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The [[Treaty of Olympus]] between the [[Martian Synod|Martian Parliament]] and the [[Emperor]] imposed several restrictions upon the [[Mechanicum]]’s practices, labelling much of the knowledge possessed by the [[Forge World]]s as ‘heretechnica’ – a heresy against the Emperor in his authority as an avatar of the [[Omnissiah]]. There were many such forbidden heretechnical sciences and technologies.{{Fn|1}}
==Overview==Heretechnica ranged from those which may be contained to the horrors of the mind or body of only a single being, to higher orders of Heretechnica, capable of unleashing plagues of death across entire star systems, draining the energy from stars ordistorting space-time itself.{{Fn|1}}
Using [[Xenotech]] is considered tech heresy by some or a valuable opportunity by others. Opinions such as these can lead to the cooperation or conflict between [[tech-priest]]s and [[Inquisitor]]s, depending on the alignment of each party.{{citethis}} ===High Heretechnica===
The Orders of High Heretechnica hated above all others include the following: These related to the creation of
artificial sentience, such as the so-called '[[Men of Iron]] which had plagued humanity’s [[Dark Age of Technology]]. The manipulation of the human gene-code, particularly where relating to the mysteries of the [[Primarch]]s, the [[Legio Custodes]] or the creation of [[pariah]]s and other abominations against nature, and lastly, the deep study of the [[Warp]].{{Fn|1}}
===Ambiguity===
The manipulation of the laws of time, Chronaxic manipulation, is one of the prime bans. As an example of the ambiguity and nuance of these strictures, during the [[Conclave Chronalis]], [[Archmagos]] [[Belisarius Cawl]] presented a planned tech acquisition expedition involving travelling near the event horizon of a black hole. This would inevitably involve voyaging through time, in a way. A split in the argument would rapidly emerge, some temporal experts insisted that no fundamental laws of either the Cult or of material science would be broken, as they were dealing with a natural effect. While a minority decried this plan is de facto voyaging through time and clearly forbidden, no matter how Cawl's argument was dressed up.{{Fn|2}}