Gravity weapons were uncommon among humanity, but they were hardly rare curiosities.
The gravity guns used by certain Astartes, for instance, could create an immensely powerful gravitational field over a small area, piercing enemy armor directly and inflicting damage by crushing the bones and organs within.
Gravity hammers, singularity bombs, and similar weapons likewise enhanced their lethality and destructive power by manipulating gravity.
Compared to conventional weapons, however, humanity's gravity weapons did not belong to the standard arsenal.
Their technology was far too complex compared to the simple, brutal boltgun and plasma gun, and their maintenance costs were vastly higher as well.
The gravity lash mounted on a battle moon was an especially impractical and absurd piece of black technology by human standards.
As one of the four fundamental interactions, gravity was far weaker than the strong and weak interactions, as well as electromagnetism.
Using gravity as a weapon required a far greater volume and energy supply than other weapons.
A conventional human warship simply lacked the space to house the equipment needed to produce a gravity-lash effect.
The Amatra battle planet Lox had built in the Five Hundred Worlds had used gravity weapons as its trump card only because it was massive enough and possessed sufficient energy.
The Greenskin Orks' battle moons, meanwhile, naturally possessed the conditions needed to use gravity weapons due to their enormous mass and their unique faster-than-light travel methods.
The reason Vulkan had dispersed his fleet throughout the star system was that those celestial planets possessed immense gravitational fields.
After billions of years of evolution, those gravitational fields had long since entered a relative equilibrium.
Once the Greenskin Orks' gravity storms entered them, they would naturally restrain one another against the gravitational fields of other celestial bodies, weakening their destructive force.
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