A Skitarii of Forge World Incaladion Skitarii Legions
Coloured version by my friend Douglas Wright @orbitaltaco
Typical Mechanicus Techpriests of Forge Worlds of the Untellatian Sector
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Forge World Incaladion: Home to fierce Mechanicum who fight the xenos and warp-spawned hordes that attack their world constantly Incaladion has spawned a fierce order of tech-cultists. Even without outside forces attacking their world the deadly native xenoforms that inhabit their world are challenge enough for the industrial might of the forge world, and thusly their world, unlike many forge worlds, remains verdant and annoyingly filled with life. Thus has the ritual culling of the predatory life forms become commonplace for the Mechanicus clergy, and some, as the individual picture here, take parts of them for ritual adornment with Mechanicum sigils and integration with their mechanical forms.
Forge World Romark: A world of comparative piety and submission compared to many other forge worlds, Romark is well regarded by the noble houses and Ecclesiarchy alike for being agreeable and reasonable, compared to most other factions of the Mechanicum. This tendency is born from proximity to these elements as well as deep relations between these groups going back as far as the dark days of the Age of Darkness that shrouded the sector when the hand of the traitor struck. This behaviour, however, often ostracizes them from other elements of the Mechanicus, and many hold them in contempt as traitors to the creed. The nobles and Ecclesiarchs see them as the valuable allies they are, and indeed delight in the fact that the esoteric powers of science are that much closer to their behest.
Forge World Mamark (previously Manakar): This benighted forge world seems as a city perpetually left in the dark, it’s weak star barely creating a dawn each rotation of the planet. In the dark days of the past this world was the source of great strife in the sector, sending forth hordes of fell metallic horrors in the name of the Warmaster. Long since are those days, and heavily has the world, it’s clergy, and it’s people been censured. Those captured and found lacking in moral fiber were consigned to the penal world of Vorkup, while the most resourceful found their way out of the sector to the rimward reaches, reinvented themselves as loyal techpriests, or else hid in the depths of the world, entombed in datacrypts and awaiting sympathetic or simply unwitting members of the newer generations of Mechanicum to discover them. Still to this day is Mamark’s reputation dark, and accusations of tech-heresy from Romark, nearly routine though largely unfounded.
A Martian Magos and loyal servant of the Omnissiah is being sued by his citizens after blowing a big chunk of the hive city’s budget on building a Kastelan class automata, Administratum reports say.
Atticus Filamentum, magos of Hive City 0110101, defended his decision but the Martian Brotherhood of Artificers and Architects is suing, alleging the funds were misspent: “The labour used for the robot’s creation, which was built for the Martian Defense project and referred to by Filamentum as his ‘prestige project,’ belongs to the inhabitants of the city. He blew our entire defense budget on a single automata instead of the proposed lasrifles and flak armour we were going to receive.”
In response to criticisms that the construct is a “monstrosity” and a “criminal waste of resources” the magos replied only: “Admire the Automata.”
It’s unknown exactly how much time and how many resources were spent on his metal masterpiece, but the automata stands 14-feet-tall and the Sol System’s subspace transmissions network community is quite amused by the magos’ audacity.
