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The could interbreed if Eldar had any interest in sex; they do not.

Hawkins wrote:

tigonesskay wrote:Wouldn't the frail Elder bones break during the "act"?
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'Corprol!' *grunt* 'Pass me another eldar, this ones split!' *grunt*

You make it sound like he's using the eldar as contraception

olympia wrote:The could interbreed if Eldar had any interest in sex; they do not.

So How do they reproduce?
So that means most elder couples are in a plantonic relationship

they (eldar) currently view "copulation" purly as a means of reproduction, To stave off Slannesh's predations. A purely functional view of the act.

This would mean an Eldar would be a highly unsatisfactory partner for a human. nice to look at, but not a reciprocating partner.

Leigen_Zero wrote:

crazykiwi wrote:
what about that weird ape human hybrid looking thing (really best way of discriping it) from the 60s (i think) I saw a doco on that a while back they seemed to think it was either a mutated ape, a case of man and ape or ape raping woman (as they had a clip of it also trying to rape the handler from memory)

if this was to be fact it blows the whole different species aint gonna happen speech out the window

That turned out to be a dead monkey, and they had strategically broke some bones so make it look more human, sorry to burst your bubble...

I say that since the eldar require multiple 'contributions', it would be more sensible for eldar male/human female, but the offspring wouldn't be too stable genetically. I suppose the reason most people use a eldar mother is the age-old elf-fantasy.

More importantly if you can think of the fluff go for it, wierd experiments, IVF, work of warp-entities etc etc.

As for a motive, 'when in the imperium, do as the imperials do...'

Fanatically worship a corpse and burn anything that gives you a funny look?

Leigen_Zero wrote:

crazykiwi wrote:
what about that weird ape human hybrid looking thing (really best way of discriping it) from the 60s (i think) I saw a doco on that a while back they seemed to think it was either a mutated ape, a case of man and ape or ape raping woman (as they had a clip of it also trying to rape the handler from memory)

if this was to be fact it blows the whole different species aint gonna happen speech out the window

That turned out to be a dead monkey, and they had strategically broke some bones so make it look more human, sorry to burst your bubble...

I think he's referring to Oliver, which has genetically proven to be a Chimpanzee, though one that had randomly developed facial and physical features(also found to be within the varietal norms for Chimpanzees, though rarely seen in that combination) that made it look more human and walked around as a biped more(pretty much exclusively) than the average Chimp. The Discovery Channel made a Documentary about him named "Humanzee".



He enjoyed the company of humans more than chimps(especially females), smoked, and mixed drinks. His original owner sold him when Oliver attempted to rape his wife.

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hope this helps

crap, needed pic to get attention of 40k players on the chan.

The system in action again

DEATH89 wrote:

Hawkins wrote:

tigonesskay wrote:Wouldn't the frail Elder bones break during the "act"?
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'Corprol!' *grunt* 'Pass me another eldar, this ones split!' *grunt*

You make it sound like he's using the eldar as contraception

Its a quote from a Book by Mary Gentle, called Grunts, read it. its HAAA larious.

Grey Templar wrote:they (eldar) currently view "copulation" purly as a means of reproduction, To stave off Slannesh's predations. A purely functional view of the act.

This would mean an Eldar would be a highly unsatisfactory partner for a human. nice to look at, but not a reciprocating partner.

well wouldnt they still enjoy it because way back before the Imperium and when the eldar empire was fully funtioning they were corrupted and created slaneshh right?

so now they guard against it but in the end they still would enjoy it but they'd just try not to to avoid turning

they might practice a form of AI to avoid the predations of Slannesh.

Meh since all space marines are GAY!!! i really dont think so... All i could think of is a man corupted to slanesh attemping the act?

Ask the Xenos hunters (Ordo Xenos and the armed fraction Deathwatch), they should know.

Morgrim wrote:

sniperjolly wrote:Well as I see it, it once existed, and never has been adressed or retconned, so must still be official.

Xenology is a more recent source and retcons. It pretty bluntly lays out the ways in which eldar and humans are biologically different. Details about the bone and muscle structure, the layout of the internal organs etc.

While the 'multiple conceptions' issue has been addressed above, I think this quote from it is further proof it is not possible for them to breed:

Xenology, pg 25 wrote:Unsurprisingly, this cellular 'code' exceeds our in complexity - a quintuple helix where ours is double, twenty chemical bases replace our four, and the Eldar's sample (says Darvus) 'distorts in response to the examiner's concentration'.

Quintuple vs binary helix and twenty bases vs four? Yeah, no way in hell are eldar and humans compatible.

Note, not being able to breed has no impact on whether they can have sex, that's more a simple plumbing matter.

This.

There was a Necromunda Special character who is the offspring of an Eldar father and human mother, and this was in fairly recent fluff, so it is possible and does not require "multiple" visits.

although necromunda and 40k have related fluff they should not be taken and put together.

GW is not-repeat-NOT consistent and all games should be seperated as far as fluff goes.


the reason for multiple conceptions could be that a eldar's sperm only contains 1 chromesome and 12 visits are required. therefore a male eldar + female human, but not a male human + female eldar is possable.

the basic concensus is eldar + humans is highly unlikely(assuming it is possable, which i don't) and so is generally considered impossable by most.


unless GW says specifically that it is possable we must assume it isn't