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As TalOS finished that decree he moved on to the last of the items, +These decrees that we have made today are to cause issues in our relationship to both Mars and Terra. Of Mars, I know we have satisfied them in our agreement to withhold knowledge from the people. I do not believe the same will come of Terra.+
It was to TalOS’s words that chatter began to carry itself through the halls. Thoughts and small debates were had even before TalOS finished his speaking, so he ignored them.
+I know what many of you think. The thoughts that the Imperium of Man would betray the Treaty of Olympus to be unthinkable. And that is true as the Emperor has guaranteed that the Cult Mechanicus would not be punished or persecuted within their society with us giving the same in reverse.+ TalOS gave out the formal thoughts as he brought it down to the item at hand, +But what we have done is a fundamental change. No longer will the Cult be isolated from the common man but openly welcome him into our rituals. I have seen the records of Terra and the testimony of those that my Creator conquered. Above all, he will not allow such expansion.+
+But he is the Omnissiah!+ Shouted the first Priest who spoke out of turn, TalOS realizing that it was Magos Arius.
Those around him were about to make the Priest suffer but TalOS raised a hand. To such a simple motion they obeyed, +My Brother, you must understand that my creator fights things that none of us shall ever comprehend. As one blessed by the Machine God he is fighting a war against all manner of Gods to take back mankind’s supremacy. He believes that the Imperial Truth, the Faith that he propagates within the Imperium, to be a tool in this great war.+
As TalOS said those words a great many Priests had their thoughts changed and ideas forged. TalOS was a Primarch after all and knew the words that his people both wanted and needed to hear.
+Thus I present to all of you this compromise, that outside the exceptions presented within the Treaty of Olympus, that none of us are to force this new faith upon our others.+ TalOS stated with a firm declaration of power, +If we do so we ultimately forget the true aims of the Machine God in lue of simply swelling our numbers. We venerate him not through conquest or numbers, but through our acquisition of knowledge.+
+So, will those of you agree with my thoughts? Shall we strike upon this edict that to forcibly spread our faith into the masses to be a heresy all on its own?+
>Yes, we shall do it!
>No, we will not limit ourselves!
