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The Galaxy is Flood, Not Food

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Zenbeast said:
On one hand, Tide might be going to another system! On the other, I don't understand why he hasn't finished exploring the rest of the space hulk. Previously he didn't bother as he didn't want to remove his only orbital foothold, but he has teleportation as well as mundane transports to get up there.
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Because every time there's a sealed off section in something like a space hulk, it's always because there's some monster trapped inside. Tide isn't aware it's daemons, so he's cautious of going inside, since if he does whatever is in there might come out.

He's genre and setting savvy, but that doesn't mean he always makes the right choice.
 
Neat, the Ice things didn't kill him cause he didn't see them. Sounds like a rule of kind for them. Does anyone know of any ice beings that have that rule or are we dealing with a Fay court of some kind?
 
ironwar32 said:
Neat, the Ice things didn't kill him cause he didn't see them. Sounds like a rule of kind for them. Does anyone know of any ice beings that have that rule or are we dealing with a Fay court of some kind?
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If I remember right they can't see them at all without something like Tide's domain vision, so I'm guessing the only reason he survived was because he somehow was communicating with them through tapping to the rhythm.
 
Mostlyblue said:
If I remember right they can't see them at all without something like Tide's domain vision, so I'm guessing the only reason he survived was because he somehow was communicating with them through tapping to the rhythm.
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Interesting that it was a rhythm his mother taught him. If Caleb was local before being recruited, it could have been a remnant from when humans on this world encountered the ice monsters before.
 
Tide's adventuring to uninhabited system might have him bump in with more otherwordly horrors.

This is the Ghoul Stars and all.

Also, wonderful horror at the end there.
 
ptbptb said:
The Architect of Fate has plans for everyone. Sometimes three different plans before breakfast. I mean, very very very few of the plans involve things like "and then he goes on to live happily for a very long time before dying peacefully in bed" rather more have stuff like "and then warp feedback from the unstable ritual melts his brain into rainbow coloured sludge".
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"But this doesn't actually kill him. He's just a sapient puddle of rainbow sludge now."
 
Ms Adequate said:
That was my immediate thought too. Yes, there may be systems out there unclaimed by the Imperium or anyone else. And they might enjoy that status for extremely good reasons.
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Tide finally escapes the Ghoul Stars into normal space and discovers that he has ended up adapting and developing answers to so many bizarre entities that he's now steamrolling the actual factions with his bullshit
 
Pyrotech51 said:
Tide finally escapes the Ghoul Stars into normal space and discovers that he has ended up adapting and developing answers to so many bizarre entities that he's now steamrolling the actual factions with his bullshit
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Oh yeah. Tide's gonna be quite overqualified for dealing with the average stuff in the Galaxy. He's proven capable of dealing with the Tyranids, so thats one major faction he doesn't need to be as on edge about. Just gotta deal with the Tau, maybe strike up an agreement with the Necrons.
 
Jackson Fox said:
Tap… tp… tp…

There was a moment of silence as Caleb waited for death to come, for whatever monster that had been hunting them all to finally take him as well.

And yet, the blow never came. Death never came.
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Curiouser and curiouser... so many reasons he might have been spared. Many of them even paint the Wendigo in something of a more positive light.

I can't wait to see where this goes!
 
Jackson Fox said:
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Btw have you guy check the recent video about 'Forever Winter' game for what to expect ?
This can help give you guy insight of what being a scavenger was like when in middle of war between some factions here (some scene seems fit right in for warhammer 40k imperial guard).

Although I don't like Asmongold (except his legendary editor), but this video do show the game quite well in one go there. Also recommend watch 'Riloe' two other video on it like 'This "ANTI-SHOOTER" game is beautiful and horrifying - The Forever Winter' and 'The living War Ecosystem where you don't matter', they give good insight into this setting and the author could take some inspiration for Hive people or similar


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EODjhsjTFLk

Bonus info on game: Something the trailer didn't quite make clear is that the warring armies will actually ignore you even as they run right by you, as long as your threat rating is too low to be paid attention to - they have bigger fish to fry. It's only as you make yourself a big enough problem that they will begin to divert squads and forces from their operations to respond to you.

In a way, Forever Winter feels more alive than most games precisely because it ignores you, because it happens around you without your input. Until you've stepped on just the wrong toe.
 
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Arashi Zaros said:
Btw have you guy check the recent video about 'Forever Winter' game for what to expect ?
This can help give you guy insight of what being a scavenger was like when in middle of war between some factions here (some scene seems fit right in for warhammer 40k imperial guard).

Although I don't like Asmongold (except his legendary editor), but this video do show the game quite well in one go there. Also recommend watch 'Riloe' two other video on it like 'This "ANTI-SHOOTER" game is beautiful and horrifying - The Forever Winter' and 'The living War Ecosystem where you don't matter', they give good insight into this setting and the author could take some inspiration for Hive people or similar


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EODjhsjTFLk

Bonus info on game: Something the trailer didn't quite make clear is that the warring armies will actually ignore you even as they run right by you, as long as your threat rating is too low to be paid attention to - they have bigger fish to fry. It's only as you make yourself a big enough problem that they will begin to divert squads and forces from their operations to respond to you.

In a way, Forever Winter feels more alive than most games precisely because it ignores you, because it happens around you without your input. Until you've stepped on just the wrong toe.
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I saw a video on it in the past, I'm really excited to play it. And, you're right, I think it could give me an idea of how Tide will act going forwards. For all the power he can bring to bear at any single point, he's still currently limited to a single planet's resources, even if it's a hive world, vs an Imperium of a million worlds along with countless other threats. As long as he lays low and doesn't make a noticeable problem of himself going forward, he'll be fine, but if he shakes things up… well, the Ghoul Stars has received the attention of countless Space Marine chapters in the past thanks to the threats that dwell within it.
 
Jackson Fox said:
I saw a video on it in the past, I'm really excited to play it. And, you're right, I think it could give me an idea of how Tide will act going forwards. For all the power he can bring to bear at any single point, he's still currently limited to a single planet's resources, even if it's a hive world, vs an Imperium of a million worlds along with countless other threats. As long as he lays low and doesn't make a noticeable problem of himself going forward, he'll be fine, but if he shakes things up… well, the Ghoul Stars has received the attention of countless Space Marine chapters in the past thanks to the threats that dwell within it.
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Also if you haven't already played it, Necromunda Hired Gun is a very good game that shows what a hive city is like.

It also gives a good idea as to the actual scale of a hive city.
 
Parth said:
It also gives a good idea as to the actual scale of a hive city.
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The way I see it, there are two extremes of hive cities and worlds. There are worlds where there are a handful of hives, with these being absolutely enormous, country-sized megastructures whose spires are able to reach through the atmosphere, and there are worlds where there are hundreds of hives that are a lot smaller, like regular cities that have been built on top of themselves so many times that the surface is gone. The former holds tens of billions of people, the latter holds maybe ten or a hundred or so million. In both cases, living space is cramped and life is shit for the vast majority of people.

Then there's Terra, which is a hive world on Warp-laced steroids.
 
Jackson Fox said:
The way I see it, there are two extremes of hive cities and worlds. There are worlds where there are a handful of hives, with these being absolutely enormous, country-sized megastructures whose spires are able to reach through the atmosphere, and there are worlds where there are hundreds of hives that are a lot smaller, like regular cities that have been built on top of themselves so many times that the surface is gone. The former holds tens of billions of people, the latter holds maybe ten or a hundred or so million. In both cases, living space is cramped and life is shit for the vast majority of people.

Then there's Terra, which is a hive world on Warp-laced steroids.
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This makes me think of the Kowloon Walled City:



 
Also he is expanding his range but like can he detect every system within his range? Like he said the nearest one as he stated was 5 light years away but his range is three. I guess the question is a) Is he capable of seeing further than he is capable of interacting with? and b) Does he see everything within his range?
 
One Autumn Leaf said:
Also he is expanding his range but like can he detect every system within his range? Like he said the nearest one as he stated was 5 light years away but his range is three. I guess the question is a) Is he capable of seeing further than he is capable of interacting with? and b) Does he see everything within his range?
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He does not see everything within his range, it just refers to how far out he can send a Flood form or the Star Road and maintain control over them. If you're talking about physical senses, like eyesight and whatever, then he has virtually zero idea what's going on in the vast majority of the area, since most of it is empty space that he has no Flood forms to observe. Raindrop in an ocean kind of situation.

If you mean mechanical senses, like telescopes and augurs, then he has some idea of what is in the vicinity of the Monstrum system and a fairly alright idea of other 'nearby' star systems.
 
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