I dunno, I could kinda see it - they don’t understand a ton of their own tech, and have folded religious belief into even basic maintenance routines until they can’t tell whether lighting incense or chanting as they work changes the outcome. I don’t know about the admech, but the imperial guard types seem to believe every device from a heavy bolter to an ancient and venerable space marine tank are all equally likely to have machine spirits animating them - presumably they got that thinking from their tech experts. There’s also the sort of outlined belief that tech is sort of… naturally occurring? and that it’s heretical to invent new stuff when the correct process is to discover it somewhere.
Add to that the fact that the quality of their tech has declined pretty drastically from their past (aren’t most STCs, which they basically worship as the best of their modern tech, like the crude, sturdy equipment you’d give a colony that was just starting out?) and the fact that some of it is sometimes possessed by literal daemons or other ancient abominations… it sort of seems like they’re in over their heads compared to the others.
I can appreciate that, I just simp for the admech. They do follow a religious order that’s seeped into everything but just because they’re theatrical doesn’t mean they’re ignorant of how things are working. It just means they fix stuff with style!
On the other hand there definitely is the tech that is unknown and they have a hard time reproducing really good lost tech from the ancient times. Ok maybe they just have a bachelor’s! 😅
The way I see it, they wouldn’t be able to go so heavy into augmenting their body with extra arms and shit if they didn’t have at least some idea of what they are doing.
I dunno, I could kinda see it - they don’t understand a ton of their own tech, and have folded religious belief into even basic maintenance routines until they can’t tell whether lighting incense or chanting as they work changes the outcome. I don’t know about the admech, but the imperial guard types seem to believe every device from a heavy bolter to an ancient and venerable space marine tank are all equally likely to have machine spirits animating them - presumably they got that thinking from their tech experts. There’s also the sort of outlined belief that tech is sort of… naturally occurring? and that it’s heretical to invent new stuff when the correct process is to discover it somewhere.
Add to that the fact that the quality of their tech has declined pretty drastically from their past (aren’t most STCs, which they basically worship as the best of their modern tech, like the crude, sturdy equipment you’d give a colony that was just starting out?) and the fact that some of it is sometimes possessed by literal daemons or other ancient abominations… it sort of seems like they’re in over their heads compared to the others.
I can appreciate that, I just simp for the admech. They do follow a religious order that’s seeped into everything but just because they’re theatrical doesn’t mean they’re ignorant of how things are working. It just means they fix stuff with style!
On the other hand there definitely is the tech that is unknown and they have a hard time reproducing really good lost tech from the ancient times. Ok maybe they just have a bachelor’s! 😅
The way I see it, they wouldn’t be able to go so heavy into augmenting their body with extra arms and shit if they didn’t have at least some idea of what they are doing.