Others, however, pursue the dark path of tech-heresy completely on their own, forging their own roads to damnation independent of any direct connection to Chaos or the Dark Mechanicum, though still wholly in violation of the strictures of the Cult of the Machine God.

Many Hereteks are loosely connected to the Dark Mechanicum, those members of the ancient Priesthood of Mars who turned their backs upon the Emperor of Mankind during the Horus Heresy and the Schism of Mars and swore to serve the Warmaster Horus and the Dark Gods in return for technological advancements denied them by the Emperor for the safety of Mankind. Hereteks value the pursuit of knowledge, of any knowledge, at all costs, regardless of the consequences to themselves or to others and even at the peril of their own souls. Heretek is the name given by the Adeptus Mechanicus to those tech-priests who turn their backs on the teachings and strictures of the Cult Mechanicus in pursuit of usually dark and forbidden technologies linked to the power of the Warp and the Ruinous Powers of Chaos. Embracing the Warp reveals technology that the primitives on Mars could never dream of wielding.'Ī Heretek of the Dark Mechanicum displaying Chaos mutations. ' The path of the Omnissiah has left humanity dithering in the darkness, incapable of advancing on the paths of knowledge.

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