Adeptus Ridiculous - SERVITORS: I HAVE NO VOX AND I MUST SCREAM | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamante's. His name is Bricky and Warhammer, am I right? In 2024? Wow. Happy New Year. But before we get into all that, if you enjoy today's episode and you maybe want to support the podcast, head over to patreon.com slash Adeptis Ridiculous,

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We made it. We made it. You made it through another year. Congratulations, everyone. Congratulations, Sailor. You made it to Friday. Hooray. It's January.

Fuck you. It's January. January. Yay. Yeah. Love to hear it. Mm. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.

Finger-licking good. Hell yeah. So, now that it's a brand new. year. It's a brand new time, BK. Brand new time. Yes. That means I'm going to be nice to you. Yeah, and no quote? I don't think I got one for you today. Let's go. Let's go, baby. I'm all about that life. I am going to be nice. I am going to be nice. I am going to allow. It's my Christmas present. My belated Christmas present.

Actually, do I have a quote? No, you don't. You just said you don't have a quote. Yeah, you're right. Okay, good. So this, you know, starting off the brand new year, starting off a whole new type of thing, I think it's a time that we talk about something

that is so prominent in 40K. So shy as a quote, let's go, you're not safe. You're never safe. Oh, come on, man. What happened to my present? You didn't get me anything for Christmas. This was supposed to be my present. What did you get me for Christmas?

Gratitude. Shy gave me the quote. For being on the podcast, obviously. Imagine that. Your limbs removed, replaced with spark, whips and nests of claws, eyes bored from your skull and stained glass in their place. Your heart and organs fixed with stem injectors and neuropathic glance

And then proud in your new body What remains if your drooling waste of a mind Will be turned to the good of the Imperium That's pretty good Wow That sounds like Like what happens when you get turned into a servitor or something Holy fucking shit shy

Holy shit I can't believe it Let's go It was extremely easy Yeah, it was, if you didn't put the last part, like the proud in your new body, it turned to the good of the Imperium, it might have been a little harder to get, but once it was for the good of the Imperium, it was like, yep, that's got to be servitors, right? So I absolutely believe that the customized version of this quote,

if you genuinely wanted to get full points, you would have said Arcoflagellulant, because that's definitely an arco-flagulant situation there. Oh. Especially with the spark whips. But it's okay. Yes. Today's about servitors. Oh, nice.

Hor is beyond man-made comprehension. Yeah. Oh, sweet, Lois. Hor is beyond my comprehension. Let's go. Let's go. So someone, I forget what I read this, but someone kind of had, oh, that was a voice crack.

Oh, God. But someone. Puberty finally hitting in 2024 for Bricky. Let's go. Starting off the new year with the bang. Let's go. That was the sound of my balls dropping. Oh, wow, that is a drop.

You're right. I should stand from a higher cliff. Sheesh. Anyway. No, so I read something where people were talking about, like, what is the most horrible thing in all of 40K? And a lot of the answers were what you expected, Djukari, the demon kilbasa,

you know, all kinds of stuff like that. But for someone made a statement, they said servitors. I mean, servitors are not, like, it's not great to be servitorized. I don't know if that's the verb for becoming a servitor. But yeah, it's not great. Like every instance I've seen of becoming a servitor is like essentially every part of you gets hollowed out and you become an, just a

blank slate for the Imperium to use as a slave. Yeah, the horror that comes from being a servitor feels like a lot more of a philosophical horror than it does a genuine like, you're going in the demon birthing chamber. Yeah, or like you're

on Talos's operating table. Yeah, and now, don't get me wrong. The creation of a servitor is still very terrible. But it definitely it's kind of just this view on how little human life

matters. Yeah. Yeah. Not only is it terrifying the procedure to become one as well as the as well as what like they they are sorry, the procedure and also like what it is

to be one, but what they represent I think is the real kind of end game horror. But with all that, let's define a servitor. So, okay. A servitor is a individual, normally of a human stature, but there are servitors of various animals as well as mutations. Like, you didn't know, ogren servitors do exist.

It turns out they're not much, turns out they become smarter when they become a servitor. I was going to say that might be an upgrade to what they usually are, but sure. Okay. So a servitor is generally a robot, and this is about as close as we come to any kind of AI menial slash assistant. Yeah. They are a mind, the catch-all term, basically, for a mindless drone created by a combination

of flesh and robotic technology. Yeah. Yes. And if you watched Robocop, it is basically that. Yeah. And every time I see him in a book, it's just like, oh, yeah, that servitor, even though the ship is on fire, they're on fire, they're melting, they're staying at their station, doing their job because that's what they were programmed to do. And it's like, ooh. I mean, hell, for a lot of those servitors, they are physically implanted in the chairs so it's not like they can get up and leave anyway. Yeah, like the Medicaid station in Dark Tide, right? That's a, that's a servitor.

And doesn't one of them have like, it's like, oh God, I realize what I am, please kill me or something? There is also those issues that come along with it, which we'll talk about in a bit. Okay, okay. But basically anything that is in Warhammer that is deemed a robot that is programmed to do robotic simple functions is a servitor in some metric. which is when you kind of start to realize to the extent of how ridiculous it is because let's not forget that in dark time

when you open and close doors that's a door servitor the button is a human skull lodged in a socket oh that's true it is isn't it I never really thought I thought that was just for decoration no that's the serve the door opens and closes

through a robotic mechanism, a servitor is doing that. Servo skulls are the common use of also a human head and brain that has been reprogrammed to fly around and often record stuff

and things like that. Are those, because there's a version that's like semi, they consider semi-honorable because you're still like serving the emperor in death or something, right? Is it the servo skulls? as like a servitor or? Yeah, or I might be mixing it up with something else.

I feel like I know what you're talking about, but I can't put the name on it. Okay. For the most part, it's, they're menials, you know. They're complete menials that are mostly robots. And anything that would originally need to be programmed with AI is programmed by a servitor. If you open up Darktide for, not Darktide,

Rogue Trader, for example, the entire computer on the main menu screen has a servitor in it that's controlling the computer. If there is a piece of technology, every computer, well, maybe not like a data slate, but like if there was ever an AI mechanism or some kind of computer type thing, there's a good chance that a servitor is there in it somewhere. Oh wow, then there are all there are infinitely more servitors than I thought because I didn't realize that like the computers and the doors and everything were, I thought that was just like sort of, you know, they're the ones that are just doing like, like you said, the menial stuff, just pushing buttons here and there and whatever. I didn't realize, I don't, I guess I didn't realize just how many servitors there are and how much stuff they run. I mean, like, I'm sure a data slate does not have a server, and it's just a piece of, it's like a just one of those things. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But still, like, I didn't realize every computer, every door.

Like, there are, I just thought they were the ones that were just menially pushing buttons. I didn't realize they were in the door. So, in fairness, this does tend to vary because the STC required to make, say, a door might be different on planet. versus planet B and then there might be a thing where one thing is a little bit more heavy on servitors than the other because of

requirements in X or Y and materials and in Z and W and you know obviously like with both things in Warhammer there is no flat template but yes and Shai

confirmed you were correct Servo skulls are considered an honor because it allows you to serve the emperor past your death and they are made from loyal servants of the emperor and not as a punishment, which I gotta be honest, I didn't even know that. I feel like you're the one who told me that.

I might have, but you know, you know that meme where the guy says, hi, Jim, and then he takes Jim and shoves it out of his brain. So you want to hear about how horace slew the emperor? Could be, could be. I'm learning.

So servitors often, are made from the massively injured of normally heretics, criminals, or people deemed unfit to society. Mm-hmm. Pretty often it's criminals, penal legions, especially, like, those kinds of people are pretty big majority. I'd say that any heretic, which you kind of go to jail if you're a heretic, so it's like kind of, yeah, a little bit of, a little bit column A, a little calm B. Yeah. They are normally the ones who are subjected to, quote, servitude impurpituous. Yeah, they sure are.

So this involves a large task of mind wiping, reprogramming, and then enhanced to serve a form or function. Often that function being particularly rudimentary or specific. a servitor will be programmed to carry boxes or it will be programmed to open a door or bring a poor, I mean, with the nobles, like wine servitors exist. They pour wine and bring you wine. Why am I alive to cut butter?

Yeah, I mean, I mean, yeah, like, that's not entirely off. The butter cutting robot from Rick and Morty. The butter cutting robot is a servitor. That would genuinely be a servitor. a noble would make. Yeah, a highborn aristocrat would have a buttercutting

servitor. That is, you saying that made me cringe a little bit, like, I reckon Mori's a fine show, but it's got a wrap. Yes, it does, it does, that's true. But I'm not going to lie, that is, like, shockingly closer to the truth than I would have liked.

That is a very correct statement. Let's go. Well, that's true. But a robot is a little less evil, because it's not made from a mind-wiped and mutilated person. But imagine if you were like a serial killer in 40K, and they caught you, and it's like, ah, yes, now your purpose is to butter.

Butter. Well, you wouldn't know. You're mind-wiped. Yeah, it's true. You wouldn't care. So normally servitors are mindless and have only some kind of basic instincts. But sometimes physical trauma may occasionally mess. mess with the surgery and awaken old memories or old personality quirks.

This is the simple nature that despite all of the advanced technology of the 41st millennium, people have billions of neurons and every part of their brain is microscopic. Yeah, the brain is still a very mysterious thing even in 40K. So despite no matter how well you can reprogram, no matter how well you can screw with people and make them whatever you want them to be, they might take a last round to the head and then just start screaming because they're like, what's wrong with my body?

What's going on? What's happening? Oh, yeah, that's got to be the worst. So, man. That's, that's probably the worst. It's like, then you kind of wake up and you realize what you are. And, oh. It is, uh, I have played Soma. Yes, Shai.

So, so, it's such a great game. Because that is That psychological horror Still messes with me to this day Like it's not a jump spooky It's just It's The premise and the

There is one part of that game That bugged me Where the character was told Something would happen And then it happens And he's like, why did that happen? I think you know the part It's like kind of near the end

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah And I'm like, what the hell man? But besides that We told you the whole time You knew this was a possibility Yes, A human mind trapped inside a robot body screaming in horror because it can't breathe. I was pretty similar to what they did with the Necrons recently with Twice Dead King.

I was about to say, like I have no mouth, but I must scream, right? Yeah, that's kind of because in Twice Dead King, the Necrons had that issue. And it going down that mental panic attack line is how you got Flayed ones because they were trying to put skin back on their body. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pretty fascinating. Yeah, those are good books, too. I liked how they dealt with that. I still think Twice Dead King Ruin is stronger than Infinite of the Divine,

but it requires a more in the no necron player, so it's not something I like recommend immediately. Infinite in the Divine is a good starter book. Absolutely. Yeah. So, anywho, servitors for the most part operate pretty poorly without the leash of a tech priest. Normally, then kind of directing them and telling them where to go helps out a lot.

It's almost kind of like, it's almost kind of like the geth, where if you're not by a large amount of intelligences, you kind of operate crappy. Ah, okay. So normally, servitors pretty often have a tech priest that is kind of commanding them, unless it's something, unless you're rock smashing servitor, then who gives a hell, you know? But there are lots of different variations. that make it a little bit more difficult. But that is generally the gist is, hey, have a tech priest there. They operate a lot better. I think even in game, they do that.

Like, you run servitors and you put it in, they like, they only hit on like a six. But if you run a tech priest in there, it goes to five. It's like, oh, okay, cool. I was going to ask, there's, I'm pretty sure I've heard that there are combat servitors. Like, that's a big thing is servitors that are just like, yes, I'm programmed to kill anything that is deemed heretical and or Xenos, right? Oh yeah, there are absolutely combat servitors.

It is a very common one. That's a brand new mini right there, actually. That many just came out. It looks goofy. I do not like that mini right there. No? Oh, I really like it. I don't know.

It might be the paint job because that's an awkward yellow to contrast with like such bright blue and like that red cannon. It just looks weird. I think it's the colors. The cream. Yeah, the cream. The cream. It's not the right color to suit the moon. I feel uncomfortable.

No, I guess I get that, but that's in the brand new inquisitorial henchman pack, and I think they look really cool. Yeah, I think it's just the color. That's fine. The color is the color. He's got the bane mask, though, so that's cool. He does have the bane mask. He's got the bane mask. No one knew who I was until I put on the mask.

Oh, mechanized ogrent. too. Hey, those are pretty cool. Those other ones I like a lot, actually. Those ones that I just posted, those look cool. I do know that you can take servitors in various armies currently, like the guard especially. Oh, yeah. I thought you could take them as in space marines, but I don't see them. They may have taken them out of the codex. I genuinely don't see them. I genuinely don't see them. Could you run them with the sister since the sisters like the guard? So you can run some servitors to the sisters, but you specifically run penitenten engines and Arco flagellants. You run the holy versions.

Right, right, that's right. They have their own little, that's true. You're right, you're right, you're right. And of course, there are the cherubs. Who are also servitors, technically, yeah. I guess, so I had a fun little collab stream with a v-tuber Matara Khan recently, where we talked about more hair stuff. Hey, hell yeah, dude. And she mentioned that they dropped the whole lobotomized babies thing. Oh, they finally took that out, huh? Like maybe recond and instead it's now like Vak grown or something, but I'm going to be perfectly honest, you know.

That wouldn't surprise me if they still kind of did that, but... Oh, they're VAT grown, okay. Yeah, they're VAT grown now. Specifically to be cherubs, okay. But at the same time, like, I think they was doing that to save face, because it's pretty goddamn awful sounding. It's pretty awful to be like, oh, yes, in the, in the, in 40K, we lobotomize babies. Like, yeah, that's not a great look.

No, so, like, I, in my fan canon, I'm sure it still happens, but, um, it's, like, you know, whatever, doesn't really matter. Way worse stuff happens, but that's still pretty bad. Yeah, it's still not great. It's more of the vibe. So I found an excerpt from a book on how servitors are made. Oh, boy.

This is one of the worst things I've read. Oh, really? Even worse than when the Tyrannids got into that one ship? Yeah, I mean, that one's pretty, pretty terrible. That's real. bad. That's real bad, but this is yikes. Oh, no. It's a bit long, but I'll put it in chunks.

Okay. So this is the mass production of servitors run by the Mechanicus. Oh. Like they have a factory where they just like put humans on like a, that, this is what I'm imagining. Just like humans are on a conveyor belt and just, and just people screaming and then suddenly silence as like you're you're not entirely wrong um no it's interesting when you talk about like the evils of

humanity uh you think about like the general imperium and it's massive xenophobia intolerance etc um you think about the sisters and you see like just this this unwavering uh hatred to anything that goes against their doctrine and religious zealots. Guard doesn't feel too evil. You know, you're really kind of ground up in the metaphorical meat grinder, but in reality, you know, you have low tolerance and everything, but you care about your fellow man still. Yeah, you still have some humanity to you, sure. Admec are one of those factions that people tend to forget that just has

no care for human life. Oh, yeah. Zero. Oh, yeah, because they think the flesh is weak, and it's like, why would anybody want to be a fleshy? Like, they should be like us and try and get rid of as much of it as possible. It's weak. It decays. And eventually it's going to be forgotten and everything that you know, your knowledge is going to be lost.

And we want to preserve. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get you. And also, like, you're just not important. Well, they had that too. Yeah. Who cares? You just get ground up into dust. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So this was a factory, yes, of servitors that they were bringing in from penal colonies and things. Said, naked human beings were standing in a switched-backed line behind between high fences. Outside the fences, Mechanicus Mediol's environmental suit stood guard with shock goads in hand. The people all mature men and women were shepherded down the caged walk like livestock. and meat for the ravenous appetite of the machine god. This is from their perspective. I grew up lucky enough to eat real meat. I was unlucky enough to see where it came from.

Another gift of my father on another damn tour of my family's various businesses. Yep. Yeah, that's fair. Every surface was easily cleanable. Large flaps divided areas from each other, and servitors with spray units surgically attached to their back. prowled about hosing filth into slit drains set into the perfectly smooth slanted floors. The sorting process went from one hall to the other. As the line slowly advanced, the people were passed through various scanning devices. Most of them mounted in ugly functional arches that set out a constant series of acceptance chimes.

Occasionally, one would let out an angry Blair and the indicator Lumens flash red. The rejected person was then swallowed up by a trap door opening beneath their feet. from these pits wafted, wafed, whatever, a hideous stench and the grinding sounds of industrial mincers. Oh, no. One rejected man grabbed onto the lip and hung there, arms and hands bloodied, shouting a stream of defiant profanities. Guards lined the grating either side of him and shocked him until he fell, as the adepts wouldn't even waste bullets on these people. The trapdoor flipped up, and the next terrified person was ushered forward. Oh, that's awful. They wouldn't even waste bullets.

A number of pneumatic gates separated the people from each part of the process, snapping open and shut with bone-crushing force. Violet metal arms snatched them up and spread-eagled them in the air, as a servitor shearer shaves them all over. At another, they were subjected to a high-pressure counter-septic wash whose chemical stink made me choke from 100 feet away. Wow. scanners and more rejects were winnowed out. Machines forcibly dressed them in heavy rubberized

garments common to all monotask servitors and were saggy on them, all one size, until another process forced shrink them to fit their bodies where metal cuffs, sockets, and collars bit into vulnerable flesh. The last few prayers gave way to screams at that point, as even the most stoic shouted in pain, and were ushered over a floor buzzing with power that made them shriek with every footstep. Oh, okay. These were follicular inhibitors to stop their hair from growing.

Oh, okay. That's great. Thankfully, I was spared a view of the surgeries as I doubt the adeptist mechanic has provided anesthetic. Because why would you spend the money on anesthetic? Why would they?

Especially when you're about to get servitorized and it's not like you're going to complain about what you just went through. So that's from flesh and steel a novel. Oh, that, yeah, that sounds pretty terrible. That sounds pretty awful. It's full on a Holocaust triage.

Analogy, yeah. Yeah, it's a complete Holocaust triage. Everything from the mincing, well, I mean, this isn't the same, but like, there's minced meat trap doors that probably turn that meat into food for other people combined with a chemical antiseptic wash. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty. pretty awful. It's pretty bad.

That's pretty awful. Yep. Don't love that. Do not love that. That's another excerpt about an archoflagellum being made from Lords of Mars, but this one is basically the same thing. Hang a person up, slice off

his arms, you know, electrocute, cauterize the limbs, pull out his eyes, open his head, dangle and with a little spider things, reprogram his brain, all without antiseptic. Oh boy, that's a lot. That's a lot.

Not antiseptic, the anesthesia. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's, it's the... Oh, that's horrible. It's the worst thing. I mean, I know most of the people that get servitorized to like heretics and criminals, but oh my God, like that's...

Wow, that is a lot. It is a long series of torture rooms and then you forget everything. Yeah, and then you become just a loyal servant to the Imperium to open a door for the rest of eternity. This was all for door people or like rock grinders or miners or just complete unimportant things. Yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. That is a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot. It is very unfun. Yeah, yeah, that seems like putting it mildly.

Glad we could have that lovely talk. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Oh. All right. Now, I know for a fact that what people are actually here for is the types of servitors. People want to hear about the various types of servitors. Okay.

Okay. Yeah. So, I mean, we could be here for maybe three hours, but there's a lot of servitors. A lot. Well, yeah, like you said, there's a servitor for everything, for, opening doors for mining, for the computers, for, I'm sure there are pilot servitors. There are servitors that are embedded into their chair in the, in the void ships. Like, there's a servitor for everything. You know, I like where Shy's at. Let's start with the combat servitors

first. Hell yeah. Let's do, I love the Cataphrons. I agree, shy. Cataphron servitors are some of the more awesome ones. Whoa! This is one of the main battle line units for the Mechanicus. It's in the Army as well. They are, you can feel them. Their minis look pretty good, in my opinion. I hope so. It's a tank, basically.

It's basically a giant tank. It's a giant tank servitor. That is a cool mini, though. Yeah, oh, yeah. These things are tall as hell. I think they're a little taller than a space marine on these treads. And they are a combination of shield, ram, and gun. Yeah.

They are also, funny enough, I don't know if these are around still, but there are ogren versions of these servitors. Oh, man, those things got to be trucking. They are certainly trucking. They look like just big ogrens with the red on them. Man, those, if I ran Admec, I'd run a bunch of those. unless they're too expensive. I mean, they are expensive to buy, but they're expensive to field.

I mean, they're pricey, but for the most part, actually, this is one of the few units that ADMEC actually utilized and actually was okay. Actually, I haven't read much of the, I haven't actually read much of the new ADMEC codex yet. So I do have a few questions that goes with that. But the most part, these guys, yeah, they're big, they're chunky, they're very tough. They've got lots of wounds and all that kind of jazz, and they shoot pretty well. Yeah, I would imagine so. They have guns for arms. They have a giant, what is that, a giant gouse cannon on their shoulder?

Like, that's, well, it's not a necron. I guess that's not a gouse cannon, right? It depends on which catafron. There are destroyers, and then there are breaches. Breachers are a little tougher than destroyers, and they have things like the heavy arc rifle, which is a vehicle thing, or the torsion cannon. Sure, because it's trying to breach enemy defenses, sure, sure, makes sense. There's destroyers that they have flamers, plasma guns, grab cannons, all that kind of stuff.

All that fun stuff, yeah. All that good jazz, so there's some fun things there, depending on which one you want. want to run. It's a quirky little guy. He's a little quirky guy. Yeah, he's a quirky little guy. There are, of course, gun servitors. That would be the one you saw above.

They hold a big gun. Ah, they hold a big gun. Cool. It's heavy. This is the ones you can actually run in either the Imperial Inquisition Group or in the Guard. For the most part,

these fire heavy bolters, plasma cannons, multi-melta's, just, you know, kind of whatever you feel like. That picture, Shai just posted, is so unsettling because it's just, you can see that the, like, he's just dead inside. Like, there's no emotion. It's just, it might as well be a walking corpse.

He's just there. Yeah, he's just there. That big, big-ass gun is firing on his, he's just there. He's just dead stare. He has nothing, no thoughts, head empty. He just exists. Only gun, yeah.

Only gun. No thoughts, head empty, only gun. So, past that, other kinds of battle servitors, you have the Arco-flagellants, a personal favorite. Oh, really? Why would that be? Because I can run them with sisters. Oh, wow. Mm-hmm.

No bias at all. No bias. No bias. None. We like the, we like the Arco-flagellans. They are obviously normal reprogram servitors, but they have a particular religious aspect to them. For them, it's a lot more about the, how you say. It's like clockwork orange.

They're very much fed constant ecclesiarchal sermons and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, okay, okay. Lovely, lovely, lovely. I mean, it's... Look at them. Look at them with their crazy whips. Yeah, they swing around as berserk killing machines. I mean, those whips are pretty cool, though, I got to say.

I mean, they are pretty cool. They do seem very neat. I wouldn't want to be one, though. No, I wouldn't want to be one either. No, wouldn't want to be any kind of servitor, actually. Would not particularly like to, even if they do look really cool, and they've been hitting the gym. Oh, yeah, they work out. outside of all of the, you know,

slashes. Mechanical stuff, yeah. All of the mechanical shenanigans. Yeah. Yuck. So, including the other battle servitors, there are H-grade combat servitors. Ooh, shat makes a good point. Yeah.

The Ecclesiarchy specifically doesn't purposely fully mind-wipe them so they can still comprehend the bombardment of religious hymns that's built into the helmet that is covering their eyes. Oh, so you're actually still... Ew.

Yuck. Yeah, it's full stop, never ending. Like, ooh, how much are we going to hit you with the... God, God, God, Emperor, save you, fight and kill for the Emperor, never ending. Oh, boy, that's... And you're not even completely... Oh, ooh, yeah, don't love that. That's awful.

Yeah, it's... full on like it's it goes from mind wipe instead to like mind control yeah yeah you have h grade combat servitors which are ogren class basically um we can't run those unfortunately but ogren servitors are kind of a hilarious concept to me okay because they're so big and tough fair fair and smarter than the average ogren oh my god is that a is that a servererized ogren I'm assuming that's probably a fan mini But god damn doesn't look cool Wow

So grimy and That's a horror movie monster So that'll give you nightmares Obviously you have all It's hard to explain every single type of server Considering how many functions they serve The term God damn you

You know heavy repair Servitors obvious industrial Servitors, obvious. Servitor pilots, obvious. Yeah, yeah. There are things like Retriever configuration of servitors, which are designed for live capture

of a target, so they normally have like a web or something kind of like that with them. Yeah, yeah. There are Skulker configuration, which are entirely meant to create terror and fear imperial populations. Enhanced

Vox units that like screeching. out cries and things like that. Okay, okay. There are ecclesiarchal servitors exclusively used by the Sisters of Battle to bring them ammo, incense, etc. All the, yeah, they're just, they're pack mules. They're big pack mules.

Often sheriffs take this job as well, but it just depends. Okay, okay. Runner servitors, this is a total like World War II thing. they grab additional power packs for Lascells and other kinds of things. Take away, recharge power cells for defending positions. Okay, okay. I thought you were going to say for the runners that they, it's like, oh, no, this is a minefield.

Oh, send a runner and they just run across it. And if they get blown up, it's just a servitor. I mean, they probably would do. Actually, you know what they would? Okay, so on one hand, I say they would probably just send the guard to do that anyway, because there's so many of them. And why... That's true.

Why spend the money to program a servitor? Servitor to do that when you can get the guard to do it. Yeah. But at the same time, the guard probably have, like,

they have a lot of gear on them. So, eh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A little here, a little there. Yeah, yeah.

Depends. Depends. The Adeptus Mechanicus have a weird combination of servitors, too. Not only is there a massive volume of them, but they have this weird kind of half and half thing when it comes to their servitors.

Like, like, like, Shai, would you call us Katari a servitor? Because, well, I mean,

that's, it's a hard one. Yeah. Like, well, they haven't been completely mind-wiped, though, have they?

Like, I know they, well, they've been mind-wiped, I think. They want to get rid of the flesh and everything. But, like, that's not really servitorizing, is it? Would you say?

That's the tough parks. I think they were mind-wiped, like, to their previous lives. But I don't, like, but they're not, like, mindless. But they also are kind of puppeteered by tech priests. So. Yeah, kind of. They're often, like, very often, Skatari arrive at birth because they are bred from, like, a eugenics program.

Mm-hmm. Which is so funny to say out loud And just be like, oh, that's pretty normal Oh yeah, yeah, that's 40K Sure, whatever Right, I was all That was my next question was the Rust Stalkers Which by the way,

love those monies So cool. Love those minis. Yeah. Yeah, like the Rust Stalkers That does look like a servitor Kind of, but It does, but they're also

Like, I don't know, it's hard Because they're kind of I did a video with Ospex tactics when we were talking about the new army stuff and he mentioned he really liked the idea of how the admec work where you kind of like wind them up like clockwork soldiers to adjust what you're doing

each round and I think clockwork soldiers probably is a pretty good way to say it yeah there are of course some some particular favorite ones of your boy the penitent engine oh hey why is that one

your favorites. I own like 10. I love this. Penitent engines, of course. They are hardwired directly into the engine, and they know that only death can grant them any kind of release. So they go forward, murder as much as they can before their death. Yeah, that's a rough one. That's, oh boy. Yeah, I'm really glad they adjusted what they looked like because they had an old pentaton engine that, as shy put it, is the horny version.

and I never really like that. Yeah, I see what you mean. Yep. Yeah, the new one looks a lot better. Yeah, the new one looks more fitting of what the thing actually is and does and yeah. I got to be honest, there is a thing called the self-flagellant servitor,

which is a servitor meant to inflict pain on you. Oh, yikes. Why, like, all right, okay, okay, that, okay, whatever. So, hey, you know, you gotta, you gotta get penance. Yeah, I guess, but that, all right, whatever. It's the 41st millennia. This is normal stuff. Yeah, I guess, sure, whatever.

Self-flagellation is a religious thing. It is a, it is. A hyper-religious thing, but, you know, what we are. But it's like, you didn't you make a servitor that just does that all day? Oh, hey, check this out. Contego pattern bomb disposal. servitor. Oh boy.

Yeah. So it's a bomb disposal, but like, there you go, for your landmines and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I figure there had to be some servitor like that. But then there are some funny servitors. For example, there is the servo rat. Servo rat, like, they don't literally servitorize rats, do they?

I mean, let's read this. Servo rats are rats. that the Imperium have converted into servitors that are used to reach small enclosed areas that are otherwise unreachable. They use them as... They're hidden cameras. Well, I mean, now that you say that,

now that I think about it, that's not a terrible use of just a rat. Like, essentially, you're turning it into a spy cam. Like you said, it turned into a little camera that can just, you know, wriggle its way into places that are... Well, I guess that's... Yeah, sure. And there's probably in a...

abundance of rats. There are a ton of rats. So you might as well put them to good use. Put them to work. Might as well get the rats to be a part of everything. Sure. Sure. There are also humorous servitors like the cenobite servitors that serve the Black Templar.

As we all remember, the lovely sword wiping servitor. Yep. I remember that one. Yeah, yeah, sure. You think cutting butter is one thing. That's shining the butter knife. You got to make sure that butter knife is clean for the butter knife server for the butter cutter. Apparently there are, oh, there he is.

There he is. What a mini, what a mini. Sheesh. Got to appreciate him. Oh, yeah. Got to, got to. Also, shy, please make sure that you put the one with the guy wiping, Brickie's forehead.

I mean, that's okay. It's a pretty good meme, so I'll, I accept it. Okay, cool. There's also an interesting one called the Heavenly Host. These are a servitor cherub that are created by nighthouse sacrosants that are able to fly around because of their, you know, they fly obviously. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But these will take flight with these as like scouts and use them to assist as picked

feeds and lenses for the nighthouses. Oh, okay. So just flying spy camps again. But there's a person, so, okay, this is a thing we don't talk about with nights much. It's kind of fun. Sacristin crawlers. A sacristan crawler is a heavy, armored vehicle that is entirely used to conduct resupplies and repair imperial knights.

So it's a giant, like, loader vehicle for knights. Oh, okay. And so very often these will be covered in these heavenly host cherubs that will go out and do things. They'll also do other crazy stuff, like lay down mines maybe for the enemy. Like, as awesome as knights are, obviously they'll run out of ammo in like seconds. Yeah. If we're taking it seriously, which we aren't. Yeah, I mean, they should, but yeah, whatever.

So there is a lot of, a lot of that kind of cool stuff that go along with the servitors. Okay. Shai, did you have any specific servitors that you wanted to mention? I know there's the choir servitor, which is just singing. Yeah, they just sing in the ecclesiarchal sermons the whole time. Do they have those on the battlefield just to hype up the soldiers or anything? Or are they just in the cathedral or, oh, okay. Well, I would imagine both.

Oh, that's true. Yeah, they would have them both because, yeah, yeah, that's fair enough. Like, you know, it's just kind of the kind of the vibe. Oh man, they'd be a prime target For a heretical trooper Are they singing the holy hymn Shoot them That was a That was not terrible

And they would probably just keep They'd probably just keep singing too That's not terrible It's like shooting the drummer boy So the drummer boy is already mind wiped Yeah and the drummer Yeah yeah yeah Yeah that that yep

What the hell is that Spector servitor made from the brain Of a psycher Zenos made by gangsters on necrombanda. That thing was badass. Yeah, it does. It looks like those crazy, like when you wake up in the Matrix and you got those crazy flying octopus robots,

it kind of looks like that. Wait, where is this from, shy? Like, what kit? I know it's Necromanda, but like, what kid is it? Because that's, like, pretty cool. Yeah, that is, that is pretty cool. I'm actually a big fan. What does it do?

How so delicate If it's from a psycher zeno That thing's got to have some Wacky, crazy Ciker nonsense To it, right? It's the creepy The creepy cryptkeeper house, right?

The ones that all look like Weird, bald Yeah, okay. Okay, it's these guys. These guys are weird. These guys are very weird. Look at what they made. No kidding.

Well, okay. Well, yeah, but like... Of course they're weird. They look funny. Okay. Okay. All right. Funnier than normal.

Funn? Okay. All right. All right. All right. Give me a credit. No. I refuse to give you credit.

That's fair. You will take cash. Oh, hell yeah. I'm not giving you cash either, but yeah. So, other than that, Oh, there's another one shy wants to show us. What is? These things look awesome.

There's like a purple brain hanging out the back of them. I love these things. These are actually really, really neat. Those are neat. They're creepy, though. Yeah, they're like little spider robots or something like that. Cephalopod Specter controlled by cloned brain of its owner. Oh.

So it has a. So those things are being piloted by like a dude that has his brain also. Wow, that's weird. That's very cool, very weird. That's actually kind of fascinating. Would you consider that a servitor though? Yeah, well, I mean, it's still, it's a cloned brain, so. Yeah, I guess it's still a brain in it.

There's still a brain in it. That's true. And it's, yeah. God damn. Huh. Damn, there's some weird little servitors, aren't there? That's cool, though. That looks like something, again, from a horror game

where it would be chasing you, and then it would just snatch you up. And then next thing you know, you're gone. Yeah, you're gone, gone. Then next thing you know, your head button that's opening doors. Well, other than that, I mean, I don't have a whole lot of other fancy-pancy servitors. There's a server for everything, so, you know, you kind of got to just, pick and choose which one sound the most interesting, right? It's really a philosophical thing, a more than anything.

It's just the, like, how little you, you as an individual tend to matter. Yeah, you are a low man on the totem pole. I mean, what's even crazier is that much, when we read that in the Night Lord's trilogy, there are people who are so, so incredibly unneeded that they refuse to program a server to do a job. Oh, that's right. That was Marouk's thing. He was a factory line worker.

They wouldn't even build a servitor to do his job. I totally forgot about that. Right. Oh, and that's true. I guess sometimes I forget that some people don't understand why we're here. AI is banned. Oh, yeah, yeah. You can't have artificial intelligence of any kind.

It's banned. So, yeah. But hey, horribly mutilating humans by the millions to make cyborgs are trapped inside their own twisted metal bodies. That's okay. It's okay. Perfectly fine because you're not going against the machine gods. Mm-hmm. Lovely.

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