Bolter and Blade: Weapons of the Imperium
The standard issue weapon of many a guardsman across the galaxy, this handheld laser weapon is often ill-suited to combating the horrors in the void.
What is a Lasgun?
These are the colossal projectile weapons which form the primary armament of most Imperial Navy vessels.
These two primary ideological pathways separate Inquisitorial ideologies, known as ____ and ____.
What are Puritan and Radical?
This terrible conflict forever killed the Emperor's dream of an enlightened humanity.
The Horus Heresy
What is Mars?
Feared and revered by their operators, these volatile weapons fire a superheated, oblong bolt of a 4th state of matter, the impact of which is capable of vaporizing most forms of infantry.
What is a plasma gun?
The archetype of Imperial Naval supremacy, this class of 8km long battleship embodies the design and doctrinal philosophies of the Imperial Navy.
What is the Retribution Class?
Named after a conclave held on a summit of a mountain of Gathalamor, this widespread faction of puritan Inquisitors follow this philosophy, which advocates for keeping the Imperium in balance by lessening intra-organizational strife.
What are Amalathians?
The peak of human technological advance pre-dating the Imperium of man.
What is the Dark Age of Techology?
Taking it's name after a nickname for a loyal, 4 legged terran companion, this Titan of the Legio Titanicus is employed in a scout role.
What is a Warhound Titan?
This weapon can crush nearly any target under its own weight if given enough time.
What is a grav gun?
Often known as the 12th Black Crusade, this is another name for the 30+ year long struggle which occurred in the Gothic Sector of the Imperium.
What is the Gothic War?
Named after a Saint during the Age of Apostasy who defied the will of the mad tyrant Goge Vandire, this puritan faction of the Inquisition seeks to revive the Emperor of Mankind.
What are Thorians?
Taking place in M36, this period in the Imperium's history saw the rise and fall of Goge Vandire, the creation of the Sisters of Battle, and the establishment of the Ordo Hereticus.
What is the Age of Apostasy?
Tech Priests are readily identifiable by these neura-linked, articulated mechanical limbs spouting from their backs.
What are Mechadendrites?
This esoteric weapon fires consecrated bolts of negative psychic energy, capable of bypassing shields and banishing the neverborn. It is utilized by higher ranking Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus and the Grey Knights.
What is a psy-cannon?
What are Blackstone Fortresses?
This radical faction of the Inquisition believes all but their sect are truly guilty and worthy of destruction, while they willing damns themselves, so they may better utilize dark powers to combat Chaos with its own essence.
What are Oblationists?
This civil war that split the Imperium in two took place shortly before the Age of Apostasy.
What is the Nova Terra Interregnum?
Ancient vessels wielding unimaginable levels of technology, this class of Mechanicus capital ship is usually the flagship of an Explorator fleet.
What is an Ark Mechanicus?
Holding it's name in the title of the Ordo of the Inquistion that wields it, this unimaginably powerful close quarters combat weapon is often the badge of office for veteran Ordo Malleus Inquisitors.
What is a Daemon Hammer?
These specialized, ancient pieces of technology protect ships transiting the warp by shielding a vessel in a bubble of matter from the materium.
What are Geller fields?
Named after a planet where an unholy massacre of Astartes took place in the great crusade, this radical faction of the Inquisition believes in intentionally sowing mass conflict and war in order to shed the weaker facets of the Imperium.
What are Istvannians?
This is the term for an ongoing conflict between the Ordo Chronos, a minor yet secretive Ordo of the Inqusition, and the resurrected Primarch Roboute Guilliman.
What is the Chronostrife.
This sometimes controversial procedure in the Adeptus Mechanicus replaces the right hemisphere of the brain in order to remove illogical or "impure thoughts"
What is the Right of Pure Thought?