Lost and Forbidden Technologies of the Legiones Astartes
Lost and Forbidden Technologies of the Legiones Astartes Introduction Much has been written about all the many achievements of the Great Crusade, the magnificent fleets, glorious monuments, great battles and the mighty heroes who won them. Yet the uglier aspects of the Great Crusade are often overlooked or intentionally erased. Civilizations annihilated, vast archives of history and culture burned, species rendered extinct and whole worlds wiped clean of life. The Great Crusade saw weapons unleashed on the galaxy that had not been used since the start of Old Night and the collapse of the ancient human galactic civilization. Many of the worst of these weapons were commonplace on Terra before the Emperor launched his Unification Wars, genetically modified killing machines, archaeotech weapons of unbelievable destructive power, rad-weapons, genophages, warp and temporal distorting weapons, the nightmares of Old Night were truly beyond the comprehension of most mor...