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Maybe you should go back and read the post you just responded to, and the post that post was a reply to, again.
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A Different Breed (Warhammer 29K)
Maybe you should go back and read the post you just responded to, and the post that post was a reply to, again.
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They're talking about the Wikipedia page I cited for the article.
Professor Vesca
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All the online sources for Five of Swords agree with wikipedia. I just dont think your going to be able to find an official citation that meets Wikipedia's standards on a definitive way to interpret the Tarot? It feels like something where how you interpret the cards is taught to you by a teacher, and each teacher is a little bit different from the others. There is no single standard.
The source is a common oral history, and each orator broadly agrees on the wide strokes but the details can change depending on the oral tradition.
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SaltyWaffles
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I hope our ships' weaponry is extremely effective against that thing, because its sheer size makes killing it a nightmarish prospect, especially when it has a star it is already feeding on to sustain it.
Also, WTF is a Dreamer?
Also, WTF is a Dreamer?
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Hard to believe it wouldn't be. Starlance may not be plasma, but a lance can burn things if it hits it enough, and Starlance variations hit with thrice the energy, four or five times the often. Meanwhile Zahr-Tann has some turbo lasers for sustained damage and torpedoes.
Not entirely clear myself, but not whatever this is based on reactions.
SaltyWaffles
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The issue is one of scale. We're dealing with a thing that is large enough that two of its tendrils are a substantial fraction of the size of a small craftworld.
We need to hit way above the weight class of our weapons based on type-effectiveness alone. I can only hope that this thing is not nearly as tough as or is way more vulnerable than its size suggests.
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Professor Vesca
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Are we fighting a Ctan shard
Don't think so
Doesn't look as nearly metallic as the C'tan do, must be something else.
Professor Vesca
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Its just some gribbly from the war in heaven, nothing more. Its not a C'Tan, a god, or anything else of the sort.
The battle-fires were mentioned; they are still fighting, I think. Or were fighting relatively recently, meaning at least some civ pops survived.
I am just gonna say it: I was right about the assimilation (and this being Rangdan probably)
I'll take your word for that.
While everything I can find agrees Five of Swords upright is bad, reversed seems to be a range of everything from conflict is over, time of resolution, uneasy peace but stay wary, time for reconciliation, disappointment with humanity, losing because the opponent cheated, an argument dragged out, etc etc etc. But this
especially makes it a pain in the ass. So who knows, I could just be looking at completely garbage sources.
Some kind of goat, I think.
Yes, it's obviously the Nightbringer
More seriously, almost certainly not. The C'tan can get up to some Weird ShitTM when they feel like it, so it's not impossible, but this doesn't really seem to fit them particularly well.
For one thing, C'tan generally seem to do their actual star-eating in their natural form (that is, a big energy cloud), and their whole "enemy of all life" thing in their Necrodermis shells.
For another, while they're called Star Gods/Star Vampires and ate stars before the Necrontyr encountered them, the whole thing about them going all in on the omnicide train was that after they consumed the Necrontyr that made contact, they realised that stars were bland and life was delicious. But here, there's an entire Craftworld full of delicious Eldar snacks and whatever this is is over there putting just as much attention into slurping down star matter.
Also, I'm not entirely sure a Sharded C'tan can eat an entire star, let alone two in a row and a Craftworld to boot, and if this was an unSharded C'tan we... would be in a great deal of trouble.
Considering how infectious the thing apparently is, the mention of how dangerous it might have been if it took us by ambush, the sheer size of even a small craftworld... Now that the Craftworld has been Tentacled, we might end up having to evacuate everyone and torch the whole thing anyway. Clearing the whole thing would be a horrible Lovecraftian urban warfare nightmare, and if you miss even a little bit in a hidey hole somewhere (like buried in the dirt in one of the gardens, flowing through the pipes of a water feature, in an air vent, wiggled inside a sculpture, etc etc etc) and it pops back up again later, well. Oops. There go the civilians.
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Robinton
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Doing a quick search for "Dreamer Secret World", it looks like this threat might be inspired by: The Dreamers
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I agree, it matches the description of the base form of the Rangdan and how they act without the complicated infiltration method that they eventually developed.
SaltyWaffles
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Since when do Rangdan feed on stars? And since when are they so absurdly massive?
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Whatever the case, there was a thing where Stel-Uit was caught be a massive secret keeper and broke off there entire shipyards to escape. Might be what we need to do here. Break off a section of the craft world so the rest can escape and then deal this thing enough damage to slow it down for a while.
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Rangdan that managed to eat a C'tan?
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I'm reading the stuff on Rangda, and they seem to be a technologically advanced race of slavery Aliens rather than some Eldritch horror that converts a person on touch. Further more, A C'Tan Shard is the all terrible weapon of last resort of war in heaven Necron's, and are things that feast on other life forms themselves. This doesn't really feel like a viable match.
It's probably an original creation of the QM. Research on 40k lore is probably unlikely to help us here.
I think the best clue we have is that the Ancient Eldar may have once thought they could use this thing for something.
I think the best clue we have is that the Ancient Eldar may have once thought they could use this thing for something.
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There's multiple versions of the Rangdan the slavery aliens that your described and the kind that ate entire Space Marine Legions and potentially their Primarchs before the Emps unsealed the Void Dragon (iirc it was said unleashed what was sealed in the Noctis Labyrinth aka the place the Dragon is sealed in 40k) a little to deal with them
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Ok, I see that some people in this thread thinks it's a "Dreamer" whatever that is. Care to share what it is for the rest of us in the dark?
And IMHO it's not likely to be Rangdan that we are dealing with atm. Bit more focused on consuming light rather than just parasitizing everything.
And IMHO it's not likely to be Rangdan that we are dealing with atm. Bit more focused on consuming light rather than just parasitizing everything.
Also, weren't the Rangdan under the control of those Slaugh worm fucks?