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hell even GW themselves have said many times that the imperium is one of the most evil factions of the lot
On the macro scale yeah the AM sucks and they deal with some of the worst the galaxy can throw out. But here and there we see a bit of levity or that life isn’t so bad for them sometimes.
They outright said there are no "good guys"
yup
There are no goodies in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
None.
Especially not the Imperium of Man.
Well that settles that question
I am destine to be Ogryn it would seem. Trapped in blissful ignorance is as close to peace as one can get in this universe it would seem.
Not every world is a paradise world
And usually have A Bad Time when someone nasty arrives
Tau worlds seem peaceful, untill something arrives.
And like communism, their "greater good" looks great on paper.
But as we all know, just like communism, it is not.
Can't fuck with the guys that make 80% of your stuff
Is the imperium one of those societies where, if you dont so "For the Emperor", you might get black bagged?
depednds
as many things in 40k do
some planets are actually pretty decent excluding paradise worlds
iirc a large amount are pretty similar to earth now
but those aren't interesting so they don't write about them
on a more "normal" planet you while still probably believing in the emperor wouldn't need to be mega pious
but if you lived on a shrine world you probably would
Or you could be born in a death world and either be a complete badass or dead
Or you could be born on a forge world and be more a servant of the mechanicus than the actual imperium
Entirely dependant on a planet by planet basis
The Tau propaganda reel on why the Imperium is bad to live in didn't need any editing
It's not propaganda if it's the truth
It is if it's coming from "the other side" 😉
The greater good isnt communism though lmao
thats just a meme
Also pro tip; theres a reason tau worlds dont have an abundance of chaos/genestealer cults compared to virtually every imperial world.
You kinda get better results when you dont enslave your entire populace
I just want people to put down there weapons and embrace one another on the alter of universal peace and harmony.
Have you considered becoming Tyranid biomass?
Wait, I'll get the copy pasta for this
To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.
that opening still goes hard
If Chaos Astartes were added in Darktide, which would be more menacing? Plague Marines or Noise Marines?
Noise Marines would be more dangerous to face, as they are much quicker
And their soundwaves are lethal to non-cultists.
I am pretty sure their soundwaves are just lethal
Their soundwave cannons are supposed to play very unique music.
don't they just literally vibrate things apart
Ever since that Kynska "concert."
Depend on the CSM
Sweet moses, that is dark
Welcome to 40k friend it only gets worse from here
noise because they'd blow out your headphones
If Slaanesh cults are added in Darktide, I hope that the boss will be a Noise Marine.
they've said no marines, chaos or otherwise. i hope they change their minds about that, i want to fight a chaos marine
Because unlike Plague Marines, they're fucking insane.
They're not as organized.
The Emperor's Children as a whole turned out the worst in the Heresy.
Worse even then World Eaters.
what about magnus' lot, i forget the legion name
Thousand Sons?
yeah them
They're sane, for the most part.
the sorcerers are sane
They have sorcerers.
the rest not so much
Regular soldiers are a pile of ash trapped in their armors.
Sucks to be them, yeah.
although i guess, being a chaos sorcerer
does maybe stretch the definition of "sane" a bit
Well, they're the most sane out of the Chaos Marines.
not alpha legion?
That's complicated.
i guess you can argue they're not chaos
Some are corrupted, some not.
All Alpha Legion marines are chaos
Alpharius bit the bolt (or in his case, a blade).
theres no loyalist elements at all
even if theres the books have never showcased them
And Omegon?
Hes dead
not all traitors are of chaos
Night Lords.
any marine that goes renegade falls to chaos
because something something faction-lock
describing a space marine is really hard because it's impossible to describe a feature that narrows it down at all
he has a sword and big armour
Lion?
nah he's a marine
I KNOW
GREEN?
DARK ANGELS?
YEAH
GOOD
But yeah Dark Angels arent traitors.
They just had traitor elements that broke from them during the Heresy to become the Fallen™️, the DA are just too afraid of anyone knowing about this so they keep it a secret
That was Cypher
YEAH HIM
the akimbo edgelord
He's not evil from what I heard.
he's a non-chaos traitor
Like Alpha Legion.
his mini is on the chaos section
Alpha Legion are all chaos
they have never helped the Imperium, once
its always sabotaging them
Didn't they provoke Jaghatai to join the Loyalists?
That was 30k Alpha Legion
point of order, sabotaging the imperium is not inherently bad
who didnt pick a proper side until the war was almost over
40k Alphas are basically all traitors
Also true
but they still serve chaos while doing so
mostly because of daemon summonings and paranormal fuckery
like making a planet have a rainstorm where the clouds rain poison snakes
just a lil trolling
that sounds awful
Alpha Legion is confusing as fuck.
those poor snakes
They really arent confusing
they are just traitors
people just want to make them deep when they are not
dont mix them up with memes
All Legions betrayed the Emperor for a reason.
That's true.
Alphas just did because some alien cabal told them to
and they were like
"ok fam"
space wolves are still a legion aren't they
Yeah just not too numerous
or did matt ward get his hands on them
The new heresy book tries to give the alpha legion a bit more context yah.
Gav Thorpe writes for Wolves
and all his books suck
I got a question for the lore wizards; just recently heard some interesting dialogue in game about a place called Xantarus (sp?) and that it recently fell to a genestealer cult, with Morrow being one of the survivors. Is that a city on Atoma Prime?
I would certainly like it if they did get more context.
nah fam i'm reading gotrek and felix
Xanatos is most likely a randomly named planet for the dialogue
if it was one of the Hives they would mention it during the exchange i think
its one of the rarer lines of dialogue
It is
the hives of atoma follow the necromunda naming convention i believe
Basically random planet 48371 put just to mention genestealers
^
sadge. was hoping for tyranid content lol
Maybe in the future
then the playerbase can complain how broken the enemies are
Just like beastmen!

I mean, usually this stuff is put as hints at what's to come
iirc we're doing missions in hive tertium, meaning atoma's got at least two more hives
Yeah they mention them here and there
With one already mentioned and deeply ooga booga mysterious and dangerous
In that same vein, I remember something being mentioned about Tau recon probes being confiscated from Atoma space or smth like that, but idk about Tau fitting the horde mechanic
fighting tau would basically be fighting 10 snipers
aka you'll die before even seeing them
Lol
Maybe if we get content outside of atoma and on the fringe worlds it could explain xenos
Pretty much
i really wish the traitor guard would show up more often, they're so cool
There is some dialogue about a 'second city' and it seems like the Inquisition is doing a cover up. lol
Tau suck to fight against lore wise
only when they get to dictate the terms of the fight, in close quarters humans have the upper hand, since we've got faster reaction times
I mean
Yeah fightin the Tau is basically fighting a modern army but you will pretty much die in one shot
If they get to set up before hand
It’s gona suck
And fire warriors don’t get dumped into a hive city
Like that
regular tau infantry have plasma weapons, it's a rough fight for joe guardsman
Actually the cover up seems to be done by the planetary governor, just like every other cover up regarding bad stuff on the Moebian domain
and yeah Tertium systematically speaking is kinda fucked
fun fact, tau didn't even believe hive cities could be real until they saw them for themselves
Essencially the current situation for moebian citizens is "there's no war in ba sing se"
To be fair
you dont need to lie to anyone
when half your populace is poxwalkers
free coverup

anyway they have a desire for resources and infrastructure like any good hedgemonic imperialists
Tbf it was mentioned that the sixth had someone on the inside letting them through
they might conceivably want to capture a hive world without reducing the hives to rubble
Pretty much yeah
Atoma will most likely end up getting glassed
Ahh ok that makes sense. man I'm so hungry for story content in this game, I wanna know wtf is going on 
and leave the planet to be nuked
We all are 
so dont feel alone
Yeah I basically went and read everything that wasn't datamined dialogue so just ask if needed
Too important of a planet for the domain to fall
atoma is strategically important yeah
Its importance is just "good tank ore"
It might be but like if a planets doomed a planets doomed
grendyl hasn't already glassed atoma, so he must think there's something there worth saving
Kill this planet to stop it from infecting others
Could the Inquisition just virus bomb the Darktide planets? The Life Eater sets things on fire, does it not?
The inquisition is not dealing with the Fringe Wars
Just the atoma situation
Those bombs are rare but i guess yeah
Basically
Rylanor saved one just for Fulgrim.
to compare it to another 40k game Space Marine
that planet cannot be nuked
because it produces a lot of vehicles and titans
Atoma is literally just "strong ore"
if push comes to shove its getting nuked
Is there another way to exterminatus the planet without destroying the infrastructure?
Wasn't it mentioned that it also produces a shitton of stuff for the Moebian Regiments?
the graia pattern autoguns are from the forge world in that game in fact
Yep, Graia
Yeah but atoma is the biggest infrastructure in three sectors
thats really not a big deal still
its not a "major" planet
if things get worse it will get glassed
it doesnt have immunity
i still think grendyl would have blown it up already if he wanted it gone
yeah as Morrow says it will only get glassed if theres no hope left
for now things are "okay"
Are things ever okay in the 41st Millenium?
It's the literal capital of the domain? So the center of all logistic and high rank shit?
tertium itself is in fact not entirely under enemy control
Dunno just throwing random stuff here
Its dime a dozen
Things are stable, but with the sightings of daemons... thats not likely to remain for long
it's kind of wild that we've got beasts of nurgle before the tollmen
There's just a single brigade of the Moebian sixth after all
what's the name of those daemons again, i'm in fucking pieces tonight
Plaguebearers?
kek
yeah Nurgle's "mook" demons are plaguebearers
realistically they would have been summoned already
but you know, gameplay
I mean maybe they have been. Daemonhosts dont come outa nowhere
i've seen someone float the concept of a "loot nurgling" before, and i think that would just be delightful
What would they gain from looting?
no no not like that
That stuff from nurgling would be corrupted
like how vermintide had loot rats that you could kill for loot
We literally bring back corrupted grimoires
Ok but that doesnt translate well given the lore
sibling, the loot rats literally dropped giant glowing dice that made your postgame lootboxes better, it's fine for things to be a little videogamey
Doesn't it though?
Aquireing the emperor's holy relics from the great enemy seems to plenty fit the lore
Thats for the inquistors, its one thing to bring an item for an inquistor another to take loot for yourself
Also why would a nurgling steel loot?
Its a nurgling
Loot is shiny
Why the fuck wouldnt they
Have you seen nurglings my man
Because nurglings dont like shiny. Shiny is pure, dirt is good dirt is nurgle
it's not shiny after a nurgling's picked it up
My brother in emperor
Tbf 4 veterans killing a beast of nurgle, daemonhost and plague ogryn on the same mission along hordes of enemies also wouldn't be lore possible lol
it would absolutely be
Yhis whole game iant lore accruate
its literally down to experience and weapons
lmao
that and your guys at Lvl30 are basically on stormtrooper tier
The regects are bless by the emperor
also ogryns are OP af in lore
regular guardsmen no, veterans though? they absolutely have the chutzpah
^
More like the Omnissiah, since they fight thanks to the Machine Spirit.
One sec while i put my enemies kasrkin unit against a plague ogryn, beast of nurgle, and a fuckin daemon host in a game rq
i want a tech priest class so bad
(The kasrkin died horribly)
One in the same
Theres a stormtrooper unit in lore that are so good at fighting against Nurgle that he himself has made special efforts to hunt them down since they are apparently even immune to most plagues
so yeah
40k lore is goofy at times
so its not really a big deal
Plot armor is canon
also this
40k lore is self aware at how stupid it is
Orks.
Especially for a videogame to make the gameplay in the game the tiniest bit more rewarding
4 veterans with bolters, plasma guns, power swords and things of that ilk are the kind of thing that will show up in the lore to murder unreasonably badass things
Pretty much yeah
Gibe loot nurgling
its also important to remember theres a big number of low level rejects who just always die on missions
if they have a commissar they'll probably murder chaos marines
Moral buffs at the ciat of -1 squadmate
Instantly recharge everyones special ability
melta gun when, obesefish
Kill the psyker
Let me play commisar so i can shoot the psyker in the back of the head when he starts screaming about maggots
Technically the ganger jacket for veteran is supposed to be a modified commissar jacket
Just do that normally lmao
Simply find the psykers home adress amd show up with a glock
i bought that jacket, wanted to see how it went with the gas mask
I am en route
too well it turns out, can't wear them together, i just look like a nazi
Good, so you already know the adress
Beloved protect me
for a split second thought it would be cool to have a fantasy darktide
Fabulous
Just imagine you are hanging out with a psyker when then he overloads and this spawns
truly grimdank
I do not want that....
i think getting 100% perils should spawn a beast of nurgle
Because that would be ME
You jnow what would be a cool enemy for that? The skaven
wow you're right that would be cool
Pack-master, give-hand the boof boof
You could have a wood elf, s dwarf, a pyromancer, a witch hubter, and a basic bitch reiklander as your classes!
Would be a radical game
a dwarf and an elf in the samy party? no way thude that makes no sense in the lore
Basic bitch reiklander strongest thing in warhammer fantasy
That and the pornstache helps

Bruh next you'll tell me the imperial can be a grail knight
imagine all the redditors that would complain about it

such horror
i like em
I bet you have sexual relations with your horse you filthy brettonian

discord has decided that my peasant meme is sexually explicit

Is he having sexual relations with his horse?
Lmao based tactic
Because their peadentry, much like the irl french, come from hols in the ground and horsr manuer
Fair
listen if you have to hate the french, hate them for the colonialism, not the cowardice
Should spawn 3
My hatred for brettonia is only matched by my hatred for the end times
end times is the absolute pits
Daily reminder the french have won the most battles in history
the canon ending is the Mortal Empires trailer
everyone united and curbstomped chaos
because half-dressed cavemen cannot steamroll half the world
Yeah but they lost the moral victory due to being french
yeah realistically chaos has no chance, ordertide obliterates it every time
That's exactly what a peasant would say
I mean yeah
Yeah like okay
massive plate clad super blessed chaos legions are fine
but like
I got a fucking rocket launcher cart
also a tank
so uh
die
Average reiklander beats a greater daemon of khorne every time
chaos has iron, dwarfs has ironbreakers
🙏
I was playing fantasy once and got really fucking lucky with a greatsword and beheaded a greater daemon of khorne
like chaos could deffo decimate most of the Empire after moving through Kislev but theres NO WAY they would survive the Ordertide
they dont even use tactics aside from "Take your horde and attack this place"
bear carts
Kislev gaming
Meanwhile boris ursus planning his own uno reverse on chaos
giant elemental bears
Still not as cool as reiklander with greatsword
But rad none the less
beartillery
I dont know a thing about fantasy so i just play chaos
it's pretty funny that the main difference between warhammer fantasy daemons and 40k daemons is the floor they're standing on
I mean yeah
All uou need to know is karl franz based, now go start an empire campaigb and reap the rewards of the true empire of man!
And that they are more interesting in Fantasy than in 40k
thude the karl start in immortal empires is so brutal
well imo everything about fantasy is more interesting than 40k
Too busy teleporting into the heart of the empire as Skarbrand and murding everybody
Thats what unironically makes it the most fun campaign
i'm not very good at the strategic layer of total warhammer, i'm currently struggling with the tzeentch start
Tzeench has a shit start
you consolidate your first province, then flip a coin to see if elves or lizards run a train on you first
YeH
speaking of lustria, i recently found out that the amazons have lasguns
love those little relics of when 40k and fantasy were the same universe
i'm not actually sure how i feel about them getting split, age of sigmar notwithstanding
So much as magic laser like weapons
For the better imo
Ah i have brain damage Appearantly
idk this art is obviously pretty old, you could be right
Fantasy has Lasgun, Bolter, Chain Axes/Swords, iirc Powerfist, Autogun and a few others
Usually either relics from the Old Ones or Chaos Gifts that are very rare
love the giant khorne spider that just has a storm bolter because fuck it
Now that I think about it, it's the 2nd time a setting I like has Laser weaponry in a fantasy era as relics
what's the first?
never heard of it
About a Viking son of the Star
looks neat
I asked ChatGPT to create a psychological profile of the Emperor, so that I may better know him. What say you, loremasters? Is this on target?
As a machine of immense psychic power and intelligence, the Emperor of Mankind in Warhammer 40k is a complex and multifaceted character, with a long and storied history. However, based on the lore and backstory of the character, here is a possible psychological profile of the Emperor:
Personality:
The Emperor is an enigmatic and highly intelligent figure, with a single-minded focus on the preservation of humanity and the eradication of Chaos and all other threats to the Imperium. He is known for his authoritarian tendencies and his willingness to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. He is not a warm or empathetic figure, but rather a distant and almost god-like presence who is revered and feared by those around him.
Motivations:
The Emperor's primary motivation is the preservation of humanity and the establishment of a stable and prosperous Imperium. He sees himself as the only one capable of guiding humanity towards a brighter future, and his actions are driven by a deep and abiding love for his species and a desire to protect them from harm. He is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, including making ruthless and controversial decisions that others may view as cruel or unjust.
Fears:
Despite his immense power and intelligence, the Emperor is not immune to fear. His primary fear is the looming threat of Chaos and the possibility that it will consume the galaxy and destroy humanity. He is also fearful of his own mortality, knowing that his physical body is vulnerable and that his psychic presence is tied to it. He fears that if he dies, humanity will be left without a guiding force and will be consumed by the forces of darkness.
Desires:
The Emperor desires nothing more than to see humanity thrive and prosper, both culturally and technologically. He believes that humanity is destined for greatness and that it is his responsibility to guide them towards that destiny. He desires to eradicate the threat of Chaos and to see a galaxy free of war, suffering, and death. However, he is also aware that these goals may be unachievable, and that sacrifices may need to be made along the way.
Overall, the Emperor is a complex and driven character, motivated by a deep sense of duty and responsibility towards humanity. He is fiercely protective of his species and is willing to make tough decisions and sacrifices in order to safeguard their future. However, he is not immune to fear or doubt, and his ultimate fate remains uncertain.
yeah i mean, chatgpt is almost certainly trained on stuff from 40k, so it'll readily quote/plagiarize from that
The only thing to be known about the Emp is that he is a Net Loss for Mankind, an A-hole, and an idiot
based
But, I serve him. Do I not?
Without the emporer is possible humanity would already be dead
nah the human diaspora had already occurred before the emperor took control
The empire might of never been reformed, and humanity would be wiped out by xenos and choas
He powers the astromonican aka the thing that lets humanity map the stars. Hes needed
the astronomican helps humanity navigate, but is not essential
It is, since humanity didnt have acess to the webway
And since humans had to destory all there super powerful ai
warp travel is possible without the astronomican and without the webway
Sir how are you going to navigate the warp
half of humanity has to operate without the astronomican since the cicatrix maledictum
You serve an image of him, in the ignorance that he has cast us into oblivion, that his tainted dreams were the last nail into Mankind's coffin
And its not going well there if you can recall
there are a LOT of reasons for why those folks aren't doing great
People think The Emperor was David, that he was the Samaritan, but no The Emperor has always been Goliath, the Pharisian, the strong oppressing the weak, for they shall live under his guidance or they shall not
the impression i get from the cicatrix maledictum is that gw wants to have one half of the galaxy where everything still sucks as bad as it always did (or worse) and one half where guilliman is kinda pulling things together to be less abjectly terrible
i think it's a good move, the grimdark gets kinda lame with no contrast
The Emperor was an athiest and staunch rationalist. The Imperium saw him as the one true god. While he did not believe this, he allowed them to deify him in order to cement his power?
No
It's more like it happened when he couldn't really do anything about it
He fucking burned his son lorgars prized city to the ground for daring to worship him. The reglion didnt really start to become major until 5000 years later
The imperial cult started after he went on life support
Its all the wordbearers fault
Is it believe that he is still conscious while interred in the golden throne? What is his mental state?
Bad. Really bad
Fractured
Hes described more of like a star than a human now
Tbf he never really was human
But he hid it behind a facade
He’s pretty much degenerated into how he truly thinks
Considering he calls guilliman, a tool, his son, a failure, and his last hope
So he is essentially trapped in this throne, unable to truly communicate with anyone outside it (except through psychic powers), enduring constant agony while trying to guide humanity through the warp?
All in the same conversation
He doesn’t guide humanity through the warp
He just powers the big light that does that
But yeah he’s in constant agony and also trying to keep the webway gate closed as well
So your saying he helps giude humanity through the warp 
any sufficiently powerful warp entity can act as a navigational beacon during warp travel
provided it's anchored in realspace
If I used your brain as a computer you wouldn’t be given the award for calculating the next number of pi
weird analogy but ok
If the big e dies big light go out
I think that he will eventually be able to inhabit the body of another? A rebirth or second coming of sorts.
If we get enough psykers we could power the damn thing
Well he will still be stuck on the throne lol
He’s not getting off that thing
Ever
well
it's unclear what exactly will happen when the emperor dies
Its relatively unknown as to whether or not it can be destroye dor turned off right?
So what if it is
But it’s gona suck for terra
He might be reborn if he dies but thats if the wound horus gave him doesnt fuck with his perpetual powers
I mean it can 100% be destroyed
Unless he ascends into godhood, but that's a whole other can of beans
We know that if the webway gate opens
he might become an actual god in the warp because of the faith of humanity, he might be reborn in the manner of perpetuals
It’s gona explode
it's just an object
Ah
the golden throne is deteriorating, nobody knows how to fix it or properly maintain it
he WILL die, it's just a matter of when
Yeah
I know when
Theres a deadmans switch connected to the throne so when he died terra explodes
Yeah
when GW gives up 40k
Tomorrow
so pretty much never
And also the fact that the webway gate will also explode open
When he dies
So the question is does the giant warp rift happen first
Or the explosion and then the warp rift
The bomb
The Adeptus Mechanicus believe the emperors death can be prevented, and possibly reversed through technology. Why not allow them to try?
Because its risky
They are trying to fix the golden throne
becuase the mechanicus is kinda stupid some times
Nothing works, until it does
he's their jesus
more then god
hence omnissiah
Ask any irl Christian if they’d do surgery on Jesus if he was comatose

And you had a 90% chance of killing him
Or worse
I’m gona be honest here not many are gona take you up on that offer
that's a pretty good analogy
Does the Imperium have a potential plan for life in the event the emperor dies?
No
And the astromicon goes dark?
The imperium is fucked
Some do, some don't
If that happens lol
I am sure gulliman does in the back of his mind
As an entire empire
overall tho shits fucked
unless like all the primarchs came back
and weren't crazy
Will it mean the varitable end of the Empire, atleast as we know it?
But Mankind as a species was F since the moment the Emperor was created
The imperium is gona die
If terra falls
Simple as that
It’s gona explode into a civil war
A bunch of fractured sectors
yes
I think, the warp is weird idk if there is also a warp reflection of it as well or w/e
So its entirely speculative that Terra would be engulfed by the warp if the Golden Throne shuts off right? We simply have no clue what will happen
It’s gona explode into a warp rift
Big difference
If it went into the actual warp it would just melt
A warp rift is just a part of reality with an extremely thin barrier between the warp and reality
I see. And this warp rift is made only possible due to the emperors deep connection to the psyhcic powers. In which case, his rise and birth is the gensis of humanities inevitable downfall?
No
This warp rift is because of his failed webway project
(Thank you magnus)
There’s a giant tear in reality
The emperor is keeping closed
the golden throne is basically a giant nuclear powered lighthouse/gatehouse as well, emp dies the reactor goes critical
not actually nuclear powered
but you get the idea
Basically if big e dies world is fucked in multiple ways
I mean god couch has a world ending bomb in it
So the webway tunnels inadvertently opened Terra up to a compounding fraction of bad sh*t?
the broken webway tunnel did yeah
Yesnt, because the emperor was gona have terra explode anyways if he died
Big e didnt want terra to be a trophy
the webway is basically tunnel through the warp, and the area near tera's is basically ruined and fully exposed to the warp
So what is stopping the imperium from migrating off Terra?
To a more sustainable planet?
If you move terra in real space does the tear in webway move with it
also the imperium is not just on terra
It’s their homeworld
the high lords would probably fuck off
but most of the populace and stuff like that wouldn't
So what happens if we move Terra to the eye of terror
If you moved it to to the eye of terror you’d have a lot of other issues
And it would probably result in terra exploding
Which is bad
Trying to create a paradox here
He might get juiced enough from the warp to close the eye xD
a warp rift in a warp rift won’t do anything it’ll just make the rift even more unstable
Wait so is the webway tear focused on the palace or throne or just terra itself
boff
So. If the golden throne were to be destroyed, there is a high degree of liklihood that the tunnels would then be destroyed as well. . . or at the very least collapsed. Moving to a Terra 2.0 and allowing the Golden Throne to destruct seems like it would secure humanities existence?
Astronomican
I mean you can't really move the emperor off the throne
A solar system is easier to manage than an entire galaxy of threat
And the astronomicon is gone
and that's kinda the big thing
Light would go out and space travel would be near impossible
No like the entire solar system is going to be consumed by daemons
Is the webway tear attached to the throne or just a place in terra
And become a chaos stronghold
And also the imperium is huge
All of earths irl population
Is a rounding error
So they are stuck living on a perpetual dooms day clock?
Yes
Desperately grasping at ways to extend the thrones life?
Welcome to 40k
Humanity is damned
Micro transaction: 1000 psykers to delay death
more like a macrotransaction
Likely more
Interesting indeed.
Considering there’s quadrillions of humans on terra alone
yeah
There’s some dude I saw that was convinced the psykers go willingly and help the emperor instead of being sacrificed and eaten
that's why they still have enough blanks to have sisters of silence and the blank assassins
even though they aer like
1 in a billion
and most are killed at child birth
Thats only a few psykers
nobody wants to die in a horrific electric chair
your consent is not needed either way
Didn’t say I believed it
It seems the universe of Warhammer 40k is a fu%ked one, where survival is a constant struggle and there are no easy answers or solutions.
It’s actually a glass coffin that sucks your soul out painfully
but sometimes it gets grimderp
damn the artworks lied to me
and is overly dark to the point of being stupid
Thats the point. Warhammer is a fading light. A struggle to survive just 1 more day
Like workign in customer service.
Agreed
So all you need to do is create a self sufficient solar system that doesn’t need any help and can last for millions of years. Then build a stellar engine and GTFO
Should I post the excerpt of someone getting sacrificed to the throne
Sure
Gimme a sec
Perhaps, but man there is really some untapped potential here in terms of media. I am thinking an Alex Proyas led project (the guy who directed Dark City). He has a serious knack for creating a futuristic, filmnoir, unsettling yet familiar world. I am going to email someone about it.
Will keep everyone posted.
Basically
40k is not popular enough to reach a movie format
best you can do is animations
"This is now. All of her memories, all of those thens, reel to a close. No longer lying on the grass, hearing a distant storm. No longer confined in the cargo hold of a spaceship, treated as a slave. They were then, and this is now.
Skoia opens her eyes.
She is bound within her own coffin, bathed in tremulous sound. It rises, octave by octave, and she thinks of deep-sea monsters, ship-eating creatures stirring and thrashing upon the lightless ocean beds as they begin to rise.
She breathes in, managing only a shallow mouthful of air. Her heart beats slowly, so slowly.
She presses her hands to the thickness of the vision panel, knowing instinctively that it isn’t for her to see out, it’s for her captors to look in. To see her, to see if she’s still alive.
Her next breath is harder than the first. She has to fight to suck it in, and it scarcely gets past her throat. Already the edges of her vision darken to grey. She beats her fists against the window, making the coffin sway gently, the motion no different from a rocking cradle.
Her third breath barely comes at all. In that moment she cries out – not with her mouth but with her mind. She screams for the spirits to come to her. She beseeches them for their aid. She curses them for their silence. Panic drives her past holiness into blasphemy, and still she screams.
Other cries join hers. Some, like Skoia’s, beseech ancestor-spirits or the memories of the lost, others are offered up as desperate prayers to the Emperor or the false and half-forgotten gods of distant worlds. It is the unified cry of people drawn from hundreds of cultures voicing their psychic gifts in terminal harmony.
Not all are pained. Some are obliviously joyful, others are sixth sense distillations of helpless rage or simple, crude fear. The chorus of outreaching emotion rises, and the battalion of interconnected machines all run louder, harder, in sympathetic response.
She is fading now. Her breaths no longer come, and that only amplifies her silent cry.
She slumps forwards, cheek pressed to the unbreakable glass, her lips trembling, her eyes wide and shivering. The stiller she becomes, the darker her sight falls, the louder she screams inside her skull.
And now, only now, does she hear the melody of the other souls of the one thousand sharing the same fate, suffering what she suffers. Their screams and prayers and panic and fears entwine, unseen by all, and form one sound, one impossibly perfect note. Those outside the coffins may yet hear it, but its true purity is unheard by any but the dying souls themselves.
It is the very first note in a song that will last ten thousand years, and perhaps beyond.
She, Skoia, is its first singer."
Wasn’t a movie made once though
yes
Unless you are saying live action?
there was a live action one
All you need is a good producer who can pitch it to an executive board of old rich white people who have no clue whether its popular or not. Thats actually EXACTLY how they trigged a studio into making Cowboys vs Aliens
Still a movie
tricked *
Let’s see if Henry Cavill manages to do anything with the franchise
also i guess the space hulk commercials
40k's biggest issue is also budget
the scope of the setting and the visuals are a lot
you need that money from somewhere
Gofundme
I think it can be done
Also the worst part of this was that she thought she was going to become a sanctioned psyker/astropath 💀
except she ends up being part of the first batch
Ouch
of people fed to the golden throne
💀
lmfao
It has a loyal fanbase and POTENTIAL. Thats all you need
Amazon picked up bootleg LOTR rights for over a billion dollars. Im sure there is some streamign studio out there that could do something with Warhammer
thats because its LOTR
Debatable
LOTR is a lot more relevant then 40k
A franchise thats older than most people on this server and INCREDIBLY popular
its not debatable at all
and yeah what Elit3 said
And I'm a 40k shill
LOTR is literally the grandfather of fantasy
Wasn’t there some news of something being planned in December
My point being. . . they are making a DnD movie with Chris Pine right now
thats all it takes for a movie to flop
They can pull off a Warhammer
because DnD is also very mainstream
Again, debatable
Wait didn’t they announce a necrons vs imperials show
People KNOW of DnD, but being popular is a different word
Its very popular
there's some really good fan animations for 40k
Stranger Things Moment
Yeah unironically
also yeah theres a reason 40k gets "fan" animations more than official stuff
there was an uptic in people wanting to learn DND
GW are cheapskates
after stranger things
Aren’t they making a 40k show right now or
and other things
there's that one space marine one that always makes me want to play a psyker
Henry Cavil is in talks with GW iirc
for an amazon series
No the one with necrons and imperium
Cavil would catapult Warhammer
those space marines are bitches they just walk around and kill people with superior gear and technology and two psykers almost crush them
I bet you 50 cents that the Sister of battle thats featured in it is also the person in that weird necron machine in the intro
The Marines got hella plot armor in Astartes yeah
like tanking autocannon/multilasers somehow 
I get why tho
they are shown as invincible before something otherworldly compeltely defeats them
which works
yeah that autocannon def should have hurt the marine
ye
it works for what they're going for
super well
Yeeee
i hate space marines so much
i am so glad there's not a single loyalist marine in darktide
they had to hog the screen in statue form instead
about the DND movie, when it got delayed due to scheduling issues one of the first replays to the announcement was "now that is how you show the fan base you understand the IP" lmao
was it a forum thread or was it in here where someone showed up SUPER angry about primaris marines even being faintly acknowledged by the statues?
hell maybe both
i mostly like primaris marines when they piss off space marine fans
tbf pissing off space marine fans is easy as hell, just say one thing they dont agree with about their chosen chapter kekw
just say a human can kill a space marine
Average melta gun W
Humans can kill space marines
In the plague war trilogy a group of gaurdsmen gank a plague marine
a lasgun can kill a space marine
Maybe not 1 lasgun. But 100 certainly
1 lasgun in fact, can penetrate weak points on space marine armour
i mean. many space marines never wear a helmet, and many lasguns hit like a .50 cal
This is also why i dislike repentia engines
those things would die in droves
repentia are less cool slayers
they really are
Repentia were originally invented bcs of some GW modelers fetish 
idk if naked women is a fetish exactly
fair lol
The entire reason SoB exist is because of that mostly
I havnt really read much on the SoB, dont really have much of an opinion on the faction as a whole
Think they look neat but other than that idk
the faction lore is variously fine and the worst
sort of a broad spread, poor average
the sisters repentia are a clear example
Yeah this
they are fun if you like nuns in power armor
SoB don’t have that issue anymore
Thankfully
But there’s still weird people
Because well
I don’t feel like I need to explain
also yeah their new release REALLY toned that down
also the uh
woman in charge of Repentia
went from Repentia Mistress
to Repentia Superior
which is great 
Tbf they literally wear barbed wire now
she still have the eletrowhips?
Which is an improvement over the old like
also got fleur spikes in their skin
Literal ball gag
this is the new ones
the whole hobby has had some issues stemming from its origins
very male dominated space for a very long time
and parchments on their tongues
Yeah
Also yeah
But at least GW is improving
the new repentia models are really good
that and realising the universe has other ethnicity other than "white" 
Yeah very macho and overly fetishised/sexualised women.
Just look at the sisters of battle and silence
i wonder how much of the fan base that moved pissed off lmao
A LOT
When that one Dawn of Fire book released
and the cover art uh
had a black ultramarine
A lot more then it should have at least
The black ultramarine
a lot of people complained
💀
LMAO
I remember that shit
He’s not even the first black ultramarine
💀💀💀💀
But people are stupid
And racist
I am more offended by the old half eldar ultramarine
becuase I am racist against elves
Before Darktide got released people were also being racist at the asian zealot and the female guardsman
Most tolerant member of the imperium
i hate that i can hear the tirades in my head
Steam

💀
i remember that
same
I remember that guy on the steam guides that was screaming about the customization being “body type” and not “gender”
god
I am a zealot main through and through
a little over designed maybe
lol
Their helmets are very over designed
I was looking for cut off heads thinking you where making a joke
those are incubi right? man they look nothing like they did in DOW:soulstorm
I got thousand sons vibes for a second
oh man
that was when Dark Eldar were on their first miniature reange
Yeah those are incubi
incubi are fine
the head guns
striking scorpions?
Yep
i thought they had eldar chain swords
the guy that found the Scorpion Temple was Arhra
who uh
did a little trolling
killed a few people
I can’t find the uncovered heads
escaped to Commorragh
Goddamit
and founded the Incubus Shrine
his pupil took over as the phoenix lord
so Incubi are like the dark cousins to the Scoprions
Also Arha is immortal still
Yeee
hes also Drazhar, the lore was keeping it vague but it pretty much got confirmed
The same way phoenix lords work
Yep
Yeah they pretty much hard confirmed it
so a former craftworld eldar started both the incubi and the mandrakes?
No mandrakes are just supernatural
nobody knows how they got made
But yeah Incubi and Scorps are connected
warp bullshittery probably
mfers literally got sent into the shadowrealm
eldar are neat, shame they are like the galactic punching bags
eldar are the worf of 40k
wtf even are mandrakes? im only experience with them is from soulstorm and the most memorable thing about them was them cutting open their chests with their POSIONED blades to cap points lmao
avatar of khaine is really bad about it
every time some cool new threat shows up it establishes itself by punching out the eldar
they are basically shadow elf assassins
Oh god okay so
the old mandrakes were just
literally gimps with knives
rude to gimps
the new updated version is just dark eldar shadow monsters who reside in a pitch black sub-realm
Nobody really knows their origin
but hey
they spooky
you can hire them to kill shit for you
their designs fucking own
pretty hot too tbh
so much better
i could take like 50 mandrakes
They give me illidan vibes
DSLFKDLS
the one the left be looking like Illidan Stormrage ngl
and the stance
Yeee
but hey Illidan is one of the most chad characters in Warcraft so
I dont know much about WoW







