I am currently Buddy Reading Adeptus Mechanicus by Rob Sanders with Mark and Dave. It is a Warhammer: 40K omnibus consisting of Skitarius and Tech-Priest. The Adeptus Mechanicus is a sub-faction of the Empire of Man. I've included a link so if you click the above picture it should take you to a full size one. You'll be able to see there, if you can't already, that the beings on the covers aren't fully human. They used to be, but they gave up bits and bobs of themselves to become more machine-like.
Now hold on to your hats, because it is about to get REALLY weird.
They do this because they worship a machine god, the Omnissiah. He is supposed to be the mechanical version of the Emperor on the Throne that mankind worships. The Emperor was killed during the Horus Heresy back in the 31st Millennium (30K era instead of 40K era) but due to magic hokum and tech thingjiggery, he is still kinda sorta alive but not really. A thousand people have to be sacrificed to keep the Emperor on the Throne from dying, every day.
Now, I have NO IDEA how the theology works here. How the Empire reconciles the Emperor with the Omnissiah is beyond me. That is a reason I am diving into this Adeptus Mechanicus faction, to try to help my understanding. But no matter what, this is some seriously fethed up stuff.
Now because this is an omnibus, I am planning on reading and then reviewing each individual book on its own. But we are reading Adeptus Mechanicus because that is how it has been released. Wish me luck, I think I'm going to need it!
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