#hive cities

[thegodemperorsmycopilot]

[racefortheironthrone]

Ok, this is pretty cool. Good to see how an architecture person thinks about this sort of stuff.

[weizhentian]

Hm, so in Hive Cities, the ultra rich do, in fact, put on their best hunting gear and hunt the homeless and destitute for sport. Often as a coming of age rite, and sometimes it's livestreamed.

40K is in fact ridiculous and over the top.

[rabidchilde]

+++Population density model also serves as aerial view of European hive cities.

[tauman942]

A Wondrous Little Thing - Cold Open Stories

Warhammer 40,000 Short Fiction Anthology: Tragic, harrowing, and bittersweet tales set in the 41st Millennium.

[weizhentian]

Discussions of the necessity of authoritarianism I Warhammer 40K remind me of people arguing for the necessity of authoritarian in governing China.

While I am not learned enough to weigh in, I thought that would be a good conversation starter.

(Come to think of it: Asian cities with huge dense apartment complexes are also the closest we have to Hive Cities on Earth. It feels weird calling my city a city when compared to Chinese cities, it's just a town.)

[diceperado]

Does canon 40k lore ever answer how the hell hive cities don’t just crumble under their own mass, or should I assume the spires are supported by anti-gravity tech? 

[diceperado]

Funny thing about hive cities in 40k rpgs. The population in hive cities has made quite a jump between the two Dark Heresy editions. In DH1e the population of planet Scintilla stands at 25 billion people. In DH2e, Hive Desoleum has a population of about 300 billion. What happened between these two games that made the writers think that the latter is plausible even in dystopian science fiction? I mean, there’s a limit to everything. I know the default sector of DH2e is supposed to be the absolute worst shit hole in the Galactic North if you don’t count the Eye of Terror, but still...