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Respect Your Elders v2 - Galactic Boogaloo [Warhammer Lizardmen Quest]

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Alratan said:
The ancient eldar heroes who are veterans of the War in Heaven should be running around with tens of millions of years more experience and much better infrastructure. They don't need some infants that are less than 0.001% as old.

Imagine Ulthanesh, his children, and Eldanesh's children armed with Reality Engines.
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Eldar don't live that long.

As of current, the veterans of the war in heaven have been dead for a bit over 64 million years. Their reincarnations may be around but like...

Eldar measure lifespans in millennia, not millions.
 
I kinda doubt the Necrons would care that much about us. They might destroy us if they randomly come across us but their main concern is the Aeldari. At the end of the day, we don't even occupy one whole planet compared to the galaxy spanning empire that outstrips us in every way possible, including warpcraft.

That'll change one day but not anytime soon.
 
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K von Carstein said:
That's the point of an uplift. I agree it's unlikely for them to uplift us, but if they do I don't see why they wouldn't explain how the tech works
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Uplift just means giving any technology that brings a client up to standard.

That could mean teaching how stuff works, it could also mean just dropping off a bunch of guns and giving enough knowledge to maintain them without giving out the underlying principles.

I'd put money on the Eldar doing the latter if they do anything at all
 
I figure by the time we actually start encountering them we'll be mucking about in space post-timeskip, so we will have a chance to close the gap at least a little bit.
 
Undead-Spaceman said:
I kinda doubt the Necrons would care that much about us. They might destroy us if they randonly come across us but their main concern is the Aeldari. At the end of the day, we don't even occupy one whole planet compared to the galaxy spanning empire that outstrips us in every way possible, including warpcraft.

That'll change one day but not anytime soon.
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If they recognise us as Old One creations, and I think it's likely they would, they would kill us asap.
 
Kaboomatic said:
Eldar don't live that long.

As of current, the veterans of the war in heaven have been dead for a bit over 64 million years. Their reincarnations may be around but like...

Eldar measure lifespans in millennia, not millions.
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Before Slaneesh, all Eldar can serially reincarnate with continuity of identity, just as the Dark Eldar can do after the Fall. It's just easier, as they don't need to use condensed pain to retrieve the soul from Slaneesh, as they're free to move around the war, protected by their gods.

It's made explicit (I think in the Haemunculus Codex) that it would be possible to resurrect Eldanesh himself if you could supply enough pain to pull his soul out of Slaneesh.

The ancient Eldar, like the Dark Eldar, can basically respawn. Their biological bodies can wear out, but they can just get new ones to inhabit, and if they die by violence or misadventure can just wait for someone to grow them a cloned new one.
 
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Alratan said:
Before Slaneesh, all Eldar can serially reincarnate with continuity of identity, just as the Dark Eldar can do after the Fall. It's just easier, as they don't need to use condensed pain to retrieve the soul from Slaneesh, as they're free to move around the war, protected by their gods.

It's made explicit (I think in the Haemunculus Codex) that it would be possible to resurrect Eldanesh himself if you could supply enough pain to pull his soul out of Slaneesh.

The ancient Eldar, like the Dark Eldar, can basically respawn. Their biological bodies can wear out, but they can just get new ones to inhabit, and if they die by violence or misadventure can just wait for someone to grow them a cloned new one.
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Both this statement and the one you're replying to are true.
 
Xantalos said:
No, everyone can do it.
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So, if I'm understanding this correctly, most of these Eldar have reincarnated a couple thousand times over the last 64 million-ish years.

If they don't retain a perfect memory of their past lives, then plenty of old knowledge can be lost, and if the do have perfect memory, then there is plenty of memories to sift through to remember the Necrons. That isn't including the fall into decadence and excess that they are currently going through, so many might not care even if they do remember.
 
Dragonofelder said:
If they recognise us as Old One creations, and I think it's likely they would, they would kill us asap.
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Of course, but again, that relies on them finding a needle in a haystack when they're more concerned about the hay.

As far as I'm aware, this is the only planet in which a full Lizardman civilization is actively being constructed and not a Slann with an escort wandering the universe. If the Cron's find Mochantia then we'll definitely be in trouble but this is also a pretty far flung world with fairly minimal Aeldari presence compared to the military targets the majority of their forces will be gunning for. What I'm trying to say is, they're not going to go out of their way to find us but they will probably annihilate us if they do. We just need to pull an Oxy and lay low when once the war re-ignites.
 
Also, it's as far as we know a single world awakening.

Yes, that is bad. But it is not 'all the Tomb Worlds are active right now'.

Just as it takes time for the Lizardmen to build up and establish themselves, so too will it take a good, long time for the Necron to do more than shake the dust of their old bones.
 
Lord Kroak: "Look, Emps, you're kind of an asshole and we don't like each other, but being a skeleton on a mobility scooter is only fun if you get the mobility scooter oh and some free time to explore the liminal verges of mortality. Wouldn't wish that on you. Ribbit ribbit."
 
Why do we want to some human warmbloods to take a center stage when we have cool lizard people? Especially when we and The Emperor will inevitably be enemies since he is, you know, a huge xenophobic fascist who is quite possibly the closest thing to Space!Nagash in 40k, with his Imperium being Space!Skaven? We're, like, natural enemies regardless of whether we choose to be people or monsters.
 
He's not fascist, he's a secular authoritarian, there's a difference, I think, I'm actually not sure on that. However he only hates the alien species that are completely hostile to humanity and is likely willing to work with non-hostile xenos. The 40k imperium are the xenophobic fascists who hate everything not human and even they're willing to work with xenos on occasion. And as previously stated Magnus is a shapeshifter he can have cold blood if he wants cold blood.
There's an abhuman population of a planet with a name I can't remember but those are likely the skaven given that they're called ratlings, well either them or the hrud.
Speaking of the hrud don't they worship a living old one called Qah?
 
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