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2016/10/26 08:21:43
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Esteemed Veteran Space Marine
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The fluff for those reactors fits 40k perfectly, to say otherwise is being outrageously po faced.
Some dusty techpriest wandering the halls of some manufactorum with a vile of fluid and a pipette saying incantations as he slowly unscrews the fuel cap and adds not one, not two...but three droplettes of the sacred liquid. The holiest liquid, for it was given unto them for the most holiest of purposes. A blessing to keep the machine spirits at ease and to make sure the manufactorum keeps running and the boltgun shells are produced for the Space Marines to smite the enemies of mankind.
The Imperium is a society wracked by superstitious traditions and horrific sacrifices. If you can't get you're head around the idea of people being slaughtered like lambs just for their blood to be blessed and used in pointless rituals to keep reactors going then you probably need to read Sacrifice by Ben Counter. I strongly recommend it.
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2016/10/26 08:38:38
Subject: He knows that GW is a big boy and can stand up for itself, right?
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 General Kroll wrote:The fluff for those reactors fits 40k perfectly, to say otherwise is being outrageously po faced.
Some dusty techpriest wandering the halls of some manufactorum with a vile of fluid and a pipette saying incantations as he slowly unscrews the fuel cap and adds not one, not two...but three droplettes of the sacred liquid. The holiest liquid, for it was given unto them for the most holiest of purposes. A blessing to keep the machine spirits at ease and to make sure the manufactorum keeps running and the boltgun shells are produced for the Space Marines to smite the enemies of mankind.
The Imperium is a society wracked by superstitious traditions and horrific sacrifices. If you can't get you're head around the idea of people being slaughtered like lambs just for their blood to be blessed and used in pointless rituals to keep reactors going then you probably need to read Sacrifice by Ben Counter. I strongly recommend it.
That's not how it reads to most people TBH.
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It says "the blood of martyrs mixed with promethium"... in general when I read a list of two ingredients like this to me there is an implied predominance of the first, such as "gasoline blended with ethanol" where even in the most extreme case I would think it's equal parts of the two.
It would more reasonably make sense as "fueled with promethium anointed with the blood of martyrs".
I think this more or less sums up why the fluff write up is confusing people. It's a difference between a panda that "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" and a Panda that "Eats Shoots & Leaves".
The blood of martyrs Mixed with promethium is a very different thing then the "promethium anointed with the blood of martyrs" interpretation people are implying is being said. Not to mention that blood fuelled reactors sounds like it should be a Chaos/warp thing.
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2016/10/26 08:42:26
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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The reactors are inherently silly. Some of you like them, some don't. How many pages of back-and-forth refuting does that need to cover the topic, exactly?
Inferred ratios, personal feuds, 'dogged defenses'... come on, this place is getting miserable! It's a bit of plastic scenery. Don't buy it. Move on. Quite literally, no one will suffer because this bit of plastic whimsy has been released.
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 Stormonu wrote:For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules"
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2016/10/26 08:46:56
Subject: Re:The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Sacrifice to the Dark Gods
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Do you guys even listen to yourselves sometimes?
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2016/10/26 08:49:18
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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 JohnnyHell wrote:The reactors are inherently silly. Some of you like them, some don't. How many pages of back-and-forth refuting does that need to cover the topic, exactly?
42.
After all, if we're not careful, someone might be wrong on the Internet!
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2021-4 Plog - Here we go again... - my fifth attempt at a Dakka PLOG
My Pile of Potential - updates ongoing...
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
 Kanluwen wrote:This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote:You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
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2016/10/26 08:51:38
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain
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Stormonu wrote:For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules"
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2016/10/26 08:53:37
Subject: He knows that GW is a big boy and can stand up for itself, right?
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 Lockark wrote: General Kroll wrote:The fluff for those reactors fits 40k perfectly, to say otherwise is being outrageously po faced. Some dusty techpriest wandering the halls of some manufactorum with a vile of fluid and a pipette saying incantations as he slowly unscrews the fuel cap and adds not one, not two...but three droplettes of the sacred liquid. The holiest liquid, for it was given unto them for the most holiest of purposes. A blessing to keep the machine spirits at ease and to make sure the manufactorum keeps running and the boltgun shells are produced for the Space Marines to smite the enemies of mankind. The Imperium is a society wracked by superstitious traditions and horrific sacrifices. If you can't get you're head around the idea of people being slaughtered like lambs just for their blood to be blessed and used in pointless rituals to keep reactors going then you probably need to read Sacrifice by Ben Counter. I strongly recommend it.
That's not how it reads to most people TBH. aka_mythos wrote: It says "the blood of martyrs mixed with promethium"... in general when I read a list of two ingredients like this to me there is an implied predominance of the first, such as "gasoline blended with ethanol" where even in the most extreme case I would think it's equal parts of the two. It would more reasonably make sense as "fueled with promethium anointed with the blood of martyrs".
I think this more or less sums up why the fluff write up is confusing people. It's a difference between a panda that "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" and a Panda that "Eats Shoots & Leaves". The blood of martyrs Mixed with promethium is a very different thing then the "promethium anointed with the blood of martyrs" interpretation people are implying is being said. Not to mention that blood fuelled reactors sounds like it should be a Chaos/warp thing.
Well... it's a small blurb in White Dwarf, not a novel. I doubt they put even as much thought into it as you did writing this post. Better you read into it whatever you feel fits the setting best.
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2016/10/26 09:11:08
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Can we get back to discussing what is important? One month till thousand sons! Magnus, Rubric Marines, Rubric terminators and possibly more!
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2016/10/26 09:41:27
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2016/10/26 10:22:59
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Chikout wrote:Can we get back to discussing what is important? One month till thousand sons! Magnus, Rubric Marines, Rubric terminators and possibly more!
Marines made of dust?
That's ridiculous
Dust has no muscles or tendons or neurons and cannot possibly make a suit of armor move no matter how much warp energy or whatever you pump into it!
GW has gone too far this time, my suspension of disbelief is ruined. 
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2016/10/26 10:41:45
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Pustulating Plague Priest
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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:Chikout wrote:Can we get back to discussing what is important? One month till thousand sons! Magnus, Rubric Marines, Rubric terminators and possibly more!
Marines made of dust?
That's ridiculous
Dust has no muscles or tendons or neurons and cannot possibly make a suit of armor move no matter how much warp energy or whatever you pump into it!
GW has gone too far this time, my suspension of disbelief is ruined.
If it's ruined, could I have your suspension of disbelief? I like to strip them and repaint.
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2016/10/26 11:24:48
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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The new generators, though, only make me feel really sorry for the bloke running Quantum Gothic, who was providing awesome gothic terrain features when the Wall of Martyrs and Void Shield Generator were still a gleam in some GW designer's eye, and that "gothic Hoth generator" style kit is one of the best - now probably a lot less folk will go looking for those since GW will be providing their own variation :/
Just looked this lot up – hadn't heard of them before but like what I'm seeing and about to do an order!
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2016/10/26 11:29:47
Subject: He knows that GW is a big boy and can stand up for itself, right?
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Frightening Flamer of Tzeentch
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Lockark wrote: General Kroll wrote:The fluff for those reactors fits 40k perfectly, to say otherwise is being outrageously po faced.
Some dusty techpriest wandering the halls of some manufactorum with a vile of fluid and a pipette saying incantations as he slowly unscrews the fuel cap and adds not one, not two...but three droplettes of the sacred liquid. The holiest liquid, for it was given unto them for the most holiest of purposes. A blessing to keep the machine spirits at ease and to make sure the manufactorum keeps running and the boltgun shells are produced for the Space Marines to smite the enemies of mankind.
The Imperium is a society wracked by superstitious traditions and horrific sacrifices. If you can't get you're head around the idea of people being slaughtered like lambs just for their blood to be blessed and used in pointless rituals to keep reactors going then you probably need to read Sacrifice by Ben Counter. I strongly recommend it.
That's not how it reads to most people TBH.
aka_mythos wrote:
It says "the blood of martyrs mixed with promethium"... in general when I read a list of two ingredients like this to me there is an implied predominance of the first, such as "gasoline blended with ethanol" where even in the most extreme case I would think it's equal parts of the two.
It would more reasonably make sense as "fueled with promethium anointed with the blood of martyrs".
I think this more or less sums up why the fluff write up is confusing people. It's a difference between a panda that "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" and a Panda that "Eats Shoots & Leaves".
The blood of martyrs Mixed with promethium is a very different thing then the "promethium anointed with the blood of martyrs" interpretation people are implying is being said. Not to mention that blood fuelled reactors sounds like it should be a Chaos/warp thing.
Utterly ridiculous, pandas can't use guns. How utterly unrealistic.
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2016/10/26 11:41:02
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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My Templars Black, for one(s), look forward to boiling the blood of their enemies in the blood reactors of Khorne the Imperium. Automatically Appended Next Post: Chikout wrote:Can we get back to discussing what is important? One month till thousand sons! Magnus, Rubric Marines, Rubric terminators and possibly more!
Rubic Terminators would be bitchin'!
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2016/10/26 11:55:42
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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 kronk wrote:My Templars Black, for one(s), look forward to boiling the blood of their enemies in the blood reactors of Khorne the Imperium.
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Chikout wrote:Can we get back to discussing what is important? One month till thousand sons! Magnus, Rubric Marines, Rubric terminators and possibly more!
Rubic Terminators would be bitchin'!
Rubric terminators have been all but confirmed by Sad Panda. I am curious if we will get a third kit. I assume there will be a clam pack or two alongside Magnus. My hope is that we finally see the rumoured loc, but they might hold that for later.
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2016/10/26 12:06:08
Subject: Re:The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Pewling Menial
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Hoping for a full on Thousand sons codex, it's about time Tzeentch got some love
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2016/10/26 12:08:37
Subject: Re:The next two months of games workshop releases.
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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via FB
This week you've seen the Legio Custodes Caladius Grav-Tank, a Legio Custodes t-shirt, and now we can reveal more Legio Custodes with the transfer sheet!
You'll have First Access to this at the Warhammer 40,000 Open Days, before it's on general release, and it's perfect to add golden detailing to your miniatures
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2016/10/26 12:09:22
Subject: Re:The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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RoboDragon wrote:Hoping for a full on Thousand sons codex, it's about time Tzeentch got some love
From the logo on the leaked magnus box and the hints from the likes of Atia, I am very confident that that is exactly what is coming.
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2016/10/26 12:23:57
Subject: Re:The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Experienced Maneater
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That shirt is pretty nice.
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2016/10/26 12:27:25
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
Cozy cockpit of an Archer ARC-5S
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A transfer sheet of just Unification era raptor heads and lightning bolts would be awesome.
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Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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2016/10/26 12:31:31
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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 BrookM wrote:A transfer sheet of just Unification era raptor heads and lightning bolts would be awesome.
Let's email them daily. I like this idea!
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2016/10/26 12:47:08
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I don't see how golden transfers would look good on those all-golden Custodes. Would they even be visible?
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2016/10/26 13:09:23
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain
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 Zywus wrote:I don't see how golden transfers would look good on those all-golden Custodes. Would they even be visible?
From the Custodes dreadnought we saw in the rules PDF, they appear to have red thrown in there to break up the gold.
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2016/10/26 13:28:35
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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If there are really rubric Termis I won't stop aksing for Cult Terminators until Nurgle gets a kit of Blightkings quality, Khorne one that is faaaar removed from Wrathreapermongerskulls and Slaanesh...is at least mentioned in a blurb somewhere.
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2016/10/26 16:05:07
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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I asked this on another thread in Gen Discuss but no response.
Is there a standard load out for Rubric Termies? CCWs?
Icon of Tzeentch for Soulblaze maybe though I wish it worked on all weapons rather than just bolters. Warpflame Gargoyles work on all weapons I believe.
What are we wish listing for from a fluff perspective on Rubiric Termie load outs?
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2016/10/26 16:38:09
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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 Skerr wrote:I asked this on another thread in Gen Discuss but no response.
Is there a standard load out for Rubric Termies? CCWs?
Icon of Tzeentch for Soulblaze maybe though I wish it worked on all weapons rather than just bolters. Warpflame Gargoyles work on all weapons I believe.
What are we wish listing for from a fluff perspective on Rubiric Termie load outs?
I'm having a hard time conceptualizing how GW would make "Thousand Sons" without just carrying over a bunch of CM units. You can't have all rubrics anyway so 40K Tzaangors would have to be a thing for it to make sense.
Any loadout that doesn't consist of just bolters is a win. Rubrics typically err on the side of ranged since they aren't quite combat masters being dust and all.
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2016/10/26 16:50:24
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I... need the shirt.
I... live in the states.
This pains me.
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Blood Angels, Custodes, Tzeentch, Alpha Legion, Astra Militarum, Deathwatch, Thousand Sons, Imperial Knights, Tau, Genestealer Cult.
I have a problem.
Being contrary for the sake of being contrary doesn't make you unique, it makes you annoying.
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2016/10/26 16:54:41
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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RogueSangre
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Skerr wrote:I asked this on another thread in Gen Discuss but no response.
Is there a standard load out for Rubric Termies? CCWs
Back when rubric termies had rules standard load out was combi-bolter + power weapon. No other options period.
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2016/10/26 18:01:05
Subject: The next two months of games workshop releases.
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Chikout wrote:Can we get back to discussing what is important? One month till thousand sons! Magnus, Rubric Marines, Rubric terminators and possibly more!
See you said 'Get back to discussing what is important' which is correct but then you follow it up with some gobbledygook about some homebrew thing no one's ever heard of when you should be talking about PLASTIC SISTERS OF BATTLE!
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2016/10/26 18:11:17
Subject: He knows that GW is a big boy and can stand up for itself, right?
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 Grot 6 wrote: casvalremdeikun wrote: H.B.M.C. wrote:Did you miss the part where you've become the only person here defending a reactor that runs on blood as if it were anyway a reasonable concept, even for 40K?
Right, because the idea of humans being used as an energy source or food source is not a classic sci-fi trope whatsoever. Nope. Never has happened.
Who knows, maybe it is the byproduct of the thousands of Psykers that are sacrificed to maintain the Golden Throne. Maybe they drain the corpses of their blood and ship it off to the different forgeworlds. Psychically infused blood might provide some sort of additional energy.
Just spit balling, but that is how I am calling it.
Your onto it. Same concept. Soul power, and all that.
Hey any Vampire Count fan will tell ya that blood is just the currency of the Soul. A medium of exchange if you will.
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