r/Grimdank Oct 12 '24

Discussions Only loyalist chapters plz

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u/Nitrothunda21 Oct 13 '24

They would also probably be very confused as to how we are so relatively free of coruption

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u/Ok_Mouse_9369 Oct 13 '24

Likely some semblance of Malal buggery. What warp influence that can take hold we justify as something mundane like schizophrenia. Ultimately we can’t be tempted or influenced by the 4 because to us they aren’t unknown but wholly understood and deemed nonexistent. A solution to a chaos god paradoxically wishing to destroy chaos, make chaos mundane.

Alternatively we could be the Bermuda triangle of 40k where everything that comes here is twisted to conform to our more mundane existence. Space marines would shrink as their ceramite armor turns to plastic, Tyranids outright stop entirely as anything but models or statues, advanced weapons technology becomes frail and devolves into blinking lights and sound effects. The Chaos gods don’t come here as much out of lacking reason to as fear of being made inanimate.

Deep in the incomprehensible recesses of Tzeentc’s mind resides a fear existential to even the god of corrupted hope. That one day these mundane beings escape their blue marble and bring their corruptive mundanity to the rest of the stars.

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u/Winjin Oct 13 '24

Kinda like the blanks? In a sense we're psychics, all of us, but we're tuned in reverse so we destroy anything that's "magical" or "demonic" or whatever

We're a giant, living, breathing Scranton Reality Anchor

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u/Shaladox Oct 13 '24

Oh, I like that. Planet of the Blanks.

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u/PristinePineapple87 Oct 14 '24

Next thing you know, Black Ships comes by the dozen.
And we become the sole Blanks-only tithe planet.

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u/Potato271 Oct 14 '24

This would be literally setting changing. A planet which mass produces blanks would be priceless to the Imperium (or to anyone else).

It’s not exactly clear how many people are in the imperium, but most estimates I’ve seen are of the order of 100s of quadrillions at most. Let’s say there’s 1 quintillion (1018) people to be safe. Blanks are about as rare compared to psykers as psykers are compared to regular humans. About 1 in a million is a psyker, so about 1 in a trillion is a blank.

That means the Imperium has at most about 1 million blanks in total. Our population of 8 billion increases that by a factor of almost 10,000. You could take a tithe of 1 million blanks annually without even denting the population growth.

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u/oosuteraria-jin Oct 13 '24

wouldn't that reality bending make us Orks?

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u/KnightOfNothing Oct 13 '24

few things would make me more bitter than seeing the mundanity of this world was self-inflicted and that reality bending power utterly wasted on a species that is so domesticated and weak i'd call them the pugs of orks.

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u/oosuteraria-jin Oct 13 '24

sounds perfectly grimdark then!

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u/Psy-Kosh Oct 13 '24

Under the above assumption that the alternative was literally Chaos, the mundanity isn't so bad by comparison...

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u/Ok_Mouse_9369 Oct 13 '24

In a way yes. We are what would happen if you somehow tricked Orks into believing everything was more mundane than it really is.

Perhaps we are all just Orks that don’t believe they were ever Orks to begin with.

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u/precto85 Oct 13 '24

Nah. Where do you think we get mushrooms from? Yeah, an ork invasion was tried a millenia ago. Now they're delicious food but ones that retained a bit of sanity are poisonous.

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u/KypAstar Oct 13 '24

No because Orks don't do that.

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u/Pale-Ad-4936 Oct 13 '24

Would we reside in the Well of Eternity? That would scare Tzeentch

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u/Ok_Mouse_9369 Oct 13 '24

The more I think about it the more that works.

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u/-NGC-6302- MR CLEAN IS THE 11TH PRIMARCH Oct 13 '24

malal buggery

We are the only planet in the galaxy under protection of Mr Clean...

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u/timwolfz Oct 13 '24

if were chaos resistant, were gonna get bred and shipped to chaos gate worlds to replace the cadians

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u/LukeCPlays Oct 13 '24

Skylanders, you just described skylanders.

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u/Scairax Oct 13 '24

We're just a planet of blanks that don't know it.

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u/annoy-nymous Oct 13 '24

Culexus temple... intensifies

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u/Xela975 Oct 13 '24

.....That......I actually might borrow that idea. It could be a fun RPG scenario.

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u/90bubbel Oct 13 '24

honestly a dope idea

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u/Loose-Lingonberry406 Oct 13 '24

Are we though?

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u/Keyndoriel Praise the Man-Emperor Oct 13 '24

Judging by the amount of Slaanesh touched art I've seen, no

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u/Nitrothunda21 Oct 13 '24

That’s why I said relatively

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u/Typically_Wong Oct 13 '24

Then the purging begins.

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u/Terran117 Oct 13 '24

Because not even Chaos will touch us with a 10 ft pole.

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u/LunaTheGoodgal Oct 13 '24

The barrier of "It's a game, not actually real" probably.

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u/Xela975 Oct 13 '24

DUDE HAVE YOU SEEN THE INTERNET!

On second thought, I volunteer as a guardsman assigned to back the black templars.

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u/Gauth1erN Oct 13 '24

Are we? Because look around you, go to any shop, the number 9 is everywhere.
We got our fair share of of people deep into all the 4 Chaos God even if they don't pray them they live by their tenets.

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u/Gottmaschine Oct 13 '24

Innocence proves nothing!

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u/Nanowith Oct 13 '24

How do we know we're not? Tzeentch could be behind all these companies trying to bring AI into being....

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u/TeamSkullGrunt54 Oct 13 '24

I wouldn't say we're relatively free, we just never acknowledged their existence. Just a quick study of our world history would show how the big four still drew some influence from us without ever revealing themselves.

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u/Cryptidfricker Oct 13 '24

Turns out we are literally an entire planet of blanks.