Venatorii Sanctoris

"Delete. Terminate. Revise"

The standing militia of the Prefecture Magisterium, the Sanctoris are an auxiliary force which can be assembled by the Magisterium Cohorts of any Forge World in times of doctrinal crises. Drawn from among the ranks of the Mechanicum’s priesthood, any ordained member of the clergy may submit themselves for induction into the ranks of the Sanctoris, from the lowliest Lexmechanic to the highest Magi. Far from the often under-trained or poorly-equipped militia reserves maintained by many worlds of the Imperium of Man, heeding the call of the Prefecture Magisterium requires submission to total cybernetic reconstruction and neural programming, turning any Venatorii Sanctoris into a relentless warrior utterly devoted to the three tenets of castigation laid down by the Prefecture Magisterium: eradication of the flesh, sundering of the machine and termination of the animus.

In addition to the Tech Priesthood who fights, specially assigned Skitarii are seconded as well. Treated with special neural engrams and mind wiped after every battle, these spiritually pure soldiers die such that the priesthood may live.

Every war fleet of significant size deployed during from a forge maintains a detachment drawn from the forces of the Prefecture Magisterium, usually accompanied by a number of Sanctoris Covenants, which often fluctuated in size as hosts of Tech Priests from across the fleet submitted themselves to the Venatorii as non-compliant worlds were encountered which presented a particular blasphemy against the Omnissiah.

Specialty Forces of the Sanctoris
Reserved solely for the use of the Magisterium are special patterns of hunter-killer units designed to persecute treachery of the most heinous sorts, and the foulest of alien machines.

Idolum Class Battle-Automata
Throughout the darkness of Old Night, the Idolum were held under the exclusive purview of the Prefecture Magisterium, built as counterpart to the Vorax upon the shared schematic of the venerated Crusader template. Unleashed in times of the direst doctrinal crises, where the most powerful machines of the Mechanicum had been corrupted against their sacred purpose, Maniples of Idolum Battle-automata would bring ruin to the heretek engines of any Magos who overstepped the sacred tenets of the Omnissiah.

As the need for internal watching following the Schism of Mars, the Idolum were given fresh purpose, produced in greater numbers and ceded by the Malagra Magos-warlords of the Magisterium to the warfleets of the Forge, to purge the Galaxy of the blasphemous machines of Xenos civilisations and errant human conclaves alike. Truely, it is the battlegrounds of Heresy, in which the weapons of the sinister Idolum can once again turned against the warped parodies of the Mechanicum itself, fierce machine-animas uncaring of anything but the will to hunt the terrible forces of the Dark Mechanicum