Welcome to Nobledark Imperium: a relatively light fan rewrite of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, with a generous helping of competence and common sense.
THREAD FOCUS: >So now we made Fyodor's autistic shitfit a bit more sensible now, what's going on in the Inquisition? >Boaz "200% Ahab" Kryptman and Nemessor Zahndrekh Go On A Hunting Trip: The Musical >Does Zahndrekh just do it to spite the other Necron Lords who want to let the bugs scour the galaxy clean of filthy meatsacks? >Also, Preatoria and it's Space Marines...?
>Still need to finish Dorn, Fulgrim, Lion, and Angron among the primarchs >There's a bunch of Fulgrim stuff sitting in the archive >We're desperate for proper writeups of old stuff, and I can barely make sense of half the stuff in these threads now. >Did we ever finish any Croneldar/Chaos Ork/CSM stuff?
And, as always: >More bugs >More weebs >More Nobledark battles
>upside-down posting This technomancy must be banned!
Benjamin Gutierrez
Continuing the conversation on Castigator started last thread I see what you mean about "too many superweapons", but I would disagree with making Castigator a threat that shows up once in M33-M35. It makes him just another "unknown or long lost entity that briefly poses a threat to the Imperium but then is quickly defeated with few long-term implications on the setting". We already have the Harrowing, the M34 World Engine, and the "probable Man of Gold", two of which already tie into overarching plot elements of the setting and, if the latter is the same as the Cacodominus, all occur between M33-35.
That was the problem with Castigator in canon. He was a character with an interesting concept that showed up halfway through the last book in a series, and then was unceremoniously killed off by its end before the idea could be explored.
Also, does Chaos even have any superweapons yet in this timeline? All I can think of is the Planet Killer, and that's not so much a superweapon in use as one whose potential is being wasted by Erebus using it as his pimp-ship.
Maybe we should have Castigator's initial appearance on the galactic stage be then, but then through some contrivance he is only able to show up sporadically since then. Or tweak his power levels.
Castigator wouldn't be much of an issue with the established power-structure, because he's not a player on the board. For all his power, he's too narrow-minded to be a leader on his own. The three big Chaos warlords play him like a fiddle. Oscar, Malys, Be'lakor, Isha, and possibly even the Swarmlord could dismember him, as could sufficient (and more importantly, achievable) numbers of conventional forces. Castigator in canon was killed by a bunch of Grey Knights. A good comparison might be with a primarch like Magnus. Powerful, but not to the point where he's game breaking and you have to plan around him. Castigator would be less a superweapon and more a titan-scale hero unit you use in Epic.
Easton Rivera
How far up the tech tree and down the damnation path is Castigator?
Luis Jones
Castigator is the original titan. Or at least, the original DaoT design the Mechanicus titans were based off of. He has been described in these threads (somewhat accurately) as "an Evangelion with a gun that shoots daemons". Though in this case Evangelion in the sense of "big stompy organic-esque mecha" (Castigator has artificial musculature), not "become God and turn the world into orange drink". That said, he's "only" about the size of an Imperator titan if it stood up straight (most Imperial titans having that hunched over stance, Castigator is said to look like pre-godlike Amazo from Justice League).
As for damnation, he's really, really damned. In canon he was nuts enough to make a pact with Chaos and try to join Abbadon. If the previous description in this timeline holds he's gone off the deep end. In personality, he's basically like Kratos or the Count of Monte Cristo but he never has a moment of realized how fucked up the things he is doing are. At this point even if he did realize it, he would probably rationalizd it thinking there's no turning back now.
Bentley Perry
He sounds like he could be a Dark parallel to Elmo.
Both are relics of a greater era, both are veterans of the Age of Strife. One rose to the occasion and became better, one allowed themselves to fall.
Lucas Morgan
Is Chaplain Xavier(?) Of the Salamanders old enough to remember Vulkan?
Nicholas Thomas
In canon Xavier was born in the first decade of M41. So assuming that he would be separated from Vulkan by a few millennia. However we have played fast and loose with the "born in" dates for many characters (Machairius being somewhere between M32 and M36, Kryptman being born in M37, Farsight and Shadowsun being born in M39), so he could have been born earlier in this timeline.
Hudson Howard
Is the Last Chancers penal regiment still a thing and how grimdark should they be?
