#40k-lore-chat

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fervent folio
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Sadly, you cant get it as a bound book anymore it appears, or at least its not on amazon

green loom
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Did you not like the exodite whatthefuck_heresy

storm jungle
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only thing you can do is buy it from the site as a PDF

fervent folio
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Cain book 10 is 2019 though

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Not that old

storm jungle
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Yeah like i said sometimes GW doesnt bother

tawdry escarp
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That one guy who just keeps going on about how they are dying race is not great

storm jungle
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Gav Thorpe my unbeloved

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A guy so infamous the eldar discord server has him as an emote

fervent folio
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well, guess I gotta get myself a kindle then

storm jungle
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Or do the less painful route

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Go ask on r40klore reddit

tawdry escarp
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Are the Exodite Eldar better off than their Craftworld cousins?

storm jungle
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Kinda?

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They arent as super advanced and just sit in one planet and chill

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Craftworld Eldar are always mobile for the most part

tawdry escarp
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There's only one Exodite planet?

storm jungle
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No i meant in general KEK

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exodite communities are spread across maiden worlds

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which there are as many as the plot demands

summer rover
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gav is a perfectly good writer so long as you can keep him out of the elves.

storm jungle
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Clearly

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you havent read his Dark Angels books

summer rover
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he cannot be kept out of the elves. i stuck them into 40k.

fervent folio
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Are the exodite eldar also afflicted by the "Slaanesh will eat their souls" thing ?

summer rover
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ah, that's just in line with how much GW leadership hates the dark angels.

tawdry escarp
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I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to be in the elves. Rimshot

storm jungle
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like the literal psychic spirit of the planet

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so they are protected from Slaanesh by that

fervent folio
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Well, thats nifty

tawdry escarp
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Are they still protected if they leave the planet?

fervent folio
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But that also means, if a maiden world falls to, lets say the imperium, they're royally fucked

storm jungle
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Yeah unless other eldar rescue their souls and reach them somewhere safe thats the deal 💀

storm jungle
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the moment you die your soul goes into that thing

tawdry escarp
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Neato

storm jungle
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you gotta rely on your mates to get you to safety in an infinity matrix somewhere

fervent folio
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But i seem to recall that there is one faction of eldar that left before slaanesh was born and isnt affected by the whole soul eating thing

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or am I misremembering ?

green loom
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Any of you gamers working on homebrews?

storm jungle
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Misremembering i think

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every eldar is cursed to be devoured by slaanesh

storm jungle
green loom
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They're mixing up craftworld and dark eldar

tawdry escarp
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That's why they are so desperate to wake Ynarri

green loom
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Craftworld Eldar fled before the fall

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Dark Eldar torture people to stave off slaanesh

storm jungle
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Yeah if they cant torture anyone they literally shrivel up and die

tawdry escarp
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Ynnari is supposed to be able to protect their souls

green loom
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Ynnead

storm jungle
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Ynnead* but yes

fervent folio
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That was the Eldari nature godess that is held hostage by grandpa nurgle, correct ?

storm jungle
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No thats Isha

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Ynnead is the new god the eldar are trying to awake

tawdry escarp
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Their death god who is supposed to bitch slap Slaneesh

green loom
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It's their god of death

fervent folio
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well.... shit

storm jungle
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Yeah its basically almost like an eldar version of Slaanesh in an ironic way

fervent folio
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Just what the 40k verse needs

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More gods

green loom
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More gods means more factions means less concentrated plot armor means AoS plot progression

fervent folio
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There is some intriguing fantheories that the Tyrannids presence in the milky way could awaken another chaos god

storm jungle
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Yeah thats stupid

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Tyranids dont have a god, is just the Hivemind

green loom
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The hivemind is a god in its own right

storm jungle
summer rover
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the onyl chaos god they could awaken is the god of plotholes, and tzeentch is already here

storm jungle
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Lmao gottem

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GW : Look guys its not shit writing uhhh the Warp did it

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nerd5 : WAOW SUCH GENIUS WRITING GW

fervent folio
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I mean, fair

tawdry escarp
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Revelation is perpetually(hah) half a step from being a god

fervent folio
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Especialy with the shadow in the warp the tyrannids cast

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But then again

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The tyrannids do infect humans via genestealers

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and these genestealer cults rarely manage to bring forth psykers, and the swarm does have psychic creatures themselves

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So what would hinder them to straight up awaken something in the warp just by existing ?

storm jungle
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There isnt enough of them so no

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not every tyranid creature is psychic

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they are mindless drones made to take orders

tawdry escarp
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Tyranids can leave

tawdry escarp
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Don't like em

plush mason
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nids are best

storm jungle
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average psyker L

green loom
fervent folio
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I think Tyrannids are quite interesting

summer rover
fervent folio
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Let me cite Ciaphas cain - The Greater good. In Ciaphas's conversation with an astropath on a cruiser in orbit around Fecundia

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"The shadow might just be the place a psyker feels most at ease at in the galaxy"

tawdry escarp
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Eh, the whole alien race slowly devouring all life in the universe is a bit played out

storm jungle
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to be fair

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they are literally the Generic Locust Space Bug Race

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so its a bit obvious

green loom
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They are

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Literally

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Arachnids

plush mason
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the nids are just zerg x10

storm jungle
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A lot of sci-fi also uses the All-consuming Bug Race too

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so its not a new concept by any means

fervent folio
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Arachnids have 8 legs iirc

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Not all tyrannids have 8 appendages

plush mason
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the xenomorphs of the alien movies are also bugs

storm jungle
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We are more talking about the race itself

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not the physical similarities

fervent folio
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Bugs, yes

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If anything, I would characterize them more as ants

plush mason
fervent folio
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yeah, that would make sense

plush mason
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yeah those bugs are called the arachnids oddly enough

tawdry escarp
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What we need

fervent folio
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Is bugspray

tawdry escarp
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Is a race of giant space squids that just want to give everyone hugs

fervent folio
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lots and lots of bugspray

tawdry escarp
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Good hugs, not bad hugs

fervent folio
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Btw, would gaunts ghosts be comparable to the cain saga ?

visual lodge
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Nah, it's enslavers and not hanar.

take it or leave it.

storm jungle
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Cain is a lot more comedic

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Gaunt's Ghosts is very serious

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and much more war focused

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Like the moment you read the first few pages you'll notice the difference in tone

tawdry escarp
plush mason
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im just waiting for horde mode

tawdry escarp
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Yeah, that's gonna be gooooood

green loom
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Operative gaming

storm jungle
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Imagine playing Helldivers when this game exists

plush mason
fervent folio
storm jungle
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you might like the necron books

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Comedy isnt something 40k books do a lot sadly

plush mason
fervent folio
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Had to keep myself from laughing aloud the other day in the bus

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Cain went "I'm not easily spooked" to which amberly vail just interceeds with "HA" and then cain continues

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fuckin classic

storm jungle
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Hes a gigachad like that

balmy abyss
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yeah Ciaphas Cain I really dont take as canon. They are just stories that feel like they were fanfics.

green loom
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That's odd since they specifically muddie the actual stories about him

plush mason
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didnt Cain join an artillery regiment to avoid direct combat only to end up in a chimera and used as bait?

storm jungle
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Yes lmao

green loom
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His first deployment

storm jungle
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Cain's entire deal is impostor syndrome

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hes uh

green loom
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Things were turning sour

storm jungle
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a bit sus if you will

green loom
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So he took his command vehicle and booked it

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Then completely on accident ran into a flanking maneuver by the enemy

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And called artillery behind him as he ran the hell away back to his regiment

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Lauded as a hero for foiling the enemy's plan

fervent folio
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Basically that

plush mason
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so he is the "bumbling fool that somehow ends up saving the day by accident" kind of character?

fervent folio
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No

tawdry escarp
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He's the poster boy for the phrase, "Better lucky than good."

green loom
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He's a coward but not stupid and pretty pragmatic, and he ends up having to be the hero in spite of his best efforts

fervent folio
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Guy took on a Hivetyrant in 1v1 combat and won

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can't realy call that a bumbling fool

green loom
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He's also pretty damn good at his job

plush mason
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shocking

visual lodge
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aaaaaannnnnnnddddd one of the few commissars that DOESN'T shoot their own men.

green loom
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Well he does a few times

fervent folio
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LITERALLY what I was about to write

green loom
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But as he himself says

plush mason
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ofc competent people in the middle ranks are the only reason the imperium hasnt already collapsed

green loom
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A good commissar is one that doesn't die heroically while the enemy is a few leagues away

fervent folio
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A good commissar is one that doesnt get killed by "friendly fire accidents" too

green loom
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That's what I'm insinuating

fervent folio
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Which is one of the reasons cain is nice to the troopers

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XD

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So they dont shoot him in the back

green loom
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Commissar Michus dies heroically
The enemy never reached the line

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Implies he gets fragged by the regiment

fervent folio
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But that also shows his understanding of the guardtroopers

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and of humans in general

plush mason
fervent folio
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he is a master manipulator in a way

green loom
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He's very charismatic

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Potentially on accident

fervent folio
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true

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Though

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despite him being as charismatic as he is

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He's also untrusting to a degree

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In NONE of the ciaphas cain books, he ever just takes others doing something for him as "because they like him"

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which amberly elaborates on a lot of times

green loom
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He trusts Jurgen and no more is needed thumbsup_ogryn

fervent folio
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Best example would be Lord General Syvan

green loom
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Everyone deserves a Jurgen

fervent folio
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True, Jürgen is a treasure

plush mason
fervent folio
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A treasure with the aroma of week old socks, but a treasure none the less

tawdry escarp
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Jurgen the mighty melta man

green loom
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No hellspawn will stop Jurgen from getting his boss' morning coffee

plush mason
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pure bro energy

fervent folio
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If only he'd take the occasional shower

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XD

arctic talon
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he does

desert dust
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It's kinda funny how you read guant or cain and you think commissars are great and think about the men they are with.
Then every other story they are basically crazy zealots who run suicide missions into underhives

plush mason
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he is an icewarrior right?

arctic talon
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its just how his blank aura is like

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shown

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or felt rather

fervent folio
arctic talon
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Even after a bath he smells like shit

fervent folio
plush mason
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the ice warriors bathe? thats a joke btw

arctic talon
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Thats literally mentioned in one of the books

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he also has shit hygine

fervent folio
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It is mentioned repeatedly, that despite being a blank, he also has VERY poor body hygiene

arctic talon
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but even after a shower he smells like shit

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Its both

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he has both shit hygine and its how his blank aura is felt

fervent folio
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My guess is, at some point he just stopped caring

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and him smelling like a rotting carcass gives others a reason to associate their dislike

plush mason
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better than being known as a blank

fervent folio
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exactly

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Though Jürgen himself also has no idea he's a blank

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Amberly tried to explain, but he didn't get it

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XD

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Which is just so Jürgen

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its hillarious realy

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But he's loyal to cain, to a fault even

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Because cain is something like his first real friend

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Fuck it, i think im gonna reread, or rather relisten to the cain novels as soon as I finish the greater good

desert dust
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Yeah audiobooks of cain are great

blazing oasis
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Okay so serious question here. Why is it ALWAYS Nurgle? In every game, every animation, every cut scene the chaos invasion is always Nurgle. When we going to get a Khorne invasion, or Tzeentch? I mean I get why no Slaanesh because these aren't NC-17 games but seriously. Why always Nurgle?

plush mason
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Khorne had his time in the spot light back in the early 2000s and Tzeentch/Slaanesh arent as much of a horde style so they are harder to make work in a video game

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there will likely be some Tzeentch stuff at some point

blazing oasis
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By "Time in the spotlight" do you mean Space Marine and Dawn of war? Where the "Khorne" Faction was either the Alpha Legion or the Black Legion? When we gunna get some daggum World Eaters?

summer rover
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tzeentch is too much labor to write for because you have to have The plot TWEEEZT! and slaanesh is hard to do in a way that doesn't anger the censors without pissing off the fans.

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nurgle can be written for PG stories, you can't do that with the other three honestly.

plush mason
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i think the new rogue trader arpg will feature all 4 of the chaos gods

blazing oasis
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eh, no pun intended

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that would be awesome

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I mean we get nods to Khorne in Darktide with the armored Ragers

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but I wanna fight some blood letters, or have a Juggernaught crush my face.

plush mason
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plus you can do Slaanesh without the NSFW stuff

blazing oasis
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Noise Marines

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Would love to fight a Noise Marine

plush mason
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which is what i suspect the rogue trader arpg will do

blazing oasis
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BTWs Deathguard when?

plush mason
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in darktide?

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never

blazing oasis
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ah man

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would be an awesome boss

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Would also be cool to kind of Drive home how OP the Astartes really are. Because it's not a Deathguard Champion or named character. It's literally just "A legionary" the way we fight A Chaos Spawn

plush mason
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thats why they wont be in darktide

blazing oasis
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boooo

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I get it thought

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though

summer rover
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chaos marines showing up would blow several holes in the plot, and we barely have any to see as it is.

plush mason
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^

blazing oasis
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theres plot? =p

plush mason
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like 5% of one yeah

blazing oasis
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😂

summer rover
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maybe one day they'll remember to write the rest for us.

plush mason
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maybe

blazing oasis
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😆 😆

winter vessel
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All we got on Darktide lore right now is -Rannick:”are you ready, Zola?” Zola: “Ready!”
Both: “Welcome to our Club! Welcome to our Club! Welcome Reject! Welcome Reject! Welcome Reject! Welcome Reject! Welco-“
Hadron: “SHUT YOUR FLESH-WIT PIE HOLES!”

crystal forum
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chaos marines showing up would itself be the plot. there just isn't any at the moment

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the only plot we got is pointless shit happening on the inquisitor fleet with no effect whatsoever

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i hope the level up cutscenes are temporary filler right now because god damn is the traitor sub plot pointless

celest dome
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Wyrmwood is the plot

mystic geyser
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Yeah hidden vox recordings would be great

tiny root
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so the Lion is sidelined in the upcoming story progression?

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"hey btw the Emperor's appointed xeno killer will be hanging out under the bleachers instead of being the QB"

mystic geyser
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In his Novel he doesn't really get going with the wider Imperium. Idk if there's a book with a bit more. He's got art fighting Angron.

celest dome
plush mason
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and if Russ should ever come back he will most likely end up beheading the Eclissiarch

orchid lark
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Assuming they all dont converse with the emperor first

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Courtesy Calls

plush mason
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the lion will

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idk about Russ

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if anything Gilliman will most likely do everything he can to keep Russ on the frontlines as much as possible so he has no time to head to Terra/focus on the shitshow the imperium is

crimson kayak
mystic geyser
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The Lion in the novel is considerably more chilled out than heresy Lion

crimson kayak
mystic geyser
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Poor boy just needed a nap

crimson kayak
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Looking at the new missions and cosmetic blurbs that are not fully botched it does seem like the traitor storyline was much bigger and regarded Tertium as a whole instead of random inquisition Mook 102852

storm jungle
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people are legit super overblowing it lol

celest dome
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And nothing say that the other Chaos Gods won't be introduced along the Live Service timeline

orchid lark
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when I play Darktide, I go in and click on zombieman heads

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i dont think about anything else

brave breach
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The emperor is a lie and fake

orchid lark
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well yeah

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its a fictional game

vale shuttle
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i really hope no one believes the emperor is real

green loom
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Maybe Valrak does

orchid lark
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some people go in Lore Chat thinking its the RP chat

celest dome
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If someone believing the Emperor is real make them a better person
I'd let them believe it

orchid lark
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who is Valrak, keep seeing him on youtube sometimes

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you damn well know the only people believing in the emperor even ironically are probably crazy neonazis on twitter or something

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parading with their maltese crosses

vale shuttle
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name a more iconic duo

green loom
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Valrak is fist fan Numero uno, uses "Oh my Holy Emperor" in sentences, he talks 40k news and lore and used to do games

orchid lark
green loom
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Idek what he does anymore lmao

celest dome
vale shuttle
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y'know ive been a part of many nerd fans and the only one ive seen consistently use the names of the characters like they're God is 40k

orchid lark
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adventure time fans used gog a lot

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remember that

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or is that like my age group of people

vale shuttle
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no because ive never seen adventure time

orchid lark
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glub or gog

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i think gog is homestuck

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yeah adventure time fans said oh my glub

green loom
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Glob

vale shuttle
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actually ive seen wow superfans do cringe style rp in random chats but they're much much much less frequent than 40k fans

orchid lark
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40k doesnt have a mmo for RP chats

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also, how would you even really set a setting for an RP chat

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this isnt MSRP (scorpio)

vale shuttle
orchid lark
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i know that

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i did those stuff

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the homestuck one

vale shuttle
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based

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anyway what i mean is that 40k fans will go into a random thread and be like "kill the xenos m filth" but i never really see other fandoms do it

green loom
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I played on Epsilon RP for a while thumbsup_ogryn

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But only for the building

orchid lark
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nvm the sites are down, good bye msparp, and charatrp

vale shuttle
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except some wow superfans

vale shuttle
green loom
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WrA=Wyrmrest Accord?

vale shuttle
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yep

simple sparrow
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I’m on WrA

orchid lark
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So youre the reason

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(Jokes)

plush mason
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take birds aren't real

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it was made to mock the crazy conspiracy theories all over the net and has never claimed other wise and yet some people still think its true and that birds are just government drones

plush mason
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yeah its a perfect example of just how dumb people are now a days

austere quarry
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Humanity always have their dumb side, you just need to look at history and it's obviously not something new.

plush mason
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oh i know

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but ever sense the dawn of the internet people have been reverting back to "dark age" levels of dumb

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there are many that think the world is flat

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something that only the dumb peasants of old thought

austere quarry
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No it was for a long time something religion related, peasants probably did not care because they had all of their focuse on surviving, honestly i prefer that than Mr H (small mustach man) kind of dumb.

plush mason
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fair

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and true

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but sadly a world full of dumb people makes a Mr. H 2.0 all the more likely

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and makes said 2.0 all the more likely to succeed

austere quarry
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History repeat yes, for better and worse.

plush mason
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only for worse

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progress cant repeat

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it can only move forward

austere quarry
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Yup >.> So what was the prefered food of the emperor ? (I think we have enough talked about history or dumb people)

storm jungle
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thats better asked in reddit

plush mason
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in 40k? the souls of 1k psykers

austere quarry
plush mason
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i do wonder what he ate back in the pre-30k period

orchid lark
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Probably didnt

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He mightve been a strong enough psyker to

austere quarry
orchid lark
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Just live off power

plush mason
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what did anyone on earth eat back then anyway, from what i know it wasnt exactly a hospitable place

orchid lark
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Grox

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Glass house farm future fruits and veggies

plush mason
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yum

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lizard cow burgers

orchid lark
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Vegan Meats

austere quarry
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He probably loved lasagna >.>

plush mason
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lol

austere quarry
orchid lark
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Ratburgers

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Thats a callback

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And reference

storm jungle
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  • Talk about Primarchs
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  • Talk about the Emperor was if hes a good written character
orchid lark
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Except he is written good

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He’s just a bad human

storm jungle
orchid lark
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Dissecting through layers upon layers of bullshit that is the Emperor

crimson kayak
orchid lark
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Its just a flawed man who disconnected emotion

storm jungle
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at least 20 writers have written the Emperor now, its bad

orchid lark
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Oh its definitely wrong even if intended

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Yeah cause of too many cooks lmao

celest dome
crimson kayak
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lol

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also known as the best boys

orchid lark
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On the base level the emperor is okay, but when you just get into the meat of most books

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Its just what

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Like so he does care

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Oh wait this says he doesnt

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But this one says he is going to

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But on the other hand he isnt anymore

coarse pumice
orchid lark
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The utter shittiness of the emperors written character is more Alpha Legion smokescreening than actual Alpha Legion

storm jungle
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OH MY FUCKING GOD

orchid lark
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@storm jungle

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I like to believe the emperor almost cared his sons back in 30k writing

green loom
orchid lark
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But you never know

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Among Us is such a specific way to describe like hiding near us

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You literally cant use any other words

orchid lark
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Yeah, any progress with knowing ANYTHING about the emps

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Is always via Malcador or someone else going like

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Naaaaaaaahhhhhhh

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But unless

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Naaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

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Literally the worst way possible to have a character be told from the viewpoint others

coarse pumice
austere quarry
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Yes, probably to keep alot of the Mystery of the emperor of mankind @O@

orchid lark
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What mystery

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Its becoming less mysterious and just more stupid

plush mason
coarse pumice
storm jungle
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Yeah a lot of people dont know this thanks to hearsay

storm jungle
orchid lark
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Youre literally obsessed

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With amogus

storm jungle
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LDFSKLSD IM SORRY

orchid lark
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You know that

storm jungle
plush mason
orchid lark
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The emperor isnt a set piece

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Fucking worlds shitties chekhovs red gun herring

vale shuttle
green loom
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What if Malcador was the real Emps and Emps was just his ideal vision

orchid lark
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Nah

vale shuttle
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then malcador was just as bad as big e

green loom
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I mean he was

orchid lark
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No one ever goes i wanna be a decrepit old man

vale shuttle
plush mason
green loom
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No I mean more like

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Emps proper is his creation

plush mason
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oh

green loom
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It would explain why Emps is so

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Disconnected you know?

austere quarry
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It feels like a hard thoery to not poke hole into

orchid lark
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Erda was the emperor the whole time

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Its just Elden Ring

green loom
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Dun dun dun

orchid lark
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Spoilers

green loom
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It was all just personality disorder

orchid lark
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Sorry

austere quarry
coarse pumice
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Malcador as the Emperor fits his previous modus operandi more, and using an alias of ‘the emperor’ who’s him but not

celest dome
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Erda should have survived

green loom
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And it's weird how Emps only really got along with Malc

orchid lark
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Im goijng to Nottingham if erda comes back

plush mason
coarse pumice
#

GW don’t give a shit about what happens in the novels

green loom
#

Generally he sees himself as the great martyr, and considers Malc with similar reverence

orchid lark
#

I like the idea of Erda

#

But its just squandered

#

And stupid

plush mason
#

but what does Nottingham have to do with that?

green loom
#

GW HQ

plush mason
#

oh

austere quarry
orchid lark
#

Why

plush mason
#

ngl i thought GW was headquartered in London lol

celest dome
#

Isn't Nothingham in Greater London ?

orchid lark
#

No

#

Nottingham is a 2 hour busride from london

celest dome
#

Oh woah, it's real far from London
Near Birmingham KEKW_ogryn

orchid lark
#

2 or 3?

#

Something like that

vale shuttle
#

that's why he made the custodes genetically unable to disagree with him

plush mason
green loom
#

Yeah but it's only Malc, and Malc sometimes didn't agree

austere quarry
green loom
#

The guy also never really got along with the other perpetuals, and is way more proactive than they are

orchid lark
#

There was a group of perpetuals that hung out with the emps

#

Like Malcador wasnt the only one

#

They all fucked off because of something

celest dome
#

Was Malc a Perpetual ?

green loom
#

Yeah but he was the only one left

austere quarry
orchid lark
#

The great crusade or something

#

Like they didn’t like his plans

vale shuttle
#

they heard the emperor talking about how he couldn't wait to gun down all the xenos in the streets and they were like "dude what the fuck" and left

plush mason
#

what ever happened to the rest of the sigilites?

vale shuttle
austere quarry
celest dome
vale shuttle
austere quarry
celest dome
vale shuttle
#

yeah i mean i know the emperor was going around doing genocides that's why i dont like him

#

hot take: genocide is bad

austere quarry
vale shuttle
#

remember what i was saying about weird RP in places where it shouldn't be?

austere quarry
#

Lol

#

I'm joking >.>

silver pollen
storm jungle
#

Its not really a genocide in that case

#

its a war

vale shuttle
#

i dont know shit about the rangdan genocide, but also im not going to fulfill your theoretical argument where we make up a hypothetical scenario where genocide is good

storm jungle
#

But not like its a big difference when the Imperium was killing human and alien civilizations that did nothing to them alike

austere quarry
storm jungle
#

Basically my point is

#

just because you should kill an evil alien race doesnt mean you should do it to everyone else

silver pollen
orchid lark
#

The real plot twist is that everything happened in 40k is because the emperor and erda actually went on holiday

vale shuttle
orchid lark
#

It was just a ploy

#

Like oh no

#

Rogal dont put me on this throne and lock this door

#

The seconds door closed he’s off

#

And went to space cancun

vale shuttle
#

"damn this galaxy's a shithole now. no idea why. eh, better bounce."

orchid lark
#

But because the custodes kept watching the “corpse”

#

The emperor cant actually swap places with it anymore

#

He wanted to do a jesus trick

#

And like be like oh look all my evil sons are now redeemed lol

#

He’s like the old people who only go on cruises now

vale shuttle
#

the golden throne isnt a life support system it's the greatest VR system ever built

#

he's been sitting there on Space VRChat and playing Half Life 928

orchid lark
#

He’s catching up with all the shows he missed

#

So he was supposed to come back in m.34

#

But imperial television is just really good too

#

So he’ll be free by M.43

vale shuttle
#

imperial television is all about how great he is so he can't NOT watch every single epsiode of every single show made on every single world on the imperium

orchid lark
#

Man, you think Imperial Hooters is like

#

A thing

#

Imperium Hooters

vale shuttle
#

yes. there's a version of it on that one paradise world. the women staffing it have bombs in their necks.

orchid lark
#

What a time to be alive

#

Its the oldest imperial business

vale shuttle
#

i imagine that it's one of the few businesses that can be found on every world

orchid lark
#

Nah I want hooters hooters

#

I think theres a hooters in nottingham actually

vale shuttle
#

thankfully those restauraunts dont exist where i live so ive avoided them forever

#

maybe by millennium 40 will be rid of them

crimson kayak
#

god damn i was looking at eldar knights and they just make me want more an exodite army

vale shuttle
#

space wood elves space wood elves space wood elves

#

if i was ever gonna do a xenos army it'd be space wood elves

crimson kayak
plush mason
# crimson kayak

for a second there i thought the big one was flipping us the bird lol

crimson kayak
plush mason
#

awesome

#

the exodites just get better the more i learn about them. there needs to be more stuff on them

crimson kayak
#

basically they are eldar knight worlds, but they also have a culture much more similar to how it was before the fall of the eldar

vale shuttle
#

i think exodites are the most likely new army for xenos if they did another new xenos army

#

HOWEVER that would also require GW acknowledging Eldar which is actually impossible according to the laws of physics

green loom
#

I need to revisit my Hussar homebrew

plush mason
#

no. they acknowledge them all the time. just its only when they need a punching bag

vale shuttle
#

if exodites came out i'd get to have the holy trinity of chaos imerpium xenos

#

i'd be a true warhammer 40000 gamer

storm jungle
#

That isnt even a joke

#

EVERY

#

SINGLE

#

EXODITE APPEARANCE IN BOOKS

#

They always get their asses kicked

#

Or like, serve as a plot device because the protags need to fetch a mcguffin from their region.

#

Its actually almost comedic

plush mason
#

lol

#

and

#

😭

storm jungle
#

😩

#

Im sure exodites will get some minis at some point though

#

GW knows how to get easy nostalgia bucks

#

and they had minis in the past, no matter how ugly

vale shuttle
#

unfortunately i speculate that the most likely new armies are emperor's children and dark mechanicum which means that exodies would be like 3 years away at the very least

sleek wigeon
#

dark mechanicus would slap

#

especially if Vashtor ascends, could easily be his first army

crimson kayak
#

i mean yeah a dedicated cult of the arkifane codex for the dark mech could work

sleek wigeon
#

I definitely get the feeling vashtor is going to try for iron warriors/iron hands or dark mechanicum should he reach godhood

vale shuttle
#

i believe that vashtorr is basically trying to gauge the potential popularity of a darkmech faction

#

thats why he was released

silver pollen
#

And Iron warriors would tell him to go f*ck himself.

vale shuttle
#

orrr actually no, maybe he is like - there to drive hype

#

i guess one of either 🤷

crimson kayak
#

even through we forget he can't actually ascend fully as that would mean killing off the imperium using "The Weapon"

#

(and considering you know, it took the whole of arks of omen just to get the key, and he still has to find the lock)

orchid lark
#

One day

#

Exodites

#

Gonna get the exodites before updated warp spiders

#

Its doubtful, but chaos xenos things would be interesting

vale shuttle
#

space squirrels space squirrels space squirrels

#

horde army with a big focus on psychic abilities

orchid lark
#

I want them to look like turians from ME

#

Or the batarians for the uggo factor

vale shuttle
#

i once read someone suggesting chaos squirrels and it's been stuck in my head for years

#

i dont know why.

celest dome
#

Nah Squirrel are Skaven but good

green loom
#

Why does that sound like it could be a really good ass soundtrack

storm jungle
#

Because an organ makes anything better

crisp heath
#

I love Akhorne so much

crimson kayak
crisp heath
#

Do they have chaos teams?

#

I literally have not seen one lmao

crimson kayak
#

Yes lol

#

Both undivided and God centric

celest dome
celest dome
crimson kayak
#

I mean, beastmen are like, 3/4 of 90% of chaos teams

#

Even the standard chaos chosen kit is like 8 beastmen, 4 warriors and 1 minotaur

storm jungle
#

What in the actual fu-

#

also

celest dome
#

Was it the Greenskin where there was a joke meta where you took as many Goblins with you and just aimed at hurting/killing as many opponent

coarse pumice
#

the players would cost too much for that whole lineup

coarse pumice
#

the meta (or really just top teams) has usually been:
Wood Elves, Lizardmen, Undead, Amazons, Dark Elves

#

but in the 2020 rules there were some nerfs and it got shaken up

celest dome
#

I did say joke meta

coarse pumice
#

depends what's even meant as a joke meta lol

#

I would say the Halflings are probably the biggest meme team

#

apparently they managed to do well with a meme build using hired star players

orchid lark
#

@storm jungle can i have the amogus rannick video again

coarse pumice
coarse pumice
#

Khorne and Nurgle teams feature beastmen, but they're not the main focus and are kind of more elite/specialist players (Khorngor and Pestigor), where Khorne has marauder berserker linemen (human stats with frenzy and low armour), and nurgle has rotters (basically poxwalkers)

#

I'd like to add I hate playing against Dwarfs

summer rover
#

everyone hates playing against dwarfs. they don't have magic or cavalry to speak of so they have to learn defensive plays and everyone hates defensive games.

green loom
#

You know what I don't see a lot of?

#

Black Templars Terminators

plush mason
#

same

green loom
#

I didn't realize it until now

plush mason
#

like not even the emperor's champion wears terminator armor afaik

#

well they do have them

#

the sword brethren

green loom
#

Oh yeah no doubt they can use them

#

But you just don't see them a lot

plush mason
#

yeah but it looks like the sword brethren are just the personal honor guard of the marshal so they likely dont see much frontline duty

#

and the only way to show them is to show them along side the marshal leading the given crusade

#

ok i thought that tts popcast was just using some parody art of Helbrecht

#

but no

#

that really is his face

storm jungle
#

I completely forgot too

#

💀

green loom
#

The servitor isn't programmed to understand context, he just cleans the sword

storm jungle
plush mason
plush mason
green loom
#

Not advanced enough for targeting computers, but advanced enough for a servitor to calculate exactly where the blade will swing back to get the perfect cleaning swipe on it

plush mason
#

question

#

why is his armor bronze?

green loom
#

Fancy

#

I don't think it's ever explained

plush mason
#

lol

green loom
green loom
#

Apparently it's just to piss enemies off

plush mason
#

is the gold paints from citadel just more bronze color than other lines?

#

or am i just losing my eye for colors

green loom
#

I think the writer is

plush mason
#

yeah unless im wrong that armor is bronze

orchid lark
#

i think it is bronze

#

like in one short story Dorns armour was a burnished bronze

#

could just be a tradition for high marshals

plush mason
orchid lark
#

thats the weird thing about it

plush mason
#

talk about getting wires crossed

orchid lark
#

armour is never really described

#

forgeworld paints him in gold and describes it as auric

plush mason
#

iirc auric is a shade of bright gold

orchid lark
#

Angron is gold too

#

thought he would be brass

#

maybe nuceria likes gold

#

shrugs

plush mason
#

GW just seems to like gold

orchid lark
#

just three primarchs with gold armour

#

youd think fulgrim and Horus wouldve had the honour for it too

plush mason
#

gold is a very common color in 40k

orchid lark
#

isnt SoS silver

plush mason
#

some of them

arctic talon
#

Depends

orchid lark
#

gold is nice trimming colour

plush mason
#

imo if you are gona have gold armor at least have silver trimming

orchid lark
#

i honestly love veteran colour patterns for SM

#

White, sometimes silver, sometimes gold

#

just

#

chefs kiss

green loom
#

You know what would be based

#

Leandros showing up as a Captain in SM2

#

with his own Sidonus and mini Leandros

#

But the Sidonus stand in is Malum Caedo

orchid lark
#

if theres more Rahul id take anything

arctic talon
#

Leandros showing up in general would be cool

#

he has a stick up his ass but he's an intresting character

orchid lark
#

or even better, he understands the place Titus was in

#

and is ashamed to see his former captain

#

although

#

we dont know whether Malum Cadeo belongs to auroch digital or to GW

arctic talon
#

GW

#

technically

#

GW loans out the IP to video game companies to use

#

its why GW can technically make minis or transfer sheets for video game characters

#

like that one shitty knight mobile game

plush mason
#

free blade was really fun for what it was

#

shame it is now abandonware

coarse pumice
#

It's not as if Mk7 didn't steal the face grille from the Eldar in the first place...

summer rover
#

that only looks true from the front. from the side it's very different.

terse flume
#

Saint Gerstahl is an Imperial Saint. It is said that he fell defending the Cadian Gate during the first centuries after the Horus Heresy. Entombed in a Shrine World now named in his honor, a prophecy exists that states that the saint will rise again when the "Eye of Darkness opened for the last time." However during the Third Black Crusade, Abaddon the Despoiler destroyed his remains.[1]

#

lmao, owned

storm jungle
#

Lmao thats amazing

crimson kayak
celest cedar
#

I kill evil

#

the nod to Doom Slayer xd

rose thorn
#

Due to me needing to quarantine my cats I had to set my room for them so they couldn’t know anything over so all my hobby shit is in the closet

#

So maybe I’ll actually get the energy to hobby after the 10 days lol

#

It’s like uhh

#

When you are deprive your self access to soemrhing

#

So you can appreciate it more

bronze trellis
#

You know… I like Darktide’s core gameplay, but man they dropped the story in my eyes. Which is a shame, because there is hints of a great story there in the promotional stuff and voxcasts. I feel like if they implemented the background info like Tertium’s fall to chaos, the history of the Moebian 6th, making the traitor someone our character actually interacted with more, etc, it would be a better game for it

green loom
#

The traitor is actually Zola

outer wave
bronze trellis
green loom
#

Zola=in charge of rejects
Traitor=reject
Zola didn't trust us despite bogus charges, sole survivor of a firefight with a random knife in a non fatal spot

bronze trellis
#

Genestealer cult as a DLC enemy faction. Turns out in the second hive city, there is a civil war between the Nurgle cultists and the genestealer cultists, hence why the inquisition is keeping it hush-hush u til they have the time/manpower to deal with it

orchid lark
#

I often love joking that Darktide is actually just the prequel to Space Marine 2 as well

#

Just building up the Genestealer infestation into tyranid invasion

#

The WH40KVGU

bronze trellis
#

To me, genestealers are more sinister than chaos cults. Chaos cults rise to power much quicker, but they are also a lot showier doing so. They either live or die, and they usually die unless outside assistance comes. When the genestealers rise up, it means things are VERY dire indeed

winter vessel
#

ya think the prayers the AdMech utter are actually instructions from tech manuals for maintaining machines?

near wasp
#

Thatd be funny but it also could just be binaric code

orchid lark
#

wouldnt admech be speaking like a much larger digit language?

#

instead of binary?

#

what would it even be in the future

#

2048bit code or something impossibly crazy

terse flume
#

well, it would still be binary i think

orchid lark
#

binary is old, even for us

vale shuttle
near wasp
#

Yeah but its still the basis of every computer. We program in languages but its still just 1 and 0s

terse flume
#

right but it's like, as i understand it the physical tools we use for circuits (gates?) can be off or on, so the most foundational level anything is expressed in that on/off dataset

#

the binary is expressed as 0s and 1s but it's more accurately state 0 and state 1

orchid lark
#

Techmarines can speak technalingua right

#

I forget

bronze trellis
orchid lark
#

Technolingua? Something lingua

plush mason
#

or at least can understand it

#

because you need special augments to be able to speak it

terse flume
#

i was curious

#

George Boole published a paper in 1847 called 'The Mathematical Analysis of Logic' that describes an algebraic system of logic, now known as Boolean algebra. Boole's system was based on binary, a yes-no, on-off approach that consisted of the three most basic operations: AND, OR, and NOT.[13] This system was not put into use until a graduate student from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Claude Shannon, noticed that the Boolean algebra he learned was similar to an electric circuit. In 1937, Shannon wrote his master's thesis, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, which implemented his findings. Shannon's thesis became a starting point for the use of the binary code in practical applications such as computers, electric circuits, and more.[14]

#

it predates computers by a lot, but was attractive to circuts cause they have that on/off dichotomy

#

from binary you get bits - The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit.[1] The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented as either "1" or "0", but other representations such as true/false, yes/no, on/off, or +/− are also widely used.

#

so: the mechanicum would almost certainly still be using binary on some level, although presumably after thousands of years of incence and insular nonsense they maybe don't understand they're using it, much like i assume they can't actually meaningfully code anymore

#

could be mistaken

plush mason
#

no they know its binary

#

they just see binary as divine

arctic talon
arctic talon
#

problem is the stuff thats more advanced then that

plush mason
arctic talon
#

also true

terse flume
#

well do they write it fresh

arctic talon
#

Sometimes

terse flume
#

or are they just copying from anchient codebanks that are presuambly as decayed as all other information in the imperium

arctic talon
#

they know how to program

#

Cybernetica data smiths beyond using pre programed cards also make new ones

#

from scratch

#

depending on the situations they run into

orchid lark
#

im like a techpriest when i make games

#

most of the code is borrowed

terse flume
#

are there websites in 40k

arctic talon
#

Locally yes

orchid lark
#

yeah, probably just as much as a system local thing

arctic talon
#

You either borrow code from your self

#

or from someone else

orchid lark
#

i know the weakness of my flesh now

arctic talon
#

Its the inevtible truth

#

you cannot escape it

plush mason
#

one thing i dont get, how can the warp influence the thought process of the tech priests if their brains are so augmented they barely have any emotions? like how can Tzeetch influence their dreams if they cant dream or dont even need to sleep?

minor ingot
terse flume
#

as i understand it we are several levels of code deep? so even if you are programming that's some language that gets interpreted by the os that gets interpreted by the buh kernel (?) that gets interpreted by the hardware, i'm skipping a bunch of steps but you get me

terse flume
plush mason
#

true

vale shuttle
orchid lark
#

wow, I sure do love watching Terrax Commi-chan on holy Twitch.[planetary system here]

vale shuttle
#

Chaos internet is full of daemons

#

they all use zalgo text

orchid lark
#

there is a small layer of cyberpunkiness in 40k that i appreciate

summer rover
#

chaos internet is still mostly porn and amazon ads.

terse flume
#

it's like the darknet, but on top of russian benzos you can order like orphan souls

arctic talon
#

tech priests can't fully replace their brain

#

with machinery either

terse flume
#

their void dragon plausible omnisaiiah buh

#

c'tans aren't chaotic in nature are they

arctic talon
#

No

#

the Dragon of mars

#

isn't a C'tan (probably)

#

and is arguably even worse for humanity

terse flume
#

well not all of one, no whole ones exist, but i thought he was a big ol chunk of one

arctic talon
#

No

plush mason
arctic talon
#

it is heavily implied to be something else

#

its an eldritch abomination

#

unrelated to the c'tan

terse flume
#

so it could be chaosy

orchid lark
#

it was in libya for a while

#

(maybe)

plush mason
#

because i thought Tyrzen said it was a shard of the eater of knoweldge that had gotten free due to corrupted containment code in its prison

arctic talon
#

Nope

#

the only hard info we have on it

#

is from the former Guardian of it

#

which is, it was from space, its very old, it might be entirely unique as a creature, it has brought species into existence before and also wiped them out

terse flume
#

well, we also know that the ur iron man guy who's like tens of thousands of years once said to the tech priests of mars like, fuckin lmao your omnisaha would hate what you do and hate you, if i recall a youtube someone shared

arctic talon
#

yeah

terse flume
#

he might have been fucking with them tho

arctic talon
#

Ur-025 says they have met the omnissiah

#

not that earthling corpse

#

whether he's telling the truth or not

#

thats up for debate

#

all the stuff that heavily links the Dragon of Mars to the Void Dragon is from necron lore pre 5e

terse flume
#

they should do more stuff with robots in the setting, it's the only apocolypse that the setting doesn't seem to have going. necrons kind of suck the oxygen out of the room

minor ingot
#

Imagine believing a man of iron

arctic talon
#

Leagues of Votaan

#

sorta

minor ingot
#

They're salty they got rekt

arctic talon
#

Also Ur-025 is pretty friendly to humans

minor ingot
#

Jimmy Space protects

terse flume
#

yeah he's chill

arctic talon
#

the only reason he kills the tech priests

#

is because they try scrapping him for parts

#

for their Kastalan robot

#

which yeah they had that coming eventually

terse flume
#

well, the fact that he's decent and not like, rar must kill all humans, and also the squats robots are cool, and the tau have cool robots, kind of implies maybe the age of strife rebellion could have been more layered? but it's not been explored

#

like maybe the humans mistreated them super badly

#

since that seems to be 98% of how we interact with the universe

orchid lark
#

I love the Ironkin and the COGs

#

domeheads

terse flume
#

the emperor lived through it, presumably the other stupid immortals did too, there are people out there who have at least some understanding of what happened. the league of votan schizmed at around this period too

#

the uh, necron museum guy, tzan or something. he prolly knows

minor ingot
#

Knowing BL they're gonna make rhe man of iron rebellion be chaos too

plush mason
#

no

#

iirc they showed that while men of iron can fall to chaos most of them didnt

#

in that book where Ur goes to the blackstone fort

minor ingot
#

Yeah there's chaos men of iron in a certain dan abnety book

orchid lark
minor ingot
#

Yeah

orchid lark
#

isnt that what the original titan said

minor ingot
#

But it's not because they fell to chaos explicitly

#

It was from a chaos corrupted stc i think

plush mason
#

yeah the rebellion was not due to chaos

terse flume
#

i would write them as creatures of order, like modrons or something. always seemed dumb that the imperium had that on lock, while like stifling perfect pig-in-a-cage-on-antibiotics order hasn't really been explored in the setting much

orchid lark
#

or is the original titan and men of iron rebellion two seperate things

minor ingot
#

Yeah

#

Honestly I don't think it was humanity treating them bad either

#

Humanity in daot were like

terse flume
#

or my dumbass outsider perspective can't detect it at least

minor ingot
#

Enlightened forerunners

#

They didn't kill shit

#

They were above it

orchid lark
#

its just Warframe

minor ingot
#

They didn't even exterminate orks when they could

orchid lark
#

we sent the robots away and they uh gained the wrong type of sentience

terse flume
#

we had to kill all of them

plush mason
#

i seem to recall reading that the "rebellion" was more just a civil war between the men of iron and stone and the humans just got stuck in the middle

terse flume
#

and like way more throughly than anything else in the setting gets killed

minor ingot
#

Yeah

orchid lark
#

arent the men of stone humans?

minor ingot
#

Cause they wre worse than anything in the current setting

minor ingot
plush mason
minor ingot
#

Like custom design for deep space travel

#

Nah they're not ai controlled

#

More like

#

A new breed of enhanced human

#

They talk about how they have diminished souls

orchid lark
#

Men of Stone are artificially created human beings made a by a group of humans called men of gold

minor ingot
#

So they are baseline human

orchid lark
#

interesting

minor ingot
#

Men of gold are just og humans

terse flume
#

i am tired of these motherfucking elemental men on this motherfucking material plane

orchid lark
#

wait, wouldnt this mean

#

Votanns and Squats are Men of Stone?

plush mason
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that is one theory

winter vessel
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I'm just waiting for Men of Netherite at this point

minor ingot
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They could be

orchid lark
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Men and Stone

minor ingot
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They could be men of stone that adapted to the galactic core

orchid lark
terse flume
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well they have integrated their AIs as like fully equal members of their socieities and also they are the only ais left existant which doesn't imply super nice things imo

minor ingot
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But yeah, the only true ai beings were men of iron

orchid lark
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heres to hoping someone in BL remembers all of this stuff

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ADB could be here right now

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lazy man, do your own research

plush mason
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lol

minor ingot
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AI bad

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Emperor said so

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Is good enough for me

orchid lark
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some AI bad

terse flume
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and like he'd explicitly know! he woulda been there!

orchid lark
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the First Legion had a lot of AI for their Ironwing Protocol

minor ingot
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Like

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Let's say the Shaman emperor origin is true

orchid lark
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The Lion coming back to the Rock, "oh shit, those kastelans are still here."

minor ingot
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Right

arctic talon
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tbh

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I sorta hope Ur-025

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ends up with the Leagues of Votaan

plush mason
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wasnt it the cult mechanicum that outlawed AI and not the emperor?

arctic talon
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despite being on the literal otherside of the galaxy

minor ingot
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That means the DAOT is the Emperor actually won

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Like

minor ingot
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The emperor did what he wanted to do and made humanity enlightened demigods

arctic talon
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and the Adeptus Mechanicus/Cult Mechanicus carries that on

minor ingot
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And it was all just torn down

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The only thing left is space racism

terse flume
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i usually like conceptualizations of the emperor as either incompetent or malicious

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so that appeals to me

orchid lark
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Malicious is better

minor ingot
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I mean it's not malicious or incompetence

terse flume
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well look at the scoreboard it's one of the two

plush mason
orchid lark
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Shortsighted because all he sees the is the future

minor ingot
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The emperor is a very flawed God, it's why I like him

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He's a man

orchid lark
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which is ironic

arctic talon
plush mason
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ofc

minor ingot
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He tried to lead humanity from the shadows, it worked until it didn't

orchid lark
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careful, telling Imperium hardcore fans the Emperor is just a Man is a big nono

arctic talon
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TLDR the adeptus mechanicus succeeds the cult mechanicum because Halbor Kal is the leader of the Cult mechanicum(technically)

terse flume
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it's been not working for longer than it's been working

minor ingot
arctic talon
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despite the fact the Cult Mechanicum pretty much devolved into a 4 way civil war

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during the horus heresy

plush mason
arctic talon
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Nothing really

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overall

minor ingot
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The whole point of the emperor being cool is that he is a fallible man

arctic talon
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the adeptus mechanicus

arctic talon
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is slightly less independent

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but they have a seat in the Imperial senate

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which makes them have even more power

plush mason
terse flume
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also broadly the emperor's stated goal is more or less what the eldar had, a universal spanning empire of psychically awakened enlightened people. this also describes the old ones. in both cases shit went real sour

arctic talon
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its like 12 people

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in total lol

plush mason
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so the 4 high lords and who?

orchid lark
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currrently led by one nonhuman technincally

arctic talon
plush mason
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oh

arctic talon
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let me get the full list

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the 4 are the 4 most important ones

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however

orchid lark
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there are permanent positions

plush mason
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ah i see

orchid lark
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the rest are off and on

minor ingot
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Permanent positions are

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Master of Administratum

orchid lark
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like head of Custodes, and Abbess Sanctorum

minor ingot
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