Tech-thrall

A Tech-thrall, also known as an Adsecularis when used for military purposes, was a cybernetic servant created by the ancient Mechanicum during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy era. These cyborgs were created as the need for them arose by replacing portions of the subject’s organic anatomy, central nervous system and physiology with basic augmetics. In the case of the Legio Cybernetica Tech-thralls were commonly created from captured prisoners and criminals requisitioned from local authorities. Considered a lower order of being than even servitors by their masters, the ultimate fate of most Tech-thralls was to end their lives recycled into servitor components and their implants harvested for use in future thralls as their bodies failed under the relentless toil to which they were subjected. In times of war, Tech-thralls were formed into expendable units called Adsecularis and armed with basic weapon systems such as the Mitralock.