Skitarii also serve as the armed forces that defend the Mechanicus' Explorator vessels that explore the galactic frontier. Skitarii are used to defend Mechanicus Forge Worlds, manufacturing installations elsewhere in the Imperium and often accompany high-ranking Tech-priests and Magi as their bodyguards. Rifles and carbines are raised to shoulders in perfect unison, and bloody war begins. With the barest of shivers the Skitarii receive doctrina imperatives from Tech-priest masters in orbit. Once contact is made with the enemy their pace does not slacken, yet neither does it increase. Their meditations on divinity are rest enough. Their boundless faith in the Machine God and His physical incarnation, the Omnissiah, drives them on without sleep. On titanium limbs the Skitarii stalk the war zones of the galaxy, looking from above like the columns of rust-ants that hunt the dunes of Mars. Rad Weapons borne with martyr's strength turn the battlefield ever more toxic until it is as befouled as the Red Planet's own wastes. Reticules and calibrators pick out targets with uncanny accuracy, Galvanic Rifles bark and servitor-bullets find the skulls of the foe. They take pride in their holy work, glorying in the power of the Omnissiah as He drives them to ever greater feats. To a man, the Skitarii are warriors born. Skitarius), also known as the Tech-Guard and the Legiones Skitarii, are the cybernetic military forces of the Adeptus Mechanicus of the Imperium of Man. Zelith-Delta-27, before her heroic defense of the Anval chem-plantĪ squad of Skitarii Rangers in service to the Forge World of Ryza As the Omnissiah wills, I shall find a way.' ' The odds of success are approximately 3752 to 1.

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