OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a heavy weapon for the Rim-Guard Order.
- Image Source: Games Workshop, Forge World
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Plasma Annihilator
- Manufacturer: Macharian Industries Corporation
- Affiliation: Rim-Guard Order
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: RG Mark XX "Vanquisher" Plasma Cannon
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: Energy weapon components, plasma converters
- Classification: Energy weapon, Plasma Weapon
- Size: Very Large
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Plasma Cells
- Ammunition Capacity: Average
- Effective Range: Battlefield
- Rate of Fire: High
- Damage Output: Extreme
- Recoil: High
- Fire modes: Normal (High rate of fire, long range, very high damage), Focused (low rate of fire, battlefield range, extreme damage)
- Two different fire modes.
- Melting bunkers, tanks and infantry alike.
- Minor ion pulse upon explosion.
- A high recoil requires the weapon to be mounted on a strong chassis.
- Its weight and size are additionally requiring it to be mounted on strong enough vehicles or machines, as infantry is incapable of carrying or using it.
- The weapon when used too frequently can overheat and explode, causing a devastation explosion.
After the Csilla campaing and the encounter with the war engines of the Tech-War Hosts of Vandemar, the engineers of the Rim-Guard Order were tasked with developing weapons to be carried by a heavy-tank-grade wardroid. The result was the development of a set of weaponry together with the Dreadnought Wardroid.
The Vanquisher Plasma Weapon is based on a prototype weapon which has long been tested. It transforms energy into gaseous plasma with a minor electric charge, this delivers a 'shell* made of superheated matter with the energy of a small star. The destructive potential of the weapon is extreme as it vaporises matter within nano-seconds of touching it due to its extreme heat. A slight addition is that the charge carries a minor ion impulse, which can be damaging to electric systems in the area of explosion.
