Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The Warp is another dimension that runs parallel to reality, and by traveling through the warp you can cross space far quicker. There's a downside. The Warp is essentially a sea of pure psychic energy, and it's inhabited by unfathomable beings of incomprehensible malice and cruelty. Simply looking into the warp unprotected would drive you mad, and if the fields that protect each ship as they travel are compromised (even for an instant) then daemons will cross the threshold and wreak havoc among the crew. There are numerous stories of ships being lost to the warp, and often those are eventually returned to reality in the form of space hulks. A space hulk is essentially an amalgamation of ships, the interstellar equivalent of the tides of an ocean bringing together a collection of garbage, and actual dimensions are hard to convey. However then can easily be tens of kilometers long and full of twisting corridors and arrangements that make safe travel impossible. You could easily spend a lifetime trying to cross one, although the typical reason for this is because something horrible will kill you along the way.

One of the major themes of 40K is that progress is dead. A gun made ten thousand years ago will typically be far superior to anything that can be made today, so finding a space hulk is often a massive boon. Entire starships have been resurrected from a space hulk and often they carry archaeotech, lost treasures of the Dark Age of Technology, but they also typically carry numerous foes. The most elite members of the Imperium's most elite fighting force, Terminators of the Adeptus Astartes (Space Marines) are often tasks with purging a space hulk and recovering the treasures within.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMHW_cWoeos

It's not an easy job.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

There are no emails
In our service queue
Nothing to tie one to a ticket
And if you seek refunds
We'll just delay it for 2 weeks

You want our

JPEGS? Check.
BIRDS? Check.
INSURANCE? Check.
CUTLASS? Check.
HORNET? Check
GAMESCOM? Check.
PAX? Check.
FLOWERS? Check.

Citizen [x16]

Butt beware
For when you spawn your spaceship
Others will seek to crash into you
And they won't rest
Until you're griefed

You'll want our

PETS? Check.
TRACK-IR? Check.
LANGUAGES? Check.
DECORATIONS? Check.
WEBCASTS? Check.
SYSTEMS? Check.
MOCAP? Check.
CELEBRITIES? Check.

Out of breath, pop, and sleep
The smell of death, can't escape
Gas will cloud and drift away
Track the cause of Lesnick's fate

You're so slow they all know
What you've done, you can't run
Vengeance is the law for thee
Close the threads so no one sees

You're a hack, a has-been
Plundering the fridge again
Ate their food drank their drinks
Arms too short to wash in sinks

Now you sit, try to hide
Heart beats faster from clogged lines
Thought it was a neat idea
"Get the boss on our livestream"

Citizen [x16]

NEWS VAN? Check.
R&D? Check.
C&C? Check.
MFD? Check.
SCANNERS? Check.
GARDENS? Check.
ROBOT? Check.
TOWEL? Check.

STAR! CITIZEN! STAR! CITIZEN! [x4]

Your life was ended by chest pains. [x3]

Lowtax posted:

I want a spaceship built entirely out of doors

wikidd posted:

About a billion pages ago I mentioned I was taking CIG to small claims court here in the UK to get my refund. I just got notice they are defending the claim(!!); some guy called Ortwin Freyermuth, who is a director of CIG, signed off on the action. An hour of that guy's time must be worth more than the money I gave them.

Lol.

aleksendr posted:

Best starship name for maximum enemy bridge confusion is the S.S. "She's One Of Ours, Sir"

im_sorry posted:

That's the thing about this game that just baffles me... it sounds like if it actually came out and was everything they expected, it would be boring as hell. When you buy a space shooty mans game, you want to do the shooty mans, not go to the loving store to buy groceries.

A Neurotic Jew posted:

still only 99 solar system and 70 some-odd flyable ships left to patch in, good things we're in the early days so we can go one door at a time.

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

i have serious issues

Jimb posted:

I had a stint where I thought I wanted to play 40k but it turns out I'm just really into the setting and I don't like Games Workshop or their games. I wish that the IP was owned by anyone else so that it could be used in a more open way.

Derek, you are my Horus Heresy.

Somebody please make this useful

Gonkish posted:

40k is where Blizzard first got their giant shoulderpads fetish... and warcraft... and most everything else they've done. Metzen even looks like the stereotypical Warhams who is old enough that he should know better.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Yes. The smallest starship in Warhammer 40K is the size Imperial Star Destroyer and carries tens of thousands of crew. Each vessel is a shrine to the Machine God, most being millennia old and carrying technology that man has long since lost the ability to recreate or even maintain outside the use of byzantine rituals. They are as much cathedrals as they are conveyances. To the men trapped inside the ships represent their only protection again the uncaring void, the unspeakable horrors of the Warp, and the angry fire of their enemies. It's only natural then that such vessels would be decorated in demonstrations of adoration and worship. The crew are typically pressed into service, taken from worlds that may never seen a machine and forced to toil in horrible conditions to ensure the vessel runs smoothly. Imagine work gangs of hundreds of men maneuvering torpedoes hundreds of meters long into firing tubes, while tech priests sing praises and glory in the hope that the Machine Spirit of the torpedo that is likely older than all of the workers combined will rouse itself in fury to detonate its holy payload.

Warhammer 40K is one of the most thematic and flavorful universes in science fiction. Not everyone likes it, but it's unflinchingly epic and awesome.

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

As requested my doodle of croberts as the hamburglar


http://imgur.com/PfKbDzZ

http://imgur.com/zwEjK3c

Keep in mind it's very late here and i'm extremely tired, I think I've made it more horrifying than even I intended (which is saying a lot.....)

AP posted:

Should see pretty much everything before the end of the year.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Iglocska posted:

What's with all these tiny ships?

Justin Tyme posted:

Was about to fire up GIMP but decided no... that's too mean even for this shitshow

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

What, they make promises about specifics?

I don't wanna watch the vid because I'm at work I don't hate myself

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

If you don't explain your joke I'll never get to laugh about it