Forum:OMG Technology

On the Modification of Technology
I'm seeing a lot of people writing in customised gear and heavily changed stuff in their characters, without going into how it happened. That needs a little more detail than people think, seeing as how the Imperium treats technology as a religion, rather than a science, what with the Machine Spirits and praying to stuff to hope it works after they drenched it with anointed oils and pumped it full of incense and Holy Water. Mars and it's empire jealously guard knowledge and engineering, and it's been explicitly stated that they are more than willing to resort to murder, hostage-taking and terrorism to keep a firm hold on that monopoly.

In spite of how awesome it seems to have an Imperial character or entire organisation running around with heavily modified stuff like gatling plasma guns, it's altogether more likely that the Mechanicum would get wind of it and either confiscate the stuff or have the user assassinated, then take the stuff. Other races have more leeway, but are still subject to restrictions like the Eldar Paths and the Tau Caste System. Orks are hobbled by their own need to have their guns loud and that makes them inherently inefficient. I applaud people's desire to push the letter, but they're just putting something there and leaving it at that (which, to me, stinks of "It's that way because that's how I want it").

I can understand customisations like reflex sights, scopes and chainblades and all, but then there's the likes of ramped-up terminator armour and hell, even I'm guilty of it, with the Steel Tigers Flagship, but I want to collar this before the site becomes a rampaging mess of randomly inserted Gatling Plasma Guns and Big-Bore Melta Cannons bolted to Terminator Armour with an upped Power System and a Jetpack. Thoughts? //--Run4My Talk 15:51, October 29, 2009 (UTC)