The Pub: a P2tM RP Group (Grand Reopening!)

[Beiarusia]

Those on the poll are television or movies.

Why is there no Warhammer 40k tv show or movie

Go ask Hollywood.

[Independent States of Tula]

Those on the poll are television or movies.

Why is there no Warhammer 40k tv show or movie

It’s probably for the best, have you seen what Hollywood’s done to Star Wars? That plus GW is afraid of financial success, hence why they haven’t started digitalizing the tabletop game.

[Nea Videssos]

Those on the poll are television or movies.

Why is there no Warhammer 40k tv show or movie

Does this count?

[Kentucky Fried Land]

tfw Star Wars gets more votes than Battlestar Galactica

[Corsaiir]

All of these Sci Fi Options are shit. Where is Warhammer? Halo? Alien? Dune? Starcraft?

[Tayner]

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[Ithalian Empire]

Doctor Who isn't even real sci fi. Stargate all the way.

[The United Remnants of America]

Why is there no Warhammer 40k tv show or movie

It’s probably for the best, have you seen what Hollywood’s done to Star Wars? That plus GW is afraid of financial success, hence why they haven’t started digitalizing the tabletop game.

GW is afraid of losing their iron grip on their product, hence why WH40K tournaments technically don't allow miniatures that aren't GW products.

If they made a movie or TV show, they'd most likely have to sell the rights, and even though they'd make money hand over fist because mindless, gratuitous violence would be amazing on the big screen.

[Tagali Federation]

Tribes of Man

Long ago, before the Scribes from between the two rivers or the Story Tellers of the Cradle Lands were born to catalog the histories of our people, Visitors from beyond Kishar graced our world. Their original name unknown to us, have gone by in many tongues as "The Old Ones". With benevolence in their hearts, they aided our peoples in ascending from our meager and destitute existence. To aid in this process, those greatest among us were chosen and granted extraordinary powers unknown to the common man, tasked with leading our people in these greatest of times. With their guidance, our people learned to harvest the plants of our world and harness the energy around us, while learning to keep balance as to not over-exhaust our world. All was well, but just as our people were beginning to look out towards the very stars that our benefactors came from, they vanished into the darkness, quickly and without a trace.

Without the guidance and leadership of the Old Ones, our people began to panic. If it were not for the wisdom of the Chosen and their efforts to refocus our species, we would surely have descended back into the anarchy and barbarism that plagued our ancestors. The Chosen, seeing themselves as the heirs of the Old Ones, rose to the occasion, calming the peoples of the world. While not privy to the knowledge of the Old Ones, they maintained the technological advances made by our people, even advancing them further. Within time, Humanity once again looked to the stars. With haste, they descended upon and transformed the worlds around them, from arid red sands of Heru-deshet, to the once toxic world of Sukra, now a Paradise unrivaled.

As our technologies rapidly increased, so too did our populations, demanding that we find even more worlds to colonize. Our people spread far in wide in a golden age of exploration and technology, under the guidance of the Chosen. The arts and culture flourished as our people found Utopia and would even eventually meet ones unlike us in body but similar in intelligence. The Banners of Man were raised across the stars, but it was not to last. What began as curiosity and a sense of discovery transformed into a thirst for conquest and blood as we descended on our new found neighbors, some of which were too mighty for even our great race. When we couldn't defeat our enemies, we found new ones in each other. Despite the Chosen's best efforts, we tore ourselves apart. Our once mighty Empire consuming itself and crumbling into petty Tribes and Kingdoms.

It has been a thousand years since the destruction of the Empire. Its glory and power now an age old legend slowly being forgot by the Galaxy. In failure to uphold their mandate of protecting our people, the Chosen simply vanished into the unknown like the Old Ones before them, leaving only temples and their offspring who were quick to lead the remnants in their stead. Reclaiming our people's greatness is but a dream, or is it?

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Khoda: As the offspring of the Chosen, the Khoda were once an honorable and revered caste at the height of Human Civilization. When the Chosen disappeared and Humanity fell into chaos, the Khoda attempted to keep the Empire together, only for many of them to fall with it. The Khoda nowadays are a shadow of their former selves. Many are tyrants of petty kingdoms, although a few still uphold the image of the honorable Khoda. While substantially weaker than their Chosen parents, the Khoda are still more spectacular than the average Human. While not immortal, the Khoda are capable of living hundreds or even thousands of years, although these days, few do. The Khoda are also capable of variety of abilities and powers, often weaker variations on their parents.

Kisharans: Hailing from the Homeworld of all Humans, Kishar, the Kisharans see themselves as the rightful rulers of Human Civilization. With this mandate in mind, the Kisharans take it upon themselves to maintain many of the Golden Age technologies and Traditions, much to the ire of non-Kisharan Humans. Not that they care, the Kisharans are a conservative and traditional people, seeing others like the Insani and the Nasha as barbaric philistines.


Insani: Once, the Insani were refugees, their worlds destroyed by alien invaders wanting vengeance for the Human invasions. The Insani pleaded to their cousins for aid, but none arrived. The rest of the Empire was too busy imploding on itself to pay attention to the frontiers. For centuries, it was assumed they perished in the void, another tragedy in the wake of the collapse of the Empire. If only we were so lucky. Descending on peoples such as the Kisharans and the Nasha, Hordes of Insani, united under the banner of the Warlord Rubi, the Red Wolf, laid waist to countless world, and killing millions and looting anything they could find. For five long decades, Rubi's onslaught seemed to be unstoppable as countless worlds fell under her rule or were burned. However, relief came in the form of an aneurysm that killed the blood thirsty Warlord. Soon, the Pack of the Red Wolf began to fight among themselves, splitting into various nomadic fleets called void clans and bringing an end the Insani threat.

Every century or so, word will spread of a rising warlord taking up the banner of the Red Wolf. Massive fleets of Insani vessels will venture into what is considered "civilized" space and begin raising hell again, but their numbers no long black out the sky, and these Petty Warlords rarely last a year.

Nasha: The Nasha are a fiercely independent people. Unlike the Kisharans, the Nasha have forgone many old traditions, wishing instead to look towards the future.

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[Turmenista]

As a Hiigaran myself, I approve @Tagali.

[Tagali Federation]

I'll be trying to throw up a World Building Discord tomorrow. Probably going to recruit some people from DoS.

[Ithalian Empire]

The Dark Cosmos

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30,000 years ago, on some dim little-remembered world on some far-flung corner of a vast an unforgiving universe, a little race calling itself Humanity made its first step beyond it solar system. This would be an event the would send a ripple through the universe. The mass exodus began, millions leaving the cradle of Sol for the uncertainty of a cold galaxy. This was all thanks to the biggest breakthrough in physics since the splitting of the atom, the discovery of the Weave.

The Weave, the very basic component of the universe. Some called it the fabric of time and space. When humans found that this fabric could be manipulated, bent and broken to there will, it allowed for the creation of the first faster than light travel. The Weave could however not allow for faster than light communications. Messages from the Earth to her colonies had to be carried by messenger ships. As the territory inhabited by man grew, the slower communication got. Weave Engines can only go so fast before the very fabric of reality starts to break down, leading to the destruction of the vehicle at fast enough speeds.

Weave travel also had other effects on humanity. The drive to colonize new worlds lead some to alter there genetic code to better suit their new homes, others naturally evolved into new subspecies of humans as time and the vast distances of space isolated pockets of humanity on thousands of tiny islands.

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Heavy WIP, but thoughts?

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

The whole "Weave" thing seems like a very interesting FTL-technology to me, and I like it. How's it going to come into play in the RP?

[Ithalian Empire]

The whole "Weave" thing seems like a very interesting FTL-technology to me, and I like it. How's it going to come into play in the RP?

Other than for FTL I have several Weave related things I want to do. For starters, the Weave is what will fuel psionic powers and some kinds of weapons. Then there is going to be some other several stuff I will reveal later.

[The United Remnants of America]

The whole "Weave" thing seems like a very interesting FTL-technology to me, and I like it. How's it going to come into play in the RP?

Other than for FTL I have several Weave related things I want to do. For starters, the Weave is what will fuel psionic powers and some kinds of weapons. Then there is going to be some other several stuff I will reveal later.

You have my attention.

Will nonhumans be involved at all, or strictly humans and their derivatives?

[Imperialisium]

I'm seeing so many heretical statements

[Anowa]

I'm seeing so many heretical statements

[Ithalian Empire]

Other than for FTL I have several Weave related things I want to do. For starters, the Weave is what will fuel psionic powers and some kinds of weapons. Then there is going to be some other several stuff I will reveal later.

You have my attention.

Will nonhumans be involved at all, or strictly humans and their derivatives?

Just humans and their derivatives, though at this point some sub species of humanity may not even resemble humans.

I'm seeing so many heretical statements

And what may those be?

[The United Remnants of America]

You have my attention.

Will nonhumans be involved at all, or strictly humans and their derivatives?

Just humans and their derivatives, though at this point some sub species of humanity may not even resemble humans.

I'm seeing so many heretical statements

And what may those be?

Would/could they resemble :totallynot:Tyranids, tho?

[Ithalian Empire]

Just humans and their derivatives, though at this point some sub species of humanity may not even resemble humans.



And what may those be?

Would/could they resemble :totallynot:Tyranids, tho?

No. This also will not be a faction heavy and more of a character RP with various factions driving the plot forward.

[The United Remnants of America]

Would/could they resemble :totallynot:Tyranids, tho?

No. This also will not be a faction heavy and more of a character RP with various factions driving the plot forward.

EVE.

I'll RP EVE, sure.

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

Something as some of you know I've been considering lately! No name yet.

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They call it the Cicatrix Maledictum, the Mouth of Ruin. High up in the heavens above, it appeared, a tainted scar cleaving through the sky. To the people of the Segmentum Obscurus and Ultima Segmentum, the Imperiumn Nihilus, it means ruin. The light of the Astronomican is obscured, there, its worlds besieged by humanity's many foes. It is nigh-on impossible to travel there, now, so great are the Warp-fluctuations caused by the Crimson Path that marks the skies now. The laws of physics fluctuate here at the amusement of the Daemon-spawn of the Warp, and the Imperium faces its darkest time yet.

But the people of [planet name, hlep] are almost entirely unaware of these events. Billions have never even seen the sky, and even those that have can only rarely claim to have seen the stars, the sky blocked out by clouds of toxic gasses produced by the world's many factories. Indeed, only the highest spires of the many hive cities marring the planet's surface can look upon the starry sky, and so it is that only a rare few among the world's upper classes know of the existence of the Cicatrix Maledictum. The Light of the Astronomican has died here, too, however - although further effects of the Noctis Aeterna that now sweeps across the Imperium have luckily yet to manifest. New ships no longer arrive in orbit of the planet, and old ships no longer depart.

Hive Primus' planetary docks have been closed off by order of the Planetary Governor, Lord Meinrad Andrelis, many of the workers sent home for reasons they do not know - only that the Planetary Defense Force and Adeptus Arbites await them, should they seek to go to work. Paired with the arrival of two Cohorts of Skitarii, settling in various abandoned warehouses in the planetary docks, carrying a mysterious cargo with them, recent events have started to cause a ruckus among those that worked there, many unhappy and bereft of their source of income.

To billions of others, however, this matters little. Many simply continue to go to their work among the many manufactorums of Hive Primus, countless of clerks similarly continuing with the perpetually growing amount of paperwork of the Adeptus Administratum while the Ecclessiarchy continues to preach to the faithful masses with the aid of the Emperor's blessed Sisters of Battle. Among all of them, it is perhaps the Hive Scum and Gangers that mercilessly wage their gang wars in the city's Underhive that are noticing the ominous portents of what is to come the most - mutants are becoming increasingly common, and a strangely sizable amount of people has gone missing over the past few weeks...

[The United Remnants of America]

Woah woah woah.

Did I just hear heresy?

[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

Woah woah woah.

Did I just hear heresy?

Yes.

[The United Remnants of America]

Woah woah woah.

Did I just hear heresy?

Yes.

*takes breath and rocks back and forth with my Astartes miniatures*

It's gonna be alright. We'll exterminatus later...