This is something I have always thought about and I always think about with my nerd hobbies to relate to them more but now I want to see what other people think.

If you were somehow transported into the Warhammer 40k-verse, where would you fit in it as an individual or where would you like to fit into? In a galaxy literally of billions, who knows if any one of us would actually get to see the things we play out on the table top but it is a thought experiment and to me, always a way to explore the way we see ourselves.

For me, I can tell you right off the bat with my strong will and wanting to turn the mind into a weapon, I would be a psyker of some sort. Because I am on a crusade in life to help make the world a better place, I would then find myself in the Inquisition, more than likely as an Ordo Malleus Inquisitor on a quest to purify the galaxy from Chaotic corruption.

This has been challenged lately because of reading The Emperor's Gift where actually getting into the head of a Grey Knight has made me question whether my mind set is actually that of an Inquisitor or do I fit more neatly into the mind of a Grey Knight. My real life job reflects this since I go in and keep people from danger they know nothing about. To this, I would say that I am also likely to fit in as a Grey Knight probably as a Librarian. I would just hope that I would make it through the 666 trials to become one...

Most likely 99.9% of people on dakka would be slaves or servitors, or dead in 20 seconds.

Realistically, I guess I'd just end up as a normal, down-trodden Imperial citizen, simply trying to get by in life.

As for where I would want to end up, not sure. 40K's universe is notoriously unpleasant. Being an Eldar citizen on a Craftworld might be okay, though.

I'd likely to be who am I now, but on an Agri-world somewhere.

Aside from all the bionics, Imperial life isn't that grimdark for the majority of citizens in 40K. The statistical likelihood of any Imperial world being attacked is like, millions to 1.

So, life would probably be very similar for me.

 Ravenous D wrote:
Most likely 99.9% of people on dakka would be slaves or servitors, or dead in 20 seconds.

That is why I put the "where would you like to end up" in there. Most of us wouldn't amount to anything giving the vast populations of each species. But given our knowledge about the galaxy, we have a more privileged view and have an aspect of something we would want to achieve.

Imperial Citizen or, at best, a Imperial Guard Officer.

I feel I'd be in charge of the PDF on a planet that is under siege.

Now, I feel like I have too much wishful thinking.

Tech priest on a Forgeworld no one has ever heard of, that makes void-rated mining equipment, cogitator bank coolant monitoring systems, and the shock frames for Valkyrie assault carriers.

With my luck? dead, chaos slave, imperial slave, spare servitor parts or a resident of a death world. Where would i want to be? Blood angels veteran marine in terminator armor with a heavy flamer or dual lightning claws, maybe second in command of the squad, or perhaps a dreadnought, contemptor pattern, fragstorm cannon with a heavy flamer in my own Lucius pattern drop pod. Hell id love to be a blendernought before i eventually die.

This is more like I was thinking and honestly, I will put an amendment on mine. I may be a psyker but most likely would of just got put on the black ships to be sacrificed to the Emperor with the hope of maybe being seen by the Grey Knights or the Inquisition before that happened. Maybe just a simple sanctioned psyker apart of an Imperial Guard regiment or Inquisitorial warband.

Wolf Scout Sniper... ohhhhhhh yeeeaaa

Oh well, i would love to be the Black Templars high marshal... But since 40k is a really $hitty place to live, knowing my luck and the fact i am not a person that likes to submit to someone's authority, i would probably be an imperial citizen declared a heretic because of sin of thinking with my own head, and then brainwashed chaos cultist/ cultist champion which would get killed by Space marine officer or turned into giant you-know-what if i manage to kill some scrawny IG sargeant in a duel...

With my luck, well lets see. I am born in the middle class of one of the richest, safest, most educated contry on the planet. I am 33 times richer than the average humen and my life expectency is 23 years longer. I am a white man, so I am also on top of the cultural food chain. I have a master degree, wich makes me more educated than 90% of the population of my country. If you translate that in 40K, I am an imperial citizen working has a teacher in schola progenium. I kill meek children and free thinker and I am rather rich without beeing monstruously privileged. Not too bad I would say...

I would rather be dead.

Eldar citizen.

Hmm "where would you like to end up"... Maybe "if things in your life were exaggerated to the potential of 40k where you you be". This coulda been interesting... Alas cue the Mary Sues

Where would I WANT to be? Screw it!!
Mother-fething GOD Emporer of all man-kind during the Great Crusade... That's where!

 Ravenous D wrote:
Most likely 99.9% of people on dakka would be slaves or servitors, or dead in 20 seconds.

I'll take dead in 20 seconds. I really wouldn't want to live in that universe. But if I had too not be dead...I'd be chaos follower of Malal/Malice. I'd be like a inquisitorial acolyte, working against chaos, but for chaos.

Where I would like to end up? A member of Slaanesh's court, a Daemon Prince for sure, or maybe a craftworld Eldar. Realistically? Probably a techpriest or an archeologist. Hell maybe both.

The flesh is weak!

In a galaxy literally of billions

Lol. How many people on our planet atm?

In relation to the topic at hand; I think I'd like to be a snotling. I mean how much fun can one being have?!


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 Guardsmen Bob wrote:

 Ravenous D wrote:
Most likely 99.9% of people on dakka would be slaves or servitors, or dead in 20 seconds.

I'll take dead in 20 seconds. I really wouldn't want to live in that universe. But if I had too not be dead...I'd be chaos follower of Malal/Malice. I'd be like a inquisitorial acolyte, working against chaos, but for chaos.

Like the Alpha Legion but... Opposite?

I'd like to be a slaaneshi daemon prince, just so I could enjoy everything but do it super hyped up. In reality I'd probably get swept up into the whole ecclesiarchy thing very quickly and run around screaming about how much I loved the emperor whilst the arbites beat the crap out of me for being heretical scum.

Imperial Guard Sniper or a if I am lucky enough to survive a vet sgt

The Chapter Master of my own chapter obviously

Probably some like traitor, hopefully a psyker. Imperium has too many secrets that it can be trusted and obeyed, I have hunger for the knowledge so I would not to be a trusted citizen.

Mine translates pretty much exactly. In a soldier in real life and I'd be a soldier in 40k. Some low ranking officer on some planet. In fact I think lieutenant translates pretty much exactly to lieutenant.

I want to be: An Eldar citizen on a Craftworld.

I will probably be: An ordinary human citizen, most likely on a hive or agri-world.

And if I get an oportunity, I would give my best to become a tech-priest.

 Ignatius wrote:
Mine translates pretty much exactly. In a soldier in real life and I'd be a soldier in 40k. Some low ranking officer on some planet. In fact I think lieutenant translates pretty much exactly to lieutenant.

This is similar to the way I see mine as well only that my job in the Coast Guard functions similarly to only one faction within the Imperium which is the Inquisition and the Grey Knights. It's partly the reason I chose to become a Grey Knight player as cheesy as that sounds.

I totally see myself being the nobleman of some backwater village in some backwater planet in some backwater sector... And then acting all smug about it

This is a tough question indeed, I would have to say an apothecary fallen to chaos (Seeing your boys ripped to shreds to many times is bad on the brain). Or some lowly necron lord on a barely running tomb world with a start up error.

So here goes my story...

I'm going to start off as a Rogue Trader or some kind of Imperial Archeologist, and find myself on the 1K Sons old home world. From there, a warp rift will open up and drop me on the Planet of the Sorcerers, where mutation begins to take hold and I shift between glass, crystal, ash, tentacled thing and then finally back to something more functional. From the pure psychosis of being under Tzeentch's thumb and being forced to live within the infinite and boundless, I'll then recover some new scope or measure of my understanding before being scooped up by the great Lord Ahriman and told "the Truth" of the Ruinous Powers and the Great Conspirator himself. From there, I am charged with the purpose of a Dark Apostle and blessed with the abilities and such of a Chaos Space Marine at the head of a small warband of Thousand Sons; Not as a Sorcerer (yet) but as a guide and zealot to the Truth of Lord Ahriman.

From there, we depart among the webways and bring the mind-blasting truths of the Empyrean upon Imperial Worlds. While I am subverting the masses of latent psykers, shamans and all manner of would-be cultists, my brother Sorcerers will use their time (and their Rubricae) to steal the knowledge of these worlds back to Lord Ahriman himself. It is then that, over time and causality (or lack there of) that I accumulate my own personal guard of Terminator Veterans (1K Sons of course, so we're also talking about Psykers) while I also begin hording weapons for my own use, predominantly specializing in bayonetted rifles, assault cannons and all other manner of long range weaponry with the potential of bludgeoning a person to death in melee.

After enough of that time, I will be given a choice, or lack there of. Either myself, and my cult of Terminator Veteran Guard will either become a full-fledged Machine Cult in the form of Obliterators who are capable of slaying entire worlds with our combined fire power and psyker prowess, as well as the Word of Change I myself will have inherited as a Dark Apostle, or instead be lured completely into the warp where a very pleased Tzeentch awaits to grant me Daemonhood/Daemon Prince.

Now, unlike the Daemons we see tabletop wise, one must remember that such Daemons are simple analogies and the real Daemons are subject to as much variety as the energy they are taken from. So in my Daemon Prince form, I'll still be a swollen Obliterator, but shooting magic bolts and all manner of cursed word, rather than being the man with a bird fixed to its head like some bizarre totem pole.

In this later time, Ahriman will again call upon my services and this time, bind my Daemonic power to his beck and call (a willful exchange for allowing me the chance to walk the cursed path of Truth in the first place). From there, we will march on the Black Library again, and with my Machine Cult of Tzeentchian Obliterators and the archaic-magos weapons already consumed, we will blow a hole in the Libraries front doors where the my pact with Ahriman will be complete and a boon given to me which ensures not only my ready summoning at a moments notice, but that also my purpose shifts to protecting the newly claimed realm for Lord Ahriman as a whole.

A Mad Sentinel of Furious Magik and Absolute Truth. +__+

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...and Phil Kelly and whatever other fanboy out there is stuck there with me, while I step on their bodies and yell things about Chaos they don't want to here.

Fxcking Space Marines.... and now the damn Guard too. lol

I would be some mindless servitor down in the depths of a massive ship, turning a wrench to stop some leak down in the darkness...oh wait.


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I would actually hope to be a Techmarine talking to and soothing the machine spirit, repairing vehicles and the such. I would strive to one day to be a Master of the Forge.

Cadian shock vet sarge with bolter and power maul.

Either a Hive ganger or some Commissar that's quick to shoot his own soldiers. So likely in a Penal Legion somewhere with expendable troops.

So dead within a week.

Some poor guy whos been endslaved by a Dark Eldar cabal destined for a a slow death.

Me?

Burned as a deviant, probably.

Either that or part of some crazy death cult. ^^;

Of course, where I'd want to be is AdMech...

I dont get why people want to be in the admech, they seem pretty nasty and selfish. Why cant they do stuff for the good of humanity. I also dont get people who want yo be civilians, at least if your in the guard when someone tries to kill you you have a chance as you at least have a "weapon", knife, cardboard box, bravery, and "training"

I want to be AdMech because cybernetics and knowledge are awesome. Its not about 'doing good'. Its about 'Best for me'.

I never claimed to be a good person. :p

Yeah, I don't think that people want to be in the AdMech to do good things but because of all the awesome things that they do with machines. Even I have been intrigued by them and all their cool mechanics and slowly melding themselves with machines to basically become immortal.

It seems like I am a rare breed to get so hung up on honor and discipline which is why the Grey Knights and Imperial Fists interest me so much and why I like Puritan Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus in particularly as far as plain humans go.

Librarian on a craftworld would be nice. Of ourse, nice rarely applies in 40k.

Where would my place be?

Terra, as a guard to one of the High Lords. I'd see no combat (save what it took to get me here), I'd be pampered BEYOND understanding, and I'd be in charge of NOTHING.

If I'm honest though, I'd love to see myself as a tank commander of a sort. Nothing huge or world-shattering, just a Vanquisher Captain or something.

 Envihon wrote:
Yeah, I don't think that people want to be in the AdMech to do good things but because of all the awesome things that they do with machines. Even I have been intrigued by them and all their cool mechanics and slowly melding themselves with machines to basically become immortal.

It seems like I am a rare breed to get so hung up on honor and discipline which is why the Grey Knights and Imperial Fists interest me so much and why I like Puritan Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus in particularly as far as plain humans go.

Grey Knights... are not honourable. They're ruthless bastards who do whatever it takes to get the job done, including human sacrifice, blood rituals, daemon binding and the rest. When I say Daemon Binding, I don't mean for battle (usually). I mean to contain them safely. But every daemon you bind like that requires the sacrifice of a human.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Envihon wrote:
Yeah, I don't think that people want to be in the AdMech to do good things but because of all the awesome things that they do with machines. Even I have been intrigued by them and all their cool mechanics and slowly melding themselves with machines to basically become immortal.

It seems like I am a rare breed to get so hung up on honor and discipline which is why the Grey Knights and Imperial Fists interest me so much and why I like Puritan Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus in particularly as far as plain humans go.

Grey Knights... are not honourable. They're ruthless bastards who do whatever it takes to get the job done, including human sacrifice, blood rituals, daemon binding and the rest. When I say Daemon Binding, I don't mean for battle (usually). I mean to contain them safely. But every daemon you bind like that requires the sacrifice of a human.

That is not the impression of the Grey Knights I got both from Ben Counter's Grey Knight Omnibus and Aaron Demboski Bowden's The Emperor's Gift . If you are talking of the greater Inquisition that commands them, you are quite correct but the Grey Knights do nothing of the sort. They don't even endorse when the Inquisitor's want to do those kind of things but their hands are tied since the Inquisition is the greater authority. In The Emperor's Gift itself it even explains that the Grey Knights don't like that they have to kill the Imperial Guardsmen themselves and try to avoid it when possible, something Logan Grimnar is more than willing to comply with.

The Grey Knights despise daemon binding unless absolutely necessary, they would much rather kill a daemon outright then suffer it to live to the point they will refuse to work with an Inquisitor that partakes in such acts. The rules in game used to state that an Inquisitor that had a warband containing a Daemonhost could not be in the same army that the Grey Knights were. They unfortunately took that rule out.

What the Inquisition makes them do makes them grit their teeth but when come up against the Inquisition the Grey Knights have to choose between loyalty to the Imperium and their own moralty. From the perspectives given, the Grey Knights don't like what they have to do if a none Inquisitorial agent sees them and they see it as a regretful cost of their services.

And that gak in the GK codex is fething garbage as far as the Kornate Knights go. The fluff from the codex and that of the Black Library go against each other.

And the daemons bound in the orbital prisons around Titan mentioned in the first Ben Counter book?

The only Khornate Knight I recognise is Alaric, and he supposedly got better. The Bloodtide incident isn't the GK going made, slaughtering sisters and wearing them as hats like 4chan wants you to think.

The Bloodtide incident was the Grey Knights doing what Grey Knights do: Using the weapons available to them to prevent themselves being destroyed by Chaos. The Sisters would have gladly sacrificed their own lives to allow the GK to use their blood in a ritual to ensure that the daemon plague was destroyed.

Well, once the GK had convinced them that it was Emperor-sanctioned, not witchcraft, anyway. Which is why the GK didn't ask. Explaining would have taken too long.

Yes, I know, this is a Sisters player being 'apologist' about the Bloodtide murders. I just think that this is the best way to interpret that piece of writing in a way that makes the GK seem badass instead of badly written.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
And the daemons bound in the orbital prisons around Titan mentioned in the first Ben Counter book?

The only Khornate Knight I recognise is Alaric, and he supposedly got better. The Bloodtide incident isn't the GK going made, slaughtering sisters and wearing them as hats like 4chan wants you to think.

The Bloodtide incident was the Grey Knights doing what Grey Knights do: Using the weapons available to them to prevent themselves being destroyed by Chaos. The Sisters would have gladly sacrificed their own lives to allow the GK to use their blood in a ritual to ensure that the daemon plague was destroyed.

Well, once the GK had convinced them that it was Emperor-sanctioned, not witchcraft, anyway. Which is why the GK didn't ask. Explaining would have taken too long.

Yes, I know, this is a Sisters player being 'apologist' about the Bloodtide murders. I just think that this is the best way to interpret that piece of writing in a way that makes the GK seem badass instead of badly written.

If I remember correctly, those prisons are maintained by the Ordo Malleus and not the Grey Knights directly. Like most things, if someone had to capture a daemon, it is given to the GK to look after like Crowe looking after that daemon blade.

I still don't like the Bloodtide incident. And yeah, when I first read the whole I am a Grey Knight fighting in an arena devoted to Khorne I started to question that story but apparently its all better...some how because Alaric made it back to Titan.

 The Home Nuggeteer wrote:
I dont get why people want to be in the admech, they seem pretty nasty and selfish. Why cant they do stuff for the good of humanity. I also dont get people who want yo be civilians, at least if your in the guard when someone tries to kill you you have a chance as you at least have a "weapon", knife, cardboard box, bravery, and "training"

Everything the AdMech does is for the good of humanity.

Warhammer 40,000 wrote: Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned.

As to where I would like to be in M41?

A human farmer on some Tau-held world, deep within the Tau Empire.

 Psienesis wrote:

 The Home Nuggeteer wrote:
I dont get why people want to be in the admech, they seem pretty nasty and selfish. Why cant they do stuff for the good of humanity. I also dont get people who want yo be civilians, at least if your in the guard when someone tries to kill you you have a chance as you at least have a "weapon", knife, cardboard box, bravery, and "training"

Everything the AdMech does is for the good of humanity.

Warhammer 40,000 wrote: Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned.

As to where I would like to be in M41?

A human farmer on some Tau-held world, deep within the Tau Empire.

Why not an agri-world deep in the Imperium?

A water caste Tau with a desk job towards the core of the empire or an air caste tau mail man equivalent in the same place wouldn't be bad either.

Realism: Hive ganger, dead as a doornail by the age of 18.

Fantasy in spehss: A character I made up to explain/justify the use of Commissar Yarrick rules in a traitor IG army. Basically I'd be a non-IOM Commissar in a traitor guard regiment who is possessed by the daemon Be'lakor. Capable of tearing a SM limb from limb, and inspiring the lads to greater violence in the name of our freedom.

I see myself as an Imperial Guardsmen. But I would love to be a Primarch.

In some primitive world enslaved by other races or maybe in the middle of orks !! Who knows ?

At the front, with flak armour, torchlight and balls of hopefully metallic material. Defending humanity against Xenos.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Me?

Burned as a deviant, probably.

Deviant? But are you not a Sororitas player? Why would you be deviant?

What would I be if I was 40K-ified? Likely Mechanicus, because I a doing a PhD in computer science. Heretek maybe, because I am an atheist.
What would I likely be, though? Well, numbers says a peon working his/her life away.
What would I like to be? I guess Imperial noble with no responsibility, living in some paradise garden planet. Far away from war, in a place where I can comfortably paint and play with friends this “Machinegun 2000” model wargame that re-enact the glorious battles that happened in Ancient Terra .

A Flashgit on a Killkruza, if I'm lucky. Or an ork choppa boy.

I'd love that simple sort of life. Nothing to worry about but fightin' and winnin'...and as we know, orks always win.

I'd be ever-hungry for immortality, and therefore would endeavour to become a Daemon Prince... preferably a Nurgle one.... but considering my inherent laziness, I probably wouldn't get very far

As much as I obsess over Astartes, I guess if I had the choice I would want to live the life of Gregor Eisenhorn. He answers to almost nobody, has a great pad, a loyal retinue, access to phenomenal weapons and wargear, and is a psyker. Yep, Eisenhorn it is. /nod

In the Alpha Legion, probably as Alpharius, or maybe I would be Alpharius. It's looking like a tough decision.

Dead in an alley somewhere, killed by the arbites for organising strikes for improved pay and conditions on a forgeworld.

Either that or an ice cream seller.

An Iron Warrior Warsmith on Medrengard, shooting all my neighbours of my yard.

Obviously.

my rank says Veteran Wolf Guard Squad Leader...
i'll go with that...
Terminator Armour would suit me just fine, and i have the beard and hair to fit right in...

for Russ!!!

cheers
jah

Probably an imperial citizen basically living out papers please


But more than likely a corpse for being some time traveling heretic.

Regular ork boy that dies every twelve minutes.

 Envihon wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:

 The Home Nuggeteer wrote:
I dont get why people want to be in the admech, they seem pretty nasty and selfish. Why cant they do stuff for the good of humanity. I also dont get people who want yo be civilians, at least if your in the guard when someone tries to kill you you have a chance as you at least have a "weapon", knife, cardboard box, bravery, and "training"

Everything the AdMech does is for the good of humanity.

Warhammer 40,000 wrote: Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned.

As to where I would like to be in M41?

A human farmer on some Tau-held world, deep within the Tau Empire.

Why not an agri-world deep in the Imperium?

Because the Imperium is a gakky place to live.

Ideally, i'd be a space marine devastator centurion with a love for dakka to rival that of an ork warlord

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Me?

Burned as a deviant, probably.

Deviant? But are you not a Sororitas player? Why would you be deviant?

Somehow, I doubt the Imperium smiles overly fondly on transgenders. :p

I reckon being a wealthy rogue trader with a fairly massive super baroque gothic trading ship might be pretty fun. Enjoy the best of all the Imperium offers as well as being able to cherry pick the interesting/tantalising offered by the less hostile zenos species.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Me?

Burned as a deviant, probably.

Deviant? But are you not a Sororitas player? Why would you be deviant?

Somehow, I doubt the Imperium smiles overly fondly on transgenders. :p

I can't recall anything in the Black Library pointing to the Imperium giving a damn about the sexual orientation of somebody or their identifying gender. Just so long as they do their job, do it right, and don't have more than four limbs and one mouth.

Can I be a reformed, yet unknown, C'tan? That would be bitchin'

But more likley i'd endup as a some damned factory dreg, eventually injure myself to much and turn ganger or perhaps revolutionary. Killing imperialist scums untill i die of age or get shot by the Arbites.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Somehow, I doubt the Imperium smiles overly fondly on transgenders. :p

Given the amount of body modification that they allow to those that can afford it, I doubt the Imperium gives the shadow of a damn on transgenders .
[edit]Though likely you could not join the Sororitas, because you would be too young at the age they recruit to already have had an operation, maybe . [/edit]

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Somehow, I doubt the Imperium smiles overly fondly on transgenders. :p

Given the amount of body modification that they allow to those that can afford it, I doubt the Imperium gives the shadow of a damn on transgenders .

>> How about sadomasochistic lesbian transgenders? :p

Bah, I can tell, I'm not winning a 'hard done by' award here. Lets move on.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
>> How about sadomasochistic lesbian transgenders? :p

Are you Anna Anthropy, or what ?

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
>> How about sadomasochistic lesbian transgenders? :p

Are you Anna Anthropy, or what ?

:p I'm not even the only person in my house that all those things apply to. :p (although my name does get shortened to Ana!)

Well, I guess it makes total sense that a lesbian that is into sadomasochism would live with another lesbian that is also into sadomasochism, because obvious reason . The transgender is a bit more surprising though.

i would be either:

an eldar howling banshee

an assault marine

an imperial citizen

a conscript

a guardsmen

a chapter master

a vindicare assassin

or a khorne berzerker

but i would most likely be an ork boy or imperial citizen or dead

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Well, I guess it makes total sense that a lesbian that is into sadomasochism would live with another lesbian that is also into sadomasochism, because obvious reason . The transgender is a bit more surprising though.

Not that it matters. ^.^ A woman is a woman is a woman.

Well, that seems statistically improbable. Unless I am missing something.
And statistically improbable things must always be pointed out, ever .

Probably a inquisitor.

With my extreme hate of anything not normal, stick 100% to the rules unshakable belief in god and his teachings. Also with thinking even modern wicken and such should be burnt at a stake just to be safe seem fitting.

So ya burn the with kill all those who question.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Well, that seems statistically improbable. Unless I am missing something.
And statistically improbable things must always be pointed out, ever .

It would be statistically improbable if not for the internet and the fact she's only visiting, ehe. My long-term partner is a ciswoman.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Me?

Burned as a deviant, probably.

Deviant? But are you not a Sororitas player? Why would you be deviant?

Somehow, I doubt the Imperium smiles overly fondly on transgenders. :p

I can't recall anything in the Black Library pointing to the Imperium giving a damn about the sexual orientation of somebody or their identifying gender. Just so long as they do their job, do it right, and don't have more than four limbs and one mouth.

Good thing they don't have a problem with my third gaping eye that glows with the power of the warp!

realistically, like many here speculate, i'd probably just be a regular imperial citizen, probably working in some scholarly or manufacturing kind of occupation.
what would i like to be? an ork mek, building supercharged kustom buggies and wagons, bristling with skorchaz, cuz there's nothin' like spewing burning promethium all over your enemies, and then racing off to do it to someone else.

 StarTrotter wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Me?

Burned as a deviant, probably.

Deviant? But are you not a Sororitas player? Why would you be deviant?

Somehow, I doubt the Imperium smiles overly fondly on transgenders. :p

I can't recall anything in the Black Library pointing to the Imperium giving a damn about the sexual orientation of somebody or their identifying gender. Just so long as they do their job, do it right, and don't have more than four limbs and one mouth.

Good thing they don't have a problem with my third gaping eye that glows with the power of the warp!

Considering the Imperium is also completely fine with those fish abhumans that spouted gills and I presume to look like deep ones or something like it, the idea the Imperium purges people for the slightest deviations is a bit unsupported. It's only when you get into the territories of Beast Men or Chaos taint that the hammer of wrath comes down.

Considering the Imperium is also completely fine with those fish abhumans that spouted gills and I presume to look like deep ones or something like it, the idea the Imperium purges people for the slightest deviations is a bit unsupported. It's only when you get into the territories of Beast Men or Chaos taint that the hammer of wrath comes down.

Depends on what planet you live on. On some worlds, you will be burned at the stake as a witch for the crime of possessing a com-bead.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 StarTrotter wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Me?

Burned as a deviant, probably.

Deviant? But are you not a Sororitas player? Why would you be deviant?

Somehow, I doubt the Imperium smiles overly fondly on transgenders. :p

I can't recall anything in the Black Library pointing to the Imperium giving a damn about the sexual orientation of somebody or their identifying gender. Just so long as they do their job, do it right, and don't have more than four limbs and one mouth.

Good thing they don't have a problem with my third gaping eye that glows with the power of the warp!

Considering the Imperium is also completely fine with those fish abhumans that spouted gills and I presume to look like deep ones or something like it, the idea the Imperium purges people for the slightest deviations is a bit unsupported. It's only when you get into the territories of Beast Men or Chaos taint that the hammer of wrath comes down.

I was thinking more along the lines of Chaos Taint (perhaps my favorite Black Crusade mutation for the dark gods alongside Tzeentchian chaos arm) so it was very much heretical. I was just having fun with the "as long as" part.

Besides that, as mentioned by Psi, certain planets would freak out even if it was just a simple mutation.

LIke most people, including everyone else in this thread, I would probably live a short, fairly miserable life in a hive city, doing menial labor and/or factory work.

I would want to be a Lord Commissar or a Veteran Sergeant because those dudes ******** get work done!

I would immediately paint myself green, and join some Orks
WAAAAAAGH!!!!

Climbing the Ladder (and other things ) in a Slaneesh cult.

Furyou Miko what is a ciswoman????

Most people don't know where they belong in this world.

Asking people to answer the same question on the spot in an infinitely more complicated galaxy setting is just going to get answers that are wish thinking, which is fine, but it is nothing more.

I'd like to be a commissar. Who turns to chaos. And becomes this badass diviner bolt pistol wielding mofo

At the buffet.




...ever since i was eaten alive, anywho.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Climbing the Ladder (and other things ) in a Slaneesh cult.

Furyou Miko what is a ciswoman????

A woman born without cross-linking, which is a kinda nerdy way to say she was correctly gendered at birth.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Climbing the Ladder (and other things ) in a Slaneesh cult.

Furyou Miko what is a ciswoman????

A woman born without cross-linking, which is a kinda nerdy way to say she was correctly gendered at birth.

In addition, cis also indicates heterosexuality, if I recall correctly.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
A woman born without cross-linking

I tried to search for that in my favorite search engine, but what I found seemed unrelated. What does that mean?
(If that seems a stupid question, keep in mind English is not my native language )

A discussion on the biological reasons behind someone being transgender are probably a bit beyond the scope of a Warhammer 40,000 Background/Lore forum...

That said, the Imperium could be said to be a bit more progressive in regards to non-heteronormative people than the modern world is, but only because it sees people as numbers and doesn't really give a damn as long as they..

1: Pay their taxes.
2: Worship the Emperor.
3: Don't consort with heretics or xenos.

 Melissia wrote:

That said, the Imperium could be said to be a bit more progressive in regards to non-heteronormative people than the modern world is, but only because it sees people as numbers and doesn't really give a damn as long as they..

1: Pay their taxes.
2: Worship the Emperor.
3: Don't consort with heretics or xenos.

On one hand, an argument can be made that with the Imperium's obsession of 'purity' and the Emperor's ideals of humanity etc., non-heteronormative people would be frowned upon.

On the other hand, there is a complete lack of evidence for this assertion. While this is almost certainly due to the matter not having come to their minds (Or GW just not caring/not making it a priority in a galaxy of ONLY WAR), the only straight conclusion we can draw from what we have is 'currently no data'...

...Until we take in the fact that the Imperium would most likely not care what all the billions of menial workers were up to as long as it is not Chaos heresy.

I'd rather be a human on the Eastern Fringe on a world colonized that maintained a high degree of technological capability. Far away from the Imperium and hopefully secure enough on the world barring a major incursion living relatively peacefully.

I'm a fashion designer so I'd either be glitzing up some nobility, making snazzy uniforms for officers, or I'd be a depraved worshipper or Slaanesh. Maybe all three.

Probably all three.

 Ashiraya wrote:


On one hand, an argument can be made that with the Imperium's obsession of 'purity' and the Emperor's ideals of humanity etc., non-heteronormative people would be frowned upon.

On the other hand, there is a complete lack of evidence for this assertion. While this is almost certainly due to the matter not having come to their minds (Or GW just not caring/not making it a priority in a galaxy of ONLY WAR), the only straight conclusion we can draw from what we have is 'currently no data'...

...Until we take in the fact that the Imperium would most likely not care what all the billions of menial workers were up to as long as it is not Chaos heresy.

Gay people appear occasionally in BL novels. There's a lesbian couple in A Thousand Sons, and another in Ciaphas Cain. No one is bothered by it. I am moderately sure there are more examples I've read, but those are the only two that come to mind at the moment. Either way, it doesn't really show up in codices because the focus is pretty much exclusively on battles. There's not even any indication of hetero romance in them. Except in the Space Wolves codex.

Transgendered? I dunno if any have appeared in the setting (That weren't, uh, Slaaneshi cultists), but I doubt the Imperium cares, personally.

Anyway, realistically given my IRL persona and abilities I think it is fair to say that I would likely personally stage a coup against the Imperium. I would tear through Imperial space, conquering every world by myself by riding on the back of a flying Landraider, before making my way to Terra. I would throw down the Imperial City's walls and lay its pits bare, before battling with the rejuvenated corpse of the God Emperor himself. With the former Emperor unable to withstand my onslaught, I would smite his ruin upon the mountainside before absorbing his psychic power. Knowing what I must do, with a single cry I'd tear a hole in spacetime back to before the War in Heaven, and single-handedly wipe out the C'tan and their Necron slaves, preventing the formation of the Warp and saving the galaxy for all time.

You're welcome.

Being in the medical field I would be in the apothecarion of a Space Marine chapter.

Ashiraya wrote:In addition, cis also indicates heterosexuality, if I recall correctly.

You don't, actually. ^^; Gender has nothing to do with sexuality.

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
A woman born without cross-linking

I tried to search for that in my favorite search engine, but what I found seemed unrelated. What does that mean?
(If that seems a stupid question, keep in mind English is not my native language )

The terms used for putting genderisation into boxes are trans and cis - much like you have trans-isomers and cis-isomers in organic chemistry. Trans-isomers are those that have cross-linking between the hydrocarbon chains, while cis-isomers don't have cross-linking. It's the difference between thermoplastics and thermo-setting plastics. Transpeople have 'cross-linking' between their physical sex and their actual gender, while cispeople don't have any cross-linking, their physical sex and their gender are contiguous.

Anyway, as Melissia says, this isn't really the place for this kind of discussion, so if you want to know more, feel free to PM me.


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 Generalstoner wrote:
Being in the medical field I would be in the apothecarion of a Space Marine chapter.

Not a medicae in the guard or some high-up spire?

 Generalstoner wrote:
Being in the medical field I would be in the apothecarion of a Space Marine chapter.

More than likely, you'd be a doctor for a noble or working in a clinic in a slum or something.

 Ashiraya wrote:
On one hand, an argument can be made that with the Imperium's obsession of 'purity' and the Emperor's ideals of humanity etc., non-heteronormative people would be frowned upon.

Not sure. If we go by examples of real-life theocratic very conservative republics, I really doubt the Imperial authority cares. The usual “each world is different” applies, though.
Really, a sex change operation is nothing compared to how the Imperium creates space marines, arcoflagellants, assassins (especially callidus. I am pretty sure callidus assasins can change sex, possibly in a matter of minutes. And maybe even change to stuff in between. Let us hope 4chan never ever notice that!) and so on.

Until anything point otherwise, I am going to assume the biggest obstacle to sex change operation in the Imperium is the cost and tech needed for such an operation: it is not going to happen neither in a medieval world nor in a mutant slum.

To be fair, a hermaphroditic callidus is significantly less disturbing than the tentalictor.

I do not know the tentalictor. But the callidus can also grow tentacles. And much horror can follow.

It's from a particularly egregious story about a Cadian woman being kidnapped for sex by tyranids.

 Melissia wrote:

 Generalstoner wrote:
Being in the medical field I would be in the apothecarion of a Space Marine chapter.

More than likely, you'd be a doctor for a noble or working in a clinic in a slum or something.

Yes and no, it all depends. There are so many variables to it, we don't know where we would end up or if we would be even human. There are a lot of possibilities and a lot of potential within the Imperium, how does our millions on one planet translate to millions of planets with multiple races and billions of populations. That is a hard question to answer, and my answer for most fantasy and science fiction settings is what faction/race do we identify with the most and that is usually the best answer imo.

It would seem some people have grand dreams but it depends on how they came to that conclusion. In the grim dark future, who knows if any of would survive to do get into any of these organizations that we surround ourselves in but I think it would be a possibility which is why I put the two answers of where "realistically" you would end up and where you would want to end up.

For mine, I belong to a military branch that is hard to get into but has a lot of smart professional people and my job relates to what the Inquisition does and after reading the The Emperor's Gift , I relate a lot to the Grey Knights with having to take orders and just do their job without much say to whether doing something is a good decision or not so my life experiences translate to that the best which is inherent why I relate to that aspect of Warhammer 40k and why I obsess about the Inquisition and Grey Knights so much.

I am sure the same is true for any military professional, actual Marines relating Space Marines/Imperial Guard and there is a guy in the Army on this thread post that already said he relates to the Imperial Guard.

Who knows where any of us would end up but the reason why I get into fantasy and science fiction is because it lets me discover more about myself, explore what-if situations and envision what it would like to be me if these fantastical and awesome things actually existed. I chose my army based on what I related to the most which is why I chose the Grey Knights and the Inquisition in the first place. The way they work, their tactics of being a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none, and the attitudes they have is something I fully relate to so I concentrated there first before exploring other aspects of armies and races. I find other things cool in 40k but at my core, my heart lies there.

But I may be getting a little too deep into things but this is why I love things like science fiction and fantasy, the tools they give to explore the human condition and philosophy are amazing and in things like the grim dark future of Warhammer 40k or the post apocolyptic earth of Fallout, I think these are brought to the extremes of exploring at this and even satirizing it.

 Envihon wrote:

For mine, I belong to a military branch that is hard to get into but has a lot of smart professional people and my job relates to what the Inquisition does and after reading the The Emperor's Gift , I relate a lot to the Grey Knights with having to take orders and just do their job without much say to whether doing something is a good decision or not so my life experiences translate to that the best which is inherent why I relate to that aspect of Warhammer 40k and why I obsess about the Inquisition and Grey Knights so much.

Geeze, is 'CIA' a dirty word or something?

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 Envihon wrote:

For mine, I belong to a military branch that is hard to get into but has a lot of smart professional people and my job relates to what the Inquisition does and after reading the The Emperor's Gift , I relate a lot to the Grey Knights with having to take orders and just do their job without much say to whether doing something is a good decision or not so my life experiences translate to that the best which is inherent why I relate to that aspect of Warhammer 40k and why I obsess about the Inquisition and Grey Knights so much.

Geeze, is 'CIA' a dirty word or something?

The CIA is a uniformed service but not a military branch. I was speaking of the Coast Guard which doesn't sound like much but my job helps protect people without them ever knowing it and it is of sentistive nature so I don't like discussing it too much on a public forum is all but screw it, I am a Marine Science Technician. I am involved with everything marine safety, security and environmental protection. Like Deepwater Horizon, Coast Guard was calling the shots but no one ever knew we were the ones down there doing it. We do a lot of good that people don't ever know that we are doing it. Our decisions have a big impact on industry which is why we don't openly discuss things.

Now, since you know this, I am going to have to mind scrub you

Fair enough.

By the way, the Coast Guard are awesome. By far my favourite arm of the military. Mostly because they're the ones I've had most direct contact with as a civilian and they're generally nice guys as long as you're not smuggling or something stupid. ^^;

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Fair enough.

By the way, the Coast Guard are awesome. By far my favourite arm of the military. Mostly because they're the ones I've had most direct contact with as a civilian and they're generally nice guys as long as you're not smuggling or something stupid. ^^;

That is probably where we differ most from my little GK fantasy is that we do interface with the public the most but mostly with industry to prevent things from happening but if things do happen, we are there to facilitate the clean up so the industry knows what we do but the general public is mostly oblivious. But I am glad to see some positive PR for my service which makes me happy.

 Envihon wrote:


. Because I am on a crusade in life to help make the world a better place,

I enjoyed this line

 Envihon wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Fair enough.

By the way, the Coast Guard are awesome. By far my favourite arm of the military. Mostly because they're the ones I've had most direct contact with as a civilian and they're generally nice guys as long as you're not smuggling or something stupid. ^^;

That is probably where we differ most from my little GK fantasy is that we do interface with the public the most but mostly with industry to prevent things from happening but if things do happen, we are there to facilitate the clean up so the industry knows what we do but the general public is mostly oblivious. But I am glad to see some positive PR for my service which makes me happy.

Well. Simply put: The other arms of the military exist almost exclusively to go into situations where they might be required to kill people, either to defend something or someone, or to take something or someone.

The Coast Guard are the ones who are situated as part of general duties to act as a lifeboat service.

Either a tech-priest or an imperial artisan. Someone has to be making all those dam gargoyles, skulls and other ornate Gothic kibble.

To be completely honest, a Noble on some world as far away from the horrors of the 40.000 millenium as possible.

My sense of justice and my resentment against the political elite and the rich would likely make me end up as an inquistitor, one with a much more smooth and kind temperament.

What I would love to be on the other hand, is a renegade marine. The countless orders, battles would leave me wanting more to life. But I'm too smart to fall to things such as chaos. Just strike out on my own. A protector of a village on an agri-world? The Galaxy is an open shell for a renegade marine.

Corpse Starch Rations.

I don't think any of you quite understand how this works.

We are all going to be pools of biomass. No questions, no exceptions no ifs, ands or buts.

Kavik_Whitescar wrote:
I don't think any of you quite understand how this works.

We are all going to be pools of biomass. No questions, no exceptions no ifs, ands or buts.

Assuming the Tyranids win.

Ideally I would want to be in a favourable position in Slaanesh's Court.... However I would probably just end up a Thrall to some Slaanesh Cult that get's purged. *Sighs*

That is the what you get when you worship Chaos. The Emperor protects

If this was "Dark Heresy" I'd most likely end up in the scum class as it's usually the easiest area of a society to come to terms with and make a decent living out at without too much time investment.


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walkertreat wrote:
My sense of justice and my resentment against the political elite and the rich would likely make me end up as an inquistitor, one with a much more smooth and kind temperament.

What I would love to be on the other hand, is a renegade marine. The countless orders, battles would leave me wanting more to life. But I'm too smart to fall to things such as chaos. Just strike out on my own. A protector of a village on an agri-world? The Galaxy is an open shell for a renegade marine.

Sounds like you'd end up a dead marine

I would like to be either an Inquisitor or a Commissar. I think the freedom of an Inquisitor would be great, having no restrictions and such. But being a Commissar I can choose how to lead my men to battle and make them become martyrs.

Or maybe just an Imperial Governor of some rich planet tucked away in the middle of Segmentum Tempestus or something like that, living the good life while oppressing my people.

I would probably have the luck to be a member of an astropath family, however as one not blessed with the proper psychic tuning i'd mearly be placed in the house's private guard unit and would either life my life carefree or killed by an assasination attempt upon my house.

I would Like to be an Astartes Kill Marine under the command of a Rouge Trader. Mostly free to do what you want (which is to kill stuff for the imperium), mostly unbeatable in combat (until my rouge trader does something idiotic like piss off an Eldar Corsair), and fairly comfortable (working for one of the richest individuals in the imperium).

 Envihon wrote:
This is something I have always thought about and I always think about with my nerd hobbies to relate to them more but now I want to see what other people think.

If you were somehow transported into the Warhammer 40k-verse, where would you fit in it as an individual or where would you like to fit into? In a galaxy literally of billions, who knows if any one of us would actually get to see the things we play out on the table top but it is a thought experiment and to me, always a way to explore the way we see ourselves.

For me, I can tell you right off the bat with my strong will and wanting to turn the mind into a weapon, I would be a psyker of some sort. Because I am on a crusade in life to help make the world a better place, I would then find myself in the Inquisition, more than likely as an Ordo Malleus Inquisitor on a quest to purify the galaxy from Chaotic corruption.

This has been challenged lately because of reading The Emperor's Gift where actually getting into the head of a Grey Knight has made me question whether my mind set is actually that of an Inquisitor or do I fit more neatly into the mind of a Grey Knight. My real life job reflects this since I go in and keep people from danger they know nothing about. To this, I would say that I am also likely to fit in as a Grey Knight probably as a Librarian. I would just hope that I would make it through the 666 trials to become one...

You would most likely be a factory worker on an Industrial world or imperial guard cannon fodder.

ME!? Well I would proably be a Warboss leading my Waaaaagh! Crusing my way to all the agri worlds everyone will be at and drink squig ale or whatever they call thier beer!

Honestly I would love to think I could join up with the salamanders and become a space marine.
Proably die in the process of becoming a marine...


Then again im to old to become a marine so orks seem the way to go!

 zombiekila707 wrote:
ME!? Well I would proably be a Warboss leading my Waaaaagh! Crusing my way to all the agri worlds everyone will be at and drink squig ale or whatever they call thier beer!

Honestly I would love to think I could join up with the salamanders and become a space marine.
Proably die in the process of becoming a marine...


Then again im to old to become a marine so orks seem the way to go!

What with functional immortality, as long as you don't get your face splattered, you'll be fine!

Oi, bozzz! D'ya wunt sum Squig-Ale?

CaptainStabby wrote:
Corpse Starch Rations.

The captain knows the score.