>>5218917>>5218920Wait QM! I just realize I wasn't being very specific . . .
When I said "forces" I should have said "Mortal Auxilia" because I now realize you might be thinking I was referring to Acillians.
I'm guessing you were ultimately referring to this post regarding Acillians and keeping them human.
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2021/5031026/#p5052831Machine God no, of course we shouldn't touch their minds! That would defeat the whole point of making them highly intelligent and capable. Besides, who even considers morale boosting for space marines or knock off SM, their built with as high as morale and unshakability from the get go. I guess my mistake is that in general I still see the mortals as our backbone since they would proportionally be the most numerous of our forces, the sledgehammer to the acillians scalpel.
What I actually meant to ask is if we could mitigate morale issues from our mortals or the mortals from planets who join our federal empire. Because from what I gather at least from the Mechanicus game, a lot of Skitarii aren't even afforded emotional or pain dampeners. Beneath all that metal, still lies the fragile psyche of what would have been a guardsman, a normal human (or in the case of forge world PDF really they are just guardsmen).
Would Talos be opposed to doling out more emotional suppressants or morale boosters to mortals? I kinda wanna say that the old decision was regarding Acillians, and there is room for him to differentiate between the two. It just seems a bit more humane, that when a Skitarii or a mortal under our charge faces death, horror and madness that we give them the cool mercy of the Omnissiah to help them against these things. So that they might face death with the same stalwart resolution of the blessed machine. Also because a lot of techpriests already do that too anyway.
Less that it would get rid of morale for our mortals, which as mentioned before is not possible (even emotionless techpriests can break and run if success chances reach null and death percentages approach 100%). But it could help. Also because OOC Nurgle faction basically does that for precedence, resistance to pain and despair through resolution and purpose, but in a much perverted way. Where as we would be applying science and technology to their brains and nervous systems and instilling the unwavering obedience of machine thought.
Would that be allowed for our mortals or is it locked out? (obviously not now it's literally a invasion day)
