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Using Xenos components (or tech) is heresy - it's in the Priest of Mars novel -
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That’s not a servitor,’ said Kul Gilad.
Hawkins waved two of his men to come forwards with him, following the Black Templars as they escorted Archmagos Kotov towards the downed servitor.
‘Omnissiah’s bones,’ hissed Kotov, making a penitent symbol of the Cog Mechanicus over his chest. ‘What has happened here?’
At first, Hawkins wasn’t sure why Kotov was reacting so badly, but then he saw the shreds of skin that flapped loose on the remains of the servitor’s skull. Kul Gilad knelt beside the creature and took hold of a wide strip of waxen skin. He peeled it back, revealing muscle, sinew and organic tissue, exactly as would be expected
But Hawkins’s eyes widened as he finally grasped the nature of the creature’s physiognomy; the jutting lower jaw and protruding tusks, the battered porcine snout. Hawkins had to fight the ingrained urge to draw his pistol and put a pair of bolt rounds in its chest to make sure it was dead.
The servitor was an ork.
Flensed of its green hide and clothed in a sutured sheath of human skin, but still recognisably a greenskin marauder.
Kotov knelt beside the ork and placed a hand on its mechanised parts. Writhing nests of cables extruded from each of his hands and fixed themselves to its augmetic leg and arm.
‘God of All Machines, in the name of the Originator, the Scion and the Motive Force, release these spirits from the blasphemy into which they have been bound. Free them to fly the golden light to your care, and renew them in your all-knowing wisdom to return to us. In your mercy, make it so.’
‘What was that?’ snarled Tanna. ‘You feel pity for this thing?’
‘For the machines grafted to this unclean monster’s flesh,’ said Kotov, turning and nodding to one of the skitarii, who drew a set of cutting tools from his utility pack and bent to the grisly task of removing the machine parts from the ork’s body.
‘I’m guessing it’s not normal to make servitors from greenskins,’ said Hawkins, watching as the skitarii fired up up a shielded plasma-cutter and began stripping back the flesh around the graft. A fungal stink of rotten vegetable matter and scorched skin filled the corridor. Hawkins felt himself gag through the filter of his rebreather.
‘What has been happening here, archmagos?’ demanded Kul Gilad.
‘Trust me, Reclusiarch, I would know that too,’ said Kotov. ‘It is an abomination to graft blessed machines to such non-human savages.’
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It’s tech heresy because it would require knowledge and adaptation of technology for xeno-biology.
On a practical matter, if you’re using Orks for servitors, do you know how to prevent sporing, or the ork being overcome by some orkish nonsense in a fight with Orks? I thought part of the point of servitors is that you’re using an organic brain. That’s a huge opportunity for Orkish nonsense.
"Why not" isn't a good enough reason to need to figure out how to contain, control, and make use of Orks, given that humans are also everywhere and seem to meet the Mechanicum's needs well enough on their own.
As a secondary point servitors exist because creating artificial brains is deemed dangerous/heretical and any physical advantages of the original body are rendered irrelevant by the degree of augmentation, and I'd rather have a human brain as a starting point than an Ork brain if I were trying to build a robot control unit...
"Why not" isn't a good enough reason to need to figure out how to contain, control, and make use of Orks, given that humans are also everywhere and seem to meet the Mechanicum's needs well enough on their own.
As a secondary point servitors exist because creating artificial brains is deemed dangerous/heretical and any physical advantages of the original body are rendered irrelevant by the degree of augmentation, and I'd rather have a human brain as a starting point than an Ork brain if I were trying to build a robot control unit...
Farming orks shouldnt be too hard. At least not much harder then Grox. Keep in mind according to the lore Grox are tough as gak. A bunch of the things got loose on fuking Catachan and not only survived they thrived.... ON CATACHAN. The orks on catachan do signicantly less well. If you can farm something that can thrive on catachan you can farm Orks. As for why. Well think about all the penal legions you can make with all those prisoners your not turning into servitors.
That sounds like a really bad idea. Plus I doubt theys know how to even turn an ork into a servitor. Different brains and all
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123ply wrote: That sounds like a really bad idea. Plus I doubt theys know how to even turn an ork into a servitor. Different brains and all
Automatically Appended Next Post: Edit: Nvm, seems like ork servitors have already happened
it was a desparate AI/heretek that lacked any other resources. Creating servorktors isn't something anyone else knows, as per your initial position, and the isolated 'magos' that created these orks didn't get a happy ending iirc.
AM/IG - 122nd Terrax Guard: 2094/3000pts
Skitarii/Cult Mech: 1380/2000pts
Khorne Daemonkin - Host of the Nervous Knife: 1701/2000pts
Orks - Rampage Axez: 1753/2000pts