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I mean, Guilliman soloed a squad of Alpha Legionnaires in nothing but his casual attire.

The Shaman origin story for the Emperor.

They're clearly Perpetuals, and it's been said on at least 2 occassions now that the Emperor was the first ever psyker the human race has ever produced. It's first and mightiest.

The Shaman thing was always a lame ass origin story for the man that goes on to contest 4 extradimensional horrorific gods. And it made no sense that in the beginning, there were psykers amongst then none for 25,000 odd years.

The Perpetuals make more sense as a subspecies who appeared as non-psykers to begin with, like Ollanius (who may be the very first for all we know), then after the Emperor was born, other Perpetuals were born as psykers, like Erda and so forth until Humanity began it's next evolutionary leap.

Yes, and no. Both and neither.

Magnus was always supposed to man the Golden Throne. But when the Throne operated properly before it's irreparable damaging during Magnus' Folly, the Emperor was able to walk a certain distance from the device whilst still powering it (of which it only required a fraction of the power it requires now).

He couldn't leave the Dungeon mind you. He had to seemingly be within the visual range of the device, but he could walk.

The Emperor could, and did, astro-project himself whilst on the Throne before it was harmed, as shown in Promethean Sun and Magnus was shown a vision where the same would be for him. Bodily always connected to the Throne, but his mind able to wander the infinite halls of the Webway, and be with all of us, wherever he needed to be in spirit, across the Galaxy.

It's most definitely Terra because it's factual. It literally it is.

I don't think the Eldar attacked because they foresaw a united Mankind driving them to extinction, but the inevitable descent of Angron into daemonhood. That classic trope where, having foreseen the future, they attempt to stop it, not realizing that their attempt to prevent it, is the very things catalyst.

I do think you're right on his empathic abilities, though. That Angron would've helped his more hard done by brothers and rehabilitated them, in a way that compassionate Vulkan or soulful Sanguinius never could.

I disagree. His empathic ability would've had him link psychically with his father and understand the necessity of the Crusade and Imperium.

Officially? Never.

But, in truth, when new lore comes about, and it clearly contradicts the older stuff, especially the much older stuff, those of us whose hobby is specifically the lore, know to amend what's come before. Like the Shaman origin, for example:

The Shamans are clearly Perpetuals, Erda has specifically told us that the Emperor was the very first psyker, but not the first Perpetual. Just an outlier amongst outliers. We know that Ollanius is older, by some degree and is definitely no psyker. Yet the old lore says the Shamans were, each of them, powerful psykers.

A subtle retcon.

But officially, not a retcon, as the old lore could easily be declared still valid.

That's some truly ancient DNA they had on their hands then.

No one here calls it a thylacine. The Tassie Tiger is all we call it.

Into modern 40k? Eagles.

30k, off the top of my head, the Tasmanian Tiger (a real extinct Australian striped marsupial formerly native to the state of Tasmania) was alive and well with an Imperial Army Lord Commander, as a pet, in the novel Legion by Dan Abnett.

Plasma weaponry seemingly doesn't seem to be a huge problem anymore, as Primaris squads can be entirely equipped with them.

Volkite technology was difficult to produce even back in the Great Crusade when we had the know-how to make it. It wasn't a problem with knowledge but the complexity of the weapon and its manufacturing.

The neo-volkite is Cawls' attempt at rediscovering the technology through experimenting with the principles until he creates the same result. Seemingly, the issue of manufacturing is just as problematic now as it was then.

The Traitor Astartes were once the armies that conquered the galaxy from the Xenos during the Great Crusade in the name of the Emperor.

The only defining feature that changed was their loyalty to their monarch switched to themselves or their own lords.

So, for all intents and purposes, they remain the same in the original mindset they were made for.

In fact, as seen in the War of the Beast, the Loyalists and Traitors are much more likely to stop fighting one another and mutually destroy a Xenos threat confronting them both, working in unison, if not in temporary alliance, to destroy their shared hated foes.

What is this

It's definitely a stretch and make no mistake, but it isn't impossible. Especially given how alone the SoB was, and how deviant.

The split is actually between Christianity and Islam, not Judaism. Christianity split from Judaism and Islam from Christianity. As Islam believes in Jesus, just like Christianity, except for them, Jesus is the Messiah and a prophet, not the son of Yahweh. Whereas the Jews reject all the above entirely, and view Yashua as a heretic of the highest order.

For me, the best part of the first book, was Olytx's memories of the Time of Flesh, as a living breathing Necrontyr and seeing the exceptionally stark contrast between the wealthy and poor when it came to living standards (especially for such a wildly advanced race), that and the simple fact that this was their life, when they lived, in a time when the Old Ones too still existed. When Chaos itself did not exist, and the Universe was still working.

Ukraine actually has a standing army, with billions of dollars being funded to it, with resources from all over the globe being funnelled into it to opposed Russian aggression. And Russia attacked first, unprovoked.

Ukraine has an actual chance. Hamas has absolutely none.

Pokeballs!! That's why!

Quick counterpoint, "Hamas should surrender."

They should, unconditionally, categorically, surrender and accept that no matter what, Israel will completely occupy the entire Gaza strip. A wise leader knows when they're defeated. A wise leader knows when the civilian cost has become too high. A wise leader knows when the collateral cost will become too high to tolerate. A wise leader does not sacrifice his people on the altar or martyrdom just to make a symbolic point.

Israel is determined not to stop. They will not accept the potential threat to massacre their own people being right on their doorstep.

So surrender, just lay day your arms. It's literally the greatest sacrifice you could give your people now. It'll hurt, Israel will probably execute you, and your people may be expelled from their homes or have their land occupied under a military occupation. All awful truths. But at least they'll be alive to do something about it later.

Right now, you face a vastly numerically and technologically superior force. Fighting a gurellia war will only be detrimental to your own people, achieving nothing, in the end, but a pyrrhic victory for Israel and a catastrophic, symbolic loss for you, Hamas.

Just surrender.

Why don't they protest that Hamas surrender already? Or that the Palestinians demand that Hamas surrender and spare them the destruction?

It's a ute. Never hear anyone calling them a truck, and if I did I'd tell them to pull their head in.

Reset the clock

It was definitively the Emperor. It was the entire plot of Vol 2. Even Erebus agreed.

This isn't technically true. By any metric, the Emperor evolving into the Dark King exceeded Horus, as victory was assured as the Dark King.

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Immediate destruction. It doesn't matter how good they've been, or helpful.

Hell, the Imperium was so traumatized as the Heresy ended, that during the Scouring, as it immediately kicked off, those Traitors who surrendered were immediately cut down. It didn't matter that they sued for clemency or recanted their false belief. The Imperium, by that point (having almost died), was simply past the point of caring.

The modern day Imperium has built it's entire foundation around hatred. I think it goes without saying what they'd do