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% \ \ The Mechanicum of Mars The Cult Mechanicus For thousands of years the planet of Mars has been ruled by the strange caste of tech-priests known as the Mechanicum or the Cult Mechanicus, worshippers of the mysterious Machine God. This religious sect rose to dominance on Mars during the early centuries of the Age of Strife. The entire planet became devoted to the study and manufacture of machines of every conceivable type and function. When the warp storms flared and mankind began its dreadful period of isolation, the Mechanicum had been crippled, Mars suffering the same fate as the other worlds of humanity. The red planet was sundered from its colonies, its thrall Navigators no longer able to chart a safe course through the warp. That Mars did not devolve into anarchy and chaos is testament to the will of the tech-priests and their stoic determination to put faith in their Machine God. r The Horus Heresy 141 During the Age of Strife the Mechanicum were able to send ships to the other planets in the Sol system. They concentrated their attentions on Earth, ancient seat of humanity’s power. They knew Earth harboured many secrets and that the warring barbarians of Earth would be unable to glean these and use them for themselves. So it was that the tech-priests became bitter foes of the technologically suspicious Terran tribes. For centuries they sought to plunder the Earth of its machine secrets and steal what technologies they could. They were also fixated with understanding what fate had befallen the galaxy. To this end they periodically dispatched great vessels into the warp in hope that some clues would be found. These were the Explorator Fleets of Mars. Over the centuries thousands of such expeditions left Mars, many founded new colonies that were to become the Forge Worlds, others were simply lost for all time. When the Emperor rose to power on Earth the tech-priests of Mars recognised a kindred spirit. The Emperor was to them a man of science who valued the machine and technological advancement. As word filtered back to Mars some tech-priests even began to equate the Emperor with their own Machine God in fulfilment of ancient prophesies. The Emperor forged an alliance with the Mechanicum. In return for supplying materials for his armies and building a mighty warfleet for his crusade to the stars, the Emperor promised to protect the tech-priests and respect the sovereignty of their Forge Worlds. Furthermore the Emperor gave to the service of the Mechanicum six of the Houses of the Navigators, to replace their long dead thrall Navigators, so that their ships might once again travel safely through the warp. The Mechanicum appointed an ambassador to Terra - the fabricator-general. The Emperor respectfully offered him a seat on the War Council.
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