What would it take for a guardsman to be honorably discharged?

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**the ancient**

Psienesis wrote:
the ancient wrote:
Psienesis wrote:
One does not redeem themselves from being a servitor. Your mind is erased, all vestiges of personality destroyed, and your brain rendered into an organic hard drive and processing unit, awaiting the installation of basic programming functions for whatever it is your meat-parts are going to be doing until they rot away to uselessness.

There are cases of servitors getting some very basic memorys back.
Unless they keep some aspects of their personalities underneath the core programming, Its not much of a problem being a servitor.

There was that GK story about a ex Colonial, Commissar and the remainder of his company. Farmers on a Agri world. The orks turned up. I think some were missing a limb or 2, they didnt have much in the way of weaponry. Some only had blades I think.

If those were meant to be servitors, it seems that they (like Abnett) have a different take on what constitutes a "servitor", compared to the rest of the information regarding the AdMech and its creations. In the Ravenor books, one such servitor is, in physical appearance, almost entirely human, excepting some I/O ports for interfacing with the submarine he pilots. He also cracks jokes, makes witty remarks, is capable of displaying and feeling a wide range of human emotions and, obviously, has memory and personality. Even speaks and uses slang.

In pretty much every other example, a servitor is a vegetable, mentally, apart from the engrammatic programs implanted (sometimes in a very literal sense) into their brains, with their limbs replaced with augmetic parts used in their task. If, for example, you are a Lifter Unit servitor, your legs get replaced with tracks and your arms with forklift tines and hydraulic pistons. Servitors are used where either human labor is either inefficient, unavailable or otherwise unfeasible (such as extremely toxic environments), or where one has enough funds to replace an entirely human staff with the 40k version of droids (like the bridge of a Rogue Trader vessel). They are also used in places where a human cannot be quickly or easily trained for a task that involves rote, repetitive action that requires precision and accuracy... like copying books, translating text, being the door-greeter at Space-Mart, etc.

If you cant remember what you did or why your there. Its not much of a punishment.
Seems a bit harsher if you can remember who you were, but all you can do is scan keycards.

Theres a guy in that Mechanicus trilogy. He was a crew boss and screwed up. Turned into a servitor, got a knock to the head and started getting flash backy type thing. Though that also had a guy in control of a arco- flagellant, because he had a cyber eye that his grand daddy had.
Then theres that guy the Da wanted to silence but a IW turned him into a servitor, a truck driver that got some sense of vengence back.

**Smokeycrisp**

I'd imagine that the Imperium isn't going to be placing special orders for spare legs for basic guardsmen, so perhaps they're given a certain number of spare mechanical limbs before every deployment. If you lose your leg, and they've got no more spare mechanical legs until the next Imperial Navy ship comes in a few years, you'll probably get discharged.