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Always thought the head was full of sensors, not the actual head.

The ven dread (again) gives us great insight into what the occupant actually looks like. Without the front sarcophagi you see what's left of the marine's body (basically a torso) hard wired into the machine. Presumably all of the other servos are contained in the rest of the dread's bulk. However I have no idea how MKIV Dreads work, as they seem to have a huge head where the torso is suppose to go.

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:The ven dread (again) gives us great insight into what the occupant actually looks like. Without the front sarcophagi you see what's left of the marine's body (basically a torso) hard wired into the machine. Presumably all of the other servos are contained in the rest of the dread's bulk. However I have no idea how MKIV Dreads work, as they seem to have a huge head where the torso is suppose to go.

I suppose the big mech head is on top of the pilot body emplacement. And yes, it might be full of sensors (because it is such a wonderful idea to regroup all of your sensors into an apparent protuberant point )

the MKIV dreads all look like they'd be perfect basis for Inquisitor Scale Terminators imo. The way the head attaches to the thing, you'd think the marine was mutated or had almost all of their body sans their ribcage and head amputated.

Basically the marine inside the dreadnoughts are small versions of warlord titan princeps, the basic arrangement is that the princeps are in a casket filled with amniotic fluids,then all kinds of sensor tubes are stuck in strategic points on his body to control the dreadnought, I think he has little reason to actually use the tiny vision slits on the sarchopagus , since he could fight using only sensors.

Manticore2009 has a sculpt of an Ultramarine outside of his dreadnaught casing. Search for username Manticore2009 and it'll be his top rated pictures (for good reason!)

It really captures the idea of a space marine that's been too badly injured to ever recover and wear power armor again but still be able to serve while on life support and given weapon mounts. It changed my whole opinion on dreadnaughts, to be honest, so go check it out.

When a marine is too wounded to fight, but somehow survives the wounds that incapacitated him he is placed into the sarcophagus which is the equivalent to a hospital bed with a whole bunch of life support systems surrounding it. The sarcophagus is self powered, but otherwise is a sensory deprivation chamber. When the Apothecaries and Techmarines place him into the sarcophagus, he looks exactly like he did when he was wounded, but most likely cleaned up and made sterile. over time though his muscles will atroph and his skin will tighten over his now skeletal form, and become the pale white/grey that people become when they are locked away without light for decades.

When a Space Marine is put into the life support system, they place the sarcophagus in a similar chamber that the ship's geneseed is kept, a sealed area of the ship, heavily shielded with its own gelliar field and has it's own reactor to power the stasis units until the ship reaches the Chapter's homeworld or main fleet.

If a dreadnought body is available on hand, the Techmarines on board the strike cruiser, battle barge or fortress monastery will begin the long rites of fusing the Hero with his new body, the sarcophagus is lowered into place and a forest of incense is lit as the rituals go on that will revive the marine. Now and only now can the Hero even sense or interact with his surroundings. When the Marine was placed into the Sarcophagus his body was hooked up to the nerves and plugs left of his Black Carapace along with his auditory and visual nerves and his spine and central cortex, these connections are now placed into their respective slots in the dizzying amount of cables, fiber optic cables and other things that make up the MIU. After this process the Loyalist dreadnought will be placed in a special stasis chamber in the ship or fortress and only awoken when needed.

I'd assume the inside of a loyalist dreadnought is full of neural wires and sensors... and primarily a lot of formaldehyde.

I am getting a mental picture of Neo just as he has been disconected from the Matrix, with neural connectors up and down his spine.

The image for those who don't want to search:



And the gallery:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-9999-7598_Ultramarine%20Bust%20%3A%20Julius%20Antigonus%2C%204th%20Co.%20Dreadnought%20%28out%20Of%20Casing%29.html

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:The way the head attaches to the thing, you'd think the marine was mutated or had almost all of their body sans their ribcage and head amputated.

I always figure that regardless of what the extent of the space marine's actual injuries were that the apothecaries and techmarines just remove the arms and legs anyways, not like he'll be needing them or anything.

I'd imagine it'd be like the pod-batteries in The Matrix (inside a coffin though).

Can the dreads even have vision through those eye-slits? I would think some older dreadnoughts would be missing their eyes or somesuch.

I remember seeing a webcomic where two Dreadnoughts after having been destroyed, that "I give all that I am to the Emporer, my left eyeball!", to which the other retorts that the first was lucky to have an eyeball, all he had was a toenail clipping, and they're not even sure it's his.