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+I see.+ The Fabricator General answered as he finally nodded to those words. In an instant TalOS could see the years that his Lord had upon his small frame. He looked from one side to the other as if suspicion was upon them, maybe to make sure that such words did not leave the room, +Then we need to prepare.+
+I agree. We must look towards the future of what the Cult Mechanicum shall be when the tides of change come.+ TalOS spoke as he gave a long weathered sigh, +A lot is to happen within the Mechanicum and outside of it, I wish to make sure that it will last for millions of years after I am gone from the face of the Galaxy.+
TalOS could tell in this moment that Kelbor was measuring out whether he should speak his mind or not on the matter. And to it TalOS has a suspicion on what was going to be said. But was it something that he could not interpret for his Leige. It was something so damning that it needed to come from the Fabricator General’s mouth.
+Such longevity has always been upon my mind. As Master of all the Mechanicum I wonder, just as my predecessors wondered, how we will continue to build an eternal framework.+ The Fabricator General answered TalOS before the damning moment was mentioned, +But in those times when the likes of Tesla, Kanter, or Movhec had sway we were an isolated group. There was no rivals upon Terra and there was no outside threat seeking to eliminate our strongholds. That is no longer the case.+
+The Age of Darkness, when the warp dominated, has since passed.+ TalOS assisted with what little bit he could.
+Now we face those outside and the Imperium. While we are currently allies we both know that the Imperium’s policy is the eradication of all faiths.+ The words were spoken then and there, +Does your Father seek the destruction of the Mechanicum?+
And there it was, what had been hanging upon Kelbor’s mind for the longest time. This was likely the thought ever since the Mechanicum and the Imperium had first made contact with one another. TalOS knew that it was Kelbor Hal who ordered for the invasion of Terra to stomp out the infantile Imperium in its crib.
He had failed in that, and for that Mars was set upon a war footing up until the Emperor came in the guise of the Omnissiah. A trick that many within the Mechanicum saw through.
<span class="mu-s">But what choice did they have?</span>
After their failure to kill the Imperium, Kelbor found it near impossible to raise another levy to fight the Imperium. When the Imperium was in space it became impossible to directly subjugate them through void resources. With the Astartes the Mechanicum would be crushed.
It was this reason that the Treaty of Olympus was signed.
