Yet, they were not the only adepta within the Imperium of Man at that time to be torn apart by civil strife. Over two standard centuries later, in the depths of the darkest hours of the Horus Heresy, the Space Marine Legions turned against each other. Having witnessed the corruption and revolt of the Men of Iron millenia earlier during the Age of Technology, the Emperor forbade the ancient Mechanicum, as part of the agreement, to pursue certain theories and avenues of technology like artificial general intelligence that could easily be corrupted by the power of Chaos. Warhammer 40K Darktide Review - Left To Shredīefore the start of the Great Crusade, in 739.M30 the Emperor signed a defining agreement with the Cult Mechanicum, the Treaty of Mars, ensuring their much-needed collaboration to prosecute the unification of Mankind. Hereteks discovered or captured by the Mechanicus are either executed outright or have all of their cybernetic implants painfully removed and their organic remains transformed into a mindless servitor as penance for their tech-heresy.
Others, however, pursue the dark path of tech-heresy completely on their own, forging their own roads to damnation independent of any direct connection to Chaos or the Dark Mechanicum, though still wholly in violation of the strictures of the Cult of the Machine God. Many Hereteks are loosely connected to the Dark Mechanicum, those members of the ancient Priesthood of Mars who turned their backs upon the Emperor of Mankind during the Horus Heresy and the Schism of Mars and swore to serve the Warmaster Horus and the Dark Gods in return for technological advancements denied them by the Emperor for the safety of Mankind. Hereteks value the pursuit of knowledge, of any knowledge, at all costs, regardless of the consequences to themselves or to others and even at the peril of their own souls.
Heretek is the name given by the Adeptus Mechanicus to those tech-priests who turn their backs on the teachings and strictures of the Cult Mechanicus in pursuit of usually dark and forbidden technologies linked to the power of the Warp and the Ruinous Powers of Chaos. Embracing the Warp reveals technology that the primitives on Mars could never dream of wielding."Ī Heretek of the Dark Mechanicum displaying Chaos mutations. " The path of the Omnissiah has left humanity dithering in the darkness, incapable of advancing on the paths of knowledge.
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