Editing Occurrence Border Random Encounters (section)

===Possessed Equipment===
All things being equal, Daemons would really prefer to possess a powerful Psyker whose will they catch in an offguard moment. Failing that, a human or other sapient will do, and if it's really desperate and a bit degenerate, a corpse.

Then there's the ones that are just stupid, ultimately desperate, blind, or otherwise idiotic. Anyone who's ever complained about machinery or equipment which isn't doing what they expect it to do likely says it is possessed.

Those who have flown on the Occurrence Border, however, will not make such claims regarding equipment that is merely failing to perform the way they want it to perform, for the simple fact that they probably have seen literally possessed equipment. It's a strange quirk of the Occurrence Border that sometimes Daemons can actually possess machines and components aboard, though thankfully none of the biggest and most critical systems. You will hopefully never hear the phrase "A Daemon's possessed the forward lance battery" shouted in a panicked tone of voice.

Far more likely is "Oh, Throne, there's another damn daemon in air vent forty seven, making it glow and shoot purple sparks and spin backwards. Someone call the Confessor to kick the damn thing out before it starts an electrical fire!"

Such possessions are typically annoying, as Daemons have little concept of what they're possessing when they stoop to possessing a machine. They can be quite dangerous, if something big like a lift or gantry crane gets possessed, or a door which cunningly waits for someone to tread through it so as to slam down and grind the poor soul into grox-burgers, but far more often than not, it will be something entirely non-critical that gets possessed, leaving the daemon wondering what the hell it's possessed and what its capabilities are. Really, it's kind of just awkward and embarrassing all around when a Daemon possesses a light switch and spends all of its short time in control of the switch frantically flipping it up and down, unable to perceive the light it is causing to switch off and on.