It’s not great offensively since it doesn’t have weapons, but it’s extremely fast and outfitted with sensors to detect an attack in advance so as to dodge it.
Though saying “it’s great at avoiding battles” would be much more accurate.
The Blackbird was built for reconnaissance and that’s what it was used for. Since being fully retired in ‘99 (NASA was the last organization to deploy them) their role has been taken over by unmanned aircraft.
Combining both that and GW being sue-happy, there’s Arch née Arch Warhammer before GW served him with a cease and desist on using the word Warhammer in his handle because he’s a neo-Nazi.
I hadn’t even considered the Adeptus Mechanicus being from Elmo’s favorite planet, Mars and their love/hate relationship with AI as an abomination unless they swing more to the heretical side of things, kind of like how Elmo considers AI the second greatest threat to humanity behind underpopulation of rich white people yet names X Æ A-Xii after AI, just the name similarity in their third child. Maybe Elmo really did want to name their third child Adeptus Mechanicus.
I think he’s more suited for a character from one of the inspirations for Warhammer 40K - the Arch-Bigot of Termight, Broder Kruger, from 2000 AD’s Nemesis the Warlock
Absolutely. A couple years back, GW made some public statements to the effect of “y’all, the humans are bad guys in our setting and also our nazi fans can fuck right off.”
Minstrel [singing] Brave SR ran away…
SR-71 No!
Minstrel [singing] bravely ran away away…
SR : I didn’t!
Minstrel : [singing] When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.
SR : I never did!
Minstrel : [singing] Yes, brave SR turned about, and valiantly, he chickened out.
SR : Oh, you liars!
Minstrel : [singing] Bravely with afterburner heat, he beat a very brave retreat. A brave retreat by brave SR.
Some of already knew a little bit more about her from the time she tried to float down the Mississippi on a raft packed with chickens. Spoiler: she didn’t get very far and mostly lived in a public park where the boat beached.
What is GW in this context?
Games Workshop (creators of the Warhammer franchise).
Thanks! I could only think of Guild Wars.
Honestly, I hope folks their age always have a reach that exceeds their grasp and dreams that exceed their competence; and I wish they would all do so in such a charmingly harmless fashion. But what does that story have to do with Grimes?
Edit: OOPS! Just did some googling to realize that Grimes’ name was originally Claire Boucher, and she’s the same one as in that story. My bad!
Who are the good guys?
(I have issues with WH40k. I think when it comes to the Imperium, GW is trying to have its cake and eat it too - publicly decrying them as evil, but at the same time setting up their universe to make them irreplaceable).
Literally nobody.
(…says the chaos player…)
ETA: to be fair, there are good individuals, but each faction is really just a different flavor of evil.
Are there good individuals in Chaos?
The Farsight Enclaves of the Tau and the Leagues of Votann are both “good guy” factions without the evil bits associated with other factions.
#MagnusDidNothingWrong
There are examples of people falling to Chaos for the “right” reasons (Chaos tends to play off of the desires of mortals to make them fall) and my favorite Chaos Space Marine legion may or may not be on the side of Chaos specifically for the betterment of all (though that’s unclear)…
I thought they cancelled the Squats. I also understand that WH decided that the Tau were too nice and gave them a whole busload of dark secrets.
WH40K is the definitive tabletop RPG crapsack world. It’s so full of crapsack tropes that TVTropes was forced to give it its own dedicated page.
I hope this serves as insight into Elmo’s mindset. To him, this is where humanity should end up.
Of course, Farsight just might be semi-controlled by a daemon-possessed blade, and Votann (the only non-Chaos army I also play) do have that whole “classic Dwarven greed” thing going on. Honestly, though, I think Votann might have supplanted T’au as the closest thing to a “good” faction in 40K currently.
From the article:
“Tau” is the nickname of Musk son Techno Mechanicus.