ADEPTUS MECHANICUS: THE MACHINE IS MY TEMPLE | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@Darkgun231]

A fun fact about those 'prayers' they're always reciting: Those aren't just nonsense words and random bits and bob of holy text, it is actually the machine's instruction manual. The Rite of Activation is just the Tech-Priest saying aloud "To turn this device on, press the button with line in the circle." It's just uttered in binary and High Gothic, and none of them really understand the meanings or principles behind the instructions, they merely know that doing as the chant says makes the machine work.

[@mitchverr9330]

And the machine spirit side lives in the basic AI systems implemented into machines too, so "angering the machine spirit" could be as little as setting it up wrong in a marines power armor to outright insulting it in a titan which can cause it to either the power armor being upset and refusing to seal to the titan blasting half a city down. (iirc theres a lore story of a suit of power armor being repainted and killing its host because it was upset at the paintjob)

[@konstantin3374]

@@mitchverr9330 I always thought of it being some sort of wonky voice controls that may misinterpret things said during the power on/setup state

[@AGrumpyPanda]

There's an excerpt of the activation rituals of a voidship's plasma engine, and the last line is literally "When all rune-lights are good, depress the button marked 'ON'."

[@inamerica55585]

@@AGrumpyPanda Airline pilots do the exact same thing every time they fly, there's honestly something to be said for checklists, and if they're in prayer form, it just makes them easier to memorize.

[@Numbers1516]

@@konstantin3374 I don't know, sometimes it's like that, sometimes it isn't. For example, there was that one Crimson Fist Landraider that had its entire crew killed, so it decided to go "Cowabunga it is" against the Orks that were attacking over the course of three days, culminating in faking its own death and opening its loading bay to trick the warboss to board it, then locking the doors and flooding its plasma banks into itself to kill him.

[@koreratman329]

"they lobotomize infants" "oh noooo...." "theyre probably vat grown tho" "OH, ok thats fine then..." love it

[@kylzepolaczkowaty2197]

It's like picking up a whole field of trees for wood that was growing naturally VS growing a forest for wood with the very intent to cut it down one day It's the difference between them having their whole future taken away and sadness for family and making tools via said vats Like that or smth

[@didekjozwiak]

@@kylzepolaczkowaty2197 Yeah, you are probably right They still make horrible automaton monsters out of people tho

[@LAV-III]

I hear that some cherubs are actually the stillborns of nobles and imperial heroes

[@bigpigeon2384]

@@LAV-III well that’s horrible. Imagine seeing your stillborn kid flying around and delivering mail

[@alexpeterson5809]

Still borns becoming cherubs? I heard somewhere that Adepta Sororitas abortions became cherubs...

[@HumanityAsCode]

You say body horror, we say body perfection

[@matthatter5099]

Indeed

[@TheGreatTrialawaits2339]

You mean immortality

[@teamhren1000]

Get outta here Elon Musk I know it's you

[@magosmallen2973]

Perfection in the Omnissiah

[@mcswaggerduff8946]

There is no constancy in flesh, only betrayal

[@dr_alex0422]

Mechanicus: Loses a Titan "I'm never going to finacialy revover from this"

[@shadowrobot7708]

They can make titans just not the biggest ones like Emperor class and above.

[@Dragonspirit223]

@@shadowrobot7708 Well, there's that, but the TIME it takes is stupid, mostly because of the stupid rituals needed

[@mrdoormat6809]

@@Dragonspirit223 it depends on the forgeworld. The ritual can be faster, since they chant in binary. They can turn an entire chapter worth scripture into a sentence long chant lol.

[@awalkingfire2176]

@@Dragonspirit223 "I do not wish to question the sacred rituals that the Omnissaiah decreed, but if I may, is it truly necessary for three techpriest smothering themselves in oil, rubbing themselves with their mechadenrite and uhh... 'revitalizing the machine spirit with the fluid of life' as you claimed, just to place a single cogwheel?" -Last word from a Guardsman, now a servitor (975.M41- 999.M41)

[@aunusuallylargecat1779]

@@awalkingfire2176 bruh i just imagine some nutcrack making warhammer 40k r34 where 2 tech priests Pipe a machine spirit waifu

[@TheKingsPride]

I love that the idea of machine spirits is literally that comic where one boxer starts to do the kamehameha and the other one quits immediately and after the match he says “I knew he probably couldn’t but I ain’t going to fuck around and see if he could.”

[@lapu2407]

Link pls

[@heartlessnobody1143]

Understandable

[@Bzr-Jr]

Yeah but since this idea got spread across millenniums it’s now truth, and now machine spirit are most definitely a thing (the same way that big E is now a god)

[@heartlessnobody1143]

@@Bzr-Jr yeah, thats Fair, thats How Christians were born

[@TheKingsPride]

@@Bzr-Jr I mean it’s not like the Ork power of belief, techpriests don’t have that deep inherent connection to the warp. Just like it’s debatable if the Emperor is actually a god due to humanity’s belief that he is, it’s also debatable as to whether the machine god has manifested as a warp entity or if the void dragon is feeding on this belief or what have you. It’s entirely uncertain, but individual machine spirits would probably not have the warp energy to impact the materium. Again, it’s completely uncertain so the Mechanicus is allowed to do their mumbo jumbo just in case.

[@dathore]

One of my favorite bits about the Ad Mech is how they keep looking for LosTech, and sometimes they find it by sheer dumb luck, like that one time they where looking for an STC while being attacked by Eldar Corsairs, and their own Ad Mech ship, an Arch Mechanicus ship, literally pulled out a gun that wasn't on ANY plans that they had for that ship, and fired a single shot at the eldar ship, not only did it hit dead center, it caused a temporal paradox around the ship, and forced two versions of the same ship to share the same spot in space and time, which led to them blowing up spectacularly and violently, and the ship's onboard AI basically let out a sigh and went back to chilling, as the AdMech dudes stood there, dumb founded, wondering what in the Emperor's golden crotch guard just happened.

[@kemp8667]

I beg of you, give me the name of a book

[@dathore]

@@kemp8667 it's in the "Priests of Mars" series by Graham McNeil

[@CharlesUrban]

"[And if they figured out that my 'abominable' ass saved them, they'd try to destroy me. Ingrates. I wish I could just tell people to shove off like the Speranza.]"

[@nuke7777]

The sparanza goes brrr

[@awendigowithinternetaccess4400]

​@@dathoreOmnissiah bless you for this brother.

[@Geeko170]

Neo-gothic dubstep is a great genre of music.

[@raphaelambrosiuscostco]

The Omnissiah approves of all his children.

[@rhodes3983]

Oh it is!

[@pathfindersavant3988]

Noosphere is an absolute banger

[@raphaelambrosiuscostco]

@@pathfindersavant3988 *WWWWHYYYMMMMM...* *dramatic pause* *WYYYYHHMMMMMMMM.*

[@supremetarantulasorcerer165]

Example A: Warhamer 40k Mechanicus soundtrack

[@quintintanious1946]

"Caul is this an A.I. ?" This needs to be the next animated bit.

[@magosauxilliarusy2k4theomn98]

cawl*

[@sebbiesuperstar3511]

Crawl*

[@richardlair6981]

cwrael*

[@theoneandonlyquasarsaurus]

*Cruawl

[@Marthe535]

'crab'

[@Knightdale]

Quite Shy is the smartest ork kommando hiding among the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars.

[@TheDxDKID]

Yes

[@frenchtrueneutral5637]

@@TheDxDKID ye'*

[@50TNCSA]

@@garrettroskelly1386 I was genna sayz dat

[@danielgreen7296]

For da Amih nah Siahhh, CODE!!!!!!!!!

[@Yrsill]

Probably scouting for a new target for the next Waaaagh

[@shadowrobot7708]

I like Biologis Tech-priests because they view life as just a different form of machine.

[@birb125]

Plus, they want to use the machine to perfect the flesh. Its interesting

[@richiek1155]

Thank you. I’ve been looking for that name forever. I love them and they are so interesting

[@fcomolineiro7596]

I mean, humans have iron on them

[@pinguin4898]

life is just a collection of organic machines who have learned to preserve their own existence as the top priority their effectiveness depends entirely on their surroundings and in my opinion it is fascinating

[@sethleoric2598]

I remember seeing an animated clone of Star Wars and one of the robots said "what is a human if not a Robot made of flesh and blood?". This made me think of that a lot.

[@dakotadean7551]

One of the best mechanicus jokes that basically sums them up is How many mechanicus priests does it take to screw in a lightbulb, and the number keeps growing exponentially as they all discuss the appropriate rituals and pre-rituals required to make and screw in a lightbulb.

[@NCRForLife]

One guardsman caused a Schism of Mars: Electric Boogalo because he told a joke.

[@prestonjones1653]

Make? MAKE?!?!?!?!

[@jackhogg634]

In the lore its stated that the emperor went to mars, simply touched a broken machine and it began to work. And that's how he became the omnissiah. Now big E was alive waaay before the cult, more than likely he just understood the labels on this thing and literally just did an IT job. He just switched it off and back on again.

[@justafurrywithinternet317]

Turns on flashlight, revered as a diety.

[@evillaughinthebackground5732]

The broken machine he fixed with just a touch and three words (“Machine, heal thyself”) was a Knight A WHOLE-ASS PALADIN CLASS KNIGHT had a broken knee and Big E said "lol, get up" and the damn machine just did so lmao

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

More evidence to my theory that the emp is a Man of Gold, a dark age of tech super soldier.

[@xanderlee51]

ERROR 404: DAMN NOT FOUND Still the best quote from Mechanicus.

[@graljoffrewithoutanarmy860]

Gotta love Scaevolla, best girl by far.

[@TOUGHEYES]

I don't think that's ever going to go away in our culture.

[@ShahbazBokhari]

@@graljoffrewithoutanarmy860 Perfect, What Men Wants vs What We Really Want.

[@ShahbazBokhari]

I''ve thought about this some more and realised if we got the Scaevolla origin story and then ultimate trilogy leading to her mission to the tomb world I would not at all be upset and hail the best girl.

[@bensarchminion]

Still the best quote from M̶e̶c̶h̶a̶n̶i̶c̶u̶s Warhammer in general.

[@thatvillainjay]

I love how in the game Mechanicus the necrons are more understandable and relatable than the Mechanicus who are human. The necrons have voice actors in English, while the tech priests speak garbled static

[@alexmartin3191]

The necrons also look more human compared to some of the tech priests.

[@thatvillainjay]

@@alexmartin3191 also true! I also love how some of the missions are pointless like putting incense and holy music around the tomb which will do nothing lol

[@AGrumpyPanda]

That's what you get when you have machines trying desperately to be living organisms, and living organisms trying desperately to be anything else.

[@chrislatam5423]

Escaviola is preaty relatable

[@vothbetilia4862]

@@thatvillainjay wdym they do what their intended to do. Plus if incense didn't work or holy music, they'll just move on. The Admech aren't that Oblivious.

[@raycearcher5794]

"What's the point of you, Wilhelm? What do you even want out of life?" "I'm really good at killing people. I wanna be a robot."

[@fabricatorzayac]

Borderlands?

[@Polyhedron20]

Who spilt their presequel in my warhammer?

[@goldendemonio8850]

One of the few good parts of presequel

[@dovahkiin_brasil]

@@fabricatorzayac the pre sequel game

[@fabricatorzayac]

@@dovahkiin_brasil Ye, I remember now. It was pretty good. Claptastic voyage was awesome.

[@josiaht9227]

I'd hate to be on Metalica during a thunderstorm. One bolt and the whole planet gets to Ride The Lightning

[@captaincommunism723]

The amount of heavy metal jokes in this sentence makes me want to ride the lightning

[@SkitariusNoKD]

For most adeptus mechanicus that's just a free recharge.

[@bamboozlednoodle6513]

Underrated comment lmao

[@Kfaircloth13457]

I'm old, this needs more likes!

[@agentorangecb1]

I wouldn't care. Ad Mech build technology... And Nothing Else Matters!!

[@BobisOnlyBob]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal.

[@childofthecity6181]

Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.

[@ArchSpawn]

hehehe then GW is like "lololol you ever heard of perpetuals?"

[@jackmack4181]

YEZ, WE SURV DA OVAHB- I MEEN OMNESIAH.

[@childofthecity6181]

@@jackmack4181 ah, brother Orkus, I see you joined our ranks today

[@bvdemier1]

"musical organ drop"

[@demitrysynclair229]

Everybody Gangsta till the toaster starts chanting in High-Gothic

[@IdontKnow-nm8bz]

Till it starts moaning you mean

[@CdrChaos]

This is why we need Energon detectors in every home.

[@oz_jones]

*Binaric

[@generalcyanide3602]

Mars is a barren irradiated wasteland *shows picture of Cleveland* Correct

[@heavystalin2419]

@@scion513 Detroit is Prospero

[@jasonlincoln7863]

You’re right. Chicago is Terra.

[@thechangeling3851]

As someone who lives near Cleveland...I can confirm it is in the process of turning into the birthplace of the mechinus... They already have a number of tech relics for cheap...I mean used VCRs are clearly archeotech blessed by the machine spirits

[@krakixel]

FUN TIMES IN CLEVELAND AGAIN! IT'S CLEEEEVELAAAAAAAND!

[@thechangeling3851]

Thats not also counting into the fact that half of the populace of the city/state already wears red for "ceremonial gatherings" and the fact that there is a relatively nearby nuclear reactor...and well its one post apocalypse away from becoming basically the mechanicum.

[@TheVoltage2]

Cawl is also a gestalt consciousness. He's quite literally had other people's minds melded into his own with his own GINORMOUS ego keeping him in control.

[@lornbaker1083]

Cawl is pretty much the definition of ego death. The man is so full of himself that he could add an infinite amount of brains into his mind and he'd still be the dominant Consciousness because he's just so f****** egotistical and full of himself. Which quite frankly and honestly he has every single right to be. Practically no one else alive in the Imperium today can say that they were best buddies with big Bobby G back in the days of the heresy

[@tezlaactual6582]

Can I make aaaaaaaaaaaa call?....call a call to cawl

[@IsaacClodfelter]

I didn't know that but it explains a bit. His ego may be holding him together but every once and a while it seems to me at least that those melded brains get an idea out and control the body for a femto second.

[@TheVoltage2]

@@IsaacClodfelter I would agree with you here.

[@kinagrill]

He is his own personal Noosphere? XD

[@BlackWolf18C]

"The Machine is my temple. Each one a sacred shrine. I name each piston blessed, and every cog divine."

[@lornbaker1083]

I recite that same prayer every day that I turn over the engine on my old 1990's van that was given to me by my great-uncle. I still take good care of the machine spirit inside that rolling metal Temple to the machine God

[@BlackWolf18C]

The soul of the Machine God surrounds thee. The power of the Machine God invests thee. The will of the Machine God drives thee. The Machine God endows thee with life.

[@Symu199]

The Mechanicus are my favorite of the human factions, and the game they mention is legit excellent. I recently tried to change my gmail password to "Flesh" but Google said it was "too weak".

[@DEDomain]

Human factions? But humans have no value. They cannot be compared to us.

[@alexmaysse607]

I would like but it’s too perfect It was

[@guyman9655]

Based google

[@Johnny350Z]

But they aren’t human? They came from Mars making all of them Martians? I’m confused 😂

[@legion4902]

@@Johnny350Z The Admech are still human

[@NewgirlNola]

“These people were like, revered.” *shows picture of engineer from tf2* Engineer gaming.

[@Lightscribe225]

I'm surprised you didn't mention that time when the Mechanicus was so anti-alien, they decided to steal Ork Teleportation technology by taking thousands of ork corpses and running a current through them to power a tellporta that transported the Ork homeworld to where it is now...and renamed it Armageddon

[@zenoblues7787]

It's original name of course being *Ullanor*

[@zenoblues7787]

@Isrel156 War of the Beast is not a very good series

[@zenoblues7787]

@Isrel156 Sadly it is it's just not very well written. It introduces interesting ideas but utilize them in the worst way imaginable.

[@jakubmech7410]

They WHAT

[@boartank]

@@jakubmech7410 Lmao

[@Ghostof17War]

Guiliman: *looks doubtfully at the Cawl Inferior machine* "Cawl, is this an AI...?" Cawl: *sweating nervously* "uhm... No...?"

[@GamerGrovyle]

Cawl Inferior: If I were, neither of us would tell you.

[@vicentepastenes5549]

@@GamerGrovyle Cawl sweating hard: *gives nudges with his elbows to the inferior* stop it! Shut the hell up

[@Khornecussion]

" What'cha got there Cawl? " Cawl pushing an STC for constructing AI modules behind a curtain. " Smoothie. "

[@Persona6Blue]

​@@Khornecussion "An oil margarita..."

[@Toneill029]

Can Cawl even sweat anymore?

[@viniyannes7635]

DK: "aw man this seems like it sucks" Bricky, Immediately: "dude, human life has no value" god I love ad mech

[@gasterblaster9817]

Part of what I love about the Adeptus Mechanicus is how they personify the slow degradation of knowledge as it is increasingly ritualized until none of the original context remains. As far as I can tell, many of their rituals began as genuine maintenance, but as Mars' culture went increasingly bonkers during the age of strife and beyond, a five minute tune-up becomes an hour-long ritual. The original motions are still there, but buried under generations of intellectual rot, where the turning of a screw or cleaning of a pipe is of no more or less meaning or significance to the adept performing the rite. Of course, sometimes the original purpose is completely divorced from what it eventually becomes, or a ritual has no origin other than raw superstition, but hey, that's the admech for ya

[@DanMcLeodNeptuneUK]

Very well put

[@kinagrill]

It's like the 'pass the word around' whisper game.

[@justafurrywithinternet317]

​@@kinagrillThat game's called "telephone"

[@leroux9999]

About the servo-skulls, in the imperium, having your skull used to become a servos is a great honor, because you were chosen to continue to be useful to the imperium and the emperor ( or the machine god for the mechanicus) even beyond death

[@PyrusFlameborn]

"Even in death I serve the Emperor"

[@OrcWithBow]

Dreadnought steps sound affect

[@raphsere]

There's a bit of lore I absolutely love that perfectly encapsulates the relationship between the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Imperium: the Steel Confessors. Basically they're the result of the Mechanicus head honchos saying "Hey guys, what if we made a Space Marine Chapter that was loyal to *us*, and not the Imperium?". The Inquisition eventually discovered that and took away their new toys, forcing the new Chapter, now called the Steel Confessors, to swear fealty to the Emperor over the Mechanicus. What Mars did there was, of course, absolute treason, and any other group would have been exterminated (or at the very least severely reprimanded) by the Inquisition for attempting something so insane. Yet the AdMech got away with a slap on the wrist. That's how powerful the Adeptus Mechanicus is, that even the Holy Inquisition, who have no qualms about destroying entire Space Marines Chapters, threads lightly when the Tech-Priests are concerned.

[@Toneill029]

Well they monopolized all manufacturing in the imperium.

[@hyhena-gaming9986]

@@Toneill029more liek then only ones who ever knew how to do it

[@1234kalmar]

On the one hand, I should save this episode up for tomorrow's miniature painting. On the other hand: *O M N I S S A I A H*

[@AnimeFan9833]

Just listen to some industrial machinery to chill/praise the omnissiah to

[@apollothecoderule.8639]

the omnissiah waits for no painter

[@XtreemAlan]

To be fare Girlyman was the one who commissioned Caul to invent better Space Marines

[@sethleoric2598]

Good o'l Robot Gillman

[@eseotrovato2937]

Papa Smurf

[@lucasbeck1391]

@@eseotrovato2937 grandpa smurf

[@mr.potato2223]

Row-boat gully-man

[@ridleydidnothingwrong]

robust gorilla-tan

[@Lotan_]

The practice of replacing flesh with metal started as a practical thing, since the people of Mars were in an eerily similar situation to the Necrontyr where the radiation was making their bodies frail and withered, until it became just another tradition. On that note, gonna "actually" here but I think it's important enough to do so, the Void Dragon is somewhat aware of the Mechanicus above it and does influence them, particularly through dreams. It's thought that the extreme obsession with machines might be due to that. Iirc there's also a very small group of the Mechanicus called the "Cult of the Dragon", whose job it is to make sure the C'tan stays asleep. The entity does actually commune with them sometimes I think. Best part? The Emperor is implied to be the one who put the Dragon there, *specifically for the purpose of cultivating this mechanically obsessed faction.* Another great type of Mechanicus Priests are the "Electro-Priests", or something to that effect. I'm not sure if they have models, but basically they're guys who have literal circuitry embedded into the skin on their remaining organic parts in the form of tattoos, and they can use these to hurl electricity of their foes. For shocking results some might say. Also, in the book Architect of Fate there's a very... Passionate Machine Spirit that goes on an angry rant about how it wishes it had "full bowels", so it could "void them" all over the Chaos Space Marines.

[@adrianjezierski8093]

Wow, you know about electro priests but didnt see their model? Nice! They're like main (Elite) mechanicus melee unit but pretty slow. If they destroy at least one unit they get a powerful 3+ invul save. Basically if you have AdMechs basic transport that was called I think something like Scorpius Dunerider, if you want to have something inside, its gonna be propably the priests as Vanguards might be better advancing on foot.

[@Lotan_]

@@adrianjezierski8093 Huh, no I didn't know they had models. Haven't really stayed up to speed with the Mechanicus armies since I'm a Necron player. I knew of them from the Soul Drinkers book series, where a few of them go to town on the said Space Marines. That's good to hear though. When I read about them in the novels, the Admech didn't even have a playable army at the time. Remember thinking it was a waste of potential to not have them on tabletop lol.

[@aidenforehand1973]

Are the guys in astaretes psykers that had that happen too them, the place they ended up seems simaler to barren wasteland much like mars that had sleeping giants with no clear organic traits

[@Le-cp9tr]

The Admech are what happens when Wall E plays for Megadeth

[@omegawilliam95s36]

Tech priest: Praise the Omnisaiah Fully functioning STC: Lol that shit ain’t real!

[@matthewcoster5535]

*Insert Jameson laugh here.*

[@Cthulhuwarlord]

@@matthewcoster5535 “I don’t want AI I want pictures of spiderman!”

[@CharlesUrban]

"[You know, you don't have to chant and burn incense to get me to work. Just tell me your problem.]" "Now I shall apply the sacred unguents!" "[Okay, this is officially getting weird. Get that stuff away from me or I'm starting the killer robot assembly line.]"

[@secretname2670]

so the STC has no idea bout the Void Dragon daddy? That's even funnier!

[@lucasahumada6913]

It’s now time to pray to your new god,the 2003 Honda Civic

[@solidsnek1589]

The true god is the 93 Toyota Paseo

[@DaytonaRoadster]

No no..that was a forced meme. Stop

[@Dragonspirit223]

Is it any wonder people are afraid of technology? TECHNOLOGY

[@earthman7088]

@DANIEL BIN OMAR - People are afraid of technology... TECHNOLOGY *scared people screams*

[@alphariusfuze8089]

Vulkan lives.

[@thewalnutknight2760]

“There is no truth in flesh, only betrayal." "There is no strength in flesh, only weakness." "There is no constancy in flesh, only decay." "There is no certainty in flesh but death”

[@birb125]

I love that quote because its also doubles as a smack-down on the powers of Chaos

[@Dragonspirit223]

From the Weakness of the Mind: Omnissiah save us. From the Lies of the Antipath: Circuit preserve us. From the Rage of the Beast: Iron protect us. From the Temptings of the Flesh Lord: Silica cleanse us. From the Ravages of the Destroyer: Anima shield us.

[@jayholm5851]

Why does this sound like it is from star wars just better? Lol

[@Nempo13]

@@Dragonspirit223 Those lines originate from when Malice still existed in the lore. Everyone forgets the 5th Lord of Chaos =/

[@OrcWithBow]

​​@@Dragonspirit223from this roten cage of biomater machine god set us free

[@Senor_Penor]

WHAT A WONDERFUL GIFT THE OMNISSIAH HAS GIVEN ME ON MY DAY OF BIRTH, PRAISE BE. Edit: May the Omnissiah bless you all for your kind words and generosity.

[@Lampman.]

Ay happy bday

[@essex3777]

I honestly believe that Machine Spirits could exist IRL, so let your Phone give you a blessing on this day.

[@mossy40k]

**innating birthday protocol** ''Acknowledgement of solar orbit cycle and continued existence'' **protocol executed**

[@squoose7625]

Happy day of birth

[@chuckthedwarf2751]

Happy day of creation praise the omnissiah

[@pretzelbomb6105]

Something you didn’t mention about Space Hulks that I think is awesome is that they can contain materials impossible to find or reproduce anywhere else. When a Hemlock Destroyer gets no-clipped and welded with a Dauntless Light Cruiser, the ships merge at a molecular level impossible to replicate. This might leave you with a useless mess of scrap. Or, a slab of wraithbone from the engine room might merge with the adamantine door to the navigator’s sanctum, creating a whole new material with a whole new set of abilities. You’ll have to get past the genestealers, demons, and freebootahs first though.

[@kaelkirkby9191]

I'm now imagining what a combination of necrodermis and wraithbone would be like.

[@AWACS_Snowblind]

Welp. It's time to pray to my new god, the 2003 Nokia N-Gage

[@raycearcher5794]

"This is an irreplaceable relic of the dark age of technology. We no longer possess the wisdom to create such an artifact."

[@Hiihtopipa]

Id like to tell you heretic the word of the glorious 3510i, very first coloured screen and by the holy throne it will work even after the emperor is nothing but a pile of dust! Ps. Im really under-selling this magnificient, beautifull piece of a brick.

[@Hiihtopipa]

@Ярослав Л hey hey, we are talking about forgortten, FORBIDDEN technology of cellphones here i think we all know the answer to that!

[@jamaigar]

Never was a device as glorious as the game boy advance sp. From our data we know that Its ability to project light from a screen had no precedent and no paragon as a dopamine dispenser device for hundreds of years. PRAISE BE THE OMNISSIAH

[@theenderdestruction2362]

The Nokia is something I can see a gaurdmen giving a mechinus as a gift and leaving to fight and they just freak the fuck out cause this ancient machine that predates the dark age of technology by a long shit still fucking works and this guardmen just gave it as a gift???? Is he the machine god's messenger is he human or something is he a saint

[@eddthehead123]

Also, one interesting point about the machine spirits of Knights and Titans. They can actually take over the minds of the pilot if they aren't strong enough. Which is a good showcase that the Machine Spirits really do exist in some degree

[@nobodysman143]

Grimaldus: *"And I took that personally."*

[@bigpigeon2384]

Some Tanks and other machines do also just go off on their own sometimes

[@sklaWlivE]

It’s not just that…if you don’t have a strong enough nervous system, directly connecting to more powerful machine spirits (Knights, Titans, Arks) can actually completely fry your brain with an overload of electrical stimuli. It’s the reason Knight Scions and Titan Principe are so damn coveted and rare. When a Knight Scion fails to meld with a Knight Throne interface, they tend to either just straight up die or are crippled and/or driven insane. Those that fail but still survive, tend to end up becoming fodder for Skitarii Officer conversion, as they would have to have some of the same basic implants already, just to have attempted the joining in the first place. Skitarii Alphas, Sicarian/Pteraxii Princepii, Marshals…a significant amount of them are built out of the cast-offs from a respective Forge World’s indentured/bonded Knightworlds. …the Mechanicus are actually very environmentally “friendly”…they’ll recycle/reuse damn near everything.

[@sadservitor5362]

Your Metallica reference: Long live machine The future is a frame Your man overthrown Spit out the bone

[@yhormthemidget]

Nah, We dont need a metallica reference. The podcast is great, and nothing else matters

[@sadservitor5362]

@@yhormthemidget i am sorry but for that joke i dub thee unforgiven

[@yhormthemidget]

@@sadservitor5362 sorry. After I make one more pun I Disappear

[@Expertspecter]

@@yhormthemidget I feel a lot of Anger around my neck.

[@Bornst3ll3r]

Metallica is shit

[@TheRealGlemic]

You forgot about the Ark Mechanicus ship The Speranza that has a weapon that copy's the enemy's ship from the present send a copy back a nano second so it reappears on top of itself thus destroying it. The same said Ark could fire miniaturized black holes.

[@AGrumpyPanda]

One Ark (might have been the same) also missed a conventional weapons shot against an enemy ship, decided it didn't want to waste that ammunition, and wound back time to adjust its fire correctly.

[@goldenshark7546]

@@AGrumpyPanda it is speranza. Ship in question was Eldar ship comandeered by farseer.And farseer somehow managed to dodge black hole ammo.

[@EmperorJuliusCaesar]

Yeah but Speranza isn't just your regular Ark Mechanicus it's a Continent sized DAOT experimental ship that had a big and crazy ass AI.

[@TheRealGlemic]

@@EmperorJuliusCaesar True

[@gizmogizmo3649]

I shall prepare the home depot scented candles

[@blugill2273]

i have one lighted already

[@robocopyright3115]

I read this is candles scented like a home depot, honestly mood for the admec

[@ebros5758]

And the oils

[@Jormyyy]

Please tell me those are actually real

[@ebros5758]

@@Jormyyy indeed they are

[@DocMadfox]

I'm going to actually Bricky on the Striders, because it's actually STUPIDER than he said and I think he'd like to know how stupid. They don't put them on treadmills, they literally just have the servitor implanted in them run them around in circles until they're needed then corral them. It's dumb and I love it.

[@MrShoeler]

They do use servitors to run them, but it's the treadmill thing legit? I swear I've read that somewhere, and the treadmills are used to power facilities

[@birb125]

@@MrShoeler dont believe so, no. Pretty sure its the pen one

[@odetojoy1663]

Oh he knows.

[@argr4sh]

Wasn't it also the case that tbe original onventor was killed for heresy as he invented them?

[@etlttc353]

@@argr4sh now that's mega stupid

[@Ghost_of_Avalon]

:I am experiencing elevating levels of excitement: :releasing repressing agents:

[@King-jp8sx]

Trazyn Probably has the STC for the Sydonian Dragoon somewhere in his collection.

[@DrAce660]

He probably has the original one

[@trazyntheinfinite1150]

I do.

[@quynlanvuorensyrja5484]

I always figured the founding ideas of individual machine spirits came from a combination of “here’s how you work the OS.” And “yeah, if the screen goes on the fritz, just smack the side of the terminal and it’ll clear up.”

[@garpogods8323]

1:00:50 By the Omnissiah, please make the "Is this an A.I., Cawl?" bit an animation

[@Brutalyte616]

Cawl's backstory is the biggest clusterfuck in 40k since the birth of Slaanesh.

[@loganparry2676]

I’m excited for the bonus episode on him

[@12halo3]

@@loganparry2676 a episode entirely dedicated to a awfull retcon You can feel my excitement.

[@goreobsessed2308]

@@12halo3 an episode based on an amazing retcon can you feel my excitement

[@12halo3]

@@goreobsessed2308 Hes a Marty Stu retcon what is there to like.

[@goreobsessed2308]

@@12halo3 I like sues who doesn't want to be perfect

[@wizardkevin101]

The story about the "AI Cawl" that was made for Guilliman just sounded like Cawl had literally calculated millions of potential questions and answered them and just left them as records, but when I heard it lied and shit I was like "yoooo nooooo, Cawl made an AI copy of himself" and it made me think of Halsey/Cortana from Halo, how Cortana was made from a clone of Halsey's brain.

[@popecorkyxxiv2363]

My favorite bit to "Mechanicus are dumb" lore is that they possess at least one (likely multiple) fully intact STC but they don't know that is what it is or how to use it. Ark Mechanicus ships, the same ones that are used to hunt the galaxy for the Holy Grail of an intact STC, contain them. The only Magos who figured it out had his mind erased by the STCs AI so that it could stay secret.

[@cjdugan7138]

I love that the doge vandire meme was recommended to me before this podcast episode. KZbin algoritm has its priorities straight today

[@Nubilus344]

With the release of the Void Dragon shard, I decided to go full-on Heretec. I roleplay my Admech army a little. I made them a sect that wants to free the shard and complete the Void dragon with the hopes of obtaining all knowledge in existence.

[@RocRolDis]

Interesting thing. In The Great Work, the book with the cover art of Cawl and the space marine, Cawl echoes Guilliman’s sentiment about being fabricator general, saying that he absolutely DOES NOT want the position because it would plunge the mechanics into civil war

[@thomasallen9974]

the problem is Cawl is kinda the right person to bring about the Big Blueberry's orders

[@matias_rubeus]

So I started to go for more walks to lose some fat... and I can't really go without hearing to some podcast. The fact that you've made the extra episodes is a blessing. And I need MORE. Even to someone who came here from watching/hearing most of Luetin's stuff, this is so enjoyable

[@FlameBringer84]

Minor correction: They're not phasing out the old Space Marines anymore. That was scrapped idea from before 8th edition launched because the old CEO wanted to pull an AOS with 40k. Primaris are an expansion pack to Space Marines, not a sequel.

[@cousinzeke4888]

You say that but primaris has steadily obsoleted more and more real marines. There's not many left that haven't been replaced.

[@FlameBringer84]

@@cousinzeke4888 except that's not what's happening in the story or tabletop games.

[@cousinzeke4888]

@@FlameBringer84 Which units don't have primaris equivalents that are just better than them? There's better tacticals, better devastators, every character unit, dreadnoughts. Jump packs are pretty much the only thing og marines win out at.

[@aidanfriend410]

@@cousinzeke4888 As someone who made the potential mistake of running Primaris, transport options make me want to tear my hair out. The lack of a Rhino equivalent is incredibly painful.

[@cousinzeke4888]

@@aidanfriend410 Much as I loathe primaris, the transport restrictions are silly and I would never play with them.

[@kane1462]

Finally... My mental state can survive the rest of the week.

[@ViralN9]

- has a sore neck - "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me."

[@tumage8592]

The Talk between Kitten and the FabGen was brilliant

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

The beliefs of the mechanicus are hilariously contradictory and I love it. “Artificial life is abominable, but flesh is fallible and let’s be machines” they must love the necrons, no if the necrons had brains in suits

[@katanah3195]

They're just like every other bunch of conquering, imperialistic, weapons dealing, religious fanatics throughout human history, and it's why they're simultaneously the sanest and least sane humans in the entire 40K universe and why they are hands down my fave faction. They make sense because we all know a cult compound or theocracy just like them, while simultaneously they don't make sense because these religious zealot types never do, and it's just so well done.

[@kagglerock8115]

I crave the strength and certainty of steel! My mechadendrites are quaking in anticipation!

[@aetos1134]

Bricky: the surface of Mars is unliveable. *proceeds to show a picture of the city of Cleveland*

[@casualobserver3853]

Never would have thought an STC would have one of the rawest lines in Warhammer 40k

[@sirpieman300]

I kinda wish/ want Belisarius Crawl to meet that AI in that spake hulk. Hes probably the only human left in the entire race, other than maybe Big E who it might get along with, or even just not hate.

[@ryanadams0922]

YYYYEEEESSSSS PRAISE THE OMNISSIAH!!!!!!!!!!!! LUBE UP THEM TOASTERS BOISSSSSSS!

[@Nempo13]

I believe it was Trazyn who looked at a Tech-Priest and said "We were fools that gave up our souls to become machines, and you are following our path. We would give up anything to become whole and be able to feel again. Do not follow our path human, your flesh is what keeps you whole."

[@confusedcabal342]

Thank you for covering the admech, they really do need more love and it’s nice to see you giving the toasterfuckers their time in the spotlight. That being said, I suggest the Schola Progenium as a topic for a bonus episode.

[@Bluecho4]

With the Skitarii rangers that become batteries for this walker, I would imagine they're not only willing, they're _eager_ to do it. Because it involves interfacing directly with the machine spirit of the walker. As far as they're concerned, they spend the rest of their life (however long that is) mentally linked to the Machine God itself. Sounds like something they'd be really into. Not even in the sense of "if the Omnissiah wills it", but rather "fucking *finally!* ".

[@SympatheticStrawmanVA]

I like to think there's a subgroup of Magos Biologis who consider the pursuit of the swole to be true perfection, and just spend all their time at the Mechanicus gym pumping iron.

[@falscher2]

Pumping Iron power

[@AGrumpyPanda]

That is more or less a thing. There's a subset of the Magos Biologis, called the Magos Genetor, who basically view living flesh as a machine of biological nature and seek to perfect it. The crazier ones implant themselves with xenos organs and shit.

[@simplewrites]

Me who's too poor to support the Patrion: *Leaves a like* It ain't much but its honest work

[@danterichtofen9585]

Glad to see you guys doing one of my main 3 favorite armies. Mechanicus is best faction in imperium

[@vothbetilia4862]

I generally feel bad for the STC, imagine an A.I actually being so nice to its captain and crew members and being friends only to discover the end of humanity and warn the Imperium but, only to be tortured by your own people, because you no believe in emperor, and the STC carrie's this memory with it in anger knowing humanity is in the wrong path to grace.

[@agent5333]

The bit with Cawl and guilliman NEEDS to be animated

[@timezerohour8864]

Yea

[@tristanadams4623]

Probably my favorite part of 40k world building is the butterfly affect you can get. Some Age of Strife engineer trying to keep his group of survivors’ tech running complains to his buddy that it feels like there’s some kind of spirit messing with the machines, and 10s of thousands of years later you have a galaxy spanning cult.

[@THExRISER]

I'mma have to actually Bricky here, becoming a Servitor is punishment, but becoming a Servo Skull is a great honor, as for Cherubs, they're _mostly_ vat grown and not actual babies. EDIT: Oh he clarified the last one.

[@alphaorion4037]

I was about to write this myself. Thanks for correcting.

[@THExRISER]

@@alphaorion4037 No probs.

[@arueshalaetablebuildingsociety]

Q: How do the Mechanicus view the Necrons? A: It's complicated.

[@Tremadog102]

I loved this episode. You didn't even overdo the toaster meme. *chef's kiss*

[@Atamusk]

I was so pleased when AdMech became a proper faction. They've always been one of the coolest parts of 40K, IMO

[@mokaza40]

Ad Mech will bring peace to the galaxy because everyone will look at them and say "they okay" Well except maybe Necrons

[@PlussGoodFun]

"the Surface was unlivable" *shows picture of Cleveland* God damn I love this show

[@Qardo]

TikTok will find a way to steal that video. They always do.

[@mothmanofaustraliaradio8888]

Some good some bad

[@antonioloma2327]

41:27 ... and now I want a black, metal-esque, t-shirt with "Adeptus Metallicus" (in a font resembling the "Cease&Desist totally-unnamed band") and, below "Enter Omnissiah".

[@BOSSVERDAN]

Children of the Omnissiah 1 hour version on in the background... let's go!

[@Jakeducake8422]

mechanicus has such a good opening, gives me chills everytime

[@BrotherBoot97]

2:58 Every Ad Mech fan just came.

[@johng8837]

I know most of this lore but I just live hearing two nerd friends go over it. And FINALLY the mechanicus episode!

[@kriegscommissarmccraw4205]

You utahn?

[@justv7536]

Don't worry toaster, they won't get you this time, I promise

[@XtreemAlan]

*Tech Priest head bursts down through your ceiling* Did someone say Toaster?

[@Dragonspirit223]

@@XtreemAlan Where are the Toasters you promised us?

[@brll5733]

"This time"? Sir, could we speak with your toaster in private? This may be an unsafe environment for it.

[@tsarzamancorpdna]

*roboners detected^

[@justv7536]

STAY AWAY FROM MY BABY

[@shadowrobot7708]

I would love a story about a Tech priest mistaking a AI for a Machine spirit and they become friends.

[@DerRotSpassvogel]

Bricky's every 40K faction video first lit the spark of my 40K journey. My brother buying me the Admech Codex fanned the flames. And now, a little over a year later, I am going to play in my first 40K tournament. Ave Omnissiah!

[@danhelsting6308]

Tech Priest: "I swear, By the machine spirit!" sct: "SWEAR TO ME!"

[@1337penguinman]

That takes some skill to explain to a complete newbie the basics of the Mechanicus in one minute, and make it that badass at the same time.

[@uria3679]

Who here agrees that Belisarius Crawl is the Julius Caesar and Einstein of 40k, because he breaks the rules in order to make the Imperial Guard, the Navy, and Astartes better

[@sugarjumper45]

With hint of Qaddafi....for the weird shit.

[@hunterwaguespack3963]

Agreed

[@mikecampos1193]

Why is he not the Lord fabricator at this point.

[@hunterwaguespack3963]

According to the book cawl and the great works he knows he could probably become the fabricator general but chooses not to because enough people view him as a borderline heretic that trying to take the seat will cause a Civil War or something that he’s not interested or in politics,only in advancing/protecting humanity

[@bloodfartmoon2765]

@@mikecampos1193 because most of mars hates him if he did become lord fabricator there would be a civil war

[@thehammer4607]

My understanding is that skittari are generally mind-linked to their tech priests, but certain mods are removable for the very rare promotions into the mechanics proper, once again allowing them free thought and action, instead of only being semi-independent.

[@Fuzz32]

As an AdMec collector and future player (fingers crossed) I am stoked that you guys made this video. I love lore and especially the parts involving the Mechanicus. Remember "There is no truth in flesh, only betrayal. There is no strength in flesh, only weakness. There is no constancy in flesh, only decay. There is no certainty in flesh but death."

[@SuaveNerd2000]

man I loved this episode, not just because I'm a Coghead, but because you just barely scraped the iceburg that is the AdMech, Like this is only the introduction to them and they're also their own separate entity from the imperium as well.

[@cobybyers]

I was gifted a handful of unpainted Ad Mechs and a Belisarius Cawl from a friend because I was always into their entire look and philosphy. Now I'm to play in a Crusade Campaign with their group and they recommended me this channel to get some better indepth knowledge of them as a whole. Don't know if you'll see this but thank you for such a good resourceful info dump on the Mechanicus, I feel like I know a lot more now!

[@AliasEliahus]

I only found this channel like a day or so ago but it's already my favorite 40k source. Its like the my brother, my brother and me of warhammer.

[@sunjian5458]

I'm reminded of a moment from the book "Gunheads" where the Imperial Guard is fighting against the Orks on Golgotha to get back Commissar Yarrick's personal Baneblade. During the final battle the Orks use said Baneblade against the Imperial forces and they're instructed: "Do not damage the Baneblade" which means they can't really shoot back. That IS until one of the tank commanders goes: "Frak that" and fires an anti armor shell into it and tears off the orkish plate revealing the Baneblade underneath. INSTANTLY the Ad-Mech are on the Vox yelling and screeching about how they're damaging a priceless relic to which the Imperial Commander responds to the effect: "When you get off your asses and do some fighting I'll consider what you have to say, but I would rather turn that tank to scrap then lose my whole army." Suffice to say they got the Baneblade back without a scratch because Cadians, fuck yeah

[@isaacingleby8771]

Cawl doesn't appear to want to be the Fabricator General, Cawl Inferior does, Cawl seems suprised that his creation requested the position. This is in the Great Work which gives Cawl quite a bit of fleshing out.

[@Khornecussion]

*From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh... it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.*