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2012/06/12 14:12:01
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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I assume there are hospitals of some kind in 40K. My question is where are they located, how big are they and who runs them? I understand that Chapters have Apothecaries and, from what I understand, some sort of 'Nurse's Office' for SM. But what about the Imperial Guard hospitals sitting behind the front lines 
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2012/06/12 14:14:49
Subject: Re:Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Nurse's office?
As for the Imperial Guard, there's plenty of descriptions in Gaunt's Ghosts.
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I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.' |
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2012/06/12 14:33:31
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Well either way, no one wants to end up needing to go to the Hospital in Commoragh
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Gods? There are no gods. Merely existences, obstacles to overcome.
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2012/06/12 20:30:00
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
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Depends entirely on where you live and how much money you have. If you're an up-Hive grand poobah, the hospital you go to is high-tech and extremely nice. If you live in the underhive? You find a corner to die in. There is no hospital. And people will collect your corpse to sell it to the AdMech (or someone else) for use as servitor stock, organ harvesting, or rendering into corpse-starch.
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2012/06/12 20:35:55
Subject: Re:Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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As always, it depends on the world. Almost anything and everything you can imagine can exist somewhere in the Imperium, from Canada to hell Nazi Germany to decadant utopia.
Feudal worlds may have shamans and medicine men or apothicaries. Imperial worlds may be exactly like our own, or socialist, or hive like, or ultracapitalist. They may have crazy Star Trek hospitals for the nobility and Civil War bone hackers for the commoners. It may be a company world where everyone works for the corporation and gets treated at the local med station.
Anything you want. The Imperium has very little shared culture between worlds.
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2012/06/12 22:03:02
Subject: Re:Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Dakka Veteran
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As long as it isn't like the VA hospital room I was in years ago...
Nothing is that grimdark...
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2012/06/12 22:20:58
Subject: Re:Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Calm Celestian
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The Adeptus Sororitas have the Orders Hospitaller which provide field surgery for the Battle Sisters, as well as other Imperial non-marine branches. Out of all the options, they're who I'd like to have working on me.
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Orders_Hospitaller#.T9fARxzWpcQ
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2012/06/15 20:56:39
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Yaaay for (allegedly) pretty girls in power armour with a hard gauntlet and a kind word? 
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2012/06/15 21:08:31
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Flinty wrote:Yaaay for (allegedly) pretty girls in power armour with a hard gauntlet and a kind word?
Oh not good. Half expecting Tadshi to show up and give you a reprimand for lack of proper decency.
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 amanita wrote:So dare I ask what happens if he farts? Could it blow the seals on the lower portion of his armor? Or is a space marine's system immune to such mundane fluctuations of bodily conduct?
 Moktor wrote:No one should be complaining about this codex. It gave regular Eldar a much needed buff by allowing us to drop Fire Dragons and D-Scythe Wraithguard wherever we want, without scatter. Without this, I almost lost a game once. It was scary. I almost took to buying fixed dice to ensure it never happened again.
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2012/06/15 23:38:34
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Redcruisair wrote:Flinty wrote:Yaaay for (allegedly) pretty girls in power armour with a hard gauntlet and a kind word?
Oh not good. Half expecing Tadashi to show up and give you a reprimand for lack of proper decency.
You anticipated correctly.  Please refrain from overly sexual implications and show appropriate respect to Holy Sisters.
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I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.' |
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2012/06/15 23:49:02
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Dont they also have hospitals for IG with mental problems from duty?
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2012/06/15 23:52:33
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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hotsauceman1 wrote:Dont they also have hospitals for IG with mental problems from duty?
They do. Although according to Inquisitor Vail, those same facilities are also a 'source' of combat servitors.
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I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.' |
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2012/06/15 23:55:44
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Well is fixes the mental problems dont it?
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2012/06/16 00:15:15
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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2012/06/16 00:28:31
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Tadashi wrote:Redcruisair wrote:Flinty wrote:Yaaay for (allegedly) pretty girls in power armour with a hard gauntlet and a kind word?
Oh not good. Half expecing Tadashi to show up and give you a reprimand for lack of proper decency.
You anticipated correctly.
Please refrain from overly sexual implications and show appropriate respect to Holy Sisters.
Hmm.. I must have missed something somewhere... I was going to use "soft hand and a kind word" as their bedside manner but the Hospitallers are also in power armour so it didn't seem quite correct. Sexual innuendo was unintentional.
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Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!
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2012/06/16 01:23:06
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Coolyo294 wrote:They aren't real.
Regardless, I find it very offensive to view others, real or not, as mere sex symbols. Admiration is fine - I wouldn't mind having a Holy Sister as a friend or a confidante - but a sex slave or 'friends with benefits'? Gak to that.
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I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.' |
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2012/06/16 02:48:25
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
Seattle
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It is human nature to view some members of the preferred sex as merely objects. That's why they call it "objectifying". Some people even like that kind of attention. Some people, mostly fashion designers, make gobs of money on the fact. There's billions-of-dollars of industries that are built around the idea of making yourself a more attractive object than other objects.
In short, you're railing against human nature.
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2012/06/16 03:17:12
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Annoyed Blood Angel Devastator
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Hospitales in 40k are rune by a branch of SoB who call themselves Hospitallers just like the Knights from the Crusades (Knights of Saint John). They provide the medical services for Hive cities and also provide front line care for injured Guardsmen and fellow SoB, and other servants of the Emperor
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 We are winged salvation, but we are a terrible, final salvation, and our wings embrace the horizon with fire. We are the Blood Angels. To confront us is to die, and death is my remit, my reality, my unbounded domain. I have known death, and defeated it, claimed it as my own. To my cost, to my strength, death is my one gift to bestow, and I am nothing if not generous. |
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2012/06/16 03:17:54
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Psienesis wrote:It is human nature to view some members of the preferred sex as merely objects. That's why they call it "objectifying". Some people even like that kind of attention. Some people, mostly fashion designers, make gobs of money on the fact. There's billions-of-dollars of industries that are built around the idea of making yourself a more attractive object than other objects.
In short, you're railing against human nature.
True enough. But I don't have to condone it, do I?
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I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.' |
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2012/06/16 04:23:41
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Tadashi wrote:Psienesis wrote:It is human nature to view some members of the preferred sex as merely objects. That's why they call it "objectifying". Some people even like that kind of attention. Some people, mostly fashion designers, make gobs of money on the fact. There's billions-of-dollars of industries that are built around the idea of making yourself a more attractive object than other objects.
In short, you're railing against human nature.
True enough. But I don't have to condone it, do I?
You don't have to, but you certainly don't have any right to tell people to conform to your world view as well. It's the interwebs, offense will occur.
As for the OP, I believe it was it was Warriors of Ultramar that delved a bit into the hospital stuff. The Ordo Hospitallar was adressed to an extent, and sorry to burst bubbles, but it wasn't Amazons in Power Armor administering morphine to the wounded. The character it centered on actually seemed quite unfamiliar with her ceremonial weapon when she was called on to use it.
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2012/06/16 08:50:47
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Most hospitals are not run by the Hospitallier sisters, though they are the only organisation that operates on numerous worlds throughout the Imperium.
Anna Curth, who becomes one of the head medics for the Tanith 1st, worked in one of the hospitals in Vervunhive. You might be able to find a more decent description of her workplace in Necropolis.
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Orlanth wrote:Its a known fact that Aussies are genetically disposed towards crime, we intentionally set them up that way.
But only awesome crimes like bushranging and, if I understand the song correctly, sheep stealing and suicide.
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2012/06/17 10:47:28
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Leader of the Sept
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Tadashi wrote:Coolyo294 wrote:They aren't real.
Regardless, I find it very offensive to view others, real or not, as mere sex symbols. Admiration is fine - I wouldn't mind having a Holy Sister as a friend or a confidante - but a sex slave or 'friends with benefits'? Gak to that.
Sex symbols can also be positive though. There are many recorded cases of pretty nurses in military hospitals brightening the day of the wounded and helping them heal, hence my original statement.
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Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!
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2012/06/17 11:12:38
Subject: Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Flinty wrote:Tadashi wrote:Coolyo294 wrote:They aren't real.
Regardless, I find it very offensive to view others, real or not, as mere sex symbols. Admiration is fine - I wouldn't mind having a Holy Sister as a friend or a confidante - but a sex slave or 'friends with benefits'? Gak to that.
Sex symbols can also be positive though. There are many recorded cases of pretty nurses in military hospitals brightening the day of the wounded and helping them heal, hence my original statement.
I can accept that, but I'm going to jump down on negative versions. With a land raider in tow.
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I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.' |
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2012/06/17 20:32:04
Subject: Re:Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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There are of course hospitals, not all are run by the Hospitallers.
I would imagine they would be huge, especially ones in Hive Cities. Able to serve thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of patients at once.
There will also be local clinics and such scattered about.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
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2012/06/17 20:53:29
Subject: Re:Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Dont they also have hospitals for IG with mental problems from duty?
Yes it's called the nearest Commisar and a bolt to the back of the skull.
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2012/06/17 21:35:04
Subject: Re:Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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But Sisters Hospitaler are universally seen as THE symbol of medical help by Imperial fighting troops.
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2012/06/17 22:10:00
Subject: Re:Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Yeah, just like the Red Cross.
They arn't the only people practicing medicine. They are simply, probably one of many, organizations whose purpose is medical treatment.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
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2012/06/17 22:21:28
Subject: Re:Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Kroothawk wrote:But Sisters Hospitaler are universally seen as THE symbol of medical help by Imperial fighting troops.
As far as I know, this fellow is correct. It seems to me from the Ciaphas Cain books that the best medical facilities for the Imperiums fighting forces(except for space marines) is the Sisters. That is not to say that the Imperial Guard and Navy both run many medical facilities of their own. The Shadow Point and Execution Hour books both give very detailed descriptions of the Imperial Navy side of medical facilities.
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2012/06/18 14:36:51
Subject: Re:Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Well the FFG's Dark Heresy haves a psychic discipline known as biomancy (the shaping and manipulating of flesh) that can not only heal but regrow limbs (obviously won't work for a lost head), who needs doctors when you can regrow your limbs, expunge acid and poison and survive vacuum. Though considering the rarity of individuals with their psychic gift advanced to that level and the ant psyker nature of some of the Imperium's citizens I doubt that we will be seeing a psyker hospital.
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2012/06/18 22:52:03
Subject: Re:Grimdark Hospitals of 40K
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Yori wrote:Well the FFG's Dark Heresy haves a psychic discipline known as biomancy (the shaping and manipulating of flesh) that can not only heal but regrow limbs (obviously won't work for a lost head), who needs doctors when you can regrow your limbs, expunge acid and poison and survive vacuum. Though considering the rarity of individuals with their psychic gift advanced to that level and the ant psyker nature of some of the Imperium's citizens I doubt that we will be seeing a psyker hospital.
The Pavoni of the pre-Heresy Thousand Sons had something similar.
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I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.' |
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