Editing Omnissiah (section)

===Theory Eight: No God but the Emperor===
Unlike the rest of the deities, the Machine God has no particular representation in the form of miracles or divine figures, and doesn't appear to be any entity within the Warp. On the one hand, this would imply that tying their theology to the Emperor fulfills the need for a machine god, or that the Mechanicus are hilariously inept theologians. On the other hand, the metaphysics of 40k almost demand that there should be a Machine God for all of Z eir faith, but, as the Warp feeds on emotions rather than prayers, the AdMech's disdain for frivolous aspects like "sentiments" and "humanity" make them just about unable to make a god for themselves. First of all, the Warp ''definitely'' feeds on prayers, probably more so than emotions. For evidence, prayers to the Emperor weaken the Chaos Gods, because the Emperor has a Warp signature that is "anathema" to that of the Chaos Gods. So yes, the AdMech should definitely have manifested some kind of Warp entity for the Machine God. The lore has made it perfectly clear that worship has no effect on the Dark Gods, only emotion and various aspects of reality empowers them. People worship them because people always worship any existence perceived as above themselves. That in no way indicates that Chaos gives a damn about their worship. The argument otherwise also completely ignores the nature of the Warp and the effect faith has on it. There is no evidence that worship matters to Chaos, other than some old lore suggesting they gain sentience from it which cannot be true since they gained sentience before anyone even knew they existed, and overwhelming proof that faith affects the Warp. Perhaps by imposing order on it in the form of what is believed.

Though the emotions thing does bring up a strange debate. Magos who've had their brains sufficiently computerized are said to devote small numbers of cycles to emotion equations and engines whenever they see fit to feel an emotion. Jury's still out on whether this kind of emotion is represented in the Warp or not, because if it ''doesn't'' then it MIGHT explain why the Machine God is taking so long to form. Or maybe it is already formed, or nascent, for the same reason the Sisters of Battles can use Acts of Faith, the Canticles of the Omnissiah may just as well be "miracles" from the Warp.

Or simply believing something strongly enough in a clap your hands if you believe universe is enough to have an effect on the materium. Like Ork WAAAGH!!! but less intense due to a lack of innate psychic ability, but a noticeable force due to sheer amount of believers in the same doctrine in a far more stable way than Orks. Especially given humans have a very close spiritual connection to the Warp.

(bruh, the machine god has done "miracles" in books before)(prayer is an expression of belief fucking neckbeards, technically "prayer" just means asking and isn't restricted to religion, but in this case yes)