Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-8881468-20160114090952/@comment-86.174.91.240-20160115204404

So what exactly do these Research stations, research?..or is it just a mocking title for a place where people are in the stupidly daft 40k world?

The simple fact of the matter is that these designs are been made, amendments are been designed and tested. Trials and Evaluations is part of the research into final feasibility of the design, to make sure that once all those seperate bits of technology are put together, they function as they should. Your comment regarding the Mechanicum not researching things is wrong, other wise they wouldn't have sections like such in the actual mechanicus section - 
 * Bionic limbs and organs, which may replace the originals because of an accident or simply because they provide enhanced capabilities or cater to the special needs the Tech-priest may face in his chosen work or scientific research.
 * The ultimate goal of the  Cult Mechanicus  is to understand and fully comprehend the glory of the Omnissiah. The communal and personal attempt at this form of enlightenment is known as the  Quest for Knowledge . The Cult believes that all knowledge already exists in the universe, and it is primarily a matter of time before it can be gathered together to complete the Quest. The Cult is therefore disinclined to perform most basic scientific research and development. Despite this, some original scientific research does continue on  Mars  and the other  Forge Worlds  of the Imperium, enough to keep Imperial technology advancing steadily, if extremely slowly. The faith of the Cult is defined by a series of sixteen precepts, known as the Sixteen Universal Laws, which have been divided into two sets of eight precepts known collectively as the Mysteries and the Warnings, which are listed below.

These are direct quotes from the AM page, they show up if you use the find function of the internet browser and type in "research". The other two (as there was four) hots, refer to The Treaty of Mars decreeing that only some areas should be researched, not others.

So yeah, they do research. Not even going to bother answering your other daft questions. i can't see why you can't just accept things others tell you with pragmatism (so not blindly) instead of picking fights or being bullish.

We aren't  talking about chaning their role or suchl just challenging  your comment about how rare they are. Which in reality, they can be 'quite' accessible (not common) but certainly you just need to look at an army list to see how many there could be in a army, one per squad plus a tank or two equipped. Maybe more in a dheavy weapons unit. I'm not saying they are 'ten a penny' but not exactly ultra rare. I seem to recall a (Imperial Fist...probably) scout squad which had one asssign (they got some scouting mission and got ambushed by a large chaos group on some world somewhere, may have been the 'Imperial Fist' self named book), so not exactly 'reserved only for the best'.