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The Barracks would be called a barracks in the days before, but TalOS started to feel its name should change in these most recent days. There were some rumblings of calling it a Monastery as those within it were still held to the Cult, but others have given the descriptor of Citadel to TalOS.
Both were very much good descriptions of the facility.
For those who argued it was a Monastery they would point to all the iconography that was placed around the place. Symbols that showed the Proelitor’s devotion to the Mechanicum and the Machine God who rules over them.
It can be something as simple as a series of skulls that are lining the doors. Against each skull was three or more cogs that ran counter to them across the ceiling and pillars. There was the occasional combination spot where the two would meet, creating the symbol of the Cult Mechanicus.
That was the point though where the Monastery stopped and the Citadel began. For when one is part of the Mechanicum there is no real arts of statues or words encrusted into walls. Where the remembrancers and artists of the Imperium will make statues of their heroes, the Mechanicum held the greatest focus in the architectural workings of the fortress.
A good example was that in a specific room held twelve strong and mighty pillars that were long enough to shoot up into the upper echelons of the building. These were made at a specific length, 400 units, and are perfectly identical to one another with the exception of location. This was because the Priest who designed and made the pillars wished to challenge himself in veneration of the Machine God, using his tools to create something that could not be done within the help of Machines.
By this and the work of so many others did the building resemble both a work of art as well as a fortress built to precise standard. As TalOS walked its halls he could only think about this fact more and more before they walked through one door which took them out into a training yard.
