LOOK UPON THE STRENGTH OF THE MACHINE 🦾⚙️
Vrooms away
“Bzzttt… our alliance must terminate here – your objectives are no longer compatible with mine.” – Quintass Delta III, Mech-Wright, The Lathes (Dark Heresy: Core Rulebook. 2010. Pg. 88)
VIOLENT VROOMING
(Feedback Screech) By muttering illogical formulae… you are able to forment rebellion within your vox synthesizers. Your audio circuits protest in a screeching blast of noise, shocking and distracting others in equal measure. All creatures… except machine-based… shudder, cover their ears or otherwise react to the horrid noise. (Dark Heresy: Core Rulebook. 2010. Pg. 115)
(Voice of the Omnissiah) … total control over the
emissions from his vox unit implants enabling him to produce blurts of
disturbing binary code… or turn his own synthesized voice into a fearful
distorted rasp. The character may produce a terrifying voice to gain +10 bonus
to all intimidate or interrogation. (Dark Heresy: Ascension. 2010. Pg.110)
The appearance of Tech-Priests can be frightening, even terror-inducing, to those who have never had contact with such beings before (Dark Heresy: Core Rulebook. 2010. Pg. 88)
The Adeptus Mechanicus can at times prove a divisive organization, for its members care little for the sensitivities of others. They engage in a faith entirely alien to the followers of the Imperial Creed, speak in a language that bears little resemblance to High Gothic or any of planetary dialect, and appear outlandish… Furthermore, the tenets of the Tech-Priests’ faith revolve around communion with and adoration of the machine, a concept many God-Emperor-fearing people find deeply, unsettling, or outright abhorrent. (Dark Heresy: Ascension. 2010. Pg.179)
the Iron Hands saw an ally
with a mirror doctrine of steel over flesh… the
Martian Priesthood would grant them unprecedented access to the sacred
mysteries of the Omnissiah, augmenting their Techmarines’ knowledge far beyond
that possessed by their counterparts in other Space Marine Legions. (Codex
Supplement: Iron Hands 8th Ed. 2018 Pg.23)
To this day the Iron Hands send a great number of their battlebrothers to Mars, where they are schooled in the mysteries of the Omnissiah to a superior degree than those of other Chapters. Though many claim that the Iron Hands are too greatly influenced by their Techmarines – and through them, Mars – it is undeniable that the Chapter’s vehicles, Dreadnoughts and warriors form some of the most finely crafted and mechanically resilient forces in the entire Imperium. (Codex: Space Marine 8th Ed 2nd Codex. 2019 pg.53)
Iron Hands speak several variants of lingua technis and shaped the
chapters belief and creed
‘There are one thousand and fourteen distinct forms of spoken Medusan, in addition to three hundred and seventy-two discontinued variations, and there is no direct translation for the word ‘chance’. This was why the majority of Medusans at the time, technologically advanced yet culturally stunted, saw the arrival of Ferrus Manus as an omen, a glimpse into the schema.’ (Voice of Mars. David Guymer, 2017. Chapter 9, Article XIII)
‘The similarities with the doctrines of Mars, the Omnissiah as architect
and caretaker, must have been striking. Many on the Martian Synod saw this
convergent cultural evolution as evidence that… the Medusans… Clan Patriarchs
had been pioneers of Martian, as opposed to Terran, extraction. It justified
the efforts to draw this new world from Terra’s embrace and into the orbit of
the Red Planet. Magos Anthropologicae studying the Medusan cultures have
posited that the universal organizer, the Omnissiah as the phenomenon is now
recognized, arose simply out of a gradual mythologization of the Clan
Patriarchs… The Great schema, built into the galactic order by the Omnissiah…’ (Voice
of Mars. David Guymer, 2017)
Lore Discussion
In the book ‘Voice of Mars’ there is a death-cult known as the ‘Endurists’ that sprung out from the beliefs of the Medusan Machine-Cult. They believe Ferrus Manus yet lives but in a different form somewhere on Medusa. This is a somewhat unique group of death-cult assassins as their fanaticism is shaped by remnant traditions of the Mechanicus, considering that the Medusans are descendants of Tech-Priest Explorators. Chapter Master Kardan Stronos met them in his youth in the ‘Land of Shadows’ on Medusa. [a]
Fascinatingly Clan Haarmek (the custodians of the ‘Gorgon’s Forge’) have been collecting the silver scales of ‘Asirnoth’ in a tradition called the ‘Silver Pilgrimage’. Where an Iron Hand Astartes journeys to the ‘Land of Shadows’ to retrieve a scale of the slain Titan of the Dark Age of Technology. [c.i][c.ii] It is unclear if Clan Haarmek has cooperated or even made contact with the ‘Endurist’ Mechanicus death-cult.
More bizarrely however, is that the Mechanicus far into the 42nd Millenium still send Explorator Fleets to Medusa, specifically to investigate the place where Ferrus slew Asirnoth. For what reason is never explained. [a]
The mysteries of Medusa are exceedingly strange that even after ten-thousand years of consistent study, the Machine-Cult and the finest Techmarines of the Iron Hands could not unravel its secrets. It is hinted Ferrus Manus discovered something on Medusa – but the secrets died with him. Clan Haarmek suspects Ferrus etched coded messages in the many STC’s housed within ‘Gorgons Forge’. The only members of the Imperium allowed access to the STC’s are the Mechanicus… [c.i] [c.ii]
Clan Haarmek clearly knows something that the other Iron Hands Clans do not… and there are CLEARLY clandestine factions within the Mechanicus working with them…
Consequently, Forgeworld Stygies VIII is known to collect strange technologies forbidden by Mars. [b.ii] There are as of yet no instances in the lore where the Iron Hands and Forgeworld Stygies VIII have been specifically stated to interact, but considering the relationship of the Iron Hands with the Machine Cult - it would be not be so far-fetched.
Mars being the seat of power of the Machine Cult, commands great reverence and respect from all quarters of the Imperium. [b.i] The Cohorts of Forgeworld Stygies VIII have been known to imitate Martians due to their crimson armor plate; by removing their black robes they could easily pass as Martian cohorts. Stygies VIII cohorts have exploited this fact and have manipulated unsuspecting Imperial allies, who are unfamiliar with Machine Cult culture, many times. [b.ii]
References:
a. Voice
of Mars. David Guymer, 2017. Chapter 18, Article I-II
b. Codex:
Adeptus Mechanicus 8th Ed. 2017
b.i
Pg. 15
b.ii
Pg. 18
c. Codex:
Iron Hands Supplement 8th Ed. 2018
c.i
Pg.16
c.ii
Pg. 9
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