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Which Part of the fluff do you want GW to write more about?

For me, I'd like GW to explore some of the more boring aspects of the Imperium.

Such as Agri-worlds and preventing famines, or the education system, like the Schola Progenium and such.

Maximus Bitch wrote:
For me, I'd like GW to explore some of the more boring aspects of the Imperium.

Such as Agri-worlds and preventing famines, or the education system, like the Schola Progenium and such.

I would like some exploration of the nicer parts of the Imperium, since it's generally known that not every world is a dystopian hole.


I'd also like to see more on the Age of Strife and Dark Age of Technology.

 oldravenman3025 wrote:

Maximus Bitch wrote:
For me, I'd like GW to explore some of the more boring aspects of the Imperium.

Such as Agri-worlds and preventing famines, or the education system, like the Schola Progenium and such.

I would like some exploration of the nicer parts of the Imperium, since it's generally known that not every world is a dystopian hole.

that's actually a very interesting idea.

all these answers of course have the same meta answer...

WE WANT ANOTHER 40K RPG!

Maximus Bitch wrote:

 oldravenman3025 wrote:

Maximus Bitch wrote:
For me, I'd like GW to explore some of the more boring aspects of the Imperium.

Such as Agri-worlds and preventing famines, or the education system, like the Schola Progenium and such.

I would like some exploration of the nicer parts of the Imperium, since it's generally known that not every world is a dystopian hole.

that's actually a very interesting idea.

Agreed. It doesn't have to go full "nice ness" (can't think of a word for it), but there are countless planets out there. Not every single one is a Forge World to toil in, a Hive city to "survive" in, or a Death World or somewhere in between. There are planets where things could be considered "peaceful". Far far away from any war zones and whatnot. A day in the life of an Imperial Citizen (that doesn't involve Baneblade sized quanitities of Grimdark) would be a nice look.

Like I said, it doesn't need to go full on "peace and happiness". More like... Things are decent and content. I dunno.

Men if Iron

<cough> Unification <cough>

I'd like to see the era where humanity spreads out to the stars up to the men of iron incident.

The mating ritual of the papua nugini space tribes

Personally, I want to avoid anything that 'uncovers the past' like the plague. It makes the whole universe feel smaller, more contained and less mysterious.

What I'd love is for them to expand more of the background of what the Imperium (or any other faction) is like now.

Makes the universe feels bigger if there is more in it now.

Love the idea of expanding more on things like agri-worlds, and monastery-worlds. Love the idea of giving more depth to Craftworld life, or the intrigues of the Dark Eldar. Love the idea of maybe including non-Imperial human civilisations on the fringes of the galaxy (the Heresy happened before they'd finished the Crusade after all). Love the idea of expanding what a Chaos civilisation might look like if it was actually functional.

Hell, go down even further and just tell us the story of one dude's life in a particular world in a particular corner of the Imperium. Perhaps he's a Forgeworld worker, or a Skitarus, or a Marine Initiate, or a Scribe. Build up the universe through the narrow scope of a thousand little individuals, and let us piece together the bigger picture for ourselves

 Backspacehacker wrote:
The mating ritual of the papua nugini space tribes

huh?


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 n0t_u wrote:
I'd like to see the era where humanity spreads out to the stars up to the men of iron incident.

Age of Strife too.


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 Ynneadwraith wrote:
Personally, I want to avoid anything that 'uncovers the past' like the plague. It makes the whole universe feel smaller, more contained and less mysterious.

What I'd love is for them to expand more of the background of what the Imperium (or any other faction) is like now.

Makes the universe feels bigger if there is more in it now.

Which plague? I agree that we need to make it feel bigger.

 Ynneadwraith wrote:
Love the idea of expanding what a Chaos civilisation might look like if it was actually functional.

I had that question myself once.

Maximus Bitch wrote:

Which plague? I agree that we need to make it feel bigger.

Black one? Cholera? Spanish Flu? Any that you would want to steer clear of really

Just a turn of phrase nothing in-universe.

I'm of the opinion that the ancient history of 40k should be drip-fed with little revelations few and far between, and those facts that are revealed should be wide open to interpretation. Hell, we know sod all about the Minoan civilisation in real life, and that was only a couple of thousand years ago. It now exists as a mystery with a labyrinth, a bull-man and a load of axes. That's with modern scientific curiosity, rather than the pseudo-scientific cargo cult and bureaucratic nightmare that the Mechanicus and Administratum are respectively

 Ynneadwraith wrote:
Love the idea of expanding what a Chaos civilisation might look like if it was actually functional.

I had that question myself once.

I'd like to see more stories from Eldar and Ork perspectives, myself. Or at least including Eldar and Ork characters as important aspects of the narrative-- swapping to their perspectives for important parts of the story, and letting them have persistent characters across a book series instead of just being the villain of the book that gets killed at the end.

 Melissia wrote:
I'd like to see more stories from Eldar and Ork perspectives, myself. Or at least including Eldar and Ork characters as important aspects of the narrative-- swapping to their perspectives for important parts of the story, and letting them have persistent characters across a book series instead of just being the villain of the book that gets killed at the end.

Ooh yeah, especially the Orks so much potential for cool characters that's not really explored too deeply.

I'd also love to read more about the Eldar that doesn't somehow involve them coming to the IoM's rescue. Getting really tired of that trope by now...

 Ynneadwraith wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
I'd like to see more stories from Eldar and Ork perspectives, myself. Or at least including Eldar and Ork characters as important aspects of the narrative-- swapping to their perspectives for important parts of the story, and letting them have persistent characters across a book series instead of just being the villain of the book that gets killed at the end.

Ooh yeah, especially the Orks so much potential for cool characters that's not really explored too deeply.

I'd also love to read more about the Eldar that doesn't somehow involve them coming to the IoM's rescue. Getting really tired of that trope by now...

This. More stuff where xenos are more than faceless mooks would be great.

I also want more stuff from the Age of Apostasy.

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 oldravenman3025 wrote:


I'd also like to see more on the Age of Strife and Dark Age of Technology.

Know what might be a fun book series? A series about a group of Ork freebootas in the employ of the Imperium at the fringes of Imperial hold.

Would give a nice exploration of the chaos (that's little c, not big C) at the edge of Imperial space.

I like the Shira Calpurnia books mostly because they had non-battlefield settings.

For something from the Ork perspective, I was thinking it would be interesting to have a funny, extra-cartoony graphic novel like Deff Skwadron, but in between the stories that the funny ork comic tells have short stories and more realistic artwork of the same events from the Imperial perspective that makes the orks look more horrifying and savage and makes the reader feel a little bad for having laughed at the earlier comic strip.

I would like a story featuring the Tau that does not involve the Imperium.

 Dakka Flakka Flame wrote:
I like the Shira Calpurnia books mostly because they had non-battlefield settings.

For something from the Ork perspective, I was thinking it would be interesting to have a funny, extra-cartoony graphic novel like Deff Skwadron, but in between the stories that the funny ork comic tells have short stories and more realistic artwork of the same events from the Imperial perspective that makes the orks look more horrifying and savage and makes the reader feel a little bad for having laughed at the earlier comic strip.

You're an absolute genius. That's a fantastic idea for a graphic novel

Really plays up the whole 'war's just one big joke to the Orks' thing, when it's deadly serious life-or-death stuff for humans an inside perspective on their psyche

This is a nice positive change in thread, congrats to the OP.

As for things I'd like, I agree wholeheartedly about seeing more stuff from Ork, Eldar, or even Tau PoV. Write some stories without the Imperium at all even (have the big bad's as Necrons or Tyranids, plenty of excuses for a fight there). In particular, I'd happily read about Orks and Tyranids fighting over a space hulk.

As far as the Imperium goes, I want more weird guard regiments. Give me some nice ANZAC diggers (with more character than the Roane Deepers). I'm sure there are other cultures out there who could give a nice flavour to a regiment, such as WW1 Canadian shock troops or WW2 Brazilians. I also really want to see a guard regiment based off the Roman empire (sure, its a rediculous idea, but 40k is the universe for Awesome, but Impractical).

Mudrat wrote:
This is a nice positive change in thread, congrats to the OP.

As for things I'd like, I agree wholeheartedly about seeing more stuff from Ork, Eldar, or even Tau PoV. Write some stories without the Imperium at all even (have the big bad's as Necrons or Tyranids, plenty of excuses for a fight there). In particular, I'd happily read about Orks and Tyranids fighting over a space hulk.

As far as the Imperium goes, I want more weird guard regiments. Give me some nice ANZAC diggers (with more character than the Roane Deepers). I'm sure there are other cultures out there who could give a nice flavour to a regiment, such as WW1 Canadian shock troops or WW2 Brazilians. I also really want to see a guard regiment based off the Roman empire (sure, its a rediculous idea, but 40k is the universe for Awesome, but Impractical).

Haha! Another brilliant idea

Orks vs Tyranids on a Space Hulk as a sort of homage/pastiche of the Alien films...except the Aliens got more than they bargained for...

Hell, i'd gladly buy a collection of short stories based on the premise of famous films/books where the humans are replaced with Orks.

Orkpocalypse Now
Deffkoptas playing badly hummed Wagner

Marley & Mek
A heartwarming tale of an Ork Mek, his Grot sidekick and their pet Squig

Top Grot
A film about a high-flying squadron of Grots and their Dakkajets

Da Fing
Horror about Orks trapped on an Ice World who have to discover who is the Genestealer Cultist

The Necrontyr biotransference.
Something from the perspective of Imotekh/Zahndrekh.
The DAoT as everything starts going to gak.
The origin story of each of the primarchs.
The fall of the Eldar.

Mudrat wrote:
This is a nice positive change in thread, congrats to the OP.

As for things I'd like, I agree wholeheartedly about seeing more stuff from Ork, Eldar, or even Tau PoV. Write some stories without the Imperium at all even (have the big bad's as Necrons or Tyranids, plenty of excuses for a fight there). In particular, I'd happily read about Orks and Tyranids fighting over a space hulk.

As far as the Imperium goes, I want more weird guard regiments. Give me some nice ANZAC diggers (with more character than the Roane Deepers). I'm sure there are other cultures out there who could give a nice flavour to a regiment, such as WW1 Canadian shock troops or WW2 Brazilians. I also really want to see a guard regiment based off the Roman empire (sure, its a rediculous idea, but 40k is the universe for Awesome, but Impractical).

Maybe the WW1 canadian based regiment could be the "Vimy Shocktroopers" regiment

I would love to see more from a Xenos perspective, particularly one that doesn't have the Imperium as heroes.

Of particular interest to me would be a book centered around a mercenary Kroot Shaper and his Carnivore Squad. The Kroot could stand to be explored in a bit more depth, particularly their actions and interactions outside their work for the Tau Empire.

I'd like to read a story/series from the perspective(s) of just your average joe guardsmen, that is part of a regiment/battalion that is slowly being corrupted to chaos without your average guy realising it. Obviously your top dogs will know what's going on the dirty traitors (or maybe they don't either) but yeah, a more subtle slow burn chaotic corruption, so much so that the readers may have an inkling but not super sure, with decent justifications for their certain actions here and there.

The archetypal "Chaos" human civilization in the Eye of Terror as hinted at in the old 2nd edition Chaos Codex, consists of world under the rule of a Daemon Prince (or Daemon Primarch) or a Chaos Champion. Their immediate mortal servants like CSM form the ruling class, and everyone else is a slave underclass, often maintained at a lower technology level. Slave warriors are recruited from the population to be fodder for the endless conflicts on that world or between worlds. Those that excel may be selected for implantation. Those that survive the process and the subsequent initiation rituals become inducted as new CSM. It actually doesn't sound that different from a SM Chapter ruling over a feral world really.

As for Xenos vs Xenos conflicts, if they wanted a human POV, they could use the perspective of a human slave or captive. Orks take captives to work the factories, but maybe an Ork Warlord (Blood Axe perhaps?) wants a human to chronicle his greatness even among the non-Orks. That human POV would provide the vehicle to ask or at least think on the questions and issues the average Ork would not spend time on.

Melissia wrote:Know what might be a fun book series? A series about a group of Ork freebootas in the employ of the Imperium at the fringes of Imperial hold.

Would give a nice exploration of the chaos (that's little c, not big C) at the edge of Imperial space.

+1 For that

As for my own ideas:

- I'd like to explore 'other' human civilisations, as pointed out by Ynneadwraith, existing at the fringe or within Imperial Space, and interactions from their point of view with the Imperium. Building on this, it would be preferential in a 40k setting rather than a 30k context as it clashes two very different viewpoints together. Similarly, it would be nice to expand upon the countless smaller factions that fill the Galaxy - Kroot, Hrud, Sslyth, Demiurg. Essentially, GW should at least pay attention to the many races they mention in passing.

- I'd like to see a juxtaposition of grimdark Tau against the nicer aspects of the Imperium, again just for what it would reveal.

- More stuff from the perspective of Rogue Traders/Corsairs/Freebooterz - the more renegade aspects of each culture.

-Ecclesiastical machinations.

- Finally, I've always been fascinated with the concept of Secessionists/Insurrection/Rebellion in the Imperium. Too often I feel Chaos is wedged into conflicts between Imperial factions as a means of identifying 'the Good Guys', so I'd like to see a war where the rebel group isn't suddenly and inexplicably motivated by Chaotic influences, but rather by more human motivations such as greed, power or private empire building. Essentially, Badab War v.2 - but centered more around a 'human' uprising rather than a SM uprising. Specifically, with no Chaos influence (Or at the very least, both factions are fighting Chaos at the same time as each other)

Mandrakes.

What the actual hell are they? They can slip from any shadow, even inside Commarragh, which points to the fact they can't be regular Daemons due to Commarraghs psychic defences. They used to be Dark Eldar, but are they converted or born? They can manipulate the temperature around them, control balefire, yet brightlights burn them to a crisp (Path of the Archon). Who are ''The Mandrakes horrific allies'' mentioned in Mr K's lore? Something to do with the Cthulu-esque tenticles that pop out of the Dark Gates?

40K needs more Lovecraftian Cosmic Horrors, and everyone knows they are best left unexplained. That's how they ruined C'Tan. But the fact we know *nothing* about Mandrakes, how they get their abilities, if they are possessed or not, if they are connected to the warp or an Old one (Anyone old enough to remember Qah? That'd be friggin awesome). They gotta give us something.

And with the Mandrakes part in Gathering Storm that might just be what we'll get.

endlesswaltz123 wrote:
I'd like to read a story/series from the perspective(s) of just your average joe guardsmen, that is part of a regiment/battalion that is slowly being corrupted to chaos without your average guy realising it. Obviously your top dogs will know what's going on the dirty traitors (or maybe they don't either) but yeah, a more subtle slow burn chaotic corruption, so much so that the readers may have an inkling but not super sure, with decent justifications for their certain actions here and there.

I like this idea.