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I'd probably try and get work with a Rogue Trader by using my knowledge of what drives other folk, which Xenos and areas are exploitable / trustworthy, and understanding of various things that would seem important in a universe of lost tech. It'd give me enough mileage to use some of my 40K understanding and a shield against Inquisition as RT are a major headache to investigate.

Alternatively I'd quite like to be a vox officer, but I imagine the amount of screaming gets to you quite quickly. I'd consider Commissariat, but I'd be frightened of seeing myself turned into something sociopathic.

Realistically I'd probably accidentally reveal I knew how to change a fuse and get shot for tech-heresy.

I wouldn't fight (mainly because I carry about as many diseases as a Nurgle cultist), but would be happy to take up a desk job for the Imperium, join the Adeptus Mechanicus, or become a Naval Officer. The God Emperor is the only hope in the universe (nothing good comes from serving Chaos), the only one who truly rewards service, and isn't flying rodent gak evil.

Plus he seems to have some sort of afterlife of some manner, with such things popping up in various places across the Black Library and RPG's.

 Harley Quinn wrote:
No Eldar option? I'm disappointed.
If not, I suppose like ALEXisAWESOME said above, I'd go to Chaos and worship Slaanesh. Pleasure everywhere.

You are mon'keigh from a backwards, barbaric world. What could you possibly offer the Eldar?

 Lammikkovalas wrote:

 EmpNortonII wrote:

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Ok, being an astartes wins this for me. I'd sure hope it'd be for one of the first founding chapters, but I'd take any of 'em.

... you do realize the casualty rate for that, right? Chances're pretty good you die in the process.

Well yes, astartes don't just retire. Not that it'd serve any purpose, considering that war is all they know and they are the best in the galaxy at it. If you make it to a full battle-brother you'll most likely be approaching retirement age for us mere mortals. Being essentially immortal you wouldn't have to worry about such little details like aging that much.

The casualty rate for life itself is 100%. It's certain you'll die in the process.

Yeah... but some deaths are worse than others. For example, if you die in the SM training process, that's that. Meanwhile, I'll be over in the ranks of the gue'vesa with a pulse rifle, armor worth calling armor, and I'll still be able to make sweet love down by the fire. It's a better deal than any in the Imperium. That's why the Tau have such an easy time converting Imperial worlds to their cause.


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 Wyzilla wrote:
I wouldn't fight (mainly because I carry about as many diseases as a Nurgle cultist), but would be happy to take up a desk job for the Imperium, join the Adeptus Mechanicus, or become a Naval Officer. The God Emperor is the only hope in the universe (nothing good comes from serving Chaos), the only one who truly rewards service, and isn't flying rodent gak evil.

Plus he seems to have some sort of afterlife of some manner, with such things popping up in various places across the Black Library and RPG's.

Sorry- you've just been drafted into the Imperial Guard. Strap on your cardboard box and pick up your flashlight, it's time to die fighting orks!

 EmpNortonII wrote:

 Lammikkovalas wrote:

 EmpNortonII wrote:

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Ok, being an astartes wins this for me. I'd sure hope it'd be for one of the first founding chapters, but I'd take any of 'em.

... you do realize the casualty rate for that, right? Chances're pretty good you die in the process.

Well yes, astartes don't just retire. Not that it'd serve any purpose, considering that war is all they know and they are the best in the galaxy at it. If you make it to a full battle-brother you'll most likely be approaching retirement age for us mere mortals. Being essentially immortal you wouldn't have to worry about such little details like aging that much.

The casualty rate for life itself is 100%. It's certain you'll die in the process.

Yeah... but some deaths are worse than others. For example, if you die in the SM training process, that's that. Meanwhile, I'll be over in the ranks of the gue'vesa with a pulse rifle, armor worth calling armor, and I'll still be able to make sweet love down by the fire. It's a better deal than any in the Imperium. That's why the Tau have such an easy time converting Imperial worlds to their cause.


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 Wyzilla wrote:
I wouldn't fight (mainly because I carry about as many diseases as a Nurgle cultist), but would be happy to take up a desk job for the Imperium, join the Adeptus Mechanicus, or become a Naval Officer. The God Emperor is the only hope in the universe (nothing good comes from serving Chaos), the only one who truly rewards service, and isn't flying rodent gak evil.

Plus he seems to have some sort of afterlife of some manner, with such things popping up in various places across the Black Library and RPG's.

Sorry- you've just been drafted into the Imperial Guard. Strap on your cardboard box and pick up your flashlight, it's time to die fighting orks!

The Imperial Guard wouldn't draft me unless they were willing to pay for new legs and guts or they put me in the munitorium.

 Wyzilla wrote:

The Imperial Guard wouldn't draft me unless they were willing to pay for new legs and guts or they put me in the munitorium.

I'm not sure the Imperial Guard would care. They might just strap you onto a tank a la "Operation: Human Shield" from the South Park movie.

 Psienesis wrote:

 Harley Quinn wrote:
No Eldar option? I'm disappointed.
If not, I suppose like ALEXisAWESOME said above, I'd go to Chaos and worship Slaanesh. Pleasure everywhere.

You are mon'keigh from a backwards, barbaric world. What could you possibly offer the Eldar?

I can cook a reeeeaaalllllyyyyyy good butter cake.
That's enough, right?

 EmpNortonII wrote:


I'm not sure the Imperial Guard would care. They might just strap you onto a tank a la "Operation: Human Shield" from the South Park movie.

"Haven't you ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation, General Creed?"
"I don't listen to your Earthly hip hop."

Sign me up with the Emperor's Children, so my face-melting guitar solos could literally melt faces.

 EmpNortonII wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

The Imperial Guard wouldn't draft me unless they were willing to pay for new legs and guts or they put me in the munitorium.

I'm not sure the Imperial Guard would care. They might just strap you onto a tank a la "Operation: Human Shield" from the South Park movie.

You really don't know anything about the Imperium, do you?

 Wyzilla wrote:

 EmpNortonII wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

The Imperial Guard wouldn't draft me unless they were willing to pay for new legs and guts or they put me in the munitorium.

I'm not sure the Imperial Guard would care. They might just strap you onto a tank a la "Operation: Human Shield" from the South Park movie.

You really don't know anything about the Imperium, do you?

Well judging by his screaming worship of the Tau I dare say he knows next to noting about anything Imperial

You would all be turned into servitors if you joined the IoM or lobotimized and enslaved by something else. Good luck.

A high ranking job with the Administratum or Inquisition sounds fun. If I had a choice, I'd head that route. Or a Planetary Governor.

I would be independent with chaos tendencies. If I could, I would combine magic and technology to my service.

Imperium for sure.

To know what I know makes it the only Option.

Basically any 40k fan who is transferred into this Universe of eternal war knows things too many in that Universe are interested to either know or keep buried. If you find a place where they value your contribution your good. But if your a risk they can't take....
Posting in the background forum means you like the "fluff" and your picture of the place you are going to go is ok maybe.
( I'd still suggest to some they keep as far from getting there as possible. I've seen posts filled to the brim with "fanwank" .... OTOH it will be very enlightening to get the real expierience. )

So if I show up in 40k...

1st try: No records and papers , so the Bureaucrats will hate me. They send me through the whole process of aquiring the neccessary papers and I am safely wandering the Halls of the Adepts for all eternity, from one Office to the other......

Ok, bad Luck so lets reboot.

2nd try: I don't have papers but they have to fill the ranks of the newly assembled Regiment of the Imperial Guard somehow, so I am in. Basic grunt.... but looking forward to have the Big Guns backing me up, lots of friends so I am not alone, and maybe it is a mechanized unit and I can have a nice tank? Please?

3rd try: Got a job and my stuff tends to work nicely, so the cog boys knock on my door. If they find out I know how things work.... they either plan to extract that knowledge from me without care for my well-beeing...because Data and Data is what they really want... or they just take their time and let me show them, so I am somewhere on a Forgeworld and well guarded. Death and ruin or Stored away somewhere. Roll the Dice. Forge the... no don't ! Still a not so bad 50/50 IMHO.

4th try: as a Stranger, I seek refuge and the church offers to tend to the poor Souls whitout any ... no. We know they want something in return. Well versed in the concepts Religion is running on, I could just be the faithful servant of the God-Emperor and no one would find out I was born somewhere else. Where would this take me? Worst case is: stumbling into a corrupted part of the ecclesiarchy. so I'll have to cleanse and purify the fools who are a disgrace to BiG E. Heresy? Witches? Deamons? If I know one fact of 40k, better safe than sorry!
But maybe i am lucky and live a life of peace..... in 40k...

5th try: go big or go home. Join the Astartes. Be that Space Marine, that is exactly like the fluffy Movie Marines and not like the watered down tabletop push over! Yay! Centuries of Boltgunning and chainswording to do! And nobody is going to thank me... because its my Job.
Now excuse me, I'll have to hunt the misguided who choose to select Option 2, 3 or 4 in this thread. Ha!

6th try: Inquisition got wind of my arrival. Lots of Questions. Chance of survival = ...... pretty low...... until I am very lucky and someone likes to keep me around. I don't think they like it if I know more than they do. I guess Ordo Xenos is interested in Maps and geenral composition of IoM opposing xeno, their Tech etc pp. It seems to depend who I met. Another dice roll...

7th and last try: wasn't a planet where i got moved to, was A space vessel. There is so much Crew, they surely don't mind to have one more...
Just "re-materialzing" at the bridge would get me a very short existence in 40k.
So if I am going to stay, I'll have to work my way up. Maybe one day, if my new ride isn't lost in the warp, I'll be Captain on that Bridge. Yay, space battles! no more silly sci-fi "maneuvers" to watch. Be part of the action! And blown to bits maybe....

No matter if it turns out nicely, at least I'd support my own in a Galaxy of Threats and I don't have to be the plaything of foreign powers.
As a Human in 40k there is only one Light in the Darkness and that is the Big E. He protects.

If I could be anything I wanted?

I'd be the equivalent of a rogue governor who would feign loyalty while I had rogue traders bring me DAoT tech, as well as xenos technology in order to build up an independent empire in some far away part of the galaxy.

I'd gather whatever I could get my hands on for resources including any gene-seed I could get my hands on, any mars tech-priests that are radical enough to serve me with free reign for experiments, and as many nulls/blanks as I could my hands on.


I'd give myself all the "perks" of being rich in 40k. Functional immortality from age drugs, personal armies,
I'd personally buy myself a suit of artificer armor and the best forcefield technology available, maybe even have some rummaged tau pulse technology installed at the wrists... but I would not lead conquests from the from the front for risk of.... you know... dying.


I would not stop the worship of the Emperor of Mankind as as God, but I would supplant the High Lord of Terra's authority with my own.

I would create asylum worlds for mutants, and abhumans, and I would look for any psykers on the planets I control in order to put them through rigorous training so that they can resist chaos/ be put to use for military purposes. For hose that could not be trained to control themselves....
I would do one of the following determined by practicality:
1. Have the psyker gene disabled within their body (if thats even possible)
2. Lobotomize them and/or put them to sleep. Little to no pain as possible. Its not their fault they were born a living time-bomb.
3. Brainwash them and drop them off on an enemy planet with orders to cause as much trouble as possible.

In general I would try to raise the living standards of the worlds I controlled to that of 1st world countries in the 21st century.

I would be much less reliant on "meat-grinder" tactics, and more likely to use armored elements or air/naval/orbital support when going to battle with xenos, chaos or the Imperium. I would also support the use of using low grade A.I. or remote-operated robots for use as weapons for when sending a platoon would be a waste of life.


Realistically though, I'd probably just get thrown in a guard regiment and die from being cut in half with a 'choppa from the head down.

 1hadhq wrote:
Imperium for sure.

To know what I know makes it the only Option.

Basically any 40k fan who is transferred into this Universe of eternal war knows things too many in that Universe are interested to either know or keep buried.

In an entire galaxies worth of activity though? How much DO we really know? The things we do know are pretty vague. Heck, in the real world, we still know very little about the galaxy, how much can we know about another one? especially one that's made up.?

 LumenPraebeo wrote:

 1hadhq wrote:
Imperium for sure.

To know what I know makes it the only Option.

Basically any 40k fan who is transferred into this Universe of eternal war knows things too many in that Universe are interested to either know or keep buried.

In an entire galaxies worth of activity though? How much DO we really know? The things we do know are pretty vague. Heck, in the real world, we still know very little about the galaxy, how much can we know about another one? especially one that's made up.?

We know the nature of Chaos, and enough secrets about the Imperium and the galaxy as a whole that, if we told the wrong people, we could end up letting Chaos win, unleashing a C'tan on Mars, or providing the Tau with competent space travel, or causing a massive CRUSADE to rescue Vulkan from a trophy room, etc.

 dusara217 wrote:

 LumenPraebeo wrote:

 1hadhq wrote:
Imperium for sure.

To know what I know makes it the only Option.

Basically any 40k fan who is transferred into this Universe of eternal war knows things too many in that Universe are interested to either know or keep buried.

In an entire galaxies worth of activity though? How much DO we really know? The things we do know are pretty vague. Heck, in the real world, we still know very little about the galaxy, how much can we know about another one? especially one that's made up.?

We know the nature of Chaos, and enough secrets about the Imperium and the galaxy as a whole that, if we told the wrong people, we could end up letting Chaos win, unleashing a C'tan on Mars, or providing the Tau with competent space travel, or causing a massive CRUSADE to rescue Vulkan from a trophy room, etc.

Plus there's the whole Dark Angels hidden secret.

I serve the God-Emperor. Nothing else matters.

I fell victim to the sweet story telling of Water Caste and selected the answer no.3, not knowing they will sterilize me.


However, when the Warp opens next time, I'm going rouge. Fight my own cause.

I would totally be an inquisitor of the ordo zenos

COOL ELDAR STUFF HERE I COME!!!!!!

I'd probably serve the Imperium best leading an Adeptus Arbites Special Grammar Police Task Force, AASGPTF for short.

 StarDrop wrote:
I fell victim to the sweet story telling of Water Caste and selected the answer no.3, not knowing they will sterilize me.

Tau don't sterilize people. In order to believe that the Tau sterilize humans, one has to believe that the Blood Ravens curb-stomped Vect... and that's fething ridiculous.

I fight for this world's military, I don't see why I couldn't fight for theirs.
Based on my career, I'd probably be working for the Adeptus Mechanicus.
The Inquisition would also be preferable.
The Officio Assassinorum would be fine considering I wouldn't be me anymore.
Assassins are forged into something that doesn't care about who they were.
The AM is out of the question though. If I wanted to die that badly, I'd do it myself.

 EmpNortonII wrote:

 StarDrop wrote:
I fell victim to the sweet story telling of Water Caste and selected the answer no.3, not knowing they will sterilize me.

Tau don't sterilize people. In order to believe that the Tau sterilize humans, one has to believe that the Blood Ravens curb-stomped Vect... and that's fething ridiculous.

 StarDrop wrote:
I fell victim to the sweet story telling of Water Caste and selected the answer no.3, not knowing they will sterilize me.


However, when the Warp opens next time, I'm going rouge. Fight my own cause.

There is only one example of the Tau sterilizing humans, and even that's just a hypothesis for how the human population (that was rebelling) was decreasing on a Tau planet.

 StarDrop wrote:
I fell victim to the sweet story telling of Water Caste and selected the answer no.3, not knowing they will sterilize me.


However, when the Warp opens next time, I'm going rouge. Fight my own cause.

Rouge means red in french. Rogue means going renegade.

 LumenPraebeo wrote:

 StarDrop wrote:
I fell victim to the sweet story telling of Water Caste and selected the answer no.3, not knowing they will sterilize me.


However, when the Warp opens next time, I'm going rouge. Fight my own cause.

Rouge means red in french. Rogue means going renegade.

Maybe he means joining the thousand sons.

I'd probably keep doing what I'm currently doing,... adeptus arbites,... maybe the imperial pension is even better?

Human pocket empire which is democratic and much more humane then the fascist genocidal oppressive IoM. You guys don't get it. The IoM is Nazi Germany on steroids. You have no rights no life nothing. You're a slave.

Wow. Hell no! Just forget your XXIst analysis framework and get down of your high horse. Many people would follow the Imperium not because they are insane supremacist pricks like the ones you're talking about but because the Emperor is actually the only one thing that can keep Chaos at Bay. Even though parts of the system - i.e the Imperium - which was built around the Emperor can be oppressive and corrupted, I don't think there are other ways to unit Mankind better. Look at the poll; even though it's not answered by the billions of trillions of imperial citizens, one can see that many people would try to save themselves before defending the actual glimmer of hope that lies within the Imperial Palace. The Imperium is harsh because it must muster the whole Humanity in an universe where every human available should contribute to the survival of the whole specie. Too much enemies, no time to be sentimental.

(talking about that, being enlisted in the IG does not mean you're automatically sent to a meat grinder, just like Guevesa apologists lurking in this thread seems to think. The IG is the most diverse armed force in the galaxy and for each regiment favouring human waves tactics, there are plenty highly trained units which prefer high precision armoured assault or unconventional warfare like airborne attacks. It's just that GW never talk about them cause not grimdark enough, you see. TLDR; don"t trust the xenos scum.)