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I tried to read that fluff, but almost got sucked into the SCP rabbit hole again. I can't afford 3 hours on that site!

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That is some darkly hilarious fluff. I love it. Not sure what I'll go with, I'm thinking DAoT leftover with Mechanicus bits hastily added.

Haha! It is really good isn't it I'm liking your idea of DAoT leftover with some scavenged/added on Mechanicus bits.

To my mind, any AI that's actually survived the 15,000 year persecution of AIs is going to have to be pretty crafty. If it survived by itself it'd have to be a consummate survivalist. Perhaps that involves hijacking/impersonating Mechanicus equipment when it can. Perhaps that involves playing the role of a pet to successive Tech Magi.

Either way, it's going to have to be pretty crafty, or in dominion of a world cut off from the rest of the Imperium.

Just my thoughts!

Hmm... perhaps it resided on a world, far in the Imperium Nihilus, cut off from the Imperium. A world that always paid its tithes, and had happy citizens. A world where the governor was a useless meat puppet, and the Computer pulled all the strings, watching the citizens through its omnipresent camera eyes...

I like that idea. A crafty, devious device, squeezing every advantage it can out of its form.

Brilliant! That's similar to what I was thinking an AI that survived by basically interacting with humans using 'meat puppets' and staying just innocuous enough to go unnoticed

I like the touch that it's constantly watching through surveillance cameras. Has a hint of 1984 about it

Here's an AI. DAoT remnant. I don't think it looks as good as I hoped it would, but it's OK for a thing based on a third of a Ghostkeel primary weapon.

Ooh nice looks suitably high-scifi to mark it as something from the DAoT, but with the creepy little Chordclaws (stunning bit those) to ground it in the 40k universe

Plus, I expect this would be a drone of some sort. The AI itself will probably be squirreled away in an ancient AI core somewhere. Or copying itself into all of its various subsidiary components so every one of its many drones are that AI.

++Hello, citizen. Always remember. The Governor Is Benevolent. Are you doing your part to aid our utopia?++




WIP painted shots. Going for a pristine, high-gloss white finish, with lots of blood spatters.

Do not trust the machines!

Excellent work.

'The Governor is Benevolent'

Hell yeah something about having to tell someone that makes you instantly suspicious.

Done!







Hmm... seems like a piece that needs some !!narrative!!.

That robot thing is really creepy. Very cool!

Thank you! Half of the people who see it think it's adorable, it freaks out the other half. I love that

Current project - WIP Nemesis Banner. Definitely needs more work.

This is one of the most intimidating models I have ever painted. The modifications I made should even make the horrifically busy vanilla model into something good. The robes are such a joy to do.

Lovely work so far Verv.

Ooh brilliant work

I thought I'd got past my desire to splurge more money on Cawl, but apparently not!

Looking forward to how the decluttering works. In general, I find modern GW models quite busy (not a bad thing as it's easier to remove detail than add it) so I have high hopes

First up, a WIP shot of Greyfax, who has been seconded to the Divisio Psykanica temporarily. She'll be taking to the field alongside some Logitarii null-guardians.



And now... Cawl. Arch-Heretek, Destroyer Of Cadia, and Primarisgenetor...

Ooh neat definitely liking how both are coming together

Greyfax and the return of the Logitarii, now with better guns.

Ooh lovely work.

Now to start on mine I just got eventually
Cawl why ye have like 50 different parts.

Really nice work dude!

Got two done, now. With 8th edition being so Smitespam heavy, I'm certainly going to need Psykanica support to not fold instantly.

Looks fantastic. Love those logitarii.

Great job there

Mens in Conpedibus. The creed of the Divisio Psykanica, those researchers within the Mechanicus who seek to shackle the mind, and understand the anomalous. Their symbol is the most telling sign of their nature. The Anima rune bound in a cog, psychic powers harnessed by the Great Machine.

The Logitarii are their foot soldiers, their heraldry intentionally kept apart from their non-Psykanica fellows. They march in dull purple, with simple lines of purest white, where other Mechanicus units would bear cog-tooth trim. Upon their robes are two symbols - the symbol of the Psykanica, the Bound Anima, and a warning sign, Unbound Anima, signifying their purpose. Each Logitarius is a pariah, pulled from their homeworlds, conditioned, and augmented, to serve the most arcane branch of the Machine-Cult.

Their helms serve to amplify the effects of their soullessness, creating a bow wave of psychic horror as they march forward. The spheres on their backs, a technology some say is not strictly human, do not make noise or light, but rather absorb it, slowing the senses and unnerving those that look upon the Logitarii.

These guys look really great dude! Very distinctive, and completely believable as Ad Mech weaponised Blanks

Thank you! And of course, sorry for the 2(!) fluff edits.

Great fluff there Verv!

And now, because I just got a new purity seal, MY LAIR! It's a clusterfeth, but it's home.

Man that's a kickass hobby station! I'm jealous

I especially love the Incantation of the Mechanicum scroll

I like that purity seal; where'd you get it, if I may ask?

Also, your painting station may be a clusterfeth, but it's in better shape than mine at the moment.