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 CadianXV wrote:
The Tyrant Star.

We don't know what it is, how it works, where it'll next appear, or when it'll next appear.

But we know what it does. With little warning, a ghostly star apparently emitting black flames and esoteric, unknown forms of radiation, spontaneously materialises in a planetary system, often appearing to posses the local star, shines malevolently for a few days, and then, just as mysteriously, vanishes without trace.

The visitation is accompanied by psychic disturbance, geological upheaval, increased mutation and sociological problems on inhabited worlds, including mass rioting and unrest.

It has flummoxed every theory and remains a terrifying enigma.

I heard it was the immaterial football used by Gork and Mork in their giant, galaxy wide psychic game of football. Reality counts as a "goal".

If you listen carefully, you can hear the psychic echoes of a billion billion orks all chanting "Ere we go! Ere we go! Ere we go!"


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 Tyran wrote:
I find myself in the weird position that the Nids is the faction I like the most.
For all the races, they are the most united, with no infighting and under one overwhelming will

Or as lieutenant Ripley put it: "You don't see them fething each other over for a goddamn percentage."


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Thatguyoverthere11 wrote:
Have you ever read Angel Exterminatus? Basically it starts out with Fulgrim telling a rape joke and it just gets worse from there...

You're kidding me? Please tell me that isn't in a GW book? I haven't read much of the fiction - I pretty much get it all from the codices. That sounds beyond tasteless.

The Screaming Cage

The Screaming Cage is a hideous Chaos artifact that was created by a Keeper of Secrets known as Asteroth.

Eventually, Asteroth was partially freed and he destroyed the convent which became a lost order within the Imperium. Taking the ruined bodies of seven hundred Sisters, the Keeper of Secrets stitched their forms and minds together into what it considered as a work of art. Their minds forged into a single construct that became known as the Screaming Cage; a large screaming sphere with the bones of the Order attached to it.

And this is how it looks like.
http://wh40k.lexicanum.de/mediawiki/images/1/1b/Screaming_Cage_Daemonifuge_I.jpg

Jesus Christ on a bicycle...

 Lord Spartacus wrote:
The Screaming Cage

The Screaming Cage is a hideous Chaos artifact that was created by a Keeper of Secrets known as Asteroth.

Eventually, Asteroth was partially freed and he destroyed the convent which became a lost order within the Imperium. Taking the ruined bodies of seven hundred Sisters, the Keeper of Secrets stitched their forms and minds together into what it considered as a work of art. Their minds forged into a single construct that became known as the Screaming Cage; a large screaming sphere with the bones of the Order attached to it.

And this is how it looks like.
http://wh40k.lexicanum.de/mediawiki/images/1/1b/Screaming_Cage_Daemonifuge_I.jpg

Jesus Christ on a bicycle...

You think that is bad?

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I think there is just too much disturbing fluff in 40k to be able to pick only one.
But one thing that does really stand out for me is the way how humans in the Imperium seem to be completely devoid of common sense and empathy. How human life does not have any value at all. But even though it makes little sense, and sometimes it is overdone to the point of stupidity, without it 40k would not be the horrible grimdark place we all know and love

 Dantioch wrote:
Or the grey knights shooting down an entire civilian fleet with hundreds of thousands of people on them to, hopefully, kill the Changeling

Well that worked out for them...

I'm inclined to go with anything and everything to do with Commorragh

 Happyjew wrote:

 Lord Spartacus wrote:
The Screaming Cage

The Screaming Cage is a hideous Chaos artifact that was created by a Keeper of Secrets known as Asteroth.

Eventually, Asteroth was partially freed and he destroyed the convent which became a lost order within the Imperium. Taking the ruined bodies of seven hundred Sisters, the Keeper of Secrets stitched their forms and minds together into what it considered as a work of art. Their minds forged into a single construct that became known as the Screaming Cage; a large screaming sphere with the bones of the Order attached to it.

And this is how it looks like.
http://wh40k.lexicanum.de/mediawiki/images/1/1b/Screaming_Cage_Daemonifuge_I.jpg

Jesus Christ on a bicycle...

You think that is bad?

Check out this

DAMMIT HAPPYJEW!

One of these days I am going to learn to not click on you links.

Daemonculaba. And Marneus Calgar.

The fact that fighting against Khorne is essentially playing into his hands.

Idle Hands wrote:


WH40k paints a humanity that is in every sense of the word utterly inhuman. And just to make it worse is completely justified in being like that.

If I didn't already have a self-advertising banner as my sig, that's where this statement would be going. Exalted post.

Ah, I've finally got one:

A Plaguehound Titan.

It's the nurgle version of a Warhound, except instead of shooting with a Plasma Blastgun, it's firing what I'd call a "Gorecannon", and the Vulkan Mega-Bolter would be taking compacted corpses for bolts.

 Selym wrote:
it's firing what I'd call a "Gorecannon",

The Khorne Lord of Skulls has a weapon that actually is called a Gorestorm Cannon that spews boiling blood. It can be replaced with the deadlier Daemongore Cannon which spews burning filth. Though I'm not sure what constitutes "filth".

 Wilytank wrote:
Though I'm not sure what constitutes "filth".

Chavs.

The Void Dragon. It is sleeping in mars, no one knows it. All the tech on mars only makes it stronger. It will wreck everything when it gets out, and nobody can stop it.

Being captured by Fabius Bile. Eff that.

Being captured by DE would be worse. They taught him all he knows, but not all THEY know

Lol, It really depends on how you look at it. DE don't turn you into a wrack, you eventually get to die. Fabius turns whole populations into evil mutants, and enjoys doing it.

I'd say they are on par. I'm surprised no one mentioned Tyranids, Giant bugs clawing at you, shooting you with insects that burrow into you.

Choking on your own guts from the spore choked air.

bobamus87 wrote:
Lol, It really depends on how you look at it. DE don't turn you into a wrack, you eventually get to die. Fabius turns whole populations into evil mutants, and enjoys doing it.

I'd say they are on par. I'm surprised no one mentioned Tyranids, Giant bugs clawing at you, shooting you with insects that burrow into you.

Choking on your own guts from the spore choked air.

Because Tyranids aren't going to capture you and torture you in unimaginable ways, they are only going to eat you.

- only...

No, the terrifying bit of a tyranid swarm isn't when they eat you - its when you appreciate the scale of what they are about to do to your planet. If you can't get off world, you die.

First, a cult arises.
Then they gain power.
Then they screw over your authorities.
Then anarchy begins
Then war.
Then spores begin to land. You don't know what they are till one opens and the thing inside decapitates your friend stood next to you.
You run. You might only get a few paces while gakking yourself in fear. You might get further. If you get further, where are you going to go?
They are everywhere.
They are eating everyone/thing.
There is no escape.
They are even taking the oxygen.
You might get lucky and get taken out quickly by a monster.
You could end up with genestealers doing horrible things to you, in your place that you thought would be safe.
You wake up with no memory of what happened.
You manage to get off world.
Your skin gets a blueish tinge.
You meet a lady and have a child.
You are now enslaved to the will of the child.
You begin a cult.
Start the process again.

Yes the Tyranids are awesome at the macro scale, it just that I prefer to found myself in a Tyranid invasion than in Commoragh.

Plus I like Genestealers Cults, its a nice change from the crazy Corpse God followers and the even more crazier Chaos followers.

I actually feel pretty bad about the entire Eldar plight. They basically controlled the galaxy and were great at everything, then just became bored with their greatness and many became depraved.

It's disturbing because that reflects what many people on earth seek. Control, perfection, comfort, power...what would we all do if we actually had all those things? What would drive humanity once strife had been eliminated? We'd probably do the same depraved crap as the Eldar.

The price the Eldar paid for reaching a state that we would view as a paradise is pretty harsh - basically eternal playthings for Slaanesh. A fate far worse than oblivion.

 Reckoner wrote:
I actually feel pretty bad about the entire Eldar plight. They basically controlled the galaxy and were great at everything, then just became bored with their greatness and many became depraved.

It's disturbing because that reflects what many people on earth seek. Control, perfection, comfort, power...what would we all do if we actually had all those things? What would drive humanity once strife had been eliminated? We'd probably do the same depraved crap as the Eldar.

The price the Eldar paid for reaching a state that we would view as a paradise is pretty harsh - basically eternal playthings for Slaanesh. A fate far worse than oblivion.

The Eldar had the bad luck of existing in the same universe than Chaos.
I could see human race eventually becoming something like the Culture and after that maybe something like the Timelords after ages of technological advance.

 Ascalam wrote:
Being captured by DE would be worse. They taught him all he knows, but not all THEY know

They certainly didn't. He visited them, got some tips. He certainly wasn't an amateur before that. Remember he operated on Primarchs and has been doing his business for at least one edition longer than DE have even been a thing.

Feel the mighty power of RETCON

Operating on primarchs doesn't necessarily mean he was an unsurpassed surgeon at the time. The imperium leans towards the hack saw, blood bucket and poker approach to surgery after all

You can take the fluff any way you like, but he certainly seems to have patterned himself pretty heavily on good old Urien fluff and look-wise.

OK, so the DE didn't probably bother to teach him basic surgery 101. They did help him refine his art, and are still better at what he does than he is

YMMV of course. I'm naturally on the DE side of the poll, as i play them If i was a CSM player maybe my opinion might be different

 Ascalam wrote:
Feel the mighty power of RETCON

Operating on primarchs doesn't necessarily mean he was an unsurpassed surgeon at the time. The imperium leans towards the hack saw, blood bucket and poker approach to surgery after all

You can take the fluff any way you like, but he certainly seems to have patterned himself pretty heavily on good old Urien fluff and look-wise.

OK, so the DE didn't probably bother to teach him basic surgery 101. They did help him refine his art, and are still better at what he does than he is

YMMV of course. I'm naturally on the DE side of the poll, as i play them If i was a CSM player maybe my opinion might be different

Guys guys! Why not just agree that both are terrible and terrifying and you don't want to be near either of them (oh don't forget Fabius chills on an eldar croneworld deep within the warp)