Recently I came across a reference to "hippocrasian devices" being one of the mysteries of the the tech-priests of Mars. Can anyone tell me what a hippocrasian device is?
what is a hippocrasian device?
I beleave it's a medical device, likely semi-automated. (See Hippocraties, the first 'doctor')
A hippocrasian device would most probably be the exoskeleton (implant system) used during the Rite of Setesh (see pg. 140 in the Inquisitor's Handbook; also pg. 139 in the IH has more on the Hippocrasian Agglomeration, an Adeptus Mechanicus domain in the Calixis Sector).
csabesz said:
A hippocrasian device would most probably be the exoskeleton (implant system) used during the Rite of Setesh (see pg. 140 in the Inquisitor's Handbook; also pg. 139 in the IH has more on the Hippocrasian Agglomeration, an Adeptus Mechanicus domain in the Calixis Sector).
This is correct. A Hippocrasian device is anything produced by the Hippocrasians that looks like something that the Hippocrasians would produce. e.g. augmetics and extremely advanced medicae devices. They are a powerbase within the Calixian Mechanicus, and seem to be viewed as acting on the border of tech-heresy by the Lathes and Cult of Sollex. Matters will probably become ugly at some point should no other grand distractions arise.