#hellworld

[ecto-hazard]

consequence of not eating when i felt sick: i am now hungry

[magnetothemagnificent]

Conservatives will refuse to call a trans person by their correct name and pronouns but then call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" just because Donald Trump told them to

[mimble-sparklepudding]

Apologies for brief political diversion, but important information for my EU (as in EU member state citizens, not just European) friends regarding resurrected plans to remove encryption on emails and text messages and force your personal devices to engage in surveillance of your private communications.

[weatherman667]

The Gene-Seed Must Flow

Let's face it, both in-universe, and out, 40k wouldn't survive without Space Marines.

Out of universe, without the Space Marines, the 40k universe is nothing but suffering. Especially as GW is enshittifying by eliminating the more variegated Imperial Guard regiments. Companies stick to their biggest sellers, without realizing that the variety is one of the reasons their setting is interesting.

In universe, the only thing keeping the Imperium on life support is:

The Emperor (also on life support)

Space Marines

One of the only reasons the Imperial Guard are so willing to fight to the brink of annihilation is because there's a non-zero chance that the Emperor will send his Angels to save them.

Now, getting Space Marines is not exactly easy. Nevermind C.S. Lewis "Knight as Art in the form of man", you also need to grow them, and it takes about a decade.

Ultramarines have government-sponsored aptitude tests and Ultramarine High School.

Dark Angels and White Scars like people raised in the appropriate culture, either knightly houses or nomadic horsemen.

Imperial Fists like prisoners or underhive gangsters.

But, the rest like Death Worlds. Blood Angels, Space Wolves, Iron Fists, and Salamanders.

I haven't been able to find any sign that GW has ever given the Ravenguard one. So, I'll do it right now. They capture anti-imperial terrorist cells. Not to stop them, in fact, they will often kill the tyrants the terrorists were trying to kill in the first place. No-no, they capture them because that's exactly whom they want to recruit.

The Blood Angels prefer sand-blasted wastelands and gladiatorial tournaments. Space Wolves live in Fimbulwinter, and have to die in combat, resurrected as both Einherjar, and the Wolves of the Wolf Time/End of the World. Medusa is a twisting, chaotic hellhole that makes it impossible to have fixed buildings, (French applies here. Furniture = meuble, (movable) - Building = immeduble (unmovable)). The Salamanders live on a twilight world, where the combination of volcanos and dragons means that being burnt to death is considered a natural death.

But, the problem with this is that the hellworlds have to remain hellworlds in order to make the Space Marines. You can't civilize Baal and still have Blood Angels. Unfortunately, by corollary, you can't devastate Baal either, something GW never bothered to spends 5 seconds thinking about.

[lierdumoa]

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[lucky2die]

gawd I want to film fetish shit for monies but i can't have a camera in the shelter besides my fucking foneeee 📱 👎👎👎

[grayrazor]

We’re so unbelievably cooked y’all.

It’s like a microcosm of everything how the Gamestop post looks like a photoshop, but the White House just put out obvious piss-tinted AI slop.

[sagasimsworld]