Do or Don't: Adeptus Mechanicus

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I think my favorite bit about the Mechanicus is when Cawl told Trazyn the infinite they had nothing in common and Trazyn dropped one of the rawest lines in 40k "Perhaps. I went to the fires of biotransference in chains. You, I think, have gladly sliced away your humanity piece by piece".

"I assure you Archmagos, our progenitors from the Golden Age definitely invented this giant pair of legs with a gun on top of it"

Adeptus Mechanicus: Do or Don't Do: Worship the Machine God and venerate the Omnisaiah Don't: Stick your Cyberdong in a toaster when you should be tending to it's Machine Spirit. Unless it likes this, then destroy it because it's corrupted by Slaanesh.

In one particular book, there is a Magos Biologis that is super friendly and chill. He runs what is essentially a fully automated super-hospital in a city. He's jolly, talkative, and takes nearly everything in stride. Nearly everything. Someone tried to pass off genetically modified blood as normal blood, and when he found out, he trapped them in the facility and turned it into a 100 story death trap while maniacally declaring his intent to show them what true suffering is over the PA system. Him and his victims never show up again in the book. Don't try to use Tech-Heresy to pass blood tests. The Magos will go full Hellraiser on you.

HOLY CRAP, ITS AN ENTIRE VIDEO ABOUT THE MECHANICUS ON A COMEDIC CHANNEL AND THERE ISN'T A SINGLE TOASTER JOKE!

On the note of "More human looking augmentations", in the book Titanicus, the Mechanicus and Titan Legions do have members that are engineered to be ambassadors to planetary governors and such that are made to look as human as possible. The idea being they will be much better received and listened to if they don't look like an edgy middle school student's idea of steampunk body horror

Pancreas: "how big is the imperial senate that you can fit a titan in their meeting room?" Ok, but hear me out: how big are the imperial senate DOORS that you can march a titan into the meeting room???

Fyi: in the Ciaphas Cain novels there is a prevalent tech priest that is exactly like the ones you wished for. She isn't really fanatic or devoted to anything and this holds her back from rising in the ranks for a while. Instead, she enjoys being human. She likes baths, good food and it's implied that she has a sexual relationship with Ciaphas. But she still has minor augmentations. Her main motivations are having a good time and curiosity as to how things work. And when we meet her again a couple decades later, she has risen in the ranks and gotten a lot more augmentations but is still the same humerous person. So if you want a different flavour of tech priest, read Ciaphas Cain. edit: Spelling

I do like how in the Mechanicus game the Skitarii Marshall tries really hard to keep her skitarii alive.

Mechanicus: I want to become a machine Necrons: Trust me you don't

One of my favorite mechanicus story is when the Sisters of Battle found an old blueprint for a tank turret. The mechanicus demanded it be handed over to them. The sisters agreed on the condition that they only build that turret for their tanks. Thus the Immolator Battle tank was born.

6:02 In the short story (Binary Succession) they don’t march it into the actual meeting room. They just step it over the Imperial Palace outer walls and defenses and everyone inside can hear it stomping and war horn as it approaches with the princeps blocking all the exits.

15:23 "plus if you roll a six they explode when they go down, so that can always be a nice final middle finger to whoever took him out." In the grim darkness of the 41st Millenium... There can be no victor. (RIP Kitten & TTS)

Every times I heard PNW's bad takes and try to raise objection, I remember that his pancreas does not work and cease all actions as my anger melts into sorrow and pity.

Lets just agree that 40k Mechanicus has one of the best 40k ost ever, especially the Children of the Omnissiah and Noosphere, damn what a good stuff.

In the game Adeptus Mechanicus NECRONS are dubbed in ENGLISH and the tech priests make those deep, gurgling, wheezing, burpling and woozing noises. They are more alien than actual aliens. Less human than magic egyptian space sceletons.

The Iron Hands could survive longer than the Salamanders without the Mechanicus, considering the Iron Fathers are each basically a Magos in power armor

Funny enough, the whole 'xenotech should be destroyed' vs 'xenotech should be studied' thing showed up in the Gladius game as well. Led to a suitably grimdark faction ending.

I waited for this for so long Edit: i always found it really interesting how the mechanicus in "mainstream" lore are exactly as you described them: selfish assholes who think they are superior in every single thing they do and do not care about unaugmented people...but the mechanicus in novels are completely different: i read about one caring about his looks and was trying his best to still look human (titanicus), another one that was employed by the imperial navy and was literally cracking so much jokes that he kept pissing off the bridge crew (beginning of "of mars" trilogy), another one that believes in hope, luck and is generally really optimistic (eisenhorn: malleus) and lets not forget cawl himself in "the great work". That man was definitely the class clown in his school days. The reason for the mechanicus' body modding fetishism is not necessarily forsaking humanity, but preserving it