Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-8881468-20160114090952/@comment-8881468-20160118074430

@ Attank  the Mechanicus has access to STC based plasma weapons, they never lost that. The plasma weapon STC however was at a stage where the technology was still in it's infant stages. Mankind at it_'s peak and the time of the first settlement of the universe had only just begun to develop plasma technology as propulksion or weapon systems.

They made their degree of sophistication of that research into STC tech and the Adeptus Mechanicus reveres any such technology and views it as heresy to improve upon it.

@ The wikia contributor:

You want me to link pretty much every vehicle or piece of equipment of the IoM that has not been improved on during the 10000 years of  W40k? Should I link every piece of technoilogy that is now so rare that the mechanicum cannot really reproduce them in the 41st millenium or the ones that have been degraded by lack of technology. Then we'd start at contemptor dreads and end at the baneblade (as per novel "baneblade).

Please show me the changes in lasguns, lunar class cruisers or the bolter or the vehicles of the Imperium. Why has the Imperium not managed to at least speed up the production process of tactical dreadnought armor, so that all astartes chapters can field 100 of em. Imagine power weapons at line astartes lvl or hellguns at guardsman lvl.

If we look at f.e. xenobiology. They might do dissections and then say:" yo guys, the tyranid bioform gaunt has these features, use weapon x. They do not come up with new weapons to specificcally target that threat nor do they come up with improvements to current technology. Or take the orks: a threat that has been known for 10+ millenia and still the best way to combat them, according to the IoM is to burn them, not more.

Take teleportation: 1000 years in use and still people end up rematerializing right inside objects.

@ Luna link, it would suit you well if you looked at the timetable of that page and on the actual inhabitants. Where does it say that Lunar was a Mechanicum facility? The only source that I found, was Horus Heresy Betrayal pg 80-81, speaking of "gene cults", not of the Mechanicum....

@ Researtch stations: the mechanicum has had centuries, if not millenia to reverse engineer more sophisticated xenos tech (jetbikes, grav tanks, tau wepaonry and stealth systems) and since it is a fact that they have produced nothign in that regard, not even applied the concepts of such technology to replicate or adapt Mankind's tech is as good an argument as any other into: mechnicus does not improve nor do they do research.

alas, which brings us to one of the rather last arguments on why female space marines are a ludicrous thing:

Empi is considerted a/the machine god, it is more than unlikely that the mechanicum really goes so far as to presume that they know better than the omnissiah.