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Much like being a [[heretek]], there are many grey areas of tech-heresy, many of which do not involve [[Chaos]], [[traitor]]s, or the [[Dark Mechanicum]] at all. Some hereteks remain in the Adeptus Mechanicus, their tech-heresies hidden or unnoticed, and still loyal to the [[Imperium]] and [[humanity]].{{Fn|3}}
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'''{{PAGENAME}}''', also known as '''Heretechnica''',is the pursuit of technological studies outside of the strictures of the [[Cult Mechanicus]].{{Fn|1}} Much like being a [[heretek]], there are many grey areas of tech-heresy, many of which do not involve [[Chaos]], [[traitor]]s, or the [[Dark Mechanicum]] at all. Some hereteks remain in the Adeptus Mechanicus, their tech-heresies hidden or unnoticed, and still loyal to the [[Imperium]] and [[humanity]].{{Fn|3}}
==History==
==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}}
