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One of the ideas I have is a splinter group of the Adeptus Mechanicus which has decided that adapting Xenos tech may be a necessary evil.

My question is what response would this engender? ie would the IoM outright go to exterminatus or do they have grey knight level leeway where they can use daemon possessed and xenos tech with seemingly minimal censure?

How heretical is this? Would they consider themselves as forward thinking or would they think of themselves as horrific sinners treading on the skulls of the innocent?

Where would they draw the line? Adapt the principles with IoM parts or mount that Starcannon to the secutor?

Feel free to add more questions that I may have missed. I would like to know every aspect I can of this project. Thanks for your input. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6020890.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6020890.page GMT Heretical Adeptus Mechanicus http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6020897.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6020897.page GMT Re:Heretical Adeptus Mechanicus
It would really all come down into where they are from, who they are working for, what the intent of the xenotech is, is it being married with Imperium tech, is it being implanted into human bodies, is it corrupting machine spirits, etc. I would think the only group of AdMech who might have the "Grey Knight level of leeway" would be those who are either working with the Death Watch or stationed at Death Watch watch stations, since they would have to catalogue xenotech and see if it would be useful in the mission of the Ordo Xenos and its militant chamber. A group of regular AdMech messing with xenotech runs the risk of being declared heretical by all sorts of groups, like Mezmerro said, the AdMech aren't united when it comes to alien technology, or honestly even humanities technology, you have all sorts of craziness possible which can lead to some great story ideas.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6021347.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6021347.page GMT Heretical Adeptus Mechanicus
However, they keep their study of xenotech etc hidden because it IS heretical and they'd be hunted down if they were openly public.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6021981.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6021981.page GMT Heretical Adeptus Mechanicus http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6022651.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6022651.page GMT Re:Heretical Adeptus Mechanicus
But naturally this is top level stuff. Only those with the explicit sanction would be allowed to do it, everyone else would be forbidden because they would do it wrong.


Weather its Heretical or not depends on who is overseeing it. The defining line of heresy is blurred and subjective to whoever is making the judgement call.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023059.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023059.page GMT Re:Heretical Adeptus Mechanicus
Would the high lords of terra have influence on this decision?

The inquisitor hierarchy? Ultramarines chapter masters (they seem to have a great deal of leeway as well )? Deathwatch command?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023481.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023481.page GMT Heretical Adeptus Mechanicus Inq can take steps to stop AdMech activities that stray into the heretical if it impacts other aspects of the Imperium.

However, the AdMech is a very secretive lot, so such incidents are rare, insofar as the Inq will become aware of them. At least until half a Hive suddenly turns into tech-zombies because some here-tek was futzing about with a Sarcossan Wave Generator.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023608.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023608.page GMT Heretical Adeptus Mechanicus
 Psienesis wrote:
The AdMech alone decides what does and does not define Tech Heresy. The HLoT and the Inquisition don't have a say in what the AdMech does, in general, though the Inq can take steps to stop AdMech activities that stray into the heretical if it impacts other aspects of the Imperium.

However, the AdMech is a very secretive lot, so such incidents are rare, insofar as the Inq will become aware of them. At least until half a Hive suddenly turns into tech-zombies because some here-tek was futzing about with a Sarcossan Wave Generator.


So theoretically there could be all sorts of sanctioned test groups within the admech using all sorts of xenos tech until something goes wrong or the wrong tech priest gets wind of it. Then the admech would label them heretek and "fix" the situation in such a way that there was never a problem? ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023626.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023626.page GMT Heretical Adeptus Mechanicus SoB, Ecclesiarchy, Inquisition, Arbites, everyone... simply doesn't understand anything at all well enough to say if something a Tech-Priest is doing is doing it the right way or the wrong way.

And just like the Inquisition, it has its own internal divisions over what is and is not Tech Heresy. Sometimes, in fact, the discoveries made by a Tech Priest will cause him to be destroyed as a Here-Tek, only to be vindicated a thousand years later as it is determined that his theories on applied advanced aluminum alloys are spot-on and useful to the AdMech and the Imperium.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023707.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023707.page GMT Heretical Adeptus Mechanicus http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023722.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023722.page GMT Heretical Adeptus Mechanicus http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023856.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6023856.page GMT Heretical Adeptus Mechanicus
VensersRevenge wrote:
I thought 1800's science had death and torture too?


No that would be 1300's science. People only accidentally died in 1800's science...you know the Wright brothers, airplanes, radiation, and chlorine gas...1800's science was *fun*]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6024405.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/550389/6024405.page GMT