warhammer 40k

Forsaken (40k Chaos Warband Quest) You feel the death of your father even before the vox come alive. You feel defeat singing through your bones, traveling by whatever sorcery the False Emperor wedded to your gene-seed. Terra is burning right below your ship, its cities set ablaze by the glow of...

Humanity. Homo Sapiens, a relatively young species with decidedly average abilities on the galactic scale. Powerful Valkyrie are the exception to the rule. Likewise, their short life spans but birth rates place them well above others in natural evolutionary changes, if not by much. Average...

Cadia has fallen, the galaxy has been split in twain and chaos reigns. The Imperium is beset on all sides by the forces of Chaos, the cruelties of the Drukhari, the bottomless hunger of the Tyranids, and numerous other threats. Warp Storms leave numerous systems alone and divided and the forces...

Colchis - 830.M30 (Two Weeks before Lorgar's Arrival) You are Fan Morgal. As the leader of your tribe, you sat in your tent, surrounded by your advisors. The situation was dire and as you kneel in front of your tribesmen and tribeswomen, the grief of burying your wife and son still hits you...

Prologue; The Incident 27 BBY - Tattooine Yaol was somewhat of an outcast. Owning something as quaint as an unpowered telescope was something that did little to earn any respect from his peers, and yet, none of them had prepared for the strange storm in space that had opened up and with a few...

In time long ago, even more ancient than the great war, before anything was brave enough to crawl upon earth, there were already several developed species and worlds rich in history and technology. In such times, there exist but a few truly advanced star-capable civilizations that have mastered...

Trigger Warning: Violence, Gore and Attempted rape. Once your life had been simple. A mindless drudgery that you once loathed. Twelve hour days. Day after day toiling away for 5 years since the age 12. Once you had dreamed that you were a secret princess or that you would join the sisterhood...

You're all under arrest for murder and attempted transgenic blasphemy. In truth, none of you had the slightest acquaintance with Saul Arbest until a chance encounter on the 4:15 midhive eastbound train, less than an hour before the incident. During that time, what did he talk to you about? Who...

My Bulwark Against The Terror (A Warhammer 40,000 Chapter Master Quest by Searcher8) Welcome everyone, to my second attempt at a Space Marine quest that I tried to run a few years back. The general idea is that you'll be controlling a chapter operating shortly after the opening of the Great...

It is half way into the 41st Millennium and you have betrayed the Imperium of Man. More precisely, the Storm Avengers Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes has turned their backs on the Imperium. You are Chapter Master Torvald Thunderson and while you and your brother still consider yourselves...

Being both a 40k fan and interested in military matters to an extent, I have find the former severely lacking in interesting additions for a while, specifically that I dislike most of the new stuff that has been rolled out for recent editions. With that in mind I decided to share my ideas for...

Thanks to an accident involving a freak warp storm and a poorly maintained warp drive, an Ultramarine Battle Barge carrying the chapter's 3rd and 4th companies crash lands on a strange desert planet far from the Emperor's light. Realising that the Battle Barge is non-responsive, the Ultramarines...

Prologue All was quiet on the front she was assigned to, yet it filled her with nothing but dread. For a few precious hours the guns of the Death Korp Siege Artillery attached to her regiment had stopped thundering as the walls of the fortress before them fell silent. There was still the...

this was thread drift in Unpopular Opinions but I think it fits in here pretty well. The discussion is basically as the thread title suggests. Is warhammer 40K, which I am told by youtube videos is one of the most overpowered settings around actually any good at warfare? Could it beat...

Via Scientia - The Road to Knowledge You can't help but look to the red, smoke-filled sky, even as you hear the binary chanting and give the ritual answers Will you go forth in the Omnissiah's Name to seek His truths? By the Motive Force moving me, I will. Somewhere up there is the Voidship...

A pro-science, transhumanist religion doesn't exist in real life, but it could definitely exist in Alternate History. In the year 1549 CE, after Askia Daoud is crowned the new ruler of the Songhai Empire, everyone in Gao (the capital) receives a vision. This vision is by the Omnissiah himself...

The last wonderful, terrifying, overwhelming moment of Lilith's Terran life, was the tug and pull of something far greater, more massive, and far deeper than herself. Her skin, had started to swell and burn, as her mind festered with the creeps presence. Her red hair, filled with short curly...

A Second Dawn (2nd Primarch Warhammer 40k) Synopsis: For 10,000 years the Second Primarch has been thought dead, executed by order of the Emperor for daring to commit an unforgivable crime. Yet he did not die as everyone thought and was instead trapped and lost in the Warp. He has been...

Chapter 1 "So, this is spiral power, huh?" Kittan mumbled, feeling it rage through him, through his veins, his bones, his very being. The King Kittan was breaking apart at its very seams. The pressure from the compressed space was crushing his gunman into scrap, when it gave out he was done...

Silence, the silence was the only thing that they could hear despite the smell of chemicals and the distant sound of all of the fighting that was still happening they could only hear silence. Those around them could only stare quietly because something like this was unheard of. "Did I live...

Its eerily silent. A pulse hits the universe every waking moment, people stare numbly, millions upon millions of them in the fortified remnants of Tarsonis. The walls held, despite what seemed like limitless hordes of Zerg and monsters, they held. Amidst shell casings and burnt neosteel live...

RAT-TAT-TAT The burst of my heavy stubber bit my hands, not even the callouses on them able to take the rattle of the gun from painful to merely stinging. The stink of hot metal pierced through the haze of powder and smoke, blood and puke, shit and piss, a smell that I never thought would ever...

It is the 42nd Millennium and the Imperium is on its last legs. The Thirteenth Black Crusade has successfully broke through Cadia and now rampages freely across hundreds of worlds. The Necrons at last begin their great awakening to reclaim the galaxy for themselves. The Greenskins and the...

OBEY. A voice cracks all senses, all sense. Worlds burn, the galaxy crumbles. Tooth and claw, fang and talon, spike and bile. The taste of a thousand species lingering in the sequence memory of an unstoppable swarm. OBEY. The galaxy is cleansed, the last pure essences shattered. Terrans...

Unknown - 3854.5 Your head burns, the voice inside it screaming in alarm and panic. You can already feel yourself checking alerts, vacuum sealing the ACU, pulling out the breakers allowing the stream of electricity frying your little buddy. Finally you open your eyes, seeing only the blackness...