>>213962357 (OP)
be me
Tech-Priest of Mars, 47.8% machine, 100% done with today
find a busted Ork warp drive
decide to "study" it (read: rip it apart and pray it doesn't explode)
start disassembling this heretical garbage
wires made of scrap, duct tape, and what might be a squig intestine
keep going deeper
surrounded by the smell of oil, fungus, and despair
finally reach the core
it's a box
thismustbesomethingimportant.mechadendrite
open it like it's the Ark of the Covenant
inside is
literally just a piece of paper with a pencil stabbed through it
NO circuits
NO sacred machine code
NO logic
just
pencil. in. paper.
somehow the damn thing works
this is powering faster-than-light travel
mfw
mfw the Orks are breaking the laws of physics through sheer idiocy and it works because they believe it does
mfw I spent 23 years studying the Omnissiah's sacred calculus and lost to a crayon drawing
tfw no amount of machine spirit appeasement can fix my dignity
tfw orkz iz da best after all
FML