The Adeptus Mechanicus is the official Imperial name within the Adeptus Terra based on Mars which provides the Imperium with its scientists, engineers and technicians. for the Cult Mechanicus or Cult of the Machine.
Their Forge Worlds used to built the Imperium's most powerful and advanced weaponry and equipment. The organisation's adepts, the Tech-priests, were vital in maintaining much of the Imperium's more technologically advanced equipment, not the least of which is the God-Emperor's life-sustaining Golden Throne.
Overview[]
The tech-adepts of the Mechanicus were the primary keepers of what is viewed as sacred wisdom, a privileged caste of Tech-priests who jealously guard the knowledge required to maintain and constructed much of the Imperium's advanced technology.
In ancient times of the Fop'lla Universe, before the current Age of the Imperium officially began following the end of the Horus Heresy, it was often called the Mechanicum. The Mechanicus acknowledged the Emperor of Mankind as the ruler of the Imperium of Man, but not the religious truth of the Imperial Cult or the Ecclesiarchy. Instead, the Mechanicus follows its own dark and mysterious scriptures and worships the deity they call the Machine God or the "Omnissiah."
The Adeptus Mechanicus believes knowledge is the true manifestation of divinity in the universe, and all creatures and artefacts that embody knowledge are holy because of it. The Emperor is the supreme object of worship for Mankind, the living embodiment of the Machine God or Omnissiah, because he comprehends so much, understanding more about the true nature of reality than any other being in existence. The Adeptus Mechanicus also regard organic flesh as weak and view the removal and replacement of biological tissue with mechanical, bionic parts as sacred. Most elder Tech-priests have few organic parts left and eventually become more machine than man. The Adeptus Mechanicus is based on Warhammer Mars, the very first Forge World of the Imperium, and they are the sole rulers of the Red Planet. They provide the technical and scientific experts of the Imperium and field armies of massive Titans, Mechanicus Electro-priests, Skitarii and combat Servitors.
History[]
Early History[]
Age of Imperium[]
First Multiverse War[]
War against the Combine[]
Services to the Alliance[]
Imperial Civil War[]
The Federation[]
Organization[]
The Adeptus Mechanicus is internally organized along a feudal structure, with lesser domains owing allegiance to major Forge Worlds, who in turn have sworn fealty to the Fabricator-General of Fop'lla Mars. This feudal hierarchy extends to their military forces, with each Forge World being responsible for raising and maintaining their own forces for the service of the greater Mechanicum. Many Forge Worlds oversee their own petty empires.
Factions[]
Beliefs[]
Cult Mechanicus[]
The Cult Mechanicus first originated on Fop'lla Mars during the Age of Strife. According to its teachings, knowledge is the supreme manifestation of divinity, and all creatures and artefacts that embody knowledge are holy because of it. Machines that preserve knowledge from ancient times are also holy, and machine intelligences are no less divine than those of flesh and blood. A man's worth is only the sum of his knowledge - his body is simply an organic machine capable of preserving intellect. In the Cult's tenets, life itself is of no intrinsic value. One of the most obvious examples of this belief is the techpriests' use of humans as raw material in the creation of the machine-slaves known as servitors.
In the belief of the Cult Mechanicus, machines represent a higher form of life than that created through biological evolution. The ultimate object of the cult's veneration is known as the Machine God (or the Deus Mechanicus), which is believed to have given rise to all technologies and made them manifest through his chosen illuminati among mankind. The Machine God may be the C'tan Void Dragon, who may be the "Dragon of Mars" that has been entombed on Mars for eons and was worshipped by the Cult Mechanicus before the rise of the God-Emperor.
They are devoted to a reliegius deity known as the Machine God (also known as the Deus Mechanicus or, in its embodied form as the God-Emperor, the Omnissiah), an eminent and omnipotent spirit governing all machinery and knowledge in the universe. Generally, this deity is held to be an aspect of the God-Emperor (or, most commonly within the Cult itself, both are held to be aspects or faces of the same divine being). The Omnissiah is believed to be friendly to humanity, and to be the originator of all human technological and scientific knowledge. Subservient to the Omnissiah are the pantheistic Machine Spirits, who are believed to inhabit all machinery and which must be appeased before a piece of technology is used or repaired, lest the machinery fail.
The Cult Mechanicus await the arrival of the Omnissiah, a prophesied physical avatar of the Machine God. During the Great Crusade the forces of the Emperor liberated many of the forge worlds founded as colonies of Mars in ancient times. On his arrival at many of the worlds, the Cult Mechanicus recognised the Emperor as the long awaited Omnissiah.
The sacred number of Adeptus Mechanicus - is a 12. So each macroclade of this organization is composed of four cohorts, each consisting of three maniples (12 maniples in total).
Language[]
Lingua-technis or Techna-Lingua is the official language of the Adeptus Mechanicus and part of the collective Cant Mechanicus. It is a binary language, optimised for quick communication of technical data, which consists of a burst of static emitted through the bionic implants of members of the Mechanicum which cannot be understood by unaugmented humans.
Cant Mechanicus[]
The Cant Mechanicus is the term for the Mechanicus' collective languages. Few outside the Adeptus Mechanicus can comprehend these tongues, let alone reproduce them. Many Tech-Priests have their jaws and throats altered, the better to speak languages that were designed only for cogitators to use. Furthermore, each language is replete with internal self-references and allusions to knowledge that remains unknown to those outside the order. Their use is forbidden by any not of the Cult Mechanicus. A lot of these languages have words and even entire grammatical structures missing, eroded by the entropy of millennia or corrupted by scrapcode
Technology[]
STC templates[]
Standard template construction (STC) are given to rare weapons and vehicles used by the Imperium of man, while many can only be be produced on certain Forge worlds over the course of the first multiverse war many new alien technologies from more advanced races and many of the POL universe weapons were extensively recorded and immediately put under production, some STCs have either been stolen or asked although the Adeptus Mechanicus doesn't care what costs it takes to acquire this technology. While some of the newer STCs have been lost in large data vaults never to be seem again a vast majority of other STCS have been widely produced along with many POL universe weaponry and vehicles. Many of these STCs have kept the technological stagnant Imperium of man alive and had in fact help the Imperium of man research new tech allowing the Adeptus Mehanicus to turn the wheels of progress yet again.