In The Grimdark of Fanfiction -40k
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Gideon020
Really in the mood for ribs.
So I had an idea for a Warhammer 40K fanfic based around a custom Successor Chapter. The premise is that when this chapter is founded in the 26th Founding, an Apothecary in the new chapter discovers a strange, but benign mutation in the Gene-seed. After some additional study, the Chapter Master considers the mutation one that can be safely ignored and the information is put in storage in case it is required.
Then the chapter is nearly wiped out when the Tau Empire begins another wave of expansion and they barely beat the Tau back. Realising that the Tau will not take this major strategic defeat lightly, the new Chapter Master and the surviving commanders have to rebuild quickly, but without compromising the chapter by lowering their standards in recruiting trials.
Then one of the senior commanders asks the question that sparks weeks of debate and arguments, and at least three duels.
"Why don't we take advantage of the gene-seed mutation?"
And so starts the story of a select group of female aspirants.
Before anyone says anything, I am not trolling. This is a serious idea I had.
Then the chapter is nearly wiped out when the Tau Empire begins another wave of expansion and they barely beat the Tau back. Realising that the Tau will not take this major strategic defeat lightly, the new Chapter Master and the surviving commanders have to rebuild quickly, but without compromising the chapter by lowering their standards in recruiting trials.
Then one of the senior commanders asks the question that sparks weeks of debate and arguments, and at least three duels.
"Why don't we take advantage of the gene-seed mutation?"
And so starts the story of a select group of female aspirants.
Before anyone says anything, I am not trolling. This is a serious idea I had.
Less serious quest idea: Chaos apocathary bets that he can make female Marines, Abbadon takes him up on the bet, chains him to a Khornate Berzerker to provide 'motivation'.
Arjac
Retreating Backwards
seems like that would make things difficult, but being stuck with an even crazier person seems like a chance for shenanigans
edit: building on that bit, warp dickery results in a loyalist and chaos marine being stuck together and they can't just kill one another
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jwolfe_beta
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This bunny has been burning in my brain for a while.
In canon 40K we know of the 20 sons of the Emperor, 18 named and two deleted from all Imperial records. Superhumans with great size, strength, enhanced physical capabilities and highly intelligent. They were also made to be very charismatic, as they were to be the generals and leaders of the Imperial military.
Now the thing that struck me when I read about the Primarchs getting scattered by the Warp vortex is that they all came out completely intact on the other end. These sorts of phenomena tend to do bad things to the individuals caught in them unless you have strong and well control psyker abilities or appropriate shielding etc.
And so the idea of a crippled Primarch took root. That the infant's unconscious attempts (all Primarchs had some degree of psyker capability considering their 'father') to resist the vortex caused it to strike at him in return. Twisting and distorting his form, devolving him until he was little normal than a normal human. He kept the mental aspects of a Primarch but would not become a nearly invincible giant in a handful of years. He would mature and grow just like an ordinary human but would have a rather extended lifespan in comparison.
As for where he landed? An isolated world that was fairly comparable to 21th century Earth (got blasted down at the beginning of the Age of Strife but managed to rebuild). The boy was adopted, grew up and joined the military, rising up through the ranks. He became known as an excellent commander who could bring out the best in his soldiers, always getting the job done and having an uncanny knack for picking the right people for the job.
However all that changed when an invasion began that no one could have predicated or prepared for (No it wasn't the Fire Nation attacking
).
He pulled every rabbit out of his hat that he could, but in the end the world's forces were overrun and nations conquered, he was imprisoned and the invaders tore apart human society and history to rebuild it for their own purposes. Fortunately his 2IC and some other key personnel managed to escape and form a resistance movement. It took time but they finally managed to find and break him out.
At which point the invaders started having problems with the disobedient monkeys who wanted their planet back.....
In case anyone hasn't figured out the cross yet:
So thoughts?
In canon 40K we know of the 20 sons of the Emperor, 18 named and two deleted from all Imperial records. Superhumans with great size, strength, enhanced physical capabilities and highly intelligent. They were also made to be very charismatic, as they were to be the generals and leaders of the Imperial military.
Now the thing that struck me when I read about the Primarchs getting scattered by the Warp vortex is that they all came out completely intact on the other end. These sorts of phenomena tend to do bad things to the individuals caught in them unless you have strong and well control psyker abilities or appropriate shielding etc.
And so the idea of a crippled Primarch took root. That the infant's unconscious attempts (all Primarchs had some degree of psyker capability considering their 'father') to resist the vortex caused it to strike at him in return. Twisting and distorting his form, devolving him until he was little normal than a normal human. He kept the mental aspects of a Primarch but would not become a nearly invincible giant in a handful of years. He would mature and grow just like an ordinary human but would have a rather extended lifespan in comparison.
As for where he landed? An isolated world that was fairly comparable to 21th century Earth (got blasted down at the beginning of the Age of Strife but managed to rebuild). The boy was adopted, grew up and joined the military, rising up through the ranks. He became known as an excellent commander who could bring out the best in his soldiers, always getting the job done and having an uncanny knack for picking the right people for the job.
However all that changed when an invasion began that no one could have predicated or prepared for (No it wasn't the Fire Nation attacking
).He pulled every rabbit out of his hat that he could, but in the end the world's forces were overrun and nations conquered, he was imprisoned and the invaders tore apart human society and history to rebuild it for their own purposes. Fortunately his 2IC and some other key personnel managed to escape and form a resistance movement. It took time but they finally managed to find and break him out.
At which point the invaders started having problems with the disobedient monkeys who wanted their planet back.....
In case anyone hasn't figured out the cross yet:
The crippled Primarch is the XCOM Commander.
So thoughts?
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Oh boy, female Marines.
Fluffwise, aspirants aren't the problem for most chapters...and taking advantage of a mutation that blatant- one that's fairly implausible by the rules of how that stuff works in 40k- would at best get the Inquisition to drop by and at worst end up in "excommunicate traitoris" and their homeworld getting purged.
The thing is that aspirants aren't hard to get for sufficiently ruthless or desperate Chapters, even without lowering standards. It just involves culling entire planets.
So while if you want to write the story, more power to you, it's not exactly canon friendly.
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I'd been tinkering with the Idea of a primarch SI onto a forgotten paradise world.
Except this SI is completly content with becoming a dinosaur rancher. By the time the Crusade reaches him, they find a giant of a man living alone on a planet with nothing but tame dinosaurs and that giant of a man finally deciding to make the first forrays into spaceflight.
When he meets his father his first words will be "I mean I conquered my planet faster than anyone else..."
"You were the only one ON the planet."
"Like that's gonna stop me from Conquering it"
Mostly this came from disappointment in the lack of Primarch quests going Dino-rider.
I'd probably just do a series of snippets set AFTER he was found.
Except this SI is completly content with becoming a dinosaur rancher. By the time the Crusade reaches him, they find a giant of a man living alone on a planet with nothing but tame dinosaurs and that giant of a man finally deciding to make the first forrays into spaceflight.
When he meets his father his first words will be "I mean I conquered my planet faster than anyone else..."
"You were the only one ON the planet."
"Like that's gonna stop me from Conquering it"
Mostly this came from disappointment in the lack of Primarch quests going Dino-rider.
I'd probably just do a series of snippets set AFTER he was found.
Gideon020
Really in the mood for ribs.
And just like that I'm reminded why I never write 40K fanfics. Yeah sure, more power to me, but what you're really saying is don't bother, go write something else.
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If you make said female space marines accurate to what an actual female space marine would be, I think people would calm down more.
As in not a SoB but rather take a space marine, size him down maybe, lighten his voice a bit, then maybe...MAYBE slap on boobs.
Because a "female" Space Marine would look exactly the same as a "Male" one.
A non-gendered post-human super-weapon.
Eh.
If you want to write it, go for it. Canon compliance is overrated and not like it's a thing other than because it's ALWAYS been a thing.
I mean hell rogue trader was completely different in tone and setting and still interesting in its own right.
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oh btw.
I MADE IT.
Space Aztecs and their Dino-rides (40k- PrSImarch Snippets)
Join me in my madness. My glorious laser dino madness.
I MADE IT.
Space Aztecs and their Dino-rides (40k- PrSImarch Snippets)
Join me in my madness. My glorious laser dino madness.
This bunny has been burning in my brain for a while.
In canon 40K we know of the 20 sons of the Emperor, 18 named and two deleted from all Imperial records. Superhumans with great size, strength, enhanced physical capabilities and highly intelligent. They were also made to be very charismatic, as they were to be the generals and leaders of the Imperial military.
Now the thing that struck me when I read about the Primarchs getting scattered by the Warp vortex is that they all came out completely intact on the other end. These sorts of phenomena tend to do bad things to the individuals caught in them unless you have strong and well control psyker abilities or appropriate shielding etc.
And so the idea of a crippled Primarch took root. That the infant's unconscious attempts (all Primarchs had some degree of psyker capability considering their 'father') to resist the vortex caused it to strike at him in return. Twisting and distorting his form, devolving him until he was little normal than a normal human. He kept the mental aspects of a Primarch but would not become a nearly invincible giant in a handful of years. He would mature and grow just like an ordinary human but would have a rather extended lifespan in comparison.
As for where he landed? An isolated world that was fairly comparable to 21th century Earth (got blasted down at the beginning of the Age of Strife but managed to rebuild). The boy was adopted, grew up and joined the military, rising up through the ranks. He became known as an excellent commander who could bring out the best in his soldiers, always getting the job done and having an uncanny knack for picking the right people for the job.
However all that changed when an invasion began that no one could have predicated or prepared for (No it wasn't the Fire Nation attacking
He pulled every rabbit out of his hat that he could, but in the end the world's forces were overrun and nations conquered, he was imprisoned and the invaders tore apart human society and history to rebuild it for their own purposes. Fortunately his 2IC and some other key personnel managed to escape and form a resistance movement. It took time but they finally managed to find and break him out.
At which point the invaders started having problems with the disobedient monkeys who wanted their planet back.....
In case anyone hasn't figured out the cross yet:
The crippled Primarch is the XCOM Commander.
So thoughts?
'Twas already discussed in the SB XCOM Ideas Thread, pages 70-72. Primarch!Commander would most likely turn his Legion into the Proto-Deathwatch and work with Malcador to jump-start the Inquisition, probably with Ordo Xenos being formed before the Heresy even begins.
Gideon020
Really in the mood for ribs.
On another idea, an SI wakes up in the Warp, smack-dab in the middle of the Big Four who reveal some things while not directly addressing him. Turns out through some confluence of the planets, a tangling of fate's skeins (much to the annoyance of Tzeentch) and plain bad luck, our SI is a spirit who cannot be torn apart by Chaos and has a rather significant amount of god-like power...
...but he can only use it on the orders of another mortal and unless he has permission, cannot physically touch or interact with anything even though he can still be heard and seen.
So Slaanesh makes a deal with Khorne and a bet against Tzeentch and Nurgle; our luckless SI is given over to a pair of Chaos Lords who themselves are now forced to work together in order to entertain their respective gods.
And that is how a story starts that involves Tau, Eldar dickery, Travel to another galaxy, Exogalactic Star Horrors that are somehow worse than the Tyranids, and saving the Imperium Of Man.
...but he can only use it on the orders of another mortal and unless he has permission, cannot physically touch or interact with anything even though he can still be heard and seen.
So Slaanesh makes a deal with Khorne and a bet against Tzeentch and Nurgle; our luckless SI is given over to a pair of Chaos Lords who themselves are now forced to work together in order to entertain their respective gods.
And that is how a story starts that involves Tau, Eldar dickery, Travel to another galaxy, Exogalactic Star Horrors that are somehow worse than the Tyranids, and saving the Imperium Of Man.
According to the Horus Heresy books the World Eaters and Word Bearers got along surprisingly well before and after falling to Chaos; Both on the individual level and at the Legion level.
Legacy of Angels
Tasoli
Life is for Living
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New story on AH.com. Legacy of Angels
It is about Sanguinis trying to avert destiny of Magnus of which he foresaw by a vision. 5 Chapter long and chapters are a bit short side. But technically well written.
here is a link;
Alternate History Discussion Board
It is about Sanguinis trying to avert destiny of Magnus of which he foresaw by a vision. 5 Chapter long and chapters are a bit short side. But technically well written.
here is a link;
Alternate History Discussion Board
...So. Deamonids. That is honestly even more terrifying than normal Warpy nastiness.
Wasn't that from an SB Space Marine Chapter quest on SB a few years ago?
Chloe Sullivan
Subdefective
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when you say stuff like that, pls link.
SB is a Space Marine Chapter. The Quest.
SB is a Space Marine chapter | Page 184
SB is a Space Marine chapter | Page 195
The moral of the story children, "Do not use The Warp as a weapon!"
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Dark Heresy Campaign
Actually no, it's from someone's Dark Heresy campaign that they posted to the 'net... I'm pretty sure, at least. Cool story, at the very least.
https://09cd64678bddc0198cca7fef0df...com/host/0B3Z9sXPTD9rpN2owNGdVWmdFWXM/d2.html
In short: ghost like Nids that turn corporeal and draw in a bunch of their buddies when approached and reform when 'killed'. Also, unintended consequences of keeping a psyker under bad shielding during a warp trip.
Edit: From the future... It's the All Guardsmen Party. Probably.
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