Why doesn't everyone with enough rank and influence in 40k just get their body replaced with cybernetics, so they never have to worry about age or disease?
You might argue that they wouldn't like it, but personal preference shouldn't stand in the way of doing your duty for the Emperor.
>>43951883
>You might argue that they wouldn't like it, but personal preference shouldn't stand in the way of doing your duty for the Emperor.
That's why a lot of them do. Rich Inquisitors will often carry around cyber eagles or replace an arm with a bionic + gun or get bionic eyes/laser fingers, etc.
The only people who don't get body mod upgrades are the ones who can't and the ones who believe in the purity of the flesh.
>>43951883
Many of them do, others follow organizations such as the Cult of the Pure Form which rejects augmentations.
Either way, Cybernetic augmentations cannot really save them from aging and death. Even juvenat treatments can only extend it by a couple of hundred years.
Unless you're a Navigator.
Fuck those stupidly long-lived, highly useful mutants.
>>43951883
You ever seen how many people have head tubes in 40k? Yeah, a lot of people get cybered. It's part of the universe.
>>43952248
Pretty much, the thing is Op they can only produce / maintain so many of them.
With the mech being the technophiles that they are they tend to use the majority of them. With then nobles and high ranking members of imperial institutions, and the military using the rest.
Also if you are going full cyber you will probably need to afford the cost of having a techpriest on your staff to maintain you.
Also skitarii...
>>43952248
But they rarely ever go fully metal like Mechanicus priests.
>yfw 40k's plastic surgeons and body augmenters are orange orangutans
>>43953133
There are drawbacks to going too many cybernetics.
>>43953184
You lose your humanity and you lose the light of the Emperor.
>>43953133
Mechanicus don't even go full metal.
>>43953291
Organic brain and full metal everything else is pretty much the same thing.
>>43951883
>so they never have to worry about age or disease
Even without going cyborg, rejuvenat treatments are common enough so that most people of means live for centuries.
>>43952180
No you can become completely immortal with cybernetics. It's just that if you live long enough in 40k, you get missile-to-the-face.
>>43953575
>Organic brain and full metal everything else is pretty much the same thing.
That's not very common in the Mechanicus.
>>43954233
Not even Necrons are completely immortal.
Only through psi shit can true immortality be achieved.
>>43951883
But anon, if you have enough rank and influence, you have not achieved it through the shameful acts of selflessness or concern for your fellow man.
You will do everything in your power to ensure that those life-extending cybernetics will stay out of the bodies of those who might rise to challenge your authority some day.
I never understood the iron hands, you take a self sufficiant bioweopon and convert it into a less malleable combat servitor.
>>43953100
>you will probably need to afford the cost of having a techpriest on your staff to maintain you.
THIS. You can't just slap on a robot arm and expect it to work as well as the original without careful maintenance. Augmetics are some complex tech, so you can't just go full Battle Angel Alita and expect everything to take care of itself. The Mechanicus are the only members of the Imperium with enough skill to maintain them.
>>43951883
Getting clinical immortality treatments is usually enough.
>>43955456
It's a self loathing thing.
They're basically just cutters.
>>43953575
It's actually a distinction that's so important that entire worlds have been burned to the ground because they crossed it.
>>43955390
>Not even Necrons are completely immortal
>the fluff of Necrons explicitly state they are immortal because they traded their souls for immortality
Presumably, people of extravagant means would refuse to go completely cyborg, because that would mean the end of life's pleasures. You might live for a thousand more years, but is it worth it if you cannot enjoy the subtle taste of exotic spices, the tones of the most alluring music, or engage in the carnal pleasures of the flesh?
This is why, when they get desperate, people don't turn to the Mechanicus, but instead go down the road of the Ruinous Powers.
>The end result is spoilered by their moniker.
The real solution is highly heretical, maniacal shit. Like trying to kidnap a Space Marine, removing his brain, and installing yours.
>>43955499
Necrons can demonstrably die and are shown to degrade with the passage of time.
>>43955456
The Hands aren't lobotomized. Read Wrath of Iron, the big dude with them is a set of Terminator armor with a brain with some added combat heuristics buried inside.
>>43953575
>The soulless sentience is a bretty kewl gai, amirite?
No. No, it's not.
>>43952180
>Even juvenat treatments can only extend it by a couple of hundred years.
I love how in the fluff it often references individuals of moderate rank as being something like, "She was only 80, still a young neophyte and the body of a 20-something" or some shit. I don't think modern humans today can ever really fathom living that long, because it would just totally fuck with our minds and our memory.
>>43951883
To the question, many people simply may not need it, or cannot afford the high-quality ones that look almost indistinguishable from the real thing, and would only be able to buy the clunkier (but still functional) normal level gear, and some would even basically just get servitor parts.
Also, while many people aren't against augmetics, they don't want to give away a large chunk of what makes them human if there isn't any need for it.
Moreso, augmentations are vulnerable to attacks that flesh-and-blood creatures wouldn't be, and can be exploited appropriately.
>>43955456
With enough metal bits, the bionic parts of them could keep functioning partially after death.
And the bionic implants can be easily improved and last more or less forever.
