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Added blurbs and examples of xenos-derived servitors, minor editing
There are many types of Servitor, each designed for a certain task. Typical Servitors are "Technomats" which operate and service machines, "Holomats" which act as holographic recordists, "Lexomats" which are like human computers with tremendous calculating powers, and "Drones" which are living robots - stupid and essentially mindless slaves ideal for menial work and little else.{{Fn|2}}
Servitors are often used to carry out the more dangerous or labourous laborious duties, such as heavy mining. They also accompany Tech-priest [[Enginseer]]s on the battlefield with the [[Imperial Guard]], as well as [[Space Marine]] [[Techmarine]]s. These types aid in the repair of vehicles or sometimes carry large and dangerous weapons such as [[plasma cannon]]s. For both forces, the Servitors are practically identical cybernetically, although the servitors of some [[Space Marine Chapter]]s are created from failed Marine [[Neophyte|Initiate]]s. Perhaps the most feared of all the Servitors are the [[Praetorian Servitors]], a class of heavily armed and armoured Servitor deployed by the Adeptus Mechanicus to guard the Tech-priests and temples dedicated to the Machine God.{{Cite This}} In theory any living thing with a sufficiently-developed nervous system can be converted into a Servitor, as evidenced by [[Servo-Raptor]]s, [[Psyber-Eagle]]s, and the [[Black Gobbo (Gretchin)|Black Gobbo gretchin]], but it is generally considered a sin against the [[Omnissiah]] to create them from [[List of sentient species|sapient xenos]].{{Fn|30}} This has not, however, stopped a number of Magos from doing so despite their professed loyalty to the Mechanicus. [[House Delaque]] builds [[Piscean Spektor|Spektors]] from [[Piscean]] brains, [[Vettius Telok]] commanded Servitors made of [[Ork]]s,{{Fn|11b}} and [[Explorator]] Magos [[Caul]] went so far as to retrofit his Servitors with [[Tau]] weapons, communications systems, and even anti-grav suspensors.{{Fn|35}}
==Servitor Classes==
==Notable Servitors==
*[[X-101]]{{Fn|10}}
*[[Ismael de Roeven]]{{Fn|1111a}}
*[[Signa-IX]]{{Fn|15}}
*The first [[Black Gobbo (Gretchin)|Black Gobbo]]{{Fn|30}}
*{{Endn|9}}: http://web.archive.org/web/20051210134551/http://uk.games-workshop.com/spacemarines/blacktemplars-concept-art/1/ ''(saved archive page, dated December 2005, last accessed 13 October 2016)''
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress - Escalation]], pg. 22
*{{Endn|11}}: [[Priests of Mars (Novel)]], **{{Endn|11a}}: Microcontent 03**{{Endn|11b}}: Microcontent 15
*{{Endn|12}}: [[Deliverance Lost (Novel)]], Chapters 16-17
*13: [[Dark Heresy Core Rulebook]]:
*{{Endn|33}}: [[White Dwarf 495]], pgs. 76-77 — ''A Tale of Four Warlords'' - Created by the [[Games Workshop]] employee
*{{Endn|34}}: [[Dark Heresy: Creatures Anathema]], pg. 26-27
*{{Endn|35}}: [[Andy BarlowFire Caste (Novel)]] , ch. Eight
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*[http://www.specialist-games.com/assets/emplorwarband.pdf Explorator Warbands]
*[[Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition)]], {{Cite This}}
[[Andy Barlow]]
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