Among the apparatus of colonisation were formidable war machines known as "Knights," which existed to protect the settlers from any threat. Thousands of standard years before the rise of the Imperium, Mankind reached out to the stars and settled many far away worlds. Only then can the Noble truly occupy the Throne Mechanicum - the seat of control from which they use his mind to command the towering Knight. Only a Noble from an ancestral knightly house may have such an honour.ĭuring a strange and terrible rite known as the Ritual of Becoming, the Noble fuses their mind with the Machine Spirit of the Knight - a union of flesh and metal. One does not drive such an heirloom - it must be bonded with. Knights are not mere war machines, but relics from a lost age, armoured giants from a forgotten era. The presence of just one of these towering engines of destruction is enough to change the course of a battle, and only the Titans of the Adeptus Mechanicus are more feared by the enemies of Mankind. Vulnerable limbs and joints are protected by sweeping armour plates of adamantium and supported by an incorporated Ion Shield which responds to the thought-commands of its Noble pilot. They are propelled into battle by powerful servos and have the power to kick over tanks and crush soldiers into red paste.
Imperial Knights are colossal war machines that tower over the battlefield. These ancient battlesuits stand thirty to forty Terran feet (9 to 12 metres) tall, are protected by nearly impenetrable Ion Shields and armed with a devastating array of heavy weapons.
Knights normally deploy in squadrons comprised of several of these war machines. However, a Knight is smaller and less capable in combat than even the smallest class of true Titan utilised by the Collegia Titanica, the Warhound-class Scout Titan. The Imperial Knights, or Questor Imperialis in High Gothic, are piloted robotic combat walkers of small to medium size in the service of the Imperium and sometimes the Adeptus Mechanicus.Įach Knight is piloted by a single Human warrior drawn from an ancient feudal aristocratic culture that stretches across the galaxy.
Earliest Knight houses date to Age of Terra
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