Editing Tectonic Fragdrill (section)

==Overview==

Nevertheless, the Tectonic Fragdrills are often mounted on a specially designed base that helps positions the machine before punching through the ground via a rail harness. You can think of it as an elevator of doom. It's unknown how the Imperium could get these machines back to the surface, although the most likely answer is that they are meant to be disposable, acting like a giant underground missile. Modern artificial seismicity is often caused by dumping a ''very'' large body of water (like a dam), inducing artificial sinkholes through sufficient underground mining and coring, and most infamously, setting off an underground nuclear blast. So the Tectonic Fragdrill being an underground nuclear ICBM could be the most reasonable answer of it being able to create an earthquake.

Given the 8th edition rules, however, it is more like a Genestealer [[Termite]] than an underground nuke. This is due to how it is used to create underground caverns for Genestealer Cultists to launch a surprise attack from below. Just don't ask us how they manage to tow the damned drill back. It's possible they didn't, since the drill has now been officially squatted in 9th.

Because of how much [[Genestealer Cult|Genestealer Cults]] [[Just As Planned|''love'']] to work at mining and industrial jobs ('''''[[Goliath Truck|FOR.]] [[Goliath Truck#Goliath Rockgrinder|OBVIOUS.]] [[Achilles Ridgerunner|REASONS.]]'''''), they have learned to harness these machines to cause maximum disruption to their foes on the battlefield, causing entire building foundations to collapse or creating a large sinkhole.