as the hapless warrior is brutally crushed by the bulk of their ceramite plates until only a crimson trickle remains. Space Marine Chapters are among the few warriors of the Imperium to be gifted with the use of Grav-weaponry, and it is considered a sacred honour to wield such a potent weapon.All Grav-weaponry fires a stream of graviton particles which affects the local gravitational field of a target area, making the targeted object either far heavier or lighter depending on the weapon's setting. The Grav-weapon also creates a bass rumble as the waves affect the local air pressure, causing the air to vibrate.The effect is generally non-lethal and can be used to incapacitate foes who need to be captured alive, but the power of the Grav-weapon's highest settings is sufficient to rupture organs and crack bones even inside armour.Some living targets will be affected more variably; a very large creature may be killed under excessive weight, but most targets will either be slowed or completely immobilised.A Grav-weapon is very useful when fighting in a voidship or a null-gravity environment, as well as during demolition and siege work. This is because it is particularly effective against massive objects such as bunkers or fortifications, where the building's great mass can be used against it, causing it to collapse.
Grav-weaponry - History: The secrets of Grav-weaponry construction are known only to a precious few; their design is based upon the graviton weaponry many Space Marine Legions employed during the Horus Heresy era in the early 31st Millennium. Even then, these exotic and rare weapons were little understood by the Tech-priests of Mars.The term "Graviton-gun" refers to a group of gravity projector devices whose sophistication is such that the few that remained were relics of a lost age from before the birth of the Imperium of Man. These weapons proved extremely useful when fighting on a voidship or in a null-gravity environment.The power of the Grav-gun's highest settings was sufficient to rupture organs and crack bones even inside armour, but its primary use was to impede the enemy and damage machinery without the risks of secondary explosions.But the secrets of Grav-weaponry are still locked away in the deepest vaults on Mars. Only Techmarines who show the greatest promise are entrusted with the sacred binary psalms detailing the assembly and maintenance of such weapons.In battle, all forms of Grav-weaponry affect the local gravity field, using its victim's own mass against them, an ordeal that will stun those it does not kill outright. Heavily armoured targets find themselves crushed as if by the mighty fist of the Emperor Himself, while enemy vehicles are left as crumpled, smoke-belching wrecks.
Grav-weaponry - Notable Imperial Grav-weapons: Grav-pistol - The Grav-pistol is the hand-held pistol version of a Grav-weapon. Its effect is not quite as powerful as that of its larger counterparts, but it can still do enormous damage to targets possessed of a large mass.Grav-Gun - This weapon is the two-handed rifle variant of the Grav-weapon used by Imperial forces.Grav-cannon - The Grav-cannon is a large, vehicle-mounted type of Grav-weapon. The power of the Graviton Cannon is sufficient to rupture organs and crack bones even inside armour, but its primary use is to counter enemy machinery without the risk of secondary explosions. Grav-cannons have been seen mounted on Rapiers and Centurion heavy infantry.Deathwatch Graviton Cannon - The Deathwatch Graviton Cannon is a modification made by the Deathwatch Techmarines of Watch Fortress Erioch in the Jericho Reach of the more common Grav-gun. The Deathwatch Graviton Cannon possesses a higher graviton output and has proven decidedly more deadly when unleashed on the Deathwatch's foes. Where the common Graviton Gun has but one setting that affects the gravity in a sizeable area, the Deathwatch version can also focus its energies into a continuous tight beam of incredibly dense gravity waves.Combi-grav - This relatively rare Combi-weapon variant incorporates a single-shot Grav-gun, allowing the wielder a potent graviton attack when the fighting is fiercest without sacrificing the formidable wrath of the standard Bolter. The Combi-grav incorporates a standard Astartes pattern Bolter with a Grav-gun as the secondary weapon.Heavy Graviton Cannon - A Heavy Graviton Cannon, also called a Heavy Grav-Cannon, is a graviton weapon deployed by the Adeptus Mechanicus on its Kataphron Destroyer Battle Servitors. The graviton technologies used by the Adeptus Mechanicus are fearsome indeed. A target hit by the Heavy Grav-Cannon's invisible field will be stunned and likely crippled, or even crushed under their own exponentially increased mass until all that is left is an oozing disc of biometallic waste.Graviton Destructor -  A Graviton Destructor is a Titan-grade Grav Weapon deployed during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy on Warhound and Reaver-class Titans that unlashes a directed energy particle beam of gravitons towards a target that dramatically increases the local gravity, crushing the foe under its own mass.Graviton Ruinator - A Graviton Ruinator is a Titan-grade Grav Weapon deployed during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy on Warlord-class Titans that unlashes a directed energy particle beam of gravitons towards a target that dramatically increases the local gravity, crushing the foe under its own mass. It possesses a longer range and more stopping power than its smaller Titan-grade counterpart, the Graviton Destructor.
Grav-weaponry - Notable Leagues of Votann Graviton Weapons: Graviton Hammer - A Graviton Hammer is a melee Graviton Weapon in the form of a single-handed warhammer used by the military forces of the Leagues of Votann. Like all Graviton Weapons, the Graviton Hammer works by dramatically increasing the local gravity, crushing the foe under its own mass after a bonebreaking strike from the hammer. A Graviton Hammer is the standard melee weapon used by Brôkhyr Iron-masters when they are operating in the field to maintain and repair their Oathband's vehicles and wargear.Graviton Rifle - A Graviton Rifle is a man-portable Grav Weapon used by the military forces of the Leagues of Votann. It is a favoured weapon of the Brôkhyr Iron-masters. It unleashes a directed energy particle beam of gravitons towards a target that dramatically increases the local gravity, crushing the foe under its own mass. However, Kin weapons like Graviton Rifles are superior in almost every respect to those patterns of Grav Weapons wielded by the agents and military of the Imperium, since the Kin employ superlative materials and methods in their construction and have no fear of further innovating on an ancient STC design. As a result, the Grav Rifle and its variants often have longer ranges and more stopping power than any of their Imperial equivalents.Graviton Blast Cannon - A Graviton Blast Cannon is a man-portable Grav Weapon used by the military forces of the Leagues of Votann. It is a favoured weapon among the squads of the Brôkhyr Thunderkyn. It unleashes a directed energy particle beam of gravitons towards a target that dramatically increases the local gravity, crushing the foe under its own mass.
Grav Flux Bombard - Grav Flux Bombard: A Leviathan Grav-Flux Bombard is a heavy ranged weapon usable by Imperial Leviathan Pattern Siege Dreadnoughts. A Leviathan Grav-flux Bombard creates a spiralling vortex of gravitation-torsion force, and is a fortress-breaching weapon which can reduce the toughest armour to twisted scrap and crush anything living beyond recognition.
Grav Flux Bombard - Sources: The Horus Heresy - Book Six: Retribution by Alan BlighLeviathan Storm Cannon - Forge World
Grave Warden Terminator Squad - Grave Warden Terminator Squad: A Grave Warden Terminator Squad was a specialised formation primarily utilised by the Death Guard Space Marine Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras of the late 30th and early 31st Millennia. Originally employed as an informal name for the variously armed battalions of Death Guard Terminators of First Captain Calas Typhon's company carried into battle aboard the unique battleship Terminus Est, the term "Grave Wardens" also eventually became synonymous both within the Death Guard Legion and beyond it for the Alchemical Weapons-equipped Terminators unique to the Death Guard.Alone among the Legiones Astartes, the Death Guard made free and frequent use of Alchemical Weapons, such as the crawling horror of phosphex, inimically lethal Cullgene Gas and flesh-eating Vasgotox fluid, as a matter of course, and outfitted specialised units in modified patterns of Tactical Dreadnought Armour to disperse it accordingly.Where the Grave Warden Terminator Squads walked, they brought lingering, ugly death to whatever and whoever crossed their paths, and as the Death Guard were unleashed on the Imperium of Man in the wake of the Warmaster Horus' betrayal of the Emperor of Mankind, weapons which had previously only been used against the foulest and most resilient forms of alien life were turned upon humanity instead. As a result, the Death Guard's tally of murder and atrocity grew world by world. It is unknown if the current Death Guard Traitor Legion still utilises this specialised formation in the 41st Millennium.
Grave Warden Terminator Squad - Unit Composition: 4-5 Grave Warden Terminators1 Chem-Master (Squad Leader)
Grave Warden Terminator Squad - Wargear: Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour - The Cataphractii Pattern of Terminator Armour was originally a prototype for the later patterns of Terminator Armour that were employed by the Space Marine Legions and the warriors of the Legio Custodes throughout the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. Grave Warden cadres utilised Terminator Armour that was modified with the distinctive technological adaptations that enabled them to operate in extremes of bio-alchemical warfare and to release their own Alchemical Weapons in gaseous form.Assault Grenade Launcher - A robust, if short ranged, belt-fed weapon, the Assault Grenade Launcher carried by the Grave Wardens was a modified pattern designed primarily for mounting on the vehicles of the Imperial Army. It carried two kinds of ammunition: one was a standard shaped-charge Krak shell and the other a toxic warhead which unleashed a burst of highly lethal chemical agents and concentrated acid vapour on detonation.Krak Grenades - A type of explosive device used by the military forces of the Imperium of Man. Krak Grenades use a shaped explosive charge capable of punching holes in armoured targets such as vehicles or bunkers, and its charge can even rip armour plating apart. Typically they are attached directly onto vehicles or fortifications with magnetic, adhesive or physical clamps, maximising their effect on the target.Toxin Grenades - This grenade was a form of personal chemical weapon that unleashed a burst of highly lethal chemical agents and concentrated acid vapour upon detonation.Power Fist - This iconic Astartes weapon is essentially an over-sized armoured gauntlet that generates an energy field around it that disrupts the bonds between the molecules of any solid matter it touches.Death Cloud - The modified Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour of the Grave Wardens carried built-in alchemical containment and projection units, allowing the Terminator to shroud himself in a murderous fog of toxins and direct-focused jets of lethally poisonous vapours.
Graven Spectres - Graven Spectres: The Graven Spectres were a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown Founding and genetic origin who became a warband of piratical Renegade Space Marines.
Graven Spectres - Notable Campaigns: Last Stand on Syban (365.M41) - The Graven Spectres Renegade Chapter assaulted the relic world of Syban, intent on plundering its great stasis museum. The vault filled the core of the hollow world, millions of chambers filled with artefacts and ancient objects gathered by Syban's curator fleets over thousands of standard years. In their reckless attack, the Spectres unwittingly broke the seals on the Daemon Tomb of Knor, awakening the Daemon Prince within from its millennia-long slumber. Soon the Renegades were fighting for their lives against Knor and his minions, the Daemon using the eldritch artefacts of the vault to summon more of its kind and break down the walls of reality. Alien statues, arcane constructs and ancient machines are animated by Warp-creatures, tearing their way free of their casements and falling brutally upon the Renegade Space Marines. A single squad of Grey Knights Terminators are the only forces able to reach the beleaguered world, and they fight their way inside over the piled bodies of slain Spectres. Reaching the heart of the vault the Grey Knights found themselves overwhelmed, and with little chance of success against Knor and his ever-growing host. In a final act of sacrifice, the battle-brothers engaged the planet's stasis failsafes, freezing it in time forever. The fate of the rest of the surviving Renegade Graven Spectres is unknown.
Graven Spectres - Warband Colours: The Graven Spectres' colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Graven Spectres - Warband Badge: The Graven Spectres' badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Gravis Terrozant - Gravis Terrozant: Gravis Terrozant is a Highborn Rogue Trader and war-profiteer operating within the Jericho Reach.When Lord Militant Tiber Achilus first set his sights upon the Jericho Reach, he realised lasting victory could not be accomplished by military means alone.Knowing well the power of industry and lure of coin, and their place in expanding the Imperium's borders, Achilus sent out a call to Rogue Traders operating out of the Calixis, Scarus, and Ixaniad Sectors, enticing them to join in the Achilus Crusade with promises of profit, plunder, and a stake in all worlds brought into the Imperial fold.Regrettably, few heeded the lord militant's call, most flocking to the boundless opportunities of the Koronus Expanse rather than the uncertainty of an active war zone. Gravis Terrozant was the exception.
Gravis Terrozant - History: A relatively young Rogue Trader from an obscure dynasty originating in the Calixian Periphery, Gravis Terrozant saw opportunity where others saw only war.After a brief period of negotiation and oath-swearing with Achilus Crusade commanders, Terrozant led his small fleet of treasure ships, dubbed the "Golden Chain," through the Jericho-Maw Warp Gate and into the worlds beyond the Black Reef.Always a few parsecs ahead of the Canis Salient, Gravis Terrozant maintains several commercial inroads into contested regions of T'au space, selling weapons and medical gear to Human dissidents beyond the Greyhell Front and valuable intelligence to Lord Commander Sebiascor Ebongrave.In addition, Terrozant's smuggling network brings innumerable defectors and examples of T'au weaponry into Imperial custody, and a steady supply of agitators, spies, and propagandists into the worlds of the T'au Empire's Velk'Han Sept.In recent years, Lord Captain Terrozant has expanded his endeavours to include organising disparate Human malcontents from the Velk'Han Sept into his own private mercenary army.Armed with a combination of standard Imperial pattern weaponry and armaments stolen during raids into T'au supply depots, "Terrozant's Terrors" have become a respected unit in the war to end T'au hegemony in the Jericho Reach's coreward fringe.Most successful of all Terrozant's dealings, however, is the brisk slave trade the lord captain maintains between the Greyhell Front and the Iron Collar.With almost clockwork regularity, the ships of the Golden Chain return to Spite, Calisi, and Karlack, opening their holds to disgorge a broken host of T'au, Kroot, and miserable Gue'la prisoners of war to work the mines and labour camps that fuel the Imperial war effort.With most able-bodied men and women from these worlds conscripted into the Astra Militarum, these slaves are indispensable to maintaining the high levels of production needed to supply the three salients of the Achilus Crusade.Yet not even Lord Captain Gravis Terrozant is immune to Lord Commander Ebongrave's paranoia. Over the past several years, with progress in the Greyhell Front grinding to a halt, the lord commander has begun to suspect Terrozant of working against the progress of the Canis Salient. Indeed, why would a man who profits so greatly from war want either side to attain victory?Ebongrave suspects Terrozant's smuggling endeavour runs both ways, with the lord captain selling intelligence and military hardware back to the T'au in an effort to keep both sides evenly matched, locked in perpetual stalemate.Perhaps more chilling is Ebongrave's suspicion that Terrozant's time beyond the Greyhell Front has left his mind contaminated by alien ideas.The lord commander fears Terrozant is sympathetic to the corrupting notion of the Greater Good preached by T'au emissaries.If so, it is only a matter of time before Terrozant turns his mercenary armies against his own people. Worse still, he may reveal the secret of the Jericho-Maw Warp Gate to the T'au.
Gravitic Concussion Grenade - Gravitic Concussion Grenade: A Gravitic Concussion Grenade is a grenade used by the military forces of the Leagues of Votann that when detonated unleashes a powerful concussive blastwave produced by manipulating the force of gravity in the affected area. Gravitic Concussion Grenades are standard grenade weapons for Kin forces, and are particularly employed by Hearthkyn Warriors and Hernkyn Pioneers.
Graviton Blast Cannon - Graviton Blast Cannon: A Graviton Blast Cannon is a man-portable Grav Weapon used by the military forces of the Leagues of Votann. It is a favoured weapon among the squads of the Brôkhyr Thunderkyn. It unleashes a directed energy particle beam of gravitons towards a target that dramatically increases the local gravity, crushing the foe under its own mass.However, Kin weapons like Graviton Blast Cannons are superior in almost every respect to those patterns of Grav Weapons wielded by the agents and military of the Imperium, since the Kin employ superlative materials and methods in their construction and have no fear of further innovating on an ancient STC design. As a result, the Grav Blast Cannon and its variants often have longer ranges and more stopping power than any of their Imperial equivalents.
Graviton Crusher - Graviton Crusher: The Graviton Crusher is a type of Gravity Weapon that is used by the combat walkers of the Questor Imperialis, the Imperial Knights, and by the Renegade Knights of the Questor Traitoris. This weapon is found only on the Questoris Knight Styrix.Graviton Weapons are devastating gravity-based weapons that function by manipulating the very nature of gravity itself, turning a target's mass against it, crushing it to pulp under its own weight. This is especially shocking when used against heavily armoured infantry like Terminators. All Grav-weaponry fires a stream of graviton particles which affects the local gravitational field of a target area, making the targeted object either far heavier or lighter depending on the weapon's setting. The Graviton Crusher used by the Knight Styrix can hold entire squads of infantry in place at once.The Questoris Knight Styrix was considered a dark and malevolent pattern of Knight armour, the wanton slaughter it unleashed being beneath the dignity of a true Knight. The Knight would use its Graviton Crusher to hold groups of infantry in place and then rake them over with its Volkite Chieorovile and Irradiation Projectors, utterly annihilating them with blasts of energy beams and cleansing radiation.
Graviton Crusher - Trivia: The Questoris Knight Styrix was originally armed with a Grav-Gun, however, as of the release of Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition, the Stryix's Grav-gun was replaced with the identical in function but renamed Graviton Crusher.
Graviton Destructor - Graviton Destructor: A Graviton Destructor is a Titan-grade Grav Weapon deployed as an arm hardpoint weapon on Warhound-class Titans and as a chassis-hardpoint weapon on Reaver-class Titans during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras.It unleashes a directed energy particle beam of gravitons towards a target that dramatically increases the local gravity, crushing the foe under its own mass. It possesses a shoter range and less stopping power than its larger Titan-grade counterpart, the Graviton Ruinator deployed on Warlord-class Titans.Graviton weapons are a rare sight on the battlefields of the 41st Millennium, mostly handheld, used to crumple heavy infantry and light vehicles by turning their own mass against them. Turn one of these present-day Grav-Guns onto a large walker or even a Titan, though, and it will do little more than bubble the paint.During the Horus Heresy, however, things were rather different. Arcane, gravity-based weaponry was everywhere -- and it was a whole lot bigger and more powerful. Big enough, in fact, to fit on a Titan. And definitely big enough to destroy one.
Graviton Hammer (Leagues of Votann) - Graviton Hammer (Leagues of Votann): A Graviton Hammer is a melee Graviton Weapon in the form of a single-handed warhammer used by the military forces of the Leagues of Votann. Like all Graviton Weapons the Graviton Hammer works by dramatically increasing the local gravity, crushing the foe under its own mass after a bone-breaking strike from the hammer.A Graviton Hammer is the standard melee weapon used by Brôkhyr Iron-masters when they are operating in the field to maintain and repair their Oathband's vehicles and wargear.
Graviton Pulsar - Graviton Pulsar: A Graviton Pulser is an Imperial gravitic weapon deployed on Imperial Navy starships, and in smaller sizes, by certain classes of Imperial Knights, such as the Knight Moirax.The crushing force projected by a Graviton Pulsar is capable of crumpling power armour or ripping the treads from a tank. While able to cause great destruction, such weapons are more often employed to disable and impede rather than destroy, fired to halt the advance of war machines so that they might be captured largely intact.
Graviton Rifle - Graviton Rifle: A Graviton Rifle is a man-portable Grav Weapon used by the military forces of the Leagues of Votann. It is a favoured weapon of the Brôkhyr Iron-masters. It unleashes a directed energy particle beam of gravitons towards a target that dramatically increases the local gravity, crushing the foe under its own mass.However, Kin weapons like Graviton Rifles are superior in almost every respect to those patterns of Grav Weapons wielded by the agents and military of the Imperium, since the Kin employ superlative materials and methods in their construction and have no fear of further innovating on an ancient STC design. As a result, the Grav Rifle and its variants often have longer ranges and more stopping power than any of their Imperial equivalents.
Graviton Ruinator - Graviton Ruinator: A Graviton Ruinator is a Titan-grade Grav Weapon deployed on Warlord-class Titans during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras that unleashes a directed energy particle beam of gravitons towards a target that dramatically increases the local gravity, crushing the foe under its own mass. It possesses a longer range and more stopping power than its smaller Titan-grade counterpart, the Graviton Destructor.Graviton weapons are a rare sight on the battlefields of the 41st Millennium, mostly handheld, used to crumple heavy infantry and light vehicles by turning their own mass against them. Turn one of these present-day Grav-Guns onto a large walker or even a Titan, though, and it will do little more than bubble the paint.During the Horus Heresy, however, things were rather different. Arcane, gravity-based weaponry was everywhere -- and it was a whole lot bigger and more powerful. Big enough, in fact, to fit on a Titan. And definitely big enough to destroy one.
Graviton Singularity Cannon - Graviton Singularity Cannon: The Graviton Singularity Cannon is a large Gravity Weapon used by the combat walkers of the Questor Imperialis, the Imperial Knights, and by the Renegade Knights of the Questor Traitoris. The Graviton Singularity Cannon is found only on the Cerastus Knight-Atrapos.The Cerastus Knight-Atrapos was designed with the singular purpose of destroying Heretek engines and xenos war machines whose very nature and existence was considered a blasphemy to the Omnissiah.The Graviton Singularity Cannon creates a quantum singularity in the fabric of space-time that tears its target and the surrounding area apart with extreme gravimetric forces. The weapon is extremely effective against any target that is trapped in the singularity, however it is especially effective against vehicles, the more massive the better.The Graviton Singularity Cannon is violently destructive, but potentially unstable and hazardous to its user since every time it is fired there is the risk of the singularity collapsing, resulting in the outright destruction of the Knight that wields it.
Graviton Singularity Cannon - Sources: The Horus Heresy - Book Six: Retribution (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 278-279Imperial Armour Index: Forces of the Astra Militarum (8th Edition), pg. 97Imperial Armour Index: Forces of Chaos (8th Edition), pg. 61Forge World Webstore - Cerastus Knight Atrapos
Gravity Displacement Pack - Gravity Displacement Pack: A Gravity Displacement Pack is an advanced form of Necron technology used only by Triarch Praetorians to defy gravity and move rapidly to any point on a battlefield from the air, serving as Necron jump infantry.Consisting of a large spinal attachment with multiple power rods that can be worn on the back of a Necron's necrodermis body, a Gravity Displacement Pack allows the bearer to manipulate localised gravitic forces to achieve powered flight.These advanced anti-gravitic devices serve a role similar to the Imperium's cruder Jump Packs. Gravity Displacement Packs are used by Triarch Praetorians to move about rapidly and hover above a battlefield, where they can survey the situation before striking to inflict maximum damage to enemy forces.As the ultimate wardens of Necrontyr tradition, Triarch Praetorians embody the belief that the right warrior in the right place at the right time can turn the tide of battle and deliver victory.Thus, their timely arrival on the battlefield has won many a battle for Necron forces, an achievement for which the Gravity Displacement Pack has proven invaluable.
Gravity Pulse - Gravity Pulse: A Gravity Pulse is a potent gravitic weapon used exclusively by the Necron air defence constructs known as Obelisks.When activated, the Gravity Pulse allows an Obelisk to manipulate the energies of a minute gravitic singularity contained within it to produce an expanding wall of earth-shakingly powerful force.If an enemy aircraft is hit by this sphere of gravitic force, it inevitably is smashed aside and severely damaged, often being turned into a plummeting wreck as the pilot loses control of his aircraft.
Gravity Wave Projector - Gravity Wave Projector: A Gravity Wave Projector is a T'au technology developed during the Third Sphere Expansion, and is only ever carried by Grav-Inhibitor Drones that have been deployed as part of Pathfinder reconnaissance teams. A Gravity Wave Projector is a defensive measure that can emit a powerful burst of high-powered gravitons in a wave that repulses nearby enemies, slowing their advance to a crawl or halting them in their tracks altogether.Many of those affected are severely disorientated by the wave, experiencing vertigo and nausea, whilst others may even be physically hurled to the ground; their bodies unable to cope with the sudden and unpredictable change in gravity. This allows Pathfinder Teams to move out of the way of an enemy assault and take the time to react to the assault in the most efficient manner.