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The design for the Knight was adapted from the industrial and agricultural machines employed on hardy frontier worlds, enabling those first colonies to defend themselves against native beasts, xenos raiders and stranger things besides. The flexible Standard Template Construct systems enabled the construction of any tool mankind might need on the worlds it claimed. The first Knights date back to the Dark Age of Technology, when the ascendant human species colonised the galaxy using powerful technologies now long forgotten.