Editing Bolter (section)

===Lastrum Storm Bolter===
[[File:Custodes Lastrum Bolter.PNG|250px|thumb|right|Lastrum Storm Bolter]]
''[[Mary Sue|A very special Storm Bolter for a '''''very''''' special faction]]''.

Used by the [[Aquilon Terminator|Aquilon Terminators]] of the [[Adeptus Custodes]], this pattern of double-barreled Boltguns is named after the weaponsmiths of the Lastrum Core Clan of the Appolyne workshops of Holy Terra – "Lastrum" interestingly being Danish for a cargo hold, and "Appolyn" being an inflection of "Apollo," a Greek/Roman Sun God. Other than being unsurprisingly god-tier where craftsmanship is concerned, these Storm Bolters would have been rather unremarkable if not for the unique and powerful ammunition it fires. Rather than the usual "Kraken" type bolts loaded into most Bolters in the hands of the Custodians, the artisans of the Lastrum – possibly a Tech-priest sect – subscribe to the archaic way of thinking that anything "handmade" is undeniably better. And since this is 40k, archaic is actually good. The bolts these Lastrums make and customize are "mass-reactive heliothermic warheads." Since we see the keyword "Mass Reactive" on pretty much everything Bolter-related anyway, we are going to ignore it along with "Warhead" because we all know what that is as well. Let us explore the "Heliothermic" part – "''-thermic''" means anything about heat (''thermal, duh''), and "''Helio-''" comes from Helios which is Greek for the Sun (''Sounds familiar''?). Connect both words together, and we will have an image of a bolt that is as hot as the goddamn '''Sun'''.

Unlike regular bolts, when these little hot shits burrow themselves inside whatever it is supposed to explode in, they do not just explode; they explode with the aforementioned heat of the goddamn '''Sun''' which in 40k, translates to Plasma-level of heat. Yes, it is exactly what you think it is. On the technical note, these bolts are very dense, more so than regular bolts, and thus it requires an even stronger charge to launch itself out of the barrel, which may also include replacement to the regular rocket fuel that is supposed to propel it further. The Storm Bolter itself is actually designed to work around that stronger kick, which may be the reason why there are no regular Lastrum Bolters since a bigger body is a stronger frame to work with. In case you have forgotten that this is a Storm Bolter, we would like to remind the reader that Storm Bolters are essentially MG equivalents compared to our guns; which means these bolts do not come out in bursts of a few shots at a time. They come out in a hail.

If you have read our crash course on regular Storm Bolters, you will remember that they didn't exist ten thousand years ago among the Legiones Astartes. This means that the design was already discovered/invented way back then, but was made available to rest of the Imperium's military forces later on. Since the Lastrums have to deliberately design this Storm Bolter to handle the bolts in the first place, it would not be too far-fetched for them to actually be the people who – by modifying Combi-Bolters to handle the big bolts – laid down the foundations for the standard Storm Bolters. So instead of being a variant, Storm Bolters are instead a downsized version of the Lastrum. Without the special ammunition. This would also explain why Chaos Marines don't have means to build Storm Bolters like the loyalists do. It didn't exist when they fled into the Eye of Terror.

And have we mentioned costs? Because these Storm Bolters (''though the bulk of it might be just the bolts'') are really, really expensive to make in the first place, both in worth of materials and in the time it takes to craft them by hand and not with an automated assembly line. Like everything else with the Emperor's Golden Bodyguards, it is simply too much to equip a lot of soldiers with these shiny Storm Bolters. Even the Lastrums themselves are barely keeping up with just the demands of the Custodes, though they might just be a coven of ancient Tech-priests who have gotten pretty obsessive in maintaining quality instead of making more in quantity. It's not like the Custodes would harbor non-Mechanicus engineers now... would they? Anywho, assuming that the clan is still around, the Lastrums have had about ten thousand years to make these; so the Custodians might actually have a lot of them in store right now, assuming that their Aquilon Terminators haven't seen deployment that much since the Horus Heresy in order to save up that precious ammunition, and assuming that the Lastrums haven't had their funding cut at some point because the Imperium of Man is not really in a state we would call prospering these days.

On the tabletop, these guns here, along with all Lastrum weapons, have Heliothermic Detonation, so anybody that takes one or more unsaved wounds and is not slain has to make a Toughness roll or get Instant Death (or +1 to penetration damage table if a vehicle). For the Storm Bolter itself, it is a 24" S5 AP4 weapon. A special note on these guns, the Heliothermic Detonation is mostly relevant against models with a lot of Wounds. Because all models in a unit that are firing the same weapon shoot at the same time, it does not matter if said unit is firing one or a thousand Lastrum shells: the rule will only be triggered once against the last wounded model, after all the others have been killed normally. This greatly mitigates the efficiency of Lastrum weaponry against squads of multi-wounded models, but killing an extra bastard is always a good thing, nevertheless.
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