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@awlderpy It's on Steam http://ur1.ca/f8on2
Tuesday, 27-Aug-13 03:36:27 UTC from web-
@awlderpy Get your bolter ready
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@awlderpy Tody we burn the heretic. Kill the xenos. Purge the unclean.
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@awlderpy Better. We got meltaguns
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@awlderpy yeah, full 666 ftw
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@awlderpy Warhammer 40k
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@awlderpy It's good. It's about gluing together plastic dudes and serving the Emperor
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@awlderpy Well it's fairly good. It's about a bunch of shamans that see that the demons are eating their souls so they won't be able to reincarnate indefinitely to guide manking so they all gather together and eat poison. They all die together so they reincarnate in a single body and that guy is the Emperor. The guy goes on to leading humanity with subtlety, becoming a bunch of religious and historical figures. Humanity eventually reaches a golden age and starts colonizing the milky way. Everything goes right, and they're en route to becoming the rulers of the galaxy, but they end up relying too much in robots with advanced AI, and these robots deide to stop working to mantain humanity so a war ensues. Humanity wins but the empire is fragmented, so they outlaw true AIs and start trying to rebuild their empire.
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@nerthos While they're at that, the Eldar, another race who at the moment were the most advanced in the galaxy, reach the peak of their civilization, and not having to work or anything, spend all their time seeking pleasure. As they go down that road things start to get more and more shady and degenerate, to the point where a bunch of Eldar decide to slpinter from the rest of the race and go to far worlds to settle and live old style. A bunch of others climb in Craftworlds, massive ships, and sail away, while the main part of the race fight and abuse eachother for sadistic pleasure. Streets run red with blood and BOOM, Slaanesh, chaos god of pleasure is born, creating a massive and lasting warp storm that sucks the Eldar empire and screws up a big part of the galaxy.
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@nerthos Due to the birth of Slaanesh, the warp storms screw up with warp travel all around the galaxy, making the human empire crumble due to the impossibility of mantaining trade and logistics across most of the galaxy. Humanity falls into an aptly named Age of Strife, and most of the technolgy of the golden age is lost. Worlds fall to anarchy, and others to the worship of chaos. The Emperor decides that it's time to leave the shadowy manipulation of the species and comes into the limelight with a bunch of genetically engineered soldiers to reconquer Terra from the myriad of barbaric tribes and warlords that rule parts of it. He succeeds, and recovers what's left of technology on Terra, makes some finishing touches to his newly formed army, and sets sail to the space in what will be the great crusade to reunite all human settled worlds.
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@nerthos The Emperor goes to mars and makes a series of agreements with the Techpriests, the religious engineers who populate the world, to supply his troops with equipment and proper ships. He goes to his base beneath the himalayan mountains, and engineers 20 Primarchs, superhuman generals for his army. Chaos doesn't like it so the ruinous powers teleport the gestation pods of the primarchs to all around the galaxy. Eventually the Emperor finds 18 of the 20, and gives each a legion of Astartes, the Space Marines, derived each legion's DNA from that of it's corresponding primarch. With them, they conquer back most of the old empire under the banner of the Emperor and his Imperium of Man, starting a new golden age with the living god at the head and the primarchs and Malcador the Sigilite, a powerful psyker, helping lead everything.
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@nerthos The primarchs, like all humans, create bonds of friendship and rivalities among themselves. Fulgrim, one of them, goes about colonizing worlds and erecting monumental shrine-cities dedicated to the cult of the Emperor. The Emperor doesn't like it, since the imperial stance on religion is "there is no gods" so he decides to go with a couple legions and destroy Fulgrim's masterpiece and humilliate him for going against his will. They do it, and Fulgrim is not amused and after a pilgrimage to find real gods who are worthy and want his worship, finds the gods of chaos and is corrupted. That corruption sets in motion a series of events that causes the fall of another eight primarchs, among them Horus, warmaster of the Imperium and the Emperor's favourite son.
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@nerthos The nine traitor primarchs, lead by Horus, now first champion of Chaos Undivided, turn on the empire on the greatest betrayal known to the species. Many worlds fall, half the army is lost, and the Emperor spends his time on Terra on the Golden Throne mantaining the Astronomican, a gigantic beacon fed by the Emperor's psychic might that allows the rest of humanity to find their ways on the warp allowing FTL travel and the imperium to stay together after Magnus, another of the traitor primarchs, accidentally ruins the Emperor's project of a webway to allow travel without the need of the Astronomican. Horus' fleet eventually reaches Terra, and the Emperor is forced to teleport into Horus' flagship for a direct confrontation. The strike force arrives fragmented, and Sanguinius, best of men, one of the loyal primarchs, is teleported in front of Horus and forced to fight the chaos-empowered primarch alone. By the time the Emperor arrives, Sanguinius is dead.
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@nerthos The Emperor fights Horus, not killing him outright believing he could save him, in the process suffering grave wounds. After a long time of fighting, a couple loyal soldiers enter the fight to help the Emperor, getting utterly crushed by the godlike Horus. Then the Emperor realizes there's no saving Horus, and kills him in one strike with a psychic blast. The Emperor is mortally wounded by the fight though, and commands Dorn, one of the loyal primarchs, and basically the greatest engineer/architect the imperium has left to turn the golden throne into a life support device and the Emperor is entombed there, very slowly decaying for ten millenia having to mantain the Astronomican to keep humanity from falling apart. More aliens show up, technology is lost again, and we reach the current setting of WH40k in the ending days of the 41st millenium.
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@awlderpy It's reaaally long if you go through everything, all campaigns, books, games and media, but you can read most of it on Lexicarium.
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@awlderpy Get Dawn of War. RTS based on it.
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@awlderpy It's old, and we could play together both cooperatively and competitively.
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@anarchycarcino Is Divekick good
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@awlderpy Check inbox.
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@anarchycarcino Is it worth $10 for a two-button game
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@redenchilada A much better investment than 20 bucks for an interactive story book. http://ur1.ca/f8or0
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@anarchycarcino But what makes it worth more than, say, Super Hexagon
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@redenchilada I don't know what that is.
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@anarchycarcino Two button arcade game where you dodge things. Super hard. Costs $3 on Steam. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sz0mI_6tLQ Is Divekick worth 3x that
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@redenchilada Anyway, yes, it's good.
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