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=== [[Notable]] tropes include ===
 
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Subverted. Monstrously. With the Thunder Warriors. The forebears of the later Adeptus Astartes Legions and the very soldiers the Emperor created in order to aid him in his 'unification' of Earth, despite their genuine and often fanatical loyalty to him, the Emperor decided that their violent tendencies and short life-spans made them a liability to his later plans of galactic conquest. And thus had all of them slaughtered to a man, aside from a few survivors {{spoiler|who have managed to work around the quick expiration date}}.
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* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]—By and large, they are good engineers despite everything. They ''do'' understand a significant fraction of their devices, and always strive to learn more—but this doesn't demystify anything, it simply brings them closer to union with the holy Omnissiah.
* [[Cargo Cult]]—The AdMech's worship of technology is completely literal, and they attend their machines with prayers as much as with tools.
* [[ClarksClarke's Third Law]]—Played straight, and integrated into their background. Technology achieved full Clark's-Third levels during the Dark Age of Technology, and most of that know-how has been lost to time since. Hence, the highest levels of technology for the Imperium is seen as magical by Imperial society, including the tech-priests themselves.
** [[Religion Is Magic]]—In full force here, going along with the "magic" in question being indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology. The devotees of the Machine God even consider the theoretical principles on which their technology is based to be a form of theology.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]—Members of the Adeptus Mechanicus that are relatively friendly tend to be...quirky at best.
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