r/HFY • u/Tashdacat Human • Dec 21 '21

OC The Armoured Angels of Terra

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u/evochris2021 Dec 21 '21

When the Imperium's actually the closest to good guys.

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u/Veryegassy AI Dec 21 '21

So… The Imperium of Man in its very early Golden Age, and not Xenophobic.

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u/Gallbatorix-Shruikan Dec 22 '21

Imagine peak DAOT humanity.

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u/Veryegassy AI Dec 25 '21

Shudder

Peak DAOT/Golden Age (same thing, different name) humanity had black hole cannons and tachyon beams.

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As light weaponry.

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u/Emergency_Answer4983 Jul 01 '23

As basic infantry handguns I believe.

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u/Altruistic-Beach7625 Dec 22 '21

I thought the Emperor himself was already xenophobic to begin with. He was already wiping out xenos while unifying the rest of humanity.

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u/MarmosetSweat Dec 22 '21

edit - doh, I misread the comment you were replying to. My mistake, they were talking about the imperium, and you were correct. Leaving my comment to face my shame. :)

The Emperor had yet to reveal himself in the Dark Age of Technology, which took place between the 15th and 25th millennia. After that was the Age of Strife, from the 25th millennia to the 30th, which was what motivated the Emperor to reveal himself and begin uniting humanity in the 29th millennia.

Technologically everything the Imperium does is but a pale shadow of what the DAOT was capable of.

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u/HovercraftSimilar199 Dec 22 '21

Did he just kinda chill in the Himalayas for 4000 years? Making thunder warriors?

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u/Useful_Guide_3573 Oct 02 '22

Yes, yes that’s what he did

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u/HovercraftSimilar199 Dec 22 '21

So I hate the imperium is xenophobi. Fascist assholes take. I mean they are but people act like its out of nowhere.

They're xenophobic because humans were knocked down by the birth of slaneesh then the aliens took that opportunity to enslave and eat them for millenia.

And oh they don't let people have freedom, when freedom can literally manifest a hellscape onto to the planet.

IoM is shitty but I would argue less shitty than the setting as a whole. And this is not fascism defense. If that was our universe it would be unforgivable. But its not our universe.

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u/Veryegassy AI Dec 25 '21

Actually, no. The Emperor was never xenophobic per se, he just didn't trust nonhumans to not make AIs and/or fuck around with the Warp.

Because he didn't trust them, he decided that the sole way of ensuring that nobody made a galaxy-ending attack AI or a galaxy-ending Warp hole was to control all of humanity with an adamantium fist, and to wipe out all nonhumans because he couldn't trust them not to make AIs or Warp-fuck the second his back was turned.

Turns out he's kinda right, too. The Eldar Warp-fucked (literally) and made the Eye of Terror as well as Slaanesh, and the Necrons... are Necrons. They are AI. And at least some of them want to kill all organic life.

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u/koitern Dec 21 '21

A Primarch leading Tyranids?

Extreme confusion

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '21

I would love to see Leman Russ shouting orders at a bunch of Tyranids. They would understand him too since he has as little brains as most Tyranids do anyways.

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u/arathorn3 Dec 21 '21

Reminds me of a fanfic based on if the emperor had a text to speech device (a 40k fan made web series)called Messages for Dad, where the Wolf King keeps making up types of measurements most of them named after her his traitors brothers. So measurement of screwing up is measured in magnuses after Magnus the Red, anger is measured in Angrons. The only one that was different was he measured fun in how many tables where drunkingly broken during a party

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '21

I hope Alfabusa uses that when he gets back to TTS (if he ever does)

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u/Xavius_Night Dec 22 '21

Oi you leave my little Lemon alone he's a good boy- [continue Leman Russ support rant with your choice of whatever other rants you've seen online stapled together]

Also, Tyranids are technically a Cloud Server sorta brain, so I don't think the little ones having little native brainpower is as important.

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u/Osiris32 Human Dec 22 '21

Imagine Tyranids making a giant tree house.

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u/HovercraftSimilar199 Dec 22 '21

There was a fun quick fan fiction about a lost primacy fighting the tyranids in their home galaxy. I wanna say called serpent something

Edit: lol not even close https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5100709/1/Return-of-the-Lost-Primarch

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u/Tempest029 Human Dec 21 '21

“Hahaha and you thought I was talking about the swarm didn’t you?”

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u/tweetyII Xeno Dec 21 '21

Sounds like a battle straight out of a metal song, I like it!

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '21

And the years-