That is way too self-aware for a servitor. I love it. It both adds to the horror and works as a nod to the lore that sometimes the lobotomy doesn’t always work.
no doubt they needed to leave more brains in a medicae servitor so that it can perform complex surgeries, rather than a gun servitor where it's just kinda "shoot in that direction".
My thinking was perhaps Nurgle, in his great generosity, decided to give the Medicae servitors of Tertium sadly dedicated to thwarting his blessings, a little bit of self-awareness so that they can cherish the despair he's so glad to bring to everyone
@@GuillermoBerasateguicrespo "Nay, good servitor! NAY, I SAY!! Ye have performed well. 'Tis time you take some reste until your reserves are replenished once again. May the Emperor sooth your own ailments."
Fun fact: some servitors are mistakenly only partially lobotomized, or worse, return to lucidity at some point later in their un-life. Making his voice lines very tragic.
Some of them are basically "trapped" in their heads (some more sadistic admechs are doing it on purpose to punish you even more). They can hear, see etc. But can't fully control their body.
My favorite/most disturbing line was when a med station was closing down: "Unexpected system error: Why does it hurt? Help. Help. Help. Help." Delivered all in characteristic monotone. Holy shit but 40k is dark.
It gets even worse when you realize that Servitors do have full awareness of their surroundings and their own body, except that they've been robbed off of bodily independency and are basically remote-controlled robot toys played by Adeptus Mechanicus Techpriests.
@@RebelWvlf servitors awareness is debatable, as the mind wipe leave them with only the basic of instincts and without their mechanicus overlord they almost always get stuck in some sort of cycle. Alas it is not enviable fate.
Fun fact: A servitor, as you see in the Medicae Station, is a human being who has been lobotomized and cybernetically mutilated to perform tasks deemed too complex, specialized, hazardous, or labor-intensive to be undertaken by a normal human being. Most servitors are vat-grown humans. However, a great deal of them are instead convicts who were judged worthy enough to be redeemed in the eyes of the Emperor. The Imperium at large believes that servitorhood, while a grim fate, is merciful to the guilty - as it allows them to work off their sins in service to the Emperor, rather than being executed with their name and soul tarnished. Additional examples of servitors in Darktide involve the headless torso that Inquisitor (Inquisitrix?) Grendyl speaks through in the "We Are Warriors!" cutscene, the machines in the barber shop, and the Peddler unit that sells you weapons.
We've also seen Servitors who were Guardmen that were that were critically wounded. As Garret Greylock puts it in The Colonel's Monograph: "Kyrano here was senior colour guard in the 83rd. Threw himself on a greenskin bomb to save my mother's life some fifty years ago. Most of his body was destroyed, as well as his brain, but still he never let the regimental standard fall. My mother said his last wish was to continue to serve. Only in death does duty end, you know?" Personally, I think I'd much prefer to be dead.
@@stephenwood6663 and let's not forget the planet mentioned in 'The Cain Archive' which is home to a large Guard psychiatric facility and 'coincidentally' is also a major exporter of Military Combat Servitors
"Pieces of my mind are floating away. Help me. Please" I felt that in my gut :( Servitors have always been such a sad concept. Just kinda reminds me how tragic illnesses like Alzheimers are too
The messed up part is when you realise that some Servitors are not completely lobotomized and are basically trapped in their own minds, in a body that they have no control over for centuries before finally dying. That is dark.
@@sawjhtheian6651 this reminds me of a story where a criminal was turned into a clown toy. The narrator implies that while most of its interactions and emotions are programmed it does things like scratching itself until the fingers are bloody which are possibly a sign of some self awareness. Honestly I’d rather be vaporized or something.
Imagine you become a servitor. get placed in a nearly abandoned place and then you wait years over years when suddenly 4 persons arrive. You can now perform your task before they run away and then silence again. This was your highlight in servitude. This 4 guys.
Up until Nurgle's lads turned up, I'd imagine the place was packed with citizens going about their work for the Imperium. And this being said imperium inside a Hive city, said work probably involves horrific injuries on a fairly regular basis building or refining stuff. I'd think the Medicae stations got rather a lot of action round the clock.
@@darkxaur Heck, even the cultists probably use the servitors, right? I'm not very much versed in 40k lore, but I would think that even a possesed inhuman creature would like to heal it's cuts.
@@dr.cheeze5382 Healing for believers of the plaguefather who is all about despair, suffering, decay and disease? No, they probably put extra pus on their open wounds to make them fester. Honestly, medicae stations are probably heresy to them since they probably heal disease too.
I think you're right, but plenty of Imperial worlds embrace public self-flagellation as penitence for minor crimes or as part of Sanguinalia celebrations. One images that "make sure I don't bleed out, but don't give me any painkillers!" is within the remit of public medicae stations like these.
I imagine a wounded veteran limping to this station hollering, “New spleen, ASAP! the one I got is nurgled to the emperor and back, it’s literally screaming at me!”
body parts becoming sentient and screaming at you seems closer to tzeetch's (or slaneesh depending on what body part exactly) thing then nurgle, who will give you a nasty disease and send oscar the grouch's stronger cousin at you to give you his "gift", proceed to make you a nasty deformed monster that now sees beuty in ugliness its really fucked that the guy that causes his followers to have disease pores and become deformed and diseased, is considered one of the most merciful and caring chaos gods.
"Nay friend, do not cut me out! Once I have assimilated the rest of your body, we shall be the best of friends, festering forever in the warm embrace of our Grandfather!" - The Sentient Nurgled Spleen
0:30 OHH!!! Bless that Ogryn and all the Synapses in his brain firing as hard as the emperor will allow it. DAM that was adorable and super funny at the same time.
One of the lines I got was when he used up all the Medicae he gets stuffed back into his box and says, "System error... Why does it hurt? Help! Help! Help!" Honestly terrible.
There up there just because they are used for everything from running starships to door controls and Roomba's but no, it gets so so much worse. Do yourself a favour and just don't peer over the edge of that well... it gets bad 🥺
Enjoy the ride, you're in for a deep dive! If you're familiar with Dune, 40k has a couple of similar concepts - for example, Navigators are shunned inbred mutants, but they provide a completely vital service because without them, FTL travel doesnt work, so they have a huge amount of influence. Or the reason why no AI is around because at some point in the past, robots rebelled against humans and machine intelligence was forbidden after the war Or that there's a sisterhood who are undertaking a millenia-long breeding program amongst the nobility to further humanity (to be fair, the Ordo Famulus plays a way less important role in 40k than the Bene Gesserit do in Dune)
Fun fact: The voice of the Medicae Servitor is David Shaw Parker. That's fucking Franz Lohner trapped in there. If anyone's curious, I believe from the in-game credits, basically every Vermintide VA is on the game to some extent. - Dan Mersh (Kruber) is one of the Traitor Captain voices and the armoury servitor - David Rintoul (Bardin) is probably the most recognizable one, as Sire Melk, the shopkeeper, as well as one of the PA announcers in the Mourningstar - Tim Bentinck (Saltzpyre) is the male voice of Inquisitor Grendyl's servitor and one of the Traitor Captains - Bethan Dixon Bate is not the voice of one of the female Psykers as I was led to believe, but she is the female voice of Inquisitor Grendyl's servitor - Alix Wilton Regan (Kerillian) is the voice of one of the Traitor Captains - Dan and both Davids (Kruber, Bardin, and Lohner) are also listed as some of the many voices for "Vocators". I don't know what that is, but they're those as well, apparently. And interestingly, Nicolette McKenzie, the voice of Oleysa, is the only person credited as "Medicae Servitor" alongside David Shaw Parker, but so far there aren't any female medicae servitors in the game
It might just be dark humor. But it's actually a pretty cool take on servitors and how they function. Having the majority of your body replaced with technology, just so you can operate a machine like .5% more efficiently
Well if they make an A.I again, they'll do the same shit as last time and attempt to kill humanity again. Servitors are cheap to make and can do a lot of things most people can't, though grim, the Imperium doesn't have much of an option unless they dedicate themselves making something safer which is hard, because they would have to focus on making stuff for years and years, until ready, which leads to lack of armaments and weapons to produces.
Its not about efficiency the lore has it that AI is evil and robots are forbidden so making mind wiped cyborgs is the work around problem without a human will to keep demons out these things are easy pray for Chaos im suppressed these things are still functioning
@@vothbetilia4862 no, AI can be done right it’s just their AI revolt left humanity so scarred they are too scared to try again. Tau and votann have lived with AI for a long time. There’s even a man of iron just chillin in 40k.
Techpriest 1: So.... why don't we just use a cogitator and a servo skull Techpriest 2: Budget cuts bro. sides, they ship the clones to use with half a torso anyway. Techpriest 1: and the convict in the surgery room? Techpriest 2: He thinks Magnus did nothing wrong
Anybody who unironicaly thinks that Magnus did nothing wrong deserves to become a toilet-cleaning servitor on a Hive world. Also to be incased in a most indestructible armour so he would keep polishing those shitstained holes till the sun goes out or Exterminatus happens.
also servo skulls are the remains of honoured machine cultist being immortalized (for a while) by being turned in to servo skulls, cogitators are at least somewhat holy, and humans are extremely numerous and replacable, and are often criminals or people 3d printed just to be servitors
TechP. 1 : *I'm Prepped For Surgery* ! TP2 : You didn't change anything. TP1 : I know. TP3 : anesthetic, brothers? TP1 : Oh, thanks. TP2 : Yeah, my tank was running low. Ahh, that's better. TP1 : Right, you have the neurosurgeon installed, so I'll get the limbs *revving bonesaws* *panicked screaming intensifies* *door closes*
I hope there's an eventual mission where you're tasked with removing and extracting all of the medicae stations within a zone. In-universe it's to deprive the heretics of essential medical aid, but out-of-universe it's to give the players some small semblance of mercy towards these hapless servitors. Maybe one will randomly thank the players as they load it onto a Valkyrie, or perhaps you return to the Morningstar and find that one has been installed in the central hub.
This is the 41st Millennium, don't let his small talk fool you. That servitor is no more human that your Ipad or computer, his mind has been rewritten and everything he once was is now gone. His small talk will have been pre-programmed, every organ saved those he needs to fulfil his function removed for reuse elsewhere. He may feel no pain, or he may have had his nerves left in so this shell of what was once a man can deliberately feel the pain of his new form as part of his conversion into a servitor. He is either a poor man, a former criminal or one of the countless billions swept up the imperial machine and spat back out again.
THERE'S A WHOLE ASS GUY IN THERE!??!? WHAT. That seems like something I should notice IMMEDIATELY, but after 20 hours I just thought it was like the Vending Machines from Borderlands
Welcome to 40k. That's a guy who's got robots controlling his movements and wires in his brain, but he still has his sentience because otherwise, that'll be an a.i., and that's heresy.
40k humans don't trust ai, so instead they insert humans in all of their machines to replace the computer. Those giant ships are filled to the brim inside their hulls with humans screaming in pain, wishing for their misery to end.
There are lore-wise trillions of humans across the galaxy. One human criminal reshaped by Adeptus Mechanicus into Servitor is not deemed a tragedy, only as another statistic and another cog for Imperium's war machine. Besides, humans on Mars in their past had an event similar to Terminator's Judgment Day where humans barely prevailed over rogue AI (now renamed into Abominable Intelligence), created Adeptus Mechanicus religion and deemed the usage of AI as blasphemy against Machine God Omnissiah.
@@xxxVIOZxxx Well, cogitators do still exist. It's just things that are more advanced than what we'd consider modern computing that are tech Heresy. Imperial technology is a lot more automated that people give it credit for, it's just where we'd have high tech computers they either have slaves, bank after bank of cogitators or servitors.
Of course, for this servitor is asking you to deny his purpose of serving the Emperor. I too would be shaken if some heretical servitor who needs a mindwipe was asking me to help them. If it makes it any better, the majority of all servitors are criminals who have been deemed "worthy" enough to redeem themselves and their horrendous crimes by serving the Emperor once more. Nobody in Warhammer is innocent. The others are 3D-printed humans.
sometimes i think 40k tries too hard. obviously half the fun is everyone being a bad guy, but at some point its a little too much warhammer fantasy (especially the end times lore before it got too fucky and retarded), i feel was that nice middle ground. grimdark for sure, there are paranoid trigger happy witch hunters, feuding lords, threats of mass preportion on several fronts, but it still remains balanced with valid reasons why the empire lasted so long, being industrial revolution in the empire and sigmar's sheer chad behavior causing problems for chaos, orcs, ect. also its funny seeing elves being so arrogant that they are absolute retards and more or less cause every problem that comes their way because of it. grimdark, but also fucking hilarious in 40k? the eldar are humbled by slannesh and not funny at all. if anything you almost feel bad for the eldar despite all their shit because they just don't want to be dragged to slannesh's sex dunegon. also, in all reality the imperium should have fallen by now into competing empires considering the sheer stress of multiple attacks and the emperor's dying age. the only faction i like better in 40k then fantasy/AOS is the orcs, who now break the laws of physics, canon, lore, and everything else because 'fuck you'. the orcs went from cool but kinda sidelined compared to others things to literally breaking lore for shits and giggles. maybe i just prefer a little ironic comedy to sweeten my grimdark coffee, and maybe some people prefer their grimdark worlds to be straight black and prefer that taste. idk
@@sovietunion7643 Finnish flag with soviet symbolism. You are a disgrace to your ancestors who fought to make Finland as prosperous as it is today and many of them died trying.
My heart melts every time I hear one of these lines. I want to help them so badly. The real horror of it all set in when I realized every little bit of technology I saw, be it a radio or a door control, was a servitor. It's grim as hell. I really hope we get a cosmetic in the future for the Ogryn where we're carrying one around like Chewbacca did with C-3PO in the Empire Strikes Back.
@@semberspirit they are servo skulls, the empire makes a habit of using human skulls as casings for various bits of technology, as they are quite common to come by and I suppose are fairly sturdy
Servitors are a replacement for AI. You don't need AI to open a door. Then again there are Servo-Skulls whose entire purpose is to be a source of light. They carry a candle on their head.
You don't really see just how sad and horrifying the very existence of servitors and how common they are in the imperium, until you can witness it. I get that they don't want A.I. for OBVIOUS reasons but grim nonetheless actually seeing it.
40k verse humanity: AI bad because..er..it rebelled about thirteen thousand years ago, lets lobotomise billions of living humans and turn them into task specific cyborgs instead! Fun fact, its not just for critical life and death functions either, in one 40k novel a character once recalls having a lobotomized servitor as a clown TOY to entertain him as a child. Every human being is at Ed Gein level of psychopathy by the time the imperium even starts, even the seemingly most 'good' characters like Vulcan have at best a very stunted capability for compassion by modern irl standards.
@@alias234 "AI was bad 13k years ago" is really an understatement for "AI uprising that was one of the two major factors that took out the Age of Technology and made humanity 100k years into it's own past technologically". The rise of AI utterly destroyed the foundations of politics and economies of countless human worlds. AI also developed tech that would eliminate stars. Humans have a VERY VERY VERY good reason to mistrust AI in this universe. AI made nanomachines that would descend to a planet and strip it of all organic life within 24 standard hours. Warhammer has reasons for not doing, or doing a certain thing. Usually it's "The thing you are asking has killed actual billions of people and took billions more to stop. The alternative you suggested is actually worse than what we have now. No."
In the short "the abomination" is stated how servitors are made, one of them is the protagonist So basicly, the adeptus mechanicus have gigantic fabrics where humans, most of the time either vat grown humans or prisoners, are held like farm animals, they just prison them in gigantic cages, where they wait until they get turned into a servitor, they do not get paralyzed or some sort of painkiller within the procedure, cause its "wasted" medical rescources since after they got turned into an servitor (which can take hours according to lorebooks) they cant complain after that, since they simply CANT do that anymore, tho sometimes, some cases have been reported where people who got turned into a servitor, are still sort of concious to some degree and feel the pain and know what they are, and what happened to them thats why not every servitor is a sad brain with mechanical limbs that feel lonely, only some of them are, the other servitors that use their programmed voice lines as intended arent that degree of concious anymore, which is a blessing in this case there are people who read that horror story on yt, tho im warning you, its REALLY dark, esp. the procedure of the protagonist getting "accidently" turned into a servitor
while pretty cool that fatshark actually added voicelines for Medicae, which they honestly really didnt have to. The way they went about with the voice lines just really screw with me, I feel bad every single god damn time I use it xD. I really wish they just went with yknow...just a robotic, synthy voice lines with no emotions xD. Now I feel emotionally invested in this servitor...
the other day I heard the line where he asks you to take him with you because he's lonely...I litterally stopped playing for a few seconds. It's one of the few times I had not been under fire while needing one.
Favorite’s gotta be ‘There is no finer duty than to fight for the Emperor. Except to die for him.’ Even in such a horrible state, he stays loyal to the Master of Mankind. Inspiration to those of shaken faith in the Emperor.
Damn I feel dumb, Never actually noticed that it's an actual dude in there, not a robot. 40K is just crazy. Also The ravaged body tribute for Vermintide is spicy...that was my favorite line, good choice Fatshark.
Based on the depth of thoughts those servitors are allowed to have, I can see now how the chaos god of slacking off crept in. Here on Terra our servitors only whizz and moan, though once I heard one proclaiming 'beep boop' and had to replace it whole… Bloody Apple won't repair it!
There's a Black Templars comic book where the elevator operator on the battleship is a servitor. Not voice recognition, not buttons, just a guy attached to the wall bringing the lift up or down as the marines order.
I've not heard most of these, especially the one where they ask you to take them with you because they're so lonely. That is incredibly tragic and cruel AF. Reminds me of that bit on the newer RoboCop film when Alex Murphy is basically a head and a pair of lungs suspended there in time and space. He questions whether he wants to continue in such an existence. As deep as it is dark and loathsome. Adds to the lore though of how selfish and cruel the ones who decide to do that to people actually are. What sort of mindset would put another feeling, thinking person in such a state...
yup, the Imperium doesnt trust in AI, so they use actual people encased in machines. per example the Dreadnought is a Space Marine who was near death and encased in a sarcophagus, which is also connected to a huge robot armed with a heavy machine gun and more stuff XD.
I'm supprised that Servitor hasn't been touched by Nurgle- as you know most of the Servitors who return to some form of lucidity are in quite dispair. He's lucky/unlucky that Grandfather haven't touched him with his gift I guess. Also- I love how the Ogryn has problems with spelling Medicae.
I mean this servitor is one of the lucky ones. At least he can still think (mostly), and his job isn't a horrible one. Although that being said, it could all be programmed onto his blank mind. Like a loudspeaker at propaganda station.
In the novel Flesh and Steel, an Imperial detective gets a rare tour of a Mechanicus facility that manufactures them. He's shown that contrary to popular belief the criminals that are used are executed and then part of their brain and body necessary for the particular servitor model are used to build it. However, the more complex a task, the more parts of the original brain must be preserved. And surgery is very, very complex. (In the book he was investigating murders that seemed to have been carried out via servitor, and the Mechanicus is trying to prove to him that couldn't happen because most servitors are very purpose-built and you couldn't get something built to sweep a floor to stab a dude).
Sometimes I forget that these stations are humans cut open, mutilated and welded within these frames. There is *some* consciousness there, but the poor sod can only look on as his 4 charges are quickly depleted.
guess his lobotomy went unexpectedly well, do you think any of those servitors who end up regaining their mind try to revolt or rejoin society or anything.
Doubtful as their brain is basically being used as a basis for the hardware. Your body will continue to perform the designated function and you are powerless to stop it. A combat servitor may have a chance, but techpriests are quick to deactivate them with kill-signals and subject them to destruction or reprogramming.
That is way too self-aware for a servitor. I love it. It both adds to the horror and works as a nod to the lore that sometimes the lobotomy doesn’t always work.
Perhaps the lobotomy didn't work, and so Servitor just desperately holds on little he has left of himself, while doing his duty.
no doubt they needed to leave more brains in a medicae servitor so that it can perform complex surgeries, rather than a gun servitor where it's just kinda "shoot in that direction".
@@michaellemmons4759 this is likely it, as for mucht more specialized servitors you'll likely need more brain function preserved
My thinking was perhaps Nurgle, in his great generosity, decided to give the Medicae servitors of Tertium sadly dedicated to thwarting his blessings, a little bit of self-awareness so that they can cherish the despair he's so glad to bring to everyone
@@ThatGezaDude Sometimes I cannot comprehend how generous papa nurgle is, but then I remenber that he simply loves everyone
There is an extra one where if you use all of the Medicae up he says: "I serve no purpose... no purpose..." :c
And one where it says “I have no dreams, just this waking nightmare.”
"can you take me with you?.. i'm so lonely" ...
:(
"Why does it hurt? HELP HELP HELP"
"reserves depleted, purpose void..."
@@GuillermoBerasateguicrespo
"Nay, good servitor! NAY, I SAY!! Ye have performed well. 'Tis time you take some reste until your reserves are replenished once again. May the Emperor sooth your own ailments."
Fun fact: some servitors are mistakenly only partially lobotomized, or worse, return to lucidity at some point later in their un-life. Making his voice lines very tragic.
Some of them are basically "trapped" in their heads (some more sadistic admechs are doing it on purpose to punish you even more). They can hear, see etc. But can't fully control their body.
Some are intentionally made concious as a punishment
@@karenrompis6989 Punishment for what they did in life, right? Cannot really punish a brainless servitor for a mistake you commanded them to perform.
@@ordelian7795 mostly criminals and heretics, sometimes just an unfortunate sod who's in the wrong place at the wrong time
I have nightmares about topics like that.
Not gonna sleep tonight!
Medicae servitor: “Can you take me with you? Please? I am so lonely…”
Grund, my ogryn: *[teary-eyed]*
“SAH… CAN WE KEEP ‘IM, SAH?”
“Come on big man, still got plenty of ‘eretics to krump today”
My ogryn is named Worm
Reminds me of GROND! th-cam.com/video/fQsDddclBaU/w-d-xo.html
I mean shit, an Ogryn could definitely pick that shit up and lug it around
@@SaintBigfoot I can see an Ogryn tearing a servitor out of the wall and claiming that it followed him home.
My favorite/most disturbing line was when a med station was closing down: "Unexpected system error: Why does it hurt? Help. Help. Help. Help." Delivered all in characteristic monotone. Holy shit but 40k is dark.
*Grimdark
“Pieces of my mind are floating away. Help me. Please.”
Holy fuck 40k is dark
You have no idea.
The alternative is is if you're lucky upon death your soul simply dissipates in the warp if you're unlucky your soul becomes a Daemons new toy
Welcome to Servitors, they have less rights than the slaves of the imperium.
It gets even worse when you realize that Servitors do have full awareness of their surroundings and their own body, except that they've been robbed off of bodily independency and are basically remote-controlled robot toys played by Adeptus Mechanicus Techpriests.
@@RebelWvlf servitors awareness is debatable, as the mind wipe leave them with only the basic of instincts and without their mechanicus overlord they almost always get stuck in some sort of cycle. Alas it is not enviable fate.
Fun fact: A servitor, as you see in the Medicae Station, is a human being who has been lobotomized and cybernetically mutilated to perform tasks deemed too complex, specialized, hazardous, or labor-intensive to be undertaken by a normal human being. Most servitors are vat-grown humans. However, a great deal of them are instead convicts who were judged worthy enough to be redeemed in the eyes of the Emperor. The Imperium at large believes that servitorhood, while a grim fate, is merciful to the guilty - as it allows them to work off their sins in service to the Emperor, rather than being executed with their name and soul tarnished.
Additional examples of servitors in Darktide involve the headless torso that Inquisitor (Inquisitrix?) Grendyl speaks through in the "We Are Warriors!" cutscene, the machines in the barber shop, and the Peddler unit that sells you weapons.
"""fun"" fakt"
We've also seen Servitors who were Guardmen that were that were critically wounded. As Garret Greylock puts it in The Colonel's Monograph: "Kyrano here was senior colour guard in the 83rd. Threw himself on a greenskin bomb to save my mother's life some fifty years ago. Most of his body was destroyed, as well as his brain, but still he never let the regimental standard fall. My mother said his last wish was to continue to serve. Only in death does duty end, you know?"
Personally, I think I'd much prefer to be dead.
@@stephenwood6663 Of course that's what the mother said when rumors of a promotion were about LOL
@@stephenwood6663 and let's not forget the planet mentioned in 'The Cain Archive' which is home to a large Guard psychiatric facility and 'coincidentally' is also a major exporter of Military Combat Servitors
Given that human souls that don’t follow the Emperor to the T end up lost to the Warp, that’s not as stupid as it sounds.
"Pieces of my mind are floating away. Help me. Please" I felt that in my gut :( Servitors have always been such a sad concept.
Just kinda reminds me how tragic illnesses like Alzheimers are too
The messed up part is when you realise that some Servitors are not completely lobotomized and are basically trapped in their own minds, in a body that they have no control over for centuries before finally dying.
That is dark.
@@sawjhtheian6651 grim dark.
@@sawjhtheian6651 this reminds me of a story where a criminal was turned into a clown toy. The narrator implies that while most of its interactions and emotions are programmed it does things like scratching itself until the fingers are bloody which are possibly a sign of some self awareness. Honestly I’d rather be vaporized or something.
@@gabem3251 What is the name of the story?
@@jc7717 The Bookkeeper’s Skull
As an Ogryn main I want to take him out and sling him over my shoulder. Like in Hellboy with the dead Russian dude
I was just about to post the same thing!
I’d just give it the Emperor’s Mercy.
True man of culture right here
i was thinking about c3po and chewbacca :D
I love Ivan
Imagine you become a servitor. get placed in a nearly abandoned place and then you wait years over years when suddenly 4 persons arrive. You can now perform your task before they run away and then silence again. This was your highlight in servitude. This 4 guys.
Up until Nurgle's lads turned up, I'd imagine the place was packed with citizens going about their work for the Imperium. And this being said imperium inside a Hive city, said work probably involves horrific injuries on a fairly regular basis building or refining stuff. I'd think the Medicae stations got rather a lot of action round the clock.
@@darkxaur Heck, even the cultists probably use the servitors, right? I'm not very much versed in 40k lore, but I would think that even a possesed inhuman creature would like to heal it's cuts.
@@dr.cheeze5382 Healing for believers of the plaguefather who is all about despair, suffering, decay and disease? No, they probably put extra pus on their open wounds to make them fester. Honestly, medicae stations are probably heresy to them since they probably heal disease too.
@@dr.cheeze5382 I don't know if you've ever seen the cultists close up but they are most certainly not using any kind of disenfectant
@@dr.cheeze5382 To get medical aid is to reject the gifts of Nurgle. Why would you do what as a cultist?
Mercy is death and prolonged suffering is life, I presume?
Really just synonyms in the empire of man
Until your soul crosses the veil and you enter the warp
I think you're right, but plenty of Imperial worlds embrace public self-flagellation as penitence for minor crimes or as part of Sanguinalia celebrations. One images that "make sure I don't bleed out, but don't give me any painkillers!" is within the remit of public medicae stations like these.
not all, this looks like a vat grown clone since they all look the same.
ok the pieces of mind guy was definitely a convict
More like, mercy is I have not died yet; prolonged suffering is I have not died yet. It all depends on how you feel in the moment
I imagine a wounded veteran limping to this station hollering, “New spleen, ASAP! the one I got is nurgled to the emperor and back, it’s literally screaming at me!”
body parts becoming sentient and screaming at you seems closer to tzeetch's (or slaneesh depending on what body part exactly) thing then nurgle, who will give you a nasty disease and send oscar the grouch's stronger cousin at you to give you his "gift", proceed to make you a nasty deformed monster that now sees beuty in ugliness
its really fucked that the guy that causes his followers to have disease pores and become deformed and diseased, is considered one of the most merciful and caring chaos gods.
This was just too much funny in one comment🤣
"Nurgled to the Emperor and back"
There's something wrong in that sentence that i can't really point out.
"Nay friend, do not cut me out! Once I have assimilated the rest of your body, we shall be the best of friends, festering forever in the warm embrace of our Grandfather!"
- The Sentient Nurgled Spleen
@@kingbrennus1580 "YOU HEARD IM' SERVITOR, GET THAT CLAW WORKING *NOW."*
"I cannot dream, only exist in a waking nightmare."
sounds like my highschool years
@@sovietunion7643 Based on the pfp and name, makes sense.
@@sovietunion7643 understandable tbh
the second Servitor saying it's lonely gave me a reaction of "Uh oh, this servitor's Faulty. it's memory needs a scrub"
Spoken like a true Imperium citizen.
Faulty? 'Tis not. Would you want to rob him of the last shred of humanity he retains? Thou art heartless.
"If you were truly serving the Emperor you'd know you were never alone"
0:30 OHH!!! Bless that Ogryn and all the Synapses in his brain firing as hard as the emperor will allow it. DAM that was adorable and super funny at the same time.
Ogryns are the best bois in all of the imperium
@@adorabomber123 That's true.
Muhdicky
the servitor is mocking the ogryn in response lol
lol the 'medi, medic, medicae' - 'function, function, functional' was cute.
One of the lines I got was when he used up all the Medicae he gets stuffed back into his box and says, "System error... Why does it hurt? Help! Help! Help!" Honestly terrible.
*in the grim darkness of the far future...servitors are the most grimdark shit*
srsly, i feel really bad for these dudes
Not even close just look up Anchorites
There up there just because they are used for everything from running starships to door controls and Roomba's but no, it gets so so much worse. Do yourself a favour and just don't peer over the edge of that well... it gets bad 🥺
They get even worse. The Cherubim.
@@elitemook4234 Those are just tube ground babies
@@serronserron1320 Normally.
Just do yourself a favor and never look up the Daemonculaba.
This is my first Warhammer 40,000 game. This is some of the best lore I have come across in any game. I can't believe I slept on it for this long.
Welcome to the rabbit hole. Honestly, 40k has some of the most dense and expansive lore out of any universe imo.
Check out Lutien very good lore youtuber
Enjoy the ride, you're in for a deep dive! If you're familiar with Dune, 40k has a couple of similar concepts - for example, Navigators are shunned inbred mutants, but they provide a completely vital service because without them, FTL travel doesnt work, so they have a huge amount of influence.
Or the reason why no AI is around because at some point in the past, robots rebelled against humans and machine intelligence was forbidden after the war
Or that there's a sisterhood who are undertaking a millenia-long breeding program amongst the nobility to further humanity (to be fair, the Ordo Famulus plays a way less important role in 40k than the Bene Gesserit do in Dune)
Slaanesh and the Daemonculaba are good topics to ease you into the setting.
@@gulc begone daemon! You shall corrupt no more!
Fun fact: The voice of the Medicae Servitor is David Shaw Parker. That's fucking Franz Lohner trapped in there.
If anyone's curious, I believe from the in-game credits, basically every Vermintide VA is on the game to some extent.
- Dan Mersh (Kruber) is one of the Traitor Captain voices and the armoury servitor
- David Rintoul (Bardin) is probably the most recognizable one, as Sire Melk, the shopkeeper, as well as one of the PA announcers in the Mourningstar
- Tim Bentinck (Saltzpyre) is the male voice of Inquisitor Grendyl's servitor and one of the Traitor Captains
- Bethan Dixon Bate is not the voice of one of the female Psykers as I was led to believe, but she is the female voice of Inquisitor Grendyl's servitor
- Alix Wilton Regan (Kerillian) is the voice of one of the Traitor Captains
- Dan and both Davids (Kruber, Bardin, and Lohner) are also listed as some of the many voices for "Vocators". I don't know what that is, but they're those as well, apparently.
And interestingly, Nicolette McKenzie, the voice of Oleysa, is the only person credited as "Medicae Servitor" alongside David Shaw Parker, but so far there aren't any female medicae servitors in the game
I sometimes hear Nicolette whenever I heal at the medicae station. I guess it's just a random chance to hear her?
Bardin's VA is also one Of The ogryns and i am pretty sure the segrant on Morningstat is Kruber's VA
"A good day to be a depressed robot, I DON'T think."
It might just be dark humor. But it's actually a pretty cool take on servitors and how they function. Having the majority of your body replaced with technology, just so you can operate a machine like .5% more efficiently
Well if they make an A.I again, they'll do the same shit as last time and attempt to kill humanity again. Servitors are cheap to make and can do a lot of things most people can't, though grim, the Imperium doesn't have much of an option unless they dedicate themselves making something safer which is hard, because they would have to focus on making stuff for years and years, until ready, which leads to lack of armaments and weapons to produces.
Its not about efficiency the lore has it that AI is evil and robots are forbidden so making mind wiped cyborgs is the work around problem without a human will to keep demons out these things are easy pray for Chaos im suppressed these things are still functioning
Grimderp
@@vothbetilia4862 no, AI can be done right it’s just their AI revolt left humanity so scarred they are too scared to try again. Tau and votann have lived with AI for a long time. There’s even a man of iron just chillin in 40k.
@@ce5122 the Tau don't have true A.I living with them, and the Votann don't have A.I like the Imperium which are big and heavy armed to the teeth.
The years had not been kind to Lohner
Not the narrator from Stanley barrel?
At least hes out in the field this time, just as Kerillian wanted
@@shoulderpyro But lost his moustache (probably)
@@lihor6194 a heretical act if there ever was one
@@lihor6194 a little more than just the stache I'd say (x
Techpriest 1: So.... why don't we just use a cogitator and a servo skull
Techpriest 2: Budget cuts bro. sides, they ship the clones to use with half a torso anyway.
Techpriest 1: and the convict in the surgery room?
Techpriest 2: He thinks Magnus did nothing wrong
Anybody who unironicaly thinks that Magnus did nothing wrong deserves to become a toilet-cleaning servitor on a Hive world.
Also to be incased in a most indestructible armour so he would keep polishing those shitstained holes till the sun goes out or Exterminatus happens.
also servo skulls are the remains of honoured machine cultist being immortalized (for a while) by being turned in to servo skulls, cogitators are at least somewhat holy, and humans are extremely numerous and replacable, and are often criminals or people 3d printed just to be servitors
TechP. 1 : *I'm Prepped For Surgery* !
TP2 : You didn't change anything.
TP1 : I know.
TP3 : anesthetic, brothers?
TP1 : Oh, thanks.
TP2 : Yeah, my tank was running low. Ahh, that's better.
TP1 : Right, you have the neurosurgeon installed, so I'll get the limbs
*revving bonesaws*
*panicked screaming intensifies*
*door closes*
I hope there's an eventual mission where you're tasked with removing and extracting all of the medicae stations within a zone. In-universe it's to deprive the heretics of essential medical aid, but out-of-universe it's to give the players some small semblance of mercy towards these hapless servitors. Maybe one will randomly thank the players as they load it onto a Valkyrie, or perhaps you return to the Morningstar and find that one has been installed in the central hub.
This is the 41st Millennium, don't let his small talk fool you. That servitor is no more human that your Ipad or computer, his mind has been rewritten and everything he once was is now gone. His small talk will have been pre-programmed, every organ saved those he needs to fulfil his function removed for reuse elsewhere. He may feel no pain, or he may have had his nerves left in so this shell of what was once a man can deliberately feel the pain of his new form as part of his conversion into a servitor. He is either a poor man, a former criminal or one of the countless billions swept up the imperial machine and spat back out again.
That's a cool mission idea
Sad to think that the devs will likely never notice your suggestion tho
@@jacobmoss6830Blah, blah, edge fest… Just let us help the nice, fleshy vending machine! 😂
post that in thr forumns, not here
show it to their forums m8
I got one like "I cannot dream, I am a living nightmare" or something along those lines lol.
Aww buddy…. Now I do really want to take him with me…
damn that line about being lonely hit hard... can't we take him home, please?
Molly is a good girl
Or at least put him out of his misery... After he has outlived his use of course
THERE'S A WHOLE ASS GUY IN THERE!??!? WHAT. That seems like something I should notice IMMEDIATELY, but after 20 hours I just thought it was like the Vending Machines from Borderlands
This is the Imperium of Mankind. Everything is people. _Especially_ the vending machines.
Welcome to 40k. That's a guy who's got robots controlling his movements and wires in his brain, but he still has his sentience because otherwise, that'll be an a.i., and that's heresy.
40k humans don't trust ai, so instead they insert humans in all of their machines to replace the computer. Those giant ships are filled to the brim inside their hulls with humans screaming in pain, wishing for their misery to end.
There are lore-wise trillions of humans across the galaxy. One human criminal reshaped by Adeptus Mechanicus into Servitor is not deemed a tragedy, only as another statistic and another cog for Imperium's war machine. Besides, humans on Mars in their past had an event similar to Terminator's Judgment Day where humans barely prevailed over rogue AI (now renamed into Abominable Intelligence), created Adeptus Mechanicus religion and deemed the usage of AI as blasphemy against Machine God Omnissiah.
@@xxxVIOZxxx Well, cogitators do still exist. It's just things that are more advanced than what we'd consider modern computing that are tech Heresy. Imperial technology is a lot more automated that people give it credit for, it's just where we'd have high tech computers they either have slaves, bank after bank of cogitators or servitors.
My favourite one is, "System error. Why does it hurt? Help help help!" It is so messed up.
Darktide, the game where the healing station talks to you reassuringly, and then begs for help and an end to its misery!
When he asked me to take him with me it hit me in the feels ngl.
As the medicae servitor shuts down, I always put a bullet or laser through its head out of pity, even though it doesn't actually do anything in-game.
„Do not struggle.“ Fills me with confidence.
God the inflection of that "Applying medicae" into Immortal Imperium starting playing is so satisfying.
When I heard for the first time calling him to take him with us, it send shivers down my spine ...and actually, it still does everytime I hear it. 😬
Of course, for this servitor is asking you to deny his purpose of serving the Emperor. I too would be shaken if some heretical servitor who needs a mindwipe was asking me to help them.
If it makes it any better, the majority of all servitors are criminals who have been deemed "worthy" enough to redeem themselves and their horrendous crimes by serving the Emperor once more. Nobody in Warhammer is innocent. The others are 3D-printed humans.
"Mercy or prolonged suffering." I think this servitor retained some of its former sarcasm.
Damn, even the abysmally dark and brutal hive city of endless warfare and toil has public healthcare
And this is why I love 40k.
Man, those lines at times are a punch in the stomach...
People new to 40k, "Servitors are what!!! That's horrendous it truly is a Grimdark universe"
People familiar with the lore, "Oh my sweet summer child"
“WOAH WARHAMMER’THS💦 THSO 💦GRIMDARK!!! DIDTH 💦 YOU KNOW KREIG LITCHTHERALLY 💦 MEANTHS 💦 WAR IN GERMAN?!?!? SO GRIMDARK AND EPIC!”
sometimes i think 40k tries too hard. obviously half the fun is everyone being a bad guy, but at some point its a little too much
warhammer fantasy (especially the end times lore before it got too fucky and retarded), i feel was that nice middle ground. grimdark for sure, there are paranoid trigger happy witch hunters, feuding lords, threats of mass preportion on several fronts, but it still remains balanced with valid reasons why the empire lasted so long, being industrial revolution in the empire and sigmar's sheer chad behavior causing problems for chaos, orcs, ect. also its funny seeing elves being so arrogant that they are absolute retards and more or less cause every problem that comes their way because of it. grimdark, but also fucking hilarious
in 40k? the eldar are humbled by slannesh and not funny at all. if anything you almost feel bad for the eldar despite all their shit because they just don't want to be dragged to slannesh's sex dunegon. also, in all reality the imperium should have fallen by now into competing empires considering the sheer stress of multiple attacks and the emperor's dying age. the only faction i like better in 40k then fantasy/AOS is the orcs, who now break the laws of physics, canon, lore, and everything else because 'fuck you'. the orcs went from cool but kinda sidelined compared to others things to literally breaking lore for shits and giggles. maybe i just prefer a little ironic comedy to sweeten my grimdark coffee, and maybe some people prefer their grimdark worlds to be straight black and prefer that taste. idk
@@sovietunion7643 Finnish flag with soviet symbolism. You are a disgrace to your ancestors who fought to make Finland as prosperous as it is today and many of them died trying.
@@BavarianHobbit Jesus, calm the fuck down dude it's just a profile pic.
@@shotgunatthedisco6909 Who says I am not calm? I literally just criticised it.
He is alive and aware of his plight meaning that he will still willingly serve the emperor.
How I envy him.
My heart melts every time I hear one of these lines. I want to help them so badly. The real horror of it all set in when I realized every little bit of technology I saw, be it a radio or a door control, was a servitor. It's grim as hell.
I really hope we get a cosmetic in the future for the Ogryn where we're carrying one around like Chewbacca did with C-3PO in the Empire Strikes Back.
Radios and door controls are not servitors, that would be nuts
Hahah what? Not every piece of equipment is a servitor lol. They're just to do menial labour.
@@semberspirit they are servo skulls, the empire makes a habit of using human skulls as casings for various bits of technology, as they are quite common to come by and I suppose are fairly sturdy
Servitors are a replacement for AI. You don't need AI to open a door.
Then again there are Servo-Skulls whose entire purpose is to be a source of light. They carry a candle on their head.
@Polaris Borealis Those are not servitors still. Those are the skulls of the dead.
You don't really see just how sad and horrifying the very existence of servitors and how common they are in the imperium, until you can witness it.
I get that they don't want A.I. for OBVIOUS reasons but grim nonetheless actually seeing it.
40k verse humanity: AI bad because..er..it rebelled about thirteen thousand years ago, lets lobotomise billions of living humans and turn them into task specific cyborgs instead!
Fun fact, its not just for critical life and death functions either, in one 40k novel a character once recalls having a lobotomized servitor as a clown TOY to entertain him as a child.
Every human being is at Ed Gein level of psychopathy by the time the imperium even starts, even the seemingly most 'good' characters like Vulcan have at best a very stunted capability for compassion by modern irl standards.
@@alias234 "AI was bad 13k years ago" is really an understatement for "AI uprising that was one of the two major factors that took out the Age of Technology and made humanity 100k years into it's own past technologically".
The rise of AI utterly destroyed the foundations of politics and economies of countless human worlds. AI also developed tech that would eliminate stars. Humans have a VERY VERY VERY good reason to mistrust AI in this universe. AI made nanomachines that would descend to a planet and strip it of all organic life within 24 standard hours.
Warhammer has reasons for not doing, or doing a certain thing. Usually it's "The thing you are asking has killed actual billions of people and took billions more to stop. The alternative you suggested is actually worse than what we have now. No."
In the short "the abomination" is stated how servitors are made, one of them is the protagonist
So basicly, the adeptus mechanicus have gigantic fabrics where humans, most of the time either vat grown humans or prisoners, are held like farm animals, they just prison them in gigantic cages, where they wait until they get turned into a servitor, they do not get paralyzed or some sort of painkiller within the procedure, cause its "wasted" medical rescources since after they got turned into an servitor (which can take hours according to lorebooks) they cant complain after that, since they simply CANT do that anymore, tho sometimes, some cases have been reported where people who got turned into a servitor, are still sort of concious to some degree and feel the pain and know what they are, and what happened to them
thats why not every servitor is a sad brain with mechanical limbs that feel lonely, only some of them are, the other servitors that use their programmed voice lines as intended arent that degree of concious anymore, which is a blessing in this case
there are people who read that horror story on yt, tho im warning you, its REALLY dark, esp. the procedure of the protagonist getting "accidently" turned into a servitor
how can i find it on yt?
@@shiby1860 same
while pretty cool that fatshark actually added voicelines for Medicae, which they honestly really didnt have to. The way they went about with the voice lines just really screw with me, I feel bad every single god damn time I use it xD. I really wish they just went with yknow...just a robotic, synthy voice lines with no emotions xD. Now I feel emotionally invested in this servitor...
Fatshark kinda gives more love to Warhammer 40k then Games Workshop does sadly
0:15 thats just sad
"Can you take me with you? Please? I'm so lonely" med- mad- madicae makes ogrin sad
If they ever add a combat servitor class in the future they should give it unique dialogues with the medicae
Servitors, you are sentient enough to know you are in a horrible situation, but not sentient enough to do anything about it.
“I am so lonely” they didn’t lobotomize him well enough D:
"I offer mercy or prolonged suffering according to your desire." That's some Slaanesh-y heresy right there.
the servitor was asking if you want to just die
the other day I heard the line where he asks you to take him with you because he's lonely...I litterally stopped playing for a few seconds. It's one of the few times I had not been under fire while needing one.
Favorite’s gotta be ‘There is no finer duty than to fight for the Emperor. Except to die for him.’ Even in such a horrible state, he stays loyal to the Master of Mankind. Inspiration to those of shaken faith in the Emperor.
I think my favorite one is "Fight on, for the imperium"
Holy Emperor, bless this ravaged body!
I think there's one voiceline that repeats for 5 times, "I have no purpose. I have no purpose-"
Man, living in 40k is so cool :D
"Pieces of my mind are floating away. Help me. Please"
By Sigmar! That's was so 40K.
Not going to lie.
Never noticed a body in there lol
Damn I feel dumb, Never actually noticed that it's an actual dude in there, not a robot. 40K is just crazy.
Also The ravaged body tribute for Vermintide is spicy...that was my favorite line, good choice Fatshark.
there's a guy in there...
;(
"Please... I am so lonely"
The fact that the servitor can joke about being function-function-functional is so dark
Tech priest adept, Skitarii, and Combat servitor in the inevitable Admech DLC?
They really need to have us do missions where we extract medicae from chaos infested areas I wanna take these sad boys with us so bad
Warhammer 40k, the only universe so grimdark that even the medic stations are terrifying
0:05 "Might i heal your ravaged body?"
Who do you think you are? Sigmar?
0:31 my friends Ogryn said that line today, couldnt stop laughing for nearly a minute.
I love how dark this is
the fact the servitor is still somewhat conscious is dark
Based on the depth of thoughts those servitors are allowed to have, I can see now how the chaos god of slacking off crept in. Here on Terra our servitors only whizz and moan, though once I heard one proclaiming 'beep boop' and had to replace it whole… Bloody Apple won't repair it!
Bless this ravaged body
*Body builder poses*
"Please end me after use. Th-th-thank you.""
There are rumors that servitors sometimes get flashbacks of their past lives while serving but are too zombie to do anything about it.
“I’m too afraid to go to the doctor”
There's a Black Templars comic book where the elevator operator on the battleship is a servitor. Not voice recognition, not buttons, just a guy attached to the wall bringing the lift up or down as the marines order.
there's no greater honor for a convict than to become a servitor.
BLESS THIS RAVAGED BODY
HOLY SIGMAR, BLESS THIS RAVAGED BODY
This is like the (even) darker version of GLaDOS
Difference is that Glados is heresy, and the Medicae is not
@@Zamandu the emperor protects you my son
It looks like the torso of these servitors is the same seen on the servitor grendyl uses to adress his troops.
I've not heard most of these, especially the one where they ask you to take them with you because they're so lonely. That is incredibly tragic and cruel AF. Reminds me of that bit on the newer RoboCop film when Alex Murphy is basically a head and a pair of lungs suspended there in time and space. He questions whether he wants to continue in such an existence.
As deep as it is dark and loathsome. Adds to the lore though of how selfish and cruel the ones who decide to do that to people actually are. What sort of mindset would put another feeling, thinking person in such a state...
They should make a playable role as a Servitor, so you can get the full 40k experience.
Now i feel bad for all the servitors that died during my Mechanicus playthrough... :(
Lohner...what have they done to you
I hate to admit, but I never noticed there was a man in the medicae station... I thought it was just a recording.
yup, the Imperium doesnt trust in AI, so they use actual people encased in machines. per example the Dreadnought is a Space Marine who was near death and encased in a sarcophagus, which is also connected to a huge robot armed with a heavy machine gun and more stuff XD.
You missed the best one
When taking the last heal, I heard it say “Why does it hurt? Help. Help. Help.” as it shutdown
I'm supprised that Servitor hasn't been touched by Nurgle- as you know most of the Servitors who return to some form of lucidity are in quite dispair. He's lucky/unlucky that Grandfather haven't touched him with his gift I guess.
Also- I love how the Ogryn has problems with spelling Medicae.
I guess because he has a shitons of disinfect chemicals and equipments
Grim dark is right. What a fate to be turned into a servitor.
These servitors seem more… aware or conscious than I thought they would be.
Well sometimes the mechanicum fucks it up or doesnt care enough to lobotomize them properly.
@@d3203 Yea. Never heard this before but it sounds like them to a T.
The title sounded like it was going to be an mechanicus ASMR video. Oh well guess this will do.
I mean this servitor is one of the lucky ones. At least he can still think (mostly), and his job isn't a horrible one. Although that being said, it could all be programmed onto his blank mind. Like a loudspeaker at propaganda station.
Arguably, he's more cursed, parts of his mind rigidly performing tasks while another can remember parts of your past life. It's fucking grim.
Honestly I'd rather be made into a devolved husk than made aware of my own existence as a puppet.
lucky? no hes one of the unlucky ones for still being conscious
In the novel Flesh and Steel, an Imperial detective gets a rare tour of a Mechanicus facility that manufactures them. He's shown that contrary to popular belief the criminals that are used are executed and then part of their brain and body necessary for the particular servitor model are used to build it. However, the more complex a task, the more parts of the original brain must be preserved. And surgery is very, very complex.
(In the book he was investigating murders that seemed to have been carried out via servitor, and the Mechanicus is trying to prove to him that couldn't happen because most servitors are very purpose-built and you couldn't get something built to sweep a floor to stab a dude).
Sometimes I forget that these stations are humans cut open, mutilated and welded within these frames. There is *some* consciousness there, but the poor sod can only look on as his 4 charges are quickly depleted.
guess his lobotomy went unexpectedly well, do you think any of those servitors who end up regaining their mind try to revolt or rejoin society or anything.
Doubtful as their brain is basically being used as a basis for the hardware. Your body will continue to perform the designated function and you are powerless to stop it.
A combat servitor may have a chance, but techpriests are quick to deactivate them with kill-signals and subject them to destruction or reprogramming.
Make Ogryns Great Again
Reserve your healing for your friendly neighborhood Ogryn now!
I wish we could just put them on the ogryns back and have him carry them for the mission, poor guys are so lonely
I can't unhear my boy Lohner now :(
A self aware servitor, while rare, isn't impossible. And by god did they do it right.
"Hmm... you are a mess..."
Yeah you try dealing with Nurgle Cultists for several hours and see if you can keep perfect hair.
Poor Lohner, he sounds so depressed.
There's another quite dark one I came across. Something along the lines of "Please, why is it so dark, help me!"
Who needs medicaid when you got medicae?
Chances are this was a petty criminal. The real violent ones are turned into arco-flagellants which aren't much better.
HOLY EMPEROR, BLESS THIS RAVAGED BODY