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The Emperor was nearly choked to death by an average Ork.

The Emperor was no more powerful psychically than a novice Farseer.

Those both used to be facts.

I think it's cute that based on the vehicle squadron markings on the Harlequin book, we know that the Eldar use a base-12 number system.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
The original snippet on the 70 marines that defected so the empire would find out about Horus Treachery.

So much flavour in that short piece...

 DarknessEternal wrote:
The Emperor was nearly choked to death by an average Ork.

The Emperor was no more powerful psychically than a novice Farseer.

Those both used to be facts.

Key word was "used."

In modern fluff, the fether obliterated most of a WAAAGH!... Psychically.

the Leman Russ is actually a modified Tractor design so it is said.

The Baneblade STC claims it is a "Light Tank". I havn't seen this fact for a long time, I assume it just vanished and was never touched on again. but at the same time I have yet to find anything that says otherwise. Leaves dreams of what the "Heavy" or "Medium" beyond the baneblade could be.

Zond wrote:

Xenoesis wrote:
I would say my favorite bit of trivia involves how the Paternova (the ruler of the Navis Nobilite) is chosen.

Every thousand years or so the current Paternova dies, and the heads of the Great Houses begin mutating into the Heirs Apparent, uncontrollably violent psychic monsters who hunt each other down and kill/devour one another until only the strongest remains.

Whereupon that one becomes enthroned on Terra for the next thousand years and is never seen by humans again.

My personal opinion: tyranid.

I had honestly never heard this before and its so cool and awesome it will be the basis of any 40k based rpg I run. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

I'm using it in a Rogue Trader game.

It's especially nifty because when the Paternova dies, until a replacement is chosen, there's an "interregnum" in which warp travel becomes very difficult due to the psychic connection being severed. If the Heirs Apparent don't kill each other, the Imperium will fall apart. On the other hand, every Great House naturally wants theirs to be the next Paternova. So a psyker Game of Thrones ensues.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 DarknessEternal wrote:
The Emperor was nearly choked to death by an average Ork.

The Emperor was no more powerful psychically than a novice Farseer.

Those both used to be facts.

Key word was "used."

In modern fluff, the fether obliterated most of a WAAAGH!... Psychically.

Or maybe the weakest of Eldar Farseers are just that powerful...

 Kojiro wrote:

So much flavour in that short piece...

Yeah, I'm kind of miffed that the new Horus Heresy series decided to kill Saul Tarvitz on Istvaan instead of letting him lead the ship back Terra like he originally did.

I think people forget about some of the weirder things space marines can do, such as spit acid (betcher gland) or absorb knowledge through eating someone (omophagea)

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Creation_of_a_Space_Marine

 BobNT wrote:
I think people forget about some of the weirder things space marines can do, such as spit acid (betcher gland) or absorb knowledge through eating someone (omophagea)

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Creation_of_a_Space_Marine

The vast majority of Space Marines writers have never read that list, let alone the fans.

Honestly,if I see one more fanboy going on about how they have super immune systems and are therefore immune to disease and poison, or how their brains work faster and they're all geniuses, or some other upgrade that Astartes don't actually have, I will scream.

... it will not be the first time.

Yep. There are several SM books where the plot hinges on the Marines not having one or another of the implants they're supposed to have, with their Chapter having no previously-known failure or regression of said implant.

It's not the suddenly missing augments that gets me, it's the extra ones that came out of nowhere >>

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 BobNT wrote:
I think people forget about some of the weirder things space marines can do, such as spit acid (betcher gland) or absorb knowledge through eating someone (omophagea)

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Creation_of_a_Space_Marine

The vast majority of Space Marines writers have never read that list, let alone the fans.

Honestly,if I see one more fanboy going on about how they have super immune systems and are therefore immune to disease and poison, or how their brains work faster and they're all geniuses, or some other upgrade that Astartes don't actually have, I will scream.

... it will not be the first time.

Depends on the Legion, Death Guard actually do have a high poison resistance and Mortarion would award excellence in battle by sharing a cocktail of horrendous toxins. Or something like that.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
It's not the suddenly missing augments that gets me, it's the extra ones that came out of nowhere >>

SPEHSS MEHREENS R THE BESST! is a sentiment I can't stand. They have so much potential as protagonists, but they will never truly shine until they are no longer portrayed as being completely immune to everything the universe can throw at them.

 Kojiro wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
The original snippet on the 70 marines that defected so the empire would find out about Horus Treachery.

So much flavour in that short piece...

Including that World Eater cannot count but nobody has the guts to point it out to him! (total is 63-67)

It's always bugged me that the Death Guard IA author had to go all fanboi and give Varren's part to Garro.

Random factoid: When 2nd edition came out GW swapped the Ultramarines and Emperor's Children chapter numbers, GW updated the art for the Banner of Macragge to reflect it (changing only the number), but apparently the sculptor worked off an old picture when doing the Honour Guard set in 4th edition as it has the pre-retcon III.

I believe some of the earlier lore mentioned the existence of Eldar-Human offspring.

 Robbert Ambrose wrote:
I believe some of the earlier lore mentioned the existence of Eldar-Human offspring.

Illisan Namaste, Chief Astropath of the Ultramarines, yes.

Astropath and Chief Librarian.