IC: I am a renegade in that I am now longer sworn to any chapter, nor to a fight for Imperium in it's wars. I still defend humans, as well has any who needs aid, I suppose I could be defined as an Errant-blade or Mercenary if you'd prefer. My current stance on the Emperor is that he was man a man with great power and intelligence yes. I squared as you say at the time in a way the many of my brothers and the other Warders did. Under the belief that while the Emperor did indeed charge us with defending humanity even over the Imperium. it had been soon in the past that time and again the Imperium would fight it's self the Reign of Blood which gave raise to your's and the other sisterhoods one such distinct example of a time. If asked now I would say I don't fight for the Imperium or the Emperor I fight rather to defend those whom can't defend themselves.
A noble goal indeed, and it is truly reassuring to know that the Astartes can find such a blessed path.
I know you're talking to mister Lamenter there, but, it's real simple cause like, The Emperor is Powerful, right, Soloed Horus on like, all the Daemons, but he ain't like, Necron Shardling strong, and definitely not like, Chaos God strong, ya know.
Like the Big Stompy Knights?
Sister Vandire:
I mean, the area of space I'm from was Primarch controlled till Big E showed up with his Personal Pimp Fleet and said we had to kill every non-human or get blasted back into the stone age.
Sister Vandire:
I mean, yeah, I'm a Guardsman through and through. Never implied anything else, so I'm a bit confused where you got me being an Astartes from?
Sister Vandire:
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Sister Vandire:
Fuck, I was a Plasmagunner back in the Bad Old Days when they would randomly detonate without warning or reason.
Sister Vandire:
As alluded to by recent comments about military reforms removing some of Man's more redundant restrictions demanding deviance as the price of survival...
Depending on Warzone, Commander, and Unit, once you get past the 'Conscript With Disposable Shit' phase, you're not *too* likely to die unless you get unlucky and fight, say, Xenos, Astartes or Daemons, or catch a stray shot.
Oh, then, so lethality is simply frontloaded? You are far more likely to die early in your career than later?
Yeah, between being less valuable in 'The Calculus', not knowing a lot of the tricks and tips, and Veterans learning to not say nothing when Commisars or Commanders are looking for volunteers, (and preferably not being there in the first place.)
Humans, humans, and Humans. Also Humans.
Calibrating computer-assisted translation is hard. Knowing when to tell it to stop helping is harder. Especially when all different ways of talking in the same language seem equally natural or unnatural.
Beyond everything else discussed, I have reason to think the Guard often does that thing where units are kept on the front line constantly and totally inexperienced replacements are sent directly to those units while they're in combat.
IC: Any interesting tourist stupidity on Commorogh that you can share with me?
IC: Most of the time the Golden Throne makes deamons act highly aggressive and hyperfocused on attacking it(I don't balme them,Terra's connection to the Materium was five seconds away from becoming a warp storm before the Siege and the giant shiny throne of psyker ducktape and ten millenium worth of religous devotion depicting Terra as a mystical place has not done the place any favours for it's warp stability and it's probably agony for them being there) so they attack in relatively predictable pathways this usually resuls in automated defenses dealing with most while you usually get 'bucket brigades' of a cadre of Sisters of Silence acting as a null bludgeon/shock and awe, a group of Lucifer Blacks acting as ranged support and a Custodian(maybe a group if they like each other and it's dangerous enough but most of the time they would rather work with a group of non-Custodians than deal with another Custodian) who usually scouts ahead and acts as the giant golden 'final boss' that the deamon tries to hit rather than the nulls who can kill them alot easier or the relatively squishier Lucifer Blacks.(OOC:Essentially if you have to deal with deamons you don't want to turn this into agiant horde of death but instead turn this into something like a WW1 battlefield where you basically sit in a trench and
IC:I found it disturbing in ways I never knew.I always assumed the Tau were never as interested in the complete and total removal of individuality as you showed,I always thought that was a silly little lie and that no one was that interested in doing something like that.Now I'm somewhat terrified that a level of slavish devotion is capable of being engineered on at the very least a sector scale and at worst a galactic scale and I'm60-80% sure the High Lords would do that same level of social engineering if they weren't so incompetent.
IC:Grey Knight Fuckers think they're the equal of the Custodians and by extension my work not to mention the utter gall of ejecting all the Jovian Void Clans(our cousins/ancestors) for their little base.
Optimization is a matter of degree. Some suboptimal practices are more common than others.
Not as naturally as we experience gravitation, but more naturally than we experience civility. So... yes?
I am interested in your perspective on the matter.
