Okay, can anyone point me to a site that has decent WH40K stories? Or does anyone have any novels from same in digital format? I need to read up on the world, you see.
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here the website for Games Workshop, the people who make Warhammer/Warhammer 40K. They may some excerps or stories online. I've never thought to look.
www.games-workshop.com/
The Empire/Chaos forces of 40K are mostly stagnant technology wise. they know how to make certain things but they've lost the ability to invent, they simply follow rote instructions. They've merged technology to their religion as well, with prayers to the 'Machine God' and references to 'machine spirits' (presumably simple AIs, autopilots and such.)
The Chaos forces often replace these 'machine spirits' by binding demons into their tanks and other vehicals.
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Heh. When I saw the thread title my first thought was the Slammers (who -are- out there somewhere, BTW), but this is interesting, too.
I found that site a while back - while I'm no longer -quite- so down on 40k, I still think that it's too absurd to be respectable and too self-important to be funny, which simply leaves me going "yech."
That being the case, I'm understandably horrified to find myself becoming rather interested in the Tau.
Blessed be.
-n
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Well the Tau are more upbeat than most of the 40K races, and their one of the few who actually understand their manufacturing processes (as opposed to ritualistic procedures) and ca actually invent new stuff. 8)
And I admit their shooting is quite good. Not so hot in HtH though.
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I think the 'machine spirits' in 40K are more shinto-style belief that all machines have souls, or something of that nature.
Ironically, by the cosmology I worked out for Drake's backstory, there really IS a Machine God and prayers to him really can be quite beneficial. Thus the Cadian faction who sign up with Drake in Act III fuel their power armor by micro-encapsulated antimatter which really upsets the rest of the Spiral who 'know' that microencapsulation isn't economically feasible (on a level that Cadian power armour's encapsulated anti-matter supply should cost about as much as the Death Star) because the isotope's needed are hysterically unlikely to ever form.
The Cadians manufacture that isotope in whatever quantity they desire by praying to the Machine God when they set up a chemical reaction that should produce the isotope as about one part in a zillion. Because when they pray it comes up with that isotope every time.
And just for a capper, the Caidans won't sell their antimatter because they need every ounce so desperately to fight their own little war on the edge of the Darkvoid.
drakensis
"I believe that forgiving the enemy is God's function. Ours is simply to arrange the meeting." - General H Norman Schwarzkopf
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