Editing Bolter (section)

==Chaos Variations==
The Imperium of Man maintains a good monopoly on Bolters, and Chaos Space Marines are its major foreign customers through pillaging and manufacturing by the Dark Mechanicum branch, but mostly pillaging. Ten thousand years since the Horus Heresy is plenty of time for those boys to actually develop their own distinctive flavors of Boltguns beyond putting symbols and hanging nasty stuff on in order to make them look the part.

===Inferno Bolt Pistol===
[[File:Ahriman's_Ensorcelled_Inferno_Bolt_Pistol.png|250px|right|thumb|Inferno Bolt Pistol]]
The baby of the specialized Inferno weapons, Inferno Bolt Pistols are badass little Bolt Pistols utilized exclusively by the [[Thousand Sons]] and their magical cults. [[Ahriman]]'s personal Bolt Pistol as shown on the right, is the original Inferno Bolt Pistol before GW decided that every Thousand Sons should have one. It looks and functions similarly to the more common variant, although it has a shorter magazine and thus, holds less ensorcelled magical bolt rounds, not as if Ahriman cares as he is a [[Dakka|walking psychic bullet storm incarnate.]]

This dashingly evil little weapon is an Inferno weapon that is not to be confused with the Inferno round, which is a specialized ammunition for the normal Bolter, and the [[Inferno_Pistol|Inferno Pistol]] which is a Melta weapon. It is basically the catch-all term used to describe a weapon that has been imbued with magical energies, specially by Thousand Sons Sorcerers, with additional power that can melt flesh and ceramite alike like butter. In a sense, it is the usual (un)holy fusion between science and sorcery that has been perfected for over ten millennia which the Thousand Sons still pat their backs for the accomplishment. Strangely, despite most of the Inferno weapons being a sub-category of Boltguns, the largest variant, the [[Soulreaper Cannon]], is a heavily-modified Rotor Cannon belonging heavily to the Autogun category. However, they are all projectile weapons that the moniker of Inferno weapons can be used to designate – a weapon that the Thousand Sons have dabbled with their flavor of sorcery. Although the manner Exalted Sorcerers hold them may make it seem like the pistol's bolts are magical by origin, the fact that Aspiring Sorcerers use it with magazines suggests that "''ammunition based on your magic reservoir''" is more of an advanced technique rather than the pistol's intended function. So, Aspiring Sorcerers are stuck with physically magical bolts which last until they empty their last magazine, while Exalted Sorcerers get to use magically magical bolts which last until they call it a day.

On tabletop, it is a free AP-2 Bolt Pistol for Non-Terminator Sorcerers. It is a pretty nifty weapon to blast enemies if they get too close to the most stereotypically squishy wizard.
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====''Coruscator''====
[[File:OrangeInfernoPistol.png|250px|right|thumb|''Coruscator'' (''Placeholder'')]]
For your information, "Coruscate" is fancy for flash or sparkle in terms of light.

Of all the Warp-forged weapons made in-house and carried to battle by the Thousand Sons, ''Coruscator'' is the most revered despite being just a significantly better Inferno Bolt Pistol. You'd think it'd be some cool sword or magical staff that gets that honor, but no; it's just this one humble pistol that any Thousand Son can get to use as long as they carry an Inferno Bolt Pistol to replace theirs with. Since the time of the Horus Heresy where [[Magnus]] did nothing wrong and [[Leman Russ|Russ]] came to thank him for it, ''Coruscator'' has taken the lives of countless loyalist Space Marines over the thousands of years, and its daemonic spirit within will take any chance to stoke the fires of hatred that eat away at the Imperium from within. When the trigger is pulled, ''Coruscator'' fires not bolts which are self-propelled rockets, but bolts which are blinding helices of magical energy that punch a smoking hole through a target’s torso – or pretty much any location on the body for the matter – the edges of that grievous wound will glitter and burn, essentially coruscating until there is nothing left to consume. It is unknown whether or not these magical bolts come in magazines. Since this is the Warp we're talking about, there's more than a decent chance for the ammunition of the ''Coruscator'' to be entirely magical in nature.

Over 8th Edition, the ''Coruscator'' is simply a better Inferno Bolt Pistol with no gimmicks attached unlike its past incarnation.
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===Inferno Bolter===
[[File:Inferno_Bolter_3.png|250px|right|thumb|Inferno Bolter]]
The middle child of the Inferno family, Inferno Bolters provide a much better range, penetration as well as coverage of fire at the expense of being unable to be wielded effectively with one hand like the Inferno Bolt Pistol.

These Bolters are now the standard issue weapon of the [[Thousand Sons]], so expect to see a lot of them when fighting these nerds. Like their smaller brethren discussed earlier, Inferno Bolters are Inferno weapons, which is basically the catch all term used to describe a weapon that has been imbued with magical energies with additional power that can melt flesh and ceramite. A throwback to the Bolters which were once common ten thousand years ago, it is the pinnacle of Tzeentchian science and Tzeentchian sorcery infusion with a twist of Tzeentchian alchemy involved – that is to say, complex rocket science stuff. And just like the Inferno Bolt Pistol, the Inferno Bolter stays consistent as being a sub-variant of the Boltgun unlike the [[Soulreaper Cannon]]. Similar to the case of [[Heavy Warpflamer]]s, the Inferno Bolters retain similarities to those same Bolters used during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, noticeable by the long sickle magazines. There are also the '''Inferno Combi-Bolters''' which, assuming you have done your crash course on what [[Combi-weapons]] are, are the usual Combi-Bolters used by the Scarab Occult. The only difference here is that they also get the Inferno treatment to better represent the Sortiarius home team. The presence of these Combi-Bolters raises a question to whether other Combi-weapons of the Thousand Sons are still functional and inferno-ified. A "Combi-Warpflamer" is certainly a plausible weapon, on the other hand, "Combi-Warpmelta" are rather unlikely. You may think "Combi-Warpplasma" is likewise unlikely, but it's really only a matter of time until GW remembers Thousand Sons get their own unique "Ætherfire" plasma weapons in 30k.

On tabletop, the Inferno Bolter is the Rubrics' standard guns, an AP-2 Bolter. Costs 2 points and is exclusive to them. And about the Inferno Combi-Bolter, it is basically just a normal Combi-Bolter and behaves just like one – a little disappointing, but it gives twice the shots, so we shouldn't be complaining about the lack of Thousand Sons buffs. If these Bolters aren't doing enough for you, just get one of your Rubrics to carry around a Soulreaper Cannon. Yes, the Thousand Sons' basic troops can lug around Assault Cannon equivalents, cause these Soulreapers just happens to be rotor cannons in all but name.
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InfernoCombiBolter.jpg|<center>Inferno Combi-Bolter</center>
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===Kai Gun===
[[File:KaigunSide.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Kai Gun]]
Chaos' closest equivalent to the Psycannon, the Kai Gun was a Daemon Weapon in the Third Edition ruleset of Codex: Chaos Space Marines.

The Kai Gun was at one time produced by the machine smiths of an unfortunate eponymous planet, Kai. Once upon a time around M34-ish, a warp storm named Gae-sann sucked the Kai system into the Eye of Terror, out of all places out there. The smiths in question realized that they could make weapons that flashed the finger to the laws of physics. Since the smiths are good at churning out these Kai Guns, though whether they produce anything else as well is unmentioned, they bartered their services as a measure of protection from the Daemons of the [[Warp]]. Eventually like all things, this deal came to an end when Daemons finally descended on Kai and butchered the bulk of the population. Several Chaos Lords, being more cynically enterprising, swooped in to secure some (very grateful) potential candidates and weapon-techs during the massacre. Ultimately, when the dust settled only the massive, arcane, Bolter-like weapons that were the Kai system's legacy remained. Mostly because GW won't tell us what else Kai made during its stint in the Warp. As for that legacy, the Kai Gun is massive for a Bolter. Only Terminator-clad Chaos Lords and Daemon Princes are large and important enough to carry one. Unlike the Psycannon that uses custom-made psychic Bolts, the Kai Gun fires out "hate and malice" of the user into energy bolts.

The name of this weapon is also a notable point. Although "Kai" is certainly not unheard for a name, when coupled with "Gun," there are several definitions we can derive from the combination. In Japanese, kaigun ('''海軍''') means "Navy" – and it gets way more interesting over the Chinese side. If you read it in reverse as gǔnkāi ('''滚开'''), among its definitions ranging from "Boiling" to "Go away" is '''''fuck off'''''. Or, more likely, kai (改) by itself means "change". It's a gun of change. Kaizen (改善), meaning change for the better or improvement (irony here), is pronounced "gai shan" in Mandarin, which pretty much gives us Gae-Sann. Anyway, as interesting a weapon as it is, you cannot get one since later [[Codex|codices]] don't have them anymore. If you were to bring one out to the tabletop around 4E to 6E, however, it would [[Counts As|count as]] a Deathscreamer – a Tzeentchian Daemon Weapon. Its old stats makes it one of those weapons that can be either amazingly good or amazingly bad depending on how the [[dice]] wants your day to be. You might get away with using it as a Warpflame pistol.
And do note that in reality, there is no official model for the Kai Gun, but general consensus accepts the unidentified gun of a metal Terminator Chaos Lord model as one.

There is also a less well known variant called the '''Kai Hellspear'''. These are chaos-corrupted weapons which are said to function similarly to a lasgun, but instead of discharging a typical laser beam it emits a searing beam of Warp energy (which probably takes the form of a spear, hence the name) which can not only cut through armor and bone, but is also able to rend away a target's soul.

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