Editing Aprior Sector (section)

=== Weapons ===

;Gravity-Manipulation Mass Driver ("grav-driver") : From their study of various anti-grav STC patterns (like the [[Land Speeder]] and [[servo-skull]]), not to mention xenos hover-vehicles, the Apriori have developed a general-purpose theory of gravity manipulation.  Its latest application is the grav-driver, where a high-intensity localized gravity field accelerates a projectile to many times the speed of sound, while anti-grav plates in the barrel make it nearly frictionless.  Besides the projectile, the grav-driver has no moving parts in the firing mechanism, which means it is more reliable and capable of a higher theoretical rate of fire than most bolt, auto, and stub weapons.  Its solid slug is also less prone to losing energy over distance or through obstacles than a lascannon's beam, and its ballistic nature means that it can strike targets beyond visual range.  The most common form of this is the Gravitic Accelerator Cannon or GAC, an ordnance weapon used for destroying fortifications and heavy armor.  Other weapons of the same class include the infantry-portable Gravitic Mass Driver Rifle, the high-rate-of-fire Gravitic Repeater Cannon, a vehicle-mounted weapon which fires smaller slugs at an extremely high rate of fire, for destroying massed infantry and light armor, and even incoming missiles and rockets, the super-heavy Unity-pattern grav-driver, and the Strike Cruiser mounted Harbinger cannon.  Combined with the skimmer drive, a flanking volley across a vanguard of battleships can instantly cripple a small fleet.  The Apriori Armed Forces and the Knights Inductor together own three Strike Cruisers armed with the latest technology available at the time of the Damnos Crusade against the Sector.    

;Sagitta missile: Noting that most armored vehicles are less armored on top and on the bottom than they are on the front, several Apriori foundries have worked to develop missiles that target these weak areas.  Missiles that flew low to the ground to attack vehicles' vulnerable undersides seemed promising in laboratory tests, but proved unfeasible in the field as no logic engine small enough to fit in a missile could execute the course corrections required to avoid hills, vegetation, and other obstacles.  Other workshops experimented with missiles that tunneled through the earth, but found that such devices could only have a very limited range (the tech-priests who devised the mole launcher for the [[Death Korps of Krieg]] ran into the same issue, but because the Death Korps usually form siege regiments, their engineers would not be fighting at long ranges anyway, so it was not considered a problem).  The design that caught the eye of the Apriori armed forces (and brought a great deal of good fortune for the workshop that made it) was the Sagitta, a missile that flies up immediately after launch, and then dives onto the vulnerable upper armor of its target.  Many enemies that rely on heavy armor have found their advances halted with a storm of death from above.

''(More to come.)''

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