A Servitor's fate

[@Octopugilist]

Had to call a repairman because the washing machine kept trying to remember it's mother's face

[@mercedeswalt6621]

Ahahahahaha!

[@javiarcamaro7178]

Can only imagine a mechanicus coming in and first looking at it like a normal repair man and says "ah I see the issue, should be an easy fix, just alittle bit of this and that, couple of incense here and there and just a bit of chanting and we'll be done in a jiffy, shouldn't take long mabey-ehhh, 3 hours" then just starts to chant and bless it with all its might. 😅

[@invocalyptic8796]

I'm having a really crap day and that gave me a good laugh. Thank you, internet stranger. May the Omnissiah bless your motive force.

[@havefuntazarasu5367]

Those last prophet is kinda sad

[@davisdf3064]

I don't know where i read it, but there's a story about a Techepriest looking at a combat servitor data. The servitor was damaged in combat, and is dying on the floor, the only thing the servitor is thinking about is being a woman who is having her child being forcefully taken from her arms, after that, the woman was taken away desperately crying. The Techepriest looked at that and put it on "irrelevant data" and deleted it.

[@sneakurp]

Normal sci-fi universe: "Oh great, a medkit!" 40k universe: "Oh great, a wall-mounted, lobotomized prisoner that is in a near-constant state of agony!"

[@gaebi]

He'd have been lucky if the lobotomisation was successfully completed. Now, he exists to suffer and serve for centuries to come. For the Emperor

[@FreakTesticals]

Still feel absolute joy when I see the healing station😂

[@cosacojimi]

Quake 4 stuff...

[@billfred9411]

If the lobotomy goes right, they don't really suffer and they are more like an empty shell, but it seems to be very common for it to not go right and they start remembering and retain a part of themselves and that is honestly terrifying to think about how terrible their life must be.

[@navilluscire2567]

​@@billfred9411 Except because of 'souls' being a thing a lobotomized person's soul, their very being is probably stuck in a nightmarish limbo between the living world and the warp...so no, probably not ok, definitely not ok. Also, maybe we shouldn't downplay the horrors and inhumane actions of the Imperium.

[@bobboberson2736]

One of the better representations of the grim dark that exists in 40k, being a servitor is on “ I have no mouth and must scream” levels of fucked up

[@jaypeadieL611]

Dreadnought: *screams in pain "let me die!" Vox translator: death to the enemy!

[@foxboiunknown320]

Oh yes, but with such a "your screams will only befall deafened ears" vibe

[@SirSparrowHawk]

There's a chance you might get lucky and you get put out of your misery by good person. Not with AM though, he is all you have...

[@yacob-qb6qc]

Cogito Ergo sum I think, Therefor I am!!!

[@DatsWhatHeSaid]

@@yacob-qb6qc "Ego cogito, ergo sum"

[@NickPrimavera-dn7uf]

most ppl think they’ll be Titus. what most people would be in 40k:

[@JinKee]

Asian dad: finally my son is doctor.

[@RKroese]

​@@JinKeePOV: he is not even a nurse. He is the needle.

[@canisarcani]

i think most of us are aware of this. which is why most wh40k fans DONT wish they were in wh40k.

[@ValbrandrLeonhardt]

​@@canisarcaniI mean, It wouldnt be so bad being a human in the Tau empire. The Tau are objectively the best faction if you want to live a mostly normal life.

[@canderoussnurd4265]

Psh. I wish I was this lucky. I’d probably be the poor bastard that they use for mine sweeping who doesn’t fucking die, but just gets whittled away bit by bit and reissued to the front. 😂

[@nexradio143]

There’s one voiceline that goes something like “Energy depleted. Why does it hurt? Help. Help. Help”

[@macm5542]

From what game it is

[@Phonourm]

@@macm5542warhammer 40k: Darktide

[@ravingtree6085]

Yeah when I heard that I stared at the Servitor for so long I got grabbed by a Mutant lolll

[@jaleellbutler3347]

The mechanisms needed to keep it alive became powerless lol

[@requiem762]

@@ravingtree6085 A somber moment of silence for the grim darkness of the far future being interrupted by a monstrosity some daft Plaguebearer introduced to Avengers memes is par for the course in Warhammer 40k xD.

[@GloriainMorte]

“I am not as functional as I once was… I feel myself falling apart” You and me both buddy

[@tandava-089]

For a second I didnt know if it was the horror on the wall or my inner monologue XD

[@ahobimo732]

FR, it's called mortality. I have a terminal case of it.

[@Елена-у3г2ы]

"AGE HAMMER: 40YRS" 😢

[@JulitoAgapito]

Omg I’m dying here 💀😂

[@ZarHakkar]

Any chronic illness will do that to you Brain fog was mine

[@jasayassa6065]

If they didn’t want to end up like that, they shouldn’t have stolen that box of corpse starch to feed their starving family

[@Firesgone]

No that dude just had his arm turned to starch, which he ate. This was his younger brother, for whom he stole to feed. 😢

[@RatLordFL]

@@Firesgone Didn’t that guy get an extirminatus called down on his planet?

[@stevenseagull4990]

​@@RatLordFL No, that was the guy who grinded rodent meat into his kids ration bar.

[@thewhompingwampa2671]

​@@RatLordFL Saved by the Chaos Gods at the last second too.

[@oscarteran6118]

He was probably a doctor that gave rejuvenation treatments to some noble who could keep his mouth shut.

[@marinescu0511]

Well looks like somebody forgot to mind wipe the servitors XD OH those mechanicus rascals!

[@pal1d1nl1ght]

Sometimes the mind wipe fails.

[@sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046]

They are too busy molesting toasters

[@marinescu0511]

@@pal1d1nl1ght are you saying that the priests of the omnissiah are at fault? "Yes commissar this heretic here!"

[@bCheeesY]

Some servitors need more brain power to complete their tasks.

[@LordCreamBoi]

Unfortunately, a medical servitor would probably need to keep a bit more of itself intact after the mind wiping to perform its function. Grimdark aint grimdark for nothing, the servitor is functioning as intended

[@youngarchaeotech189]

When it comes to servators; the more complex the task, the more their brains must remain intact. A medicae/chiurgeon servitor must retain the faculties necessary to diagnose, treat, and even improvise during a medical procedure. A return to lucidity is not as uncommon as one might expect.

[@Thalanox]

Or as one might hope.

[@gladteer873]

so why not just keep them as they are?

[@youngarchaeotech189]

@ because it wouldn’t be a punishment in the imperium’s eyes, and they likely weren’t medical professionals before the grisly transformation.

[@temparalflux914]

@@gladteer873 where's the fun in that?

[@vincent_hall]

Ah, thanks for explaining. I thought lucidity was put on just for entertainment. Sick entertainment. But yes, that makes sense. They'd need higher brain functions.

[@painthegreat]

*on vox call* yes hello magos? Yes it’s the same medicae station…..yes I’ll hold….yes it’s saying it’s lonely again

[@tdpuuhailee8222]

Yes, the ogryn is trying to take it with him. Again.

[@GiggyWiggy2086]

​@@tdpuuhailee8222there should be voice lines of Veteran or Zealot trying to explain why they can't save the man in the medicae station to the ogryn

[@genesisera8364]

okay, have you tried turning it off and on again?

[@goldietheswagbear8288]

"magos, the coffee machine is crying again"

[@Resi1ience]

@@genesisera8364 "Still begging me to end its misery." "Hmm, okay, try patting it on the head and saying 'good varlet'"

[@giacomoromano8842]

I swear that, every time i play the ogryn, i wished there was a button to carry him with you, Dotty/Doretta's head style.

[@equinosdamaconha2278]

Y E S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@fantomasfantomas6225]

this is a brilliant idea for creating miniatures

[@daefaron]

I've wanted a back item for ogryn that is one of these ripped from the wall lol. Also neat idea for an ogryn helping medics out on the field.

[@maxissixam6049]

@@daefaron right up there with Bullgryn with ratling snipers on their backs

[@StoneBox_761a]

Same bro, you don't even need to rip him out of the wall, just take the casket with you, and carry him until the end of the mission, ala escort style.

[@deamonomic]

This was legit the most horrifying moment of my playthrough... When you realize the dude who was supposed to be lobotomized is still in there... Worse he's literally attached to the wall as the plague gods disease and horrors spread around it.... Take me with you horrified me so much I stopped playing and stared for a min

[@foxboiunknown320]

Thats how you know a warhammer game is good When you feel both an undying loyalty to your chapter as well as that moment where you aso if your the bad guy

[@VALERIAN19899]

I'm new to the Warhammer 40k universe and I swear every time I watch a new lore video I always find myself pausing it and staring blankly at the wall!😅 My girlfriend is like are you okay! And I belt out "FOR THE EMPEROR" and she looks so confused then tells me I need help! Lol😂😂

[@foxboiunknown320]

@VALERIAN19899 whats the worst youve been exposed to?

[@orbitalbutt6757]

@@foxboiunknown320 Some goober will say the Daemonculaba even though it's the most stupid, GrimDerp, tryhard "Isn't this SHOCKING wow aren't you SHOCKED by how SHOCKING this is?!" bullshit that reads like something a 14 year old aspiring horror fanfic writer would jot down in a spiral notebook during study hall. There are worse things in 40k that aren't quite so hamfisted. Arco-Flagellation, conversion into a Mortifier Anchorite, being taken by an Inquisition Blackship, Servitorization, and Nurgles Rot. Also, literally anything that a Dark Eldar Haemonculus will do to you.

[@Nerdiness1985]

@@VALERIAN19899 You failed to report your heretical gf to the nearest Inquisitor's office. Quickly bring her in yourself before someone else notices her vile blasphemy. She will continue to serve the emperor as a servitor.

[@baldbeardedbassist]

The fact these soldiers keep coming up to him all fucked up and Nurgle'd out and he still says "can you take me with you please?" speaks volumes about how bad being a Servitor must be

[@cultureofwork10]

For a somewhat selfaware servitor, nurgles blessing might seem as paradise

[@CidVeldoril]

@@cultureofwork10 The more I learn about those things, the more I think Abby the Terminator might not be so bad.

[@sapereaude6274]

​@@cultureofwork10a nurgle fueled servitor uprising would be interesting

[@Eisenwulf666]

​@@sapereaude6274i remember reading somewhere(could be wrong though), that they aren't uncommon. Sure it happens once in a 100000 servitors, but there are billions of them. So once in a while, the brain start working again and they are scared, in pain and have heavy duty industrial machinery instead of arms. Fun times.

[@masonjones5658]

Until his blessings disappear and you are left to feel the pain of an entirely rotted corpse

[@ArtaShrike]

Pasqal Haneumann would be pissed off at whoever botched the Rite of Lobotomization so badly.

[@sadboi3238]

ROGUE TRADER MENTIONED LETS FUCKING GO💯💯🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@F0xEagle]

A fellow Rogue Trader player? Let's go!

[@roguedude777-ky5mc]

nicest dogmatic rogue trader

[@ArtaShrike]

@@roguedude777-ky5mc lmao, I actually do play dogmatic~

[@JPSRCE1987]

RT reference for the win and thank you! This was the one thing that bugged me from the game, I was like "wow either someone shouldn't be part of the Adeptus Mechanicus because of sentient servitors or someone did this on purpose.....

[@Obozo_Gaming]

If I remember correctly, I once heard one say "I still function! I still function!" as the door closed.

[@quester34]

Galvatron to Starscream as he is thrown into space.....

[@imnotevenreal6543]

@@quester34immediately thought of that too!

[@dominicpsn]

​@@quester34wanna bet?

[@chilledburrito]

@@dominicpsn*subtle foreshadowing?*

[@121tut]

all that dispair and they wonder why chaos so easily finds a hold in the imperium

[@Catonzo]

Oh Chaos finds a hold even in Paradise worlds.

[@RKroese]

The materium brings forth the warp. The Warp influences the materium.

[@SarajevoKyoto]

​@RKroese Yep, the Big Four used to be NICE...well, neutral anyways...before humans and elves screwed it all up for everyone.

[@ArcaneEiro]

That part.

[@MeshuggahforGod]

And the unending war creates more sorrow

[@fatihisfat3506]

When the servitors starts to be self aware that means something bad is coming

[@johnduquette7023]

Some have to retain self-awareness to do the task to which they are assigned. In the Ravenor novels, they had to take a submarine under an ice sheet on a frozen world, and navigating that ocean was complicated enough that the servitor-pilot reacted to their conversation and gave back-talk. Medicae services are actually fairly complicated, so they may have used a suppression implant on some kind instead of a full rite of lobotomization.

[@fatihisfat3506]

@ yea but when they do get their memories back it either means powerful demonic forces or that the place isnt maintained and starting to fall apart

[@cheshirethehatter3213]

Nah, sometimes the surgery just gets botched and the lobotomy doesn't take all the way, so they retain bits and pieces of their mind. Others, however, are purpose-built as retaining their mind (or at least partially) because their tasks require a higher level of cognisance than your standard braindead servitor possesses. There's a great bit in Rogue Trader where you meet the servitorised mother of a young girl who has become a target for assassination by her wealthy family, and in a brief moment of lucidity, the servitor-mother eviscerates half the family after they try to kill her daughter, burning herself out in the process.

[@fatihisfat3506]

​@@cheshirethehatter3213those voiclines are new so its kinda forshadowing that things are turning for the worse on atoma but yea ik what you mean with the rogue trader example

[@boartank]

In the devastation of baal, there was a servitor who psychically spoke with the tyranids and sabotaged the defense system of Baal or Erwin's ship. Nids made him think that they were friends and they're saving him.

[@Anonym-yr4qn]

"Do you want a side of guilt and depression with that healing?"

[@twanchee206]

thats kinda how i felt when i played hl alyx, i carried one of those green worm dudes through the whole game, it always made me kinda sad when i had to squish em

[@Drongk-Ogryn]

No kark off, just give my damn healing heretic!

[@navilluscire2567]

*More like;* want to be reminded that you're serving a regime (the inhumane Imperium) that regularly turns human beings into wall appliances and cybernetic horror shows and yet your somehow supposed to feel like a badass hero 'saving' a world we're any survivors will likely be worked to death or turned into more lobotomized slaves. Want that while you're being healed?

[@danillo.eu.rodrigues]

Holy fuck thats grimdark

[@burnin8able]

The absolute best part of 40K is how they'll take levels of body horror that would be the focal point in some horror settings and casually jam them into the corners and just let them fester there

[@loganb7059]

@@burnin8able agreed. I love it when everything seems relatively normal or heroic but if you stop for just a moment and take things in, the horror show of daily life in the imperium seeps in through the normality of it all.

[@burnin8able]

@@loganb7059 that cognitive dissonance right there is the theme at the very heart of the imperium as a satirical device. good job, you did the thing. (that might read as sarcastic but I'm being truthful, people need to be congratulated and encouraged when they actually engage with media with critical thinking.)

[@willc3697]

The part that makes me the most concerned is the fact that this stuff is so normal in the 40K universe that the comments are just funny quips, almost like they’re seeing a horribly deformed homunculus dragging itself across the floor and just chuckle and go “oh, you!”

[@Manhandle730]

Yeah anything to do with the mechanicum is dystopian as it gets. They are so soulless and devoid of any remorse.

[@TheDamnCook]

Sometimes I wish I could grant these poor bastards the emperors mercy

[@geronimo5537]

its a shame we dont have the option

[@foxboiunknown320]

Quell such heresy or ill have the battle sisters know of your heresy

[@kel5517]

This is the emporers mercy. To serve so much longer than what their original body could ever allow.

[@hhjhj393]

That sounds a lot like heresy to me brother. You best mind what you say lest I put YOU in that box.

[@newnamesameperson397]

The emperor is the reason they are like that in the first place.

[@captain0080]

"if you don't behave you will become a doctor one day"

[@SnifferRiffle]

If hell exists, it's definitely this universe.

[@Greivous-chan]

It literally does

[@feuerling]

The setting itself is hell and has several levels of hell in it. Hell² or perhaps hell³

[@thisisthebeginning4425]

"Hell" does exist in This present rea;ity..Creators of Israel. Next is Jchell. ALL the "Stories" are True. Your memories are not your own. btw..the preamble to WH40k is actually the 1st paragraph to the True Bible..Verdict for the Original Sin = First Moral Crime= Murder of an Apostle. True Definition of Apostle...Fathers Noble Child . Who brings the "Apocolips'...TRUE DEFINITION MEANS....Fathers WORD bearer. So, the Apostles ARE the Apocolips. Gene Stealer Cults Are the Jews...A Jew? "Whites" that Breed into other Races and take over. Sound familiar? "White Ninja"..Husatic Jew.=Drumpf.Biden.Musk. Clinton etc. White -Hindu = Travelleer. Gypsy. Wandering Jew= Nixon.Lincoln. Whitex Black= Black Israelite = Obama. EVERY Us Pres.since the Irish-Scottish-Mongol.China.Japan, ethnic Husatan Mix Pres. was James Buchanan. A Husatanic=Husatic-Hasidic Jew.

[@CREDLACE]

Have you seen the movie "Event Horizon"? It's pretty much an unofficial prequel to WH40K (you tell me they are not travelling the Warp in that movie)

[@borusa32]

@@CREDLACE I think the screenwriter acknowledges the influence if memory serves.

[@Vidhur]

"We can't let abominable intelligence run amok, we need a solution!" The solution:

[@edheldude]

It must've been pretty bad if this is better.

[@hang_kentang6709]

@@edheldude "They had giant sun-snuffer mechaserpents the size of Saturn's rings. Mechnivores that could bite holes in both time and space, entropic engines that instantly ignited planets, swarms of nanites that could strip a planet in seconds." -Perpetual The Imperium during its zenith was already a post-apocalyptic empire built upon the ruins of the old one.

[@edheldude]

@ A lobotomized healing gimp seems ok compared to those. But then again, humanity could really use those in the current situation of the WH40k.

[@Garagantua]

Why have you forsaken me? In your eyes, forsaken me? In your thoughts, forsaken me? In your heart, forsaken me?

[@NearlyH3adlessNick]

TruuuuUuuuuust! Iiiiiiiiiiiinnnn!! MyyyYyyyyYyyyyyy!!!!! Self righteous [×+%!^%=+]!

[@mz.projiekt]

IIIIIII... CRYYYYYY...

[@SgtScoobie]

When angels deserve to dieeeeeeee

[@MarionFR]

when angels deserve to...

[@RKroese]

​@@NearlyH3adlessNickTrust in my self righteous human side. Like Horus did! 😮

[@Fitzgibbos]

Before you feel bad for them, remember, what did they DO to become a servitor? *lifts datapad* Yes, see for example this fellow.. he... he botched a cosmetic surgery for a noble.. apparently.. *squints* he, oh, it wasn't a surgery it was simply a hair modification, he cut some hair and ruined her.. it was a wig? She had him turned into a servitor because he ruined her favorite wig? Oh god...

[@Kj16V]

Servitors are the absolute most horrifying thing in all of 40k-dome. Followed by the 1000s of Psykers the Emperor eats for dinner every day.

[@raistlin3462]

Meanwhile in Commorragh....

[@canderoussnurd4265]

Drukari Pain Carnaval…… This is paradise compared to the Drukari pain carnival.

[@jameslahey5516]

I believe it's up to 10000+ a day

[@navilluscire2567]

​@@raistlin3462 Not really, the drukhari wish they were this casually cruel, the Imperium is allowed to be an inhumane entity that puts the bdsm space elves to shame.

[@FureyinHD]

Us: Oh no, that's so sad Imperial Citizens: STFU whiney servitor we all feel like that

[@tandava-089]

XD this is the sick truth XD "Were all miserable and lonely! Now shut up! Ive got people to slaughter and paste to slurp down XD"

[@MrHahaHeyhey]

😊😊

[@bass_not_bombs4384]

"Im so lonely" Next Mechanicus sick joke is they are gonna set up another servitor med station DIRECTLY across from him 😂

[@KL8T0N_SLU2HIE]

pov: you find bro after he dated the hello kitty girl:

[@thebreadbringer]

...uh oh.

[@andrewbrennan94]

if they're asian hello kitty girls then they're actually the best but if they're white hello kitty "Women"...dear god. weird how that is.

[@meatpuppet909]

​@andrewbrennan94 do you think Latina hellokitty women are safe? 👀 seen allot of those... asking for a friend.

[@Carlos-gt6ej]

​@@andrewbrennan94Can confirm... Never again.

[@Nerdiness1985]

@@andrewbrennan94 Degrees of heresy is still heresy.

[@mitchelvader]

I remember the first time i heard the "pieces of my mind are floating away, please help" one, me and my buddies were having fun and no one else heard it and thought i was crazy cause it never happened again since.

[@SalariaStudios]

Hey the door wont stop screaming about the darkness again. “Alright ill go look at it.”

[@nelson5743]

"pieces of my mind are floating away..."... Dear God

[@TheChaos791]

I can't stop thinking it's the fate of Lohner and Olessya from Vermintide 2 if they end up in 40K since they're the same voice actors.

[@cinnamonflavord]

I feel like I've heard Saltzpyre and Kruber in the Moebian captains. I wonder if Kerillian or Bardin are somewhere

[@lazurman976]

@@cinnamonflavord Bardin's one of the ogryn, the one with the Bonehead implant.

[@JohanKylander]

Bardin is one of the vendors on the Mourningstar. ​@@cinnamonflavord

[@michastasinski2985]

Also Sienna voices one of agents on Mourningstar.

[@ramsoofkyo9047]

Really, hearing VAs wasted potential in Darktide (random characters, random cutscenes) is similar to this servitors fate.

[@grizzlybear352]

Most of the Time you walk by it after healing, but listening to it now...damn I realize now I take Healing stations in Any game For Granted

[@LN997-i8x]

To be fair, most healing stations don't have a soul.

[@benjaminchristianson2584]

They do a good job of making these lines comedic tension relief in the middle of a game, but horrifying when you can finally sit and think about them.

[@ThePresidentofMars]

How horrifying is the darktide story that the agony of this servitor is comedy relief

[@Gargoil987]

@@ThePresidentofMars Well its 4 ex-convicts sent to clear out nurgle worshipers lairs and all the horrors that comes with that.

[@DarkFlamesDarkness]

Its not funny even when you arent thinking about them

[@28-r8b]

lol at what point is this anywhere near comedic?

[@pretzelbomb6105]

@@ThePresidentofMarsComedy isn’t really the right word. It’s more “familiar”. Darktide is designed with mechanics anyone can grasp and fine details Warhammer 40k fans can appreciate. Fans of the franchise know what an Imperial hive city, one of which serves as the game’s setting, is like (not good). They also know what nurgle corruption (stuff the game’s baddies are doing) looks like. This servitor’s improper mind wipe is firmly in the first category, so despite being terrifying in concept, it’s also a subtle reminder to the player that this is an Imperium spot, not a Nurgle one. It works especially well since this is a healing point, so it provides a sense of safety with both mechanics and atmosphere.

[@jarisirvio2056]

This would be the moment to ask: "Are we the bad guys?" Well question would be pointless, when there are only bad and worse.

[@miguelcarunchod.1493]

Correct. In 40k, AI is forbidden because it once tried to take over humanity and almost succeeded. So yeah... they clearly cannot authorize a medical station running fully on Linux. They could, but they wont.

[@awesomedude222]

a good part of why I just can't get into 40k. I don't like playing as the bad guys in anything, it just isn't fun to me to be evil.

[@jarisirvio2056]

@@awesomedude222 Well it is not plain evil, just necessity of evil when you are fighting for survival. Moral questions about turning a criminal into machine like that as a punishment. Sacrifice million to save a billion people. It a hell of a lot grey, quite dark grey, but still.

[@Mickekzon]

@@jarisirvio2056 It really isn't, the Imperium could easily "win" if they weren't dogmatic assholes. The central theme of 40k is that the Imperium WILL lose BECAUSE of the way it is.

[@SarajevoKyoto]

​@awesomedude222 Play as either T'au or Orks. T'au are a genuinely good empire, although they've had to make some compromises once faced with the absolute insanity of the 40k galaxy. Orks are just having a great time. Good food, good friends, and a good fight is just about all they need in life.

[@kyosokutai]

The worst part is that these guys probably did not even commit any heinous crimes. The Mechanicus just have quotas to fill and the specs called for servitor operated medicae stations. So sometimes they just round up some civilians from the streets. Deeming them better utilized as a glorified medical station rather than working 18 hours a day to feed their families. At least it keeps the orphanages in business.

[@jimmydesouza4375]

No, for quotas they have tube grown humans who have never had any kind of awareness. As far as I know it has never been stated what proportion of servitors are "vat grown" vs "servitudis imperpetuis" but from a practical standpoint it would make sense that most are vat grown simply because it would be logistically easier .

[@kolyashinkarev7366]

​@jimmydesouza4375the proportion would depend on how grimdark the specific author is feeling at the moment

[@CidVeldoril]

@@kolyashinkarev7366 While the Imperium is pretty evil, the AdMech uses servitorization as punishment. The blade of punishment dulls greatly if the same fate can just befall you for being unlucky. Punishment needs a crime, otherwise it doesn't keep people following the rules.

[@wanjanechtangroeger]

​@jimmydesouza4375 In the Forges of Mars Omnibus a guy is rounded up and forced to work on a starship and later turned into a servitor for some super minor offence (or even without reason, I don't remember exactly). If they need a servitor and there are not vats around they will just take what they need.

[@jimmydesouza4375]

@@wanjanechtangroeger Read Kolya's post. Bringing up specific examples doesn't really mean anything because specific stories, even from the same author, vary wildly depending on how "grimdark" they want the story to be. Similar thing to how firstborn can in one story be 15 foot tall and indestructible and in the next story be 6 foot tall and go down to a stiff breeze.

[@Shyraton12]

... You know, you could make a pretty good horror game of a servitor regaining it's free will and trying to escape the mechanicus.

[@edheldude]

Servitor: Isolation where you need to hide from techpriests.

[@afish4086]

I've worked as a nurse in an ICU. Honestly, this guy is pretty relatable

[@Resi1ience]

Suddenly, the Dark Eldar only seem a _little_ worse than us...

[@mapleflag6518]

Nah, they are still waaaaay worse because they do it for the shits and giggles.

[@erenmeydanc8954]

They do for fun humanity do because have to you know ai is banned so criminal or just unlucky poor people will be robot

[@Resi1ience]

@@mapleflag6518 No, they do it to stave off the eternal torment of Slaanesh lmao

[@muntadar1655]

​@@Resi1ience they do it for both

[@michaelwilliams5607]

⁠@@Resi1ience well they have to enjoy it because if they didn’t then slaanesh wouldn’t accept their sacrifices

[@Magilla.Guerrilla]

When you come to realize and understand why some would submit to Chaos. But in the Grim Dark universe, nobody is the good guy.

[@SarajevoKyoto]

Hello, my name is Por'vre Kel'dan and may I speak with you about the Greater Good?

[@kingghoul2324]

​@@SarajevoKyotoGenuinely impressed you got the caste & rank correct. You absolutely didn't need to but know it is appreciated.

[@SarajevoKyoto]

@@kingghoul2324 T'au is my first (and temporarily only army after I sold my Tyranids), and I've always enjoyed their lore. Thanks for the compliments!

[@notjimpickens7928]

"40k is so cool! i love it! I wish we could be space marines and fight orcs!" _-person who would 110% end up as this._

[@hcolider2817]

Getting turned into a servitor isn't nearly as likely as it is to just find yourself as some random person amidst the countless billions on any one fuedal or hive world. You only end up a servitor as a consequence of bad luck, or from punitive action; this also requires that the enforcers simply dont just decide on a more instant finality for whatever it was that you did

[@navilluscire2567]

​@@hcolider2817 I think you miss the point, any society or regime that normalized THIS probably shouldn't be idolized in any way, that's including the space marines. (Remember how they're basically brainwashed children that are turned into transhuman horror-shows by being surgically implanted with eldritch organs that kill most of them anyway?)

[@the_real_inquisitor]

Normally they get mind wiped. The Mechanicus doesn't make them as they're used to be...

[@jamesfreeman3617]

The mind wipe isn't permanent it's like a oil change it needs toped off

[@lemanruss7131]

Чем сложнее задача, выполняемая сервитором, тем меньше уродуют разум. Как вы видите это хирургический сервитор, и поэтому для сохранения навыка диагностики и анализа ранений, а также для сохранения инициативности их делают такими.

[@libervitaexaltis4551]

to be fair, it actually shows very accurately the state of the mechanicus in 40k. They're *supposed* to be a lot of things, but often aren't. They're basically like unskilled workers following manual. They don't understand exactly what they're doing and how, and slowly their skill degrades as knowledge is lost or standards fall, especially on fringe worlds, perhaps not as well connected to a major forge world and Martian leadership. Same for space marines. It boggles the mind how many people miss the point of 40k. Its not a power fantasy, it's meant to represent the slow decline and collapse of a thriving society. Although it seems lately they're trying to change that and make 40k more like what people imagine it to be: a power fantasy

[@derrickbonsell]

@@libervitaexaltis4551 Originally it was a satire of Thatcher's Britain

[@Frommerman]

I mean the Imperium were initially written as the unambiguous villains of the setting. They're an example of the end state of fascism: religious reverence to a corpse as billions die every day. But fascists are incapable of media literacy and flooded the fandom, and the more recent writers took after them, so now we get attempts to make this obviously evil system the "best option." My opinion? Let the Tyrannids eat everything. Leave the Tau alone, they can have their Greater Good, but everyone else needs to get eaten.

[@DaThingOnTheDoorstep]

Darktide remembers the Imperium, and all of 40k, fucking sucks to exist in. No noblebright Space Marine nonsense, but a never ending cavalcade of misery and death to the laughter of thirsting gods.

[@billballinger5622]

What game should I get? This or the new Space Marines?

[@DaThingOnTheDoorstep]

@billballinger5622 Depends. Darktide is an FPS, has no single player content or story campaign. Space Marine 2 is a 3rd person action game, has a story campaign, PvE and PvP. If you just want 40k vibes, definitely Darktide. Kickass soundtrack too.

[@Eagle-eye-pie]

@@billballinger5622this

[@udayveerbhadauria1659]

The next Warhammer “fan” that tells me the Imperium are the good guys will get linked to this video

[@nickbilske8140]

Just deepens our faith in the emperor

[@jefferyshaw3990]

It's warhammer, there are no "good guys". There's just you and everyone else.

[@probablygeorge6489]

It's like how the Alpha Legion is a loyalist legion- that's mostly filled with traitors.

[@theghostoftom]

Literally the starting crawl or first pages of every book is something along the lines of Humanity lives under the harshest, cruelest regime imaginable. Innovation and technology advancement are dead and there is no hope, only war. Still a load of people struggling with the idea that human factions aren't the good guys 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@PallyChan]

No faction is good, but there are characters that are trying their best.

[@alabonefy]

Such a sad and horrifying fate, stuck in place, the shreds of humanity you have left only bringing sanity. Nobody there to maintain you or talk to you, just empty hallways and the taint of chaos.

[@cheesaliciousable]

I'd expect Nurgle had something to do with it... As suddenly the person who became the servitor prayed for relief and got his mind back due to Nurgles influence, but with the plague god's blessing and return to sanity the guy realized he'd been folded into Medicae unit... So he's fully aware of what he is, but has to play the part for fear of getting even WORSE treatment if his corruption is found.

[@navilluscire2567]

Nope, this is just something the Imperium does, either as punishment or just not caring about botching a lobotomy, either way their *enslaved flesh* serves the Emperor in never ending agony.

[@kamikaze4172]

You know, with all the horrors you have to face in the Warhammer 40K universe, I didn't expect the one patching me up to actually make me feel uncomfortable

[@megan00b8]

I mean, you leave a couple servitors unguarded in a daemon infested area, yeah of course they're gonna start remembering their lives long before the warranty runs out, the warp is naturally meddlesome and the brain is always working to reknit itself.

[@ohmaigod2]

And just so you know, he was made by the supposed "good guys" in the setting. Emperor wakes up hes going to burn the galaxy to start anew.

[@winnie8614]

Servitors already existed in time of Emperor. That's emperor decree to ban AI. (Well, mechanicus also ban this, but emperor is 100% on their side). That's not because of lack of technology, that's because of AI war during dark age of technology. They are capable of creating AI. There was one AI during HH, it was called Kaban machine or something. Book Mehanicum.

[@RokuroCarisu]

The Emperor is far from a good guy. He's not even among the least bad characters in the setting.

[@winnie8614]

@@RokuroCarisu BLASPHMEY! *BLAM*

[@SarajevoKyoto]

​@RokuroCarisu One could argue that he is in fact THE worst guy in the setting. Depending on which backstory is true, he's either a staggeringly incompetent shaman who got in too deep in the Warp thousands of years ago and has been trying in vain ever since to break humankind to his infernal masters, or a nameless Age of Strife warlord who mind-raped his way to power, then cut a deal with Chaos for even more power, then tried to double-cross Chaos for even MORE power only for it to finally blow up in his face.

[@canderoussnurd4265]

Servitors existed in 30,000k as well dude.

[@DrakeWarriorIgonHarpooner]

I thought I remembered one where he mentions the he still feels that he memories everything and he wants to die

[@rooknado]

Me too

[@rooknado]

I feel the same way

[@mr.bluesky4130]

Medicae… medicae… medicae…

[@Tanzenergise]

MEDICI-MEDICI-MEDIC-

[@astrocosmicalDude]

Hello? Ad-Mech Support?... Yeah, its about that Medicae Station.. ... Yeah, it mentioned its memories coming back ... No I don't have an Ad-Medically account... Yeah.. Ok... Yeah, I'll hold.

[@chasslo4545]

😂

[@wispyz0]

the voice acting and audio mixing here is A1

[@tuquinyou]

That's how the robot that passes the butter felt like

[@VerbuggterHerrderDunkelheit]

Looks like they forgot to remove the vocals from that one

[@ConsueloWubba]

But brother! You do have a purpose. To heal the sick and infirm. THAT IS GLORIOUS.

[@husseinA.]

This shit was so sad even to the T'au empire when they encountered a bunch of servitors, saying their technology inferior due to their backward beliefs.

[@edheldude]

They just haven't experienced the civilization ending AIs yet.

[@deauthorsadeptus6920]

​@@edheldudeThey struggle to understand anything better then basic imperium tech. A proper dark age AI would wipe them all out in like 100 years using only their own weapons. And only because tau ships suck.

[@navilluscire2567]

​@@edheldude They have AIs and no, it's not an inevitability.

[@navilluscire2567]

​@@deauthorsadeptus6920 They don't struggle to understand it, they just question why they designed it that way. And 'dark age' AI could also wipe out the Imperium easily so moot point, what did you think space marines would righteously kill the DA AIs? No they'd get ANIALLATED by them like anyone else would.

[@mikesantillan5876]

Why need enemies when humanity does shit like this in 40k to each other

[@heyhoe168]

To have a purpose.

[@Drongk-Ogryn]

This is Warhammer not Heresyhammer

[@OfficialExplosionMusic]

reminds me of SOMA in a way, just leaving them behind

[@beerasaurus]

At least they get to talk. The human brains in the buttons that open doors get no say.

[@thomasyoung2226]

For the God emperor servitor, you have served your purpose.

[@patman0250]

Mom!!?? The refrigerator doing something weird!

[@mahmutkelbas8175]

Last time I played we got a chaos spawn stuck in there with him. At least he wasn't lonely anymore.

[@JustaDood857]

As someone who's played the game since beta. It's impressive how numb I am to this. But someone seeing it for the first time probably weighs on their mind

[@aintsleptinninetyyears3621]

Nah, just a normal 40k horror beyond human reckoning

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

I didn’t even notice it. This is the first time I’ve actually listened, and now I’m sad.

[@hhjhj393]

Annnnndddd that's how propaganda and desensitization works kiddos!

[@icehoof]

Mmmmmmhmm (Saying it with him) Can't serve, can't continue. I know, just a top off, thanks

[@budld2498]

Just a little "oh hey, they added that" on the first playthrough if you were into warhammer for a while before the game came out, I kind of missed the shock factor and now I wish I could have that

[@Forbiddensirenz]

I forget the exact story- but in a book about either a rogue trader or an inquisitor they return to their old home and are going through. At some point they come across their childhood bedroom and a servitor who’s was basically converted to a life sized clown doll that you’d kind of press buttons and it would do different actions. Out of curiosity they pressed a button and active right back up doing its little routine. Person thinks about how weird it actually is for a moment but how much they loved it as a child. Half considered killing the servitor then and there, but decided not to and just left it to rot and be forgotten.

[@Spudtron98]

I had one use the I’m So Lonely line in the Moebian Steel mission. Poor bugger had been stuck in a forgotten crack of the hive for centuries before being stumbled across.

[@BioClone]

That lvl of conscience actually means it could be corrupted by chaos

[@Lindedelaciencia]

This concept and the scene are something that might as well be in a fallout game...

[@thejonnyism6868]

IMMA GETCHU OUTTA DERE, IM GONNA GETCHU OUT

[@mileator]

I've always felt that the server tours were reflections of the rejects themselves. It's why they say such similar voice lines to what the rejects say

[@kassi420]

This is why I still think Darktide the most accurate depiction of 40k. Not even Space Marine 2 shows this level of Grimdarkness...

[@AnotherGuyTheXone]

Doesn't sound like the fate of a servitor But the fate of any healthservice-worker

[@yakhooves]

Rumor has it they just got a mic covertly installed in the Emergency Room nurse’s lounge, and captured authentic audio.

[@williansnobre]

To this day I have only read about one single Servitor who was happy, which is odd given what they go through, there should be no happy Servitors.

[@cornonthecube5830]

If you feel bad for them, imagine how stalkers from hl2 feel

[@fabiocosta3830]

AFAIK servitors are men and women that were punished for breaking the law, or failing to fulfill their duty. That could vary from causing irepairable damage to an ancient machine or construction, to being late to work by 5 seconds on the lasgun factory. I can be wrong but i guess servitor conversion is applied when the "criminal" is either necessary for tasks, or when death is deemed too merciful.

[@railrost7428]

No the mechanicus does just yoink normal ppl who did nothing wrong and turn them into servitors if they happen to need one. Criminals do too but in the 40th millenium you are one man amongst trillions. Life is cheap and you will be forgotten like trillions before you. Not to mention the draconian and insane laws of the imperium. Its insanely easy to be a victim of a literal thought crime

[@RokuroCarisu]

Not all of them. Many were simply in the wrong place at a time when the AdMech needed more servitors.

[@n0ttomuch65]

there are also vatgrow servitors to fill up quota

[@Seelenschmiede]

And some where turned as a reward. Yeay!

[@RokuroCarisu]

@Seelenschmiede That's servo skulls. Becoming one of those comes with the advantage of being actually dead. And of course, it's a questionable honor since nobody really cares whose skull has been used.

[@JS-kr8fs]

I probably would notice, but it's like, you're in 40K. This is a Tuesday.

[@pyerack]

"The Imperium are the good guys" The Imperium:

[@ainationaldiscovery]

I guess this is hell in the 40k universe

[@ratdoesgaming]

Nah, believe it or not, there's worse.... way worse

[@Eagle-eye-pie]

No, it’s Tuesday.

[@gmikecstein]

Thanks for the comp! I always loved those voice lines, nice to see all of them

[@kapitankapital6580]

Considering Nurgle is the god of despair, there might be some Warp shenanigans going on here.

[@vylbird8014]

Or will be. Those servitors are just aware enough the pray for relief. And when the Emperor does not answer, someone else may.

[@-WarCriminal-22]

Getting servitor bot fighting on your side kinda like you can convert cops in Payday 2 would've been funny to do.

[@wyattdickson11]

"What is my purpose" "To bring the butter" 💀

[@Infernal460]

"You have got to be fu***** kidding me."

[@Studiosgcanimations]

You have been unjustly accused of heresy:

[@nukeacitrus]

Looks like someone cheeped out on the lobotomization! Jokes aside, this is a frequent occurance within 40K, where parts of a servitors consciousness, memories or such are left somewhat intact, or like ghostly after-images. Some even maintain them as a cruel jest, like turning your would-be assasin into a mostly mindless servitor, yet keeping some of their memories of their failure, and their current situation.

[@siltstrider6812]

Man, this game is a mental trip. Like existence in the world respected the most through suffering.

[@saucevc8353]

And some people still think the Imperium is justified…

[@ztm454]

You pass butter OH MY GOD

[@Ayahuasca98]

And the imperium wonders why people turn to chaos

[@pretzelbomb6105]

You say that like the Dark Mechanicum doesn’t do worse. More people fall to chaos from bureaucracy than anything else, I think.

[@alexwesley6829]

I have to say...this just made me sit and stare a moment....what in the WORLD did i just watch?

[@arphaxadbasilona1871]

Remember: The word "Grimdark" was coined to describe the hellish universe of Warhammer 40k...

[@ellyjett]

Having never played the game, I would do everything I my power to take them along. You’re my little buddy now, slipping in and out of reality, strapped to my back as we face the unknown horrors.

[@vulkan4108]

Oh, horrors beyond my comprehension, I love Warhammer

[@AevasHouse]

This only happens when the labotomy doesnt take effect right and the servitors start to remember what they once were, it TOTALLY doesn’t happen that often its fine

[@Gabronthe]

He talks about lonelyness but when the Inquisition starts scrapping these are probably gonna be the first thing they take.

[@GardensAndGames]

"Your purpose is to pass the butter" 38,000 years later.

[@NATEDOG]

What's sad is, he was probably lobotomized with his mind like that on purpose. That actually happens in lore

[@alobaymar]

Now imagine your fate being a servo toilet

[@Brandelwyn]

And they turn the traitor into one as well

[@cheekarp2180]

Make an entire game going back to save him, we will buy it