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Nephilm posted:Holy Terra is a horrible place to live. You can safely assume that most of the atmosphere isn't safe for unmodified or unprotected humans, that the parts that are breathable are kept that way using technomagic, and that the rich or well-off-enough live in altogether sealed habs. Also, the bulk of the oceans had been boiled off long before the Great Crusade, to the point that the blue planet was already a distant memory. How it happened is anyone's guess, but considering the technology available to humanity at the time it isn't very far-fetched to think it possible. Where did the water go? Perhaps stripped off the upper atmosphere by solar wind, don't know. Maybe they developed a super fusion generator that creates power from nothing but ordinary water, then proceeded to use up all the water.
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Possibly, but it's heavily implied the current state was a byproduct of warfare. Liberal use of futuristic WMDs isn't healthy for planetary bodies.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 02:01 |
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There was an article or a quote awhile back (before the HH books I think) about why they'll never push past into 41K. The emphasis is really on the setting and the models and games with the idea was to make every fight and battle you had become 'canon'. They wanted to personalise the fluff into something you make up yourself hence you use to see a number of the designers' personal miniatures and battle reports make it into the actual fluff. Not sure if they still hold this mentality but I think with the success of the Horus Heresy, things might start to change. All the new codexes seems to reveal some kind of horrible event that's about to happen to every army so who knows? As some of the posters said, they did try making world events but I think they found it hard to balance and write the story compared to what was actually happening. They could even take a page from WarmaHordes and just push the story ahead while roughly keeping all the models still relevant.
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Nephilm posted:Holy Terra is a horrible place to live. You can safely assume that most of the atmosphere isn't safe for unmodified or unprotected humans, that the parts that are breathable are kept that way using technomagic, and that the rich or well-off-enough live in altogether sealed habs. Also, the bulk of the oceans had been boiled off long before the Great Crusade, to the point that the blue planet was already a distant memory. How it happened is anyone's guess, but considering the technology available to humanity at the time it isn't very far-fetched to think it possible. Where did the water go? Perhaps stripped off the upper atmosphere by solar wind, don't know.
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I just flipped through the latest W40K rulebook. There's a picture of the Golden Throne. It's like a huge Aztec pyramid, with the Emperor seated at the very summit. Do the Emperor's sacrificial victims and soul-binding candidates actually get a close look at his corpse?
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Baron Bifford posted:I just flipped through the latest W40K rulebook. There's a picture of the Golden Throne. It's like a huge Aztec pyramid, with the Emperor seated at the very summit. Do the Emperor's sacrificial victims and soul-binding candidates actually get a close look at his corpse? No.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Age of Apostasy? The Plague of Unbelief? Battle of the Fang? Numerous Foundings? Literally ten-thousand years of empty history into which they can easily shoehorn something? All the stuff you mentioned has happened in the last one-thousand years of 40K (M41.) I was referring to the actual game tournaments that GW would hold every year or so to advance the plot and timeline. They can't really do any more of those the way they used to.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 17:29 |
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So I wrapped up the Night Lords series, and I just want confirmation on how I interpreted the epilogue The apothecary took Talos' geenseed and implanted it in the son of Octavia and Septimus, resulting in Decimus, right?
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Fried Chicken posted:So I wrapped up the Night Lords series, and I just want confirmation on how I interpreted the epilogue That's the way I read it.
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drkhrs2020 posted:I was referring to the actual game tournaments that GW would hold every year or so to advance the plot and timeline. They can't really do any more of those the way they used to. That being said, it would be nice to see a return to those days now that they're focusing on narratives again, rather than competition. I did enjoy following those global campaigns.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 19:04 |
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Void Stalker epilogue question What happened to Non...imus?
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 19:16 |
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Arthur Bowlsworth posted:Void Stalker epilogue question What happened to Non...imus? Demon possessed Corsair pulped him in the Blood Reaver. edit: clarity magicalmako fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Aug 30, 2012 |
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I'm on Straight Silver in the second Gaunt omnibus right now and I really, really want Cuu to die in a spectacular fashion.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 20:11 |
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You're in for a rough time.
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Arquinsiel posted:You're in for a rough time. We always are with these sorts of characters aren't we?
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I think it's kind of why they work so well.
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# ? Aug 30, 2012 06:25 |
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magicalmako posted:Demon possessed Corsair pulped him in the last book. oh whoops, thought they skipped a number, I need to read them back to back some time
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Arthur Bowlsworth posted:oh whoops, thought they skipped a number, I need to read them back to back some time I completely forgot about it as well, ended up making a whole theory about who the other slave could be.
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Trast posted:I'm on Straight Silver in the second Gaunt omnibus right now and I really, really want Cuu to die in a spectacular fashion.
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# ? Aug 30, 2012 09:32 |
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Baron Bifford posted:How do you pronounce that? Koo? Choo? Kyoo? Koowoo? Seeyooyoo? Koo. Rhymes with "shoe".
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Arquinsiel posted:I think it's kind of why they work so well. :Finishes Straight Silver: God loving damnit.
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# ? Aug 30, 2012 18:36 |
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You're not done yet, FETHING CUU
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# ? Aug 30, 2012 19:09 |
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Trast posted::Finishes Straight Silver: But wait, there's more!! edit:
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# ? Aug 30, 2012 19:19 |
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It's like Abnett got told that trench warfare and demons weren't grim dark enough so he whipped up Cuu in his last draft to put the screws to the reader.
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# ? Aug 30, 2012 19:51 |
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Trast posted:It's like Abnett got told that trench warfare and demons weren't grim dark enough so he whipped up Cuu in his last draft to put the screws to the reader. Actually I heard he lost a few pages and wrote him in as a placeholder
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bunnyofdoom posted:Actually I heard he lost a few pages and wrote him in as a placeholder Yes, I recall now that Abnett states in the forward that the original final draft was lost and he had to rewrite it from scratch. During that writing Cuu became a character and Abnett states "he loves writing him." If he was meant as a placeholder then he certainly turned into something used to beat the grim and dark into the stories. And like I said as if trench warfare and knife fighting with demons wasn't bad enough.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Actually I heard he lost a few pages and wrote him in as a placeholder
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# ? Aug 30, 2012 22:18 |
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I dunno. What with Gaunt being Sharpe I thought Cuu made an excellent Hawkeswill.
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# ? Aug 31, 2012 00:12 |
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Cuu is a sadistic rear end in a top hat, and for once I'm okay with a guy being evil just for the sake of it. He's an ex ganger, probably had a rough life and that marks you, doesn't excuse him but it works because he's not a major villain, just a plot device. poo poo, the First and Only is full of emotionally damaged veterans, like Brostin. I really miss Bragg though
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# ? Aug 31, 2012 01:50 |
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Spoiler that please, for the sake of the newbies.
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Arquinsiel posted:I am hopefully going to get a chance to talk to him as part of a comicbook thing, so I'll be sure to ask him why he hates us so much. Please do. I really do enjoy reading about the Imperial Guard in his books but let him know that being cannon fodder for the corrupt generals is grim enough without his buddy Cuu in the mix. Speaking of which after I get through the third omnibus does anyone have a good recommendation for another series to jump into? I've done the whole Eisenhorn/Ravenor binge and will probably want something else when I order up the third omnibus.
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# ? Aug 31, 2012 04:40 |
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ADB's Night Lords trilogy.
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# ? Aug 31, 2012 04:42 |
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Possibly go with Ciaphas Cain for a bit of light relief first. You'll need it.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:ADB's Night Lords trilogy. This. People credit Abnett for writing the Imperium so that it actually works - how things get done, why people do what they do, etc so it makes a horrible sort of sense rather than being author fiat of "do it or else". ADB does the same for Chaos. You come away understanding how they could decide to turn to Chaos, how things get done, why they do them instead of just being "argle bargle maim kill burn!"
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Fried Chicken posted:This. People credit Abnett for writing the Imperium so that it actually works - how things get done, why people do what they do, etc so it makes a horrible sort of sense rather than being author fiat of "do it or else". ADB does the same for Chaos. You come away understanding how they could decide to turn to Chaos, how things get done, why they do them instead of just being "argle bargle maim kill burn!" While I wouldn't recommend it for a new 40k reader, ADB's The First Heretic is excellent for this. It's one of the best and most believable corruption stories I've ever read. If I ever meet him I'm gonna tell him he should've written the prequel trilogy.
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If I get lucky and find him in the same hotel as me I'll tell him for you.
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# ? Aug 31, 2012 05:55 |
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After the first Gaunts omnibus. Whats the second? Just finished Ravenor and I got time till Pariah comes out.
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Speaking of ADB, check out a fanwork. Talos aboard the Echo circa start of Void Stalker Also hes got a short in that Shadows of Treachery compilation. Essentially some Night Lord action during the Heresy. Hes got a review from another site posted on his wordpress. Might be smidge spoilery since it mentions its set after something in another short he wrote. http://aarondembskibowden.wordpress.com/ MisterFuzzles fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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MisterFuzzles posted:Speaking of ADB, check out a fanwork. Talos aboard the Echo circa start of Void Stalker Oh hey, what's this ?
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mllaneza posted:Oh hey, what's this ? 23rd Horus Heresy book being written by ADB. Hes got the opening quote and prologue on his site. Angron and Lorgar going about wrecking some Ultramarines that weren't on Calth for the slaughter. I believe Kharn is going to be the main character. Here's the cover for it. MisterFuzzles fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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