Inter-species romance/relationships in 40k?

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**Snrub**

TheCustomLime wrote:
I suppose in some dark, forgotten corner of the galaxy a depraved human and an even more depraved Eldar meet. Their romance is forbidden, abohorent, reviling and not very pleasant to any onlookers. However, despite all that, they meet. They are a rare, 1 in a million chance pairing. For the human, the angular yet alluring beauty of an Eldar is too much for him or her. For the Eldar, his or her twisted and disgusting fetishes over ride any sense of self respect. Their genetic material is incompatible but for the forbidden factor of their "love" well makes up for it.

At least that's how it could happen according to what people say is Gee-Dubs stance on Eldar/Human relations.

C.S Goto please leave. You aren't welcome here.

**Admiral Valerian**

Snrub wrote:
TheCustomLime wrote:
I suppose in some dark, forgotten corner of the galaxy a depraved human and an even more depraved Eldar meet. Their romance is forbidden, abohorent, reviling and not very pleasant to any onlookers. However, despite all that, they meet. They are a rare, 1 in a million chance pairing. For the human, the angular yet alluring beauty of an Eldar is too much for him or her. For the Eldar, his or her twisted and disgusting fetishes over ride any sense of self respect. Their genetic material is incompatible but for the forbidden factor of their "love" well makes up for it.

At least that's how it could happen according to what people say is Gee-Dubs stance on Eldar/Human relations.
C.S Goto please leave. You aren't welcome here.

Such things are probably 'meh' in Commoragh...

**TheCustomLime**

Snrub wrote:
TheCustomLime wrote:
I suppose in some dark, forgotten corner of the galaxy a depraved human and an even more depraved Eldar meet. Their romance is forbidden, abohorent, reviling and not very pleasant to any onlookers. However, despite all that, they meet. They are a rare, 1 in a million chance pairing. For the human, the angular yet alluring beauty of an Eldar is too much for him or her. For the Eldar, his or her twisted and disgusting fetishes over ride any sense of self respect. Their genetic material is incompatible but for the forbidden factor of their "love" well makes up for it.

At least that's how it could happen according to what people say is Gee-Dubs stance on Eldar/Human relations.
C.S Goto please leave. You aren't welcome here.

I don't know how to react to that....

On topic, if it's Dark Eldar then... well, what explanation is needed?

**Brother Captain Alexander**

Void__Dragon wrote:
Xenology confirms that despite certain aesthetic similarities, the physiology of an Eldar is nothing like that of a human.

We are talking about same book where Tau have legs instead of heel? And where it is mentioned that they have Eldar crystal in their head that controls entire Tau people via pheromones?So yeah, pretty vaild book.

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Lynata wrote:
.Xenology also thinks that Tau have feet and Ork blood is green.

In the end, there is no such thing as "one singular truth" in 40k and the various sources of fluff - which includes not only the official outlets of GW, Black Library, Forgeworld and FFG (which contradict each other regularly) but also the fans - are all on equal footing. It's left to the fans to decide what they want to roll with.

Personally, Human + Eldar I could see happen on a biological level, but culturally each of these civilisations seems highly xenophobic (with the Humans it's hate, with the Eldar it's arrogance) so that it would be a rare thing indeed. "Special snowflake" kind of rare.

I agree.

I don't see why Eldar and Humans are not able to interbreed. The difference between them is minimal, moreover they are made by the same parent race - the Old Ones.
Humans being "average" and Eldar being "more powerful" version of the same being.

**Beaviz81**

Ehm they are vastly different. The Eldars are far removed from humans, and even so, humans can't breed with our closest relative the chimps for a variety of reasons.

**Admiral Valerian**

Beaviz81 wrote:
Ehm they are vastly different. The Eldars are far removed from humans, and even so, humans can't breed with our closest relative the chimps for a variety of reasons.

But then again, Eldar aren't a true life form even in the context of the setting, seeing as they're living weapons created by the Old Ones.

**Beaviz81**

Still they are only similar on the surface. Breeding with them is like humans trying to mate with the Thin Men of X-Com.

**Admiral Valerian**

Beaviz81 wrote:
Still they are only similar on the surface. Breeding with them is like humans trying to mate with the Thin Men of X-Com.

My point is we automatically assume normal (as far as 40k can be called normal) biology applies to the Eldar, when it might not given their nature.

**Flinty**

On the rich world of Verona a scion of the Montague trading empire happens across a resident of the Ca'pulet craftworld travelling incognito... love blossoms, tragedy ensues and the stars are defied

**Admiral Valerian**

Flinty wrote:
On the rich world of Verona a scion of the Montague trading empire happens across a resident of the Ca'pulet craftworld travelling incognito... love blossoms, tragedy ensues and the stars are defied

What?

**Flinty**

Admiral Valerian wrote:
Flinty wrote:
On the rich world of Verona a scion of the Montague trading empire happens across a resident of the Ca'pulet craftworld travelling incognito... love blossoms, tragedy ensues and the stars are defied

What?

Maybe its better in its original Klingon...

Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet works in all settings and with all kinds of protagonists

**Admiral Valerian**

Flinty wrote:
Admiral Valerian wrote:
Flinty wrote:
On the rich world of Verona a scion of the Montague trading empire happens across a resident of the Ca'pulet craftworld travelling incognito... love blossoms, tragedy ensues and the stars are defied

What?

Maybe its better in its original Klingon...

Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet works in all settings and with all kinds of protagonists

And after they commit suicide, the Imperium and the Ca'puletii come to blows over the whole matter.

**Flinty**

Admiral Valerian wrote:
Flinty wrote:
Admiral Valerian wrote:
Flinty wrote:
On the rich world of Verona a scion of the Montague trading empire happens across a resident of the Ca'pulet craftworld travelling incognito... love blossoms, tragedy ensues and the stars are defied

What?

Maybe its better in its original Klingon...

Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet works in all settings and with all kinds of protagonists

And after they commit suicide, the Imperium and the Ca'puletii come to blows over the whole matter.

Devastating the subsector allowing a waaagh to run rampant before the necrons and/or the tyranids arrive and eat whats left. The inquisition glasses the few remaining viable planets because an unfortunare mis-translation of a local robotics manufacturer slogan told them to go stick their head in a pig

**Admiral Valerian**

Flinty wrote:

Devastating the subsector allowing a waaagh to run rampant before the necrons and/or the tyranids arrive and eat whats left.

Sounds like day to day business to me

The inquisition glasses the few remaining viable planets because an unfortunare mis-translation of a local robotics manufacturer slogan told them to go stick their head in a pig

ROFL

**Ledabot**

Ye Nay sayers! Love can always bloom! Next on the list. The two missing space marine chapters were female and where hunted down because of reasons still unclear.

**Snrub**

Love can bloom indeed

Beware, heresy most foul and depraved resides beyond.

LCB (for those who haven't seen it)

**Hlaine Larkin mk2**

It's not as depraved as another 40K page on 1d4chan

Spoiler:

**Admiral Valerian**

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:
It's not as depraved as another 40K page on 1d4chan

Spoiler:

eldar rape

Rapists float home. I'm no saint, but I'm not having rapists on my ship, even if the victim was xenos filth.

Imperial Navy Articles of War wrote:
You are expected at all times and in all situations to conduct yourselves in a manner appropriate to, and mindful of, the great duties and traditions of the Emperor's Most Glorious and Honourable Navy.

I don't care if the victim was a xenos, rape is rape, and it is unforgivable. Warrant Officer Crag, escort these men to the airlock. May His Imperial Majesty have mercy on you, for I have none.

Snrub wrote:
Love can bloom indeed

Beware, heresy most foul and depraved resides beyond.

LCB (for those who haven't seen it)

That's so sweet...seems incomplete though.

**Velour_Fog**

OP, you've been playing too much Mass effect

**MeanGreenStompa**

It's entirely feasible for romances between species if a writer decides it is and it's well written. Despite the background getting more and more tied down in recent years, it really is still in a state of flux, it changes from novel to novel and codex to codex, the entire Necron history just got utterly altered and the tyranids took a major shift in technology and weakness in the last codex, going from warp travelling super beasts to narvel (?) craft reliant and in a desperate race against the hive's own woken metabolism to devour or die out.

We won't have a human/eldar hybrid until someone writes one up and he or she is a great character.

**Admiral Valerian**

Skarwael wrote:
OP, you've been playing too much Mass effect

Lol

But not by much

**Polvilhovoador**

It's a big galaxy, and sentient races are composed of INDIVIDUALS. I don't see why not.

**meecham63**

To have hybrids, you must have the same number of chromosomes. Anyway, GW mainly take inspiration from the universe of the Lord of The Ring. You have Beren and Luthien, Aragorn and Arwen...

So we can easily imagine a deep love story beetwen Marneus Calgar and Jain Zar, for an example.

**Beaviz81**

meecham63 wrote:
So we can easily imagine a deep love story beetwen Marneus Calgar and Jain Zar, for an example.

Wouldn't her womb just dissolve due to the Space Marine having poisonous blood and acid instead of spit.

**TheCustomLime**

Beaviz81 wrote:
meecham63 wrote:
So we can easily imagine a deep love story beetwen Marneus Calgar and Jain Zar, for an example.

Wouldn't her womb just dissolve due to the Space Marine having poisonous blood and acid instead of spit.

oth

We don't know how hazardous their -other- bodily fluids are. It's probably normal, unless you are a Space Wolf, then it's wolf seed! Cause Space Wolves are special!

Also, I'd totally support Marneus Calgar/Jain Zar. Wait till s/he finds out what he did to an avatar of khaine.

**MeanGreenStompa**

Beaviz81 wrote:
meecham63 wrote:
So we can easily imagine a deep love story beetwen Marneus Calgar and Jain Zar, for an example.

Wouldn't her womb just dissolve due to the Space Marine having poisonous blood and acid instead of spit.

No, more likely she'll just take up salsa dancing and drinking too much wine as, like with all other marines, Calgar don't got no 'mojo'...

**Sir Samuel Buca**

To answer the original question as bluntly as possible;
Humans and Eldar could probably do the deed to some extent, but reproduction would be impossible, we're more likely to breed with Chimpanzees, which we can't due to a couple of chromosomes being flipped on the DNA, and we're pretty closely related.
Human and Eldar DNA would be totally incompatible. Aren't they supposed to have avian ancestors anyway?

**DutchKillsRambo**

Beaviz81 wrote:
Ehm they are vastly different. The Eldars are far removed from humans, and even so, humans can't breed with our closest relative the chimps for a variety of reasons.

Pffft thats how AIDS started.

**BolingbrokeIV**

Humans aren't even compatible with Chimpanzees, I can't see how they could breed with a race which evolved completely independently of life on Earth.

EDIT: sorry, didn't notice Beaviz81 had made the same point already

**The Observer**

Inter species love? I am Inquisitor Almir, please take a seat over there. I would like to have a few words with you...