With static-laced chants and blaring, biharic hymnals, the zealous cohorts of the Adeptus Mechanicus tirelessly stride onward to conquer in the name of the Machine God. Cybernetic fusions of man and machine, they are religious disciples of a technological theocracy. Robed Tech-Priests lead their semi-automated legions of Skitarii cyborgs, bizarre war engines and arcane fanatics in an ancient faith that venerates the machine and dominates the surviving technological wonders employed by the Imperium of Man. In the name of logic and reason, they plunder the galaxy's resources, unleash bloody crusades of acquisition and jealously hoard remnants of reclaimed knowledge from former ages. Weilding deadly weapons powered with esoteric energies and blessed with dogmatic prayers, the Adeptus Mechanicus drive their armies forward in pitiless wars of extermination and the brutal subjugation of innovation. They are the inheritors of Mankind's greatest endeavors from its technological zenith, yet instead of enlightenment and the promise of progress, they bring destruction and cold, merciless intolerance.