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When I think better - ecclesiacrhy maybe ??? I mean ecclesiarchy/imperial cult are condeming IoM to a slow death, that is certain.....

Some on this forum will say "Oooo but faith keeps them going, yadayadayada, they needed that to survive after heresy",

I say nay - they are killing more people than the beloved "I" and IoM is back in the dark ages.....

Also their founder is a triple heretic and arch traitor called Lorgar "Urizen" Aurelian....

*now I will duck for cover*

The most disturbing:
41st millennium and humanity is STILL a superstitious race, blinded by its own xenophobia.

You'd think that after a few more thousand years, we'd have given up relying on invisible sky friends and moved on. You'd be wrong, though.

 chromedog wrote:
The most disturbing:
41st millennium and humanity is STILL a superstitious race, blinded by its own xenophobia.

You'd think that after a few more thousand years, we'd have given up relying on invisible sky friends and moved on. You'd be wrong, though.

But now the other guys have invisible sky friends. Except theirs can come down as a great green foot and stomp on you.

The new Tau. Holy feth do I loathe Overwatch.

The Tyranids bio-fleets.

Think about it: an intelligent, ferocious and efficient super-organism composed of countless horrifying creatures mauling, lacerating, devouring and consuming everything on their way.
Imagine the terror of the Adeptus Mechanicus researchers on Tyran (the first imperial world to fall in front of the Great Devourer) who watched their formidable planet defenses being overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the enemy: a soulless horde of alien beasts, every one of which is just an expendable pawn.
You can't negotiate with them: you can only resist or be assimilated. The survival of the fittest at its best.
That's why Tyranids are by far the most disturbing creatures of the WH40k universe.

 chromedog wrote:
The most disturbing:
41st millennium and humanity is STILL a superstitious race, blinded by its own xenophobia.

In a galaxy full of different species the vast majority of people would stick with their own.

You'd think that after a few more thousand years, we'd have given up relying on invisible sky friends and moved on. You'd be wrong, though.

How respectful. What do you mean by that anyway? All of the gods believed in in 40K are real (bar potentially the Machine God but that may well be a matter of interpretation).

In a grimdark universe it's hard to get more grim or dark than the DE. Whatever horrible thing you can think of, the DE do it... even to each other.

Daemonculaba

That thing is just disturbing.

 chromedog wrote:
The most disturbing:
41st millennium and humanity is STILL a superstitious race, blinded by its own xenophobia.

You'd think that after a few more thousand years, we'd have given up relying on invisible sky friends and moved on. You'd be wrong, though.

I'm not really sure what you're trying to imply here, given that a lot of those sky gods are REAL in the 40k universe. At the very least, the chaos gods definitely are, Gork and Mork probably are, and the Emperor has at least a decent chance of being one given how often miracles seem to manifest and things like Legion of the Damned or Saint Celestine going around.

Dark eldar get the prize for most awesome and when i say awesome i mean horrific lol.

In tales of Heresy when Lorgar had an entire planet of innocents who had accepted joining the imperium wiped out just because he could. That wasn't very friendly.

Dark Eldar and their torture is something that sends chills down my spine.

Imagine being tortured for decades with such agony you cannot even imagine while sitting in your warm home.

The players who draw real-world analogies into out of context sermons about how backwards and acharaic any kind of thinking is that doesn't fall in their anti-religion hate propaganda.

Whew, that was a mouthful. Anyway... that. I hate that people can't leave real life out of 40k and let it be a fantasy. Drop your preconceptions are the door and play a fictional game. get over it?

 En Excelsis wrote:
The players who draw real-hedonisticworld analogies into out of context sermons about how backwards and acharaic any kind of thinking is that doesn't fall in their anti-religion hate propaganda.

Whew, that was a mouthful. Anyway... that. I hate that people can't leave real life out of 40k and let it be a fantasy. Drop your preconceptions are the door and play a fictional game. get over it?

You butthurt bro?

As to OP's question. Have to go with DE. While currently their doing all the depravity to survive. They started doing it back in the day because they were bored. In a society that had fallen into hedonistic cults, that included murder cults, their ancestors were forced to build their own city to get away with their nonsense. They're damned monsters.

Probably the hygiene of Space Marines.

You never hear about them taking off their armour...imagine the eons of sweat built up in those things...eeugh

The Tau.

Except Farsight and the Farsight Enclaves. They're cool.

 DrSchwartz wrote:
Probably the hygiene of Space Marines.

You never hear about them taking off their armour...imagine the eons of sweat built up in those things...eeugh

I believe the armour canonically contains waste recycling. Which includes absorbing off the sweat and filtering it etc. It is indeed possible (and in fact true that) some marines pretty much NEVER take off their armour, but they aren't really dirty inside cause the armour itself is constantly cleaning that.

At least, If my memory is correct. It's possible it only canonically has a built in toilet function.

The most disturbing thing would be servitor-dom. Not only are the ''good guys'' the worst slavers in the galaxy, they top it up with horrifying surgeries that leaves you a lobotomised tool. And the general population is cool with it.

 Kovnik Obama wrote:
The most disturbing thing would be servitor-dom. Not only are the ''good guys'' the worst slavers in the galaxy, they top it up with horrifying surgeries that leaves you a lobotomised tool. And the general population is cool with it.

Still nothing compared with the DE or Chaos.

 DrSchwartz wrote:
Probably the hygiene of Space Marines.

You never hear about them taking off their armour...imagine the eons of sweat built up in those things...eeugh

Don't worry they do. There are plenty of instances in the novels where they walk around in tunics and stuff, Though, they will operate for great lengths of time without taking it of if needed.

I don't like thinking about what chaos could do with the internet.

 Omegus wrote:
What the Inquisition does is necessary. And while since the passing of the Sigillite they have become fractured and certainly have some overzealous members, they're nothing compared to the witch hunters of the Ecclesiarchy.

Daemonculaba was pretty gross. So was Kurze skinning children alive on global vox/pict feeds to deter jaywalking among the population.

I know about the Daemonculaba but where is this bit about Kurze from?

 sing your life wrote:
I don't like thinking about what chaos could do with the internet.

Didn't you know? Chaos is the internet. It grew so powerful that it became it's own dimension.

The cold hearted cruelty of survivors and the fact the they are so common place that no one even considers they are human beings.
I always liked the idea that the Space Wolves went to war against the inquisition and grey knights for eliminating civilian populations but they themselves make use of servitors and think nothing of it.

Mad Doc Grotsnik, and his Exploding Head Dance!

Dark Eldar torture, not ever explicitly detailed but very disturbing.
Keeping someone alive for years via torture is pretty horrific imho.

 Zaqqaz wrote:
The Tyranids bio-fleets.

Think about it: an intelligent, ferocious and efficient super-organism composed of countless horrifying creatures mauling, lacerating, devouring and consuming everything on their way.
Imagine the terror of the Adeptus Mechanicus researchers on Tyran (the first imperial world to fall in front of the Great Devourer) who watched their formidable planet defenses being overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the enemy: a soulless horde of alien beasts, every one of which is just an expendable pawn.
You can't negotiate with them: you can only resist or be assimilated. The survival of the fittest at its best.
That's why Tyranids are by far the most disturbing creatures of the WH40k universe.

I do think you have a good point,...

but i loathe a Daemon who corrupts, twists your mind and changes your shape slowly from the inside more!

 En Excelsis wrote:
The players who draw real-world analogies into out of context sermons about how backwards and acharaic any kind of thinking is that doesn't fall in their anti-religion hate propaganda.

Whew, that was a mouthful. Anyway... that. I hate that people can't leave real life out of 40k and let it be a fantasy. Drop your preconceptions are the door and play a fictional game. get over it?

Think about it: an intelligent, ferocious and efficient super-organism composed of countless horrifying creatures mauling, lacerating, devouring and consuming everything on their way.
Imagine the terror of the Adeptus Mechanicus researchers on Tyran (the first imperial world to fall in front of the Great Devourer) who watched their formidable planet defenses being overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the enemy: a soulless horde of alien beasts, every one of which is just an expendable pawn.
You can't negotiate with them: you can only resist or be assimilated. The survival of the fittest at its best.
That's why Tyranids are by far the most disturbing creatures of the WH40k universe.

Thats absolutely brilliant mate, pure 2nd edition fluff writing. Kudos

 Ratius wrote:
Dark Eldar torture, not ever explicitly detailed but very disturbing.
Keeping someone alive for years via torture is pretty horrific imho.

if you are ever killed by a Keeper of Secrets your soul is tormented till the end of time in slanneshs realm.