concepts

Self-aware, autonomous artificial intelligence — anathema to the Cult Mechanicus and forbidden across the Imperium since the Treaty of Mars.

The skull-and-cog sigil of the Adeptus Mechanicus, signifying the fusion of flesh and machine in service to the Omnissiah.

Games Workshop army-book supplement for the Horus Heresy, codifying the Taghmata Omnissiah and the wider Mechanicum war-host for tabletop play.

The localised will of any sufficiently complex device — the personal aspect of the divine that inheres in working machinery.

The animating principle — that-which-moves, the fundamental cause of motion in any system. One of the four canonical aspects of the Omnissiah.

The esoteric core of the Cult Mechanicus — the first eight of the Sixteen Universal Laws and the wider body of secret rites, hidden archives, and unrevealed truths the Priesthood guards from outsiders.

The Machine God — divinity of pure knowledge and motive force, often syncretised with the God-Emperor by the Cult Mechanicus.

Self-aware artificial machine intelligence, Abominable Intelligence in High Gothic; greatest heresy of the Cult Mechanicus, forbidden by the Crimson Accords of Mars.

The Dark Age fabrication-system whose surviving fragments and template-lines underpin nearly all Imperial manufacture; the central object of the Quest for Knowledge.

Hard-plug sensory interface created by a Mind Impulse Unit through which a Princeps experiences and commands an Imperial Titan.