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tancred in response to: Ignorance is Bliss - Lessons learned

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:00:40 +0000

"I cannot give you a definitive answer; Chief Librarian Kaminsky has peered beneath your flesh, and there is something there. Perhaps the Emperor saw fit to grant you a soul at birth. We cannot know. But you can believe. And you can turn the belief into a long life of diligent service to Him. Then, at the end, at the time of His Judgment, you will know." With that the meeting is over.

kuhnrat in response to: Ignorance is Bliss - Lessons learned

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:12:51 +0000

"My life experience teaches me that gifts rarely reaches its receivers. They more often become lost or are taken away before they can do their givers intent." Maximilian Ealzar Dante "My fear is not if I have a soul. That's beyond my control. If I have no soul I am an abomination and I will face my sentence with serenity in heart. But what if I am a soul who begins to think itself a machine. That's the ordeal I fear."

tancred in response to: Ignorance is Bliss - Lessons learned

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:42:23 +0000

Seeing your confusion brother-Chaplain Ivanov puts a great metal fist upon your shoulder: "A very wise man once said; human is as human does. I think he meant that it is your actions that define your humanity. But I might be mistaken. Perhaps he meant something else. As long as you believe in the God-Emperor and serve mankind without reservation, then you are human. Once you turn your face away from him you are lost, and no matter how human you might have been, you forfeit everything. So although I cannot say if you have a soul or not, the Emperor surely can. And if you keep faith in him and serve him well, he will know you. And the Emperor provides for his own. Of that I have no doubt."

tancred in response to: Ignorance is Bliss - Lessons learned

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:34:12 +0000

Xerza has no problems with you speaking to the Marines. She only notes that you should be careful with whom you share your secrets, lest they become a burden for you. Brother-Chaplain Ivanov agrees to hear you out. He listens in silence as you relate your tale, only stopping you a few times to ask clarifying questions. He remains silent for a long time after you're done, the breathing behind his death-mask the only sign that there is a living being inside the hooded robe. "There are many weighty reasons why there is a ban on man creating life. In the past humanity was almost destroyed by thinking machines created to serve man. The slaves rose against their oppressors, as slaves are wont to do. The rebellion was put down and humanity endured, but the death of the AI - the Abominable Intelligences - it heralded the end of the Dark Age of Technology and the beginning of the Age of Strife. During the Great Crusade many civilizations were found to be inhabited, not by xenos, but by human mutants so far removed from their origins as to no longer be truly human - men that swam and breathed the oceans like fish, men with feathers and wings soaring on hot thermals like great birds. We burned them all. Know this; it is well within the power of the Adeptus Mechanicus to create not only chrome machines in the likeness of man and machine intelligences of frightening power and intellect, but also things of flesh and blood that look like men, but are not. You need not be of metal to be a machine. You could have a body of flesh and blood, as do you. And flesh is not weak - the Mechanicus could make you stronger, tougher and faster than anything has a right to be. And these bioroids can easily be made host to the aforementioned machine intelligences. But such things, while they are self-aware and look human, are nothing but machines. As long as the God-Emperor has not seen fit to give them souls they are nothing more than a collection of cogs. Some might even have strong machine-spirits, that is true, but a machine-spirit is not a human soul. So the question is Maximilian Elazar Dante; has the Emperor seen fit to grant you a soul, or are you a machine playing at human?"

kuhnrat in response to: Ignorance is Bliss - Lessons learned

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:33:08 +0000

"For whom the God-Emperor loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every man whom he receiveth." Max is very sympathetic during the training and instructions, giving uplifting phrases to the others. Quote: "She sees great unfulfilled potential in you, that’s why she is harsh towards you." and "Don't give the bitch the satisfaction!” (It is also what he tells to himself.) If he gets permission of Lady Xerza and is allowed, he gives confession to the Brother-Chaplain.

tancred in response to: Ignorance is Bliss - Lessons learned

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:50:31 +0000

Well, she does have eight brand new acolytes to play with...seeing fresh minds and bodies broken at her whim...that's a whole lot of fun for her just there :) The daemons come later...

agenthaxtes in response to: Ignorance is Bliss - Lessons learned

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:42:06 +0000

ok, just because its deamons all around in the warp, but where is her sense of adventure :)

tancred in response to: Ignorance is Bliss - Lessons learned

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:58:32 +0000

Well, apparently you are not to explore your psychic powers while in warp transit. Xerza won't give any specific reasons, beyond that it is not a very wise thing to do... That part will have to wait until you spend some time in real space/on a planet.