An Ambulator Frame is a medical exoskeleton that uses irreplaceable relic technology dating back to the Dark Age of Technology to counteract the infirmities of old age even after multiple rejuvenat treatments have run their course. These precious relics are only found amongst the most powerful and senior members of the Imperium of Man's ruling elite as they not only continue to keep their wearer alive, but the ambulator provides protections and enhanced physical strength comparable to that provided by Adeptus Astartes Artificer Armour.
Most Ambulator Frames also include batteries of stimulants, drugs or other medicines that can keep their wearer alive even after having suffered the most horrific of wounds as later illustrated by the legendary resilience of Inquisitor Commodus Voke.
Among the most famous users of an Ambulator Frame was Lord Marshal Ireton MaSade of the Agathean cohorts of the Solar Auxilia who fought during the Horus Herest at the Liberation of Numinal.
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- The Horus Heresy Book Four: Conquest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 257