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The Banhammer.

The editors red pen.

It doesn't see much use, but when it does come out it rewrites 20+ years of fluff in seconds, leaving nothing but pointless, often biased pap in it's place..

Never actually knew what the Blackstone fortresses did, thought they were supposed to function like the Halo rings or something like that.

Also, not that I dont like the answers some of you gave (Hive Mind, genestealers, etc.), but I was looking for the most powerful...weapon system. I guess thats the best I can describe. Although the Blackstones seem to be leading right now anyway. Imperium needs to get off its throne and make more dakka

love.

Tzeentch's staff. Reforged. In his hands..claws...tentacles...whatever.

A main character's plot weapon armed with special plot ammo, kills anything...

But seriously, I would go Blackstone fortresses

Spartan 117 wrote: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.

You missed the Chaos. While Tyranids or Necrons spare some planets and allow the life to continue Chaos will take all galaxy in Warp and life as we know it will cease to exist.

The most powerful weapon?

The utter and unshakable faith in the Emperor!!!!! Die filthy xenos!!!!!!


No, really.

Fanatic-o's

The tasty breakfast treat found all over the Imperiium.

Comes with a free plastic Primarch in every box !!

No hallucinogens, psychotropics or steroids!! (this claim under review by the trading standards body)

Warning! May cause gross overconfidence, religious mania and disassociation from reality. Side effects also include megalomania, deluisions of superiority and pyromania.

A Vortex Grenade

Ignoring the World Engine because that only existed so that the Space Marines could blow it up, I'd say that the Blackstone fortresses are the strongest. I think there's some fluff about some (three?) of them combining their weapon strength to blow up a star during the 13th Black Crusade. So unless the Outsider's Dyson sphere has someting funky on it, I'd say they win.

Plus if you accept that the Blackstones are the legendary Swords of Vaul, then Eldar myth would indicate that they're capable of going toe to toe with anything the Necrons can throw at them. Though that could be due to their ability to combine their power and the fact that back in the day there were 99 (?) of them.

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

No, the reason the Old Ones lost the war is that they owned the C'tan so hard that they messed up the warp, creating the Enslavers who promptly skipped into realspace and messed up stuff. Most of the life the C'tan wanted to harvest was destroyed, so they went into hibernation and waited until the galaxy had recovered, i.e. "now" in 40k's timeline.

Raulmichile wrote:The most powerful weapon?

The utter and unshakable faith in the Emperor!!!!! Die filthy xenos!!!!!!


No, really.

Now that you mention it, I'd say that the Emperor himself is a weapon, forged from the souls of all the psykers who joined together to create him. He's pretty damn powerful too...

EXTERMINATUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Erm, the Old Ones were pretty much defeated until they started using the Warp as a weapon, creating Warp sensitive beings to fight them. THEN the Enslaver Plague began. Before that they were dominated to the point of ridiculousness

The humble lasgun of Ollanius Pius.

daveNYC wrote:Ignoring the World Engine because that only existed so that the Space Marines could blow it up, I'd say that the Blackstone fortresses are the strongest. I think there's some fluff about some (three?) of them combining their weapon strength to blow up a star during the 13th Black Crusade. So unless the Outsider's Dyson sphere has someting funky on it, I'd say they win.

Plus if you accept that the Blackstones are the legendary Swords of Vaul, then Eldar myth would indicate that they're capable of going toe to toe with anything the Necrons can throw at them. Though that could be due to their ability to combine their power and the fact that back in the day there were 99 (?) of them.

By the 13th Black Crusade, there were only 2 (known) left, and now they're pretty sure that one was destroyed by Necrons and the other is more or less controlled (if not possessed) by Slaanesh who more or less used it to nom nom on Eldrad's soul.

Kid_Kyoto wrote: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.

Indeed. The might of a chuhuahua is enough to make even Imper Ator titans tremble in fear.

That would be the legendary Primarch Cannon. Forged at the Dawn of the Imperium of Man, the weapon was so dangerous that the organic munnitions componant had to be scattered throughout the galaxy until each matured and was ready for use. According to legend, the Primarch Cannon was only used twice, and the effects were so devisatating that the battles they were used in and the enemies they destroyed were never spoken of again.

A sever weapon malfunction corrupted a number of the organic componanents for the munitions, which originally numbered only twenty, so devastating was the weapon. The malfuction produced an instability that nearly ripped appart Terra and the Imperium. The effects of the malfunction are still felt across the galaxy to this day. Now only a few precious pieces of munition remain, hidden in stasis in darkened temples in the hopes that, should the need arise, the weapon will still be able to fire.




Or the Blackstone Fortresses, although to be honest, it seems like the ability to destroy planets is pretty common in 40k sometimes, and other times, not so much, so it is hard to tell when the next plot device will be the new, long lost, most powerful weapon in creation.

The Blackstone Fortress, short of that the World Engine.

Also, The Emperor.

Plasma pistol. I've seen more Space Marines die to a plasma pistol over-heating than anything else...

A boltgun. That shoots lasers. That's mounted to the Golden Throne. Which is situated upon a Unicorn. And the Unicorn's horn's made of win.

chaoslooksgood wrote:EXTERMINATUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It took volleys and volleys of Exterminatus class torpedoes to kill a shieldless world engine.

I'd say The World Engine(s) and Blackstones are prolly about as bad as shizz gets in weaponry. I'd laff if the Necrons have more World Engines.. so rigged.




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Leonus Cohol wrote:Cyclonic Torpedos.
They break PLANETS.

Yet it took countless volleys to bring the world engine down AFTER its shield went down to a suicide battle barge attack.

Necron Tech >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> IoM Tech

Matt Ward...

He destroyed the Chaos Space Marines... single handed.

geordie09 wrote:Matt Ward...

He destroyed the Chaos Space Marines... single handed.

And Grey Knights, and Ultramarines, and Blood Angels - with his pen.

The imperial warmachine...

Faith.

AlmightyWalrus wrote:No, the reason the Old Ones lost the war is that they owned the C'tan so hard that they messed up the warp, creating the Enslavers who promptly skipped into realspace and messed up stuff. Most of the life the C'tan wanted to harvest was destroyed, so they went into hibernation and waited until the galaxy had recovered, i.e. "now" in 40k's timeline.

Um, you're wrong?

"The Old Ones' mastery of the Warp was countered by the C'tan's utter supremacy in the material universe, and the enemies of the Necrons suffered greatly in the slaughter which followed."
- Necron codex, page 25

"The C'tan now dominated the galaxy. The last bastions of the Old Ones were besieged and the races they had nurtured became cattle for the obscene hunger of the C'tan."
- Also page 25

The Old Ones were able to make one last offensive against the C'tan, and this was after their empire was fractured and they had just gotten done eating eachother. Then the Enslavers came.

Or in short, read the codex again

The Old Ones did at one point beat the Necrontyr back into a relatively small part of space, but the old ones and their creations were the ones that eventually got owned so hard it made the warp a dangerous place, as they were desperately using all the psychic mojo they could to fight back. If they'd laid off the offensive psykerness the Enslaver Plague probably wouldn't have happened

Ascalam wrote:Or in short, read the codex again

The Old Ones did at one point beat the Necrontyr back into a relatively small part of space, but the old ones and their creations were the ones that eventually got owned so hard it made the warp a dangerous place, as they were desperately using all the psychic mojo they could to fight back. If they'd laid off the offensive psykerness the Enslaver Plague probably wouldn't have happened

Are you talking about the first war between the Necrons and the Old Ones? Because they were garbage before the C'Tan rolled up and gave em god mode.