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This article is written from a Lore perspective. It contains spoilers and different reference materials might be contradictory.

A Servitor, nicknamed Shoggoth after a Lovecraftian creature, is a mechanical construct externally similar to a natural lifeform that was produced by the unknown civilization in production sites such as the one under the Nordhausen-Harz mountains in the ancient territory of Germany. This relics site was reproduced by the Soviet Union at the Tabasar-B Proving Grounds in 1950, and the work of Professor Romansky of the Lomonosov State University led to the production of controllable Servitors starting 1961. Only 4 to 6 units could be produced per year due the a lack of understanding of the production technology and process.

The first controllable Servitors were paraded during the October Revolution Parade of November 1961, marking the first public display of any relics technology. Servitors were also the first relics to be deployed in live combat in Afghanistan, starting January 1981 (the US had used “accelerator” gas in an experimental capacity in Vietnam). The Servitors left a 4 meter-wide trail of destruction similar to what high temperatures would make, ravaging structures and leaving only the clean bones of its victims behind. Large-caliber and explosives weapons are useless to stop a Servitor, only a nuclear weapon is estimated to be able to damage them.

Servitors were eventually pulled out of commission and dismantled along with any active relics weapon under the Dresden Accords of 1981.