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The Combat Augment Array was an advanced archeotech relic of the Dark Age of Technology employed by both Imperial and Traitor forces during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy eras.

It was posited by Imperial savants that this device was once used to transform entire planetary populations into killing machines at a single command, enabling simple colonists to become unstoppable super-soldiers during the incessant wars fought long before the rise of the Imperium of Man.

Though dangerous to use due to the array's invasive manipulation of neural pathways, adrenal glands and musculature, extant examples command a high price indeed, though many regard their use as dishonourable or foolhardy.

History

The Great Crusade came in the wake of the Age of Strife, a long and terrible era during which Mankind unleashed and was laid low by weapons of star-razing destructive power and genocidal scope, many born during the preceding Age of Technology.

When the Emperor's crusading forces pushed back the darkness that had fallen upon the worlds of Mankind, evidence of the ancient and terrible artefacts were found and studied by the tech-savants of the Mechanicum, who coveted them greatly.

Occasionally, one of these examples of ancient archaeotech would be recovered and taken up by the heroes of the Great Crusade itself, becoming a potent relic, its name and legend as widespread and celebrated as the Crusaders who bore it into battle.

As the Great Crusade continued ever onwards, multiple examples of some types of relic were encountered and great effort was committed to cataloguing their class, understanding their nature and replicating their function. Often the Mechanicum could fathom the basic technology underpinning a relic, but could not create a functioning copy.

Nonetheless, the effort to decode the ancient technological foundation of such artefacts continued, with other discoveries made in the process expanding the canon of the Machine God exponentially.

Sources

The Horus Heresy - Book Four: Conquest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 223

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 Though dangerous to use due to the array's invasive manipulation of neural pathways, adrenal glands and musculature, extant examples command a high price indeed, though many regard their use as dishonourable or foolhardy.
+==History==
+The Great Crusade came in the wake of the [[Age of Strife]], a long and terrible era during which Mankind unleashed and was laid low by weapons of star-razing destructive power and genocidal scope, many born during the preceding [[Age of Technology]].
+When the [[Emperor]]'s crusading forces pushed back the darkness that had fallen upon the worlds of Mankind, evidence of the ancient and terrible artefacts were found and studied by the tech-savants of the Mechanicum, who coveted them greatly.
+Occasionally, one of these examples of ancient archaeotech would be recovered and taken up by the heroes of the Great Crusade itself, becoming a potent relic, its name and legend as widespread and celebrated as the Crusaders who bore it into battle.
+As the Great Crusade continued ever onwards, multiple examples of some types of relic were encountered and great effort was committed to cataloguing their class, understanding their nature and replicating their function. Often the Mechanicum could fathom the basic technology underpinning a relic, but could not create a functioning copy.
+Nonetheless, the effort to decode the ancient technological foundation of such artefacts continued, with other discoveries made in the process expanding the canon of the [[Machine God]] exponentially.
 ==Sources==