DARK MECHANICUM: FOR SCIENCE! | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@devoAC]

I have a correction to make, and its the MOST pressing lore flubb these guys have ever made: at 20:35 they accuse Horus of the *FOUL* crime of being bald. Horus isn't actually bald. He had hair, he just shaves it. False Gods and Vengeful spirit mention him having hair. Bricky will *never* recover from this major lore oversight, I am literally shitting and pissing and crying right now.

[@ShotGunner5609]

Truely the worst sin ever committed on this channel!

[@pridefulpawn5293]

Carve his sins in comic sans on that massive forehead

[@Kfo221]

WE RIOT BOYZ

[@PhoenicopterusR]

Once bald, always bald.

[@cdevans97]

"he has balls he just castrated himself, you can't say he has no balls cuz he did he just removed them" Horus is Bald

[@scooterdescooter4018]

Dark Mechanicum gives the term "Human Resources" a concerning twist.

[@Vicarious_Heart]

trust me. after working at HR for a couple of years, you actually start wishing you could turn everyone into robotic slaves...

[@ArchArturo]

And tear.

[@korstmahler]

See also the Dark Eldar.

[@12SickOne34]

So does the Imperium of Mankind

[@alfredosaint-jean9660]

To be fair, regular mechanicus already do that.

[@sschuster2180]

If it has "Adeptus" in its name then its post Heresy and Guillimans reforms. First there was the Mechanicum of Mars with the Cult Mechanicus. Post Heresy the loyal Mechanicum Members were restructured into the Adeptus Mechanicus while the traitors became the Dark Mechanicum, keeping the old name. Legiones Astartes became Adeptus Astartes, Legio Custodes became Adeptus Custodes ... so on and so forth.

[@loreman2803]

Theres a short story during the heresy where the Mechanicum on terra dealing with the Succession crisis and not having any sort of power to do anything. It took holding the council under titan guns yo push them to make them an Adeptus

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

And the Solar Auxilia became the Adeptus Cannonfodderius

[@SalvaBarbus]

Wanting a Dark Mechanicus codex is all good and well, but consider this: you'd be combining Mechanicus miniatures with Chaos Trim to unleash a new level of painting torture the likes the world has never seen.

[@Usinghealer099]

Dear god....

[@YoBen100]

Welcome to Dark Mechanicum. Unlike vanilla Mechanicum, who use oil on their machines, we use blood for everything from lubrication of the clog to fuel. Now, it's time for you to donate some blood."

[@Glückless]

It is insulting for you to assume that Imperium doesn't use blood properly! Nothing goes to waste!

[@AliceBowie]

Blood doesn't work. They have to use fat rendered from human sacrifices. Blood solidifies really fast. If you fill a masonry jar with fresh blood, and leave it open to the air, in like 15 minutes you've got blood jello. (I lived next to a ranch that had Yak and regular cattle)

[@jacksonmedina3570]

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@kinagrill]

Also ligatures and chaos tainted oil when more profane things aren't available.

[@alexmartinez5859]

“You mean the techno-fiddler demographic?” “Yeah, those guys.”

[@Many_Bones]

PuT pENICES iNTo rOBot

[@Jacobstx]

"This is getting me harder than terminator armor!"

[@Brutalyte616]

*MAKE PEE-NIS IN-TO RO-BOT!*

[@kooz8279]

Does anyone else remember the Dark Mechanicum boys who inadvertently summoned vashtor to the vengful spirit and got killed for it?

[@WARSMITHAFROW]

Were they essentially possessed by Vashtorr?

[@necktye1315]

Yeah, I went to school with that guy, good guy, shame what happened

[@nmr7203]

They were killed because they were trying to do something else and could have very well destroyed the ship.

[@__-tp4tm]

​@@necktye1315 You knew Him of course, not that well but a little, just that lovely fella, very competent...

[@jeambeam3173]

​@@WARSMITHAFROW No basically Abandon was like wow that's insane that you basically helped pull all this off but like who knows what the end result could have been when bargaining with Daemons to fix something that didn't belong to them. So Abbadon killed them on principle they did not have permission to ask for a Daemons help with the ship

[@raycearcher5794]

Sgt. Garfield was a Felinid squad leader known by his fellow guardsmen for two qualities: his love of naps and contempt for Mondays. Legendarily hard to motivate, Garfield's commissar, Arbuculus, would bribe the cranky soldier with hearty meals. Garfield was a rather poor shot, but upon inevitably exhausting his lasgun batteries, he would resort to demolishing his enemies with brutal kicks to the posterior.

[@Thatonelurkingboi]

I just pictured a greater daemon getting kicked in the rump before keeling over.

[@Backstabmacro]

He sounds like he hangs out with Carl.

[@visig0th152]

When Kelbor-Hal unleashed the scrap code from the Vaults of Moravec and absolutely wrecked all of the cogitators and automated systems on Mars, along with destroying the augments of billions of people killing them instantly, we got probably one of the grimdarkiest grimdark names in the entire setting. That tragedy was remembered in the Mechanicus for millennia afterwards as The Death of Innocence. Absolute gut punch of a name, GW. Graham McNeill did an absolutely incredible job setting the tone of the Death of Innocence, too, you really get a feel for how tragic this event was for the people of Mars at the time. It really was the Mechanicus' equivalent of the Dropsite Massacre. Also in the aftermath of the Death of Innocence the forges that fared the best were the ones that had adopted the recently discovered noosphere network, and so their forges were on separate networks from all the ones that were infected by the scrap code. Incidentally, the tech priests who had adopted the noosphere were the most progressive ones who openly embraced invention and innovation, most notably Adept Koriel Zeth, Mistress of the Magma City, who was an open atheist who adhered to the Imperial Truth and was the one who actually discovered the technology behind the noosphere. But when the Dark Mechanicum unleashed their corrupted armies to seize control of Mars and purge Imperial loyalists those progressive tech priests were on the front lines and were the very first to be destroyed because their forges and resources were still intact, meaning when the Horus Heresy was over the only surviving tech priests that escaped Mars were the more conservative religious fanatics. So when the Mechanicum was rebuilt as the Adeptus Mechanicus it had none of the diversity of thought that the old Mechanicum had and ossified into the the stagnant zealous group that it is now in 40k. A lot of tech priests have speculated in the novels how much further ahead humanity would be technologically if Zeth had survived and been allowed to push some of her ideas in the early Adeptus Mechanicus. Also I would love to see some clever Black Library authors explore the relationship between Zeth's ideology and Belisarius Cawl's.

[@alfredosaint-jean9660]

What I find the most fascinating aspect of the dark mechanicus, is that they are not a single definite thing. Dark mechanicum is an umbrella term for all kinds techno heretics.

[@sev1120]

They're called Hereteks too, which is hilarious

[@Matryoshkandroid]

​i love the word heretek, its so perfect

[@enricobaschenis4257]

The marcian kult of turning it on and off again versus the Freaky Faradays

[@georgehall7749]

They are just Venture Capitalists

[@AllYourPals]

THE most underutilized faction in the whole setting, i swear the leagues of votan are more relevant than the dark mechanicum. was so hoping we would get more on them when vashtorr came out. leave it to james workshop to leave potential unexplored

[@Francesco-gf1sv]

Ive seen some bashkit models and DIY aswell, the ideas are really great and you can be so creative with dark mechanicum. Should they be red or purple?

[@michaeldimare3786]

@@Francesco-gf1svWhy not both? They’re Chaos, you can do whatever you want

[@stryke-jn3kv]

Eldar Exodites say what.

[@datguy3907]

​@@michaeldimare3786 i'd lean more to purple than red. I doubt they'd appreciate being compared to their loyalist martian counterparts

[@DetectiveLance]

​@@Francesco-gf1svDark blue and purple, go weird with it.

[@TheFace89]

What’s up my Dark Mechanicoomers

[@JasoTheRed48F2]

So... fun fact: There is in all likelihood a Dark Mechanicum faction coming up some time soon. We've been getting alota hints here and there, and the Dark Mech have been featured a lot more in recent novels. Also worth noting is the ending of the book Genefather, aka the Cawl VS Fabius Bile book. Stop here if you don't want (minor) spoilers. For aiding him, Fabius promised a Dark Mechanicus faction known as the Followers of Nul a Chaos Android, aka a Corrupted Man of Iron. Like a completely intact one. In the end of the book the cult uses the shell of the Man of Iron to reincarnate their ancient mistress Sota-Nul, who is featured in the HH novels. They essentially shove her consciousness into the Man of Iron.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

SOTA-NUL IS BACK?! SHE'S MY MAIN IN HORUS HERESY LEGIONS!

[@luoxis]

fun fact: copium

[@educatedlaziness3268]

50:38 the thing that makes it all more tragic is that the Government had already far outpaced Tucker in terms of making Human Chimera. They made him a state alchemist and funded him basically to see how far an amateur on his own could get, so Nina and Alexander's tragedy wasnt even for anything either

[@thompsonel-melloi9270]

I never considered that angle...

[@alchemicpink2392]

Now, Bricky, you know Neutron Lasers are the worst replacement for that. Now a pneumatic power gauntlet on the other hand...

[@calebh373]

Shou Tucker perfectly encapsulates what the Dark Mechanicum is all about.

[@Karth557]

He is just regular mechanicus. A biologus.

[@emielregis1540]

Regular Adeptus Mechanicus* -I will take your toaster or make you into servitor. Dark Mechanicus* -I will tak your toaster and make you servitor.

[@hanshirt2953]

Wouldn't they just sacrifice you to make YOU the toaster?

[@emielregis1540]

@hanshirt2953 finally! toaster made od human flesh non teated by chaos, we are true dark Mechanicus now!

[@ShadowGhost0117]

Lion looks at Dark Mechanicus: “This is why I was given the Excindio”

[@jakebailey1636]

a lil dash o bonus lore; we do have a big ol scary AI machine from the Dark Mechanicus hanging about somewhere, made by the earlier mentioned Lukas Chrom- The Kaban Machine it was big, killy and we got no clue what happened to it, it just sorta uped and left

[@burnin8able]

they make a great point in this episode: Chaos isn't more or less cruel than the imperium, they both do equally heinous, evil things. the only true difference between them is a slightly different "why."

[@wolvie90]

On one side: bureaucracy, religious fervor and erosion of the value of human life. On the other side: satan, satan, satan and satan.

[@CollinBuckman]

And sometimes also "how much they enjoy doing it", the Imperium is full of stone-faced stoics who are like "I know this is bad but it's for the sake of humanity" while Chaos groups range from "your suffering means nothing to me" to "your suffering is actually the entire point of this"- which you could say is at least more honest of them, compared to the Imperium.

[@dionrussell9681]

Proteus Protocol? isnt that in text to speech? GREETINGS CUSTODES! HOW ARE YOU THIS DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!?

[@totallynotasupervillain9896]

HAVE YOU BROUGHT ME ANY COOL ANCIENT TECH TO DISPLAYAYAY? (I swear whenever I hear Fabricator General I think of this song)

[@conradbarnes9671]

Oh boy today is my 21st birthday I can’t wait to se what Adric does on my birthday. Oh boy man made horror beyond my comprehension that will make me uncomfortable for the rest of the day 😐 Can’t wait lmao

[@KcBlues01]

Happy birthday 🎂 🥳

[@FibonacciXXI]

🎉 In honor of your special day, please report to your nearest forgeworld for processing 🎉

[@capybara6996]

Happy birthday. 25 will sneak up on you real quick. And then 30.

[@PhantomGato-v-]

Happy birthday, Imperial citizen! However, you have been detected to be in contact with information containing heretical knowledge. To recieve purification, please report to the inquisition as soon as possible, located at the servitorisation station.

[@ecurps1]

"dithering"?? Damn... busting out some old vocab. Haven't heard that word in years.

[@hauntorthegiraffebiscuit]

Mods? Dither this user.

[@ecurps1]

Don't threaten me with a good time.

[@AKidWithNoAttitude]

Lieutenant Sharpe dithered, Sir. - last known utterance of that word for me

[@Wulgreath]

I call upon the Dark Gods for a request Warframe Lore April Fools 2025 edition

[@BalthusHomewood]

And thumbnail is a screenshot of the Ember Heirloom skin. 😂

[@anthonyhodap1949]

'The Binary Succession' is the short story that has the forming of the Adeptus Mechanicus and was a great listen.

[@loreman2803]

Definitely needs more love

[@Jormyyy]

If your mechaniCum is dark, it is advised to please visit your nearest apothecary.

[@AmerZAC]

*Medicae. It's clear that Adeptus Astartes do not cum.

[@SampoPaalanen]

I think the best way to describe the horror of the Dark Mechanicum is the Jurassic Park quote "they so busy (thinking) if they could that they forgot (to think) if they should". The whole the thing of the Dark Mechanicum is that there's no rules as to what you can develop or how to do it even if it's a Bad idea with a capital "b".

[@jwaterdrag]

Dark Mech is the computer that optimizes the production of paper clips.

[@ryanadams0922]

FINALLY!!!!!!!!! LETS GO DARK MECH BOISSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

[@Hallowoct313]

Hal as a greater demon of vashtor would be interesting

[@12SickOne34]

I don't think Vashtor can grant daemonhood. He's not a chaos god after all. I do like the idea but... technicalities, meh

[@Bona_Tempora]

@@12SickOne34He might be able to do it, but there’s basically no point in it since he’d probably be weakening himself placing fragments of his already limited power elsewhere in others. The big 4 do it so often because they’re basically oceans of power, like taking a cup out of the pacific.

[@hanshirt2953]

Mechanicus: Toasters and Servitors to butter their bread. Mechanikum: Toasters, Servitor, and Nergul butter with humans made into Demon toasters

[@ecurps1]

36:50 "You are in a HellForge... somehow" I applied for a union welder job. I am now the welder.

[@stephenclark4258]

You are now to be unified with the machine. You will now be combined with a machine in a glorious Union of flesh and steel and weld until your inevitable demise. -Dark Mechanicum

[@ananonymousnerd.2179]

The Proteus Protocol is most prominently featured as a plot point in the ending episodes of If The Emperor Had A Text-To-Speech Device.

[@RevokFarthis]

To paraphhrase: "You serve the Dark Mechanicum. Your parts would best serve the Dark Mechanicum elsewhere."

[@jupiteralt]

I've been watching through so many episodes trying to catch up and learn. Finally I caught a new episode!!

[@wytai3015]

2:25 we do, just majored in theology here in padua and my thesis was about the first three chapters of the book of lorgar and it's influence on modern day filosofy

[@12SickOne34]

philosophy?

[@NefariousElasticity]

It's easy to tell the Mechanicus and the Mechanicum apart. A Mechanicus is a nice way to end a first date, while you should usually wait till the third or so for Mechanicum.

[@TeeBeeOhh]

Unfortunately if the dark mechanicum ever get more lore it's not gonna be about the more interesting unaligned faction but it's just gonna be all chaos since every human that opposed the imperium has to be chaos aligned now, no renegades.

[@Irondrone4]

55:45 Yeah, it's from one of the old Fantasy Flight RPGs, either Dark Heresy or Black Crusade. It's essentially a psychic flamethrower; you wear a pack full of psyker brains on your back and use a "wand" to trigger and direct their pain, suffering, and hate at your enemies. It usually doesn't shoot fire, unfortunately, but it can make people's heads explode.

[@thedango6890]

Oh finally the episode promised and waited upon for 40k years

[@Servantproto]

1:00 he's evolved his quick wit

[@aganaom1712]

one thing that i want super badly as part of a major narrative development in the future is for the mechanicus' monopoly on technology to come under question to the point that another major civil conflict in the imperium starts all over again and you end up with a situation where you have the mechanicus "purists" under the command of a shard of the void dragon fighting the rest of the mechanicus with the iron hands and salamanders with a bunch of their successors caught right in the middle of it

[@khylerbane4523]

Fabricator General of the Dark Mechanicum: “Who’s calling now!” Vashtorr: “Hello, It’s Vashtorr the Arkifane, Lord and master of the Soulforge. Calling about those payments for the Obliterator Virus, Iron Cage, and Daemonculaba you owe me…” Perturabo: “Honsou, toaster diddler, send the vox spiders.” *spiders sent through the communication link* Vashtorr: “I was wondering if you were interested in paying me back because as of recent events I am *really* out of patience and- AaaaHhhh SPIDERS!” Fabricator General: *in binary* “I guess we’re *not* interested.” *evil laugh* Vashtorr: “GODS DAMN IT ALL, WE HAD A *DEAL!”*

[@TheLordofMetroids]

Bricky didn't mention the funny time where Hal invented the number 2 and killed like three billion Tech-Priests.

[@kaleb2643]

If we ever get 40k Dark Mechanicum, I'm calling that they'll be part of an Iron Warriors codex

[@visig0th152]

This is how I explain the difference between all the iterations of Mechanicus/Mechanicum: The Cult Mechanicus is the religion. If you worship the Machine God and revere the Emperor as the Omnissiah then you are a member of the Cult Mechanicus. Adeptus Mechanicus and Mechanicum are political names. The Mechanicum was the name of the government on Mars which controlled and led the forge worlds before and during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, and it was a completely distinct and separate entity from the Imperial government on Terra. The Adeptus Mechanicus is the political name for the government of the forge worlds after the Horus Heresy as it was folded into the active administration of the Imperial state on Terra, so the Adeptus Mechanicus is not as independent and is more intertwined with the Adeptus Terra. So theoretically you could be part of the Cult Mechanicus and not part of the Adeptus Mechanicus (like the Iron Hands, to some extent, or even just tech marines in general) because the Cult is the church and the Adeptus is the government. Think of it like the Government of Iran. Iran has a branch of their government called the Assembly of Experts which is run by Islamic clerics who interpret and implement Islamic law. They're all religious leaders, and their role in the government is inherently religious, and the government itself is interpreted as a religious body, but the Assembly of Experts is distinctly separate from the broader Islamic faith as a political body. Same with the Mechanicum/Adeptus Mechanicus.

[@vxicepickxv]

Two ways to play Dark Mechanicum in 40k. Both are expensive. 1. Vashtor, chaos cultists(as skitarii at home), daemon engines such as obliterators, defilers, and forgefiends. Probably also knights. 2. Adeptus Mechanicus with chaos symbols.

[@ethanfox8979]

2 more options, both also expensive and what i am starting 3. Do custom kitbashes for the models 4. Sculpt your own models

[@VarunaChaotic]

I’d love to see more of these guys!

[@theodorehodbor5080]

Fun fact, in the old Black Crusade tabletop RPG you can play as a Dark Mechanicus tech-priest. Even funner fact, one of their modifications you can get are literally NANOMACHINES SON that give them pretty fast regeneration mid-combat.

[@carlosmiguelteixeiraott3643]

Wait, we're doing Robot stuff...without the presence of the wall dweller? This is some HERESY right here.

[@0shlem0]

The Mechanicum Horus Heresy book, which has the start of the schism is actually super good. Highly recommend, happened to finish it right before this came out.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

The Dark Mech deserve to have a fully fleshed out range, but I feel like Horus Heresy would do it better than mainline 40k. Hell, Legions Imperialis is already cooking with their DarkMech range.

[@beebeebees]

TRULY horrifying! Great episode 🎉

[@TheGodOfWarhammer]

13:32 it’s like the only reason Alexander the Great never attacked Sparta when he was on conquest. Despite their weakened state due to recently losing their capital financial state in battle, they were still Spartans. A toothless lion is still a lion. Alexander knew he could take them, but the losses wouldn’t justify it because Spartans fight to the death and make it a goal to take as many with them as possible

[@germanmandalorian3514]

I know why i am here, for y'all Relics and Fun. And i allready have all the Relics.

[@Parz1val465]

Found the blood angel

[@germanmandalorian3514]

@@Parz1val465 Yes... the Blood Angel... yeeeesss...

[@arthurhsu9111]

17:22 Hey bro, Hal's it going?

[@secutorprimus]

Not mentioning Anacharis Scoria is a crime

[@PolarisAl-baydalocke]

FINALLY, IVE WAITED FOR SO LONG!

[@JoelTheKven]

Out of all the faction "mirrors", the AdMech and the Dark Mechanicum are the most similar to each other.

[@MaterialObserver3956]

Belly Cawls Guilliman inferior is basically just him arguing with ChatGPT

[@perihelion1225]

I’m so hyped for this, I love the dark mechanicum!

[@Soundwave3591]

In "First and Only" Gaunt and the Tanith 1st discover a full STC-powered factory for producing men of iron. However, there is visible evidence of Chaotic corruption, with some of the robots emerging horribly deformed and even weeping. So not only are Men of Iron still around, there's a Chaotic taint on at least some of them.

[@giantnanomachine]

3:05 That quote. How TF are the Chaos-aligned Dark Mechanicum the sane ones in the toaster family?

[@NeloBladeOfRanni]

Because they aren't virgins unlike the corpse Emperor machine simps 👀

[@devin6787]

About time, you first talked about these guys years ago

[@jokerlover300]

Would love if you guys did some of the more obscure renegade/traitor chapters of the Astartes

[@thomas_dries]

Just found out that Adeptus Ridiculous is the podcast I’ve listened to the most this year! 🎉 (Help me)

[@theodorehodbor5080]

In the daemonculaba scenario I'm fairly certain that the Dark Mechanicus working for Honsou and the Iron Warriors were the ones that fully came up with the idea/blueprints. Likely what happened was the Iron Warriors just rolled up and said "alright guys we need new marines fast, come up with a new way to make them ASAP." Then after nights of brainstorming while binging crack and heroin the hereteks came back saying "alright we came up with this idea where [REDACTED], this work with you guys?" to which the Iron Warriors just replied "yes sure whatever, just as long as it gets us more marines."

[@kanate1444]

Branching off of this, it'd be nice to see mention of the Kaban Machine, even if there's not much to go off of, it's a cool tibbit.

[@TheHerrDoctor]

51:35 If I remember correctly 40k tts ended on the search for it

[@Bladecharge]

Ya they did get it. It changes the user personality and they used it on Kitten but he acts different. The creator was trying to tell us in writing the rest fo the plot of the series

[@monikaneti7271]

We need an Adeptus Ridiculous How it's Made Series

[@thecompfreak8302]

Was not ready for the Shou Tucker mention xD

[@shagun1074]

I really find it wrong calling dark mechanicum, the "evil mechanicus". As if mechanicus werent one of THE most evil factions in the setting.

[@nick_levi0366]

2:38 As an Italian I can confirm, every Italian has at least two copies of the book of Lorgar

[@primenine9589]

It'd be cool if you made a one-off, special episode on trench crusade lore

[@Kennyselman]

Yep, 4 years, started decemeber 2020. But the Candy Canes are made from Orphans, fed to orphans, that then digest them from the inside to transform into more candycanes...like self-replicating mines, remaking themselves from the bones and bodies of their victims. Lovely images from the Dark Mechanicum. Proteus Protocol also gets a mention in TTS, whole reason for Kitten to go on his trip to Mars...poor Kitten. That said...Neutrino Laser codpiece. Neutrino Laser Codpiece...

[@Goblinguy77]

please another dark mechanicum episode

[@abaddon4chaos948]

Hi , i'm italian from the region where the lasagna is born, Emilia-Romagna . I'd like to say that we don't mind if someone modify the recipe ,as long as it is done wisely put in there what you like the most. ( please don't use ketchup instead of tomatoes sauce ) Love the show and love you all . bye from Monarchia.. i mean Italy.

[@squeethemog213]

God these guys are so cool. I really want to fuse my necrons and ad mech together now. I just need ad mech xD

[@ForerunnerStudios234]

Dark mechanicum be like "Finally! My hell forge is completely OSHA compliant"

[@bczar4744]

Cawl for fab gen in 43,000! woo-woo! oil margaritas for all!!!

[@JellyCubess]

DK guessing right on the first try literally made me cheer

[@p3BA]

I remember when Bricky used to read books for an episode. Those were the days.

[@jahansolo]

BRO I HAVE BEEN WAITING

[@RougeMephilesClone]

Aside from a couple Eldar offshoots, and the Beastmen by the largest technicality the Omnissiah can muster, I think that's all of the major "armies" in 40K covered.

[@thechangeling3851]

You know I'm often not one for punny names...but the fact that those whom defy adjective doctrine are known as Hereteks still gets a chuckle out of me.

[@LeutDanYouGotLegs]

21:36 could have sworn it was the noctis labyrinth

[@LichKingg23]

A very important information about Kalbor-Hal and Kane (30k), or whomever is the leader of Ad-Mech in 40k, is that Kelbor is still the fabricator general of Mars, of the Mechanicum. The Ad-Mech was created to elect a new leader to the Martian Government, and in a lot of books people look at Kane as an illegitimate leader, who took power in a coup d'etat. So if Kalbor-Hal comes back, he has the legit claim of the throne of Mars and you believe that there are some adepts in Mars that will go with Kelbor. And the is the whole history of the book found in Mars, in the nocturn labyrinth, which is another unresolved plot of the books Mechanicum (30k) and Titanicus (40k). And the Dahlia Cytherea situation too. You guys should read Mechanicum, love me that book.

[@HellUmJom]

Bricky, you keep saying the Word Bearers are the Italians, but after listening to a few Salamanders novels from the HH, I think it might be the XVIII legion instead... The music they use at the beginning of the Salamanders audiobooks is SO reminiscent of The Godfather and other mob movies. You should check it out!

[@Ultrapyre]

"MAKE PEE-NUS INTO ROBOT" -overenthusiastic Dark Mechanicum techpriest

[@Colonel-Sigma]

59:45 If you guys went a little more in depth with the lorere about those robots I don't think you would be downplaying them. A swarm of ai robots operated by imprints of animal minds, but they're networked. So the doggo swarm gets smarter with its size. They aren't restricted like imperial "machine spirits" (ai) they can learn. Those robots in particular are called Stalkers and they are made to sew as much terror as possible, but are completely self aware. They can rebel and go rogue at any time. They were built using the knowledge from the vaults of moravec, meaning they are a continuation of the Moravecs attempt to bring back the Men Of Iron.

[@AxolotlInMC]

Cult Mechanicus is the religion, Mechanicum of Mars is the church that through union with Terra formed the Imperium, and Adeptus Mechanicus is the technological wing, subservient to the Imperium, formed from the loyalist remnants of the Mechanicum, which, led by the Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal, officially went traitor as a body. Regarding the conquest of Mars, don't forget that the Mechanicum was not just Mars. It already established a multitude of forge-worlds throughout the galaxy, which had their own arsenal and tech, and if Mars, their Mecca, were to fall by this Emperor, they would either declare independence, or became anctively hostile towards imperial efforts in revenge.

[@Biodeamon]

I can't believe they went into a several multiple minutes discussion about lasagna

[@Bluecho4]

It's kind of interesting to consider how the Dark Mechanicum are the logical opposite of the Leagues of Votann, in terms of their presence in the 40K canon. While the Squats obviously have an old pedigree, they were fairly definitively written out of the universe for decades. And the Leagues of Votann are so distinct from the old Squats, they're effectively a new faction. So GW just dropped this small nugget of lore, a seed that will presumably grow into something greater. (Especially since we're just NOW getting a Votann novel). DarkMech, meanwhile, have been consistently described, alluded to, and made known for decades. But always from a level of removal from the tabletop, because new armies are expensive to produce. So GW has basically been writing _around_ a faction we know exists, but won't bring to the tabletop yet. A void where their army would be, that can only be explored in novels, other factions, video games, and RPG supplements (like Wrath & Glory, or the older Fantasy Flight RPGs). Each step showing us the outline of an army that just isn't playable yet.

[@evanberndt8452]

Listen to this while cutting up a deer carcass is wild

[@thomaschitham3487]

I really hope they find out/talk about the Akashic Reader in the next Dark Mechanicum episode.

[@Naemor92]

Bricky on the third Horus Heresy episode: Dark Mechanicum are hugely important. We'll have a whole episode on them! Me for the last four years: 🤨 ≤))≥ | \ | \

[@feralprocessor9853]

Right off the bat, the most orkiest of the thicc!

[@hyko8355]

in the dark heresy ttrpg, there's so much dark tech items you can find, that and in Black Crusade too.

[@thedango6890]

Also yes, please do an episode on the book of lorgar

[@Demongordon]

the algo really like this video, each time I end watchong other video it send me to this one this is the 3rd time today.