Editing Warp Weapons (section)

===Vortex Missile===
[[image:VortexMissile.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Vortex Missile]]
If the regular nuclear warhead of a [[Deathstrike Missile|Deathstrike Missile]] won't do it for you, then sending your enemies into the hatefuck realm that is the [[Warp]], will. As previously noted, the Warp tech of the Imperium is not as sophisticated and controlled as that of the [[Eldar]]. As such, they prefer launching these Warp weapons using ''very'' long-ranged missiles in order to hit targets far enough away that Imperial forces remain unaffected.

Due to the fact that they came from the [[Dark Age of Technology]], these missiles are as rare as they are powerful, creating a miniature (and short-lived) [[Eye of Terror]] when they explode. Vortex missiles are constructed by using [[Psykers]] to channel the raw energy of the Warp into an intercontinental ballistic missile. [[Derp|How the hell that works, we have no idea.]] (To note, older fluff described the warhead as a miniaturized one-shot Warp Drive like those found on starships, which makes slightly more sense, I guess...)

Vortex missiles mounted on [[Deathstrike Missile Launcher|Deathstrike Platforms]] are so valuable that they are guarded at minimum by an entire infantry platoon (and at Maximum a company space marines), charged with concealing the weapon from enemy saboteurs and kill-teams. Nominally only Segmentum Command can sanction their use, and the launch codes are entrusted solely to the [[Lord Commissar|''Lord'' Commissar]] in charge of the missile, as they are the only (non-adeptus astartes) individuals with a self-restraint that isn't a [[Commissar|blundering trigger-happy moron that would push the button at the first sign of insubordination.]]

A Vortex missile, like other support missiles, takes up one carapace slot when mounted on a Titan, [[FATAL|although if it is destroyed before being fired it will prematurely activate and create a vortex field.]]

Due to the dangers of assembly and the uncontrollable forces involved, it was once the sole responsibility of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] to manufacture Vortex Missiles. By the end of M31, they were officially only to be constructed on Mars, Graia, and Gryphonne IV. From these three worlds, the warheads would then be exported to other Forge Worlds where they would be combined with their missile housings, before being distributed to regiments or fortifications. [[Awesome|Because of a clerical glitch]] (by accident or "accident) in the [[Departmento Munitorum]], other Forge Worlds soon began constructing whole vortex missiles. By M35, almost all forge worlds in the Imperium had at least some expertise in their assembly [[Derp|which kind of knocks down its supposed 'rarity'.]] We in /tg/ can't tell whether this is [[Awesome]] or [[Fail]] as the lack of mass utilization of Vortex Missiles whenever a Forge World is under attack makes no sense whatsoever. Other than not wanting to turn your Forge World into a Daemon World by accident. Admittedly this was kind of a boon, considering what happened to Graia towards the end of M41. Although, perhaps the concern is overblown as the Imperium has gotten extremely skilled at cleaning up Warp contamination. Ironically, possibly better than the use of cyclonic (nuclear) weapons.