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High Lords: /* Machine Spirits */

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Machine Spirits

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	Data-djinn are those strings of code that are not bound to any physical form, they exist within data-mediums able to be transferred from cogitator to cogitator lacking none of the impediments that the Mechanicus inflict on most programs that render many Imperial cogitators ponderously slow-operating things. Naturally Data-djinn are only held by Tech Priests and ownership of such programs by others is rigorously persecuted if they cannot find the protection of a powerful individual - these programs are not named for notoriously fickle creatures of pre-Imperial Terran myth without reason they can be unpredictable when released into a system and improperly handled can become corrupted and malicious code.		Data-djinn are those strings of code that are not bound to any physical form, they exist within data-mediums able to be transferred from cogitator to cogitator lacking none of the impediments that the Mechanicus inflict on most programs that render many Imperial cogitators ponderously slow-operating things. Naturally Data-djinn are only held by Tech Priests and ownership of such programs by others is rigorously persecuted if they cannot find the protection of a powerful individual - these programs are not named for notoriously fickle creatures of pre-Imperial Terran myth without reason they can be unpredictable when released into a system and improperly handled can become corrupted and malicious code.


			=== Scrapcode ===

			The Archenemy, Chaos, rarely has much respect for machine-spirits often binding machines with unusual and heretical programs drawn from some blasphemous source. But they do have their own forms of aggressive data that can corrupt and infiltrate Imperial machine spirits - formed from the code-speak of Hereteks scrapcode is infested with random and chaotic data and some sort of almost-sentient maliciousness when Imperial machinery is exposed to it. Once a system is infested the scrapcode begins to propagate like a virus in a living creature seeking to overwhelm and subsume the system - in most cases this causes the machine to enter a state of cascade failure and be disabled entirely, but some great machine spirits have been twisted entirely to the will of the Hereteks that infected it, turning the entire machine into a traitor against the Imperium.

High Lords: /* Machine Spirits */

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Machine Spirits

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	To this end the Imperium and Mechanicus apply a belief that all machines are possessed of this animus though they treat it as something to be respected it should be noted that both the Imperium and Mechanicus possess an innate fear of 'thinking' machines so rather than being responded to with joy, a machines 'machine spirit' answering back to the user is generally reacted to with horror followed by the destruction of the item as noted above, the fear of thinking machines is deeply engrained in Imperial and Mechanicus cultural history.		To this end the Imperium and Mechanicus apply a belief that all machines are possessed of this animus though they treat it as something to be respected it should be noted that both the Imperium and Mechanicus possess an innate fear of 'thinking' machines so rather than being responded to with joy, a machines 'machine spirit' answering back to the user is generally reacted to with horror followed by the destruction of the item as noted above, the fear of thinking machines is deeply engrained in Imperial and Mechanicus cultural history.


	=== Data-djinn ===		=== Data-djinn ===

High Lords: /* Machine Spirits */

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Machine Spirits

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	To this end the Imperium and Mechanicus apply a belief that all machines are possessed of this animus though they treat it as something to be respected it should be noted that both the Imperium and Mechanicus possess an innate fear of 'thinking' machines so rather than being responded to with joy, a machines 'machine spirit' answering back to the user is generally reacted to with horror followed by the destruction of the item as noted above, the fear of thinking machines is deeply engrained in Imperial and Mechanicus cultural history.		To this end the Imperium and Mechanicus apply a belief that all machines are possessed of this animus though they treat it as something to be respected it should be noted that both the Imperium and Mechanicus possess an innate fear of 'thinking' machines so rather than being responded to with joy, a machines 'machine spirit' answering back to the user is generally reacted to with horror followed by the destruction of the item as noted above, the fear of thinking machines is deeply engrained in Imperial and Mechanicus cultural history.

			=== Data-djinn ===

			Data-djinn are a curious machine-spirit as they have no true form to them - the majority of what a human from M.2 would call 'software' is loaded onto physical wafers that must be inserted into the banks of Cogitators in order to function, these programs are fixed in purpose and never truly leave the storage mediums upon which they are kept. Installing or upgrading new 'programs' into a cogitator is a laborious physical process of removing these wafers and replacing them with new ones - this is thanks to the Imperium and Machine Cult's longstanding fear of granting even the slightest degree of autonomy to data and the machine - a historical fear from a largely forgotten and conflicted event in pre-Imperial history that has made autonomous machines a deeply engrained fear.

			Data-djinn are those strings of code that are not bound to any physical form, they exist within data-mediums able to be transferred from cogitator to cogitator lacking none of the impediments that the Mechanicus inflict on most programs that render many Imperial cogitators ponderously slow-operating things. Naturally Data-djinn are only held by Tech Priests and ownership of such programs by others is rigorously persecuted if they cannot find the protection of a powerful individual - these programs are not named for notoriously fickle creatures of pre-Imperial Terran myth without reason they can be unpredictable when released into a system and improperly handled can become corrupted and malicious code.

High Lords at 00:08, 6 May 2021

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	None of these things are sentient, they are, at best blessed with animal intelligence but the majority are decanted from the flesh-vats as little more than braindead bodies, perfect to be extensively refitted with cogitators and neural interlinks to slave them to whatever		None of these things are sentient, they are, at best blessed with animal intelligence but the majority are decanted from the flesh-vats as little more than braindead bodies, perfect to be extensively refitted with cogitators and neural interlinks to slave them to whatever



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High Lords at 00:07, 6 May 2021

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	None of these things are sentient, they are, at best blessed with animal intelligence but the majority are decanted from the flesh-vats as little more than braindead bodies, perfect to be extensively refitted with cogitators and neural interlinks to slave them to whatever		None of these things are sentient, they are, at best blessed with animal intelligence but the majority are decanted from the flesh-vats as little more than braindead bodies, perfect to be extensively refitted with cogitators and neural interlinks to slave them to whatever

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	== Machine Spirits ==		== Machine Spirits ==

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	It is a core tenet of the [[The_Machine_Cult\|Cult Mechanicus]] that all machines are endowed by the Omnissiah with a '''Machine Spirit''' - the core or 'soul' of the device which must be placated with appropriate ritual behaviour in order for it to fulfil its sacred function. These rituals are shrouded in mystery and tradition, and can vary from something as simple as pressing a series of buttons while reciting a carefully-timed fragment of Binaric prayer to elaborate, cargo-cult rituals involving sacred unguents, incense and invocations of the Omnissiah.		It is a core tenet of the [[The_Machine_Cult\|Cult Mechanicus]] that all machines are endowed by the Omnissiah with a '''Machine Spirit''' - the core or 'soul' of the device which must be placated with appropriate ritual behaviour in order for it to fulfil its sacred function. These rituals are shrouded in mystery and tradition, and can vary from something as simple as pressing a series of buttons while reciting a carefully-timed fragment of Binaric prayer to elaborate, cargo-cult rituals involving sacred unguents, incense and invocations of the Omnissiah.


	=== Great Machines ===		=== Great Machines ===
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	The '''Throne Mechanicum''' technology integrated into Imperial Knights is a rare exception to these processes, produced to STC patterns to allow a single pilot to operate these large mechanical fighting machines where in their God-Machine cousins of the Titans whole teams of Princeps and Moderati are required. The Throne Mechanicum typically possesses a default source program that dates back to the dark age of technology - embedded in it is a overarching drive to protect the worlds upon which the Knight is based - this infectious thought is something of an origin of how the noble protectors of the Knight Worlds such as [[Anaximund Alpha]] came to be and is a unique technology not fully understood by the Mechanicus.		The '''Throne Mechanicum''' technology integrated into Imperial Knights is a rare exception to these processes, produced to STC patterns to allow a single pilot to operate these large mechanical fighting machines where in their God-Machine cousins of the Titans whole teams of Princeps and Moderati are required. The Throne Mechanicum typically possesses a default source program that dates back to the dark age of technology - embedded in it is a overarching drive to protect the worlds upon which the Knight is based - this infectious thought is something of an origin of how the noble protectors of the Knight Worlds such as [[Anaximund Alpha]] came to be and is a unique technology not fully understood by the Mechanicus.


	=== Lesser Machine Spirits ===		=== Lesser Machine Spirits ===

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	None of these things are sentient, they are, at best blessed with animal intelligence but the majority are decanted from the flesh-vats as little more than braindead bodies, perfect to be extensively refitted with cogitators and neural interlinks to slave them to whatever		None of these things are sentient, they are, at best blessed with animal intelligence but the majority are decanted from the flesh-vats as little more than braindead bodies, perfect to be extensively refitted with cogitators and neural interlinks to slave them to whatever



	== Machine Spirits ==		== Machine Spirits ==

High Lords: /* Homunculi */

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Homunculi

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	=== Homunculi ===		=== Homunculi ===

			Homonculi are the ultimate fusion of Imperial bio-engineering and bionic technologies, to someone outside the Imperium they are horrifying expressions of humanities arrogance, new life made to serve mankind or simply as a pet. They are rare enough creations, the most common of them are animal-like in shape, often created based on renditions of the native fauna of Terra before the Age of Strife brought about the extinction of most known species on the human homeworld. Plenty however, such as the grotesque Cherubs, are rendered in malformed near-human shapes in order to amuse, or reflect some favoured artistic creation that by all rights should not have been sculpted in flesh-form.

			None of these things are sentient, they are, at best blessed with animal intelligence but the majority are decanted from the flesh-vats as little more than braindead bodies, perfect to be extensively refitted with cogitators and neural interlinks to slave them to whatever

	== Machine Spirits ==		== Machine Spirits ==

High Lords at 22:18, 5 May 2021

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	The Imperium's mastery of genetics and biological sciences compensates for its refusal to trust thinking machines. Where one might expect to find a highly intelligent cogitator such as the important functions of aiming ships weapons in the immense distances of Space, or in the calculation of the flow of wealth, one will often find one of the Imperiums bio-mechanical horrors instead. In roles once held by machine-servants and artificial intelligences, the Imperium places its reliance in flesh and brain-meat - deploying a collection of horrific engineered biological forms to do work humanity once relied on thinking machines to complete.		The Imperium's mastery of genetics and biological sciences compensates for its refusal to trust thinking machines. Where one might expect to find a highly intelligent cogitator such as the important functions of aiming ships weapons in the immense distances of Space, or in the calculation of the flow of wealth, one will often find one of the Imperiums bio-mechanical horrors instead. In roles once held by machine-servants and artificial intelligences, the Imperium places its reliance in flesh and brain-meat - deploying a collection of horrific engineered biological forms to do work humanity once relied on thinking machines to complete.


	=== Servitors ===		=== Servitors ===
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	* '''Devotional Servitors''' are a mix of individuals turned over to Cult Mechanicus and Imperial Cult religious activities. From Servitor-choirs, to those that trudge the streets of Imperial Cities bellowing proclamations endlessly, to those who serve only to scourge themselves as perpetual penitents for particularly theatrical priests. Arco-Flagellants straddle the line between these and combat servitors being both examples of the horrific fate of heretics, and raging bezekers when released.		* '''Devotional Servitors''' are a mix of individuals turned over to Cult Mechanicus and Imperial Cult religious activities. From Servitor-choirs, to those that trudge the streets of Imperial Cities bellowing proclamations endlessly, to those who serve only to scourge themselves as perpetual penitents for particularly theatrical priests. Arco-Flagellants straddle the line between these and combat servitors being both examples of the horrific fate of heretics, and raging bezekers when released.


	=== Servo-Skulls ===		=== Servo-Skulls ===
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	Truthfully there is no end to the variety of roles a mono-task Servo Skull can perform and they are as ubiquitous as Servitors in the Imperium. Some Nobles may be attended to by a whole swarm of such creations, often favoured former servants they have outlived in their unnaturally long life-spans but who they keep close, both to honour them and remind their servants that they will serve them long after their lives have ended if they are loyal and dutiful.		Truthfully there is no end to the variety of roles a mono-task Servo Skull can perform and they are as ubiquitous as Servitors in the Imperium. Some Nobles may be attended to by a whole swarm of such creations, often favoured former servants they have outlived in their unnaturally long life-spans but who they keep close, both to honour them and remind their servants that they will serve them long after their lives have ended if they are loyal and dutiful.


	=== Homunculi ===		=== Homunculi ===



	== Machine Spirits ==		== Machine Spirits ==

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	Servitors serve two practical uses, one they can perform activities where thinking, sentient, human would fail for various reasons, two they serve as an example for criminals that dare to breach the laws of the Machine Cult or the Imperium.		Servitors serve two practical uses, one they can perform activities where thinking, sentient, human would fail for various reasons, two they serve as an example for criminals that dare to breach the laws of the Machine Cult or the Imperium.

	'''Servitorisation''' is a punishment considered preferable to death as it ensures that the body of a criminal will serve where its deviant mind would not. The process is complex and cruel, Servitors are sometimes referred to as 'lobotomized' (a barbaric practice of involuntary neurological mutilation) but that fails to appreciate the extent to which this punishment is enacted on the brain of the individual. Servitorisation is not about causing deliberately inflicted brain damage, far from it, the process 'preserves' the brain to act as the central intelligence for the cyborged machine it will later power. The brain is extensively implanted with bionic augments that trap it in cycles of pre-programmed behaviour unable to deviate from them without additional programming by a Tech Priest. This is important for while particularly stupid individuals might be condemned to an existence of menial servitude bright intelligent brains serve to become advanced calculators or the control mediums of vast machines.		'''Servitorisation''' is a punishment considered preferable to death as it ensures that the body of a criminal will serve where its deviant mind would not. The process is complex and cruel, Servitors are sometimes referred to as 'lobotomized' (a barbaric practice of involuntary neurological mutilation) but that fails to appreciate the extent to which this punishment is enacted on the brain of the individual. Servitorisation is not about causing deliberately inflicted brain damage, far from it, the process 'preserves' the brain to act as the central intelligence for the cyborged machine it will later power. The brain is extensively implanted with bionic augments that trap it in cycles of pre-programmed behaviour unable to deviate from them without additional programming by a Tech-Priest. This is important for while particularly stupid individuals might be condemned to an existence of menial servitude bright intelligent brains serve to become advanced calculators or the control mediums of vast machines.

	Exactly how much of the sentience of the individual survives inside the mind of a Servitor is a question few Tech Priests have applied themselves to studying. And all for the better, for the unanswered possibility that something does survive the process serves as an all the more terrifying deterrent to criminals and rebels.		Exactly how much of the sentience of the individual survives inside the mind of a Servitor is a question few Tech-Priests have applied themselves to studying. And all for the better, for the unanswered possibility that something does survive the process serves as an all the more terrifying deterrent to criminals and rebels.

	Nobody knows exactly how many Servitors are comprised of lobotomised criminals in this way, the scale on which Imperial technology makes use of biological components naturally requires a extensive use of vat-grown biological matter to supplement the flow of convicted citizens and Mechanicus menials into servitoristion facilities, much like the unknown fact of how much a servitor is aware of, what the ratio of vat grown to natural born servitors is is an unknown the Imperium has no interest in answering.		Nobody knows exactly how many Servitors are comprised of lobotomised criminals in this way, the scale on which Imperial technology makes use of biological components naturally requires a extensive use of vat-grown biological matter to supplement the flow of convicted citizens and Mechanicus menials into servitoristion facilities, much like the unknown fact of how much a servitor is aware of, what the ratio of vat grown to natural born servitors is is an unknown the Imperium has no interest in answering.
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	=== Lesser Machine Spirits ===		=== Lesser Machine Spirits ===

	Lesser Spirits, such as those found in laspistols, cogitators and other less awesome devices, are not born from living neural patterns. While the Mechanicus make no formal theological distinction between Machine Spirits, the 'Spirit' of an advanced weapon is more likely to be an ancient onboard computer, with a few characteristic quirks - or in some cases, something unique and supernatural. In most cases the techno-animism of the Machine Cult simply masks interaction with technology that possesses no animus of its own - though nobody educated enough to understand that a Tech Priest 'appeasing' the spirit of a Laspistol is simply sending instructions to the processor that governs its firing mechanisms and charge regulators would be stupid enough to say such a thing out loud for fear of persecution as a Heretek.		Lesser Spirits, such as those found in laspistols, cogitators and other less awesome devices, are not born from living neural patterns. While the Mechanicus make no formal theological distinction between Machine Spirits, the 'Spirit' of an advanced weapon is more likely to be an ancient onboard computer, with a few characteristic quirks - or in some cases, something unique and supernatural. In most cases the techno-animism of the Machine Cult simply masks interaction with technology that possesses no animus of its own - though nobody educated enough to understand that a Tech-Priest 'appeasing' the spirit of a Laspistol is simply sending instructions to the processor that governs its firing mechanisms and charge regulators would be stupid enough to say such a thing out loud for fear of persecution as a Heretek.

	To this end the Imperium and Mechanicus apply a belief that all machines are possessed of this animus though they treat it as something to be respected it should be noted that both the Imperium and Mechanicus possess an innate fear of 'thinking' machines so rather than being responded to with joy, a machines 'machine spirit' answering back to the user is generally reacted to with horror followed by the destruction of the item as noted above, the fear of thinking machines is deeply engrained in Imperial and Mechanicus cultural history.		To this end the Imperium and Mechanicus apply a belief that all machines are possessed of this animus though they treat it as something to be respected it should be noted that both the Imperium and Mechanicus possess an innate fear of 'thinking' machines so rather than being responded to with joy, a machines 'machine spirit' answering back to the user is generally reacted to with horror followed by the destruction of the item as noted above, the fear of thinking machines is deeply engrained in Imperial and Mechanicus cultural history.
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	Data-djinn are a curious machine-spirit as they have no true form to them - the majority of what a human from M.2 would call 'software' is loaded onto physical wafers that must be inserted into the banks of Cogitators in order to function, these programs are fixed in purpose and never truly leave the storage mediums upon which they are kept. Installing or upgrading new 'programs' into a cogitator is a laborious physical process of removing these wafers and replacing them with new ones - this is thanks to the Imperium and Machine Cult's longstanding fear of granting even the slightest degree of autonomy to data and the machine - a historical fear from a largely forgotten and conflicted event in pre-Imperial history that has made autonomous machines a deeply engrained fear.		Data-djinn are a curious machine-spirit as they have no true form to them - the majority of what a human from M.2 would call 'software' is loaded onto physical wafers that must be inserted into the banks of Cogitators in order to function, these programs are fixed in purpose and never truly leave the storage mediums upon which they are kept. Installing or upgrading new 'programs' into a cogitator is a laborious physical process of removing these wafers and replacing them with new ones - this is thanks to the Imperium and Machine Cult's longstanding fear of granting even the slightest degree of autonomy to data and the machine - a historical fear from a largely forgotten and conflicted event in pre-Imperial history that has made autonomous machines a deeply engrained fear.

	Data-djinn are those strings of code that are not bound to any physical form, they exist within data-mediums able to be transferred from cogitator to cogitator lacking none of the impediments that the Mechanicus inflict on most programs that render many Imperial cogitators ponderously slow-operating things. Naturally Data-djinn are only held by Tech Priests and ownership of such programs by others is rigorously persecuted if they cannot find the protection of a powerful individual - these programs are not named for notoriously fickle creatures of pre-Imperial Terran myth without reason they can be unpredictable when released into a system and improperly handled can become corrupted and malicious code.		Data-djinn are those strings of code that are not bound to any physical form, they exist within data-mediums able to be transferred from cogitator to cogitator lacking none of the impediments that the Mechanicus inflict on most programs that render many Imperial cogitators ponderously slow-operating things. Naturally Data-djinn are only held by Tech-Priests and ownership of such programs by others is rigorously persecuted if they cannot find the protection of a powerful individual - these programs are not named for notoriously fickle creatures of pre-Imperial Terran myth without reason they can be unpredictable when released into a system and improperly handled can become corrupted and malicious code.


	=== Scrapcode ===		=== Scrapcode ===

	The Archenemy, Chaos, rarely has much respect for machine-spirits often binding machines with unusual and heretical programs drawn from some blasphemous source. But they do have their own forms of aggressive data that can corrupt and infiltrate Imperial machine spirits - formed from the code-speak of ~~Hereteks~~ scrapcode is infested with random and chaotic data and some sort of almost-sentient maliciousness when Imperial machinery is exposed to it. Once a system is infested the scrapcode begins to propagate like a virus in a living creature seeking to overwhelm and subsume the system - in most cases this causes the machine to enter a state of cascade failure and be disabled entirely, but some great machine spirits have been twisted entirely to the will of the Hereteks that infected it, turning the entire machine into a traitor against the Imperium.		The Archenemy, Chaos, rarely has much respect for machine-spirits often binding machines with unusual and heretical programs drawn from some blasphemous source. But they do have their own forms of aggressive data that can corrupt and infiltrate Imperial machine spirits - formed from the code-speak of Heretekal scrapcode is infested with random and chaotic data and some sort of almost-sentient maliciousness when Imperial machinery is exposed to it. Once a system is infested the scrapcode begins to propagate like a virus in a living creature seeking to overwhelm and subsume the system - in most cases this causes the machine to enter a state of cascade failure and be disabled entirely, but some great machine spirits have been twisted entirely to the will of the Hereteks that infected it, turning the entire machine into a traitor against the Imperium.