Editing Bolter (section)

===Iliastus Accelerator Cannon===
[[File:IliastusAcceleratorProfile.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Iliastus Accelerator Culverin]]
This is what happens when you want your Lastrum Bolt Cannon to be bigger than a Heavy Bolter and pass for a tank's main gun, particularly the Caladius's.

Sharing its name with an Assault Cannon pattern, the Iliastus Accelerator Cannon can be found installed on the aforementioned [[Caladius Grav-Tank|Caladius Grav Tank]] in a pair. [[Telemon Heavy Dreadnought|Telemon Heavy Dreadnoughts]] have access to a variant called '''Iliastus Accelerator Culverin''' which has less range compared to the high-powered turret. Since Lastrum bolts are so heavy, they seem to have landed on the conclusion that conventional propellant is not going to cut it, and instead utilize the "Accelerator" system instead. Yes, the same Accelerators found on Fellblade and Sicaran tanks. It is unlikely that the Lastrums actually invented the "Accelerator" since only the Sicaran is mentioned to have derived its systems from this Iliastus. To provide a brief description of the Accelerator system, it presumably suspends the ammunition in vacuum before propelling it out with possibly just pressurized air, making it travel at the same speed you'd get from firing a conventional cannon with relatively tiny recoil. The canisters at the back of the weapon might be the vacuum-ingredient in question. Unlike the two smaller cousins, the Iliastus Accelerator does not have an ejection port on top, or at all for the matter. It probably does not need the initial propellant to fire out the bolts, and so there are no spent shells to eject.

As a Lastrum in all but name, this Accelerator Cannon has 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 Cannon itself, it is a 60" S7 AP2 Heavy 3, Rending, Rapid Tracking (ignores Jink saves) weapon. As a reminder for this subtype, 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.

[[Tl;dr]]. <u>[[Rape|'''Giant bolt shells carrying giant plasma warheads.''']]</u> Need I say more?
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