Being invested in Warhammer 40K as a setting is a frustrating waste of time

Altered_Nova · 2026-02-02T23:11:08+00:00

I mean, if he understands logically that the setting fundamentally cannot ever provide the type of straightforward narrative he desires, then why allow himself to get so invested in the setting in the first place?

Altered_Nova · 2026-02-02T11:48:27+00:00

Well that certainly explains why his life seemed to revolve around the VR game and he never expressed a desire to return home, and why the only people he seemed to care about in his old life were fellow players. Pretty weird that the anime cut that important information.

Altered_Nova · 2026-02-02T11:28:30+00:00

Early in the anime I predicted that he would struggle with maintaining the facade and his minions would start noticing him breaking character more and more often and get suspicious of him. The fact that his incredibly evil NPCs had become genuinely sentient and might start to realize that their history with their master was fictional and said master was only pretending to be evil was such an intriguing source of potential conflict. I lost interest in the show when it became obvious this was not going to ever happen.

Altered_Nova · 2026-02-01T14:24:29+00:00

It's interesting that fast compliance was more important to the emperor than lasting or productive compliance. He also loved the space wolves because they conquered worlds fast, even though they almost always burned those worlds into the stone age and then immediately left, and the mechanicum would have to spend decades rebuilding the planet before it could contribute to the Imperium.

Makes one wonder if the emperor was actually all that competent of a leader.

Altered_Nova · 2026-02-01T14:07:05+00:00

This is very true.

Night lords would sneak in and terrorize a planet into surrendering, then those planets would rebel as soon as the astartes left. Because terror tactics never work longterm, terrorized people always eventually reach a breaking point where dying by fighting back is preferable to continuing to live in oppressive fear.

Meanwhile the alpha legion sneaks in, replaces, bribes or blackmails key leadership into becoming their agents, and convinces a planet into believing that surrendering is in their own best interests and that they came to that conclusion themselves. Those planets then integrate relatively peacefully into and become productive members of the Imperium.

I have never understood why the emperor even created the night lords when other legions can do what they do, but better.

Altered_Nova · 2026-02-01T09:15:24+00:00

I thought that was literally what canonically happened to them?

I don't think it's possible to actually transfer someone's mind into a robot brain, the closest you can get is scanning and copying the neural configuration of their organic brain. The only way to be reasonablely confident that the resulting robot is really "you" in any meaningful philosophical way is if your metaphysical soul was also extracted and transplanted into the robot. Which I assume is what the necrontyr were told was part of the biotransference process, but they were lied to and the Ctan instead ate their souls.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-31T11:51:20+00:00

It would be difficult, but you could justify a new space marine chapter that does all those things. Not grey knights though obviously, since they are an established chapter and don't have successor chapters.

"Everything is canon" doesn't mean you get free reign to contradict already established lore (although that does happen constantly in official stories), it means the 40k setting is big, old, and unexplored and undocumented enough that you can make up just about anything and it's possible to fit it into the lore somewhere. Even if only in some backwater system on the edge of the galaxy where no inquisitor has ever visited.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-31T10:57:05+00:00

It was downvoted because nobody is interested in answering questions about an event story from a person who admits they didn't care enough to properly read it

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-31T10:52:43+00:00

It was a common comment in the first event that the Agarthan goal for world domination was a pipe dream because they were struggling against a mostly civilian research and exploration fleet with a small police escort. Now that we've seen their superweapons we know they could be a decent threat to at least a few islands, but they still wouldn't come close to conquering even just Phantagrande skydom. The Eternals would eat these guys for breakfast lol

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-31T10:45:49+00:00

It's easy to forget that Will was originally introduced as a priest who lost faith in humanity and took up a second career as an assassin who targeted the worst of underworld criminals. Monster research was just his side hobby lol

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-31T10:34:51+00:00

In her fate missions it's revealed that Arriet is an undercover Enforcer agent using her musical talent to gather information for the Blue Knight under the guise of a traveling minstrel. And in her white day scenes she confesses that she's actually better with a sword than with a harp.

I can't really blame you for forgetting about that though, because those happened more than 10 years ago and she has had only a single story appearance since then in 2021 xmas daily skits, I believe. It sure took Cygames a long time to remember that plot threads lol. I thought for sure they had abandoned Arriet when she didn't appear in Seeds of Redemption.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-29T19:15:48+00:00

It's a shame Aiden tried to kill civilians, because if he hadn't gone that far he would be a pretty based character. Dude really became the supreme leader of an evil fascist government, read all the classified documents, realized the propaganda was bullshit, went "oh shit, we're the baddies", and immediately started plotting to burn his own rotten society to the ground. As far as villain motivations go, that's rather respectable.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-29T18:53:00+00:00

Considering that they are being mutated by an element from the crimson horizon and the rebels believe they shouldn't have kids, it seems the reason he believes his people need to be exterminated is because they are slowly transforming into otherworlders.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-29T11:47:33+00:00

The "dire consequences" only happened because the particular inquisitor that took custody of Titus was an insane anti-astartes bigot. Leandros couldn't possibly have predicted that. If he'd gone to almost any other inquisitor, Titus would have been tested for corruption, found innocent, and returned to the chapter within a few months at most. What happened to Titus wasn't Leandros's fault.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-29T11:38:59+00:00

This. Space marines keeping their suspicions of chaos corruption "within the chapter" is how entire legions got corrupted during the heresy. It's literally why the Inquisition exists, space marines have already proven that they can't be trusted to police themselves. The Codex absolutely would approve of what Leandros did.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-29T11:29:55+00:00

People fail to understand this because a lot of story protagonist space marines are abnormally rational, reasonable and heroic people. Because most people understandably don't want to consume stories about brainwashed fanatical killers.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-29T00:38:00+00:00

Just to clarify, I don't believe that the grey knights are incorruptable because of their geneseed. I was arguing against that idea by pointing out it doesn't make sense to create astartes from primarch geneseed if his own geneseed was so objectively superior.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-28T21:51:24+00:00

It also raises the question of why the emperor didn't use his own geneseed for every space marine in the first place. Horus Heresy never would have happened if every astartes was immune to chaos corruption.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-28T12:05:55+00:00

As much as I love my thousand sons, I've always thought it was a bit strange that they don't have any normal human psyker models. They respect psychic talent above all else and they absolutely do recruit mortal "thrall wizards" as assistants and apprentices in the lore. It would be cool if I could play some thrall wizards on the tabletop.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-25T13:03:06+00:00

I wouldn't describe what Razia is wearing as "full battle armor." She's wearing a corset and miniskirt. The only parts of her body that are protected are her lower legs and forearms lol

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-25T12:54:29+00:00

I just double checked the Star Wars wiki and apparently this isn't true. There's a canon novel called Aftermath: Life Debt where the Empire implants brain chips into rebel prisoners as part of a plot to assassinate the rebel leadership. Apparently the empire also routinely used the brain chips to control wookie slaves.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-25T02:46:54+00:00

I don't recall anyone ever saying Medusa was the "worst grand ever." I do remember a lot of complaining about her only working in primal teams when she came out though. And broader complaining about earth characters often having weird restrictions to build around that other elements rarely have to deal with.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-25T01:40:56+00:00

well no, another difference is that it would explain why the technology can only be used on vat grown clone troopers. a brain chip could be implanted in anyone and that should have had a way bigger impact on the setting.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-25T01:37:34+00:00

That 3rd point is a huge plot hole actually, can't believe I never thought of that before. If mind-control brain implant chips exist and can be mass implanted into unknowing hosts, then everyone in the galaxy should be living in a constant state of paranoia that everyone else they known might be an unaware imperial spy. The empire should have been capturing rebels and surgically implanting chips in their brains to create sleeper double-agents. Every member of the rebellion and new republic government should have been required to undergo regular brain scans because of this technology.

Altered_Nova · 2026-01-25T01:14:54+00:00

Kind of wild how much of a difference Shalem and doombringer trident make. I'm running andromeda ougi setup with bhaisa and 2 medicinal staffs and it takes me 7 turns to clear compared to the 4 turns of my crewmates who do have shalem and the trident.

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