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[Kot]

A band of Men Of Iron that somehow survived? Possibly all bodies controlled by single mainframe or something.

[LordBaal]

A band of Men Of Iron that somehow survived? Possibly all bodies controlled by single mainframe or something.

Or some scarabs that somewhat got permanently out of link with a tomb lord or something like that.

Thing of the Von Neumann probes is while they share the same programming they are non really controlled by a central point, each one is independent. Really building such machines is just a recipe for disaster.

[nenjin]

Just one question: how was it alive 100k years ago? Humans were still cavemen back in those days.

At least in my understanding, Humanity has been around for much longer than 40,000 years. It's just that's where the Imperium's memory starts. There are uncounted expanses of time before that which represent the Age of Strife, Old Night and the Dark Age of Technology. The AI and its creators hail from that time.

[BlackHeartKabal]

Von Neumann probes

triggered

[Grim Portent]

Just one question: how was it alive 100k years ago? Humans were still cavemen back in those days.

At least in my understanding, Humanity has been around for much longer than 40,000 years. It's just that's where the Imperium's memory starts. There are uncounted expanses of time before that which represent the Age of Strife, Old Night and the Dark Age of Technology. The AI and its creators hail from that time.

I think it's stated that the start of the timeline is roughly when mankind first left Earth, which would place it either in the 20th century or sometime in the next few hundred years.

[Kot]

Actually... no...
For some reason (proably simplicity) Imperial dating system is based on our own, which means that Wh40k dates are the same as you would write them in our system, they just call it fancier. Warhammer 40,000 takes place literally in 40,000 AD, not 42,000 AD or anything... and I don't exactly recall humanity making AIs 62,000 years ago, but hey, what do I know. As for the rest of the events - have a timeline.

Also, NECRON LORD DLC FOR DOW 2 RETRIBUTION COMING UP 10 OF MARCH, WOT.

ALSO ALSO, SOON! GET HYPED! FOR THE EMPEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!

[nenjin]

It was a relatively arbitrary number I threw out, mostly because I was having problems with the Imperial dating system myself.

I notice the only citation on that article is "WH40k 3rd Edition Core Rulebook." Since everything after 2nd ed. is technically heresy in my book, I'm going to willfully ignore the stated timeline.

[LordBaal]

Yup, 40k actually "happens" in 38.000 years from now.

However you can still factor in aliens, maybe is an alien city with alien AI instead of a human one. OR perhaps the human colonists discovered an already abandoned city with the AI in it and just adapted to their own use? There's still some way you can take advantage of that randomly thrown number. That or you can rectify and state the AI is between 20k and 10k years old.

Von Neumann probes

triggered

[nenjin]

I haven't given the players a specific date/age of the city, nor its inhabitants, and I've pretty definitely told them its a pre-Imperial human world.

So I can just invent a less preposterous date. Thanks for setting me straight.

[BlackHeartKabal]

Von Neumann probes

triggered

Ever since I played Sword of the Stars I loathe the mention of Von Neumann spacecraft.

[Kot]

GUYS! NEW TTS!
Wait... WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD EMPEROR IS THIS LOYALTY?
TWO NEW TTS!!!

[sprinkled chariot]

So virus bombs are not used because it makes nurgle stronger?
Is not murdering heretics making khorne stronger ( all chapters with Sanguinius as primarch fill him with joy, i suppose) . And comfortable chairs and tasty food empowering slaanesh?

[Kot]

No, the Viral Bombs are used, killing heretics does happen and comfortable chairs and comfy food apparently do exist somehow, and while THEORETICALLY, yes, that would empower the respective Chaos Gods, it doesn't seem that way, or Imperium just doesn't care. They really aren't big on Bioweapons anymore since mass destruction weaponry was the Legion Destroyer Squads part and, them being the bad boys even before the Heresy happened, most of them fell to Chaos one way or another, taking the weapons with them.
Imperium still uses weapons like that but they're now mostly certain Imperial Guard regiments toys (Salvar Chem Dogs, Death Korps of Krieg and so on, basically the guys with gasmasks) and Inqusition Exterminatus-grade weapons that wreck entire worlds, because anything less powerful would proably not get the wanted effect. After all, Space Marine armour is completly sealed and not everything works on Eldar and Tau run around in suits that might be protected against those threats, Orks are naturally resilient and whatnot.

EDIT:
Also Holy God Emperor, the TTS story thickens so fast that Slannesh itself is pleased.

[Tack]

Well in Dark Heresy if you turn up to a ritual of Khorne, best SoP is to prioritize stopping the ritual before killing the heretics.
'Cos killing the heretics would probably just complete it.

[Rolepgeek]

Tau run around in suits that might be protected against those threats

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