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Departmento Munitorum field workshops making modifications to vehicles have been mentioned as well as mechanically inclined civilians becoming lay-brothers of the AdMech in one of the BL books, so I'm assuming that there are mechanics other than Cogboys in His Divine Majesty's fighting forces. An armoured unit would require a large number of support personnel and yet there only seems to be a handful of Tech Priests around, so I guess it's reasonable to suspect that maybe Guardsmen who show the skills end up becoming AdMech lay-brothers in order to work on vehicles maybe?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6774369.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6774369.page GMT Re:Of Tech Priests And Grease Monkeys IG grease monkeys, yes. An enginseer would supervise them to ensure no tech heresies are committed, though.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6774428.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6774428.page GMT Of Tech Priests And Grease Monkeys
An armoured unit would require a large number of support personnel and yet there only seems to be a handful of Tech Priests around, so I guess it's reasonable to suspect that maybe Guardsmen who show the skills end up becoming AdMech lay-brothers in order to work on vehicles maybe?


They're called Technomats, and they learn the Rites of Maintenance and Repair by rote memorization. They are not taught how technology actually functions, they are simply instructed that if the machine is doing A, you perform Rite B to correct the problem.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6774449.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6774449.page GMT Of Tech Priests And Grease Monkeys
 Psienesis wrote:
An armoured unit would require a large number of support personnel and yet there only seems to be a handful of Tech Priests around, so I guess it's reasonable to suspect that maybe Guardsmen who show the skills end up becoming AdMech lay-brothers in order to work on vehicles maybe?


They're called Technomats, and they learn the Rites of Maintenance and Repair by rote memorization. They are not taught how technology actually functions, they are simply instructed that if the machine is doing A, you perform Rite B to correct the problem.


similarly there are a large number of people who can maintain their cars relatively well who dont have a very good understanding of how they actually work.


hmm this part is broken, replace that part]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6782198.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6782198.page GMT Of Tech Priests And Grease Monkeys
Technomats are basically those kinds of people. They have no idea how the vehicle works (as in how all of its parts go together to form a cohesive, functional whole, or even the basics of combustion engines) but they understand that if that part there breaks, this part stops working, so replace that part to make this part work.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6782281.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6782281.page GMT Re:Of Tech Priests And Grease Monkeys
Plus; Hive worlds produce large amounts of relatively advanced tech (Las weapons and Chimeras) in massive numbers in huge factories where Ad Mech presence is likely minimal. In such cases the Ad Mech is probably more like a regulatory body, external maintenance contractors, and techno-inquisition rolled into one. For instance; House Orloc may own the factory, and the management and workers are not associated with the Ad-mech, but a Tech priest checks up on them periodically, and they need Ad-mech expertise to fix badly broken machines, and changes to the process or design of the product absolutely needs to be sanctioned by Ad-Mech (such approvals are rare, and can take several decades, if you are lucky).

Ofcourse there is also places where the Ad-mech does not go (for whatever reason) where technological heresy could flourish. I remember the old Necromunda source book implying that all sorts of technology was produced in the underhive, and that there were plenty of people who could fix what was not producible.

I expect that means that on most reasonably technological worlds there are enough people floating around with the right skills and understanding to fix basic issues without resorting to the Ad-mech, or requiring Ad-mech sanction most of the time. This would be different in official Imperial operations (Such as the IG) which would likley work much closer with the Ad-mech than 'civilian' operations.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6783938.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6783938.page GMT Of Tech Priests And Grease Monkeys
The workers, themselves, have no idea how a lasgun functions. They could operate one, certainly, for the Imperium is a militant society... but they could not explain to you the principles of how depressing the trigger causes a measure of power from the cell to pass through the focusing array and pass down the barrel through the lenses to create a deadly bolt of light.

Same thing on the more backwater worlds, as illustrated in the story Seventeen Hours. The people of the Agri-World knew the basic Rites of Maintenance, but if the Rite failed to fix the problem, they had to get a Tech-Priest.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6784890.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6784890.page GMT Re:Of Tech Priests And Grease Monkeys WE might attribute these to being the grease monkeys, armourers, artisan/artifcers, and the like who aren't strictly techpriests but seem to have some level of technical knowhow.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6786630.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6786630.page GMT Of Tech Priests And Grease Monkeys http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6786640.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/592456/6786640.page GMT