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The Adeptus Mechanicus (previously the Cult Mechanicus) have a "holy trinity". This trinity is composed of The Machine God, the Omnissiah, and the Motive Force. The Machine God is, y'know, their God. The Omnissiah is the physical avatar of the Machine God, and the Motive Force is his power (mostly electricity).
As for who the Omnissiah is... Its kind of up in the air. The orthodox view of their religion is that the Emperor is the Omnissiah. However, many tech-priests just pay lip service to that view. As someone reminded me in a conversation earlier, UR-025, the last known Man of Iron, claims that the Emperor is not the Omnissiah, and he's met the real Omnissiah.
So the truth is, no one really knows who it is. Or rather, everyone does, and they all think its different people.
As for the Machine God, that's also kind of up in the air. Although less so than the previous. The orthodox view is... its the Machine God. Its out there. Being all forms of knowledge. Divine ♥♥♥♥ like that.
However! There is a great deal of evidence suggesting that the Machine God is in fact a C'tan named "The Void Dragon". Basically, story goes, Emperor captured the Void Dragon ages ago, and imprisoned it in a tomb beneath Mars. The influence of the Void Dragon spread across Mars, and helped empower and propagate the Cult Mechanicus during the beginning of the Age of Strife. Its further bolstered by the fact that the Necrons sent a one-way expedition to Mars, landed, and occupied the place the "dragon of Mars" was imprisoned.
As for why the Imperium and Adeptus Mechanicus occasionally butt heads, it goes back to the birth of the Imperium. After the Emperor unified Earth, he went to Mars and said "Hey, listen. We can fight, but I'd win. We both know it. But that's expensive and wasteful, so lets be friends." Mars (the Mechanicum) agreed to supply the Emperor's Great Crusade, and in exchange they received near total autonomy. And thus its continued with that arrangement ever since.
So while AdMech and Imperial interests coincide, the specifics can lead to occasionally butting heads, since the AdMech is the single group in the Imperium that can go "Nah, we're not doing that".
Some say it is the good aspects of Void Dragon tamed by the Emprah against Chaos (C'tan is utterly weak to warp entities).
Some say it is the will of Technology made sentience, meaning science has a will behind it and does not get discovered willy nilly.
As for tensions, Tech priests are beyond ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ strange. They are effectively robot people that talk and act like robot people. Borderline Xenos to a normal rag tag trooper.
Not to forget they always seem to have their own agendas going on. Agendas that
usually cause some sort of catastrophic event that murders thousands if not millions of their imperial "comrades" in order to save some tiny little tech bauble that will just eventually just turn the cog heads to chaos anyway.