Greetings, citizen. This is Host Servitor 241,
the officially licensed voice of the Lex Mechanical
Divinity Office. Please remain still during instruction.
Unnecessary movement may be interpreted as heresy.
Today's educational sequence is entitled The
Sacred Hierarchy of the Anima Mechanicus. This
presentation has been calibrated for spiritual
alignment and moderate cranial strain. Side effects
may include reverence, enlightenment, and spontaneous
exsanguination. The animus machine is flawless.
You are statistically improbable. Together, this
forms harmony. The Anima Mechanicus exists to
maintain the sacred ratio between error and awe.
To repair is divine. To innovate is unlicensed
optimism. Remember, the machine does not love
you. It merely expects you to function. Within
the Mechanicus there exists six strata of devotion.
Each rank performs a unique role in the eternal
act of maintenance. From the Servitors who worship
through utility, to the Ferronarchs who are rumoured
to vibrate at frequencies no longer compatible
with human sanity. You will learn of these orders
in due time, or when your clearance level ceases
to be terminal. Before we proceed, please recite
the authorised invocation. Blessed be the bolt
that holds, cursed be the hand that questions,
sanctified be the error that repeats forever.
Failure to recite will be recorded as unsuccessful
compliance. Prepare your mind for calibration.
Remember, ignorance is efficiency, curiosity
is downtime, and downtime is death. All praise
the Emperor of Gloriana's tallest spire, and
all gratitude to those who still have faith.
End of Orientation Preface. Please proceed to
Instruction Sequence 1 when the pain subsides.
The Divine Orders of the Animus Machine. As recognised
by the Office of Techno-Ritual Compliance, Subsector
Delta-9. Tier 1. The Rusted Hand. The lowest
orders. Maintenance, prayer, and filth. Rustician.
The lowest rung. Cleans clogged ducts, scrapes
rust from sacred plating, whispers apologies
to unresponsive switches, often indistinguishable
from the grime they remove. Boilwright. Maintains
steam systems and heat sanctums. Measures holiness
in degrees Celsius, often martyred by sudden
decompression. Fluxor. Assigns to manage energy
anomalies and other luminous miracles. Half priest,
half lightning rod. Gearchant. Leads rhythmic
recitations to soothe machinery. Their humming
fills the corridors. It sometimes replaces ventilation.
Tier 2. The Forged Choir. Ritual technicians,
theoretical pragmatists, and mildly explosive
individuals. Machinalist. Oversees minor repairs
through prayer and percussion. Known to bless
broken parts with a wrench. Fabrictor. Coordinates
manufactories and forge cults. Officially a middle
manager. Unofficially a pyromancer with a clipboard.
Circuitor. Maintains logic engines and data looms.
Speaks fluently in binary litanies and burnt
plastic. Grimright. Construct sacred machines,
often unaware of their function. Their creations
work, for a time. Tier 3. The Mechanic Clergy.
Supervisors, mystics, and those who begin to
hear the animus whisper back. Thermancer. Practitioner
of controlled reanimation. Revives dead reactors
and overheated spirits alike. Cogentist. Scholar
of mechanical reason and unreasonable theology.
Often detained for excessive curiosity. Servitorian.
Keeper of the flesh machines and their memories.
Maintains emotional archives of the lobotomized
workforce. Mechrev. Leads sermons in boiler halls
and data vaults. Preaches that the spark of life
and the spark of current are one. Tier 4. The
Sacred Fabricants. Engineers of thought, techno
-mystics, and bureaucrats of revelation. Machinant.
Devotional technician who sees maintenance as
meditation. Repairs are always accompanied by
confession. Voltarian. Guardian of power conduits
and current chapels. Measures sanctity in amperes.
Occasionally glows. Technotheurge. Mystical operator
who invokes divine subroutines through ritual
code. Can reboot faith in under three minutes.
Ferronant. Overseer of heavy industry. Bound in
metal and oil. Almost certainly no longer human
beneath the plating. Always devout. Tier 5. The
High Orders of Communion. Where flesh ends and
revelation begins. Cogarch. Archon of Machine
Liturgies. Manages hundreds of subordinates and
one unmanageable reactor. Voltanist. Aesthetic
practitioner who seeks enlightenment through
contact with live current. Many achieve this
rank. Briefly. Datachant. Translator of the
Animus' digital murmurs into sacred verse. Writes
scripture in cascading code and blood. Animunculant.
Fully integrated conduit of the animus machine's
will. No longer praise. They process. Tier 6.
The Apex Orders. Rare. Worshipped. Possibly imaginary.
Cogitarch. Supreme thinker-priest. Architect
of doctrinal paradoxes that maintain spiritual
entropy. Every decision generates a minor miracle
and several reports. Ferronarch, the high pontiff
of metal, claims direct communion with the Animus
machine, emits static during speech. Machinatorum,
a title given to the truly transcendent, those
whose bodies have been replaced by their work.
The workshop lives, breathes, and prays around
them. From Rust. cognition from cognition obedience
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