Mechanicum Taghmata: Origins & History (Warhammer 40K & Horus Heresy Lore)

Being a record of the sacred Taghmata armed forces of the Mechanicum of Mars, whose very name in the Omnissiah’s Lingua Technis may be translated as “that which is divinely ordered for war”.
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[@seraphoxillidun3340]

RIP "Buttstuff Kaiju"

[@Matihood1]

He resisted for so long...

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#BringBackTheButtStuff.

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Praise the Emperor; it’s gone

[@Kurtus87]

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

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If you know you know 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kairos4486]

I remember 3rd edition, when we knew almost nothing about Mars and the Mechanicum. So much has changed since then.

[@treacheroustiger5571]

I love everything about Mars. Such am a massive history, culture and social system. Long live the technocracy of the machine god!

[@tech-adeptzeth1648]

With each bolt and thrust do we give praise to the God of All Machines!

[@Mikey__R]

As in all things 30k, the Mechanicum is far more interesting than the 40k Mechanicus. Long may FW and the Black Library continue to explore the Age of Darkness!

[@samleake2528]

You do realise that A C C E S S D E N I E D.

[@firehazardentertainment8381]

[**R E D A C T E D** intensifies]

[@RicDolore]

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[@jamescousins9216]

I always like seeing the sharp delineation between 30k and 40k put into contrast, and one such element is the Feudal element. For all Warhammer is described as a middle-ages inspired franchise, in-universe the modern Imperium is more akin to a authoritarian and fascistic military dictatorship that attempts, attempt being the key word because Administratum, total control over every aspect of life. And I also loved that you covered the "Lords of Cursed Tears", with Occulus even slowing slightly when covering the Tech-Thralls. Truly, such a horrid practice shakes a viewer ten thousand years down the line.

[@lamb_link]

Aw fuck yeah, it’s the real boys, the best boys, the cog boys! Perfect timing too, I’m doing some paperwork for an engineering course and could really use some of the omnissiah’s guiding light.

[@vulpesinculta1919]

A Navis Nobilite video would be great fun. I always love how they have disproportionate power and influence despite their status as mutants. It's also interesting the stuff on how they partly sabotaged the web way project by destroying the dark glass device. Love to hear your in universe opinions on the Navigators.

[@BluJean6692]

the bene gesserit witch must leave...

[@inquisitorgarza312]

Several of these powerful machines warriors that mistreated and mistrusted by the Imperium, they nevertheless fought with such pride and honor that they earned their place in the Great Crusade.

[@francoismarcou863]

Hi Occulus, i think i had never wrote some words for you, so thank you for your vids ! Your narritive point of view is really good and high quality lore... as we say in my country : Chapeau l'artiste ! Thx again and keep up good content !

[@OculusImperia]

Wow, thank you!

[@avalonangeloflight]

He will always be buttstuffkaiju to the old guard!

[@DanielVisOneCade]

Glad I'm not the only one who got to the end and went wait wait wait I'm here for the buttstuff! The lore is just a pleasant side thing. :P

[@christopher.spencer8116]

Friday ain't Friday if there is not a upload from the esteemed Oculus Imperia!!

[@ernestonery7881]

Ave Omnissiah, Gloria in excelsis Mars

[@thomastheawesome4822]

Ave Deus Mechanicus

[@SleepySack]

May the Canticles of the Omnissiah's protect us!

[@sylviusleonard5144]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh it digusted 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. For the machine is Immortal. Even in death I serve the Omnissiah. Chadmech for life baby

[@MechaTheSpider]

Man Admech lore is so fuckin' cool

[@greglewis725]

I wish we had 40k rules for this stuff. The FW Mechanicum stuff is IMO some of the most tempting as far as painting projects go.

[@KaiserAfini]

Tagma were the elite elite troops of emperor Constantine V of the Byzantine Empire. Since these are the elite troops of every forge world techno empire, they utilized the plural, taghmata. In context, the word means "to set in order". Therefore, they fix the things that impede the ultimate role of the Mechanicum: the quest for knowledge. Which says a lot of how the tech priests see war on a philosophical level.

[@Kropothead]

Solid observation there. I learned something today!

[@leopoldjenkins]

Probably the best lore on KZbin. Anybody can read from a codex but this is something quite different. Quite special.

[@barrylucas8679]

I continue to be impressed by the quality of your efforts....thank you again

[@nikitalobanov5617]

Thank you Oculus! A great one as usual.

[@OculusImperia]

My pleasure!

[@petesinton69]

Anyone else just give these vids a like even before watching them just knowing they are gonna be badass?

[@th3falleng0d69]

This was fantastic. Well done Oculus.

[@uglyweirdo1389]

You're wonderful and we love you.

[@thewayfarer8849]

I find it interesting that among so much decentralization after the Heresy, the Mechanicus was made less autonomous and more beholden to the Fabricator General. I wonder if they eventually killed off the Jovian and Saturnine factions who didn't fall...perhaps roll them into Cawl's faction to explain the foreign innovations

[@chriskapou3519]

Random tidbit, tagmata is greek for the military formation of battalion, but in the middle ages the word was used for knightly orders

[@MiddleAgedGuy73]

What a great start to my Friday!

[@ChoonMa]

First Astoria, now this! I'm in the heaven of the Omnissiah's mechanical embrace!

[@kaiusbellum107]

Look at all those Paterons! Clearly this is the work of the Emperors chosen.

[@JustAChannel402]

Love the format; well researched, beautiful content and beautifully executed. Omnisiah be praised. But I do miss the prostelysations of Buttstuffkaiju

[@sevatar2777]

Sees mechanicum My body is ready

[@StarboyXL9]

These videos have the same mouthfeel as Dan Abnett's 40k novels. Really immersive.

[@Thedagda801]

Wonderful as always!

[@gilde915]

as usual...a perfect lore Video.....i love those Videos fro the past…..its not that wellknown and explains most of the 40k "situations"....great job

[@georgesulea]

Well done yet again Sir:)

[@zendit570]

Great work

[@malcolmhaldin3667]

Excellent video as always. But can we please have one about Marine Black Shields.

[@user-cq1cw8xz7f]

I love your way of telling lore, it pulls me into the universe in a more personal, gritty way! love every vid, maybe because I'm a loyal imperial guardsmen and you are just as biased against xeno and chaos filth as any servant of the GOD EMPEROR and his mighty AVENGING SON should be

[@Zardorak]

Praised be the omnissiah. Sacred be the machine god.

[@jamesdegraw1490]

I look forward to your vids thx for your effort and skill!!!

[@brentaughenbaugh2662]

Just discovered this channel, I love it! And chance we will see a Grey Knight video?

[@Bigjonmetal]

Yo as a big mechanicum fanboy with 12k points of Xana mechanicum, thanks for this!

[@thewarriorpainter9159]

That was so cool!

[@Belisaur]

yo, this is good

[@facepalmjesus1608]

i wish for a 40K Magelan Robot! ( Armiger / Thanatar equivalent) in the new upcoming 9th edition AdMech Codex..and the AdMech army will be super complete!!

[@michaellapalme1198]

Roses are red. Violets are blue. Oculus makes the dopest 40k videos.

[@FoundingChambers]

Mighty is the work you do in the eyes of the Emperor 🤘🤘

[@MrDarthtelos]

RIP Buttstuff Kaiju. Gone too soon. Gone but not forgotten.

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A very extremely awesome video as always Oculus Imperia.

[@OculusImperia]

Glad you think so!

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@@OculusImperia yep, I sure did.

[@nathanyork2358]

Proud of you 👍

[@phreakazoith2237]

If you want to preserve and expand knowledge at any cost you cannot rush forward with bolters blazing and Astartes trampling everything to the ground. The Mechanicum just had to choose a more refined way for their unification of Mars and beyond.

[@michaelhowell2326]

If the Mechanicus and the Imperium went to War with one another, who do you think would win? I know the AdMech are part of the wider Imperium but you know what I mean.

[@jesseberg3271]

Everybody else. A full scale war between the Mechanicus and the rest of the Imperium would be so disasterous for both that they would essentially destroy themselves. Whole Segmenta would be lost to Orks, Tyranids, Chaos and Necrons. Even the Eldar could probably end up stronger than humanity after such a war.

[@jackrogers5712]

Excellent video as always. Do you still have a Discord?

[@xxxxxx5868]

The old Mechanicum's governing system is very similiar to "Feudal Japan". A Chronicler could be forgiven to be confused by such a name, it was a society made in ancient Terra, where man of different kind were isolated from each other by oceans, not stars.

[@rtstrong]

THE EMPEROR PROTECTS! THE EMPEROR PROVIDES!

[@ninthcrusader2343]

Ave Omnissiah

[@Matihood1]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the "g" in "magos" and "magi" is supposed to be soft, like in "graphic", due to these words deriving from Latin.

[@rogerwhite5061]

In the case of Magnus the Red then the G is pronounced that way but Magi would be pronounced like Mage with the J. It is a good point but Magi doesnt come from Latin but rather is Zoroastrian and would've come from old persian and assyrian , those languages giving us the J pronunciation. if you look at the entimologicall site they'll confirm its zoroastrian origins, and then the greeks picked up the pronuncian who gave it to the Romans and hence down to us. Sorry for being overly verbose. Also Mechanicus organizations follow more greek than latin it seems while terra follows more Latin , though both greek and latin get used in High Gothic it seems.

[@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen]

@@rogerwhite5061 I did a little digging around in etymological dictionaries and references, and they all point towards using a sound equivalent to the hard g in modern English. There is a little wiggle room, but it's mostly a continuum from /gh/ to /kh/, with the hard g in the middle somewhere - though there's no way in hell I'll be using a /gh/ when I place Archmagos Cawl on the battlefield :D

[@Beorn567]

Finally

[@5chr4pn3ll]

Praise the Emperor!

[@joeciok]

Even the oculus can have a little butt stuff as a treat

[@orraklbenedict1832]

Dark Angels! Also you finally stopped Butstuffkaiju? Woah. Covid19 IS that bad. 😐😐

[@MelvinDukowski]

so, the mechanicum was governed basically on a web of IOU's and "dude trust me"s? Even for the imperium that's super not stable

[@hanasununhamunagoyum]

I am genuinely saddened by the passing of buttstuffkaiju.

[@jesseberg3271]

WHAT HAPPENED TO BUTTSTUFF KAIJU?

[@TactWendigo]

*Happy tech-priest noises*

[@charlesballiet7074]

The master of mankind knew many things, indeed one could say that almost all knowledge from humanity's golden era was within his reach.... exept one aspect that of the technologica archanum, professed by the tech-priests and to an extent A.I.

[@ZeroNumerous]

Wait, what happened to @ButtstuffKaiju?

[@emile1365]

CANCELLED!!

[@telenNG]

By the omnissiah I am early!

[@myaccountgothackedgoogledo7571]

First for Ave Imperator Gloria in excelsis Terra

[@DocWolph]

Just how bad were the warp storms of "Old Night". Mars is not that far away at perigee. Star systems being cut off during this time makes reasonable sense, but planets within star systems? The Warp storms would be so bad the planets themselves would be in dire peril and everything in orbit about those planets would be washed away.

[@chrisleonard2066]

Mate if you do/ever have kids they’re gonna be so lucky to have someone like you able to tell them stories!

[@Furzkampfbomber]

Even when we talk about grim and dark stories that will emotionally and psychologically scar them for life! . _"...and this was the story of how Tarik Torgaddon was beheaded by his former brother in arms, Aximand, and how his soul was then taken by a warp demon, to be tortured for eternity. And now sleep, you little rascals..."_

[@johnnyscifi]

What is the Omnissiah!!?

[@eltoxicdog7587]

F for ButtStuffKaiju.

[@commieKalmarunion]

what the hell, bruv, what happened with buttstuff kaiju???

[@the_realalpharius9715]

what happened to the discord?

[@rodrigocordeiro3550]

But stuff caiju!? NOOOOOOOO!!!

[@john7143]

Just a comment for the algorithm

[@jsalaska2854]

Imperial navy?

[@DocWolph]

Terra's sister planet is Venus not Mars.

[@justsomedude7583]

I'm looking for some discussion or clarification on pronunciation.... Wondering how Black library audio dramas actually pronounce some of these terms, because myself (an American) hears some of these and think they are incredibly goofy and straight up wrong. I also like buying my physical copies of books and don't have the income to spend that extra money on the priced up audio dramas, though I would enjoy a listen. To me it's chalked up as content creators being European and possibly having English as their second language , though I always joke the English for having invented the language are the absolute worst at speaking it! Conflicts of pronunciation I hear the the most and am the most puzzled by are Skitarii, Arbites, Princeps and Legionnes. I read and say Ski-tar-ee with an emphasis on the ee sound since it's spelled with double ii. I hear Ski-tar-ee-aye (like aye captain) and think WTF. Arbites, which I think is silly in either pronunciation and prefer to refer to them as The Arbitrators, I hear pronounced by content creators as ar-bi-tays, while I read ar-(like a pirate)bites. And then there's the content creator pronounced legio-nays, which I just think is hilarious. To me It's just a goofy spelling and to be said like legions. Also I hear princeps pronounced prin-Keps, not prin-Seps, which equally baffles me....

[@Toshiro_Mifune]

it's pronounced on TAghmata. it's a greek word essentially the plural of battalion.

[@tonygreen4936]

Get your arse to mars.

[@TheSlaughtermatic]

Long live buttstuff!

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

Beep boop.

[@miroslavmalivukovic1534]

Are you using a Mid-Atlantic accent or am I just crazy? It sounds like a mix between British-English and Colonial-English (American).

[@OculusImperia]

I'm Irish, been living in Canada for year, and affect something of a speech pattern for the videos, so no doubt its all bit messed up!

[@WASDLeftClick]

Personally your accent combined with the pattern of speech you affect is a major part of what makes your videos great man. As an American from the South East it doesn’t quite sound like any one accent I’ve ever heard, which in a way makes your in-character narration really feel like a person from the far-future who’s accent is completely different from any in existence today speaking a slightly different version of English. Ignoring of course that English, assuming it even survives the 38k years, would be completely unrecognizable to the modern speaker just as much as Old English is. Basically I’m saying your videos have a certain authenticity to them that is only rivaled by the likes of Lord Baldemort when he’s not breaking character.

[@anguscampbell3020]

What happened to buttstuffkaiju?

[@deusvult2801]

Oculus Omnes Videt

[@lukemcdonladson6648]

👌😎💚

[@emile1365]

Wooo, we've come a long, long way since 2nd edition, shame that GW felt the need to "update the story" despite it being a setting.

[@charlesballiet7074]

so basically mars was its own ethnicity, with its own beliefs, heritage and values, very interesting

[@lead.farmer]

FIRST!!!

[@tsarcastic3722]

wait, @ WHAT on twitter? unsubscribed & downvoted