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A week’s time is something that many people could comprehend, for they live it every day of their lives. When breaking it down massive projects, just like this one, could be arranged. Though many would balk at the idea of modifying several miles of infrastructure in that amount of time and call those who organized it insane.
But those people lacked imagination, a mind that would have been able to turn this to a reality. Numerous timetables could be made more efficient and workers were quickly taught by the best teachers that could have been mistaken as venerable masters of this art. When one counted that there were two of them managing these works, these people would realize they were simply outclassed.
“Blessed Machine, your wires have been examined and board examined for faults. I have placed it within the vacuum sealed chamber to which you will reside the rest of existence within, immune to the radioactive corruption of stars.” TalOS said as he kneeled before a massive set of wires and antennae that were three times his size, “Awaken and give me sight.”
With those words TalOS sent a small pulse to the master board to urge the Machine Spirit to awaken. He watched as the sensory array began to back him in its ever present radiation that reached into the stars. In the next moment he could see, both himself and the man who stood behind him. The Psi Sensors told him of the Astronomicon, and how its brightness would blind the spirit all the while it stood within the system of Sol.
To that TalOS rose from the side of the ship, “That is the ritual of first activation. It however has more effect when used in the tongue of binaric. Such a tongue helps machines understand it better.”
Ferrus Manus, still with the visor that hid his battlefield of a face, looked upon TalOS impassively for a moment. Walking over he kneeled down at the sensory array and examined it closely. Within his mind TalOS knew the Primarch was taking in every single piece of work and operating that the device had.
As he did so he looked upon TalOS with the same sternness that was ever there, “Why do you do those rituals?”
“Because it is Ritual.”
