>>5220751>Mechanicum as whole view baseline humans as imperfect beings, genetors likes them even less. TalOS was raised with those values.Well, firstly, I disagree about all generators disliking baseline humans. There are three philosophies of Genetor, bit like a scale.
Primus Humanum revere the baseline human form, and regard the Emperor as the perfect example of it. They're the guys you call to make sure there aren't any adverse mutations in a population and I imagine they aren't too fond of abhumans.
Apexists, who want to improve the human form to be stronger ala survival of the fittest/darwninism are the guys who like when human form shifts just a little to be better. Stronger, faster, harder. They likely have an appreciation for abhumans like Ogryn.
Vogelists are the equivalent of xenarites to technology. Just add whatever the heck to the gene mix to make "humanity" the strongest there is. The more conservative of them will likely point to the astartes and the Emperors work, the more radical of them will likely just try to purify some alien genes to inject it without delving into actual heresy.
Talos is the prime Mechanicus theologian, he would be able to appreciate the merits of all three. As long as the Vogelists don't try to go too far and do warp heresy, or the Primus Humanum don't try to halt the Machine Gods work.
But to your third point, I disagree as I feel QM has wrote him somewhere between Primus and Apexist and that he appreciates the subtleties of baseline humanity.
For example:
>He still eats food and enjoys it, rather than nutrient dispense>He keeps his face, and much of his original body. For now>"There are times that I forget that the Human Spirit is as holy as Steel"Most of all QM directly says Talos is not Perturabo, and not apathetic to people. Or his loyal people at least.
The Emperor created all the primarchs to, more or less, be caretakers of humanity in their own way. Some are more visibly present like Vulkan, Guilliman or Corax. Others subtle or unfortuantely mutiliated like Angrons Empath powers or even Curze caring about vengeance against the wicked. Talos I do believe leans more towards the former than the latter. If QM continues to present us with more questions/actions to this topic, we might even become as altruistic as Vulkan.
And of course, every Primarch must be practical too. Even Vulkan could not stand the Exodite worship on Nocturne and ordered them all to be exterminated. Even he had to make the hard choices sometimes, but it did not make him any less caring for humanity at the end of the day.
