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Thinking on how much we focus on Knights, here's a thought for possible relations with our brothers. I firmly believe Talos to be a proponent of Nobility and a stratified society. He himself is a Noble Princeps, and has had good interaction with the Knightly Nobles of Dutonis and the Highborn of Halemant. The Adeptus Mechanicus itself is also stratified, those of poorer intelligence and upbringing serving in the factorums as workers and servitors, those men of substance of intellect, whom have had the families to supply them with plentiful augmetics and bionics and the education to become excellent Magi deserving of their position, as is the case with UZ1, daughter of a Shipyard Magi and gifted from birth with both the right familial house and augmentations that would not be available to a subclass denizen.
The Federation, that revered ancient organization we so wish to emulate, too was steeped in a world of highborn and aristocracy, where wealth, power and intelligence were kept in the right hands by the right people. Even our Creator the Emperor chose that title, not following the foolish attempts at so called "democracies" of the ancient past.
Our very face resembles that of a noble Titan's head which resembles that of the noble warriors of pre-history.
I feel this will acclimate us to fellow noble Primarchs of higher upbringing, like Fulgrim (even if he grew up a miner worker, his Legion were all princes and nobles of Europa and he continued this tradition recruiting only highborn sons from Byzas, wanting his legion to be as noble as possbible), Guilliman, Lion and Perturabo.
Conversely, I can see this putting us at odds with those who are more egalitarian or don't give two shits about nobility. Angron especially, who hated the high riders for what they did to him, Corax, who lead a rebellion of prisoners against their nobility (something we are more accustomed to quelling on our planet), Curze who grew up an outcast abomination who prefers to rule by fear and terror of all men rather than by the traditional orders.
"The Machine God does not create all men equal. To each is given a specific task and allotment in life, a place they were purposed from birth to fulfill, as every cog has its place in the great Machine. It is not the duty of men to disassemble the Machine God's great purpose, to take apart each cog and attempt to give them equal standing, but to enhance it, and ensure its smooth operation."
