However, lacking the genetically-engineered subdermal Space Marine organ known as the Black Carapace, Inquisitors are unable to neurologically interface with the armour, and generally find its bulk much more cumbersome than a Space Marine does. Notably, members of the Ordo Malleus in particular have been known to favour suits of Terminator Armour. Less frequently, high-ranking members of the Inquisition have been known to wear a form of Terminator Armour sized for an ordinary human occupant. Lacking a better word, Terminator-sized armour for humans is often called Terminator Armour. Tactical Dreadnought Armour is Astartes-only. Hector Rex is a special case wherein a human was subject to genetic enhancement until he was the same size as an Astartes, and as such wears a Terminator-sized suit of armour (it is listed as Artificer Armour). Humans can wear several different marks of power armour, but they are all specifically designed for humans to use - this includes special sets of Terminator-like Armour. This suit could be explained by something similar - a highly exotic suit of armour that is only partially worn with complex functions controlled by the wearer without 1:1 input. In effect, you could hack off the arms and the lower legs of a Centurion suit and not injure the wearer at all because their body isn't even there. The suit's upper function are controlled using a control panel in front of the wearer - the wearer's arms are in the chest, controlling the suit's functions.

The legs of a power-armoured Space Marine only reach the Centurion suit's thighs and the arms would be far too tiny to stretch that far. One of GW's design videos for the Centurion Warsuit explained that the Centurion Warsuit is too large for even an Astartes to 'wear'. Suits of armour exist in the 40K universe that are not so much 'worn' but 'driven'. Humans wearing power armour get less mobility out of it compared to Astartes due to the lack of physical conditioning and black carapace - that's what made Sisters of Battle T3 I3 rather than T3 I4, but they can use power armour.Īs far as the problem of the wearer being tiny, this can also be explained away.

Malleus Inquisitors in particular have been using terminator armour since forever. I am putting this here rather than in one of the sub-forums, because I will be posting vehicles, battle armor, and other types of units all in this thread.

Warhammer 40k terminator armor