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After looking at the largest fortress thread, a thought popped into my head. What is the biggest/most powerful gun/orbital cannon/etc. in the galaxy? Can be Imperial, Chaos, Squat, etc.

Note: Unless there is literally canon that says "Emperors roundhouse kick is most powerful in the universe," I dont expect a real final answer. Just want people's thoughts.

The Planetkiller.

CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT.
/win... actually /CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT if i'm being honest.

The ship that is powered by a measure of the Nightbringer's power, powerful enough to make Star Systems disappear.

Behind that is probably a Talisman of Vaul/Blackstone Fortress.

The World Engne is pretty powerful too, and is possibly the biggest, being the size of a planet.

Cyclonic Torpedos.
They break PLANETS.

Necron World Engines. Planet Killer on steroids.

the strongest weapon is the blackstone fortress. The blackstone fires beams of pure warp energy able to destory anything. The planetkiller is a attempt by chaos to replicate the power of the blackstone and the planet killer is only a small fraction the power of a black stone.

Since their are only 2-3 left in existance they are the most powerful and sort after weapons because it takes thousands of years to reproduce a far less powerful copy( planet killer), they can destory anything in realspace i.e the only things that can kill a C'tan and are the only weapon left behind by the old ones.

While necrons have powerful weapons i.e World engines and the C'tan are one of the most poweful creatures in real space they still are a shadow of ther formour selves i.e old nightbringer before his weapons was lost in the warp and of course the necrons of the void dragon.

The old ones had tec far beyond what the necrotyer but one reason they lost the war was because even tho the old ones weapons were way more powerful, they were developed to late in the war.

thermatic wrote:The old ones had tec far beyond what the necrotyer but one reason they lost the war was because even tho the old ones weapons were way more powerful, they were developed to late in the war.

No, the Necrontyr had better technology than the Old Ones, the reason the Old Ones were defeating the Necrontyr before the discovery of the C'tan is because they had access to the Webway, and were massively powerful psychically.

The reason the Old Ones lost the war is because they simply could not handle the C'tan's supremacy in the Materium.

A very very very angry primarch

I remember reading in the last Soul Drinker's novel, Hell Forged, there was a Necron ship that ripped out the core of a star... so yeah, that big old scary thing

so yea, its pretty much the Nercons tech now, unless you can FIND a blackstone fortress.

I would argue though, for consideration, perhaps maybe the genestealers are the greatest weapon. hear me out here:

they are, in effect, the most efficiant means of biological warfare, they have infested MULTIPLE galaxies (as the Nids come from not of our galaxy to begin with)

they adapt and obsorb genus in order to create better more effective weapons for the nids AND create legions of mixed bred "humans" for infiltration.

so there, I humbly nominate the Genestealers as the most powerful weapon.

My dog.

This one time my dog hit the table and a whole city filled with 2 armies was destroyed.

And that's just a fraction of his power.

Human will...

The average human isn't particularly brave nor does he possess strong will.

Orky will is undeniably stronger, since it actually bends reality to accomodate it.

Would argue Eldar are far braver and possess stronger will, they are closer to extinction than Humanity is, and continue to dwindle, but refuse to give in.

As of now, the most powerful technology is within Nercron and Eldar hands.... we still don't know fully what the Nercrons are capable of doing so I guess we can't really say anything certain about the most powerful weapon....


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As of now, the most powerful technology is within Nercron and Eldar hands.... we still don't know fully what the Nercrons are capable of doing so I guess we can't really say anything certain about the most powerful weapon....

Let su see last 10.000 years...
Humanity survives trough the sheer will of their race...
Nuff said...

Diesel Stradin wrote:As of now, the most powerful technology is within Nercron and Eldar hands.... we still don't know fully what the Nercrons are capable of doing so I guess we can't really say anything certain about the most powerful weapon....

Probably the most powerful technology we have seen from the Necrons is Iori Delta Tove, a planet-sized Necron vessel that was dormant, traveling between stars. Wherever it went, memories of the population of nearby worlds were altered, ancient historical writings were changed, and the orbit of entire planets was shifted, the GK codex attributing this to the device subtly rewriting history.

Oh, and of course being able to create Necrodermis bodies capable of containing a C'tan.


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Brother Coa wrote:Let su see last 10.000 years...
Humanity survives trough the sheer will of their race...
Nuff said...

Eldar have been surviving much longer, including those last 10,000 years.

Humanity survives because it is so numerous, for the most part.

A Hive mind psionic lance

In my opinion, the Hive Mind is the most powerful weapon. You see the diagrams in various Codexes, huge tendrils of Tyranids sweeping the galaxy, slowly heading for Terra. It seems that while determined resistance can stem the flow, there appears to be no end to their onslaught, due to their origin being outside the Milky Way. I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the Hive Mind already.

Valkyrie wrote:In my opinion, the Hive Mind is the most powerful weapon. You see the diagrams in various Codexes, huge tendrils of Tyranids sweeping the galaxy, slowly heading for Terra. It seems that while determined resistance can stem the flow, there appears to be no end to their onslaught, due to their origin being outside the Milky Way. I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the Hive Mind already.

I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say no one mentioned the Hive Mind because the Hive Mind isn't a weapon.

Eldar just have luck ( they after all get all the tech from the Old Ones ) and now they are so arrogant they would rather die out then work with Humans to fight Chaos.

And it's not only numbers that helped Humans. Resolve, technology, faith and stubbornness all help us to survive... and of all things it is our faith and spirit that kept us going.

Brother Coa wrote:Eldar just have luck ( they after all get all the tech from the Old Ones ) and now they are so arrogant they would rather die out then work with Humans to fight Chaos.

And it's not only numbers that helped Humans. Resolve, technology, faith and stubbornness all help us to survive... and of all things it is our faith and spirit that kept us going.

You are by far the funniest person on this sight.

The Eldar are so arrogant they would rather die than work with Humanity to fight Chaos? The Eldar have tried to do so and have done so, and the reason they dismiss Humanity is because of their shameless xenophobia and horrible foreign policy.

All of that would mean nothing if they were not so numerous.

Blackstone Fortresses are the most destructive weapon we've actually seen in universe.

Given that the Necrons supposedly superior technology in the old war, they might have something better, but it hasn't shown up in any works yet.

Not quite nothing...Space Marines don't have numbers and they still get impossible things done. Other factions of Man to. And when Warp Storms get us to the edge of extinction, Mankind still survive ( the Emperor only united part of it, many colonies are still lost out there... ).

And Eldar don't trust Mankind because we "betray them" at the start of Heresy. And that is because idiot Eldrad go to Fulgrim to warn him about Horus betrayal not knowing this one already fallen. And after Fulgrim slaughtered his Eldar in the name of Mankind Eldar saw Humans as nothing more than mere savages.

And to this day they still believe it was we who attacked them, how intelligent for a race that can see future and that is the "smartest" in the universe...

A massive dakka cannon. Dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka. / mod cannon

The massed ranks of a billion billion lasguns!

Brother Coa wrote:Not quite nothing...Space Marines don't have numbers and they still get impossible things done. Other factions of Man to. And when Warp Storms get us to the edge of extinction, Mankind still survive ( the Emperor only united part of it, many colonies are still lost out there... ).

And Eldar don't trust Mankind because we "betray them" at the start of Heresy. And that is because idiot Eldrad go to Fulgrim to warn him about Horus betrayal not knowing this one already fallen. And after Fulgrim slaughtered his Eldar in the name of Mankind Eldar saw Humans as nothing more than mere savages.

And to this day they still believe it was we who attacked them, how intelligent for a race that can see future and that is the "smartest" in the universe...

Space Marines wouldn't mean gak if they did not have legions upon legions of guards to serve as the Emperor's hammer. Mankind is not inherently superior to the other races, which you seem to believe.

No... It's because they are relentlessly xenophobic. I have read Fulgrim, that wasn't the first contact the Eldar had with the Imperium. Eldrad even basically said that normally they wouldn't try to be so diplomatic because usually humans are typically unwilling to sit down and play nice with them, but chose to try because Fulgrim and the Emperor's Children were actually sparing Maiden Worlds because of their "beauty," seeing an appreciation for nature or some stupid crap that he hadn't come to expect in Mankind.

Also, why is Eldrad an idiot? Because he's not omniscient? Chaos was deliberately obscuring his vision so that they could cause the Heresy... How was he supposed to know Fulgrim possessed a Daemonsword? And why do you seem to view them viewing humanity as savages after the Marines slaughtered them during a peaceful diplomatic talk as unjustified?

Only they did attack them. Fulgrim had fallen, but the Marines did not, and the Eldar also realised something else, that humanity knew not of Chaos yet still used the Warp indiscrimately. Which is kind of stupid.

But that's enough of this, we are drifting far off topic.

Valkyrie wrote:In my opinion, the Hive Mind is the most powerful weapon. You see the diagrams in various Codexes, huge tendrils of Tyranids sweeping the galaxy, slowly heading for Terra. It seems that while determined resistance can stem the flow, there appears to be no end to their onslaught, due to their origin being outside the Milky Way. I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the Hive Mind already.

umm... I did....right before you....

I honestly think the galaxies greatest threat is from the Necrons not the Tyranids. So Im going to have to say that big planet killing hulk that creates Necrodermis that the Necrons have.

The Warp and the Daemons that control it.