Cerastus Knight-Lancer

Charging Cavalry of the Heresy Era

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.