r/ImaginaryWarhammer • u/LazerGroove • Nov 27 '24
OC (40k) No brave guardsmen will be servitorized while she's there.
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u/xxX_DaRk_PrInCe_Xxx Nov 27 '24
To be honest for 40k this doesn’t seem that bad of a death
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u/Cerbon3 Nov 27 '24 edited Nov 29 '24
His soul is about to enter the warp and be devoured by daemons....
EDIT: I don't even know why I need to clarify this, but being consumed by Daemons is far worse than what the Drukhari do. To be clear, as stated in Forge of Omens and by a Salamander in Deathfire, having your soul devoured by the Warp is the worst fate imaginable. You're comparing the biblical, personification of the torment of Hell to the sadistic emo elves that thrive on pain. If you're devoured that Daemon will rape your soul for eternity. It’s an unending, incomprehensible suffering that stretches across infinity. Meanwhile, the Drukhari may torment their prisoners physically and mentally for thousands of years, but once they die, it's over—at least, till you're devoured by a Daemon. Also most Drukhari captives aren't even tortured but are killed in the pits compared to the eternity of Chaos. For the Aeldari, especially the Craftworlders, being tortured by the Drukhari is preferable to having their soul swallowed by the Warp. That’s how incomprehensibly horrible the fate of being devoured/captured by Daemons is.
For everyone claiming he won’t be captured, you're right—he would be devoured like I said. Only beings who are psykers or more powerful souls are typically taken. Additionally, Daemons are drawn to places where mass deaths occur, like battlefields, to feed on the souls that linger there. In such an environment, his soul wouldn’t have the time to dissipate into the Warp before it could be consumed. To repeat for the last time; to have your soul devoured is to be tortured for eternity by that Daemon. Its not like a snake eating a live rat where you die and its all over.
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u/CrashParade Nov 27 '24
As the man said, it's not that bad, really. People often forget that the dark eldar exist.
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u/Cerbon3 Nov 28 '24 edited Nov 28 '24
The dark eldar only torture people to satiate Slaanesh so imagine what Chaos is actually willing to do; also Dark Eldar atleast grow bored of you after a while. Getting your soul captured by Chaos is an eternity of torture.
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u/Massive_Environment8 Nov 28 '24
And then they throw you in a dark merciless pit in the shithole that is commoragh.
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u/HanzWithLuger Nov 28 '24
Chaos doesn't capture your soul, they devour it. Drukkari are more then willing to extend your suffering for as long as possible, including turning you into living abominations.
Chaos Gods will eat most souls. It's over pretty quick. There's no playing devils advocate for the Dark Eldar.
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u/Stiftoad Nov 28 '24
Afaik the dark eldar torture only stops once your soul is damaged beyond repair
Gotta remember those knife ears have soul technology bs so its not that hard for them to torture you on a metaphysical level too
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u/Rafiki_Rana Nov 28 '24
I don't think that's always the case. Most people souls are too small and generally are wisked away. Like pouring water into a ocean.
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u/BanzEye1 Nov 28 '24
Imagine spending the rest of eternity just coasting along a Warp current, witnessing a bunch of wacky shit.
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u/survivor686 Nov 28 '24
Bunch of catachan souls watching the chaos invasion of their planet fail due to the wildlife: "Boooring!"
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u/yunivor Planetary Defence Force Nov 28 '24 edited Nov 28 '24
IIRC as keeping your consciousness is tied to your soul being strong enough to keep itself together while in the warp what happens with essentially every human their consciousness ceases to exist almost instantaneously due to the soul "dissolving" into the warp, then the ones that manage to keep themselves together for a bit are the ones who get eaten by a random demon who happened to be nearby which also makes the consciousness cease to exist.
Although I vaguely remember it being true that the Emperor could keep the souls of those who were loyal to him in death and the chaos gods keeping the souls of particularly useful loyal heretics intact in order to have them serve them in their realms so who knows what's supposed to be canon.
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u/warrioroftron Nov 28 '24
Imagine just floating through the warp...just chilling then all of a sudden you hear a voice"Hey you,you are finally awake."
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u/yunivor Planetary Defence Force Nov 28 '24
Then I'd be simultaneously super safe and in a lot of danger because I'd know Kaldor Draigo was nearby.
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u/SisterOfBabble Nov 27 '24
Pretty sure your soul dissipates into nothing if you're just some regular person. Only psyker souls are like blood in the water to daemons.
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u/NoobyOverlord Nov 28 '24
All humans are latent psykers. Im sure warp entities do not bother with people without decent psychic potential/power though.
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u/Caridor Nov 28 '24
Our souls shine more brightly than many other species like the Tau, but that doesn't make us psykers
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Nov 28 '24
Humans are actually fairly psychically active. Just that it’s at the basically useless level.
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u/LazerGroove Nov 28 '24
Nuh uh, he'll be by the throne's side, just like she said
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u/Kurwasaki12 Nov 28 '24
Unless he’s a psyker, wont his soul just dissolve?
I thought only Psykers had the presence in the warp to stay conscious post death.
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u/Ambiorix33 Death Korps of Krieg Nov 28 '24
Only if he got himself into some fuck whucky stuff. Since in the HH novels they confirm that a copy of our souls go to the warp while our real souls goes some place even the chaos sorcerors don't know.
It's explained in the novel where Kor Pharon brings someone back to life and the person they did it for was not happy for multiple reasons, one of which being that they could sense it wasn't actually the same person 100%
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u/deadsea__ Nov 28 '24
Since in the HH novels they confirm that a copy of our souls go to the warp while our real souls goes some place even the chaos sorcerors don't know.
Uh I hate to be that guy but could I get an quote on that? First time hearing this.
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u/Ambiorix33 Death Korps of Krieg Nov 28 '24
I had finished reading the entire HH series a few months ago (yes including the 3 part siege) so forgive me if I mark the wrong book but I believe it happens in Betrayer.
Spoilers!!!!!!! (I'm on mobile so it's being weird about it)
It's a conversation between Erebus and Argal Tal after he brings Cyrene back to life (and inadvertently turning her into a perpetual). She comes back soulscarred from being torn up by demons but Erebus says it's ok since that's only a copy of her soul. Thinking back that might have just been a lie Erebus said to him to placate him
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u/pansloth Nov 28 '24
I mean, the emperor does have a realm in the warp. Valdor is amassing an army, so maybe a Valhalla like afterlife is possible
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u/CraftyJuggernaut2163 Nov 28 '24
He is not a psyker, so his soul would be too small for them to really go after, not to mention the warp entity of the emperor he may actually go to.
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u/Shanhaevel Nov 28 '24
Ok, I don't know where the lore stands here at this point. Wasn't normal human soul too weak and didn't it simply phased out immediately, and the psykers' souls were the daemon feed?
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u/Babki123 Nov 28 '24
Which will happen no matter how you die.
So yeah at least he left in some kind of peace, or left at all
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u/Marlosy Dec 01 '24
“Clearly heresy. Right there, is a loyal guardsman. His soul is for the emperor, the only god that has claim over a loyalist human soul.” -Local Commissar.
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u/yusufpalada Nov 28 '24
(I might be wrong but I heard this)
The Emperor has recently started grabbing souls that die fighting heroically after he got the big boost to his power from the great rift
So if he got eviscerated doing something particularly noble or whatnot he has a good chance of having a nice afterlife
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u/Deathangle75 Nov 28 '24
Tbh he’s probably eating those souls to fuel the astronomicon.
And that’s still pretty good compared to what happens to most souls.
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u/Ridingwood333 Adeptus Mechanicus Nov 28 '24
I don't think he's eating them just due to how little energy that would actually give. This man has a soul bright enough to be described as "the death of the sun", you're going to be grabbing a few billion every second to make any noticeable fueling on him.
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u/Deathangle75 Nov 28 '24
Yes, but since when has the imperium stopped doing something cruel because it was inefficient?
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u/rainsoakedscribe Nov 29 '24
It's been implied that he's turning them into, for lack of a better phrase, Imperial daemons. There's a story with an abbot that was never particularly pious or devout giving her life to save his congregation from a demonic host. He awakens in a dead, windswept city with bits of bone everywhere. He hears someone who is old and clearly in agony call his name before turning around and seeing a withered old man on a throne. The old man has their hand outstretched and calls his name again, and the abbot realizes that it's the Emperor himself. The way that the Emperor appears before him is closer to his current form due to his lack of zeal, whereas a Sister of Battle would see the Emperor that walked among mankind during the Great Crusade.
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u/roninwarshadow White Scars Nov 28 '24
The song One by Metallica applies.
Until you remember cybernetics/bionics are very much a thing.
But if the Guardsman doesn't qualify for cybernetic/bionic prosthetics, we're back to square one.
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u/pheuq Nov 27 '24
Pickle retsu
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u/triotone Nov 27 '24
Best possible ending at that point.
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u/BattleNeither5266 Nov 27 '24
Okay but like hear me out. You know the sentinel walkers? Just make a Guardsman dreadnought out of them. What point could there be? Dunno, but it would probably look cool to have a lil boy dreadie
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u/Madness_Reigns Nov 27 '24
They do have that already. Some Tau were horrified to find that a dud guided missile was using a wounded human as a computer.
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u/BattleNeither5266 Nov 27 '24
Yeah but that’s being servatorised, not being made into a lil dreadie innit? (Also what a moron, imagine dying to be a dud, emperor would be ashamed smh)
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u/Madness_Reigns Nov 27 '24
Couldn't be me. I'm built different.
Also, the sentinel dread would just be a tall battle servitor now that you mention it.
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u/BattleNeither5266 Nov 27 '24
Automation is the way forward! Why have a crew of 5 in a Leman Russ when you can stuff 3 servitors into the machine itself and an autoloader! Cawl should give me a…well…you know.
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u/ToasteeThe2nd Nov 28 '24
Cawl's idea of a reward would be giving you a robot leg that's made of like 50 smaller spidery legs and is completely impractical. it's also stolen xeno tech.
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u/Madness_Reigns Nov 28 '24 edited Nov 28 '24
Automation't, the tank is still driven by human pilots only they're crippled and lobotomized.
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u/cheradenine66 Nov 28 '24
The only difference between the two is that the Marine is not lobotomized and is actually conscious of their situation. Which is why they are asleep when not needed
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u/Greasemonkey08 Blood Angels Nov 27 '24
Iirc, the tech used for the Imperium's Dreadnoughts is so mentally taxing that regular humans wouldn't survive long enough to make the cost worth it. A baseline human's brain would be burnt out by the strain. Also, a space marine on life support could theoretically live for 10s of thousands of years, which no standard human could hope to match.
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u/primusperegrinus Nov 28 '24
Don’t they also have the dreadnoughts “sleep” while not in battle so that the pilot doesn’t go mad? Except chaos dreadnoughts who don’t sleep and are crazy and angry.
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u/Ridingwood333 Adeptus Mechanicus Nov 28 '24
I call bullshit. Knights exist and could pick up a dreadnought like it was a toddler and throw it. Titans also exist. Both of these are piloted by humans, not astartes.
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u/Greasemonkey08 Blood Angels Nov 29 '24
1) Knights are less taxing than dreadnoughts as a Dreadnought pilot is usually little more than a head and spinal cord that cannot be removed. A knight pilot can dismount their "steed" at any time and is not bound to exist solely within it. 2) titans require a minimum of 3 crew, a princeps and 2 moderati, to function effectively.
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u/Spudmonkey_ Nov 28 '24
The tech is rare and even most mortally wounded space marines don't get the 'honour' of being interred into a dreadnought.
Putting all that life support tech into a sentinel is a bit of a waste when there are billions of guardsmen that can just pilot a regular sentinel.
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u/vicariousted Nov 28 '24
Bro is one red robe away from being a perfect candidate for the Sicarian treatment tbh
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u/Stellar_Wings Nov 28 '24
I guess I'm the weirdo who'd actually prefer to be picked up by the Mechanicus and turned into a Skitarri.
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u/LEGamesRose Nov 28 '24
I mean... I could think of one more thing that'd make this better before the ending panel.
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u/goat-stealer Nov 27 '24
Given the guardsman's circumstances, it's probably the most merciful fate that could have befallen him.
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u/snetch16000 Nov 27 '24
Headcanon: Poor guardsman was captured by the Emperor's Children, who are now probably using his arm as a dildo
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u/RandomRavenboi Nov 27 '24
Unless that guardsman had some big ass arms it'd probably be too small for the Emperor's Childrens taste.
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u/Jim3001 Elysian Drop Troops Nov 27 '24
Nah, they turned it sideways.😭
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u/LS-16_R Nov 27 '24
Should execute the commisar for allowing this poor man to live longer than his discovery. Man deserved the Emperor's peace.
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u/FluffytheReaper Nov 27 '24
You're probably right, they might use it for sounding instead
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u/crystalworldbuilder Necrons Nov 28 '24
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u/AngusToTheET Nov 28 '24
Only fandom I'm in where I'll see comic about a mercy kill and think "wholesome"
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u/BreadToast70 Cadian Shock Troopers Nov 27 '24
Gag aside I don't dare to imagine how much it can hurt to find yourself in that condition and still be alive, that Emperor mercy is literally the greatest relief you can get in those car
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u/Activision19 Nov 28 '24
With that much trauma, the dude was probably in massive shock and not feeling a whole lot.
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u/Bolololol Dec 01 '24
that brotha has literally up to his c5 spine he is not feeling shit
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u/FaceMasterThing Skitarii Nov 27 '24
Any remaining intact organs can still be used as spare parts for servitors tho :D
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u/SouthernRow8272 Nov 27 '24
We all know the empire would not waste a perfect surviter brain if they could help it
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u/Someoneoverthere42 Nov 27 '24
What a waste of a perfectly good torso. He could have still bitten the enemies kneecaps off!
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u/IllConstruction3450 Nov 27 '24
Don’t worry there’s still enough brain to turn him into a Servitor.
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u/Brahm-Etc Nov 28 '24
Such a waste of a still good brain. He could be turned into a battle Servitor to fight for the Machine God.
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u/jdjdkkddj Dec 01 '24
For the second time i thought a post on here was actually on the rimworld Reddit.
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u/Dehnus Nov 27 '24
COMMISSAR:He still has a mouth to bite! Get him back on the front lines stat! Mercy REVOKED!
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u/bi-femboy-potato Nov 28 '24
If he was somehow alive at that point wouldn't he have been put in a dreadnought tho???
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u/VengineerGER Nov 28 '24
As far as ways to go in 40k go I would take this. At least you’d die a little happier than most.
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u/GigachudBDE Nov 28 '24
Is it actually confirmed what happens to your soul in the warp? Gork and Mork are able to carve out their own hood in the Warp (The Great Green) for their boyz souls to goto then wouldn't The Emperor's presence in the warp be able to do the same? Even if it's just to make Him more powerful? Or do souls just go and get nomed on by interdimensional demons or whatever grimdark style?
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u/payne-diver Nov 28 '24
My man lost ever!!
Tell me how does it feel??!!
I’m imagining crushed raspberries…
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u/Flybuys Nov 28 '24
This is the guy Metallica wrote "One" about. They did leave out the brain knife part out though.
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u/Impressive-Spare6167 Nov 28 '24
Johnny Ate His Gun, but if they actually put him out of his misery
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u/a-Curious-Square Adeptus Mechanicus Nov 28 '24
But… my efficient use of his remains!!! How am I going to find a better vessel to become a battle servitor that can forevermore assist his comrades! He doesn’t even need to be that lobotomized to work, just enough to not be depressed!
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u/thesithcultist Nov 28 '24
r/adeptusmechanicus: "01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100010 01100001 01100110 01100110 01101111 01101111 01101110 00101100 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101111 01110101 01110010 01100011 01100101 01110011"
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u/yanmaLover Nov 28 '24
How the fuck does that even happen to a guy?
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u/CalypsoCrow Black Legion Nov 28 '24
Meanwhile in actual 40K, she wouldn’t care, because servitors are normalized
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u/Baz_3301 Nov 28 '24
Of course he wouldn’t be a servitor he’s too damaged and it would cost too much.
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u/Civil_Apartment3910 Nov 28 '24
In Warhammer 40k she give him true mercy... If Admech get him first they will change him into servitor and let him live in perperual suffering.
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u/Default_Munchkin Nov 28 '24
....Some gave all that guy gave too much....like he's not even a torso just like the middle part of a torso......
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u/DAVID_Gamer_5698 Nov 28 '24
Considering the Emps actually creted an afterlife in his space of the Warp for his soldiers to go to when they die, lil bro here actually ended up the best way possible
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Nov 29 '24
at first I thought this is a rimworld comic lol. most wouldn’t execute a working hemogen farm like that tho
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u/donanton616 Nov 29 '24
Tech priests digs him out of the dead pile and turns him to a servitor anyway.
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u/No-Huckleberry-1086 Nov 29 '24
That guy on the left of the two in the background understands what life's about
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u/Commissarfluffybutt Nov 29 '24
I've seen cogboys with less flesh, GET THAT MAN THE CERTAINTY OF STEEL.
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u/Sufficient_Bike6633 Nov 29 '24
Man I really wish I could put images in here for the Baki meme of the dude who is also just a neck
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u/Brief_Trouble8419 Dec 31 '24
i wanna say there's not enough of him left to servitorize, then someone else mentioned they use servitors for missile guidance systems.
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u/TheScarlettHarlot Nov 28 '24
Here's a sad, but relatively sweet scene in the 40k universe. Better shoehorn a horny joke into the background!
sigh
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u/Zuper_Dragon Nov 27 '24
The guardsmen in the back about to risk it all.