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Re: Warhammer 40K Fluff Discussion XVI: Where the Ordnance is Hand-Delivered!
Yeah, definitely got that covered. The general theme of the campaign is exploring and exploiting a previously unexplored subsector of the Halo Stars, and this bunch is the largest of the human splinter empires in the area - settled by the crew of a Heresy-era Black Ship and its escorts, specifically. So they've been cut off from the Imperium proper almost since the Heresy began, and what flavor of diplomacy the PC's Dynasty employs in dealing with them will have big repercussions. They don't even know the Emperor is still alive, let alone that he's been deified. Witches or mutants of any kind are killed on sight, and those of Untouchable/Blank heritage are revered as holy/sacred in their culture - that instinctive revulsion non-Blanks feel around them is interpreted as a subconscious understanding of their own inferiority.
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Much the same as the dark is not the opposite of light, it's the result of having no light, a Blank is still warp related since the warp is all about souls and the results of not having a soul is what the effects produce.
As to the difference between Blanks and Pariahs, I always thought it was a case of Blanks having no soul while a Pariah has a ... void where their soul should be. A Blank is almost in the uncanny valley range, something is off and unsettling, but you can't quite place what (unless you're a psyker) so your mind interprets it is random unpleasant things, while a Pariah is a howling gale of warp nothingness that even those without warp attunement feel a powerful and inherant wrongness about.
I'd liken it to a ship on the tides, regular souls are normal ships on a regular day, Blanks are various strengths of undertow and current pulling toward rocks or reefs but can be managed with a good boat and a strong crew while Pariahs are a whirlpool, with only their strength determining how deep and severe the vortex is, but all of them are avoided at all costs for to be anywhere near them is likely to end poorly at best for even the strongest of vessels.
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The way that I have interpreted it is that they are similar effects, but caused from the "opposite directions".
The random effects caused by psychic powers is just that - warp phenomena manifesting itself in places where the warp has been pulled through and allowed to exert itself directly. The effects that happen around blanks aren't caused by the blank directly, but rather by reactions of things to it. Being a blank doesn't inherently make people around you cringe and puke themselves inside out, but it triggers *a* reaction and that is the common form that it manifests, among others.
As to the difference between Blanks and Pariahs, I always thought it was a case of Blanks having no soul while a Pariah has a ... void where their soul should be. A Blank is almost in the uncanny valley range, something is off and unsettling, but you can't quite place what (unless you're a psyker) so your mind interprets it is random unpleasant things, while a Pariah is a howling gale of warp nothingness that even those without warp attunement feel a powerful and inherent wrongness about.
As far as it reads in those sources, pariah is just a nickname for a blank, same as people call psykers by the names of witches, wyrds, and so on. It comes from possessing the Pariah Gene, which is what causes them to be blanks; a quirk of DNA that makes them have no soul. Some blanks are more "powerful" that others - the most powerful being recruited as Culexus Assassins - but its all the same ability stemming from the same source. Possibly someone better acquainted with biology could explain it in terms of dominant and recessive genes, but that probably doesn't matter - it's fakey space magic and it just happens regardless of the how or why.
The Necron unit of a Pariah is a blank who has been bred/captured and then infested with Necron technology to make them even more effective.
Necron Pariahs and human pariahs are broadly the same thing. Again they both draw from the same source - the Pariah Gene - but the Necron version is technologically augmented to be horrific and terrifying as standard, in the same way that a Culexus Assassin (a blank) can focus its 'power' through the Animus Speculum to horrify those around it. Whatever else we can say about Mont'Ka, the Culexus' effect on the Tau as it walks by is an accurate representation of an amplified blank aura, which ALL Necron Pariahs exhibit.
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Necron Pariahs really are the ultimate expression of the effect of the null field: they exhibit such a powerful aura of unease and revulsion that they managed to retcon themselves out of existence!
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Much the same as the dark is not the opposite of light, it's the result of having no light, a Blank is still warp related since the warp is all about souls and the results of not having a soul is what the effects produce.
Warp Stuff/Psykers pushes the power of the warp into the physical realm to affect it.
Blanks does the opposite, pushing the warp away making it impossible to affect the physical realm.
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Nice one.
Personally (given how much I like the Cain books) I'd like Necron Pariahs to be something that existed, but not for long, rather than having never existed. Something like:
"The Sautekh Dynasty experimented with captured Pariahs, transferring their spirits into Lychguard bodies and using them as assault troops. The experiment was eventually declared a failure and discontinued".Last edited by hamishspence; 2019-07-28 at 06:13 AM.
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Is it considered lecturing to have an opposing viewpoint? Or just one that you don't like?
Considering that you went from saying that blanks had nothing to do with the warp to saying that blanks interact with the warp in 2 pages, maybe you would like to check the basis for your position?
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Continued from the main 40k thread:
Okay, so in typical form I told you what I know and then I went and checked it only to have proven myself wrong.
Blood Ravens DO let their Librarians double-up in other roles, including Captains and even Chapter Masters:
Originally Posted by Index Astartes on the GW Website
I was right about the second part though - they are still fully inducted Librarians, whatever else they are also, so they're probably going to be blue.
But also, they have a Librarius, which isn't the 1st Company.
I'm not sure why you're saying that the entire 1st Company are Psykers, I haven't seen anything to support that?
An alternative would mean that they do sometimes field squads of Librarians - the heretic hunting "battle-squads of Librarians" - in which case the Deathwing analogy is more accurate in that it's their own version of something already existing, though they're still not necessarily all 1st Company.
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Yep.
I was right about the second part though - they are still fully inducted Librarians, whatever else they are also, so they're probably going to be blue.
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I'm not sure why you're saying that the entire 1st Company are Psykers, I haven't seen anything to support that?
The only thing I can find is that the 1st does contain Battleline Librarians. Albeit not the entire 1st Company, as I have been led to believe...By nothing, apparently.
So yeah. It's certainly canon that Blood Ravens do field entire squads of Librarians - so my GK!Blood Ravens, still checks out. It's just that instead of painting them red, I'll be painting them blue.
Gross.
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Shortly after the Chapter was founded, most of their 1st Company was wiped out and had to be rebuilt by Azariah Vidya, the first Librarian-Chaper Master. They also field large numbers of Librarians in dedicated squads. I can see where and how you might have conflated the two into being the same thing.
Gross.
On the other; I generally dislike painting blue Librarians because I don't like odd blue guys in the middle of my otherwise carefully choreographed army.
Given that it's taken the two of us the better part of half a day to figure it out and cite our sources, I seriously doubt that casual observers would know the difference if you pained Voldus red and gold (perhaps more gold than red, as befits his station?) and just didn't mention it. Maybe find some middle ground with a few blue shoulder pads/arms here and there, and do the "Deathwatch" thing just to show it up a bit?
If anyone does ask, point out that you're using Grey Knight rules and Grey Knights don't change the colour of their Librarians, so you've done it that way on purpose so as not to be accused of codex-hopping.Last edited by Wraith; 2019-07-28 at 11:17 AM.
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So far I have three options;
Paint them straight up Blood Ravens, pre-Heresy Thousand Sons and all.
Paint them like 'Red Deathwatch', where they're red, but Psyker-identifying parts of the models like Psychic Hoods and shoulder rims, painted blue.
Paint them like Librarians.
The issue with just painting the...Justiciars special, is that the entire squads have Force Weapons, not just the dude in the front.
On the other; I generally dislike painting blue Librarians because I don't like odd blue guys in the middle of my otherwise carefully choreographed army.
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I tried to Google this and failed, so hopefully one of you 40k loremasters can help me out.
Where do Space Marine vehicle crews come from?
I think I understand the progression system of the 10 companies for a codex-compliant chapter, and generally how the specialist roles like Librarian and Chaplain fit into things. But tank crews, Rhino drivers and aerospace pilots? Are they sourced from one of the ten companies (like bikers and land speeder crew), or are they supernumerary like the honor guard and specialists.
I can see clear as day that it's a power-armored Space Marine manning the storm bolter on a Rhino. And the Ultramarines have a named sergeant tank commander.
Having one or two Space Marines per vehicle adds up, if the chapter in question has a decent-sized vehicle pool. I suppose all that gene-seed enhancement does confer some benefits to vehicle operation, but the question then becomes, how does a Space Marine find himself driving a tank?
I can see them having trials and observations for things like Chaplain affinity or tech skills, but tank driving? What would justify taking a perfectly fine battle brother out of the ten companies and into the role of battle taxi driver. Could it be an as-needs system? A tank driver died, so let's take the worst performing battle brother from the reserve companies and stick him there? Hmm.
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The Armoury (Techmarines).
Having one or two Space Marines per vehicle adds up, if the chapter in question has a decent-sized vehicle pool. I suppose all that gene-seed enhancement does confer some benefits to vehicle operation, but the question then becomes, how does a Space Marine find himself driving a tank?
(Which was basically the fluff behind my 'Yellow White Scars Razor-spam' back in 7th Ed., they were basically Mad Max-Marines)
More often than not, painting a Vehicle gunner according to the fluff is too much effort. People just don't know the fluff, because nobody actually cares about fluff. Then again, why do Vehicle crews have Cog shoulder-pads? It's not like it isn't obvious.
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This is the way that the Deathwatch also paint their Armoury Staff. Same armour colour as the rest of the 'Watch (You think you're special, son?), but with red accents.
The exception is Land Speeders. The Pilots and Gunners are sourced from the Companies.
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Great, now my brain is trying to come up with a custom chapter that ran out of Dreadnought chassis and started sticking its nearly-dead heroes in Predators instead.
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My headcanon is that those spots are reserved for marines who are recovering from major injuries or who have enough damage/bionics to still serve the chapter in a combat role, but won't be optimal to have them running around at super soldier speeds all the time. If the chapter doesn't have enough of those, then it will be a mix of armoury marines who are familiar with the war gear, but who aren't the master techmarine for the detachment they've been assigned to, punishment/penance for a transgression, assignment based on uncommon skill or a way of keeping the newbies out of too much trouble.
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Re: Warhammer 40K Fluff Discussion XVI: Where the Ordnance is Hand-Delivered!
Exceptions seem to be common for this. Storm Wardens, for example, are all (eventually) trained as Tank Commanders, according to the materials available on them.
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I never realized that the Armory could have so many Techmarines. I always imagined them to be small in number, with the heavy lifting covered by Servitors, but if there's at least one per vehicle, there might be a hundred* Techmarines in a given Chapter!
It does explain why Rhinos have (or had?) the ability to repair themselves. There's already a Techmarine inside, lol.Awesome OOTS-style Fallout New Vegas avatar by Ceika. Or it was, before Photobucket started charging money.
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They wouldn't neccessarily be Techmarines. They're simply dudes who get recruited or taken out of the Companies (I think usually the 7th and 8th) to start driving. Maybe if they drive for long enough, they'll get promoted and sent on a Company-paid business trip to Mars.
I always imagined them to be small in number
there might be a hundred* Techmarines in a given Chapter!
The Codex only limits Battleline Marines, you could have infinity guys working the Armoury (in the same way that Librarius doesn't technically have a limit, so Blood Ravens are allowed to have as many Librarians as they can find). It just wouldn't be probable.
Existing outside the Company level organisation, each chapter has an Armoury consisting of the chapter's Techmarines and tanks, a Librarium consisting of the Chapter's Librarians, a Chapter Space Marine Fleet, and the Chapter Master, plus various headquarters staff (including any Honour Guard and the Chapter Champion), and the Chapter's servitors and human serfs. This means that even the most Codex-compliant chapter can have as many Techmarines, Librarians, and vehicle staff (pilots, gunners, etc - this includes Dreadnoughts) as it can muster.
You gotta get your arse to Mars before you're a Techmarine.
All Techmarines can drive and pilot. But not all pilots and drivers are Techmarines.
It does explain why Rhinos have (or had?) the ability to repair themselves. There's already a Techmarine inside, lol.
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It is kind of funny to think that some poor soul might survive the hellish Space Marine initiation rites, get lucky on gene-seed compatibility, go through Astartes Scout training, and then...get stuck driving a Rhino. Do Space Marines suffer from career dissatisfaction?
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6th and 7th, according to the various Space Marine-centric Forgeworld books through the editions.
War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes:
"The crews for a Chapter's armoured vehicles composes solely Space Marines, many assigned as required from the Tactical squads of the Chapter's 6th and 7th Companies. All Space Marines are trained in the operation of armoured vehicles and armoured formation tactics as part of their core indoctrination - some going on to specialise in armoured operations, being trained upon larger vehicles and even being entrusted with basic maintenance tasks."
That said, according to the Codex itself, drivers, pilots, and gunners are typically Techmarines:
page 85:
Techmarine Pilots:
A Chapter may have any number of Techmarines who exist outside the company organisation, belonging instead to the Armoury. Most Space Marines receive vehicle training during their time in the Reserve Companies to ensure a degree of flexibility, and so are capable of acting as drivers, pilots and gunners themselves, but such positions are typically held by Techmarines. Once a Techmarine is interfaced with a vehicle's machine spirit while performing these duties, the meld will occupy his full attention - though he cannot effect repairs, his bond with the vehicle makes it all the deadlier in offence.
(Also, the old Death From the Skies book stated that, in almost all cases, it is Techmarines who pilot aircraft & gunships).
Presumably, this is why aircraft pilots are always shown with the full red outfit, whereas vehicle gunners are often shown with only one red arm, or no red on their armour at all.Last edited by hamishspence; 2019-08-04 at 11:01 AM.
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Simple question. Is there any reason why a Rogue Trader with a teleportariums wouldn't regularly teleport nuclear warheads onboard his enemies ship in combat?
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Active void shields prevent teleportation, so you have to bring their shields down with conventional weapons first. That done, if you're lucky enough to own both an archaeotech teleportarium and archaeotech atomics, you can probably fling nuclear bombs into your enemy's hull instead of boarding parties if you really want. You're spending money like water in the process though, even by RT standards.
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Why use an expensive missile to blow up other people's ships when you can teleport yourself and your team of elite warriors onto their bridge and duel the enemy captain in the name of swashbuckling?
Seriously, ships are expensive things, if you can capture one you can make a small fortune nicking bits or just trying to declare the ship yours. Plus if you're any good at leading from the front, as a Rogue Trader should be to keep their reputation, you have good odds of winning and saving money on nukes by boarding the enemy instead.Sanity is nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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They're archaeotech in the same sense that plasma drives are - ancient technology that can be replicated, but not easily. Basically, the AdMech has a monopoly on manufacturing them (like everything else), and they don't hand them out easily (in game mechanics, they are Near Unique, and each successful roll gets you a single atomic warhead).
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In the Dark Age of Technology and the Age of Strife, atomics
turned many worlds into scoured, radioactive wastelands. They
were some of humanity’s most powerful weapons of war.
In the age of the Imperium, however, atomics have since
fallen out of favour. Simply put, the militant Adepta and
the Imperial Inquisition have better ways to destroy worlds.
Cyclonic torpedoes and virus bombs can slay whole planets
in a matter of hours, or even minutes. On the other hand,
even hundreds of atomic warheads will not destroy a world
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Well this was more a tactic against Ork or Chaos vessels where you wouldn't want to be on it and just want it dead
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Up in the crunch thread a few people have asked about an Astartes being turned into a Primaris, so I thought I'd share some of the newer stuff for those unaware.
The newest source so have is Aaron Dembski-Bowdens's "Spear of the Emperor" novel, in which this process is a significant plot event. It's called (in Ultramar, at least) the Calgarian Rite; a gene-seed is dissected by the combined expertise of an apothecary and techmarine in order to grow the new organs required, which are then surgically implanted into a subject.
It's very risky even on a healthy Astartes - after the surgery they go into torpor for several weeks while the Primaris organs take root. A bystander can literally hear the Astartes' bones as they squeal under the strain of lengthening, as they break and regrow hundreds of times over again and again.
Assuming they survive, the Marine reawakens as a Primaris, though he still needs all the relevant hypnotherapy to be able to engage his new organs. Apparently he also tends to undergo a notable shift in personality - the recipient takes on character traits of the Marine from whom the secondary gene-seed was harvested, and even their facial features can grow to resemble their predecessor.
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More or less, yeah. Nuclear bombs just aren't that scary when you have Nova cannons and cyclonic torpedoes and such, so the very tiny number of circumstances where they are better - such as being used in combination with teleportariums - isn't enough to justify their continued widespread use.
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It's been a long time since I really followed what was going on with GW and the WH games - the last time I played Epic scale was still a thing and the Squats were still around. And it wasn't until a year after WHFB was killed off and Age of Sigmar began that I found out about that.
I see that WH40K has finally moved things along a bit through lurking on this thread, including the return of various primarchs. Which does make me wonder - do you think GW will ever bring the Emperor back if they advanced things along further?
I mean you could make a miniature of him and charge a whole lot of money and they could probably rake in the cash that way. Or would he just be too expensive points wise to have him in a battle and pretty much be the only unit on one side of the battle?
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GW brings back The Emperor when it's on its last legs (probably due to the rise of home-3D printing within the decade). Bringing The Emperor back is what GW does when it literally has no more ideas left in the barrel and it's do-or-die.
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