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Celestial Orrery, nothing else comes close.

If we're talking ground-scale, void tech (Imperial void grenades, particularly; a man-portable grenade used for killing Titans is pretty damn powerful). Space-scale, the Blackstone Fortresses were probably the biggest and nastiest weapons in realspace before some funny Necron tricksters came along and convinced everyone to get in a big war and blow them up.

 Brother Captain Alexander wrote:
Celestial Orrery, no contest ( damn you Ward ).

Other than that: faith. Imperium have endured on it alone for 10.000 years.

The Celestial Orrery indeed...to its core it's a ridiculous piece of fluff with no place...phonetically the freaking thing even sounds like Ward just wants us to be saying "ORLY?" when we talk about the stupid thing

Another vote for the Celestial Orrey, I'm just waiting for some dumb inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos to lead an invasion upon Thanatos and upon finding the Celestial Orrey, sneezes.

The World Engine (if it counts as a 'weapon')

or Wraithcannons. Any Guass weaponry really.

 washout77 wrote:

I believe he meant the FULL Tyranid fleet. The tendril that hit Macragge, while powerful, was not even a 1/10000000000 of what some people estimate the number's of Nids there are. If the full fleet hits us, the Galaxy is pretty screwed unless ALL of the races of the galaxy band together to fight them.

Um? Source?

The one hitting Macragge was one of the largest hive fleets known and also the first with the full advantage of surprise. By and large, the dozend or so Hive Fleets seen so far, each one has been around as powerful as a Space Marines Chapter... the larger ones slightly more, the smaller ones slightly less. They've repeatedly been fought back by things the scale of a Craft World or a Space Marine Chapter.

Sure, there could be 1000000000000 times as many Nids out there. There could also be 10000000000000000000 times as many Tau out there still hidden behind a Warp Storm or 100000000000000 times as many Eldar tucked away in some Webway close off, along with all those Primarchs that are supposed to come back soon. But that is all rather speculative and not representative of that power of the Tyranids as demonstrated in the fluff.

iirc the 6E rulebook states that all of the Tyranid fleets we've seen in the Galaxy thus far have just been the "tip of the spear", so to speak. Just the vanguard fleets.

Celestial Orrery.. unfortunately. It's a stupid piece of fluff anyway, and really shouldn't exist.

 Zweischneid wrote:

 KingDeath wrote:

 Zweischneid wrote:
Vect's insta-black-holes-in-a-box

I am still convinced that Vect simply bought a particularly strong vacuum cleaner.

Perhaps. But it must've been a darn strong vacuum cleaner if it tricked Phil Kelly into thinking it was a gravitational singularity.

After the Dark Eldar codex, i am pretty happy about anything that forces Kelly to think.

Love is the most powerful thing in the 40k universe, no sweat.

faith, the inquistion and the untold billions of fanatics following them.........

Celestial Orrey deffently, it's just makes no proper since in 40k, oh look, chaos can't take terra, poof! What terra

 40kSpartan wrote:
Celestial Orrey deffently, it's just makes no proper since in 40k, oh look, chaos can't take terra, poof! What terra

Again, Vect's black holes have the same destructive potential. A black hole, after all, is the result of a thermonuclear supernova. But unlike the Celestial Orrey, which needs an entire Crownworld to host and is a unique, one-thing-only-weapon, Vect has plenty of Black Holes and can hide them in his dinner jacket.

 Zweischneid wrote:

 40kSpartan wrote:
Celestial Orrey deffently, it's just makes no proper since in 40k, oh look, chaos can't take terra, poof! What terra

Again, Vect's black holes have the same destructive potential. A black hole, after all, is the result of a thermonuclear supernova. But unlike the Celestial Orrey, which needs an entire Crownworld to host and is a unique, one-thing-only-weapon, Vect has plenty of Black Holes and can hide them in his dinner jacket.

It's probably the size of the black hole box as it says with your fingertips a star can go supernovaand is only on a crownworld because it is so valuable and image if orks or man got hold of it, bye bye galaxy

 Zweischneid wrote:

 40kSpartan wrote:
Celestial Orrey deffently, it's just makes no proper since in 40k, oh look, chaos can't take terra, poof! What terra

Again, Vect's black holes have the same destructive potential. A black hole, after all, is the result of a thermonuclear supernova. But unlike the Celestial Orrey, which needs an entire Crownworld to host and is a unique, one-thing-only-weapon, Vect has plenty of Black Holes and can hide them in his dinner jacket.

A black hole can be formed by anything with mass if compressed into a small enough space (theoretically), but the size of it's gravity well would be limited to whatever it's gravity well was prior to being compressed. I think Vect probably has a bunch of black holes from compressed matter in boxes rather than a fethin' star born singularity in a box (in which case, pretty much everything in the area that was the star's gravity well would be royally fethed instead of the just individual receiver of the singularity in a box).

If by powerful you meant destructive power, that Celestial Orrery or a Blackstone fortress 's pretty much it.

If by powerful you meant that it will work forever and never let you down wherever you are and you can always count on it, then faith ties with the humble lasgun.

 King Pariah wrote:


A black hole can be formed by anything with mass if compressed into a small enough space (theoretically), but the size of it's gravity well would be limited to whatever it's gravity well was prior to being compressed. I think Vect probably has a bunch of black holes from compressed matter in boxes rather than a fethin' star born singularity in a box (in which case, pretty much everything in the area that was the star's gravity well would be royally fethed instead of the just individual receiver of the singularity in a box).

Well, if it is indeed a black hole, it needs - by definition - enough gravitational pull to prevent light from escaping over the event horizon.

That needs a star's mass at the very least. Infact, in needs the gravity of a LARGE start (otherwise all you get is a white dwarf (no pun)).

The mass of Terra's (Earth's) sun + all the planets in it probably wouldn't suffice.

I don't know a ton about the fluff but,

Overall: Whatever cannon etc. they use for Exterminatus.

Soldier Weapon: Ork Shokk Attack Gun. Essentially rips a hole in reality. Opens a portal through the warp with the exit being inside the target. Snotling is sent through and driven insane then proceeds to claw and bite his way out of the target in a frenzy. Not bad considering it's probably made from scrap metal and bits of wire wrapped in duct tape.

Out of the hand-held weaponry probably the rail gun and rifles.

The Planet-Killer: it kills planets.

 Zweischneid wrote:

 washout77 wrote:

I believe he meant the FULL Tyranid fleet. The tendril that hit Macragge, while powerful, was not even a 1/10000000000 of what some people estimate the number's of Nids there are. If the full fleet hits us, the Galaxy is pretty screwed unless ALL of the races of the galaxy band together to fight them.

Um? Source?

The one hitting Macragge was one of the largest hive fleets known and also the first with the full advantage of surprise. By and large, the dozend or so Hive Fleets seen so far, each one has been around as powerful as a Space Marines Chapter... the larger ones slightly more, the smaller ones slightly less. They've repeatedly been fought back by things the scale of a Craft World or a Space Marine Chapter.

Sure, there could be 1000000000000 times as many Nids out there. There could also be 10000000000000000000 times as many Tau out there still hidden behind a Warp Storm or 100000000000000 times as many Eldar tucked away in some Webway close off, along with all those Primarchs that are supposed to come back soon. But that is all rather speculative and not representative of that power of the Tyranids as demonstrated in the fluff.

I don't really agree with what he said, I was just re-phrasing it. But, I can give a source. I don't have a Nid codex on me, but in the 6th Edition BRB, page 215, Tyranid Section "The Hive Fleets" : "Unbeknownst to the Imperium, the threat is of an even greater magnitude, for the bulk of the Tyranids have not yet reached the Imperium's galaxy, their masses still strewn out across the void. So immeasurably large is the invasion fleet that its furthest stretched tentacles alone gave entered the IoM's space. Each is but a splinter of that single monstrous host, The Hive Mind"

So yeah, a source. Again, I don't really agree with him but *shrug*

I guess the most powerful creature is basically Kaldor Draigo. He is basically Empy as he commands the full might of the IOM (he is the oldest Supreme Grandmaster of the Grey Knights, which means he is a High Lord whenever he is done vandalizing the Gardens of Eden, I meant Nurgle). And if you disagrees with him you get your brain splattered for knowing about him. Of course in physical terms he is not.

Anything that can kill a god. That Holocaust psychic power might be able to do it, and (I believe) the Anathame might be able to as well. All the other stuff? Can't kill a god...

Where is all this balls-deep man-love for Vecht's black-hole-in-a-box coming from? It was unleashed in Commoragh, if I recall, and it was only strong enough to blow up the building Vecht's rival was in. H-how in God's name does that make it a more impressive weapon than a machine that can instantly supernova any star in the Galaxy?

Oh I know
Share Holders

On a more serious note.
Probably the Black Stone Fortresses.

SoB blood - you kill one (just for kicks), then you kill another and smear their blood over your body so no boogeyman can touch you....
advice:
-put on a pair of good fitting latex gloves before you apply
-for spray on "holy blood" products apply using a slow, solid and fluid downward motion unless otherwise instructed on the bottle.
-allow the product to dry as directed, typically 30 or so minutes. In this time, avoid sitting down or donning clothes as this may smear your "holy blood" product.

^lol.

Question: what do the Blackstone Fortresses do?

Planet-scale Weapon: the Eversor assassin.

The humble guardsman with his las rifle in near infinite numbers

Necron Pylon. Blocks the warp, fells titans, and can take out ships in orbit. Not bad for a seemingly run of the mill creation of the Necrons.

BlaxicanX wrote:
Where is all this balls-deep man-love for Vecht's black-hole-in-a-box coming from? It was unleashed in Commoragh, if I recall, and it was only strong enough to blow up the building Vecht's rival was in. H-how in God's name does that make it a more impressive weapon than a machine that can instantly supernova any star in the Galaxy?

Vect can shut off parts of Commoragh if he wants.I don't recall exactly how it's described, but it stopped Daemons from getting through so it's a pretty potent defence. Also, why do you assume the effect of the Celestial Orrery is instantaneous? All it says is that it causes stars to go supernova millenia before their time. Not very specific so it could take a great deal of time. It also leads to rather significant side effects when used, so I don't think you'd be able to use it a great deal without suffering for it.