#warhammer 41k

[esser-z]

A Broodmarine commander freshly assembled!

Background for Broodmarines: I have a whole buncha fanlore that includes the Eat Everything being Tyranid autopilot--they're gathering biomass and psychomatter to revive the Zerg-esque leader organisms that manage the Hive Mind. Once that occurs--starting with my Hive Lhurgoyf, they start colonizing planets and doing biological experiments.

This starts Lhurgoyf conquering Macragge, which includes a "barely survived" fight in which marty stu asshole Captain Cato Sicaris is secretly implanted with a parasite that lets the nids spy through, influence, and eventually control him.

Thus, the Ultramarines are the source of most initial Broodmarines, and those remnants that manage to escape Ultramar --through a "fortuitous" gap in the hive fleet--have no idea that some of their number carry more of those parasites, secretly spying and fracturing the trust between/in Space Marine chapters...

[screamingatthevoid]

I hope Mortarion’s model has an exposed heart with ‘Geronitan’ sculpted onto it

[charlesoberonn]

Warhammer 41k has The Imperium of Man becomes a social democracy with a constitutional monarchy that welcomes aliens as citizens. Combat is replaced with trade negotiations and attending somber memorials.

That's hilarious but Warhammer 41k is already a thing and it's even darker than 40k.

A rift in space tears the galaxy in two and those on the far side of it devolve into an even more oppressive society.

[sithar]

Warhammer 41k: Echoes of The Past

[herides]

I just realized, games workshop, in advancing the plot finally, didn't really leave a lot of room for events to happen until the 41st millenium ends. Is warhammer 41k gonna be a thing?

[fic-dreamin]

Favored of the Emperor After recently reading and reviewing Chris Wraight's The Carrion Throne, I would have thought such a significant novel would not be published until the Horus Heresy conclusion. But this book is unprecedented. I am half through the story, and already the culmination of every prior Warhammer 40,000 publication has led to this book's events. Descriptions of the Golden Throne, Custodians, Null Maidens and a demonic assault on Terra are complex in detail and captivating. I simply can't compliment this novel enough, nor will I spoil the experience for committed Warhammer enthusiasts. Go to Amazon

Brings hope to the grim dark. If you like that sort of thing. Overall a first person book recounting a brief period of time in the new imperium. Three perspectives that fit and flow well, I think it speaks to those of us who have read both 40k and Horus Heresy novels as it’s a good bridge. Go to Amazon

The Sisters of Silence feel like a paean for ostracised women given supreme strength and ... Gives depth to the Dread Guardians and Companions of the Emperor, that their elevation beyond humanity doesn't rest in purely the physical, but something transcendent and spiritual. The Sisters of Silence feel like a paean for ostracised women given supreme strength and purpose, where untouchable doesn't become a mark of shame, but a badge of honour, they are beyond weak mortality and their purpose intrinsically tied to all of humanity's survival. They embody the immense sacrifice and exacting standards that are required to serve in the Emperor's Legions. This is juxtaposed against the venal High Lords, where we see their flaws being at best a stagnant status quo during times of relative peace, and an unacceptable weakness during crisis. Go to Amazon

Hope rises It's the dawn of a new era...Warhammer 41K. The fall of Cadia, the rise of a Primarch, and in my opinion the beginning of the end. Go to Amazon

Very nicely done This is a really well written book. BL has been promising us the Battle of Terra, just 10k years later than expected. Go to Amazon

Five Stars Great audiobook, great story, offers a lot of insight into the Sisters of Silence and Custodes Go to Amazon

Legio Custodies-Dark Imperium with battles on Terra! Another good story with room for more tales to follow in series. Dark Imperium is here! Good insight into Legio Custodes. Go to Amazon

Amazing!!! This is the book if you want a inside look at the modern 40k Custodies and the Silent Sisters!!!! Amazing plot, decent action, the Black Library out done themselves with this entry!! Go to Amazon

Now I'll warrant you this telling of the story is better and far more compelling but it flatly difference from ... Truly one very good book. Outstanding! Imperial Guardians Five Stars It is a good compliment to his other recent book (Carrion Throne) where ...

[esser-z]

"Humanity does not exist to be the war machine of a dead egomaniac."

Alexandra Berus, revolutionary leader and first president of the Panhuman Republic, on signing legislation ending military conscription and banning the production of Servitors.

[esser-z]

Fluffing my Warhammer AdMech as Voidsingers, a subgroup of the robotic Collective. They're a highly religious machine race who view the universe as a cosmic song. Though deadly in battle, they take no joy in killing and consider each death a loss only justified by preventing greater tragedy.

The strange music they oft sing in battle is in fact prayer; the restrain always prays their fallen foes find a better life in the next Verse. Though robotic and entirely disconnected from the Warp, their faith and their song grants them tangible supernatural powers, something the Inquisition has gone to great lengths to conceal from the rest of the Imperium.

[screamingatthevoid]

Warhammer 41k: The Chronostrife

I made a post about how since the Indomitus Crusade lasts 112 years everyone has to call it Warhammer 41,000 now, but now I’ve actually started reading Dark Imperium and it’s a little more complicated than that...

Ancient leather, friable to the point of disintegration, bound a partisan work on the Chronostrife of Terra. Guilliman digested the work with a frowning countenance.

He did not like what he read.

One of thousands of secret conflicts conducted by rival factions in the Imperium, the Chronostrife was a bitter, ongoing internal war within the Ordo Chronos over the Imperium’s dating system. What he read made him despair. Not even his father’s calendar had survived the millennia intact.

During the Great Crusade and the Heresy, the standard dating system had provided some idea of the order of events over time, but like everything else the Emperor had created, the calendar had become degraded by both dogmatic adherence and thoughtless revisionism. Various rival dating systems had evolved from the Imperial Standard, making a true chronicle of the galaxy almost impossible to construct. By the five main factional variants, Guilliman calculated the current year to be anywhere between early M41 and a millennium later, and that was leaving out the numerous lesser, more heretical interpretations.

In short, it may or may not be M41, M42, or another millennium entirely. You are permitted to keep using “Warhammer 40,000″ and “Warhammer 40k”, but “Warhammer 41,000″ and “Warhammer 41k” are also acceptable.

More importantly: mention of the Ordo Chronos is always nice.

[screamingatthevoid]

Warhammer 41k

Dark Imperium has moved us a 100 years into M42 (meaning 9 years later they’re only 27 years behind Cain’s Last Stand).

Everyone has to call it Warhammer 41k or Warhammer 41,000 now, or GW will send lawyers to your house.

[screamingatthevoid]

Rehabilitating Abaddon

GW have spent a fair amount of time rehabilitating Abaddon’s reputation as an incompetent failure in recent years - from the Black Legion supplement that gave him at least partial strategic victories in every Black Crusade, the ongoing Black Legion series in which he’s awesome, that thing Drach’nyen does in The Master of Mankind (spoilers!), to finally letting him kill Cadia in Fall of Cadia.

But then...

Dark Imperium. We’re now a hundred years into M42 (everyone has to call it Warhammer 41k now) and it seems after Cadia fell the focus has shifted to entirely the other side of the galaxy - Ultramar and the Dark Imperium on the other side  of the Great Rift. What happened to the 13th Black Crusade? Did Abaddon decide to just go home after destroying Cadia?

I don’t expect everything to be about the Black Crusade, and I’m sure they’ll write something about it at some point. The fact remains, though, that either the 13th Black Crusade ended or it’s still going a hundred years later having made so little progress that it doesn’t demand Guilliman’s attention.

In either case, the build-up and prophecy of the 13th being the one that would decide the fate of mankind and that thing from The Master of Mankind all seem a bit of a waste. GW are going to need a better excuse than “destroying Cadia was his goal and he succeeded” for the 13th, and I’m worried they won’t have one.

[fic-dreamin]

Favored of the Emperor After recently reading and reviewing Chris Wraight's The Carrion Throne, I would have thought such a significant novel would not be published until the Horus Heresy conclusion. But this book is unprecedented. I am half through the story, and already the culmination of every prior Warhammer 40,000 publication has led to this book's events. Descriptions of the Golden Throne, Custodians, Null Maidens and a demonic assault on Terra are complex in detail and captivating. I simply can't compliment this novel enough, nor will I spoil the experience for committed Warhammer enthusiasts. Go to Amazon

Brings hope to the grim dark. If you like that sort of thing. Overall a first person book recounting a brief period of time in the new imperium. Three perspectives that fit and flow well, I think it speaks to those of us who have read both 40k and Horus Heresy novels as it’s a good bridge. Go to Amazon

The Sisters of Silence feel like a paean for ostracised women given supreme strength and ... Gives depth to the Dread Guardians and Companions of the Emperor, that their elevation beyond humanity doesn't rest in purely the physical, but something transcendent and spiritual. The Sisters of Silence feel like a paean for ostracised women given supreme strength and purpose, where untouchable doesn't become a mark of shame, but a badge of honour, they are beyond weak mortality and their purpose intrinsically tied to all of humanity's survival. They embody the immense sacrifice and exacting standards that are required to serve in the Emperor's Legions. This is juxtaposed against the venal High Lords, where we see their flaws being at best a stagnant status quo during times of relative peace, and an unacceptable weakness during crisis. Go to Amazon

Hope rises It's the dawn of a new era...Warhammer 41K. The fall of Cadia, the rise of a Primarch, and in my opinion the beginning of the end. Go to Amazon

Very nicely done This is a really well written book. BL has been promising us the Battle of Terra, just 10k years later than expected. Go to Amazon

Five Stars Great audiobook, great story, offers a lot of insight into the Sisters of Silence and Custodes Go to Amazon

Legio Custodies-Dark Imperium with battles on Terra! Another good story with room for more tales to follow in series. Dark Imperium is here! Good insight into Legio Custodes. Go to Amazon

Amazing!!! This is the book if you want a inside look at the modern 40k Custodies and the Silent Sisters!!!! Amazing plot, decent action, the Black Library out done themselves with this entry!! Go to Amazon

Now I'll warrant you this telling of the story is better and far more compelling but it flatly difference from ... Truly one very good book. Outstanding! Imperial Guardians Five Stars It is a good compliment to his other recent book (Carrion Throne) where ...

[esser-z]

As part of the Fall of the Imperium arc that leads into my Warhammer 41k fan sequel, the turmoil of revolution allows the Necrons to launch a massive attack on Mars, seeking to claim the Void Dragon.

With the Imperium stretched thin and at civil war, the Mechanicum stands mostly alone. Hope seems lost for Cawl and his forces when the rogue Magos Valencia--a genius and rebel ally whose near complete cybernetic conversion is well hidden by synthetic flesh-- arrives bringing aid.

Her army is mainly comprised of sapient machines from the Collective, a heresy only tolerated out of deepest necessity. But this reluctance leads to delay, and the Necrons transfer the Void Dragon to a massive Tesseract Arc...

Which is just as Valencia and her fellow commander, a massive and ancient starfaring machine-lifeform called the Sovereign, planned. The Collective forces withdraw, evacuating initiates and servants and any who will join Valencia, as Mars makes a desperate final stand.

Even as the Tesseract Ark prepares to unleash the wrath of the Void Dragon, the Sovereign descends into the atmosphere. Spreading their tentacle like appendages, they harness an ancient power.

For a moment, the two godlike beings clash. Then, the Sovereign overwhelms their foe and assumes command of its power as will. A massive energy spike covers the battlefield.

When it fades, all remaining the ground-- Mechanicum, Necron, even the Void Dragon itself-- have been transformed into solid crystal along with their surroundings. Nigh indestructible, the translucent material will last ages, inert.

In the skies above Mars, Valencia assumes command of the remaining techpriests and their servants. With knowledge gained from her formerly banned research and aid from the Collective, she will transform the remnant to the Academy Mechanicum, a core part of the nascent Panhuman Republic's renewed interest in and understanding of science and technology.