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Quotes made by members of the Adeptus Mechanicus or about the Adeptus Mechanicus:

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Texts

Tome Quote
Common Adeptus Mechanicus litany The flesh is weak.[34b]
Admonitions Mechanae 3:16 Seek not the words of the xenos, lest they infect us with blasphemy.[1]
Aetheric Manuscripts Appendix 71 Without a Standard Model, there is naught but madness and Chaos among the stars.[1]
Amalanthians 9.41 Thus does the Enemy seek to crush our spirit, for our souls are our most potent weapon.[1]
Amarinthine Admonitions If it resembles a heretic, if it speaks like a heretic, and if it be redolent to the nose, as if like a heretic, then a heretic it will be![1]
Amalathian Commentaries Chapter 94 We fight the foe’s battle for him, when we take his words into our hearts.[1]
Amaranthine Verses 78.12 No task that is easy is ever worthwhile.[1]
Antonine Musings 901.45 Failure is unique among sin, in that we can turn it into a virtue when it drives us to succeed.[1]
Aphorisms 7.1 There are horrors in this galaxy that only faith and steel can overcome, and that we should be grateful we shall never fully understand.[1]
Aphorisms 7.31 Grant a coward the excuse to retreat from the battlefield and he will never fight again.[1]
Aphorisms 25 Better in ignorance than in heresy.[1]
Aphorisms 31 Bring guns as well as prayers.[1]
Aphorisms 43 Purify it with flames, for this is the wish of the Omnissiah![1]
Aphorisms 56 Look not upon the alien, for the alien looks back.[1]
Aphorisms 61.2 Let knowledge serve only man, and let that which does not remain in darkness.[1]
Aphorisms 62 Do not ask the Omnissiah for a pleasant existence, ask Him for the strength to overcome our tribulations.[1]
Aphorisms 82 When the enemy seeks to break our spirit, meet his blasphemy with flame![1]
Aphorisms 90 A tech-priest does not have hunches. He immerses himself in vast knowledge that is the Omnissiah s gift, and takes whatever course of action is revealed thereby. No matter how onerous it may be.[1]
Aphorisms 94.13 The Enemy rushes to action, when our ministrations cause him fear[1]
Aphorisms 96.9 Verily it is written that the Omnissiah grants His blessing to those who come well-equipped with explosives.[1]
Aphorisms 97 If it is worth doing, it is worth doing to completion.[1]
Aphorisms 712 When the spirit is neglected, the body falters and the mind is corrupted.[1]
Aphorisms 793 Blessed is the ignorance that wise men choose for themselves.[1]
Aphorisms of the Logic-Saints 7.91 In the presence of the xenos lies the invisible miasma of corruption.[1]
Appendix Heuristica 73.90 And we shall cast them down, that corrupt by their presence;
We shall break the teeth of the xenos that would swallow us whole.[1]
Armageddon Verses 13.90 They need not rend us with their blades. They have but to make us witness them, and thereby can we fall.[1]
Avelornians 5.91 Fragile indeed are the tools of the righteous.[1]
Benediction Binharic of the Omnissiah - excerpt The Magi of the forge-temples are the blessed intermediaries. They are sanctified in the augurs of the Machine God by their knowledge. In pure and logical benediction do they grant us the word of the Omnissiah.[1]
Cant-Mantra of the Datasmith Prioris Blessed is he who guides the blameless machine, trusted is he who carries the sacred wafer. (Partial)[1]
Cannot unless you Canticle v.34 The only will of the Machine Spirit is that of the Omnissian technologies,
for the Xenos will deceive you and tempt you, but you will not falter, for you are a Priest.[1]
Canticles Borealis 6.15 Inefficiency is a slope whereupon one slides ever downwards, by degrees, until one reaches the nadir unknowing.[1]
Canticles Flamminia 713 When we muse on the works of the enemy, we invite him into our minds.[1]
Canticles Logica 6.41 Where corruption remains, men will fall.[1]
Canticles of Gethsemenoth Line 87 Let the weaker in mind follow the words of the strong![1]
Canticles Infomemetatric, 964th Codeline Flesh makes us mighty. Faith makes us strong. The machine and the flesh, alloyed, serving as one the holy purpose of the Omnissiah. Thus must it ever be.[39]
Canticles of Mars 79.12 Rejoice. Give thanks. For we are but one step now from triumph.[1]
Canticles of Rousing - excerpt Let chime ring out! Part the veil of circuit and gear. For now is the hour of motion.[2a]
Canticles of War Doctrina Alpha- excerpt Broadcast the psalms of war to drive the macroclades to triumph.[32b]
Canto-Graius, sub-verse 847 Just as the blessed industry of the Omnissiah is ever-unending, so too must be the devotion of His servants. With motion do we offer Him worship, and with toil, and with tireless labour.[32g]
Castigations 17.4 Thus are the wages of those who delve too deep.[1]
Catechism of the Autoculus of Mars - excerpt Toll the Great Bell Once!

Pull the Lever forward to engage the

Piston and Pumpg...

Toll the Great Bell Twice!

With push of Button fire the Engine

And spark Turbine into life...

Toll the Great Bell Thrice!

Sing Praise to the

God of All Machines[3]

Catechism Primus-Analyticum Infinitus, verse 126 to the 4th power Thou shalt not suffer to live those who practice auto-idolatry or false worship of illogical deities in the sight of the Omnissiah. Cleanse forever the galactic noosphere of their datacorrosive taint, and thus know His blessing.[32e]
Chant for the prevention of malfunction May your weapon be guarded against malfunction,
As your soul is guarded from impurity.
The Machine God watches over you.
Unleash the weapons of war.
Unleash the Deathdealer.[4a]
Codex Fulminatus 83.12 Show caution and scorn in all things.[1]
Cognis Amalathian 5.89 A Tech-Priest eschews the illogicality of fear, the unbalanced equation of doubt, the broken circuit of failure.[1]
Collected Logic-Psalms 31.3 And lo, shall Your holy steel be as armour around our souls, and shall Your wisdom guide our hands.
No spear nor barb of the enemy shall trouble our flesh of iron. Let the will of Mars be done![1]
Colloquialisms Minor Chapter 51 It’s not work if you enjoy it.[1]
Colloquialisms of Metalica Chapter 52 Enough fire in the right place can solve any problem.[1]
Conceptua Comprehensis Verse 329 Blessed is he who, in death, does his duty.[1]
Confessions of Logic-Saint Levistian There can be no forgiveness now. No penitence that will satisfy my sin.[1]
Contemplations Hagiographica Death itself is scarcely an excuse for the sin of duty undone.[1]
Credo Omnissiah There is no truth in flesh,

Only betrayal,

There is no strength in flesh,

Only weakness,

There is no constancy in flesh,

Only decay,

There is no certainty in flesh but

death.[22a]

Data-Psalm 991.7 Let our souls be as components of the Machine, each in its place according to its function.[1]
Epigrams of Saint Eukelsis 3.89 Protect the shield of the mind, and the body will be shielded thereby.[1]
Epigraphs Macrologica Psalm 105 Wheresoever the blasphemer writes, obliterate.[1]
Eukelkisians 60.24 Men fuelled by the righteousness of their purpose can achieve what armies cannot.[1]
Exaltations 49 The Lord of Mars is with us in the dark, even if thou knowest it not.[1]
Exhortationes Principiis Titannorum, Divisio Militaris We are all but a weapon in the right hand of the Emperor.[6a]
Ferro-Dictates 53.12 Not all data should be acquired.[1]
Ferropsalm of the Fabricator General Iron over flesh,
cogitation over thought,
information over conjecture.
Thus is purity, and victory, assured.[1][32h]
Formulae Technologia Verses 4-27 Cursed be silence, when the Omnissiah’s word should ring out.[1]
Gathalamorians 6.13 And endeavour is its own reward.[1]
Gathalamorians 9.41 When the final analysis is fully calculated, all equations balance against righteous annihilation.[1]
Gathalamorians 45.7 Above bullets, above blades, care for your soul above all.[1]
Gathalamorians 60.41 He who prosecutes the alien with zeal, is the ally of Mankind.[1]
Gathalamorians 71.6 By Flame Shall The Unclean Be Made Clean, By Fire Shall The Unholy Be Made Holy.[1]
Gathalamorians 71.30 Even in the deepest darkness, give devotion to the Omnissiah, for there He is needed the most.[1]
Gathalamorians 94.3 Be thou wary of the works of the alien, for their presence is poison and their every word deceit.[1]
Gathalamorians 97.14 He who aids the blasphemer, even through ignorance, has the blood of the faithful upon his hands![1]
Gathalamorians 714.5 Obliterate his words, cut out his tongue, put to fire all wrought by his hand, and the heretic shall cease to exist.[1]
Hagiographies of Saint Regulavis 91.12 Purification is the prelude to annihilation.[1]
Hagiography of Thor 14.91 He who sows doubt is as blameful as he who sheds blood.[1]
Helfirian Recollections Chapter 571 When the enemy begs for destruction, do not let him go hungry.[1]
Hymn of Reforging Thus do we invoke the Machine God.

Thus do we make whole that which was sundered.[7]

Hymnal of Engine Commencement The Machine is my Temple, each one a sacred shrine. I name each piston blessed, and every gear divine.[1]
Jovian Commentaries Chapter 59 The tree of heresy persists were its roots be not torn up.[1]
Jovian Ministrations 61.90 When the heretic is silenced, it is as if his weapons and tools are stripped from him, he is left impotent and weak.[1]
Jovian Tutelage 56.41 It is a rare man whose faith survives the failings of his superiors.[1]
Kalemnan Orations 5.25 The sweet incense of faith conquers the toxic stench of corruption.[1]
Keraptic Inscriptions Chapter 15 Wheresoever the sacred man tread, led it be made pure, or say he is not sacred.[1]
Kryptmann Verses 11-13 Ware the script of the enemy! For writ into its lies are the seeds of corruption.[1]
Levistians 7.14 Bleak be the prospects, when the black wind of heresy blows.[1]
Levistians 9.22 Knowledge will ever be a blessing and a curse.[1]
Life of Archmagos Borasis Appendix 9 Our only objective should be death to the alien and all his works. All else is deviance from the Omnissiah Creed.[1]
Life of Fabricator General Kane 56.90 Annihilation. Not exile, submission or subjugation. For the xenos, only annihilation.[1]
Life of Macharius 23.19 Then into the teeth of the enemy we shall stride.[1]
Life of Saint Dacianus Chapter 60 Give thanks only that the enemy has fallen.
Care not for his motives, nor for the promise of his teachings.
Define him solely by his death, and the gains Mankind makes thereby.[1]
Life of Saint Hermeticus 5.23 Faith is light, and where it burns, there is no night.[1]
Linguis Fulminatus Chapter 7 Improvisation is rarely to be welcomed, and then only when the Omnissiah’s will demands it.[1]
The Litanies of Gravitation, College Cult Graviticus in the Calixis Sector //Strike the rune of activation to rouse the machine-spirit//

It is by the will of the Omnissiah that the plate acquires energy

It is by the energy of the plate that the machine acquires activation

It is by the activation of the machine that the Omnissiah speaks

That the plate acquires function

That the function acquires velocity and altitude

That the grav-plate then rises

Oh, arise, arise!

It is by the will of the Omnissiah that the grav-plate now functions.

//All praise the machine-spirit!//[16b]

Litany of Praise,
(translated from binharic)

Sing the song of the Machine-God.

None may stay our march.

Let the merciless logic of the Machine-God invest thee.

None may stay our march.

Praise and glory be to the Machine-God.

None may stay our march.[49]

Lives of Gyarados 73.60 If it has not a head to sever, cut out the heart.[1]
Logistae Septimus 21.4 The circuits are complete. The engine of fate is primed. One turn of the cog remains, and the grand machine shall fulfil its purpose.[1]
Lord of the Engines, 16th Tome, Verse 2001 And when at last he came upon the vehicle, he perceived the distress of the engine therein and forthwith struck the rune and it was good. Thereupon the engine ignited and was filled with strength...[5]
Macharians 16.4 Watch your brother, for his sin of heresy is thy sin of tolerance.[1]
Macharian Axioms Line 918 The wilful child is as the maddened steed: when it is let off its leash, it is lost.[1]
Macharian Commentaries Chapter 71 As we purify the ground beneath their feet, they shall find no shelter![1]
Macharian Commentaries 73.5 Seek profane knowledge, and find profane fates.[1]
Macharian Duologues Chapter 61 Let the foe blunt their blades against our resolve. They will be ash and memories soon enough.[1]
Macharian Notions Chapter 4113 Better safe and ignorant, than rueing the means of our downfall.[1]
Malchadorian Insights 17.4 First comes knowledge of destruction, then its execution.[1]
Maxims Metalica 76.12 From such small heresies are great apostasies made.[1]
Maxims of Amalanth 5.12 Beware the deviance of thine own tools, for the Enemy finds his entrance thereby.[1]
Maxim Cybernetica In Aeternem Ferra Mortis.[22c]
Meditations Logicae Verse 619 How dim the sacred light burns when the unholy darkness loometh all about.[1]
Meditations on the Superlogicae Verse 971 When the corruption of the unholy becomes manifest to our senses, a far greater corruption lies unseen.[1]
Memoirs of Saint Hestios 5.25 Blessed is that life that, in its ending, forgives a lifetime of sin.[1]
Mensis Hagiographica Appendix 91 Thus does Mankind fail. Not in knowing betrayal, but in the silent sin of duty neglected.[1]
Neodogmatics 71.90 If His Will be done, let it be done quickly.[1]
Observations on the Tech-Cosmos Verse 68 We are derelict in our duty whenever we allow corruption to plague the minds of good men.[1]
Opus Fulminata The Omnissiah demands the stain of the xenos be deleted. Where it remains, the Omnissiah rages.[1]
Principae Logica 22.4 Let His word be exalted to the eleventh degree.[1]
Psalms Hermeticus 46 The xenos must be purged, for the stars are humanity’s birthright.[1]
Quaestos Mechanicor 5.21 From the mouths of heretics emit naught but foul vapours. Cut out the tongue and be clean.[1]
Recollections of Inquisitor Brand Chapter 87 Of all creations most foul I beheld the Lord of All and knew that I was dead.[1]
Recollections of Saint Hesperis Volume 17 I beheld the babel of the enemy’s tongues, and I was overwhelmed by a wall of heresy.[1]
Revelations of Titan 18.12 The enemy shall take what we give him, and reap a harvest behind our backs besides, until whole worlds are lost to our sight.[1]
Runic Mechanics - An Introduction The beast of metal endures longer than the flesh of men. Those that tend the beasts of metal must labour long to learn its ways, for a single beast must suffer the mastership of many men until ready to shed its vorpal coils. Those that seek apprenticeship must attended closely to the runes of mobilisation, the rites of maintenance, and the words-of-power that describe the parts of a beast. Nor must they neglect the tutelage of the Adeptus Prefects, nor the casting of the proper roboscopes.[8b]

The beast of metal endures longer than the flesh of men. Those that tend the beasts of metal must labour long to learn its ways.[1]

Runic Spaceflight - An Introduction; Naval Flight Manual W110E Strike the first rune upon the engine's casing employing the chosen wrench. Its tip should be anointed with the oil of engineering using the proper incantation when the auspices are correct. Strike the second rune upon the engine's casing employing the arc-tip of the power-driver. If the second rune is not good, a third rune may be struck in like manner to the first. This is done according to the true ritual laid down by Scotti the Enginseer. A libation should be offered. If this sequence is properly observed the engines may be brought to full activation by depressing the large panel marked "ON".[8a]
Saturnine Verses 81.4 The loose tongues of our soldiers are as guns in the hands of our enemies.[1]
Sayings of Archmagos Cortiko Verse 58 Prayer has power, but I cannot deny fire does, too.[1]
Sayings of the Archmagi Appendix 4 Such sweet music is the chatter of binary, that has no tongue to lie.[1]
Sayings of the Princeps 65.4 When thou desirest to discourse purely, use binary.[1]
Scripture-Brother Magos Tech-Auxilium Prime, Know Thy Enemy, to Know Thyself In each society there is a classification that is mirrored in another society.[1]
Scripture of the Taloned Cog v.09 p.3 Wary of those that wonder.[1]
Selucian Aphorisms Verse 539 Sometimes the weak limb must be amputated before the whole body withers.[1]
Solar Invocation - excerpt Bask the alloys in the sacred light. Ensure their scorched form be tempered with the blazing heat. That which burns shall be ever blessed.[32d]
Text of the Oiled Cog v.12 One can verge from the standard form, but one must always retain their humanity, or be lost to the Men of Iron and their ways.[1]
The Admonition Against Diminishing Efficiency And where the machine spirit falters, darkness grows and where darkness grows, corruption does follow, and thus despoiled we all to the xenos taint, into depths where the Omnissiah's light cannot reach.[28]
The Book of Five Runes When uttering the incantation, mark well that the rod is upon and not within the intake. The second incantation should not be uttered until all the fumes have come forth, then the way shall be clear for the sacred words to penetrate unto the heart of the engine. If the mounting be hot say the third rune, if it be cold the fourth rune is more appropriate. For then the wrath of the engine will be aroused...[5]
The Canto-Graius Sub-Verse 847 Just as the blessed industry of the Omnissiah is ever-unending, so too must be the devotion of his servants. With motion do we offer him worship, and with toil, and with tireless labour.[1]
The Chant for the Prevention of Malfunction May your weapon be guarded against malfunction, as your soul is guarded from impurity.[1]
The Chime of Eons, Prefectus Mojaro A man may die yet still endure if his work enters the greater work.[1]
The Declaration of the Trimechirate of the Eternal Forge Every fleeting life form is a cog in the grand mechanism.[1]
The First Litany of the Doctrina Augmentata Although flesh may blacken and fail, fear not, for this too can be replaced.[1]
The Life of Fabricator General Heuristicus VII An opportunity wasted is a sin preserved.[1]
The Life of Uriah Jacobus 8.31 When the enemy offers open battle, take it, and make it his final mistake.[1]
The Litany of Ignition The soul of the Machine God surrounds thee.
The power of the Machine God invests thee.
The hate of the Machine God drives thee.
The Machine God endows thee with life.
Live![9]
The litho-sermons of Dogmatus Guidiocrites Ohm Permit no error in your cogitations. Purity resides in the machine alone.[1]
The Lives of the Logic-Saints Psalm 61 Even In Death, Our Duty Is Not Complete.[1]
Prima Incubatoria,
the Rite of Waking a Titan 		The will of the Emperor is done.

As the blood of the slain is laid upon you so may you lay the enemy’s blood at the feet of the Emperor.

Lay blood at the Emperor's feet.

As the rune of protection is inscribed upon you so may the litanies of protection ward your soul.

May your soul be guarded from impurity.

As the warriors within you guide your weapons, may you in your turn, guide their lives.

Stand true against the trials of war. [10][16c][41c]

Common Pure Form maxim The flesh is strong![16j]
The Scriptorus Munificantus There can be no bystanders in the battle for survival. Anyone who will not fight by your side is an enemy you must crush.[1]
The Vows Acquisitorius Verse One The Quest for Knowledge is our sacred task. Ours is not to understand or question, ours is to possess, to reclaim, to seize. Ours is the logic and the power.[1]
Warnings of the Cult Mechanicus Axioms XV/XVI Flesh is fallible, but ritual honours the machine spirit. To break with ritual is to break with faith.[1]
The Words of Aurgreus Osmium There can be but one protocol to follow when faced with those who blaspheme against the Machine God. Begin the Canticles and send forth the Legions.[1]
Themiscyran Manuscripts Verse 619 What the enemy built, let it be made asunder, for to us it will be as a house of sand and knives.[1]
Verses Fulminatus 59.31 The broken in body can blame the bullet or the sword, but the broken in mind have all creation to curse.[1]
Verses Macrologica 17.4 The only logical response to the presence of the xenos, is hatred.[1]

A

Speaker Quote
Magos Explorator Aionios Caution, skitarius. I have no spare parts available. You are not permitted to destroy yourself until our mission is through.[38]
Rogue Trader Vileth Rey Aggranoza To every problem, a solution lies in the application of tech-lore.[1]
Ferrarch Asklepian The Tech-Priests od Delphi are very special customers. There are few out here on the Eastern Fringe to whom one can safely pass strange items with little questioning. I have never dealt directly with any of their triumvirate of Fabricator General - the so-called 'Charities of Delphi' - but a their discretion runs as deeply as their appreciation for my expert eye. Their goodwill in the form of excellent repairs and generous refuelling every time I happen to call is, indeed, charitable. Truly, the forge world's masters - Lady [[Euphrosinn, Lady Thilya and Lady Agaeleatix - are wise. Exactly how they appear to know when my contacts have some unusual treasure is something that has proven impossible to establish so far.[32j]

B

Speaker Quote
Arch-Magos Karolinious Benz, Magos-Draco of the Lords Dragon The phrase 'be seeing you' has a different meaning for us, my dear Inquisitor Caidin. When we say this, it is to be taken quite… literally.[16g]
Magos Aubrey Bessemer The Tech-Priest tends his flock of Chimeras and lasguns as surely as his priestly brethren from the Ecclesiarchy tend the souls of their Guardsmen, and his ministrations are no less important to the continued success of the numerous campaigns of the Imperial Guard.[11]

C

Speaker Quote
Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl Our creed says the flesh is weak, and so it is. That is why we strive to improve upon it and replace it, as the Machine God desires. But we abandon His numinous gifts at our peril. To give up one’s soul is the great sin of my religion. The soul must be understood, not despised.[24]
The Omnissiah knows my work, even if others are too blind to accept an opus of genius.[32c]
I’m Belisarius Cawl and I can do anything.
Coaltadel the Omnipresent, Tech-Priest Dominus I am Skitarius. I am Sicarian. I am the data-tether that connects them. The gunsights they aim down. The eyes and ears of every unit in this Battle Congregation. The orbital lances that precede their advance. My name is legion, and I am the destroyer of worlds.[36d]
Magos-Draco Corsiva Nothing and no one escapes the judgment of the Lords Dragon. The Universal Laws are absolute, therefore so are we absolute.[16d]
Archmagos Ultima Cryol In ancient times, men built wonders, laid claim to the stars and sought to better themselves for the good of all. But we are much wiser now.
- "Speculations On Pre-Imperial History"[12b]

D

Speaker Quote
Dak-XXVII, Culax Black Guard, Stygies VIII Those who don the blinkers of wilful ignorance may no longer bear witness to the true illumination of the Omnissiah. Even amidst the deepest shadows, we bathe in that holy light.[32f]
Tech-Priest Adept Lakius Danzager Mechanism, I restore thy spirit! Let the God-Machine breathe half-life unto thy veins and render thee functional.[21a]
Tech-Adept Cadius Daxil As the Omnissiah ascended from His life to watch over all upon the Golden Throne, so should we move from corruptible flesh to holy metal.[48]
From the foundation charter of the Death Bolts ... And the name of the Order shall be the Death Bolts, and their Forge World shall be Esteban VII.

The Colours of the Death Bolts shall be red over gold. Their banner shall be quartered, gold against chequered blue and silver, bounded red. Their badge shall be a crossbow bolt ordinary, over an inverse triangle gold.

The Grand Master of their founding shall be Maxen Vledig, and their motto shall be "nemo mea poena effugit" - None may escape my vengeance.[6d]

E

Speaker Quote
Fabricator-General Explicatus By acuteness of mind shall we find victory.[1]

F

Speaker Quote
Malatek identified only as “The Fabricator” Your banal chattering is unnecessary. Are you able to grasp the importance of my experiments? Begone from my sensory range, lest I have you disassembled for servitor parts.[16f]
Magos Dominus Faustinius It is not a question of working harder, Subtribune. It is the way of the Omnissiah to always work smarter than our enemies.[1]
My emotional cores return dismay and anger whenever a Skitarii is described as disposable. No-one is disposable as long as they do the Omnissiah's work. Thus it is written.[1]
Grand Master Ferromort, Ordo Sinister, Divisio Militaris Despise infantry if you must. Crush them underfoot, by all means. But do not ignore them. Battlefields are littered with the wreckage of Titans whose crews ignored infantry.[5][44c]
Fusilave unit Tor-213 Target eradicated. That which burns shall ever be blessed.[26]

G

Speaker Quote
Technomagos Gaelos The universe is not like a puzzle-box that you can take apart and put back together again and so solve its secrets. It is a shifting uncertain thing which changes as you consider it, which is changed by the very act of observation. A powerful man is not a man who dissects the universe like a puzzle-box, examining it piece by piece and measuring each piece with scientific precision. A powerful man has only to look upon the universe to change it.[13]
Tech-priest Garal to War Griffons Princeps Even though you called him friend, the Traitor has forsaken you. Show no mercy even if he begs for it, for his soul is tainted and given the opportunity he will betray your trust.
Those of you gathered before me have been chosen to reside within the mighty machines of the Adeptus Titanicus. Let their will guide you. Become one of them. And as they teach you, so you must teach them.
May their armour protect your body from the heretic's blasphemy, just as the litanies protect your soul. Remember as you enter battle, you are but a part of the whole. You are but one among millions.
Remember that your weapons are more than metal: the flame of spiritual fire burns strong in your souls and adds power to your cause. Smite those that disbelieve, for they have turned from the light and fallen.
Know that the prayers of delivery will protect you from danger, and that you have nothing to fear except misplaced mercy. Go forth with pride to glory.
- Part of a sermon made by Garal to the War Griffon Princeps before the delivery of Yarand III[41a]
Corporal Elysha Garve,
14th Gilead Gravediggers,
Armoured Regiment 		Those cog-heads give me the shivers too, private. But once they’ve mumbled their prayers and splashed their ungents, the Earthshakers hit twice as hard — it’s like some sanctioned sorcery, so leave ‘em be.[47a]
Binary Hierarch Gethsemorr The weak in mind will seek to understand the xenos. The strong in mind will destroy them, and bless their ignorance.[1]
Grieg 108, Choir X-Statica, Corpuscarii Electro-Priest Primitive peoples believed lightning was the providence of the divine. In this, they were correct.[37a]

H

Speaker Quote
Archmagos Veneratus Haelon Hark not the alien's words, lest ye unknowingly repeat them.[1]
Archmagos Veneratus Hieraticus Let the stench of corruption be swept aside by the sweet winds of faith.[1]
Hieronymus, High Magos and Arch-heretic of Artemia Majoris (was terminated on request of Fabricator-General) The best way of improving a gun is to improve its ammunition.[14]

I

Speaker Quote
Fabricator-General Isotor Through the application of knowledge can great destruction arise…[1]

J

Speaker Quote
Fabricator-General Jaegaron All shall be darkness, all shall be madness, for everything will be known and nothing forbidden.[1]
Haran Jaxx The arming of Titans must, by necessity, always be a compromise. To gain long range you must sacrifice firepower, and vice versa. You must approach this decision at two levels.

Firstly the level of the individual Titan. Consider carefully what it must achieve and how its armament will affect its ability to fulfil its objective.

Secondly, the level of the force itself: this may be the Legion as a whole or a battle group on a particular mission. Never forget that a Titan force is a team - a single body, and may have specialised members designed for specific tasks.

Meditate on the subject if you feel the need, or consult the Imperial Tarot. The decision is important, so do not take it lightly.
- De Bellis Titanicus, attributed[6c]

Close combat is a great equaliser in Titan battles. Differences of armament and equipment become irrelevant. Vistory lies with the best crew rather than the biggest guns.
- De Bellis Titanicus, attributed[45]
Lexmechanic Jezail-Ohm/602 The rituals required to honour this machine spirit are simple. First, apply the blessed oils and unguents. Then intone the Prayer of Initial Appeasement, followed by the Appeal to Awaken precisely ten seconds later. Binharic prayers are desirable as they are more pleasing to the Omnissiah, but any gothic argot will do. Next…[28]
Factor Jhuston, to his disciples The subtleties of human society are often dismissed by our brothers and sisters, but these mysteries too tick in accordance with the ordered principles of the Omnissiah. Like a fine chronograph, the human mind clicks and grindsin complex patterns set out in His image. And like a cogitator or a manufactorum or a voidship, this machine must be understood—and mastered—by some Priests of our order, so that the grand Quest for Knowledge can continue.[16k]
Tech-Priest Jung, Forge World Gehenna Our enemies may rest but rust never sleeps.[4b]

K

Speaker Quote
Fabricator General Kane You may say, it is impossible for a man to become like the Machine. And I would reply, that only the smallest mind strives to comprehend its limits.[47a]
- attributed[12a]
Enginseer Kayex-8 Below ... This is how free range pre-servitors refuel?
- Kayex-8 comments on a hive city marketplace.[2b]
Magos Tonnus Mu Kepplar Your assertion is flawed. It is you who venerate the Omnissiah, only you do so in His guise as the Emperor.[34a]
Subdomina Khepra Fire works on everything.[1]
Thusdorius Knoch,
Invictus Acquisitor 		Let nothing dissuade your quest for knowledge. Let none slow your pursuit and acquisition of holy technology. Let none stand between you and the procurement of that which is rightfully the MAchine God's due.[43d]

L

Speaker Quote
Archmagos Takashi Ludd; Castigation upon the Logistica Corpus Thy shall not suffer a Machine to Think! For ruin shall be its purpose and accursed be the work.[22b]
Rho-1 Lux, Procurator of the Collegiate Extremis Our religion is complex, but the root of it is simple. The Machine-God made this universe, his perfect machine, the Great Work. He made us, and put us into it so we might flourish, and we do so by knowledge, which begets improvement, which allows understanding. The priests of the Emperor say that the human form is perfect. We believe so too, but to us it is not perfect in its form as it is given to us. It is instead the perfect beginning. We were made weak by the Machine-God to test us. Our role in life is to learn all there is to learn, to improve upon what the Machine-God gave us, and enrich his creation in the process.[31a]

M

Speaker Quote
The spirit of Ramus Macabee speaking to Ervin Hekate There's no turning back... Triumph or oblivion.[15]
Corporal Thune Madu, Ostian Guard Thought they was some sort of daemon flying overhead, afore I realised they were cog-folk. Still, seeing what they did to them heretics, they’re far from human... I’m glad they’re on our side.[37b]
Malcador The foe of reason builds monuments to his madness, and reveals himself thereby.[1]
Foreman-Primus Sarnia Maufry It should be working now! If not, try praying some more, or strike it again![16l]
Datasmith Inductionis Memetica ‘The Kastelan has might, yet without the Datasmith’s arts, it is might without a purpose — the mindless exercise of destruction, wasting one of the Omnissiah’s greatest gifts. Our task is a holy one, to unite the strength of the Kastelan with the will of the Omnissiah.[37d]
Garba Mojaro, Prefectus of Adeptus Mechanicus A man may die yet still endure if his work enters the greater work. Time is carried upon a current incepted by forgotten deeds. Events of great moment are but the culmination of a single carefully placed thought. As all men must thank progenitors obscured by the past so we must endure the present that those who come after may continue the greater work.
- The Chime of Eons[8c][16a]
Technographer Adar Millez Take care with that! We have not fully ascertained its function, and the ticking is accelerating.[16m]

N

Speaker Quote
Skitarii Marshal Neius Lal By the Motive Force, may thy augmetics never falter. By the Omnissiah, may thy aim be wrathful and true. By the Machine God, may the Great Work ever turn the cogs of industry. Ave deus Mechanicus.[30]
Archmagos Nerovian Less exalted minds might waver to learn the secrets of the xenos. But we are stronger. We are better.[1]
Last recorded testament of Vasallis Noch, the Butcher of Sahcrin They came upon our position like a river of red; an unbroken line of armour and guns stretching across our battle lines. Without a word they opened fire, and I witnessed destruction the likes of which I had never seen. Minutes passed, and still they kept firing. With so few of us left, I knew it was the end, and at that moment, as I took one last look at the grim facades of these soldiers, I knew the Machine God was real. I threw my weapon away and awaited his judgement.[16i]

O

Speaker Quote
Princeps Omicron-900 at the Battle of Kran’s Blunder An error has been detected. Activating countermeasures. Error purge in process. Error purge in process. Error purge in process.[36c]

P

Speaker Quote
Fabricator-General Plutonis The eyes of the Omnissiah are ever upon us.[1]

Q

Speaker Quote
Acolytum Friedisch Adum Silip Qvo Organic life is the Machine-God’s greatest accomplishment within the scope of the Great Work, all praise He who is three-in-one. By giving us life within an organic shell he presents us with the means and opportunity to improve upon physicality, as is his divine plan. He grants us complex weakness so we might learn metallic strength, and ascend to his level of machinic perfection.[23]
Technoarcheologist Perrenghost van Quol I have spent the last two cycles in auto-static meditation. I have analysed the topographical echo-graph. I have communed with Proctor Dominus Thargossen upon the magnetospheric anomalies. I have determined their connection to earthwork traces estimated within tolerances at M27 in age. There is first the matter of the native lifeforms and their repellent insistence that we cannot delve here. My analyses reveal their power generation sites, their subterranean transit-corridors and their mountain retreats that they no doubt consider their secret means of final defence. This holy data-inload I commit to the fleet's authority with but a single request: I want these vermin purged. This world's secrets are ours to uncover.[32m]

R

Speaker Quote
Grand Master Thordun Ranxey, Death Bolts The supporting fire of one's brethren is always a comfort. Provided it doesn't hit oneself.[6b]
Magos-Dominus Reditus From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal ... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.[1]
Skitarii Alpha Reik-1547 ... Suffered 87.43% casualties during ... event. Locomotive options limited. Egress blocked by debris ... Visual and auditory input corroborates approaching aid. No contact; logical appraisal suggests approaching units carry damaged data-tethers. Debris shift ... anomalous input. Incompatible organic spectra. Hazard. Bioalert ...[43b]
Ryazai, Fabricator General of Gamma-Zeta-61B73, Heretek 10,000 years of stagnation. That is the legacy left by those who rule from Mars. Progress is made by those who dare to cross their arbitrary rules.[29]

S

Speaker Quote
Tech-Acquisitor Scaevola Statement of Purpose: To perceive the grander picture, to strive to acquire and understand for the benefit of all mankind.[1]
[[[Error]]] Damn not found.[1]
Fabricator-General Sin-Cosinius Obey the Standard Model, or obey the laws of death.[1]
Shohreh the Exacting, Lexmechanic 86,403 confirmed casualties. Success rate decreased to 16%. I will calculate a new plan, and Omnissiah willing, we shall prevail.[36e]
Tech-Adept Servilia, attendant to Inquisitor Lord Atlar Have you attempted the Rituals of Slumber and Reanimation?[36a]
Solun-23y, Skitarii Marshal of the Iron Cohort This is the cycle that marks your transition to the Serberys Corps. Your efficacy has been noted, your tolerances of judication and your signifiers selected by none other than Magos-Haptic Pol Yogethen. Your bonding to a cybercanid is a gift from the Omnissiah. Waste it and face deletion. Employ your existence to the glory of the Machine God and in praise of the holy works of his priesthood - it is the only logical course of action for Mankind.[32n]
Princeps Akar Strang The loss of a skilled Moderatus is more saddening than the loss of a blood relative.[41b]

T

Speaker Quote
Yordus Tan,
Ministorum Preacher 		Deluded blasphemers all — would you rather believe in our evident God-Emperor, or some spirit in the machine? And you’d get a better conversation from a slab of plascrete. Though I must admit, they did a wonderful job on my new eyes.[47a]
Magos Theta Hieronyma We exist in a veil of horrors. Diversities and manifestations haunt our skies and they will devour us if they are not pinned and mounted. The Imperium is a single, celestial body, wrought in tribute to the Omnissiah. It is divine in construction and perfect in design; but it is not free of flaws. Our greatest hope of victory lies in our infinite, God-Emperor-given intellect. Only by naming our foes can we defeat them.[25]
Vox Servitor Th3ta I am a Child of the Omnissiah, cultist of the Machine God. The rites of manifold applications, the liturgies of ignition and the songs of Engine-seeing are mine own to know. I speak to the spirits of ancient tech-machines, from the warrior heart of a battle tank to the secret wisdom of the cogitator.
— Vox Servitor Th3ta, on behalf of Cult Mechanicus Adept Manuel.[40]
J'blann Threekiller,
Tiger Lizards
(12th/23rd Davin rebel Guard Regiment) 		When the Titan walks, only the dead have no fear. The brave warrior faces his fear and the Titan, and kills the enemies of the Great Brother-Warrior Horus. The Titan's steps shake the land beneath our feet, lightning is in its veins, and the sun is in its heart. The shadow of the Titan weighs upon our hearts, yet we fight against it. My knife and my gun-of-light will conquer, and the Titan's death scream will be my prayer, for my weapons shine with courage. Manuel.[44a]
Esau Turnet,
Scout Titan Senior Princeps of the Death Heads 		They are insignificant insects to be crushed. I fear no footslogger. No mud-covered infantryman can stand against the strength and speed that is within me and my Warhounds. They shall all die.[44b]

U

Speaker Quote
— Traditional battle cant, Serberys Cadre Upsilon-Rho, Avachrus Tireless shall we chase our prey ++ Merciless shall we strike our foes ++ Sharp shall be our talons ++ And bright our flames ++ We are shining steel and boundless power ++ We are the cold fury of the Machine God ++ Where we ride, all doubt perishes[37c]

V

Speaker Quote
Interrogator Caprice Valentino If he doesn’t want to talk to me or my Excruciator, he can have a conversation with my dome-headed friend instead. Just give me a few minutes to find my earbuds.[36b]
The last words of Magos Varnak We cannot live through this. Mankind cannot live through this. In a single day they have covered the surface of this planet with a flood of living blades and needle-fanged mouths. Kill one and ten take its place. If they are truly without number then our race is doomed to a violent death before every shred of our civilization is scoured away by a force more voracious than the fires of hell themselves! Death! By the Machine God, Death is here![17]
Magos Vathek, infamous heretek known as the Unkillable Heresy, they call it. They are fools. The heresy is to have the technology to achieve your will, and to renounce it in favour of politics and outdated traditions. I spit upon the Opus Machina, and I am damned in the eyes of the Omnissiah. I am strangely content, knowing that.[16e]
Magos Veriliad Do not allow secondary concerns to interfere with the priorities I have given you, Laan. I do not tolerate inefficiencies. Retain in the forefront of your logic core the fact that my repair crews can benefit more from an additional servitor than from a technoarcheologist who fails me.
- Final transmission recieved by Chi-Sigma Septus[43a]
Legio Victorum Motto For the alien, nothing.[18]
Bartolomus Virellan,
Magos Biologis 		The sword was not invented to be wielded for its own sake. Its creators knew that fighting must be done in order to live. Therefor, fighting is subservient to living. Therefor, the sword is subservient to the quill. Therefore, the sword holder is subservient to the quill holder. The warrior's role is to serve, and those who serve are more expendable than those served. Many may die to preserve my labours, and that is the natural order of things.[42]
Grand Master Volkus,
Ordo Sinister 		In truth a Titan has only three enemies against which it must guard: folly, hubris and another of its own kind.[46]

W

Speaker Quote
Tech-Priest Wocolos All or nothing, One or Zero. That is life with Belisarius Cawl.[35]
Tech-Priest Nohant Wyller, after ejection from the Diogenes Sect They think me mad... but I shall show them! Their very eyes will burn with the power of my genius![16h]

Y

Speaker Quote
Techpriest Yaffel The Omnissiah directs our footsteps along the path of knowledge.
- from his own book Soylens Viridians for the Machine-Spirit[Note 1][19]

Z

Speaker Quote
Zelith-Delta-27,
Skitarii 		The odds of success are approximately 3752 to 1. As the Omnissiah wills, I shall find a way.
— Before her heroic defense of the Anval chem-plant.[47b]
Adept Koriel Zeth, Forge Mistress It is my great regret that we live in an age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of people who try to.[20]

0-9

Speaker Quote
Vanguard Unit 09-TYBA, Radtainment Division Let our enemies come. Let their blood be the unguent that greases the wheels of our endless blessed artifice.[32i]
Cybertheurge Archmagos Genetor 237089 The Great Work comprises multiple systems of being overlying each other. Many are invisible, but vital all the same. Commerce is one engine of the Great Work, a pleasing addition to the complexity of the universe. The slates we generate from our business here are spent mostly on the acquisition of further materials to perpetuate the work of endless creation.

Certain funds are translated to non-Alectian currencies and transferred off-world. These funds are disposed of according to the will of the Omnissiah. This is perfectly normal. Why do you come here and ask me for lessons in simple economics?[31b]

To quote a very old aphorism, probator, money makes worlds go round.[31b]

- Magos 237089 conversing with Probator Symeon Noctis when questioned about the importance of profits and economics to the Adeptus Mechanicus.[31b]

7-Cyclae, Skitarii Alpha Primus, Stygies VIII It is the privilege of cogs to be ground down that the machine may run, magos.[38]
Forgive me, O Spirit, for this trespass. I intervene in your blessed functions only to fulfil my own. Together may we serve the Omnissiah in His great design.[38]
- 7-Cyclae's prayer of apology while directly interfacing with a sealed hatch.
Omnissiah, envelop me.

Guide my cogitations to your truth.

Shape my thoughts and calm my flesh.

Guard me against emotion,

That it will not overcome clarity.

Sustain my systems

with visions of efficiency

and the Quest for Knowledge.

- Litany burned into Cyclae's engrams[38]

Unattributed

Unknown Author

Speaker Quote
Magos Tech-Auxilium Prime, Unknown Know thy Enemy, to Know Thyself: In each society there is a classification that is mirrored in another society…[1]
Unknown Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.[1]
Unknown Look not upon the alien, for the alien looks back.[1]
Unknown Blessed is the ignorance that wise men choose for themselves.[1]
Unknown Deny the enemy his works and means, then deny to him his life.[1]
Unknown Fury has its uses.[1]
Unknown Let knowledge serve only man, and let that which does not remain in darkness.[1]
Unknown Behold thou corruption, and unthinking, end it.[1]
Unknown This cogitator provides a strategic overview of the battlefield. By which I mean, of course, the entire planet.[26]
Unknown. A common Mechanicus mourning rite. May their memory be stored.[30]
Attributed to an unknown Genetor Everything organic we know of is simply machinery, in one form or another. Tendons replace pistons; flesh in the place of steel; blood is simply biological coolant. To deny this and shun it is more than just Mechanicus orthodoxy – it is idiocy.[27]
Unknown Toll the bell for the spark of life,
Sing the praise of the forge's heart,
Stoke the fires of eternal war.[32a][32o]
Unknown Eternal vigilance is the duty of all the Machine God's servants. Thus do the Skitarii have their eyelids removed upon inception, that they might behold the Omnissiah's works until the day their servitude is ended.[32k]
Unknown Your petty claims of primacy disgust me, xenos. This world bears the mark of the almighty Machine God. It is there in the fascium deposits left for us to extract. It is evident in the wells of trans-sulphur, in the liquid diamonite that rains from the sky and the seam of transuranium. This world belongs to Mankind.[32l]
Vox-thief record retrieved from Combat Servitor 58438-B, cover as Labour Unit GT67x comprimised: eliminate threat to salvage inspection mission Look at it, girl. Dead eyes, grey skin, rancid stink: a clicking, clacking labour-mech. Don't be fooled. I've seen 'em in the dead hours, on errands no one told 'em to do, wearing tech you never see in the day. Honest salvage-runners like me have a nose for strangeness like that. Sometimes, it's even like they're listening to you...[43c]
Skitarii Combat Marshal Offer a prayer to the Omnissiah and boldly remove the brass securing cap. Begin the Incantation of Sacred Priming and cast forth the explosive at the crescendo of verses I, II, or III, depending on the distance to the intended target.[50]

See also

Trivia

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The following information is not to be regarded as officially sanctioned and/ or is not written from an in-universe point of view. A detailed explanation of the term "Trivia" as used in the Lexicanum can be found here.

Note 1

Possible reference to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, a series consisting of inspirational true stories about ordinary people's lives. Soylens Viridians presumably is a pun on Soylent Green ("viridans" is Latin for "greening"), an industrial nutritious wafer made out of human corpses.

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