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	The Adeptus Mechanicus, whose individual members are known as [[Techpriest]]s, own dozens, maybe hundreds of heavily polluted planet-factories known as [[Forge World#Planet\|forge worlds]], which are covered in massive manufactoria or, as they are known to speakers of Low Gothic, 'work'. The largest forge world of the Adeptus Mechanicus is its homeworld [[Mars]], on which the most badass weapons ever known to man are made, most of which they refuse to share. Despite being part of the Imperium, the AdMech was actually its own nation and a respectable superpower in its own right throughout the Great Crusade and largely is to this day. The 'being-part-of-the-Imperium' shtick was a symbolic gesture of goodwill signed by the Treaty of Mars, but was codified when they became the "Adeptus Mechanicus" after their former leader fell to Chaos. They still secured quasi-independence and private property rights though, courtesy of [[Awesome\|marching an Imperator titan into the senate chamber and holding them at building-sized gunpoint]].		The Adeptus Mechanicus, whose individual members are known as [[Techpriest]]s, own dozens, maybe hundreds of heavily polluted planet-factories known as [[Forge World#Planet\|forge worlds]], which are covered in massive manufactoria or, as they are known to speakers of Low Gothic, 'work'. The largest forge world of the Adeptus Mechanicus is its homeworld [[Mars]], on which the most badass weapons ever known to man are made, most of which they refuse to share. Despite being part of the Imperium, the AdMech was actually its own nation and a respectable superpower in its own right throughout the Great Crusade and largely is to this day. The 'being-part-of-the-Imperium' shtick was a symbolic gesture of goodwill signed by the Treaty of Mars, but was codified when they became the "Adeptus Mechanicus" after their former leader fell to Chaos. They still secured quasi-independence and private property rights though, courtesy of [[Awesome\|marching an Imperator titan into the senate chamber and holding them at building-sized gunpoint]].

	The Adeptus Mechanicus is basically the definition of a Zaibatsu (Mega-Corporation, i.e. a [[Monopoly]]). Imagine Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Amazon combined; they are simply so rich and powerful, and have totally privatized the production and manufacturing of technology for themselves, that they can basically buy the government and its politicians. The Imperium as a whole may despise the AdMech for being Heretics who [[Void Dragon\|worship a foreign materialist God]], but they have private claim to all the various Forgeworlds, Manufactoria, Mining worlds and Research Stations needed for the production of Imperial war machines. Where else can you even buy a new cellphone or have repair maintenance for your servitors, if not your local Techpriest? Because of this privatized monopoly, the AdMech has become an Empire within an Empire, and can ''possibly'' survive without the Imperium, while the Imperium cannot survive without the AdMech.		The Adeptus Mechanicus is basically the definition of a Zaibatsu (Mega-Corporation, i.e. a [[Monopoly]]). Imagine Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Amazon combined; they are simply so rich and powerful, and have totally privatized the production and manufacturing of technology for themselves, that they can basically buy the government and its politicians. The Imperium as a whole may despise the AdMech for being Heretics who [[Void Dragon\|worship a foreign materialist God]], but they have private claim to all the various Forgeworlds, Manufactoria, Mining worlds and Research Stations needed for the production of Imperial war machines. Where else can you even buy a new cellphone or have repair maintenance for your servitors, if not your local Techpriest? Because of this privatized monopoly, the AdMech has become an Empire within an Empire, and can ''possibly'' survive without the Imperium, while the Imperium cannot survive without the AdMech. Well, more like the Ecclesiarchy despises them as religious rivals. The average Imperial is just creeped out, but appreciates the tech support and cool toys.

			Doesn't hurt that the Mechanicus, aside from Forge Worlds and space assets, also has immense influence/control of Industrial Worlds (which are basically any world that has given the Mechanicus government influence/control in exchange for the good shit), its own Knight Worlds (and arguably has Imperial Knight Worlds by the balls). If they left the Imperium, the Imperium wouldn't really have much in the way of useful planets left. Feral, Feudal, Pleasure worlds, probably only the least advanced Civilized Worlds. The rest, especially Hive Worlds and the Agri Worlds who sell all their crops to said Hive Worlds and so depend on them, would stay with the Mechanicus.

	They have a monopoly on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TvN5lCVkRk all the really cool shit for themselves] (aside from the overpowered DAOT artifacts in the Emperor’s basement) — like [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)\|Titans]], [[Ordinatus]], and other wonderful stuff — only letting the Imperials have it when absolutely necessary or if they're threatened personally, with the justification of keeping the good shit away from [[Chaos]] in case an army rebels. They have two armies of their own, which are not anything like the [[Imperial Guard]], as they are mostly composed of badass angry technogrunge cyborgs that are more violent than ED209, [[Servitor\|lobotomized minions]] manufactured out of clones and heretics, and [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)\|giant, world-devastating Super Robots]]. They are also technological rivals with the [[Tau\|space weeaboos with transforming mecha]] (at least in tech that doesn’t assrape the laws of physics) and potentially have made a few advances beyond the [[Eldar]], though the Eldar are much more advanced in psionic technology (so much so that Craftworld technology is basically literal space magic).		They have a monopoly on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TvN5lCVkRk all the really cool shit for themselves] (aside from the overpowered DAOT artifacts in the Emperor’s basement) — like [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)\|Titans]], [[Ordinatus]], and other wonderful stuff — only letting the Imperials have it when absolutely necessary or if they're threatened personally, with the justification of keeping the good shit away from [[Chaos]] in case an army rebels. They have two armies of their own, which are not anything like the [[Imperial Guard]], as they are mostly composed of badass angry technogrunge cyborgs that are more violent than ED209, [[Servitor\|lobotomized minions]] manufactured out of clones and heretics, and [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)\|giant, world-devastating Super Robots]]. They are also technological rivals with the [[Tau\|space weeaboos with transforming mecha]] (at least in tech that doesn’t assrape the laws of physics) and potentially have made a few advances beyond the [[Eldar]], though the Eldar are much more advanced in psionic technology (so much so that Craftworld technology is basically literal space magic).

	Only the [[Necrons]] (being an entire race of robots, whose race-wide robotization was not their most advanced feat) and the [[Leagues of Votann]] (an entire race of [[Dark Age of Technology\|DAOT-tier]] [[Dwarf\|Dorfs]]) eclipse them technologically on all levels. The Adeptus Mechanicus are conflicted on how to perceive the Necrons; some see them as perverse because it's alien, some are envious of the Necrons, others revere them as agents of the Machine-God and tend to kill themselves attempting to [[Looted\|loot]] Necron tombs (though [[Void Dragon\|there may be truth to this]]).		Only the [[Necrons]] (being an entire race of robots, whose race-wide robotization was not their most advanced feat) and the [[Leagues of Votann]] (an entire race of [[Dark Age of Technology\|DAOT-tier]] [[Dwarf\|Dorfs]]) eclipse them technologically on all levels (though, for the Leagues, it's more like in general, mass-produced technology rather than their highest capabilities). The Adeptus Mechanicus are conflicted on how to perceive the Necrons; some see them as perverse because it's alien, some are envious of the Necrons, others revere them as agents of the Machine-God and tend to kill themselves attempting to [[Looted\|loot]] Necron tombs (though [[Void Dragon\|there may be truth to this]]).

	They typically look like a cross between [[Star Wars\|Jawas]] and [[/co/\|Doctor Octopus]] with a healthy dose of [[Dune\|The Bene Tleilax]], as well as wearing the sort of re-breather masks that you'll typically see on riot police. Take the post-apocalyptic monks in 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', motivations, demeanor and agenda included, and crank them up to eleven. So yeah, pretty fucking [[Awesome\|awesome]].		They typically look like a cross between [[Star Wars\|Jawas]] and [[/co/\|Doctor Octopus]] with a healthy dose of [[Dune\|The Bene Tleilax]], as well as wearing the sort of re-breather masks that you'll typically see on riot police. Take the post-apocalyptic monks in 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', motivations, demeanor and agenda included, and crank them up to eleven. So yeah, pretty fucking [[Awesome\|awesome]].

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	All-in-all, if you had to join a 40K faction, you'd want to join the Mechanicus. You don't even have to get augmetics or you can make them indistinguishable from human parts or implant ports on your body or a suit or something to interface with what would otherwise be implants or whatever. And in exchange you have the best protection, and clout, in the galaxy. Especially if they aren't so much "forgetting" tech as choosing to slowly withdraw from the Imperium. Oh, and they'll make you functionally immortal and your first (and standard no matter sect) alteration upon joining is replacing your blood with a substitute that increases your life span apparently by centuries or so. If the body-horror stuff in the form of [[servitors]] and [[Servo-skull#Cherubim\|cherubs]] and so on bothers you, don't worry, it's only because of the Imperium's restrictions on computers. Surely the Mechanicus wouldn't be stupid enough to make independent AI instead of just complex cogitators...right?		All-in-all, if you had to join a 40K faction, you'd want to join the Mechanicus. You don't even have to get augmetics or you can make them indistinguishable from human parts or implant ports on your body or a suit or something to interface with what would otherwise be implants or whatever. And in exchange you have the best protection, and clout, in the galaxy. Especially if they aren't so much "forgetting" tech as choosing to slowly withdraw from the Imperium. Oh, and they'll make you functionally immortal and your first (and standard no matter sect) alteration upon joining is replacing your blood with a substitute that increases your life span apparently by centuries or so. If the body-horror stuff in the form of [[servitors]] and [[Servo-skull#Cherubim\|cherubs]] and so on bothers you, don't worry, it's only because of the Imperium's restrictions on computers. Surely the Mechanicus wouldn't be stupid enough to make independent AI instead of just complex cogitators...right?

	~~Its symbol looks like a yin-yang sign.~~

	==The Commandments of the Mechanicus==		==The Commandments of the Mechanicus==

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	All-in-all, if you had to join a 40K faction, you'd want to join the Mechanicus. You don't even have to get augmetics or you can make them indistinguishable from human parts or implant ports on your body or a suit or something to interface with what would otherwise be implants or whatever. And in exchange you have the best protection, and clout, in the galaxy. Especially if they aren't so much "forgetting" tech as choosing to slowly withdraw from the Imperium. Oh, and they'll make you functionally immortal and your first (and standard no matter sect) alteration upon joining is replacing your blood with a substitute that increases your life span apparently by centuries or so. If the body-horror stuff in the form of [[servitors]] and [[Servo-skull#Cherubim\|cherubs]] and so on bothers you, don't worry, it's only because of the Imperium's restrictions on computers. Surely the Mechanicus wouldn't be stupid enough to make independent AI instead of just complex cogitators...right?		All-in-all, if you had to join a 40K faction, you'd want to join the Mechanicus. You don't even have to get augmetics or you can make them indistinguishable from human parts or implant ports on your body or a suit or something to interface with what would otherwise be implants or whatever. And in exchange you have the best protection, and clout, in the galaxy. Especially if they aren't so much "forgetting" tech as choosing to slowly withdraw from the Imperium. Oh, and they'll make you functionally immortal and your first (and standard no matter sect) alteration upon joining is replacing your blood with a substitute that increases your life span apparently by centuries or so. If the body-horror stuff in the form of [[servitors]] and [[Servo-skull#Cherubim\|cherubs]] and so on bothers you, don't worry, it's only because of the Imperium's restrictions on computers. Surely the Mechanicus wouldn't be stupid enough to make independent AI instead of just complex cogitators...right?

	~~It’s~~ symbol looks like a yin-yang sign.		Its symbol looks like a yin-yang sign.

	==The Commandments of the Mechanicus==		==The Commandments of the Mechanicus==

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	All-in-all, if you had to join a 40K faction, you'd want to join the Mechanicus. You don't even have to get augmetics or you can make them indistinguishable from human parts or implant ports on your body or a suit or something to interface with what would otherwise be implants or whatever. And in exchange you have the best protection, and clout, in the galaxy. Especially if they aren't so much "forgetting" tech as choosing to slowly withdraw from the Imperium. Oh, and they'll make you functionally immortal and your first (and standard no matter sect) alteration upon joining is replacing your blood with a substitute that increases your life span apparently by centuries or so. If the body-horror stuff in the form of [[servitors]] and [[Servo-skull#Cherubim\|cherubs]] and so on bothers you, don't worry, it's only because of the Imperium's restrictions on computers. Surely the Mechanicus wouldn't be stupid enough to make independent AI instead of just complex cogitators...right?		All-in-all, if you had to join a 40K faction, you'd want to join the Mechanicus. You don't even have to get augmetics or you can make them indistinguishable from human parts or implant ports on your body or a suit or something to interface with what would otherwise be implants or whatever. And in exchange you have the best protection, and clout, in the galaxy. Especially if they aren't so much "forgetting" tech as choosing to slowly withdraw from the Imperium. Oh, and they'll make you functionally immortal and your first (and standard no matter sect) alteration upon joining is replacing your blood with a substitute that increases your life span apparently by centuries or so. If the body-horror stuff in the form of [[servitors]] and [[Servo-skull#Cherubim\|cherubs]] and so on bothers you, don't worry, it's only because of the Imperium's restrictions on computers. Surely the Mechanicus wouldn't be stupid enough to make independent AI instead of just complex cogitators...right?

			It’s symbol looks like a yin-yang sign.

	==The Commandments of the Mechanicus==		==The Commandments of the Mechanicus==

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	The Imperium isn't grim because things suck by choice and could be fine if a sensible person came along. That sensible person wouldn't survive fifty seconds of the reality. The Imperium is grim because every single shit decision, every single sacrifice, every single death, every single man woman and child suffering a shit life in the worst conditions imaginable, is the absolute best that can be done. It is a study of the worst happening to everyone and what part of your humanity must be sacrificed today just to stand a chance of survival, and all it asks is whether or not it would have perhaps been better to die."		The Imperium isn't grim because things suck by choice and could be fine if a sensible person came along. That sensible person wouldn't survive fifty seconds of the reality. The Imperium is grim because every single shit decision, every single sacrifice, every single death, every single man woman and child suffering a shit life in the worst conditions imaginable, is the absolute best that can be done. It is a study of the worst happening to everyone and what part of your humanity must be sacrificed today just to stand a chance of survival, and all it asks is whether or not it would have perhaps been better to die."
	• Baron von Evilsatan		• Baron von Evilsatan (accurate except that technology progresses rapidly in war solely because scientific research does. Tech advancement relies entirely on science advancement. If it froze, tech would not advance at all, it doesn’t grow on trees.)

	== On the Tabletop ==		== On the Tabletop ==

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	The Mechanicus was established in the distant past, when a bunch of <s>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk machine worshiping technophiles]</s> normal people terraformed Mars during mankind's dominating of the Solar System and colonizing of the galaxy. Thus Mars became an extremely technologically advanced society of astronauts, scientists, engineers, manufacturers, and miners wherein they could pursue advances in technology and power the [[Dark Age of Technology]]. During the [[Age of Strife]], their precious atmosphere was punctured, and solar radiation <s>beat down on their filthy heads</s> burned the land, boiled the seas, and took the sky from them, nuking all life. Everybody either died, hid underground, or turned feral. After hundreds of years of living from half-working mechanical bunker to partially-pressurized archaic hab spire; people began to look upon technology as a saviour and way to return to the former heights of glory. Thus, a new cult spread amongst the people of Mars, wherein they paid reverence to the Machine God. [[Just as planned]]. And then they joined the [[EMPRAH]] because they saw him as an aspect of the Machine God called the '[[Omnissiah]]'. As if the parallels aren't already tremendously clear at this point.		The Mechanicus was established in the distant past, when a bunch of <s>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk machine worshiping technophiles]</s> normal people terraformed Mars during mankind's dominating of the Solar System and colonizing of the galaxy. Thus Mars became an extremely technologically advanced society of astronauts, scientists, engineers, manufacturers, and miners wherein they could pursue advances in technology and power the [[Dark Age of Technology]]. During the [[Age of Strife]], their precious atmosphere was punctured, and solar radiation <s>beat down on their filthy heads</s> burned the land, boiled the seas, and took the sky from them, nuking all life. Everybody either died, hid underground, or turned feral. After hundreds of years of living from half-working mechanical bunker to partially-pressurized archaic hab spire; people began to look upon technology as a saviour and way to return to the former heights of glory. Thus, a new cult spread amongst the people of Mars, wherein they paid reverence to the Machine God. [[Just as planned]]. And then they joined the [[EMPRAH]] because they saw him as an aspect of the Machine God called the '[[Omnissiah]]'. As if the parallels aren't already tremendously clear at this point.

	Except it's giant load of bullshit. The Tech-priesthood were FORCED to acknowledge the Big E as an incarnate of Machine God at gunpoint. This happened after they sent pretty much their entire fleet and army to Terra to prevent the Unification of meatbags, so they can continue to raid ancient Terran tombs and libraries once or twice a century. The Emperor's fleet fucked them so hard only one in ten returned to Mars to tell the tale, so the Fabricator-General was very cooperative when the Emprah's armada arrived in Mars' orbit. At least they managed to get a special exemption from the "no religions" rule, possibly because the Emperor already knew about the Dragon of Mars (see below; though it wouldn't be the first time a head of state was a hypocrite or practiced double standards). In exchange for giving the Imperium all the guns and tanks they needed, the Emperor promised the Fabricator-General full autonomy on all Forge Worlds, access to Navigators and Astropaths for space travel, and all Archeotech found during the [[Great Crusade]]. Naturally, this smoothed things over between the two factions, resulting in the Treaty of Mars and the beginning of the Imperium; As a sign of their alliance, the Emperor changed his sigil from the lightning bolt, as used by the [[Thunder Warriors]], to the two-headed Aquila.		Except it's giant load of bullshit. The Tech-priesthood were FORCED to acknowledge the Big E as an incarnate of Machine God at gunpoint. This happened after they sent pretty much their entire fleet and army to Terra to prevent the Unification of meatbags, so they can continue to raid ancient Terran tombs and libraries once or twice a century. To be fair, they thought the Terrans were still a bunch of Mad Max murderhobos, so them unifying would have been pretty dang bad. The Emperor's fleet fucked them so hard only one in ten returned to Mars to tell the tale, so the Fabricator-General was very cooperative when the Emprah's armada arrived in Mars' orbit. At least they managed to get a special exemption from the "no religions" rule, possibly because the Emperor already knew about the Dragon of Mars (see below; though it wouldn't be the first time a head of state was a hypocrite or practiced double standards). In exchange for giving the Imperium all the guns and tanks they needed, the Emperor promised the Fabricator-General full autonomy on all Forge Worlds, access to Navigators and Astropaths for space travel, and all Archeotech found during the [[Great Crusade]]. Naturally, this smoothed things over between the two factions, resulting in the Treaty of Mars and the beginning of the Imperium; As a sign of their alliance, the Emperor changed his sigil from the lightning bolt, as used by the [[Thunder Warriors]], to the two-headed Aquila.

	Hilariously, the "Machine God" may actually be the [[Void Dragon]], one of the ancient [[C'tan]] Star Gods. The Void Dragon is actually one of the most powerful of the C'tan, controlling all machines. All those techpriests are going to have serious problems when it wakes up...It's on Mars because the EMPRAH roofied it and turned it into an angry cave on Mars. It's now guarded by the Mechanicus in their Noctys Labyrinth. This point of view is not certain, so the Machine God may be anything like the collective mass of all machines or the sum of all knowledge, neither would all Mechanicus accept a C'Tan as their lord (but that's the point, they don't know it's a C'tan if it is). But it's a more [[Grimdark\|fun]] version, isn't it?		Hilariously, the "Machine God" may actually be the [[Void Dragon]], one of the ancient [[C'tan]] Star Gods. The Void Dragon is actually one of the most powerful of the C'tan, controlling all machines. All those techpriests are going to have serious problems when it wakes up...It's on Mars because the EMPRAH roofied it and turned it into an angry cave on Mars. It's now guarded by the Mechanicus in their Noctys Labyrinth. This point of view is not certain, so the Machine God may be anything like the collective mass of all machines or the sum of all knowledge, neither would all Mechanicus accept a C'Tan as their lord (but that's the point, they don't know it's a C'tan if it is). But it's a more [[Grimdark\|fun]] version, isn't it?

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	The Adeptus Mechanicus, whose individual members are known as [[Techpriest]]s, own dozens, maybe hundreds of heavily polluted planet-factories known as [[Forge World#Planet\|forge worlds]], which are covered in massive manufactoria or, as they are known to speakers of Low Gothic, 'work'. The largest forge world of the Adeptus Mechanicus is its homeworld [[Mars]], on which the most badass weapons ever known to man are made, most of which they refuse to share. Despite being part of the Imperium, the AdMech was actually its own nation and a respectable superpower in its own right throughout the Great Crusade and largely is to this day. The 'being-part-of-the-Imperium' shtick was a symbolic gesture of goodwill signed by the Treaty of Mars, but was codified when they became the "Adeptus Mechanicus" after their former leader fell to Chaos. They still secured quasi-independence and private property rights though, courtesy of [[Awesome\|marching an Imperator titan into the senate chamber and holding them at building-sized gunpoint]].		The Adeptus Mechanicus, whose individual members are known as [[Techpriest]]s, own dozens, maybe hundreds of heavily polluted planet-factories known as [[Forge World#Planet\|forge worlds]], which are covered in massive manufactoria or, as they are known to speakers of Low Gothic, 'work'. The largest forge world of the Adeptus Mechanicus is its homeworld [[Mars]], on which the most badass weapons ever known to man are made, most of which they refuse to share. Despite being part of the Imperium, the AdMech was actually its own nation and a respectable superpower in its own right throughout the Great Crusade and largely is to this day. The 'being-part-of-the-Imperium' shtick was a symbolic gesture of goodwill signed by the Treaty of Mars, but was codified when they became the "Adeptus Mechanicus" after their former leader fell to Chaos. They still secured quasi-independence and private property rights though, courtesy of [[Awesome\|marching an Imperator titan into the senate chamber and holding them at building-sized gunpoint]].

	The Adeptus Mechanicus is basically the definition of a Zaibatsu (Mega-Corporation, i.e. a [[Monopoly]]). Imagine Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Amazon combined; they are simply so rich and powerful, and have totally privatized the production and manufacturing of technology for themselves, that they can basically buy the government and its politicians. The Imperium as a whole may despise the AdMech for being Heretics who [[Void Dragon\|worship a foreign materialist God]], but they have private claim to all the various Forgeworlds, Manufactoria, Mining worlds and Research Stations needed for the production of Imperial war machines. Where else can you even buy a new cellphone or have repair maintenance for your servitors, if not your local Techpriest? Because of this privatized monopoly, the AdMech has become an Empire within an Empire, and can ''possibly'' survive without the Imperium, while the Imperium cannot survive without the AdMech.		The Adeptus Mechanicus is basically the definition of a Zaibatsu (Mega-Corporation, i.e. a [[Monopoly]]). Imagine Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Amazon combined; they are simply so rich and powerful, and have totally privatized the production and manufacturing of technology for themselves, that they can basically buy the government and its politicians. The Imperium as a whole may despise the AdMech for being Heretics who [[Void Dragon\|worship a foreign materialist God]], but they have private claim to all the various Forgeworlds, Manufactoria, Mining worlds and Research Stations needed for the production of Imperial war machines. Where else can you even buy a new cellphone or have repair maintenance for your servitors, if not your local Techpriest? Because of this privatized monopoly, the AdMech has become an Empire within an Empire, and can ''possibly'' survive without the Imperium, while the Imperium cannot survive without the AdMech. Well, more like the Ecclesiarchy despises them as religious rivals. The average Imperial is just creeped out, but appreciates the tech support and cool toys.

			Doesn't hurt that the Mechanicus, aside from Forge Worlds and space assets, also has immense influence/control of Industrial Worlds (which are basically any world that has given the Mechanicus government influence/control in exchange for the good shit), its own Knight Worlds (and arguably has Imperial Knight Worlds by the balls). If they left the Imperium, the Imperium wouldn't really have much in the way of useful planets left. Feral, Feudal, Pleasure worlds, probably only the least advanced Civilized Worlds. The rest, especially Hive Worlds and the Agri Worlds who sell all their crops to said Hive Worlds and so depend on them, would stay with the Mechanicus.

	They have a monopoly on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TvN5lCVkRk all the really cool shit for themselves] (aside from the overpowered DAOT artifacts in the Emperor’s basement) — like [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)\|Titans]], [[Ordinatus]], and other wonderful stuff — only letting the Imperials have it when absolutely necessary or if they're threatened personally, with the justification of keeping the good shit away from [[Chaos]] in case an army rebels. They have two armies of their own, which are not anything like the [[Imperial Guard]], as they are mostly composed of badass angry technogrunge cyborgs that are more violent than ED209, [[Servitor\|lobotomized minions]] manufactured out of clones and heretics, and [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)\|giant, world-devastating Super Robots]]. They are also technological rivals with the [[Tau\|space weeaboos with transforming mecha]] (at least in tech that doesn’t assrape the laws of physics) and potentially have made a few advances beyond the [[Eldar]], though the Eldar are much more advanced in psionic technology (so much so that Craftworld technology is basically literal space magic).		They have a monopoly on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TvN5lCVkRk all the really cool shit for themselves] (aside from the overpowered DAOT artifacts in the Emperor’s basement) — like [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)\|Titans]], [[Ordinatus]], and other wonderful stuff — only letting the Imperials have it when absolutely necessary or if they're threatened personally, with the justification of keeping the good shit away from [[Chaos]] in case an army rebels. They have two armies of their own, which are not anything like the [[Imperial Guard]], as they are mostly composed of badass angry technogrunge cyborgs that are more violent than ED209, [[Servitor\|lobotomized minions]] manufactured out of clones and heretics, and [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)\|giant, world-devastating Super Robots]]. They are also technological rivals with the [[Tau\|space weeaboos with transforming mecha]] (at least in tech that doesn’t assrape the laws of physics) and potentially have made a few advances beyond the [[Eldar]], though the Eldar are much more advanced in psionic technology (so much so that Craftworld technology is basically literal space magic).

	Only the [[Necrons]] (being an entire race of robots, whose race-wide robotization was not their most advanced feat) and the [[Leagues of Votann]] (an entire race of [[Dark Age of Technology\|DAOT-tier]] [[Dwarf\|Dorfs]]) eclipse them technologically on all levels. The Adeptus Mechanicus are conflicted on how to perceive the Necrons; some see them as perverse because it's alien, some are envious of the Necrons, others revere them as agents of the Machine-God and tend to kill themselves attempting to [[Looted\|loot]] Necron tombs (though [[Void Dragon\|there may be truth to this]]).		Only the [[Necrons]] (being an entire race of robots, whose race-wide robotization was not their most advanced feat) and the [[Leagues of Votann]] (an entire race of [[Dark Age of Technology\|DAOT-tier]] [[Dwarf\|Dorfs]]) eclipse them technologically on all levels (though, for the Leagues, it's more like in general, mass-produced technology rather than their highest capabilities). The Adeptus Mechanicus are conflicted on how to perceive the Necrons; some see them as perverse because it's alien, some are envious of the Necrons, others revere them as agents of the Machine-God and tend to kill themselves attempting to [[Looted\|loot]] Necron tombs (though [[Void Dragon\|there may be truth to this]]).

	They typically look like a cross between [[Star Wars\|Jawas]] and [[/co/\|Doctor Octopus]] with a healthy dose of [[Dune\|The Bene Tleilax]], as well as wearing the sort of re-breather masks that you'll typically see on riot police. Take the post-apocalyptic monks in 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', motivations, demeanor and agenda included, and crank them up to eleven. So yeah, pretty fucking [[Awesome\|awesome]].		They typically look like a cross between [[Star Wars\|Jawas]] and [[/co/\|Doctor Octopus]] with a healthy dose of [[Dune\|The Bene Tleilax]], as well as wearing the sort of re-breather masks that you'll typically see on riot police. Take the post-apocalyptic monks in 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', motivations, demeanor and agenda included, and crank them up to eleven. So yeah, pretty fucking [[Awesome\|awesome]].