As various facilities were constructed on Rostov, the demand for Low-ranking Tech-Priests grew.
The construction of the Orbital Ring, the maintenance of hydroponic farms, Tech-Priests accompanying the Defense Force, the daily upkeep of the Starport, and the Forge World on Rostov III—
Every project required a large number of technical personnel for maintenance and operation.
Alex could certainly hire people from other Forge Worlds, but those hired were always a bit difficult to manage.
Especially with the advancement of the Sub-Sector development plan, this gap and demand grew increasingly large, making Alex's own cultivation of Low-ranking Tech-Priests a necessity.
In fact, after Ovilia retrieved her technical team, the cultivation of new Tech-Priests had been ongoing.
Low-ranking Tech-Priests established mechanical temples in the districts of Rostov City; these served as both workshops providing relevant services to the local area and religious sites for the Adeptus Mechanicus to preach and proselytize.
Low-ranking Tech-Priests provided mechanical repair services to the residents of the district here, while also spreading the faith of the god of machines to them.
It might sound counterintuitive, but Low-ranking Tech-Priests were also responsible for the maintenance of various mechanical equipment within the district.
In the doctrines of the Adeptus Mechanicus, all machines were blessed by the god of machines and possessed machine spirits.
According to the faith of the Adeptus Mechanicus, every machine should receive proper care, and every machine spirit should be appeased and blessed, so that it can better fulfill the sacred mission and duties bestowed by the god of machines.
In other words, if you had a broken machine, you could take it to one of these district mechanical temples and ask the local Low-ranking Tech-Priest to fix it for you.
They would bless your machine with binary prayers and then repair it with skilled hands.
Of course, whether he charged a fee, and whether he would curse you with binary profanities, was another matter entirely.
These mechanical temples were not only centers for technical services but also important strongholds for the Adeptus Mechanicus to spread their faith in Rostov.
Low-ranking Tech-Priests would patrol and preach in the districts just like Priests of the Ecclesiarchy, except that unlike the Ecclesiarchy Priests who expounded on Ecclesiarchy scriptures, Tech-Priests lectured on various simple bits of knowledge.
For example, how to repair mechanical parts, how to correctly assemble circuits, and so on…
Although these were all very basic knowledge, if one was diligent and eager to learn, they could still acquire a lot of useful knowledge.
At the very least, they could become a qualified technical worker, knowing what to do in the face of factory production equipment so as not to anger the machine spirit.
If they worked harder and learned how to appease the machine spirit when production equipment had problems, then it was possible to become a small supervisor or something in the factory.
Of course, this was for adults.
If you were a child, you even had the chance to become an Adeptus Mechanicus apprentice through continuous learning.
This was also one of the ways the Adeptus Mechanicus recruited new gears; these apprentices might not achieve much in doctrine or technology, but after training, they could become qualified Low-ranking Tech-Priests such as Rune Priests, Data-Priests, or Cogitator Priests.
After all, the Adeptus Mechanicus was spread throughout the galaxy, and the shortage and demand for lower-level clergy were also very high.
Although the orthodox practice of the Adeptus Mechanicus itself was to use cultivation vats to cultivate fast-growing humans who were instilled with a large amount of knowledge during the embryonic stage through genetic engineering, this did not mean that the Adeptus Mechanicus did not recruit apprentices from ordinary people.
Although the Adeptus Mechanicus possessed cloning technology, they did not use this technology to produce Low-ranking Priests.
Cloning technology was mainly used to produce cogitator wetware and Servitors; true Tech-Priests still belonged to embryonic breeding, only using artificial cultivation methods for accelerated growth.
(A classic old rumor: Kriegers are all clones, but in reality, Kriegers should only use life womb technology, which means directly extracting embryos from female bodies, artificial insemination in vitro, and then rapid maturation in cultivation tanks. Dora Khaur also belongs to this category, not clones.)
The threshold for joining the Adeptus Mechanicus was indeed very high, but this did not mean it was impossible.
The Adeptus Mechanicus did not select apprentices based on their origin, background, or social status, but rather by genetic testing to determine if a person had talent.
Because of this, in worlds where the Imperium of Man's rule was more complete, or in Forge Worlds under the control of the Adeptus Mechanicus, there would be regular genetic screenings.
Alex was currently popularizing genetic screening on Rostov II, selecting candidates with genetic talents that met the Adeptus Mechanicus standards from the planet's over a billion people, then recruiting them as Adeptus Mechanicus apprentices and providing training.
These people were not yet qualified; after all, even if the Adeptus Mechanicus had advanced technology that could directly implant knowledge into the brain, it still took time to cultivate a qualified Low-ranking Tech-Priest.
Alex had only been managing Rostov for a few years in total, so it was naturally impossible to produce a large number of talents.
However, overall, the groundwork had been laid, and in just a few more years, talent could be continuously produced.
Producing top-tier geniuses was hard to say, but basic Low-ranking Tech-Priests could indeed be mass-produced.
The information Alex had previously asked Ovilia for was precisely for training such talents.
A set of basic materials that could train ordinary people who had not received any systematic education into qualified Adeptus Mechanicus apprentices, considered introductory textbooks.
Coupled with the theoretical knowledge on micro-ecological self-sustaining cycles in hydroponic farms requested this time, it was already sufficient to cultivate a Low-ranking Tech-Priest of the Adeptus Mechanicus who could develop into a Genetor.
Of course, if given to professionals who had received systematic education, it might even be possible to cultivate a few talents comparable to Genetors.
One must know that Genetors were already considered High-ranking Priests within the Adeptus Mechanicus; further up, one could prepare for the Archmagos examination.
It wasn't difficult for professionals from the 3k era to become Priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus if they had sufficient knowledge accumulation, and it wasn't impossible for even major figures in relevant fields to switch to becoming Archmagos.
However, there was a gap of forty thousand years between the two; even if the Imperium of Man's technology was completely lost during the Old Night, the remaining knowledge was still at the level of a once-pinnacle fallen empire, and the gap with the 3k era, where technology hadn't even broken out of the planet, was not ordinary.
So, although Alex sent a package to Number 14 East Chang'an Avenue, he didn't intend to bring 40k stuff to 3k; not only would the impact be too great, but more importantly, it would be very difficult to understand.
"Just get them a few sets of introductory textbooks. When we snatch a set of Ancestor Shrines and Clone Weavers from the Squats, then we can consider giving them something good!" Alex said casually, putting the things in his hand into a trash bag, and preparing to go out and throw away the trash again.
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