Editing Plasma (section)

===Sollex-Aegis Energy Blade===
[[File:Sw40k_ls.JPG|200px|right|thumb|Sollex-Aegis Energy Blade (''Placeholder'')]]
Although classed as a power weapon in-game, instead of a power field in its crunch, the energy blade actually uses hot plasma to cut things up in its fluff. This thing is a [[Star Wars|literal 40k Lightsaber]]. Seriously, even the way it functions is a [[Original character, do not steal|copypasta of a Lightsaber]] (More details can be read below). How the proverbial fuck GW avoided a copyright lawsuit from ''Lucasfilm'' of all things, we have no idea. Probably because a lightsaber uses a crystal to focus and shape light and has no container for gas and no mechanism for transferring or emitting gas. Which means it cannot be a plasma weapon no matter how much the retcon stuff tries to claim it is. No gas = no plasma. Since this means lightsabers are laser swords, a plasma sword is technically not a lightsaber and so isn’t “really” copyright infringement.

A product of information obtained from the Aegis Data Fragment – an STC database discovered in the Calixis Sector, the setting of Dark Heresy – and utilizing the properties of the Sollex focusing crystals, this is one of the rarest types of weapons in the Imperium – a blade of coherent high-energy plasma which materializes from the armored hilt as a blazing, roaring column of blue-white fire. [[Star Wars|Sounds familiar?]] Devastatingly powerful, only a few Sollex-Aegis energy blades are held by individuals outside of the Mechanicus, and their secrets are little understood even by their makers in the mysterious Tech-Priest sect of Sollex. Although potent beyond even most power weapons, they can also prove treacherous to the unwary as the energy blade can fluctuate, the laser containment fail or the insubstantial blade slip unexpectedly. While Power and Force weapons do not have the novelty of a Plasma blade, they are at the very least more reliable and won't stop working for arbitrary reasons. So if the battery fails for some reason. A Power/Force Weapon can still be used like the one it's based on to kill [[Cultist]]s, [[Genestealers]] or anyone else without access to gear like Carapace or Power Armor. As it still has a sharp edge without it.

In the tabletop RPG, if your character uses an energy blade to parry, and with a hint of luck, you may destroy the enemy weapon like a Jedi would. Speaking of space wizards with laser (''plasma, but whatever'') swords, you can totally play as a Jedi in Dark Heresy by playing as an Imperial Psyker, and they most likely knew it too when they decided to add the weapon into ''The Inquisitor's Handbook''. Back to the topic, if you '''fail''' at parrying with this energy blade, your character takes damage from the lightsaber.

Owing to the harsh actinic light and furnace-blast roar that the blade produces, the wielder cannot attempt to be stealthy while it is switched on. Additionally, the blade consumes canister fuel, just as a plasma pistol below does, with each canister worn on the belt and fed via a cable to the hilt. Note that this is an almost exact description of a Protosaber from Star Wars.
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BlueLightsaberHorizontal.png|Yeah, it's basically that.
Darth Dreadnought.jpg|How a simple artistic change can turn a [[Stormtrooper#Star Wars|Fail]] into [[Awesome|Win.]]
Bxm47xz8aer41.jpg|The crossover we never knew we needed. Courtesy of Concubot.
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| Melee
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| 1d10 + 6E
| 7
| Balanced, Power Field
| 1 kg
| 5,000
| Very Rare
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