Editing Warhammer 40,000 8th edition (section)

====[[Adeptus Mechanicus]]====
* A couple of more exotic [[Tech Priest]] titles are given away, though it's anyone's guess what the hell half of them even do. But with charming names like "Data-Predator", "Grand Parasite", and "Mechasapient", perhaps it's best that we don't know. 
* Agripinaa has adapted to the fall of Cadia by "recruiting" any nearby refugee ships to the Skitarii- turning them into servitors if they don't join willingly. 
* A handful of Tech-Priests escaped the destruction of Gryphonne IV when it became Tyranid chow, and have vowed to rebuild their Forge World elsewhere. 
* Metalica is badly besieged by the Death Guard and its allies; only the intervention of House Raven and a war-fleet from Deimos is able to push back the traitors.
* The AdMech have increasingly come into conflict with the Necrons since Cawl began work on reverse-engineering the Cadian Pylons. Their study into the strange material they have named Blackstone (hey, haven't we heard that name [[Blackstone Fortress|before]]?) has been promising so far, but the Necrons are the only ones with a large supply of the stuff and they don't want to share it. Worse, approximately half of all known Forge Worlds have turned out to be inactive Tomb Worlds that are now in the process of reawakening. 
* The Thanatar, Castellax, and Vorax Battle-Automata were mothballed after the Heresy, with more orthodox members of the AdMech believing that their machine spirits were too close to Silica Animus to be used safely.
* [[Belisarius Cawl]] originally learned much of what he knows about gene-crafting from the Emperor Himself, back when he was still helping Emps design the Black Carapace. (Well technically it wasn't him  but he absorbed the memories of the scientist who actually did it, it's complicated.) It was that expertise that helped him design the Primaris Marines, even though he has long since forgotten how he learned it in the first place.
* At least 7 Forge Worlds are lost during the Noctis Aeterna, with several others not having been heard from in some time.
** Tigrus is now a Forge World again, despite having been totally controlled by Orks for thousands of years prior. Orestes is now a Knight World. These are probably a case of GW having Alzheimer's.
* Triplex Phall, the Forge of the Eastern Frontier, managed to defeat both a Splinter Fleet of Hive Fleet Kraken and an invasion by [[Typhus]] himself. Partly because of the large amounts of archaeotech they've been hoarding that even Mars doesn't have access to.
* Remember the Moirae Schism? Turns out that among the prophecies the renegade techpriests of Moirae made were predictions about the impending appearance of the Great Rift and the return of Guilliman, which suggests that the rest of their beliefs weren't heretical after all. Oops.