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The Imperium is a vast empire struggling to survive against threats from both inside and outside their frontiers. An empire of millions of worlds all working to support the war effort. Interstellar travel is difficult and not an everyday event. How does the economy of the 41st Millenium work?

The computers of the 41st Millenium are in one sense complex and sophisticated machines, yet in other ways they seem contrived and horribly crude. Why? The answer to that conundrum lies at the heart of the technology used to build them, and thats what this article will discuss.

The priests of the machine are a secretive, reclusive sect that has a grand Quest for Knowledge, where their aim is to know the mind of the Machine God, the sum of all knowledge, by finding all information in the galaxy. The Standard Template Construct (STC) database is an important step on that road to total knowledge, and some believe it contains all human knowledge (which is probably false).

Here is a series of latin phrases that can be useful for players and GMs alike whenever a holy man appears to give a blessing or two. Specifically I have got six prayers, their translations into english (with hopes that they might be of better help) and descriptions of situations where they are to be used.

“The quest to understand the Emperor’s Tarot begins in silence and pious contemplation.” – Zoltan Enobarbus, Meditations, Chapter XVII 

Several of the novels and some of the pre-written adventures refer to characters "making the Sign of the Aquila. There is some confusion what this is and what the Aquila represents.