The Horror of the Dark Mechanicum

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[@chrisbeckett9748]

I'd say that the Mechanicus turning random people into semi-sentient servitors is scary as feck. Just imagine riding backseat as you get turned into a robocop forklift.

[@robrib2682]

To do stuff like that they usually use "tech thralls". Think people who live on a forge world and are *told* that they need to have one or both arms replaced with robotics for their one specific job (they might even selected for it because they are the "optimal height" to load and unload palates of stuff onto trucks with the mass produced arms they have) along with they're probably wired in to receive job requests via radio antenna (with a punishment zapper for good measure, this is grimdark after all), and since they're ""citizens"" of the mechanicus living on a forge world theres not much if anything the imperium could do about it (not that they care, all the tidal bureaucracy of man cares for is the finished products arriving on time)

[@stephenpiper2690]

Be just like the Stroggification scene in Quake 4.

[@CrapLuckSimon]

I mean when you put it like that.. sounds pretty badass.

[@dimagoloborodko6106_va]

whoever keeps you in their basement should give you some rest

[@Dozarman]

It's Pancreas still angy because of Bones' Eldar videos

[@Jefferu_Nintendomoto]

The man in the mirror is his master

[@myrealname9656]

*Whomever

[@Holyduck777]

No he needs to keep going and needs to stop talking about the basement or go without food for a week

[@MenschWerdeWesentlich]

@@myrealname9656Nope. It’s the subject of the sentence, not the object.

[@myself2noone]

I think the sisters of battle are more horrifying because girls scare me.

[@Jjgm69]

Same 🤣

[@christophebedouret9813]

Imagine so many whamensez accusing you of SA at the same time. That is true horror... Emperor protects us...

[@Arukandi]

#Relatable

[@pancakes8670]

- The Quartering when female Custodes were introduced

[@crushingcrusader736]

@@christophebedouret9813 do women usually accuse you of that-

[@jonathanmarose9685]

I've always believed the best perspective on 40K was that it's a horror setting masquerading as a fantasy setting that's masquerading as a sci-fi setting. It's at its best when the horror elements are brought front and center and there are so many interesting ways to approach it. It's a shame it isn't done more often.

[@theodorehodbor5080]

One incident that I think really highlights how callously and pragmatically the Dark Mechanicus view humanity was when in the book Dark Adeptus the Mechanicus that ruled their forge-world ending up rending down a significant portion of the planet's population into giant muscle fibers to use as adhoc pneumatics in the new titan manufactora they were building. They basically just saw they had a deficit of alloys, a surplus of people, and said "alright let's make this work." To that end what that tells me is they hold disdain for "humanity" as like a soul or moral construct, but as a physical body they view it purely as another machine to be modified, disassembled, and otherwise made compliant for whatever they are working on.

[@alexandrudorries3307]

Transhuman can refer to transitioning beyond humanity in more than one sense. They take the -e out of human(e).

[@caveychip7510]

how the fudge did you type this 2 weeks ago this came out 6 hours ago

[@alexandrudorries3307]

@@caveychip7510 a lot of channels let YT premium and Patreon members see this sort of stuff early while it’s still unlisted or whatever for us freeloaders - Bones has said he has a pretty decent backlog of stuff that still hasn’t been published.

[@GenuinelyHorriblePerson]

I love the background music, idk why but it fits so well. Edit: I didn't mean to put this here, my bad.

[@GorchakovVS]

@@caveychip7510 Fr what warp fuckery is this?

[@underplague6344]

Dark Mechanicum tabletop models would be so sick you could do some WACKY shit with daemon corrupted mechanicus machines. Imagine the Serberys rider but its a screaming person attached at the waist to a much more mangled horse looking screaming person. Cool body horror models like that.

[@carna-9501]

Imagine how fucked the servitors would look. An Ogryn turned into a combat servitor would be pretty terrifying

[@scales-of-war]

FW was working on the Dark Mechanicum range prior to Alan Blighs death, shame we will probably never see those models now, id imagine they are 1000x better than anything GW will bring out

[@МакспростоМакс-и9в]

Now I understand why Fabius Bile mentioning himself drinking tea with the “dark mechanicum lady”, fits so god damn well) And also it’s quite absurd and funny

[@alastor8091]

>37 seconds ago >comments from 2 weeks ago Accidental Warp travel????

[@alperalyanak9627]

Nah, channel members get earlier access to videos.

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

@@alperalyanak9627 nah, it must've been warp travel.

[@non1263]

"What have you done!? Some trick of witchery?"

[@fangwu7576]

@@alperalyanak9627 Let me maintain my false sence of belief, mortal.

[@An_Ian]

Accidental? I think you need to check the title of the video again

[@LinkiePup]

Arthur Covering Dark Mechanicum before Admech- Based AF.

[@FackFaceMcAcehole]

I can hear Skittii pouting now lol.

[@Stevies_Precog_Gym_n_Spa420]

Woah woah woah hey now woah Nelly woah there, a retweet ain't an endorsement mmmkay (/s If not obvious)

[@WARSMITHAFROW]

Commenting pre-watch. I can only imagine with Vastorr becoming more and more of a problem with every piece of lore written about him. He is the perfect character to bring the dark mech to the forefront. His model takes hints from the void dragon. It only makes sense. Also side note, imagine chaos Voltan when Vashtorr finds the crazed ancestor core

[@bdablader95]

They're a fascinating faction in the heresy, but in 40k They're just another chaos thing. The horror of the dark mechanicum in the heresy is that the followers were finally able to do Forbidden experiments and even invent new things, the chaos corruption didn't truly seep in until the seige of terra where the fruits of their labors were combined with chaos shrines via the Word Bearers. It's a shame they'll never get any decent representation in the tabletop

[@jacobesther3224]

I'm writing a fanfiction right now that involves the dark mechanicum. The main bad guy's name is Xerek the Reclaimer, who is this mechanically cephalopoidal, pyramid headed thing. It found a way to invent psychic technology that he uses to control the minds of people despite not being inherently psychic. It speaks with two voices 1 helium high and one extraordinarily deep.

[@zachlong5427]

Ah, I think the gas that makes you have a really deep voice is 'something-something-sulfate'. It doesn't make your voice 'mechanically' deep like a voice modulator. Find clips of it, it's strange.

[@hauntorthegiraffebiscuit]

Ah yes, the faction I desperately pray to the 4 to be added despite knowing that hope will only prove futile. Well, besides Emperor’s Children…

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

If ANYTHING happens with Vashtor it'll most likely include dark mechanicus moving to tabletop

[@Infinity_Coda]

DarkMech aren't the army I want to see the MOST(that'd be Traitor Guard/Lost & The Damned) but I do REALLY want them on the tabletop. Honestly should have happened years ago imo

[@fluffywolfo3663]

my headcanon is that while in the Warp, Kelbor Hal turned himself into some kind of planet-sized Unicron-like monstrosity. you can't prove that it's not true lmao

[@cinderheart2720]

Interestingly, all the horror you mention is stuff that the normal Mechanicus do as well, just without the demons.

[@hulkbustermark5830]

They remind me of the strogg from Quake which are also a nightmare to be captured by as they see you as meat and spare parts.

[@itgoesdown1542]

Yeah, and they very similiar with dark mech, but personally Aliens (though they very humanized) far scarier to me because Stroggs don't have that human presence in the first place. I view Dark Mech as crazy people who's really messed up in the head and this is boring(Mechanicus not g either), yeah, fear of apathy, experiments, flesh is weak, whatever, but Stroggs don't really care about all trivial things like personal gain or some fucked up scientific triumph through experiments because they're evil, Stroggs just constantly tear your body to the point where you lose your limbs, conduct experiments to learn how long you live without internal organs, literally breaking your mind through pain and gore and this all just to feed their industrial and military might. This is just only in my view, I don't really want to be near neither of them:)

[@pacificgrim4661]

Evil Dark Mechanicum be like: We give our workers proper pay and care while following OSHA regulations

[@BeefyGreek]

“The opposite of love isn’t hate it’s indifference” that’s what makes them truly terrifying, no negotiation, no bargaining.

[@dmanlip]

The amount of kitbashing that can be done with darkmech will be amazing, and I want it.

[@Cmdtheartist]

You had me at "spare parts ".

[@alexandermccabe429]

1:44 Ghouls Stars mentioned! I think the Ghoul stars are so neat, I'd love it there was more lore about just what goes in there even if it doesn't explain anything. Like an imperial fleet travels through the Ghoul Stars here is a Twlight Zone episode about the awful things that happened to them. Though i do get exploring them more could ruin the intruige I'm even working on a homebrew Alpha Legion warband that operates out of the Ghoul Stars

[@Kd320schannel]

Dark Mechanicum is one of my favorite parts of 40k and I really hope they get something more to represent them on tabletop in 40k. Sure I can just play admech or csm with a bunch of daemon engines but I want some true dark mechanicum goodness.

[@heartduwang8268]

If its specifically horror in 40k that I woulf fear, I think it would be forcibly integrated into the Death Guard. The fact that your mind is still somewhat in tact, but you can visibly see yourself rotting and the insects squirming all over you. I'd want to end it all but it might be nearly impossible to do that as a Death Guard I think.

[@TheBoneZone40k]

Turns out I am a bit of a moron and forgot I had already released a Mechanicus video big whoopsy on my part, feel free to dunk on me as much as you'd like

[@Eschatonin6666]

If Dark Mech got an army, or became part of an army (Votann's Alliance), a unit I would imagine them fielding are forcibly cyborged people who are controlled by a machine spirit - while the person is completely conscious and is often heard screaming or crying, depending on the situation

[@dwreanchinotan]

i imagine the dark mechanicus is the actual skaven engineering faction. just worse somehow.

[@spartana1116]

I'd think you'll love the movie virus as it has dark mechanicum grade body horror

[@pigeonman6434]

Dark Mechanicum is one of the most underrated factions in 40k. Just imagine the potential for an army.

[@The_SDX]

Your description of the dark mechanicum gave me a thought... That the dark mechanicum are in fact the human version of the tyranids. Not that level of biotechnological sophistication, but within their limits exploiting biomatter to the best of their capacity. Just a thought.

[@Detson404]

The regular mechanicus are so bad that the dark Mechanicus are just not shocking. It’s the same stuff, with more demons.

[@LabTech41]

"Virus" was a pretty decent horror flick... until you realize the monster was an intelligent electrical-based life-form that was somehow able to travel through a vacuum, and decided to try and conquer a planet that's over 70% salt water by surface.

[@KCUFyoufordoxingme]

I just feel they would have accomplished more in 12,000 years. Why would thousands of earth scientists create a thousand fold many wonders between 10,000 and 20,000 than millions of dark mechanicum between 30,000 and 42,000? Like, they have had 3-4 guys figure anything out in that time?

[@Fallenscion]

I think there are a few possible explanations The first is the classic: Time works differently in the Warp, so it hasn't actually been 10,000 years for them. After that though, ego and genuine insanity are both really bad for scientific advancement - even if you figure out something new that works, it's possible that nobody else can replicate & build off of it. Then you have the warp itself - which is as far from science as most can get if they aren't genuine psykers. That pervasive corruption and influence will make all sorts of things work inconsistently or be based on flawed principles. And all of that aside, there's a huge difference in effectiveness between scientists that have skilled support labor and those who have soul-rending demons or brainless automatons for support. The latter will need to spend a whole lot more time troubleshooting their own creations for flaws in construction even if the theory was sound.

[@brastionskywarrior6951]

constant conflict, chaos corruption (all forms), the unreliability of the warp, secrecy

[@keqet12]

Warp corruption and lack of everything (from competent help to materials), genuine isanity, warp fucking with time, constant conflict with other traitors, they probably lost as much knowledge as the discovered and the list could go on. I don't think living somewhere where reality can be unreliable may not be very conducive to scientific discovery

[@bradrankin844]

Love your thoughts and views on all of this!!!! KEEP THE VIDEOS and THE GREAT CREAPY VIBES COMING!!!

[@joselugo1982]

I would love to hear your take on the Tyranid (*coughcough* myarmy *coughcough*) in regards to horror.

[@alienstar2088]

To be fair, I don't know a lot about the Dark Mechanicum but they do sound interesting - however to me they don't sound nearly as horrific as some other factions. I've always made the case that the two most terrifying factions in 40k are the Tyranids and, surprisingly, the Orks. I don't think I need to elaborate on the Tyranids, Cosmic Horror is something that I'm a big fan of and the Tyranids hit a lot of those required notes however, I'm sure a lot of people are going to get confused on the Orks so allow me to explain. With any other faction, there is a reason to fight. For the factions of the Imperium it is to protect Humanity, Chaos literally gains power from performing horrific acts, the Tyranids need Biomass and the Dark Eldar are almost required to torture things in order to keep their souls, the Orks are very different. Orks don't fight to survive or for some greater goal, they fight because they think it's fun. Imagine for a moment if you will, that you are an Imperial citizen living in a down trotted world and the Orks have arrived to slaughter you all for the sake of a laugh. It doesn't help that Orks are rather curious creatures and don't feel pain to the same degree anything else does so, when an Ork accidentally hurts someone they wonder why it hurts and investigate further meaning they could literally rip you limb from limb just to find out what will hurt you and what you can live through. Orks are often associated as the fun faction that just likes to scrap with scrap because they enjoy it, they know nothing else. But, when you stop looking at Orks from an Ork's perspective, they suddenly become something so so so much worse. It doesn't help the fact that Orks can never be cleansed from a world once they land upon it, if even one Ork lands on a world - that world will hence forth always have an Ork on it unless you decided to exterminadus the planet. Orks are my favorite faction but when you look at them from the perspective of a normal Human, they become the most terrifying faction. They have no reasons to do what they do, they do not care at all about life even amongst their own kind and they have no concept of the mortal limitations of pain as a feeling and a physical ailment. Orks are the most terrifying faction in 40k for those reasons.

[@ianyoder2537]

Honestly my opinion of the dark mechanicum is tainted by my opinion of how 40K handles poorly chaos in general. Like I love the idea of the Dark mechanics, hell I also want to see an evil version of the guard and sisters to match the evil space marines. I just don't want the dark mechanicus to be chaos aligned. It just makes more sence to me that they'd be seduced by alien tech, AI, and other tech heresy more than the wooboleoo evil space magic. I actually love the concept of chaos in 40K, I just think they miss handle it as compered to the other Warhammer settings. Take fantasy/ old world, in that setting chaos actually was the biggest baddest most interesting and evil faction, and nothing, not even dwarfs were beyond it's corrective influence. Then back in 40K chaos has only human servants (on the table top, but even in the lore the chaos zeno races are more like foot notes than actual factions.) Then chaos also has to compete with the title of big bad with the ancient powerful necrons who turned the sea of souls into the warp that chaos relies on, and the eldrich existential threat of the tyranids who could end chaos by eating the galaxy. Both of which are completely immune to chaos corruption unlike in fantasy. Even AOS flips the script by making chaos the standard of the setting and the order factions are the invading force changing the world.

[@spnked9516]

As bad as the Dark Mech is, I still think the haemonculi covens are worse. It's one thing to be apathetic and clinical in your cruelties, it's another entirely to be actively sadistic and clinical. The pain and horror inflicted by the Dark Mech isn't their goal, so, while they won't attempt to prevent them, they also don't take measures to make them worse. The covens don't afford you that kindness. With the haemonculi covens, your pain and terror are just as important as whatever other objective they're attempting to reach in that moment. When a coven member turns you into a table, they don't just pull you apart without anesthetic and slap your harvested bits together. No. They go to every effort to keep you alive, before, during, and after their work. What's more, they go to the trouble of tinkering with your brain chemistry so not only will the pain be more intense than it would naturally, but you will also be incapable of acclimatize to it.

[@ragingfurball5419]

I implore you to check out the video game 'Soma'. It's a horror game that seems to be right up your alley, given your enjoyment of The Thing and Virus. I think you'd really enjoy the setting.

[@platinturger]

Oooh, this is definitely a great choice for favorite 40k Horror! My personal favorite is the Disphorac (hope I spelled that right) that exists in all Necrons. It’s basically the Manifestation of the Necrontyrs self-realization of what they have become and what they have lost, basically a Panic Attack x10 mixed with existential crisis. And if you get overwhelmed by it you will end up as a dormant, skittering and twitching Husk that is trapped inside an eternal nightmare. When I read about this in TDK it was genuinely horrifying and heartbreaking to hear and made me feel so helpless and alone like them.

[@An_Ian]

Welcome to the dark Mechanicum where we see everyone and everything as legos

[@jamesdeek7039]

Bring in the dark mechanicum led by Vashtorr, perty and his Iron warriors and chaos men of iron for a little spice

[@thedragon2393]

I love the Dark Mechanicum, that do body horror very will

[@Kerruo]

Dark mechanicum would be an AMAZING faction. They're like the chaos dwarves.

[@ChaoticPsychoXD]

I love DarkMechanicum and wish there is more on them: lore, model (faction) maybe, books... as much as possible XD Wonderful video, great Job

[@nkosig4995]

THE BEST FACTION IN 40K next to the xenorites of course

[@l7537]

We NEED them represented on 40k tabletop just so I can paint some minis

[@Bungus-k2x]

Day 7 of asking for red scorpions video (word bearers successor)

[@robdenini6972]

Well and I thought the Mechanicus was the f**ked up faction with their servitors and such.

[@booBoomcgoo6969]

A toaster is just a death ray with less power supply

[@cooldude6527]

I would like to formally request a Red Scorpions video.

[@floverdan5180]

My favorite successor chapter

[@Anomalocaris-hy4kv]

Magnus did nothing wrong

[@jackofn0trades29]

He was told to do nothing and he did it wrong.

[@LexYeen]

​@@jackofn0trades29came here to say this, _because it's true._

[@yuckfoutube3]

Such flippant usage of EATEOT for a fucking 40k video essay.

[@lucast.1259]

mAke PwEniS iNto RoBot!

[@DeHerg]

my view on the dark mechanicum: (warning rant incoming) OK so you are basically transhumanists who rebelled because you no longer want to have your technological progress censored without explanation. Fair enough, that is a very understandable position to have (especially for transhumanists). So after 10K years, what do you have to show for it? Being able to make progress without intervention was the whole reason you broke off so... F[ ]K ALL, after ten THOUSANDS *YEARS* your tech is even less developed than the [redacted] regular mechanicus. But you can now put demons in machines? Woopdidoo, you would've achieved the same thing by hooking up a cat's brain to a mind-impulse-unit and that thing wouldn't stop working as soon as the veil to the immaterium gets too strong. You should've been toe to toe with Necrons in technological sophistication, yet here you are wondering how a reaper autocannon could jam up just cause you draped it in human skin. Bigger.Failure.than.Agron!

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

Everyone talls about the Mechanicus. Talking about the Dark Mechanicum first is preferable.

[@ducontra666999]

so...de dark mechanicum is the same as the adeptus mechanicus, but they don't "work for humanity".... they work for """science"""

[@richardnorton3453]

Not Dark Mechanicum but horrifying nonetheless: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIHYoGOKndOAp8U

[@Spoon80085]

Honestly, I feel like GW went too far with the cult aspect of the Mechanicum in 40k. While the broad idea of the Mechanicus is awesome, I feel like it fell into a common pitfall in 40k where they make the coolest and grim-darkiest stuff they can imagine, but fail to really establish a logical chain of events that makes that happen. Religious extremism exists, obviously, it's just strange to think that a normal person in the Imperium/Mars can become a caricature of humanity. Like, worshipping technology is a really cool concept, it'd just be way more interesting if there were more nuance surrounding it.

[@skullsquad900]

"VIRUS" is one of my favorite Horror movies next to "The Thing." The concept for the Monster/Antagonist is Awesome! But taking away the Alieness of that and making them humans who don't care has always been soo much worse to me. The best moment of that is when I think an Infantryman and a Tech-Priest are alone and he trusts her enough to go to sleep, to then wake up to his leg being removed for spare parts...

[@datpolakmike]

I'm not convinced that teaching ethics prevents this. When people do evil shit, they're definitely aware what they're doing is bad, they just don't care. But maybe I'm being closed minded. Maybe I'm not considering how easily influenced neurotypical people are. How easily swayed they are

[@mr.ashenfire2624]

Ahahahhaha!!!! Arthur, you toe-dipping heretic! You've barely only touched on the Mechanicus and here you are; Spittin' about the Dark Mechanicum.

[@fluffynator6222]

Oh, since you mentioned liking horror: Have you ever played Lost in Vivo? That's worth a look if you didn't already. ^^

[@Shadowoftheoldones]

Your take on people losing themselves reminds me of the fall of Fulgrim and the Emperor's Children. Everyone slowly sliding into greater corruption after exposure to the Laer temple until finally the artists are painting with the blood of their murder victims, and Fulgrim is imprisoned in his own body by a demon. The EC are one of my least favorite legions, but I actually did like that story.

[@RowZilla42]

You should watch Moon Trap 1989 it's aboat robots that use anything including organic material and spare parts and it stars Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell.

[@NotAHologram]

My favorite faction ! Hopefully we'll get some minis (outside the technically DarkMech minis from HH)

[@QuartzChrysalis]

I think the pinnacle of dis-identifying behaviors you could have is something along the lines of; after failing to solve an equation, you pick up a brain and a memory bank and just add them to your already patchwork consciousness, and after solving the equation and noticing that this piece of brain was not helpful in thinking about that, excising it.

[@DemonicEngineer]

Please make a video about the Logicians!! It's such an interesting Subfaction of the Dark Mechanicum

[@ianbabcock6802]

1: I’ve noticed that the Warhammer horror audio dramas are better than the novels. 2: Early horror films from the 30’s to the 60’s are some of my favorite too! If you’re interested in foreign films, one I highly recommend is Eyes Without a Face. It’s about a doctor who kidnaps girls so he can transplant their face onto his daughter to fix her disfigurement.

[@andrew-qs6qw]

If you like that type of body horror, you might like a book series called Savage War. It’s a small part of the Galaxy’s Edge Series by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole which is in no way related to Star Wars. The books stand well enough on their own as they are prequels to the rest of the series but they are among my most favorite book series next to the Cain series and Fall of Cadia

[@dwaynemontgomery1851]

ive alwase thought the dark mechanicum was underrated, the sheer potential of a faction like the admech with potentially zero restrictions on what they are willing to do has alwase felt like an under explored aspect of 40k, i made a kitbashed chaos dark-mech army that consists of cohorts of 30, with 6 dedicated to Slaanesh 7 dedicated to Nurgle, 8 for Khorne, and 9 for Tzeentch, they of course cant be used in game but i like the idea anyway

[@dogf421]

i think the drukari are still worse, but not by much, cause of their whole "causing as much pain as possible on purpose thing" and the fact that they can turn you into a sentient chair that will live for 10000 years but it will feel like 10 septillion. the dark mechanicus can do this too, but they would have to have some other reason to do that which feels improbable (but not impossible) still, i think the scariest faction will always be demons ranked in this order: slaanesh>tseench>nurgle>khorne due to their genuine magical reality warping powers. i think 40ks demons are vastly more scary than they look.

[@jibskii1201]

Science and engineering morality testing....... *sponsored by Lockheed Martin*

[@ThatDemonOverThere]

Easily my favorite faction, up there with Iron Warriors and Night Lords. I love daemon engines, and the idea that a dark mechanicum agent looked at a daemon and thought "fuel source."

[@DarkusObscurius]

I love the Mechanicum/Mechanicus in general, sadly it's not good for tabletop (and i'm Brazilian so it's so expensive i can't even)

[@TylerSantinelli]

There's a fan story on Vox in the Void called Abomination which involvea being turned into a servitor. I've never hated something in 40k more. My homebrew space marines got a vendetta against them that day.

[@gideonhorwitz9434]

I feel like other than just typical GW laziness the reason the dark mechanium hasn’t been given a model line is because is it kinda doesn’t make sense. Putting the Lore aside if you were in a GW meeting discussing new model creations you would probably be asked what is the actual cosmetic difference between the two to merit the time money and effort to design and mass produce a separate model range. when in reality if people wanted a DM army they could just take a mechanics boxset and make the necessary modifications. I’m sure Some in hr argued that compared to the other chaos factions the DM is too niche to be a profitable investment and would probably suffer a similar fate as the necron flayed one’s.

[@Start3rPack]

I always loved the idea of a Mechanicus that believes in improvement of flesh, but the improvement is twisted and horrid. Allowing the dark gods to influence that improvement, seeing feathers and an extra hundred eyes or an immunity to a plague that sloths your flesh of the bone but affects still show could be seen as an improvement. Just these sub-factions that represent that horrid improvement is fun to me.

[@MarkPowers-x1t]

Its corny but this reminds me of camille (league of legends) when she says the only difference between a butcher and surgeon is precision

[@crunchyfrog1709]

I respectfully disagree. I think the drukhari are the worst. When I was in university I went to a lecture by an FBI profiler. He said the lunatics, who are so broken, they don't know the difference between good and evil aren't what scares him. What scares him is the sane person,who does know a difference between good and evil, and chooses evil. I see the dark mech as the former and the drukhari are the latter. The drukhari understand the suffering they inflict and they get off on it. I think that's so much worse

[@sillylung]

The daemonculaba is just a more grim dark Axlotl tank from Dune and I've never heard anyone else talk about it

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

Yes. Tleilax tanks lack central nervous system tho. Tbh, Bene Tleilax must have obliterated everyone by 5th book via growing millions of super-soldiers and expanding/adapting on every world they could find.

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

Better Tleilax are in Frank Herbert's "Hellstrom Hive"

[@sillylung]

@@Слышьты-ф4ю I will have to check this out.

[@dragonllig790]

If your doing warhamer horror I must absolutely recommend “Requiem infernal” it’s got that kind of body horror and a bit of lovecraft in it Very good

[@galaxyburn40k]

Have you seen Tetsuo: The Iron Man? Definite Dark Mechanicum vibes.

[@Pvnth-R]

you basically described the Adeptus Mechanicus too. They are as cold and cruel. Really, the only difference between the 2 are chaos and daemons engines

[@secondarytrollaccount666]

Dont forget that the dark mechanicum were partially responsible for the daemonculaba.

[@thepoweroftacos5311]

So the dark mechanicus will take your ligaments without a second thought the Dark Eldar will take your ligaments but make sure they do it as painful as possible Dark Eldar are the scariest

[@zombie_ghandi215]

they literally made a machine that extend the warp storm leading to terra by slaving demons and making them suffer in a planet core or something, but the imperium ruined the fun and killed them also quote of the video : "without ethic science just become what the dark mechanicum is, which is a fun idea" please take this line out of context

[@tsexton23]

Hey bro new to Warhammer and gotta say your videos are great, informative, and funny. Love your take on the lore. What's your thoughts on the new lady redcon?

[@iz7347]

What is the name of that horror game you showed in the intro with a (zombie?)woman standing in front of the viewer? And by the way I share your love about horror, I think it is a great therapy coping with reality when you consume things that are even worse x)

[@yoshimitsuzk]

This video is so incorrect because the most scariest thing in 40K is your own fears like for example if I'm afraid of spiders I would definitely not want to go to that death world that has those giant spiders

[@akumaking1]

“Make PEE-NIZ INTO ROBOT” ~Dark Mechanicum in a nutshell

[@LuluTheDuck33]

Dark mechanicum is so underrated. There arent many content on youtube talking about them either. Could u do a lore on datk mechanicum as an organisation and practice please

[@GrayderFox]

They are creepy and neat and I hope they become a faction this edition. :D An utter lack empathy mixed with pragmatism is a fantastic recipe for horror.

[@dantromans7415]

Ah but the dark elder presiding over you is like the horror of skinamarink. The full alien malice of an entity torturing you for its own gain.

[@DemonicEngineer]

Dark Mechanicum is my all time favorite faction in 40K and I want them to have a tabletop army.

[@MasterFustache]

reminds of that scene in VIRUS where they ask the alien what it wants and it's reply is, in so many words, "spare parts."

[@toryeaton3334]

I checked you did admech 7 months ago.

[@dafio2710]

Honestly my two favourite warhammer horror stories so for is The Way Out and The King Of Pigs

[@Turnil321]

Did you know there are magos biologis who believe biological enhancements are better than cybernetics.

[@DemonicEngineer]

This video reminded me to play Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator again.