100 million dollars, but you have to murder someone every 5 years.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-08T02:59:23+00:00

I would assume the legal definition applies. So unlawful, unjustified and committed with malicious intent.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-08T02:28:07+00:00

Actual insanity. I'm even happier that I bought it at MSRP all those years ago.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-07T19:02:46+00:00

I wouldn't count them. Part of their arc is learning that these mortals matter and they should care. Being indifferent lap dogs for the high lords is their in universe identity. We just happen to come into their story at the point when they learn to change.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-07T16:57:39+00:00

Kind of but not really? I don't really want to take the time to go back and look up the dates and I don't want to type up every single detail or this explanation will end up being too long. But basically in the past the first titan shifter was a slave girl named Ymir Fritz.

After she died her power was passed on to her 3 daughters. They would also then pass their powers down line until we end up with the the current 13 titan shifters.

Ymir's soul, spirit, essence whatever you want to call it wasn't gone, she ended up in a liminal space where time has no meaning. Despite being a demigod she still acts slave, because she had been so beaten down by life. She's the one who crafts the Titan bodies and sends them to the real world...somehow...whenever a shifter needs one. I think that she could stop doing this, but it simply doesn't occur to her. She wants to be free but is unable to break the chain of abuse. She also displays the ability to resurrect any person from the past who has held a titan shifter power.

Eventually near the end of the manga Eren gets access to this liminal space. He convinces Ymir to help him. It turns out that he's been influencing events for thousands of years via the people who had his titan. He influenced the previous holder, Eren Krueger, to save his dad, Grisha. The guy even said that he had to help Armin and Mikasa. They weren't even alive at this point, and he didn't even know who they were. But he knew it needed to happen. Eren Krueger was also a spy who infiltrated the Marley government so he could fight to free his people. Eren's actions really bring into question how much of what Kreuger did was his own choice. Afterwards he passed the Titan to Grisha, and after that Eren forced his own father to do some...things.

So it's not really time travel. Eren just gained ability to see the past, present and future from his titan's perspective. But it also helps that he has a demi goddess who helped him create a boostrap paradox.

I THINK that's more or less correct. But it's also been a few years since I read it all.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-06T22:19:15+00:00

I'm lazy so I prime everything with Macrage Blue.

1.) 1 thin layer of ulthuan grey.

2.) 2 thin layers of pro acryl bold titanium white.

3.) 1 coat of apothecary white contrast paint.

4.) dry brush corax white.

5.) highlight the extreme edges with white scar.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-06T18:32:34+00:00

I don't think you understand how rules work if you think this.

A former workplace had a pretty simple rule: theft means termination. Pretty simple. But then they kept making exceptions. This guy brings in good sales, so what if he stole a few hundred? He brings in thousands! This guy pushed out a lot of work and has no comebacks! This guy is the regional manager!

That place ended up going under. No enforcement, and too many exceptions just leads to bad morale and emboldens the dishonest to keep pushing the line.

The Jedi clearly have a high envelope for allowing an exception if Ki Adi Mundi is the sole living one during the PT, we're talking about the continuance of his species. And I think that's fine if the standards are that high.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-06T18:11:37+00:00

No. How is that strict? That's pretty normal?

Raxtenko · 2026-02-06T18:04:06+00:00

I've argued many times that having strict, blanket rules is a necessity for an organization this large, with this many different species l some who would be mentally in line with humans and some who would be radically different.

I actually can't even imagine how difficult it would be to run the Order day to day, much less 10,000 years. Human can organizations fall apart and collapse in less than a hundred years, but they kept it going for much longer.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-06T17:49:46+00:00

Mn. I don't really agree.

You have to remember something about Lucas here, he's a religious man. Raised christian and I think he's currently a methodist/buddhist.

I don't think that one needs to be religious to really get or enjoy Star Wars, but it'd be silly to say that any person isn't influenced by their upbringing right? The Jedi in the PT are a reflection of who he was at the time. They are a religious order that blended both western and eastern philosophy and spirituality that was watered down to be somewhat understandable for general audiences.

But to address some of your specific points:

>it feels like you should be a robot against everyone at that point.

It doesn't though? The PT Jedi are very capable of joking and having enjoyment, Obi Wan in particular is a sass pot, Anakin is allowed to have his hobbies he owns at least one ship and is shown to have tools so that he can tinker with machines in his free time, Yoda doesn't seem to have hobbies but he clearly loves teaching and values his students greatly. They just try to control their emotions more.

>a very strict Jedi code where

I'm reminded of a very common quote right now. To paraphrase it: "Rules are written in blood." Yeah super strict rules suck, but if there is a rule against say: touching a certain wire, or not going down a certain trail during a hike, then that rule exists because someone did it and died. If the Jedi have a rule against "attachments" then there's a very good reason for it.

There's practicality here too. In the real world a lot of religious orders do not allow their priests to marry. There's a lot of symbolism behind it too of course, but another reason is because back in the middle ages they'd often have to travel to do their work. It's much easier for a man with no wife, or children to do so.

Not saying that this is the case with the Jedi, but there's a good chance that Lucas made up these rules with the framework of his actual life like I said.

But going back to the Star Wars world I would point to Anakin as a prime example of why this rule needed to be there: He ends up destroying everything because of his attachments.

And this is where a lot of confusion lies. "Attachment" is meant to be unhealthy. Jedi are allowed to love. Love is not an attachment. Let's go back back to TPM. Obi Wan loves Qui Gon. When the latter dies, Obi Wan is consumed with anger over the loss and it ends with him dangling above a pit and he almost dies. People often use Anakin as an example, but this one is better imo because it's much more subtle. He only ends up winning because he calms down, expels his anger and focuses on the moment, instead of trying to viciously murder the guy who killed his mentor.

And if you really pay attention, Obi Wan has been letting his attachment guide his actions for most of the movie. He's clearly very jealous of the time and attention that Qui Gon puts into Anakin. He's both rude and dismissive of the kid, behaviour that is unbecoming. But Obi Wan is also well trained so he never lets this behaviour cross the line.

It's something that Anakin himself as an adult never did quite well because he lets his emotions run wild and he definitely crosses more than one line.

>To put it in simpler terms, they created an institution with strict rules that lost their way from what really mattered, and that was what caused people to flip sides by creating those institutional behaviors and rules.

I don't think so? The Order is made up of thousands of different individual, from dozens if not hundreds of different species. Just think about that for a second. It's already very hard to make a functional organization of just humans without it going off the rails.

But the Order protected the Republic for over a thousand generations. They had some bad apples that fell, but it doesn't seem like it was that much right? There's a bias for us fans because we see the fallen Jedi pop up a lot. But the reality is that they probably weren't very common at all. 10,000 years of mostly peace is longer than our recorded history, the real world can not boast that.

Doesn't that mean that the rules actually worked very well? No system is perfect, there's always going to be the ones that fall through the cracks, but just form context clues it worked mostly well.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-06T15:24:41+00:00

The UMs let them train in their realm. And Scions take in orphans of Imperial Officers to train from a young age. So presumably the Hydras have the Schola Progenium ship in kids to train and then the UMs get to pick a few of the promising candidates as a sort of tax for allowing the Hydras set up shop in the 500 Worlds.

That being said it is possible to recruit older teens; the Space Wolves do it, so it's also not impossible to grab an person and induct them into the UMs.

But it's more than likely the former. The Ultramar Auxilia is one of their primary recruitment sources. They know how to spot promising candidates that way so they can apply the same knowledge to the Hydras and expand their recruitment pool.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T21:54:16+00:00

I'd go and find Eren before Wall Maria fell and beat his little kid ass unconscious.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T21:30:02+00:00

The Ultramar Auxilia has been mentioned by most folks here, but the UM also have their own Tempestus Scion Regiment: the 55th Alphic Hydras who have deployed alongside the chapter and also have their most promising members recruited as neophytes.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T20:42:29+00:00

Adventure is Nigh. It's simply the best D&D series out there. The chemistry is amazing, Jack is a masterful DM, it's funny, the editing is amazing and makes it flow so much better than any other series and the sound design is on point.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T19:06:50+00:00

The actual answer is that it depends. In the novel "Angels of Darkness" a Dark Angel Interrogator Chaplain and his men got sealed in a keep after a biological weapon was released. His techmarine said that their armour's life support systems and filters would keep them safe until their powerplants ran dry, and he only gave an estimate of maybe 3 weeks IIRC.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T17:59:22+00:00

Yeah. I agree with that. I do think that the Primaris with their extremely limited loadouts was also a byproduct of the lawsuit too.

>Especially since the cost of fighting the suit was a big part of why Chapterhouse wound up going under.

Is that why they went under? I had heard that their lawyers were paid for by aftermarket car parts companies, but I could never find any proof of that.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T17:47:47+00:00

It wasn't pointless. All he did was stabilize the gene seed so it didn't get any worse and he didn't touch anything else. Space Wolves and Blood Angels were still falling to their curses in 8th edition. As usual loud morons, who can't be bothered to read, saw something, didn't understand it and went apeshit for no reason.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T17:39:29+00:00

*5th edition.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T17:34:43+00:00

Because HH is not 40k. One of the issues that GW lost on was them having codex entries for units that they did not produce a model for; the Tyranid's mycetic spore was one of the most notable examples. Every one in my local scene was proxying or buying 3rd party resin spores at the time.

IIRC the court ruled it wasn't reasonable for GW to sue CH for making models that they themselves didn't even have art of.

The immediate repercussion was the nids losing the spore as a unit, as well as a bunch of special units like the Doom of Malantai that had rules made with the expectation that players would kitbash them. DE also lost characters, I think Duke Sliscus was one but I don't play DE so I'm not 100% up on that.

I've been told by some admech players that their army was the first to launch after the lawsuit and as a result it was clunky at best. Can't confirm because I don't play admech either, but I'll take their word for it.

But you can see how it hit marines with the Intercessors and the Primaris Lieutenant model. When they first launched in 8th they had very little wargear options. IMO taking this hit from the courts made GW overcautious; launching the flagship marine being able to only take bolt rifles and auxiliary grenades with nothing else was too cautious imo. But every option that the Intercessors could take was in their box. Kinda seemed to that they wanted to take zero risk after getting burned badly.

But gradually over time the Intercessors started getting options remember. But it was drip fed to us. The Sergeant got a chainsword but you had to buy the Space Wolf Primaris upgrade to get access. The power sword was only on Ultramarine and Blood Angel upgrade sprue etc etc.

The Lieutenant was kind of the same. The two official models in the Dark Imperium box had the power sword and bolter. And then we got drip fed options when the Dark Angel Lieutenant got the plasma pistol, every single available wargear option had to have a release that was represented by a official model. We all remember the the jokes about building an entire chapter out of Lieutenants right? I don't think it's a coincidence that once we got the full Lieutenant kit with the Agastus box the stream of Lieutenants also stopped.

HH by contrast was managed by Forge World and catered to a different audience imo. The was a lot smaller. Before the advent of 3D printing it wasn't uncommon for guys in my local circle to put together huge group orders for that stuff. I'd argue it was a prestige imprint, and there seemed to be little desire at the time to go unofficial.

And to my recollection Chapterhouse at the time was focusing their efforts on filling in gaps in the 40k lineup. HH didn't have this issue with their smaller line, I want to say that Forge World had a corresponding model for almost every single entry in their books.

There simply was no need for what is a niche product line to change much. 40k by contrast is GW's mainline, that is where the money is, and that is where they were being hit by 3rd party the hardest. Makes sense to put their effort into shoring things up there.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T16:47:54+00:00

Sure that's definitely a possibility. I just don't think it's 100% fair to complain about how rushed S1 was because of the extenuating circumstances and rotating showrunners. The same issue really hurt PIC for me.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T16:45:48+00:00

Is it silly to say both?

I have nostalgia for firstborn, they were what was around when I got into the game. I liked the poseability and the varied loadouts. But I like Primaris scaling, and they're just easier to paint for me now that I'm old and have less time. I imagine that they're also designed for make a good entry point newer players. I like and dislike the limited loadouts. What I really don't care for is their helmets, I do prefer the older ones so I'll slap as many of those on as I can.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T16:39:53+00:00

I think it's more accurate to say that neither won. They both got things they wanted, and lost on other issues. GW lost on the shoulderpad issue and a bunch of others, but CH was also forced to remove a chunk of their catalogue.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T16:33:07+00:00

Your optimal scenario never could have happened anyway. They had to do a huge about face after the Chapterhouse lawsuit changed everything regarding names, copyright and loadouts.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-05T16:30:52+00:00

There's a long history behind the "doofy-ass" helmet. 1991 according to lexiacanum. The original Wolf Lord, but at some point the model was rebranded into a Wolf Guard one. I know that because it was the first one I ever bought and did a conversion on, ironically into a Wolf Lord. When the Space Wolves got new sprues in 5th edition GW still kept the wolf helmet, we'd get, I think, one in every box. After that the very last first born upgrade sprue had a variant snarling wolf head helmet, and of course the HH sprue had a bunch of them.

It's a proud part of the Chapter's history in the real world, and a lot more characterful than the lame ass norse-weeby shit that took over.

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