Psi-Titan - Warlord-Sinister-class Titan: A Warlord-Sinister-class Titan is properly classified as a Terranic Pattern Warlord-Sinister Psi-Titan. It is a standard Warlord Titan that has been rebuilt around a psychic amplification matrix device called the Ciricrux Anima that was designed by the Emperor Himself during the Great Crusade using ancient technology.The Warlord-Sinister Psi-Titan is ultimately a thing that should not be. A fusion of one of the mightiest god-engines of the Adeptus Titanicus with the weaponised power of numerous bound alpha-grade psykers, and commanded by a soulless Untouchable, a Warlord-Sinister was constructed with methods only the Emperor Himself could permit. For a Warlord-Sinister, fear is its constant companion, bleeding those around it of hope and joy with its very presence.In place of the standard Titan configuration of Mind Impulse Units, it was this which controlled and empowered the Warlord-Sinister. Rather than the the moderati that would normally help operate a Battle Titan, the Psi-Titans were instead crewed by what might be considered the damned -- bound psykers surgically locked in place and slaved to the will of the preceptor-intendant who commanded the god-engine in place of a princeps.By direct cortical control, the psychic power and life force of the bound psykers were siphoned off and focused by the arcane technologies of the Ciricrux Anima, the baleful device that truly made the Psi-Titan what it is.This energy was controlled by a techno-arcane interface quite unlike that of a standard configuration Mind Impulse Unit, while much of the Psi-Titan's other functions were slaved to sub-automata systems and Machine Spirit homunculi (artificial intelligence routines).Set at the heart of the storm of these energies, the preceptor-intendant sat in a shielded command crucible in the Titan's head. But even this was insufficient to entirely protect them from the psychic forces at play, and so each Titan commander of the Ordo Sinister was a psychic Blank, an Untouchable, but selected it would seem on entirely different criteria from those who served within the Sisters of Silence or the Culexus Clade, and cybernetically augmented to allow for Human-machine interface.In testimony given to the Council of Terra during the Great Crusade by an Ordo Sinister officer named Prefect Kelner Anahat, he stated that of the psykers bound within the Warlords-Sinister that "...for some, it was a punishment for their crimes, and others, a blessed relief from their torments, and that...a balance was maintained in order that optimum conditions were met." He would also not be drawn out on the rate the bound psykers were exhausted by the process.Through the use of the psychic amplification technology provided by the Ciricrux Anima, a Warlord-Sinister is able to project psychic phenomena on a truly gargantuan scale, although without any of the nuance or fine manipulation available to an individual trained psyker.These phenomena include waves of preternatural fear, psychokinetic effects, biomantic leaching of life in the immediate area and even the temporal distortion-based reversion of damage to the Titan itself.Roused to anger a Warlord-Sinister is a terrible beast, able to project psychic phenomena on a truly gargantuan scale. Despite this, the most devastating power a Warlord-Sinister can draw upon rests in its left arm.Known as the Sinistramanus Tenebrae in High Gothic, literally the "Left Hand of Darkness," each Warlord-Sinister possesses such a weapon.This is a hybrid of strange technologies, more akin to a mutilated Warp-Drive in design than a conventional armament, but it serves to use the psychic potential of the Ciricrux Anima by focusing the psychic antipathy of the bound psykers into a fracture in reality -- a fracture, much like the forced Warp-breach inherent in Vortex Weapons which is then channelled and released as a projectile of nightmarishly destructive psychic force.Where the projectile -- which manifests as a sphere or bolt of "darkness" as it eats the light of whatever medium it passes through before striking dense matter -- detonates, it causes complete annihilation in the immediate impact area, as what was there is disassembled and hurled bodily into the Empyrean molecule by molecule until the mercifully brief rupture self-seals.Those in the wider area of the impact are simply struck dead, their bodies left unmarked as if their souls had been sheared from their bodies.While Vortex Warhead ordnance is both more powerful in its blast and limited in range only by its function, the Sinistramanus Tenebrae Psi-cannon has the advantage that it may be fired repeatedly, at least while the psychic strength of the bound psyker on board of the Psi-Titan lasts to power it.