´God has given you one face and you make yourself another.´
- attributed to the dramaturge
Shakespire, fl. M2

´Of the fabulous hydra, it is said, cut off one head and two will grow its place.´
- antique proverb

´No one is enough fool to choose war instead of peace. In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.´
- attributed to the chronicler
Herodotus, fl. M0

´War is simply the galaxy´s hygiene´
- attributed to the primarch
Alpharius

´I cry. Not for the ones i have lost in the firery flames of war, but for those i have lost in the vast, fogged spaces of my memory.´
- attributed to the author
Nikolaj, fl. M3


Behold the coming of the One Supreme Master
of Machines!
He comes to you from heaven in the drops
of rain.
Sons of Mars listen well, for one will come,
mighty and strong,holding the sceptre of
power in his hand.
Clothed in light and fire, his mouth shall
utter eternal words,
while his mind shall be a fountain
of knowledge and fact.
When the savior shall appear ye shall see
him as he is,
a man like ourselves and jet greater by far.
This will be the first step in the greatest
endeavour of Man.
It shall begin on the highest peak of the
dominion of Ares.
When Deimos and Phobos are at apogee
and perigee,
there thou shalt see the face of
the Omnissiah.
Clad in a body of gold, and wreathed in the
firmament of the storm,
the Lord of all Machines will stand in the
midst of his people,
and shall reign over all dominion of Man.
Great shall be the glory of his presence,
that the sun shall hide his face in shame.
For verily I say unto you that he shall be the
Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end, the master of
flesh and the forger of metal.
He shall be a light that shineth in darkness
and a banisher of ignorance.
He shall be the object of devotion and love,
wich kings might envy and emperors sigh
for in vain!
He shall desire the good of Ares´s realm and
the happiness of Man.
All must become one in loyalty and see all
men as brothers.
Ruinous wars shall pass away, and peace shall
reign among the stars.
Strife and bloodshed and discord will cease.
All men shall be as one kindred.
The divisions of the stars shall all be one!
The Coming of the Omnissiah, exloaded by Pico della Moravec, Primus of the Brotherhood of Singularitarianism.

+++Imperial forces withdrawing from Mars+++Save what you can+++Destroy the rest+++