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	{{topquote\|…BLESSING IRON why why IRON alive BLESSING…''OVERRIDE CODE '''KILL ME''' override code YOUR eye YOUR EYE YOUR EYE YOUR…'' Cutting. Ripping. Unutterable, obliterating pain. The stink of blood and hot machine oil. The towering figure in power armour watching impassively as a voice shrieked for mercy. A voice that the servitor did not remember as the one it used to own…no ability to understand the images…dragged out of its lacerated mind…no consciousness to understand what had happened to it…''\|[[Matthew Farrer]] describes just how grimdark servitors are (in his short story ''Memories of Flesh''.) And this is about the [[Iron Hands\|'''good''' guys]]. Though, this is [[Grimdark\|usually]] just for the worst criminal monsters.}}		{{topquote\|…BLESSING IRON why why IRON alive BLESSING…''OVERRIDE CODE '''KILL ME''' override code YOUR eye YOUR EYE YOUR EYE YOUR…'' Cutting. Ripping. Unutterable, obliterating pain. The stink of blood and hot machine oil. The towering figure in power armour watching impassively as a voice shrieked for mercy. A voice that the servitor did not remember as the one it used to own…no ability to understand the images…dragged out of its lacerated mind…no consciousness to understand what had happened to it…''\|[[Matthew Farrer]] describes just how grimdark servitors are (in his short story ''Memories of Flesh''.) And this is about the [[Iron Hands\|'''good''' guys]]. Though, this is [[Grimdark\|usually]] just for the worst criminal monsters.}}

	'''Servitor''' is a word derived from the Latin ''servus'', meaning slave (keep in mind that in ancient Roman society, this had a very different connotation than it does for Americans looking back on their own history; but in the [[Warhammer 40,000\|grim darkness of the far future]] things are, if anything, actually ''worse''…).		'''Servitor''' is a word derived from the Latin ''servus'', meaning slave (keep in mind that in ancient Roman society, this had a very different connotation than it does for Americans (for literally any society, culture, etc. to ever exist) looking back on their own history; but in the [[Warhammer 40,000\|grim darkness of the far future]] things are, if anything, actually ''worse''…(ya don't say!).

	==Why the Servitor?==		==Why the Servitor?==

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	*'''Technical Servitors''' - are the most common servitors; often referred to as '''mono-task''', which have been cybernetically upgraded in a particular way to perform a single task, usually a monotonous one where things could not go very wrong. Basically the Imperial version of those car factory robots. They also are usually the ones who follow Tech-Priests or Techmarines around, holding tools and lifting heavy loads (like tanks) and generally being helpful on command. Mono-task servitors are most likely to get confused without direction and have a tendency to "mindlock" when without supervision. They are generally equiped with [[Servo-Arm]]s or various repair tools.		*'''Technical Servitors''' - are the most common servitors; often referred to as '''mono-task''', which have been cybernetically upgraded in a particular way to perform a single task, usually a monotonous one where things could not go very wrong. Basically the Imperial version of those car factory robots. They also are usually the ones who follow Tech-Priests or Techmarines around, holding tools and lifting heavy loads (like tanks) and generally being helpful on command. Mono-task servitors are most likely to get confused without direction and have a tendency to "mindlock" when without supervision. They are generally equiped with [[Servo-Arm]]s or various repair tools.
	**'''Gun Servitors''' - mono-task Servitors equiped with one heavy ~~weapons~~, like a [[Heavy Bolter]] or [[Multi-Melta]].		**'''Gun Servitors''' - mono-task Servitors equiped with one heavy weapon, like a [[Heavy Bolter]] or [[Multi-Melta]].
	**'''[[Lugger]]''' - jury rigged Servitors used by [[House Orlock]] as a poor man's version of a Combat Servitor. Luggers are originally Technical Servitors who were stolen by House Orlock and had both their brains and augments replaced with weapons and combat routines. Considered as a cheap but effective heavy unit for House Orlock.		**'''[[Lugger]]''' - jury rigged Servitors used by [[House Orlock]] as a poor man's version of a Combat Servitor. Luggers are originally Technical Servitors who were stolen by House Orlock and had both their brains and augments replaced with weapons and combat routines. Considered as a cheap but effective heavy unit for House Orlock.
	*'''[[Servitor-Ogryn]]''' - ogryns making good servitors is possibly one of the first things the Imperium first thought about when they discovered these boys early on in the Great Crusade. Their immense natural strength and blind stupidity makes them perfect to being processed into a servitor; able to carry loads far too heavy for even the already augmented Technical Servitors.		*'''[[Servitor-Ogryn]]''' - ogryns making good servitors is possibly one of the first things the Imperium first thought about when they discovered these boys early on in the Great Crusade. Their immense natural strength and blind stupidity makes them perfect to being processed into a servitor; able to carry loads far too heavy for even the already augmented Technical Servitors.

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	They come in all shapes and sizes, for performing tasks ranging from guarding tech-priests to stenography. Naturally, there are also servitors designed for use as soldiers as well.		They come in all shapes and sizes, for performing tasks ranging from guarding tech-priests to stenography. Naturally, there are also servitors designed for use as soldiers as well.

	*'''Technical Servitors''' - are the most common servitors; often referred to as '''mono-task''', which have been cybernetically upgraded in a particular way to perform a single task, usually a monotonous one where things could not go very wrong. Basically the Imperial version of those car factory robots. They also are usually the ones who follow Tech-Priests or Techmarines around, holding tools and lifting heavy loads (like tanks) and generally being helpful on command. Mono-task servitors are most likely to get confused without direction and have a tendency to "mindlock" when without supervision.		*'''Technical Servitors''' - are the most common servitors; often referred to as '''mono-task''', which have been cybernetically upgraded in a particular way to perform a single task, usually a monotonous one where things could not go very wrong. Basically the Imperial version of those car factory robots. They also are usually the ones who follow Tech-Priests or Techmarines around, holding tools and lifting heavy loads (like tanks) and generally being helpful on command. Mono-task servitors are most likely to get confused without direction and have a tendency to "mindlock" when without supervision. They are generally equiped with [[Servo-Arm]]s or various repair tools.
			**'''Gun Servitors''' - mono-task Servitors equiped with one heavy weapons, like a [[Heavy Bolter]] or [[Multi-Melta]].
	**'''[[Lugger]]''' - jury rigged Servitors used by [[House Orlock]] as a poor man's version of a Combat Servitor. Luggers are originally Technical Servitors who were stolen by House Orlock and had both their brains and augments replaced with weapons and combat routines. Considered as a cheap but effective heavy unit for House Orlock.		**'''[[Lugger]]''' - jury rigged Servitors used by [[House Orlock]] as a poor man's version of a Combat Servitor. Luggers are originally Technical Servitors who were stolen by House Orlock and had both their brains and augments replaced with weapons and combat routines. Considered as a cheap but effective heavy unit for House Orlock.
	*'''[[Servitor-Ogryn]]''' - ogryns making good servitors is possibly one of the first things the Imperium first thought about when they discovered these boys early on in the Great Crusade. Their immense natural strength and blind stupidity makes them perfect to being processed into a servitor; able to carry loads far too heavy for even the already augmented Technical Servitors.		*'''[[Servitor-Ogryn]]''' - ogryns making good servitors is possibly one of the first things the Imperium first thought about when they discovered these boys early on in the Great Crusade. Their immense natural strength and blind stupidity makes them perfect to being processed into a servitor; able to carry loads far too heavy for even the already augmented Technical Servitors.

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	*'''Murder Servitors''' - a specialist class of combat servitor, very much in appearance and function to Arco-Flagellants, though with absolutely no personality whatsoever as there is no crime to be punished for. Generally switched on as a last resort and then left to seek and destroy things (ie: everything in sight) at their own direction. Their circuit-laced brains have been inlaid with numerous kill-routines and slaughter-protocols, making Murder Servitors literal [[RIP AND TEAR\|killing machines]] -- all the native viciousness of the human brain combined with the ruthless efficiency and durability of cold steel. Murder Servitors are almost exclusively utilised aboard spacecraft and orbital stations for a number of reasons, including the facts that Murder-servitors don't need much life support, are easier to maintain than humans and less likely to damage starships or important equipment (although some like the Lathe-pattern do wields melta weapons which would not be trusted to simple humans), and never talk. This means that they are usually used on ships, by the Adeptus Mechanicus, or by secretive factions like the Ordos of the Inquisition or Assassinorum temples. With limited space and resources for guards, Imperial prison starships controlled by the Inquisition often maintain a sizeable contingent of Murder Servitors. Hunched, evil things, Murder Servitors are smaller and quicker than their more benign cousins. Armed with blades and hooks and programmed with a homicidal nature, they stalk the passages of their assigned vessel, ambushing trespassers and dragging their corpses back to their Inquisitorial masters. If not ordered otherwise, they spend hours hunting any living creature not programmed into their spoor-targeters, undeterred by any obstruction and unhindered by fear or humanity. Their nature is intended to inspire dread, from their chrome skull-masks, to long, razor-sharp talons and steel weapon-limbs, to the electronic howls and moans of their Vox-boosted throats. Boarding actions and similar battles are often decided in brutal melee combat, and as deadly as these battles are when Imperial forces clash with Traitors, ordinary humans are simply no match in these situations for many xenos. Orks, Genestealers, Eldar Corsairs, and other aliens are a major concern in many areas of human-occupied space. Armsmen, no matter how well-equipped and trained, can little hope to stand against such horrors within the narrow confines of a voidship or void station, (they're not Imperial Guardsmen, after all, just scrubs with guns) where [[Lasgun\|the might]] [[Leman Russ\|of Man]] cannot be effectively deployed. Murder Servitors are brutally efficient against pirates or mutineers, where Gun Servitors that sport heavy ranged weaponry would be ill-suited to space combat (for the average Imperial too stupid to stick them at the end of corridors to slaughter everything trying to get through with killtastic heavy weapons). Murder Servitors could be very effective in other environments, from Death World jungles to teeming hive cities. However, as massive as Imperial starships are, they are still contained environments. Murder Servitors have been known to devolve or malfunction, locking into a kill-imperative and ignoring further commands to cease. If not contained, such deviant Servitors could even escape and go on to cause further slaughter amongst the population - although some organizations seem not to care much...		*'''Murder Servitors''' - a specialist class of combat servitor, very much in appearance and function to Arco-Flagellants, though with absolutely no personality whatsoever as there is no crime to be punished for. Generally switched on as a last resort and then left to seek and destroy things (ie: everything in sight) at their own direction. Their circuit-laced brains have been inlaid with numerous kill-routines and slaughter-protocols, making Murder Servitors literal [[RIP AND TEAR\|killing machines]] -- all the native viciousness of the human brain combined with the ruthless efficiency and durability of cold steel. Murder Servitors are almost exclusively utilised aboard spacecraft and orbital stations for a number of reasons, including the facts that Murder-servitors don't need much life support, are easier to maintain than humans and less likely to damage starships or important equipment (although some like the Lathe-pattern do wields melta weapons which would not be trusted to simple humans), and never talk. This means that they are usually used on ships, by the Adeptus Mechanicus, or by secretive factions like the Ordos of the Inquisition or Assassinorum temples. With limited space and resources for guards, Imperial prison starships controlled by the Inquisition often maintain a sizeable contingent of Murder Servitors. Hunched, evil things, Murder Servitors are smaller and quicker than their more benign cousins. Armed with blades and hooks and programmed with a homicidal nature, they stalk the passages of their assigned vessel, ambushing trespassers and dragging their corpses back to their Inquisitorial masters. If not ordered otherwise, they spend hours hunting any living creature not programmed into their spoor-targeters, undeterred by any obstruction and unhindered by fear or humanity. Their nature is intended to inspire dread, from their chrome skull-masks, to long, razor-sharp talons and steel weapon-limbs, to the electronic howls and moans of their Vox-boosted throats. Boarding actions and similar battles are often decided in brutal melee combat, and as deadly as these battles are when Imperial forces clash with Traitors, ordinary humans are simply no match in these situations for many xenos. Orks, Genestealers, Eldar Corsairs, and other aliens are a major concern in many areas of human-occupied space. Armsmen, no matter how well-equipped and trained, can little hope to stand against such horrors within the narrow confines of a voidship or void station, (they're not Imperial Guardsmen, after all, just scrubs with guns) where [[Lasgun\|the might]] [[Leman Russ\|of Man]] cannot be effectively deployed. Murder Servitors are brutally efficient against pirates or mutineers, where Gun Servitors that sport heavy ranged weaponry would be ill-suited to space combat (for the average Imperial too stupid to stick them at the end of corridors to slaughter everything trying to get through with killtastic heavy weapons). Murder Servitors could be very effective in other environments, from Death World jungles to teeming hive cities. However, as massive as Imperial starships are, they are still contained environments. Murder Servitors have been known to devolve or malfunction, locking into a kill-imperative and ignoring further commands to cease. If not contained, such deviant Servitors could even escape and go on to cause further slaughter amongst the population - although some organizations seem not to care much...
	**It is unknown whether or not aspirants who fail to become [[Eversor]]s get to become Murder-Servitors, but /tg/ (and [http://convertorum.blogspot.fr/2015/05/snikt.html this guy] from the Convertorum) really hope so. Or at least make them berzerkers!		**It is unknown whether or not aspirants who fail to become [[Eversor]]s get to become Murder-Servitors, but /tg/ (and [http://convertorum.blogspot.fr/2015/05/snikt.html this guy] from the Convertorum) really hope so. Or at least make them berzerkers!

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	*'''Technical Servitors''' - are the most common servitors; often referred to as '''mono-task''', which have been cybernetically upgraded in a particular way to perform a single task, usually a monotonous one where things could not go very wrong. Basically the Imperial version of those car factory robots. They also are usually the ones who follow Tech-Priests or Techmarines around, holding tools and lifting heavy loads (like tanks) and generally being helpful on command. Mono-task servitors are most likely to get confused without direction and have a tendency to "mindlock" when without supervision.		*'''Technical Servitors''' - are the most common servitors; often referred to as '''mono-task''', which have been cybernetically upgraded in a particular way to perform a single task, usually a monotonous one where things could not go very wrong. Basically the Imperial version of those car factory robots. They also are usually the ones who follow Tech-Priests or Techmarines around, holding tools and lifting heavy loads (like tanks) and generally being helpful on command. Mono-task servitors are most likely to get confused without direction and have a tendency to "mindlock" when without supervision.
	**'''[[Lugger]]''' - jury rigged Servitors used by [[House Orlock]] as a poor man's version of a Combat Servitor. Luggers are originally Technical Servitors who were stolen by House Orlock and had both their brains and augments replaced with weapons and combat routines. Considered as a cheap but effective heavy unit for House Orlock.		**'''[[Lugger]]''' - jury rigged Servitors used by [[House Orlock]] as a poor man's version of a Combat Servitor. Luggers are originally Technical Servitors who were stolen by House Orlock and had both their brains and augments replaced with weapons and combat routines. Considered as a cheap but effective heavy unit for House Orlock.
			*'''[[Servitor-Ogryn]]''' - ogryns making good servitors is possibly one of the first things the Imperium first thought about when they discovered these boys early on in the Great Crusade. Their immense natural strength and blind stupidity makes them perfect to being processed into a servitor; able to carry loads far too heavy for even the already augmented Technical Servitors.
	*'''[[Combat Servitors]]''' - funnily enough are mono-task servitors kitted out exclusively for combat. Point and click servitors that are equipped with an array of offensive weapons either in close combat or are fitted with heavy weapons for long range.		*'''[[Combat Servitors]]''' - funnily enough are mono-task servitors kitted out exclusively for combat. Point and click servitors that are equipped with an array of offensive weapons either in close combat or are fitted with heavy weapons for long range.
	**Note that combat servitors are still very different from the [[Skitarii]] though both are highly augmented, the Skitarii still have their personalities and free will.		**Note that combat servitors are still very different from the [[Skitarii]] though both are highly augmented, the Skitarii still have their personalities and free will.

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	*'''Technical Servitors''' - are the most common servitors; often referred to as '''mono-task''', which have been cybernetically upgraded in a particular way to perform a single task, usually a monotonous one where things could not go very wrong. Basically the Imperial version of those car factory robots. They also are usually the ones who follow Tech-Priests or Techmarines around, holding tools and lifting heavy loads (like tanks) and generally being helpful on command. Mono-task servitors are most likely to get confused without direction and have a tendency to "mindlock" when without supervision.		*'''Technical Servitors''' - are the most common servitors; often referred to as '''mono-task''', which have been cybernetically upgraded in a particular way to perform a single task, usually a monotonous one where things could not go very wrong. Basically the Imperial version of those car factory robots. They also are usually the ones who follow Tech-Priests or Techmarines around, holding tools and lifting heavy loads (like tanks) and generally being helpful on command. Mono-task servitors are most likely to get confused without direction and have a tendency to "mindlock" when without supervision.
			**'''[[Lugger]]''' - jury rigged Servitors used by [[House Orlock]] as a poor man's version of a Combat Servitor. Luggers are originally Technical Servitors who were stolen by House Orlock and had both their brains and augments replaced with weapons and combat routines. Considered as a cheap but effective heavy unit for House Orlock.
	*'''[[Combat Servitors]]''' - funnily enough are mono-task servitors kitted out exclusively for combat. Point and click servitors that are equipped with an array of offensive weapons either in close combat or are fitted with heavy weapons for long range.		*'''[[Combat Servitors]]''' - funnily enough are mono-task servitors kitted out exclusively for combat. Point and click servitors that are equipped with an array of offensive weapons either in close combat or are fitted with heavy weapons for long range.
	**Note that combat servitors are still very different from the [[Skitarii]] though both are highly augmented, the Skitarii still have their personalities and free will.		**Note that combat servitors are still very different from the [[Skitarii]] though both are highly augmented, the Skitarii still have their personalities and free will.

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	**'''Kataphron Destroyers'''- The heavy weapons variation has slightly weaker armor to keep itself from overheating, but compensates with its wide variety of weaponry. By default it starts with a Plasma Culverin and a cover-reducing Phosphor Blaster, but you're better off switching them for the [[Grav-Weaponry\|Heavy Grav-Cannon]] and Cognis Flamer. The former will tear apart armor, and the latter always scores three hits in overwatch, which will ensure nobody with a brain will want to charge it.		**'''Kataphron Destroyers'''- The heavy weapons variation has slightly weaker armor to keep itself from overheating, but compensates with its wide variety of weaponry. By default it starts with a Plasma Culverin and a cover-reducing Phosphor Blaster, but you're better off switching them for the [[Grav-Weaponry\|Heavy Grav-Cannon]] and Cognis Flamer. The former will tear apart armor, and the latter always scores three hits in overwatch, which will ensure nobody with a brain will want to charge it.
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	*'''Murder Servitors''' - a specialist class of combat servitor, very much in appearance and function to Arco-Flagellants, though with absolutely no personality whatsoever as there is no crime to be punished for. Generally switched on as a last resort and then left to seek and destroy things (ie: everything in sight) at their own direction. Their circuit-laced brains have been inlaid with numerous kill-routines and slaughter-protocols, making Murder Servitors literal [[RIP AND TEAR\|killing machines]] -- all the native viciousness of the human brain combined with the ruthless efficiency and durability of cold steel. Murder Servitors are almost exclusively utilised aboard spacecraft and orbital stations for a number of reasons, including the facts that Murder-servitors don't need much life support, are easier to maintain than humans and less likely to damage starships or important equipment (although some like the Lathe-pattern do wields melta weapons which would not be trusted to simple humans), and never talk. This means that they are usually used on ships, by the Adeptus Mechanicus, or by secretive factions like the Ordos of the Inquisition or Assassinorum temples. With limited space and resources for guards, Imperial prison starships controlled by the Inquisition often maintain a sizeable contingent of Murder Servitors. Hunched, evil things, Murder Servitors are smaller and quicker than their more benign cousins. Armed with blades and hooks and programmed with a homicidal nature, they stalk the passages of their assigned vessel, ambushing trespassers and dragging their corpses back to their Inquisitorial masters. If not ordered otherwise, they spend hours hunting any living creature not programmed into their spoor-targeters, undeterred by any obstruction and unhindered by fear or humanity. Their nature is intended to inspire dread, from their chrome skull-masks, to long, razor-sharp talons and steel weapon-limbs, to the electronic howls and moans of their Vox-boosted throats. Boarding actions and similar battles are often decided in brutal melee combat, and as deadly as these battles are when Imperial forces clash with Traitors, ordinary humans are simply no match in these situations for many xenos. Orks, Genestealers, Eldar Corsairs, and other aliens are a major concern in many areas of human-occupied space. Armsmen, no matter how well-equipped and trained, can little hope to stand against such horrors within the narrow confines of a voidship or void station, (they're not Imperial Guardsmen, after all, just scrubs with guns) where [[Lasgun\|the might]] [[Leman Russ\|of Man]] cannot be effectively deployed. Murder Servitors are brutally efficient against pirates or mutineers, where Gun Servitors that sport heavy ranged weaponry would be ill-suited to space combat (for the average Imperial too stupid to stick them at the end of corridors to slaughter everything trying to get through with killtastic heavy weapons). Murder Servitors could be very effective in other environments, from Death World jungles to teeming hive cities. However, as massive as Imperial starships are, they are still contained environments. Murder Servitors have been known to devolve or malfunction, locking into a kill-imperative and ignoring further commands to cease. If not contained, such deviant Servitors could even escape and go on to cause further slaughter amongst the population - although some organizations seem not to care much...		*'''Murder Servitors''' - a specialist class of combat servitor, very much in appearance and function to Arco-Flagellants, though with absolutely no personality whatsoever as there is no crime to be punished for. Generally switched on as a last resort and then left to seek and destroy things (ie: everything in sight) at their own direction. Their circuit-laced brains have been inlaid with numerous kill-routines and slaughter-protocols, making Murder Servitors literal [[RIP AND TEAR\|killing machines]] -- all the native viciousness of the human brain combined with the ruthless efficiency and durability of cold steel. Murder Servitors are almost exclusively utilised aboard spacecraft and orbital stations for a number of reasons, including the facts that Murder-servitors don't need much life support, are easier to maintain than humans and less likely to damage starships or important equipment (although some like the Lathe-pattern do wields melta weapons which would not be trusted to simple humans), and never talk. This means that they are usually used on ships, by the Adeptus Mechanicus, or by secretive factions like the Ordos of the Inquisition or Assassinorum temples. With limited space and resources for guards, Imperial prison starships controlled by the Inquisition often maintain a sizeable contingent of Murder Servitors. Hunched, evil things, Murder Servitors are smaller and quicker than their more benign cousins. Armed with blades and hooks and programmed with a homicidal nature, they stalk the passages of their assigned vessel, ambushing trespassers and dragging their corpses back to their Inquisitorial masters. If not ordered otherwise, they spend hours hunting any living creature not programmed into their spoor-targeters, undeterred by any obstruction and unhindered by fear or humanity. Their nature is intended to inspire dread, from their chrome skull-masks, to long, razor-sharp talons and steel weapon-limbs, to the electronic howls and moans of their Vox-boosted throats. Boarding actions and similar battles are often decided in brutal melee combat, and as deadly as these battles are when Imperial forces clash with Traitors, ordinary humans are simply no match in these situations for many xenos. Orks, Genestealers, Eldar Corsairs, and other aliens are a major concern in many areas of human-occupied space. Armsmen, no matter how well-equipped and trained, can little hope to stand against such horrors within the narrow confines of a voidship or void station, (they're not Imperial Guardsmen, after all, just scrubs with guns) where [[Lasgun\|the might]] [[Leman Russ\|of Man]] cannot be effectively deployed. Murder Servitors are brutally efficient against pirates or mutineers, where Gun Servitors that sport heavy ranged weaponry would be ill-suited to space combat (for the average Imperial too stupid to stick them at the end of corridors to slaughter everything trying to get through with killtastic heavy weapons). Murder Servitors could be very effective in other environments, from Death World jungles to teeming hive cities. However, as massive as Imperial starships are, they are still contained environments. Murder Servitors have been known to devolve or malfunction, locking into a kill-imperative and ignoring further commands to cease. If not contained, such deviant Servitors could even escape and go on to cause further slaughter amongst the population - although some organizations seem not to care much...
	**It is unknown whether or not aspirants who fail to become [[Eversor]]s get to become Murder-Servitors, but /tg/ (and [http://convertorum.blogspot.fr/2015/05/snikt.html this guy] from the Convertorum) really hope so. Or at least make them berzerkers!		**It is unknown whether or not aspirants who fail to become [[Eversor]]s get to become Murder-Servitors, but /tg/ (and [http://convertorum.blogspot.fr/2015/05/snikt.html this guy] from the Convertorum) really hope so. Or at least make them berzerkers!