[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the Forty K-Lorecast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to Forty-K-Lorecast with me, John Barsati and Brett Chester.
[SPEAKER_01]: This guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Today, we'll be finalizing our coverage of the 500-world campaign with the dive into the last little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, well, yeah, for now, whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who knows what GW is going to do to stuff anyway?
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[SPEAKER_01]: But new Plymouth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lazy naming mechanic there for the record is the sunniest spot in all of New Zealand, boasting 2,592 hours of sunshine a year, so the average 7 hours of sunshine a day, which is not half bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would kill for that, living where I live currently in Michigan, actually kill for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm jumping in on this, John, because Joe, the New Zealand dollar, or Kiwi, got introduced July 10th, 1967, replacing the New Zealand pound.
[SPEAKER_01]: Strong.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how much they hated the queen.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were like, we're just changing it to dollar.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's just, that's just lazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like it though.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now screw you guys in your stupid colonialism.
[SPEAKER_01]: I support it.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: But new planet looks so, looks at, ooh, here we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mount.
[SPEAKER_01]: Taronaki, Taronakai, which is a volcano that compares itself to Mount Fuji, but the surrounding is way better.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mount Fuji is called as cherry blossoms.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one actually looks pretty, and it's cool as hell.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you like puns, new planet this for you, because new planet has a beautiful coastal path, a giant park, temperate weather, and it's situated in the region called Taronakai.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they call it the Tara Dice of New Zealand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, welcome to Terry Dice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, grown all you want.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've heard way worse from way shitty your places.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, boo, your rugby team.
[SPEAKER_01]: I won't take one.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll get the decelerators because I root for the box.
[SPEAKER_01]: So boo.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, but we don't have a discord too.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you want to come yell at me about that, join and come onto the discord and explain to me all the reasons why I'm wrong about ready for the spring box or whatever I just, however, I just pronounced so much of that wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lincoln, they don't have the discord.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on in, 12,000 plus people now.
[SPEAKER_01]: great spot.
[SPEAKER_01]: The honestly just go to ask John and Brad if you have any opinions and I respond just candidly.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's where I am.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's also stuff for literature recommendation, game play, memes, general chat.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a really great spot for people especially who are like newer to the lore of trying to get going.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a lot of veterans in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: who are really great at sharing their experience, their knowledge, what are my favorite things people ask in there is, hey, I read such and such, I liked it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is there anything else like this?
[SPEAKER_01]: You will get a sea of answers, and it's really a great way for you to not have to read.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of the crappy Black Library books, because, you know, I have like four hundred and a fair thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's some duds, but with that, onto the cast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's start off with Titus taking the elf.
[SPEAKER_01]: At the end of our last cast, Titus and crew took a pretty big loss.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the crew took a loss.
[SPEAKER_00]: The casualties were from, hey, as your names showed up in this book so far, e, you're probably gonna make it, buddy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was basically every red-shirted ultramarine died.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, but I like the users were not set to say yes, but for real reason is opposed it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like this quite a bit in the writing because a lot of times Marines take an L just to set up a bigger victory, but this wasn't an L just to set up a bigger victory.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was actually part of an actual plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: to figure out what the Marines actually knew, how they would react, and I like this quite a bit in this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you are right.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's talk about what happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: So come on, come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a mojo.
[SPEAKER_01]: It know it's fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just, it just, the, the, the story of what happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that they just murdered every, they read, shared it all of these,
[SPEAKER_01]: Space Marines are like, oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was not so rear guard action after rear guard action from space marine, something didn't get named.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were just they were even.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were like, oh, yeah, and then another squad did a rear guard action because they were like, we're not even bothering giving him a.
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't earn a name in this story.
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, however, have a lot of heroic rear guard actions.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think one of the dreadnoughts died.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, but the whole reason behind this was it was actually not pure chance that Tyus and a group were overwhelmed by Amin Taran's forces.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was actually totally a plan by one of Amin Taran's leaders.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nemesis Anutek.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anutek?
[SPEAKER_01]: And whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anutek, actually.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it anutek?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's anutek.
[SPEAKER_01]: How are we?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm 100% right.
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: I know things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so I also, I love, you know, we're both, you know, and people, I just love conference with you saying you pronounce that correctly and I know you and we both were guessing our pronunciation.
[SPEAKER_00]: actually for a change occasionally I do go on the internet and get the pronunciation so if the internet says you're correct by the way or at least oh good that's whatever liable source the internet has never been wrong god not once
[SPEAKER_01]: God, I'm actually of the age where we weren't allowed to cite the internet in college.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now it's like all you cite.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I remember that you couldn't cite all you're right when I had to write my thesis.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wasn't allowed to cite anything from the internet.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do like wow, I'm that old.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody, sorry, everybody likes wiki.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's a reason he can't cite wiki.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love with somebody's sites wiki on something.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll just go in and change the wiki.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, there's nothing about better people changing like these, all right, but back to auto tech.
[SPEAKER_01]: So auto tech calculated that the humans knew about the phasing capabilities in the Necrons.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she knew that they would do whatever they could do to shut down the Necrons ability to bring and reinforcements thus by making it appear like the main facility was less protected.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'd have no choice but to attack it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And just by, and you did, they make you appear like it hadn't come online yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: This way, they have no choice but to go in a tacit, which, you know, kind of was chosen.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was supposed to say, it wasn't completely untrue.
[SPEAKER_00]: They just had a civil war with sautéque, like five minutes before this snow.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what she was doing was, basically, once they had a woken or, sorry, once they invaded, what they did was, they looked around and said, all right, we can conquer this planet.
[SPEAKER_01]: But these guys in blue armor are a problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the problem was that it wasn't that the Necrons couldn't defeat the Ultramarines because they could, they had to, I mean, they could just keep warping in more and more guys, or start phasing in, more and more Necrons.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the concern they had was the Ultramarines could hold out.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the longer they held
[SPEAKER_01]: It just an endless struggle.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the idea was, well, why don't we just trap them kill all the Ultramarines?
[SPEAKER_01]: You should know what they were called, obviously.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then more of the races.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, with all the calculations, she forgot one thing, which is the thickness of Ultramarine Plot armor, I was just about to say that.
[SPEAKER_00]: plot armor is so thick.
[SPEAKER_00]: You had to give the speech about the Urkai had that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, armor is thick.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's like fighting a land war in Asia.
[SPEAKER_01]: You just don't do these stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you have the parts of the plan, too, was?
[SPEAKER_00]: They want to win, but also they're not just in it to kill Marines.
[SPEAKER_00]: They wanted the shard of the night brand.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have to go get that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so Titus succeeds.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's able to get back.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he returns to the main base, which is called abstinous baston.
[SPEAKER_01]: The abstinous baston.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stinous baston.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he finds we get back to the necrons are in a full court press upon the Imperium.
[SPEAKER_01]: every single front, there's an attack.
[SPEAKER_01]: Locus skirmers are attacking the outlying areas, scarves and braids are devastating the lower-lying settlements, regimental soldier being slaughtered by nightbringers, plural, which by the way, we're described as a towering abomination with black robes and a side that would turn living beings to dust just with its presence.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, guardsmen are doing great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, yes, as usual, the regiments were getting thrown into the wood shipper.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so Titus looks around and realizes that it's untenable.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he calls for aid from Ultramar.
[SPEAKER_01]: And because the Ultramarines, he actually does get a response to the responses.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: The fourth company was back.
[SPEAKER_00]: He fires up to come on now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many references to make.
[SPEAKER_00]: He put up the fires of God or come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but nobody he doesn't do because the thing is they'll turn me talk to do that That's what like the other like bless your chapters have to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have to speak at the same chapter The ultra-marines just put out a phone call a text to the group chat saying hey Can someone help me move this weekend?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like for you will come back with yeah, man I got you because we're ultra-marines.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're reliable and helpful.
[SPEAKER_01]: So
[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to do something real quick on this one because this is one of the first times in the lore that I've really felt that the necrons were an actual menace because for the almost the entirety of the lore of 40K, necrons have always been this sinister robotic force that was doing something but they were never
[SPEAKER_01]: They always got defeated, the truth is, the next run to always get defeated in the war, up until 500 worlds, even in whatever the one we covered, not in dominance, is it in dominance?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the prior nexus, yeah, even the prior nexus area, like the necrons were pushing back, but the impereforce are still doing okay there.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the first time I can think of where the necrons really are.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they're also using there's a full force you're feeling the force of a dynasty coming at you because we've had so much of the Necrons just being We're fighting amongst ourselves will occasionally beat these guys, but we don't really care because they never thought that they were a real fight almost they you know This is the first time that I felt that Necrons were actually pushing to conquer and actually win and I just and it felt like
[SPEAKER_01]: Completely and now the next bit we're gonna cover here guys just some it's we're gonna get into me We're a two or three things all happened the exact same time So it's gonna sound like we're kind of time warping a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's actually this is very well read this Especially for a short story.
[SPEAKER_01]: So while these Necrons are pushing in tightest takes a moment Actually you've literally meditates and decides to not in a hippie sense, but let me make sure I'm making the right decisions He looks around and the thing he realizes is
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember, he was death watch.
[SPEAKER_01]: He knows that the markings in the Necrons are something was off about them.
[SPEAKER_01]: When he went into the spaceship and killed everyone there and took a shot, everyone had the markers of the South Tech dynasty on them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when he went into the complex to bomb it, these guys have a different markings.
[SPEAKER_01]: The ones lying on the ground were South Tech, but these ones are, actually, which one of these are?
[SPEAKER_00]: There's three different.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what they have.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so he's noticing that they all have different markings, which is odd.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not something Necronson.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't cross the port.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't work together at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: In addition, he started noticing some odd behaviors from them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Necrons, especially Necron warriors, are very rigid.
[SPEAKER_01]: They walk in a straight line.
[SPEAKER_01]: They fight like revolutionary war or civil war soldiers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shoulder to shoulder, fire all the guns deal with it, concept.
[SPEAKER_01]: They never break formation.
[SPEAKER_01]: These ones do.
[SPEAKER_01]: They constantly actually break formation with us.
[SPEAKER_01]: You would run off chasing like random retreating soldiers like down alleyways that kind of stuff, which is like just they don't do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Titus doesn't know about the destroyer curse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously there's no one knows about the destroyer curse outside of the necrons, but he under it, but this is the first time where we see another rate becoming aware that something's off within the necrons.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he begins to figure out
[SPEAKER_01]: he has to do something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe this is a way for him to exploit this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, on that note, back to the necrons.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, but the transformers jump guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't get that reference, congratulations, you didn't want to transformers in the 80s and get ADHD with the rest of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: God, those cuts were brutal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, star screen.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just, if we go watch, it's like five seconds of animation then cut and I realized it was just me, like staring at a television going like, I mean, the ADHD, I, that's genetic, but man, that this, that show didn't help, so I'm getting on.
[SPEAKER_01]: So as we talked about last time, the destroyer curse will turn a neckron into a being just obsessed with killing, like an uncontrollable urge.
[SPEAKER_01]: but entire and his leaders appear to be able to control it to a point where they're still able to possess modicums of strategy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this gets explained really well in the 500-world's campaign that he has these generals who work underneath them for lack of a better phrase, and they're able to actually control their behavior, but it's a lot more like a doctor's strange love type thing, which you guys don't get that reference and deal with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, great move.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so Avatar himself is a big dude because of the fact that I think that
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, Brad fucking theory is that he I might be the beginning of it, but I think that he is definitely a carrier of the destroyer curse Oh, yeah, he can put it he can put it on others But it feels like he can give you a level of destroyer curse that what's that that's what?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm torn on this.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the way it's almost described is similar to a nirgot plague where almond tar moves around with this thing surrounding him and it will infect you but you have to give yourself over to it is how it feels like because he talk about this that some beings he'll just conquer instantly but it feels like it's the warriors who don't really have free will but the upper beings do have some semblance of free will.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure, but it still feels like he's giving him a different version almost, you know, because some of them go immediately and then they kind of let some loose like a rabbit dog and then the others that are just infected, but they just feel a need and they don't really change they just maybe yeah my thinking on it was maybe the ones who are it is like is like court maybe those were overlords.
[SPEAKER_01]: that he was able to grab.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was kind of, that was my assumption, but I could say it also be maybe he's choosing them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hadn't thought of it that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're choosing.
[SPEAKER_01]: You could totally be right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my brain was, oh, there's the overlords, but you're right.
[SPEAKER_01]: You could just be, he's actually going through like, no, I like this one here.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get a happy version.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, so in effect,
[SPEAKER_01]: with Amantar.
[SPEAKER_01]: He now has the important part, but he has his own dynasty, like spread throughout the galaxy dynasty, and it's ever increasing because he's the destroyer curse.
[SPEAKER_01]: So as the destroyer curse spreads, and more than
[SPEAKER_01]: world's fall to it more join his legion.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the size of scope of this are impossible to figure out how big it is, but it's also impossible to control.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Amantar, he built almost his own triarchy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that crown's have a triarchy.
[SPEAKER_01]: He basically built his own to rule it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this one, to what Brad was talking about, is the generals who work under Amantar actually keep a traditional Necron title of Nemesor, which is the, it's common, it's almost like general, it's not an overlord,
[SPEAKER_01]: Frank, I think I should might be a bubble ruler now think about it, but whatever Now these ones have an important function and the reason their function is is that as this legion is spread throughout the galaxy The tar isn't gas.
[SPEAKER_01]: He can't just influence the electrons all over the place So we have to spread himself throughout so he has these Nemesars all over the place who are doing destroyer cult stuff here and there
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's important because these ones, in order to do this though, they can't just be mindless thralls obsessed with killing all organic life because that's actually pretty easy to put down.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have to be able to maintain some level of lucid thought in some level of function.
[SPEAKER_01]: The whole concept around them, this is a big piece because the idea around the cursed legion up to this point within the necrons is that these are all mindless thrills.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, the silent king still thinks that all of the cursed legion are mindless, but we've now learned they're not.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, they are strategic.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do have plans.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so this actually changes, we're going to talk more about this at the end of the cast.
[SPEAKER_01]: This has a much bigger effect on what can happen with the Necrons, because the silent King, for example, is banking on that I'll just wipe these guys out whenever I need to.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's going to be a lot harder than you think.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, again, still him and the triarts give the title to.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be proud of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, there's someone's going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a
[SPEAKER_01]: And these are going to bring all that up is because that's kind of important for what happens next.
[SPEAKER_01]: Back on Noham Magnaur after Titus and his crew leave and escape is a moment of clarity.
[SPEAKER_01]: On and tar is furious about their escape, but realizes that it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme.
[SPEAKER_01]: The cursed Legion is on Noham Magnaur for one reason and one reason only, and that is to get the shard of the nightbringer.
[SPEAKER_01]: They succeeded in their sneak attack on the South Tech dynasty, which was called Ujmeck by the Necrons.
[SPEAKER_01]: They arrived before the tomb fully awakened, and they over on the defenders, but the overlord whose name was Huskot-Tepf.
[SPEAKER_01]: Huskot-Tepf?
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not even tried, John.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whew.
[SPEAKER_01]: Has got, Yeah, it is has got tough.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ted.
[SPEAKER_01]: So overlord Ted was a, was a, was a woken suddenly in an emergency.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as soon as he woke up, took a look around and went, No, grab the C ten shard and hit, leave, hit the leave button on the spaceship and bailed out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Successfully.
[SPEAKER_01]: fled all of the chasing necrons and found a love staring right at tightness.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's just what this is one of my favorites.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because this guy's like, I got it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's one of those, you know, movie scenes or whatever with somebody's getting away.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's always one of the bad guys, you know, with the leaving the rest of the good guys for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then turns around and sees the alien, the mummy, the whatever, right in front of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: That, that was, it's tightest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the aliens sits up in the back seat while he's driving away.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what this was.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, oh, I escaped and tightest went and tell you did, boom.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm in tar now consense that the shard is back on Novum Agnore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, he knows exactly where it is, sense it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he has a situation after the failure against the ultra marines though he needs to be better prepared this time against the ultra marines to be fair he laid a very good trap very very good trap and they still they escaped.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he decides this time nope we're not even we're going to surprise and overwhelming force.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he looks around and I love this plan, by the way, he goes because it's kind of like the pirates of the Caribbean thing of like, I'll just go under, but I'm much grander scale.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, for a change, I'm even giving me mad.
[SPEAKER_00]: The usual thing that you usually complain about.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, this part's hilariously stupid.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let me do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then jump on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, and hard, just to discover as a fisher going, but it's through the earth, basically write up to where the ad make facility is.
[SPEAKER_01]: And goes cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: And grabs, I don't know, 100,000 Necron warriors and starts going for a walk that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's too far deep for the Imperium to see it because of course it is just shut up like I've just come on and he by the way knew that their scanners couldn't go this
[SPEAKER_01]: They aren't going to get online.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which, by the way, teacher, I learned this a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you have a Florida, it's illegal?
[SPEAKER_01]: Metal detecting on the beach?
[SPEAKER_01]: I was in Florida a couple weeks ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or at least where I was in Florida.
[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe a fancy bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, fine, but random things you learn.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he basically decides to bring like over 50% of his forces to just go attack with the ad make facility.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is gonna work.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, his whole plan relies on them not being detected.
[SPEAKER_01]: he has a cunning plan and actually three on this actually is a cunning plan.
[SPEAKER_01]: He takes Nemesar a new tech the one who thought of the idea of the tech to attack Titus and says, hey, take care of everything else and basically told her just
[SPEAKER_01]: attack the Imperials nonstop just constantly whatever it is just throw endless bodies at them no matter what all over the place so that because what you don't want to do is all of a sudden like if you're into a sneak attack don't just stop attacking somewhere else because then they actually might use their scanners and go hey wonder if the backgrounds are somewhere else
[SPEAKER_00]: 42 hours a go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because in all fairness, if like tight as I've discovered where they were like all right, so do we just collapse the earth on them and then this isn't a problem anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, basically much.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but when he does this one cool little piece is that because he grabs so many destroyer cult members together in this like it's almost an org wall happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: I say it's a log.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then what there's a reason that his counsel is considered the oblivion counsel.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not exactly chill.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what I like is as they go off though, this actually has almost like a feedback effect through everybody else.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm going to take has to actually work overdrive on herself to not
[SPEAKER_01]: fall into like the non-lucid state of the story.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because she has to direct, I don't know, a million necrons all over the place.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she's having to fight it because with so much like anger and hate coming out of a mentor and all the other Kurdish Legion members, she's actually getting this almost like, again, Orgwap.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have to be part of this too, which is just going to rush off the murder people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so, yeah, she's like, or guys in the fence, she's just like, oh, I've got a stick, hit thing with stick.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's gonna be important a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, we're on the same time, back at HQ, Titus has a next move plan.
[SPEAKER_01]: And two things happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: First, he puts in a call to Archmago's Oct about the weapon that they recover in the orbit and gets nothing back.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Titus goes cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna go destroy that damn thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which should have been as tight as start learning from some of your mistakes, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever there's a weird alien artifact, fire it into space.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what you do every time, Titus, every single time.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the new system.
[SPEAKER_01]: Full stop.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it wasn't a good decision.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, he went down and went, oh, things are happening.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many things all of them?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it wasn't ideal.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know where they get attacked.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is happening at the exact same time that Amantar is heading underground.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I know Tech launches are things.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there is this massive coordinated assault on basically every single front.
[SPEAKER_00]: it's supposed to be this wild attack.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not trying to punch through.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're trying to take away the defenses from the nightbring assured so that they have to basically leave and defend so many different places.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's effectively impossible for them to do all this stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: So now Titus has to shift his focus from going and blowing up the shard to not having the entire planet fall.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he sends Gaudrill and Metaris to the South and West to short the fences there, and another strike force north to deal with a nightbringer, which was a cool story.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like this a lot because the ultramarines do it a lot, even though occasionally they're the good guys that are willing to let you die for a cause.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're very pragmatic about their defenses and they even talk about this in the story here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he goes, he goes, he goes, this is winnable.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is winnable.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're sending forces there.
[SPEAKER_00]: They kind of went, what about the other places?
[SPEAKER_00]: He goes, I just said they're not winnable.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stop asking me dumb questions and just went, I guess everybody dies there, dooses.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, what I like next is a whole like bit in the book, blah, blah, blah, fight, blah, blah, victory, blah, blah, this.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's an amazing homage to an old Necron rule that I thought was awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: They dumped in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, while finding the Necron's and the nightbringer, the old chimerines just cannot do anything to the nightbringer.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're hitting it with everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just bouncing off and slaughtering everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: But all the Necron warriors around it, they are dying.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so they call in a stormhawk interceptors to just say, all right, let's just strafe and see if that works.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they come through in the stormwalks, again, do screw off nothing to the night bringer, but it kills almost all the warriors around it, which then all of a sudden in a blink.
[SPEAKER_01]: the night-pringered disappears, low with all the warriors, which is a great homage back to was it third or fourth edition, Brad?
[SPEAKER_00]: Both.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their rule was so messed up, because what would happen is that no matter how bad you were crushing, if your force ever got down to 20%, I think it was 25, actually, when it could reach 20%.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you have 20 to 25%, if you got down to that exact number, and it was by number of models back then.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Necron force teleported away.
[SPEAKER_00]: The entire force instantly were gone.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So everyone else had to be table.
[SPEAKER_01]: You had to kill every model in the board.
[SPEAKER_01]: Necrons just got another 25% of model count, not points model count.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they would disappear.
[SPEAKER_01]: So GW just dropped that at a nowhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, that's still a thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: They brought that back for the lab of the edition.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know so many people who would just cry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Think about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have more, you have DBAs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good to have the night, the silent king, and you go, yeah, I'm only targeting warriors in the mortals.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like to give you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And your army just teleports off the board.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll look, I won.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, but yeah, so good job, GW, and put that in.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Gaudrial and Metaris, they secure their fronts, but really secure it best.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they are the imperial forces are losing this battle.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are the fact that when I was throwing up a four-to-two, which is the their beset on the fronts that are actually fightable, they've lost the other fronts are just crushed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, 100%.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, everyone, yeah, this is brutal.
[SPEAKER_01]: So tightness is looking around and going, all right, we've got two options.
[SPEAKER_01]: option one full retreat exterminatus or turn this thing back to an offensive and he goes with option be because he's tightness and tightness notices something he notices the majority of the forces that are coming and fighting are coming out of sight on bread which is where the ambush had happened earlier.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he concludes that there must be a dimensional portal there, bringing in the Necrons, which means the Necrons basically have infinite reinforcements there, and that will eventually over the defenders, and he also concludes that the Necrons would have left the vortex bomb there and not destroyed it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the only rational explanation for this is I assume altramine plot armor because this is 100% doctor evil and laser sharks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like why would they get rid of the vortex bomb?
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course they wouldn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: The thing that could undermine their entire plan is probably sitting right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guarantee you next to all of the teleportation, but by the way, it's exactly what it was exactly
[SPEAKER_01]: like, I'll come on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you why I grow doubt loud, because remember when they couldn't find the cataclysmic giant rift of fisher in the planet with a half million agnecron warriors and all their forces moving on, they immediately use their scanners and found a bomb.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, oh yeah, there it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: They haven't disassembled it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But again, Titus determines the best course of action is to deploy to this site obscure them, terrible name, which is somehow connected to site umma through a underground tunnel, which to Brad's point they discovered, and we'll just fight our way there, secure the vortex bomb, blow it up and save the planet.
[SPEAKER_01]: problem solved, so he grabbed Gadriel and the second company and they head out the site obscures, they do this lightning hawk thunder strike, thunder hawk, which actually is cool, thunder hawks are awesome, they also it's, I want this in a future game because it does sound and look badass, but they come jumping out of the airplane.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and they come in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, literally, they jump me out of an airplane.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's it comes in at like full speed.
[SPEAKER_01]: The front bay opens and the plane just stops.
[SPEAKER_01]: They come rocketing out like the chains sort of blazing and start cutting down neck runs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's bad ass.
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks super awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they start fighting the way to the tomb complex.
[SPEAKER_01]: will be right back after a quick break.
[SPEAKER_01]: While this is happening though, Arch Magos Oct is losing his mind, because the Necrons when they put a satan away, the password is not 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, like on Brad's luggage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think, well, well, well, I think you're going way too long on that.
[SPEAKER_00]: My password clearly would be one, two, three, four.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's too many numbers.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to two, who's going to guess it?
[SPEAKER_01]: One, two, they won't get there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: The cages that they built for the C-tans were highly complex and well beyond the capabilities of AdMec Machmago's.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Oct is basically staring at his god locked in the cage and he cannot figure out the
[SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, by this time, he's basically just slamming it on the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, like more, the files are in the computer.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so he's obsessive opening this, but what happened to his mind starts to go around this time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's getting reports coming in from the rest of the planet saying, He's back it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: His mind's not going because he's off.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's getting dominated by the content.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, it's hard to figure it's weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's getting dominated by the contend, but not in a way where he actually can help the contend.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just kind of almost shutting him down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because he's getting mass effects style.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's basically Reaper.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, well, but the repers would control you and make you do stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's just, he's actually, but they're just, yeah, but they weaken you first before they take into account.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we can do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, fair boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's just, he's just loved.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I think's happening to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what I like about this is what happens next.
[SPEAKER_01]: Apparently the ad makes do have scanners that work.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so he gets a bunch of calls coming and saying, hey, there's a million necrons walking towards us our underground.
[SPEAKER_01]: Should we do something about that?
[SPEAKER_01]: And his response is just no response.
[SPEAKER_01]: Doesn't tell his hero defenders doesn't even increase his defenses.
[SPEAKER_01]: He just hangs out Which really sucks the planetary defense force because almond tart is force show up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hard to mostly do the dismay the planetary defense force to be fair to Spain.
[SPEAKER_00]: They died so fast.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't have time to be
[SPEAKER_01]: What's funny about this is like almond Tars Force was so big they could have gone a frontal assault and ripped through these people and it said they came from underneath like and behind this For them because he pops up
[SPEAKER_01]: starts attacking.
[SPEAKER_01]: They, of course, call for support.
[SPEAKER_01]: Titus is over on site obscures with all of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: The imperial fleet is, of course, suffering communication issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: No explanation, just, you know, at the, it just atmospheric interference, because, yeah, of course, there is.
[SPEAKER_01]: 41st millennia.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, it's cloudy today.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we can't get a message through.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's cloudy.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a really cloudy night night fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a night fight still the best.
[SPEAKER_01]: Guys, all though I do like, by the way, that I had a depth of con, we're gonna have night fight, you and I are playing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, it's in, it's actually in the packet.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's in the pack of doubles, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the pack of doubles, it's night fight, night fights back.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, it's game three.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I say we just bring an all-mail ARM, just so we don't have to deal with night fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Screw it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I need dinosaurs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, all night fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, because the whole defense now falls the planetary governor and her forces, and what happens next, makes me really happy and really sad, and I'll explain in a minute.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, the AdMec facility is near to fall, so Governor Gallo decides to lead the defense herself, and she brings with her
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, her very unbane blade.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is like my favorite thing, by the way, in all of the Imperial Guard, like the actual bane blade, by the way, not the bane hammer, not the bane sword, the dune hammer, the bane blade, which by the way should only have flavors.
[SPEAKER_01]: The heavy balters are stupid.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why are how are you so pinkies out?
[SPEAKER_00]: on which is the good, super heavy tanks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I can't be sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sabina, look, it's fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look, the main hammer has its place.
[SPEAKER_01]: The main sword has its, like the doom hammer's cool as hell, don't get me wrong, but the main blade is just, that's your bread and butter right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: You nice, go ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's got, but again, you gotta put the, be happy with the flavors on it because it's God that it, it is fun to play with.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just it sucks on the table, huh?
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, looks awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's funny is that, yeah, so she comes out with this bean blade and the bean blade goes burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
[SPEAKER_00]: It probably should have shot the guy in charge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so Amantar then drops in, literally drops in from above into the middle of the imperial forces like a blender and it starts shredding everybody and unfortunately the people inside the vein blade did not include a commissar.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they didn't think to just fire on Amantar anyway because, you know, they were worried they might kill the fellow guardsmen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which by the way, I'm pretty sure is in the imperial primer you get killed for, not the shooting the imperial the guardsmen, the not shooting the guardsmen to kill the bad guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty sure that actually gets you death in the imperial primer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know what, did get everybody death?
[SPEAKER_00]: The...
[SPEAKER_00]: The scorepack Lord, the bro due to the bait blade, it went, hey, are any of you guardsmen's able to take me on Mono, Mono, and melee combat?
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, the answer was no, and the scorepack, Lord, also asked everyone in the main blade, because he killed everyone in the main blade.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I do like the last thing the Empire of the Fenders did was Governor Gallo then took out her sword and let a final charge into the Necron warriors.
[SPEAKER_01]: They had nothing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, that's all it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't even describe what happens next.
[SPEAKER_01]: They just go, the last thing she did was took out her sword and charged.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's no words after that.
[SPEAKER_01]: They just, the story just moves on.
[SPEAKER_01]: just it was that ineffective no so the neck runs get to the ad make facility which is locked but they had three dooms they arcs so it stopped being locked oh yeah dooms they arcs versus door seats back
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they all look it's open now and then when they get inside there's much of Skatari defender is that almond dar just goes, yeah, that's cute Nope Slotters all them Fines oct stand next the C tan chart and oct is like looks at almond tar
[SPEAKER_00]: if this is so sad because he could have actually unlocked it because he was planning on anyways oct begs i'm in charge one locked the shards so we can see his god he just wants to lay he knows he's gonna die doesn't care i just want to see him once and i'm a targo's sure man i'm gonna do that for you absolutely not he did not say any of those things
[SPEAKER_01]: He instantly killed it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They just, he kills Oct and then opens the shard and then, first, I'll say, first kills.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first kills Oct and it opens the shard and then teleports away and look, look, leaves, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was good.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a big deal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Usually in the books and the stories, you get losses for the Imperium.
[SPEAKER_00]: This wasn't a loss.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was just a necron slaughter fest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: The necron is crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: But over on site, Umbera Titus and his force finally make it all the way back to the great hall where they got defeated before.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now Onutec, the woman we were talking about before, had been so focused on like this mix of offense on the planet, she actually hadn't really defended herself.
[SPEAKER_01]: She had a very small defensive force in the area, because all the netcrants who were coming in, she was throwing at the Imperials.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's basically once the techenaries started like turning on the vortex bomb that she didn't disassembled behind her, that she's like, oh crap,
[SPEAKER_01]: and she immediately breaks focus and attacks Titus and his crew.
[SPEAKER_01]: Blah, blah, blah, fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Blah, blah, all chimneys.
[SPEAKER_01]: Get up for a hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Necrons, get up for a hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gadriel almost dies, but then Titus jumps in and fights on attack.
[SPEAKER_01]: he did like a back flip and all kinds of stuff because he does fight through and he jumps over a bunch of people to do it to go and do this and the whole thing is on his tech is the ono tech gets over calm by the destroyer curse while fighting so then she becomes sloppy and because she's sloppy, tightest shoves the chains or they were body and then she teleports the way he'll heal somewhere else.
[SPEAKER_01]: So then Titus and his crew flip the switch in the vortex bomb, which explodes or implodes.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a vortex bomb basically make the warp occur and then remove the warp.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it makes the material become the immaterial and then removes the immaterial from the material.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're really cool and hopefully for a level of addition, they'll bring back the greatest rule and ambition.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it'd be so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Start attacks, you're coming back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so, no, no, no, nothing good for nights, nights don't deserve nice things.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, but Tyson has crewed and flee this blows up the main site and all the Necron reinforcements are gone.
[SPEAKER_01]: At the same time, Amantar has also gone, so the Imperial Forces do reclaim Nova Magnaur sort of.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah, hold on, yeah, you're absolutely right.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do reclaim it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just, sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's, but it's, yeah, it wasn't what they started with.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's more like, oh, great.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, you just gave back you it to, yeah, a lot of team America world police and we're, you're welcome, friends.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, they might, when they saved their asses, they'd say, Paris, yeah, that's what I'm thinking about when they go, we've got no longer back,
[SPEAKER_01]: I know, but yeah, so I'll be honest when I got to the end of this book, it's kind of anti-climactic because Titus and Amantar both win.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amantar got his night-bringer shard, and Titus wanted to the first place.
[SPEAKER_01]: Titus does secure Nova Magnaur with laughter, but there is still a functioning plan.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not like the whole, it's got destroyed.
[SPEAKER_01]: He also got Eidaris, what was left of that, and all for Ultramar, some significant losses, but he got him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, but that's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is some other stuff that we probably should touch on really quick because there's about eight other pages and like 16 paragraphs.
[SPEAKER_01]: What the other, other tech trucks were doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's, it is, I like it because it's, as you guys know, listen, it's show for a while.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like the Codex lore, almost more than like the Black Library stuff because I'm, I think, fun to read.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so what we just touch on the other Tetrax real quick because it's not much to do when these are fun tidbits and we'll start with it will this is to be fast this actually is the most important of the fronts it's because it's got all the important shit
[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Konoor is the north of Ultramar and this was destined to be the most successful for two reasons.
[SPEAKER_01]: One, Agamemnon is the cap of the first company and this region has the highest percentage of imperial held planets.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are planets.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were underdressed from a combo of heretics and orcs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like there was actually an orc pirate kingdom in the middle of it called stomping grounds.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good job
[SPEAKER_01]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and Agamemda grounds with his Z. Oh, yeah, with the Z. Yeah, and Agamemda and does.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a plan.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's a bunch of or pirates and there's a bunch of heretics cool full court press and just decides to go break his entire chapter and all their forces and to start at one side and just go to the other full speed and he crawls all of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, and I love this, they give it the least amount of words, the press in the books, but I still, this is the most important part for the rest of the Imperium.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not the coolest for the story because it's not the cool fighting, but you have to take this place.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is where all of the most populous planets that agro-world, high-world, there is a bunch of stuff that has to be taken.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you lost the rest of the front, but kept this one, you still can fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: This one is the most important.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that part goes great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yay, Agamemnon.
[SPEAKER_01]: The opposite side of this though is the Endermung Front, which is Captain Portan of the Genesis chapter.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has Lieutenant's Brotherford, Banks, and Bill Collins.
[SPEAKER_01]: the endermunk front is tricky because the warp down there is just rough.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what they is how they describe it is a warp travel just not very reliable.
[SPEAKER_01]: So port and can't do a full court press because all the forces would arrive at different times.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he has to go through like much more meticulously and one at a time.
[SPEAKER_01]: He also has to reinforce areas because
[SPEAKER_01]: once you leave an area, it's hard to get back to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you have to really have complete victories then fully secure it and then move on.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Portland's been moving much more slowly, but he has been moving methodically throughout the sector.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and his biggest problem is pirates.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's on, it's pirates, but also the fact that the people there don't want to be part of.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just saved you.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you didn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to be saved.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm doing real problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's got these two things.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got work free booters and pirates.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the other one is yet all the planetary governors are like, oh, no, but it's actually the story is very funny in there, because what they keep dealing with is, you know, you can't, you show up as ultra marines on a planet.
[SPEAKER_01]: The planetary
[SPEAKER_01]: the whole dying thing, so what they do instead the story is the local leaders would just put the delegations and waiting rooms with no food and just kept saying, hey, we're running five minutes late and would for like days and what the delegates would leave until the alterings would like, well, we'll just send them with food.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so over time, Phil Collins and crew are bringing the worlds into the fold, but it's challenging.
[SPEAKER_01]: These worlds are resisting not like actively resisting.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just not actively complying is how I would describe it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's kind of a cool one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then you go to the East with Captain Felix who's basically whereas Phil Collins and crew are dealing with Dr. Colin.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you name it the Genesis chapter, I'm just going to do Phil Collins dealing with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, yeah, just sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they're dealing with kind of pirates in some resistance.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, hey, it's a peter mess.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but this is cringey for him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Felix is on the other side of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, oh, no, I'm actually at war.
[SPEAKER_01]: Holy, with rap, yes, yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is called the Vespatore front.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Necrop, Deathguard, Jesus, and Leagues of Votes.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, their league is here too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just kidding.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, just let it you know, everyone is fighting everyone and looking for the opportunity for anybody that's helps in any fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Detailed as soon as that happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Felix decides to do the Agamemnon thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's goes, all right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's just full court press.
[SPEAKER_01]: you know, mass strike, hard and fast, everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: And at first, he's having a good amount of success, but, you know, this is the early stages of what they're basically referring to.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like the first, like a few worlds he goes into, no problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone's in full retreat, but he hasn't gotten to the rougher parts yet, like the worlds where you have Necron
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not even do with that work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just blow this place.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, move on.
[SPEAKER_00]: This neighborhood's value is went so down.
[SPEAKER_01]: You also have Votan, which makes sense because where Ultramar is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Votan have now arrived and they're basically stealing the resources from some of the planets.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's what they do.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a Votan pirates.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not pirates, but they're referring them as if they're pirates.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have come in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's one of the resources in that planet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come and take those now.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, like yeah, watch me and because vote time with the coming coming in force We have to fight vote 10 and of course there's jeans dealers because there's always jeans dealers
[SPEAKER_01]: And the last one is the Dumeagles.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just the Western region.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Captain Baufus, just, I don't like the tape.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all right, Dumeagles is a dumb name.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's the same problem Phil Collins has.
[SPEAKER_01]: The region is just problematic.
[SPEAKER_01]: And but it's always problematic.
[SPEAKER_01]: The difference is like this region,
[SPEAKER_01]: it seems to always just fall apart.
[SPEAKER_01]: So worlds will go to compliance and then they fall out of compliance.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the, any, all the explorers who go there, they go missing.
[SPEAKER_01]: The end to the point work, even just the level of uprisings, there's just a cause there.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not normal anti-imperial.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm jumping on this because he just chooses out of the options you could have chose.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Ultramarines do such a great job.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to boast of the life we're going to make you safe.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to make you safe.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a success or a chapter.
[SPEAKER_00]: And instead, he's like, I will beat you with a stick until you're happy.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're like,
[SPEAKER_00]: But you had so many great options.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, yeah, I got this stick though.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to hit you with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you tell me that you're super happy to be hit with a stick.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he goes with the age old.
[SPEAKER_01]: The beatings will continue until morale improves.
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_01]: That is his actual player.
[SPEAKER_01]: And just goes forcing compliance in the region with just absolute might of the Imperium, just devastating worlds, killing imperial governors, basically saying, you think, other stuff scary, there's nothing scare the in angry space marine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which, you know, honestly, isn't that kind of work?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Except for he used the, I got mine control over Debo.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: As soon as they leave, they talk again.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the real problem with the region is the region is full of heretics and it's full of jucariactivity.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's one of the, it's just this whole region is a mess.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's getting pulled around.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, that being said, though, with all that, the tetrax are all doing pretty well, and Protoss and Andre among fronts are moving more slowly than Vespitore and Coroner, but they're doing well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Titus is really the only one who actually had a bad time.
[SPEAKER_01]: So overall, 500 rose campaign is going pretty well, all Gilman's plan of expanding Ultramar and improving the resources for the Imperium.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't go a plus, but pretty good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's great.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what about the Necrons?
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is a bit more interesting to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to spend some time with this real quick.
[SPEAKER_01]: The silent king is unfortunately pretty busy right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen, tar was successful in getting another night bringer shard.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this time, he attacked a South Tech tomb world and a major tomb world.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a great significance to the South Tech dynasty.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, it's a big deal because the other Necroun's now found out that he could force destroy or curse on people because when he captured people, he was using his cryptics to infect them, not just from his or in him personally, but he was turning people over.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is terrifying to the people that are sentient, the overlords and everything else.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this could be a real problem for me because before they destroy occurrences this thing that happens to lesser beings of whatnot and probably won't get around to me, I could get in the middle of this fight, all of a sudden I'm effectively a drone.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't sleep to the destroyer curse, and that's a big deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and what you have now is that up until this point, Amantars gone largely ignored by the silent king.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing goes unnoticed by a silent king, but there's this take priority.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the silent king is a little bit jammed up right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is stuck in the prior nexus.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's pinned between the encroaching forces of Gilliman and a civil war with the South Tech Dinosys Neymotech.
[SPEAKER_01]: But.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the guys who just had some little of an issue here, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Silent King needs to secure that sector in his forces so he can move forward in the galaxy, but this creates a bit of a plot challenge, more for the game.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, this is why I'm excited about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: For a decade or so, GW has been giving the Necrons a glow-up, starting about the eighth edition, I think it's about the eighth edition codex, where they went from mindless murder robots that went to extinguish all life to a complex zero species with like disparate goals, abilities, et cetera.
[SPEAKER_01]: And at that time, I think it was an eighth edition codex, but it might be the ninth edition codex.
[SPEAKER_01]: They basically implied.
[SPEAKER_01]: that the Necrons are massively more numerous than originally hinted, kind of like with a vote 10, recently, but they're like, oh, by the way, there's more vote 10, then there's nothing in theory.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, wait, what?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a thing?
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's implied in the writings, and maybe I've been overtly, I can't remember, that if the Necrons fully awakened, they actually could overtake the galaxy, because they would outnumber, oh, they would outnumber humanity, but they would outgun humanity by a wide margin.
[SPEAKER_01]: then unfortunately the silent king comes back at m 42 and that just happened like the necrons are awakening in mass right now so gw's in a bit of a bind gw has the necrons fully awakening so they're gonna conquer the galaxy
[SPEAKER_01]: And now, it's why I'm excited about they've added a wrinkle, and the wrinkle is emotech in Amantar, a massive potential civil war within the necrons that could engulf them and kind of prevent their rise to power.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is going to be, I want to kind of discuss such a big deal on that because it will take straight up back stabbed the silent king, because he waited until, I mean, it was a front stab if I'm being honest.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't even at two Brutei because there was no one else.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just Brutei, what the, true.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yeah, it was a big deal because he decided, hey, I noticed that you were fully involved in combat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, here it comes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm gonna come attack you and so this actually gets to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is really cool because it does it helps but I like seeing GW does a really good thing in the writing on occasion.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do not like to rep count.
[SPEAKER_01]: I talked about it before.
[SPEAKER_01]: They go out of their way to not rep count And sometimes they do a better job than others, but this is one scenario where I'm really happy They were heading down a path where they were gonna put themselves in this tough bind of okay the
[SPEAKER_01]: Now we've got this destroyer curse.
[SPEAKER_01]: The destroyer curse means that now the necrons have to fight that, and they have, and this e-motech split also is there.
[SPEAKER_01]: This also potentially sets us up for the Tyrannins, because one of the complaints I have is we get towards the end of tenth edition, so I don't know what you're listening to this, but if you're listening to this, you know, in before middle of twenty twenty six, do you have?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm still accurate, but if it's after June twenty twenty six,
[SPEAKER_01]: We're getting to a point of like almost a warhammer fantasy where the galaxy's just kind of done.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got the rift to split the galaxy in half, which I think was too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's tyrannies engulfing the entire galaxy, which I think is.
[SPEAKER_00]: We haven't done that much.
[SPEAKER_01]: They did one thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: They stopped the one Kendra coming towards Sol.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then it was the Chris treatment shove the Orcs into the other one.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's some real-tarded problems that we just kind of story wise went, eh, we'll figure that out later.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you guys said they were about to collapse the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: And also the Necrons are about to collapse the galaxy and the rift has put the galaxy in half.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, well, you have a dog still pushing pretty hard by the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and that's what this all comes into.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's kind of what I'm hoping the Necrons actually to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, man, I am going to be so wrong on this.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the Necrons to me give GW a great plot out.
[SPEAKER_01]: First off, the Necrons have the blackstone.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they actually can close the rift, or maybe not close at least, the strength of the rift.
[SPEAKER_00]: They need to control the rift.
[SPEAKER_00]: The rift was a cool thing of chaos is starting to win and push their
[SPEAKER_00]: but we both agree it was it's just the writing the writing of it was a mistake because it's like so there's a giant hole in the image and I think they had the necrons were going to shut that remember they were rid the right away had that little blurb of the necrons trying to saying that they could just close the rift.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's what has happened so that nice of the necrons have the ability to close the rift Also the necrons fan theory the tyrannids are the old ones so necrons and old ones That's a fun fight put those two into each other kind of brings that went down the necrons start to solve a lot of the problems for the galaxy
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm thinking blunt the ternons force and they can blunt the chaos problem and then we get back to the galaxy isn't just collapsing exactly and at the same time while they do those two blunts they take massive losses which brings them down to a away from a race that just easily conquers the galaxy and becomes them.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is my hope.
[SPEAKER_01]: out of GW listens to this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do have, I have geolocation on people who listen to this cast.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't see down to that, that close, but there's listeners and notting them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, haha.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, but with that, let's see end of kind of our coverage of 500 worlds right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: next week we're going to finally do something that I've been getting yelled at on discord to do for a while.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, Brad, get excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: The queen of slime.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're big.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're bronze and you really don't want them showing up the miniatars.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to cover the space marine faction that Brad probably likes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I said, I don't think you like them the least.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a weird scenario.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you like the miniatar faction.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the miniatar faction.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, we, we, we, we're us doing this as a doing a cast on that means I have to go in to the people, specifically the Lord's of Terra, that I hate.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's who made these guys happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we have to spend a bunch of time on that as opposed to just going, miniatires do cool stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we'll just do the first episode only on the Lord's of Terra, just a whole episode on like,
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, both, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, honestly, at this point, you're just hurt yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ah, shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I did leave the house for my first time yesterday and instantaneously fell on the car.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's so.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like my odds.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, with that John Barsaudi, Brad Chester, this guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: See you guys next week.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.