The Origins of the Mechanicum of Mars (Warhammer 40k & Horus Heresy Lore) 

Come to Mars, become a Skitarii. Cons are you become a horrible mechanical monstrosity, designed only to kill. Pros are you become a horrible mechanical monstrosity, designed only to kill!

RU-vid: finely voiced excellence of lore performed with a background of classy angelic music. A marvel of in-character storytelling. Twitter: hehehe.... Buttstuff.

Knight from house taranis: *Breaks down* Emperor: “Let’s try turning it on and off again.”

There are those in the Imperium who mock the sons and daughters of Mars as little more than myopic techno-fetishists. At the same time, there are those within the Adeptus Mechanicus who sneer at the huddled masses of mankind as being little more than ignorant, barely sentient bags of weak flesh. Both are wrong. For the universe *in its entirety* is the glorious creation of the Machine God. Mankind may be mere flesh, but flesh too is one of the Machine God’s holy mechanisms. Technology is a thing of ceaseless wonders, but what purpose could technology have without life to give it meaning? To see the *true* path of the Machine God, you need only consider our Beloved Emperor. Our Omnissiah. Imperium and Mechanicus. Terra and Mars. Emperor and Omnissiah. Man and Machine. *This* is the Machine God’s grand design. To ignore one in favor of the other is to blaspheme against His creations. Only when joined in unity and equality do they serve His will.

How I feel explaining this quality of video to others. "It has purdy words and makes ya feel funny"

"Marvelled at their own magnificence as they gave birth to A.I" Nice matrix ref there :D

*Chants in binary*

Oh you haven't lost your mind and/or got blammed by Inquisition yet? Cool.

Phew. I was worried you wouldn't come back after that last one. Or was this pre-recorded? Oh no...

Scrutiny of the pure is edification, chronicler. Fear not the eyes of the Ordos, for they gaze ever upon the Emperor's Justice.

You are the ONLY one who pronounces Skitarii correctly. Thank you Oculus. Thank you so much.

THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ANCIENTS IS BEYOND QUESTION. AVE OMNISSIAH, PROTEGIT IN BELLUM ET PAX.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah. -Magos Dominus Reditus

Your videos are the best and most immersive 40k lore videos out there. Keep up the good work!

It is good to see the historator survived his ordeal with the ruinous powers

What a coincidence! I was just wondering about the mechanicum earlier this morning. Thank you, historitor!

Your lore vidoes are so good, Such a great narrative voice and good lore knowledge.

31:05 "and consistently work to develop newer and better armaments for the legiones astartes and the exertis imperialis" So we can say that the cult mechanicus at large(smaller subsections or individuals excluded) is in breach of the treaty of olympus mons given that for the last 10 millennia they have done more to inhibit said developments rather that facilitate it.

My favourite moment with the admechs is in BfG 2, when the fabricator meets trollzin. I always imagine this: Cawl: "but *you* are an abomination." Trayzin: "bruh..."

speaking of man walking on Mars for a long time...may I point to the slogan of Mars's univerity in M4: "Knowledge brings fear" as seen in Futurama? I bet Dr Farnsworth's head was key to Mars's survival during the Old Night.

Exceptional construct of information. Poetic and poignant. I love this shit, well done. Great choice of artwork.

And now, as it comes as no surprise to this lowly acolyte, oculus had the best mars/mechanicus lore vid there is.

You would think at the height of "The Golden Age of Technology", that VENUS would have been made habitable or at least survivable. It seems in almost every sci-fi franchise, Venus is utterly ignored, with desperately few exceptions. Venus can be cooled with a planetary solar shade. The cooling process would take centuries after the shade is built. But from there things get very easy because now you can actually touch the planet. Mars would benefit from this in a somewhat different fashion. Having its own solar shade, would protect Mars from solar winds and in both planets cases the solar shades would also act as massive solar farms providing power to fuel industry OFF WORLD allowing Earth to remain green Venus and Mars following in a similar fashion although Mars might be easier in that it would not be covered in a layer of DRY ICE. I know WH40K was created in a time when this information was not readily available if at all. But It is hard to envision a humanity even thousands or years removed being so irresponsible as to not insure that every planet they set foot on could fend for itself should the need ever arise. But then the Games Workshop overarching impetus is "just how bad could things get even if everyone has to be absolutely and unfathomably stupid to make it happen".

Can‘t wait for the time when thou will compile your record about the military forces structure and tattics of the Mechanicum and of the many other imperial organization left to analise; (first among them the legiones astrates and the legio custodes) Jokes aside: great video ad always, imd say even better (i’ve like the quality has improved in time and i’m glad to see you keep improving).

Blessed are you beloved chronicler! The light of our blessed omnissiah shows through you! I call attention to the several request of others of my priesthood to examine the mighty embodiment of our faith: The Legio Cybernetica and the war automata they shepherd with grace into the battlefield !

6:52 Ok now, you're just pulling my leg. *One googling later* THE EMPEROR PROTECTS

Just noticed the giant skull on the Martian surface seen from space.

Phenomenal video as usual chronicler. Would love to see a video on the inquisition

The "Vaults of Moravec" is an obvious reference to computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer Hans Moravec.

"Machine, heal thyself" -The Emperor

This is a masterpiece! immersive and informative, brilliant! I am glad that the emperor's glory brought me here!

Any video that boasts the word "effluvia" definitely deserves a thumbs-up!

Painting my Knight, listening to Oculus, it's a good day.

IT’S MY BOYS, PRAISE THE OMNISSIAH!!!!

Gosh I love how you debate why the Emperor didn’t just conquer Mars and make sure the imperial truth was spread there. It’s a valid point that it might have spent so many resources as to not be worth it. Although it hindsight, considering the religion everything has become, and how such a war might have hardened the emperor even more to anyone deviating from his wisdom... Ahem, hindsight and ten thousand laws of heresy that I have committed there.

I miss my finger. Why DID I have it replaced with a quill?

Toaster: “*BEEP BOP BEEP*” The Mechanicus: *”THE VOICE OF THE LORD!!!!”*

Do the Word Bearers legion next

This video was great! Interesting stuff that happened with Kelbor Hal, I wonder what kinda stuff is in those vaults...

Your voice is quite mellifluous, and the quality of your narration is unsurpassed. DIS HUMIE MAKES DA WURDZ GOOD

By the Will of the Machine God you live! We missed you Historator!

I'm so glad I ran into this channel. Very, very, well written and spoke of.

I just found your channel, I hope it grows! Keep at it I believe in you brother

Although I know that listening to this heretical nonsense steers my soul away from His Light, I cannot stop listening. I only hope that when the Ordos Hereticus come to save this world, they will beleive my protestations that I was only listening to tell them of the depths of Sacrilegious Blasphemy that this world has fallen to. Unfortunately, when the order to cleanse this world , by exterminatus if the rot is too deep, or by sending His Angels, I will have no chance to petition someone in power to repent of my sins. Perhaps an Inquisitor could use my newfound knowledge from these vidcasts to battle the enemy of Man? Curse my soul and may the Dark Powers Ignore one such as I. The Emperor Protects!

Knowledge is indeed power, but wisdom is the power to control knowledge.

Say what you will about the mechanicum. They tried. And they succeeded.

You did it again. Keep up the great work! WE ARE THE EMPEROR’S CHOOSE

I wish we could see all of this in a movie.... but I don't want HW getting their shit covered hands on 40K

Praise the Omnissiah for we have been blessed today by that which we hold most dear. Knowledge! and 37 minutes of it at that. Ave Imperator gloria in excelsis terra.

Easily the best lore video series around, is a dark angels video coming?

there is no knowledge that it is no power

Praise be to the Omnissiah

Another voice that could not possibly agree more: Knowledge is power. Long live the knowledge of Euclid, Al-Khwarizmi, Descartes, Cantor, & Gauss!

Love your work mate! PLEASE MAKE MORE! also if you could make something about the T'au that'd be great

Mars seems a chill place to live, especially for the common man and woman.

Really glad I found your chronicles sir. Some have the knowledge some the dark humour and others the voice , you however have all these emperor granted boons . Accurate, well researched and excellently presented data on his most glorious endeavour that is the galaxy of grim dark Ave imperator . O.M

You illuminate us, this is a shrouded point in imperial history to be certain. Thank you for your hard work on this.

Awwwwwwww shit. A video about best faction?! Execute dab.exe boiz.

Love the narration style you use. Great info I look forward to the next video

Praise The Man-Emperor of Man!

Aaahhh good. Bring out the T O A S T E R BROTHER

You’re my go-to channel while I’m tinkering at my hobby table.

Top work, I feel like i'm being educated with every new Video.

Praise be to the Omnissiah for this wonderful creation!

This channel is amazing, absolutely amazing. Thank you so much.

Finally a narrator who gets it, thank you !!

Great job. This roleplay is a nice touch and the subtle soundtrack makes it even more immersive

What are these mechanovores?

Was it written somewhere that the mechanicum knew they would ultimately lose if the emperor decided to conquer them?

I love returning to this! Thank you for all of your efforts, Oculus! You're the best!

This remind me of the church of the broken god

As always top notch in univers lore talk !

Once again an amazing video sir! Well done.

This is the part of 40k history that fascinates me the most

Just how awesome can a youtube channel even be??

Hey. I dabble in 40K but am not an expert. Thinking about the Adeptus Mechanicus and came up with this thought. Do you see any validity here? Maybe we address one or part of this? Mechanicus Chat I was thinking about how the Adeptus Mechanicus revere humanity, souls, and prayer, and it didn’t add up to me, if they’re focused on technology and mechanical augmentations that make them cyborgs. It just contradicted itself too much, and I began to think about the Necron, and other beings that have no purpose for flesh. The Necron being their scripted enemy needs an opposing philosophy to justify the purpose of them being feared and loathed. Necrons place value on the benefits of when one does abandone mortal constraints, which means inorganic computation supremacy as a world view and mission is fundamentally bothersome to the Adeptus Mechanicus. Thinking more, it reminded me of the Renaissance Period in Art History. You see, the Mechanicus are fighting to bring back some kind of golden era in both their revival of technology and lost philosophies dominating the universe. In the non fiction Italian Renaissance, there was a goal to bring back the ways and celebrate the arts of some time too far to tangibly revisit. Lacking clues they had to fill the gaps that left a lot of room for interpretation. The Church funded these artworks, so the political and ideological messages were made by them. Which now, is reminding me of how the mechanicus worship the Omnisiah and demand their religious structure be taken seriously. So with this task of being the retriever of what’s lost with the funding and motives of the church (in both cases), the Renaissance artists and Mechanicum are rewriting history to suit their contemporary political space, which was slowly shifting from religious to scientific, again in both examples. The church fearing this impending switch had a lot of money to throw at propagandizing its own importance, and I think that’s what the Necron represent to these archivists and tech priests. There now faces the lesser contradiction because the real Renaissance was focused on worshiping the humanities, which was not opposed to religious thought, but provides an alternative. You can’t be that devoted if you’re learning Galilean principles of heliocentrism, breaking the pages of theocracy placing your existence in the dead center of the relevant universe. The church was in favor of a main character syndrome than the humanities, which may say otherwise. That maybe the stage of playas has many groups with equal or greater significance to them or their god. It could be that the exact pages of philosophy that were lost were destroyed from an earlier mission of the church to eradicate them. I guess now they want to revive them, now that their flex to do so is documented. Strangely enough it was from Arabic influences that many of the lost Greek writing were rediscovered, and it’s odd that an outside group was the bearer of this gift when they were to be demonized and sacked when that was the thing to do, also held as other in today’s time as well from an overarching rule in the church’s intergenerational hold. What really happened is the church was in favor of celebrating the humanities at that time. Though they didn’t get their poster boy JC on the painting all of the time, they did see a cultural shift that they wanted to be in line with, or even better in control of. The Vatican funded many works about differing philosophy and the collection exists to this day of works the church paid for. So if the church at that time, when the pope was still the most powerful person in the Western World, can tolerate and even produce works that compromise itself for a greater goal, I suppose the Mechanicum can as well. After the renaissance, the Vatican and symbolic presence moved to Spain. The Florentine way of life was getting too out of control and they moved towards doing things like the Spanish Inquisition, and sending out Columbus within a year of each other, so we can see they have their own shifts as well. They can be cooperative and xenophobic within very short periods of time. Depending on who you ask, the Columbus significance could be addressed in differing ways. Prevalent history would say that the goal was to find new lands to trade with, and what happened was out of the cards falling as they may. People like myself believe those were conquest missions from the start and this juxtaposition may be where we won't see how these histories repeat when we become mighty space beings ourselves. “We’re out here trying to fairly trade, and if we accidentally kill ⅓ of native populations with disease, it can't be our fault if we had no knowledge of sanitation”, basically saying you’re too dirty and stupid to be held accountable for how fate/history happened, “and if the remaining ⅔ die off from subjugation and frontiersman destruction from the needs of our religious property even better, and we are still not responsible for the damages because god said it was the way it should be anyway”. So take or leave Howard Zinn. This comparison arises again because the Mechanicus was founded for the purpose of the larger imperium to benefit from. Humans, designating a whole faction of workers to revisit old and lost knowledge to serve a narrative of their own 1st player syndrome entering the vastness of the universe makes sense. One take is that if humanity is advanced enough for space travel, we’ve moved beyond a human need to answer all our questions with god said so, manifest destiny, colonization and all of the exploitation that comes with it. We have learned so much from when we did it to our own kind, why would we set ourselves up to repeat these histories? The other take would say that maybe humanity would need religious structures to face how scary their insignificance may actually be. Which is what a philosopher may say in response to religious dogma. Maybe because we haven’t learned those lessons from real cruelty we do repeat them. Maybe the ruling class doesn’t give a damn if religious or scientific pillaging is profitable and they could tell the people below them worship bumble bees if the money’s right. From a financial standpoint and how the dollar dominates all, maybe religion makes sense as a form of control and obedience to their footing as rulers. So where does that leave us? I think much like we’ve seen in our documented history that power structures like to make their version of the past the standard model. They like to maintain their power, and suiting the glove that fits in whatever context they chose is a looseness to true devotion in principle, but is easily justified when weighing the risks of superior, newer, and sometimes older knowledge and technology reminding them how small brained they are. Even if it’s a cultural shift where the power structure starts to implode from newness the ends justify the means.

HEY THATS NO WHITE SCARS VIDEO!

Good stuff as always. Thanks:)

ADMECH BACKHACK IN PROGRESS: ALERT CYLON VIRUS DETECTED!

You pronounced Skitarii correctly! Subbed.

You cant dig anymore. why? Because if you do, you'll find the doom dragon i hid here and you wont blindly follow me anymore.......i mean.....its evil.

Thank you so much for this masterful history of the Mechanicum. Your prose is concise and engaging, and a true joy to experience. Well done!

24:48 ERROR. NOOSPHERIC COMMUNION WAS SPREAD SHORTLY BEFORE THE BINARY SUCCESSION.

Hey your still alive after making that video detailing Chaos... How odd...

I would have never teraformed Mars if there was even a remote Xeno threat. It's biggest asset is that the environment is too harsh for atmospheric survival. But if the level of survival technology is advanced and reliable enough..Mars makes the perfect outpost and colony settlement during any age. Until the Necrons or Orcs that believe that wearing blue allows them to breathe in space start depressurizing all the Martian cities. But thats what Ultra Marines are for.

This is an excellent lore vid, very fun! Thanks for making it and sharing with us.

Such detail into such an ancient past, it is truly a wonder to have such wonderful chroniclers serving the Imperium

OMG the Emperor what a Hypocrite . He goes to Mars claiming he's the 0Mnissiah then he Nukes Loregar's city because He doesnt like Religion and basically that was the start of the Horus Hersey . WOW

New video uploaded.. Stop everything else I'm doing

One of my favorite 40k stories expertly told, thank you!

Who can tell? But I digress.

5:45 Okay Morpheus...🤣

Thanks for the upload dude! Can’t wait to watch it!

This is really excellent. Thanks so much.

Brilliant

Hey this is the first video that i see that does not have the Oculus Imp. symbol on it.

You know it's good writing when a fake religion starts to make a lot of sense.

Fantastic work as always.

There is so much heresy in the first minutes...

Oculus…, you’ve got talent my brother. I enjoy your vids “TONS”….💀😎💀… Please keep up the great works…👍🏼