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2010/09/10 23:39:18
Subject: Space Skaven?
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Screaming Banshee
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Why's it not been done?
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2010/09/10 23:51:40
Subject: Space Skaven?
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Lord Commander in a Plush Chair
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Because 40k is not Fantasy battles in space.
Orks are not exactly Orcs in space, Squats(the Space Dwarves) are all dead and never coming back, Eldar are not Elves in space, and Chaos Marines are no where near warriors of Chaos.
There kind of are Space skaven, though(in a manner of speaking), they are called the Hrud; and may appear in the new Tau Empire Codex(hopefully along with the "new" squats, the Demiurg).
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This is my Rulebook. There are many Like it, but this one is mine. Without me, my rulebook is useless. Without my rulebook, I am useless.
Stop looking for buzz words and start reading the whole sentences.
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2010/09/11 00:08:39
Subject: Space Skaven?
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Napoleonics Obsesser
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Hrud or hrut..However it's speled
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If only ZUN!bar were here... |
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2010/09/11 02:11:32
Subject: Space Skaven?
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Screaming Banshee
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2010/09/11 13:54:40
Subject: Space Skaven?
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Bryan Ansell
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GW decided long ago that they wanted to seperate 40k from fantasy.
Way back in the mists of time you could play fantasy and 40k together, The fantasy world was actually considered to inhabit the 40K universe.
Indeed the shift from 2nd to 3rd ed saw the demise of Squats which didn't fit into the new streamlined setting and rules.
So whilst there are Halflings (Ratlings), Ogryns (ogres) and Space Elfs (ermm..Elfs?) and deamons of course there is no place for Skaven.
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2010/09/11 14:22:24
Subject: Space Skaven?
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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Hrud are roughly equivalent to skaven. Small creatures of shadow with warp-based technology that "infest" a location. They aren't ratlike though.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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2010/09/12 01:31:43
Subject: Space Skaven?
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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there will never be a 40k skaven due to the fact that 40k and fantasy are meant to be divided.
but it would be cool to make your own army of skaven!! Automatically Appended Next Post: use it as a count as ork or IG army
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"Reality is, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away"
-Philip K. Dick
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2010/09/12 01:36:12
Subject: Space Skaven?
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Noble of the Alter Kindred
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Why's it not been done?
Because there are no tunnels in space?
Dagnabbit... Worm Holes 
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2010/09/12 02:17:53
Subject: Re:Space Skaven?
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Impassive Inquisitorial Interrogator
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Funny thing. Re-reading Dan Abnett's The Lost, and in Traitor General, they make reference to rats.
"The starships of Holy Terra had spread many things across the galaxy - faith, colonists, technology, civilization - but nothing so comprehensively or so surely as the indomitable rattus rattus.... On some worlds, the accidentally imported rat had overmastered all other life forms. On other worlds, they had interbred and created monsters."
Space Skaven? Now I want to start an army of them...
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2010/09/12 02:37:32
Subject: Space Skaven?
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Screaming Banshee
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Skaven with looted lasguns would be funny 
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2010/09/12 09:23:12
Subject: Space Skaven?
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Noble of the Alter Kindred
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Not if you are at the other end of said looted lasgun! 
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