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

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  • 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
    @seraphoxillidun3340 Před 4 lety +131

    RIP "Buttstuff Kaiju"

  • @samleake2528
    @samleake2528 Před 4 lety +64

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

  • @kairos4486
    @kairos4486 Před 4 lety +50

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

  • @treacheroustiger5571
    @treacheroustiger5571 Před 4 lety +159

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

    • @tech-adeptzeth1648
      @tech-adeptzeth1648 Před 4 lety +3

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

    • @Mikey__R
      @Mikey__R Před 3 lety +2

      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!

  • @jamescousins9216
    @jamescousins9216 Před 4 lety +16

    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
    @lamb_link Před 4 lety +6

    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.

  • @inquisitorgarza312
    @inquisitorgarza312 Před 4 lety +19

    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.

  • @vulpesinculta1919
    @vulpesinculta1919 Před 4 lety +95

    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
      @BluJean6692 Před 3 lety +3

      the bene gesserit witch must leave...

  • @avalonangeloflight
    @avalonangeloflight Před 4 lety +11

    He will always be buttstuffkaiju to the old guard!

    • @DanielVisOneCade
      @DanielVisOneCade Před 4 lety +1

      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
    @christopher.spencer8116 Před 4 lety +25

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

  • @francoismarcou863
    @francoismarcou863 Před 4 lety +44

    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 !

  • @SleepySack
    @SleepySack Před 4 lety +10

    May the Canticles of the Omnissiah's protect us!

  • @ernestonery7881
    @ernestonery7881 Před 4 lety +8

    Ave Omnissiah, Gloria in excelsis Mars

  • @sylviusleonard5144
    @sylviusleonard5144 Před 4 lety +8

    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

  • @petesinton69
    @petesinton69 Před 4 lety +3

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

  • @MechaTheSpider
    @MechaTheSpider Před 4 lety +6

    Man Admech lore is so fuckin' cool

  • @KaiserAfini
    @KaiserAfini Před 4 lety +2

    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
      @Kropothead Před 2 lety

      Solid observation there. I learned something today!

  • @thomastheawesome4822
    @thomastheawesome4822 Před 4 lety +9

    Ave Deus Mechanicus

  • @greglewis725
    @greglewis725 Před 4 lety +2

    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.

  • @leopoldjenkins
    @leopoldjenkins Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @uglyweirdo1389
    @uglyweirdo1389 Před 4 lety +9

    You're wonderful and we love you.

  • @nikitalobanov5617
    @nikitalobanov5617 Před 4 lety +6

    Thank you Oculus! A great one as usual.

  • @th3falleng0d69
    @th3falleng0d69 Před 4 lety +5

    This was fantastic. Well done Oculus.

  • @barrylucas8679
    @barrylucas8679 Před 4 lety +3

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

  • @thewayfarer8849
    @thewayfarer8849 Před 4 lety +3

    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
    @chriskapou3519 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @kaiusbellum107
    @kaiusbellum107 Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @StarboyXL9
    @StarboyXL9 Před 4 lety +30

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

  • @ChoonMa
    @ChoonMa Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @sevatar2777
    @sevatar2777 Před 4 lety +2

    Sees mechanicum
    My body is ready

  • @MiddleAgedGuy73
    @MiddleAgedGuy73 Před 4 lety +1

    What a great start to my Friday!

  • @JustAChannel402
    @JustAChannel402 Před 4 lety +3

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

  • @Thedagda801
    @Thedagda801 Před 4 lety

    Wonderful as always!

  • @gilde915
    @gilde915 Před 4 lety +1

    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
    @georgesulea Před 4 lety

    Well done yet again Sir:)

  • @malcolmhaldin3667
    @malcolmhaldin3667 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @zendit570
    @zendit570 Před 2 lety

    Great work

  • @jamesdegraw1490
    @jamesdegraw1490 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @brentaughenbaugh2662
    @brentaughenbaugh2662 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @Zardorak
    @Zardorak Před 4 lety +2

    Praised be the omnissiah. Sacred be the machine god.

  • @user-cq1cw8xz7f
    @user-cq1cw8xz7f Před 4 lety +1

    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

  • @Bigjonmetal
    @Bigjonmetal Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @thewarriorpainter9159
    @thewarriorpainter9159 Před 4 lety

    That was so cool!

  • @FoundingChambers
    @FoundingChambers Před 4 lety

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

  • @Belisaur
    @Belisaur Před 4 lety +1

    yo, this is good

  • @hughgedney3393
    @hughgedney3393 Před 4 lety +1

    A very extremely awesome video as always Oculus Imperia.

  • @michaellapalme1198
    @michaellapalme1198 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell2326 Před 4 lety +2

    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
      @jesseberg3271 Před 4 lety +3

      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.

  • @facepalmjesus1608
    @facepalmjesus1608 Před 4 lety +1

    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!!

  • @nathanyork2358
    @nathanyork2358 Před 4 lety

    Proud of you 👍

  • @phreakazoith2237
    @phreakazoith2237 Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @xxxxxx5868
    @xxxxxx5868 Před 4 lety

    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.

  • @Matihood1
    @Matihood1 Před 4 lety +3

    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
      @rogerwhite5061 Před 4 lety

      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
      @MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen Před 3 lety

      @@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

  • @MrDarthtelos
    @MrDarthtelos Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @jackrogers5712
    @jackrogers5712 Před 4 lety

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

  • @rtstrong
    @rtstrong Před 4 lety

    THE EMPEROR PROTECTS! THE EMPEROR PROVIDES!

  • @orraklbenedict1832
    @orraklbenedict1832 Před 4 lety

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

  • @ninthcrusader2343
    @ninthcrusader2343 Před 4 lety

    Ave Omnissiah

  • @joeciok
    @joeciok Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @Beorn567
    @Beorn567 Před 4 lety +1

    Finally

  • @hanasununhamunagoyum
    @hanasununhamunagoyum Před 4 lety +1

    I am genuinely saddened by the passing of buttstuffkaiju.

  • @ZeroNumerous
    @ZeroNumerous Před 4 lety +6

    Wait, what happened to @ButtstuffKaiju?

  • @MelvinDukowski
    @MelvinDukowski Před 4 lety

    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

  • @jesseberg3271
    @jesseberg3271 Před 4 lety +2

    WHAT HAPPENED TO BUTTSTUFF KAIJU?

  • @5chr4pn3ll
    @5chr4pn3ll Před 4 lety +2

    Praise the Emperor!

  • @charlesballiet7074
    @charlesballiet7074 Před 4 lety

    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.

  • @TactWendigo
    @TactWendigo Před 4 lety

    *Happy tech-priest noises*

  • @telenNG
    @telenNG Před 4 lety

    By the omnissiah I am early!

  • @DocWolph
    @DocWolph Před 4 lety

    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.

  • @myaccountgothackedgoogledo7571

    First for Ave Imperator Gloria in excelsis Terra

  • @johnnyscifi
    @johnnyscifi Před 4 lety

    What is the Omnissiah!!?

  • @commieKalmarunion
    @commieKalmarunion Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @chrisleonard2066
    @chrisleonard2066 Před 4 lety

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

    • @Furzkampfbomber
      @Furzkampfbomber Před 4 lety

      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..."_

  • @the_realalpharius9715
    @the_realalpharius9715 Před 4 lety

    what happened to the discord?

  • @jsalaska2854
    @jsalaska2854 Před 4 lety

    Imperial navy?

  • @rodrigocordeiro3550
    @rodrigocordeiro3550 Před 4 lety

    But stuff caiju!?
    NOOOOOOOO!!!

  • @DocWolph
    @DocWolph Před 4 lety

    Terra's sister planet is Venus not Mars.

  • @lukemcdonladson6648
    @lukemcdonladson6648 Před 3 lety

    👌😎💚

  • @justsomedude7583
    @justsomedude7583 Před 3 lety

    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....

    • @UnCivilEngineerIRL
      @UnCivilEngineerIRL Před 3 dny

      Most of those words are kinda Latin, or pseudo Latin, inspired, so that should probably inform the correct 'in universe' pronunciation.
      The Imperium is heavily influenced by (albeit heavily exaggerated), Roman Catholic aesthetics eg Cathedral styles, robes, even some equipment like rosarious (rosery beads).
      Maybe put the words into Google translate and set it to Latin 🤷‍♂️

  • @eltoxicdog7587
    @eltoxicdog7587 Před 4 lety +1

    F for ButtStuffKaiju.

  • @anguscampbell3020
    @anguscampbell3020 Před 4 lety +1

    What happened to buttstuffkaiju?

  • @tonygreen4936
    @tonygreen4936 Před 4 lety

    Get your arse to mars.

  • @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
      @OculusImperia  Před 4 lety +5

      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
      @WASDLeftClick Před 4 lety +2

      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.

  • @TheSlaughtermatic
    @TheSlaughtermatic Před 4 lety

    Long live buttstuff!

  • @john7143
    @john7143 Před 2 lety +1

    Just a comment for the algorithm

  • @deusvult2801
    @deusvult2801 Před 3 lety

    Oculus Omnes Videt

  • @Toshiro_Mifune
    @Toshiro_Mifune Před 4 lety

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

  • @Self-replicating_whatnot

    Beep boop.

  • @emile1365
    @emile1365 Před 4 lety +1

    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
    @charlesballiet7074 Před 4 lety

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

  • @lead.farmer
    @lead.farmer Před 4 lety +1

    FIRST!!!

  • @tsarcastic3722
    @tsarcastic3722 Před 4 lety

    wait, @ WHAT on twitter? unsubscribed & downvoted