The Laughing God said:
Careful application of telekinesis, mixed with knowledge of the function of the machine being repaired... not a big deal, really. The knowledge, in this instance, is actually more remarkable and noteworthy than the telekinesis.
N0-1_H3r3 said:
The Laughing God said:
Careful application of telekinesis, mixed with knowledge of the function of the machine being repaired... not a big deal, really. The knowledge, in this instance, is actually more remarkable and noteworthy than the telekinesis.
Oh come on .. what about spare parts? Does he conjure them up out of thin air? Or is every fix a matter of telekinetically reattaching two loose wires? 
I understand the allegory that they wanted to get across and needed a cool way for the Machine Priests to become faithful devotees to the Emperor, but I find this a very clumsy bit of fluff
The Laughing God said:
N0-1_H3r3 said:
The Laughing God said:
Careful application of telekinesis, mixed with knowledge of the function of the machine being repaired... not a big deal, really. The knowledge, in this instance, is actually more remarkable and noteworthy than the telekinesis.
Oh come on .. what about spare parts? Does he conjure them up out of thin air? Or is every fix a matter of telekinetically reattaching two loose wires?
I understand the allegory that they wanted to get across and needed a cool way for the Machine Priests to become faithful devotees to the Emperor, but I find this a very clumsy bit of fluff
Who said that the legend was a historically accurate account of events as they actually and objectively happened?
The Laughing God said:
Remember, a psychic power is essentially a process of drawing upon the energy of the Warp in order to bend or defy the physical laws of the material universe in a specific and desired manner - it merely requires both psychic potential (to draw enough energy to create the desired effect) and willpower (to shape the energy into the desired form). In theory, a sufficiently powerful psyker could conjure materials out of thin air, literally bringing them into existence by drawing a sufficiently large amount of warp energy into the material world and willing it into the form of whatever object is desired. It wouldn't be easy - it may even be impossible for most psykers - but the Emperor was extremely powerful.
Basically, he's been kept alive for roughly 10,000 years on the golden throne. He's kept in an archeotech stasis field is my understanding, but because he is still functioning within a machine after 10,000 years he is the machine god. GW makes it all quite nebulous since they want people to play through their own particular take on what it means.
The Machine God, Omnissiah and Emperor are all one and the same. It's the holy trinity of the 40k universe.
LeBlanc13 said:
It's the holy trinity of the 40k universe.
Circuit and Flesh and Mind. All interconnected. All interwoven in the skein of Mankind's fate. Horus saw, was shown the truth his Father sought to deny. There are gods in this universe. And what good does a god on His throne do for Man if he has not the courage to take His rightful place in the Heavens and be worshiped. Horus's failing was being blinded by hubris. The Emperor's failing was mislaid trust in his son.
But, that is all my own interpretation of events as described.
-=Brother Praetus=-
Oh come on .. what about spare parts? Does he conjure them up out of thin air? Or is every fix a matter of telekinetically reattaching two loose wires?
We're talking about the most powerful human psyker that ever existed. Conjuring things out of thin warp-stuff isn't exactly rocketscience to him (or maybe it is, but since he's also a rocketscientist...)
Regarding the actual topic, I think there was also a version saying that uniting all knowledge existant would mean becoming the Omnissiah. The AdMech isn't much more unified about matters of faith than the Ecclesiarchy.
N0-1_H3r3 said:
The Laughing God said:
Remember, a psychic power is essentially a process of drawing upon the energy of the Warp in order to bend or defy the physical laws of the material universe in a specific and desired manner - it merely requires both psychic potential (to draw enough energy to create the desired effect) and willpower (to shape the energy into the desired form). In theory, a sufficiently powerful psyker could conjure materials out of thin air, literally bringing them into existence by drawing a sufficiently large amount of warp energy into the material world and willing it into the form of whatever object is desired. It wouldn't be easy - it may even be impossible for most psykers - but the Emperor was extremely powerful.
The Emperor as handyman