Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords! - Chapter 521

Chapter 517 06.0516: ‘Military Thoughtlessness’

“Imagine that your limbs will be removed and replaced with electric whips or cutting claws.

Your eyes will be taken out of your eye sockets and filled with colored glass.

A large number of stimulant syringes and neural glands will be implanted in your heart and organs.

Finally, be proud of your new body. Your stupid drooling head will be recycled for the benefit of the Empire.

As long as I give the order, you will willingly rush to the gates of hell, turn into a violent living machine, and embrace a long death.”

-Combat Sister Milia, the captain of the Clean Angel Squad of the Martyred Lady Convent.

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The Whipping Punishment is a kind of imperial death penalty.

It is not a simple whipping, but a transformation of people into whipping servitors.

Usually, it is determined by the state religion or the Inquisition that a dirty heretic is still worthy of redemption. The most common use is to punish those who express heretical views, speeches or engage in heretical behavior.

They will be transformed into living weapons by the technical priests of the Mechanicus.

Such a luxurious punishment aims to remove the sins in the souls of heretics from the body, so that these pagans and traitors can make up for their past mistakes on the battlefield.

The operation process is extremely horrifying.

In the process of being transformed into whipping servitors by Lati’s technical team, these traitors experienced complex and cruel operations and endless spiritual baptism without any anesthesia.

They were tied to the assembly line, and their arms were first cut off by high-speed rotating saw blades, and replaced with mechanical interfaces that can be implanted with a variety of weapons. Here, Lati chose electric whips for them.

Next, they will undergo frontal lobotomy.

And their frontal cortex will be burned by irradiating high-temperature lasers to eliminate any possibility of retaining advanced thinking. This step is not only a necessary step for the transformation of servitors, but also to let them fully feel the pain of the operation as a punishment.

Amid the heart-wrenching screams that echoed through the cabin, the criminal’s skin, muscles, and nerve tissue were peeled off layer by layer, and the mechanical priest replaced the original organic tissue with reinforced bones, artificial fiber bundles of muscles, and neural control implants.

The prisoner could feel the extreme pain of each transplanted organ being inserted, each bolt piercing down into the bone, and each exposed nerve being spliced ​​together.

Afterwards, the top of his skull was removed and the sacred holy oil was dripped into the brain.

With each application, the mechanical priest would chant the names of 16 saints.

The mechanical blades gouged out his eyes, and replaced them with spheres with complex targeting arrays, spectral threat analyzers, and visual cognition.

The criminal’s limbs were bound and unable to move, and he could only watch his entire body being cut off and reshaped.

Finally, the whipping servitor would be implanted with a sealed thought pulse device used to control the cyborg, which was equivalent to the shape of a severed skull, connected to the remaining frontal lobe, and a whole set of chemical injectors implanted in the spine.

The whipping servitor, which is usually in standby mode, will be injected with drugs through the drug injection pump to keep it calm and unconscious, completely isolated from the outside world.

In this state, the invisible voice generator in the whipping servitor’s mind will constantly repeat the preaching, which includes sacred images, poems and elements of imperial worship, such as symbols of the state religion, portraits of saints, cyclic hymns, prayers and sermons of priests, etc. These will be directly instilled into the subconscious of the pagans, allowing them to sing praises to the greatness of the Emperor at all times.

In this long and painful process, the criminal’s mind will be completely erased, replaced by an uncontrollable impulse to tear their prey into pieces.

“Your sins are unforgivable, your betrayal will be nailed to the pillar of shame forever, and your crimes will accompany you until your flesh dies…”

‘The operation is completed’

Three hours later.

“Ah! Ah!!!!”

The final product of these operations is the “people” commonly known as “electric whips”. They wear pain atonement instruments on their heads, their original eyes are dug out and implanted with artificial eyes, painful nerve plugs are forcibly connected to the back of their heads, and their arms are chopped off to leave only a small section of the upper arm. The section is based on mechanical prosthesis and connected to the “flail of the whipper”, screaming without any consciousness.

Their whole bodies are restless and can’t stop at all. The artificial eyes that were dug out and replaced, connected to the pain atonement instrument, constantly play the suffering of the world and the glory of the holy image in a loop.

Horatio looked down at them, yes, it was them, and couldn’t help but take a breath. He didn’t know whether this state was alive or dead.

“Once activated, the Whip Servant is almost unstoppable. When the enemy is discovered, combat drugs and painkillers will be injected into their spines at the same time, giving the Whip Servant tremendous strength, speed and endurance, as well as a perception system that is immune to pain, so that they can fight even if they suffer great damage.

The powerful mixture of adrenaline stimulants and nerve killing signals drives them into uncontrollable rage, turning them into combat maniacs who only know how to kill. Their whip-like limbs swing back and forth, and they use implanted electric whips to tear apart all the enemies of the Empire in front of them until only a pile of incomplete corpses are left of the enemy.

This is the power of the Om Messiah, making things that the flesh cannot do possible. Ah, this is wonderful~” Lati held her face with her hands covered with artificial skin, looking at her new creation with an intoxicated and doting look.

“Yes, well… this is wonderful.” Horatio paused, and then repeated without emotion.

“This whip servitor unit will be dedicated to Sister Arabella to fill the combat power gap after her team suffered casualties.”

“Very good, I think these fierce and abnormal servitors will play a huge breakthrough effect for the Empire in the boarding battle, and the enemies of the Empire will be shocked when they see these whip servitors rushing over. “

‘It’s as scary as seeing a group of zombies with super high health and electric range damage in zombie games.’ He complained silently in his heart.

Then, he turned his head to look at a strange and terrifying mecha next to him. The mecha looked like a person being nailed to a cross, but the difference was that this cross could move and was equipped with powerful weapons.

The one hanging on it was the owner of this merchant ship.

It was naked, the entire upper skull was removed, and a larger-scale painful atonement instrument was worn on the top.

Saliva flowed uncontrollably from the gap in the teeth that were broken by Horatio.

“This is the ‘Atonement Mecha’, and the pain it brings is far greater than other punishments. Traitors sent to the rack will be tortured by the most painful memories all the time, and then be ‘redeemed’ again and again, and then fall into the abyss again.

This is one of the most severe punishments imaginable in the empire. Many cables and chemical injectors were implanted into the Heretic’s spine and connected to the war machine.

When there is no battle, the chemical injectors automatically adjust the composition, injecting feelings of guilt and pain into the Heretic’s brain to remind them of their sins.

The pilot’s desperate need for forgiveness, and death is the only way to obtain it, which drives the Penitent Mech to rush towards the enemy regardless of danger. Compared with the whipping servitor, its armament is more powerful, and the destructive power that can burst out in the penance of penance will destroy almost any enemy of the Empire for the Empire and for you, the Captain. “

Latti tirelessly praised her creation.

“Is this for me? Thank you very much. I believe that this “waste utilization” result can bring us an advantage in close combat. “

In the era when Horatio lived, humans had already begun to use drones on a large scale on the battlefield to reduce casualties among officers and soldiers.

Although the human empire, especially the Adeptus Mechanicus, is not allowed to use abomination intelligence, these servitors bred by criminals or wetware are substitutes for human-operated unmanned equipment.

The reason why it is called “unmanned” is that the frontal lobe of the servitor’s brain has been resected and transformed, so that it no longer has self-awareness.

Even if the technical priests do not supervise it, it will only be in standby mode, and at most there will be harmless phenomena such as malfunction and nonsense.

This is the horrible “thoughtless war”, which deprives “people” of their existence in spirit and power, and makes them completely degenerate into replaceable consumable machines.

They will continue to shine for the empire on the battlefield or elsewhere, using unconscious service and endless labor to pay for their sins with their bodies until they die.