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The Pteraxii is the mobility maniple's aerial body, a Skitarii skirmisher slung beneath a roaring jet-pack. With the Fly keyword it vaults terrain and drops onto its prey from above, striking where the gunline cannot reach. It comes in two temperaments: the Skystalker, who rakes a target with flechette or phosphor fire and then repositions out of sight, and the Sterylizor, who plunges into melee with an incendine flamer and blade.

For all its speed the Pteraxii is a fragile thing — a Ranger's frame with no more staying power. It is flesh-and-augmetic, not a Construct, so no priest can weld it back up; it survives by never being where the enemy expects. Only the Skitarii field it; the static Cult has no place for wings.

The Serberys outrider rides a cybernetic destrier to the edges of the battle and back — the fastest body the Machine God fields on the ground. As a Cavalry model it covers distance no walker can match and looses its weapons after moving, harrying flanks and running down stragglers. The Raiders carry a galvanic carbine for the scout's long reach; the Sulphurhounds a phosphor pistol for the charge.

Sturdier than the Pteraxii but no wall, the Serberys trades armour for reach and speed. Like all the fast scouts it is flesh-and-augmetic rather than a Construct, so it looks to its own speed for survival, not a priest's welding-torch. It belongs to the mobile Skitarii alone; the slow Cult leaves the saddle empty.

The Servitor is the cheap floor of every Machine God force — a lobotomised drudge of flesh and steel that does exactly one task until it is destroyed. It is slow, and so dim that it can be trusted with no choice of its own; it simply fires what it is pointed at or swings the servo-arm bolted to its frame. Its aim is poor by Mechanicus standards, for a mindless thing shoots only where it is aimed.

What earns the Servitor its place is that it is a Construct: shielded by the Aura of the Omnissiah and the first thing a Tech-Priest welds back onto its feet. Expendable, replaceable, and endlessly repairable, it is the body a maniple spends without a second thought.

The Tech-Priest Dominus is the maniple's master and its living altar — a senior magos wrapped in heavy plating and warded by a refractor field. He is the one who declares the Canticle each round and whose Rites of Repair keep the machines standing. No duelist's equal, he nonetheless strikes hard with an Omnissian axe and fires a macrostubber into any who close.

His true worth is command. While he lives the liturgy is sung and the constructs are mended; when he falls, both fall silent with him. A maniple guards its Dominus as it guards its own machine-soul.

The Tech-Priest Enginseer is the maniple's dedicated mechanic-priest, sent wherever an engine needs tending. Less imposing than the Dominus and lighter of body, he earns his place through the Rites of Repair — striding to a wounded Construct and welding it back into the fight. His servo-arm doubles as a crushing melee weapon, and an Omnissian axe hangs at his side for when the work turns to war.

Trained to it, he can take up the Canticle himself, keeping the liturgy alive should the Dominus fall. In a construct-heavy force he is the difference between a wall that grinds forward and a heap of stalled machines.

The Tech-Priest Manipulus is the maniple's specialist-priest, an experimenter as often found bearing an exotic weapon as tending the machines. He carries the Canticle Adept training, able to sing the liturgy if the Dominus is lost, and performs the Rites of Repair like any priest of his rank. Armed with magnarail fire or a transonic blade, he leans toward the fight more than the workbench.

The relic-hunting Technoarcheologist is the same chassis under a different loadout — an augur-forward magos who scours the field for archeotech. Either way, the Manipulus is a flexible officer: a second voice for the liturgy and a second hand at the welding-torch.