Editing Tech-Assassin

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This article is about the heretek constructs from the [[Black Crusade (RPG)]], and sadly not an actual Chaos Space Marine unit.

[[File:Maestro_Pattern_Tech-Assassin.jpeg|300px|right|thumb|Yes, he looks as badass as he is (although he does look a lot like a corrupted Techpriest). Now all I'm missing is some art of his [[Awesome|Space Robot Ninja Dinosaurs]] ]]
Essentially, a heretek Murder-servitor, [[Awesome|except that they're deadly enough to make an eversor blush]]: it's bizarre fusions of forbidden AI technology and the corruptive energies of the warp. In the Screaming Vortex, these guys are built by the Master of [[Forge Castir]] on [[The Hollows]], the [[Exospectre]], who has spent centuries perfecting his current weapon of choice: the Maestro-Pattern Tech-Assassin. No two Tech-Assassins are identical; each one is an individual hand-crafted masterpiece, tuned and optimized for a particular style of murder. Because of their specialised nature, Tech-Assassins are subtle but significant factors on the battlefield. They scout ahead of the main force, ghosting into an enemy position to remove an important leader or sabotage a vital resource. These swift and lethal servants are his most fiendish designs and are armed with all manner of unspeakably lethal weapons. Maestro pattern Tech-Assassins are gaunt, spindly creatures, swathed in ragged robes and notable for the cruel gleam of their tripartite hunter-optics from beneath their hoods. Far more autonomous and capable than any servitor, Tech-Assassins ceaselessly hunt their prey once on the trail of their assigned target. A Tech-Assassin may lie in wait for weeks at a time, patiently motionless, until the chosen enemy is detected by inbuilt augur arrays. Only then does the creature explode into motion, its robes flaring like the wings of a raptor as it stoops to the strike. Gravity plates allow the Tech-Assassin to move effortlessly over nearly any terrain. Its torso contains a powerful quantum field generator that shrouds the creature from detection, confounding tech-sensors and confusing the naked eye with shifting patterns that blend with its surroundings. The Maestro pattern’s hands contain a series of serrated, retractable power-blades and it is usually equipped with an MIUlinked shoulder-mounted hellgun. However, the most dangerous weapon employed by the Maestro pattern is the tesseract bomb. When activated, this devastating weapon shunts a portion of its surroundings into a pocket dimension, violently disrupting the molecular structure of anything caught in the blast. In addition, the Exospectre commonly installs a command circuit into the Maestro pattern and accompanies it with a pack of hell-constructs named Velocireapers. These beast-like creatures are a form of lobo-chipped servitor, built around a sophisticated sentinel array and armed with razor-sharp fangs and claws. Savage and feral, the Velocireapers must be precisely controlled by the Tech-Assassin’s command circuit lest they frenzy and attack anyone nearby. Now, if only the idiots on [[Xana II]] could [[/tg/ gets shit done|get shit done]] and build some for the CSM so we could use these badasses in-game...