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Each suit is a personal heirloom item, colourful paintwork and elaborate scrolls delineating the history of the various users cover the surface; some users have also added additional ornamental shields to indicate their personal heraldry. The more ostentatious suits include large retractable poles for flying more elaborate personal banners and their vessel’s blazons. {{Fn|5}}
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====Ignatus pattern====
[[File:Ignatus-pattern power armour.jpg|thumb|200px|'''Ignatus''' pattern power armour{{Fn|17}}]]
'''Ignatus pattern''' power armours are individuality crafted for representatives of the [[Inquisition|Holy Inquisition]]. Not as durable as Adeptus Astartes power armours, the Ignatus-pattern is of a better design than those sold to nobles, [[Rogue Trader]]s and other agents of the Imperium.{{Fn|17}}
'''Ignatus''' power armour is made of thick [[Ceramite]] armour plates and incorporated electro-muscles so the user can even use the power armour in the first place. The optional helmet protects the wearer from toxic gasses, allows the wearer to breathe underwater, and even survive in vacuum as long as the suit has power. The helmet has photo-visors so the user can see in the dark and an automatically closing visor renders blind-grenades useless against the wearer. These devices can be controlled by speaking to the armour’s machine spirit, or the wearer can commune with his armour directly if they have a cerebral plug, MIU, or similar device. It is also possible to use a backpack for the suit which acts as external power-source. With this power-backpack the wearer can use his armour for five continuous days in battle conditions.{{Fn|17}}
Because the Inquisition often has to deal with [[Ruinous Powers]] and other heretical forces, Ignatus suits are commonly inlaid with [[Hexagrammic Wards|hexagrammic wards]].{{Fn|17}}
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===Other Imperial Designs===
*Light Power Armour
By reducing the bulk of the ceramite plating, Light Power Armour offers the benefits of servo-boosted strength and a shell of durable ceramite, without sacrificing mobility or nimbleness.{{Fn|13}}
*Zayth Engine Armour
The complicated exoskeletons used by the Engine Orders of [[Zayth]] are marvels of Dark Age technology. While not as advanced as most power armour, Zayth engine armour provides a degree of protection from environmental hazards and its pistons and servos greatly increases the user’s strength. Since no clan would ever willingly trade away even a single one of its irreplaceable suits of Engine Armour, most examples found off world are those salvaged from dead Zaythian cities, casualties of the endless wars. Designed to allow the wearer to operate in the hazardous engine rooms of Zayth's vehicle cities, engine armour also comes equipped with rebreathers capable of sustaining the wearer for up to 10 hours, and its shielding allows the wearer to resist the effects of extreme heat and most forms of electromagnetic radiation. The power cells needed to use the engine armour (without which the exoskeleton is nothing more than dead weight) generally last 10 hours before they must be recharged or replaced.{{Fn|6}}
==Non-Imperial Power Armour==
*{{Endn|15}}: [[Codex: Leagues of Votann (9th Edition)]], pg. 20
*{{Endn|16}}: [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (8th Edition)]], pg. 63
*{{Endn|17}}: [[Dark Heresy: Ascension]], pgs. 143-144
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