Editing Aprior Sector (section)

===Research and Development===
The Apriori Adeptus Mechanicus has three major branches or departments in terms of developing technology.  Simply put, there is Applied Research, Domestic Application Development, and Military Application Development.  

For a simple example, we'll take the small headway into reverse engineering gravitic manipulation by study of the Landspeeder design.  Enough was gleaned from the merest fragment of the STC to grant the Tech Adepts to apply the anti-gravity concepts and technology they learned to other things.  This is '''Applied Research''', testing and experimenting with what they had to work with to partially recreate a forgetten technology.

'''Domestic Application Development''' is the use of the knowledge taken from Applied Research to better the lives of civilians and planetary populations in general.  The anti-grav trains running on the advanced planets in the Aprior Sector are an example of such.  They are improved and function based off of the technology gained from Applied Research and are continually developed to be more efficient.

'''Military Application Development''' for the gravitic manipulation technology can be summed up in the massive headway made into the Gravitic Accelerator Cannon and its derivatives.  The ability to fling a suitable projectile using a controlled series of gravity wells even faster than a Tau Rail Cannon is something currently being developed for widespread use in the Apriori Armed Forces.  The Grav Mass Driver is a massively downsized version of the GAC, meant for eventual use with standard infantry not unlike Pulse Rifles of the Tau, though the materials needed to make it aren't cheap, and the massive recoil means it can only be used by those in Trooper armor or better.  The biggest example of the GAC technology series would be the Harbinger.  It is a bow mounted weapon of massive proportions that takes up much of the length of a Strike Cruiser, and it fires with the force and power of Necron technology.  It currently out-ranges all Imperial space weapons and has such an extreme effective range that making it accurate for "space artillery" use is becoming an issue.  Applications like these are what may save humanity from falling in the face of encroaching enemies...