Voidraven Bomber

The Voidraven Bomber is among the most feared war-engines the Drukhari possess, a rare and jealously hoarded terror-weapon few even of Commorragh's warlords can claim. Knife-thin and supersonic, it screams across the sky faster than the eye can follow, carrying in its slender frame some of the deadliest armaments the Dark City has ever devised. Its bombardier commands from an armoured dome of dark crystal set at the prow, while the pilot rides amidships, the two of them a single instrument of annihilation.

For sustained slaughter the Voidraven wields a pair of void lances, heavy weapons that hurl pulses of ravening eldritch energy scavenged from the shattered and forgotten reaches of the webway itself. Fusillades of this power tear apart armour and flesh alike, and where a commander wants a different flavour of ruin the craft may instead be fitted with dark scythes and clusters of missiles. Yet all of this is merely a prelude to the weapon for which the Voidraven is truly dreaded.

Slung beneath its hull, each bomber carries a single void mine, a device that introduces a mote of pure darklight into the material universe with cataclysmic result. It detonates in two stages a heartbeat apart: the first throws up a sphere of force that shields all beyond its edge even as it seals the doom of everything within, and the second frees the imprisoned darklight to unmake all it touches. What remains when the light fades is a vast, perfect hemispherical crater, and nothing else at all. A single Voidraven, arriving unlooked-for over a massed foe, can turn the tide of an entire war in one obliterating pass.