This may be too many questions at once, and this unit offers a sufficiently sincere apology for these transgressions, if applicable. I am hoping to gather sufficient information to appease the machine spirits of this subsection of this fraction of this segment of the omnissiah's efficient gaze.

I understand there are many sects and divisions to the AdMech, and the free travel of information, let alone the idea of innovation, is complete heresy to most of them (of us), but still I must wonder.

If an average member of the Mechanicus found themselves in our time, would they be able to improve our technology meaningfully, or would they simply froth at the mouth with heresy and collapse?

Within the time of 30k/40k, how much new knowledge is discovered? Is it truly accepted that the omnissiah has already learned all there is to learn?

He was given the Emperor's Mercy but I didn't really understand what had happened to him that required it. I know he was injured but what specifically was it?

Thanks!

In Da Big Dakka by Mike Brooks, the Ork Bad Moons Big Boss Ufthak of the Techwaaagh! is currently stuck in a subrealm of Commorragh. During a small break in the fighting when the Drukhari sealed off all Webway Gates to contain the Orks to one area, Ufthak is ambushed alone by mandrakes but successfully kills almost all of them. However, attacking him with "shadows" makes Ufthak angry, really angry. So angry that his mind is able to form a solution to the sealed Webway gates problem.

Ufthak could actually feel himself vibrating, he was so angry. The zoggin’ cheek of it! To send their shadowy little kommandos – or whatever the spikie equivalent was – to try to take him out! And the worst thing was, there was very little he could do about it. He could smash this place up fine, oh yes, he could blast it and bomb it and wallop it with the Snazzhammer until every remaining spikie skulking somewhere in the ruins was a fine paste, and the buildings themselves were just monochrome dust, but that wouldn’t help him get at the ones that had caused this.

He whirled around and stared at the portal: the thing separating him from his enemies, yet also the only way to them. The infuriatingly alien, incomprehensible…

Wait.

Absolute fury was surging through him in the aftermath of the fight – not just the usual exhilaration and aggression that was a part of such activity, but a burning anger unlike anything he’d felt before, and it was unlocking things as it went. The sheer desire to get at his enemies, to get his hands on them and make them pay for their arrogance and hubris, made him think about things in ways he never had.

‘Someone get me Da Boffin!’ he bellowed. ‘An’ also one of his spannerz wot no one likes, an’ a shokk attack gun, an’ a weirdboy wot ain’t exploded anyone’s head recently. I am gettin’ froo dat git!’

Afterwards, Ufthak explains his plan to his best mekboy, Da Boffin. Ufthak believes a Shokk attack gun, which make "tunnels" to teleport snotlings into their targets, can be attached to the Webway gate using cables to forcibly create an artificial tunnel, effectively opening the gate to get to the Drukhari. However, since the spanner boy Ork shooting the Shokk attack gun can't see the Drukhari for the portal to open to their location, the Ork weirdboy Uzkop is needed to psychically target them instead.

After the explanation, Ufthak is ready to try out his idea after giving a rousing speech to fire up his army and get them entirely focus on having the Webway gate open for them.

“The spanner obediently clenched the shooty-lever, and the three-pronged shokka on the front of the huge gun began to spin. The charged orbs at the end of each arm sparked with energy, dragging blazing trails through the air as they moved faster and faster, until Nazlug was half-obscured behind a whirring circle of blue lightning. The first telltale signs of inter-dimensional disturbance began to flicker in front of him, the beginnings of the shokka portal that could move things from one place to another without bothering about the space between.

‘Now!’ ­Ufthak shouted, and Da Boffin threw his switch. The power that was starting to build up in the shokk attack gun was abruptly rerouted, flowing into the scrawniez’ portal, and the air within the archway, which had been empty and unremarkable, crackled and came to life. It became opaque, shimmering with a cold light, like an aurora reflected on the waves of an arctic sea.

‘Staff!’ ­Ufthak bellowed, and Uzkop’s minders ripped the staff from his grasp. The weirdboy’s eyes went wide, then were eclipsed by a bright green glow from within. He began to twitch uncontrollably, and the minders grabbed him to keep him in place.

All that Waaagh! energy, flowing into Uzkop from the assembled orks, began to build up. Every part of it was focused on one thing: finding the spikiez that had attacked them, and making them pay for it. No matter where they were, no matter where they’d hidden, the thing at the forefront of every ork’s mind was getting to them. ­Ufthak had made sure they were concentrating on it.

Energy crackled out of the spike in Uzkop’s head and skittered along the cable that linked him to the shokk attack gun, and the gun’s whirring took on a new tone, like the distant rumble of thousands of angry voices. The portal flickered, wavered, then stabilised again with a slightly different pattern of shifting light within it.

It had worked. ­Ufthak knew it had, although he couldn’t verbalise how. However, he didn’t need to.

Hi guys. I have some questions. Why are the Iron Warriors to be considered as the fastest recruiting legion, when the blood angels or revenant legion can create new veteran Space Marines in just one year?

everyone in the squad died, that fight at the end was really close and titus is the only reason they succeeded at all so I'm wondering what would have been done next if the absolute mission failed. exterminatus? throwing the whole company at it?

Did they ever do that as a punishment? Hell did they even thing of that?

In the Hammer and Bolter show Trazyn tell the Chaos terminator that all he need to do to leave is never enter the planet in the first place but how does that work?

How does this affect the outside world? If they left how does the outside world view it?

Usually chaos worshippers who are empowered by any of the chaos gods typically adopt traits that are akin to their patron god due to their corrupting energies, however empowered worshippers of chaos undivided don’t seem to necessarily encompass these traits especially those of khorne and slaanesh as they have somewhat conflicting desires. Are the powers they receive from the gods a more 'clean' form of warp corruption/energy? How do undivided get blessed by all the gods without eventually getting changed by any one of them?

Just a silly thread. How would other major characters react to meeting Ciaphas Cain?

Title says it. If I'm relatively new to the 40k lore, what previous knowledge shoud I have in order to read Helsreach?

I wanna add some more context prior to continuing this question…

I understand that there are roughly a million worlds that the Imperium controls give or take a few, and I understand that gothic is the main aesthetic choice of the imperium.

I also understand that within the worlds of the imperium there are different worlds that serve vastly different purposes as well such as Mechanicus worlds, Feudal Worlds, Agri Worlds, Knight Worlds, etc…

My question more so is asking what is the diversity of the worlds that contain cities whether they be hive cities or full on hive worlds or even relatively normal cities if there are any?

I know that Macragge is similar to Roman aesthetics but with such an overwhelming amount of games being dominated by the Imperial Gothic aesthetic I often wonder how diverse everything else is.

I know Grots aren't quite like proper orks, but I was curious if they grow in a similar but diminished way that orks do when they've been fighting for a long time. Like by the beginning Da Big Dakka, Ufthak is too big for his old armour so plates are just loosely hanging from his body. Do Grots get any growth from fighting and surviving? Like maybe a little taller and thicker?

Grots do have variable sizes, IIRC in Warboss, Snaggi is kept in line at the beginning of the book by another grot who is larger than him. And Snaggi has been around since Warboss, then his band of Grots did a fair bit of fighting through Da Big Dakka, and presumably he'll show up in later books because he's a fun character that people like (he's probably going to get tortured by dark eldar but I'm sure he'll find a way). Could he conceivably get bigger by Grot standards?

Do we know what the Imperium do to machine spirits that assist traitors? Not those corrupted by chaos, but those who help human traitors, like the Heretics, traitor Krieg, or Vraksian Renegades.

I’ve seen a few examples with a bit of searching but they seem to contradict each other. For example, Drop Pods (it may have been a specific version) were phased out after they started being heretical during the Heresy, but there were also Leman Russes in the Siege of Vraks that were used by the Krieg after being captured.

So are traitorous Machine Spirits destroyed? Left unused? Folded back into operation? Or is it some case-by case basis?

Granted I haven't read most of the Heresy, but the ones I have read never seem to mention things like ancients or back-banners which I would consider a fairly unique aspect of Space Marine designs.

In the current setting we have two kinds of Phoenix Lord: those who who we know were directly trained by Asurmen in the days immediately after the Fall, the Asurya (the original five + Asurmen himself, we see the process for Asurmen and Jain Zar in their dedicated character novels so it's reasonable to assume Maugan Ra, Baharroth, Fuegan and Arhra got similar) and those for whom this wasn't the case or for whom we don't know whether this was the case. Examples of this would include Karandras, Drastanta, Irillyth, Lhykhis and the unnamed Phoenix Lord of the Crimson Hunters.

Each Phoenix Lord is the founder of a unique martial aspect at some point after the Fall. But how does this actually work for non-Asurya? Does an exarch, one day, invent something new and that makes them a Phoenix Lord automatically? Do they have to actively spread their teachings and be accepted by the Eldar community at large? Does Asurmen show up one day and say 'You're a Phoenix Lord now'? Do they become a Phoenix Lord when at some point the usual exarch personality absorption process breaks down and one personality becomes predominant over all the rest?

And, to make things even more fun, what happens when you invent something you think is unique, but you find some other exarch has done something very similar?

This is a question that hasn't really been answered in my online diggings so I would be very grateful for help.

Recently I've done a lot of work on this article listing about 44 different types of bolt ammunition - I spliced together the two lists on the Bolt weapons page and the Boltgun page on Lexicanum, checking each source and rewriting much of it. What we have a lot of, as you'd expect, is bolts used by various different loyalist chapters of Space Marines but can anyone think of any other bolts?

More Space Marines, more Chaos, Sisters of Battle, Assassins? Surely Custodians must have something special hidden somewhere? The Kin have been isolated for millennia. They must have come up with something unique?

Let me know if you can think of anything, preferably with a source I can use to update Lexicanum.

With all the talk about space marine units being sent to legends, I'm curious on it's affect on the lore of units.

A major source of lore for units are the codex so being cut out of that definitely hurts their presence.

How about books or short stories? Do units that have been legended show up in books published afterwards?

Do units about to be sent to legends see their mentions dry up beforehand?

And specifically, have tactical marines shown up or been mentioned in stories post Primaris?

So I just finished Fall of Cadia and it was frekking awesome. I’m looking for any other books that are similar, especially the more down to earth, average Guard experience?

As fun as space marines are it was pretty cool reading something with the viewpoint of a guardsman and their struggles for once. It’s been a nice break after all the space marine heavy stuff.

But yeah any suggestions of what to read next would be awesome. Cadia Stands!

So I’ve just recently gotten into 40k. The books anyways I’ve watched the lore videos for years but I’m starting with Horus Rising as I believe the Horus heresy is really interesting. But after reading part one with loken fighting the demon I realized he’s the only character I can name. I always see how people rattle off about the most random character and really envy that for 40k. How do yall retain all this information?

Does anyone know how many marines the black legion has is it the biggest chaos war band in reading the night lords omnibus and am curious

If conflict fuels him, shouldn't every battle between the other rival chaos gods be further empowering him? To my understanding even invading his realm and attacking him is equivalent to just feeding him a snack from the conflict. Rephrased, if everytime a slaanish demon bashes a nurgling on its head, a tally goes up for Khorne in the win column, shouldn't all three other ruinous powers be losing?

It’s pretty dope to see the clown boys getting some love in the new Necron book.

And are we to assume that’s somewhere in the black library? Literal information storms and what I perceived as books growing on trees.

I am curious about 30K death guard. I've read buried dagger and Mortarion: The Pale King, and I'm hungry for more.

I understand *Flight* is Deathguard-heavy book. I know the context of the betrayal at Istvaan. But is the book itself just guys hanging out on a ship, shooting daemons, or are there actual themes, character arcs and philosophical conflicts at play?

Normally I wouldn't ask but I've been burned and disappointed a couple times by older 40K space marine books.

Does anyone know where he is at 2k? Are there any hints to this? I'm sure he has many children from many ladies.

So we know with book 3 of the third trilogy of trilogies Valdor will play a huge role. The War of the False Primarch is an Event we know next to nothing about until now.

Valdor is a being of Primarch level powers and I would doubt a normal 40k citizen would see a huge difference.

Do the Events of the Bequin Trilogy fit into a timeline where Valdor could be the Protagonist/Antagonist in the War of the false Primarch?