They’re like the necrons, but they actually add something interesting to the lore by not being generic cartoon villains or could-be heroes in rapid decline like the Eldar and tau. The dark mechanicum is a scientifically progressive decentralized faction of ex mechanicum members that use the power of the warp, AI, dark age tech, and innovation—actual just normal innovation—to conquer small pockets of the galaxy. If they win, the galaxy would genuinely be a better place just off the basis that new tech and post human expansion could actually thrive under the weight of chaos and the imperium.
Seriously, these guys could revive the men of iron and have some of them have direct access to forge world and dark age technology. They might even have a StarCraft engine capable of intergalactic travel without the warp.
>>41718Dude, they’re literally the only non xenos faction capable of innovating literally anything.
>>41720I’ll take mad cyborg scientists any day over whatever reactionary quasi fascist speciest garbage that is the inquisition or literally anything chaos cult
>>41721>I’ll take mad cyborg scientists any day over whatever reactionary quasi fascist speciest garbage that is the inquisition or literally anything chaos cultJust join Farsight Enclaves, bro
They are rationality of the Tau without any authoritarian bullshit of the Tau
>>41726Fuck yeah. Another poly species human empire with some of the best qualities of both the old humanity and the imperium. Again, they just aren’t as powerful or as intelligent as the mechanicum even with their tech and AI feats.
You do understand that the dark mechanicum is only just shy of being a fully post human faction.
>>41727>>41726I’m also just going to throw in why I call these guys as being close to necrons
Apparently one of the first skirmishes between the imperium and these guys had the far mechanicum blowing up an entire solar system in a man made supernova. Mind you, that type of violence is the stuff that made necrons show some level of care for the galaxy at large while the dark mechanicum couldn’t give less of a shit if it means scientific progress