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Cerastus Pattern

Advanced Knight designs with Dark Age technology. These ancient patterns offer superior capabilities at the cost of greater complexity.

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Cerastus Pattern — Imperial Knights

Advanced Knight designs with Dark Age technology. These ancient patterns offer superior capabilities at the cost of greater complexity.

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Cerastus Knight-Atrapos

The Cerastus Knight-Atrapos is among the rarest and most feared of all Cerastus-pattern relics, a precision assassin chassis equipped with weapons whose technological provenance traces directly to the [[dark-age-technology]]. Its atrapos lascutter is a focused energy beam capable of slicing through titan armour with surgical precision, while its graviton singularity cannon manipulates localised gravity to crush armoured targets from within. Where the Knight-Lancer charges in raw cavalry fury, the Atrapos stalks — a hunter rather than a warrior, designed to terminate single high-value targets and disappear before the enemy can react. The Atrapos pattern is technically forbidden by certain factions within the [[adeptus-mechanicus]], who consider its weapons to verge on heretical innovation. Despite this, several Knight Houses retain functional Atrapos chassis as house secrets, deploying them only against threats that justify breaching ancient prohibitions: traitor Primarchs returning from the warp, daemonic engines of the Ruinous Powers, xenos god-machines that defy conventional answer. To witness an Atrapos in motion is to witness a form of war the [[imperium]] no longer openly practices — silent, surgical, and absolute.

Cerastus Knight-Lancer

The Cerastus Knight-Lancer is an ancient relic chassis dating to the [[great-crusade]] and the dark days of the [[horus-heresy]], standing taller and faster than its Questoris descendants. Its primary armament is the shock lance — a colossal power weapon designed to skewer enemy super-heavies and titans during high-velocity charges. In its off-hand it bears an ion gauntlet shield, projecting a focused defensive field that can deflect even lance-class energy weapons. The Lancer's signature manoeuvre is the cavalry charge: closing at devastating speed, lance levelled, ion shield braced — a sight that has terrified traitor forces across ten thousand years of warfare. Few Cerastus Knight-Lancers remain operational in M41. Each surviving chassis is a treasured relic of its house, brought to battle only when foes of titanic stature must be answered. The Throne Mechanicum bond on a Cerastus is unusually deep — the chassis predates the standardised Questoris template, and its machine spirit carries memories of fighting alongside Primarchs during the Great Crusade. To pilot a Lancer is to inherit ten millennia of accumulated honour and ten millennia of accumulated grief, for the spirit remembers every brother and sister chassis lost to the Heresy.

Cerastus Pattern

Cerastus Pattern — Imperial Knights

Cerastus Knight-Atrapos

Cerastus Knight-Lancer

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