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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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