The Imperium wasn’t a place where mysteries were investigated – they were accepted, turned into truths that couldn’t be questioned, slotted into the realm of the actual as life went on around them. Most servo-units, of any kind, were functionally inert – just floating gun-platforms or messenger-drones, their cranial matter repurposed for data-storage and environment targeting. Some, though, still spoke. Some still responded to emotional cues. A few were fully intelligible, able to recall memories, converse intelligently, express hopes and dreams. What was the cause of that? Some short-circuit
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