"These Humie Meks have it pretty good... here." Sneaky Boss had not expected the Adeptus Mechanicus members to live so comfortably. "I thought they'd be slaves. They lost, after all."
"Yeah, at first we whipped 'em to make 'em work. Some of 'em wouldn't take it and fought back. They only settled down after we gave 'em another beating."
Duncehead explained that when the Greenskins first defeated the Adeptus Mechanicus forces in the Euronia System, they had captured quite a few of its members.
Just as the Blood Axes Tribe recruited humans as Gretchin auxiliaries, the Screw Clan saw no point in killing people who could barely fight back, so they recruited them as Gretchin helpers.
"Later, we found they were watching all your battles on Octaria along with us, Boss. When they saw you put your hand on the Matter Generator and fix it,
those Humie Meks went nuts. They even built statues of you on their own and started worshipping you, Boss. We figured Humie Meks were good Boys too. They liked fighting and building stuff, just like us. Good Boys.
So we let 'em go. Those who wanted to leave left, and those who didn't stayed in the clan."
Beyond the things Duncehead had described, Sneaky Boss noticed plenty of details, such as the Adeptus Mechanicus members gathering beneath a strange statue.
"What's that?" Sneaky Boss projected an image of the statue into Duncehead's mind.
"Oh, that thing? The Humie Meks threw it together when they were bored. It's weird. Not exciting at all, and not imposing either," Duncehead said casually.
Sneaky Boss studied the dragon statue, with its metal claws, scales made of gears, and a pair of engines forming its wings. It looked ready to breathe fire at any moment.
*They threw that together? That