The neglected secondborn daughter of Lord-Captain Dominica Baltazar, Camina grew up used to the finer things in life. All the luxuries of wealth and power with none of the responsibilites. Then, within a year of each other, her mother was kidnapped by Drukhari and her older brother Gideon was lost on the far side of the Cicatrix Maledictum that had suddenly torn the galaxy, and the Baltazar protectorate of the Lion's Head Nebula, in half. The realm she inherited is plagued by rebellions and on the verge of collapse. And now there's also Hive Fleet Leviathan.
Camina is by no means stupid, but her mother hadn't bothered to teach her... anything really. She is a fervent reader and well-versed in the history and culture of the Imperium, but barely knows how to fire a lasgun, let alone fight a war on two fronts.
ADRIC VAN VALL, Seneschal to the Rogue Trader
Guilliaume Van Vall was the glue that kept the Baltazar realm together during the sudden disappearance of two Lord-Captains. His son Adric never wanted to take his place and Guilliaume never forced him to. Adric instead chose to become a field medic and his father used his connections with the realm's well-to-do to have his son trained with the sisters Hospitaller of the shrine world of Saint's Manger, one of only a handful of men in the history of the Adepta Sororitas to have the honour. When he dragged his father's mutitlated corpse out from under a dead screamer-killer, he know the worst had come. His father never found a successor. It went to him.
Adric's time with the sisters taught him pious devotion to the Emperor, but it also taught him mercy and compassion. To the rest of the Imperium, weakness.
F-11D SEGALA, Magos Biologis
Segala began her training under one magos Varnak. When Varnak died, Segala devoted her life to the study and eradication of the thing that killed him: Tyranids. Her hunger to learn about them grew very literal, and she secretly implanted herself with an illegally acquired omophagea, the organ that allowed Space Marines to gather information from the flesh of creatures they ate. When they learned what she had done, the upper ranks of the mechanicum banished her from Mars.
She has been hiding in the Baltazar realm ever since, slowly gathering dirt on Mars's upper eschelons so that she may extort her way back to the red planet.
Iron Ravens third captain LARISSA MORROW
The Imperial Truth states that women are incapable of becoming Space Marines. Morrow is a living violation of that Truth. She would have been shot through the head as soon as she was unthawed on the Zar Quaesitor, were it not for captain Farren of the nascent Iron Ravens chapter taking her in as his lieutenant. When he was entombed in a dreadnought, Morrow took his place as captain. She is a skilled and competent leader, known for being able to pull victory together from whatever table scraps her fractured and disorganized chapter could muster.
When one lives as a fact that contradicts The Truth, it breeds a certain baseline level of hatred. Morrow has adapted, but a century of humiliation by imperials of all ranks wears down the spirit.
I’ll never understand why anthropomorphic animal cartoons like Robin Hood and Zootopia will go to the trouble of creating character designs that are meant to be understood as “attractive” or even “sexy” to the human audience but explicitly avoid showing interspecies romances between anthropomorphic animals. Why is THAT weird but, like, trying to make rabbits recognizably sexy-coded to humans isn’t?
Sometimes, sure, but why was Maid Marian a fox in Robin Hood? There wasn’t anything particularly “foxlike” about her personality, and it would make more sense for her to be a lion. They made her a fox only because Robin was a fox and making her something else would be “weird”, but I don’t think the wolf cop or the chicken maid or the lion prince were actually meant to represent race.
The best inter species couple is Kermit and Miss Piggy as the Cratchits in A Muppet Christmas Carol, because all their sons are frogs and all their daughters are pigs, as God clearly intended.
In which Captain Amelia (left), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic cat, had hybrid babies with Doctor Doppler (middle), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic dog, whom also gave birth to the babies
I always thought that in muppet movies like muppet Christmas Carol the characters are played by the muppets (so kermit is acting and playing the role of Bob rather than being him) so the kids in that film would just be other acting muppets right?
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anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin
one of my favourite human songs-and-dances is when someone notices someone else is lying and, for no particular reason besides love of the game, helps them get away with the lie without ever explicitly acknowledging they noticed. nightmare social animals.
u cld write a whole thesis abt this xkcd & how the only workers personified here r the upper class college degreed tech & management workers & not the third world workers facing unsafe grueling conditions working in mining or even manufacturing..... the wood source described as a "legal fight"
not this again...Randall Munroe is an ENGINEER who writes about ENGINEERS. This is an ENGINEER writing about what he knows. Can a cobbler not write about how much thought went into the shoes they make without talking about the cow farmers who made the leather and the laborers who tanned it? Can a chef not post about their food without an essay about ethical sourcing of vegetables?
while i see the point you're making, i think it *should* be encouraged, in any profession, to at least think about the other workers earlier on in the supply chain? It's probably unreasonable to ask every single chef post come with an essay about ethical sourcing of vegetables, but i don't think it's out of line to point out that this comic exemplifies how manufacturing and natural resource extraction workers, especially from third world countries, are not even thought of while looking at the final project. This isn't a problem specific to engineering.
Absolutely, and of course the steelworkers and miners and welders and machinists deserve recognition. But it's not some huge moral failing for an engineer to talk about engineer things.
It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!
