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So I've just been playing Dead Space 2, I got it on accident as I wanted the first one but I know the story so it's ok. Anyway I'm playing through the game and as I'm moving through the dimly lit, tightly packed and wrecked corridors waiting for some new deffinition of ugly to pop out or for some corpse to come alive and make me myself (yes I said it the game creeps me out like Silent Hill did back in the day) I realised something.

The environment of the game would probably be very similar to what it would be like on board a Space Hulk, tightly packed and wrecked corridors, random power surges, areas with little to no gravity or exposure to vacume conditions, infested with ugly things waiting to jump out and bite your head off unless you dismember it first (just died that way ). And it made me think that if I was a normal person in 40k I would probably be scared out of my wits to be on a Space Hulk like that which brings me to my question.

If you where a normal person in 40k, what would you be afraid of?

Everything.

Dang man I just barely clicked submit and there was an answer

I'm just cool like that.

Dark Eldar.

Ork Waaaghs! Dark Eldar raids. The Inquisition. Chaos raids. Demon invasions. Grey Knights fighting the demon invasions. Tyranid swarms.

Know what? It's just easier to say everything. Even Battle Sisters. Never know when they'll find out I'm a heretic, and I don't like fire very much.

There's literally nothing that won't kill you in 40k, so I'll echo the "everything" sentiment.

A space hulk appearing by my planet.

Simply being alive and to leave my from under the sheets on my bed

coolyo294 wrote:Everything.

Pretty much came here to say this.

coolyo294 wrote:Everything.

that pretty much sums it up.

I agree with everyone who said everything.

Genestealers, or Angels of Death, every time you hear about something being an Angel of Death it is not a good thing.

Nothing for I fight for the God Emperor of Mankind!

Vires` wrote:Nothing for I fight for the God Emperor of Mankind!

And then a Gribbly eats your face XD

The least scary thing would be orks...because they'll usually just kill you. Not slowly eat you, stab you to death or torture you or burn each layer of your skin off separately.

But I am still going to echo everything.

Daemons, I mean, have you seen those things!

Other than that, The Most Interesting Commisar in the Galaxy and his bottle of Dos Aquillas.

Jaon wrote:The least scary thing would be orks...because they'll usually just kill you. Not slowly eat you, stab you to death or torture you or burn each layer of your skin off separately.

But I am still going to echo everything.

At that I am not certain how painful gauss weaponry is compared to a shoota or a choppa, but I think they are probably less intimidating since there arent a million of them coming at you.

Me and a few mates had a discussion about this over a few bowls. We came to the decision that top of the 'OMG we fethed' scale would be a horde of Tyranids. Followed by haemoncullis and Necrons.

Chaos space marines not so much, they aren't really THAT scary. Tau would prob be beaten or become allies. The Imperium would leet us join, (We're human after all)

So yeah, Tyranids would be the scariest thing for us

Well, as a normal person, very little, since I don't know about most things. The Imperium keeps me in the dark. If I DID know, then everything to a certain degree, but some more than others.

Tyranids just want to eat me.
Necrons just want to disintegrate me.
Orks just want to kill me, or possibly make me a work slave for a little bit, but if I fight back they would probably kill me so at least that would be over.
Eldar probably won't be killing me unless I provoke them in some fashion, but if I did they just want to kill me. And probably pretty quick too.
Tau just want to convert me and then sterilize me and all my friends so they can have our planet after we die at the end of our happy, productive (yet oddly childless) lives.

Dark Eldar want to drag me back to their evil city in another dimension and torture me with hooks and chains and pokers until I can't fight back anymore, and then they use Cenobite like surgery to turn me into a deformed crazed beast to be used as a combination guard-dog-gladiator-sex-toy.

Chaos, on the other hand, wants to turn me into an insane puppet for their dark machinations, mindlessly spitting whatever "evil" ideas they have this week, complete with hideous deformities and terrible personal hygiene. To make this worse, they can turn me into just such a broken wretch by just having me hang out with them, since their malignant presence will warp my very being just from exposure to it. Not that my government isn't doing something about this, however. They have a secret policing body who kills anyone with any of that afforementioned taint (even from secondhand exposure). And to put the cherry on this feces-sunday, I can't avoid hanging out with them since I don't know how to spot cultists, since my government refuses to tell me!

So, I think in the final assessment, gonna have to go with Chaos on this one.

coolyo294 wrote:Everything.

Gotta go with everything.

To all of you people saying everything you are all afraid of grox, lasguns, food and air. I pitty you

Mirror.

Why? A grox is huge, a lasgun still kills you, the food can't be good, and the air is mostly full of stuff that would make NY street air look clean.

Anything than can just kill me without a chance, which does not include Chaos.

Oh and I said normal human, I never said anything about being apart of the Imperium. You can be a normal human and not be apart of the Imperium, in the same breath you can be a normal human and not be a civilian.


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Soladrin wrote:Why? A grox is huge

Every description I've seen has them only being slightly larger then cattle.

a lasgun still kills you

Wrong, the person holding the lasgun can kill you. A lasgun laying inert is not something scary it's just an inanimate object.

the food can't be good

You're saying you're afraid of bad tasting food? and plus wether something is good or not is a matter of opinion.

and the air is mostly full of stuff that would make NY street air look clean.

Depending on where you go, not every planet is a toxic wasteland. Are you afraid of polluted air?

The point is that no one who has said "everything" would actually be afraid of everything or else they would go insane. People are thinking "ok which alien danger would I be most afraid of in 40k" and that's not what I asked, something dosen't have to be dangerous to you for you to be afraid of it.

I'd prolly fear the Tyranids the most.

Shadow of the warp means everyone would be all in. Against Nids that ends poorly for everyone almost all the time.

"The Glorious SPACE MARINES won the Battle! Yet at the cost of the planets population!"

yeah.......about that...

Fear itself.

Warboss, lots of people in real life are afraid of cows, and guns (even when no one is wielding them).

In your last post you mock us for giving answers that are too general (everything) and for answers that are too specific (alien races). Maybe you should clarify what kind of answers you want.

And in any case, my answer (funny though it is) still stands. Scary lights or sounds don't compare to an enemy who can turn me into a psychotic monster that is not only a danger to everyone I know and love but hunted by the most dangerous group in the species, and that I can't fight or avoid because no one will tell me what to fight or avoid. No other danger compares.