@@lenhill6763 Tbf the UK has so many different regional accents its hard to say that the UK sounds like anything in particular, however i also agree with you the way he speaks sounds like a american doing a impression of a Toff.
I used Servo Skulls as a Heretek in Black Crusade. Useful little guys! My friends failed to notice I had named them after the Halo Monitors (Oracle, Tanget, and Exuberance). 🤣
It's not a full brain if there is any, but some venerated "retired" magos retain some of their sientience as wisdom keepers for new magos, basically its possible to have a servo skull like this be a instructor of sorts
I'm inclined to think they originated asa reward in death for a life of service, rather than out of necessity or scarcity of resources, because bones arent that great a material and degrades fairly fast in suboptimal conditions. Even in death I serve
Honestly, I agree. I'm sure that if it was born out of necessity, something, anything to hold machine parts could have been found! But then again, I've never been to Mars so I could be totally wrong! 😅 plus, this universe is a f**ked up place 😂
I always thought this was a good illustrator about the vast stratification of the Imperium: for a middle-class imperial adept, it is a deeply held honor to have their remains turned into a servo-skull. For the elites of the imperium who use them, it's a mere tool to be discarded. For the aristocrats and high adepta of the Imperium, your average human being is little more than fuel for their convenience.
Well this is very informative. For some reason I thought the servo skulls had traces for the memories of their past life. I didn't realise that they were just drones with people's skulls on them. Like a "even in death I still serve" type of thing.
Typically a Servo Skulls have the brains in them still as well as hardware. They need the brains because instead of AI they use a wiped living brain for the computing core.
That's not quite true, according to the research I did 😁 it seems at most, perhaps a bit of the nerves may be left but even then that seems to be rare, & they usually remove the whole lot, leaving just the skull. That seems to be part of what separates them from servitors, (which are indeed mostly biological) & serves into the hypocrisy of the imperium regarding at what point something's AI or not 😅
I enjoyed Gorgias, the servo skull used by Inquisitor Erasmus Crowl, in the Vaults of Terra series. Seemed quite a bit more autonomous than the average servo-skull, or maybe its programming was just janky. Not sure what all it did other than wield a needle gun and spout random phrases "Burn, burn! Imperativo!" but it was some welcome quirkiness.
Sometimes (pretty rare valuable servosculls) servo skulls of particularly venerated (usually magos) that "retire" retain some parts of their sentience and serve as wisdom keepers for other magos.
I know what a Servo Skull is... no idea why I clicked the video but I know why I stayed. WH40K, deep narrators voice, dry humor.. sign me up! But somehow I feel bad for Jim.
@@Ozzy3000 I think you underestimate C4. Modern tanks can be destroyed with that stuff, even if Plascrete is stronger than the alloys we have irl that's going to leave way more of a dent than those recreational civilian grade firecrackers you're suggesting.
I actually have it written in my will I want to become one and follow my friends around until they get turned into them and we’ll have awesome adventures
i wonder. doesnt the machine spirit take 'priority' in regards to controlling the servo-skull, rather than the original spirit of the body (if such even remains in the skull to begin with]?
And what about baby bodies with wings that you can see in Space Marine 2, floating at the base? Are these things like skulls, or have a different purpose?
They're different from Servo-Skulls. Those are 'Cherubs', A type of Servitor! They're (typically) vat grown babies that are lobotomised & effectively reprogrammed with hardware & such to perform set tasks. The Cherubs are usually (but not exclusively!) associated with tasks related to some holy order, or otherwise jobs of high pedigree, such as flying about with written rites of purity or incense etc! I'l probably do a video on them & Servitors in general someday 😁
@@Adeptus_Historium Looking forward to it! i was never really interested in the 40k lore until I tried this game, and your videos are very helpful. In fact, I have listened through all of them in a single day. Keep up your good work.
@@Adeptus_HistoriumI thought they were made from servitors that had physically degraded to the point that they could no longer accomplish more complicated tasks. Sort of their last stop before the forever sleep and scrap heap.
That's such a cool question! 😄 Anything with a skull can arguably become a Servo-Skull, though it's regarded as an honour amongst mortals, rather than the Angels of Death. Each of the Chapters have their own traditions when it comes to the passing of a brother. While I don't doubt there's at least a handful of 'Astartes Servo-Skulls' out there (I'm looking at you, Iron Hands!!), I imagine Space Marines would see it as an honour that's worthy of mortals, but beneath them 😅 I enjoyed pondering over that, thanks for the question! & thankyou for watching! 😄
@@Adeptus_HistoriumI remember seeing something that a marine fucked up big time and got a bunch of marines killed, don’t regret it and then got turned into servo skull as punishment
servoskulls are AI - because its literally impossible for them to be anything else. You're gonna need visual pattern recogniction, object recognition, distance recognition, pattern parsing, you need a logical state-machine which decides ob abstract courses of action, you even need "some" form of communication - the skulls have been shown to communicate with inquisitors, they are always being given complex analytical or recon tasks and much, much more. All of these functions are AI. In fact, the entire w40 universe is completely brimming with AI - especially if it comes to "machine spirits" which are embedded into many devices. Its just that the AI which are being used by the empire of mankind always is strictly limited to a certain set of tasks and it is completely reset after the task is finished. Its basically AI slavery.
My guy, it's way more work to record myself & do the piece in front of a camera than to do it without one 😅 & this piece has plenty of artwork throughout!
This man is the English Morgan Freeman. You need to Narrate MORE 40K lore! You got a new Fan!
Thankyou so much! 😁 More is being made as we speak!
He really isn't sorry.... and 98% of the uk doesn't sound like this either.
Indeed, I talk funny 🤣
@@lenhill6763 Tbf the UK has so many different regional accents its hard to say that the UK sounds like anything in particular, however i also agree with you the way he speaks sounds like a american doing a impression of a Toff.
More 40k
I used Servo Skulls as a Heretek in Black Crusade. Useful little guys! My friends failed to notice I had named them after the Halo Monitors (Oracle, Tanget, and Exuberance). 🤣
I think Oracle should be Guilty Spark
I always thought the brain was intact to help with their duties.
There's no room for life support in such a small package.
It's not a full brain if there is any, but some venerated "retired" magos retain some of their sientience as wisdom keepers for new magos, basically its possible to have a servo skull like this be a instructor of sorts
6:13 "Hey servo skull, gimme a light."
Somehow, I could picture guardsman doing something like that. Lighting a smoke off the pilot light.
Remember kids that not ai machine spirit certainly wont make your land raider go ork hunting on its own
Absolutely! Totally not AI! 🤣
I'm inclined to think they originated asa reward in death for a life of service, rather than out of necessity or scarcity of resources, because bones arent that great a material and degrades fairly fast in suboptimal conditions.
Even in death I serve
Honestly, I agree. I'm sure that if it was born out of necessity, something, anything to hold machine parts could have been found! But then again, I've never been to Mars so I could be totally wrong! 😅 plus, this universe is a f**ked up place 😂
I always thought this was a good illustrator about the vast stratification of the Imperium: for a middle-class imperial adept, it is a deeply held honor to have their remains turned into a servo-skull. For the elites of the imperium who use them, it's a mere tool to be discarded. For the aristocrats and high adepta of the Imperium, your average human being is little more than fuel for their convenience.
Yeah, that's pretty accurate 😅
Well this is very informative. For some reason I thought the servo skulls had traces for the memories of their past life. I didn't realise that they were just drones with people's skulls on them. Like a "even in death I still serve" type of thing.
I think that idea is based on the superstition that people have in that world, as opposed to actual fact 😁
@@Adeptus_Historium Ahh. that makes sense.
Great work brother!
Thankyou! 😄
Typically a Servo Skulls have the brains in them still as well as hardware. They need the brains because instead of AI they use a wiped living brain for the computing core.
Thanks for awnsering the most important question i had about them !
That's not quite true, according to the research I did 😁 it seems at most, perhaps a bit of the nerves may be left but even then that seems to be rare, & they usually remove the whole lot, leaving just the skull. That seems to be part of what separates them from servitors, (which are indeed mostly biological) & serves into the hypocrisy of the imperium regarding at what point something's AI or not 😅
I enjoyed Gorgias, the servo skull used by Inquisitor Erasmus Crowl, in the Vaults of Terra series.
Seemed quite a bit more autonomous than the average servo-skull, or maybe its programming was just janky.
Not sure what all it did other than wield a needle gun and spout random phrases "Burn, burn! Imperativo!" but it was some welcome quirkiness.
Perhaps the skull's shouting is the inquisitor's equivalent to an inspirational poster? 😂
I always was wondering about these guys
Hey, I went to school with Jim the "Scholar". Jim the Cheater, more like! Copied all of my Servo-Skull papers!
Damn! Sounds like he didn't deserve the honour! 😂
Sometimes (pretty rare valuable servosculls) servo skulls of particularly venerated (usually magos) that "retire" retain some parts of their sentience and serve as wisdom keepers for other magos.
Always figures they were basically brains turned into drones. Always made me think of the movie Virus.
I know what a Servo Skull is... no idea why I clicked the video but I know why I stayed. WH40K, deep narrators voice, dry humor.. sign me up! But somehow I feel bad for Jim.
Thankyou kindly! 😁
Nice one bro
Thankyou kindly! 😄
so, I'm just curios about something. how many types of servo skulls are there?
now do cherubs when someone asks why tell them about the anti-grave device
you can attach a c4 and you got an automated drone bomb
C4...? Why not fireworks? At least they might startle a Chaos Marine.
@@Ozzy3000 I think you underestimate C4. Modern tanks can be destroyed with that stuff, even if Plascrete is stronger than the alloys we have irl that's going to leave way more of a dent than those recreational civilian grade firecrackers you're suggesting.
@@pyerack Sure... but I was just thinking about a Mini Melta Charges.
Big fan. Great voice. Subbed.
Could you do a video on servitors?
I actually have it written in my will I want to become one and follow my friends around until they get turned into them and we’ll have awesome adventures
Now that is a dope plan, amigo! 🤣
@@Adeptus_Historium exactly Elon make it happen. He’s the only one I can think of who is blessed enough by the Machine God to make it happen.
i wonder. doesnt the machine spirit take 'priority' in regards to controlling the servo-skull, rather than the original spirit of the body (if such even remains in the skull to begin with]?
It absolutely does! At least, it appears that way 😁
@@Adeptus_Historium thus the machine spirit is what seems loyal, and there doesnt appear to be any risk
And what about baby bodies with wings that you can see in Space Marine 2, floating at the base? Are these things like skulls, or have a different purpose?
They're different from Servo-Skulls. Those are 'Cherubs', A type of Servitor! They're (typically) vat grown babies that are lobotomised & effectively reprogrammed with hardware & such to perform set tasks. The Cherubs are usually (but not exclusively!) associated with tasks related to some holy order, or otherwise jobs of high pedigree, such as flying about with written rites of purity or incense etc! I'l probably do a video on them & Servitors in general someday 😁
@@Adeptus_Historium Looking forward to it! i was never really interested in the 40k lore until I tried this game, and your videos are very helpful. In fact, I have listened through all of them in a single day. Keep up your good work.
But don't servo skull use real brains too?
Not really, no! Perhaps a little brainstem on occasion but most of the time the skull itself is the only organic component 😁
@@Adeptus_Historium not as grimdark as expected. :V
Honestly, I agree 😅 but I guess that's what separates them from servitors
@@Adeptus_HistoriumI thought they were made from servitors that had physically degraded to the point that they could no longer accomplish more complicated tasks. Sort of their last stop before the forever sleep and scrap heap.
Maybe he's Matt Berry's brother?
You look like you would have a higher pitch voice. Your face took me off guard.
It takes me off guard too! Just the face when I see a mirror, I mean 🤣
Very cool video. I have a question, can Astartes become Servo Skulls after death?
That's such a cool question! 😄
Anything with a skull can arguably become a Servo-Skull, though it's regarded as an honour amongst mortals, rather than the Angels of Death. Each of the Chapters have their own traditions when it comes to the passing of a brother. While I don't doubt there's at least a handful of 'Astartes Servo-Skulls' out there (I'm looking at you, Iron Hands!!), I imagine Space Marines would see it as an honour that's worthy of mortals, but beneath them 😅
I enjoyed pondering over that, thanks for the question! & thankyou for watching! 😄
@@Adeptus_HistoriumI remember seeing something that a marine fucked up big time and got a bunch of marines killed, don’t regret it and then got turned into servo skull as punishment
@@Adeptus_Historium Awesome! Thank you for the information!
@@Snek_Studios5022 I thought it was a regular servitor he was turned into.
@@EnergyBurst2 idk it was from awhile ago
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servoskulls are AI - because its literally impossible for them to be anything else. You're gonna need visual pattern recogniction, object recognition, distance recognition, pattern parsing, you need a logical state-machine which decides ob abstract courses of action, you even need "some" form of communication - the skulls have been shown to communicate with inquisitors, they are always being given complex analytical or recon tasks and much, much more. All of these functions are AI. In fact, the entire w40 universe is completely brimming with AI - especially if it comes to "machine spirits" which are embedded into many devices. Its just that the AI which are being used by the empire of mankind always is strictly limited to a certain set of tasks and it is completely reset after the task is finished. Its basically AI slavery.
That's the huge irony/hypocracy of it all. Machine spirits are almost certainly a form of AI 🤣
I thought Servo Skulls 💀 were recycled ♻️ Servertors?
Here before you blow up
Thankyou for being here! 😁 now we just need the 'blowing up' part 😂
New here, haven't checked the channel yet, have you done a video about the cherubs?.. by any chance? If not can you do one? Sub incoming regardless
They are eco friendly.
audio is out of sync with video
Huh! It seems alright to me & noone else has said so yet! 😁
Do you NEED to have your face on screen?
Do you dislike the face? 😅 it's how I like to operate; face to face etc
Another lazy talking head video instead of WH40K art. No thanks.
My guy, it's way more work to record myself & do the piece in front of a camera than to do it without one 😅 & this piece has plenty of artwork throughout!