Vaalintine
Wild Wondorous Wolfalope
Yeah, but what about actual psykers?
I'm guessing that the level of connection affects the evolution. The question is if the thing effected is the max of the evolution or the rate of the evolution.So basically a passive drain on Chaos? Must be extra special with psykers.
Considering that one of the MCs is a Psyker with a Symbiont, we're certainly about to find out.
Given the presence of Valiants in Sanctuary would imply there is understanding between the two.One would think Drich could communicate to some degree even if by charades or writing.
They even know what food the Shroud likes."The funny part is, he's not even the oldest one around. 'Ol Singleton was one of the first generation of Valiants, and that guy is somewhere around ten thousand."
"Shall I also go fetch a Vortex Device for your Shroud companion?" Turing manages to sound sarcastic.
"Oh, that one isn't here for food."
I mean, I wouldn't say no to it...
The Emperor is an amoral megalomaniac human supremacist control freak.Wow this is a awesome setting but is this taking place around the grand crusade because when the emperor shows up with his sons I'm not sure if he would love or hate this thing. Also you nailed what I love about 40k this complety fucked universe not endless space marines
Wow this is a awesome setting but is this taking place around the grand crusade because when the emperor shows up with his sons I'm not sure if he would love or hate this thing. Also you nailed what I love about 40k this complety fucked universe not endless space marines
The Empyrean is supposed to exist, Chaos is a perversion of the Empyrean caused by the War in Heaven ruining everything forever. The Empyrean is supposed to embody both positive and negative aspects of emotions and psyche, but the War in Heaven was so horrible on such a massive scale that the negative aspects totally overwhelmed the positive aspects and formed a self-perpetuating cycle of evil in the form of the Ruinous Powers, or Chaos Gods. Despite appearances the Ruinous Powers actually do embody positive concepts as well as negative ones; Khorne has Honor and Respect, Nurgle has Love and Acceptance, Tzeentch has Hope and Knowledge and Slaanesh has Joy and Creativity. It is just that these aspects are drowned out, perverted and twisted by the overwhelming mass of negativity, pain and suffering that embodies the majority of their essence.True but in the lore the grand crusade smashed a bunch of small empires during the crusade. But it might be a better story to leave his golden ass out of it. and the emperor was trying to destroy chaos while not telling anyone why they can't worship god and half his sons were fucking crazy. I always got the vibe the old ones fucked the universe up somehow making the webway, chaos is supposed to exist but not be able to corrupt everyone and your dog
Hell, the Humans and the Goo from Grey Goo can do practical matter\energy conversion too, not just the Shroud, and pre Age of Strife Humanity from 40k could do matter\energy conversion as well. That the Shroud can do so is neither surprising, nor particularly unique.
Hell, the Humans and the Goo from Grey Goo can do practical matter\energy conversion too, not just the Shroud, and pre Age of Strife Humanity from 40k could do matter\energy conversion as well. That the Shroud can do so is neither surprising, nor particularly unique.
Closer to hard light/force fields than energy to matter, though they can do that as well as the reverse if they want to.
Sarcastic answer: Many Psyker powers involve manifesting material out of Warp stuff, including of course summoned Daemons.When and where did Humanity have that technology? I never found such in 40k/30k lore, I mean real energy to matter conversion and not matter restructured. Humans and Gray Goo in the game still needed catalyst and it isn't really clear what that is, could be matter restructuring for all we know, or do you say the Beta could do energy to matter as well? They used the same resource.
On the other hand, the source energy in question is Warp energy, which is demonstrably quite easy to transform into physical matter and energy as seen with Daemonic manifestations and a variety of Psyker powers. Furthermore, the Shroud are definitely a post-singularity civilization of some sort, and are explicitly stated to be capable of freely switching between mass and energy at-will. So yes, the Shroud would definitely be capable of energy to matter conversion of complex molecules.Thing is the author stated a fully or half developed symbiont could keep a human alive. No food and liquids. That is energy to matter conversion and complex molecules on top of that. The human body doesn't only need energy to function it also needs nutrition's as building blocks and most important water. The human body consumes energy and resources, so it needs complex molecules and such. Which is a little more complex than metals and what have you ...
To be honest that is technological singularity kind of level bullshit, or just so.
The Goo judged the Shroud to be an apocalyptic tier threat capable of reducing the entire galaxy\universe to 'zero' for a very good reason.
Not necessarily. It could recycle waste products in the body. It could also simply suspend or alter all biological processes so no resources are consumed and have them function through telekinetic control, shroud powered nanomachines or warp abuse.Thing is the author stated a fully or half developed symbiont could keep a human alive. No food and liquids. That is energy to matter conversion and complex molecules on top of that.
Yup the modern imperium could be looking at there only hope to escape the downward spiral they stuck in and still kill it. Which is probly why we wont see them for awhile or at all they will need a LONG time to build up otherwise the imperium will stump them. Also correct me if I'm wrong but was not the elder murder fucking a god in to existence that caused the human nations collapse?Soul bonding with a xeno? The Imperium of all eras will immediately go for their guns, there will be no peaceful interaction.
They'll probably want to destroy the Shroud ASAP for a multitude of reasons. And only some of which are related to the knife-ears ego.