Adeptus Ridiculous - Skitarii: Mars' Immortal Cyborg Legions | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: June 3, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://shop.orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousIn this episode, Bricky and DK dive into the irradiated, heavily augmented world of the Adeptus Mechanicus Skitarii. From their origins as nomadic scavengers on the toxic dunes of Mars during the Age of Strife to becoming the unquestioning, cyborg foot soldiers of the Machine God, we cover exactly what goes into the Mechanicum's relentless forces. Discover the brutal process of the Corpus Skitarii, including the mandatory removal of eyelids & legs, and explore the massive variety of troops deployed by the Forge Worlds. We discuss Vanguard Rad-Troopers who dissolve their own armor with radiation, Sicarian Ruststalkers moving at blinding speeds as commandos, Pteraxii taking to the skies, and the Serberys Corps riding mechanical dogs into battle. Plus, a look at the highly questionable "Project Kataphron" and what standard Imperial Guardsmen actually think of their AdMech counterparts.Support the show

Also, before we continue, can I take a short bathroom break? Because, you know. Yeah, go piss, queen. All right, thank. Son of a bit. I'll be it. Welcome, everyone, to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamantis.

And if I was a servitor programmed to get quotes right, I'd still get them wrong. My name is Bricky. And if I was a servitor programmed to give bad quotes, I would get those. wrong. Well done. I thought you were going to say if you were a servant or program to give bad quotes, you'd still give bad quotes. That's also true. Also, yeah, so, D.K., you saw the new 11th edition trailer, right?

Of course I did. I love Emperor Eyeball. Emperor Eyeball is pretty good. Pretty good. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Also, uh, also very good. Rage bait tweet, shy. Very good rage bait tweet.

The screen time each faction guy. Yeah. Love it. You love to see it. You know what's so funny. I wouldn't even much care about that. If it wasn't for the five seconds of Eldar, sorry,

four seconds of Eldar. It actually was really funny. Like everything else, even though all the other Xenos factions were very small, it was still cool. see them, right? Like, like, Necron's, it was like, oh, it's cool. And, like, Tyrann, it's like, oh, it's pretty cool. Like, yeah, sweet. The fact that the Eldar just showed up, walked two steps and left was hysterical to me. It would have been less funny if there was nothing.

Just like when they show up in a book, they're just like, what are you doing here? Where'd you, where'd you come from? And then they're, they're gone again. You know what have been even funnier? Instead of having the Eldar in that middle section of the trailer, they should have ended it with the Eldar and just a slow pan of Eldrad. Oh, that would have been gold, glorious. Just like the books. That would have been so much better. We needed a tiny little Eldrad at the end.

Oh. It's not like there was any doubt that like the Imperium, the space marines, and the guard and stuff would get most of the screen time, right? Like, it's to be expected. Yeah. This is to be expected, as always. Of course, yeah.

I will say, I will say, seeing some of the chaos, like, some of the various chaos, like, versions and entities was really cool. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Definitely. A lot of people are like, oh, my God, is this the first ever, like, official look of the emperor we've gotten? And I think they forget that games workshop will, well, one, never say yes to that. And two, all the trailers and stuff are expected to be taken with, like, an artistic grain of salt.

Sure. Also, we've gotten plenty of depictions of the emperor just rotting away on his throne, right? Well, I guess those are all kind of old, like, John Blanche-like representations, right? Yeah, yeah. There's the original major John Blanche art, which is the most popular. But then, like, you've had various versions across the board. The point is that you don't know, kind of like how there was, yeah, like, gork was there. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's clearly gork, but, like, it's not like you've actually seen gorg. You know? Yeah. Everything is with a grain of salt. Still, it was pretty cool. I liked that they were able to do a version of, actually, actually, there is one thing I really appreciate. We now know, or well, maybe we already did know this, but we have a very good understanding of how to make the Imperial Aquila sign with your hands. That's very true.

Because they always say in books, like even in outer dark, like, oh, yes, I made the sign of the Aquila. And I'm like, what the fuck does that look like? What does you do a little bird tweet, tweet thing with your fingers? What the, how'd you make an aquila with your? But yeah, now we know. They do it in the rogue trader game. That is true. But it's also a little bit like, I don't know.

I needed something with a little bit more close up, I suppose. Mm-hmm. But I can't stop thinking of it like the Napoleon dynamite thing when they're making the butterflies and they're flying away. Like, I'm glad that we had one that's a bit more specific. Yeah, definitely. Imagine if that was the sign of the equality. They were making the whole time just wheeh.

It's crazy. Crazy. It's goofy. It was a cool, it was a cool trailer, though. I like when they do the, um, uh, they have the original, like, dialogue. Uh, oh, oh, Bricky. Shai said what I liked about the trailer is that they did the whole guardsmen melt a grenades, chaos space marine.

And then a crowd of guardman guns him down. Fuck yeah. And it doesn't work. Casperian just stands up and they all fucking die. Was that melt? I don't think it was a melter grenade. I think there's just like a regular grenade like a frag. Yeah.

I might need to double check what it was. But yeah, no, I mean, hey, listen, as a major guard fan, guard dying horribly is part of my MO. This is what I love about them. The, uh, it's, in fact, if anything, I care more about the fact that they tried. Yeah, they tried and they got him down to one knee and then like, oh, yeah, we've got a chance. And then he stood up and his buddy showed up and it was like, oh, well.

Yeah, they all died. We're not going to see you guys ever again in the Lord. The power, the power of guardsmen is the fact that they tried to do that, not that they succeeded. Yeah. They stopped him for a second and that's more than you can usually ask the guard when it comes to, you know, 1V1ing a Chaos Space Marine. I do also love how the orcs, uh,

sometimes like people just forget that the orcs are the orcs sometimes. And it was cool to see the, I mean, it was the prior, uh, trailer, the 11th edition one. But I always just love watching that war boss just like one handedly clobber space marines. Just like, Hey, you crunch.

It's, it's really great sometimes because they're just so thick. They're so big. People forget how big and strong and crazy the orcs are. So yeah. Good to see him just a space marine. Yeah. Anyway.

Anyway, awesome trailer. Really liked it. Very cool. I enjoy the aspects of it. So funny seeing the Eldar for five seconds. I mean, they looked good for the five seconds they were there. The craft world looked cool. Yeah, you're right.

It looked really sick, actually. They didn't need a lot of screen time. So, you know, hell yeah, brother. They were doing a lot of old, like, modernizing. version of old art, which is pretty cool. Yeah, I agree. Good trail. Anyway, uh, let's get, let's get going.

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He, he makes a pun. The pun. The puns? The pun. Also, uh, if, if people haven't noticed this by now, uh, today is our, uh, is, is the bricky and, and D.K show. Play the music. The clown show.

We don't have a serious Brit with us today. What are we going to do? How are we going to stay on the rails? Well, the most important thing is to have a mechanical focus in what we're doing, I'd say. I see. Perhaps a bit of a Skatari. Very well. You really slid that.

in there. You just hid the theme of today's episode so well to it. I don't know, man. I thought you were, I was like, oh, he's probably going to go for like a dark. He's like, oh, boy, today's episode is going to be dark. There's going to be a mechanical tide.

Nah, just, uh, Skittari. Sorry. I, I, that's so sure. I folded under no pressure. I was trapped in a parking lot for 30. 30 minutes and was stuck here is a whole thing. Yeah.

You've had a morning. So, all right, all right. That's fine. It is what it is. It is what it is. But yeah, we are going to be doing ourselves an awesome little bit of Skatari. Also, the name of this is, God damn you, possum. It says Gen Alpha Primus Skatari.

B-like, it's a bunch of binary. So I'm going to do a binary translator right now. Binary translator, paste, binary input, convert. It says 6-7. We should kill this marsupial. We should kill this marsupial immediately. Oh, man. Did he actually binary 6, 7?

He did. He did. Fair play, bosom. Fair play. That's good. He knew. He knew he was like, somebody's going to want to know what the binary says or Brickie's going to look it up. Gotta do. He planted his, he planted his bomb as a dead man switch.

He sure did. Holy shit. We don't pay him enough. Enough. Now, the quote today is, My emotional cores returned dismay and anger whenever Eschatari is described as disposable. No one is disposable as long as they do the omniscience. as work, thus it is written, which is actually a quote by

Magos Dominus Faustinius from the first Admet game, or sorry, Mechanicus game. Oh, okay. The good one. Sorry, it couldn't help it. The second one is fine. It's just compared to the first one, it's definitely lacking. It's a little lacking. It's a little lacking. But it's fine. I'm sure people are having fun with it and that's fine. The voice acting in that game is actually stellar. I love the voice modifications.

that like the neck runs and the ad mech get, it's just, it's just my brain, man. No, it does. It tickles it good. One thing it is not lacking is sound design. No, no. But one of the bigger reveals at this year's Skull's presentation was the Skatari class in Dark Died,

which have been heavily requested for a while. And they seem like a very good fit for the game, of course, because of their ability to integrate and adapt to the scenarios. But with this reveal came a realization that we have never done an episode specifically on the Skatari. Fortunately for us, we got a Horace heresy game book earlier this year that gave us more background details. So now we can cover them as thoroughly as possible. So today we are going to be talking about the privatized foot soldiers of the Adeptus Mechanicus

all the way from their time as no man's on Mars and to where they are now. Let's go. Yeah, because I guess this is another one that feels like we should have. Oh, we certainly we've covered Skittari and it's like, no, they probably just came up randomly in an admec episode or a call episode where it's like, oh, yeah, there's always Skatari around them and we never really delved into them, did we? Not quite. We definitely talked about them. Like, we talked about the Mechanicus Forces and stuff, but obviously that was also back when it was just me and therefore we don't have the depth that Possum brings us. And so it's pretty interesting.

Shai, I would agree that it is an unfortunate logo. However, I would also say that maybe it's intentionally unfortunate, considering the faction we're talking about. Yeah, that is a little on the nose, I'd say. So, the history of the Skittari goes all the way back with the age of strife. So way back then, Mars was obviously pretty terrible. Many of the Martians that survived only did so due to these shelters on the planet, but some weren't so lucky. And they were left to the toxic sands to live like nomads and fight for survival against the sci carnivora and the deteriorating conditions.

And the ones that survived quite literally ground their legs down to the knee upon the dunes while scavenging and moving once them ahead of the horrors of Mars. This is, of course, after, like we mentioned, Age of Strife, when there was the men of iron revolt, and they nukes themselves into oblivion and yon. yada yada yada yada nuke himself in oblivion yada yada yada yada a i socks you know the usual yeah the classic yeah uh now mars would eventually get its act together and the fabricator general of the cult mechanicus wouldn't have been able to accomplish this without the aid of these nomadic scavenger clans they would actually be formed into the scotari and the nature of their appearance weaponry

armaments were a respectful tribute to these clans that survived in an otherwise in hospitable situation, courtesy of their resourcefulness. So at this time, Skatari were formed into what were known as these Scutari conclaves. And these were designed to be self-sustained armies that were loyal to the fabricator general of Mars. And in a sense, these were his personal armies. The only other figure that had any impactful sway was the arch-ordinator, but even they had to answer the Fabricator General. So basically, this is the Fabricator General's personal armed forces. Okay. Hell, you know, the ordinator. Now, the active conclaves changed a bit over time, but around the time of the heresy, there was about 30 active conclaves with an average troop number of about 67 and no, actually 67, a thousand, 500, and some, you know, more or less. Okay. Juggling hands. Man, we're on a 6-7 kick today, brother. It's crazy.

I want to be upset about it more, but like I was also the one who was like Mark a Plyer E and like would laugh my ass off about that. So I'm no better. Yeah. It is what it is. Anyway, each conclave was different and specialized in a very specific way to support the belief of the cult mechanicus. Now, their differences were called their clade, uh, parameters, and they would dictate the way they would respond in combat, and the areas, or sorry, arenas in which they would be deployed, and the actions they would take in a given situation. So, like, for example, the incursus clade was a parameter that was known for unrelenting aggression. The excipio clade was focused on acquiring technological artifacts, and the most important one was the vigilis clade, which had the primary function of protecting the vaults of the mechanicum. Now, the first clave was the vigilance. Alpha Omega Conclave and the naming conventions of the conclaves kind of followed that style. So in cursus, excipio, etc.

The Alpha and Omega, huh? Really kind of. Yeah, it's on the nose, you know. Very, very pinprick on the nose. Holy shit. All right. It's how it'd be. Yep. 40K. 40K. Now, of course,

as we all know, the heresy rocked Mars pretty hard. Thanks to the fabricator general Calbor Hall, and the biggest mistake of the conclaves became very obvious thanks to this. As said before, the Scutari were loyal to the Fabricator General. So when the schism of Mars happened, two-thirds of the Scutari stuck by the traitorous fabricator general, Kelbor Hall. Yep. Not great. Now, Shai says the Scutari conclaves looked much better than modern Scutari because she's a hater.

by her own admission. I do like the way that Skatari look. These ones were just released, the Heresy era ones. But I got to say, I don't like the lack of the hood and the two blue eye lenses. That is pretty iconic, but gosh, the Skatari Conclave look really cool, though. I think I also just don't like the draft. If I could paint the drab red, I think I would be a lot happier. Well, if you buy them, you can.

And God damn, I will. Hell yeah, brother. But yeah, if you could mix the two, oh, and you could give, like, the blue eyes and the red hood, but, like, you leave the cloak kind of open so you can see these really elongated, crazy legs and stuff. Ooh. I would, I would, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think it's really, I think it's cool.

Shy is trying to rage bait me by putting a picture of the stilts guy and be like, Perky likes the stilts guy more. You won't, you won't get me, you won't get me, shy, you won't, you won't win.

I like how one, what is that is tail or something that has the little exhaust pipe on it? Yeah, it's, it's fine, whatever, moving on. So the remaining third,

Skatari stayed loyalist, but this was actually a flaw. The schism of Mars began. began with an event known as the Death of Innocence, which was when the vaults of Moravec were opened up, and a whole bunch of corrupted code was spread to the network of Mars. The third, they remained loyal, did so because their coding wasn't fully rewritten, and their whole served the Fabricator General who served the Mechanicum code, noted that Kilmore Hall was no longer serving the Mechanicum, and the death of innocence was evidence of this failure.

Therefore, they served the other Fabricator Locum Kane instead. Now, terrified of this being undone, he would use scrap code to make sure that this remaining third wouldn't change their mind until the end. It was like, serve the fabricator general, who serves the mechanicum? But most of them would just serve the fabricator general. And these were like, oh, well, our fabricator general isn't serving the mechanicum anymore, therefore does not count. We don't have to follow him. We follow the other one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just a slight difference in wording. And suddenly, third of the army gone. A very interesting loophole So Cowboy Hal is still one of the coolest looking sons of bitches out there. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's so... And also...

Classic, classic admec. Also, you know, Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space. So true. So true. So, of course, the heresy would conclude, and this would also mark the end of the conclave. They would be replaced with the Scatari Legion, and instead of swearing directly to the fabricator general,

they would be sworn to a forge world and have unquestionable loyalty to the tech priests that control them. And that would remain the norm even to this day. So what is Eskatari? And how do you become one? If that's something you want to do, I guess. I was going to say, but that's kind of cool.

So obviously they learn from their mistake. And now Skatari are just, they're just forge world sworn. You don't have just like Skatari of Mars. A lot of, as you may remember, a lot of the entire point of the post-heresy thing was removing the all-consuming power that everyone had and then diversified. Yeah. Yeah. So like obviously making chapters and the Codex of Starties and then adjusting the Imperial Navy into.

things, etc. The guard. Yeah. Like, I'm sure the ad mec didn't want the same problem of, oh, shit, two thirds of the Scatari have gone traitor. That's bad. I just, I figured there'd still be someone like guard duty on Mars and not just like, oh, yeah, you get a forge world and you get a forge world and you get a forge world type thing.

Right. So now it's just the Scutari served their forge world. Yeah. So we want to talk about what Escutari is, but it's easier to talk about what a Skatari is not. So Eskotari is not a mindless and fully automated servitor. They are almost completely emotionless and will blindly follow any order transmitted to them by their tech priest, even if it's kill your best friend. But they do have some degree of independent thought to allow them to be adaptive and resourceful on the fly. They will learn and adapt while being deployed and are exceptionally well trained and augmented.

But if they are completely cut off from their tech priests, they will become less effective, which is very, very similar to how the necrons operate. And the tyrantids actually. Wow, actually, yeah, that is basically how the tyrantids work, isn't it? A little bit. From like your warrior or your hive tyrant or whatever, yeah, you would become way, less effective. Can I be honest,

D.K. I didn't expect you to actually nail two synapse creatures. You went through two examples of like bugs that have synaps and you

picked two bugs with synaps, warriors and hive tyrants. That's pretty cool. Been playing a lot of space marine too lately. Those are the psychic bugs. That's true.

I guess you could have done zone thrope or something maybe. Oh, fuck sootroats. Ooh. Oh, yeah. Been playing a lot of space marine too lately. Fuck those zoetrums. Better them than the Neurops.

Oh, yep, you're right. You're so, so true, King, so true. Oof. But, so here's the question is, how do you become one? Well, in the best case scenario, people just outright volunteer as becoming a scotari willingly, or they are vat bread and, you know, some kind of cheeky eugenics to make sure they are basically scotari by birthright. Others will be, and I use.

these quotes extremely heavily recruited on forge worlds from the population of factory workers. I love it when you get Imperium. Recruitment. Recruitment. Heavy on the air quotes. Now, most of the time, these recruits are from people who have proven themselves worthy as a contender for the role or suffered major injuries in the forge worlds. And sometimes convicts are recruited due to their strengths or warriors that have followed from grace are recruited due to their combat prowess.

But then you have the more circumstantial recruitments. Like, you know, when a group of refugees are seeking shelter and the tech priest will save them because they look like good recruits. I see. I see. Yep, we are firmly in 40K Imperium. Yes, we are. Now, the process of becoming a Skatari is known as the corpus scotari. This term also is used to generally describe their bodies post-augmentation.

And as like most things, admec related, it's a big old secret as to how the process fully goes. But we do have a pretty good idea of most of the big parts of it. Now, the first, of course, is indoctrination, stripping the person of their individualism and ensuring they swear to the cult mechanicus. Sure. Naturally. Earlier, we said that they still have independent thought, and this refers to a very specific kind of independence. If you'd like to read that. Held within the circuits and the neural bridges of each set of eugenics was the distilled battle experience of all those had once been a part of.

When combined with the hypno-indocrinated training, this turned even the most unskilled of laborers into veteran soldiers. This would give rise to the legends of Skittari, immortality, widespread among the ranks of the Imperial Army, and even the Legionus Astardis, who little understood the Mechanicum's itinerant warriors. For no matter how many times a pilgrim was struck down in battle, they would soon return to make war seemingly unchanged by death. Ah, that sounds efficient and awful,

which is perfect for Admec, actually. Yeah, it's like a roguelite, buddy. Rogueleigh from hell. Yeah, cut the person up, replace some things. You know, muscle is torn, more bionic musculature. Legaments gone. Replaced it with titanium motors. Oh, please, bioplastic and circuits.

You know, you can get some other modifications, five chamber at heart. Mm-mm, mm-hmm. Yum. You do get to look badass as hell, though. Skatari look phenomenal. And most of the skin tends to look. a little bit puckered in texture because of the cybernetic

sutured in above and below but the looks are a little deceiving because the skin is actually kind of like bio-armor if you want to read that one I was going to say ad mech what skin eternal vigilance is the duty of all the machine god's

servants thus do the Skittari have their eyelids removed upon inception that they might behold the omnisized works until the day their servitude is ended. How could you ever, D.K., ever understand the

truth of the machine god's glory if you're not looking at it at all times? How dare you ever close your eyes for even a millisecond to look away from the Omnisai's grace? Yay! At least you get the cool blue eyes.

Yeah, well, I mean, blinking means you have... How much time do you think you spend blinking every day? You know, it's probably a lot more than I would say you probably spend a solid half hour blinking well no probably more than that do you have the stat

I don't oh man I bet it's actually kind of interesting and a lot longer than you think I mean here's the thing you know you need to make sure you have the eye on the prize at all times Shai said that's why I blink alternating eyes so I have one eye on the price in all times oh oh is that

why Shai I thought it was a different reason I always knew she was a cold blood lizard. Yeah, so true. She blinked like a frog. So joints and sockets are replaced with valves and pistons, and much like their historical forebears, their lower legs are removed and replaced with complex prostheses with gyroscopes that allow them to march endlessly at the behest of their masters.

Now, even the highly modified and indoctrinated brain is reinforced with circuits woven with gray matter, which helped continue the indoctrination. Their emotions are modified and a partition is placed that allows them to serve in an unquestioning and robotic manner and removing natural instinct from any decision, making them, you know, causing any problems when they're deployed. Yeah. Now, this partition, because as you may remember in Mechanicus games, you can partition away emotions to not feel them. And this partition is physical, which means that it can be damaged. and the resulting damage can make their emotions flood back to them very quickly, making them exceptionally reckless and unpredictable.

This can also suffer from various degrees of dissociation while in combat and require degrees of emotional defragmentation from tech priests after deployment. So much like a servitorisle that you may have your partitioned emotions, maybe you suffer a head injury or something like that in battle, and then you're like, oh my God, I'm scared out of my fucking britches right now and then you run away. Oh, I didn't realize servitors could have that partition broken

too and then just like, oh, hey, what am I do? Ah! Um, yeah, like the dark tied um, the dark tide healing guy. Oh, yeah, I just thought he was a servitor that remembered. I didn't realize, oh, yeah,

no, uh, servitors that remember the worst. I guess it could be both, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yuck. But anyway, so even though it's complex and confusing, the process of the corpus catari is so efficient that it only takes a fraction of the time to complete compared to the augmentations of something like a space marine. This allows for the numbers to be replaced with extremely adept and strong warriors at impossibly fast speeds.

And while they are similar in a nature to a human, the similarities end there. The scotari is extremely strong and able to endure harsh and or toxic environments. that would kill a more well-equipped soldier. Yep. Now, speaking and fighting, so in combat, Eskataris actions are a culmination of mathematical precision combined with constant information

and data being fed to them remotely by their masters. They will maximize their strength and efforts against targets that are more vital, be like seeking out units in a leadership or rallying role or directly attacking in the installations, things like that. But unlike most soldiers, The Skatari don't require morale boosts or grand speeches to make them rally or reinforce, but this does not mean they don't get some sort of boost to improve their ranks.

Particularly, they will receive stimulants or other combat enhancement drugs to maximize their strength and energy, but the dose of these drugs are so extreme that they will tend to kill a normal man. And then in the case of something like a Praetorian, which we'll talk about in a bit, it will cause side effects in only a couple of minutes. Yeah, I mean that that does sound like an ad mech way of fighting, just cold, ruthless, following orders, you know, and, you know, getting doped up out of your gourd on combat stims. Every single person needs to have drugs in this world. It is required. Oh, yeah. To live in the 41st millennium? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 100%. Is that a warp storm? Just take your drugs.

So, as you can guess, this Katari do speak and understand binaric and all the others, you know, the beep boobo languages, or be boobo boobob as you will not get, you will not get Bbooboo boobobob. Oh, well, thanks for the clarification. You know, the slander for what the admec understand and how binary sounds. I just, man, I'm so glad you cleared it out. It's a SpongeBob joke. Oh, of course it was. son of a bitch. Nah, dude,

you're thinking of B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B. Now, obviously, with that, they have a hyper-specialized language that is pretty much unique to them. They call it skit code, S-K-I-T-C-I-T-C-E-K-Tek-Ler. I don't know why.

It sounds weird. It makes you feel uncomfortable, but it's a dialect that sounds like a series of pulses and clicks and buzzes over a Vox. In actuality, it's a language of dispenses is nothing but raw technical data and technical data for the Iskatari. So if you were curious as to how efficient Ace Katari's thoughts were,

the Kill Team Typhon box has a really neat example, which is this. Oh. Suffered 87.43% casualties during event, locomotive options limited, egress blocked by debris, visual and auditory input corroborates approaching aid, no contact, logical appraisal suggests approaching units carry damaged data tethers, debris shift, and anomalous input, incompatible organic spectra, hazard,

a bio alert. And I'm assuming that gets transferred over the skit code in like the snap of a finger. A fraction of a second, most likely. Yeah. Crazy. That is a lot of info to just dump in and just, oh, yeah, got it, received, and then make the appropriate response. God damn. I like that. I like that response shy. Such sweet music is the chatter of binary that has no tongue to lie. Oh, that is, that is good. That's good. I like that.

So, moving from that, there is also the post-heresy structuring should you be interested in some of those specifics. Now, obviously, as you mentioned before, post-heresy's Katari legions are loyal to a forge room, and these gigantic legions were then divided down, first into macroclades, then into four cohorts, which are then cut down into three mannipples. Now, this rank can be a bit confusing, as sometimes this is up to who is presenting it, like a codex or a book. But for the most part, you've got your regular old scotari at the bottom, and above them are these Qatari subalphas, and then the alphas. So it's important to note whether or not you are an Alpha scotari or a sub-alphasicotari,

or a yogurt alpha scotari. So true. So I want to be a yogurt scotari, a blueberry yogurt scotari. Ten signs that you're actually a yogurt male. You're not an alpha, you're not a beta, you're a yogurt male. Yeah, so true. So true. Just soft and creamy.

Hell yeah. That didn't come out the way I was expecting, but that's fine. It works. Go ahead. So moving from that, Skatari alphas are. squad commanders that are highly augmented to the point where that all that remains humanity-wise of them is mostly just the brain. If you're a Skittari that has replaced more than half of your flesh with machinery,

then you have crossed the Crux Mechanicus and you are now an Alpha. So if you need to be an Alpha male, you need to replace half your body with machinery. As an Alpha does. Naturally. So above them are the Alpha Primaces who have not only, fully augment themselves physically, but also done so mentally, and have accomplished so much in the field of battle that they are not only fierce leaders, but selected for specialized missions. They are able to conduct more independent thought than those below them, and aren't

solely reliant on the constant data streams of tech priests. They've also been known to lead anything from like multiple scutari squads to full cohorts. Both in Alpha and Alpha Primus can access the ocular feeds of the Scutari under them, which allows them to dictate their actions and their respective underlings. However, a primus's ability to master independent thought can result in them disobeying direct orders from the tech priests in the event that is believed that is against the will of the omnisiah. So alpha primuses are starting to have a little bit more of like a personal,

mental understanding, you know. Yeah, and sometimes you need that understanding that like, oh, hey, this is seeming a little heretical. I don't think we want to do this, you know, You know a little bit of that. A little bit of that. Yeah. Now, near the top of the pecking order, below the tech priest are the Scatari marshals.

These marshals have been seen like countless battles and are basically the liaison between the priests and the Scatari. They are equipped with advanced uplinks that allow them to perfect and specialize the doctrines and advanced data tethers allowing them to process tons of battlefield information in quick time. Now, there's also Praetarians. And this is a bit of a different. type of infantry and weaponry. So these are elite Scatari forces, and it's a little bit confusing under that umbrella.

So when they were first ever talked about in Andy Chambers short story, DASX Mechanicus, actually the name of the short story, by the way. That's crazy. Love that. All right, sure. As essentially a big-ass servitor that moves on treads with plasma cannons. Now, however, in the heresy book, Fallen Angels, they are Skatari that are augmented to the point where they are about the size and strength of a space marine and more or less the Mechanicum's version of an obliterator, like a roided up giant thing and sent to battle with Power Clause the sort of like elite guard.

However, both of these forms are valid and don't really contradict one another, but it seems to see like a dramatic difference between the two of them. So the Praetorians are in many ways similar to the Thalaxi, which are like Scatari shock troops used by the Ordo Reductor. Their cybernetic augmentation differs strongly from the standards Qatari and are encased in a Lorica Thalix armor, which was developed from the power armor used for space marines. Their limbs are completely replaced from mechanical weapons and the process of becoming a thalox is agonizing to the point where the final product is a cold and calculated machine that only cares about killing. Now, to your point and the reason why we mention this particular type of unit is because the Praetorians do not have a mini. Wow, really? No, there's no official art for them whatsoever. One could assume that the original concept of the Pretorians maybe were adjusted into the cataphrons,

which are basically Scatarion treads with giant plasma cannons. But they are explicitly not. They are different. And they're supposed to be just like big Hulkings, Skatari Marines. So there's also Skatari Rangers and Skatari Vanguard. These are the ones you probably see by far the most. Whenever you look at the Skatari with the robe and a big rifle, that's either a ranger or a vanguard. Big rifles are normally rangers.

Vanguards have a more classic, you know, pure. P, P, Pugh, Pugh. Yeah, I always think of them with the Archibus. Archibus, is that what it's called? The Trainsuranic Archbis. Yeah, that one. Yes. You're telling me this entire Uranic Archibus is trans?

Yes, sir. Happy June 1st, D.K. Pride month, let's go. We got it in there. Let's go. I got it in there. Let's go, hell yeah. The main line of Katari gives two unique troops, the infiltrators and the

the Rust Stalkers. Both of these units are made up of Skatari, who were great, wait, I'm screwed up, we went too far. Those were infiltrators and rustockers. Wrong paragraph. So, standardized Katari, there isn't a standardized Katari kit. Each forge world is different in their output, and the Magos on each one is different styles and tactics. The range of these weapons can be as dramatic as a guy having a woodstocked bolt action rifle, and this Katari next to him firing actual radioactive ammunition. Now, most of the time, a Ranger tends to be the one with an arc rifle or a plasma caliber or a transuranic archibus.

Let's go! But for some of the infantry, however, just their presence on the battlefield is a weapon in itself. Skatari Vanguard, often known as rad troopers, are armed to the teeth with radium weapons to the point where the radium has saturated their robes and is actively dissolving their armor plating as they fight. So it is a highly dangerous thing to be next to, especially for like a guardsman.

But doing that means that when they get close up to enemy units, they are going to slowly turn everything into, you know, the Martian home world, dead and desolate. Yeesh. I didn't. So I knew they shot like radioactive like bullets and stuff. And everyone was like, oh, yeah, their guns, a little melt you with radiation. I didn't realize that they're robes. and metal parts were just slowly melting away because of the radiation.

That's crazy. Yeah, so radiation is like a really big part of a lot of the admec. They just love their radiation. They love saturating it. They're a huge fan.

And that's kind of one of those things where you'll notice like a lot of the various Skatari just have like, yeah, they're just firing out rays of radiation, things going crazy with it. Do they ever field Skatari with like the guard? Because that seems like a recipe for a lot of dead guardsmen. Sometimes, yes.

I mean, you know, every, every faction of the Imperial will fight together in some case or another. However, you know, it's also one of those things where I think, you know, certainly guardsmen will see it and be like, Because, you know, guardsmen don't like that to begin with it. That's true. Because they're annoying as shit. And so, yeah, I mean, they're not going to hang around the, the radioactive soldiers too much. Yeah, that's just, I guess I didn't realize the scale of radiation that, um, Eskatari was just right, radiating, I suppose.

Oof. That's, that's funny. The eating together low gothic to binaic. Crazy. Anyway, so obviously they're, you know, even though that they are being covered in radiation, they can still, you know, do well and live for a little longer. Now, the things I screwed up earlier, the infiltrators and a rust stalkers, are two kinds of units where they have been greatly injured in battle but still fit to serve

and are basically just like a brain and a limb, almost no biological parts left. the main thing they want to do is have unique purposes. The infiltrators are scout troops, and they look even more robotic with their longer limbs and dome-like helmets. But the helmets give a 360 view of the battlefield, and it emits, my bad, emits a white noise and video interference so powerful that leaves people weirdly stunned.

Oh, these guys are so cool. Oh, my God. So those are the Rushstalkers. They're brutal assassins with. transonic weapons so sharp they cut through armor as if it didn't exist. However, their mastery of the art of killing simply went to waste when having them assassins as they are utilized as brutal commandos on the front lines.

So cool. Yeah. Yes. So those are the Rustalkers. They have the crazy looking helmet and then there's the crazy looking blade and the claw. Yeah. Yeah.

They're nasty as hell. However, the infiltrators, I don't know if Shai has a photo of them, they basically have like weird half dome helmets because, of course, it lets them see in every direction, which is very important. Sure. Got a C-360 to get that no scope. Absolutely. Well, they have melee weapons, but that works too. Whatever. Yeah, those things.

Oh, that's great, too. Oh, man. I guess they do have a gun, but still, you get the point. Yeah, that's sick. They're both so cool. Good. Yeah, pancreas would love those rustockers, yeah. Yeah, they're really, really neat.

Now, when it comes to other stuff, like, what about the possibility of an aerial attack? Thank you, P-A-S-M-H-E-R-A-X-I-T-R-A-X-I-T-R-E-E-R-X-I-T-E. Now they take to the skies and help with their brother and below. They have obviously additional wing augments, but they have the weird terosaur-like wings, which is a living membrane that connects to their muscles and circulatory system. I always call them the Da Vinci wings personally. Yeah, but it's actually like skin that that they control. That's, yeah.

I don't like that. They're obviously optimized for aerodynamics, and their bodies are further stripped of flesh and bone to allow for this. and you tend to see them hanging upside down like bats as they recharge their weapons in fuel, which is really cool. That's sick, yeah. Now, instead of the standard long legs you see on Skittari,

they tend to be equipped with talents to allow them to grip on surfaces and obviously fly around and making this weird scree sound as they go. And they have like flamers and guns and all the usual. The usual, yep, they got them grippers. On the heavier side of things, We have the brand new unit called the Hastari. These are a heavy and brutish infantry that have been seen accompanying Thulia Gould into battle.

These Katari are equipped with gun mounts that require backpack generators to function. And despite their heavy weaponry and lumbering figure, their machine-like accuracy has not been diminished. Their only true weakness is something a lot more monetary, as they are not cheap. And they are not easy to produce With their gyroscopic mounts and backpacks And so due to how expensive they are They are rarely seen in battle Because losing one is a expensive undertaking

Gosh, they are chunky lads, aren't they? Golly Yeah, they're big and thick They're kind of like a heavy weapon squad in a way They have a little extra weapon on their shoulders And the big one in their hands Damn, I was going to say like how expensive could they be Like they make Titans and it's like, well

This is a different ballgame And with Titans they rarely field them Unless it's absolutely necessary Don't field it if we lose it We can't build another one So yeah I guess cost is kind of an issue With the ad mech It's actually about to say

Shai do you know if Titans are on the list of things They can't remake I feel like they do remake them sometimes It just depends on the pattern And the class I think they remake them But like again it's just really goddamn hard

because they're so big. And it's so expensive. I have to imagine remaking a Titan is so expensive. Like if this is expensive to make, I imagine something, you know, a thousand times its size

is not exactly cost efficient. No, not fun. Not fun the slightest. No. The Astoria actually are really, really cool. I like them a lot. They basically are like space marine profile.

However, they're actually really not that good. in the tabletop right now, which is unfortunate. Yeah, because it looks like if you took an ad mech and a space marine and you smushed them together, you'd get one of these guys. Yeah, they're cool and they hit really hard, but like, you know, I got their problems. Yeah. Anyway, there are also the walkers and the dogs.

We can't talk about the Skittari without talking about the weird-ass mounts. Now, traditionally, a Skittari doesn't get deployed into battle in a very traditional way. They're dropped in once and then they just march endlessly, even if they have to walk to the other side of the planet. They just keep moving. They just keep walking. They don't need rest. They don't need a break.

However, some do ride things. And the most common is the Iron Strider Bellastaris. These are the chicken walkers. Yes, the chicken walkers that they can't turn off. Correct. They walk for years without stopping as they get deployed. They download the sum total of the mechanicus knowledge of this Pacific battlefield. So they can seek out their targets.

with higher importance more easily. And in more of a cavalry sense, you also have the Sondonian dragoons, which are the light walkers, that violate the laws of thermodynamics with their perpetual motion engine because Dark Age shenanigans. Sure.

And in addition to these, the Scutari that operate the artillery of the admec have their own name, the balustari. And the ones who operate the tanks and the walkers are known as the catafracti. Let's go. The most important question, No, I have not seen their standing animation in dawn of war for do share shy.

Well, surely they never stand still, right? The perpetual motion engine, right? I mean, that would be ridiculous, wouldn't it? I mean, how dare they? How dare they be a tepice ridiculous? Kills you with death? Haven't gotten one of those in in a while. Oh, they're like impatient dogs stomping in one spot.

That's fun. I like that. Oh, that's great. That's cool. But now the most important question The entire episode is of course what the dog doing And the Cerberus core of the Scatari Are troopers that ride into the back

Or on the end of the battle on the back of cyber canids They look like a really horrifying combination of dog and horse They have razor-clad limbs Kind of like the creak horses That allow them to maneuver easily But much like the Skatari The Beast don't need much of the rest And their unique olfactory sensors

make them great trackers. Most of them carry with the beast some kind of like whatever it might be, but there's also the server as Sulfurhound, which dares to answer the question of what if my mechanical horse dog also had a flame thrower? I love these guys. I feel like didn't you like literally gift me a box of these fuckers? Because I thought they looked so cool.

And you were like, yeah, have a mini or something, right? Oh, I love these guys. They look phenomenal. These are just like, they're really weird. I like the sulfur hounds a lot, but they are just like super strange. Oh, yeah, they look really, really odd, but love it. Also just love the little pistols that the guys got.

The bang bang. Love it. Oh, yeah. Love it. Love a hand cannon. So there are a couple of unique troops. There's these Katari protectors. that specialize in like bodyguards and protections of the forge.

In Mechanicum, they are described as smelling like spoiled meat and oil and are fairly imposing. They're kind of like the red royal guards that Palpatine had. They also have the ability to access more secretive conversations, but they don't contribute themselves and are given as gifts to tech priests to show like a degree of social status. Now, it's not quite clear how deep the augments are for the protectors, as they may be some differences when it comes to emotional regulation. But for example, Roe-Moo-31 in Mechanicum has actually some pretty funny and shown emotions openly. But this was also during the heresy, so things may have changed.

Now, similarly, in a bodyguard sense, we have the classi-a-eciari of the calyxis sector, which they tend to be very well armed and armored and have almost entirely imperman. of the vacuum of space. Because of this, their other purpose besides being bodyguards is ship-to-ship combat troops. Yeah, it makes sense. Now, there is, of course, the secutari. The scutari are also the ones responsible for the protection of the Titan legions

and the ancient branch of the Mechanicus military that handles this as known as the secutari. So obviously, Titans are big, and they can generally take care of themselves. But they do need some degree of protection, like ambushes, which you can attacks, things like that. You know, it's the classic case of you don't let a tank operate alone, you put people next to it. Yeah.

You know, you got to protect from those orcs and those jump cars. Yeah, or like, you know, all kinds of random things. Yeah, sure. So as, uh, that's actually a really cool. Wait, shy. That's sick as hell. I've never seen those before. Yeah, that's really dope.

What the hell? What I don't really got that helmet from? That's really neat. Mm-hmm. Um, but anyway, the, Secu Tatar are the ones that march alongside the Titans in battle to make sure there are no traps or sneak attacks or things like that. But also that survivors in the wake of the Titan are hunted down because as great as the Titans are, they never get everybody. You know, it's more about like turning an entire base into rubble and melted metal.

And then like, you know, I'm not going to spend a shell the size of a small car on like one Chaos Space Marine. Yeah, of course not. That would be cost inefficient. And poor calculus. Oh, sure. You get what you send the troops in for. Yeah. Now, obviously, the secutari are modified in the same way as any other scutari,

but one major difference between them and their more infantry-focused brethren is the installation of a chiropatris field generator in their rib cage. This device creates a harmonic barrier that can deflect attacks from heavy weapons and also be able to synchronize with nearby generators. So a whole group of these guys have this like synchronized shield harmonics that form a protective barrier at the lower level of the titum. Now the primary members of these are the hoplites armed with arclances and they serve as a prominent defensive line against infantry runs, which is what those minis are right there and they look sick as shit. God damn, I've never seen these. These are so badass. Like what the? It's like if you took the ad mech and you just smushed it with like a medieval nash. knight suit of armor.

It's so cool. Heck yeah. No, I mean, the, uh, the general look is, is great. Yeah. Um, now, obviously, you know, they got the, like sword and board, which is always cool. Mm-hmm. And I just, I just love me a good sword and board look. Um, but obviously not all of this guitar, the support of Thai legions are as uniform as

others. And we get a good example of some of the extreme differences in Forge World of Forge World in the book Titanicus, if you would like to check out. this long quote. Oh, yeah, okay, shy. Yeah, hop light there, going for more of a Greek vibe, the medieval one. Okay, whatever. Anyway, the quote, hosts of the Scatari marched with them, rowdy and alarming.

To Ediseverin, the Scatari seemed the polar opposite of the guard of the PDF. They were gaudy, beastia, loud, and brutish. They chomped for war and utter terrifying group yells of testosterone-fueled antipathy. They were also non-uniform. She had never seen such a hybrid mix of feathers, furs, inbuilt weapons, claws, augmetics, engineering fangs, plumes, body armor, decorations, and jewels. She knew that Gatch was nonplussed. He simply did not know what to make of the barbarian scotari. They were not common soldiers, the type he had been trained with. Oh, weirdos.

Yeah. Weirdos. Yeah. For the admec, they must seem like a bunch of freaks. Well, I'd say they are. Yeah. Now, there are a few small bits to end with, which are the human thoughts and the regimental standard. So what did the humans think about all these guys?

The question you had earlier. Yeah. What did anything about them? This should not come as any sort of surprise, but the guardsman perspective on Skatari is mixed at best, horrifying at worst. They tend to fight together quite a bit in close proximity, but it's really hard for a guardsman to ignore what Skatari is. When the shooting stops is when the conversation is get a bit more tense in the book Storm of Iron that we rem.

The guard have a bad interaction with the Skatari because they ask if they can mulch all the dead guard together for fuel. And a more positive and sad interaction in Echoes of Eternity, it features the friendship of the 12th Hellion Rifles Regiment, Sergeant Silas and Varick and Skatari Transacta 7Y1. And even though her radioactive weaponry was slowly killing him during the siege, he stood by her side during the final stand of the Palatine Bastion. As they sit there before the inevitable end, Silas asks her if he can ask one more question before they die, which is, are you pretty under all of that?

Aw. Well, that's just sad. You can read this if you'd like. Well, I should. Wow. Possum gave you some quotes. He did, he did. It took her a moment to process this.

She'd never been out of such a thing. Beneath her armor, she was an irradiated foot soldier of the machine god. Her skin deep brown at birth, and not unlike Envarx in that regard, was a starved and sunless gray. She'd been ritually delimmed her extremities replaced with arms and legs of inexpensive cybernetic purity. Much to her honor, she had attained such a state of grace with a state of grace with a in her mechamorphosis that more of her body was now compromised of holy iron than what remained of her flawed birth flesh. Under her helmet, she was pockmarked with cryocontrolled radiation tumors. She possessed no eyelids, no hair, no teeth, and no nose, and what hadn't been surgically removed

had rotted off over the course of her years of sacred service. In short, she was Skittari. Transacta 7Y1 keyed in a symbol and tossed him a data slug again. He caught it with weakening fingers and read the symbol there. Affirmative. He gave a bloodstained smile. Yeah. I thought so. It's kind of cool.

Yeah, it's kind of actually kind of just a little depressing too. That it's just like, oh, look at what I've become. And it's like, I can't even really answer if what's under here is pretty or not. It's just Skittari. I mean, it is just Skatari, but, yeah. Hey, you know. But, um, that reminds me of, what was that book series we read where the guy had the hots for the

Admec lady? I mean, she was still. Oh, um, majorly human, I think, right? Oh, oh, it was the, it was the crime novel. Yeah, I can't remember what it was called. But there was definitely flashes of like, oh, we're going to have a romance here. I remember we bitched about that because we were like, The novel said like a this and this and Rose story.

And it's like the only one. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah, that was. It wasn't as guitary. No, I think her name was like row seven or row. I forget. Yeah, it was something like that.

But that's kind of what it reminds me of a little bit. I liked that book a lot too. That was a really good one. Yeah, that was solid. Oh, it was flesh and steel. Flesh and steel. Yes. Oh, that would make sense.

Yeah. Ro one Lux. Yes, that's the one. Hell yeah. Now, we get a bit of a fun showcase of humans, Gattari interactions in the regimental standard in one issue titled Failure, the Attemptus Mechanicus and you. It opens up with some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that the departmento immunitorum has received reports about a lack of strategic coordination between the Militarum and the Mechanicus on the battlefield, to the point where a valuable ordinance was wasted on friendly targets. These reports were investigated by the Office of the Fabricator General, and it was determined to be entirely the Militarum's fault.

You see, the Skatari had the ability to communicate near instantaneously while guardsmen are unable to due to their biological flaws. The good news is the Fabricator General has a solution, a new vocational program that will allow guardsmen to better interact with their soldiers in battle. Not only do you have the chance to link directly into a command structure, but also your brink. body will be enhanced as a bonus. Project Catafron, slogan, A Better You in Metal. That offers this opportunity, but they know you might have some concerns.

Some folks may be worried that this process can result in the loss of, quote, unimportant biological features, like your knees or your free will. But rest easy, soldier, the increased durability you will experience combined with the ability to carry heavy weapons battle will allow you to serve the emperor far better than before. Project Catafron is open to all guardsmen.

Just ask your commanding officer for a referral. Quote now, D.K., hit it good. Please note that the procedure is irreversible and guardsmen will be expected to find a suitable substitute for their absence. Failure to do so will be punished by conversion into a servitor. But you say, but, but D.K., say you're a guardsman and you don't. don't want to participate in Project Catafrom, but you want to be friendly to a Skatari station near you, regardless of the ambient radiation. Well, we have the guardsman to Skatara's phrase book, a book that is direct result from the increased coordination between the Militarum and the Adeptus Mechanicus. It's high time for a good soldier to learn some vocabre so they can

speak with their fellow soldier. But why? Why, D.K., you might ask? Why? Well, forming social bonds leads to a significant increase in one's willingness to give one's own life for them. Because as we all know, a lucky guardsman is one who expends his service protecting another that is more capable than him. If you would want a full copy of the phrase book, it can be obtained from your quartermaster in exchange for one signed and stamped requisition form MC1-X1V-alpha-3302 Part C Section A-3-3-2A. No other form, D.K. will be accepted at this time. And all guardsmen are expected to display a conversational level of Skatari lingo before next deployment as tested by your commissar. Try some with the excerpt below.

Now, D.K., if you can do me a quick favor here, can you please read the second low gothic thing here? And I'll translate it for us. The one that Chai posted? Correct. Well, the one I posted, but yes. Oh, yeah, yeah. The second low Gothic one. Please.

That looks delicious. That looks delicious. Translating to 0-1-1-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-1-0-1-1-0-1-1-1-1-1-0-1-1-1-1-0-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-0-1-1-1-0-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-0-1-1-0-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 No-11-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0. You are expected to learn this before your next deployment. But Bricky, what if I wanted to say, may I have some? My rations were mixed up with the ammunition delivery. Zero one, zero one.

God, please don't. We don't have this much time. It was a joke. I didn't expect you to do it. And that's the Skatari, baby. Let's go. Damn, Skatari. You would think they'd give like the guard.

Well, I was going to say, you'd think they'd give the guards some like rad pills or something to deal with, you know, the overwhelming radiation that will kill you. But then it's like, oh, right, it's the Imperium. They don't care. They don't care. They don't care. It's like, oh, in Fallout, it's like, oh, yeah, we have rad pills, sure, because some people care. Imperium, we don't care. We have billions of planets giving us hundreds of thousands of tiths.

Who cares of a couple of you die of radiation poisoning? Yikes. Well, you know, it's, oh, sorry, we have one more. quote here that is available that Shai has posted before we will end the episode.

D.K., if you may, because my mouth hurts now. Okay. Shai says, I also have this Melisma Arto-Septis Lata here, who I want to mention

because she's kind of funny. The quote is, Melisma Arto-Septimus Iota. Skittari-Marshal serves as a commander of Belisarius calls military forces. Though gender is irrelevant

for many of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Iota reveals in her femininity, her sculpted body is a tall, silver-armored, and idolized version of her original form. She basically walks around naked, wearing only an opened cloak, and otherwise appears to be entirely mechanical. This also includes her face, which is made of flexible metal, and can move as much as any humans.

However, Iota mostly wears an expression of superior amusement on her face. Wow. It's a... Good times. It's a vain Skatari, Marshall. Huh. Yeah, the commander of Kahl's military. Oh, that actually kind of tracks.

A little bit. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, good stuff. That's your Scutari. Hell yeah. And now you're all ready for when someone asks you why you're playing Skatari in Dark Tide. You can give them all the lore, all the backstory about, you know, I'm not one of those two-thirds that, turn traitor.

And don't worry, admec players. I'm sure your 11th edition Codex will be far better. Truly, nothing bad can happen here. Oh. That sounded. Bad in time to do. Really bad.

I was going to say, that sounded so sarcastic. It was palpable. I was like, ooh, it must have been bad. It maybe was the worst one. It was bad. Shit, all right, cool. Couldn't get any worse. we hope

we hope