An interesting servitor idea.

[jeremy1391]

So I’ve been thinking of converting up an Ordo Xenos inquisitor and had the funky idea of making some servitors made out of xenos species. Like the idea of a Tau gun servitor or genestealer close combat servitor. Is this a fun ide or pure heresy or both? I’ll have to raid the bitz box and give it a go!

[Iron Sapper]

I think that would be a cool idea. I think I remember seeing somewhere that a radical Inquisitor used some kind of mind control implant on a genestealer. 

[Xin Ceithan]

From an ingame perspective, it‘s worth noting that to the orthodox Mechanicum, a xenos base for a servitor is apparently  considered vile  tech heresy.

The human form is considered the foundation for the Great Work, a divine template, weak as the flesh may be. So, using a xenos is literally anathema. 

Or at least, that is the reaction given to a servitor made from an ork body in o’Neil’s „Priests of Mars“

 

Once you go radical, all bets are off, of course ;)

[Grotsmasha]

GW have you covered, and have established a precedent for this very idea....

[Bjorn Firewalker]

From an ingame perspective, it‘s worth noting that to the orthodox Mechanicum, a xenos base for a servitor is apparently considered vile tech heresy.

The human form is considered the foundation for the Great Work, a divine template, weak as the flesh may be. So, using a xenos is literally anathema.

Or at least, that is the reaction given to a servitor made from an ork body in o’Neil’s „Priests of Mars“

Considering the Ork-turned-servitor may be spreading spores wherever it goes, potentially starting Ork infestations on countless Imperial worlds and facilities, the Orthodox Tech-priests' disgust is fully justified, as is a decision to sentence the servitor's creator to excommunication and execution.

Once you go radical, all bets are off, of course ;)

For the radical, AND his opponents. As stated, using an Ork-turned-servitor may subject countless Imperial worlds and facilities to a Waaagh! Tyranids also serve as psychic beacons to the Hive Mind (as described in the Ciaphas Cain novels Duty Calls and The Greater Good, republished in the Ciaphas Cain: Defender of the Imperium and Ciaphas Cain: Savior of the Imperium omnibuses), potentially drawing a Hive Fleet to their location. In the face of such dire threats, a Puritan Inquisitor- who may also be an Orthodox Tech-priest, as described in Aaron Demski-Bowden's novel The Emperor's Gift- may order the radical's home planet subjected to Exterminatus, and be fully justified in doing so.

[jeremy1391]

It would bring me great joy to have a Drukhari servitor and fluff wise have him still sentient but with no control over his actions and have him only used for menial tasks like cleaning the inquisitors quarters

[Bjorn Firewalker]

It would bring me great joy to have a Drukhari servitor and fluff wise have him still sentient but with no control over his actions and have him only used for menial tasks like cleaning the inquisitors quarters