+++The Adeptus Mechanicus+++Mars is the planetary realm of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Home and Domain of the Tech priests of the cult mechanicus. The red planet is acclaomed as one of the wonders of the Galacy, the Workshop of the imperium, the forge world, the maker of ships, and the guardian of secrets. It is the Adeptus Mechanicus who furnish the tecnical knowledge of the Imperium, preserve the scientific secrets of former times, and who explore the new sciences of the 41st millenium.
The Cult MechanicusThe Cult mechanicus, or cult of the machine, acknowledges the Emperor as Master of Mankind but Does not recognis the authority of the Imperial cult or the Ecclesiarcy. Instead the Adeptus Mechanicus follows its own dark and mysterios strictures. According to the adeptus Mechanicus, knowledge is the supreme manefestation of dvinity, and all creatures and artifacts that embody knowledge are holy becasue of it. The Emperor is the supreme object of worship because he comprehends so much. Machines which preserve knowledge from ancient timnes are also holy , and machine intelligences are no less divine than those of fleash and blood. a mans worth is only the sum of his knowledge - his body is simply an organic machine capible pff preserving intellect. The Adeptus Mechanicus controlls the entire governmental, industrial and relicious affairs of Mars. In its broadist terms , the population is divided into two parts . The Greater mass of martians are worker slaves called servitors. Servitors are not really fully human, but half man, half machine creatures whose minds have been partially programmed to perform specific duties. The servitors are slaves to the ruling priesthood of tech priests who form a heirarchy of technicians, scientists, and religious leaders. Tech priests provide the Imperium with its engineers and technical experts.
Fabricator General The Leader of the Adeptus Mechanicus is the Fabricator General of Mars. He is a High Lord of Terra and also the head of the Cult mechanicus in his capacity as the magos mechanicus. Magos The Magos is the master of technological achievement. There are many divisions such as Magos Technicus, Magos Metallugicus, Magos Alchemys, Magos Physic, Magos Biologis, etc... Logis The Logis is the logistician, an analist and a statistician. His puyrpose is to predict future trends and make forcasts about expediture and needs. They are regarded as prophetic figures. Genetor Genetors are Genetic Scientists. They are very common amongst the Adeptus Mechanicus and often accompany Imperial Forces incvolved in the Exploration of new worlds. Artisan Artisans or Constructors , design machines, buildings, space craft, weapons and military hardware. They controll the vast labour force of the servitors. Electro Priest The Electro Priests are the fanatical cult warriors of the Adeptus Mechanicus. They travel on boadr spacecraft and support th tech priest warriors in battle. The Electro Priest turns himself into a crackling fount of electrical energy, destroying everything he touches before he collapses from the strain. Engineers Engineers are highly trained agents of the cult Mechanicus and they are often assigned to duties in the Imperial Guard or other parts of Adeptus Terra Rune Priest The Rune Priest scribes runes and chants liturgies over machines as part of the Cult ritual of initiation. He is trained in the arcane branches of scientific lore such as intuitive mechanics, speculation, , and improvisation. They are famous for their lateral thinking, which may be called upon when strict logic and standard procedures fail. Transmechanic These are Technicians or service engineers who specialise in communications tecnology. Like the engineers, they are often assaigned duties in other Imperial Orginisations. Leximechanic Their purpose is to compile and rationalise dat so it can be entered into a centeral computer repostitory. They can work with computer speed and accuracy, assebling battlefield reports, economic statistics , planetary reports, and so forth, they mat be assigned duties throughout the Adeptus Terra. Servitors Servitors are mindless slave machines of living flesh and metal creatures with no individual mind who obey their programming without question. Servitors make up a huge bulk of the Martian population, there are many kinds from heavy minig cyborgs to holomats (holographic recorders). The most severe punishment for a criminal is to be turned int a seritor: mind wiped and reprogrammed to perform some rudimetary function. Ex wrongdoers wear a brass plaque round their necks proclaiming their crime as a warning to all who would cross the tech priests of mars.
MarsThe planet Mars has changed enormously since man first set foot upon its barren and arid surface. In the earley 22nd century it became the first planet to be terraformed. It was given an atmosphere and its deserts were turned to fertile soil. However agriculture was never very impotant to Mars - its main source of wealth lay below its surface in the form of gems minerals and metal ores. Once terraformed, mars was settled by industrial cartels and their workforces, and soon becam the first hive world. Mars became a centre for industrial production and reserch, and its very name has became synonymous with technical expertise and scientific advancement. Mars became the hub for further space exploration throughout the solar system. Today Mars has evolved into the workshop of the Adeptus. its factory hives produce the bulk of alltechnical equipment used by the Imperium. Space craft and other large specialised constructs are fabricated in orbital factories that spin around the equatorial belt. Ships of the warfleet Solar are based in these huge floating docks, and other craft from all over the imperium visit what are the largest man madd objects in the entire galaxy. As the first hives ever built, the marian factoy hives are ancient and all are at least partially ruinious. Some areas are well maintained, and there are many new areas of building. area that are no longer used are simply left to rot. A journey through the internal travel tubes would take a person from extremes of new construction to ancient industrial wastes. The travel lines weave between shining new building piles with their nets of steel bracing like rigging of a sailing ship, passing into older darker zones where briken condensation traps spill their vapourous contents and enmesh speedindg tube liners in a perpetual fog. Wastelands cover vast parts of the cities , deserts of broken plasteel slabs and twisted girders, with the occaisional solitary tower pointing puposelessly towards the pink maritian sky.
The Titan LegionsMars endured long centuries of isolation whila anarchy tore at the anciant world of earth. When the Emperor drew mars back into the fold of the united Imperium, it had long since become a society very different to that of Earth's. One of the most impotant and enduring differences was the development of huge fighting machines known as Titans. These vast constructions were unlike anything ever seen on Earth, massive humaniod shaped weapons of destruction powered by fission reactors and bristling with mighty cannons. On a world as barren as Mars the titans coulsd stride effortlessly over the hostile landscape where mere troopers would be engulfed in the poisenous wastes of the choking dust of the Martian deserts. A titan is a gargantuan land-battleship powered by advanced technology. Its armored carapace is capable of withstand ing heavy damage whilst its armaments can level whol cities. The titans are one of the most potent weapons in the arsenal of the Imperium. Within each Titan a crew of dozens or even hundereds, of individuals scrurry about thier tasks, propelling, refeuling and maintaining the giant machine, manning its mighty weapons and guiding it over the battle field. The Crew of a Titan When the Emperor led mankind on the Great Crusade the Tian Legions of the Adeptus Mechanicus marched alongside he Space Marines. As the Imperium Expande the Adeptus mechanicus took many worlds for themselves, planets which they settled and turned into mechanicus forge worlds. These became bases for the Titan Legions throughout the galaxy, so that today the Titan Legions are spread throughout the Imperium, where they defend the scattered forge worlds of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
The Quest For KnowledgeThe adeptus Mechanicus is driven by the quest for knowledge. This quest takes many forms, including reserch and exploratio, but the ultimate embodiment is the search for the ancient STC systems. STC systems were created during the scientific high point of Dark Age of Technology. During this time thousands of human colonies were founded on distant worlds. Many of these colonies failed to survive, some were lost, and of those that survived most only achieved a subsistence level economy. Yet almost all of these colonies managed to retain a high level of tech nology thanks to a hhuge base of computerised imformation carried from Earth. This massive computerised databank was known as the Standard Template Construct (STC) system. The STCs are often said to embody the sum total of human knowledge. This is probably true as far as technological accomplishment goes . Although most colonists required little more than designs for agricultural machiiinery, programs were included for all sorts of advanced constructions such as nucleur power grids and fission reactors. however , the earley colonists's needs were simple and were met by conventional energy forms and relitivly low level technology. Today there are no known surviving STC systems, and only a very few examples of first generatio print - out On some worlds information about the ancient STC is regarded as holy and design copies are guarded as secret and sacred texts, housed in the inner sanctums of temples. For thousands of years the Adeptus Mechanicus has pursued all information about STC . It iks their lost bible, holy grail and cup of knowledge. Any scrap of information is eagerly sought out and jealously hoarded. Any rumor of a functional system is followed up and investigated. By their efforts much information has been retrieved or can be reconstructed by the vigourous analysis and comparison of copies. Yet the most technically - advanced knowledge eludes the Adeptus Mechanicus, for the early colonists were mostly simple folk whose needs were practical. Only rarely did anyone bother to take copies of the theoretical and advanced work which the STC contained.
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