The Horror of the Dark Mechanicum

whoever keeps you in their basement should give you some rest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Arthur Covering Dark Mechanicum before Admech- Based AF.

How mfs feel after fixing their microwave by punching it repeatedly

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

You had me at "spare parts ".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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