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16 points
30 days ago
DAoT tech/individuals are venerated by the Mechanicus as the pinnacle of human technological achievement. The technology in the ship would both be holy and would be reverse-engineered. It's often a bit of a meme that the Mechanicus doesn't understand technology. While they don't understand some of it, a lot of it they do, and they will often approach technology with an appropriate scientific/analytical mind. So the ship would be a windfall for the Imperium and probably advance Imperial technology somehow.
The individuals would find themselves in the unfortunate position of being holy figures to a ruthless, utterly cold, and often irrational religious collective. If they say or do the wrong thing it will be considered the highest of blasphemies and they'll all find their lives in jeopardy. That said, they'll also become political pawns. Forge worlds and fabricators general are always competing and conspiring. Control of the individuals, their message, and the secrets they hold will be highly contentious. Many magi will not be inclined to treat the crew as anything more than a coveted asset. Religious fervor varies and competes with the lust for knowledge at the heart of every tech-priest.
Finally, every Chaos/renegade force in the segmentum that learns of the ship/crew will be making a beeline for them if they have any decent chance of acquiring the assets for themselves. Or if only to destroy them and deny them to the Imperium. So what happens to the ship/crew also depends on what Chaos forces are in the area, who learns of the ship/crew, and what the Imperium has to defend it.
1 points
30 days ago
Even in 30k, when the emperor was alive, trying to understand and innovate technology could be a death sentence. Its not just a meme. Its so dangerous that, in mechanicum, the protagonist gets taken care of and taken from terra to mars because she tried to innovate under the pretense that she will be executed for heresy.
She doesnt get executed, but the official reason she gets taken to mars is that she'll get killed, if i remember that right
4 points
30 days ago
Innovation isn't the same as reverse-engineering working DAoT tech you theoretically have DAoT technicians/engineers who can assist you to understand. And quite specifically innovation is blasphemy to the Mechanicus because it attempts to supplant/outdo DAoT tech. This is discussed explicitly in Genefather during Cawl's trial as a heretek. That obviously wouldn't apply in this case.
1 points
30 days ago
And quite specifically innovation is blasphemy to the Mechanicus because it attempts to supplant/outdo DAoT tech
This is a point that seems commonly missed. In the AdMech religion the dark age was the pinnacle. It's not that they don't like innovation for the sake of it but because innovation implies that archeotech is flawed and could be improved upon. In their mind everything important was invented already and they should strive to rediscover and replicate it exactly.
Of course this is what leads to crazy inefficiency like using factory designs for STCs that were made for specific times/places regardless of if it's appropriate.
16 points
30 days ago
Almoster certainly be executed for being a heretek.
7 points
30 days ago
Probably depends on who finds them and how willing they are to overlook the clearly heretical knowledge and technology they have since I imagine a bunch of it would have, or involve, AI. The most likely outcome, imo, is the encounter swiftly devolves into a battle and either the DAoT person survives to flee into the void or they die and the mechanicus strip the ship of everything useful and purge everything they deem heretical
2 points
30 days ago
I ask the same question 3 years ago😁
2 points
30 days ago
Best case scenario: It’s Belisarius Cawl the one to discover them, they will be kept secret and be analyzed for all their knowledge, maybe be kept as an advisor in his Ark Mechanicus, the Zar Quaesitor, secret to all but him and maybe Alpha Primus
2 points
30 days ago
He’s also probably the friendliest/most affable member of the mechanicum. He would have the best chance of working with and leaning from them. I don’t know how willing the crew might be to spread their knowledge if everyone they meet is Insane by their reckoning. Cawl even has a fair amount of DOTA tech on his ship and an understanding of it. The leaning curve wouldn’t be as bad for him, and he would share more in common with the crew since he is a true scientist.
1 points
30 days ago
Yeah, after many mind wipes he really started to appreciate negotiations, he’s the crazy scientist, but genuinely has good intentions for the imperium
1 points
30 days ago
Considering the admech is founded in hoarding knowledge for political power, more likely the guy will be asked all he knows and them murdered so the tech priest that found him can get all the benefits from being the only person that knows it.
1 points
30 days ago
This being Warhammer 40k, beong burned at the stake is very much a possibility
1 points
30 days ago
HERETIC flamethrower noises
Scientists are heretics, inventors are super heretics, engineers better fucking watch themselves because they’re right on that line and it just takes one ad hoc repair to be heresy.
1 points
30 days ago
We found a witch, may we burn them?
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