Editing Death Korps of Krieg (section)

== Vitae Womb ==
It is stated that the Kriegers make use of "Vitae Womb" technology to keep up the annual crop of 50 million suicidally fanatical gas mask mooks specifically given to them by the Adeptus Mechanicus. What that means is a matter of [[skub|debate]], ranging from exowombs to drugs which increase fertility and accelerate pregnancy. What is not disputed is that it keeps population production up well beyond what can usually be achieved by human uteri - certainly ones inhabiting a radioactive hellscape. At least take comfort in the fact that it, in all likelihood, can't be as bad as [[Honsou|a certain Warsmith]]'s [[Daemonculaba|pet project]].

Or [[/d/|could it?]]

In all honesty it's almost certainly just an artificial womb. The basic technology itself is something that the Imperium makes use of on a regular basis and Vitae Womb is probably just a specific incarnation of it used to mass produce (biologically speaking) normal humans. House Goliath is a product of such technology. There are no women in the Krieg military, because they also supply kids for their birth rates - they do both so they can recruit and tithe more regiments. Though it might just be cloning, with copious amounts of brainwashing to make sure the problems exhibited by normal clones don't manifest.

Fluff on this is incredibly inconsistent, and varies from author to author, and indeed story to story. You can find sources saying its a specialized artificial that the AdMech gave the Kriegers and is basically fine. And you can find stories cloning technology so heretical and vile that it’s very existence is one of the highest secrets of the [[Inquisition]] and its use so forbidden that it even gave Jurten pause and that the fact that they were created in this way is one of the secret shames Kriegers want to die to expunge. Which is true? It’s 40k, baby! There’s no consistent canon, no matter how much you want there to be.