Imperial Knights - Cerastus Type Knight Armours: Cerastus type Knight armours are highly sophisticated chassis whose speed and agility far exceed the clumsier Errant and Paladin types.The Cerastus type Knights appear to have been designed solely for war, not as protectors but as bloody-handed conquerors and tools of destruction, a legacy of the violence that marked the beginning of the Age of Strife.Below is a selection of the most common types of Cerastus Pattern Knight armours fielded by the Knight houses:Cerastus Knight-Acheron - The devastation wrought by a Cerastus Knight-Acheron is terrifying to behold. Armed with a fearsome Reaper Chainfist, twin-linked Heavy Bolters and an Acheron Pattern Flame Cannon, it is employed as a weapon of extermination and to inspire fear in the Imperium's foes. Nothing will sway its attack until the enemy is utterly crushed, never to rise again from the flame-scoured ruins of their strongholds.Cerastus Knight-Atrapos - One of the rarest and most potent Knights, the Knight-Atrapos is a unique variant type of the Cerastus pattern. Bearing particularly rare and potent weaponry of annihilation, the Cerastus Knight-Atrapos was created solely to destroy heretek engines and xenos war machines whose very nature and existence were considered a blasphemy to the Omnissiah. The machine spirits of the Knight-Atrapos are said to carry with them a cold and all-destroying hunger, and for the scion who bonds with them, madness is a constant risk. But for such storied honour, however dark the outcome, this may be a price worth paying. The Cerastus Knight-Atrapos carries arcane and devastating weapons into battle; the focussed and deadly Atrapos lascutter, that sees duty as both a ranged and close combat weapon, and the violently destructive, but potentially unstable, graviton singularity cannon. With the speed and shielding of the Cerastus chassis, and the Knight-Atrapos' Marco-extinction Targeting Protocols, the Cerastus Knight-Atrapos is an uncommonly destructive weapon of war.Cerastus Knight-Castigator - Armed with the fearsome Castigator Pattern Bolt Cannon, the Cerastus Knight-Castigator is favoured by those Knight houses faced with hordes of lesser foes that might otherwise overwhelm even a mighty Knight through sheer numbers. Capable of obliterating infantry formations in a thunderous rain of mass-reactive explosions and whirling power blade, or carving apart light vehicles with ease, the Castigator is a formidable opponent.Cerastus Knight-Lancer - One of the more uncommon but also most highly valued Knight-class walkers fielded by the Knight houses, the Cerastus Knight-Lancer is a first strike weapon, attuned to rapid assault tactics and lethal outflanking charges against a foe. It is justly renowned for its speed and its power, as well as for the temperamental and restive nature of the Machine Spirits (artificial intelligences) which dwell as anima within its colossal frame. Because of this reputation, the most impetuous and glory-hungry of the Knight households are driven to bond with these war machines, their own souls a match for the fury caged within their mounts. The greatest of these pairings will go on to create martial legends among their lineage. This Knight-Lancer has a Cerastus Shock Lance mounted as its primary weapon -- a magneto-hydraulic power spear of prodigious size, whose disruption field may also be projected as a powerful electromagnetic plasma blast over short ranges. An Ion Gauntlet Shield generator is mounted in the Cerastus' right gauntlet assembly and is more concentrated than the directional Ion Shield mounted on the Knight Paladin class, but lacks its tactical flexibility.