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Biplane posted:Silent Hunters was really loving good everyone How are the Macniven Space Shark novels? And should I read them before Silent Hunters or does it not matter as long as I know the basics about the chapter?
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Anyone else low key irritated by the inconsistency with which Marines are portrayed with helmets on and off? It sometimes feels like I'm reading, in the same passage, accounts of na enemy seeing the expression on a space marine's face followed by a blow glancing off his helm.
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Inspector_666 posted:How are the Macniven Space Shark novels? And should I read them before Silent Hunters or does it not matter as long as I know the basics about the chapter? The MacNiven ones were good, and I was a bit wary seeing this was written by a new guy, but honestly it may be better than the first two. And no, apart from some of the same characters appearing in the book, I think it could easily just be read as a one off.
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I am about 40% into Silent Hunters and it’s good, the author is not on ADB/Abnett/CW’s tier but it’s an enjoyable read. So are the space sharks a night lords offshoot? Pale, sharp teeth and black eyes.
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Don't think it's actually been clarified but the current theory is Raven Guard based on their looks.
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Night Lords would have been the cool option so of course they went with the boring one
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Biplane posted:Raven guard I think? They're "officially" RG successors but heavily implied to be descended from the Night Lords (unless that's changed, I'm only on Red Tithe)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urOqVjyMdFY Fun fantasy / science fiction youtuber takes a dive into Black Library books and starts with Eisenhorn.
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Apr 1, 2021 15:53
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urOqVjyMdFY Oh hell yeah, I love his Wheel of Time content, glad he's getting into 40k stuff
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Apr 1, 2021 15:59
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Wheel of Time, god drat. I was super into it growing up, so bummed when the author died. Brandon Sanderson finished it okay but it wasn't the same.
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There's a working theory that Space Sharks are actually hybrid Raven Guard / Night Lords.
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Biplane posted:Wheel of Time, god drat. I was super into it growing up, so bummed when the author died. Brandon Sanderson finished it okay but it wasn't the same. TV series on Amazon Prime sometime this year, by the way!
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Honestly I'm not so sure they aren't descended from one of the lost legions. They call their primarch the forgotten one and are exiled to the void outside the galaxy. Everything about them is unlike any other chapter.
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D-Pad posted:Honestly I'm not so sure they aren't descended from one of the lost legions. They call their primarch the forgotten one and are exiled to the void outside the galaxy. Everything about them is unlike any other chapter. A bunch of chapters call their Primarch some variation of the forgotton one because they don't actually know who their parent legion was and thus don't know who their primarch is. Blood Ravens are one prominent example but I know there are others. Also Chapters get exiled or sent to the rim somewhat frequently.
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Blood Ravens just consider themselves Unknown Primarch successors because they're paranoid about people finding out the Thousand Sons connection.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Blood Ravens just consider themselves Unknown Primarch successors because they're paranoid about people finding out the Thousand Sons connection. Captain Diomedes wants to have a word with you.
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Angry Lobster posted:Captain Diomedes wants to have a word with you. Hes just a chaplain now. I might have to do penance.
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Angry Lobster posted:Captain Diomedes wants to have a word with you. He's too busy being hit and pinned here. And the space sharks being another splicing freak accident/sabotage like the Raptors of the RG would be good enough.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Hes just a chaplain now. I might have to do penance. Just a chaplain? Don't mess with chaplains, they will make you repent. MariusLecter posted:He's too busy being hit and pinned here. Bald and foolish indeed. And all this talk about the new space sharks book has made me curious, I've only read Red Tithe.
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Someone took the short story The Last Church and made it into a SEVENTY ONE MINUTE ANIMATED FILM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPbqDF_Q_sk I'm only a few minutes in, but it's pretty decent for some guy's passion project.
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:Someone took the short story The Last Church and made it into a SEVENTY ONE MINUTE ANIMATED FILM. I wasn't going to watch the whole thing, but I ended up watching it all. It's good. Voice acting is well done.
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D-Pad posted:Honestly I'm not so sure they aren't descended from one of the lost legions. They call their primarch the forgotten one and are exiled to the void outside the galaxy. Everything about them is unlike any other chapter. I also kinda think this is possible Red Tithe posted:The Emperor. To the miserable convicts of Zartak, a distant, uncaring god on a planet none of them would ever see. To the Adeptus Astartes, the great primogenitor and mightiest leader mankind would ever know. To the Carcharodon Astra he was Rangu, the Void Father, sire of the Forgotten One. Like the Carcharodons, his vigilance was eternal, a beacon in the night, the bane of the encroaching shadows. Sharr’s Chapter had left humanity for the emptiness of the Outer Dark when He had still walked among mortals, and they would not return until He did so once again. Only with the coming of the Forgotten One could the Edicts of Exile be overturned, and the Chapter’s eternal crusade in the darkness be brought to an end.
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Improbable Lobster posted:I also kinda think this is possible I mean the A. That just means they were sent out there up till the end of the heresy and B. We know chapters and SM forces like the ashen claws and basically anyone stationed in the halo region or ghoul stars are going to be basically in the rear end end of nowhere. poo poo, there are tons of chapters who get the unenviable job of EoT patrol.
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Telsa Cola posted:I mean the A. That just means they were sent out there up till the end of the heresy and B. We know chapters and SM forces like the ashen claws and basically anyone stationed in the halo region or ghoul stars are going to be basically in the rear end end of nowhere. Oh, I know that there's a lot of possible explanations, I just like speculating about the lost legions and loyalist members of traitor legions.
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Yeah they aren't just in the halo region or ghoul stars their fleets stay straight up outside the galaxy except for occasionally coming to the very edge to do their thing, mostly visiting systems that are the last stop before nothing. The fact that they were exiled and not just stationed far out speaks to something different with their origins. My hope is they were the few loyalists in one of the lost Primarchs legions who turned traitor and they were allowed to live but in permanent exile.
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Yeah the Outer Dark isn't just a region, it's the nothingness between galaxies
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"They were despatched into the Outer Darkness upon that first Day of Exile, there to ravage the foes of mankind until their final atonement. Their Forgotten One gave them remit unbound, to set about the Traitor, the alien and the Renegade without mercy, and to harrow them in their places of strength. So began their long hunt. They hunt still." This sounds like their primarch exiled them himself or was at least around to direct them with authority when they got exiled. Just a SM force that pissed someone off. Consider this bit of back story for the Ashen Claws "Instead, the Raven Lord formed the vast majority of the remaining Veterans of the old XIX Legion, along with those freed from Deliverance whose crimes and demeanour left them ill at odds with the Primarch's perception of his Legion, and formed them into Crusade fleets. These fleets were dispatched into the dim stars of the northeastern galactic fringe, known to explorers of the time as the Ghoul Stars, there to bring the light of the Emperor to the dark at the edges of the galaxy, far from the eyes of the fledgling Imperium and the brooding lord of the Raven Guard."
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Luther is out. I already read it when it was an LE and really enjoyed it for the DA lore. Recommended.
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D-Pad posted:Luther is out. I already read it when it was an LE and really enjoyed it for the DA lore. Recommended. I usually agree with your opinions but this is a book by Gav Thorpe, the lore must be really juicy
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Miguel Prado posted:I usually agree with your opinions but this is a book by Gav Thorpe, the lore must be really juicy My thoughts exactly, people say it's good but it's freaking Gav Thorpe.
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I just finished the intro chapter of the new Space Sharks novel and wow, what an atmospheric opening. Looking forward to the rest.
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I just finished Pentient last night and I'm still buzzing. For a second when Beta goes to The City Of Dust and she's describing the incredible architecture I thought the King might be Dorn, but then the reveal was  I also love that Constantine's real name is millions of characters long, given what we already know about how Custodes names work. What a loving badass. Also I absolutely love all of the Queen Mab characters now. Renner fuckin' rules, Dance and Unvence are a great pair, it's a great setting. Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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Miguel Prado posted:I usually agree with your opinions but this is a book by Gav Thorpe, the lore must be really juicy Well it's pretty short so he has less time to suck, but the format lends itself to some good lore. It's basically a series of short stories that Luther relates to various DA chapter masters over 10k years about what they were like before the Lion on Caliban. Which means no lovely bolter porn from Gav, nor enough runway to gently caress up a plot.
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So I think I hit one of the best parts of Silent Hunters, which is pretty impressive since it also has a ghost shark in it. But the part where the Dark Eldar dracon they've had in captivity is about to face his captor while striking a dazzling pose, while completely naked as well, only to get completely hosed down by ice cold water. I was laughing my rear end off in that case. 
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Cooked Auto posted:So I think I hit one of the best parts of Silent Hunters, which is pretty impressive since it also has a ghost shark in it. Yeah, I don't typically like the Dark Eldar in any of the books for that reason and that scene was great, it only gets better from there. The sharks loving own in this book even more than they do in the other two.
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Inspector_666 posted:I just finished Pentient last night and I'm still buzzing. For a second when Beta goes to The City Of Dust and she's describing the incredible architecture I thought the King might be Dorn, but then the reveal was Yeah, all the "normal" people in Penitent are amazing. I can't help but imagine Renner being really lackadaisical about the final reveal. "Yeah, looks like the King in Yellow is some guy named Constantine Valdor. That mean anything to y'all? He owe you money or something?"
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