Alright. I am currently in a campaign with the great homebrewer, and someone I think we all respect, Errant Knight. I have been in the campaign for nearly a year now and I have been extremely happy with the results of my character and I would like to think I added a lot to the group. Now that my character is fairly high rank, I need some more help to get the many projects I have in mind done due to the fact I am only one person/machine/genetor/thing.
Anyway, Skitarii are basically the equivalent of Imperial Guard for the AdMech, though as we will all admit more durable though far less in numbers for various reasons. So, my group may need some expendable assets that are a little tougher then imperial guard but can still get into those places our Baneblades and tanks can't get into. From what I understand about the Skitarii they can be made though basically growing a human and forcing them to be loyal to the AdMech in question. So, lets assume this assumption is correct. That means that if I were to grow a human, does anyone have any idea how long that takes in Canon?
Second, due to the fact that I am currently also working on... several different projects, some of which might be deemed heretical by the Mechanicus if they ever found out about them but that is not important, I will need to get some tech priests to work on this for me. I was considering going to get full blown Magos to work on this project for me, and lets assume I find someone that is specialized in making Skitarii as I am sure there are Magos that do that. How long does it take to train a Skitarii? A single Skitarii. With all of the hyper-indoctrination and all of that nonsense, how quickly can you make something that can function as a Skitarii.
All of this will be done on one of our planets that can support this level of activity. I would love to hear your thoughts and comments on this idea.