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Each Chaos Knight is twisted reflections of the [[Imperial]] [[Knight]]s. The Knight suits were first created using [[Standard Template Construct]]s during the [[Dark Age of Technology]], and many have survived through the innumerable wars that have characterized the long millennia since. Over years or even centuries, Chaos energies seep into the war engine, torturing its [[Machine Spirit]] and mutating its mechanical form. Where once the suit and its pilot were a gleaming beacon, the Chaos Knight and its Fallen Noble comprise a symbiotic beast of wrath and hate. A Noble is enabled to pilot their war machine by being wired into an arcane contraption that is implanted into their Knight’s cockpit the [[Throne Mechanicum]] in the larger Knights, or a [[Helm Mechanicum]] in the smaller classes . Within each Throne Mechanicum are the spectral echoes of its previous pilots. Thus only the strongest of the Fallen Pilots are able to commune with a Throne Mechanicum and not go mad in the process. Even those who survived become tortured beings, their suffering reflected in their Throne Mechanicum for centuries to come. Nobles who are wired into a Helm Mechanicum are similarly twisted by Chaos energies that have been absorbed by their war engine. The Helms also yoke these pilots mind and soul to the will of their Knightly overlords.{{Fn|3a}} Other less fortunate pilots have fused entirely to their Throne Mechanicum while others have simply died and their suits are now controlled wholly by [[Daemon]]s.{{Fn|3b}}