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This is Game Theory. Today we're talking the Adeptus Mechanicus, the tech priests of Mars.

The Machine God's Chosen

• The Adeptus Mechanicus believes knowledge is divine and the machine spirit inhabits all technology
• They replace their flesh with cybernetic augmentations, becoming more machine than human
• Every piece of recovered technology is a holy relic, a fragment of the Omnissiah's knowledge

Forge Worlds and Hierarchy

• Mars hosts massive cathedral-factories manufacturing everything from lasguns to Titans
• Skitarii soldiers with fear and pain surgically removed march with mechanical precision
• Tech-Priests specialize in different aspects: Genetors, Artisans, and Magi
• The Fabricator-General of Mars sits on the High Lords of Terra

The Quest for Knowledge

• The Mechanicus hoards knowledge obsessively, going to war over single STC fragments
• They don't innovate—they rediscover lost technology from the Dark Age
• Their relationship with the Imperium is complex, worshiping the Emperor as the Omnissiah

Weapons and Technology

• Plasma weapons, Volkite disintegrators, and conversion beamers
• Titans: Warlord, Reaver, and Imperator-class walking cathedrals
• Different forge worlds have different specializations and interpretations

Light and Dark

• Some tech priests fall to Chaos, becoming the Dark Mechanicum
• They create daemon engines, fusing machine and warp-spawn
• On tabletop: incredible shooting, tough infantry, unique units like Kastelan robots

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