Ahem.
As I said
in the very first post, I have been reading/suffering through 'Mechanicum', which is entirely about the Martian Civil War, where Kelbor-Hal, the Fabricator-General allies with Horus and seizes the planet for Chaos.
And in this novel, it
explicitly states that Kelbor-Hal's faction names
themselves the Dark Mechanicus. The name comes from the improbably-named Traitor Mechanicum Adept Urtzi Malevolus. You can tell I'm not making it up because WHAT KIND OF A STUPID F**KING NAME IS 'URTZI MALEVOLUS'?!! That's worse than a 'Star Wars' name!
Ahem.
Anyway, at no stage are they called the Pneumachina, which is a shame, because that's a great name that makes sense. No, they name themselves 'The Dark Mechanicus'
. It explicitly states that they do this stupid, stupid thing. In the novel. That I just read. So if another books says different, that doesn't make the other book right; what it means is that the writers/editors didn't talk beforehand, and that's okay with me, because f**k canon, just tell good stories.
Any road, it's good to know this 'Dark Mechanicum' nonsense is a case of [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DependingOnTheWriter]Depending On The Writer.[/url]
So that's something at least.
And it's hardly a mania. I just f**king hate bad speculative fiction. By which I mean
On an un/related topic, I reached the end of 'Mechanicum' today. If I hadn't been listening to it in the car on the way to work, I'd consider it life I'm never getting back. I feel like the idiot who sees heroin, thinks 'Well, you never know until you try...' and promptly puts himself into a coma. I knew it was a really bad idea, but thought 'no, don't judge, you bloody love the AdMech, and everyone says 'Mechanicum' is one of the good ones, and you love the Horus Heresy, so really how bad can it be? Just give it a go or you'll always wonder.' and f**k me was that a stupid thought to have had. I actually feel stupider for having gotten through it. Does anyone know: are there any Black Library books that
don't feature epic battles? The fate of worlds in the balance? Because everyone deserves a second chance, but if they're all full of sh!te like that, I really am never bothering with a single non-artwork BL publication again.