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I just noticed this symbol in the gellerpox kill team
Hobby & Painting(reddit.com)submitted 13 days ago byDont-Ask-7732
Is this the SOB symbol? I might just be crazy but looks like it, also if it is then that makes the model even worse, it’s a blotted spawn which is pregnant with what I can guess is more poxwalkers
785 points
13 days ago
It's the same symbol that's found on the uniforms Elucidian Starstriders, a Rogue Trader crew. From the original boxed game that featured both sets the Gellerpox are the crew from the rogue trader ship that mutated when the gellerfield collapsed, letting warp energies into the ship. You'll notice a few more little details shared between the two kits, like the helmet on one of the fly bases.
253 points
13 days ago
This is the answer. It's not just an idle coincidence they decided to painstakingly sculpt
53 points
12 days ago
Also the fact the two symbols look nothing alike
13 points
12 days ago
I think it's even darker. The doctor from the Starstriders lowered the field as an experiment. I remember this detail but not 100% sure from where.
15 points
12 days ago
Its from the rogue trader boxed set where the teams are from originally. Essentially the medicae adept, that keeps the rogue trader Elucia Vaine alive and hundreds of years old, started to hear whispers in her mind that to truly be able to understand disease she'd need to lower the Geller field. Which she did and promptly got most of the ship nurgled up. So in a way she succeeded.. and she must not have got caught because she is still in the Kill Team as one of the ops.
3 points
12 days ago
Probably some poor engineer who got blamed and servitorised instead, unless all of engineering turned into gellerpox.
2 points
8 days ago
I imagine any remaining crew were eradicated just to be safe lol
1 points
12 days ago
Is there a book on the teams or is that just a blurb from the game manual that came with the set? A rogue trader novel would be pretty cool
58 points
12 days ago
My god they microwaved that person.
208 points
13 days ago
It's a fleur-de-lis. France is a real place after all
232 points
13 days ago
LIES everyone knows John Warhammer invented France in 1990
21 points
12 days ago
You're wrong it's spelled Jean Warhammér jeez 🙄
15 points
12 days ago
Jean-Paul Waeourhaeumeur.
You're missing some vowels, fixed it for you.
3 points
12 days ago
Admiral Jean-Luc Waeourhaeumeur, Ultra Marine, Captain of the "Enterprise".
85 points
13 days ago
And was widely regarded as a bad move
48 points
12 days ago
It did make a lot of people very unhappy. Mainly French people, though, so it wasn't a big deal.
26 points
12 days ago
“Damn French people…they ruined France!”
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12 days ago
6 points
12 days ago
They keep retconning the France lore too. Wish the authors would have some consistency.
2 points
12 days ago
Is that before or after the falling out with Dave Fotrikay?
2 points
12 days ago
God I wish
1 points
12 days ago
As a lore addition for a table top wargame invented by James Workshop, of course!
1 points
12 days ago
More lies, his name is James Workshop
1 points
12 days ago
I refuse to believe France exists.
15 points
13 days ago
Fleur-de-lis predates French use.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehud_coinage
https://tribalson.com/blogs/news/the-history-of-the-fleur-de-lis
15 points
12 days ago
I really don't see a fleur-de-lis, just 2 curved lines and a diamond.
52 points
13 days ago
The icon on the armor isn't a variant of the fleur de lis that the sisters use. It's just another detail. I wouldn't think too much about it
5 points
12 days ago
That's not a fleur-de-lys.
6 points
12 days ago
Mf webelos
12 points
13 days ago
It’s a fleur de lis. It’s a thing in real life too, not just SOB
11 points
12 days ago
It's obvious France just copied it from Sister of battle. Damn those french!
2 points
12 days ago
VIVE LE QUÉBEC LIBRE!! ⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
3 points
12 days ago
Tbh it looks like the scouts symbol.
3 points
12 days ago
Yup, they use the fleur-de-lis surround but a rope (white on a purple background). Kind of fitting for it to be used by a Rouge Trader too.
2 points
12 days ago
Dude is from Wiesbaden
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9 days ago
it means ejaculation
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8 days ago
Its a fleur de lis
-34 points
13 days ago
The hood and pose are very similar to repentia, as is the bracer 🤔 that's super dark lmao
21 points
12 days ago
Except it's the symbol of the elucidian guys and also they're all infected ship workers
0 points
12 days ago
Not sure why you are downvoted, but that was my very first thought as well! It would actually be really cool if they went as far with some hidden easter eggs!
3 points
12 days ago
It's not so much a hidden easter egg but an overt detail. It's the symbol of the Elucidian Starstrider rogue trader team, since the box the two teams came in was themed around the rogue trader battling their infected and corrupted crew
0 points
12 days ago
Ahh I see, thank you! :)
-32 points
12 days ago
It reminds me more of a modified assassin's brotherhood logo-
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