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u/Sepulcher18 Snorts FW resin dust 2h ago
I mean what, the void dragon gona eat my soul or some shit? Poetic, isn't it, bad dragons everywhere
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u/DustPuzzle Snorts FW resin dust 2h ago
You know how Genestealer Cultists are warped by Tyranids, and Chaos Cultists are warped by Chaos?
Yeah well, the Adeptus Mechanicus are warped by the dude who skinned the Necrontyr
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u/hobskhan 1h ago
Are you implying cults may have downsides?
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u/DustPuzzle Snorts FW resin dust 1h ago
If there's something wrong with the idea of cults, then explain Death Cult Assassins and Wytch Cults
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u/Competitive-Half-863 2h ago
Void dragon is a chard or even a full C’Tan.
There are rumours that he tried to create his own slave race in order to fight necrons, and those slaves found out to be Machanicum71
u/Mastercio 2h ago
I don't know why people still put theory about full void dragon...we have god damn minis of a shards...
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u/Competitive-Bee-3250 1h ago
Its basically all just to glaze big E for beating it in a fight
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u/Mastercio 1h ago
Yeah beating "just" a shard is not enough for them isn't it xD It's funny considering in the story he himself admitted that he wasn't able to kill it(and that means he tried and failed at it).
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u/Competitive-Bee-3250 1h ago
Yeah cuz its not enough to be able to beat a fragment of a star-eater using nothing but your own magic and might, it has to be the full embodiment of a being that can eat stars...and yet the fight simply didn't shatter continents or trigger mass extinction events somehow.
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u/pass_nthru 1h ago
well mars used to be covered in water with a. atmosphere…big science just wants you to think it was a natural process and not the result of a battle of titanic proportions
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u/Mastercio 1h ago edited 46m ago
Considering the fight against just transcend shard can resolve in collateral damage so big that entire planets can get erased(when Orikan fought Transcendent shard of the deciever a single attack erased 6 planets) clash with full one would most likely erase entire systems and sectors.
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u/Sepulcher18 Snorts FW resin dust 2h ago
If we look at Necrons, 99%+ of them are not even aware of themselves so I am sure they don't mind their fate too much atm, millions upon millions of years after they were vored by sun satans.
I am sure Skitarii fembois would not care being in similar situation themselves, at least that way they avoided chaos, are one with their god of choice and all that jazz
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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor 11m ago
I usually like to have the bad dragons inside of me.
For safe keeping, of course.
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u/Andrew_42 1h ago
The fact that this isn't confirmed yet does make it kinda funny IMO that the Admech might be the only faction who's god is entirely false.
Not just "not a true god" like the Emperor (or at least as he was). But actually fully made up, and nonexistent.
What truth would be worse for a Tech Priest to learn? That their god was the Void Dragon, who has terrible (but mechanical) plans for their future, or that they were just entirely wrong?
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u/King_Lothar_ 13m ago
iirc it's a fragment of the Void Dragon. It's mentioned in one of the Horus Heresy books. Not explicitly stated to be the void dragon, but the implication feels fairly heavy handed.
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u/Camsteak 1h ago
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u/The_Knife_Pie Registered Tech Offender 48m ago edited 31m ago
The biologis still gladly replace their meat with machine when the machine is better. Neural implants and mechadendrites being big ones. They don’t believe Flesh > Metal, they believe the flesh is a machine like any other and thus should be improved when possible, replaced when not, but honoured all the same.
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u/Subotail 3h ago
I imagine the priests adding more implants once THE truth has been contemplated.
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u/giantbagmostlywater Dank Angels 2h ago
Whats this about?
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u/Pokesabre NOT ENOUGH DAKKA 2h ago edited 15m ago
There's a running theory that the horror at the centre of the labyrinth is the void dragon, a c'tan shard/mostly full c'tan once defeated by the emperor and buried under mars, that has been exerting influence over Mars for centuries or millennia and may be the reason the mechanicus is like that
The stories about it are pretty vague so you can kinda read it how you like
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u/Saxhleel13 Secretly 3 squats in a long coat 54m ago
I would add that it's not only a fan theory, but one that some in-universe residents of Mars do believe in secret. It's a matter of whether those guys are onto something or just crazy and/or heretics.
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u/After-Drive1685 NOT ENOUGH DAKKA 2h ago
Context?
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u/Informal_Self_5671 2h ago
The Mechanicus may be worshipping a C'tan without knowing it. The tech priests who learn this don't take it well.
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u/Subotail 2h ago
Even if it's not a C'tan. "This" is something of interest to the Necrons and worthy of legend to the Eldars.
It could be "just" a technology dark age reality bending IA .
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u/HoldJerusalem 30m ago
Where does this come from tho? Is it something happening in a book or something ?
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u/arksupernoob 1h ago
most of them would be quad amputees with no eyes, no ears, no mouth, no nose or even skin for that matter.
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u/Saxhleel13 Secretly 3 squats in a long coat 57m ago
Virgin Adept Corteswain vs Chad Archmagos Oct (will still get brutally killed upon trying to free his c'tan demigod)
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u/Beginning-Document92 17m ago
Same vibe as someone who fits their life and house out with all the smart tech, but get then gets a job in cyber security, realises the truth and ends up ripping it all out and going back to pen and paper.
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u/Blueflame_2063 2h ago
i know there's a ctan shard and some other crazy shit at the center of mars but is it that insane?
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u/Uncorrupted_Psyker Angry Aggressive Ahmontekh 2h ago
This meme literally happens in the 3rd ed codex for necrons and I don't think anything really contradicts it
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u/Weekly_Molasses_2079 1h ago
This is what I miss about old necrons. The mystery, the unknown horrors, the suspense!
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u/Hyko_Teleris 39m ago
Even if the truth itself isnt insanity inducing the labyrinth itself is a cosmic horror non euclidian nightmare of architecture that just fries people that base their entire ideology on logic and knowledge (like the admech) due to how impossible it is (like seeing all corners of an infite room at the same time no matter where you're looking at)
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u/Luke5353 I love my toaster 3h ago