Armis Ruptor

The Armis Ruptor Rifle (Commonly referred to as the "Astartes Cracker" by the rank and file of the Heredes Auxilla.) is an ancient, massive, bolt action rifle STC that uses solid munitions fired at a high enough velocity that the rounds are capable of punching through even the advanced armour of the Legion Astartes with relative ease. The weapon is so large that it requires two men to move, position, and even to fire the weapon effectively. The STC was discovered by the Leadership of Vasalius before the Purge and was moth-balled by the then peaceful people until it was discovered two hundred years later by the planet's war hardened inheritors.

Xander Purechild championed the adoption of the weapon for use in the Heredes Auxillas, claiming that it would give the Auxilla the edge they would need were they to ever have to prove their claims of superiority over the Emperor's impure Abhuman Legions and their Primarchs. The Armis Ruptor Rifle would indeed prove invaluable to the Auxilla during the dark days of the Ruins, reaping a heavy toll in traitor Astartes lives during the length of that conflict; but was wholly ill-suited to dealing with the mass charge of thousands of angry Legionnaires. [[Category:A]]