Editing Rapier Armoured Carrier (section)

==Overview==
[[File:RapierGrav.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Rapier with Graviton Cannons AKA Your [[Terminators]] [[Fist of the North Star|are already dead.]]]]
The armoured carrier is built around the weapon system with which it has become synonymous, the [[Laser Destroyer Array|Rapier Laser Destroyer]]. This multi-barreled weapon achieves greater firepower than even a normal lascannon by focusing its four separate laser systems with precise accuracy on a single point. This is possible thanks to a weak [[Machine Spirit]] which can adjust the convergence of the beams depending on the target's range. However, the weapon system has tremendous power requirements, along with increased maintenance and heat build-up due to its moving parts and the close proximity of multiple laser chambers to each other. Rapiers have also been seen mounted with [[Grav-Cannon|Graviton Cannons]] and [[Heavy Bolter|Quad Heavy Bolters]] or [[Multilaser|Multi-lasers]] and [[Light Mortar|Quad-mortars]] to the more rare [[Lucius Pattern Heavy Quad-Launcher|Astartes Quad Launcher.]]

As it was initially designed for defending cities and fortresses the Rapier has limited mobility, enough to move into ambush positions and across rough terrain, and is often fielded in special batteries of one to three Rapiers used to break up enemy armour attacks. The system can move and fire at the same time thanks to an auto-drive and benefits from targeter equipment. Actual aiming and firing of the laser destroyer however is handled by the on-board machine spirit making the Rapier a semi-independent system; its crew is necessary only for moving the weapon and operational mode selection.

Its form of locomotion is also an oddity as instead of sitting down and moving the machine, the driver must stand in an awkward position before turning and moving the machine with what counts as an [[Video games|Atari 2600 Joystick]]. This means that the driver of the machine is dangerously exposed to enemy fire and must be cautious of his surroundings.