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Title says it all.

They shoot it.

Well I assume their psykers are useless, And because rubric marines are controlled by the psykers. Bam goes the whole army?
If only blanks where a usable unit.

You sir have divided by zero. You go directly to jail. You do not pass Go, you do not collect 200 dollars. You may not use your get out of jail free card, and in this prison are ten thousand years of unsolvable riddles that you must spend an eternity finding the answers to. That is your punishment so say-ith Tzeentch, the true master of knowledge, and the only one able to grant you the answer you seek.

Presumably the Sorceror commanding senses the awful wrongness of the blank ahead of time and informs his rubrics "GO SHOOT THAT!" before fleeing.

DemetriDominov wrote:You sir have divided by zero. You go directly to jail. You do not pass Go, you do not collect 200 dollars. You may not use your get out of jail free card, and in this prison are ten thousand years of unsolvable riddles that you must spend an eternity finding the answers to. That is your punishment so say-ith Tzeentch, the true master of knowledge, and the only one able to grant you the answer you seek.

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The disruption effect of a Blank does not extend to the range of a bolter. So, in short, they shoot him... or they send some actual, mortal reavers to get medieval on him with chainswords and meat-cleavers.

Or prehaps the psyker overwhelms the blank with mind bullets!

See Ravenor Series and HH Nemesis.

They poop themselves?

A blank? I'm pretty sure that the sorceror gets something along the lines of a stomach ache, nauseau, and a headache. A pariah however, the sorceror is probably going to go into convulsions and possibly die.

They already did in A Thousand Sons. The Sons just shot them until their powers returned.

Tadashi wrote:They already did in A Thousand Sons. The Sons just shot them until their powers returned.

I think he meant nowadays (well, not nowadays, but post-heresy) when they are bags of ash and what not inside armour held together with psychic will. Not back when they were normal(ish).

motyak wrote:

Tadashi wrote:They already did in A Thousand Sons. The Sons just shot them until their powers returned.

I think he meant nowadays (well, not nowadays, but post-heresy) when they are bags of ash and what not inside armour held together with psychic will. Not back when they were normal(ish).

Engage from range. A blank/pariah's ability is limited to a short area around them - Rubricae and Sorcerers will just blow them up with heavy weapons or shoot them with bolters from a distance. They still have targeting auspexes and detection sensors - even if they can't detect them by psychic means, they can still do so by technological means.

1 on 1 the TS sorceror has only 1 option (like outcast dead) and thats to crush the psyker part of himself, but to be fair that "blank" was a Assassin

In 'A Thousand Sons' they are able to look for the missing piece in their perception and target them with conventional weapons.

It is a little known fact that the mechanicum are currently working on a variant of the Manticore code-named "the blunter" which basically fires a big metal tube lined with suspensors on the interior. They stuff a pariah inside and launch it into any oncoming enemy force which relies heavily on psychic powers.

Rubric marines? taken care of. Zoanthropes? A-sploded. Daemons? Cease to exist.

Then the pariah rides out the battle listening to inspiring imperial hymns or watching the latest holo-dramas while waiting for retrieval once the fores of the Emperor have been vanquished.

Daemons dont cease to exist. they just become easier to kill.

hotsauceman1 wrote:Daemons dont cease to exist. they just become easier to kill.

If a deamonis close enought to a blank it would most likely either be repelled away as its conectionto the warp is severed or would be banished.

BluntmanDC wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:Daemons dont cease to exist. they just become easier to kill.

If a deamonis close enought to a blank it would most likely either be repelled away as its conectionto the warp is severed or would be banished.

Pretty sure using a blank to fight a demon is like hoping double glazed window will stop a tsunami. They pretty much just die.
There's a scene in Eisenhorn/Ravenor where a blank is confronted by a demon and the demon just laughs at him.

Testify wrote:

BluntmanDC wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:Daemons dont cease to exist. they just become easier to kill.

If a deamonis close enought to a blank it would most likely either be repelled away as its conectionto the warp is severed or would be banished.

Pretty sure using a blank to fight a demon is like hoping double glazed window will stop a tsunami. They pretty much just die.
There's a scene in Eisenhorn/Ravenor where a blank is confronted by a demon and the demon just laughs at him.

And I think theres another scene where cherubael can't even come near Gregor because he has his 'precious untouchable with him' or something along those lines.

I think what we've learned from this is that the fluff is wildly inconsistent.

Testify wrote:

BluntmanDC wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:Daemons dont cease to exist. they just become easier to kill.

If a deamonis close enought to a blank it would most likely either be repelled away as its conectionto the warp is severed or would be banished.

Pretty sure using a blank to fight a demon is like hoping double glazed window will stop a tsunami. They pretty much just die.
There's a scene in Eisenhorn/Ravenor where a blank is confronted by a demon and the demon just laughs at him.

Well there is a difference between a blank and a pariah, a pariah is a hole in the warp, its pretty much the anti-warp. Blanks are able to block psychic powers in a certain area.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Blank#.T9vGlxfcPzF

In two cain novels, Jurgen gets close to a deamon. Even one that had its real form in the materium. It didnt cease to exist, just became easier to kill.

Now this gets me wondering how the hell did Fabius Bile merge the Black Pariah with a daemon?

King Pariah wrote:Now this gets me wondering how the hell did Fabius Bile merge the Black Pariah with a daemon?

Well, this is Fabulous Bile we are talking about. Only an Ork or a Dark Eldar Haemonculus could hope to make sense of what he does.

Ah, Fabius Bile, the most hideous creation in all 40K, next to the Daemonculaba of course.

I'm no prude, but that thing took grimdark just a bit too far.

Psykers cannot sense a Blank until they are within the range of his blankness.

They could sense a Pariah as they are much more noticable.



Psykers have a positive effect in the warp. Blanks have no visable effect beyond calming the warp, the only way a psyker could detect a Blank would be if he was actively attempting to do something to it. They would be the one person in a crowd of people who he can't see with his Wytchsight.

A Pariah is alot more. They don't calm warp energy, they consume it, drain it. Creating negative warp space. Its very obvious.

If a pariah/blank goes near a rubic marine, said rubic marine gets disabled right?

Viersche wrote:If a pariah/blank goes near a rubic marine, said rubic marine gets disabled right?

Why? The Rubrics are Thousand Sons with little or no psychic potential, they're souls bound into armour but not psychic in and of themselves. They don't require any connection to the warp to sustain themselves.

King Pariah wrote:A blank? I'm pretty sure that the sorceror gets something along the lines of a stomach ache, nauseau, and a headache.

And their powers are completely and utterly useless against a Blank, as well as just tryign to use psychic powers NEAR a Blank tends to be far more difficult, especially if theyr'e targeting anyone near the Blank.

The text makes no real notable difference between a blank and a pariah, they're two words for the same thing. But if you meant a culexis assassin, that's something entirely different. A culexis assassin is to a normal Blank what a highly trained, disciplined, and startlingly sane alpha-level psyker is to a normal psyker.

Nitros14 wrote:The Rubrics are Thousand Sons with little or no psychic potential, they're souls bound into armour but not psychic in and of themselves.

Actually, that itself is inherently psychic in nature, similar to daemon weapons in a sense.