In The Grim Darkness Of The 41st Millennium, Nobody Beats G.I. Joe!
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They're all gonna bite the dust anyway.
Classic case of Hate Sink trope in a nutshell and it fits.
A Khornate would be upfront as they would attack you directly and not hide about their intentions to spill blood and take skulls while Nurglite, Slaaneshi and Tzeentchi can be sneaky when they want to be.
I giggled.
Side note but a Knight being like "we managed to kill ONE traitor" is a great way to build heat for them. Kinda excited to see if they live up for this, since a force that genuinely threatening on a small units basis would be a interesting change of pace.
Side note, I love the corruption you have the imperium is infested with. The commissioners shoot people all the time, but they also just... are corrupt. And not in the fun Cain "I like to gamble" way, but in the "selling off weapons" way. Rather than maybe being bad cause fanatical but totally dedicated. This fic recognized that fascists are losers. Dangerous losers who are going to take out everyone around them, but losers. They aren't cool. Indiviaul people can try to be, and make some successes but that in spite of the broken system, not because of it.
Ooof.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
I mean, you've got an Inquisitor Lord who regularly purges people for being too good at their jobs because "If you're not barely scraping by save for the whim of the God Emperor, you're preparing for Heresy", and he has no meaningful opposition in this region (Because he's presumably killed anyone who didn't toe the line).
He just utterly fails to understand that if everyone does what he thinks, the entire system that keeps the Imperium from getting swarmed under falls apart. Because the entire system Works in spite of itself because there's enough slack in the system despite all the inefficiency that you can ship people over to make up for any pressures. If Literally everyone is just barely scraping by, a single attack, or a single unplanned event, is going to cause a cascade collapse beyond all reason.
But he'd just say all of these threats will never materialize or be beaten back Anyway because... Reasons. I'm not even sure he believes the God Emperor will save them, he just thinks that once everyone is suffering too much and is too stretched to have a single thought beyond "Exist another fraction of a second", that all the other threats in the universe will just vanish into the ether. Like that the Tyranids or the Orks will just go away if everyone is too weak and too miserable to defend themselves.
Or you know, he just thinks "The God-Emperor will preserve us magically", somehow, despite him never doing this in the past.
It's hilariously solipsistic for someone who somehow got to the very pinnacle of power below the High Lords of Terra.
He just utterly fails to understand that if everyone does what he thinks, the entire system that keeps the Imperium from getting swarmed under falls apart. Because the entire system Works in spite of itself because there's enough slack in the system despite all the inefficiency that you can ship people over to make up for any pressures. If Literally everyone is just barely scraping by, a single attack, or a single unplanned event, is going to cause a cascade collapse beyond all reason.
But he'd just say all of these threats will never materialize or be beaten back Anyway because... Reasons. I'm not even sure he believes the God Emperor will save them, he just thinks that once everyone is suffering too much and is too stretched to have a single thought beyond "Exist another fraction of a second", that all the other threats in the universe will just vanish into the ether. Like that the Tyranids or the Orks will just go away if everyone is too weak and too miserable to defend themselves.
Or you know, he just thinks "The God-Emperor will preserve us magically", somehow, despite him never doing this in the past.
It's hilariously solipsistic for someone who somehow got to the very pinnacle of power below the High Lords of Terra.
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Sounds like an anathema to Khorne who prefers blood and skulls by direct combat, and any forms of trickery and sorcery is heresy to him which is why he hates Tzeentch so much.
Khorne even kicked out Skarbrand for attacking him from behind after the latter got tricked by Tzeentch who did it for giggles.
F0lkL0re
Officially not an Inquisitor
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- Shetland
Interesting looks like the Joes could potentially find an ally in this one if she's willing to go for it.
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- The City of Tears, Hallownest
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- He/Him
You are expecting a consistent set of rules and beliefs from a chaos god. "Things that let me win are good. Things that let people win against me are bad"
Yes, the chaos gods are hypocritical shit kickers, news at eleven.
Khorne is a bloodgod, he dresses it up as combat, especially at the higher levels, but ultimately he makes use of all the same tools as the rest of the ruinous powers: corruption, sorcery (which is not the same as psykers but is definitely adjacent), rituals, and summoning.
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Fascism is the act of self-deception in the service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike, who are simultaneously the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms in existence yet somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis.
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It does help that GI Joe from their perspective is just one of the many regiments of the Imperial Guard (it's like a dime a dozen to the Imperium and their "We Have Reserves" mentality) and didn't stand out much. Which was the Joes' purpose of not getting too much attention towards themselves and Organitron.
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
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- Canada
To be fair for the most part at the levels these people operate at, GI Joe is beneath their notice.
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- Somalia
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- He/They
hard read, amazing as always
That's how they get you.
StarSingerBlue
Zenryoku Zenkai !
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- The City of Lights
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- They/It
No, he's an Imperial given too much power.
sabreFather
Dr Pepper is the flavour that I savour
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- Land of Bears and Loggers AKA Oregon
First, as repeatedly hammered at you, the Chaos Gods are hypocrites. Khorne shows this the most as without Sorcery over 98% of the deployment of Khornate Daemons and Daemon Princes literally cannot happen. The 2% that do happen involve showing up on Daemon Worlds not made by Khornates and profaned Webway Gates.
Second, Khorne mindbroke Skarbrand for having the audacity of striking him. Khorne cares not from where the blood flows, as long as it is not him. If Khorne lived up to his rhetoric, he would have praised Skarbrand for managing to strike him, and then take his head for the prize that it is.
Sounds familiar with Roboute Guilliman being the only Primarch in 40k canon trying to unscrew the Imperium (albeit in mixed results) with everyone trying to stop his efforts and ruin their status quo.