In 40k, can dead bodies be turned into Servitors? This picture would seem to indicate as such. Or is that only a Chaos thing?
Is it only the recent dead?
You need them to be still alive enough to be turned into a servitor. Then they're more or less mechanical, until they 'break down' as the organic parts stop functioning.
Generally I think you have to be alive to be Servitorized. For the soul.
The reason why that one looks dead, is because why the fuck would you care what a servitor looks like? Especially a combat model.
30k mechanicum could do it, but it was considered on the knife edge of tech heresy.
>>46316639
"Dead" really isn't a thing if you have sufficiently advanced medical technology. You just have a sliding scale starting with "heart stopped" and ending with "molecular disintegration".
Some kinds of "dead" can probably be fixed by the Mechanicus. Generally speaking, if you could look at a body and go "that's definitely a rotting corpse" then no, servitorization won't be possible without going into tech-heresy.
Also, you still working on that "Glitch Doctor" thing?
>>46316639
If the death was very recent such that the body is salvageable. For example, moment-of-death marines can be interred in Dreadnoughts, and lack of brain damage would mean the body could be rebooted as a servitor.
But if brain damage has occurred it would be useless as a servitor and would become corpse starch/servo skull duty.
Only Chaos has necromancy.
>>46316757
Do servitors have souls? I know some do, but do all of them?
AdMech requires souls for true intelligence(abominable intelligence is forbidden), but Servitors aren't AI anyway, they are basically robots that only do programmed tasks, except with human brains as CPUs.
If you can harvest it's organs for transplant you could probably make a servitor out of the corpse.
>>46322857
>But if brain damage has occurred it would be useless as a servitor
What part of the brain is damaged, servitors don't need there higher brain function
>>46322958
Yeah, they're all supposed to, but there's some wiggle room some would call heresy. But they're so barely human anymore they have about the same Warp presence as the Tau.
>>46322857
>servo skull duty
unlikely. they don't just turn any old pleb into a servo skull it's reserved for the honoured or heroic few, kinda like a posthumous medal of honour or such.
>>46323341
For human auxiliaries to some Space Marine chapters there's also "Missile Guidance System Duty"
>>46323341
>not resurrecting honored and heroic as powerful thralls
Nigga do you even necromance?
>>46322958
Not really, if you think about it. The warp is fueled and called to by strong emotions, none of which a servitor has. Unless you're considering Ismael de roeven from the priests of Mars series or some other servitor with a degree of free thought, but for the most part no
>>46323000
>servitors don't need there [sic] higher brain function
some do, some don't. I remember reading that a fairly common function for servitors is to crunch statistics.
>>46324453
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BURN!
>>46324746
incinerated with the power of pic related
>>46320681
What's this from?
>>46324928
Creatures's Anathema, pretty sweet expansion of adversaries for Dark Heresy.
>>46316639
FW's "Doom of Mymera" book's epilogue mentions the inquisitor that got killed trying to stop the Eldar had his body posthumously servitorised as a punishment for failing his duty. So it can apparently be don. I assume the body has to be relatively intact (or at least the brains should be: limbs and organs will probably be largely replaced anyway), and recently dead. The planet the inquisitor died on had a very cold climate which probably would've preserved the body in good conditions before the Inquisition showed up to investigate and found the remains.
>>46324776
>that garbage fill-tool coloring job
Protip:Invert color, set to black&white, invert color again, set back to color.
Alternatively, just set to black&white. This gives chunkier lines, but allows for a bit more detail on fiddly things like the flowers on Ms. Multimelta's head.
>>46316639
The reclamation center you can buy for your ship in RT says yes.
>>46316639
Normally Servitordom is a punishment for criminals or something that is done to slaves.
The augmentations are inserted into the sedated body and they only retain a minimal amount of cognitive function.
Technically it should be possible if the body is not to far decayed and the brains integrity is not compromised to much.
