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Assuming that's not just straight up Isha
there is a difference between what this thread is about and the morality debates. People talking about what we can change is also different from the morality debates. the morality debates weren't talking about what needed to change they were just argueing about how evil the imperium is.>gets in quest about a character that is objectively about compassion,self sacrifice and seing the imperium as evil and trying to improve it
>be surprised when people begin to discuss what needs to change and what is necesary to the imperium survival
man i mean.....what where you expecting?
This is what we call suicide.So what I'm hearing is that we need to beat up Nurgle, take his lunch money (and Isha) and throw in a few swirlies for good measure?
I'm down, when do we start?
Oh shit, I just realized I forgot to ever actually add the footnote that was supposed to accompany this. In a nutshell, while Lily may have said "just call them Living Saints" from cynicism, that's actually kind of technically not wrong? I mean, Celestine's basically just the Imperial Cult's version of a Daemon Prince (though, uh, nobody try to tell them that, please). So calling our own Devas "Living Saints" is actually more accurate than not, really - they're just Pandora's Living Saints rather than E-Money's.
Which is why we should not fight him. Instead, we must assemble a crack team for a heist.This is what we call suicide.
There are only a few things the ruinous 4 will go all out for. A successful rescue of Isha? That is one of Nurgle's.
We arent ready for a direct fight with Nurgle.
A heist, you say?Which is why we should not fight him. Instead, we must assemble a crack team for a heist.
He got Trazyn'd.This is probably from left field but I got to ask @Swordomatic is Lord Creed of Cadia dead or alive? Cause he would be a boon to have alive and if not I would be sad.
Well now Trazyn not only took Cawl but my boy Creed that can't stand at all! Is there anyway for us to rescue one or both of them? Or are they out of the game for good?He got Trazyn'd.
It's unfortunate, too. He actually quite liked Panda.
Nothing is impossible. That being said, it is still basically impossible.Well now Trazyn not only took Cawl but my boy Creed that can't stand at all! Is there anyway for us to rescue one or both of them? Or are they out of the game for good?
Well now that makes me sad I always liked Creed... oh well I suppose I can hope, after all it can be said this quest is about doing the impossible. And worst comes to worst I can settle with Guillieman.Nothing is impossible. That being said, it is still basically impossible.
2) Truce/alliance with the Eldar. This is a good time for this for a few reasons.
One, the Eldar - well, y'know, the non-Drukhari Eldar - are perhaps the most likely to be both willing and able to help the Imperium. They're capable and have abilities and assets that Imperial forces typically lack, and they're the most likely to see that they need us as much as we need them.
Two, historically one of the biggest problems with forming alliances with the Eldar from an Imperial perspective is the huge edge in Divination the Eldar have on the Imperium. It makes it very hard to know whether you're getting a fair deal and a real alliance with them, or if they're just manipulating you because they can see the future and you can't. The fact that the Imperium knows this does a lot to taint any dialogue that's opened with them right from the start. But with Pandora around, that gap in Divinatory ability is gone whenever she's involved personally, and shrinking steadily in general with her tutelage of the Imperium's psykers (speaking of, that's one of the reasons it would be a good idea to invest time into training up the hundreds of thousands of psykers with the Expedition on our way back).
Three, the OTHER biggest problem historically with the Imperium opening a dialogue with the Eldar - or any non-humans at all - has been the Imperium's reflexive dogmatic hatred of all "Xenos," which for most of the Imperium stems directly from the Ecclesiarchy's teachings. Remember when I said these priorities were meant to synergistically work together? Effecting Ecclesiarchical reform in Priority One would make this option a lot easier/more viable to pull off. It'll also do the same for any other friendly actions we want to take towards non-humans, which is one of the big reasons why Ecclesiarchical reform comes above this in the priority order.
Four, the Eldar also represent one of the biggest opportunities for Pandora's Warpy expertise and powerset to directly fuck over the Ruinous Powers. In canon, the Ynnari are trying to wake up/resurrect Ynnead, but they're struggling because they either need to get one more Cronesword that happens to be under lock and key in Slaanesh's own palace in the Warp, or figure out an alternative way to get the power and/or ritual components they need. Pandora is probably the most likely out of anybody in 40k to be able to either come up with a way to furnish the juice, or use her Warp-stealth powers to pull an eldritch heist and yoink the Cronesword. And bringing back another Eldar god would be one huge kick in the face for She Who Thirsts - this is probably the best direct blow to the Ruinous Powers we could potentially be able to deliver in the near- to medium- to potentially long-term foreseeable future. It would also hugely indebt the Eldar to us if we were instrumental in it happening, which would be an amazing way to solidify the alliance.
Laugh out loud, oh wait your serious let me laugh even harder.
This in my view is a terrible idea.
Given how the Eldar have spent a lot of effort fucking with the Imperium via a bunch of divination tricks its more that the Eldar are willing to harm the Imperium and have been doing so for a long long time.
The fact that every single time the Eldar can't be trusted to keep to a real alliance and will back stab the Imperium and that every single former alliance is a manipulation of the Imperium for their foul xeno goal is not a reason to trust them.
Their is a big difference between harmless alien species that want to live in peace vs a genocidal race whose national pastimes are enslaving humans to torture them to death (Drukhari), genocide humans (Biel-Tan and the other warmongers), piracy (corsairs) or divination sabotage (Every other craftworld).
So the Elder are bring another Goddess into existence, lets take a quick look at the past so we can learn from the past mistakes in history.
Lets see the last Elder goddess the Elder made was Slaanesh. Surely letting them doing it again is totally not going to blow up in everyone's face. And its not like dad has anything against the Elder making Gods or Goddess.
Finally and most importantly the Necrons hate the Elder and we need an alliance with the Necrons in order to close the eye of terror and the warp gate under our palace.
Close the Eye of Terror vs make friends with xeno filth that has been trying very hard to destroy us for a long long time.
Laugh out loud, oh wait your serious let me laugh even harder.
This in my view is a terrible idea.
Given how the Eldar have spent a lot of effort fucking with the Imperium via a bunch of divination tricks its more that the Eldar are willing to harm the Imperium and have been doing so for a long long time.
The fact that every single time the Eldar can't be trusted to keep to a real alliance and will back stab the Imperium and that every single former alliance is a manipulation of the Imperium for their foul xeno goal is not a reason to trust them.
Their is a big difference between harmless alien species that want to live in peace vs a genocidal race whose national pastimes are enslaving humans to torture them to death (Drukhari), genocide humans (Biel-Tan and the other warmongers), piracy (corsairs) or divination sabotage (Every other craftworld).
So the Elder are bring another Goddess into existence, lets take a quick look at the past so we can learn from the past mistakes in history.
Lets see the last Elder goddess the Elder made was Slaanesh. Surely letting them doing it again is totally not going to blow up in everyone's face. And its not like dad has anything against the Elder making Gods or Goddess.
Finally and most importantly the Necrons hate the Elder and we need an alliance with the Necrons in order to close the eye of terror and the warp gate under our palace.
Close the Eye of Terror vs make friends with xeno filth that has been trying very hard to destroy us for a long long time.