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** Also names like Decapitator or the Red Terror.
** Dark Eldar get in on this, too. Lelith Hesperax, Urien Rakarth, and Asdrubael Vect, Supreme Lord of the Kabal of the Black Heart are all about as nice as they sound.
* [[Nanomachines]]: Uncommon, but they crop up. ''[[Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay]]'' games add more.
* [[Nanomachines]]:* It's not quite clear whether Necron "living metal" is made of 'em, but there are several application even within the Imperium.
** 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.
** Mechanicus got an entire [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Cult_of_the_Micro-Omnisiah Cult of the Micro-Omnisiah] sect. Unsurprisingly, they are concerned mainly with manufacture of miniaturized electronics and biological applications (including weaponized).
** 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 and including 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(!).
*** There are also things like autosanguination (blood nanobot implantation) and a few more arcane cases.
** 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.
** There are runaway nanobot swarms from Dark Age of Technology, some even sentient. Like Bloodtide - pre-Imperium (i.e. from Dark Age of Technology) weaponized nanobot swarm that achieved sentience.▼
** 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.
** Simuloptera - much the same, but smacked in the head by Warp. ''Terminator 2'' style amorphous shapeshifting hivemind thingy, only of arbitrary size and speech-impaired (except via vox).
* [[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 printouts of the things.
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