>many of these programmable cybernetic slaves are genetically-engineered, vat-grown, sub-Human clones or replicae created by the Adeptus Mechanicus from Human genomes who have their bionic implants installed after "birth"
>Others were once truly Human. These servitors were usually criminals who fell afoul of Imperial Law, particularly a person who has offended or damaged the Adeptus Mechanicus in some fashion.
>These unfortunate criminals will be sentenced to Servitude Imperpituis by the Arbitrators or Judges of the Adeptus Arbites and will be handed over to the Mechanicus' Tech-priests to be mind-wiped, reprogrammed, and cybernetically-enhanced to serve some specific, rudimentary function.
>Once lobotomised and "improved" through the process of painful operations, even criminals and Heretics are granted one last chance to serve the Imperium.
I feel that Owlshart is way too casual with the way servitorization is handed out to random people in RT. Most servitors are clones without any real brain, only in rare cases is a criminal sentenced as such. But in RT it happens all the time, like a parking ticket, or that admin guy on Janus.