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** Autosanguinator implants (traditional) have blood filled with injury-repairing machines. Hermetic Infusion (restricted to tech-priests) is a more powerful version, which replaces blood - as such, it makes transfusions and many other treatments designed for humans... ''inapplicable'', though a Magos Biologis can help - not that it's needed often, with major [[Healing Factor]] and resistance to material contamination this gives.

** Luma-Crete (probably): needs to be injected into the body at several points, but for a while allows to survive a lot of things up to exposure to vacuum, though does not eliminate the need to breathe as such. Mechanically, +2 of Machine trait (which grants armor and resistances) and resistances to heat and radiation(!).

** Core Gel (widely used where it's needed, but still contested by some tech-priests elsewhere) temporarily provides universal interface via application to skin. "Universal" here means that while mostly it's a temporary substitute for having MIU, it has a great advantage of working with old systems so incompatible that it was easier to use this expensive stuff that to devise a good adapter for either common data ports or "modern" implanted interfaces.

** Silver Anathema (banned) is known as "mechanical poison" - it causes metal thorns to spontaneously grow in the victim's flesh.

** Malygrisian Bioforging (unequivocally heretical, since it causes genetic damage) grows subdermal armour, increases general toughness and allows to briefly survive in vacuum, but causes dependency on consuming nephium (semi-exotic fuel that in unrefined form is a contact poison) and without tricky maintenance plastic starts growing in all the wrong places, which quickly disfigures and kills the "beneficiary".

** Bloodtide - pre-Imperium (i.e. from Dark Age of Technology) weaponized nanobot swarm that achieved sentience.

* [[Necessarily Evil]]: Imperial servants in general, and Inquisitors in particular, knowingly and willingly do horrible things to innocent people on a regular basis because the consequences for ''not'' doing so could be catastrophic for humanity as a whole.

* [[Neglectful Precursors]]: Strangely enough, inverted as it's more like neglectful ''moderners''. Back in the golden age of technology, people were smart enough to create standard template constructs (STCs) allowing any colony to build whichever it may need from the ground up (amount of the required efforts may vary). Anyone who had one could build anything from a house to a tank if the situation required, regardless of ability or technology. Ten thousand years later, these same items created millennia ago are still in use, but the massive galaxy-spanning Imperium appears to be having trouble finding the things.

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** Viking/Mongol/Roman/Spartan/perverted [[Sense Freak]] bondage-obsessed/AxeCrazy/magic zombie/cyborg/vampire/Daemon-possessed genetically engineered power-armoured super-soldier [[Warrior Monk|warrior monks]].

* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: Unsurprisingly, the subjects of love and romance tend to be completely glossed over in the setting and all of its spin-offs. Because there is only war. As noted on its page, Warhammer 40k prefers to minimize the love story aspect of its approach to [[Space Opera]].

** It's actually quite justified when one takes a closer look. Space Marines are largely asexual (whether by choice or conditioning is a matter of no small fan debate), the Eldar largely repress sexual desire to avoid [[Emotions vs. Stoicism|falling prey to the urges that brought about the Fall]] and subsequently getting their souls devoured by its result, the Tau view sex simply as a matter of procreation, Orks are [[Mono-Gender Monsters]], the Necrons can no longer procreate, the Tyranids are hatched hive insect style, and most Chaos followers are too furious, too mutated, or too rotten to care about sex. The only groups which do engage in this aspect are the Imperial Guard, the Slaaneshi, and the Dark Eldar...and you really don't want to know about the last two.

** It's actually quite justified when one takes a closer look. Space Marines are largely asexual (whether by choice or conditioning is a matter of no small fan debate), the Eldar largely repress sexual desire to avoid [[Emotions vs. Stoicism|falling prey to the urges that brought about the Fall]] and subsequently getting their souls devoured by its result, the Tau view sex simply as a matter of procreation, Orks are [[Mono-Gender Monsters|fungus]], the Necrons can no longer procreate, the Tyranids are hatched hive insect style, and most Chaos followers are too furious, too mutated, or too rotten to care about sex. The only groups which do engage in this aspect are the Imperial Guard, the Slaaneshi, and the Dark Eldar...and you really don't want to know about the last two.

* [[Non-Human Undead]]: Undead Daemons created from the souls of those killed (not NOT turned into the undead) by the undead plague, undead statue robots (wraithguard and wraithlords) Undead Wizard Statue Robots (Wraithseer and Warlock Titans). Undead Robots (necrons) and Undead Mecha (Dreadnoughts to a degree and Nurgle Titans). Surprisingly no Undead Dragons (then again, their fantasy counterpart fills in whatever holes it has).

* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: Thoroughly averted for the most part - the Tau and Eldar are about the only ones who ever try. The Eldar consider recovering the waystones of the dead good enough consolation for being unable to save the bodies of the living (because the waystones [[Soul Jar|contain the soul]] of the dead Eldar). Similarly, although the Marines consider it the highest honour to die in battle, they'll fight hard to recover the progenoid glands from the still-cooling bodies of their battle brothers.