Mangonel Battle-Servitor

Classified File: Mangonel Micrordinatus
"Embrace knowledge and you embrace divinity, the Omnissiah has blessed us with divine opportunity, study your enemies, learn their knowledge, enhance your own and overcome them to become greater than both, it is the true will of the Omnissiah" ''-Amatheus Antoch, Circa. M39''==Mangonel-Class Micrordinatus== Mangonel Besieger armed with Heavy Grav-Cannon and cognis flamer.

Type
Micrordinatus

Race
Machine.

Designer
Archmagos Xenarite Amatheus Antoch

Manufacturer
Stygies VIII

Used by
Adeprus Mechanicus (Xenarite order)

Conflicts
[REDACTED

Operational purpose
Combat siege weapon

Armor
Standard metalic structure with Partial Ceramite Plating

Standard armament
Arc Rifle, taser coil(Eradicator)Heavy Grav-Cannon, Cognis Flamer(Besieger)

Optional armament
Plasma Culverin, Torsion cannon, phosphor blaster. 

Mangonel Micrordinati also known as Mangonel-Class Micrordinati are semi-autonomous xeno hybridized mobile siege weapon platforms developed and manufactured by the secretive Mechanicus order of Xenarites of Stygies VIII. Well armored and carriers of ordinance capable of bringing down the toughest of fortifications with emotionless, aggressive and violent efficiency guided by their mysterious cogitator systems, they carry out the orders of their respective Magi to mercilessly destroy the enemies of the Omnissiah.

Their Inception followed soon after the resurrection of the ancient Tech Priest Xenarite, who after his 3.000 year dormant stasis rose again to reignite his research and development of new weaponry and armaments despite the strict regulations of the lords of Mars.

Role
Stalwartly plowing through the battlefield they obliterate any enemy fortifications and resistance with overwhelming firepower, their internal cogitator system know as an Anima Nucleus guide them steadily towards their destination and allow for precise destruction of their foes. While their Nuclei let them carry out brutal annihilation effectively they still require the direct control of a Tech priest Dominus to begin to do anything. Their primary role is of breaking down fortification and eliminate any type of heavy defenses. Depending on their weaponry they can be designated as either Mangonel Besiegers or Eradicators for either long-range or short-range engagements.

Eradicators
Eradicators take up frontline positions in battle and act much like assault battle tanks, their heavy treads run over all opposition, arc-rifles can destroy heavily armoured and turn any troops to electrified burning ashes and clear a path acting as a battering ram using sideline taser defences to ward off any melee engagements.

Much like their more orthodox human servitor counterparts the biocomponents used must come from a highly violent and aggressive bioform to function.Due to their overly destructive nature their Anima Nucleus requires high dosage of both combat and suppressive drugs and toxins to either stimulate the Ork bio-components and awaken the Ork violent instincts and powerful sedatives to avoid any irrational indiscriminate rampages of devastating damage.

Besiegers
Besiegers take more defensive backline positions and act as the heavy long range artillery siege engines, capable of bringing down fortresses with ease and cause bone-shattering devastation, their weaponry give them inmense firepower from a distance, usually carrying a Heavy graviton cannons that can crush a space marine terminator under the weight of his own armor and fully collapse reinforced bunkers. Their secondary cognis flamer protect them in short distances.

Their Anima Nucleus are made of highly advanced cogitators and organic grey matter of Greenskin Xenos specimens to both make rapid calculations of weapon trajectory and precise slaughter fueled by savage warmongering instinct with the sole purpose of elimination of their target. Even with these systems considered, they are mindless Micrordinati, weapons of the Mechanicus adepts.

History
Even before the conflicts between the Astartes of the Deathwatch, Ordo Xenos and the heretek Xenorite Tech priests in M36, Magos Xenarite Amatheus Antoch had researched xeno biology and technology to develop new weapons in the name of the Machine God. Such as the war machines known as a Micrordinat, much less powerful and formidable than a legendary Ordinatus, but lighter and far easier to manufacture in vast quantities.

Even if they are vastly inferior to their sacred and awe-inspiring predecessors, they are meant to be a more convenient and efficient reflection on a much smaller scale, their weapons are extremely powerful and their Machine Spirits are exceptionally strong. Mangonel-Class Micrordinati are the most standardized pattern of Micrordinatus and are fabricated regularly exclusively in the Forge World of Stygies VIII under the command of Amatheus Antoch himself and his followers.

Such is the habit of their creators, all records of their deployment are either classified by Magi of Stygies VIII or expunged from history. Their heretical design is kept highly secret by the Xenarites and their creation process is known only to Amatheus Antoch in his hidden data vaults on Stygies VI.