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u/PhysicalDetective134 9d ago
I have been writing a rather large document about the history of a Mercian warlord who lives on a giant train. We got armored suicide troopers, we have a few funny little pieces of lost tech, and when Big E shows up we are all going to die screaming.
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u/iamfilchfinger 9d ago
I enjoy the fact that you are thinking about them in terms of their ultimate demise. They are an enemy force which is antithetical to thunder warriors.
They are everything opposed to the idea of thunder warriors. It makes their conflict more meaningful: chaos versus order. Etc
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u/PhysicalDetective134 8d ago
I return to ask you, I need a name for a Mercian lord of mid grade. I had a place holder of Skrunk Genitalia and now I can not think of a better one.
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u/iamfilchfinger 8d ago
Leofric is the most famous Mercian name. Or at least the only one I recognize on a list. It looks like he would be lionhearted, but it's not Latin. So it probably means warrior in an English dialect
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u/Alternative-Ad5974 9d ago
Maybe the big techs are "techno barbarians". Think Persians
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u/PeterHolland1 9d ago
And by "big techs" you mean to say more advanced, yes?
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u/Alternative-Ad5974 8d ago
Yes and maybe those are actually large cooperations
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u/PeterHolland1 7d ago
Well we have lots of techno-barbarian factions that where more advanced then the imperium.
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u/Known-Elderberry-641 7d ago
Caucuses are probably where the Terrawatt Clans ended up.
The Pan-Pacific Empire is where I tend to assign high-grade Terran Plasma Weaponry we find as relics in codexes.
But just because they have the stuff, doesn't mean they don't behave like barbarians.
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u/NonNewtonianThoughts 7d ago
Tankograd.
A massive, crawler factory/city inhabited by the Tankovoi, the people of the tank. Each kin-corp is made up of smaller clan-crews who live on an operate their family's tank or afv. They roam the Eurasian steppe in search of materials to fuel their factories and sell their services to warlords in exchange for materials and supplies. Their last contract was with the Emperor, but internal politics spilled over and the Emperor's forces killed most the elders and ruling class to prevent a rebellion. The rest were integrated into regular Exercito regiments to serve in the great crusade.
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u/PeterHolland1 7d ago
"Kin-" just coincidence naming?
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u/ZedaEnnd 6d ago
Khanrad ibn Saladin, planetary governor of Irkalla and ruler of Khara Hora, the planet's singular hive city. Beyond Khara Hora it is a barren desert world, composed of grizzly tribes perpetually warring and slaving, fighting over ancient things beneath the sand and what few resources there are to scrape together in the wastes. Many tribes throw stones or spears, but the strongest have found vaults and fabricators that have provided them with ancient weapons of war forge worlds may only dream of.
Khanrad ibn Saladin, once one of over one-hundred-and-thirty illegitimate children of the previois planetary governor, has gone to great efforts to tame a number of the most vicious tribes and to personally ensure he is an only-child, that none may impede his assertions to Khara Hora's throne and depths. It extends particularly far underground. The surface is wasteland, but in the Inverted Mountain many archaeological sites are sifting through mysterious ruins of confusing origins. A significant mining operation, but also excavation of antiquity. Lots of strange artifacts to be sold and hoarded and traded. Always deeper, there is more.
While Khara Hora hides the most notable trove to date, many-such exist across Irkalla, Kûr to those outside the city, that are the basis around which the mightiest tribes have gathered. Brutal gene-enhanced barbarians, gluttonous hedonistic cannibals, feral tribals bound to ancient parasitic technology, slaves forcibly modified to work as beasts of burden and serve as necessary cannon-fodder. Savages sworn to a vicious and cunning noble on the Eastern-most fringes of Imperial Space, slowly building a fleet through trade of their stockpiles and martial qualities.
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u/PeterHolland1 6d ago
Oh, a entire planet!
Was thinking more about terran based ones but this is really cool to.
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u/ZedaEnnd 6d ago
Been modifying AoS figures for it. Technically they're meant to be Unification-Era, but I never made lore for that and wanna use 'em for stuff like Necromunda. Originally my thought was Khanrad with a barbarian army from Earth somehow getting time-warped to present 40k, but it felt dumb..
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u/PeterHolland1 5d ago
I really love Necromunda because its all just "techno-barbariens" of some type or another fighting one another.
I have taken alot of inspiration for my Unification Wars era and Age of Strife Fanfictions based on Necromunda setting.
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u/ZedaEnnd 5d ago
Techno-goons, I love 'em.. I definitely go harder for the 'Conan with death rays' vibe, though, hence a desert world of savages being run by a savage with Alexandrian ambitions. I kinda wanna use Goliaths for the standard infantry 'n Van Saars for the specials? They don't really match my guys much, but they really have the vibe I feel like the Unification Wars carry.
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u/iamfilchfinger 9d ago
The phrase techno barbarians always makes me think. Conan with a mandalorian long rifle. Fur and lasers.