Editing Venaro sector (section)

===Overview===
The Sidonic techpriests operate from Sidon, a derelict hull of ironclad design which drifted towards a Lagrangian Point between Celberian III and its moon, during the Dark Age of Technology. A mechanicus explorator fleet sailing from Temaxia in the 32th millenium found it. They were forced to settle after learning their forge-world of origin was razed by [[Orks]]. Sidon and the fleet’s forge-ark were merged into a  Mechanicus Forge-Temple. Nearby asteroids and comets were towed and integrated into it, providing raw materials for repair and growth. A web of maglev tracks, macrofilaments and mine shafts extend from and under the main facility, connecting bunker habitats, vault-forges and ore processing stations spread throughout several half-consumed and interconnected asteroids. Over the millenia, Sidon grew into a shipyard which supplied the nascent sector fleet with ships in the ancient Ironclad patterns, due to the local discharges of the Celbrian sun requiring thick ceramite shielding, as well as interacting violently with Void Shields. It has also built some defense monitors and their own Classiarii macroclades for self-defense. Their current leader is the Forge Lord Balthazar-915Y4865X.

The harsh context forced these techpriests to salvage, reprocess and recondition whatever they could, becoming so proficient at it that they developed a smaller molecular bonding stud. It is weaker, but useful in all sorts of minor repairs. It has become a signature of sidonic craftsmanship throughout the sector. Some outsider techpriests think that this device is used too often, and that sidonics should spend more efforts in painstakingly restorating the original design gleaned from STC templates. Said tech-priests could act according to their thoughts, if there wasn't a space marine chapter nearby. The Forge-Temple’s higher number of Reclaimators and the regular coming of Rogue Traders led to a healthy black market.

Sidon is willing to use its archeotech repair systems in exchange for specific resources such as the manpower abundant in the Imperium yet sparse in the sector. The local mechanicus have an near-exclusive expertise in plasma engines, refitting hulls into ironclad configurations and maintaining them. Only a few Rogue Traders, the Imperial Navy and the Predators chapter are worthy or wealthy                 enough to have the "Sidonic Protocols" that allow one to approach and enter the shipyard without being targeted by the kill-sats’ lasers.

The Lagrangian Point also had the remains of a Void Kraken which tried to consume the forge-temple in M34, slain after being baited by a Fire Ship. It has been hollowed in search for unique silicon compounds. The corpse now houses a minor Genetor temple. The main priest, Metasurgeon Utica-67092376G, went as far as installing thrusters on its body. The remaining tentacles also suffered macro-surgery, having               giant mechadendrites installed on the inside. This mobile temple now serves as the flagship of the mining barques, bringing more asteroids and comets from within the Celberian system. The novelty of it all has brought some prestige to the biological arts, with some techpriests going as far as whispering that the “Void Kraken’s flesh isn’t weak”. Utica-67092376G seeks to acquire megatonnes of organic material so he might clone and develop his own tamed Void-Kraken.

The powerful plasmoids from the Celberian sun’s unstable magnetosphere influence many to join the Electromagnetic Mysteries, cults of the Electro-priests. They build small craft with powerful heat-shields to gaze the sun as close as possible. Some of them believe there is meaning in the complex energies of the Celberian sun, perhaps even a message from the Motive Force itself. The other mechanicum sects see only a dangerous disturbance to their constant activity in the void of space.

The sheer hostility of cold vacuum and lack of human resources at the beginning made the local tech-priests protective of its inferiors, providing companies of void-hardened adsecularis miners with medicae servitors and employing automated systems whenever possible. The       seams of minerals, tholins and volatiles such as frozen carbon are mapped out by swarms of earthworm-like C.A.T.s communicating through tectonic waves. Even so, the sidonics disdain battle-automata, considering cyborgs and servitors more reliable and flexible.

Their macroclades and tech-thralls are vac-sealed and have mag-spikes on their feet. These enhancements carried over from their origins as a Classiarii force from the original Explorator Fleet. A controversial trait is not using the traditional robes, prefering to paint their augmetics and war plate in space-dark and crimson-red.

Besides the ironclad-pattern ships, Sidon has some unique creations: 
*The lacraia-pattern servitor, whose jaw-drills are equally effective against rock and armour. Its body is based on centipedes, having many pairs of spiked legs for easy locomotion in the surface, as well as the underground, of asteroids. Many were repurposed into machines of war, as effective as any combat servitors.
*Sat-skulls are disposable sensor-servitors, each equipped with small anti-grav plates and solar wing-sails of woven carbon. Hundreds of them are deployed around the volatile Celberian sun. Their function is to analyze and monitor the Plasma Storms raging on the sun’s magnetosphere, providing early warning about dangerous Plasma Winds, Jammer Storms and Macrolightining Strikes, phenomena capable of destroying whole cruisers.
*Their main food supply comes from dark radiotrophic fungus grown on cooling chambers around their atomantic reactors. The combination of radiation and water creates vast hydroponic jungles of plankton-like fungus. Originally a nuisance to the machines, it was filtered and discarded until a Biologis techpriest ascertained how to process it into nutritive gruel. Menials and servitors alike are fed this "black soup" directly into their stomachs, preventing them from wasting it due to the foul taste.