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Greetings, citizen. This is Host Servitor 241,

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the officially licensed voice of the Lex Mechanical

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Divinity Office. Please remain still during instruction.

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Unnecessary movement may be interpreted as heresy.

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Today's educational sequence is entitled The

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Sacred Hierarchy of the Anima Mechanicus. This

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presentation has been calibrated for spiritual

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alignment and moderate cranial strain. Side effects

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may include reverence, enlightenment, and spontaneous

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exsanguination. The animus machine is flawless.

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You are statistically improbable. Together, this

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forms harmony. The Anima Mechanicus exists to

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maintain the sacred ratio between error and awe.

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To repair is divine. To innovate is unlicensed

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optimism. Remember, the machine does not love

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you. It merely expects you to function. Within

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the Mechanicus there exists six strata of devotion.

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Each rank performs a unique role in the eternal

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act of maintenance. From the Servitors who worship

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through utility, to the Ferronarchs who are rumoured

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to vibrate at frequencies no longer compatible

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with human sanity. You will learn of these orders

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in due time, or when your clearance level ceases

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to be terminal. Before we proceed, please recite

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the authorised invocation. Blessed be the bolt

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that holds, cursed be the hand that questions,

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sanctified be the error that repeats forever.

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Failure to recite will be recorded as unsuccessful

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compliance. Prepare your mind for calibration.

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Remember, ignorance is efficiency, curiosity

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is downtime, and downtime is death. All praise

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the Emperor of Gloriana's tallest spire, and

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all gratitude to those who still have faith.

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End of Orientation Preface. Please proceed to

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Instruction Sequence 1 when the pain subsides.

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The Divine Orders of the Animus Machine. As recognised

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by the Office of Techno-Ritual Compliance, Subsector

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Delta-9. Tier 1. The Rusted Hand. The lowest

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orders. Maintenance, prayer, and filth. Rustician.

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The lowest rung. Cleans clogged ducts, scrapes

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rust from sacred plating, whispers apologies

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to unresponsive switches, often indistinguishable

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from the grime they remove. Boilwright. Maintains

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steam systems and heat sanctums. Measures holiness

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in degrees Celsius, often martyred by sudden

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decompression. Fluxor. Assigns to manage energy

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anomalies and other luminous miracles. Half priest,

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half lightning rod. Gearchant. Leads rhythmic

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recitations to soothe machinery. Their humming

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fills the corridors. It sometimes replaces ventilation.

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Tier 2. The Forged Choir. Ritual technicians,

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theoretical pragmatists, and mildly explosive

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individuals. Machinalist. Oversees minor repairs

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through prayer and percussion. Known to bless

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broken parts with a wrench. Fabrictor. Coordinates

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manufactories and forge cults. Officially a middle

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manager. Unofficially a pyromancer with a clipboard.

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Circuitor. Maintains logic engines and data looms.

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Speaks fluently in binary litanies and burnt

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plastic. Grimright. Construct sacred machines,

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often unaware of their function. Their creations

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work, for a time. Tier 3. The Mechanic Clergy.

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Supervisors, mystics, and those who begin to

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hear the animus whisper back. Thermancer. Practitioner

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of controlled reanimation. Revives dead reactors

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and overheated spirits alike. Cogentist. Scholar

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of mechanical reason and unreasonable theology.

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Often detained for excessive curiosity. Servitorian.

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Keeper of the flesh machines and their memories.

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Maintains emotional archives of the lobotomized

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workforce. Mechrev. Leads sermons in boiler halls

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and data vaults. Preaches that the spark of life

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and the spark of current are one. Tier 4. The

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Sacred Fabricants. Engineers of thought, techno

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-mystics, and bureaucrats of revelation. Machinant.

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Devotional technician who sees maintenance as

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meditation. Repairs are always accompanied by

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confession. Voltarian. Guardian of power conduits

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and current chapels. Measures sanctity in amperes.

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Occasionally glows. Technotheurge. Mystical operator

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who invokes divine subroutines through ritual

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code. Can reboot faith in under three minutes.

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Ferronant. Overseer of heavy industry. Bound in

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metal and oil. Almost certainly no longer human

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beneath the plating. Always devout. Tier 5. The

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High Orders of Communion. Where flesh ends and

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revelation begins. Cogarch. Archon of Machine

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Liturgies. Manages hundreds of subordinates and

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one unmanageable reactor. Voltanist. Aesthetic

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practitioner who seeks enlightenment through

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contact with live current. Many achieve this

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rank. Briefly. Datachant. Translator of the

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Animus' digital murmurs into sacred verse. Writes

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scripture in cascading code and blood. Animunculant.

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Fully integrated conduit of the animus machine's

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will. No longer praise. They process. Tier 6.

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The Apex Orders. Rare. Worshipped. Possibly imaginary.

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Cogitarch. Supreme thinker-priest. Architect

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of doctrinal paradoxes that maintain spiritual

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entropy. Every decision generates a minor miracle

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and several reports. Ferronarch, the high pontiff

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of metal, claims direct communion with the Animus

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machine, emits static during speech. Machinatorum,

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a title given to the truly transcendent, those

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whose bodies have been replaced by their work.

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The workshop lives, breathes, and prays around

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them. From Rust. cognition from cognition obedience

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from obedience divinity host servitor 241 was

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played by Richard Roberts Vox Sanctum Gloriana

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is an Evil Lighthouse Production