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The Styrix was produced with equal sophsitication to the [[Knight Magaera]]. However, it has been meticulously designed to facilitate the efficient eradication of infantry and support vehicles.{{Fn|2}} Thus, the Styrix was armed with a [[Volkite Chieorovile]] and backed up with a [[graviton gun]] and twin-linked [[rad cleanser]]; the Knight Styrix is easily able to eliminate large numbers of infantry at range. Whilst in close combat, its powerful [[Hekaton Siege Claw]] can smash vehicles and tear buildings asunder.{{Fn|1}}
Housing [[machine spirit]]s which some say became too accustomed to slaughter during the [[Age of Strife]] and the [[Great Crusade]] that followed it, many conservative [[Knight House]]s consider the Styrix to be a malevolent pattern, the wanton destruction it unleashes being beneath a true Knight. Other Households hold no such reservations, loosing entire formations of Styrix Knights to annihilate their foes.{{Fn|1}}
The Styrix held great esteem to Households sworn to the [[Mechanicum]], especially among those scions who have undergone extensive augmentation. These pilots share their machine spirit's disdain for weakness of flesh. The Knights of [[House Col'Khak]] in particular are renowned for fielding entire formations of these machines in support of the [[Legio Atarus]].{{Fn|2a}}