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AI isn't entirely Heresy in the Imperium, as long as they are verified to have a pure Machine Spirit they could very well be accepted. Things then go bad for the Imperium's enemies.

And then the Iron Men meet the Necrons...

If the pylons degrade, Abaddon himself is screwed. With no stable means of exiting the Eye of Terror, any "Black Crusades" he launches will be reduced to mere raiding parties, for the Imperial Navy to defeat piecemeal. (To paraphrase another board member, without the pylons, ships exiting...

In fact Abaddon is locked up securely in the Eye of Terror. He's landed on Cadia, but since he wasn't able to get space superiority that doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot. Except that the Necron pylons are degrading, and who knows what Abaddon might be able to do to that. If the pylons degrade, Ab...

Is there a single type of "void shield" or is it a generic name? The galaxy is a big place. I know there are also refractor fields (which, IIRC are what the Infardi officers used) conversion fields and displacer fields, all of which are small enough for personal use. Well there are differ...

One of the mad guys in the last Ravenor book had a personal void shield that he mentioned was crazy expensive. (His name began with an M I think, its been a while...)

Actually, the thermal clip is there to put more rounds down range faster, instead of waiting to cool down. This was adopted after seeing the Geth use them and how they would put way more rounds on target. Theoretically they should be able to be used as before (infinite ammo basically) but if you &q...

Actually, the thermal clip is there to put more rounds down range faster, instead of waiting to cool down. This was adopted after seeing the Geth use them and how they would put way more rounds on target. Theoretically they should be able to be used as before (infinite ammo basically) but if you &qu...

I heard the Macharian Crusade was similar to what they thought would happen at the end of the Great Crusade. They tore up the worlds in their path, but they reached the Halo Stars and it is said that Macharius wept when he knew that he couldn't go any further, after that everyone got bored and, not ...

Is there a quantification of the void shields? how much force is a shield able to withstand? how fast does it recharge? I have heard that the shields work in layers,whats the details on that? and any other relevant info on how the shields work would be nice. It depends on man things, one of the mos...

Oh, and since I didn't remember in time, Atlas Infernal is a great book too.

Three months after the battle for the High City, the first of the remembrancers had joined the expedition fleet, brought directly from Terra by mass conveyance. Various chroniclers and recorders had, of course, been accompanying Imperial forces since the commencement of the Great Crusade, two hundr...

Going to be going on a family holiday over christmas and holidays are normally when I devour entire books, so I'm looking to take advantage of the xmas sales to stock up on reading material. Currently I'm looking at: Warhammer 40,000: The Salamander's trilogy (Salamander, Firedrake and Nocturne?) b...

I really liked his work, like the Grey Knight novels and Daemon World....and then I read the Soul Drinkers series... The characters were pretty bad, and I only pushed through as there were some interesting tidbits in there, especially on Necrons in Hellforged. But in general his books are well writt...

Magnus the Red for either, magic=win.

Bolt action rifles in 40k tend to be ludicrously powerful, such as the one in Warriors of Ultramar.

And high-powered rifles are still used by guardsmen, such as in Redemption Corps.

His response, DrStrangeLove To your comment on Pic 1: I do have to wonder if he even bothered to reread what he just said. According to him, lightening (At 500megajoules) should have the same effect on the environment as detonating 236 sticks of dynamite. What we have in Sg weapons is focused, unidi...

Also in response to DrStrangeLove's pics he said. Pic one: He doesnt understand how energy beams work. It isnt a nuke. Pic two: Plot. Any energy beam that can travel from orbit and hit the ocean floor would have obliterated that asteroid unless it was made of wolverine’s adamantium. Additionly, no h...

His response to Eleventh Century Remnant was this. He can bitch all he likes it does not change the facts. It was stated to be a CME that dwarfed anything our sun had emitted and it was shown to be, visually and by the plot, to be narrow enough to be deflected by the shields. That is the canon, his ...

CMEs are not unidirectional. They expand outwards from the surface of the star along the lines of magnetic force, as I understand it, and the ship is going to get hit by a hell of a lot less than the full force of the blast. That calculation might be right in principle if they're doing something dr...

A debater on Factpile put these calcs up (Cananatra) and I was wondering how accurate they were. Looking to the feats of a ZPM power asgard shield we get the episode echoes. stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Echoes Firstly to quote McKay “McKay: It’s a coronal mass ejection on a scale that dwarfs anything our...

Hey, man, Connor'll get to that when he gets to it. He's ultimately doing this of his own volition, and it'll take as long as it takes. Being pushy isn't liable to get things moving any quicker. I would hardly call that pushy, it was more of a suggestion. However if it did sound pushy I apologize. ...

You should get to Blood Gorgon, there is a ton of quantifiable stuff in there.

The only way that the SG had a chance is due to a debater sating A. The Replicators are invulnerable to energy weapons, B. could time dilate themselves during the prep time, C. and using ZPM's mass produced would have EXATON level shielding according to his Coronal Mass Ejection calcs. Which as none...

Has a "height" limit ever been established for the Necron destroyers yet, or are they pure spacecraft posing as skimmers? Also, I will echo Purple view that the Old Ones wars made it too much like a Warhammer clone rather than a distinct franchise on its own. The Old Gods setting suited W...

After visiting some of those other websites....OW, my brain hurts.