I take it that P'ul already scanned and the tech and all the databases on the ship and handed everything to the Empire's R&D people. Rehabilitating the AI is all well and good but that tech can save a lot of people and there is no reason to let it sit there.
Assuming he could do it.
Yes, the Ark Mechanicus class.
Man, talk about some obscure lore deep cuts. As for the decor, I suspect after any amount of time aboard an Imperial vessel, anything without gothic architecture, skulls and incense will feel relaxing.
Surprised the On-board General Intelligence hasn't devised a usename fro contact with its crew or guests.
AI is a literal crapshoot in Warhammer 40k, what with the high risk of daemonic possession or murderous psychopathy. There's a reason the Mechanicum call them 'Abominable Intelligences', after all.
Though they're probably taking copious notes during their observations.
Ah, the possibly-Maltusian vessel's study was interrupted, of course.
No doubt making sure all signage is in Tau, Federation standard and English...
I would have hoped they'd have taken a moment to observe from a distance before approaching an unknown world...
Well, compared to Federation-era standards, they are medieval peasants with salvaged hypertech...
And some people wonder why others think the Imperials are evil. To be fair, they are zealously religous and trained to be excessively paranoid about 'heresy'...
Only natural. Wonder if he ever got bored waiting for the crew to catch up with his electronic reflexes?
Ah, not that interested in whatever P'ol suggested, then.
Which probably consists of transcribing the lyrics, checking them for heresy, and praying. Assuming they can translate them (I assume P'ol provided his own translations.)
Not least the rather scrappy Latin use. Technically correct but ugly.
If he's advanced enough, he probably has visible emotional networks, of which P'ol can sense the Desire framework.
Honestly, it's not clear which would be better for the Imperium: The Emperor dying (which extinguishes the Astronomican at minimum, and possibly unleashes a fifth Chaos God for good measure) or him reassembling and reviving. At which point a lot of people get killed because 'What the fuck did you do to my empire!' is likely to be his first response. And the current leadership will probably take that poorly.
Yes, he did other things than 'Star Trek'. Sadly, he didn't live to see it air.
That seems exceptionally foolish. Probably because they didn't consider the full implications of the concept.
Isolation is a terrible thing for a social animal like Humanity, and that applies to the things we create in our image.
...Not what he meant, but then, he didn't specify.
Ah, classic 'are we talking about the same thing, or..?' misunderstandings. Age-old comedy.
Well, that's better than some people alternate Pauls interact with. Just look at Inquisitor Vail back there.
And defence platform, because Federation-era starship. Even a pleasure yacht could have weapons far in excess of anything modern Human vessels posess.
Well, once he gets them to stop praying to or screaming 'Abominable Intelligence' at him, he might get along with them.
Probably easier to work with for resupply...
He has nothing but time, after all.
Since the Tau probably aren't the greatest conversationalists even without a language barrier.
Why do I suspect he's got a room filled with just such things, likely produced via generative VI and physical scans?
Given the many AI we see that don't get possessed at the drop of a hat? I'm willing to bet money on the Mechanicus not being all that right about AI. Like, the STC making Iron Men in Gaunts' Ghosts had been sitting on a Chaos controlled planet for centuries or millennia; that's hardly normal circumstances. The Tau seem to be managing just fine. The Votann, not so much, but that's due to the Kin overloading them with junk data, not Chaos.
AI's don't get emotions in 40k due to emotions originating from the Warp, so if you see any AI possessing them it's either not actually an AI, a Chaos Daemon pretending to be an AI, or a Mr Zoat rewrite.
The Emperor woke up for 30 or so seconds recently, he seemed relatively chill with things outside of blasting Nurgal with enough power to seriously wound him.
They do not.
General reminder that the thing that lets normal people resist Chaos is a positive or negative warp presence.
You know, if you're going to claim someone is wrong it's usually a good idea to provide evidence backing that claim up.
I don't think that's quite true. Terminator Armour is based on reactor maintenance protective suits, but even the Imperium has modified them a bit. And since this is a 2nd Edition story, we're going with the 2nd Edition description of Knight Worlds: human worlds that reverted to primitivism during the Age of Isolation and were rediscovered by Mechanicus exporation fleets.
I doubt it. Chaos ships in Battlefleet Gothic are what the Imperium used to use, so they are changing the design a bit. Mode likely they crib a few systems off records relating to colony ships because that's all they have.
Only in the Horus Heresy series, which I don't think much of.
Thank you, corrected.
No, I think that's right.
He hasn't. Oh, he scanned a few local systems when he first boarded it, but he isn't trying to penetrate the database. He knows that the AI is very sensitive about the whole situation and doesn't want to do anything that would set it off. It's not like the tau are advanced enough to put anything in there into production immediately anyway.
That's a fairly recent addition to the background. As far as I remember, the first mention of 'Men of Iron' was in Gaunt's Ghost, where they were simple combat robots. The next was in the 3rd Edition rulebook, where a deranged Imperial historian regurgitated some nonsense half-remembered stories about pre-Imperial history where he mentioned Men of Stone, Men of Iron and Men of Gold, and it sounded like he was talking about types of augmentation or political parties. The modern 'AI=Abominable Intelligence=Men of Iron' is a recent lore addition.
No, there was an episode where the ship's mind got damaged and the mobile unit was the only thing that remembered what was going on.
A dissadvantage of the caste system. If they'd sent a few water caste members it would be going better.
Because you secretly lust for my naked body?
Off screen.
Nope. 3rd Edition Codex Necrons. There are 4 c'tan, and they're whole.
Horus Heresy books. In-universe, from the SI's point of view, having a more efficient Imperium isn't necessarily a good thing, even if he could guarantee breaching the statis fields around and healing a poison he can't analyse before he breaches them, which he can't.
The whole Monarchia thing comes from the Horus Heresy novels. The previous version was less stupid.
I've seen things in recent fanfiction which suggest to me that GW has had the Imperium write the traitor primarchs out of history.
