#and she has respect for tech priests and machinery. while at the same time def hacking shit and breaking into it

[princeofhags]

So I get that Cult Mechanicus is incredibly exclusive and tight-lipped about their practices. But it also seems impossible to me that there aren’t worshippers outside of the tech-priests and acolytes since it peacefully coexists and intertwines with the Imperial cult. These laypeople of course will never be afforded the privileges or access to the deeper mysteries of the Mechanicus cult, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t hold personal worship/belief and support financially or otherwise. Thinking also of the Gapraks with their ties to Kiava Gamma…

I would think that more widespread worship of the Cult would be especially prevelant on Forge worlds whose populations toil in the name of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Yes, belief in the Imperium & working for its well-being, but it naturally follows that faithful for the other major religion in the area would also pop up. Not to mention with how much mankind relies on machinery, it is completely reasonable that a sort of “pray this machine works, thank it for serving its function” looser type of faith exists.

Thinking about Viridia’s faith being more tied to the Omnissiah than the Emperor and what this “lesser” form of veneration (as opposed to a full member of the cult) to the Machine God might look like 🤔