Adeptus Titanicus
The Adeptus Titanicus (formally called the Adeptus Mechanicus Collegia Titanicus) is the organization which oversees the God-Machines of the Adeptus Mechanicus. These are used when a near-infinite amount of men, tanks, or Space Marines are still not enough. Generally in the service of the Imperium of Man, but Chaos has a few titans left over from the Horus Heresy.
The organization is structured in three halves: Maintenance, Training, and Fighting, with a secret fourth half of Construction, for a total of 200%, the tech-heresy of such claims being currently ignored by the Mechanicus, who should know better.
The Maintenance arm is exactly what you think it is, involving some of the most complicated and pants-on-head rituals ever created by the Mechanicus, which all actually do something valuable. Every part of the titan is considered both holy beyond comprehension and priceless beyond measure, so the best bet is to give the Adeptus Titanicus the smartest mechanics the Mechanicus can offer, and hope for the best. Which works all the time; again, these guys have their act together.
The Training arm draws titan pilots, called Princepts (prin-suh-PEHY), from a training school called the Collegia Titanicus, strangely enough. It's like battle school from Ender's Game meets NERV from Evangelion, but playing Mechwarrior all day long and watching mecha anime for tactical advice. Either way, the pilots that come out of there a tend to have some personality to them, as well as being the best of the best of the best.
The Fighting arm consists solely of keeping crew prepped and ready, refuel and rearm operations, and hauling the huge metal beasts back and forth between planets (which takes a lot of specialized hardware and custom cruisers to accomplish). It is always important that the princeps believes in the Emperor that believes in him, because having an existential crisis while wired to the biggest killing machine in the Imperium is a bad scene all around. And, of course, playing intel jockeys for the titan detachments out in the field when it comes time for the "Legio to walk".
The Building arm is kept hush-hush, and operates under the guise of the Maintenance Arm due to similar needs in tools and resources. They commit borderline tech-heresy every day through assembling new titans, each of which are a unique machine in coding and construction. They actually must summon a functioning machine spirit from the main cogitators, and make it talk nicely to a human via neural interface ports. They don't build anything on the Imperator Titan scale, but they have made Warlords in the past, and are brought in whenever an Imperator or Emperor class needs serious repair. This isn't to say that the Mechanicus doesn't know the Adeptus Titanicus are making new titans, the Mechanicus are all for making more! The problem is that the methods used skirt the edge of tolerable doctrine (read: taking some design liberties), so the Mechanicus as a whole needs to look the other way.
Also the name of a table top game featuring Epic-scale Titans. But that game's sole playerbase consists of a single crusty neckbeard.
Origins of the TITANS
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It has been months since the discovery. A piece of Archaeo-tech from ancient Terra, the processing implants in my brain can’t even comprehend. According to the data files we were able to decipher on its use, we believe it was called an “anti-mass spectrometer” by its creators, a group of ancient tech priests who we believe called themselves “The Order of the Black Mesa”, and along with the device we found a strange yellow crystal. So far, all of our attempts to scan the object have proven useless. It does not even seem to register at all. But recently, we uncovered another piece of data relating to the object and its place within the machine. It warns us of an event called a “resonance cascade” but the probability is so small as to be insignificant. Blessed be our hands as we uncover the great works of the Omnissiah! Entry dated: M42 This has been a most odd occurrence. After we finished repairing and ordaining the machine for use in the name of the Omnissiah, we were just about to start the rites of initiation. And then -he- appeared. Begin Transcript of Attached Voice Entry: Subject 1: High Tech-Magos Krygmann Subject 2: Unknown: Blessed are we, the tools of the Omnissiah. It is his hand who guides us now as- ++END EXCERPT+++
Gallery
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Getting wet yet?
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A Warhound benefiting from the scouting special rule.
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Titan in the service of the Angry Marines
