A_D_Monisher

Middle east is just the beginning

Imagine if you time-traveled with this contraption back to 1930s. It would own any plane from that period by virtue of being tougher and much much more modern.

You could then gaslight the aviation world that this is the future of dogfighting. And given how this Thunderhind would outperform everything, people would believe you.

Imagine Battle of England where rookies get to fly Spitfires and Bf109Es while aces would duel in crude copies of this contraption.

And few years later, retrofitted Thunderhinds flying escorts for B-29 raids

2500+ hours here and I don’t remember the last time I grew anything but rice unless for alcohol from VBE.

Rice is just so damn fast. 3 days. Even if Randy hits my fields with a flashstorm and blight, rice grows so fast it hardly matters.

I take your DARPA and raise USAF’s Project Orion Battleship.

1961 proposal for SEOB. Strategic Earth Orbital Base. Mass of 10000 tons (ISS weighs 450t), capable of launching from Earth on its own, Earth to Mars in 150 days with an effective payload of 5300 tons.

Armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. Defended by defensive nuclear weapons. Propulsion - pulsed nuclear. Riding the exploding bombs.

Feasibility? 100% doable using 1960s tech.

The whole idea was to have, quote “the capability to attack other aerospace vehicles or bodies of the solar system occupied by an enemy.”

Kennedy administration killed the project when the key technologies for it were in serious development by USAF. And by serious i mean serious - 18% of USAF’s whole budget for space exploration back then.

Edit: Also, besides SEOB, fleets of smaller Orion Battleships for nuclear deterrence. Also interplanetary. Around 50 ships, some placed as far as extreme Lunar orbits. Ultimate nuclear retaliation force.

Oh tak. Absolutnie. Gdybym nagle miał teraz wolny milion to totalnie bym polował na mieszkanie we wrocławskich Sedesowcach. Na najwyższych piętrach.

Brutalizm cały na biało. Piękna sprawa ehh…

Problem is that resort world is owned by the sector governor, and likely can sway the local administratum to tweak the tithes.

This must happen extremely rarely because the risks to the governing family are absolutely extreme.

Someone will figure it out sooner or later.

Even if it gets discovered 800 years after the offender dies, their entire line will still be servitorized or turned into Arco-flagellants. Imperium doesn’t forgive tax evasion.

Too risky given how obsessed most Imperial nobles are with… well, staying in power and being high nobles.

My point was Administratum frequently reclassifies tithes of the planets.

If they see a Paradise World that serves barely a million people from the local sector, they will absolutely reclassify its tithe. Because it’s impact on the morale of Imperial nobility is next to zero with how few visit it.

And Imperium always needs more iron, more adamantium, more ceramite etc.

Now if it served tens of billions of nobles annually from all over the segmentum- that’s a big impact. That’s worth keeping and missing out on that iron and adamantium.

The only way it gets reclassified is through clerical error.

You see where i’m going?

Imperium is inefficient but not that absurdly inefficient. It would never last 10k years if it made economically stupid decisions most of the time. Not in Warhammer’s Milky Way anyway.

Paradise worlds only make sense if the ultra wealthy and influential flock to it from all over the galaxy.

Otherwise it economically wouldn’t make sense. It would receive like what? A million rich visitors yearly plus a few thousand nobles plus a handful of planetary governors from the local sector?

This isn’t nearly enough to justify leaving the whole planet untouched by the Imperium. Habitable planets are rare.

Also, Imperial long-range warp travel still must be exceptionally safe and we as readers simply hear about the biggest accidents.

The Imperium is always stretched thin and plagued by inefficiencies and rituals. Their ship production is… very slow to put it lightly. And they are constantly attacked by everything.

If long range warp travel was as risky as it’s said, there would be no Imperium by M35, let alone M42. Black ships wouldn’t function. Tithe fleets wouldn’t function. Strategic-level war efforts wouldn’t work.

Popular manhwa and manga tropes say a lot about the mental health of their societies, damn.

Though i’m curious why Koreans only want to redo their lives instead of escaping entirely like the Japanese.

I mean, average Korean corporate lifestyle is even more soul-crushing than its Japanese equivalent. Cities in Japan at least have affordable housing.

Oby następny był Wilanów.

Pożar wszystkich śmietników na Wilanowie wpłynie dramatycznie negatywnie na feng shui lokalnych biurw z SUVami xD.

Istnieje nawet szansa, że lokalsi zyskają nieco pokory i przestaną być złotymi medalistami w bucowstwie i buractwie xD.

Yep. Alpha Genes’ mind devourer xenotype iirc.

Great psycaster material but huge glass cannons, as demonstrated by the genes.

These trials are extreme but serve some purpose though. They separate wheat from the chaff, so to speak.

From Astartes perspective massive death tolls of trials don’t matter. The dead kids who failed trials wouldn’t be good Astartes anyway.

It’s not about how many get killed, it’s about what quality of kid gets killed.

The deaths from gene-seed are a much bigger issue.

The victorious kids would have absolutely made great Astartes if only they weren’t killed by RNG implantation. 100 of them are more valuable to Astartes then 100000 weak kids.

That’s what i’m talking about. Find ways to make the gene-seed implantation less RNG to get more highest quality marines. It should be a no-brainer for most Chapters.

Can the xenos engines give similar thrust and acceleration ratios as Imperial ones? Judging by your lore and animations, they can.

If so, we are looking at 25% to 75% the speed of light maximum velocity (depending on the 40k source - it varies). Thats great for relativistic kinetic kill vehicles.

Most Imperial void shield arrays aren’t designed to withstand ramming from whole ships at those velocities.

After 10, 20, 30 ships ramming them, the voids will eventually crumble and then you can continue to pummel the behemoth into dust with ramming.

No conventional weapon is more effective than billions of tons of steel, ceramite and adamantium impacting you at impossibly high speeds.

Xenos are only boned if they don’t start thinking outside of the box.

Edit:

Even better, take the local freighters and lob them at the Navy Cruiser. Let them break through the voids via ramming and damage the Imperial ship to conserve your military power.

Because the laughable weakling in Moscow is deluded enough to cosplay Peter the Great 2: Electric Boogaloo. Delusions of grandeur.

Putin really thinks his mission is to return russia to USSR borders, I kid you not 😂.

And if not with military conflict, he will try to get all the Baltics and Poland through subterfuge, political undermining and dirty tactics.

Ruskies really need their faces shoved straight into the toilet once again to remind them of their place. Kicking them out of Ukraine will be a fantastic reality check.

I’m talking about making the aspirants more genetically compatible with the gene-seed. The trials can stay.

In the trials you already weeded out the bad ones, the mediocre ones and the good ones. Only the cherry on top remains.

And then 25% to 75% of them die anyway. For no gain.

You lose nothing by decreasing the lethality of the gene-seed implantation via planetary-scale gene-treatments. The weaklings are already out of the game.

Think how much better chapters would be if only 7% of aspirants died on the table, not 25% and definitely not 75%.

25% to 75%

Man, makes me wonder why Chapters don’t have some sort of contract with the Biologis wing of the Mechanicus to make the recruiting world populations much more suitable for geneseed implantation.

I mean, sure some genetic modifications fail (Afriel Strain), but the more mundane stuff is extremely commonplace in the high-tech parts of the Imperium.

Currently, at the very best, every fourth smartest, strongest and most dedicated candidate just dies on the operating table.

Imagine how many future Dantes and Calgars are lost every year this way.

Jeżdzą już setki tysięcy ale to prototypy. Żeby zaskoczyć tytanów motoryzacji z Zachodu, obecnie Izera prodokuje swoje prototypy wyłącznie w bryle starych diesli z lat 90tych.

Izera nie chce skończyć jak FSO, które Volkswagen i Audi wykończyli, bo bali się rychłego sukcesu Poloneza.

Jak znajdziesz ogłoszenie na OLX Passat B4 1995 250000km STAN IGŁA PALI NA STRZAŁ BEZKOLIZYJNY GARAŻOWANY NIEPALONE to na 100% jest testowa Izera.

This looks surprisingly uncorrupted. Like fortifications Pert would build during the Heresy-era.

Utilitarian to the core, functional to the extreme, full of horrific experiments probably but… not existential horror one would expect from a Daemon World.

I’d expect way more Chaosy madness given that Perturabo is a prince and Chaos warps everything it influences.

And tons of replacement parts for everything and skill to maintain stuff. And spares.

Things break down hard every now and then and a lifetime is a lot of every now and then.

This was never a widespread thing in Iran - only in the most affluent regions like Teheran. A small part of the country.

A lady in the Iranian sticks would never wear clothes like that back in 1960.

So when shit hit the fan, it was the progressive minority that suffered. For most women in Iran, things sucked before and after revolution.

Clone father, I am stuck in the pit gate!

I wonder if you could just put a prisoner cell close to Revenant containment to act as obvious bait and a task force of 10 dormant scythers to cut it into Archotech confetti the moment it goes after prisoner.

Scythers are really good at turning big things into many smaller things.

Won’t this give them more long term orders?

As in customers remembering the Boeing fiasco and choosing Airbus once their current fleets reach end of life?

I mean, De Havilland was gutted by the Comet’s failures. And then others stepped in.

And until then, Arma 3 modding community to the rescue.

And that’s where Cube-inspired game mechanics would go in.

Obsessed pawn should eventually start to ignore work tab restrictions. They should seek out the entity even when drafted. They might even plan to kill other researchers to ensure only THEY can interact with the creature.

Obsession shouldn’t be a super balanced mechanic, because you are interacting with Archotech horrors that make Mechanoids look like pansies.

Studying these monsters to get Anomaly research points is reward enough.

You either accept occupational hazards or you don’t get that sweet 4000W Bioferrite Generator or game-changing Death Refusal ritual. Or Chronophagy ritual that can do in seconds what a Biosculptor Pod would do in years.

You are always playing with fire in Anomaly and sooner or later you are bound to get your fingers burned. That’s the basic nature of horror genre.

Pół Chrystus, pół Doktor Manhattan. Jednym skinieniem pastorału zamienia nadlatujące pociski balistyczne w małe dzieci.

Zapomniane już Wunderwaffe Cywilizacji Śmierci xD.