Editing Omnissiah (section)

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Presumably, any sufficiently-advanced machine will be taken for the Machine God by at least some tech-priests, like a functional Man of Iron, or other Dark Age technology. They could for example worship a rediscovered ipod as a significant avatar of his machineness.

In fact, the trilogy of ''Priests of Mars'' hints that there may be a kind of entity which goes far beyond the material and warp realm, with the most advanced pieces of technology created by mankind such as the Ark Mechanicus (yes, like that one that one-shot an Eldar capital ship) being sort of avatars of this transcendental being. The fact this entity was neither Chaos nor C'tan aligned and yet could interfere both with the Warp and the Star Gods' powers in their own respective fields. Furthermore, it confirms the existence of the below-mentioned Akashic Records, and points out indirectly how Horus was allowed to access knowledge which should not have been available even for a Primarch (something which happened in the Vengeful Spirit novel). Interestingly, this entity, or entities, seems to be actively hindering the destruction of the physical universe and the complete disruption of the Immaterium, and it is pointed out that it was already old at the time mankind started inventing the basics of mechanics (the lever, for instance). McNeill never clarifies the ultimate nature of this being, yet for all intents and purposes, and given the amount of shenanigans used by the Mechanicus in the novel, it may be the Machine God. It's worth noting that what we call ''Deus Mechanicus'' is what limited human capabilities can grasp of an eternally self-evolving singularity.

Given it's power, the fact the Machine Cult is pretty much techno-pseudo-Christianity, it could be that A) The Machine Cult is actually the primary sect of a future Christianity (based on the idea that God used science to create all things and therefore science is holy and knowledge is sacred or even divine, which is actually real life Christian belief and the Church has a scientific branch for exactly that reason) and B) that the Machine God is literally God and that the Mechanicus might eventually be able to access God's power or at least turn that power to humanity's advantage. Also, the Machine God seems to be on humanity's side or at the very least sympathetic to humanity's plight.
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