And I need to learn how to spell "I" apparently. Less frantic typing on my phone and more proofreading is key I guess
I think chances are they saw bolt guns before, but what the Emperor made was different than those hence "progenitor of its kind"
While AI was trying to help find @wib.bsky.social's Lamenters quote earlier I spotted this in Chapter Approved 2004 in the "Cursed Foundings" article. GW really should bring the Legion of the Damned back.
Also this site needs a way to do threads because when my brain gets rambling it is such a pain to link posts like this
Considering the description is through a Custodes memory it is likely that the Custodes was there when it was made
all bolters. This also ties the Imperial Bolter into a religious icon for the Ministorum and explains why they would prioritize it so highly as a weapon for the Sororitas. Just my own theory of course. 6/6
This works especially well for how the language of Gothic is actually rather vague at times allowing the Imperium to control the meaning rather easily. Consider Promethium which accounts for any flammable liquid regardless of composition or use. So Big E invented the Imperial Bolter but not 5/
all its bolter tech on, while others have different tech based on STCs. This can work with them all being boltguns because Boltgun is just a gun that fires bolts, that is the rocket propelled ammo regardless of if it is explosive or not, so anything that fires bolts is a bolt weapon. 4/
of it's *kind* how do we account for that? Easily actually: through it's kind. The Emperor invented a new kind of Boltgun without using an STC. Now this may be through previous knowledge of the weapon, or just of its ammunition but he makes a unique variety that the Imperium bases 3/
Now we know bolt weapons are weapons that existed before the Imperium in some capacity. After all they were on Caliban pre-Imperium, and there is evidence of humans having them in various places during the Crusade when the Imperium shows up. But if the Emperor invented one of the first 2/