Thallax
Thallax, also called thallaxii,[6] are specialized cybernetic shock troops used by the Ordo Reductor of the Adeptus Mechanicus.[1]
Overview
Organised into cohorts, Thallax differ from Skitarii Regiments both in their purpose and unique degree of cybernetic augmentations. The Lorica Thallax which encases them was developed from the Astartes Power Armour, though in the case of the Thallax this protection only covers their organs, nervous systems, and cerebrum. The skeleton and limbs of Thallax warriors are replaced entirely with mechanical weapons and servos powered by an internal reactor. The agony of this process, along with the replacement of most human sensory organs, leaves Thallax warriors notoriously cold and calculating killing machines that, unlike Servitors, still retain a high degree of independent human thought.[1]
Standard equipment on Thallax warriors include an Incunabulum Jet Pack, Lightning Gun, and heavy Chainswords. However, heavy weapons team often carry multi-lasers, phase-plasma fusils, irrad-cleansers, multi-meltas, or photon thruster cannons.[1][7]
When Thallaxes converse during combat they are terse and entirely concerned with killing.[6]
Images
Thallax Schematic[3]
Skull schematic[3]
Heart schematic[3]
Thallax by Forge World[2]
Plastic Thallax for The Horus Heresy: Age of Darkness[4]
Sources
- 1: The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal, pg. 270
- 2: Forge World: Mechanicum Thallax Cohort (last accessed 26 May 2019)
- 3: The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre, pgs. 44-45
- 4: Warhammer Community: Warhammer Preview – The Mechanicum Turns Its Love of Metal to Plastic (posted 8/5/2024) saved page, original link https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/05/18/warhammer-preview-the-mechanicum-turns-its-love-of-metal-to-plastic/ (last accessed 7/8/2024)
- 5: Campaigns of the Age of Darkness: The Martian Civil War, pg. 28
- 6: Wolfsbane (Novel), Chapter 15
- 7: Warhammer-Community: Begin your conquest of the Age of Darkness with new Combat Forces (archived 20 Aug 2025, last accessed 20 Aug 2025)
