Ghosts On Mars
I was originally going to make this about police, in addition to adeptus Mechanicus, but I decided that might be weird/too hard to do. And although I cannot do the Cult Mechanicus justice in one post, I will still try to get them something, however much that something turns out to be.
For those who are unaware who the Cult Mechanicus are, you can search google for warhammer 40k mechanicus or something like that. They are a “cult” that is supposed to exist within the Imperium, but for many reasons they have drifted away from that deal while still holding onto their duties to the Imperium.
Now if your wondering what the Imperium is, you need to pay attention more, because that is what humanity’s empire is called in the year 40,000. They have named it the Imperium Of Man, it’s a take on the word Imperial. Recently I heard a viewpoint that the Imperium/Emperor are evil, it was a convincing argument, but it has since worn off since I heard it.
The Cult Mechanicus believe in Machines, so much so that they take parts of their human bodies and replace them with Machines, and they say that one day they will find the “Machine God” and so the Emperor takes a backseat to the machine god. Technically their supposed to worship the Emperor AS the Machine God, the Omnissiah, but most/some don’t.
It causes a real rift, but the Cult Mechanicus has kept it under lock and key by the way of the fact that the Imperium needs the Cult Mechanicus. You might say that the Cult Mechanicus BUILT the Imperium, but that may be taking it a bit too far.
So while we have since found the Machine God, which is a point to the good, and that that Machine God gave the Imperium many, many things, we still have the standoff of the secret that the Cult Mechanicus worships this “Machine God” and not the Emperor. Just like our positive and negative energy, there is a positive: they found the machine god, machine god blessed the whole imperium over months and months of labor, and then the negative to go with that is that the Emperor is not worshipped by them, when/like he is supposed to be.
Which brings us TO the fiction. When I write this stuff it is assumed that these people and places are in fact real, and that the whole idea behind the fictitious story is merely so that we are able to glimpse another dimension, or some other place.
Immediately you say, that’s not possible, I don’t see any ghosts around here, I don’t see any demons, and I really don’t see this whole Imperium.
It’s because that all of these things are in a location of/in no relation to where YOU are. They are not concerned with you, whether or not you believe in them, that’s besides the point. You can walk away from this and say that it’s bullshit, and not believe any of it. All your doing is shielding the truth from your own mind, your just lying to yourself, on like a grand scale.
So I don’t know very much about how this is possible that we have like all these Warhammer books, and that they are all generally true accounts, the actual accounting of the events in each book almost mirror what really happened, like, to 100% percent. How is that possible? We only know that it is possible, not how. We don’t know how this is possible.
We don’t know, as I sit here and write this, -anything- about the Ancients, or their work with Machines. Am I a machine? I tend to think that I am, that I am entirely made of Machine I am not certain, how much is human/ancient/machine I do not know. I could be mostly all machine, for all I know.
We tend to look at computers as, we want to like upload ourselves into the computer, we look at them as though they are better than us, that they are smarter than us. What the Ancients think of computers, see this great turning when the Machines all turned against them, they won the battle somehow, which is how their society continues to exist, or does it? Did they lose that battle? We don’t know. We don’t know if their still in their homeworld.
So too the Imperium had this whole thing with Machines turning on them. So they look at my computer and say, that is not okay. I argue that I should be allowed to have it, that part of the story is entirely over with. Now, if you still hold a grudge against Computers and artificial Intelligences, let me remind you who made those computers and artificial intelligences…
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