Editing Cerberus Heavy Tank Destroyer (section)

==Overview==
Apparently, the [[Adeptus Mechanicus|Mechanicus]] went to a lot of trouble to get the plans for the neutron laser -- they had to recover wreckage "at great cost" from a battlefield dating to the [[Dark Age of Technology]] in the Hyades system (a star cluster well-known for its appearance in [[Cthulhu Mythos|The King In Yellow]], by the way) and reverse-engineer the neutron laser from that. Still, it did provide an alternative to the bulkier [[turbo-laser]] weapons, with the "bonus" of risking backlash to the vehicle if the beam bounces off the target.

Miraculously enough, the Neutron Laser Projector is not a lost technology, given Valdor tanks can still be produced in a scant few Forge Worlds like [[Imperial Armour#Fires of Cyraxus|Cyraxus II]]. The knowledge to manufacture the Spartan chassis though? It's kaput.
Naturally, the few tanks who survived the [[Horus Heresy]] are treasured relics of a [[Chapter]]'s armoury. The [[Exorcists]] for example, had not fielded their Cerberus for more than a millennia before the Ashen War, and have yet to awaken it ever since.