Given the resources required, the difficulty of creating a Thallax and the fact that an individual's will to live was a factor in whether a usable measure of sanity was retained in the subject, Thallax conversion was often reserved for suitable Forge Guard (forge city security forces) and Skitarii fallen in battle and subjects obtained from more mysterious sources by the unfathomable and baleful Ordo Reductor. The particular augmentations undergone by one of the Thallax are both severe and extreme, retaining only the brain (and in many cases the skull and spinal column), the life-sustaining viscera and nervous system as the basis of the articulated and armoured robotic frame which encompasses it.Īncient Mechanicum schematic showing a cut-away view of the vital organic components encased in the Thallax's headįor some within the Mechanicum this transformation of the Human mind skirted the edge of abomination such as that posed by sentient ' Abominable Intelligence' (artificial general intelligence).

The Thallax differed from the Skitarii regiments both in their purpose and the unique degree to which their bodies had been reshaped by augmetics. The Thallax were specialised, cybernetically-augmented shock troops manufactured and principally used by the Ordo Reductor factions of the ancient Mechanicum.ĭesigned to operate in the most lethal and hazardous theatres of war, the design of the Thallax is arguably a bridging point between the most commonplace heavy combat servitors and the augmented Human Skitarii of the Forge Legions.

2 Heraldic Devices of the Ordo ReductorĪncient Mechanicum sketch of a Thallax's inner workings.It is not known if the Ordo Reductor still possesses the archaic technology used to create Thallaxii troops in the present era of the late 41st Millennium. So it was that the dread Thallax were found within the ranks of the Legio Cybernetica 's cohorts. The Thallaxi centuries utilised a divergent form of power armour technology known as the Lorica Thallax, which, unlike the armour used by its Space Marine counterparts, was permanently, surgically bonded to the body of the wearer.Ĭreated exclusively by the Ordo Reductor, Thallax were often 'gifted' by their archmagi to other factions, such as the Legio Cybernetica, in return for fealty and aid. The Thallaxii differed from the standard Skitarii regiments both in their purpose and the unique extent of their augmetics.

The Thallax, Thallax Cohort or Thallaxii were heavily augmented cyborg shock-troops utilised by the Ordo Reductor faction of the ancient Mechanicum during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras in the late 30th and early 31st Millennia. A Thallax warrior of the Mechanicum's Ordo Reductor during the time of the Horus Heresy

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