Explaining ADEPTUS MECHANICUS To My Girlfriend | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@NUMBSKULLS]

Sorry to anybody who was watching this episode earlier and suddenly it was removed! There was an issue where the last 20 minutes were cut due to an export error. Fixed now! Praise the Omnissiah!!!

[@excalibursaurusm5701]

Okay gotcha. That makes sense.

[@eropis]

Should have rubbed yourself in more oil and burned more incense

[@IcoOst]

@@eropis god damn, I was about to make this joke

[@Irregulargremlin]

Praise the omnisahia, the machine spirit has been appeased

[@RedJohn1991]

Yeah i thought:"Well that ended abruptly". But all good just use more incence the next time ^^

[@SirRGijsbers]

HOW DARE YOU CALL ME ''NON-BINARY''! IM ONLY BINARY! that killed me with laughter, peak comedy

[@karlwikman3874]

For me it was "The nails are biting!"

[@AkhshamiKsyAksKhaos]

Hmmm…if you think about it…the dark mechanicum…updated from ones and zeros to qubits… Binary…non binary…outdated in the end…😈…

[@Maple-Gaming-z7x]

45:48

[@ryanbradleyrankin]

Its such a fantastic joke. Shows you can in fact "make fun" of things like that without being a piece of garbage about it.

[@RedKincaid]

​@@ryanbradleyrankin Yeah, i'm nb and that's hilarious lol

[@benjaminRitchey-e4q]

"sir, this is a prosthetic company, we cant replace a functioning arm." "*from the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh*"

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

Iron Hands: “Lol, skill issue.” *[DISMEMBERS SELF]*

[@Dracobyte]

It disgusted me!

[@MatthewCSnow]

My fav tech priest line in the Rouge Trader game: “Why does everyone keep saying ‘cog’ to me as an insult? A cog is one of the most blessed pieces of the omnissiah’s works and I would gladly be compared to it” That and the other tech priest who basically says “other people = mental anguish”

[@kacperdrabikowski5074]

I still maintain it's Scaevola, the sassy one in Mechanicus tactical game. "Error: damn not found"

[@MatthewCSnow]

@@kacperdrabikowski5074oh yeah, that game also has some good lines

[@Nickname-ef9tv]

If somebody says you are a tool, remember that tools are useful.

[@isthou]

The priests are often spot on, even lunete in chaos gate

[@djcuevas1057]

Calling someone a cog is actually a compliment in the machine cult. It means your unseen but required and appreciated.

[@iamacoolcid]

Kari-"1101100010110, if anyone speaks binary what did I say?" She said Ø

[@nikoazure5235]

She speaks the oath of the Reductor

[@benmunn7481]

I'm not sure what translation method you used but that doesn't translate to ASCII or Extended ASCII and in unicode it translates to "ذ" and not "Ø". If there is another language translator that i am unaware of please let me know.

[@gustavhertz5090]

SHE SPEAKS DANISH!!!!????

[@jakubsuwalski4797]

​@@benmunn7481accidental arabic Sounds exactly like Mechanicus

[@Scuzz83]

Sounds like we also heard a promo for "Explaining Digimon to my boyfriend"

[@YukonWilleh]

Id watch that

[@nichtwirklichpaul]

@@YukonWilleh I would also watch that.

[@CreamCakes420]

@@nichtwirklichpaulI as well

[@Daccking]

Would watch

[@barbatosmcmurderton4209]

To quote a certain sick bastard, "SIGN ME THE F%CK UP!"

[@UNION_JACK_THE_RIPPER]

"So are you a boy or a girl." "I am a member of the machine cult." "What are you attracted to?" "Knowledge." "Whats underneath your robe." "A USB port."

[@Scuzz83]

USB port and Dongle

[@Lectrikfro]

"What are you attracted to?" "Sigh... Magnets mostly" "Did you just say 'Sigh'?" "Yes, I have replaced my lungs with a margarita machine"

[@ember_angeldust]

A USB port is a really funny way to say NEUTRON LASER

[@theobtusemongoose3980]

USB port = female AUX cord = male

[@sloshed-rat]

"What's underneath your robe?" *"[Horrors beyond your comprehension]..."*

[@maiapetersen9092]

My favorite Cal story: Person helping revive Guillman, "isnt this tech highly heretical to the mechanicus?" Cal: "Haha... yeah..."

[@khylerbane4523]

…and? -Cawl probably

[@Dracobyte]

But hey! It worked!

[@ceejno7861]

'It's not heretical if it works.' - Sign over Cawl's workspace

[@supremefankai5480]

The Mechanicus are the best example of people no longer understanding what they are doing, just going through the motions. Over thousands of years they stopped asking why, only accepting dogma. Belisarius Cawl saw that as dumb and I like the cut of his gib.

[@kinagrill]

They are the interns at tech-business told to 'push this button when this light flashes. if it flashes 3 times in a row, shut it down with this lever'. But add incense and prayers to the mix.

[@CorvusCorone68]

@@kinagrill and sacred oils, people keep forgetting about the sacred oils

[@dukecoull9016]

I like the way that I’ve heard the mechanicus ritual development coming from a lack of understanding of the technology over time, like instructions passed down from adept to adept so that they way to remember the process is a ritual

[@terrencenoran3233]

In the Isyander and Koda AdMech episode, the former equated them to a cargo cult, which is a fascinating way to look at it.

[@kierranbrooks7306]

​@@terrencenoran3233I'll be honest I've never thought of it like that but they really ARE like a cargo cult aren't they?

[@myfaceismyshield5963]

It's intended as parody of the eastern orthodox church (and the entire concept of religious orthodoxy), in a similar way to how the Imperial Creed and the Ecclesiarchy represent the western catholic church. And the Dark Angels represent the protestants, but not as heavily as the other two. The Imperium is a huge mash-up of satire about authority. Historical references in 40k are generally very political in terms of how authority is shown as a great evil, with each faction. The only faction that doesn't really have a sort of authority problem is the Craftworld Eldar, but the Eldar view all other factions as lower creatures and animals in comparison, so even they count for this. And they are very cult-y with their sacrifices to the God of Murder

[@katamariroller2837]

@@kierranbrooks7306 There used to be an explanation of the Mechanicus in 1d4chan that basically went: the library burned and librarians were slaughtered, then the library burned AGAIN and MORE librarians died because they started KILLING EACH OTHER, AND a lot of the remaining books got infested by demons, and what´s left of that whole mess... is the current Adeptus Mechanicus.

[@dbmwray]

If you’ve ever worked on a process or file that was originally created 2-3 employees before you, you’ve experienced it yourself firsthand lol. A part of me praises the Omnissiah when someone explains a procedure to me as “well, you always have to do X. I’m not sure why, it’s just something you have to do.” It turns into a weird ritual. If you miss one of 15 steps in order in a weird macro driven excel, it fails. The person who made it left years ago, and the People using it only know how to follow the ritual.

[@CommissarMitch]

I want to note: Not all Servators are vats grown. There is in fact a huge industry in the Imperium that mass produces them on an industrial scale. It is mentioned briefly in one of the books. Yes it is horrifying.

[@CommissarMitch]

Servators in my mind is peak 40k. Here we have a civilization that care so little about their own people that they forcefully makes them to catatonic cyborgs. They are not the good guys, but they are in the upper parts of good.

[@rarrythemage7]

Especially the ones used for kataphron chassis. The machine spirit for them requires a particularly violent human and the vat grown ones don't cut it so they use prisoners.

[@TheOnlyRealIRONicMAN]

For anyone interested: I believe the book they're referencing is Flesh and Steel. It's a Warhammer Crime story, highly recommend.

[@CommissarMitch]

@@TheOnlyRealIRONicMAN It rings a bell. It is from one of the non-warfare books.

[@krankarvolund7771]

Yeah, I've always heard the opposite, most servitors are normal humans, it's just the Cherubs that are vat-grown, because you can't really have criminal babies ^^'

[@Warpwaffel]

Fun fact: The leader of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Fabricator-General Oud Oudia Raskian is the size of a building.

[@fillosof66689]

It is weird how much of an exception he is, and how even the more advanced Magos seem to cling or the general shape and size of a human body, despite changing most of their component parts.

[@alek7998]

@@fillosof66689 Cawl is bigger than Guilliman.

[@nikolthomas2544]

@@alek7998 Cawl, hunched over, is like 15 feet tall (at a minimum) but he's still able to go out and about under his own power, get on and off of spaceships, explore planets, etc. The Fab-general needs to be carted around on a gigantic 'pallet'/'skid'

[@alek7998]

@@nikolthomas2544 IIRC, there is a techpriest that fused with their spaceship. In Master of Mankind, a techpriest becomes basically a supercomputer

[@baynemacgregor8441]

Was the size of a building... (Spoilers follow) the Fabricator General went missing in the webway when the Dark Eldar who they were trying to get to make replacement parts for Xenos components of the Golden Throne were revealed to be planning to clone the Emperor to fuel their own Golden Throne to save Commeragh and everyone started shooting and detonating things. The Fabricator General is likely now the size of rubble from a destroyed building.

[@CommissarMitch]

Funny Mechanicus story. At one point, a tech priest found a derelict ship floating in space. They board it and OOPS it is an AI. The tech priest along with their subordinents started doing prayers with incence and all that. The AI laughed at them and called them fanatics. Then, just because it could, the AI took control of all the Skitarii the tech priest had and spoke through them all.

[@baynemacgregor8441]

From the novel The Death of Integrity

[@BigBex]

And than the Allmighty AI got got by Cawl and it's now in his docks like a good submissive AI

[@Waitingnomad]

tbh all ships are AI, the ones under imperial control are just referred to as machine spirits but they're all totally tethered AI

[@Volcano22207]

@@BigBexif I remember correctly the ai from that book fucked off to outside the galaxy

[@ginam5497]

allied master computer type activity's.

[@memedeathgriplord5736]

Guardsman, flirting badly: You got a pleasure stick in that rig? Tech Priest, withdrawing USB: YES!

[@KarilynneDavies]

FUN FACT CLARIFICATION: Mars DOES have a metallic core but it is no longer spinning like Earth’s does which is why Mars doesn’t have an atmospherec magnetic field. Isn’t that super interesting!? Space is so cool!! Big shoutout to @corycampbell7172 and his son for pointing this out! ❤

[@yvindblff5628]

Also, the magnetic field has little to do with deflecting asteroids. Mars is pummeled as much as it is because its atmosphere is so thin. Too thin to cause the majority of rocks to burn up before impact.

[@WesleyRucker-vz4ih]

Everything with moving electrical charges has a magnetic field. It has a weaker magnetic field, so solar radiation strips away a lot of the atmosphere. The core is metallic, and it had been hotter at some point, but it has cooled. Mars had volcanic activity and we have seen some similar geological patterns as we have seen from earth. There were definitely volcanoes, at the very least. It is currently tectonically inactive, but it probably had active plate tectonics earlier in time. The reason it has comparatively more meteor collisions is because it is relatively “close” to Jupiter and the asteroid belt. Additionally, Earth has a fairly sizable moon that diverts incoming asteroids pretty well, Mars has Phobos and Deimos, too small to even crush themselves into being spherical, so they can’t do this to the same extent. Not trying to “um actually”, I’m just kind of interested in the subject

[@KarilynneDavies]

@@WesleyRucker-vz4ih SO cool!! I gotta find me some cool space documentaries or something 🤔

[@baynemacgregor8441]

In 40k Mars has a magnetic field created by a gigantic machine running through the planet from pole to pole, the novella Cybernetica involves a plan to destroy it to exterminatus Mars during the Horus Heresy

[@Dovorans]

​@@yvindblff5628To be fair, part of the reason Mars has such a thin atmosphere is because it doesn't have a magnetic field to prevent the solar wind from stripping the atmosphere away.

[@geoffreyentwistle8176]

"Here's two of them kissing!" *BONG* Took me a second, then I scared my fiancee laughing too hard... XD

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

Two Techpriests making out just sounds like someone rummaging through a junkyard

[@sloshed-rat]

Them having sex sounds like someone throwing an entire silverware drawer down a staircase.

[@Dracobyte]

Hahahaha!

[@andrewgolubiewski3463]

Fun fact, if the servitors now are all vat grown they weren't always. Not sure if the veracity of the claim that they're vat born, but I've been working through the horus heresy and there is a short story that was in it following an entire population naked and being forced through enormous lines where the mechanicus checked for their compatibility as servitors. Those incompatible were sent into contraptions that rendered their flesh into nutrient paste to be fed to servitors. Those that were compatible were sent through chemical baths to be stripped of all hair and then clamped onto operating tables to have the appropriate bits of flesh removed, the correct lobotomies performed, and the right mechanical grafts for their servitor model, all without anesthesia because why would you waste painkillers on servitors.

[@latrodectusmactans7592]

They’re still often condemned criminals. The novel Flesh and Steel is about this; we get to see the Servitor processing factory line.

[@kingskelett6265]

yeah servitors are also usually criminals and people who have gone against the Imperium or the Mechanicus speficially. I remember in Helsreach one servitor once being a temple gardener who stole some money and got turned into one. Meanwhile, honored members of the Mechanicus still get turned into a form of automaton/cyborg as servo-skulls. But that is considered an honour (and look better two).

[@DeffSkullz]

Servitors are also made from criminals, especially ones who went against the AdMech. The Lex Imperialis judgement is called "Servitude Imperpetuis". It's for people you really hate, as you don't allow them peace of death, but use them for the Imperium. Head canon of mine has them aware, but can't act like the Further in "Get Out".. creepy!

[@MakCurrel]

Vat grown servitors??? Yeah the lie the empire tells itself to sleep at night. And corps-startch is plant based. Suuure!!! Don't worry about it! Shhhh

[@elijahhayter3026]

People often say that it’s mostly criminals, but think about it. What laws did they break? What were their reasons for breaking them? Were they in the wrong, if they had no alternative?

[@TheGallantDrake]

They do the dippy sticky flippy with sacred lubricant oils. Those are safe for electronics.

[@SuperUnhappyman]

"Gunz iz brainz if you get enuff weirdboyz in em"

[@Lectrikfro]

YOUZ 'UMIES KEEP TALKIN BOUT 'EADCANNONS, SO I TOLD DA PAINBOYZ TO GET TO WORKIN'

[@gatordragon6140]

AZ LONG AZ YAH GITZ KEEP DA WIER BOYZ AWAY FRUM ME, LAST TIME ONE POPPED NEAR ME IT ENDED UP GUNKIN UP DA CANNON ON MY GORKANAUT!

[@Awesomotron2k]

Regarding 'speaking binary'. It's the lingua technis, and it basically sounds like a dial up modem. It's ultra condensed speech, able to transfer large ammounts of data in incredibly short bursts of sound. It is also very expressive being able to relate both subcontext and even emotion, all still while being just blurps of electricity. It is a living language always being evolved and adapted to purpose, leadingmto different accents. A Techpriest overseeing a loading bay might evolve into a different accent than a Magos apending his years watching over a large data loom, and of course all of that differs again from planet to planet. The other way they communicate is via the 'Noosphere', basically Wifi, AR and VR all mashed together. Non-Augmented humans can not perceive this, and it's a large reason why Techpriests often seem to act weird around machines, they are litteraly reacting to things others can not even see.

[@BlackEpyon]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who remembers what a dialup modem sounds like. While they will invariably have different protocols being analogous to "accents," the question is whether or not they still use ASCII.

[@sylph4252]

On the topic of Cawl breaking the law against inventing, at one point he was straight up put on trial for it, and his defense was "I'm only reinventing what we used to know, it's no different from rediscovering"

[@ceejno7861]

Belisarius Cawl, master of bullshit. ...Mind, it helps that most senior tech-priests are secretly doing SOMETHING heretical. Cawl is basically just winking and going 'Come on... we're all doing it. Let's not make a thing out of it.'

[@709mash]

I mean, he wasn't wrong.

[@MrNorskgamer]

i love these videos cause its just like "okay, lets learn about (insert race/group here)" and then 2 minutes in "welp, this escalated quickly....which i guess is 40k in a nutshell, but still this escalated too quickly"

[@UNION_JACK_THE_RIPPER]

(Archon of flesh enters the chat.) Who's ready for techpriests in thigh highs

[@CommissarMitch]

*Extreamly excited beeping*

[@MatthewCSnow]

Real shame they had to go dark cus some guys were doxing Archon

[@HighEffortUsername]

Also gore. Way too much gore from that dude

[@spin6872]

@@HighEffortUsernameyeah but I don’t think it warranted being harassed and doxxed for it

[@HighEffortUsername]

@@spin6872 fair, let dudes be weird

[@Lectrikfro]

The couple of times they've mentioned Mechanicus speaking Binary in the books my brain interpreted it as the noise a 56k modem makes while connecting

[@baynemacgregor8441]

I once joked about the hymn Mode M by composer Dia Lup.

[@709mash]

They did that is TTS if I remember correctly 😂

[@Arcane_Kobold]

Funnily enough, that’s actually similar to what it would sound like according to Space Marine 2. You hear the tech priests around the Battle Barge occasionally speaking Binary, and it’s just the dial up modem noise. It’s hilarious.

[@Darluk]

Loved the commitment to the bit with the incense when turning on the PC *chef's kiss* Things I've learned: Shrimps is bugs Doors is brains Squigs is hair Cute snek Fun fact: It's up in the air if the machine spirits are a type of simplified AI, an actual spirit (like an animistic elemental spirit), a soul thing, or something else altogether! It depends on how much of an argument you feel like getting into with the rest of the fandom & how the authors feel on any given day.

[@philiphamel8504]

Glad to see its up. I thought the video was struck for Copy Right.

[@NUMBSKULLS]

No, just the machine getting angry. We have appeased it~

[@philiphamel8504]

​@@NUMBSKULLSthe machine is pleased. I must find the dubstep pipe organ to herald this triumph

[@Averybritishbear]

@@NUMBSKULLSgood that you got the candles and smoke machines

[@bloodybahamut3742]

You missed the opportunity to put that video of the snake in the mechanical walking tube

[@nodrugshere300]

Giving them their legs back. 🥼

[@NLGedonis]

Instead they used their own snake. Isn't that cool?!

[@tominieminen66]

I certainly was expecting that clip to pop up 😂

[@GitGud40k]

It is I the world eater known as gitgud. Just know I always ask my opponents permission before doing anything, including screaming for those with sound sensitivities! However I am very hyper at competitions. Great podcast!

[@NUMBSKULLS]

OH MY GOD

[@KarilynneDavies]

Omg you are so freaking funny!!! Thank you for dropping by - we hope the nails ain’t biting so bad these days ❤️❤️❤️

[@jibjibs9401]

Yo I just realised I follow your insta

[@eyllyssaunders5345]

Hell yeah man, FOR KHORNE

[@IllegalTumor]

The nails are biting😂

[@DrEpicness144]

"they will not invent" **looks over at Caul, he's inventing something new.**

[@The_Keeper]

Ahem, "re-discovering" thank you very much. :D

[@eduardodiaz9942]

Cawl is seen as a heretek by a good portion of the Mars Priesthood, to be fair. It's the main reason he's not the Fabricator General at this point

[@nikolthomas2544]

@@eduardodiaz9942 Cawl becoming the Fab-general would cause another Mechanicus civil war. And even if it didn't, Fab-general is a very political, figure-head position. Cawl would be severely restricted in his ability to do R&D, and would be essentially forbidden from going out and exploring planets, he be 'trapped' on Mars most of the time

[@vigorouslethargy]

​@@The_Keeper He's got a logical foundation for his argument. "Fact: We believe The Omnisiah has already created any and every technological advancement in the universe. So nothing I create could ever really be new in the true sense, and thus not a blasphemy."

[@The_Keeper]

@@vigorouslethargy Yup. Circular logic is defnitely a Mechanicus thing.

[@nogitsune4452]

Kinda interesting that the Mechanicus worship machine spirits like it's the shinto religion. It's like looking at a shinto temple but instead of a temple housing a kami it's a semi-automated factory housing a great machine spirit. That's the vibe I'm getting at least.

[@Soulless261]

I've always been a huge fan of transhumanism stories, and everything about the AdMech are so much aesthetically cooler than everything else in my opinion. And something about them being such hypocritical self-centered douchebags is really fun to me. Too bad they always get treated like sandbags for everyone else to bully in every story. I still love my skitty boys.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Realistically, they would be far more durable. Imagine a mechanicus soldier gets hit by a grenade point blank, the position gets almost overrun, and the last guardsman is gonna be stabbed, when the arm and left side of torso that is half embedded into a wall reaches up and shoots the guy.

[@jarrakul]

For a couple years now, I've had in my head a scene of an enby skitarii insisting that they're not non-/binary/, they're non-/boolean/. Binary (in the sense of computers) can code for a theoretically-infinite amount of nuance, provided you keep adding digits. But boolean logic operates only on true/false, and is the more proper (computer) term for a hard dichotomy.

[@sev1120]

However, they would accept a layperson referring to them as Non-Binary, because of the gulf in understanding of the blessed machine between even a skitarius and a layperson. (For context, a good number of the mechanicus refer to humans outside the mechanicus as a "layperson")

[@baynemacgregor8441]

Valid, and we already have some examples in the lore. The Magod Dominus Exasus from Imperator: Wrath of the Omnissiah being one. I hear there's another inn Brutal Kunin too. And while Binary in Identity there's the Intersex TechPriest Linya Tychon in the Of Mars trilogy who is a clone of her father but developed Phenotypically and in Identity as a woman (so a minor gene error in the cloning process likely caused Complete Androgen Insnsitivvity or similar).

[@speetza6265]

I loved how perfectly you were able to capture the way the Mechanicus constantly bounce back and forth between goofy science time and post-human nightmare fuel. Goofy lil' lobotomite friends :]

[@TheGallantDrake]

Didn't expect a Bob the Skull cameo

[@LethargicScientist]

I like how they made Harry look appropriately tired.

[@L1ttleWarrior13]

God I need to read those books so bad, I read the first one and half off the second, but really need to get more of the universe

[@Manfromthenorth0551]

Its important to note that not all within the mechanicus chrome themselves out to extreme degrees. Some are far more conservative and other barely have any augmnents. There was a tech priest who had a clone daughter who refused to get any serious augments. The father thought it was weird, but he never forced her to get any augments.

[@nikolthomas2544]

There also some who opt for mostly non-obvious augments so they can get the benefits while preserving their original look

[@FinxOmally]

The AI was on the ship 'Spirit of Eternity' And has some of the best lines in 40k Lore. Mild spoilers below.. . . . . In short AI and crew saw the whole history of the universe in a warp storm.. spat out the warp in 40k, tried to give a warning of what they had seen, captain and crew were tortured and killed as heretics, AI destroyed and entire flotilla and wept back into the warp, and has a burning hatred for the treatment of it's captain, it's 'bondmate and friend' Boarded by a squad of terminators and ad-mech a while later, which was the bit talked about here.. AI locked the armour, berated them.. Then vapourised them. (Brutal) now wishes to leave the know galaxy to be as far away from humanity as possible. An excerpt from 'Death of Integrity' the book it appears in: 'Who are you to tell such as I what to do and what not to do? Once I gladly called your kind “master”, but look how far you have fallen!’ It was full of scorn. ‘Your ancestors bestrode the universe, and what are you? A witch doctor, mumbling cantrips and casting scented oils at mighty works you have no conception of. You are an ignoramus, a nothing. You are no longer worthy of the name “man”. You look at the science and artistry of your forebears, and you fear it as primitives fear the night. I was there when mankind stood upon the brink of transcendence! I returned to find it sunk into senility. You disgust me.’ Guy Haley is an awesome writer.

[@prometheanrebel3838]

You know Humanity fucked up bad when even their own former creations hate them.

[@LuckyTheReviewer]

Good points....counter point; it was AIs like you that led humanity to fearing the tech it once had because said tech almost destroyed them. Like, is the AI in the story aware of what happened with the Men of Iron or is it unaware of the fact that most of Humanity's AI turned against them during the Dark Age of Technology?

[@Meteo1777]

Shutting off the technology was a plot point in the original Foundation book by Issac Asimov. If I recall correctly, there were more parallels between the early, Priestly, Foundation and the Mechanicus.

[@tehno_thefallen386]

Foundation mentioned 🎉

[@monsterson46]

How much incense did you need to burn to appease the youtube machine spirits

[@NUMBSKULLS]

At least 4 failed exports worth.

[@jessebridgeman767]

Not enough the first time, obviously lmao

[@Docckylle]

I would like to make a point that the Void Dragon might've gotten its name from the idea that dragons are ancient and wise beings in addition to being horribly destructive, and dragon is the closest translation to those concepts that the necrons viewed it as, as well as Magala'droth being quite literally technology.

[@Nickname-ef9tv]

13:15 The Mechanicus did not only spread since the times of the Imperium. During the Age of Strife warp travel was not _entirely_ impossible, every now and then the warp storms receeded just enough so that a fraction of ships could successfully travel. These were the times when the Mechanicum would send out colony ships of which some founded colonies that were later absorbed into the spreading Imperium. Also some planets were just so aligned to the beliefs of the tech priests that they joined the Mechanicum (or Mechanicus if they were discovered late) rather than Terra.

[@nakenmil]

It's probably best to think of the "Machine God" not as a personalized deity, but as an abstract concept of "All Knowledge".

[@batcat4136]

Addendum: Servitors aren't only made from vat-grown people. They are also made from criminals, political rivals and even Space Marines sometimes if they fuck up badly enough. That is how they started out but the Imperium realised they needed more Servitors than they can get from just the criminals, so they started vat-growing people specifically to make more servitors.

[@arcbinder]

1:15:30 While there's no Deimos Armour, there's a couple of Deimos things like the Deimos Predator tank... Deimos is also no longer one of Mars' moons as it was relocated to orbit Titan and is the forge world for the Grey Knights

[@theflyingeyeball]

Interesting. The inquisition will be at your location shortly

[@sirgaz8699]

"The question is what is humanity" I would NOT be asking the Mechanicus that.

[@hooj4808]

One thing that adds to the Imperium and Mechanicus dynamic is that the Mechanicus is also now entirely dependent on the Imperium. Without food from agri worlds the forge worlds would starve, without navigators and astropaths they'd be unable to travel the warp or communicate. They also still need the much more numerous Imperial Guard and Navy for protection. Essentially the Imperium has allowed the Mechanicus to specialize to such an extent that now neither one can survive without the other. Also one of my favorite bits of Mechanicus lore is the the fabricator general is the size of a small building and has to be "installed" into the Imperial palace when it is doing any work on the golden throne or has to be present for a meeting of the High Lords of Terra.

[@ananmtdfox]

That snake in the begging was gold

[@franciscomelendeze]

Actually it was White

[@jdcoolha]

@@franciscomelendeze Kida is gold in our hearts.

[@HighEffortUsername]

​@@jdcoolhaWhite and gold, like a hive fleet. I don't remember which

[@Khornecussion]

@@jdcoolha All I see is the red of Mars in that strong adept. I've no clue what either of you see.

[@Dracobyte]

At first I though it was a "In memoriam" section. Sorry.

[@cinderheart2720]

Regarding the "no inventing" thing, it's also because you can't know if your inspiration for your new design was put in your head by a demon or not. And if it was, oops that's a warp portal.

[@curiouswind9196]

Big E sees a shard of a reality bending god that's too dangerous to kill and goes "it's a surprise tool that will help us later"

[@VerbenaComfrey]

the tech priests chant "Ohhhhhhhhhh Toooooodlllleesssss . . ."

[@thou_dog]

Kari's ability to turn the topic of conversation into song lyrics set to pop tunes is something worth developing, IMO :D I'm not saying y'all would be selling records, but it would be a neat little easter egg to drop in the Patreon or at the end of your videos. Happy reading!

[@excalibursaurusm5701]

That was lots of fun. Also adorable Snake!!!!!! The Void Dragon is cool. I was at a ren faire and my friend cosplayed a Tech Priest it was cool.

[@IcyCaress]

I just finished playing Mechanicus not more than a week ago, what an amazing game.

[@B0risTheBlade]

Holy shit some times you scroll through comments and see old friends 😅 love your work, Icy 😅 I know you don't play with igp any more but the hands simulator video still haunts my dreams 😅 "pa-pa" gag was gold

[@Mister-Thirteen]

The noodle is adorable. I know nothing about them and I love them unconditionally

[@Scowleasy]

Shrimps *IS* bugs!

[@indomleon]

I, a person who has never really identified as any part of LGBTQ, have been thinking a lot recently about how little my gender matters to me. The AdMech are based for that I think

[@SollowP]

They do actually use a holy liquid when blessing machines, that being holy oil instead of holy water. 28:53 You're actually right about this Kari, the Servitors aren't just vat grown humans, sometimes they're criminals who's punishment for a crime is to become a Servitor, sometimes still totally conscious. "I have no mouth and I must scream"

[@net_spider]

The funny thing is that belief is a very real power in the Warhammer 40K universe. Belief has an effect on things... though its probably not as overt as Orks causing things to happen through their collective belief, weird things tend to happen to machines when the Adeptus Mechanicus do their thing. I know a lot of it can be explained away by some of their "rituals" actually containing mechanic procedure, but there are things that tend to go on that could only either be explained through sorcery or a higher power intervening... either option is a little scary in context.

[@SquareNoggin]

It's all just demons

[@LilacMage]

Glad there is a reupload. I boop thy snoops, the Omnisiahs blessing.

[@The0Stroy]

As student of IT/CI who have screws in bones - in the name of Omnissiah - I see Mechanicus, I like.

[@Ulmaramlu]

Ava: "What if I'm a skull and I scream?" me: *Last Unicorn Flashbacks*

[@kimarous]

THE CLOCK, HAGGARD!

[@Dracobyte]

Nice flashback!

[@MrKnightslayer7]

The dippy sticky flicky! As a religious person that’s freaking hilarious!

[@H010CR0N]

In Mechanicus and Rogue Trader they show this "Binary Speech" as more akin to White-Noise code. It sounds like dial-up computers speaking to each other.

[@FelbloodStreaming]

4:30 The Major from Ghost in the Shell is completely software. She moves her ghost into a new shell multiple times, so there are literally 0% factory original parts. Her status as a walking Ship of Theseus is kind of the whole question in the first movie, while the second movie moves on to questions about "Once you've scientifically proven the existence of souls, how can that be used for evil?"

[@NR_Artwork]

Also SAC is an unrelated side story not meant to be watched comparatively but rather as its own thing.

[@LilFeralGangrel]

That doesn't happen until the end of the first volume of the manga and the end of the 1995 movie. She's just her brain (which is heavily cyberdized, dunno how much of it was replaced though) in a prosthetic body. Fun fact her prosthetic body was intentionally designed to look like a generic civilian model, which is hinted at in the '95 film when Motoko sees another woman in a identical model (in terms of appearance not capabilities).

[@DrazakEigengrau]

This episode was very fun. As a Necron player and lore enthusiast it's interesting to actually learn some of the inner workings of their rival in a sense. I also know GitGud as an acquaintance, so it was nice to see just how prevalent his name is.

[@Scowleasy]

Commenting before I finish the video but I hope you mention the electro-priests, they’re my absolute favorite. One faction shoots lightning from their fingers and the other has a big stick that sucks the electricity out of whatever it hits, immediately killing it.

[@andrejjelcic3675]

Since the Emperor can see the future... He as a Saint George defeated the shard of the Dragon and put him into a coma and hid him in the Noctys labyrinth beneath Mars. Then he created a secret society to watch over the sleeping/comatose shard of the Dragon. These people were the secret ancestors of the Mechanicus. In one of the books, a person meets one of the Secret Emperor's Mechanicus guardians of the Noctis Labyrinth and he tells her all this. Still, she tells him that the first meeting between the Emperor and Mechanicus happened much later and they signed the pact of Mars. And the ancient secret Machanicus guy tells her: '' Do you think The Emperor would allow them to worship gods if he did not plan it? Did you really think he could not take Mars on with his Custodes? It was all a lie. He saw the future and planned the Mechanicus into existence because he knew he would need a separate industry faction to work for him.'' Then she asked him why he allowed the Dragon Shard to influence the Mechanicus, and he revealed that the Dragon did not know and does not know he was and is doing it. Since he still sleeps, his dreams influence the dreams of the Marsians and give them ideas like Cthulhu does in the Ctulhu mythos. The Emperor just made the best out of a bad situation. So when the Horus Heresy happened Cawl was a young Mechanicus Neophyte. His Teacher/Master was a unique genius who invented the art of soul melding, Soul Melding is used to basically take a soul from a dying body and put it into a new body. So eventually there was a civil war between Dark Mechanicus and Mechanicus and Cawls master joined the Chaos side. Cawl managed to escape from her. She died later and one of the Emperor's assistants, named Sedayne, took Cawl under his wing. But in reality, Sedayne was dying and he wanted to soul-meld himself into Cawl's young body. He tricked Cawl by taking his best friend hostage and succeded into melding his soul into Cawl's body. Beacuse Sedayne was smarter than Cawl he started to take over his body and kind of eat/dominate his soul but while their souls were melding they were looking into each other's memories from the perspective of the other person like in a dream. In Sedaynes memory, long before the Heresy, Cawl saw Sedayne talk to the Emperor and the Emperor started talking to Cawl. He literally told him: ''Do not fear. Great things are in store for you Cawl. You are chosen by fate to continue my work. THE GREAT WORK of uplifting and educating humanity. Even when you will think you have betrayed me, you will be helping me. Go now with my blessing Cawl. The humanity needs you.'' So Cawl got determined and won over Sedayne and got all of his memories and knowledge/ ate Sedaynes soul. He has survived for 10,000 years because when his time to die comes he just soul melds with a younger person and takes over their body. Since the Emperor was interred into the Golden throne, Cawl became Guilimans assistant like Sedayne was the Emperors. Or more like how the Emperor had Malcador be Merlin to his King Arthur so does Guiliman have Cawl. So Guiliman, after he became the Imperial regent, ordered Cawl to use the Emperors notes/secret technology and in case Guiliman and the other primarchs are gone to revive Guiliman or to make new Primarchs and new Space Marines so Huminty does not lose to chaos. So Cawl does hereteck stuff and does not believe that the Emperor is the God or Omnisiah or that the Machine God exists and he is very against Chaos + he LITERALY has the Emperor's explicit blessing to do whatever he wants. So yeah the Emperror is literally 40K's version of Doctor Who except he doesn't have a Tardis and does not time travel. But he always knew what was going to happen, yet he is powerless. Because you can't change fate you can just nudge it in the direction you would like it to go. And ever since he came into existence he has been nudging Humanity's fate into this one and only timeline in which Humanity survives and thrives just like Dunes Paul and Leto the II / Kwisatz Hderach . Because there is nothing original everyone just steals from each other and GW stole everything from everyone.

[@Uncertain_Illumination]

Both your voices and speach patterns are incredibly pleasing to my ears. May the omnissiah bless both of you.

[@THINKMACHINE]

[aggressively booping screen for the first 47 seconds]

[@Gunthersby]

Its just funny how lorewise the mechanicus tech is better than what they give the rest of the Imperium but in-game they're just worse

[@NUMBSKULLS]

Admech desperately need some buffs……

[@ryanburnsed5690]

Love the vid! Dying to hear more takes on one of my favorite factions

[@DaddyVeo1911]

Me as a tech priest: could you imagine, meat bag? Stuffing all of your mechadendrites into fifteen toaster slots at the same time!? The poor guardsman I'm talking to: Magos, i'm just trying to get my lasgun checked on- Me, pointing at the Guardsman accusingly: you don't appreciate the toasters, pal!!!

[@The0Stroy]

Also Mechanicum ritual also consist actual fixing it.

[@MiningwithPudding]

Two parts religious ritual, one part replacing components, one part resetting the settings back default

[@Volcano22207]

It’s left up to interpretation

[@calebstevens7832]

Totally didn't expect a Harry Dresden reference and had a fan girl moment

[@ПётрНауменко-т4з]

Wait a minute. Servitors are people who was sentenced for this.

[@yvindblff5628]

Some of them are, sure. But the need for servitors far outstrips the availability of humans sentenced to endure such a fate.

[@ПётрНауменко-т4з]

@@yvindblff5628 I still remember THAT quest from Rogue trader, there one Pirate revenge one girl for continuosly atacking him.

[@Volcano22207]

@@yvindblff5628 in lore they actually just lower the bar on hive worlds when that happens

[@FiannaBat]

GitGud goes to my local, hes an awesome dude. The story isnt real but its so goddamn amazing i love it

[@CommissarMitch]

Doors Is Brains feel like a fun merch idea.

[@iluxius8216]

This episode was absolutely unhinged, I love seeing y’all having fun :)

[@ZakuInATopHat]

If I remember correctly, the AdMech don’t think the emperor is the Omnissiah. They think that he is a Prophet or Shard of the Omnissiah, because the first thing he did when he shower up, was repair the leg of an Imperial Knight that they thought was beyond repair.

[@cxfxcdude]

Well the Knight house and Legio that said knight was part of said one word into the Noosphere: *Omnisiah*

[@p_serdiuk]

Omnissiah is the avatar of the Machine God

[@Impuritan22]

"Gosh darn it..." **sound of something hitting a table edge** **bzzzzzzzzzz** "Praise the Omnissiah!"

[@beans6001]

You guys sounded like you had so much fun with this episode. Big ups for that 😊

[@danielnemesio3388]

The intro is fire. The video of the robot snake with the Mechanicus speech was my introduction to Warhammer 40k

[@ryan_the_rizza2571]

that sneksnek intro was freaking amazing

[@murphy7801]

Darude sandstorm blasting on mars is now my head canon

[@kohljohnson2182]

I'm new to Warhammer 40k and this series had helped SO MUCH with catching me up to the basics! Also I bought Total War Warhammer 3 because of you guys 😂🤙

[@bahamut12th]

the ship of Theseus is not a paradox, as when you are buildings a ship the Keel CANNOT be replaced so it will ALWAYS be the same keel and therefor NOT a new ship

[@nikolthomas2544]

16:37 Hearing someone speaking in Binaric would sound similar to a dial-up modem connecting to the internet

[@daviddomingo8846]

9:28 The Dippy Sticky Flicky?? Wtflip man!! 🤣 17:04 Kari singing Digimon killed my lungs!!

[@Transgirlwar]

*the cosmetic shop girl in darktide that I believe was a born human that was turned into a servivtor after being shot in the head by an inquisitor.*

[@fosterbennington6405]

I only noticed this recently because I still needed to level up a veteran and I noticed the servitor was suddenly not a servitor

[@domfour8109]

STC's are so important to the admech that when a group of guardsmen discoverd one that had the plans for a new type of space marine combat knife each guardsman got rewarded with his own planet.

[@The0Stroy]

Not all servitors are tub grown - some are convicts...

[@Ironwizard42]

Kari's little song when you were talking about the sons of the phoenix proves that she is a gosh darn treasure! Also, I think most servitors are either criminals or other undesirables. There are so many poor unfortunate souls lying around that growing meatbags just to turn them into servitors seems like a waste. And I am morally obligated to mention how adorable your little snake friend is!

[@user-ut5nx6hm9d]

Caul’s Necron girlfriend: “I will tortue you again and again and again and again and again and agai-“ Caul the freak: “hot dog it’s a date!”

[@austinhaltiner1489]

Just a quick thing about the techpriest rituals to fix machines, they are actually fixing it. It's like "now the ritual of tightening the screws, now the holy oil (lubricant)."

[@konradmickiewicz4020]

Machine spirit is finaly pleased

[@graveholmes7814]

I love the occasional Dresden files references they throw out. Perfect overlap of two great worlds that I enjoy immensely.

[@Shadowguy1159]

In rogue trader when they speak bineric, it’s more like data turned into noise, so no 1001010010011 just screeches of sorts

[@silvertongue8104]

Of all the costumes you’ve given your avatars these are my favourite, so cuuute

[@kit_race]

If the Ad Mech decided to dip the Imperium wouldn't actually lose all it's Knights. Most come from the Knight Worlds, which are controlled by their own Knight Houses and not the Ad Mech.

[@isthou]

Ye i think titans got mixed up with knights there

[@fosterbennington6405]

I think the point was about potential machine spirit issues

[@ceejno7861]

The best part about the Admech is that, ultimately, the answer to 'are they still human' is unequivocally... Yes. It doesn't matter how much flesh they replace. Read about any tech-priest and you immediately realize that oh yeah, this is a person. No machine could ever be that ridiculously petty (affectionate).

[@MRFAFF3L]

27:01 Saving this for later

[@Frienddudebroguy]

The Norse way back in the day used to "enchant" their weapons with the bones of animals in the forging process, the carbon in the bones mixed with the iron and made a low quality steel therefore "enchanting" works. i feel its that way with the mechanicus

[@harbl99]

Same with the Romans ritually adding ox blood to mortar because that magically made the building stronger. Turns out ox blood makes the mortar more flexible and decreases cracking over time.