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Lord Spartacus wrote: Plot twist: Every galactic faction started killing eachother until it was nothing left, and all planets were left barren. Billions of years later life appears on Terra. Present day happens.
It is all real. I just hope that The Emperor wherever he is today has read the HH series so he knows that in a few thousand years maybe making all those Primarchs isn't such a good idea.
TheCustomLime wrote: What if Mass Effect is the prequel to 40k? And the reapers were really killing off sentient races so that they wouldnt unleash the Orks on the galaxy.
Uh, no, that's a poor idea that doesn't fit at all with W40K, especially given how we already know the timeline for humanity in W40K. The only other fiction that fits well and is jokingly lobbed in with W40K is Event Horizon, due to exhibiting all the common traits of having your ship possessed by a daemon. Oh, and using hell as FTL travel.
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
The IoM has ship-born rail guns and similar kinetic-kill weapons as "macrobatteries" on their starships. They aren't all lasers or giant combustion cannons.
It is best to be a pessimist. You are usually right and, when you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised.
I certainly see no magnetohydrodynamic beamers being used!
IOM is better in many other areas, though.
The IOM/Admech has access to DAOT tech. Which includes anything from ship-born cannons that fire black holes before they've been fired to void shields and conversion shields.
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
Other than the actual Mass Effect drives and Ez0 cores, nothing in ME is actually better than anything the Imperium can field. Even the jump-gates in ME are basically giant mass-effect field generators. Take those out and, as we learn in ME3, the galaxy is *fethed* for inter-stellar travel.
It is best to be a pessimist. You are usually right and, when you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised.
Pilau Rice wrote: I can't remember where it was but I read some where that the Terra in the 40k universe, where the Emperor is, is not the real Terra and that the real Terra, our Earth, was the Terra designated 63:19. Was quite an interesting idea.
I've heard about 63-19, apart from being a trollish coincidence I don't think much of it. After all beyond 'Terra' does it detail the other planets. The Sol of 40k is described to include Luna, Mars, Titan etc. and Terra itself has continents like Merica, Europa etc. and maps of Terra show it to be roughly equivalent to our own world.
I don't find it totally unbelievable that leaders of a Dark Age colony would promote the idea they are the cradle of humanity but beyond that... nah.
Lord Spartacus wrote: Plot twist: Every galactic faction started killing eachother until it was nothing left, and all planets were left barren. Billions of years later life appears on Terra. Present day happens.
You can sleep easy at night now.
Sounds like the ending of Battlestar Galactica...
*shudder* Don't remind me of that cack.
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This is the real Terra. if there was a bunch of colonies and they lost contact with Terra then some would after a bit of time say they were the real terra or center of the universe
Ask not what the Emperor can do for you but ask how you may give your life for the Emperor.
Well, if 40k is real, currently Khorne, Tzeentch and Nurgle are awake, and the Emperor's been manipulating mankind from behind the scenes for 6k years.
Khorne was awoken by Genghis Khan, and he became Doombreed.
Nurgle was awoken by the Black Death and associated plagues.
Tzeentch was awoken by... the 2008 banking crisis?
And the Emperor is probably currently posing as some kind of space entrepreneur, like the guy who founded SpaceX
Run a whole lot of wfrp and other rpg's, play The Woods and Kill Team, gather and look mournfully at imperial guard knowing I'll never finish enough to use them on the tabletop
If you're asking "What if 40k was real, and the Earth we think of as Earth isn't actually Earth, but a lost colony from the Dark Age of Technology," then I'd probably curl up in a fetal position and cry until I passed out, lather rise repeat.
If you're asking "What if 40k was real, and 28,000 years the Emperor will unite the factions of Earth and conquer most of the Galaxy blah blah blah," then I'd take comfort in the fact that the Warp isn't as messed up now as it will be farther down the line, so while horrific my fate after death won't be agonizing.
anyway Cepinari (excuse the lack of titles my lord captain, i am your humble servant forever and always) i am saying what if either one was true. and surely your life after death is going to be fethed up anyway because of the whole they turn sodding evil at some point.
Automatically Appended Next Post: then again getting in early you might end up being a deamon for something
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Well, if the Warp wasn't as infested with Daemons like it was later, the only thing left for your soul to do would be to float about on the currents of the empyrean until it eventually fades away, at which point you completely and utterly cease to exist.
Also, Daemons don't just pop into existence, a Chaos God has to decide to break off a bit of himself and create a servant from it. Basically, a Daemon is an ambulatory self-aware fragment of a far greater whole. This is why Daemons of Someone always look like a miniature, lesser version of that someone, it's because that's exactly what they are. This is also why Daemons can consume each other, it's because they're both smaller pieces of a bigger whole, so merging makes them one bigger piece of the bigger whole. Likewise, The Four Gods can reabsorb their Daemons whenever they feel like it.
There are all kinds of Daemons in the Warp that exist because the Warp determines that they do, and exist apart from and separate to the Ruinous Powers. All that emotional energy coalesces into a dizzying prismatic spray of forms within the Immaterium.
Daemons have existed longer than the Gods of Chaos have, the Warp itself gives rise to them.
It is best to be a pessimist. You are usually right and, when you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised.
TheCustomLime wrote: What if Mass Effect is the prequel to 40k? And the reapers were really killing off sentient races so that they wouldnt unleash the Orks on the galaxy.
Uh, no, that's a poor idea that doesn't fit at all with W40K, especially given how we already know the timeline for humanity in W40K. The only other fiction that fits well and is jokingly lobbed in with W40K is Event Horizon, due to exhibiting all the common traits of having your ship possessed by a daemon. Oh, and using hell as FTL travel.
What about the V/H/S movies?
V/H/S 1
1. Demon of Slannesh (Succubus) kills a group of college frat boys.
2. N/A. Just a mundane murder.
3. Demon of Khorne kills some kids in the woods. The Demon then possesses the person that ?wounds? it.
4. Xeno scum harvest human women for genetic experiment.
5. Witch/Psycher causes reality to break and then kills some kids.
V/H/S/2
1. Man gets a cyborg eye. Is now able to see ghosts/demons. Gets killed by said ghosts/demons.
2. Plague of Nurgle turns people into zombies.
3. Chaos cult summons a demon into the world.
4. Xeno scum abduct and presumably kill humans.
Not to mention the tapes make you go insane simply by watching. Everyone that has watched them has ended up in thrall to some unknown entity, has went insane, or has been killed by said insane and or possessed person. Clearly some artifact of the dark gods. Maybe an artifact of Tzeentch. That or the V/H/S universe really is a gak hole.
A horror anthology featuring haunted/demonic videos. Its on netflix.
Automatically Appended Next Post: It isn't explicitly 40k related but if all the stories take place in the same universe then it could very well be 21st century terra in the 40k universe.
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First I would REALLY hope that there were no Tyranids nearby
Then I would start a cult to the Emperor (After all he could reveal himself early if all us 40k players told the world about him)
Lastly try and not die.
Doesn't matter how I came by it. Point is, this is the genuine article: a Space Marine bolter. Cursed? Only if you get caught with it. Here, I'll show you how easy it is.
-Last words of Edwin Dice, Metallican arms dealer
Yeah but the emperor won't reveal himself until we've seeded the stars and had our final wars.... Otherwise he can't manipulate us from behind the scenes. he'd never be able to recover politically from the fallout of he "came out" early then all that bad stuff happened on his watch.
Also, I've watched enough TV to know that THE PROPHECY MUST BE FULFILLED and any attempt to make it happen earlier is doomed to failure.
Run a whole lot of wfrp and other rpg's, play The Woods and Kill Team, gather and look mournfully at imperial guard knowing I'll never finish enough to use them on the tabletop
TheCustomLime wrote: What if Mass Effect is the prequel to 40k? And the reapers were really killing off sentient races so that they wouldnt unleash the Orks on the galaxy.
Uh, no, that's a poor idea that doesn't fit at all with W40K, especially given how we already know the timeline for humanity in W40K. The only other fiction that fits well and is jokingly lobbed in with W40K is Event Horizon, due to exhibiting all the common traits of having your ship possessed by a daemon. Oh, and using hell as FTL travel.
And the ideas presented ITT aren't? We also don't know for sure if the timeline as presented is accurate. What is year zero for them? What has been lost to the ages and what legend has turned into fact?
Thought for the day: Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
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