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The only unit of my 100-person army that I have finished is called a 'mirror knight' I'll just go ahead and post it cause I feel lyke it.

Oh also, if anybody is interested or has any questions or suggestions or wants to just start telling me what they're faction would be and stuff, just go ahead and post it here. Since apparently I guess im going to be hosting an RP I'd lyke to know what everybody else thynks and how to properly frame the RP so that everybody can have their personal storylines fit into the RP's flow. Anyways, the mirror knights.

Mirror Knight

Equipment

Mirror Knights generally enter the fray wielding crystalline katana’s in each hand, which when activated coat themselves in plasma, effectively allowing them to simultaneously cut and burn through their enemies. Using a specialized device installed into the back of their armor, they are able to phase into the webway and out in rapid succession, effectively allowing them to dissappear entirely only to reappear in a more strategic position. The device is even capable of temporarily stabilizing a narrow corridor of warp-space, allowing the knight to phase into regular warp-space momentarily. As a secondary ranged weapon, Mirror Knights wield Flechet rifle’s. While they prefer to engage in melee combat normally, they are more than capable of taking down enemy positions using their rifles with practiced ease.

The most distinctive mark of the Mirror Knight’s equipment however, is definitely their armor. Their armor appears to be made out of solid crystal, or possibly glass, and seems as if it would be fragile and easily shattered. In practice, the armor can absorb blows as well as any power armor could. The armor is almost entirely a deep, impossible black which absorbs all light and reflects none back, so that in bright places the eye is bewildered by the depth of darkness. However, the chestplate and half of the mask is instead a platinum-colored perfect mirror, reflecting with psychic clarity unmatched by any mechanically-engineered human mirror. The mask of the armor is split down the middle by a ridge, and on the left side it is a mirror while on the right, the perfect dark mask. No hint of the face beneath the mask is seen.

The armor is much more thin than human power armor, but lyke power armor is cybernetically integrated into the user’s neural system- although unlyke power armor, the lynk goes beyond mere cybernetic enhancement but indeed fuses with the user’s very soul. The armor is impossibly smooth and lack’s the seams and plates found in more primitive armor’s, instead seeming to be made entirely of one piece of glass, crystal, rock, metal, or whatever else might make up the plate.

Powers and skills Training and capabilities
 * Reflection <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'CrimsonText';color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">: The Mirror Knight’s have the psychic ability to absorb lighter energy bombardment such as lasgun fire, then reflect it back at whoever shot the attack. This ability is inneffective against explosives or solid projectiles, but when it comes to lasers and plasma this ability simultaneously shields the Knight and wrecks their burning vengeance upon those who dared to attack them.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Righteous;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hollow visage: <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'CrimsonText';color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Mirror half of the mask of the Mirror Knight’s reflects with a startling clarity unheard of in any normal mirror, because the mirror reflects the very soul of those who stare into it back at them. When a Slaaneshi champion gazes into the mirror, they see their own imperfection gazing them in the eyes. Righteous paladins see the depth of their own corruptibility, traitors see their broken oaths replaying before their eyes. But no matter what, when a foe of the knights gazes into their visage, they see only despair and the promise of the knights vengeance.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Righteous;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Warpblink: <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'CrimsonText';color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mirror Knights can teleport short distances by temporarily stabilizing a pathway through the Warp, or phasing into the Webway. While it is possible to use this ability without accessing the webway, it is far more psychically exhausting and dangerous to do so.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'CrimsonText';color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mirror Knights are elite, extremely well trained Reborn eldar. They are extremely adept at melee combat, wielding two katana’s at once with supernatural precision and skill. In addition, they are trained to some degree in manipulating their psychic abilities, and use those powers to disorient their foes and increase the lethality of their weapons. While they prefer to engage at melee, they are still incredibly skilled with their long-ranged flechet rifles, with which they are as skilled as any aspect warrior. They are comparable in strength and skill only to the most elite of space marines.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'CrimsonText';color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mirror knights rely more on finesse, dexterity, and agility than strength to fight. They are masters of redirecting, disorienting, and pinpointing weaknesses in their enemies. In a contest of pure strength they are inferior to terminator space marines, space marine veterans, or units of similar strength, but they are capable of making up with this with their immense agility. Instead of bone plates, thick muscle, enormous armor, and explosive weaponry, Mirror Knights generally possess light, slender forms reinforced with exotic crystals and barriers of psychic and mechanical nature, giving them equal strength and resilience despite their apparently light form.