Technocrats

A Technocrat Marine augments themselves with extensive cybernetics and xenos DNA.

### Founding Chapter

Redacted (Iron Hands or Dark Angels Suspected)

### Specialty

Xenos Gene-Splicing, AI, and Cybernetic Augmentation.

### Battle Cry

In HIs Footsteps We Surpass!

The Technocrats were an 11th founding chapter of [Redacted] gene-seed. They were convinced by an alien emissary that the Emperor of Mankind was not a divine being, but a mortal man who achieved godhood through a series of advanced genetic and cybernetic enhancements. They reject the idea of the Emperor as a deity and instead see him as the ultimate product of biological and technological advancement. They no longer worship him as a god, but see him more as a model to be emulated and surpassed through the development of their own genetic and cybernetic enhancements.

To achieve their goal the Technocrats experiment with forbidden technologies and techniques, such as implanting themselves with xenos DNA and using any cybernetic parts they could get their hands on. They even created several artificial intelligences based on the Emperor's own mind and installed them in their suits, ships, and vehicles. They are despised by the Imperium and even several xenos species, though they have not yet fallen into the service of the dark gods due to their strict atheism.

## Godheads

The Technocrats created what they believe to be AIs with the knowledge and personality of the God Emperor of Mankind known as “Godheads”. They have been fed all knowledge the chapter can get its hands on regarding the Emperor and trained the AIs on data that is said to have been written or said directly by the Emperor. They believe that making machine spirits in his likeness is “good enough” and that data is really the only truth anyway. These machine intelligences are placed into the vehicles, ships, and even the power armors of their leaders to grant them special tactical and scientific insights.

Other suits have messiah drives, computer programs based on the concept of the Godheads. They are much “dumber” AIs but nonetheless are extremely beneficial to the marines who integrate them into their wargear.

## Uncertain Heritage

The true ancestry of the Technocrats is only known to the High Lords of Terra and a select number of Inquisitors. Because of their fixation with technology blame normally falls on the Iron Hands (or some other chapter with Ferrus Manus’ gene-seed). Strangely, the only hints we have is that their original armor was a dark green, suggesting a Dark Angel or even Salamander origin.

## Names

The marines of the Technocrats do not have names but instead take numbers. They may claim any number, so long as it is not over 9,999, to claim as their destination. Those that do not choose are assigned.

## Gene Splicing

The chapter’s Apothecaries have been tampering with the genetic structure of the marines of the chapter for generations. They are famous for their ability to splice together xenos DNA into the chapter, though they have stopped shy of working with Tyranid DNA due to its corruptive nature. Many of the marines of the chapter have extra organs, limbs, and other body parts resulting in a strange appearance. Some claim to be “half Eldar” or “a quarter Tau”. The Chief Apothecary, π the Flesh-Tamer, studied with a Haemonculi and the chapter maintains relations with a coven to this day.

## Cybernetic Abominations

The chapter has fallen not only because of its heretical beliefs and gene-splicing but also due to the absurd amount of mechanical parts they have shoved onto their bodies. Many have few original human parts left; those not replaced by xenos “improvements” are replaced with cybernetic “augmentations”. They see this replacement of their flesh as being the path the Emperor took after assuming their eternal watch on the Golden Throne.

## Atheist Apostates

Their fascination with self improvement is not religious; they abhor all forms of worship, ritual, and service to “divine” beings. They regard the Emperor as a man worth emulating, not as a god or even a “God Emperor” (they use the term “The Emperor” exclusively). Because of this they also revile the Dark Gods of Chaos and fight them just as readily as the “theists” who follow the corrupt Imperial Creed.

## History

Established during the 11th Founding the Technocrats found themselves on the edge of known space fighting increasingly frantic odds against xenos cultures. They wiped out several of them until they came across the Kul Orari Empire. A seer, under torture, revealed to their interrogators that they had supplied the Emperor with several key pieces of information early in the Great Crusade to spare their culture from destruction. Eventually they figured out what the  Kul Orari Empire had provided him (information on AI construction) and took the information from them.

They were able to build advanced AI and discovered several other “truths” about the Emperor as a person. Their cult expanded to include body modification, genetic splicing, and cybernetic augmentation before the Imperium began to crack down on them. A writ of “Excommunicate Traitoris” was placed upon them and a crusade was launched to eliminate them. Though it caught some of their battle brothers the Technocrats fled Imperial space with a warp and escaped the Imperials.

They spent many years raiding far flung Imperial settlements and Rogue Trader fleets and doing battle with xenos before establishing a small base of operations on a moon near an inhabited xenos world. They eventually enslaved or killed the planet and to this day they operate off the moon. They have a pact with several elements of the Drukhari and they freely trade slaves and technology between each other.

## Famous Technocrats

**π the Flesh-Tamer:** The chief Apothecary of the chapter and an expert at xenos gene-splicing. They are in the pocket of a Dark Eldar Haemonculi and they maintain close relationships to this day.

**Capt. Zero:** A infamous renegade who commands the 3rd Company, though it is unclear if they are really in charge or just hold onto the title so no one else can have it. They deploy to whatever battlefield they want, sometimes with their company in tow and sometimes alone.

**Chapter Master Twenty-Three:** The current chapter master is a null known as “Twenty-Three”. Though famously unlucky they are the most tenacious marine in the chapter and have overcome the curse of the pariah placed on them at birth via cybernetics and genetic modifications.

A Technocrat Librarian.π the Flesh-Tamer, Chief Apothecary.Capt. ZeroA Technocrat Chaplain.A Technocrat "Fleshling" (aka a "Scout")A Technocrat with all their augmentations.