I've no idea what you is talking aboot. Give archive links at least.

>>22949454
Never heard of them, sounds like any interesting idea. Like if a planet is both a Forge world and a Shrine world (perhaps the saint the shrine is dedicated too was part of the Ad Mech?)

>>22949454
Got any more info on them OP?
I am intrigued by the idea

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>>22951437
>>22951641
>>22952076
Right. Op here, and I am a total idiot for both passing out soon after I made this thread and forgetting to give backstory. Threads here
http://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/22883956/

The tldr of it is that AdMech get saved from Dark Mechanicus by the SoB while looking for an STC or something. During the battle, their cannoness gets all sorts of fucked up so the AdMech rebuilds her missing parts. Due to the large incursion of DarkMech in the area and thanks to a bet about the strength of their respective faiths made between the Arch-Magos and the Canoness.

I probably missed a fair deal of the finer points, but I think thats the gist of it.

The problem is that while it's a nice idea, there's really not much you can do with it apart from the obvious.
So yeah, you have a bunch of Sisters with better than average technology or more bionics who occasionally go hunting for STCs instead of relics, that's kinda it. Maybe you can transplant their faith over to the Omnissiah. but that's already kinda stretching

>>22953793
Thats really no different than any of the other homebrews.

About four years ago when /tg/ was still young(ish), and I found myself getting annoyed with the sheer number of 'lol look at these unique and funny Space Marine' chapters this board was creating at a rapid pace... which was basically just "Adjective" Marines ... I actually suggested /tg/ tried to do something with the Sisters, and made suggestions for a group of Sisters with closer ties to the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Within that thread, all it got was hate, ridicule, and extensive lists of reasons why it wouldn't work and was generally a stupid idea. Then everyone went on to make the Scary Marines shortly after, which were basically Night Lords only loyalist and SCARIER.

So after the bitterness and resentment that produced, I'm glad to see that this particular idea was then suggested by someone else, some years later, and actually caught on.

Maybe it's a sign of better times.

Maybe /tg/ IS a little better than it used to be.

Maybe /tg/ is over it's Space Marine fetish.

So here's hoping that this doesn't end up just dying on the vine, like it did for me.

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>>22954129
Yeah, the idea of them being rivals as much as allies that was played with in the other thread is pretty cool, too. The Sisters see it as a test of their faith and a chance to make the AdMech more “proper” and the AdMech gets an ablebodied fighting force more than willing to throw themselves wholesale at the Dark Mechanicus and if they show a few of those stuffy Sisters a thing or two about the Omnissiah in the meantime, then all the better.

Ah, here is where it was discussed in the last thread
http://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/22883956/#q22894535
>Maybe the force is an extension of such a conversation, an experiment of faith to see if the two opposing philosophies can find a way to work together.

Live, damn you

Perhaps this orders "living saint" can be a former Mechanicus Secutor.
A mechanical warrior that in a time of great need mechanically fused himself with an ancient "relic" tank that had long remained un-working in the sisters armoury.
But the job was hasty and done without proper tools, leaving the Tech priest permanently joined with the tank and should not have been possible at all, becoming its machine spirit of sorts.

Now in times of great need for the order the rumbling of engines can be heard and a heavy Battletank appears seemingly from no where, its heavy weapons turning the tide of battle in the Sisters favour.

>>22958679
I'm pretty living saints have to be Sisters, or at least incredibly devout and potentially female only.

We are bending canon a bit, obviously, but I don't know if a Draigotank that appears out of nowhere in our hour of need is the direction we want to take it.

I like the idea of some kind of penitent engine being the living saint, though. Like maybe a Techpriestess hooked herself up to one to prove that there is no guilt to be had in venerating the Omnissiah and became...something else. I'm not sure where to take it from there or even if the idea should be taken anywhere.

>>22958869
I thought all saints did the appear out of nowhere trick, at least the "dead" ones anyway.

>I'm pretty living saints have to be Sisters, or at least incredibly devout and potentially female only.
nope, all you have to do is perform a miracle to potentially become a saint (its the church who has the official say). Having strong faith in the Emperor (Or Omnissiah probably) likely helps.

Though a Saint Pentinent engine does sound more fitting.

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>>22959332
Yeah, we should go with the idea for the Penitent Engine, though I can't help but think it should be more armored, or at least the person affixed to it should be more mechanical and less human looking than even your run-of-the-mill techpriest.

Pic possibly related?

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>>22959472
You could go even further and have next to no flesh left.

Eh OP, while I think the hybridisation of the two factions is possible, the premise of it being the advent of a friendly rivalry seems a bit forced.
Mostly because "friendly rivalry" in grimdark usually means something WILL go horribly wrong.

Penitent Engine Living Saint Tech-priestess might work for a single character, but I think for an entire hybrid army could be created with a simple origin.
Basically, the Adeptus Mechanicus has always shared a few tech-priest with it's sibling organisation, the Ecclesiarchy.
When the Adeptus Sororitas came about due to the Decree Passive, it was only natural that the Ecclesiarchy's attached Enginseers would also have to abide by the ban on "men under arms" to protect their precious technology.
Thus, a sect of Tech-priestesses eventually developed whose own flavor of the Cult Mechanicus especially venerates the Emperor's roll as the Omnissiah due to cross pollination with the Daughters of the Emperor.

>>22961213
Having a Saint that was/is a member of the mechanic us could also get some "converts" for the omnissiah in the ranks of the sister's.

>>22961425
Indeed, but this would basically be the resultant inbred child between the Ecclesiarchy and the Machine Cult, so you'd have everything from Sisters interested in Machine Spirits to Tech-Priestesses suffering not the Heritek to function.

>>22961425
>>22961478
The idea is that both flirt with the ideas and practices of the other Sect, but try to keep from wholesale conversion. Ergo, you get SoBs who might have a mechadendrite flamer attachment, but find the idea of replacing limbs and organs with machinery for no reason absolutely disgusting or you might get a techpriestess who has been allowed to liaison with the SoBs so that she gets first crack at whatever tech they dig up in their fight against the Dark Mechanicus becoming a little more devout and zealous in her worship of the Omnissiah than her peers.

>>22962002
...Why do we need such a division?
I mean, I don't think the Imperial cult is against cybernetics at all, and why would Tech-Priestesses share the tech they are suppose to be hoarding with "outsiders"?

>>22962330
>...Why do we need such a division?
Why do we need a million and one variants of space marine, both official and homebrewed? The answer is we don't, but someone always wants to make one because its fun to do every once in a while.
>>22962330
>I don't think the Imperial cult is against cybernetics at all
They aren't, but people don't get them unless they need them and most people find the level the AdMech take it to disgusting.
>why would Tech-Priestesses share the tech they are suppose to be hoarding with "outsiders"?
They are showing lower end stuff that is beneath the average techpriest but above the average imperial both because the SoBs are helping them root out and eradicate the Dark Mechanicus in the area and potentially discover some STC fragments rumored to be in the subsector and because of a philosophical/religious experiment/bet made between the Canoness and the Arch-Magos.

>>22962330
We could make the SoB not outsiders. In the same way Tech marines are on the "inside"

>>22963233
That's kind of what I was going for, a subset of the Sororita's kind of like how the Tech Marine's are a subset of the Astartes...
Or would it be a subset of the Mechanicus that works in the Sororita?

...Are the Tech Marines consider a subset of regular marines?

>>22963741
ND pls go. You don't know the lore and you are just shitposting your fetishes in random threads now.

>>22963233
Thats sort of the idea, we were just coming up for a reason such an organization would even exist.

>>22963741
>Are the Tech Marines consider a subset of regular marines?

Yes. They're both full Astartes and proper members of the cult Mechanicus. Though some distrust them because of questions about how divided their loyalty is.

>>22963903
Well we seem too have a few mentioned

Shrine world that is a forge world as well.

Close aliance based on killing large dark mechanicus presence and sisters finding STC.

An order devoted too a saint that was a tech priest.

We could go with all of them just as different stages of the joining. Starting with a typical temporary alliance, later a tech priest becomes a martyred saint. After a few centuries we end up with a fully merged shrine/forge world

>>22964038
>An order devoted too a saint that was a tech priest.
I think the living saint was supposed to occur after the (re)founding of the order. Mainly we have been going with the middle one and a little bit of the top one.

>>22963929
So couldn't we have a similar set up for the Sororitas?

I mean, it's not like the SoB's wouldn't need tech support as well, and the Emperor is suppose to be the Omnissiah

>>22963233
Well now you have me wondering what a Techsister would look like, considering Techmarines.

>>22964324
see >>22949454 and >>22953751.
Thats kinda the base idea of this whole thing.

>AdMech and SoB
>Not Mary Sue
Oh come on. As if normal SoB wasn't may sue enough.

Why not back this whole thing up with what SoBs and Admech care about most? Holy Scripture!

*Preacher voice*
It is believed by some that the Emperor did not ascend to godhood until his merging with the most holy golden throne. Could it then not be argued that our god is of two parts? The God-Emperor as we understand and the mightiest of machine spirits, that of the Golden Throne itself. It is our belief that such a bond is the most sacred connection between the flesh and the machine and should be studied, praised, and reflected upon.

>>22964980
Interesting. I like the idea of this union spawning all sorts of crazy theological musings amidst all the heretic purging, like some sort of Grecian Social Experiment.

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Bump.

Speaking of Sisters of Battle, does anyone have a complete set of their White Dwarf rules I can download?

>>22964367
Yeah, but those don't look tech-y enough.

>>22970351
The first one is missing an arm, a leg, and half her face and is wielding one of those cogstaves while two mechadendrites sprout from her back, its pretty techy.

But still, I would love to see more pictures.

>>22970875
any particular preferences?

I'll give it a shot, but I'm not great, so I'll probably end up using a fashion template for the basic anatomy/pose.

(and yeah, that's cheating, wanna fight about it?)

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>>22971259
I don't know, maybe one with one of those AdMech respirators? Not quite as big as the one in pic related, but along those lines? Really just whatever about the MechSisters strikes your fancy.

>>22971399
>respirators

excellent! now I don't have to draw as much of the face.

I mean...

of course, anything for you anon.

also, I might use this for my Iron Hands allies, I was going to Sisters anyway, but mech-sisters fits too well to pass up.

From an earlier topic, someone had the idea that different Orders of the Adepta Sororitas were founded to officially recognize and protect variations of the Imperial Cult. So the Sisters Mechanicus would be a way of acknowledging the Mechanicus as a legitimate form of Emperor-worship.

They would ostensibly practice the same religion as the Cult Mechanicus, though they would focus on the role of the God-Emperor as the Omnissiah, which would cause dissonance with techpriests who pay only lip service to the idea.

They would also still worship the human form, as the Imperial Cult does. The MechSisters would see technology as a tool for humans to use, not a replacement of them; they would still use things like mechadendrites (as they are an addition to the body, not replacing existing parts) and would employ prosthetics to replace lost limbs, but wouldn't simply remove and replace parts of their body.

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>>22971593
Thats all kind of what I was thinking, too.

And heres a rough idea I had for their emblem. I'm no drawfag, so its just shitty clipart shooped together, but hopefully you get the idea. Maybe even throw the AdMech skull in the center.

>>22971593
I keep thinking back to the little builder unit for the Sisters of Battle in Soulstorm. I can't remember his name but his dialog and appearance made me feel he was the perfect image of what a conservative techpriest who firmly believes that the God-Emperor and the Omnissiah are the same, and that worship of one, be it lighting candles, prayer, or writing programming code, are all important.

This thread and idea is awesome and everyone in it should feel awesome.

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>>22971433
ok, finished drawing I think, might colour it, might not.

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>>22972526
>robo high heels

>>22971593
Yeah I was thinking along the same lines, which is why I was so befuddled by people pushing this Odd-Couple dynamic between the Sororitas and Mechanicus.
I figured such a "rivalry" would do more harm then good.

As for the Sisters Mechanicus and cybernetics, I don't think they'd be outright against "upgrading" parts, but the human form is still sacred to them.
Thus other then Mechadendrites (which would probably be attached in a "wing" pattern), any cybernetics would have to be as close to their organic counterparts as possible.

This would also probably mean they'd have an obsession with humanoid machinery, so in addition to servo-skulls they'd probably have flying skeletal hands as well.

>>22971859
Looks good!

>>22963741
The Tech Marines are no more a subset of regular marines than Chaplains or Librarians.

That is to say, no. Any divided-loyalty issues are more or less moot due to mind-scrubbing.

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>>22972526
and colour

>>22973669
*Golfclaps*

>>22973440
The rivalry would be borne out of slight theological differences and would be a slight thing, not something overt that is tearing the order apart. Its what happens when you put two hyper-religious individuals of slightly different persuasion together, like how the protestant movement couldn't agree on several simple things like whether or not purgatory was a thing, so they split into like 5 separate brands of protestant. Instead, it just manifests itself in minor petty grievances like some Sisters finding holy unguents at their shrine to the Emperor or Sisters slipping in a prayer to the Emperor during their veneration of the Omnissiah.

Its no different than all the petty things various space marines have done to other chapters. Like that time that Ultramarines thought the Lamenters were slighting them when they werent super happy about 90% of the civilian population they were sent to save died, so the Ultramarines refused to help them and watched all of them get massacred many times over in their little crusade. Oh man, that was a riot!

>>22973669
Very nice.

>>22973440
You have already proven in other threads that you have nothing more than a tenuous grasp of 40K lore and really bad ideas, please don't shit up this thread too.

>>22973788
So wait... how did this not end up with the two Adeptus killing each other again?

>>22973873
Sounds more like you have a hate-on for Daemonette.

>>22974511
Ignore the troll dear, he just wants attention...

Can anyone post the table for generating new sister convents?

>>22974126
Obviously with the Sisters of battle for once not getting the raw end of the deal

>>22974959

Head to the sisters of battle page on 1d4chan wiki, it should be linked there

>>22974981
Pfff, good one...
Alright then, how did our two Adeptus end up stuck together long enough for this to happen?
Botched warpjump that left them deep in Dark Mech territory or something?

>>22974981
Too many benefits to working together and the whole honor of their respective orders being at stake.

Think of it like that one Daedric Quest from Morrowind where Sheogorath and Azura made a bet on whether 1000 years of isolation would lead to madness or enlightenment.

>>22974511
After he derailed an entire thread trying to turn Slaanesh into Tyranids and was utterly convinced that gretchens evolve into orks pokemon style I have a right to want him uninvolved with anything 40K.

>>22975620
Dude I already explained that I came into the WH63K thread with my own ideas for a gender-flipped 41st Millenium already drafted up...
Yes Slaanesh was the god/dess of HUNGER so we'd have an excuse for Tit'nids, and the Gretchen grew into full Orks so the Fem-Orks would have the disturbing habit of abducting other races children.

If you can't let something die with the thread, get off the web man, don't go pissing in others just to show you've got a hate-on...

>>22971859
Personally I was thinking take the Admech Symbol and replace the skull with the fleur de lys, perhaps even have it be half machine if that can be managed/look good.

>>22976251
Also works... we need a graphic designfag in here...

>>22975881
Ahh, so it was for an AU

>>22976284
yes, I remember a similar idea i had for Tech-Maidens, Cog-girls that decided to cut out the middle man with the whole aspect of the emperor thing, and work with the SoB, the upper echelons getting their own power armor

>>22976991
Well I figured that's what a Rule 63'd Warhammer'verse would be, wouldn't it?
Or do I just over think these things?

>>22977155
Yeah, I can understand the logic behind this combination, it's the forced set-up of having them separate yet still begrudgingly getting along that has me kind of stumped...

I mean, if there was some outside reason for them to be stuck in such close proximity I can understand it, but there is no reason for them to be distinct entities starting to share traits if this can naturally come about through cultural osmosis.

>>22977351
one I came up with if i had to kit-bash some sisters was an order that got stuck on a fallout like world and had to scavenge a lot of their armor for a few generations, by the time they get off planet a mix of new tradition and bureaucratic inertia stop them from getting shiny new gear, the tech priests with them blended culturally over the years

>>22949454
>Did /tg/ ever do anything more with those MechSisters
So... female techpriests?

>>22977565
No, Sisters of Battle with oily bits.

do try to keep up.

>>22977605
Wait, I thought we were going for Tech-Priestesses in it for the EMPAHRA?

>>22977663
I just wanted to make a sisters of battle + oil joke.

>>22977565
Pretty much, yeah.

A while back, we tried to think of new and different variants of the Sisters of Battle, like we used to do with Space Marine chapters. Most of them were along the lines of "They're Sisters of Battle, except not!' Admech SoB, Rogue Trader SoB, Penal Legion SoB... that sort of thing.

I think the problem is that their fluff is too homogeneous. It doesn't have a good "hook" for setting your army apart, like the way Space Marines have chapters, or Imperial Guard has regiments from different homeworlds. It's got the Orders, but they don't get much focus. Blood Angels are Blood Angels, and Cadians are Cadians, but Sisters are Sisters no matter where they are.

>>22977674
Well, that makes sense. The human form is as sacred as the machine spirits, so naturally they'd want to pay tribute to it with holy oils.

>>22977804
Mmmmmhhhh ...Oiled Sororitas....

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>>22976284
>>22976251
Had a go at it

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>>22977605
SoBs love oil. And whips.

>>22978381
I like it, don't know whether it'd look better or worse with the fleur in gold though.

>>22978381
Eh, Why not the Cog with a Sororitas mark on the skull?

>>22978589
as in the small fleur tattoo under the eye socket?

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>>22978779
>>22978589
like this?

>>22979085
I like it, but at the same time I feel like its a bit too subtle

>>22979741
Maybe a steel and flower fleur de lys?

>>22979831
Thats sort of what I was trying to convey over at >>22971859

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>>22979831
had a go, though I think someone more artistic than me could do a much better job.

>>22979085
Put a fluer de lys behind it.

So can someone give me a quick rundown on these fine ladies?

Are they closer to the Ecclesiarchy relic-recoverers or are they more buddy-buddy with the AdMech? You could give them ties to the Explorator fleets.

>>22984294
Really haven't even pinned that down yet, one anon kept pushing for the "AdMech and Sisters" staring in an OddCouple situation, but we've entertained several other options...

>>22984411

The Orders Pronatus are devoted to finding, repairing, and protecting relics. It would make sense for one of them to get tired of fighting Explorators for archeotech (the fighting over whether or not the AdMech or Ecclesiarchy gets such things would be bothersome) and decide on a funny middle ground.

>>22984294
More buddy-buddy. Arch-Magos and Canoness have some level of bromance going on that trickles down into their respective orders.

Basically, they go around kicking Dark Mechanicus ass and recovering whatever they can.

Explorator fleets sounds like a good idea, since the Sisters often act as extra muscle for the AdMech.
>>22984411
Yes we have for the most part, it was in the last threads. Lemme dredge em up real quick.
http://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/22883956/
And here is the first one, but unfortunately like a good hour’s worth of posts on the MechSisters was lost from the end of it
http://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/22818837

>>22984474
Wait this is in an Explorator fleet?
Why didn't you say that in the first place?
Yeah, a militarized branch of the Orders Pronatus assigned to an Explorator fleet is the perfect set up!
So now we've got Explorators and Pronatus looking for tech and perhaps an Order Militant their to keep the Pronatus alive...

...Now what kind of shit can they get into to stir this melting pot?

>>22984864
>Wait this is in an Explorator fleet?
What? No. The SoBs are their own thing and the AdMech can have multiple divisions within the same sect. I was just trying to hash some things out with Ignatius.

>>22984864
>and perhaps an Order Militant their to keep the Pronatus alive
*and wage a War of Faith while they're out there...

>>22984864

They might get in trouble with some of the Explorators. I doubt Sisters, no matter how tech-obsessed they are, would look kindly on xenotech or potentially corrupted works. They might butt heads with the Tech-Priests when new stuff is found out in the distant reaches.

>>22984912
Well now I'm just confused...
What is the spark that makes these two so buddy-buddy?

>>22984983

If anything it seems like they might be openly competing.

>>22984968
Hell, an Inquisitor probably placed the Sororita's there on a War of Faith just as an excuse to keep the Exploritors in line.
What better way to prevent Heretek from leaking into the Imperium then by replacing their servile Skitarii with flame wielding heresy hunters?

>>22985055
and then they come to trust each other over time due to simple reliability.

>>22984983
Okay, I know that I have personally walked you specifically through most of this a few times now, so please try to keep up.

Basically, the AdMech were stuck between a rock and a hard place under assault by the DarkMech, the SoB show up and aid them and during the fight the Canoness gets horrendously mangled personally saving the Arch-Magos. As a show of thanks, they patch her up and at some point the Arch-Magos and the Canoness get to talking and decide to found the united order. Maybe all of their Skiitari died and they were more than willing to take in the SoBs as replacement, but I know there was also discussion on the whole thing being in part a social experiment/friendly wager between the Canoness and Arch-Magos.

Either way, now the SoBs are basically privy to techmarine levels of AdMech tech and the AdMech in this subsector is on a slightly shorter leash. Or maybe not, seeing as this Canoness is more than a little unconventional.

Oh, and see >>22949454 for a picture of her. She and the Order both need a name, too.

>>22985167

Huh. I can see them using Guardian Spears.

Normally nobody but the Custodes has them, but they're pretty basic stuff; a Power Spear combined with a Bolter.

As for name, I can't shake Sisters of Steel. But that's hardly official enough.

>>22985167
The Emperor's Holy Cog

>>22985211

Perhaps "The Order of the Blessed Cog?"

>>22985117
EXACTLY!
So by the time they get back from their failed several generational search for an STC that, I don't know, got eaten by Tyranids/corrupted by Chaos/looted then blown up by Orks/choose your flavor of Grimdark, they've become so dependant on each other they can't think of one exsisting without the other!

>>22985167
Yeah, you keep saying that, but that really doesn't seem like it would stick...

>>22985222
Perect, if I get Sisters after i finish My necron army, this is going to be how I fluff them, Ad-Mech aesthetics go very nicely with Ecclesiastical trappings

>>22985222
I really liked Order of the Divine Machine from the last thread, but mainly because that translates to Ordo Deus Machina.

Order of The Gilded Circuit

>>22985230

Eh, it makes enough sense to me. Adeptus Mechanicus fellas and some Battle Sisters both get their asses kicked so hard that the only real way for either of them to continue their function is together. The Sisters replace the largely obliterated Skitarii and other servitors, while the Explorators have ships and research equipment.

They might have conflicting goals, but neither one of them can succeed without the other. It's a tenuous alliance, but it's best to keep the guy you know you can't trust closest.

>>22985256
Yeah, that IS a pretty awesome name...

>>22985167
I do like the idea of them losing all or nearly all of their Skiitari, meaning that during what was supposed to be a recuperation period they came to rely on the Sisters as their militant arm.

Maybe immediately after the assault they found evidence of an STC fragment and had to ask the Sisters for yet another favor since they were nowhere near combat ready.

Hold on a second, everyone. We're missing out on something amazing.

The Adeptus Mechanicus might be able to overhaul one (or more) of the Order's Penitent Engines into something more durable than a glorified suicide booth.

>>22985272
Besides, its also a chance for the Sisters to try and show the AdMech how to “properly” worship the Emperor and for the AdMech to try and show them that the glory of the Omnissiah IS the glory of the Emperor.

I don't know, the idea of some minor religious flow between the two wildly different sects amuses me, especially if the whole thing was orchestrated by their superiors.

>>22985309
Can you think of a good design? because I sincerely want to hear/see it!

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>>22985309
There was some talk of a techpriestess hooking herself into one to prove there is no guilt in venerating the Omnissiah and becoming some sort of not-quite-Living Saint, not-quite-Penitent Engine.

From there could then reconfigure it from a glorified suicide booth to some kind of Enshrined Saint and make everything ornate as fuck.

>>22985272
Meh, I keep seeing it more as a failed sitcom plot, "Watch all the CRAZY antics as those zany TechPriests are forced to bunk with those serious Sororitas!"

...Doesn't sound like the premise has enough meat on it to carry a single episode, let alone be the backstory for a Warhammer Army...

>>22985321

Hah, the bleedover would be fun. The Palatine keeps catching some of the Novitiates and lower-ranking Battle Sisters praising Him On Terra as the Omnissiah, and more than a few of the Enginseers and Lexmechanics keep self-flagellating.

>>22985356
>>22985333

A traditional Penitent Engine with an enclosed cage around the pilot, with stained glass windows and devotional candles on top. The entire thing is gilded and engraved with both traditional iconography and the cogwheel. have it lead excavation teams into potential tainted ruins.

It has some sketchy archeotech powering it, but has a blessed relic weapon of some sort. Both sides love it equally.

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>>22985359
>implying most of 40K fluff ISNT a failed sitcom plot
What happens when one God-Emperor of Mankind has to...raise THIRTEEN sons?!

Find out on...My Son Is Horus-ible!

The Dark Angels are a proud Chapter with a terrible secret...THEY LIKE MEN! Can they keep their secret safe from the conservative Ultramarines? Find out on Hard Times At The Rock!

Trazyn the Infinite. Just...all of Trazyn the Infinite.

Anyways, all I'm saying is its not rare for there to be an undercurrent of comedy in 40K stuff. Nothing overt, just a little acknowledgement that sometimes silly shit happens. Just look at Ferrus Manus for fucks sake.

Besides, I was thinking more along the lines of Morrowind like I said earlier where it is a legitimate wager of faith between the two.

>>22985480
>Hard Times At The Rock

Fuck if that didn't get me. As for comedy in 40k, one doesn't need to look much further than the wild success of the Ciaphas Cain series.

Heh. Imagine the Palatine and the Explorator Magos meeting in secret to both freak out that their respective groups are straying too far from their proper doctrines.

"They're praising the blenders like your damn cogboys!"
"My lexmechanics have taken to flagellation. It has reduced efficiency immensely."

>>22985391
And she occasionally spouts half-coherent praises of the Emperor/Omnissiah from within her shrine, much like Archons from Starcraft.

>The light! I can see...so much light!
>So much...it all makes sense!
>The relics! They call to me! They yearn to be sanctified once more! Forward, Sisters! FORWARD!
Basically, she is high on Faith all the goddamn time.

>>22985280
Yeah, the only problem I have with this is that the Sister would just say "No" and that'd be the end of it...

Maybe if there was a tech obsessed Inquisitor that forced the Sororites join in on the Exploritors unfruitful quest...

>>22985321
>I don't know, the idea of some minor religious flow between the two wildly different sects amuses me, especially if the whole thing was orchestrated by their superiors.
Yeah, but they need a situation that forces them to rely on one another.
Otherwise these two sects of zealous fanatics are going to rip each other apart before the enemies can...

>>22985527
...Ok, yeah, that is funny...
Still we need to get them to the point where they start picking up on each-other's habits.

>>22985574

What if the Sisters sustained massive damage to their own ships?

The Sisters still need to get back XYZ holy relics while the Explorators are looking for whatever goodies they can find. The cogboys have no real military guard; the Sisters need a ride and research facilities.

>>22985574
>Yeah, the only problem I have with this is that the Sister would just say "No" and that'd be the end of it...

Why wouldn't they say yes?
its not like is Tau asking for their help, its one Imperial organisation asking aid from another Imperial organisation.

>>22985574
>Yeah, the only problem I have with this is that the Sister would just say "No" and that'd be the end of it...
Not if
A. The DarkMech are causing constant havoc in the area and they need the armour the AdMech can provide and upkeep. The purging of actual heretics greatly outweighs petty religious differences, especially since one of the jobs of the Sororitas is to convert alternate religions they find on lost planets into Emperor worship.
B. They kinda sorta owe the AdMech for rebuilding their Canoness.
>>22985609
Sisters don't HAVE their own ships. They rely on the Imperial Navy just the same as any other group that isn't self-sufficient like the AdMech or Space Marines do.

>>22958869
all living saints must be female? Grandel was eventually recognized as a living saint in canon

>>22985637

If they're one of the Orders Pronatus, they might well be on a mini-crusade to recover some mythical artifact(s) in the area. Whatever ships they were on got shitfucked, hence the need to piggyback the rest of the way; no true Sister would quit if there was the option of continuing onward.

>>22985667
Yeah, that got sorted out a while back.

>>22985609
Eh, I'm thinking we should weave together what we have...

So the Sororitas save the AdMech from the DarkMech that wipe out their Skitarii.
Since the Explorators were hot on the trail of an STC with no time to "retrofit" more Skitarii, an Inquisitor makes the judgement call and forces the Sororita, who were on a War of Faith in that general space region anyways, to go with them.
A half dozen decades later, having found that the STC they were looking for was no more and returning to Imperial Space, the two formerly separate groups have grown into a single entity.

Sound good?

>>22985732

I like it better that they consolidate their goals. A hunt for STCs and xenotech from the Explorators getting mixed up with a Crusade for some mythic relic. Both groups recover from an ass-whooping and work together despite their conflicting goals.

I don't like the Sisters being forced to help by an Inquisitor, especially since their big story is the Magos and the Palatine. And the hunt for the relic(s) gives them a good motivation beyond "ugh we were told to do this." It opens up the chance for in-fighting when a relic that is also archeotech is found and they argue about who gets it, the Mechanicus or the Ecclesiarchy.

>>22985732
You never explained why they would need to be forced to kill heretics. I like it more when the union is a conscious and willful choice on the Sisters part, not something forced by a third party.

You also seem to forget that even in normal situations Sisters will have a techpriest or two on hand to attend to their vehicles.

There is only TENSION between the two organizations, not outright aggression. They might not like working with those damned cogboys, but they would never shirk their duties to the Emperor and let some of His faithful - if bizarre - citizens fall to the forces of the Ruinous Powers or let valuable tech fall into the hands of Chaos.

We need a good relic (or some sort of fabled hoard) for the Sisters to be hunting down.

>>22985841
The three swords of [insert sacred sounding name here] by the time they find them they are now a part of an Ork WarBoss's Power Klaw.

>>22985912

I find myself eager to see this odd fleet meeting the Scraplootas.

>>22985841
Maybe its whatever they end up hooking up to that Enshrined Saint from earlier.

>>22985924
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>22985817
Because we need something that forces the two to work together over a long period of time.

If the Sisters are just there killing Heretics, why should they bother to acompany a group of Cogboys wanting to run off to Emperor knows where in search of a fairytail peice of archeotech?

Remember we are in a universe where "TENSION" easily escillates to outright WAR for the sake of facilitating battles between same Faction armies, and...

>>22985772
>It opens up the chance for in-fighting when a relic that is also archeotech is found and they argue about who gets it, the Mechanicus or the Ecclesiarchy.

...If the Sisters are there for the Tech, then we're going to need some third party to tell these two, "Hey, quit your bitching and do this for the good of all mankind!"

>>22985931
>>22985912
>Enshrined one with purified Warboss tier Power Klaw

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>>22985987
>a penitent engine slapping shit with a holy power klaw
Yes!

>>22985987
>>22986025
So we have our Scraplootas encounter locked?

>>22985969

Xenos desecrating the most profound example of Imperial technology, an avatar of the Omnissiah itself. Yeah, they'd be pissed.

>>22985975

Again; they're both in the same area of space with similar goals. If there are Dark Mechanicus about, then both of them will attack, and both sides will take losses, like the aforementioned injured Palatine. The cogboys patch her up and they find themselves with the bulk of their Skitarii dead, while the Sisters are down most of the ships they've borrowed. There's no reason for them to not work together.

>>22986064
Pretty much...
I mean, do you want to say no to Miss Living Saint Pentiant Engine with Holy Power Klaw?

>>22985975
> why should they bother to acompany a group of Cogboys wanting to run off to Emperor knows where in search of a fairytail peice of archeotech?
because the cogboys are their only ride anywhere in the foreseeable future, and the SoB wouldn't abandon Imperials who just lost all their defence force and patched up one or more of their important members.

Perhaps in the initial fight together the higher ups just got along because reasons, and they don't want to end what is at the time a good alliance.

>>22986064
I dont know if they NEED to have a Scraplootas encounter, though there is definitely plenty of fun times to go down if it occurs.

Besides, that would imply that they killed Warboss Urtylug and looted his powerklaw, and that makes me sad.

Now we COULD switch things up and have the Scraplootas be on the offensive for once. They show up to the sector in order to challenge some Boss Gitrender or another and his legendary powerklaw, only to find that the Order of the Divine Machine beat them to the punch. Now they are harassing the subsector looking to get it back.

>>22986097
>Sanctified Power Klaw

This needs to happen. This needs to fucking happen.

Where are the drawfags? I know Shwig is off to Israeli prison and we might end up with too many tits if we get Greenmarine, but at least Technomancer will draw diapers on everything... Huh. What a dysfunctional little bunch we are.

>>22985975
>why should they bother to acompany a group of Cogboys wanting to run off to Emperor knows where in search of a fairytail peice of archeotech?
Because it means killing Dark Mechanicus heretics. At first they wouldnt care one way or the other about whatever it is the AdMech wants or if it even exists, they just know that the DarkMech wants it too and that they get to purge them at every turn if they hitch a ride with the cogboys.

>>22986123
Muju is still out there, and thus far uncorrupted by weird fetishes.

There is still hope.

>>22986092
So how long are we going to have these two Adeptus initially stuck together for?
A decade, two?

Personally I think they need at least a half century to get the cohesion we're looking for...

>>22986147

He's also hardly ever around, and his non-request services cost quite a pretty penny.

>>22986123
Lemonjuice drew us our lovely canoness, Wormwoods drew us our first mechsister at >>22953751 and just in this thread we had >>22973669

>>22986156
a few decades sounds right. Enough time for any adolescents on either side to "grow up" with the other group around all the time.
We've got plenty of time for that though

>>22986118
well we could say it was on a deffdread instead of a boss

>>22986185

Deffdreads are close enough in size to fit a Penitent Engine perfectly, anyway.

>>22986141
I don't mean to insult but... can Sororitas even tell Heretek from Dark Mechanicus?
And do the DarkMech still have their own Exploritor fleets to give chase?

>>22986181
Well it needs to be at least enough time for the New Blood they recruit along the way to start working their way into the Old Guard...

>>22986279
>can Sororitas even tell Heretek from Dark Mechanicus?
I know I cant

>>22986279
> can Sororitas even tell Heretek from Dark Mechanicus?
no need, they're the same thing.

>And do the DarkMech still have their own Exploritor fleets to give chase?
Some probably would.

>>22986313
Exactly, really the defining difference is when one busts the daemons out...

...And I'm not too sure on how independent the DarkMech are in comparison to the AdMech, what with their giving into the Warp and all...

So, all together:

An Explorator fleet is mucking about when they are attacked by the Dark Mechanicus. Desperate fighting ensues; the servants of the Omnissiah will surely fall. An Order of Battle Sisters on an unrelated crusade to recover lost relics stumbles into the mess. Intense fighting follows, but the Imperials are the clear victors. Their survival comes at a high price.

The Order nearly loses their Palatine, but the miracles of the Machine Cult bring her back from the brink of death. The Explorators own Skitarii are nearly wiped out, while the ships the Order had requisitioned (the Ecclesiarchy does have ships, after all) are nearly destroyed. The two see no alternative other than intimate cooperation; the Sisters will replace the lost fighting force in exchange for passage of the Mechanicus ships.

The two groups grow together as the years go on, their separate quests for archeotech and holy relics blurring together as time goes on. Both take on elements of the other; some of the younger Sisters take to praying to the Omnissiah and taking on augmentations, while a few Tech-Priests take up more Puritanical acts of faith.

>>22986317
No, Heretek's are TechPriest who have strayed from the Archmagos Doctrinal.
They can be DarkMech, but can just as easily be Necron fanboys as well...

As for the DarkMech fleets, is there any fluff that can clear this up for us?

>>22986367
Sounds good.

>>22986433

Hereteks are anyone who break the rules. This can be deviating too far from STCs without authorization from a Magos, creating Artificial Intelligence, or tinkering with xenotech and sorcery.

The Dark Mechanicus specifically refers to former Mechanicus who have abandoned the Imperium (many during the Horus Heresy) and now serve the forces of Chaos from inside the Eye of Terror.

>>22986279
Heretic =/= heretek.

Dark Mechanicus are Chaos AdMech and heretics through and through. Hereteks are just renegade AdMech and not necessarily Chaos, though I'm sure they would be purged all the same.
>>22986367
Sounds good to me.

>>22986457
So the DarkMech probably don't have their own Fleet, but were part of a greater Chaos Fleet that shot down our Sororitas Order?

...Wait, why am I getting flashbacks to Battlestar Galatica?

>>22986433

A Dark Mechanicus fleet would therefore be a combination of tech from the time of the Horus Heresy and before, combined with any number of Daemon Engines.

>>22986510

Idea; there was a ship in an old Dark Heresy book that was possessed by daemons, and shot ammunition that was also daemonic. On impact, the daemonic ammunition resolved itself into a more mobile form.

Perhaps the Sisters took a broadside or two of daemonic ammunition and saw their ships corrupted. In a last-ditch effort to scare off the enemy and their only way to fully purge the daemons, they detonated their engines?

A ship or two of theirs survives with heavy damage, but they need extensive repairs from the AdMech and their Palatine (along with many others) is heavily injured, need bionics and medicae.

>>22986433
as far as the sisters and Cog boys would be concerned theirs no real difference. They'll go after purging either just as much.
Its like asking if Sisters can tell the difference between Chaos Marines and World eaters. Its not relevant

>>22986570
Sounds good!

>>22986602
No, as far as the COGBOYS are conserend it's like the difference between Chaos Marines and World Eaters, for the first decade at least the Sister will think a non-Chaos Heretek is just a crazier then usual Cogboy that doesn't get along with other.

>>22986570
I kind of liked the idea of the Palatine being personally responsible for saving the Arch-Magos, but theres no reason the amount of injuries she accrues cant start in orbit.

So would this be the place to talk about a possible order of mobile combat medic Sisters?

And we're agreed on there being a later conflict with Orks, ending in a Power Klaw being looted, sanctified, and then attached to a fancy Penitent Engine?

>>22986781

Huh. I don't see why not. Wouldn't they just be Hospitallers in a warzone?

>>22986781
Hmmm, unsure...
I mean this is a spinoff thread for the MechSisters, while that sounds more like a combiation of the Orders Militant and Hospitaller...

>>22986791
Of course, I'm imagining they were driven away from Imperial Space by the Chaos Warband, and by the time they start back home the Scraplootas are after them for the Infamous Power Klaw they acquired.
Fighting through an Ork Warband sound like a good way to crystilize this union, right?

>>22986791
And the fancy Engine being a techpriestess turned Living Saintmobile?

>>22986791
Possibly heavier on the killy aspects, and maybe a bit more ability to do standardized augmatics on the quick.
>>22986808
Again, sorta related due to the likely high rate of amputations in the field and the need for augmatic replacements.

>>22986841

Yeah. A minor Waaagh! on the fringes of known space has turned some sort of holy relic into a Power Klaw; the Orks are crushed and the Klaw is reverse-looted and mounted on their Penitent Engine.

The Scraplootas may well take interest in this very flash weapon and chase after them (can they do that?) for a later scrap over the Klaw.

>>22986679
>for the first decade at least the Sister will think a non-Chaos Heretek is just a crazier then usual Cogboy that doesn't get along with other.

hereteks are still heretics, if they're not consorting with chaos it'd be xenos for example.

All the AdMech would have to do is tell the SoB they're heretics and they'll go into full purging mode.

>>22986854
Of Course!
>>22986862
Yeah, I'm thinking by the time the Scraplootas get to "Doc Klaws" turf to loot his weapon, the MechSisters will have finished turning around back for known space, running into some very angry Orks.

"E're a gonna loot tat flash!"

>>22986917

Can we make a pact right now to request our (still unnamed) Penitent Engine until it gets drawn?

>>22986934
I don't know... I'm kind of new to this fourchan thing, so your art threads confuse and bewilder me...

Why did we go back to that idea? Even if the two organizations worked together for a long time, they wouldn't just merge like that. It'd just be Admech working with SoBs, nothing more unique than that.

And having the Sisters be different only by fusing with another group emphasizes the "Sisters of Battle, only not really at all" problem.

>>22986934
We should come up with some more details to it first.

>>22986998

When the threads show up, you just dump a request in, ideally with a reference. At this point this project needs anything it can get; it's just that there's no goddamn art of Penitent Engines.

Any more fluff we want before I crash for the night? I'm calling them the Sisters of Steel as a mental placeholder name for now.

>>22986998
>I'm kind of new to this fourchan thing
Yes, you have made this flagrantly obvious in your short tenure here.

>>22987040

Easy, anon. He's been civil and contributed more than most. We can't chase everyone off.

>>22987048
He tried to turn a quest thread into a namefag roleplay circlejerk thread. That I do not abide by.

>>22987009
Well this is why the longer the two Adeptus are forced to work together outside of normal contexts, the more homogeneous the resultant hybrid would be...

...Also sort of why I wanted to avoid the Palatine and Magos being mentioned, just because it's much harder to split a group if there aren't defined leaders of the sub-factions...

>>22987069

I didn't see that, but this thread has been good. I'm willing to forgive a lot; kind of have to around these parts.

I think my numerous furry threads waaaay back when are shameful enough for me to not mind anyone else new.

>>22987086

It was mutually beneficial to start with. Perhaps now there's too much crossover to separate easily? Things like this Penitent Engine (a heap of innovative tech and religious relics) are a product of both, and many of both group's roles have bled over. It would be messy for them to split.

>>22987069
You mean the quest thread that is now naming the planet "Subway"?

Yeah, I was really the problem child there...

>>22987107

I'll be keeping some sort of record of this on my blog or something, in case this doesn't hit the archive. Need anything else before I go to bed?

>>22987115
Eh, as long as someone has it down it can be past to future anon to carry on.

I think I should crash myself, good night!

>>22986934

damnation, I have an image in my head, I need to power up my scanner. Too bad I can't draw.

...Give me a second.

>>22987166

I'll be awake to receive it. High hopes, anon.

>>22987086
>>22987103
We could start with the Magos and Palatine and sort of merge them into the others side.
Say the Magos is the Tech priest who fused with the Pentinent engine to become the pseudo-living saint mech. While the Palatine is now so teched up shes effectively a Magos herself. Both would then be very tightly bound too the "other" half of the merged group.

>>22987181

Perhaps the Palatine is too damaged to function outside of the modified Penitent Engine?

Ooh, ideas. The Sisters revere her as a sort of Living Saint, the parallels with the Golden Throne freaking them out in the right way, while the Cogboys revere her as such a total fusion of human and machine. This does shaft the Magos, though.

>>22987107
>You mean the quest thread that is now naming the planet "Subway"?
>Yeah, I was really the problem child there...
So you deliberately trolled it to death as a form of vigilante censorship of things that violate your personal taste.

I think that's all we need to hear.

>>22987248

He went to bed, man. And sage your post for being off-topic.

Not saying he was right, but that you're not accomplishing anything.

Archived.
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/22949454/
Used the placeholder name as a title.

>>22987203
The palatine is not the one in the penitent engine, its a random techpriestess or the magos.

Besides, I feel kinda leery just straight up making her a dreadnaught. Its a little too space marine-y.

>>22987203
Unless the magos and palatine actually fused.
Like she was critically injured and the only copy of the implants needed on hand where in the Magos's body. So he did the only thing he could to save them. Literally joining them in body and mind and housing the result in a nearby pentinent engine awaiting a "rider"

>>22987322

Might be neat. I do like them as separate individuals with a grudging respect that turns into a battle-tested bond, though.

>>22987322
No, that is nonsense and highlights how forced and artificial the idea is.

>>22987293
Whatever we do end up calling them, I think we can still use that as a subname. For example,

Ordo Deus Machina, the Sisters of Steel.

>>22987322
That one was...no. I just dont like it. It feels really stupid to me, sorry.

The palatine looking like >>22949454 is fine enough for AdMech influence and I kinda like the Magos being more coherent than I imagine someone hooked up to a penitent engine would be, but if thats what everyone else wants I wont object, but turning them into some sort of tandem dreadnaught is just...ugh.

>>22977605
A female tech priest or priestess is a religious devotee of the AM. That's kind of my point. That's a 'mech sister'. Just have an explorator fleet looking guarded by the SoB thanks to its mission involving Shrine Worlds, and staffed with female explorators as a concession to the SoB.

>>22987405
Thats kinda what we have but with a little more crazy.

>>22987390
Twas just an idea I threw out.

Personally I like having the Palatine teched up too magos levels. And the Magos as the "Saint-engine" on his own.

>>22987421
Fine then.

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Fuck me I can't draw. Call it a reference.

anyways, it's a mix of the basic penitent engine/dreadnought design. the wings carry banners to show the union of sisters and mechanicus (as i think the double aquilae basically means already?) While the woman lays in repose, arms crossed and serene, body and implants visible but almost totally immobile inside a stained-glass cockpit filled with...whatever dreadnoughts are filled with.

Flamer, power claw, and lets say the heads of the eagles look forwards, not off to the sides, because they have multilasers or something mounted in them.

>>22987447

Tell you what, I'll see what I can do to that thing.

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>>22987447

Something like this, Anon? Just a wip.

>>22987538

>>Just a wip
>>Just a wip
>>Just a wip

I'm going to go cry in a corner now...

>>22986123
wait, what's happened to Shwig?

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>>22987538
>>22987598

There we go. Another sketchy mess from your friendly neighborhood me!

>>22987764

I like the one in >>22987538 better. It's not quite as Dreadnoughty.

>>22987764

True, though it's mostly just the plates on either side of the cockpit...Covered them with the eagle in the first version, but...Eh...Didn't like the look of it. Too much of a stretch of the Imperial Eagle.

How to create something on /tg/:

1. Start with 40k.
2. Consider alien race to base it on for a moment, then go for humans.
3.Inject some vague quirk to make them a little different to others.
4. Somehow make them have a rivalry with the Scraplootas

>>22987764
Remember the claw should be a former Ork power klaw

So, let me see if I have this right.

-Some holy relic of three swords is looted and turned into a power claw by an ork tribe
-MechSisters go and retrieve it
-Scraplootas hear about it and decide to go loot it for themselves
-WAAAGH ensues.

>captacha: brilliancy babolic

>>22991447
Pretty much, they hit the Explorator fleet right as it was just about to get back to know Imperium space.

>>22990286
I really don't get the need to have a rivalry with the Scraplootas myself. With the BJags it made some sense since they fucking hated orks, had a grudge against some Chaos Marines that the Scraplootas could've been involved with, and were made at the same time.

That said, don't bitch about the Sisters finally getting some homebrew. Nids and tau have more homebrew than them.

>>22994408
Which reminds me, what would you guys think if the STC our MechSisters were looking for was "looted" by Tyranids, but since the STC is crazier then a pet coon it has basically become "Friend Computer"?

>>22995470
You don't know how nids work, do you? They arent the Zerg, they dont just infest things, they fucking eat everything. The closest you get to that sort of shit is Genestealers and even they send their thralls to the digestion pools in the end.

>>22995639
Well they can't exactly digest a giant computer now, can they?
It hit me that "Eaten by Tyranids" is a bit of fridge logic when I mentioned it as a means of disappearing the STC, so I wondered if there was an alternate 'Nid based reason.

...Just throwing shit out there to see what sticks.

>>22995693
>Well they can't exactly digest a giant computer now, can they?
Yes. They can. Tyranids digest entire planets. They have units called pyrovores dedicated specifically to eating and digesting the crazy extreme metals that exist in 40K.

>>22995693
if you make it something to do with Titans and their neural control interfaces then Nids have already infected that sort of thing in the official 40k comics,.

>>22996097
That could work with the idea of having them implanting the archeotech they were sent to find into the Enshrined Saint, though we would have to scrap the tyranid infection thing.

Can we not have an intact STC at all? Or any other sort of extreme implausibilities to justify their backstory?

>>22997959
We don't really have any of that as is.
We had them going find an STC. But in the end all they get is some archeotech.

>>22997959
I didn't say an STC, just some archeotech. But yeah, that can be cut if you want. Definitely no on the Nidputer, too.

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This is what I think standard penitent engines should look like, so we can keep the Dread-Penitent for the Saint.

And if you can't tell the cockpit is stained-glass windows. (they're just difficult to draw)

>>22998996
Noice

>>22998053
Yeah, it's what they were looking for but never find, because Grimderp...

>>22998081
Fine, I just figured I'd throw a silly idea and see if it takes.

>>22999786
The problem is we are throwing too many ideas into one pot.

A Nidputer somehow gaining control of a splinter fleet and doing its own thing mite b cool, but it has next to nothing to do with the Sisters of Steel.

The holy relic turned powerklaw turned re-sanctified relic is a neat idea, but it doesnt need to be tied to the Scraplootas.

I do like the Enshrined Saint, though.
>>22987764

I feel like it needs an ornate angel statue somewhere on it.

My mental image was basically a penitent engine where instead of having the Saint just hanging out in the open, they had encased her in an ornate sarcophagus.

Not saying you need to change it to that, but just a thought. I also really like the look of >>22998996.

bump

>>22998996

Dayum...I just got SERVED.

>>22998996

Dayum...I just got SERVED.

>>23002072
>Dayum...I just got SERVITORED.
FTFY

This is a fantastic idea, you can never have too many cyborg women.

>>23002115
nice

>>22998996
I'd say replace the glass front with a coffin looking thing that has the upper quarter in glass.

>>23004026
I'm going to change it into a more buildingy looking front in a few hours after I get some sleep.

(think arches and stuff)

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>>23004196
here it is, although, I feel this thread might be as good as finished now.

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>>23007507
and alt sarcophagus/cockpit details.

I tried making it clear and putting a SoB head in there, but it looked like a tamagotchi at this resolution, so I didn't pursue that idea.

>>23007570
>>23007507
Looks coo.
Personaly I think the alternate cockpit looks better.

>>22953793
Yup, it's limited and not very original.
maybe you could try chaos admech sister space wolves?
You know, if you're going for some kind of special snow flake kinda thing.

>>23007570
still missing the Holy Power Klaw

bump

>>23013289
bump bump