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Many acolyta are promising young children. Some Forge Worlds also train their acolyta in combat, sparring with other youths using [[electro staff|electro staves]] while under the watchful guidance of a Warleader.{{Fn|1d}} An individual who has spent 20 years studying is considered old for a tech acolytum. An individual who has spent this many years studying under one or more masters either due to a lack of enthusiasm, incompetence, or out of guile. Individuals don't typically choose to postpone their promotion if it is available. A student might do so in order to learn more, plunder all the knowledge they can from one master and then move onto the next.{{Fn|2a}} During these apprenticeships the apprentice will likely learn many of the secrets of their master's unique studies.{{Fn|1c}}
They are treated as inferior to an ordained [[tech-adept]]. The Mechanicus sometimes treats acolytum little better than the common [[human]] masses, being lumped together with other unranked Mechanicus thralls, dregs and [[servitor]]s.{{Fn|1a}} Acolytum don't have any ordained ranking and must prove themselves competent in several fields before being able to secure their first ranking.{{Fn|1c}} Once they are officially ordained they will be promoted to [[tech-adept]], their graded ranking being the proportional to their mastery of mechanical mysteries.{{Fn|2a}}
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