Hybridis

“What has our “technological purity” brought us ? Look around you : The imperium is nothing but a bloated abomination being beaten at every turn as the teeming masses of humanity rot in ignorance, all the while the xenos empires grow stronger with each passing day. Perhaps there is something we can learn from them”- exiled-Fabricator General Gallelos Harmatek

The Hybridis faction is a mechanicus splinter that focuses mainly on reverse engineering xeno technology in all its forms seeing that the quest for knowledge can benefit from and be accelerated greatly with knowledge from other species.

### Beliefs

The Hybridis believe that humanity must learn from the other sapient species in order to survive and to that end strive to recover and repurpose any piece xeno technology they can find for human usage.

Though some focus on reverse engineering the technologies of one species like those who focus on tau technology, most are willing to work on any scrap of xenotech they can get their mechadendrites on.

Some even advocate working with xenos or even including them in the imperium if only for enlightenment self interest or to exploit them more efficiently , such xenophility making them easily demonized. However it should be noted that for every xenophilie Magos who sees the alien as a potential ally there is a Hybridis adept who is perfectly happy destroying entire civilizations to loot their ruins.

Ironically many among the Hybridis consider the mainstream mechanicus to be the true deviants and heretics as they note that the god emperor himself had intended to use the Eldar webway to ensure mankind’s ascension and consider him to be the ultimate expression of what their ideology entails

### Status in the dominion

Within the innovation encouraging Atlantean dominion , Hybridis adepts have found a welcoming home where not only are their experiments and research tolerated but encouraged or even state sanctioned. It is thanks to their know how that the dominion has a leg up when it comes to reverse engineering the technology recovered from xeno allies or found within the planet’s ruins.

It also helps that many of the original Atlantean exiles were Hybridis followers themselves most notably the Ultramar descended arch Magos Valed.

Though later tensions would develop towards among their ranks that worship the emperor

### Status outside the dominion

The Hybridis is of course extremely hated and reviled by everyone in the imperium seeing them as heretics and blasphemers of the highest order in addition to being considered traitors to humanity , as such members of this ideology who are outed will find little mercy wether at the hands of the inquisition or their fellow magi

However this very same prosecution is what allowed them to expand and gain a foothold in many worlds even in many cases subverting dozens of worlds into their fold. Unlike most other factions who were somewhat accepted at first before being exterminated after having revealed themselves; the Hybridis were techno-hereteks from the beginning and knew it and thus adapted to working carefully from the shadows to advance their cause.

As such they are one of the few cults to be able to effectively resist the onslaught of the Old guard and have many forge Worlds established on the fringes of imperial territory , some even ruling their own mini-empires of humans and Xenia

### Bonuses when faction is the majority

* Xenotech research action times decreased by 50%
* Random chance of acquiring new xenotech through cold trade networks
* Increased chance of ???
* +20 to xeno diplomacy roles