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Necron Overlord because I lack imagination.

 megabambam wrote:
Dark Eldar most def, see even the Kabalite Warriors and other grunts get to have a hell of a time filled to the brim with sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and the ocational genocide.

And if I could choose profession I would definently choose something involving flying really fast things and blowing up tanks before I'm even seen.
Like a Reaver Jetbike!

Ahh, you see this guy gets it. Count me in!

Human living under Tau rule .

Still a human but having the advantage of being able to use Tau tech.

godking wrote:
Human living under Tau rule .

Still a human but having the advantage of being able to use Tau tech.

You can't do whatever you want though, you have to do what they say and live where they want you to, and if any of that leaves you feeling dissatisfied that's too fething bad, ambition is a sin before the Greater Good, now be a good little monkey-man and get back in line for your daily allotment of bread, see how nice we are by letting you go back to your original position in the line instead of sending you to the back?

 Lord-Captain Cepinari wrote:

godking wrote:
Human living under Tau rule .

Still a human but having the advantage of being able to use Tau tech.

You can't do whatever you want though, you have to do what they say and live where they want you to, and if any of that leaves you feeling dissatisfied that's too fething bad, ambition is a sin before the Greater Good, now be a good little monkey-man and get back in line for your daily allotment of bread, see how nice we are by letting you go back to your original position in the line instead of sending you to the back?

How is that better than living in the imperium .

At least we're honest about our oppression.

Also, we accepted that the universe was not, in fact, a logical and reasonable place a very long time ago, enabling us to function much more successfully then you. Enjoy trying to establish diplomatic relations with that Bloodthirster over there.

Also also, we're not a bunch of weaboos that bleed easy.

 Lord-Captain Cepinari wrote:

godking wrote:
Human living under Tau rule .

Still a human but having the advantage of being able to use Tau tech.

You can't do whatever you want though, you have to do what they say and live where they want you to, and if any of that leaves you feeling dissatisfied that's too fething bad, ambition is a sin before the Greater Good, now be a good little monkey-man and get back in line for your daily allotment of bread, see how nice we are by letting you go back to your original position in the line instead of sending you to the back?

As opposed to to dying in an Industrial accident gang war or being killed as a heretic ?

The best you can hope for in the imperium as a normal human is working 18 hours shifts in some factory living in a hive with a population of billions and probably dying from toxic pollution if your lucky.

You are relativelly free to do as you want under tau rule provided you adhere to the Tenets of the greater good.

No widespread toxic polution no living in an overcrowded hive actually having access to advanced technology living in an advancing society not a stagnating one.

Looted Baneblade driver. DAT GIT IN DAWN OF WAAAAAAAGH LIED 'DIS GUN MAKES DA LOUDEST BOOM!

Eldar b/c you live a long time and can be whatever you want in their society.

I am stuck between two worlds here.....
I would pick Eldar and be a warlock (get access to so much knowledge and ever lasting life essentially)

Or I would pick Tau and be a Stealth Suit Shas'la.....I like their society (although the Ethereals might be up to some funny buisness) and how you rise to ranks and eventually get to commander with the possibility of retiring on one of the worlds if you are a renowned warrior.

Keep in mind the Tau only live slightly longer then your pet cat will and are all emotionally stunted.

^ I wish everyone knew this. Then the truth about all Tau would be revealed: they are all weaklings... XD

The Dark Eldar embrace everything that is known in this galaxy. No restrictions, well, except for being psychic. But that only gets restricted by force within the webways and in commoragh... the open galaxy is fresh meat.

She Who Thirsts may be attracted to you, and since you have no soulstone, you are basically on your own when it comes to psychic shielding and manipulation of psychic force for your advantage. But you can please her - just revel in more and more of your personal, tyrannical regime of reality - keep the show going, appease the thirst, aaaaannd it's all good, sex drugs rock and roll, order may vary.

I would probably perfer to be a Tyranid. Life is simple.

Ork.

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. Orks LOVE war. Life is a nonstop party!!!

Orks are actually more immortal than an Eldar or Dark Eldar. They don't die of old age, they just get bigger and bigger until someone kills em. Eldar are a humorless, dying race, and DE have to live in constant fear of being backstabbed. Da Orks always know where dey stand wit each udder. If ya have a problem, a good scrap'll fix it.

Humies are puny, live nasty, short lives, and 99.9999999999999999% spend their whole lives being told what to do.

Tau have somewhat nicer standards of living, but otherwise are just like humies, with even shorter lives.

Bugs aren't smart enough to enjoy anything, or even think about anything really.

To become a Daemon Prince, you have to start out as a human and gain a crap ton of favor from a fickle god of evil. Good luck. Also, Daemon Princes aren't untouchable. There are all kinds of fun ways that a Daemon Prince's own patron god or a rival god can keep a DP trapped in eternal torment if he ever runs afoul of them.

Do yeah. I'd be an Ork, and start working my way up ta be tha biggest baddest Ork in tha galaxy. If I die on tha way, well I'm gonna have fun doin' it and cause as big a mess as possible!

I could've gone with Necron, but the line troopers have very little individuality and the Lord is just so... cliche.

DeadMutagen94 wrote:
In whfb the elves can put their souls into certain things to preserve them and protect them from slaneesh it's not the same in 40K?

anyway I would probably be an Imperial guardsmen.Vostroyan probably...

Eldar have soulstones which capture and preserve the soul at the moment of death and then are recovered and poured into the Craftworld's infinity circuit which is kind of like Elysium. A happy but blurry purgatory where you wait for the end times with all your friends and relatives. If the soulstone is completely destroyed (really hard because it's the solidified tear of the God Isha) they endure the same torments as any truly dead Dark Eldar (see below). They can also assist those in real space from the Infinity Circuit by joining their soul with a Ghost warrior (wealth construct) and animating them to fight in battle, while becoming vulnerable again in the form of a soulstone or assist in the running of the Craftworld's everyday and defensive/offensive computing capabilities. Almost like the Imperiums servitors but much less grim dark as these souls help of their own free will and can relax and let another soul in the circuit take over it's job. Also there is some connection between the Infinity circuit and powering the Craftworld and the Circuit can be destroyed, effectively killing the Craftworld and sacrificing all who do not escape through the Webway to another Craftworld, to Slaanesh.

Exodite or Maiden World Eldar unite with the world spirit which is a mixture of a hive mind style collective consciousness and the purgatory between reincarnations. Exodites are not reincarnated that we know of but they do somehow contribute to the strength and life of the World Spirit and the planet they reside on. The world singer speaks to the spirit, keeps it calm and balanced and unites souls with it when they pass. To separate the two will enrage the spirit and risk utter destruction of the kidnappers/murderers and the entire world itself.

The Dark Eldar have nothing. They sustain themselves on the tortured souls of others for as long as they can, transferring their soul to cloned bodies and drinking in the rape and pillage of Commoragh's many "arenas" but when they experience their True Death, it's a horrifying thing for them and everyone around them as their soul is dragged, screaming, into the warp to be rend and torn and flayed for all eternity (or an eternity in the warp) and then devoured like a tasty snack by She Who Thirsts and even then, their pain does not end. They don't go to Oblivion. They go somewhere else, worse. This is all just to add to the Grimdarkness of the setting and the utter doom of the Eldar race

 Jimsolo wrote:
That's fine, you can believe whatever you want about the fluff. I for one believe several things which the fluff NEVER directly supports at all. (Angron was the smartest of the Primarchs, the Emperor was actually a vat-grown psychic puppet and Malcador the Sigilite was the REAL Emperor, and a few others.)....

Ha! Love the Emperor-Malcador idea. Though my vision of them was more like snarky bickering brothers, with Empy the charismatic public face of the operation, perpetually privately horrified at what people are making of him, and Malcador as the cynical, sinister brains of the operation.

E: Wait, these people are saying I'm tens of thousands of years old? And that I was created by the collective suicide of all the planet's shamans? What.
M: Oh, Your Highness, whining isn't very Imperial of you. And deep down, don't you really love it when they grovel?
E: Malky, if you ever call me "Highness" again, I will smack you.
M: As you command, Your Highness.
E: Dammit, Malky!
M: Waiting for that smack, bro.
E: Dammit.
M: Wimp.

Oh, and as to the OP, yeah, I guess Eldar. No matter what rank you're born into, you have a decent chance at a decent life. And I'm probably capable of being obsessive and narrow-minded enough to follow an Eldar Path for a few millennia.

Orks are attractive, since as people say they're probably the happiest race, but I just don't want to spend my existence being a gigantic green dick.

daemons, I like immortality.

Eldar Corsair. All the fun of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll without the fear of eternal torment.

Baring that, a Human on one of the Imperium's nicer worlds, Elysia say. I'm sure they can't all be infernal hellholes.

The number of people who are totally fine with living in a culture that idolizes rape, torture, murder, betrayal, and doesn't even have a proper concept of love or friendship is disturbing. Just putting that out there.

Ork:Weirdboy

Or Mekboy. While I hate them on the field they're fluff is great.

 Kain wrote:
The number of people who are totally fine with living in a culture that idolizes rape, torture, murder, betrayal, and doesn't even have a proper concept of love or friendship is disturbing. Just putting that out there.

Oh good, I thought I was the only one to notice that.

Slaaneshi Daemon Prince. Slaanesh isn't all about the raping, I'd basically have a fiefdom in the Warp where i could create art from mortals. And daemonettes who displeased me. You're all about sensation? Try being gold-plated and worked into an immortality-bestowing sculpture for a couple of millennia. That should teach them not to fail me.
As long as I get a real weapon in battle- a whip is fine off the battlefield, but as a real weapon? Not for me.

 Kain wrote:
The number of people who are totally fine with living in a culture that idolizes rape, torture, murder, betrayal, and doesn't even have a proper concept of love or friendship is disturbing. Just putting that out there.

LOL. It aint too different from our own planet's culture, especially behind the scenes.

If theres Chaos, well you might as well embrace it! Learn aallllllllllllll about it, yeeeeeeeeeeah!

 Lord-Captain Cepinari wrote:

 Kain wrote:
The number of people who are totally fine with living in a culture that idolizes rape, torture, murder, betrayal, and doesn't even have a proper concept of love or friendship is disturbing. Just putting that out there.

Oh good, I thought I was the only one to notice that.

Some people may mock the idea of "social justice" but I don't think they've ever lived in a society that by definition; has none. About the only improvement in Dark Eldar society is total equality of the sexes and not caring about your sexuality.

Everything else all adds up to make for something pretty much in the top ten "worst societies in major works of fiction" ever.



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 DoMiNaNt_HuNtEr wrote:

 Kain wrote:
The number of people who are totally fine with living in a culture that idolizes rape, torture, murder, betrayal, and doesn't even have a proper concept of love or friendship is disturbing. Just putting that out there.

LOL. It aint too different from our own planet's culture, especially behind the scenes.

If theres Chaos, well you might as well embrace it! Learn aallllllllllllll about it, yeeeeeeeeeeah!

Minus the astronomical rape, murder, assault, and general abuse rates. Minus them being a society that doesn't even have a word for love because the idea of an altruistic relationship is just that alien to them. Minus a physical need to inflict horrendous suffering or pleasure on others to survive. Minus every single Dark Eldar being a sociopath with no sense of empathy. Minus the fact that the Dark Eldar are all but incapable of kindness. Minus everything that makes Commorragh awful.

Orks or Tyranids!
As everyone said, orcs are happy. Wear a blue suit and red shoes, then you're golden. =D

Tyranids, either you're an animal, so very simple life, or you have a little bit of individuality and you're a part of the Great Hive Mind. So basically immortal and never alone. Hell, you probably have friends inside of you ( your ammos!)

 Kain wrote:




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 DoMiNaNt_HuNtEr wrote:

 Kain wrote:
The number of people who are totally fine with living in a culture that idolizes rape, torture, murder, betrayal, and doesn't even have a proper concept of love or friendship is disturbing. Just putting that out there.

LOL. It aint too different from our own planet's culture, especially behind the scenes.

If theres Chaos, well you might as well embrace it! Learn aallllllllllllll about it, yeeeeeeeeeeah!

Minus the astronomical rape, murder, assault, and general abuse rates. Minus them being a society that doesn't even have a word for love because the idea of an altruistic relationship is just that alien to them. Minus a physical need to inflict horrendous suffering or pleasure on others to survive. Minus every single Dark Eldar being a sociopath with no sense of empathy. Minus the fact that the Dark Eldar are all but incapable of kindness. Minus everything that makes Commorragh awful.

I.. I feel ashamed now. LoL its true! I take this world for granted.

Still, if WH40 k were a virtual simulator... I'd take DE for all that mad speed!.

In one of the Salamander books the top Wych in the employ of an Archon is killed, and he spends the rest of the series confused and upset about how much he misses her. Not only does he find the company of other Wyches unsatisfying now, he allies with a Chaos Space Marine warband for no other reason then that they hated the Salamanders too. In fact, her death affected him so much that he wasn't able to see his baby brother's latest attempt on his life coming, and so was killed for realsies before he could take his revenge.

Honestly I would choose a Khorne demon prince just because blood for the blood god skulls for the skull throne. And because I would be able to warp jump.

 Lord-Captain Cepinari wrote:
In one of the Salamander books the top Wych in the employ of an Archon is killed, and he spends the rest of the series confused and upset about how much he misses her. Not only does he find the company of other Wyches unsatisfying now, he allies with a Chaos Space Marine warband for no other reason then that they hated the Salamanders too. In fact, her death affected him so much that he wasn't able to see his baby brother's latest attempt on his life coming, and so was killed for realsies before he could take his revenge.

There's also a short story in Xenology where another Archon ends up falling in love with a lovely but hard to impress young dark eldar called Mistress Baeda, but because Dark Eldar culture is so twisted he doesn't even know what he's feeling until the spouse of a guardsman his soldiers killed hears of his motivations end immediately goes from fearing him to pitying him. He explains the closest term they have to love and that just makes her laugh even harder. For a moment, all the arrogance of the Dark Eldar is gone, and he's baffled when she asks him to reunite her with her husband because her love for him was such that life wasn't worth living anymore without him; and this just confuses the hell out of the Archon.

The Archon tries countless ways to impress her; he raids entire planets for her, offers her the finest food and drink, goes to the Haemonculus to make himself look as young and handsome as possible, but she keeps on blowing him off even as he runs his kabal into the ground to win her heart, with all his actions being supported by his only daughter (who is also his right hand woman) who he trusts and relies on. Finally; he tries to steal a crystal that's the centerpiece of a Necron Lord's throne room in a heavily defended tomb world. He gets the Krystal, but his Kabal is gutted and his daughter was killed.

Then all the pain of a father who just lost their child hits him and he completely breaks down, and only then does Baeda accept him, because the pain of a broken heart is something rare and delicious.

Some people say the real love story was him realizing how much he cared for his daughter when the Necrons took her away from him. Now he knows the same pain that woman did.

It's one of the most feels intensive stories in 40k.

If you want drugs, rape, murder, freedom, pirating and looting - you can live in Somali. That's the exact state of life in that wonderful country. Are you really in for it or just don't know what all this things exactly are?

As for me, i'd like to be an ork commando. Being a sneeky Bear Grills that LOVES hiking in the wild and comes back to the big fun brawl of the main settlement when starts missing it!
Orks are the race that's really free from fear, hatred and arrogance. They're actually the most just society! Noone will ever attempt to fool you or stab you in the back! Noone will ever try to lie to you! If they think they're right and you're wrong - they tell it in your face and if you think differently - you're free to prove it in a fair fight!

It's great when your favorite hobby - the thing you adore - is what you do for your living. Well the orkses are a race that 100% consists of such persons. They all do what they love to do.