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How would you all feel about GW putting out a story that takes place in the modern era instead of the future, but still in the 40k universe? For example, there could be a story about ancient artifacts being found that lead to a Chaos outbreak, or an Ork or Eldar ship crashing into some remote part of the world. Maybe there could be one about a powerful politician or criminal making a deal with a daemon.
I really like the idea in theory, but in practice idk how well it’d turn out. I’m thinking that since in theory the cognitae should already exist per the timeline, and there was the whole thing about the emperor and ollanius perrson destroying their enuncia tower in ancient times, it’d be interesting to touch on something related to that
You will see this happening eventually, if the Amazon deal with GW ever manages to create a breakthrough title that catapults the 40K setting into Pop culture, similar to what happened with Marvel
Not sure I'll be looking forward to it to be honest. By that time, all the original satirical nuance of og 40K will have been smothered
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I really hope this doesn’t happen. In the same way I dislike the many Star Trek episodes that have them return to the “present”. It’s just not my cup of tea.
I like my far future sci-fi to be as vague as possible about the present (its past) so that illusion that it tells a future that could happen is preserved. As soon as it’s set in the present or the near future it introduces too many discrepancies with the real world and spoils the illusion for me. It’s why Back to the future part 2 worked well in the 80s but isn’t nearly so engaging for a modern audience, and why star trek references to the eugenics wars of the 90s etc. make my eyes roll and break my suspension of disbelief.
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ArcaneHorror wrote: How would you all feel about GW putting out a story that takes place in the modern era instead of the future, but still in the 40k universe? For example, there could be a story about ancient artifacts being found that lead to a Chaos outbreak, or an Ork or Eldar ship crashing into some remote part of the world. Maybe there could be one about a powerful politician or criminal making a deal with a daemon.
As long as it doesn't have a happy ending and is the precursor to the dystopic events leading into the necessities of 40k (of fusing with machines to survive the xenos onslaught) then that would be cool and would if done right also make a nice impact on the dull "everything always lands on its feet" scene of today's movies. Maybe keep it away from hollywood and give it to netflix or something to look for some writers because netflix series tend to be a lot better at keeping things suprising (the walking dead comes to mind, game of thrones too etc)
I would say.. go with Eldar over Orks because Orks are way overdone with big titles such as LOTR and Warcraft being at it.
Eldar atleast is pretty freakin original.
Imagine an Eldar fleet utterly stomping the military of today's world backhand slapping the presidents to the ground with their superior physique etc.
"Why would i be lying for Wechhudrs sake man.., i do not write fiction!"
Aash wrote: I really hope this doesn’t happen. In the same way I dislike the many Star Trek episodes that have them return to the “present”. It’s just not my cup of tea.
I like my far future sci-fi to be as vague as possible about the present (its past) so that illusion that it tells a future that could happen is preserved. As soon as it’s set in the present or the near future it introduces too many discrepancies with the real world and spoils the illusion for me. It’s why Back to the future part 2 worked well in the 80s but isn’t nearly so engaging for a modern audience, and why star trek references to the eugenics wars of the 90s etc. make my eyes roll and break my suspension of disbelief.
I addition to my previous comments, I would be interested in a sci-fi story in the 40K universe set in the not-so-distant future. Something along the lines Event Horizon, but officially in the 40K universe.
As to Eldar being more original in sci-fi than Orks, I think it’s the other way around. Yes people are used to seeing Orks in a fantasy setting but not in science fiction. Whereas space elves are pretty common - Vulkans and Minbari both fill that niche.
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I don't see what purpose it would serve.
With shows like Trek, you get the contrast between the problems of modern-day economic and ideological systems and the utopian future of the Federation.
Having a modern-day story set in the 40k universe wouldn't mean anything because there isn't anything to show. You can't show the causes for the downfall of the Aeldari or Mankind because we already know those things won't happen for close to thirty thousand years from our time.
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