A fairly p*rny tech-nut (Patreon)

Hey all,

Last time we looked at humanity in Warhammer 40K, we explored the flamer-and-bolter-loving violent space nuns, and the one religion that's allowed within the imperium. Where I also mentioned the single exception to this, in that the Mechanicum/Mechanicus have their own religion, which they can get away with by both being the sole source of all the Imperium's technology (with very rare exception), and that their "god", the Omnissiah they believe in, is the emperor, or rather the emperor is some form of prophet/physical embodiment of it.

Of course, the rather chest-heavy cyborg gal up there is a member of this organization .

They are the Mechanicum(s? seriously I keep messing up the distinction between the two, in some sense it doesn't matter because most people who know a lick of 40K lore will know exactly what you're talking about at the mention of either, in that you're referring to the organization of overtly and overly religious techies who worship the machines they build because they actually don't know how they work anymore so they just follow the manual, or try to interpret what's left of the manual to the best of their abilities, clasp their hands together in prayer, and hope for the best when flicking the on/off switch... so sort of how I deal with pc issues) They worship tech, the reason they do is because in a nice one-two punch of awful at one point when humanity had first spread among the stars suddenly the warp they used for travel started acting up majorly, making interstellar travel... less viable (I hope it's clear how that can spell doom for an interstellar empire), lots of peeps with psychic abilities started popping up all over the everywhere and subsequently started exploding into demons because the warp they were tapping into was going haywire, and then also their entire robot workforce rebelled. This war tore the interstellar empire of man asunder and destroyed enormous portions of our scientific know-how and technology, worse yet, whatever scraps of humanity that were left had no way of reaching, let alone contacting, each other afterwards. So depending on the world you lived in you were either booted back into the stone age, completely wiped out, or societies formed around whatever scraps were left.

Mars back then was one of humanities biggest colonies, and back then too a place of science and technology, but with all of that gone it kinda ruined things. They tried to make do with what was left, as other worlds did, with mixed success. Luckily for mars there was a whole lot more tech and info left just by the sheer volume of what was there before things went to shit, so not all hope was lost. Slowly, the separated worlds started recovering, others descended into barbarism, and others still who had lost everything started from the ground up again and went through the motions of how humanity spread and grew as a society (we do live in one) originally on earth.

Then the Emperor came along and started uniting humanity again under a single banner, establishing a new interstellar empire. But then also the Horus heresy happened and the Emperor's works were demolished, so everything got fucked again, they lost even more knowledge, and now with demons.

It is hard to express how truly fucked the situation is for humanity, all the technology that's left is poorly understood twice over, so hitting machines with wrenches, lighting scented candles, and reading off scraps of half burned instruction manuals as though it is religious text is often all that can be done, even by those who devote their lives to try and re-learn the knowledge lost, made extra difficult by that some of the knowledge is either corrupted by machines of ages past and wants to kill you, corrupted be demons and wants to grape you, then kill you (not necessarily in that order), or illegal to research because of aforementioned rebellious machines and evil demons having already done so, numerous times.

Still, it is remarkable what humanity is capable of constructing under such restrictions.

Oh and another thing about the Mechanicum(s). They think organic life is weak and seek to replace all of their bodies with pure, everlasting steel and sacred circuits. You can often tell the rank of members within the Mechanicum/s by how much of their bodies has been replaced by machinery. Hence the mechani-limbs and eye on the chick up there, as well as those mechanical tendrils coming from her... where are they sprouting from?

Obviously she couldn't quite let go yet of those big juicy hangers of hers and that phat round butt. But in time. Maybe. When she feels like it. They'll be gone too... Or perhaps turned synthetic, or metal.

So I wanted to talk today some more about the delays this week but I ended up rambling a ton about warhammer so I'll keep it brief, and save the rest for next time.

Imma try and catch up a bit this week.

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Dang yeah that's pretty brief.

SoCarter out.