Scourger Firebrand

A most volatile weapon, the Scourger Firebrand is a heavy flame weapon created by the Monastic Ascendants and in use by several legions by the end of the Great Crusade. As a pair of flame projectors with a sizeable projection chamber and fuel tank, the Scourger is a little lacking in it's base design. As is, it has been calibrated to project promethium out at ranges beyond normal flame weapons -but thanks to this- firing in a much tighter cone and uses more fuel as a result. To help counter this problem a leaf was take from some of the other weapons systems developed for the Modular Weapon System as the projectors were mounted on a rotating column. With both projectors spinning and the high pressure of the projection, they manage to spread themselves out in a wider arc more akin to their handheld and vehicle-mounted counterparts. While the fuel consumption proves to be a problem it has been lauded amongst those marines interred in Legacy Dreadnoughts that the sheer volume of promethium fired easily allows them to put up flame curtains to help defend a position. It has been decided as a result that the weapon's performance is satisfactory, and has been corroborated by those Legions that have chosen to adopt it into their service.