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During the Great Sleep of sixty million years, the silent halls of the Necron Tomb Worlds were patrolled by tireless autonomous constructs known as Canoptek Wraiths. Built around a multi-segmented serpentine spine housing a dimensional destabilisation core, a Canoptek Wraith glides effortlessly in and out of realspace. To an intruder or battlefield foe, the Wraith flickers like a metallic ghost—allowing solid rockcrete walls, tank hulls, and bolter rounds to pass harmlessly through its ethereal body before solidifying its razor-sharp claws directly inside a victim's chest cavity.
Appearance & wargear
Towering, cobra-like metallic constructs with segmented bronze tails, glowing emerald optic clusters, crackling Whip Coils, and underslung Particle Casters or Transdimensional Beamers.
Weapons & Vehicles
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Battlefield role & tactics
Gliding straight through terrain and defensive lines, packs of Canoptek Wraiths tie up enemy heavy support and assassinate armoured targets with phase-claws.
Munitorum & Ordo Xenos Technical Dossier
Classified under Ordo and Departmento Munitorum threat-index protocols as a primary Gliding straight through terrain and defensive lines, packs of Canoptek Wraiths tie up enemy heavy support and assassinate armoured targets with phase-claws. asset of Necrons, Canoptek Wraiths relies on a tightly coupled symbiosis between operator conditioning and primary armament. Field maintenance and biological recovery logs indicate that extended deployment without liturgical recalibration or bio-stasis rest degrades targeting and metabolic stability by less than 4% per solar week—far outperforming standard sector baselines—while post-engagement recovery teams prioritize the immediate extraction of their core wargear, neural/gene-seed components, or machine-spirit memory cores before enemy scavengers can exploit them.
Notable battles & users
- M41 — Canoptek Wraiths of Cryptek Illuminor Szeras harvested living test subjects from the vaults of Zantragora.
Related
Characters (3)
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