Aeldari Titans - Phantom Titan: Aeldari Titans are very different from the machine-constructs of the other intelligent peoples of the galaxy. They benefit not only from the experience of their crew, who are raised with their Titans from birth, but from the collective consciousness of the Spirit Stones contained within the Titan, housing the souls of numerous dead Asuryani.Phantoms are built around a Wraithbone core which permits the spirits contained within it to flow freely through the whole construct. This gives the Aeldari Titan a consciousness of its own which, combined with its living crew, transforms the Phantom into an unusually deadly fighting machine.Aeldari births are rare, and new generations emerge only every few hundred Terran years, so every child is cherished in a manner the other, younger races, find hard to understand. Most revered of all are the rare occurrences of Aeldari twin, or even triplet births. Such sets of siblings are considered fated for greatness by the Craftworld Aeldari, and invariably find positions of great power within Asuryani society.Many of these twins and triplets form crews for the Aeldari Titans, where the natural emotional bonds between siblings, the Aeldari's latent psychic power and the special relationship between pilot, machine and the spirits of the dead contained within the Titan construct, combine to create a mastery of control few amongst even the Aeldari could hope to achieve.Most sorrowful, yet most skilled of all, are those Craftworld Aeldari who have lost their kin to the depredations of a violent galaxy.These mourning Aeldari often inter the Spirit Stones of their dead brothers and sisters within the wraithbone shell of a Titan and then take to the machine themselves, seldom emerging, preferring instead to remain within the Titan where they can yet commune with their lost siblings.Phantom Titans are similar in most ways to Imperial Battle Titans but show typical Aeldari design attributes. They are slimmer in build and much faster than their Human-built counterparts. Their weaponry is less about raw firepower and more about well-aimed crucial hits. For defence they use a Holo-Field emitter which makes them harder to "see" and thus more difficult to target; the advantage is that they can avoid damage completely.However, Holo-Fields do not actually deflect firepower like Imperial Void Shields and Ork Power Fields. What makes Phantom Titans distinctive from those of the other races is their crew. In addition to the living, the souls and memories of ancient Aeldari warriors are maintained in the wraithbone matrix of the Titan.War machines of such size and power as the Phantom are not deployed for the Aeldari race's usual lightning raids and surgical strikes. These massive war machines are reserved for the heaviest fighting, when a craftworld must engage in a pitched battle, when fast hit-and-run raiding will not suffice and the Asuryani wish to wreak terrible destruction upon their enemies.Only then do the Webway portals open wide and allow the Phantoms to stride forth. Times must be desperate indeed for a craftworld's Farseers to decree the deployment of such engines of war.The Phantom's primary arm mounts can be fitted with some of the Aeldari's largest and deadliest weapons. These include twin Pulsars, Distortion Cannons or a special sword-like Power Glaive known as the Ashuna-Valcry'le. Secondary weapons mounted in its shoulders include Phantom Missile Launchers and either a Pulse Laser or Titan-grade Starcannon. It is also protected by a Titan-grade Holo-Field projected by the large rear wings.