Hello,

There are any hints in the rules about the need to sleep (or to eat) of tech Priest?

In other words: does a tech Priest Can recharge a mighty piece of archeotech with his luminen recharge but he Need to eat some mushrooms to keep himself alive?

A tech-priest's "organic bits" follow the same need to eat and sleep as a normal human; they can pick up fatigue in the normal way, and with its standard effect, and suffer starvation in the same way.

Most of the Luminen abilities (which drain bio-electricity to achieve something) tend to hand you fatigue as a cost. You can either put up with the fatigue, or else recover it in the normal way; eat, sleep, etc.

A super-draining luminen recharge for a plot-specific archeotech maguffin would presumably count as multiple use's worth, which would likely give the tech priest enough fatigue that he'd pass out unconscious on the spot.

Ok, let's go deeper: What if the tech Priest takes the flesh Is weak? Does a machine Need to sleep and to eat?

2 hours ago, Magnus Grendel said:

Most of the Luminen abilities (which drain bio-electricity to achieve something) tend to hand you fatigue as a cost. You can either put up with the fatigue, or else recover it in the normal way; eat, sleep, etc.

If the tech priest uses Electrical succour to recovery fatigue, does he need to sleep, sleep, etc? XD

3 hours ago, Sigma Tau said:

Ok, let's go deeper: What if the tech Priest takes the flesh Is weak? Does a machine Need to sleep and to eat?

By RAW Machine trait eliminate only your needs for air and heat. It's up to interpretation do Tech-priest need to sleep or not - I can imagine a lot of arguments to both versions. Short answer: "What is needed for the story".

He could probably get by without sleep as long as he has a source of power; as by the rules 'pushing' your body by staying awake and active too long results in fatigue (see the narrative movement 'forced march') rules, which electrical succour can remove with the "sacred ow" (not sure where the typo came from!).

Obviously, he'd have to stop for a minute or so to actually do it; when you're talking about "meditation" it's not something that's going to be done on the march.

Food, on the other hand, is still a necessity, as if I remember right the starvation rules specifically say that if you're suffering from starvation you cannot remove fatigue.