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I have started reading my first Imperial Glory book, and In it a Tech Priest Valkyrie pilot kisses and strokes the nose of his Valkyrie before going on a mission.

and that he is "in love" with his Valkyrie.

That scene left me somewhat speechless.

The Adeptus Mechanicus are an odd lot. To most of them the flesh is weak while a machine is strong, powerful, incorruptable. I wouldn't put it past them for their human emotions to alter as their body parts are replaced with bionics and implants, so it could be possible that they become fond of their 'charges' and treat them like children or, perhaps in the most twisted of minds, like lovers. Although that might border on being heretical. Hmm.

Strange, I was under the impression that the Mechanicus shunned not just organic bodies, but also organic emotions.

Tech Priests worship machines. They can connect with them much in a very real manner (mechadendrites IIRC) so yeah. Eventually gonna happen.
They're all a bit mental anyway.

One of many interpretations influenced by a single author's personal opinion. *shrugs*

Personally, I see it much like Tadashi, though technically one could say that reverence is an emotion as well. I suppose it comes down to how you express it.

The AM are machine fetishists.

Oh god, my mind.

This conjures a lot of wrong images. What has the internet done.

In theory they develop a bond with their machine, but that contradicts the Mechanicus's preferable no emotion approach. Ah the contradictions of fluff

Althought they avoid emotion and concentrate onlogic, I would say they are still not above the former. They were Human before becoming machine

Halmyr wrote:Althought they avoid emotion and concentrate onlogic, I would say they are still not above the former. They were Human before becoming machine

And then they got sections of their brains and bodies removed and replaced.

Chowderhead wrote:

Halmyr wrote:Althought they avoid emotion and concentrate onlogic, I would say they are still not above the former. They were Human before becoming machine

And then they got sections of their brains and bodies removed and replaced.

The Brain is a pretty impressive organ, it has been know for some part of the brain to take over the role of other dmg or remove section

Individual Techpriests might appear to show what humans would call love for their charges. They wouldn't call it love and don't think of it like that, but it appears like that to outsiders.

Their emotions are totally messed up so its only natural things would be mixed.

Depends on who's fluff you're reading. In some, most Tech-Priests have the parts of the brain that control emotions removed and replaced with cogitator cores. In others... well... Dan Abnett, in one of the Eisenhorn novels, has a Tech-Priest literally drooling over Midea Betancore's Glavian implants as he paws over her.... that she's an attractive female is wholly besides the point, its her implants that turn his crank.

The level of impantation depends on a Tech priests rank. a lower ranked dude might not have his emotions removed so he would still show emotions, albiet with a different focal point.

Iirc, the pilot is not a techpriest, just an imperial navy pilot who has a lot of bionic replacements after being badly wounded. And he is, well, eccentric, but 20 years of war can do that to you. I dont recall him being "in love" with his valk, though, just that he treated it kind of like a person (because he was very superstitious).

blood_ravens_marine wrote:Iirc, the pilot is not a techpriest, just an imperial navy pilot who has a lot of bionic replacements after being badly wounded. And he is, well, eccentric, but 20 years of war can do that to you. I dont recall him being "in love" with his valk, though, just that he treated it kind of like a person (because he was very superstitious).

Correct. He was part of the Brimlock IG regiment, not the AM. The Brimlock 11th is chock full of characters, they're all a little bit nutty in their own, unique ways. It's a fun book.

Coolyo294 wrote:The AM are machine fetishists.

Oh god, my mind.

Mechadendrites.

You're welcome.

Clearly none of you are Imperial Guard players then. I stroke and kiss my Vendetta everytime I put it on the table...Don't listen to them Valkyries of 40K, I love you all!

Holy crap. Are you serious?

In that case, ew.

He doesn't know where that Valkyrie has been or the other Valkyries it has been with!

That's why only I can hold it!

No, I don't actually do that...I don't want to mess up the paint job! But when those three las cannons all hit something, it always makes me smile, that's why there's all the love!

Some Techpriests have metal tentacle thingies...

and I have seen enough hentai to know where that is going...

All of them have 'metal tentacles'. They're called mechadendrites and are pretty much standard for any Tech Priest worth the name.