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Servitors are created by the [[Biologis]] of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]], and supplied to departments of the [[Adeptus Terra]] such as the [[Administratum]], and to the [[Inquisition]]. Servitors make up the vast bulk of the population of [[Mars]] and other [[Forge World]]s, where they fulfil the role of workers.{{Fn|1}} On other Imperial worlds, Servitors are used in automated [[Manufactorum|fabricatories]]. This can cause a rise in local unemployment, the [[human]] workforce being replaced by new employed Servitors, who are far more efficient. Partially due to not needing to sleep, a single Servitor can perform the work done by twenty humans.{{Fn|47}}
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 ideally serviced by tech-priests, but in the absence of a fully initiated member of the Adeptus Mechanicus, a small isolated town may rely on someone who is simply handy with cybernetics for maintenance, such as clearing the memory cache of an abnormally behaving servitor.{{Fn|59}}
Servitors are often used to carry out the more dangerous or 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 created from Ogryn stock that are deployed by the Adeptus Mechanicus to guard the Tech-priests and temples dedicated to the Machine God.{{Cite Marker End}}
