A bit confused by this, do you mean like after we're in space or also now? Or are we on the brink of the age of strife because there seems to be an extreme lack of warp storms everywhere and does that mean that humanity is currently in the DAoT?
After you're in space - once you get there there'll be a timeskip covering your initial expansion into an interstellar empire, and the Age of Strife proper will really kick off. Right now it's just on the brink of things.
How long a period will that timeskip be, and is there anything we can ensure is researched during that time (read: Void Sanctums and Slaan Spawning)?
Several centuries at least - and yeah, you'll get a generalized list of research that you conduct during that time, and slann spawning, void sanctums etc will definitely be on that list.
Hopefully not too much of a timeskip.
I don't at all mean to brag or speak in an … unnecessarily aggrandizing fashion about myself; I strive to keep a realistic view of myself and my capabilities whenever possible. This is a skill I've gotten better at over the years, and I intend to keep improving on it for as long as I can, since I started out at an absolutely horrific level.
Schizo-tech, a la The Road Not Taken.
Can't help but feel that running your stuff off of exploding fossilized dinosaurs would be kinda ironic what with y'all being, well, dinosaurs.
Hey, this way they'll continue to serve the Great Plan even after death.
ACKSHUALLY, there's a theory according to which, oil has an abiotic origin.
As I understand it, the theory is almost certainly incorrect in real life, among other things because it produces actively wrong predictions about where to look for oil deposits.
I think Prometheum is just a catch all for a variety of substances that are used for fuel. Not necessarily fossil fuels but including them.
Depends. Sometimes it's just oil, sometimes it's anything burning, sometimes it's some 40k fuel.
Well, literally one of the possibilities for promethium is that it's magical oil that burns vastly hotter than oil ought to because magic, likely being the fossilized remains of something during the war in heaven. another is that it's a hydrocarbon fusion feedstock that can also be burned to power a tank in a pinch. Whether the fusion actually benefits from having the carbon in there for some weird and likely warp-influenced reason or if they could just as easily use water or tanks of liquid hydrogen but don't because they're painfully dogma bound is less clear.
I'm looking forwards to seeing how we effect the Age of Strife and the Eldar Dominion.
Pretty much not, being frank about it. The societal conditions are already present and the Lizardmen will have far too little force to accomplish anything beyond getting bonked by a singular Fall!dar and pleasure barge.
At the start of our ramp-up, yes. By the end of it, we might actually be able to defend ourselves or quietly influence things in certain ways. Hard to say.
I imagine that our biggest advantages on the strategic level will be the Astromantic/Geomantic Web and the Slann (particularly once we can start making more of them).
And unlike practically every other 'mundane' psyker out there, the Slann aren't going to be constantly at risk of losing control or being possessed by daemons etc.
