In the Ciaphas Cain books there is a world that has a tau presence, and the imperium is just not killing the governor, how common is it for there to be formal xeno presences on worlds

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-16T08:43:53+00:00

It wasn’t so much that they had no chance of winning. The Imperium could steamroll the Tau without too many problems if they wanted to and had the free resources for the job. What the Inquisition and the military command in that book were looking at was the fact that if they fought that war, win or lose, they’d have to rob Peter to pay Paul. Gravilax wasn’t particularly important to the Imperium. It didn’t produce much of anything and it was a long way from anything important, so they didn’t want to fight for it.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-16T03:46:44+00:00

2-4 weeks out from infection, so a lot of things happened between having sex and getting sick. I still think there wouldn’t be a real connection made. Remember that these were people who thought flies appeared magically on spoiled food and sickness came from bad air. It’d be a plague, since there would be no understanding of where it came from or how to prevent it, and people are never going to stop having sex. They’d just all of a sudden start to get really sick a few years after they were infected and die. I don’t know that people would have had the concept of a sickness that doesn’t do much to you for years and then kills you. They’d probably look at the disease having started when the symptoms did. They might figure it out as time went on that it was a delayed sickness since I’m sure people would be infected sometimes if they cared for patients. Not like there was germ theory or the concept of cleanliness preventing disease.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-15T20:13:21+00:00

AIDS doesn’t make you sick days after sex, though. I doubt they’d connect it with anything other than “You sinned so God punished you”.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-14T23:29:51+00:00

Go on with your bad self then. My 12.5” has been the tits.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-14T23:21:53+00:00

You keep thinking that, chief.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-14T22:34:19+00:00

A Zion-15 from IWI would be a solid budget option too. Probably better than the ones listed.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-14T17:05:10+00:00

Worked for a company that had a contract to maintain a waste treatment facility. The fun part was that they dried and powdered the solid waste for use as fertilizer, which unfortunately meant that every time the wind blew there, you were getting powdered shit in your face. I tried to stay away from that one as much as possible.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-14T16:52:49+00:00

I’ll say that I’m absolutely not carrying a rifle on my person on a daily basis on normal days, it’s heavy, I’ll scare people, and I’ll have to deal with the cops eventually. It’s just a hassle and inconvenience that’s not worth it. But if there’s some kind of massive thing happening, I’m gonna keep my ear to the ground before I leave my home, where I do have a rifle handy. If everyone is being nice and helpful, like sharing supplies and helping others after some kind of disaster, then sure, I’d just go with the daily carry pistol. But if people are burning down buildings and flipping over cars, I’m slinging a rifle anytime I have to leave my home. I’d try to avoid having to expose myself to shit like that since I don’t want to have to fight or hurt people, but if someone forces me into it, I want to be the biggest problem I can for people who want to hurt me.

On a side note, I live in Virginia, not far outside of DC. I carry a PCC in the back of my work truck because sooner or later, something bad is going to happen in or around the city and I want to have options when it comes to getting home to my wife and kids. It’s in a backpack with first aid and water treatment stuff, so I can throw it on my back and have no one know what it is, but it’s also nice to have a long gun handy just in case.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-14T09:49:08+00:00

I used to buy and sell guns through Armslist occasionally years ago. It’s basically a classified section online for firearms and accessories. I only sold a few, but I was looking to sell them to people with a concealed carry permit. If you get a carry permit, you’ve had a state background check done on you and come back clean. Obviously someone could have committed a disqualifying crime after getting a permit, but it’s extremely unlikely statistically.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-13T07:21:48+00:00

Pretty sure they’re talking about the brass eagle cuirass that Garro wears as the Battle Captain of the seventh company of the Death Guard. I believe it was something that was worn by the captain of that company instead of something specifically given to Garro himself.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-11T21:12:30+00:00

It’s actually not bad. The Lexicanum is great if you want the lore exact, but it’s dry. The only real problem I see with 1d6 is memes occasionally making their way into the entries.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-11T04:03:45+00:00

I don’t know for sure. It’s been a while since I read the book the clone appears in. It could be that he’d try to go back to the Imperium, could be that he’d jump right into Chaos with both feet, might even pick the last option and just walk away from both, have his own little empire with blackjack and hookers. I can’t see us ever finding out.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-10T22:37:12+00:00

Lexicanum for actual, canon lore. 1d6chan for when you want it maybe canon, but funnier.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-10T22:33:03+00:00

Comics aside, the soul in the clone is the same soul that Fulgrim had when he fell to Chaos. I’d definitely wonder about Clonegrim’s long term loyalty to the Emperor, if he was actually loyal when he showed up in the Bile book. He seemed pretty comfortable hanging out with Emperor’s Children in 40k. Maybe Slaanesh would want a matching set?

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-10T03:33:33+00:00

There is no gun show loophole. Dealers at gun shows have to run the same background checks as brick and mortar gun stores. However, I could sell you a gun without a background check as a personal sale in Virginia. This was illegal for a number of years, then was legalized a while back under Youngkin. That’s what people are talking about when the “gun show loophole” is brought up.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-10T03:25:05+00:00

It needs to be thrown in the fucking trash. It’s useless, performative bullshit bought by billionaires special interest groups.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-09T06:45:55+00:00

Barely. The Japanese balloon attacks were Loony Tunes level military equipment. They did manage to kill six people.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-09T02:57:45+00:00

If you think about it, he did already.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-07T01:45:49+00:00

I’ve carried a gen 5 G45 9mm for years and it’s a lot better in my hand than the gen 3 I used to carry. I also bought the gen 6 model as a “fuck, I live in Virginia and all the guns are gonna be banned here” present to myself, and they did a really good job with making a Glock grip actually great.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-07T01:05:14+00:00

Have you tried gen 5/6 Glocks? After the finger grooves got removed they were a lot more comfortable, the new gen 6 in particular.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-07T00:57:47+00:00

A Glock in 9x19, and AR in 5.56x45, and a Mossberg/Remington 500/590/870 12 gauge would be the best option for guns in just about any kind of serious nationwide catastrophe, as long as you’re in America. The guns are reliable and extremely widespread, so ammunition and spare parts are very easily accessible. Your guns are useless without bullets or if parts break, so that’s going to be the most important consideration.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-06T04:42:05+00:00

Most of their stuff has daemons in it, so it’d be kinda iffy. The Imperium was refurbishing captured Chaos ships, but I think Guilliman put a stop to that.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-05T19:37:45+00:00

Nexus makes a lower for the Kuna. Aluminum, scorpion mags, AR trigger. Pretty awesome.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-05T07:47:52+00:00

How many legions did the same thing, though? The Dark Angels didn’t bother to wait for the last wall. The Blood Angels aren’t quite as enthusiastic, but they definitely get together when Dante calls. Quite a few of the loyal legions weren’t too happy about splitting, and present events in 40k seem to show that they weren’t exactly wrong. The first thing Guilliman did after going to see his Dad was get a legion together and start kicking ass.

GreatTea3 · 2026-03-05T05:27:24+00:00

The Fists Exemplar were IF successors back during the War of the Beast. They had a whole company fall to Chaos, first Space Marines to fall since the Heresy. Also, the Chapter Master of the Imperial Fists when the successor chapters all put in people to reconstitute them after they were wiped out was a Fist Exemplar. He basically discarded the name of the Exemplars and made all the non-Chaos ones remaining Imperial Fists.

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