Lord fabricator?
Yes what is it?
Why did we build the hives and the machine gods blessed manufactorums in the shape of a skull on holy Mars?
>>46052577
Had to be in the shape of something.
>>46052577
It... it's supposed to be a smiley face, but someone built the mouth upside down and well, the rest is history.
What is life on mars actually like in 40k?
>>46052633
It's a radioated hellhole with layers upon layers of underground maze like cities and factories with rouge AI and mutants roaming around in the dark
They built a ring around Mars? But what happened to Phobos?
>>46052679
the ring is a giant orbital dock/spaceship factory
>>46052679
Was probably consumed before M4.
>>46052679
Teleportarium Incident in M3.
It has been said a single man blessed by the Emperor slew the denizens of the warp that spewed out, and shut the portals to the warp that sprung up on Mars and even Holy Terra.
>probably consumed
By what? It's 1,065,900 million tons!
>>46052752
By the blessed manufactorums of Mars. Something must fuel the Imperial warmachine
Fabricator junior, we built the skull because it is fucking rad
>>46052679
A couple months back it was discovered that Phobos was tearing itself apart and would collapse into Mars eventually
MISSING: Moon
NAME: Phobos
Last seen in orbit around Mars
Quick, someone shoop a Blood Ravens symbol onto Phobos
>>46052931
>This is not Phobos, this is Sobohp. It has been under Blood Raven control for countless millenia!
>>46052820
>The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars.
>Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system. Mars’ gravity is drawing in Phobos, the larger of its two moons, by about 6.6 feet (2 meters) every hundred years. Scientists expect the moon to be pulled apart in 30 to 50 million years.
Sounds like it's time for a fire sale once we get manufacturing up there.
>>46052752
It's a giant rock of potentially useful resources right next to the largest concentration of factories and refineries in the entire galaxy.
>>46052679
Got thrown at Mercury
>>46052577
Do you find something offensive about the holy human form?
Perhaps the ring is actually made from Phobos?
>>46052710
>mfw I have no doomguy and I must post
>>46053098
>>46053053
it's not a machine for a start
>>46052710
>>46052577
Lord fabricator... are we the baddies?
>>46053291
"Space elves exist, green niggers exist. Blue North Koreans exist."
>>46053310
last one is more like blue east Asia and British empire
>>46053272
Did I just read heresy?
>>46052577
Either that's merely a coincidence or we flayed the rocky surface of the face of mars and rebuilt it bigger in the name of the omnissiah
Can't remember
>>46054074
it seems to neat to have been a coincident
>>46052577
The AdMechs religion centers around the spiritual, and bodily fusion between man and machine. That's why their symbol is a perfectly even split between an organic skull and a mechanical one. So the AdMech turned the surface of the Mars into a huge religios icon.
>>46052577
When they built the first one, it looked like an anus.
>>46056000
nice
but why would an anus be outwards?
>>46053310
>green niggers
Buddy the Orks are entirely designed to make fun of white, british football hooligans.
>>46056023
You fucked up?
>>46056023
It's puckering
>>46056031
There's almost no difference between Orks and British football hooligans. I bet they consider the caricature to be reasonable and an homage to their greatness.
>>46052647
This, it's a mix of Eye: Divine Cybermancy and Brazil in the cities and cyborg Mad Max out in the wastes, also Magi commonly have been known to assassinate/sabotage each others forges in order to win/cause others to lose manufacturing contracts.
>>46052577
We didn't. The skull was already there, and we just built around and within it.
Mars as we know it doesn't exist, Magos. It is not a planet,it's a corpse, and it's not entirely dead
You really think all those mutants and screwed up machines and artificial evil sentiences down there are just the result of the Fall, or Chaos, Magos? Granted, they were a substantial factor, but not the only reason.The sentience that once inhabited the corpse we currently stand onstill roams. A being such as this can't really die.
Why do you think our rituals to make literally everything are so complex, Magos? One of the reasons is to keep Chaos out, yes. They also keep"it"out.
We're not just makers and fabricators, Magos.We're prison wardens, and it's best that the Imperium at large remains ignorant of this.
>>46052577
It is a representation of the human aspect of the omnissiah, the universality of the biomechanics of human form, the root upon which we build from with the machine gods blessing
>>46053024
Thanks zim
>>46055912
I'm not an expert, but my skull sure as hell doesn't look like that "human" half
>>46056241
i really really like this interpretation, where the high command of the magos full fucking well know about the void dragon and the tale of how the emperor kicked its ass extremely hard, and they are there to keep the whole clusterfuck from getting free and breaking everything forever.
>>46056127
>tfw you imagine Mars as the Unseen University.
They even have a Jokaro...
>>46052679
What do you think they built the ring with?
>>46052856
>a few million tonnes
>moon
"More like moonlet, amirite?"
- Luna
>>46058603
It's not even fucking round.
Give it up though Luna. You'll never be one of the Jovians.
>>46052710
How do you would you stat a man and a half?
Also entered the warp and kicked so much ass it had to spit him back out... fucking pansies.
>>46052577
man, mars looks like shit
>>46057965
It's 90's GW art. Everyone had an edgy skull back then.
>>46052679
>Phobos is a gun-studded world, used as an orbital fortress which protects the Red Planet.
That's what.
>>46052710
I still imagine to this day that Doom took influences off Warhammer or that they're related in some way with all the old retro feeling like the super shotgun or Doomguy armour.
The speed of Doomguy and his strength must make him a proto-Space Marine with the Emperor testing teleporters for the first time (cue warp rift spitting out minor daemons).
Doomguy licks ass and gets into the warp to stay in the warp and fight daemons for all eternity. Khorne is highly impressed.
>>46061137
*kicks ass
phones are shit-tier.
>>46061137
Actually, the demon invasion plot in Doom is inspired from two of the developers RPG sessions. John Carmack had over several years built a persistent DnD setting that John Romero accidentally caused to be invaded by demons because he wanted the all mighty sword the Dai-katana and decided to gamle with a demon prince or something. Then the campaign world was over forever because infinite demons where getting summoned.
>>46061137
"I came here to lick ass and chew bubblegum, and i'm all out of gum!"
>>46062117
Sounds like the Eternity Gate under Terra. DnD and Warhammer had early references to each other if I remember.
Would like to ask Romero if he has ever played tabletop gaming (or did he play with John Carmack in the DnD sessions?), especially Warhammer Fantasy and/or 40k.
>>46062157
Someone good with word splicing and editing make this.
>>46052577
>It...uh... it was... uh, the Machine God well you see he said that uh... TECHNO BLASPHEMY! TECHNO BLASPHEMY! KILL THE UNBELIEVER!
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>>46060254
RIP Wayne England
>>46058058
also the whole eating the sun thing
>>46058151
I'm not sure if that's great or terrifying
So isn't it Herasy to pervert the human form? I know the Mechanicus is tolerated because they are too useful and are technically "equals" with Terra by treaty but a lot of normal dudes in the Imperium have extensive bio-mechanical augmenting as well.
Also, is the Imperium so scared of rampant AI that instead of using normal processors they use human brains? I notice that even mundane tasks like taking note are often done by extensively modified servitors instead of , say just a guy on a computer.
>>46052577
Actually it used to be a big dick. We just covered over the head and most of the shaft to make it look how it does now. Ohhh the laborers expended in the Great Rebranding... This is a lesson hard learned and information much prized. Never let someone choose what to paint on a blank canvas. They will probably paint a dick. Instead, order them to paint a skull. Because then we don't have to explain to noisome youths why there are dicks all over our most holy apparatus.
>>46065137
i figured the eating the sun thing went without saying,
i mean god damn.
>>46052633
It's a godawful small affair.
>>46069320
To the girl with the mousy hair
>>46052856
Actually, that's mentioned in the latest Beast Novel.
>The event began. The energy in the laboratorium spiked. The machinery in some of the pict screens began to glow and spit arcs of lightning. The air vibrated with a subaudible hum. Yendl had the sense of being in a cathedral as a service moved towards its climax. Machinic prayer rose in a stuttering crescendo. Readouts climbed into red.
>Then the vibration was not just in the air. It was in control surfaces, in the bodies of the adepts, in the floor, in the planet itself.
>Phobos vanished.
>The pict screens that looked at nothing flared. The image dissolved into static, returned, broke up, settled into a pulsing, jerking, tenuous existence. Tocsins sounded. More gauges red-shifted. In the centre of the frame, where there had been nothing, now there was Phobos, surrounded by a violet, violent corona.
>A few seconds later, the ground shook. The earthquake lasted a few seconds. Its magnitude dropped off quickly until there was just the vibration again. Then that too stopped. The priests of Mars ceased all movement. It seemed to Yendl that they slumped with exhaustion, though there was no discernible change in their posture.
>The Mechanicus had teleported Phobos. She deduced that the test had moved the moon from one side of Mars to the other. The game with gravitational forces struck her as reckless. The fact that the Fabricator General had ordered such a step taken implied that the risk was less than the alternative.
>And the test had been successful, but Phobos was barely more than twenty-two kilometres in diameter. That was a long way from being Mars itself, and the distance it had travelled was slight. If Kubik intended to remove Mars from the orks’ reach, he would have to be planning a jump hundreds of light years long, at the very least. Yendl would have liked to take comfort in that thought. She didn’t dare.
Does someone have a relatively good resolution image of either of the Ad Mech icons I've circled in OP's picture?
I want to replace the badges on my car with Ad Mech icons and I need an good image to vectorize for the fabrication.
>>46070021
It baffles me how the Adeptus Mechanics can accomplish anything so new so quickly. There are very VERY few among them that understand science because generally speaking the principles of science are heresy and reserved only for the elite.
The idea that they can scale teleportation technology to move a fucking 22km diameter rock without generally understanding things is just crazy. I can only imagine they took a personal teleporter and scaled it up and added a billion heat sinks to compensate for the fact they have no fucking clue what they're doing. And eventually after smashing their heads building a ridiculous number of prototypes they found something that didn't melt when activated.
![karl-pilkington[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/GyJDB0Z.jpg "karl-pilkington[1].jpg")
>>46070025
Well you haven't really circled them, have you?
They're rectangles.
>>46070069
They do mention that.
>‘Very satisfactory,’ the artisan trajectorae said. ‘Your conclusions?’
>‘There was a seventy-eight per cent survival rate for the sensors placed on the surface of Phobos. The same result for those in subterranean locations.’
>‘That too is satisfactory.’
>‘If these proportions hold for Mars itself, the twenty-two per cent loss will be reflected by over a billion deaths.’
>‘A regrettable but sustainable level of attrition. The Fabricator General’s projections allowed for considerably more.’
>‘I can only speak for my domain–’ Urquidex began.
>Van Auken cut him off. ‘Yet you propose to do otherwise.’ The grating electronic voice had no inflection. There was no flesh visible beneath the tall priest’s robes. His prosthetics long and multi-jointed, there was very little about him that resembled the human. Yet his puzzlement was clear. ‘I hope you are not still intent on questioning the path the Fabricator General has mapped out. You will lead one to conclude you are suffering from apostatical delusions.’
>‘Merely a question of means. The arrival of the orks in the Sol System has created a new urgency, is that not so?’
>Urquidex said, ‘Is that wise? Moving Phobos to a different position on its orbit is far from what will be required. Will we not need more time than we are likely to have at our disposal?’
>‘You are indeed mistaken to speculate outside your realm of expertise, magos biologis, and mistaken again in your assumption. The principles behind the teleportation technology have been confirmed. The Grand Experiment is a success. The work that remains is a matter of adjusting scale. A simple question of brute force.’
>>46053053
Imperium of Man - only faction that can use skulls as a symbol and somehow circumvent the 'are we the baddies' joke.
I mean, yeah, there's plenty of *other* bits of questionable morality, but they've got an actual reason for skulls.
I appreciate that.
>>46056023
Prolapse.
>>46070086
>A simple question of brute force
Jesus Christ
Also, a 22% loss for the population of Mars only means a billion+ people die? That seems low. That's essentially the population of Earth on Mars. There must be way more people on Mars. Or maybe the figure is accurate given it's all machines there.
Crazy fuckers. Obviously they didn't succeed because this happens in M32.
>>46070151
You've got to remember that the entire population of Mars sided with the Fabricator General and Horus against the Emperor during the Heresy, and it is very likely they were all exterminated after Horus died, and Mars was repopulated from Loyalist Forgeworlds.
>>46070151
>succeed
They don't because the Master of Assassins had his agents blowing up Admech facilities to delay the Admech work and force them to remain a part of this war.
The higher ups of the Admech know about the existence of the Dragon on Mars in the Noctis Labyrinth.
So why don't they awaken it and harness its power. It's a plothole!
I'm an outsider to all this WH40K stuff, but...
if you boys don't mind me saying, it seems like the only group that has its shit together and is making any real 'positive' impact against asshole tyrants.. are orks.
The Imperium of Man seems to be so up its own ass with controlling everything and letting it exist under its dominion that it can't sleep at night without being top dog, and it's a reasonable puppy in a very big shelter.
Necrons are just assholes
Eldar are also assholes
Tau are assholes.
And all of them EXCEPT the Orks appear to be being fucked around and their chains yanked by nebulous Warp deities bent on just fucking people up and torturing races for the sake of torturing races. Even the Tyranids may just be the collective sin of burning resources in senseless wars and rampant, unchecked breedings.
Orks are orks. The rest of them are just /stupid/ because of power hierarchy and dogma. And that is worse than being stupid for the sake of being stupid!
Orks really are the heroes 40K deserves.
>>46070169
I completely forgot that Mars turned traitor almost in its entirety.
Man, that's a story I want to read about. How the fuck they were able to take Mars back. Forget the Luna bases, how the fuck do you ensure that the Dark Mechanicus don't booby trap every fucking inch of the planet. How much infrastructure can you trust?
I mean, realistically they probably melted down absolutely every fucking thing on the planet to be safe and rebuilt it from scratch with the help of the Forgeworlds. That's so fucking insane. So much of what little knowledge that exists of science would have been lost.
I loved the Mechanicum novel so much. The retaking of Mars would be incredible. It would be a shit novel, I'd want a long boring history of it.
>>46070197
Sabotaging your allies so they lack the capacity to abandon you is so 40K. That is such a prime example of how things work in that universe.
>>46070246
There's an interesting story about what Traitor Mars was like on the ground, 'Cybernetica'. There should be E-Copies in the usual places.
I hope to see a novel about the purgation of Mars during the Scouring. It would be amazing to read about.
>>46070209
Yep, pretty much. They're still murderous psychopaths from the Imperiums POV. However, they're the only race that's entirely content with their position and the way the galaxy is. Even if all the other races die out, they're still happy infighting. If they die out, they'll still be mostly happy going out with a fight. Obviously they won't be happy to have no more fightin' to do, but there's no sentimental tragedy attached.
>>46069993
But her mummy is yelling "no!"
>>46070298
And her daddy has told her to go
>>46070209
fuck off faggot.
the path to survival ain't free. the galaxy has to be litterd with the blood of men. the orks aka green holigans are not alien, they are a weak fanfic and probably a self insert. warhammer 40k, not warhammer gork & mork ok. praise the emperor
>>46062426
DnD predates Warhammer with several years. Games Workshop actually started as a company selling DnD. Now DnD and Warhammer has been ripping off the same source material like Michael Moorcock's stories. DnD did it to such a degree that they inserted in Moorcock's pantheon directly into their game and Moorcock had to threaten them with a lawsuit. Citadel miniatures used to produce minis based on Moorcock's setting and decided to just keep the designs they had and alter the names so they wouldn't have to share the income with anyone.
So they were both quite shameless back in the day.
>>46070420
That was until GW just started slapping huge fucking pauldrons on everything.
>>46070291
>Cybernetica
Spoil this shit for me. Do they kill all life on Mars to retake it or not? I read the synopsis.
If it's just some story about dogfucking and not actually describing how they take back the planet I'm kinda going to put it far down the list of things to try and get and read.
>>46052577
Why is every fucking flag a tricolor? French revolution.
Why do all the imperial factions have a skull?
Because their god fucking died.
Go figure faggot.
>Because Skulls is cool
>Shut up and praise the Empra
>>46070467
They try to destroy the artificial magnetic field generators in order to destroy Mars atmosphere. It fails (as expected of a HH Novella, where nothing ever happens)
>>46070517
But they do reveal things about DAOT AI and also Mars itself.
There is an area in Mars where mysterious rock formations develop. These rocks suck energy from machines and I think even living things.
>>46070291
>implying they wouldn't ruin the scouring like they did the HH
>>46070463
Huge shoulders was big in the 80's.
>>46070508
All the Imperial factions has a skull because it's cool, but it's also a human skull to represent humanity.
And the skulls are also a remainder that after death there is nothing and that death is the only thing humanity has left to ease it's galaxy spanning pain. Oh wait, souls...
>>46064498
Take your shitty opinions back to /pol/ where they fucking belong.
>>46052633
IT'S TIME FOR THE COPYPASTA AGAIN
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>>46070209
>the imperium wants to control everything
>everybody else is assholes
Put two and two
Also the orks are no better when it comes to mass destruction and slavery
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>>46052577
It's just an artifact of a biological mind that's called Pareidolia.
There is no skull inherent in it's design. The locations chosen were because of existing infastructure, space needed and proximity to other assets. The construction of each site were also millenia apart and as they were deemed needed so there wasn't even a pre-existing plan that was followed.
Now I want you to retrieve for me several verbal agreement forms. I've run out and this impromptu history lesson means I won't have time to retrieve them myself.
>>46058603
>I have no idea what the definition of moon is.
>>46071049
Pretty crazy love the article below about the Ark Mehanus
>>46070209
>And all of them EXCEPT the Orks appear to be being fucked around and their chains yanked by nebulous Warp deities bent on just fucking people up and torturing races for the sake of torturing races
the orks enslave and devour themselves and others. Where do you think the industry to support their invasions comes from?
They've got a comical exterior and seemingly lighthearted practices at first glance, but then you remember orks use the torn out teeth of their fellows as currency.
>>46069160
underated post.
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>>46068397
Yes (tho it depends on who's the inquisitor that day), and yes.
>>46058781
>How do you would you stat a man and a half?
Take stats of a man, multiply everything by 1.5?
>>46052577
The human skull is a holy symbol in the Imperium.
It doesn't represent death or destruction, it represents the perfection of the holy human form. The connotations are different.
>>46071049
I fucking hate this copypasta.
>>46076586
I think it's alright, but the library analogy doesn't work at all.
>>46076734
I think its just a bit too depressing. Things are ghastly and bad but it gives no sense of hope whatsoever.
There should be glimmer of hope even if to make it all the sweeter when it is crushed. This starts of off crushed, there is nothing it it, its pretty much over, like watching smoke from a long dead fire.
>>46076754
There is no hope in 40k as a joke.
>>46076773
And that is why it is so dreadfully dull.
>>46076793
Not really. 40k is one big joke about all the worst case scenarios and posing fun at authority and the system. The supreme leader of mankind is a corpse on life support, he also ended up being worshipped as a god despite being anti religion, the Imperium sometimes forget that they own certain worlds because of abysmal bureaucracy, or have your invaded world be put in a line for emergency help, your techsupport is a weird cult that worships ancient technology and the techsupport also constantly forget things they are not supposed to forget because everyone who is in charge there is a nutjob.
However, I can understand that the gallow humour and overtone irony is not for everyone, but it's still hilarious to me.
>>46056127
>Magi commonly have been known to assassinate/sabotage each others forges in order to win/cause others to lose manufacturing contracts
So just the regular Academic shit.
>>46077069
oh that is all good and amusing. I like that.
Just seems sometimes a bit sad, I mean, these are, albeit fictional, descendants of ours, their future is pretty shit.
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>>46076754
did you not read the one below it
>>46077244
Sure, some of the stuff is pretty melodramatic, but I think that was always intentional. Every day of the Imperial Guard is D-Day meets Paschendale on steroids, every day in the life of an Ork is a party, every day for a Chaos Space Marine is rebelling and every day in the Tau Empire is a sugarcoated 1984 surveillance society, but there are cool Japanese robot suits. So there are several layers of mood and lifestyles that can resonate to anyone with all the factions.
>>46070369
t. lieutenant octavius
Why is there still not a confirmed release date more than halfway through the month it i supposed to be released on? Really flying by the seat of their pants.
>>46077646
No actually I hadn't, I thought it was same old same old. Fair point to that.
>>46077847
Think I'd serve Tzeentch myself were I born in that era.
>>46078480
read it might give you a bit of hope
>>46077244
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/madhouse-a-40k-oneshot.255087/
>>46079399
Fuck.
Ok, PRAISE THE EMPEROR
>>46070025
I have a map
>>46081328
>temple om all knowledge
Is that where they misplace all their information?
>>46056127
Ayn Randian economic philosophy at its finest.
