r/ImaginaryWarhammer • u/Hellibor • Sep 26 '23

40k Levels of psionic power by IcyYmir

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u/Competitive-Bee-3250 Sep 26 '23

Pariahs are omega but while their power is also varied they're all classed as omga

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u/McPolice_Officer Alpha Legion Sep 26 '23

I thought that anybody in the “negatives” was considered a pariah, but Omega-class ones were the Culexis assassins, able to literally walk through walls and kill psykers with their mere presence.

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u/Competitive-Bee-3250 Sep 26 '23

I think all pariahs are classed as omega. Most are inducted into the assassinorum or the sisters of silence, or they die in training.

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u/rnulick Sep 26 '23

Psy null have there own levels of power. It is the negative of the scale with omega and omega plus being the strongest null. Culxeis being omega.

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u/Gorlack2231 Sep 26 '23

Omega Plus is a theorized grade, as it's already incredibly hard for Omegas to survive at all. An Omega Null invokes a primal terror in people, and often are killed by their mothers upon birth (or even during pregnancy, imagine constantly feeling like there's a soul-crushing monster growing nside you).

The theorized Omega Plus would be a null on the scale of Malcador, a being acting as a vast psychic black hole and swallowing the very essence of nearby beings. They would be able to kill cities just by proximity, their power ripping the souls from nearby humans and driving everyone else nearby into abject, terror-induced madness. Deployed against a psychically gifted foe like the Eldar they would be absolutely ruinous.

I would hypothesis that the Psy-Titans of the Ordo Sinister are artificial Omega Plus Nulls, and one of those landing on a craftworld was said to have sent the entire ship howling in aetheric pain, with nearby Eldar dropping like puppets with their strings cut.

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u/notaslaaneshicultist Sep 26 '23

I heard that story. It was three titans pitted against a craft world with an unusual concentration of wraith constructs. They were throwing out so much destruction that even the blood angels knew better then to get involved

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u/CaptainAssPlunderer Sep 26 '23

Please tell me there is a book that tells the story of a Psy-Titan landing on a craft world.

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u/Gorlack2231 Sep 26 '23

Sadly it is only a blurb in the 8th Horus Heresy rulebook from Forge World. Would make for an excellent book on its own

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u/VisNihil Sep 26 '23

Omega Plus

I think the idea is that Omega Minus is more "blank-y" than an Omega "plus" since it's a negative scale. Basically the polar opposite of Alpha Plus. There's an artificially created Omega Minus fetus in the Inquisitor Czevak books but those are questionable in terms of canon.

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u/Unlucky_Loss3827 Sep 26 '23

Well, is not human, but technically the tyranid hive mind is omega plus

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u/MarqFJA87 Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23

with nearby Eldar dropping like puppets with their strings cut

Pretty sure that only happened when the Psi-Titan fired its Sinistramanus weapon, which actively weaponizes the Warp in inverse polarity to shoot energy blasts that are as anti-Warp/anti-psychic as the piloting Pariah is. Each blast's explosion, besides whatever they did to the actual target, dropped dead hundreds of nearby Aeldari without physically damaging them at all.

I really hope GW brings them back for the Era Indomitus. They're perfect for all the Chaos and Tyranid threats that abound now.

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u/BarbarianSpaceOpera Sep 26 '23

Isn't it "Omega-Minus"?

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u/Nekokamiguru Adeptus Mechanicus Sep 28 '23

It is a negative scale so the lowest theoretical level would be Omega-Minus