![]() ![]() ![]() The Cyclonic Torpedo is only used by the armed forces of the Imperium of Man to carry out an authorised Exterminatus action on a world that has been deemed to present an extinction-level threat to other inhabited regions of the Human-settled galaxy. The blast radius is large enough to be seen from space and the detonation usually powerful enough to crack a planet's crust and destabilise its core. Whatever the exact origin of the mass death to come, the result of these weapons is always the same: the complete destruction of the planetary biosphere, its atmosphere burned away into the void and its oceans boiled to vapor, leaving behind the barren bedrock of a Dead World. There are a wide variant of weapon types covered under the designation of "Cyclonic Torpedo," including the Atmospheric Incinerator Torpedo, but all possess the capability to destroy the entire biosphere of the target world, either through the initiation of a thermonuclear reaction that ignites all free oxygen in the atmosphere or the simple expedient of nuclear-fusion-assisted plasma bombardment. The Cyclonic Torpedo is an Imperial weapon of mass destruction that is deployed from a voidcraft into low planetary orbit. An Exterminatus action being carried out on a world using Imperial Cyclonic Torpedoes. ![]()
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