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 agurus1 wrote:
Perhaps there is a way to bind the soul to a machine with a humans old memories etc...

Like a dreadnought?

A dreadnaught is an entombed astartes. They're not dead, and their souls haven't been transferred to the machine. They're still bio organisms, technically human, just on permanent life support.

Honestly I've never understood why they had to grim dark the dreads so blasted hard..... the princeps of warlord titans are encased in amniotic caskets in proximus pattern warlord titans(I think the Reavers as well) and interface with much larger than the dreadnaughts. They make the dreadnought entombment sound like being sealed 100% with no light etc..... the proximus pattern caskets are open enough to be able to look and see the crew. I do not understand why an astartes that could be placed on life support could not be entombed in something similar.

I get Grimdarking the chaos dreads, but the loyalist ones sound brutal for the sake of brutal(and yes I realize the dreadnaught fluff pre-dates the fluff I'm referencing)