My Grandfather was 'Shanghai'd' from a Bar in Portland, Oregon in the 1920's. He woke up on a Norwegian Whaler 2 days later. They put him work shoveling coal. When the Bosun found out he was an experienced Merchant Seaman, he was able to get out of the coal gang, and 'promoted' to maintenance (oiler?). The only people on the ship who would talk to him were the Cantonese Seamen, who taught him Cooking, Laundry, & the Cantonese Language. 2 years later, when the Whaler returned to the US, he was 'released'. No thanks, no 'thank you for your service'. My Grandma was told he was dead! Priests of Mars was Excellent! Made me love the AdMech more! Great Job Rho!
@@TheCorrodedMan THANK YOU! he was! He was part of the maritime transition from Sail to almost-Nuclear. As a teen he was before he was Shanghai'd he was shipwrecked in the Caribbean for 1 year on a tiny atoll, living on a diet of Rainwater, crab, conch and coconut. In 1943, during a run in the North Atlantic to supply England, my dad who was on the S.S. Booker T. Washington, watched as U-Boat sank my Grandad's ship the S.S. W.E.B. Dubois. He was recovered with no injury. A year later, off the Cape of Good Hope, a U-Boat damaged his Cargo Ship in a Convoy that was relieving Capetown S.A. Then a storm hit, it cracked the hull. He was out there for weeks on a palate of lashed cargo. 3rd degree sunburns. He retired after the war. Proud to be named after him!
I mean truth be told this is ONE method of recruitment, the Mechanicus has multiple ways of recruiting fresh bodies into its fold. Some are legit willing volunteers for either the Priest hood or the skitarii, some are flash clone or vat grown. A couple more for the skitarii is they were either former convicts or deserters with some skitarii I heard even being made out of different parts from corpses. It all depends on the Forge and Arch Mago's, as the mechanicus is giant and all have their own independent methods of operating or making of the necessary operations to fulfill their quest.
I listened to an audio reading where a member of the mechanium came across an injured soldier with a prosthetic leg. The wounded soldier pleaded for help, only for the Magos to chop off his cybernetic leg for parts. Edit: grammar
And yet the 'Forges of Mars' trilogy also shows how human the Mechanicus can be. Notably in the relationship between the father and daughter Stellar Cartographers, Vitali and Linya Tychon. Also it explains what happened to Trooper Hawke from 'Storm of Iron'.
@kevinoliver wait Hawke is in that trilogy? I might have to give it a look then since, i always wondered what happend to the last guardsman on hydra cordatus.
We need stories about the League of Votaan and their hatred for the AdMech. Would be interesting to see how the Imperium kind looks the other way with everything going on.
Absolutely awesome book series. I had such a good time reading Priest of Mars and later listening to the audiobooks. The characters are well written, the districtiption of the Ark being so large as to have forges on it was mind blowing, and the call back with Guardsman Hawke to another fantastic book (Storm of Iron) was cool. However, I would never recommend this series to a new 40k fan, it's way to much 40k all at once, I think. There are so many different character (Space Marines, Rogue Traders, Titan Crew, the Aeldar, Cadians, etc.), I think it can be overwhelming. I love it but can see all that info throwing a new fan off.
Indentured service to the mechanicum sounds awful, if I was a space marine I wouldn’t allow it and my Chapter/legion would go to war If this didn’t change. Take the murderers and criminals for these jobs not the civilians.
The Johnny depp version of "willy wonka's chocolate factory" was on tnt at the gym and i couldn't help but think, "damn this just like "abomination" from "vox in the void". The orks are the galaxy's only hope.
Possibly the most interesting subfactions/allies of the imperium. Most of their gear is unique or custom. Their elite skitari are no joke. Secutors and arch magos can be beast and scrap with whoevs wants it. Weird you didn't mention the toasters...
This is the price of survival in the future. Hordes of unlimited daemons and traitors, a galaxy crawling with xenos infesting every planet...this is the price...
Pretty much. If you already don't have a life worth living, why not? Grandfather Nurgle at least cares and will see to it you don't suffer. Slaneesh will leave you a despirate addict, but at least you'll have experienced an actual high at least once in your misserable life. You have no free will under Tzeentch, but at least he hides the puppet strings so you aren't constantly reminded of the chains that make you a slave. You'll almost certainly die quickly in the service of Khorne, but it's not like your life had any value before, and maybe with his help you might take some of the bastards who drove you to this down with you. The Imperium is, and always has been, its own worst enemy. The galaxy is the shit hole it is because the Imperium and its beaurocracy makes it this way. And anyone who even imagines life could be better will either be killed or recognize that the only choice is to betray the blighted civilization that had long since betrayed humanity itself.
And the best part is that these idiots remain unaware that they are the best Chaos recruitment advertisement. Only Guilliman mentioned that once and it was towards yhe Blood Angels.
Nothing surprised me about this apart from one thing that the people taken were allowed to keep one thing to remember their lives before that was the only thing that surprised me to be honest didn't think they would allow them that.
It could be worse? At least they aren’t getting turned into to servitors although betwixt a life of brutal slavery and a life of brutal slavery after being lobotomized, I might pick the latter. Sure the surgery seems “unpleasant” but it’s all over pretty quickly and maybe you get to be a 2 story tall battle servitor
I think serving on an Admech ship is preferable over "joining" the Imperial Navy 😉. Because within the Mechanicus you stand a - albeit really, really small - chance that your decades of service (= neatly scrubbing the gun deck with a toothbrush) might be rewarded. They could turn you into a bald (or even balder) Calligraphus Servitor and then you can enjoy the rest of eternity making YT- vidcasts for the Faithful! 😁 #Baldermorts
Im fully aware of AD mechanicus kind of independency from Imperium bcs it provides with everything that it needs, but by the blood of sanguinius, how i wish the emperor would manifest himself as a prophet of omnissiah and command the ADmech to change their nature..reding that imperial noble turned into servitor and this makess me sick of Admech
In the Warhammer universe it seems that it’s better to be a part of the Grind than a part of the Grist in the bloodthirsty mill . Maybe ? At the end of the day it’s Grim all round. 🤩
No wonder half of the imperium rebels most of the time and they fight most of them self if it wasnt guilliman the imperium would not last another 10k years
In fairness that was 90 percent the magos biologis trying to backstab his superior. If he hadn't interfered I don't think the rebellion would have been anywhere close to successful
Fuck me how much can someone talk without saying anything? I learned absolutely nothing of the RECRUITMENT OF THE MECHANICUS BECAUSE YOU SAID NOTHING ABOUT IT!
It is extremely easy to see how one can turn to Chaos, if even only out of spite.
yeah, but chaos is worse. most people dont know that, and chaos preys on that ignorance.
My Grandfather was 'Shanghai'd' from a Bar in Portland, Oregon in the 1920's. He woke up on a Norwegian Whaler 2 days later. They put him work shoveling coal. When the Bosun found out he was an experienced Merchant Seaman, he was able to get out of the coal gang, and 'promoted' to maintenance (oiler?). The only people on the ship who would talk to him were the Cantonese Seamen, who taught him Cooking, Laundry, & the Cantonese Language. 2 years later, when the Whaler returned to the US, he was 'released'. No thanks, no 'thank you for your service'. My Grandma was told he was dead! Priests of Mars was Excellent! Made me love the AdMech more! Great Job Rho!
Incredible life
Ah, same old Portland. Some things don't change.
What the hell is wrong is you? Shouldn’t everything you said make you HATE them more? In fact, you should hate every faction in the lore!
I want to meet your Grandad. The man sounds like a legend
@@TheCorrodedMan THANK YOU! he was! He was part of the maritime transition from Sail to almost-Nuclear. As a teen he was before he was Shanghai'd he was shipwrecked in the Caribbean for 1 year on a tiny atoll, living on a diet of Rainwater, crab, conch and coconut. In 1943, during a run in the North Atlantic to supply England, my dad who was on the S.S. Booker T. Washington, watched as U-Boat sank my Grandad's ship the S.S. W.E.B. Dubois. He was recovered with no injury. A year later, off the Cape of Good Hope, a U-Boat damaged his Cargo Ship in a Convoy that was relieving Capetown S.A. Then a storm hit, it cracked the hull. He was out there for weeks on a palate of lashed cargo. 3rd degree sunburns. He retired after the war. Proud to be named after him!
The Admech is by a mile the least "human", least kind and least "friendly" of all the subfactions within the Imperium. And that is saying quite a bit.
I mean truth be told this is ONE method of recruitment, the Mechanicus has multiple ways of recruiting fresh bodies into its fold. Some are legit willing volunteers for either the Priest hood or the skitarii, some are flash clone or vat grown. A couple more for the skitarii is they were either former convicts or deserters with some skitarii I heard even being made out of different parts from corpses. It all depends on the Forge and Arch Mago's, as the mechanicus is giant and all have their own independent methods of operating or making of the necessary operations to fulfill their quest.
I listened to an audio reading where a member of the mechanium came across an injured soldier with a prosthetic leg. The wounded soldier pleaded for help, only for the Magos to chop off his cybernetic leg for parts.
Edit: grammar
And yet the 'Forges of Mars' trilogy also shows how human the Mechanicus can be.
Notably in the relationship between the father and daughter Stellar Cartographers, Vitali and Linya Tychon.
Also it explains what happened to Trooper Hawke from 'Storm of Iron'.
@kevinoliver wait Hawke is in that trilogy? I might have to give it a look then since, i always wondered what happend to the last guardsman on hydra cordatus.
We need stories about the League of Votaan and their hatred for the AdMech. Would be interesting to see how the Imperium kind looks the other way with everything going on.
Absolutely awesome book series. I had such a good time reading Priest of Mars and later listening to the audiobooks. The characters are well written, the districtiption of the Ark being so large as to have forges on it was mind blowing, and the call back with Guardsman Hawke to another fantastic book (Storm of Iron) was cool.
However, I would never recommend this series to a new 40k fan, it's way to much 40k all at once, I think. There are so many different character (Space Marines, Rogue Traders, Titan Crew, the Aeldar, Cadians, etc.), I think it can be overwhelming. I love it but can see all that info throwing a new fan off.
Perfect timing, I've been on a big Mechanicus video run lately!
"Congratulations. You are being given lifetime employment."
There’s a mechanicus horror story on UA-cam about a dude getting cut up and turned into a servitor
Channel "a Vox in the void" video ABOMINATION 👍
The pirests of Mars books were a wonderful read!
If you think these are ruthless imagine how grim the dark mechanicum are 😂
Mechanicus: first question, what are your thoughts on toasters?
What's the joke here? I must be unaware ha
Many of my thoughts are concerned with the intricacies of the toaster STC.
@REDRAGON12345 the members of the ADMECH are known for their, shall we say, 'Inappropriate Relations' with electronic devices. Particularly Toasters.
A 12 year slave of the Mechanicus
....oh....well hello there.....this bus ride is looking up
I just finished that book and started the second. I feel like me and rho are always reading the same novels
Yes! A break from Space Marines!
Ironically, this was more tame than I imagined😂
Indentured service to the mechanicum sounds awful, if I was a space marine I wouldn’t allow it and my Chapter/legion would go to war If this didn’t change. Take the murderers and criminals for these jobs not the civilians.
Yes inquisitor he is right there..
Hype AF, I bloody love those books.
The Johnny depp version of "willy wonka's chocolate factory" was on tnt at the gym and i couldn't help but think, "damn this just like "abomination" from "vox in the void".
The orks are the galaxy's only hope.
Possibly the most interesting subfactions/allies of the imperium. Most of their gear is unique or custom. Their elite skitari are no joke. Secutors and arch magos can be beast and scrap with whoevs wants it. Weird you didn't mention the toasters...
Totally horrific
This is the price of survival in the future. Hordes of unlimited daemons and traitors, a galaxy crawling with xenos infesting every planet...this is the price...
It's shit like this that makes people sign up to be gibbering Chaos Cultists.
Pretty much. If you already don't have a life worth living, why not?
Grandfather Nurgle at least cares and will see to it you don't suffer. Slaneesh will leave you a despirate addict, but at least you'll have experienced an actual high at least once in your misserable life. You have no free will under Tzeentch, but at least he hides the puppet strings so you aren't constantly reminded of the chains that make you a slave. You'll almost certainly die quickly in the service of Khorne, but it's not like your life had any value before, and maybe with his help you might take some of the bastards who drove you to this down with you.
The Imperium is, and always has been, its own worst enemy. The galaxy is the shit hole it is because the Imperium and its beaurocracy makes it this way. And anyone who even imagines life could be better will either be killed or recognize that the only choice is to betray the blighted civilization that had long since betrayed humanity itself.
And the best part is that these idiots remain unaware that they are the best Chaos recruitment advertisement.
Only Guilliman mentioned that once and it was towards yhe Blood Angels.
Nothing surprised me about this apart from one thing that the people taken were allowed to keep one thing to remember their lives before that was the only thing that surprised me to be honest didn't think they would allow them that.
It could be worse? At least they aren’t getting turned into to servitors although betwixt a life of brutal slavery and a life of brutal slavery after being lobotomized, I might pick the latter. Sure the surgery seems “unpleasant” but it’s all over pretty quickly and maybe you get to be a 2 story tall battle servitor
The Cybermen + the Spacing Guild.
Shit, Rho went old school with this one. Dug to the bottom of his book pile.
Well done Mr Wolf.
This is more like a Press Gang taking bodies for service in a port Tavern during British Naval Empire...as I assume it is based on.
And this is why people turn to chaos
I think serving on an Admech ship is preferable over "joining" the Imperial Navy 😉. Because within the Mechanicus you stand a - albeit really, really small - chance that your decades of service (= neatly scrubbing the gun deck with a toothbrush) might be rewarded. They could turn you into a bald (or even balder) Calligraphus Servitor and then you can enjoy the rest of eternity making YT- vidcasts for the Faithful! 😁 #Baldermorts
I still wonder how they choose who becomes a tech priest
15:53 sorry meng, but it ain’t sacrifice if it’s not your choice. Unless you’re using the word ironically, like in the case of “volunteer” conscripts.
happens in every country
Life is cheap, materials and parts are expensive.
Im fully aware of AD mechanicus kind of independency from Imperium bcs it provides with everything that it needs, but by the blood of sanguinius, how i wish the emperor would manifest himself as a prophet of omnissiah and command the ADmech to change their nature..reding that imperial noble turned into servitor and this makess me sick of Admech
I pick the navy, at least I’m still me
In the Warhammer universe it seems that it’s better to be a part of the Grind than a part of the Grist in the bloodthirsty mill . Maybe ? At the end of the day it’s Grim all round. 🤩
Imagine there's a space Marines chapter that does the same thing lol
No wonder half of the imperium rebels most of the time and they fight most of them self if it wasnt guilliman the imperium would not last another 10k years
“Day of Ascension” is another story that depicts how the AdMech exploit citizens… and how it can work against them.😂
In fairness that was 90 percent the magos biologis trying to backstab his superior. If he hadn't interfered I don't think the rebellion would have been anywhere close to successful
why did you stop putting your signature video effects bro?
51th
Everyone knows Toasters are the one meme that people who don't genuinely like them use to make fun of them. Real fans dont mention it 🎉
Hell, I'm an AdMech player and I still use the good old toaster meme. Even have dice with toasters for 6s.
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Nothing about toasters?
Fuck me how much can someone talk without saying anything? I learned absolutely nothing of the RECRUITMENT OF THE MECHANICUS BECAUSE YOU SAID NOTHING ABOUT IT!
the acdmech makes me wanna bathe in Necron Gauss fire rather than serve lol
Seems like the Drukhari to me...