>>5492488Trying to find the exact quote from a book where a techpriest describes that dispensing with the human form to be pure machine in all but brain is a goal.
in any case, another example of TalOS empathy towards humans could be this.
>The Average Servitor has the parts of the brain that register pain cut out>Thallaxi instead, have agonizers in place to cause agony as part of important function>Those who are good citizens, who have served well, who are either mortally wounded or too old to effectively function or perhaps whose crimes are light as part of a penal brigade seeking redemption can become regular combat or industrial servitors as a great honour for the menials and peasants. Earning yet more honour and piety in the battlefields and factories>Thallaxii are reserved only for the worst of the worst, those whose crimes are heinous like Cell-DrainingA more apathetic Primarch wouldn't care about that sort of thing, someone like Pert or Curze