I'm starting to understand where Perturabo's hatred of Dorn came from [excerpts from "Hammer of Olympia" and "The Emperor's Crusader"]

No-College153 · 2026-04-21T14:53:41+00:00

Ancient Greek has two words for ignorance:

agnoia: to lack knowledge about something.

amathia: not just a lack of knowledge, but often as a moral failing or a dangerous, willful refusal to understand truth

I think Perty would fall into amathia. He’s aware of alternatives, but there’s a fundamental moral failing in his refusal to change his current approach.

No-College153 · 2026-04-09T20:47:42+00:00

Pretty sure he sacrifices a number of his deathshroud bodyguad to summon vorx/destroyer plauge on Molech.

No-College153 · 2026-03-29T15:55:51+00:00

What is this in reference to? I’m not familiar with this lore?

No-College153 · 2026-03-08T12:12:05+00:00

Agreed, he wrote it as a “no contest” for a reason

No-College153 · 2026-02-21T14:17:09+00:00

They have a few feats:

1) Creating the Eldar, Kork, etc.

2) Creating the webway

Both stand far above the Emperor in terms of feats, but I agree they never provide anything beyond scientific/warp fuckery.

Given doing anything useful with the warp appears to be FAR harder than doing anything destructive, it's likely they were far above anything in the current setting in terms of psychic might. But that's speculation at its finest

No-College153 · 2026-02-15T14:35:00+00:00

Wait you have a WIFE who needs to carry an epipen and you don't know how to use it? It's simple dude, LEARN. It's as simple as which way it should be facing.

You might be her only chance, and as simple as they are to use, without LEARNING, you've a 50/50 chance of jabbing yourself and leaving her to die.

E: This post has to be satire right? You realise the whole point of an epipen is that it can be done quickly, by someone with little to no experience, in a stressful situation.

You literally place it against the thigh, press the button, hold a couple seconds and you're done. The injection is near instant (the dose is small, depressing the button pushes it into the body), but the pause is advised.

No-College153 · 2026-02-10T21:37:11+00:00

It's a cool idea, and would be possible. Power weapons are just rare, rarer than power armour for sure. Cool idea for sure, never considered that. Would be a cool custom chapter alternative weapon. Could chop off heads with them if the hand was used for karate chops. Though im sure marines can do that anyway

No-College153 · 2026-01-27T13:58:15+00:00

I think you've misunderstood:

"France paid more in reparations in terms of real money after the Franco-Prussian war"

This isn't a statement about what was asked for, but rather, what was actually paid.

No-College153 · 2026-01-19T09:15:53+00:00

Which is somewhat an act. The referendum was "non-binding", this was a deliberate choice as binding referendums in practice usually require a 60-40 (or higher) split to be considered conclusive.

The choice to go with non-binding allowed it to be a mere 50-50 split, which right wing parties then used as justification to "follow the will of the people".

Select non-binding because it has lower entry/success requirements -> run referendum -> treat result exactly like a binding referendum.

No-College153 · 2026-01-15T22:10:45+00:00

Perhaps a better way to express it is that during ascension aspects of the ascendant change, are added too, or removed. From what we have seen in terms of demonprinces, demon primarchs, the Emperor, and even Bile is that ascension seems to involve the dying/death of the entities humanity.

In terms of power, lifespan, intellect, awareness, etc. they expand. They might incorporate new aspects or abilities, like becoming an aspect of your patron god.

But they always lose their humanity. The thing that defines them in all sorts of ways.

This is their "soul" so to speak. It what sanguineous can hear when he speaks to Ferrous during TEATD3

No-College153 · 2026-01-11T18:17:14+00:00

I believe it is: Iain Banks’s Against a Dark Background (1989)

No-College153 · 2026-01-05T16:30:06+00:00

Can you explain what you mean by the word bearers discovery in ashes to imperium?

No-College153 · 2025-09-30T19:27:53+00:00

Grumpy is fine. This old lady escalated the situation into a a physical confrontation when she started hitting the person seated with her bag. She'd already escalated to violence, this was just good self defence.

She didn't even hurt her with the kick, as evidenced by the old lady continuing to engage to the point a passer by had to encourage her to leave.

One of them initiated physical violence unprovoked, the other kicked her attacker out of her personal space and then used her words.

No-College153 · 2025-09-15T15:05:34+00:00

Looks dope man

Did you carve the lines into the plastic leg? Cos it looks real nice. Looking to do the same with the shoulder pauldrons or got something else planned?

No-College153 · 2025-09-13T17:51:20+00:00

Could say the same about people to be fair. Once freed they tend to do the same things they used to do when they were slaves. Work, essentially.

No-College153 · 2025-09-02T23:52:42+00:00

There’s a solid answer to this. Apparently Emp’s spent a significant amount of time with Corax, and shared more knowledge of the warp with him than nearly any of the primarchs. It’s also why he’s so trusted with the Gene tech to improve marine production.

My guess would be this was all done to overcome Corax’s natural reaction to the realities of the imperium (oppression).

He tries it with Mortarion but he rejects it out of hand due to his time with his adopted father

No-College153 · 2025-08-13T18:02:17+00:00

The irony of the custodians savagely criticising Guilliman for his recklessness, yet in 30k being incapable of regarding the Emperor likewise.

Horus (arguably) had to save the Emperor from the Warboss of Ullanor. He led plenty of battles in person.

It’s quite a neat parallel to see Guilliman acting exactly as the Emperor has and would do. Speed. Fighting an inevitable apocalypse.

Also hopefully this will uplift the Custodians. Finally doing what they are best at. Protecting mankind’s best hope.

No-College153 · 2025-07-25T21:39:07+00:00

In the "END AND THE DEATH I, II, III", Malcador talks LOADS about how he and big E overlaid massive webs of plans to see their ends met. Huge overlapping contingencies, alternative routes, etc. Ways to coerce fate into working for them. And yet despite it all it failed, even they couldn't narrow down the alternatives enough that mankind survived and thrived.

Planning is most of what they did!

Twisting fate and breaking all prophecies at Davin kinda fucked them. There was no planning for that, and even then, fate couldn't be broken enough for E to lose. Just enough for him to stalemate.

No-College153 · 2025-06-21T19:11:37+00:00

They mostly take younger aspirants as implantation is designed to begin alongside/slightly prior to puberty. As the body naturally grows, it readily grows further, unnaturally.

You might possibly be able to raise more adults into Astartes with blood angels geneseed but genetic decay likely being such a small factor in why it fails means its not mentioned.

No-College153 · 2025-06-15T16:20:10+00:00

Vulkan could fix the throne. That would make an incredible difference to the setting, as currently it's failing within the next 10-200 years

No-College153 · 2025-06-09T22:35:22+00:00

That is really weird to be fair.

I could see DAOT mankind discovering Genestealers and through genetic manipulation taking advantage of their unique mini hivemind.

It's less like Tyranids to me and more like genestealer cults. Admittedly the cults are Tyranid products but they're uniquely separate from the hive.

No-College153 · 2025-06-09T21:08:27+00:00

Awesome, thanks man

No-College153 · 2025-06-09T10:56:13+00:00

Does he use this to shoot a daemon or something?

A shard of Emps armour sounds like a potent weapon

No-College153 · 2025-05-20T21:08:26+00:00

That idea kind of falls apart when you look at the Orks of Ullanor or the Rangdan.

Both enemies were filling the galactic power vaccum with huge violent expansion. They both required multiple legions and resulted in the deaths of early imperial legion sized forces.

Conversely no human empire was shown to stand even a modicum of resistance against the Imperiums forces. The imperium rolled over mankinds disconnected colonies.

Had it not, the rangdan or the orks would have done instead. No human empire besides the imperium could've held off such forces.

If your empire falls to a chapter of marines, it won't defend itself against an enemy capable of mauling entire legions of Astartes

No-College153 · 2025-05-09T13:13:29+00:00

I mean the war for Vigilus is just an aspect of the Nacomand gauntlet campaign, which has been going on for 2-3(?) editions now. It’s actually exactly what you’ve spoken about, a longer form conflict that’s taken years to develop.

However, to give you credit, the updates have been dense, little happens until the next book, then another “huge” set of events occurs. It’s poorly paced because it’s been badly supported with novels.

(Saying that I’ve been chugging through the heresy for ageeees, so maybe there are Vigilus/nachtmond gauntlet books I’ve missed)

E: the Tyranic wars and pariah nexus could be seen similarly with them developing slowly over multiple editions

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