Can Servitors be restored?

[Jivebot]

Just a lore curiosity.

I mean, yeah yeah. It's grimdark. I'm not asking if people WOULD restore a servitor's humanity and free will. Simply if it COULD be done.

If so would they retain the memories of their life as a servitor? Would the "cyberization" aspect be reversible? Could human parts be grown in a vat and put back in place of machines? Like that can be done in the Cyberpunk 20XX universe, so i'm wondering if it's doable in the 40K universe too.

[Neoz]

Could they? Maybe. Does the Imperium have that capability? Unlikely.

[Dryden]

Let’s put it like this, not all servitors become unthinking machines. Sometimes the brain “surgery” isn’t done properly and the individual will be in constant pain and a silent observer.

The mechanicus are also rather indifferent in terms of the fleshy parts, meaning that it’s entirely fine if a servitor starts to decay.. so long as it can do what it was assigned to do.

You’re really much better off not thinking about the subject. But if you really want to, go and check out the YouTube video “Abomination” on the ‘A Vox in the Void’ channel.

[Jivebot]

So to be clear, even if for whatever reason, there was a reason to want to restore a Servitor's free will and mind the Imperium lacks the technology/knowledge to pull it off?

[Dryden]

The knowledge and technology no doubt exists. But you have to remember that in the Imperium, people are worth less than nothing and everyone is going to push for the easiest path.

So let’s say you’re a Rogue Trader with a dozen worlds and hundreds of ships under your command.. you might then have the political and financial capital to make someone give the request a second glance. But unless you personally know someone who has the knowledge, expertise, authorisation and courage to oppose the dogma, it’s probably not going to happen.

Servitors are almost always criminals atoning for some sin or crime (in the eyes of the Imperium) and it’s usually either that or death in those cases. Why let a perfectly good human go to waste when they can be turned into a cyborg.

[Jivebot]

No I get that much about it. But clearly there's cases where it's not deserved. Like the lady the Choirmaster Servitorized. Or the one from that funeral quest on Footfall. Or the old man in Jae's Merchant permit quest.

I realize it would never happen in the game, but encountering all these unfairly servitorized people just got me to wondering. If someone were willing to try to restore them, could it actually be done. Like if Big Daddy E suddenly woke up, stood from the throne, looked at the nearest Servitor and commanded his immediate restoration, 100%, even a new human body...is it doable?

If i understand you correctly now, yes...it COULD be done. It's extremely unlikely anybody WOULD. But yes, it COULD. Right?

[ShivaX]

Maybe by a Haemonculous or the like, but they'd almost assuredly be completely insane.

As far as the tech, I don't know that the Imperium possesses it and trying to create it is probably a Heresy.

[Nether]

That's an interesting question.
If we trust the RPG books[images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com], the Imperium DOES have implants to help with brain damage, and that's the hardest part to fix.

Paradoxically, it would probably be easier to fix improperly lobotomized servitor (such as the one on Footfall).

The rest is integrated tools (or weaponry) and 'normal' augments, and removing and replacing those with vat-grown flesh is probably 'simply' eye-bleedingly expensive, but not technically problematic.

Now, would they be the same person? Unlikely - they'd definitely go well beyond the edge of insane from the experience, but they might be restorable to something closer to a person than a servitor.

[=DeadShot=]

Originally posted by Jivebot:

No I get that much about it. But clearly there's cases where it's not deserved. Like the lady the Choirmaster Servitorized. Or the one from that funeral quest on Footfall. Or the old man in Jae's Merchant permit quest.

I realize it would never happen in the game, but encountering all these unfairly servitorized people just got me to wondering. If someone were willing to try to restore them, could it actually be done. Like if Big Daddy E suddenly woke up, stood from the throne, looked at the nearest Servitor and commanded his immediate restoration, 100%, even a new human body...is it doable?

If i understand you correctly now, yes...it COULD be done. It's extremely unlikely anybody WOULD. But yes, it COULD. Right?

What lady the Choirmaster made a servitor?

[Jivebot]

Originally posted by =DeadShot=:

Originally posted by Jivebot:

No I get that much about it. But clearly there's cases where it's not deserved. Like the lady the Choirmaster Servitorized. Or the one from that funeral quest on Footfall. Or the old man in Jae's Merchant permit quest.

I realize it would never happen in the game, but encountering all these unfairly servitorized people just got me to wondering. If someone were willing to try to restore them, could it actually be done. Like if Big Daddy E suddenly woke up, stood from the throne, looked at the nearest Servitor and commanded his immediate restoration, 100%, even a new human body...is it doable?

If i understand you correctly now, yes...it COULD be done. It's extremely unlikely anybody WOULD. But yes, it COULD. Right?

What lady the Choirmaster made a servitor?

There's a quest you get eventually where your choirmaster has locked himself in the choirroom alone.

If you go in and try to save him you learn alot about his past, including a woman he had servitorized for testing his authority when she was the only one trying to save him from a mistake he'd regret the rest of his life

[Uncle-Bin]

Well... I like to make the case that in warhammer it's always possible, but extremely unlikely. I'm not talking about technology - which might be a possibility. But we know of warp powers which can restore serious brain damage and not just for chaos followers.

A few years ago I read the "gaunts ghost" novels - which I highly recommend.

-Spoiler alert -

One of the main characters "Gol Kolea" gets seriously wounded and loses a significant part of his brain. He survives, but he isn't the same person anymore. He was a respected commander and now he is no more than a grunt. He later meets an imperial saint (the beati) who is able the restore his mind.

[Cypher]

It's intimated that it can be reversed but i've never seen or read it done. I'm a 35 year 40k fan, who's read a *lot* of the black library over the years, and a not too small number of White dwarf's (dwarves?).
A person can be made a servitor as part of a criminal sentence, and it was intimated that this can be counted in years.
Quite what happens after the sentence is up has never been expounded upon though.

[Commodus]

No, there would be no way to reverse the mind wiping process, never mind the radiation:P

[Hellsteeth30]

No, the lobotomy is both chemical and physical. Nothing left to restore.

Goes wrong sometimes but the parts are more valuable than the squishy part.

There are some high functioning ones but even those are pre-programmed.

[Taifun_Vash]

If they preserved the memory and self maybe, but then again why would/should they do it.

[ACEsino]

Unless theres divine/demonic intervention no.