Explorator Fleets of the Prosperitas Sector

You can find many common notes about the Machine Cult on the Adeptus Mechanicus page.

However, one of the biggest draws of the Adeptus Mechanicus to the Sector, aside from its abundant resources, is an abundance of Archaeotech and ancient ruins. Vast fleets of Explorator Ships compete with rakish Rogue Traders as they blaze passages into the Untamed Worlds on the Rimward edge of the Sector, eager to find treasures of the Golden Age on human colonies untouched by the Imperium in thousands of years.

The Explorator Fleets Beyond their traditional territories, vast fleets of vessels adorned in the Cog Omnissiah and filled with arcane technologies jealously guarded by the Machine Cult carry out the ultimate will of the Omnissiah across the Stars. These are the Explorator Fleets. Their crews of void-nomad Tech-Priests and Mechanicum servants explore ancient worlds and lost sectors in a ceaseless quest to reclaim technologies lost to the depredations of time. No one Explorator fleet is alike, each has their own character and nature, and within the Prosperitas Sector where the Rimward Marches contain the promise of the remnants of lost human cultures each of the Forges maintains a sizable fleet, though a number of independent fleets and those who began their journeys from forges years away from the Sector ply the warp-ways too.

Service in the Explorator Fleets is something of an unusual duty for a Tech-Priest. The majority of the Priests and Menial servants within them are born on one of the vessels, but there are those who are assigned to the duty from more static places of birth. For these latter Priests, the Explorator fleets are something of a place of exile; to be assigned to an Explorator fleet without the declaration of a Crusade by the Machine Cult is a sign that a Priest has been cast out by their superiors. To this end, most Tech-Priests look upon those who serve in the fleets as eccentric strangers at best, and at worst, blighted exiles best kept outside the perfectly ordered society of their Forges.