"Praise the Machine God!"
"You are the master of all machinery! The source of all technology in the universe!"
"Only under your guidance can we evolve toward a more perfect form!"
"Beneath the witness of steel! Amid the roar of industrial assembly lines! You will surely lead us toward a glorious and magnificent future!"
"May your radiance illuminate this dark universe! May it tear apart the shackles flesh imposes upon thought and soul!"
As countless soul-bearing New Phyrexian mechanical creations knelt upon the ground, worshipping, praying to, and chanting before an enormous and highly abstract statue, light connected to the Sea of Souls within the Warp of the Warhammer Universe flickered across the sky overhead. Then, indescribable threads descended from above, linking them to the projection of a terrifying entity within the Warp.
That surging power, together with Warp Phyrexian Oil, was injected into the soul of every New Phyrexian mechanical creation.
Only through such close links and intermingling between souls could the Machine Orthodoxy of New Phyrexia's White Faction create the Warp entity projection known as the Machine God in such a short time.
Just to create this Machine God, the White Praetor Elesh Norn had demanded tens of trillions of souls from Raymond, then cast them into Phyrexian Oil to fill the mechanical servants who prayed and performed all manner of religious rituals day and night.
Yes, you heard that right.
Tens of trillions of New Phyrexian Creations did nothing every day but pray here around the clock and conduct countless elaborate religious rituals steeped in mysticism.
There were not only mechanical creations, but also enormous numbers of "discarded" people traded over from the Imperium of Man.
The word "discarded" was used because, without exception, these people had been stripped of their status as Imperial citizens for