One of the most feared and powerful of the Legiones Militant of the Mechanicum, the Legio Cybernetica carries the onerous burden and dread responsibility of the use of Battle-automata in warfare, as well as the development, propagation and maintenance of?these terrifying machines under sacred charge of the Crimson Accords of Mars. These sacred accords were one of?the cornerstones of doctrinal law created during the foundation of the Mechanicum during the Age of Strife, and forever forbade the creation of the abominable and soulless intelligences known as the Silica Animus, and pronounced a death sentence on any who remained or any Magos or mortal who would serve or seek to create them. These accords, however, allowed the survival and creation of the 'lesser and righteous works' of synthetic life deemed sacred, the Bestia Mechanica and their kindred, and of these the robotic engines designed for warfare and slaughter, the Battle-automata, were given to the hands of the newly founded Legio Cybernetica to control.

智控軍團是機械神教最為可怕且強悍的軍事團體之一，他們肩負在戰(zhàn)爭中使用戰(zhàn)斗機兵這一繁重的負擔與可怖的；而且他們還要在火星猩紅協(xié)議的神圣制約下對這些恐怖的機械進行發(fā)展、維護和生產。當機械神教于紛爭紀元中建立時，這些神圣的協(xié)議便是（用于）其創(chuàng)立的律法信條的基石之一，它們永遠禁止（人類）創(chuàng)造被稱為“硅素惡智”的可惡且無魂的智能（造物），并宣布對任何保留硅素惡智、服務于硅素惡智或試圖創(chuàng)造硅素惡智的賢者或凡人都要處以死刑。不過這些協(xié)議也允許那些被認為神圣的“低級且正義”的人工合成生命的存續(xù)和創(chuàng)造，于是那些兇悍獸性的機械與它們的親族，以及被設計用于戰(zhàn)爭和屠殺的機器人形引擎——戰(zhàn)斗機兵都被交由新組建的智控軍團進行控制。

Wary of the power these supreme killing machines could wield if?joined together —power enough to overthrow empires as they had done in the dark times— it was decreed from the beginning that the Legio Cybernetica would be broken down into a myriad of self-contained and relatively small independent units known as Cohorts, effectively limiting the power any single Archmagos of the Legio could wield; the destructive power of the Cohort resting in an array of between 30-100 Battle-automata maniples, each comprising between one and five of the sacred war engines. Each Cohort was governed by a senior priest of the Machine Cult with whom the secret lore of the cybernetica resided, and below them a covenant of Magos Dominus who would govern the war machines themselves in the thick of battle, Myrmidons sworn to the Cohort's service and their own enginseers, servitors and thralls who would see to the Cohort's needs both on and off the battlefield. The Cohorts also commanded their own support networks, mobile workshops, transports, battlefield vehicles, orbital landers and even star vessels in some cases, but were otherwise forbidden to found their own forges or chantries, making them dependant on webs of fealty, supply and patronage from the great Machine Lords of the Mechanicum and its Forge Worlds for their long term survival and prosperity.

（機械神教也）提防著這些超強殺戮機器聯(lián)合起來后可能會使用的力量——這種力量強到足以推翻人類的（各個）帝國，就像它們在黑暗歲月中所做的那樣，因此從一開始，機械神教便規(guī)定智控軍團要被分解成無數自給自足且相對較小的獨立單位——這種單位被稱為“機兵大隊”，有效地限制了軍團中單個大賢者所能動用的力量。機兵大隊的毀滅性力量由30至100支戰(zhàn)斗機兵中隊組合而成，而每支戰(zhàn)斗機兵中隊都包含1至5臺神圣的戰(zhàn)爭引擎。每支機兵大隊都由一位掌握著智控技術神圣學識的機械教派高級神甫進行掌管，其麾下的統(tǒng)御賢者們則是在激烈的戰(zhàn)斗中親自掌管這些戰(zhàn)爭機器；而在戰(zhàn)斗中和離開戰(zhàn)場后，宣誓效忠于機兵大隊的仆役、大隊自身的引擎先知、機仆和技術契奴將會滿足機兵大隊的需求。機兵大隊也指揮著自己的補給網絡、移動車間、運輸載具、戰(zhàn)場載具和軌道登陸艇，某些情況中甚至還有自己的星艦；但在其他方面，他們被禁止建立自己的鑄造廠和禮拜堂，因此為了自己的長期存續(xù)和繁榮，他們就要依賴于機械神教與鑄造世界上那些偉大機械領主們的效忠網絡、供給和資助。

The service of the Legio Cybernetica on the field of battle was part and parcel of?the Mechanicum's treaty of union with the Emperor, and a great many Cohorts transferred from duties as defenders of?the Forge Worlds and retainers of the great Mechanicum factions and sects to act as mendicant regiments in the Great Crusade, fighting on every battlefield imaginable and serving many masters. Although their Battle-automata were difficult to construct and maintain, the arcane lore of the Legio Cybernetica's Magos and the successes they enjoyed on the battlefield ensured that several thousand active Cohorts were in existence at the outbreak of the Horus Heresy. The Cohorts of the Legio Cybernetica were greatly valued by the forces of the Great Crusade and served closely alongside many of?the Legiones Astartes, Rogue Traders Militant, Knight Houses and Imperial Army Hosts, although others feared and shunned them in memory of the horrors of Old Night.

智控軍團在戰(zhàn)場上的服務也是帝皇與機械神教之間簽訂的同盟協(xié)定的組成部分，很多機兵大隊也從鑄造世界守軍、大型機械神教分支部門和教派的家臣轉變?yōu)榱舜筮h征中四處游蕩化緣的部隊，他們在各個無法想象的戰(zhàn)場上作戰(zhàn)，侍奉于諸多的主人。盡管他們的戰(zhàn)斗機兵難以制造和維護，但當荷魯斯叛亂爆發(fā)時，智控軍團中賢者們所掌握的玄奧知識和他們在戰(zhàn)場上取得的成功（仍舊）確保了數千支活躍機兵大隊的存在。大遠征的部隊們極其珍視智控軍團的機兵大隊，后者曾與許多阿斯塔特軍團部隊、武裝行商浪人、騎士家族和帝國軍部隊緊密配合，并肩作戰(zhàn)，不過出于對舊夜時代恐怖場景的記憶，其他人會害怕并避開它們。

When the wars of the Horus Heresy came, the independent nature of the Legio Cybernetica's Cohorts ensured that, as a whole, they sided in particular neither with Loyalist or Traitor, but were split between masters they had long fought for in many cases. Other Cohorts, mindful of their oaths of loyalty to the Emperor or fearful of a descent into anarchy, saw the Traitors as base renegades to be destroyed, while others harboured ambitions to be free of?the Crimson Accords, and saw the Warmaster's war as a chance to pursue long forbidden rites and technologies.

當荷魯斯叛亂的戰(zhàn)爭到來時，智控軍團的獨立性確保了他們整體上既不支持?；逝梢膊恢С峙淹?，而是分裂開來。他們在很多情況中都是為自己長期侍奉的主人而戰(zhàn)。其他的某些機兵大隊——由于銘記著自己對帝皇發(fā)下的忠誠誓言或害怕陷入無序混亂的狀態(tài)，將叛軍視為需要消滅的卑劣叛徒；而其他機兵大隊則懷有擺脫猩紅協(xié)議的野心，將戰(zhàn)帥發(fā)起的戰(zhàn)爭視為追求長期被禁止的儀式和技術的機會。