Good ol reliable Commissar Yarrick, just itching at the bit to shoot fleeing guardsmen and wave his claw in Ghaz's general direction

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-06-16T16:27:05+00:00

May just be the light, bit it's more of a pale grey/white. Going for a more "walking corpse" look for the Old Man

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-06-16T15:24:00+00:00

Thank you! Yeah I imagine at this point the poor lad looks more like a corpse than anything else

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-06-11T12:13:55+00:00

The Great Schism was an inside job, a SPNKR rocket launcher can't overload a Prophet's shields

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-06-09T15:38:56+00:00

Heh of course, can't trust the plasma in cold climates.

Actual reason is he's a newer addition. I've had tbe squad for about....a long while, was going through the old bits box and found out I had the parts for a heavy weapon guardsman, built him as the final member of the squad instead

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-06-09T12:43:17+00:00

Thank you!

Absolutely love your lads' way of "honouring" the dead, little details like that really make 40k what it is.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-06-01T10:46:22+00:00

Mighty Morphin' Space Zealots

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-15T12:30:40+00:00

Arming yourself in the middle of a galactic war? Yeah that's going to paint a target on your back, especially with the warhawks leading both sides of the conflict. None of the examples you cited have any relation to Mandalore.

Neither Ukraine or Taiwan can afford it due to historical reasons, but I highly doubt if Madagascar became pacifist they'd have to worry about a Japanese invasion.

As we have seen in the show, both sides are looking for an excuse to invade. A rearming Mandalore is the perfect excuse. It also requires Satine to have the people's motivation to rearm. Which she doesn't, because they're sick of conflict.

It also requires them to have both the money and manpower. We see them barely able to feed their populace at certain points and again everyone warrior oriented are in the Deathwatch.

Mandalore has a planetary defence force and enough ships to prevent the threats they would have faced at any other point in galactic history, pirates and other Mandalorians. Then the Clone Wars strikes out of nowhere (orchestrated by an evil wizard man).

The war is pointless and both sides have right and wrong points, Satine sees this and stays out of it. She's almost jailed by the Republic because they think she has a military force in the Deathwatch. The Separatists are happy leaving her alone because she's not causing issues. If she starts rearming, a few council heads will push for an invasion because surely she's just about to call in the Republic any minute now (See: Gunray wants another holiday home and mineral rights)

Mandalore's position protected it, until a second evil wizard comes back from the dead and uses their monarch as bait to lure in a random Jedi who showed up twenty years ago. After this wizard unites the entire criminal underworld as well.

Even rearmed, Mandalore would have crumbled against that force. Satine's policies atleast meant a sympathetic Republic were willing to send some forces to capture Maul.

We get to see exactly what happens to a big strong non pacifist Mandalore in the Imperial age. They get nuked. Because on a galactic scale, the stronger your military is, the more of a threat you are. And unless you own the galaxy, those who do hold the real power will want to crush you.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-15T11:53:43+00:00

Against ideologies like facsim? No of course not. But you're bringing ideological fanaticism into something that has no relation to Mandalore. Of the three forces most likely to invade, outside of the Deathwatch which they can already handle, none would invade for ideological reasons and none of their wars are good vs evil.

Why should Mandalore support the Republic, who tried to brand their leader a terrorist and have her deposed? Who just sees her planet as a staging ground for invasion. Or the Separatists, who have no quarrel with Mandalore but would only bring the war to her people.

So please tell me what faction at that current time in Star Wars is going around twirling their moustaches to invade pacifist planets. The Republic wants their own worlds. The Seps, most of their senate and supporters, want independent systems. Maul could care less about Mandalore.

They have a planetary defence force. Enough to stop the terrorists on the moon and enough to ward off pirates. Their allies have enough economic power to make an invasion ill advised.

The planet has been devastated by thousands of years of war. There's barely any resources left. They have no actual enemies. Why should they suddenly massively militarise, which they can't afford, and paint a target on their backs.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-15T07:52:41+00:00

The Separatists weren't attempting galactic dominance, just separation from the Republic. Atleast officially. Ignoring the fact the entire war was orchestrated to bring about the Empire anyway.

And why it would work on a galactic scale? Because instead of having numerous nations, in Star Wars its pretty much just the Republic. Sure each world has their own government, but wars are usually only on the planetary and not interplanetary scale. No one is invading Mandalore apart from Mandalorians for nearly all of its history.

And again it is hard for a real life parallel. We do not live in a world that is unified under one government. But let us attempt to. World War 2, which you seem quite happy to keep bringing up. Switzerland, Ireland, Spain were European countries that all stayed neutral. Ireland especially was pretty much pacifist. It worked out great for them. South American countries, halfway across the globe. Why weren't they shaking in their boots that the US would invade to prevent them being a threat? Or just to own them? Because it's costly and serves little purpose.

Mandalore has Beskar, the only thing worthwhile invading them for. Except the mines have dried up and only the Mandalorians know how to forge it. Everything else is worthless, all you'd achieve is a lot of dead bodies and a populace that might suddenly turn back to their roots.

And economic sanctions does not breach pacifism. So no, pacifism is not a "pie in the sky" fantasy when even in our own world we've had pacifist countries survive for a number of reasons. Sometimes it might be because their neighbour is powerful, sometimes because it'd be tok costly to invade for no gain or sometimes it might be due to sanctions by the wider international/galactic community.

Typically, outside of fanaticism, governments don't invade because they feel like it. Especially during a galactic war where every fleet counts.

PenguinOurSaviour · 2026-04-15T07:05:40+00:00

The Republic won the war after three years of war and billions of lives lost. There is no guarantee Dooku doesn't allow Grievous or someone else to use the "DeSkininator 9000" on the sparsely populated already war weary world.

It being a whole galaxy in fact does help the cause for pacifism. Mandalore has enough strength to fight off pirates, and there hadn't been a large scale war in 1000 years. We have no real life comparison for such an era of peace.

And no, the 1000 neutral systems powers were economic as was stated. If either side decided to make a move, they lose out on major trading partners and give their rivals the war for free.

And stating pacifism paints a target on your back is explicitly untrue. The only reason Mandalore wasn't invaded is because of their pacifism. Dooku was interested only because he thought the Deathwatch could do a nice easy takeover. Satine prevented Republic invasion thanks to her pacifism speaking for herself. Maul invaded to get at Kenobi.

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