Metalica embodies the industrial extreme of the Mechanicus creed. Its entire surface has been terraformed into manufactory, a global engine that never sleeps, and its inhabitants live and die amid the roar of production lines. The forge world produces munitions and war material on a colossal scale, feeding the endless wars of the wider Imperium.
The priesthood of Metalica holds an especially uncompromising view of the weakness of organic life. Its magi drive their cybernetic legions forward with cold efficiency, treating attrition as a mere calculation and expending soldiers and war engines alike in the pursuit of victory. Their armies are known for their sheer scale and unrelenting advance, grinding down opposition through sustained, methodical firepower.
Metalica's soldiers march beneath banners of iron discipline, their doctrina imperatives tuned for aggression and their formations built to crush enemy lines through weight of numbers and volume of fire. Where other forge worlds prize finesse or ancient artifice, Metalica prizes production, endurance, and the pitiless mathematics of total war.
Adeptus Mechanicus
Order of battle
The Forge World Metalica field the units of the Adeptus Mechanicus — a detachment from the roster:
Kindred formations
Other Adeptus Mechanicus formations
Forge World AgripinaaAgripinaa, the Orb of a Million Scars, is a grim and war-battered forge world set perilously close to the Eye of Terror. For ten thousand years it has laboured to arm the Imperial bastions of the Cadian Gate, its manufactories choking out ammunition, autoguns and battle tanks without pause. Bloodied again and again by the Black Crusades of Abaddon the Despoiler, Agripinaa is a fortress-foundry that forges in one hand and wars with the other, its survival bought in blood and rust.
Forge World GraiaGraia is a forge world renowned for its unbreakable resilience and its fanatical devotion to the war effort of the Imperium. Its Tech-Priests are famed for their stubborn refusal to yield ground, augmenting their forces with redundant systems and unshakeable programming so that even grievous damage cannot halt their advance. Graia's legions fight on where others would break, their machine spirits and cyborg soldiers driven by an almost supernatural will to endure.
Forge World LuciusLucius, called the Hollow Forge, is among the strangest and most secretive of all forge worlds, a planet turned inside out around a captive star. Its Tech-Priests have achieved a command of teleportation matched nowhere else in the Machine Cult, translating warriors and even god-machines through the immaterium and onto the battlefield in the space of a heartbeat. From this cavernous world stride the Titans of the Legio Astorum, and its forge-guilds hoard techno-arcana the wider priesthood can scarcely comprehend.
Forge World MarsMars is the sacred heart of the entire Adeptus Mechanicus, the birthplace of the Cult Mechanicus and the seat of the Fabricator-General who rules over every forge world in the Imperium. Its rust-red surface has been consumed by ten thousand years of industry, buried beneath foundries, hive-manufactories, and the fume-choked spires of the Martian priesthood. From Mars flow the oldest doctrines, the most jealously guarded secrets, and the ultimate authority to which all other forge worlds must ultimately answer.
Forge World RyzaRyza is the great plasma-forge of the Adeptus Mechanicus, a world whose mastery of contained starfire is said to be rivalled only by Mars itself. Its priesthood venerates plasma as the very lifeblood of the Omnissiah, and from its armour-cradles come the finest energy weapons and reactor cores in the Imperium. Home to the Legio Crucius, the Warmongers, Ryza has endured heresy and endless greenskin invasion alike, its fires never once permitted to gutter and die.
Forge World Stygies VIIIStygies VIII is a forge world with a shadowed and controversial reputation, its Tech-Priests long suspected of dabbling in forbidden and xenos-derived technologies in their pursuit of knowledge. Masters of stealth and misdirection, the magi of Stygies favour cloaking systems, ambush tactics, and the study of alien war machines. Whether radical heretics or merely bold researchers pushing the boundaries of orthodoxy, the priesthood of Stygies walks a razor's edge between innovation and damnation.