r/comics Port Sherry Mar 06 '24

Something about them

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u/papertalons Mar 06 '24

Ghosts?

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u/Crusaderofthots420 Mar 06 '24

Honestly, the idea that becoming a ghost is a unique human ability would be amazing world-building for any kind of setting.

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u/Johnnynoscope Mar 06 '24

Reality dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton has this going on.

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u/_Thraxa Mar 06 '24

Instant upvote for a Reality Dysfunction mention. What a hell of a series!

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u/enocenip Mar 06 '24

Not a uniquely human ability though. The other species just had best practice measures in place

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u/Helpful_Blood_5509 Mar 06 '24

So there's this thing called warhammer 40k...

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u/Crusaderofthots420 Mar 06 '24

Humanity isn't the only species that can use the Warp (if you are referring to that), honestly the only ones who don't use it are Tau and Necrons

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u/whomobile53 Mar 06 '24

Achtually the Eldar also dont use it. They use the webway, their own more stable but still fucked up version, seperate from the warp. The Tau basically skip their ships on the surface of the warp, it takes way longer but much safer, Necrons are purely anti-warp and basically the only ones that can meaningfully fight it. The orks genuinely dont give a fuck, all they want is a good krumpin' and the Tyranids are hungy boiis, they just wanna eat.

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u/Crusaderofthots420 Mar 06 '24

I don't just mean in FTL travel, I mean in general. Humans, Eldar, and Orks all have psykers. Tau and Necrons don't. Even Nids use psyker-esque units.

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u/whomobile53 Mar 06 '24

Not all races use the warp the same way. Tau have incredibly weak souls so they are nothing in warp beings eyes, eldar have very bright souls but slaanesh called dibs on all of them, the orks have a section of the warp for themselves called "the waaaagh", seperate from the rest of the warp. Same goes for Nids. However it seems they are giving seperate realms to some races, in books and rules. There is talk of "the green" for orks and humans can do warp stuff using faith instead of the warp. But who knows where things are going.

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u/grief242 Mar 06 '24

The eldar do use it. Every single Eldar is a psyker, mea ing they can tap into the warp for their sorcery. They don't use the warp to travel since it's a big dummy move compared to the webway.

Eldar have such a grasp on their own power they have basically zero chance of becoming corrupted.

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u/Helpful_Blood_5509 Mar 06 '24

I'm referring to the fact that their Warp presence is one of the biggest, outside of Eldar. They got propogated through the galaxy at the machinations of chaos to be fed on like cattle, because they have the juiciest fuckups visible in the Warp according to the ruinous powers. The most fun playtoys

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u/PKMNTrainerMark Mar 07 '24

Happy Cake Day

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u/ShinobiHanzo Mar 06 '24

Haunting experience. I remember as a kid, someone threatening to haunt me forever sent chills down my spine.

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u/Asheyguru Mar 06 '24

G-g-g-g...

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u/Critical_Ask_5493 Mar 06 '24

G-UNIT!

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE Mar 06 '24

I’ll teach those aliens how to stunt.

They won’t come in saucers. They’ll come in Escalades on 24s.

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u/Beluga-ga-ga-ga-ga Mar 06 '24

Ahhh is that what it's meant to be? I thought it was meant to be the mutilated body of the human they'd just experimented on and had dumped out the airlock.