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'''Tech Adepts''', '''tech-adepts''' or '''Tech-Priest Adepts''', are adept grade members of the Martian priesthood. They are skilled in one or more disciplines.{{Fn|29f}} These individuals are fully initiated acolytes of the Cult Mechanicus and form the bulk of its ordained priesthood.{{Fn|24e}}

Although Tech-Adepts can be lumped together with some of the lower ranking Tech-Priests of the Martian cult they might not have yet still command the coteries of thralls, menials, and servitors that serve the Cult of the same authority Machine. Although typically assigned maintenance and responsibilities as a Tech-Priestconstruction duties by their masters, they {{Fn|24a}} adepts still have the potential to control and command a myriad of powerful arcane weapons, [[automata]], and battlegear used by Tech-Priests of various disciplinesdepending on their own skill and resources.{{Fn|27}} They can are individuals of proven intellectual potential and skill within the Machine Cult.{{Fn|25a}} Tech-Adepts can be some of the lowest ranking Tech-Priests of the Martian cult. The lowest ranking among them mainly have 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}}