Crimson Accord of Mars

Adeptus_Mechanicus_Seal.jpg The Crimson Accord of Mars, or Crimson Accords are the sacred accords and one of the cornerstones of doctrinal law created during the foundation of the ancient Mechanicum during the Age of Strife, and forever forbade the creation of the abominable and soulless artificial intelligence (A.I. - "Abominable Intelligence") known as the Silica Animus, and pronounced a death sentence on any who remained or any Magos or mortal who would seek to create them anew. These accords, however, allowed the survival and creation of the "lesser and righteous works'" of synthetic life deemed sacred, the Bestia Mechanica and their kindred, and of these robotic engines designed for warfare and slaughter, the Battle-automata, were given into the hands of the newly-founded Legio Cybernetica to control. When the wars of the Horus Heresy came, the independent nature of the Legio Cybernetica's Cohorts ensured that, as a whole, they sided in particular neither with Loyalist or Traitor, but were split between masters they had long fought for in many cases. Other Cohorts, mindful of their oaths of loyalty to the Emperor of fearful of a descent into anarchy, saw the Traitors as base renegades to be destroyed, while others harboured ambitions to be free of the Crimson Accords, and saw the Warmaster's war as a chance to pursue long forbidden rites and technologies.