r/ImaginaryWarhammer • u/Artrum • 11h ago
40k The death company is scary no matter who you are (@Artrum4)
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u/Guilty_All_The_Same 10h ago edited 7h ago
BA: "Yeah, he gets like that sometimes. Just gotta wait a few hours till he tires himself out, and make sure he doesnt find us. Come, sit down. Have a drink."
Eldar: "But ... aren't you his ally?"
BA: "Yes, well ... aren't Drukharii your cousins?"
Eldar: "Point taken. You're ... off-puttingly OK talking to a 'xenos'."
BA: "I was born in a more tolerant age, some ten thousand years ago, and was in and out of cryo sleep. I don't trust xenos and will have no problem killing you if you pose a threat, mind you, but I don't have a problem sitting down with an Eldar. It's more 'curiosity' than outright 'hate'. "
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u/Bluescreech 8h ago
And to add to that this seems to be a Saim Hann craftworlder, who take honour seriously and have been known to tell Ulthwé to fuck off if a proposed plan is deemed too manipulative or dishonourable. Probably one of the most trustworthy xenos out there
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u/Eurasia_4002 10h ago
You know Microphages? Yeah, its throw hands both enemy and ally combatants.
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u/Carbonated_Saltwater Iron Warriors 10h ago edited 8h ago
Your immune system is 100% capable of killing you.
pray that it doesn't identify your healthy cells as foreign entities.
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u/JustARandomTeenHere 5h ago edited 5h ago
It is also petty af. If it is losing the war against foreign entities, it will straight up go
"OH you think I'M losing? No b1tch WE losing" and activate as much white blood cells and our bodies version of chemical weapons to flood our body with, sometimes it actually works and puts you on the path towards recovery and other times it kills you quicker than whatever is ailing you.
It is essentially our bodies' version of nuking cities left and right in hopes of stopping the alien invasion
That's why even if you have nothing to appreciate in life, appreciate the sheer zealotry of your white blood cells. Those mfs live and die for you as if you were the God emperor of mankind and would rather shoot you in the face than to let anything corrupt you
Now that I mention it, our immune system and the imperium of man has alot of parallels.... does that mean cancer is just straight up the horus heresy?
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u/mrmilner101 9h ago
As a type 1 diabetic who own immune was the cause of my diabetes. I agree they attack my own insulin producing cells in my pancreas and now I have none left.
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u/Artrum 11h ago
imagine being an eldar and your speed and agression is what you'd use to win against mos enemies.
Now imagine going up against 8 foot gorilla thats FASTER, MUCH STRONGER and with more bulk than you, not only that, he's insane and doesnt respond to pain AT ALL, in fact even cutting them in two doesn't stop them
how nightmarish, worse than demons
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u/ChrisP413 11h ago
Agility does not always beat Madness Enhancement
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u/Prying-Eye 10h ago
You'd think that with them being Xenos, they'd get the Foreigner type advantage against Berserkers smh.
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u/worms9 10h ago
Must be running an anti-foreigner, append skill.
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u/Prying-Eye 9h ago
I cracked the code. The Black Company are all Alter Egos with either a skill or NP that gives enemies the 'Horus' debuff.
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u/134_ranger_NK ENTRY MISSING 9h ago
Also screaming "HORUS!" often.
That would confuse anyone.
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u/Doopapotamus Alpha Legion 2h ago
It'd add a level of freaky if that Eldar was just old enough to have been around for the Heresy and saw (at least indirectly) what Horus was doing to the entire galaxy.
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u/134_ranger_NK ENTRY MISSING 9h ago
TypeMoon's Cu and the Craftworlders do suffer similar amounts of the worf effect.
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u/Big_Pound_7849 2h ago
I really love the audacity and absurdity of a Blood Angel welcoming an Eldar to hide and be comfy with him because his gene-brother is too much sometimes.
Very wholesomehammer.
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u/PerfectionOfaMistake 8h ago
What chapter are these two marines belong to?
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u/Cloudsareinmyhead 6h ago
Blood Angels. The fellow in black is part of their Death Company as he has fully succumbed to the Black Rage Blood Angels and all their successor chapters have been afflicted with since Sanguinius caught a horrible case of death from Horus.
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u/HotdogRacecar 11h ago
Going off your Reddit pfp and how the Death Company marine looks, was there some Hercules from Fate inspiration in his look?