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So far we know this planet has the following: -A Necron tomb presence, complete with at least one Deceiver shard. -An Eldar World Circuit (implying an Exodite presence) and a Webway Gate (presumably the place the Dreamspace is ultimately headquartered) Unique elements of the planet include...

Funny. Lol@the 'getting to go home' bit, but you've got a point re piloting work hours. Regardless, my point is that there's a big ethical difference between pilot vs MD training, namely that the pilot and instructor both volunteer for the task and don't put anyone else in danger unless they...

I literally spelled out a good chunk of the issues they're facing, so I'm not sure why you're implying that I'm 'hiding' anything. The point I'm getting at is that the issues in question are foundational, and would need a tear-down and rebuild from the ground up to address - and that frankly...

Haven't read it, though I'm sure my in-law MD working in the UK probably has (doctors are clannish as fuuuuck, just in case this wasn't obvious). On skimming the Wikipedia summary, though, I can confirm the following off the top of my head: -Junior MDs paid less than McDonalds workers? Check (my...

This is where popular fiction and reality are completely talking past each other, because 'cowboying up' is absolutely a thing in medicine, and it's not generally a compliment. If a depiction of some 'cowboy doc' doesn't involve them killing someone unnecessarily at least once a season +having...

Yeah, I don't buy that LETHE itself is fully subverted, and definitely don't buy that it's mass-converting its populace. A big group performing mass reprogramming of highly capable, PTSD-ridden war veterans? The gnosis-FBI (Monadic agents) would have to be absolutely asleep at the wheel to not...

Koinon/Progeny/Titanagalbat: Cautionary tales of totalitarian state control, whether by The Nation or religious devotion or by BIG MANS Cybaris Corporation: literally just capitalism ez win gg no re

[X] Dakaran Phase-Drop. The Dakaran phase-drop relic tech makes their drop-troops the most feared of any state on Illuminata. The copse, used to jumping from clouds, will now teleport as one unit from an ark - right on top of Koinon's trench-lines, and into the fire. Though, frankly, you could...

Relevant comic - 'Class Clown' "Thus ends the tale of Slap-Happy Jack (Slappy for short), the Firbolg Barbarian who started life as a lowly orphan, raised by a roving pack of wild clowns. Let it never be said that he was a one-off joke character made by that one friend who likes to piss off the...

If it can't be named, 3d-printed, and trademarked, you'll be hearing from GW's lawyers in no time goshdarnit!

Speaking as someone who's spent :ahem: amount of time futzing around in 40k lore, there's just two things you need to know: a) It's a goddamn incoherent mess, and b) See above. Seriously. Warhammer 40,000 is a giant mashup setting which deliberately apes every sci-fi classic of the past...

"What happens when a man ascends halfway to Godhood? Imagine a crashed spaceship, made ruined and empty by a battle lost long ago. Imagine that spaceship discovered and excavated aeons later, apes squabbling amongst the ruins of greater purpose. Yet as other apes content themselves with the...

Chaos's fundamental problem is that it was turned into the Big Bad of the setting, with equivalent expectations about its fundamental competence. Compare it to other classic villains of either WHF or 40k: 1. The Orcs/Orks work great as villains, because their ultimate goal is "have fun...

Ah, wonderful! I've heard historians turn up their noses at Tuchman for getting certain details wrong and for her writing style, but personally I absolutely adore the way she gets into the cultural zeitgeist of her times. I don't think one can understand the French 'cult of the offensive,' say...

Also @Cetashwayo, having read The Guns Of August recently, I'm curious what inspirations you drew for the triumphalist procession back in the Proud Tower interlude. The WWI parallels to the outbreak seem pretty clear (Red Procession/Black Hand, Cordial/Contract vs Entente/Central Powers, the...