#40k-lore-chat

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rotund siren
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Just “Shh, shh, there’s no xenotech here, there’s nothing going on don’t worry about it”

barren tapir
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Stick to this server, and this channel in particular and you will learn a lot of things about WH40K

rose thorn
barren tapir
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The Ordo Xenos felt differently, however, and in M36 a dozen Deathwatch Kill-Teams launched a devastating invasion of the Forge World. Stygies VIII was forced to employ radical measures to survive the Deathwatch's attempted purge[5b], and in the aftermath its Tech-Priests grew fearful of the growing record of violations against them. In order to rectify this, they launched a series of stealth attacks, using viral programming, machine canticles, and infiltration methods to destroy or alter the Adeptus Administratum documents and even the datastacks of the Inquisition that contain information about Stygies VIII. Self-perpetuating programs ensure the obfuscation is continuous
From Lexicanum page on Stygies VIII

open marsh
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Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus (8th Edition), pg. 33 — The Quest for Knowledge: Missing from Imperial Records

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got it

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I have that codex. Just forgot that entry

barren tapir
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Btw, if you have any info about Stygies VIII i'm kinda interested

open marsh
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The Mechanicus game has a good bit on it

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Especially the Xenarites

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And the line between radical and heretek

vast frigate
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@barren tapir i was remembering it like that

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Could be a mixup

crisp heath
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FULGRIM LOOKS LIKE THAT?

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😳

storm jungle
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Well thats him turning into a snake

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but yes overall hes a hottie most of the time

open marsh
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Now he looksl ike this

crisp heath
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god i hate this thing so much

open marsh
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Thats slaaneshy stuff for you

odd sparrow
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Fulgrim is the only redeeming element of slaanesh

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Not as hot as sangy but

open marsh
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Loyal Fulgrim is hotter

odd sparrow
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Yea he's not so hot as a snake

open marsh
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Hence why the Fulgrim clone is the hottest

odd sparrow
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nods

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He has pretty hair

open marsh
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This is a case where we know it isnt maybelline

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Cause the Fulgrim clone was born with it

rotund siren
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damn straight

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well

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damn yes

open marsh
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kek

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@odd sparrow Did you see that excerpt I posted of that Dark Eldar who actually got spat back out by Slaanesh. Dude was so nasty even Slaanesh didnt want him

odd sparrow
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Gonna be passing this nasty elf soul around the realm of chaos indefinitely cus nobody wants it

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Eventually u give it to the bottom feeders

open marsh
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Well he got to respawn. Like the Aeldari of old

rotund siren
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Wow

odd sparrow
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,, how does that work

open marsh
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Literally nothing in the warp wanted him

odd sparrow
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Lol

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What even

rotund siren
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Is this like that one Marvel character?

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fuckin uh

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Lobo or whatever

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who can't die because Heaven rejects him and Hell doesn't want him

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or some edgy shit like that

open marsh
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He was basically a meth head (called a stimmhead) who was A. just absolutely pathetic on every level. B. Had no ambitions or wants.

crisp heath
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lobo rocks

open marsh
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Like even other Dark Eldar looks at him as below even Mon'keighs

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Just

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dude is pathetic

odd sparrow
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This particular delf is a mood

rotund siren
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but I guess that's neat? not having any wants is, like, the goal of monks, isn't it?

odd sparrow
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Tfw even the evil gods in ur setting don't want u

open marsh
rotund siren
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wow

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good for him

open marsh
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So the solution to avoiding Slaanesh:

Do meth

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Lots of meth

rotund siren
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lmao

odd sparrow
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Will do

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Reject the dark gods embrace crack

rotund siren
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yeah sounds like a good plan

open marsh
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Even Slaanesh says no to meth

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@odd sparrow But yeah. Ill grab some excerpts

odd sparrow
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I feel slaanesh would be more into magic mushrooms or smthn

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Nurgle is a peaceful wholesome mushroom man who just likes weed

rotund siren
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hrmm

odd sparrow
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Khorne doesn't know what that syringe contains but he knows it helps with committing homicide

open marsh
rotund siren
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I feel like Nurgle would be a fan of alcohol more than anything

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I mean, like, moonshine

odd sparrow
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Idk maybe, he's got that whole despair vibe going on

open marsh
odd sparrow
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Alcohol with messed up fermentation?

open marsh
rotund siren
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Gonna be honest, I don't think moonshine cleans anything, save for maybe brain cells

odd sparrow
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I can imagine

open marsh
odd sparrow
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Alcohol can be used as a cleaning vibe, hence why medieval surgeons might use hot wine or smthn to try to prevent stuff from getting infected

rotund siren
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yes

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high proof alcohol is a very good sanitizer

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you got me

odd sparrow
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So ye always keep a bottle of strong wine around if u get hurt, it sanitises and also functions as a painkiller :D

rotund siren
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what a shocker

odd sparrow
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It just works

rotund siren
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I'm so surprised

open marsh
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@odd sparrow

 Marek, on the other hand, rolled over and fell off the couch, planting his face on the none-too-clean floor.
 ‘Yeuch.’ There was something on his tongue that he really did not want to identify. He turned his head and saw the boots standing next to him. Slowly, he looked up. Standing over him, with an expression of infinite disgust on his face, was a kabalite warrior. From the markings on his clothes and weapons, he was a warrior of the Kabal of the Pierced Rose.
 ‘Hello,’ said Marek.
 The warrior kicked him.
 ‘Get up.’
 Marek rolled onto his side and then sat up.
 ‘What do you want?’
 The warrior kicked him again. ‘I want you on your feet so that I can get out of this place.’
 Marek smiled a twisted, lazy smile up at the warrior. ‘Want some? It’s good…’
 The warrior kicked him again. This time in the mouth.```
odd sparrow
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Hvuvvuvigf

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I love that

open marsh
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Marek Krayt, shrugging, got to his feet and followed him, pausing to spit blood on his way out. As Marek checked his teeth – for a stimmhead, he had retained a surprising number of them – he thought that a summons from the Kabal of the Pierced Rose might mean some profit for him, some proper profit. That would be just what he needed. He knew his body could not take much more of the abuse and the general lack of food: Marek paid for stimms but only stole food when he remembered to eat.

odd sparrow
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Kalabite having none of his shit

open marsh
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Anyway. he got dragged into 40k fuckery and wound up on the wrong side of the Carcharodons. Who had set explosive traps all over the place

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 At least, he thought he was. He was looking down upon his body – that he could see it at all, when it was buried beneath half a mountain, told him more than he wished to know – and seeing it, twisted, with his skull half crushed and a foot reduced to bloody pulp.
 But there had been times in the den when he had floated above his body, looking down upon himself, secure in the golden glow of the bouquet. Perhaps this was a similar dream, a final wringing out of all the chemicals with which he had steeped his body.
 Around him, Marek saw the crushed remains of the kabalite warriors, and of the dracon himself, Samnir Lekryr, and from their crushed bodies he saw their souls rise, shrivelled, leathery things of great endurance but ugly beyond reckoning. But then Marek Krayt realised that the souls were not rising, they were being pulled out of their bodies. Sucked out and up and down and away. Sucked through the thin veils of irreality that hid the Dark City from the thirst of She Who Waited for their souls. But death had stripped the veils away. She could see them now, she could feel them, she could call them and bring them to her.```
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 Although he had no eyes to see, Marek saw, and more clearly than he had ever seen before. She Who Thirsts was swallowing them, swallowing the souls of the damned, and he was sliding down towards the hungry abyss and, despite the psychic scream that he sent up, there was nothing and no one to slow his descent.```
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 And then he was gone. He was spat forth, too vile even for Her.```
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 And as the wild, tumultuous ride slowed and he felt again the call of his flesh, he saw through the shields and veils that hid the Dark City from She Who Thirsts: he saw the Supreme Overlord, Asdrubael Vect himself, pace the floor of his great viewing platform, looking out over the jagged towers of the Dark City; he saw through the darkness that shrouded the deeps of the mandrakes to the skull halls of Kheradruakh, the Decapitator, brooding over his heads; he saw the colosseum, filled to its highest level, and the grey giants standing at bay on the arena floor, the grey giants and Dracon Utakk, who had sent him to his fate and his escape.
 Marek Krayt fell back into his body and woke, coughing and choking, his mouth filled with dust and his eyes closed by dirt and his lungs clogged with debris. He woke, flailing, fighting, falling.```
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 ‘I’m alive!’```
coarse mirage
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I really wish AdMech weren't so superstitious and religious.

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I just want robots.

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I got a nice conversation between Salt and Kruber last night where Salt tells him that if he dies, Kruber can have his sword of office

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Kruber gets stumped and wonders why, Salt says "So that others know I liked you."

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I paraphrase but that's the jist of it

crisp heath
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The voice lines in chaos wastes make it seem like they’re all pals now. Its pretty cool to see them appreciating each other now.

placid timber
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"do you know how these chaos wastes were formed Kruber?"

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...

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"frogs"

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"I heard REAAAAALLY big frogs"

rotund siren
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I mean, that's not wrong, but that is hilarious

placid timber
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"that sounds about right" bardin conjectures seriously

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also theyve established a sorta timeline

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these events are happening right at the beginning of the endtimes books

cerulean wagon
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if u talk to lohner

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he mentions setra n stuff

placid timber
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first thing lohner said to me when i booted the game

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after teh update

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"theres an Asarai host headed towards sylvannia...I wonder what thats all about?"

visual pumice
cerulean wagon
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i like the voice lines of people asking sienna what god she would be

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and bardin ending it with "i don't think anyone needs that wisdom"

placid timber
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bardin settling with the god of "gobbo slaying"

crisp heath
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Valaya is my homie 🍻

primal tide
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Lohner mentions that Leoncoeur is dead too, so thats pretty deep into end times now right

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Lexicanum dates that as happening during Geheimnisnacht 2525

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So that's what, 3 years til the end

dim totem
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ver depress

primal tide
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It's not all bad, we inch ever forward to getting Waylaid 2.0, where we fall into a portal to one of the mortal realms in age of sigmar

gaunt vector
placid timber
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yes

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hes talking about the old ones lol

gaunt vector
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ah ok

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the problem is that I read that with the voice of Alex Jones

coarse mirage
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They also talk about, as you may have noticed, why we are facing just Rotbloods

placid timber
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what do they get meta and start talking about how lazy the devs are?

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kidding

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im fucking kidding

gaunt vector
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bold of u to say that in their own server

coarse mirage
primal tide
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Yeah, which is also gone by now

gaunt vector
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Indeed lul

gaunt vector
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but is desperatly confused

storm jungle
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Sounds like him alright lmao

vagrant osprey
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What kind of jerk names a town "Middenheim"

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That translates to "Home of the dungheap"

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Or "Shithole home"

rotund siren
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huh

primal tide
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Someone who's honest about their hometown

crisp heath
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1d4chan is down AGAIN!???

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oh wait no

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its back to .org

rose thorn
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Ok dumb lore question, when a tech priest becomes a Magos, do they still retain their priesthood. Like if an engiseer becomes a magos are they still an engiseer or at least still have traits of an engiseer?

open marsh
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They are a Magos of whatever specialization they are granted

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So an Enginseer would likely be a Magos Dominus

rose thorn
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Ooooo ok thanks!

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What would a Xenarite most likely become?

open marsh
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Explorator

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or a Tech-Acquisitor

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Maybe a Dominus or Magos Errant

potent swift
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Personally, I've always wondered what kind of nonsense a Magos has to do to be labeled Grand Parasite or Hyper-Rationalist

rose thorn
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Thank you so much! Explorator is exactly what I want my magos to be

open marsh
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Thats what my RPG Tech-priest character is

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(and he is a xenarite too)

crisp heath
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Was Curze the first Primarch to kill imperial legionnaires? (Besides Russ)

potent swift
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His own what? Legion?

crisp heath
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fixed

open marsh
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Angron was

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Like. That was The first fucking thing Angron did upon meeting his legion

crisp heath
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LOL

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oh yeah and Perturabo did decimation

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when he met his

open marsh
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he went on a fucking killing spree throughout his own flagship. Until the War Hounds could lock him in a room he couldnt bust out of

crisp heath
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but what about killing marines from other legions? did that happen before curze went berzerk on dorn and his marines and fulgrim's dudes?

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Reading The Dark King rn and its kinda nuts that he did this before the Heresy

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How tf did they not kill Curze after that

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how does he get away with that

open marsh
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I would have to get deep into the lore. Write out a whole timeline with lore book references. But I'll just give the summary. quick and easy:

The 11th Primarch likely sacrificed the 2nd Primarch to become the Chaos God "Malice". Their legions likely came to blows

crisp heath
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WAaiiit I thought Russ was ordered to execute them, hence the title Emperor's Executioner

placid timber
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Theres literally no concrete lore on either of the two lost legions @crisp heath

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Dont list to whatever the fuck anyone tells you

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Any info ranges from hints and speculation to really shitty fan fic

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The real truth?

crisp heath
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i unno, medic knows their stuff doe... 🤔

placid timber
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Gw wanted 2 legions, one traitor and one loyalist, that could literally be whatever the fuck you wanted

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Your own custom legion

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Then gw scrapped it because it was stupid and they couldnt make it worl

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So they got expunged from imperial record :)

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GW is never going to even remotely drop concrete stuff about the lost legions

open marsh
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Like the description of the 2nd Primarch

placid timber
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What lore?

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Ive literally found nothing about these 2 legions in my time in the hobby that wasnt vague nonsense

open marsh
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from Fulgrim's primarch novel:


He snorted. There was an old Terran saying, about pots and kettles. He'd refrained from sharing it at the time. His quiet brother had no sense of humour that he was aware of. Perhaps that was why he spoke so little."```
placid timber
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Ah

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Vague nonsense

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:)

open marsh
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Contemplative, prideful, no sense of humor, and quiet

placid timber
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Dorn? Is that you?!?

open marsh
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@crisp heath But yeah. The lore is there. A sentence here. A mention there. You will be hard pressed to find "X legion is like Y". And some people cant stand that. They like lore to be simple. A simple read. When the lore of the lost primarchs and their legions is more of a puzzle. A puzzle with many pieces still missing, but enough to get a good idea of what the image is

placid timber
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Enough for you to make youre own ohwaitgwscrappedthatideaquickrewritelosttoimperialrecordssmile

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Christ im being an ass, sorry

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Its been a rough long night

open marsh
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Get some sleep

placid timber
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Currently working the nightshift

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Im not getting home until after midnight

crisp heath
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😦

open marsh
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I like night shifts

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Quieter

vagrant osprey
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The lost primarchs and legions are not there to be a puzzle.

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They are there so that people can create 1 loyalist primarch and legion and 1 traitor primarch and legion

open marsh
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That was the original intent. Yes. But its changed since those early editions

vagrant osprey
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It has changed very little

open marsh
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It has changed quite alot

vagrant osprey
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How?

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The only solid lore we have is that they were expunged from the records

open marsh
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Like the indications that the Soul Drinkers were founded from loyalist survivors of 1 of the lost legions that the Imperial Fists took in.

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And their specific geneseed flaw and chapter relic indicating a legion with a certain aptitude for the warp.

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In The First Heretic, when Argel Tal and the other Word Bearers are in the Emperor's gene-labs, they find the 11th's gestation pod. It is mentioned that the 11th was still "innocent and pure" prior to the Primarchs being scattered.

vagrant osprey
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I thought the Soul Drinkers were supposed to be a Thousand Sons successor chapter.

open marsh
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No. There is no indication they are Tsons. Given that the Imperial Fists have never been shown to take in Tsons. And yet the Soul Drinkers are 2nd founding "Imperial Fists". Who were later proven to not have IF geneseed.

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But it is mentioned that the Imperial Fists took in lost legion

vagrant osprey
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They are pre-4th founding, not 2nd.

open marsh
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They are 2nd founding. Which...shocker....is pre-4th founding

vagrant osprey
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No, they believed themselves to be 2nd founding.

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But their actual founding is unknown, as their own records only dated back to the 4th founding.

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And yeah, all the primarchs were innocent and pure before they were scattered. The words of Word Bearers there are meaningless.

crisp heath
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What about all the stuff in Prospero Burns?

vagrant osprey
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I don't recall mentions of the lost legions in Prospero Burns

crisp heath
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OH WAIT NO

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I'm thinking of First Heretic

placid timber
crisp heath
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When Lorgar is like "Is he gonna send russ on me like he did to the other ones?"

vagrant osprey
open marsh
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Its just said They were 2nd founding

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 Crimson Fists. Black Templars… Soul Drinkers.```
vagrant osprey
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...

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You DO realize that THOSE Soul Drinkers actually WERE Imperial Fists, right?

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The Soul Drinkers were discontinuous at several points.

open marsh
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They were only shown extinct, and then refounded in the Ultima Founding

vagrant osprey
open marsh
crisp heath
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😮

open marsh
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I like my lost legion lore. But when I looked into that, it was shown to be unrelated

open marsh
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Im looking through my copy of First Heretic

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This is the mention of Russ in context to the lost legions

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 ‘I believe so. Don’t ask what sides were taken by whom, for I do not know where most of them stood. Russ was with you, as was Horus. In fact, it was the first time the Wolf King and I have agreed on anything of import.’
 ‘Leman Russ spoke in my favour?’ Lorgar laughed. ‘Truly, we live in an age of marvels.’
 Magnus didn’t share the amusement. His lone eye was a deep, arctic blue as it fixed upon Lorgar. ‘He did. The Space Wolves are a spiritual Legion, in their own stunted and blind way. Fenris is an unmerciful cradle, and it breeds such things in them. Russ knows that, though he lacks the intelligence to give it voice. Instead, he swore that he’d already lost two brothers, and had no desire to lose a third.’
 ‘Two already lost.’ Lorgar looked back to the city. ‘I still recall how they—’
 ‘Enough,’ warned Magnus. ‘Honour the oath you took that day.’```
novel fulcrum
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i'm trying to recall some info that may as well be ancient and lost to me, but i know i had it at one point, i just can't seem to find it again
would anyone know the name of the navigator house that's known for having had one of its ancestors attempting to chart a course through the warp to another galaxy? i could have sworn this was a thing, i recall even theorycrafting an edgy space marine chapter around the fact that they existed, but i'm starting to doubt my memory on this one

open marsh
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That sounds vaguely familiar as well

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I know some Rogue Traders tried to sail out into the space between galaxies. So maybe a link there

novel fulcrum
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see, that's the thing: i could have swore that i found them in the rogue trader books beck when i was planning on playing a navigator in a game, but now that i'm doing the same a second time, i'm looking through the core book and the navigator splatbook, and it's all coming up empty

open marsh
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I have those books. Ill give them a look through

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Got it

novel fulcrum
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so it WAS mercator

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i had a hunch, but i must've missed that bit when i saw the start of that section was the same as what was on the wikis

open marsh
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Its in Rogue Trader: The Navis Primer, pg 18

novel fulcrum
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made me think there was nothing new to find there, much appreciated for the catch

open marsh
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(look at what we can accomplish when we work together)

novel fulcrum
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more like what you can accomplish on my behalf, but the sentiment is appreciated for sure

open marsh
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lol

novel fulcrum
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i kept going back to 'cadmus' but i knew that was a knight house, so i just kinda got lost wholesale, i think

vagrant osprey
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Funny thing? It's impossible to leave the galaxy via the warp.

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I'm not talking about the horrors around the ghost stars.

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It's that as near as anybody can tell the warp doesn't actually go outside of the galaxy

vast frigate
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Yeah ive read on that, the warp as we understand only encompasses the sol galaxy

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Some rogue traders used the calm tides of the warp to jump to the edge and venture into interstellar space however

open marsh
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And never came back

vast frigate
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Well... Yeah

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Interstellar space is enormous beyond reasoning for travel

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The necrons are hinted at having spread further but i can't remember where that was said

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Or it could be that they were trying to before they created fucking pocket dimensions

vagrant osprey
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The Necrons used to have proper FTL, but that was retconned as being technology they lost when they suffered absolutely no setbacks or loss of technology as a result of each having perfect backups of the sum total of their technology.

vast frigate
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We do know they can still use dullman gates

vagrant osprey
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Now they have rare space fold drives which they can't make because they never forgot how to make them.

vast frigate
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Also

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Szarek apparently has all necron data in his control ship

vagrant osprey
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They used to all have that.

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Oh, also: You can only enter or leave the warp inside a system's gravity well. Attempting to do so in the deep void will not work.

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However, we do not know if all system gravity wells support warp translation, as we only know about systems which are warp-accessible.

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The Imperium settled "every rock it came across" during the great crusade, resulting in it having "a million worlds"

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There are around 100 billion systems in the milky way. Humanity claims to have 1/100,000th of all systems in the galaxy, and that's believed to be most of warp-accessible space.

ashen zenith
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if genestealers want to steal genes why do they go to spacehulks where there are fewer organisms?

shell pebble
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I think it's so they can just wait for passing ships to infest?

ashen zenith
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isnt a massive radioactive drifting piece of trash that goes in and out of the warp unpredictably worse at that than just sitting inside of a dead ship in a populated part of the galaxy

shell pebble
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Yeah but I'm assuming since they got no other real way of hitchhiking onto a ship

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That may not be a bad way of travelling for a little while

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Plus Imperium has interest in those hulks

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So they are eventually going to get a ride

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Aside from that, no real idea

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They just like vibing in someone's trash

vagrant osprey
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It's actually a plothole stemming from GW wanting to make genestealers nids.

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Making them intelligent agents of an alien empire makes the "stay in space hulks" behavior utterly absurd.

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But when they were an independent Xenomorph expy it made total sense for them to be a thing that just kinda drifted around and infested things that came by.

storm jungle
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The imperium from the dawn of time as a faction almost ALWAYS explores spacehulks, and its not like the Stealers will die from old age any time soon, they just got time and they can wait forever if need be.

barren tapir
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Not always, sometime they are deemed too much dangerous and destroyed

storm jungle
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Yeah but even thats rare

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since you know, Hulks are pretty big

barren tapir
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But 3 out of 4 they will explore them yes

storm jungle
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yep

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So yeah its not that weird

barren tapir
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And just to be clear, it isn't only SM that explore them

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The guard do that too

storm jungle
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Yeah the only time marines get involved is if they got some actual business with something the hulk is carrying.

vagrant osprey
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Genestealers don't die from old age, but they can die from starvation.

ashen zenith
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plot holes and space hulks go hand in hand together

vagrant osprey
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The optimal strategy for genestealers is to send last-gen hybrids out on ships to infiltrate planets and start new infestations that way. Attempting to have full-blood genestealers infiltrate is much too risky.

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Lurking in spacehulks is a poor strategy because it can be countered by basically any kind of quarantine protocol.

storm jungle
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Again. It's not a plothole lol.

storm jungle
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quarantines are even brought up a lot in few fluff materials and they dont really matter when again its a giant goddamn hulk.

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Compared to a faction like the Tau the Imperium's carelessness when it comes to scans/checkups for infection is what causes so many genestealers to hitch a ride from hulks to actual planets to begin with.

open marsh
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Not to mention that the ships tends to have many of their systems still running, allowing for a surprisingly hospitable and comfortable enviroment as well as functional void shields, weapon systems, geller fields, and whatever archeotech maybe aboard

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If you are a small, weak, piddly genestealer group. A space hulk is a great place to grow your numbers in private. Without risk of outside forces wiping you out before you become legion

eternal ledge
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I always thought of it as infiltrated Patriarcs were on a ship that got swept up in the warp and end up in the space hulk and act on instinct to infect the surviving crew and the ecosystem

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And sometimes said hulk will pop out of the warp and drop onto or chunks onto a planet

vagrant osprey
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The problem is that while pure strain genestealers don't age, hybrids DO.

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So if they don't maintain a permanent supply of pure humans, they will eventually find themselves completely unable to reproduce.

open marsh
vagrant osprey
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The ones who can't reproduce on their own? Yes.

open marsh
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What are you even arguing

vagrant osprey
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That genestealers being endemic to basically every spacehulk made plenty of sense until they decided to make them nids, at which point it stopped being reasonable behavior.

eternal ledge
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I'm pretty sure the 3rd generation hybrids will have more than one kid (pure strain)

vagrant osprey
#

They can have more than one kid, sure, but they're still mortal.

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And hulks can spend centuries in the warp before winding up back in the materium.

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Generally with either no Geller fields, or with Geller fields that turn on and off randomly.

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So, you know, random demons just popping into existence.

eternal ledge
#

Time scale in the warp is different than real space. What would be a few decades for them could be centuries to millenial out of the warp

vagrant osprey
#

I meant subjective centuries.

eternal ledge
#

So you're arguing realistic genealogy in a setting where you have to literally travel through Hell to get from one planet to another

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I think there is plenty of room for suspension of disbelief

open marsh
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far more rapidly than the hive fleet can manage

storm jungle
#

Also the only reason they were on spacehulks to begin with is because GW just wanted to parody Alien

open marsh
#

^

storm jungle
#

so its better that they just made them nids instead of some random ripoff alien race like in the beginning

open marsh
#

Some people forget that half the shit 40k does is a reference to other shit

storm jungle
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Yeah genestealers literally had chestbursters and stuff before their retcon

open marsh
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Like that one guy yesterday who got super salty that a Catachan managed to avoid a Tau auspex scan, by covering himself in mud. That was a reference to Predator

vagrant osprey
vagrant osprey
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If people are doing genetic testing then space hulks are an EVEN WORSE option, because everybody who comes BACK from the hulk would be tested.

open marsh
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Space Hulks are actually a very good way to do it. So long as you dont care where you end up/which planet you invade

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Its why Ghaz Ghull chose a Space Hulk as his method of travel when launching his first WAAAGGGHHHH

vagrant osprey
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... He chose a space hulk because he wanted to fight demons in between fighting other things, though.

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Space hulks usually have 'orbits' that they drift in. They visit the same places over and over.

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Less like a ship adrift at sea, and more like the worst public transit ever

eternal ledge
#

Ding dong
" 'Ruiner of Worlds' now entering ... Armageddon system"

storm jungle
#

In his booming voice, Ghazghkull assured the quavering greenskins that this was a sign from Gork and Mork. It was telling them that it was time to leave Urk behind, that it was time for the galaxy to feel the might of the growing WAAAGH!.

As the tides of the Warp roiled and twisted, they had also deposited an enormous Space Hulk into realspace, vomiting forth the conglomerate voidcraft in the Zornian System. The Hulk now drifted in Urk's orbit, blocking out the light from the flickering sun.

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Im pretty sure it was just because he found the hulk as the best method of transportation to take all his boyz with him to anywhere the warp puked them out to

vagrant osprey
#

That's fair.

storm jungle
#

the demons were really just a bonus fighting round in-between wherever they went

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Alas, as is so often the case, the Space Hulk was not unoccupied. As soon as the first wave of Orks landed they were attacked by daemonic entities. Burna Boyz, cutting their way through bulkheads, had to suddenly shift from slicing metal to defending themselves against a tide of Daemons.

vagrant osprey
#

alas

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Sometimes GW forgets what its own characters are like.

eternal ledge
#

Welcome to the world of a game with an ever-evolving narrative

vagrant osprey
#

Yeah, I got them confused for a moment.

vagrant osprey
#

Anubis: It's also the fact that "Everything is canon, but not necessarily true"

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Except for Draco, which is explicitly not canon.

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And also explicit.

eternal ledge
#

Lol

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I remember grabbing the omnibus for that in high-school

vagrant osprey
#

(And, like, Illiyan Nastase. RIP)

eternal ledge
#

And thought while reading it. "Man this is weird"

vagrant osprey
#

Protip: If your Callidus can only morph into genestealers, it's because they're a genestealer.

eternal ledge
#

Looking back at The Inquisitor Trilogy... the TTS Podcast episode about it is soooooo true

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I gave my cousin who wants to get into the hobby some of my old books I specifically kept that one

open marsh
#

The one from the 90s or the Eisenhorn/Ravenor/Bequin series?

crisp heath
#

remember that one night lords short where the callidus transforms into a chair

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i remember saying outloud in the bagel shop "What the fuck" when i was listening to that

eternal ledge
#

The Draco trilogy

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I got the Ravenor omnibus but I realized really quick that I was essentially reading part two of a series

open marsh
#

Im so glad that shit got decanonized

eternal ledge
#

That was so 80s / 90s sci-fi weird shit

open marsh
#

1st edition

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it was very weird

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Its on the otherside of the "canon" wall. Nothing in 1st edition is canon unless brought back in a newer publication

storm jungle
#

Like that half-eldar

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its just his name but its still a MASSIVE wink

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like this level of massive

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even if anything is brought back it'd be heavily edited lol

open marsh
#

Well there was a half-xenos Astartes

eternal ledge
#

And squats

open marsh
#

Calas Typhon

eternal ledge
#

Khorn orks, Chaos genestealers

open marsh
#

No I mean in actual 40k

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Calas Typhon (aka Typhus) is half-xenos

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His father was one of the xenos overlords of Barbarus

potent swift
#

Never forget the brave Inquisitor Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau

storm jungle
#

As medic said

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if that guy is brought back its like 3 lawsuits waiting to happen

#

worth it

eternal ledge
crisp heath
#

yooooo

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rogue trader fucking rocks

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so hard

eternal ledge
#

Have you guys ever watched Black Pants Legion and see his extra videos where he, a Mechwarrior voice actor, and a bunch of others riff on Battletech art from the early editions?

vagrant osprey
#

Fantastic voice there. He could probably be an excellent substitute for Jon St John

eternal ledge
#

His Battletech lore videos are great

barren tapir
atomic pelican
#

Ye they're still mentioned in the newest codex

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If ur talking about the ones who get nurgle converted in the warp

barren tapir
#

Yes, i was referring to them

crisp heath
#

"None of us like Curze, and he appears to despise us all."

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Alpharius is the nicest dude ever wtf

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YO WHAT

eternal ledge
#

H'rud

crisp heath
#

nay

rotund siren
#

Wormy Lads

crisp heath
#

Tis the SLAUGTH

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THEY EAT PEOPLE

rotund siren
#

yea

eternal ledge
#

Oh right

rotund siren
#

also they might be superbeings from an alien empire

eternal ledge
#

What filthy xenos doesn't

rotund siren
#

a fair few, actually

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there are lots of xenos

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that are minor and not talked about

open marsh
rotund siren
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So, superbeing from an alien empire it is

open marsh
rotund siren
#

You saying that doesn’t qualify them for superbeing status?

open marsh
#

As super as they would get wrecked by a flamer

rotund siren
#

Sure

open marsh
#

Its just another 40k xenos.

crisp heath
#

alpharius really hates em

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they almost killt him

open marsh
#

When did Alpharius fight the Slaught?

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I know the Alpha Legion were in the background of the Randgan Xenocides, but Alpharius wasnt with them yet (yes I know it says he was in ||his primarch book. but I dont trust anything written in that book||)

crisp heath
#

In da primarch book

open marsh
#

of couse

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Yeah I dont trust anything in that book

primal tide
#

Well I don't trust anything not in that book
Hydra Dominatus

open marsh
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Since
A. It directly conflicts with atleast 5 other books which are presented in a more objective manner.

B. It starts with "I am Alpharius. This is a lie." and ends with "I am Alpharius. This was a lie."

primal tide
#

It's a lie because he's telling what Omegon was up to but saying it was him

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So saying it's a lie is also a lie

open marsh
primal tide
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Fake news memories

crisp heath
#

slaugth cool doe!

open marsh
# primal tide Fake ~~news~~ memories

It was genetic memory, seen from Omegon's blood. Which is more likely? That he somehow recoded his DNA (which has never seen to be a thing in 40k)....or, in his primarch book, he lied?

primal tide
#

The twins are so deceitful even their blood tells lies

open marsh
#

and so does their primarch book

gusty fulcrum
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tldr they lie alot

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some might even say its kinda their thing

open marsh
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yup

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Which makes me very confused when people take the info in the book at face value

primal tide
#

Or any book about them

open marsh
primal tide
#

The narrators for the other books are all AL assets too

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Otherwise they wouldn't be able to finish their stories without mysteriously disappearing

rose thorn
#

what do orks think of admech?

open marsh
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They are a thing that exists

#

Can you be more specific

ashen zenith
#

d-do orks think the admech are cute 😳

limpid hedge
#

?

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Since I speak for the great green gods and all of Ork kind in general I think I can say that Orks do not think admech are cute

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They make for some good scrap once you peel away the fleshy bits but they aren’t overly cute

storm jungle
#

so its a case of being the schoolyard bully and going "Oi, I'm gonna be takin' that now"

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“‘Dat planet,’ Mogrot Redtoof said, looking out of a viewport, ‘is made of metal.’

Ufthak nodded sagely. Back before they’d boarded the humie ship, he and Mogrot had been rivals–two warriors jockeying for position under the command of Badgit Snazzhammer.

Thanks to a series of events involving a large robot, several fatalities and a head transplant courtesy of Dok Drozfang, Ufthak’s undamaged head had ended up on the decapitated Snazzhammer’s undamaged and significantly larger body.

After a brief meeting of the minds via a headbutt, Mogrot had settled back into a role as Ufthak’s right-hand ork. That didn’t mean that Ufthak trusted him, of course, but at least he was fairly certain Mogrot wouldn’t try to shank him unless he was already wounded.

‘Looks like a humie mekboy place,’ Ufthak said. ‘Humie mekboy ship, coming from a humie mekboy planet. Makes sense to me.’

‘Why do dey do dat, anyway?’ Mogrot asked. ‘Make dere planets all shiny so ya know dey’ve got flashy stuff ya might want, and den when ya go to get it, dey get all annoyed an’ try to kill ya?’

‘Dat’s da problem wiv humies,’ Ufthak opined knowingly. ‘Dey ain’t logickal.’”

cerulean wagon
#

basically the usual "haha its funny cuz orkz"

rotund siren
#

wha

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is this one head, one body? and yet 2 minds? Orks are fucky wucky, huh

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also, what would that even look like, a small head stapled onto, presumably, the stump of a big body?

open marsh
plucky moth
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That’s big finkin’

rotund siren
#

OHHHH

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I GET IT

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Snazzhammer was their boss, but he got his head chopped off, and Ufthak's head was put on top

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I get it now

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sorry, mixed up the names

barren tapir
#

So now we have an ork with an undersidez head compared to its body??
It sound like the shoulder syndrome some SM had

rotund siren
#

lol

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It would be goofy looking

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which is very orky

open marsh
coarse mirage
open marsh
#

Orkz are confused by Admech

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They wonder why the Admech make their planet's all flashy, showing off that they have the best loot, and then the Admech get mad when Orkz show up for a fight

crisp heath
#

is there a difference between an astropath and a navigator

plucky moth
#

A syllable

barren tapir
#

It is reasonable to think that the astropath is something that the imperium created, while navigators are stated to be created during the Age of Tech, something that i find dumb and i am waiting for a retcon

gaunt vector
#

also: navigators have a specific mutation that was deliberatly enhanced/ introduced at some point in the DAOT

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astropaths are psykers who are trained to do a specific job

barren tapir
# gaunt vector why is that dumb?

Because i think that in the great Age of Tech, when there is no astronomican, the creation of a mutant which can use a eye to see into the immaterium make no sense... While their ability is psychic they aren't psykers and i would like to know from where the humans in the Age of Tech got knowledge of psychic stuff since psykers weren't really common...
Oh, yeah, and then what about the gene diffusion, if they breed with a normal human the gene get lost so, where they were during the age of strife on terra?

gaunt vector
#

I hadn't thought of those

barren tapir
#

And if they have been sheltered by a warlord, why? Since they don't give you any support in the fight for terra?

gaunt vector
#

maybe they were shetered by the big E?

barren tapir
gaunt vector
#

also why would they only be on Terra? its not like all of the navigators who would have been out there at the moment Slaanesh was born would have been able to neatly congregate on 1 planet

gaunt vector
barren tapir
#

Although it could said that they reached terra from the cold space and they were nomadic families that lived in starships, well, then how they survived the crazy warp storms that rocked the galaxy?

barren tapir
gaunt vector
#

by 40k standards

barren tapir
#

I was going to say that it make no sense, but you are right, it could make sense by WH40K standards whacky lore about those times

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And it would be something that avail the theory of big e being an ass, since he knew slaneesh would have caused quite a rough gender reveal party and said nothing to anyone... Except the navigators

vagrant osprey
#

Ok, look: Following Old Night Big E wasn't on Terra until after the warpstorms around it cleared up.

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He was probably nursing a wicked hangover after the bender where he helped fuck Slaanesh into existence in the middle of the eye of terror, and took something like 5,000 years to hitchhike home.

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As far as navigators surviving warpstorms go? The warp can't touch deep void. If they were in deep space outside of a system's area of influence then they could ride out the warpstorms simply by keeping their geller fields on.

barren tapir
#

Oh, and btw, if the navigators were made during the Age of Tech, then why they aren't really widespread in the galaxy? I mean, they wouldn't have been produced on terra only, especially since they should have been created in m22, 1 millenium before the start of age of strife and before the cybernetic revolt too

vagrant osprey
#

Yeah, it doesn't really make much sense

storm jungle
#

Big E is half-elf?

vagrant osprey
#

Nah

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But it's canon that he had a LOT of kids over the years, so the 15,000 years he was unaccounted for were most likely spent living it up.

vast frigate
#

The sensei

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We know very little about them

vagrant osprey
#

Yep

storm jungle
vagrant osprey
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I am aware.

storm jungle
#

Eldar were beating him in that game lol

vagrant osprey
#

Yes.

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But Emps is extremely self-absorbed, and saw the basic nature of the Eldar as something for humanity to aspire to.

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He wanted humans to all be natural psykers and bend the warp to their will, like the Eldar

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And he wanted to make the webway his own.

cerulean wagon
humble spoke
#

Hey everyone!

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What's the topic of the week for lore?

crisp heath
#

todays topic: space marine poops

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how often do they poop

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how big is their poops

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how long can they hold their poops

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do they get hemorrhoids

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Discuss now

storm jungle
#

no

violet eagle
grim sequoia
coarse mirage
#

Weren't a bunch of sensei killed recently?

open marsh
#

I don't think they are a thing in 40k. Since that came from the Inquistior novel. Which is based in like 1e

primal tide
#

Yeah sensei is old lore iirc

gaunt vector
#

@vivid verge how's the noctis labyrinth?

vivid verge
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The angles they pain my eyes

gaunt vector
#

oh

open marsh
gaunt vector
#

yeah and also the dragon of mars right?

storm jungle
#

It's a real place on mars too lol

#

Noctis Labyrinthus (Latin for 'the labyrinth of night') is a region of Mars located in the Phoenicis Lacus quadrangle, between Valles Marineris and the Tharsis upland. The region is notable for its maze-like system of deep, steep-walled valleys. The valleys and canyons of this region formed by faulting and many show classic features of grabens, ...

gaunt vector
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its even shaped like a dragon

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head on the right

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serpent body to the left

storm jungle
#

Damn it i cant unsee that now

gaunt vector
#

I only just saw it myself XD

#

is that where GW got the idea?

storm jungle
#

Honestly it wouldnt surprise me

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lol

gaunt vector
#

its not a bad idea either

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even the "throat" looks like it has been covered in soot from blowing fire like a dragon

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in 40k it would be like planetary scar tissue wher the Emperor sealed the Void Dragon in there

storm jungle
#

I need that place explored sooner or later, its pretty wonky

gaunt vector
#

well only a bold and or stupid heretek would

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and good luck finding one of those on Mars

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unless the HH serise goes back over it

cloud kindle
crisp heath
#

ima go scout it out bros

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dw

crisp heath
#

YOOO WAIT THEY RELEASED ANOTHER CIAPHAS AUDIOBOOK!?!?!

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Ngl, black library audiobooks is on a fucken roll

crisp heath
#

oh no

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I just realized I'm almost done reading all of the HH books I want to read

potent swift
#

There's always Gaunt's Ghost or Ciaphas Cain if you need more reading material

crisp heath
#

i have tons of 40k books to catch up on, but i guess HH is nearly done for me

crisp heath
#

i might do every gaunts ghost book

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the carchardon books

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the og night lord book

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brutal kunnin

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mephiston books

cerulean wagon
#

ciaphas cain

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do iiiiit

crisp heath
#

the two cain books i havent read

storm jungle
#

By Totally Legal Ways of Purchase i hope

crisp heath
#

i buy my black library books actually >:)

storm jungle
#

bastard

crisp heath
#

with my audible subscription, the audiobooks are very underpriced

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and the ebooks on black library are fairly priced imo

storm jungle
#

Yeah jokes aside I have lots of legit BL books i bought

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its just that turkish liras are getting fucked

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so books are pretty expensive on my end

potent swift
#

Infinite and the Divine! And no, I will not stop shilling it anytime books come up

crisp heath
#

oh yeah u have a totally reasonable excuse

storm jungle
#

Tbh its that

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and also i realised how great PDFs are in general

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lol

crisp heath
#

yeah ebooks fucking rock dude

storm jungle
#

Yeeeep, also listen to Undead man

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İnfinite and Divine should be on your list, one of THE best xenos books in the last decade

crisp heath
#

aight aight

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i have no draw to necrons outside of oldcrons

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BUT

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I've said that about SO many factions before

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"I dont care about word bearers at all"

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then i read first heretic

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"i hate ultramarines"

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then i read know no fear

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"not really into world eaters" then betrayer

cloud kindle
#

word bearers are still crybabies though

coarse mirage
#

who might the Marines Malevolent be from?

violet eagle
#

considering love for artillery and treating guardsmen and civilians like thralls to be slaughtered id say very similar to Iron Warriors, Silver Skulls could be the purists who follow good guy strats, eventually though the uncaring and bitter nature has seeped from the gene seed producing the malevolent as an offshoot chapter.

Id buy it cause the idea of Loyalist Marines from Traitor legions being inducted to the Ultramarines just prior to first and second founding so Guiliman could split them into their own chapters separate from his Blue Bois too interesting a subject/theory.

open marsh
# violet eagle considering love for artillery and treating guardsmen and civilians like thralls...

Not all traitor legion loyalist successors stem from the Ultramarines. To my knowledge, there really is only 1 that did that: the Silver Skulls. The rest were just traitor legion loyalist companies who managed, in one way or another, to convince the Imperium of their loyality. But then had their geneseed records redacted, just incase someone got narky and decided that just being genesons of traitors is cause enough to kill them

vast frigate
#

surely there is not even 1 radical faction in the imperium that would do that

prime kernel
#

so i heard konrad kurze is back ?

storm jungle
#

How! Hes dead!

prime kernel
#

cause of all the memes in 40k memes

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i wmated to check

plucky moth
#

Imagine being killed by dying lmao

open marsh
prime kernel
#

fair enough

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Then again he really wanted to die

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so theirs that

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poor dude

vast frigate
#

probably just thinking at this point

#

might very well be that some chaos marine has his spirit stone

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''Dont you fucking get closer, i got Conrad on speed dial you piece of shit ultramarine''

open marsh
#

Curze would kill any Chaos corrupted Night Lords tho

vast frigate
#

Yeah

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he really didnt like them

barren tapir
#

He didn't like them even when not chaos corrupted, i cannot imagine what he would do to those who fell to chaos and became uber super duper criminals

storm jungle
#

^

#

Curze in general was just an edgelord

#

Theres a reason he hated Corvus more than any of his siblings lol

vast frigate
#

I mean, he had good reasons to

#

look at what his homeplanet was lol

storm jungle
#

He could have improved himself but never did lol

#

so good riddance on getting decapitated

vast frigate
#

everyone being okay with planets like t hat existing and mister turbo judge dredd just going ''Yo... thats klnda fucked up tho.''
yeah but thats the way it is
''Okay let me go and enforce that then''

#

He had all laws in his skull, just no moral compas to begin with

prime kernel
#

He was a dictonary on law

#

Minus the moral compass the humans had

#

And in the end he did bring peace

#

through less then savory means

open marsh
crisp heath
#

The shadows loved corax

storm jungle
#

Its so hilarious too since Corvus is basically a Good Konrad

#

Curze deserved everything that happened to him

open marsh
#

Corvus made a similar observation. That he and Curze were two sides of the same coin. And wondered if he would have ended up like Curze (and Curze had been the noble one) had they landed on the other's world

crisp heath
#

Also dont forget curze’s foresight was another huge factor in his development

open marsh
#

yup

crisp heath
#

Dude knew what was going to happen and the one time he felt the courage to actually tell someone to try and stop the heresy, they betrayed him

#

Fulgrim was such an idiot for telling DORN of all people

open marsh
#

The problem is. Curze couldnt tell what will be and what could be changed. So he just assumed all his visions would be. Until Sang smacked some sense into him

storm jungle
#

Maybe he shouldnt have been a psycho beforehand then, maybe they wouldnt have treated it like a Timmy Fell Down the Well problem

#

also yeah that too

open marsh
storm jungle
#

He had other obligations Medic

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like looking at himself in the mirror

crisp heath
#

Yeah thats true lel

storm jungle
#

a very important task

crisp heath
#

“Hey curze told me a secret, ima tell the one dude who’s gonna react the worst to it”

open marsh
#

Fulgrim probably did it as a prank to both. Just trying to cause drama because he was bored

crisp heath
#

LOL

#

Curze had beef with like EVERY primarch

open marsh
#

He liked Sang

#

He wanted Sang to kill him.

crisp heath
#

Tru

open marsh
#

But Sang is best boi and couldnt bring himself to do it

crisp heath
#

I liked in prince of crows where sevetar is describing curze’s fighting style

#

When he’s fighting Lion for the second time

#

He says something like he looked like a marionette being pulled by invisible strings, just falling over and jerking back with a strike

vast frigate
#

''Papa dorn, horus is a bitch''

dull flame
#

Dvorgin blinked, seeming to come back into himself. The mask of Mordian discipline slipped easily back over his face, but his eyes exhibited such pain. ‘I am sorry, my lord. I would say it is simply tiredness, but…’ Dvorgin tailed off. He took a sharp breath, and forced himself to look into Achallor’s eyes. ‘With the greatest respect, Lord Achallor, you ask the impossible.’

Achallor looked down at the man in growing surprise. The general stared back, his eyes dark-rimmed with exhaustion. Achallor could see it had cost him a lot to speak up, but now that he had forced the words out, he would say his piece. ‘Your warriors may be suited to such unrelenting operations, my lord, but mine are not. Nor are the Phyroxians. Nor, I suspect, are the Battle Sisters. Mordian discipline is a wonderful resource but we are not indefatigable. My soldiers have seen weeks of constant battle. We have lost more in the few days since your arrival than in the month before. You spend our lives as though they have no other meaning and Throne knows that is your right, but what do we have to show for it? Stretched supply lines, exhausted reserves, and a half-ruined bastion. Now you ask us to march at once upon the enemy’s greatest stronghold without food, or rest, or a chance to mourn our fallen, and to send others into certain death below the ground. I condemn my soldiers to a pointless end. To do so would be an inexcusable waste in the sight of the Emperor. Strike me down for my insubordination if you must, my lord, but I speak only the truth as I see it.’  ```
#

Dawn of Fire: The Gate of Bones. A Mordian General speaking his mind to a Custodian

cerulean wagon
#

Chad IG vs virgin custodians

barren tapir
#

The custodian then make the sign of the aquila to that general

crisp heath
#

tfw when ||hound dies in blood reaver|| 😦

serene jungle
#

Does Ogryns ever get executed for something if a group is called for heresy because of the Inquisiton's suspicions?

ashen zenith
#

well ogryns can be corrupted by chaos so i dont see why not

open marsh
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I can image a scene like a 40k version of "Of Mice and Men", with the Ogryn being Lenny

worn dagger
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The Ogyrn just keeps petting Squats too hard.

lilac zephyr
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Beautiful story

crisp heath
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I finished the book last night

storm jungle
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I realy like the book

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like its nothing groundbreaking but its a fun story

coarse tree
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Does the Inquisition outrank the Adeptus Custodes? Like could an Inquisitor walk up and be like "I need to go mess around in the throne room" and they just let him in?

crisp heath
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I would say no, because of how many heretical inquisitors there have been

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but i have no actual evidence to support this

storm jungle
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Theres good topics about it but a Custodian outranks everyone in the Imperium.

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An inquisitor almost holds the same rank because they ""answer"" only to the Emperor but obviously custodians get more leverage since they were literally made by the guy

gaunt vector
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The custodes were given an "I do whatever I want" card by the Emperor, the inquisition was given a "do this" card by Malcador which they have since turned into a "do whatever we want and get away with it" card so yes the Custodes outrank the Inquisition

storm jungle
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And if we had to use layman's terms, a custodian can just murder an inquisitor with a skull cracking slap and nobody could do anything.

gaunt vector
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apart from a higher ranking custodian

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or the big E

storm jungle
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^

potent swift
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Where do Primarchs fit into that equation?

coarse tree
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So a Custodian could beat an Inquisitor?

gaunt vector
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but yh the CO of the entire inquisition could be standing in a corridor, the lowest custodian could walk along and the inquisitor would get out of the way

storm jungle
gaunt vector
coarse tree
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Interesting

storm jungle
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the Primarch thing can also be brought down to "Do the custodians respect the said Primarch enough to do what they want."

coarse tree
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Isn't there a higher tier of the Custodian?

gaunt vector
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So "hey Shield captain get me another drink will ya?" would be met with "f*ck off Russ"

gaunt vector
storm jungle
gaunt vector
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do they not have a version of sgt? looks like it goes from 0 to Captain

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bizzare

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then again Custodes are just going to Custode however they want to

storm jungle
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Shield-Captain — Squad Leader. These are the most veteran, well-knowledged, and experienced Custodians. The rank exists concurrently with other Custodian titles such as Prefect, Lictor, Proconsul, and Tribune.

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From the lexi so i just assume they dont really need one since guys of this rank are so numerous

gaunt vector
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so a Captain is like a sgt. ooooooooooooooooooooook then

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I thought that Karstodes had a really high rank among the Custodes when he talked about being a shield capt in TTS

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guess I was wrong

storm jungle
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Yeah it makes sense for denegerates like those guys

gaunt vector
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lmao

storm jungle
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Kitten's trip to Mars DOES show off some other ranks among his buddies tho

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though iirc it wasnt that many

gaunt vector
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I was too distracted by Protean politics

storm jungle
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lmao

storm jungle
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Truly a battle for the ages

gaunt vector
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top 10 rappers that Eminem REALLY would be too afraid to diss

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"I know something about you. You went to Schola Progenium that's a private school!"

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ded reference

barren tapir
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Trajan valoris, the captain general of custodes prohibited the ordo xenos to enter the sanctum of a genestealer patriarch, and even then a custodian can kinda order inquisitors if they are in the imperial palace... Outside the imperial palace the authority is not as absolute, still they are among the highest ranking people on all terra

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There is only one force that they cannot officially command, and that force is the Silent Sisterhood, as they only have the right and duty to walk the imperial palace freely

cloud kindle
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even if its outside its still a stupid idea to refuse a custodes

barren tapir
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But the custodian being the custodian they rarely command others

coarse mirage
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Inquisitors can't do shit to them. They're entirely immune to such politicking.

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That doesn't stop the Inquisition from trying, I'm sure.

cloud kindle
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im guessing having a guardian spear pointed at your face will make them reconsider real quick

vast frigate
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i doubt the spear ever has to be pointed

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the slight reminder of ''youre suree?'' might be all they need

vagrant osprey
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If any of the Custodes does the bidding of an Inquisitor, that is because the Custodes either personally respects that specific Inquisitor, because it's something they independently believe to be worth doing, or because it's part of a plan

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An Inquisitor can't order Custodes to pass the salt.

autumn sable
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shit not even a primarch can command a custodes

peak hamlet
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Could you theoretically create space marine ogryns?

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Since they are kinda human too

cerulean wagon
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most likely not

peak hamlet
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In that case if i create one il just say it was fabius lol

storm jungle
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That guy says fuck it and does it all, so go nuts

eternal ledge
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I love that Fabius is I genius but also a comic book villain at the same time

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Stories where he's the main character Tactical genius
stories where he's a villain
Next time Guiliman... next time...

storm jungle
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also the fact that hes an atheist lol

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even when he came face to face with slaanesh he was like "NOPE NUH UH"

eternal ledge
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Lol

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I love in the one book where they pretend to be loyalists to infiltrate a planet and one of the guys in his squad is like "This is so degrading" and he just responds "Just keep waving like a good servant of the corpse Emperor"

storm jungle
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Oh my god wait

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same energy lol

eternal ledge
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Yep

dim totem
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What book is that lol

torn stream
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I need the book name lmao

eternal ledge
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I think it was Clonelord

gusty fulcrum
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but ya i dont think they could cuz theyed proabably start suffering under thier own mass and be less effctive

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cuz in some stuff tehy imply that happens to marines who happen to grow bigger then they should

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but theres also whats his name in the ragnar blackmane series whos suppose to be fuckhuge

eternal ledge
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I love how in the Uriel Ventris books his best friend Pasanius was too big for standard power armor so they modified some Terminator chest piece for him

gusty fulcrum
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oh shit could that be who im thinking of i just remeber this guy having something up with his metabolism so hed be stuffing his face till he was red

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and being a general badass

eternal ledge
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No I don't think Pasanius had a messed up metabolism

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Just a big blue boy

novel fulcrum
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yeh, i recall hearing about a couple of different spess mahreens just being so big that they needed to wear modified terminator armor

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good stuff

open marsh
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Only one that was so big as to require custom armour was Ranulf of the Space Wolves

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While Pasanius's power armour was modified with parts from termie armour. It wasnt due to his size. It was just they had some parts that were deemed too damaged for use in a termie suit and were like "Hey, Pasanius. Want these?"

mystic terrace
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pretty sure Abaddon also required chonkier armor due to his larger-than-normal size

kind dove
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There is an entire chapter from the Cursed Founding that is ENORMOUS

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Sons of Antaeus. Caused all sorts of logistical issues because nothing fit any of them.

open marsh
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Where was that said?

gusty fulcrum
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heh

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i love how those four little dudes are basicly what everyone took away from those movies and the show oh and i guess king julian too

ashen zenith
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is there any site that archived all the 1d4chan articles?

crisp heath
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it went to .net

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then to .org

ashen zenith
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holy shit thank you

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dunno y but its not indexed in google

crisp heath
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yeah i mean i think the webdudes are more focused on trying to battle the hackerdudes

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before he fixes all that

novel fulcrum
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did they lose anything? i haven't noticed any sign of anything going missing, just the site itself having gone down for a while for no reason i'm aware of
just assumed the host missed a payment or something

crisp heath
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it was some altright guys going insane cause idk feminism or something i think

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but i dont think anything was lost

placid timber
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Wait whut?...oh christ

crisp heath
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its really not worth looking into

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i asked around in a.... certain board and they were just being so vague about who was taking it down because they couldn't just outright say "we hate women and minorities so we're trying to take it down"

placid timber
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But like

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Its 1d4 chan

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A site that hates women and minorites

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Their slur usage is atrocious

crisp heath
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yeah i think like some people were editing them out or something

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and that was the start of "a literal culture war" or something, according to them

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and the owner was like "I dont care"

odd sparrow
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it's invariably gonna be p channy yeah

crisp heath
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something like that

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idunno

odd sparrow
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coming out of /tg/ then like,, yeah

crisp heath
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but its a 4chan wiki, who cares enough to spend days creating tools to destroy the website over and over

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its just so.... mind boggling to me

odd sparrow
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though in my experience it doesn't come out much

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it's a p good wiki tbh

crisp heath
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yeah i just stay away from the pages i know are gonna be horrible

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i cant imagine what the sjw page must look like lol

placid timber
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Its strat page is frustratingly good

crisp heath
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☝️ this 100%

placid timber
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Everything else

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Die

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At best its horrid old joke lore inaccuracies that are still spread to this day thanks to them

crisp heath
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those pages spell it out in understandable ways, helps you build a good foundation and gives you some fun ideas/concepts to play with

placid timber
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And at worst its just horrible shit said about other people

crisp heath
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Looking at the writer's pages on that

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christ man, people are really fucking mean sometimes

atomic pelican
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Goonhammer has good strat pages without slurs

placid timber
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Goon hammer isnt as good

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I wish it was

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I really wish it was better

crisp heath
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yeah i havent found much i like about it

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I tried looking up kill team stuff

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and its just nonstop negativity

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"kill team isnt a good game.... but i mean i guess if you want to play..."

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"kill team sucks..... but i mean..."

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clicks on goonhammer's CSM killteam page

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"dont play csm, theyre not competetive"

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"their weapons suck, dont play csm"

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LIKE BROH CHILL

odd sparrow
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this is because the types of ubernerds who write this stuff are usually overly negative weirdos

tired tapir
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or people who care way too much about winning and not enough about enjoying yourself

atomic pelican
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Not sure which pages u saw that on

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I read thru most of their stuff on craftworlds and cults

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Its called started competing for a reason

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They also have starting out guides for noncomp

crisp heath
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Yeah I have thought maybe I just got to the wrong pages tbh

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this is the article that annoyed me

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ill click around the website though soon

tired tapir
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man, i'm still annoyed about craftworlds having almost no plastic models

ashen zenith
gusty fulcrum
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I just read all the lore pages n go haah funnoy or huh thats interesting

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sometimes what the fuck

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i do feel like alotta the pages need updates though

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cuz some of the ones that would seem still relevaent havent been updated in years really or at least not enough to really notice

cloud kindle
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you'll get your craftworld model when you FIX THIS DAMN DOOR

tired tapir
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lol

coarse tree
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So the humans and the Eldari were both at their peak at around the same time?

vagrant osprey
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The Eldari hit their peak like 65 million years ago and then basically stayed there

coarse tree
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How did the Eldari see this human expansion? How great was humanity in comparison to the Eldari during the dark age?

vagrant osprey
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It infuriated them

barren tapir
vagrant osprey
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Because Humanity offered the Eldar aid

coarse tree
vagrant osprey
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I don't know

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But from what we know of DAoT ships, I don't think the Eldar could have actually done anything about it.

gaunt vector
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They had a non agression pact I think

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so maybe some Eldar did and the rest thought "oh fuk"

ashen zenith
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they were too occupied having knife orgies to care about the bald monkeys

barren tapir
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Also the eldar didn't really cared much about humans expansions, they were busy doing questionable things in their cities

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As for who were most expanded well, the old eldar empire core became the eye of terror (thanks Perturabo for that name), so it is reasonable to think that humans were extremely more expanded

vagrant osprey
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Canonically, Eldar covered the galaxy

barren tapir
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True, but that was a lot of time ago, even before the humans started to explore space

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And as i said, they were already in decline at the onset of the human Age of Tech

storm jungle
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Yeah they were still advanced but basically turned into lazy slobs, even leaving the aspect of fighting wars to robots and such.

barren tapir
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And since it is stated that the craftworlders did escaped the eldar empire before the fall i assume that as their empire not covering the entire galaxy anymore, and probably not even half of it, although this last one is just my hypothesis

storm jungle
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Yeah their galactic expansion was pretty much randomly selecting planets and terraforming them to chill there, they didnt exactly span the entire thing.

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As blank said more of their core worlds were where the eye of terror used to be so they either just stuck there or to the more secluded corners of the webway

coarse tree
storm jungle
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Kind of?

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Humanity was NOWHERE as sadomasochist as the eldar though

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their golden age was more or so pretty star trek'y in comparison

coarse tree
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I wonder if he Eldar ever had similar problems from their AI

storm jungle
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We sadly dont have any info on their AI. Its a throw away line in a single book where they refer to them as "spirit drones" and "psychomatons" so most people just assume they de-activated or got decommissioned from being psychically active after Slaanesh was born

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its kind of a plothole thats never brought up again

vagrant osprey
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They were probably bound warp-things

barren tapir
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I think they were powered by the souls of their dead, since you know, the "tech" they have for their "automatons" isn't really technological but it is more warp fuckery

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And they didn't developed the souls stones after the fall afaik

coarse tree
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Yeah I'd have to imagine their AI was probably psychic in nature as well

open marsh
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normal eldar bullshit

storm jungle
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just remove tablet-given-orders and replace them with telepathic-orders and its probably just it.

open marsh
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I heard there were stories of Eldar Ghost Warriors trying to reconnect with their families. Someone told me there was a story where one of them tried to make some pottery but failed because their wraithbone body was simply too akward

storm jungle
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Might be Valedor, eldar novels insert a lot of angsty scenes of ghost warriors trying to do normal activities before failing at it

open marsh
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Yeah. Which book is that from

storm jungle
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Also again theres a lot of eldar wraith unit angst in books so im not sure

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Valedor iirc only has two twins getting depressed over being tasked to pilot a wraith knight

open marsh
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Because depressed Eldar ghost robots trying to do stuff and failing sound hilarious and adorable

tall fjord
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it could be worse

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they could be in the imperium......where their chapter wakes them up once a week to make him tell them tales of leman russ

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wraithbros get to sleep

coarse tree
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I just listened to Luetin's video on Rophanon and he really just said duck it and fed them to the Tyranids lmao

storm jungle
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that video is great lol

placid plank
novel fulcrum
tall fjord
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get stolen by the blood ravens

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have to pretend to be some guy named davian thule

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(happy ending)

gusty fulcrum
tall fjord
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lets see how that worked for th-

eternal ledge
tall fjord
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"they took our chapter master too"

mystic terrace
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I’m actually surprised about how little lore there was relating to this lad

atomic pelican
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The Chad UR

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Love that man

mystic terrace
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His short story was really rad but it made me want more. True AI are so exceptionally rare that the lack of stuff centered on UR-025 was a bit disappointing

coarse mirage
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There was a short comic about AdMech opening up an old complex with an AI

glass cairn
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Sauce and ping please

frosty tulip
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In the old warhammer monthly. There was a story of a vault being reopened which contained either a self-replicating ai. Or just the men of iron. Cool story but cant remember the name

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! "Pax -Imperialis"

worn dagger
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Yeah was looking for it and just found it & gave it a read, always love seeing more stuff for AI in 40k.

worn dagger
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I really like the looks of the robots that attack the Arbites, it really makes me wish they did more model wise with Dark Mech & Silica Animus stuff.

crisp heath
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They should bring back warhammer monthly

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That shit wS dope

frosty tulip
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Aye. it was fuckin dope.

crisp heath
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Lord Abbadon it will be as I promised

The Blood Ravens will fall

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Releases DOW 3

rose thorn
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are the eldar helmets shaped like vases for a reason?

crisp heath
plucky moth
peak hamlet
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The book was pretty good imo

open marsh
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Yeah. That whole ship was DAoT

dull atlas
#

Wish we could name the characters in Darktide to make own our lore figures

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I like to upload mine to the Wiki

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Cant decide whether I want to do Repentia or Ogryn

cunning lantern
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Easiest pick in the book: ogryn.

dull atlas
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He’s gonna be badass, for sure, but.... I really want an Eviscerator

undone heron
mint hill
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You're saying you don't want to be a guardsman firing an overcharged plasma gun all the time?

rotund siren
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a stalemate

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1 vote for Ogryn, 2 for priest, 2 for guard

serene jungle
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What?

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I vote Ogryn

rotund siren
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2 for 2 for 2

serene jungle
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I don't know what we are talking about 😦

cerulean wagon
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nor do i but i vote guard

serene jungle
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ok got it

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Caught up, yes I vote ogryn

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but all of them are good

rotund siren
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alrighty, so, 2 votes for Ogryn, 2 for priest, 3 for guard

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let's split the guard votes, anybody voting for the sergeant? Besides me, of course

primal tide
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1 vote for squat

mint hill
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Scion would be pretty sweet too though

cloud kindle
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ogryn

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be the good boi

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guardsman is just going to roll ones with the plasma

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it always happens

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it is inevitable

serene jungle
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I'll be the goodest

vagrant osprey
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Tech Priest, please.

crisp heath
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Replace all main characters with space wolves

rotund siren
#

That's a weird way to spell Primaris Marines

crisp heath
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does anyone ever leave necromunda?

potent swift
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The Imperial Fists recruit from it so presumably plenty of people leave assuming they survive the trials.

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If you meant regular folk than I guess the Merchant Guilders and Nobles probably do occasionally

crisp heath
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Primaris marines look cool, but I dont think they'll be as iconic as the OG space marines

crisp heath
cloud kindle
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No one likes word bearers

crisp heath
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They would just be a mirror Primaris space marines though

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Why not have some lore where the chaos gods exert their influence on the heretic marines more making them more powerful

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At least making them similar but not the same

potent swift
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They should just uncork some more Chaos Legions, have the Iron Warriors bust into the scene with extra cursed tacticool gear and daemon combat servitors or empowered Nightlords that have gone full Varghulf batmen.

crisp heath
cloud kindle
vagrant osprey
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Look, we all know Primaris were made with traitor geneseed. GW is going to have that not matter at all, until it does, then walk it back

vagrant osprey
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Just wait for the next Chaos codex

frigid mesa
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hello guys

frigid mesa