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khornedog · 1 month

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STC Battlefield Latrine, Reclaiming, Standalone: The Linchpin of Civilization, the Battlefield Latrine Reclaiming(BLR) stands as one of Mankind's greatest creations. A common sight to any Imperial citizen, usually in standard batteries of thirteen(13) by seven(7) high. In fact, it has replaced entire sanitation, chemical refining, transportation, and tithe-collecting systems throughout the Imperium. Without its ubiquity and reclamation capabilities, the Imperial Logistics Administratum would be catastrophically limited and the war effort crippled.

(Standalone shown with terrifyingly large xeno for scale)

The sight of a BLR means relief for any human(including all standard and nearly all advanced augmentations), biologically active servitor, sanctioned abhuman(including Ogryns and ratlings with standard step stool accommodations), and even many xenos regardless of status or currency. Except for mutants. They have to pay a cleansing fee.

The BLR solves so many of Humanity's needs that gifting its pattern is often sufficient to bring isolated planets into Compliance. Because of its rugged construction and virtually maintenance-free operation it is found on nearly all human settlements. The BLR is considered one of the oldest and most complete STC patterns known.

(Indicator lamps show this BLR is ready for retrieval and unoccupied. Universal Pure Water and Promethium connections allow for immediate usage)

BLR tithe-credits for reclaimed water and chemical production forms a significant portion of most planetary budgets. BLR arrays in hive cities provide nearly all promethium used by local planetary defense forces, with surplus forwarded to the Mechanicus for the war effort.

Battlefield Latrine, Reclaiming: TESTAMENT TO MANKIND'S DIVINITY!

#40k fiction #warhammer 40k #mini painting #artists on tumblr #warhammercommunity #games workshop #wargaming #miniature painting #orks #deathskulls #miniatures #40k #necromunda #kitbash #outhouse #objective marker

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aspiring-bl-writer · 2 years

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After Life: 995 words

I stand amidst a green-skinned horde, blood-maddened monsters trampling over each other to reach me. I tower over them, a giant even among these hulking, howling brutes, my rune-encrusted polearm almost equal to my colossal height. I swing the ancient glaive in wide sweeping arcs before me, the berserk creatures rupturing against the blade. Yet the others rush toward me, ignoring their dead, showered in the blood and gore of their virulent breed.

Sitting on the floor of my home, I am holding my infant son, Pauric. I am not long a mother. I am still young, naïve, romantic. The child has my bright blue eyes and Aidyn’s thick chestnut hair. I am stroking the babe’s cheeks as he smiles, babbling, his intense love unspoken but nonetheless evident. Aidyn, joins us, his arm wrapping snug around my shoulders. I rest my head on his. I have not yet taken my first step on the Path of the Warrior, never set foot in an Aspect shrine. Really, I too am a child. Hopeful. Innocent.

The Infinity Circuit is my new home. My kindred welcome me. I am greeted by familiar fallen kinsfolk, as well as unknown ancestors. All are paragons of the Craftworld, fortunate to have their souls recovered. They greet me, try to comfort me, help me adjust to the afterlife. They tell me there is no war here, no fear of She Who Thirsts. They repeat the old proverb: Bonn dan nosh corinnid, “Only the dead know peace.” I am now part of a community. Not a military unit, but a harmonious society, bonded in understanding, united in values. Still, rest eludes me. I miss the war, the cause, the joy of cleansing the usurper races.

The Craftworld has bestowed upon me the title of autarch. I kneel before a statue of Kaela Mensha Khaine, his terrifying visage glowering. As a Fire Dragon I have fed on the fury inside. As a Dark Reaper I have destroyed simply for the sake of the destruction. Yet I have never succumbed to obsession. They say it is due to self-discipline, but the truth is there is a hollowness inside, an absence so cumbersome it keeps me forever grounded. I wonder if the God of Murder can perceive this fact, the gaping void at the centre of my soul.

Aidyn is lying in bed with me. He is on the Path of the Poet. I think he is so accomplished, so far along his path, not knowing that one day I will have walked all the Warrior Paths, then finally the Path of Command. He asks me to promise to die at the same time as him, so we will enter the Infinity Circuit together, and will never be apart. What if, I ask him, our souls are unrecoverable, not captured in a stone? This idea shocks him. He tells me not to think like that. I tell him I think about it all the time. A fate worse than death.

The Infinity Circuit is despoiled. Servants of She Who Thirsts attack a place meant to be inviolate, joined by deluded heretics enacting a rite. The former feed their deity and the latter claim to materialise another. How many gods will we Aeldari create, in our vanity? I am spared, but many of us, the best of us, are consumed, extinguished. I mourn, but in private, in isolation. What cruelty I am saved when I do not want to persist. We have made a prison for our blessed dead and call it an afterlife. I see that now. A paradise, a place of peace, is anathema to me. I am a bride of Khaine. I want to follow him. His example.

I am returning from my first voyage on the Path of the Envoy. A messenger greets me once I re-enter the Craftworld. He informs me, with flawless etiquette, that Aidyn and Pauric were slain by Ork marauders while visiting Aidyn’s parents. Their souls are unrecoverable. Lost. Destroyed. I am inconsolable. I curse myself, She Who Thirsts, we who created her. The next day I change to the Path of the Warrior, adopting the first of many Aspects.

The seers repeat my name like a mantra. “Unnail Sadh Keva of the Billion Battles, the Herald of Demise, Orksbane, Saviour of Laith Lauchlan, Martyr of the Aristech Reach.” They beseech me to pilot one of their wraith-constructs, to aid the evacuation of a Maiden World. They will guide me, shepherd me in battle. I tell them I agree, but on my own terms. They say their visions already told them as much. They do not ask me to reconsider.

They concede I have earned the right to choose.

I am a child sitting on my father’s lap. He is an aged, learned, wise. He tells me about the paths, the ways of our people. He insists the Aeldari will come back from extinction, that one day our civilization will conquer the galaxy as in days of old. I ask him how we can make tomorrow be like yesterday. He just smiles and pats my head. He never answers the question.

The evacuation is almost complete, the seers report. Waves of Ork warriors keep coming. All perish. They are fools jumping into open graves, thinking it will affect some great change, It will not. We Aeldari are more like them than we care to admit. We are not mindless as they are, but we are no less deluded. Some races should know when to die. As the last ships ascend into the stars, the seers bid me farewell, wish me blessings, sing my praise. I do not answer. I turn my glaive and embed its tip in the chest that is not my chest. There is no expression on my white featureless face as I sink it in farther, deeper, until, in one thrust, I shatter my soul stone. With a rush of relief, I plunge into waiting oblivion.

#warhammer 40000 #40k #40k fanfic #40k fiction #warhammer 40k #wh 40k #warhammer #40k lore #eldar #aeldari #biel-tan #battle of biel-tan #fracture of biel-tan #infinity circuit #orks #maiden world #aspect warriors #autarch #wraithlord

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technicallyclassyperfection · 1 month

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art-of-thomas-elliott · 14 hours

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I am very excited to say that I am currently working on a huge personal project that has been simmering away in the back of my mind for over a decade. Let me introduce you to 'ESKATON' a dark scifi unverse that combines the grimdark flavours of Warhammer 40,000 with old school scifi themes. This is an ongoing project that will eventually be released as a hardback artbook. Keep your eyes peeled for more over the coming months.

#art #artist #painting #digital painting #digital art #photoshop #illustration #illustrator #thomas elliott #thomas elliott artist #thomas elliott illustrator #scifi #scifi art #science fiction #battlescene #monster concept art #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000

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very-feral-lesbian · 2 years

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if there’s one thing tumblr and ao3 have taught me, it’s the power of community. something will happen that we don’t like and we will just say no and rewrite it

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kinasin · 1 year

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Warhammer 40,000 New Edition Cinematic Trailer

#warhammer 40000 #40k #ultramarines #tyranids #warhammer 40k #science fiction #fantasy #space marines #warhammer #gif #gifset

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shibuiking · 2 months

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#might fix up nd colour some of these idk #oc: pallarex #oc: mu-15 #to clarify they are not romantically a Thing they just share a warriors bond. i have rich fiction in my mind for them #also finally decided on a chapter fr rex yayy and everything worked out perfectly #tagging 40k oc stuff feels like a nightmare ig im sorry if ur seeing all my shit constantly #space marine #skitarii #holding a cake that says 'sorry i make all my ocs cannibals. it will continue to happen'#oc

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bikiniarmorbattledamage · 1 year

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Look, all I am saying is that if its true that sex sells, why is this not the standard male tabletop game warrior instead of these guys?

It's like they don't want to sell their games.

-wincenworks

#sexy male armor #kingdom death #atolmdragon #fantasy #warhammer 40k #warhammer age of sigmar #warhammer 40000 #plate armor #science fiction #tabletop games #image #Bikini Armor Battle Damage #BikiniArmorBattleDamage #BABD

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sugarrushsato · 5 months

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NOT THAT KINDA ACTION

#(Disclaimer I only like military in fiction and would never encourage people to join the irl military if they have a choice otherwise)#anyway you are not immune to femboy propaganda #his fellow guardsmen always push him to be the face of propaganda posters bc he's androgynous looking #my art #warhammer oc #warhammer 40k #astra militarum

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i-identify-tanks-in-posts · 2 months

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Most favorite fictional tank, and why?

Least favorite fictional tank, and why?

Favorite fictional tank: I really couldn't decide. I like the Scorpion, because I love Halo, I love the Baneblade because of how big and dumb and impractical it is. However, if I really had to break it down, i think it comes down to the Sisters of Battle Exorcist, because it's so unnecessarily extra that it has a PIPE ORGAN MISSILE LAUNCHER. I mean, seriously, look at this thing and tell me that it's not peak "Rule of Cool"

As far as my least favorite fictional tank... Star Wars fans, you might wanna look away. You're not gonna like this one.

My least favorite fictional tank is the AT-AT.

Those of you who've read my earlier posts already know of my distaste for walking tanks, and this is the quintessential walking tank. However, it's also an absolutely terrible design with 0 redeeming qualities whatsoever.

First, let's start with the legs, bypassing the low hanging fruit of "legs bad". Why are they so damn skinny? You have a 85 foot tall troop transport/tank, and you put it on fucking STILTS? Not to mention, the legs are susceptible to basic tripwires. I mean seriously, what is the point in it?

Next, the Head. Why is there a head? Why are the pilots in the head, and not the heavily armored body? Why are the only weapons on the thing directly attached to the head, meaning that it can only fire in one direction, in a 45-degree spread in front of the AT-AT, while also necessitating that the pilots face that way?

Third: WHY IS IT SO BIG. The only possible advantage of a walker is that it's more easily able to traverse rough terrain, which makes it best suited for smaller vehicles, like, say, a Republic AT-RT, or even an AT-ST at a stretch. The AT-AT being so massive literally debunks the only possible advantage it has, and it pisses me off.

#tanks #fictional tanks #warhammer 40k #star wars #military

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orniris · 6 months

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My website: Orniris.com

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calchexxis · 8 days

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40k Femslash Appreciation Post

There isn't nearly enough good wlw in Warhammer 40k, and don't get me wrong, I understand why. Considering the majority of the narratives consist of manly men doing manly things while wearing a buick on their torso and a refrigerator on each arm, there's going to be an obvious skew, and that's okay!

But today, I want to highlight some of the ladies of the 40k universe, as well as the other ladies that those ladies like to kiss. For the record, all of these will be on Archive of Our Own.

In my own corner, I've contributed:

Ennui: A longform about a Dark Eldar Wych and a Sororitas who find unlikely love on a world plagued by Orks, and in the process, discover a much darker plot that will threaten the fabric of the galaxy.

From Afar: Local Eldar Pathfinder pines after a pretty PDF guardswoman from the distance in the months while the Great Devourer approaches.

Saintsbride: A series rather than a single fic, that creatively reinterprets Saint Celestine and Inquisitor Greyfax's relationship in the audio drama Our Martyred Lady as being very gay.

His Fury, Our Hearts: Three Sisters Militant of the Adeptus Sororitas Heavy Armor division do battle against cult elements of the Alpha Legion while defending an irradiated hellhole, and also they kiss each other.

More excellent femslash can be found in the hands of user OnTheHuh.

The Iron Tower: An unflinching look at the darker side of the 40k universe on the smaller scale through the eyes of the 'bedmate' of the Planetary Governor of a Feudal world. Absolutely mind the tags, but you're in the mood for some angst and Regency-era style lesbian pining, this is your jam.

Sister Militant: Some of the best Adeptus Sororitas work out there, follows the trials and tribulations of a haunted Sister Militant as she struggles with her worth, her faith, and the demons in her mind. Very much mind the tags, again, but also again, Lesbian Angst and Pining. Also some really top notch action.

Finally, some more excellence from user AncillaThings!

Nemain's Bellum: A story that follows the ascension of a Sister Novitiate by her mentor, Palatine Caddel, through her first war and onward, when I said 'Sister Militant' is some of the best, this would be the rest of the best. Great sci-fi action and more girls kissing. Also trauma, but that's what we're here for, right?

Pigeons and Eagles: For fans of the truly excellent Rogue Trader game by OwlCat studios, and who maybe wants to see Sister Argenta being cute and gay with the God-Emperor's weirdest perfect princess, Cassia Orsellio, this one is for you.

#warhammer 40000 #warhammer 40k #fanfic appreciation #ao3fic #femslash #wlw post #ao3 fanfic #sapphic #sapphic fiction #sapphic fanfiction #sapphics in 40k

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theblackbookofarkera · 1 month

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From the travelog Dreams of Distant Places Vol 12

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explaining-warhammer-to-my-gf · 7 months

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Hey, we have a tumblr now! Hello everyone!

I'm Ava, and my partner's name is Kari. We're two lovebird nerds who adore sharing our hobbies together. Sometimes it's a little overwhelming to start learning about a hobby with so much lore and content within it, so we've decided it would be easier to help each other through it!

Join us as we work through the grimdark world of Warhammer 40k, the magical lands of Warhammer Fantasy, and much, much more!

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black-aengel-07 · 3 months

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Dragon Project: Juggernaut and Amphiptere Zoanthrope

#digital art #digital drawing #tyranids #warhammer 40k #wh40k #warhammer 40000 #40k #games workshop #sci fi and fantasy #science fiction

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present-future · 9 months

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Adepta Sororitas by David Astruga

#Science Fiction #SciFi #Art #Warhammer 40k #Wh40k #Adepta Sororitas #Sister of Battle #David Astruga

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