3.2 Hereteks, Progressives and Renegades.Finding adherents through a secret network of ruthless mercantile interests and power-hungry Imperial nobles, they are a haven for Hereteks and rogue tech-priests, and are highly organised and well-resourced.Īlthough no daemonic force or apocalyptic agenda lies at their heart, the Logicians are still a phenomenally dangerous group, callous in their pursuit of power and unceasing in the hunt for ever better technology by which to achieve their desired end of ultimate control over the direction of the Imperium's future.
Ultimately, the Logicians aim to bring about a return to the mythic power of the Age of Technology. Founded not around a single charismatic figure or dark religion, they find their inspiration in a forbidden heretical text called In Defence of the Future: A Logical Discourse.īanned now by the Imperium of Man for several standard millennia, the Logicians are a so-called "progressive" cult, favouring the advancement of Mankind through scientific progress and the acquisition of new technology, believing that they should cast off the theocratic oppression of the Adeptus Ministorum, overthrow the High Lords of Terra and put an end to the smothering constraints on scientific research and technological advancement enforced by the Adeptus Mechanicus. The Logicians are an alliance of Heretic factions who have long been a thorn in the side of the Calixis and the nearby Ixaniad Sectors.
In Defence of the Future: A Logical Discourse, author unknown, banned M36 But I tell you, we have been Gods and we shall be Gods again." " Once we were Gods, but what are we now? Wilfully ignorant savages and self-deluded fools, little more than helpless children scattered and lost in the cold dark.