Into that Vast and Unrelenting Darkness (40K Xeno Civilization Quest)

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Yeah, that's the joke. The Orks like people who can fight them. And we're inevitably going to be blasting them with a truly ridiculous amount of fusion weapons, so they'll love us.
 
We are very unlikely to be able to actually make peace with the Orks as a whole.

But they will appreciate our dedication to incorporating nuclear warheads into every level of our society, and our wargaming and potentially explosive high-energy experimention scenes would be enough that we could probably incorporate a smaller clan of Orks, to the extent that we might be able to hire on some Freebootas or Blood Axes on a permanent basis until they assimilate as the token 'honorable Kultured warrior race' members of our federation.

I.E, large Ork civilizations will probably remain our enemies (and possibly be more enthusiastic for liking us and our extremely explodey weapons) but we may be able to incorporate a smaller community of 'radical' Orks much better than most any other civilization.
 
Woltaire said:
indeed the qm said we could make the orks to us what the klingons are to the federation
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uh feel like you are all forgetting that in the analogy used that the qm said was possible it wasn't ork as a super minoirty part of our civilization or some group we intergate into our society it them being a fully independent civilization, with there own culture, history, goverment, poltics ect and them being stalwart long term allies to the tekkets which is what the klingons are to the federation
 
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Honestly the relationship between the Federation and the Klingons has been vastly different depending on the era. Perhaps the QM was talking about when the Klingons were an existential threat. Or perhaps when they were in something of a Cold War situation. Or maybe even, like you have said, a rather brutal ally.

Frankly I'm not going to assume anything until I actually see it happen.
 
See... see. There's a fine art beauty of "not quite enemies to lovers" mutual respect that could happen. Orks don't need to get integrated into us or anything. No, no, the best outcome is that they respect us and are so enthused about us that they keep on doing some raiding, but like, when it comes down to it they cannot be without us. And they WILL throw down to make sure those funky lil nuke happy fluffy folk stick around. What better way to ship i mean uh i mean, i mean i. Envision a frenemy relationship between two socio-political powers.
 
10moorem II said:
Honestly the relationship between the Federation and the Klingons has been vastly different depending on the era. Perhaps the QM was talking about when the Klingons were an existential threat. Or perhaps when they were in something of a Cold War situation. Or maybe even, like you have said, a rather brutal ally.

Frankly I'm not going to assume anything until I actually see it happen.
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the context around the question was us being friends/allies not enemies
 
Antagonistic war-romance but as civilizations but also there's probably some Tekket who are super into it.
 
Worrisome friendship as Tekkets demonstrate that with BlokTek, you really CAN jam six small guns together to get one really big gun... and that they understand the fundamental truth that there is no such thing as a big enuff bomm
 
Thanatosra said:
the eldar might view us better then the imperium who they call monsters of great destruction (I believe this is what monkeigh means) but that doesn't say much they prob will just use us like they do the humans as shields
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Then make them pay the Tekket for that privilege, and make it in their best interest to give the Tekket an advantage while they hide behind Tekket meat shields. Let them reside in Tekket space in exchange for useful intelligence and revoke that privilege if the intelligence is unreliable or excessively manipulative, but otherwise deal with them fairly. Dangle the promise of inertialess drives for Craftworlds in front of them, if the Tekket ever get them, and use that as a way to empower less egotistical factions.

In short, try to turn them into formal allies.
 
Imagine Tekket developing redder reds and other more intense pigments to sell to Orks.

Does the intensity of color matter or does only the amount of coverage? Is a bright purple airplane stealthier than a dull lavender one?
 
MangoFlan said:
Imagine Tekket developing redder reds and other more intense pigments to sell to Orks.
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The problem (or opportunity) is that the effects of such a paint would be entirely subjective to the ideas of your customers.

It'd be less about actually making new paint through any real science or craftsmanship, and much more about convincing (or deceiving) your customer.
 
Stars Burning said:
I wonder if we can get our own version of the eldar farseers that would be cool but don't know if we have the knowledge to do that
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It depends on what you mean.

A clairvoyant/precognitive tradition shouldn't be hugely problematic to set up assuming we keep racking up warpiness.

However, Farseers aren't just clairvoyant/precogs. They're an intersection of that with craftworld Eldar psychology and culture that has a specific social status within said culture.

So they will probably have a divinatory tradition of some sort, they probably won't be far seers.
 
So, we like our guns. Guns are our bread and butter. What about melee? It's 30/40k, we're gonna be in melee at some point. I'm thinking spears and/or knives.

I'd rather use the robots, of course, but I don't think they're there yet. Maybe a few upgrades down the line they could tangle with space marines/orks.
 
I would think the trend is clear.

Melee is *also* nuclear weapons, just shorter-ranged and very directional.

All evidence points to the Tekket being exactly the kind of civilization that would unironically and effectively develop an Atomic Spear.
 
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I have an idea for our endgame, our victory condition.
Warptek for Kits. When we get the warp safe enough for that, I think we've basically won. Imagine how much fun playing with the warp as part of your toys would be!
 
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