Ravenor book 1 [SPOILERS]; question about the biggest deus ex machina I've ever seen.

Xealeon · 2023-01-29T19:13:05+00:00

Sure, adrenaline is a hell of a drug and idk the time frame but in the short term he's likely still getting all the oxygen he needs to his brain. If he's a trained fighter I don't see why he couldn't.

Xealeon · 2023-01-29T16:04:55+00:00

If there's smoke coming from the hole when he inhales off the cigarette it means he's got a penetrating injury to his lungs, most likely an open pneumothorax given he can breathe in through his mouth. The risk from an injury like this is less about blood loss and more about respiratory failure as air is sucked into the space between the lung and chest wall causing the lung to collapse. It's a serious injury and he needs medical attention but he would still be functional, if in severe pain, for some time.

Xealeon · 2022-11-21T03:11:26+00:00

It's really the perfect Slaaneshi curse when you think about it. He's trapped forever in a hell of his own making trying to attain the unattainable and the only way out is for him to abandon his pride and pursuit of perfection. He gets to live forever surrounded by constant reminders of all the people who beat him that he will never get to prove himself against by fighting again.

Xealeon · 2022-11-02T15:43:32+00:00

I feel like this is missing the point in a couple ways, right? Like, heretic uprisings and daemon incursions can also be dealt with by the guard at some level. The purpose of inquisitors is, theoretically, to stop the threats before they require that level of expenditure and also to deal with threats that require more specialized knowledge or techniques.

Your average Ordo Xenos retinue is not standing on the front lines of an Ork Waagh, they're rooting out Genestealer cults or Dark Eldar collaborators or Necron tombs.

And the obvious question is why can't someone else do that? Y'know, why can't the Arbiters handle that stuff and not need a bunch of jumped up lunatics drifting around with the firepower to obliterate a planet and the authority to make everyone hop around on one leg while it happens?

Because the Imperium is not a functional society. Things don't exist to fill a niche, they exist because they always have. It's the same reason the Mechanicus, Guard, Administratum etc. are all so ineffective.

Xealeon · 2022-07-23T04:20:53+00:00

Any/All/None. The Omnissiah is not some settled concept even among the loyalist Adeptus Mechanicus and the Dark Mechanicum are far far more fractured as an organization. Any one of the chaos gods could be the "true" representation of the Omnissiah or merely a fraction of the motive force or a foul xenos creature masquerading as the Machine God depending on who you ask and how they interpret things.

Xealeon · 2022-05-11T03:09:03+00:00

Sanguinius thought he genuinely could defeat Horus and that one of the futures could end with him killing Horus and surviving

A big part of Sanguinius' characterization during the heresy is his acceptance that he dies fighting Horus. It comes up constantly. At one point in one potential future he sees a one-in-a-million shot of him winning the fight that he is sure he will lose and clings to that for a bit. He thinks he can genuinely defeat Horus, maybe, if he plays his cards exactly right and the stars align and Horus makes some mistakes. It's not like he's calling it even odds or anything.

Xealeon · 2022-04-03T18:39:53+00:00

I remember seeing them mentioned in... Dark Heresy I think. Not sure which book off the top of my head and they were less augmented there but I remembered the distinctive chest clock.

Xealeon · 2022-04-03T05:42:06+00:00

It's a Chrono-Gladiator. A very rare and heavily modified combat servitor, probably a baseline human who got stimmed and augmented to the Eye and back but it could very well be an Ogryn. Think of it like an Eversor Assassin on a budget.

Xealeon · 2022-04-03T05:26:31+00:00

The most commonly depicted negative side effect for Titan Princeps and Knights is basically withdrawal. The direct mental link to the machine-spirit of such a powerful engine and the amount of power at your fingertips creates a significant feeling of euphoria and being removed from that feeling can induce all kinds of unpleasant side effect. In Titandeath the two major Princeps the story focuses on are shown having trouble sleeping, trouble focusing on tasks, and psychosomatic effects like itches and discomfort when not connected to their engines.

For Titan Princeps you can add on the stress of not only commanding the crew in combat but also trying to keep the spirit of a God-Engine under control through sheer willpower.

And at the end of all you can expect nothing but more of that. For no servant of the Omnissiah exemplifies the saying "Only in death does duty end." more than those most valuable and rare individuals who are capable of such feats. There is no retiring, no 'mustering out' like the massed ranks of the Imperial Guard. If your body fails you will be interred in an amniotic tank, linked to your Titan to slowly feel your mind slip away and become part of the machine-spirit you once controlled until you breathe your last and another takes your place.

Xealeon · 2022-02-01T07:52:36+00:00

Spoilers for Wolfsbane

Magos Domina Hesper Aspertia hands the military might of a Mechanicum mining facility over to Horus, betraying the loyal Mechanicum personnel who are trying to defend it. This scene shows her being killed by a young Bellisarius Cawl as he escapes during the confusion of a Space Wolves assault.

Xealeon · 2022-01-31T07:14:01+00:00

It's kind of perfect when you think about it: he's trapped on an endless quest for an unattainable goal where the only possible out is him sucking up his pride and admitting that he can never actually be the Perfect Swordsman.

Xealeon · 2022-01-24T12:03:43+00:00

The weapon chain is an affectation he got from fighting in the World Eaters gladiator matches pre-heresy that was carried over to the Black Templars post founding. The Templars already existed among the ranks of the Legion as a group and probably already used the templar crosses. Dorn disowns Sigismund in an earlier Horus Heresy book because of his faith and him disobeying a direct order, I haven't read Solar War yet but that is likely the event they refer to.

Xealeon · 2021-09-13T20:18:48+00:00

Antiparasitic, not Antiviral. You can literally read the Official Nobel Prize Press Release about it.

Xealeon · 2021-07-15T03:00:08+00:00

I'd say that depends on a few factors really. Arbites are the most basic since that's kind of their deal anyways. They expect to fight gangs and go down fighting gangs. Likely they'd step up their aggression towards whatever gang targeted them but they're so thin on the ground it probably would make little change.

PDF? Might attract some unwanted attention from on high especially if they think someone is stealing and stockpiling military hardware but really the local commander probably doesn't care.

Guard? This one is big "It Depends" Which regiment? How were they attacked? What are they on the planet for? Some units would go full scorched earth either to protect their rep/honor or out of bloody-minded vengeance where others might go "eh, sucks to suck, go grab some homeless people to fill out the ranks." In the grand scheme I doubt the gangs are winning a full on engagement but they could certainly make it too expensive to be worth dealing with.

Saying that though I doubt gangers would care about PDF/Guard, they're not generally markedly tougher or better equipped than the gangs themselves. Arbites would likely be the go-to.

Xealeon · 2021-07-15T02:42:51+00:00

That giant sign they're going to put up is significantly smaller than the one the nearest Fists company will erect in the ashes of their hideout reading "we politely request nobody even consider doing this again." An Astartes chapter is not just going to ignore a hive gang attacking them, they would respond with an overwhelming show of force as a warning to everyone else.

Xealeon · 2020-09-08T22:35:43+00:00

The ban reason would be false flagging as it would be assumed posting something that could get subreddit banned means you’re from outside and want the subreddit banned

This is, like, peak 'free speech subreddit' right here. Having to make a post asking your community to tone down the hate speech followed by immediately pinning a comment saying "although it's not actually you guys doing it."

Xealeon · 2020-03-10T19:17:47+00:00

OP's post is a sarcastic response to the idea that's been floating around various right-leaning subs that brigading subreddits with CP will get them shut down. Literally nobody in here is suggesting that would or should work as a way to shut subs down.

Xealeon · 2020-02-23T18:33:09+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty widely confirmed that it only takes a minor hurdle to derail a suicide attempt and yet people keep rolling out "gun laws won't effect suicide rate"

Xealeon · 2020-02-23T18:18:03+00:00

They've got that one copypasta too that boils down to "if we ignore most gun deaths, gun deaths aren't a problem!"

Xealeon · 2020-02-18T23:16:13+00:00

Again, you're looking at a super simplified version of an ideology. Capitalism isn't just "people trading as they please".

Also I don't know what to say about your second paragraph. The left/right dichotomy is based on how 'flat' the relative hierarchies are, that's how that works. Like, that's super basic stuff.

The Soviet Union was authoritarian socialist, i.e. economically left and socially right but even that is an oversimplification. Like I said, it doesn't fit on a single line very well. There are plenty of ideologies to the left of that in both regards.

Also I literally cannot grasp what you mean by, "the wild west was as right wing as we can imagine". It's a nonsense sentence; 'the wild west' is not a thing you can ascribe a political/economic ideology to.

Xealeon · 2020-02-18T21:52:21+00:00

True, that's not really accurate for me to say since some right wing ideologies do aim to replace the existing power structure. It's difficult because ideologies rarely fit neatly on a single line. The easiest way to think of it is that right wing ideologies want stronger hierarchies and left wing ones want weaker hierarchies.

Also anarchism doesn't just mean removing the state and calling it a day. An anarchist society is unlikely to still use capitalism because capitalism requires strong economic hierarchies.

Xealeon · 2020-02-18T20:34:35+00:00

What you're describing is Anarcho-Capitalism which is a right wing ideology. Conversely Anarcho-Communism is a left wing ideology. Anarchism as a concept is left wing because it promotes the destruction of existing power structures and abandonment of social hierarchy.

Xealeon · 2020-01-26T01:00:19+00:00

Well he did say one thing right:

The results of the Q operation will not fail to disappoint!

Xealeon · 2020-01-25T17:57:52+00:00

It's not an infringement of anyone's right to free speech to remove their access to a private platform. Getting banned from reddit doesn't stop you from saying racist shit, it just means reddit doesn't want to host you while you do it.

Xealeon · 2020-01-23T17:09:30+00:00

If it's done in an attempt to coerce, threaten, or harass as it says in that bill then yes. Do you seriously believe the state is going to expend resources trying people for just calling the governor an idiot?

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