#pandorax

[fourgods-nobrakes]

Yesterday we swung by the nearest Half-Price Books and found they had a shelf of 40k novels, but all locked in the case and marked up. Today I went back and bought one of them anyway, because what are the odds of finding a hardcover, nearly pristine copy of Pandorax again?

Is this Kaldor Draigo in the foreground? I think it is.

Handsome and comfortable interior, important care-and-feeding tips for your dinosaur

Full color inserts in the middle! Several pages.

Including Dark Angel chapter organization? I don’t remember chapter structure mattering much to the glorious mess of this campaign, but clearly I need to read it again.

Go, puppy!!

Happy at this purchase.

[e3n-ethan]

So I finished Pandorax and my favorite scene was Azrael talking about the fallen, which also answered a question I had quite a bit about the fallen.

Every chapter by now has dudes who joined Huron. Having traitor parts of your chapter actually isn’t new, or extremely shameful. It’s happened a lot. That *isn’t the thing the Dark Angels are ashamed of*.

The Fallen are *still their brothers*. They still see them as *part of them*. That’s the shame. They’re the Unforgiven, because they’re actually still (in their minds) Legion. They don’t see the Fallen as traitors that have to be despised, but as misguided poor brothers that have to be shown the light. They have to “take care” of the fallen issue by themselves, because only they actually *do want to* redeem them. They pity them. They still love them as their brothers.

Their way to redemption is just forcing it through torture. Which is their absolutely twisted, deluded, psychotic way of proving their continued love for their brothers. They’re so deluded and so insane that they can actually say “this is hurting me more than it does you” while torturing a Fallen and *mean* it.

This is so twisted. This is so delicious. I love it.

[fourtykane]

“Apocalypse: Pandorax”

- art by ukitakumuki (Kai Lim)

Cover for the novel with the same title by C.Z. Dunn. On the planet Pandorax, a sprawling jungle death world, an ancient secret buried for ten thousand years has been rediscovered, and now that the Damnation Cache has opened once more, the servants of darkness have come to claim it. Abaddon the Despoiler leads his Black Legion alongside the disease-wracked servants of Nurgle and the piratical raiders of the Red Corsairs and their master Huron Blackheart, to take what is rightfully his. Responding to the distress calls of the outnumbered and outgunned Catachans guarding the planet, the Dark Angels Chapter marches to war alongside the legendary Grey Knights Daemonhunters. But each side has it's own secrets and agendas on Pandorax, and the secrets the cache holds may not all be heretical, but they all have the power to shake the Imperium to it's very core.

[askkaldordraigo]

“Hey look, @ask-azrael is here! Brings back memories of Pandorax, when I punched him in the face. Good times.”

[e3n-ethan]

He’s enjoying the book.

[e3n-ethan]

I can’t get over how much I love Ezekiel Warhammer 40k. The guy is just…

A) super tragic

B) somehow deeply hilarious.

Fucker judging your every move and giggling about it to himself is *also* traumatized.

[e3n-ethan]

I find it so funny that Ezekiel’s augmetic is canonically chunky and kind of cheap looking, enough so that Draigo notes upon it. Now I imagine Draigo judging Azrael like “you’re not gonna give your chief librarian anything better? Oooookay.”

[e3n-ethan]

Azrael: “what do you have there”

Colonel Strike, holding the hand of a Jokaero with one hand, a recaf mug in the other: “a recaf.”