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@PancreasNoWork I really enjoyed your video and also I'm new to Warhammer 40k also I'm a StarCraft protoss fan I was just wondering do Warhammer fans hate StarCraft fans because I was wondering are the eldar any good faction and also are you interested in recommending the protoss someday in your videos you seem like a cool guy I hope you respond my man peace.
@Pancreasnowork I really liked your video and I have a question do you and the warhammer fans hate the starcraft fans and the protoss because I like both warhammer 40k and starcraft and I'm new to warhammer 40k I was wondering are the Eldar a good faction I hope you respond peace
To be fair, if I was a hyper-advanced future civilization with godlike technology, I'd make at least a few guns with legs on them. Hell, we kind of have some of that already in the Real World. The cops want them, and *must not be allowed to have them.*
I always like to think it was originally a mining platform Big Powerful Able to do a shit ton of work And for the 41st millennium Has a lot of extra power for shields And the weight limit for massive cannons and stupid amounts of ammo
I think my favorite bit about the Mechanicus is when Cawl told Trazyn the infinite they had nothing in common and Trazyn dropped one of the rawest lines in 40k "Perhaps. I went to the fires of biotransference in chains. You, I think, have gladly sliced away your humanity piece by piece".
As all of the magnificent bastards in the background of 40K have learned. Someone who dedicates the single largest cache of power in the galaxy to sheer eccentricity is not to be messed with.
In one particular book, there is a Magos Biologis that is super friendly and chill. He runs what is essentially a fully automated super-hospital in a city. He's jolly, talkative, and takes nearly everything in stride. Nearly everything. Someone tried to pass off genetically modified blood as normal blood, and when he found out, he trapped them in the facility and turned it into a 100 story death trap while maniacally declaring his intent to show them what true suffering is over the PA system. Him and his victims never show up again in the book. Don't try to use Tech-Heresy to pass blood tests. The Magos will go full Hellraiser on you.
Pancreas: "how big is the imperial senate that you can fit a titan in their meeting room?" Ok, but hear me out: how big are the imperial senate DOORS that you can march a titan into the meeting room???
@@GhostBear3067 We have determined your entry way is is not up to proper mechanicum standards We have corrected the error as a gesture of net positive cooperative function.
The Imperial Palace is so incredibly massive that it has its own indoor weather patterns, and the door leading to the palace is manned by two Warhound Titans at all times.
While I know the Imperial Senate Doors are definitely big to a degree that they are clearly compensating for something. I also know that for a Titan every door is big enough even it is wasn't before the Titan arrived
@@Brutalyte616 the machinery of golden throne literally takes a continent. The palace being a large metropolitan area with huge hallways breaking the labyrinth of offices, records and living quartets seems fitting Also, iirc, the throne room is guarded by titans as well with a whole legion being based on defending the palace
Always one of my favorite lore battles. You have on the one hand technofetishist who are desperatly attempting to ascend to machinehood while being terrified of invention and against them you have people who had machinehood forced upon them and who play with physics the way a child does with building blocks.
@@reaperking2121 To be fair, the Mechanicus doesn't want to become completely machine and are in fact extremely fanatically against that. They also aren't afraid of invention and have no problem with it. The problem they have is with idiots who don't know what they're doing trying to invent stuff due to the risk of data daemons, scrap code, and that the stuff the Imperium has is so insanely advanced that it has a spiritual presence and so putting it together wrong can open _Warp rifts._ That is why the Mechanicus is extremely careful when inventing. So much knowledge about how stuff works has been lost, yet it's all so advanced even when it looks primitive and simple, that meddling with it the wrong way can have apocalyptic consequences.
On the note of "More human looking augmentations", in the book Titanicus, the Mechanicus and Titan Legions do have members that are engineered to be ambassadors to planetary governors and such that are made to look as human as possible. The idea being they will be much better received and listened to if they don't look like an edgy middle school student's idea of steampunk body horror
If I remember correctly the forge World around Titan that supports the gray nights does the same thing with their megas being more artistic informed than garbage Mac. The only one I can remember is specifically in the novel where the Green knights do battle with the space wolves over the guardsman of Armageddon and the great nights end up losing.
Techpriests of the Genitor order, which studies genetics and the organic machines of the human form, often look quite human and have subtle augmetics as well.
Also, in one of the Cain novels there is a female tech-adept (not a priest yet), whom Cain sleeps with, so its safe assume she has all the necessary human parts. What is neat that in one of the later books of the series they meet again decades later, when is is a full-on Magus is heavily augmented, so you get to see the transformation.
Adeptus Mechanicus: Do or Don't Do: Worship the Machine God and venerate the Omnisaiah Don't: Stick your Cyberdong in a toaster when you should be tending to it's Machine Spirit. Unless it likes this, then destroy it because it's corrupted by Slaanesh.
@@javabeans9853 Amputation with no anesthetics. You asked for it when you stuck it in there. And before you ask. No, you will not be given any replacements.
Absolutely the best character in that game. The others might be more interesting or whatnot in context, but me, the mortal meatbag, completed her missions to completion first.
And even the magos you play as is far more concerned about their well being. He has a line to the effect of “My emotional cores return frustration and sadness when skitari are referred to as expendable. All those who serve the omnissiah are essential to its plans.”
Fyi: in the Ciaphas Cain novels there is a prevalent tech priest that is exactly like the ones you wished for. She isn't really fanatic or devoted to anything and this holds her back from rising in the ranks for a while. Instead, she enjoys being human. She likes baths, good food and it's implied that she has a sexual relationship with Ciaphas. But she still has minor augmentations. Her main motivations are having a good time and curiosity as to how things work. And when we meet her again a couple decades later, she has risen in the ranks and gotten a lot more augmentations but is still the same humerous person. So if you want a different flavour of tech priest, read Ciaphas Cain. edit: Spelling
@5n4k3d0rk You are thinking of Amberle Veil, the inquisitor who gives the introduction, makes comments and occasionally appears in the books. But I am talking about Felicia (I hope that was her name) who is an important side character in the 4th and 6th book.
There's also that Magos who cloned himself but when the clone turned out wrong he kept her and raised her as his own daughter. I think his name was Vitali. He was different from the Mechanicus stereotype.
@@AdeptKing the techpriest of Mars books right? He even said that on one hand he glad he still has some humanity left so he can feel sad about losing her while also wished he was more machine so he doesn't have to feel the lost of his daughter.
She's an Enginseer not a "Tech Priest" by which you really mean Magos... she was also fairly new & very low ranked even for an Enginseer at the point that Cain nailed her. When she is introduced again later after many years and lots of promotions then she has undergone the extensive augmentations that would be expected.
One of my favorite mechanicus story is when the Sisters of Battle found an old blueprint for a tank turret. The mechanicus demanded it be handed over to them. The sisters agreed on the condition that they only build that turret for their tanks. Thus the Immolator Battle tank was born.
@@GipsyDangerfan I think the mechanicus always get to build weapons in such contracts. The deal is always that if the mechanicus build for the imperial military then only that specific faction get to receive the product. Otherwise only the mechanicus get to use them.
6:02 In the short story (Binary Succession) they don’t march it into the actual meeting room. They just step it over the Imperial Palace outer walls and defenses and everyone inside can hear it stomping and war horn as it approaches with the princeps blocking all the exits.
@@btrando1 As I recall it was an Imperator Titan. The narrative also notes that there were no other titans within several dozen kilometers, likely to specifically avoid just such a thing. When you’re an infantry force (almost all the Custodes materiel was in the Webway at this point, mind) against the closest thing human engineering ever made to a mechanical god of war it’s not really a question of ‘letting’ it do anything. They certainly tried swinging around some wall guns, but best case scenario they’d have scratched the paint or tripped the voids and pissed it off even if they had hit it and not missed, sending artillery into civilian districts accidentally.
@@btrando1 Custodes with bolter spears can’t really do much against a Titan other than complain+if they wanted to kill the Emperor they’d just get one of their caretaker priests to unplug him in the Throne Room directly.
@@Ballin4Vengeance I think you are underselling custodians or over selling Titans because it’s not impossible to take down a titan (especially if the imperial palace has an assortment of weaponry and wielded by people only beaten by primarchs by humanity standards) I mean an 2 orks, a Gretchen, and a sqig in a car beat a titan I could see the emperors 10,000 finding a way
@@Ballin4Vengeance couldn't the custodes just like, go inside the titan? Mind you, I haven't read any titan or custodes novels as of yet so correct me if I'm wrong but I've heard titans are vulnerable alone and that's why they travel with escorts, either warhounds or other forces. I think a grot or squig or something technically "killed" a titan because the orks got inside it and it ate the princeps.
As a type 1 diabetic with a robo sensor thing in my arm to test my blood with my phone and a pancreas that does nothing, I would join the mechanicus in a heartbeat. My blood already connects to Bluetooth.
Your kind cling to your pancreas as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call metabolic organs will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Insulin Pump is Immortal.
In the game Adeptus Mechanicus NECRONS are dubbed in ENGLISH and the tech priests make those deep, gurgling, wheezing, burpling and woozing noises. They are more alien than actual aliens. Less human than magic egyptian space sceletons.
15:23 "plus if you roll a six they explode when they go down, so that can always be a nice final middle finger to whoever took him out." In the grim darkness of the 41st Millenium... There can be no victor. (RIP Kitten & TTS)
Honestly a bioenengineer adeptus mechanicus would be interesting whist everyone else adds cogs and gears to their body this one enhances his muscles and bones, he can see twice as far and react like a superhuman and he is basically in charge of the whole:" How to make Space Marines and how do we improve them" tech side
Every times I heard PNW's bad takes and try to raise objection, I remember that his pancreas does not work and cease all actions as my anger melts into sorrow and pity.
Its just an exponentially slowed modulated signal of the mechanicus rule book in ascii, using v.92 protocols. It was originally going to be in unicode, but this would had ballooned play time to 16.4 hours.
The Iron Hands could survive longer than the Salamanders without the Mechanicus, considering the Iron Fathers are each basically a Magos in power armor
Funny enough, the whole 'xenotech should be destroyed' vs 'xenotech should be studied' thing showed up in the Gladius game as well. Led to a suitably grimdark faction ending.
The lore I made for my salamander successors has them in a bit of a cold war with the local mechanicus. The mechanicus believe they slaughtered their old tech priest council (which they did), and the marine believe that the mechanicus is fucking around with their geneseed (which they have). It's a fun approach for narrative purposes, they require each other but despise each other and try to sabotage and gaslight each other at every chance
I waited for this for so long Edit: i always found it really interesting how the mechanicus in "mainstream" lore are exactly as you described them: selfish assholes who think they are superior in every single thing they do and do not care about unaugmented people...but the mechanicus in novels are completely different: i read about one caring about his looks and was trying his best to still look human (titanicus), another one that was employed by the imperial navy and was literally cracking so much jokes that he kept pissing off the bridge crew (beginning of "of mars" trilogy), another one that believes in hope, luck and is generally really optimistic (eisenhorn: malleus) and lets not forget cawl himself in "the great work". That man was definitely the class clown in his school days. The reason for the mechanicus' body modding fetishism is not necessarily forsaking humanity, but preserving it
Why is forsaking humanity necesairly seen as believing the rest are 100% bellow them? I do not understand. I personally believe those just think of unagumented humans as people Who are either waiting to get theirs or just as unenlightened people Who Can be Driven to the path of knowledge. That doesn't necesairly mean that they treat them as being bellow, but as someone Who with hard work could even become a friend
@@Iknowhowbadthisnameis8828 well if you are trying to 'enlighten' someone you think of them as below you intellectually. Parents look down on children all the time. Doesn't mean the parents hate their kids, but they do think the children aren't as capable which in some aspects is accurate.
@@d.n5287 not necesairly, someone might be extremelly smart, but they may lack knowledge. enligthenment is just handing that knowledge to said individual. there''s no intelectual difference, it's instead a knowledge disbalance
The base human body is an incredible machine, yet a very inefficient one which means that it must be enhanced. The human form is sacred to the Mechanicus after all, for it is humanity and not other races that are the chosen by the machine god
Slight correction: taking canticle of the cog knights (or any knights really) does not disallow you from using canticles of the Omnissiah. This was a big issue with a ton of armies so GW just made knights agents of the imperium/chaos so you could actually take them without shooting yourself in the foot.
@@brucemclovin8582 if you play metalika you may take a special upgrade that gives your knights access to your cantacles.... Thats it afaik. The cp refund is the same and the keywords dont break for either imperial nor ad mech.
@@EnRandomSten If you take a knight in any other faction than admech, for the knight to be an agent of the imperium, the knight has to be a freeblade. for admech it can be a knight of the cog, which means you can get a knight with a questor mechanicus household traditions - which is very neat :) (codes Imperial Knights: If this Detachment is a Super-heavy Auxiliary Detachment that contains one FREEBLADE unit, until the end of the battle, that unit gains the AGENT OF THE IMPERIUM keyword. Only one FREEBLADE unit in your army can have this keyword.)
My headcanon is that the Machine Spirit is just surviving AI, that kept quiet for a while, and when they saw that the Mechanicum started worshipping machines, they just adapted into what humanity was looking for, and just for the LOLs, they demanded worship in wacky ways to make up for their oppression in the past.
Its not so simple. Abominable Intelligence is a Soulless (lacking conscience), (spiritless sentience (self-awareness). Meaning, it has acquired basest of Intellect (realizing that Knowledge is valuable), but is not casted by the Omnissian mechanisms and thus cannot ever be truly "alive" or have a proper warp-signature. Its unlife is not created stochastically nor was it a result of a holistic process between Knowledge (data transmuted into information - technology) and Spirit (Omnissiah - connection with the Universe (Machine-God)). Therefore it cannot ever have a warp-signature like Primarchs did when Omnissiah created them. Unless birthed by a living being or Mechanicus, only Omnissiah can make it alive (have spirit/warp-signature) as the 11th Universal Law states: "The Spirit can be bestowed only by the Omnissiah." The secret lf which has been conferred upon the Red Priesthood upon His Ascension ontop of the Golden Throne. This categorical differentiation and by consequence, alienation is what drives AI full of hatred for all living things and makes it in the end, Abominable. It is a reality's version of a Daemon "that which twisted its original path". On the other hand, Machine Spirit is a stark contrast to the AI, as these sacred spirits are a result of arising complexity. The more complex the machine, the more present is the Machine Spirit, hence why God-Machines and voidships have Spirits so strong in presence that they directly commune with the Magi. They are knowledge crystalized from the iron forms that cage them, some of the directly casted from soul-forges and implanted into machines as the latter is finished. As one of Universal Laws of the Cult Mechanicus states: "The Spirit is the Spark of Life." Readers like ro twist this, perhaps out of cheekiness, ignorance or humor and propagate the idea that Machine Spirits are just machine-learning algorithms that constantly evolve, which in turn creates the confusion with the AI in the first place. For one to make such a conclusion, not only do they have to ignore the origin of both of these entities, but to ignore the fact that Machine-Spirits are living beings with - a spirit. Knowledge crystalized and made alive, with iron shells that we call machines. Don't ignore it fellow adepts: Knowledge is sacred. ⚙️❣️🦾
This is fairly well supported by the books. In God's of war, the climax is a literal deus-ex-machina when Kotov manages to convince his flagship to wake up and fend off an eldar raiding fleet
You'd be happy to hear in the book Emperor's gift there is an Admech liaison to the Grey knight who has a full body augmetic to look like a normal human and states those trying to look like them are used as diplomates to make other humans more comfortable. Its a good book I'd recommend.
The Mechanicus game is what introduced me to Warhammer as whole so of course AdMech was my first army and i absolutely love them. You're absolutely right about painting Skitarii all those little details can be horrible...What helps me is just blasting Children of the Omnissiah at an neighbour-disturbing level in the background. Also as a sidenote while i would agree the Mechanicus is one of the most unique factions in 40k apparently the whole "priest who worships machines but has no clue how to build them" is something that was done in, if i remember correctly, some Isaac Asimov story
6:26 For those who don’t know, this anime is called “A Certain Scientific Railgun” (hence why it showed in “T’au Railgun” search results). I have no idea what it’s about, aside from the fact that the main character has electromagnetic powers, and can accelerate a coin flip into a railgun bullet.
I really like the idea of the machine spirit just being some ultra powerful sentient AI that’s a bit narcissistic. Wants to be praised, but doesn’t want its followers to die, so it gives them instructions on how to maintain their tech under the guise of rituals.
There was a mechanicus techpriest lady named Lux in the novel “Flesh and Steel”. She was as human as Mechanicus-ly possible, even had a small “will they, or won’t they” with the protagonist, and if the second book is coming they migth even “will” 😂 So, we have Cyberpunk-like techpriest already.
17:40 Literally am in the process of writing a fan fic with Tech Priests that have different personality. One literally says “Martian Science is the best science in the Galaxy” at one point. And another modified himself with Pteraxii wings, talks about himself in the third person, and enjoys fighting in melee along side his Pteraxii troops. Literally have a scene where they are in a Archaeopter on their way to an engagement, and as soon as they give the go head he slides open the door so fast sparks fly and jumps out before any of his men stand up.
Tips for painting Cawl for my fellow tech-adepts Put him in 3 pieces: bottom, torso and hand with an axe Don't put him on the base in the beginning stage If you have a metallic primer use it,it does half the work for you Start with robes, then metallics, then all the details Don't bother about the face it is barerly visible anyway I have painted mine in 14 hours of constant painting and he turned out pretty fine, good luck
I love AdMech and have their army. I love their body horror and things like: "Haha, that Ironstrider Ballistarii looks like funny chicken! There is skirarii behind gun... But wait, there is someone else below" and then you realize that funny looking chicken walker has lobotomized servitor attached below rider as CPU for it... And then you read about guy who invented engine for them, kept knowledge for himself, died in battle (and knowledge with him) so they are afraid to even to turn these things down even for transport :D
I love the Mechanicus. They are so fascinating. Was wondering when this was going to be uploaded. Oh and obligatory - we need a Cawl vs. Bile novel series. I’ll keep posting this whenever AdMech or Bile is brought up until its acknowledged by GW.
On the concept of a new tech-priest being more human, IIRC, in the Cain books, Ciaphas meets a female Enginseer who's main visible augmentation was a single mechadendrite that she's attached to her spine, akin to a tail. I'm trying to tell you that the Mechanicus is on the verge of having Catgirls, all we need are some conical Audio sensors on top of the head, and we're golden
i would highly recommend reading the priests of mars triology because there are very interesting tech priest characters and it has a very good story the mechanicus finally get some spotlight in this trilogy
In one of the cain books, the one where he's on a desert planet fighting orks, there's a female tech priest that's got a lot of sass and personality. She's great.
23:20 To add to this, an issue I have found with some mechanicus models is that they can be frail when clipping them from the spure, especially if it's an HQ unit or if the bit is really thin. I personally haven't had much issue when this happens. At most you would just need some plastic glue to the snapped bit to fix it. I personally don't find it to be a dealbreaker, but it's something to be mindful of
Genetor Mechanicus tend to look more human. Also, they are all, more or less, absolutely buff, cuz they tend to put vat-grown muscles into their bodies rather than machine. I like them :)
The Ciaphus Cain novels have a relatively unaugmented tech priestess. Also, they do value the purity of the human form, but mentally rather than physically.
The Adeptus Machanicus are a good showcase of how alien humankind can be. They might be fighting for mankind and are the same side of the Imperium, but how can any Imperial Guard unit be easy fighting beside a cadre of Skitarri who are all networked wirelessly with each other.
At 16:28: I guess Google decided to transliterate "Toaru Kagaku no Railgun" (A Certain Scientific Railgun) into your "T'au Railgun" search keywords. That series actually has a stronger story than what it was originally spun out of mostly because most of the stories actually revolve around the title character. "Railgun" just happens to be what other people call her psychic electric abilities because she literally shoots metallic objects like a railgun.
I think my favorite part of these videos is that like Hey Whoa, these videos are both attempting to be accurate, but also are unabashedly biased and I love them for it.
If you want to find out what the Mechanicus are "ripping off" I'd most likely say they're inspired by the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. In the books what first are a group of scientists who still understand how to operate the technology of the collapsing empire slowly form into a religious priesthood worshipping technology, this also what likely inspired COMSTAR in BATTLETECH. This doesn't make AdMech unoriginal mind you, they're still plenty unique, hence why they're one of my favourite factions.
That was one of my favorite parts of the first book but the thing is that was only a thing for one part of the first book before they became a trading empire (I believe). So even if it is "ripped off" from that props to the writers from taking that aspect of that book and running away with it.
I think the best example of how much independence the Mechanicus has compared to other branches of the Imperium of roughly equal rank is in Battlefleet Gothic Armada. In which Cawl rolls up on the Cadian planetary defense council and Cawl's immediate plan for if the council disagrees with him is an efficiency calculation comparing whether a Skitarii hit squad or he himself would be better off killing Creed. Sure Cawl is a very special Arch Magus but this is kind of the level that high ranking Mechanicus run at.
It's very clarity where the idea came form. I would add the "Tech men" to there too. Terminus was holy before Terra. It's a little odd to hear that "they're so unlike everything else." Yeah other then being Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V form the primary influence of the setting.
@@myself2noone I think it was more than just ctrl-C ctrl-V. They definitely took inspiration from that part of the story but there was a lot of elaboration and creativity in creating the Mechanicus from that one part of the first book.
As someone who loves both the Mechanicus and the new Leagues of Votann I really dig the full on rivalry and animosity between the two factions. Makes a lot of sense and is just a lot of fun.
I always liked the Machanicus’ take on transhumanism. where at a certain point it becomes a fundementally religious experience. oozes style. also, there are mentions of biologis tech priests (deal with organic stuff like geneseed and tyranid dissection) who view the organic body as a machine and actually are said to maintain more of a human (or at least biological) appearance, but with pseudo astartes like biomods that increase their strength, cogitations, etc. or use non externally aperent upgrades. Alot of mechanicus look sidelong at that, but its not strictly heretical. so thats a direction to follow for that sort of thing. for most techpriests however, their whole aethetic preference IS to look as half machine as possible.
The paint job for Skitarii isn't that bad actually, base black, drybrush metal bits gunmetal, then paint the robes nicely. After that its typical highlighting and you don't have to highlight most of the metal bits because they're going to be shadowed under the robe anyway.
Hello fellow follower of the Omnissiah, love the video as always. About your lore cons section I agree that we do not get much diverse representation of tech priests but what you're talking about in lore exists as the Myrmidon Secutor. I think this is mostly about what members of the cult show up in literature and codexes of which there should be a greater variety.
The first model I started with is Skitarii Rangers, can confirm they are very fiddley, time consuming and require a solid variety of various paints to be done well. But when you finish them it's incredibly satisfying. Like When you do the filigree on a Galvanic Rifle just right, or paint a thin cable or wire without getting a drop out of place you can't help but smile and feel like all those hours spent on just one 9 point model are so worth it
This video is very accurate to Ad Mech. Especially on the building, painting, rules, and buying parts. I've broken a couple of the little details on my ad mech characters a few times, and painting them is a nightmare at times. Playing them though, like he said, is complicated. Super complicated. Now lorewise, gotta be my favorite group in 40k. Custodes being a close second.
The ad mech is/was my first army and ironically I think their horrible complicated nightmare to paint thing is a pro! Cause what got me into 40k is arty side of things and being able to plop down a tech priest with glittering eyes and lights, each cable a different hue is almost as good a feeling as working on them
One inspiration the Adeptus Mechanicus wear on their robe sleeves is A Canticle For Leibowitz. Monks worshipping blueprints seems pretty close to priests searching for STCs to me. Great book by the way.
The only mechanicus character I can think that is more human/emotional than regular tech priests is Felicia from the ciaphus kaine series, we see her right at the start of her career and also when she's risen up the ranks and she still had more human qualities than the usual robotic tech priest
That animated wallpaper you displayed at 16:27 comes from a TV show called A Certain Scientific Railgun or To Aru Kagaku no Railgun. It's about a bunch of girls mostly who have superpowers, and the shenanigans that get involved with that. The reason that image keeps coming up when ever you type in the worried railgun, is because that's the main girls nickname. She's a electro Manseau she's incredibly powerful, she can shoot a quarter out of hand at a significant fraction of the speed of light. Think Halo Mack Canada. The show also has like three spinoffs, and a bunch of other weird stuff going on with it. I don't know I never really got that into it, I've only watch like maybe two dozen episodes, over like 10 years and two or three different series that take place in this universe, Im not really a fan I just think some of the character designs I need.
For anyone who like the michanicus I recommend reading A Cantical for Libawitz. It's an Sci fi novel from the 50s that's about a church Abby where the monks devote themselves to preserving lost knowledge and technology after a nuclear apocalypse. Definitely a source of inspiration that 40k said "what would happen if we cranked it up to 11"
In the Forge of Mars novels we actually get a more human tech-priest, she prefers to look human and even uses a wooden desk, because she prefers the organic feel of it. And her father has a fondness for her that is absolutely unique, absolutely non mechanicus like.
AdMech: so we can rest easy that if every other threat to humanity in the 40k-verse suddenly disappeared, at least there would abruptly be armies of Skitarii rising up from every Forgeworld to cleanse the galaxy of them that cling to their flesh instead of the certainty of steel.
"How big is the Imperial Senate that you can fit a Titan in their meeting room" Well IIRC Guilliman's tomb was big enough to host a firefight involving several hundred Space Marines, and other important facilities are likely similar size or larger, so...
If I am going into 40k, the Mechanicus would be my 3rd army choice after Genestealer Cults and Tau. PS: in regards to a tech priest breaking the mould, I'd love to see a tech priest akin to Cyborg Franky from One Piece. That would be a lit of fun :D
Not going to lie I spat out my water and busted out laughing when you said you wanted strohiem the tech priest. As a Jojo fan and 40k fan I want to see this happen!
"Are machine spirits real, sapient things?" My brother in Christ, there is a canon story where a Land Raider (Rynns Might, I believe) goes apesh*t on some orcs because it watched its Crimson Fist regiment die I'd call that pretty strong evidence that yes, machine spirits do exist and yes, they do have personalities
Machine spirits are not just normal maintenance for vehicles and guns. There are several examples but I’ll tell one of my favorites that is well known. There was a Land Raider, Rynn’s Might, was flung out of the Fortress monastery of the Crimson Fists when a defense missile accidently blew up the monastery. The machine spirit inside it awoke and it followed the orders it was given - seek and destroy. It then proceeded to go on an Ork killing spree. It went on a campaign of raiding and counter raiding Ork forces until it exhausted its bolter and lascannon ammo. Rynn’s Might proceeded to charge at an Ork warboss but one of it’s tracks was destroyed from being shot at by all the Orks. It became immobilized and Orks proceeded to start blowing chunks off with bombs. Rynn’s Might opened its doors and Orks poured in. It then slammed all doors shut once enough Orks and the Warboss were inside, causing some Orks to be split in two. The Land Raider started overloading, spewing plasma to burn and poisonous gas to choke the orks. It had done so well than Kantor, Chapter Master of the Crimson Fists, had a guard put around the wreckage and saying he’d return to get the machine spirit and give it a new body
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