Editing Tech Thrall (section)

==History==
Tech-thralls were specialized troops of the Legio Cybernetica created by the Mechanicum through basic augmetics and cranial surgery as the need for them arose, especially during the massive Imperial expansion during the [[Great Crusade]] and later the interstellar binge party known as the [[Horus Heresy]]. They were not [[Servitors]] in the conventional sense as Servitors used often formerly human biological matter as a component system, but rather could be considered cyborgs as consciousness and memory was not extinguished before they were reprocessed into their new forms, merely mutilated and overridden.

The conversion process commonly awaited the laity of a [[Forge World]]'s population, should it prove sub-standard or commit some transgression against its masters, for few other criminal punishments existed in the [[Omnissiah]]'s domains. Tech-thralls served many purposes, but principally that of a flexible pool of expendable labor on the Forge Worlds. But in times of war, this same fate befell many to create a quickly-produced and ultimately expendable military resource known as the Adsecularis. In these cases, the organic human bodies of the Tech-thralls, already altered to lift heavy loads, function in hostile environments and obey the orders of their masters until death. Tech-thralls were fitted with 'basic' weapons systems and bodily protection. On the battlefield they served as expendable troops, unskilled but relentless and indefatigable; an army of the alive-yet-dead, puppeteered by the Mechanicum Magi who commanded them.

It is unknown whether they are still in use by the 41st millennium, although the chances are quite high just by looking at the amount of slave labor going on in the Mechanicus.

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