Talos Pain Engine
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Overview
A Talos is a robot created by the Dark Eldar Haemonculi. It floats across the battlefield using an anti-grav propulsion system similar to those found in Raiders, Ravagers, Reaver Jetbikes, and Hellion Skyboards. A Talos uses soul energy as its power source. In order to continue operating, then, it's programmed to pursue living targets, capture them, and torture them using the various nightmarish devices attached to it by its creators.
Equipment
A Talos is equipped with various exotic devices for causing pain and misery in its victims.
Weaponry
Haemonculi are constantly searching for new and unique ways to torture and kill their victims, and this desire is clearly apparent in the weaponry attached to a Talos. Its two primary weapons are a series of claw-like arms, and its deadly Sting gun.
- The Talos Sting is a tail-shaped cannon, adding to the scorpion-like appearance of the Talos. The Talos has no mind for tactics or strategy, and thus fires this cannon rapidly into enemy lines, cutting large swathes of virulent death across the battlefield.
- Talos Claws are a series of robotic arms with vicious torture implements on the ends, used by the Talos once it reaches close combat range.
Armor
A Talos is quite heavily armored by Dark Eldar standards, with a thick plated metal carapace surrounding its inner workings. This causes the Talos to move rather slowly across the battlefield, but is necessary due to the aforementioned lack of tactics or strategy in the Talos' programming. However, due to this fact, as well as the rather uneasy feeling being so close to a relatively mindless automated torture machine garners, few Archons and Dracons permit their use in the battlefield, preferring to rely on superior speed and strategy, as is the Dark Eldar way.
