Nanobot

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Nanobots, also known as micro-machines, are various forms of microscopic automata used by the Imperium as well as various other Xenos races. Some of those used by humanity and the forces of Chaos date back to the Dark Age of Technology.[1][2a][13]

Examples of Nanobot Technologies

Imperium

Chaos

Necron

  • Bloodswarm Nanoscarabs - Imotekh is known to wage war surrounded by a billowing stormcloud of nanoscarabs. This shroud lashes at foes with bolts of lightning and sow confusion and terror amongst enemy ranks, and lures Flayed Ones to feast upon the foe.[6d]
  • Living Metal - Living metal is composed of many billions of Nanoscarabs.[6a]
  • Nanoscarab Infested Thralls - Used by Trazyn the Infinite when not needing to act in person. Presumably organic or mechanical hosts infested by living metal.[6c]
  • Nanoscarab Plague - An affliction which devastated the Kroot on the planet Caroch when attempting to feast upon the living metal of invading Sautekh Necrons in 976.M41, an event that would be known as the "Feast of Steel."[6b]

Tau

Drukhari

  • Antiviral Defense - One of the methods developed by the Drukharii to defend themselves against the artificial Glass Plague were "tiny machines" that would attempt to destroy the virus before it could grow.[8c]
  • Thornlings - During Asdrubael Vect's hostile takeover of Commorragh, the Drukhari denizens of one its sub-realms resorted to desperate measures in an attempt to save themselves. By design or accident, the nano-machines they released spread out of control and converted the entire sub-realm into a skeletal iron frame that would then be known as the Iron Thorn.[8a] Even its living denizens were not spared, becoming horrific metallic abominations known as Thornlings[8b]

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