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title: Mechanicum
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# Information

9th book in [[The Horus Heresy (Novels)]] by [[Graham McNeill]]

Précédé par [[📕 Battle for the abyss]] by [[Ben Counter]]
Suivit par [[📕 Tales of Heresy (Anthology)]] by [[Nick Kyme]] & [[Lindsey Priestly]] (Editors)
# Summary

> Mechanicum is the first book in the series not to focus on either the Primarchs or their Space Marines Legions. The novel centres on the eponymous "Mechanicum", a cult of machine-worshipping technologists based on the real-life planet Mars and which serves as the chief engineering authority in the nascent Imperium. The machinations of Horus and the Chaos-worshipping Traitors affects the Martian cult as much as every other Imperial organisation, leading to a civil war on Mars itself. Kelbor-Hal, Fabricator General of Mars and the technocracy's supreme leader, declares for Horus, and together they carry out a coup d'état to eliminate Techpriest and Magos adherents of the Cult who are loyal to Terra and the Emperor. As the Mechanicum is the sole power responsible for all civil and military technology in the Imperium, the conflict has vast implications for whichever side of the broader intergalactic civil war receives Mars' crucial support.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horus_Heresy_(novels)
# Notes

Interesting take on the Mechanicum of Mars.
Discovered the emperor had a very long time frame for his actions.