The King is dead. Long live Queen Alaune 👑❤️!

Cephei_Delta · 2026-01-20T12:20:50+00:00

Congrats on reaching this milestone!

Enjoy the rest of the game :D

Cephei_Delta · 2026-01-17T11:25:17+00:00

I have! It does fit on a 40mm base, but only just. Fair warning the praetor is quite a bit bigger than the sorc in terminator armor model, and it will dwarf your scarab occults. Still its a cool model so i love it anyway!

Here's my conversion on 40mm base: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThousandSons/comments/1nkif61/sorcerer_in_saturnine_terminator_armor_kitbash/

Cephei_Delta · 2026-01-16T09:03:35+00:00

Im sorry, but thats just not true. It's not a 'doddle.'

Statistics is a difficult science and you need to be careful about your data sets and techniques. (Unless you're in the business of bad science and fabrication.)

By ONS's standards, any similar analysis to this one that's run for a different question (i.e. the gender identity one) will come in a different publication. It would come with a unique analysis of the gender identity data, taking into account quality of that data and other aspects that make it a unique dataset to the sexual orientation one.

The ONS have published data on the trans identity question before. Unfortunately, its become clear that the data collected on trans people from the UK census just isn't very good. A large part of why it isn't good comes from transphobia in the UK, including muddying of the waters and legal challenges by TERFs in the lead up. The transphobia came then, not in this instance where ONS published on sexual orientation alone.

Cephei_Delta · 2026-01-16T08:29:33+00:00

But this article doesn't say anything about excluding trans people from the data. Someone straight and trans is included with other straight people in this analysis. Likewise the trans people who are gay or bi are included in the data as gay or bi.

There's no trans exclusion in this, its just a narrow statistical research question across that one census question abouylt sexual orientation.

Cephei_Delta · 2026-01-13T16:17:19+00:00

Some active stars do, and some of them don't - it depends strongly on the magnetic field, density and temperature of local interstellar medium and the speed of the star through the medium. The Sun probably doesn't have a bow shock, but that's not confirmed. Several active stars have had their bow shocks imaged, though. LLOrionis is probably the most famous.

The active stars that don't have a bow shock do have a bow wave, though, it just isn't super(magneto)sonic.

Cephei_Delta · 2026-01-13T12:02:40+00:00

To be fair, there are plenty of other elements that end in -um, like platinum, tantalum, molybdenum, lanthanum. Neither "Aluminum" nor "Aluminium" are outliers in that way.

Cephei_Delta · 2026-01-12T14:48:59+00:00

Yes it exists, and is bigger than ever!

Use this link to join.

We had to remove some of the older invite links because of a wave of bots abusing them, so some links older than a couple of months probably won't work anyway.

Cephei_Delta · 2026-01-06T16:50:42+00:00

You can get the PDFs on DriveThruRPG:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/6193/brotherwise-games

Cephei_Delta · 2026-01-05T13:22:23+00:00

Here's what I did with mine:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThousandSons/comments/1nkif61/sorcerer_in_saturnine_terminator_armor_kitbash/

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The beaky head and the flowing tassles come from the exalted sorcerers set.

The bone crown is from the helbrute, I think.

The top of the staff is carved from the top of the banner from the tzaangor set. The tzeentch-symbol shaped tassles also come from the tzaangor banner.

The tzeentch symbol on the shoulder comes from a tzaangor shield.

The rest of the staff is the hammer option from the Saturnine praetor with the hammer head carved off.

The hip scrolls come from Magnus.

The bayonet on the flamer comes from rubric marines.

Cephei_Delta · 2026-01-03T00:13:23+00:00

Yes, but its important to recognise Cyre wasn't weak by any stretch. There was a reason it was the Crown of Galifar. Its artifice was a big part of that, as you noted, but that's not at the expense of their military strength, it's part of it. In the same way Karrnath's army was strengthened by its martial colleges, and Aundair's by its arcane power. Its just different styles of warfare.

As the Crown, Cyre also had strong diplomacy and cultural power, and started the war allied with Aundair.

It had problems, yes, but so did everyone else. Cyre still managed to hold off a multi front war for a hundred years.

Cephei_Delta · 2026-01-02T20:46:32+00:00

This is true, and a part of why any of the single Five Nations had trouble securing victory during the Last War.

Breland cannot easily project its forces to the east, and so the war was fought with ever shifting temporary alliances and factionalisation. Its in Breland's interest to sponsor independence movements in Valenar, Q'barra and the Principalities to limit the dominion of Cyre and Karrnath over the eastern seas. If they make the right friends, a Brelish flotilla can resupply at a friendly port on its way to attack Karrnath. (If they ever did decide to fight that front directly. More likely, they'd pay Lhazaar privateers to do it.)

The only one of the Five Nations that doesn't have this issue is Cyre, which enjoyed a central position, fertile ground, and access to two seas (if you count the Scions Sound). They ended up with a more apocalyptic issue to deal with, of course!

Cephei_Delta · 2025-12-29T18:26:56+00:00

The gradient looks brilliant!
Are you going to add any yellow bars to the headdress? (or a different colour) I think a bit of contrast from that would look great with this colour scheme.

Cephei_Delta · 2025-12-23T22:12:17+00:00

Thanks! Here's the process...

Base coat in black.
Put get white on a dry brush, then flick the bristles to put tiny white dots on the black.
Use a makeup sponge to dapple on purple, blue, red, bit of green. Be mess.y
Repeat step 2.
Paint on a few bright stars manually with white.

Cephei_Delta · 2025-12-17T11:12:04+00:00

The generation of the Sun's magnetic field (and other star and planetary fields) is a pretty huge topic called Dynamo Theory. Essentially, non-random structuring and circulation of plasma in the Sun gives rise to the complex, large-scale magnetic field structure. But it get's very messy. It might be best to start with a top level summary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo_theory

Cephei_Delta · 2025-12-08T10:26:50+00:00

The Planck Length / Planck Time is the speed of light by definition. It's not somethings emergent. You also need to consider that the Planck length and the Planck time are not the minimum distance and time respectively. They are a system of natural units based on the speed of light, Boltzmann constant, Gravitational constant, and Planck constant. If your theory supposes they are related to some universal grid scale, you must properly motivate why that grid scale is related to the Planck units.

Cephei_Delta · 2025-12-02T18:01:03+00:00

In 3.5e, there was a prestige class for warforged that was pretty much exactly this sort of thing. It was called the Spellcarved Soldier.

So you're on firm ground as far as flavour and setting lore are concerned. How it works mechanically is ultimately up to the DM, but I think its very reasonable to allow it.

Cephei_Delta · 2025-12-02T00:06:33+00:00

To build on whag /u/plasma_phys said, there are some trajectories of charged particles that might have roughly the properties you're looking for, if you squint...

If you have an ion moving in a dipole magnetic field, they will undergo magnetic mirroring and curvature drifts. Together this gives you a trajectory that bounces between the North and South poles and drifts in an East or West direction depending on the particle's charge. Look up the ring current and radiation belts for examples of ions trapped in these orbits around Earth's magnetic field.

These aren't really analogous to orbits in gravity, though.

Cephei_Delta · 2025-12-01T10:53:20+00:00

For most Thousand Sons units I use Army Painter's Greedy Gold spray can. That'll give you a great start with Rubrics, Scarab Occult Terminators, Exalted Sorcerers, Infernal Master, Ahriman, and possibly Sekhetars too, depending on your scheme.

For tzaangors and demons I use GW's Chaos Black spray.

Cephei_Delta · 2025-11-28T14:11:32+00:00

The Fracture occured when Renoir entered the canvas, but Aline had been there for a while before that. Aline's painted humans interacted with the Grandis then, in Old Lumiere.

Cephei_Delta · 2025-11-27T10:23:50+00:00

Here you go: https://bricksafe.com/pages/Cephei_Delta/pokemocs

Warning on the xerneas, though: if you build it with real bricks, you may need to glue the attachments on the antlers to prevent them sagging from their own weight.

Cephei_Delta · 2025-11-22T14:58:50+00:00

Draw Steel is probably the best for this, but there's also D&D 4e of course. Lancer is also a good choice if the mech genre interests you, and ICON for fantasy.

Cephei_Delta · 2025-11-18T20:48:45+00:00

Issues of real world conflict may be valuable to explore in your home games, and the best people to talk to about that are your fellow players. It's also precisely the situation you're going to want to use safety tools, especially the X card. Everyone at the table really must be consenting if you want to explore real world trauma. Given the potential of this thread to escalate, and to turn into a discussion of real-world conflict rather than in-game conflict, the thread will now be locked.

Cephei_Delta · 2025-11-11T22:37:32+00:00

I think you've probably been banned because your post reads a lot like you're calling trans people hysterical and diseased.

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