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===Tech-Adept===
'''Tech-Adepts''', or '''Tech-Priest Adepts''', are sometimes low-ranking individuals in the Adeptus Mechanicus{{Fn|24a}} who have the these are individuals of proven intellectual potential to rise into higher positions within the Machine Cult, eventually taking on the mantle of Tech-Priest.{{Fn|25a}} Others A Tech-Adept might forego this pursuit in rising their rank and role in the ranks of the Adeptus Mechanicus and take another path to pursue other paths in life. In some circumstances, adepts might forego taking with them their pursuit hunger for knowledge and mastery of rank within the arcane technologies. These once Tech-Adepts who have decided to set themselves apart from their Martian Priesthood and instead take up other opportunities, such as peers might commit themselves to the rare instance service of pursuing a career as an [[Inquisitor]] or [[Rogue Trader]], sometimes rising to the rank [[Inquisitor]].{{Fn|27}}
The lowest ranking Tech-Priests Priest Adepts primarily serve in menial roles, supporting the work of higher ranking Tech-Priests. More often than not their primary functions are maintenance and construction duties, but as a Tech-adept progresses and acquires greater knowledge, they are relieved from the more trivial day-to-day tasks and allowed to study and learn of the greater mysterious and missing techniques that have prevented any kind of progressive development in the Imperium’s technological base.{{Fn|24a}}
Tech-Adepts are some of the lowest ranking of the Martian Priesthood and can serve in general purpose roles or sometimes more specialized ones.{{Fn|24d}} General menial work might include doing census work within a food or water starved sector of a Forge-City.{{Fn|8a}} Many of the lost technological arts used by the Imperium are known only to the Mechanicus priesthood and those they choose to share their sacred knowledge with. Many secrets of manufacturing are now known to but a handful of the inner circle of the Adeptus Mechanicus Magos and their tech-adept artisans.{{Fn|24b}} Through rune and hammer, the Tech-Adepts are the wards of the arcane and they guard their knowledge jealously.{{Fn|24c}}
