Adeptus Ridiculous - FARSIGHT ENCLAVES - THE GREATEST GOOD | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: March 9, 2022

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Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name's D.K. Diamante's. My co-host is Bricky. He has all the crazy ridiculous Warhammer stuff, and he's going to tell us about it in a second. But before he does, if you enjoy today's podcast, head on over to Patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can support us. I think I already said that. Whatever, this is going off the rails. Haven't had much sleep. Doesn't matter. If you like us, go to the Patreon. You can get stuff like access to the Discord, bloopers if they happen. We have that really great new, uh, HD poster that's like themed after Catherine that's got the Slaneshi demon on the guard and the boobs. Really classy stuff. Anyway, patreon.com slash adeptus ridiculous. Wonderful. Bricky merch and book club. Yes, book club. We are reading Krieg. Classic old Krieg just released by a person whose name alludes me. Shai will tell me right now. And also, if you'd like to get some merch, you could go to Orcinate.com and get out some merchandise. We got shirts, hoodies, stickers. There are still some dice left.

There's plenty around to go around. Oh, hey, look at that. Yeah, you should hop on, grab some. We have new stickers and it's good stuff. So, Orcadate.com, check out the description. Shai has still never told me the author of the Krieg book. Wow. Way to go, Shai.

She is so slow. I'm creed. Have you started it yet? I have not. Oh. Is it good? Yeah, it's good. It's good.

Once you get into it, there's a, there's maybe a familiar face or two. Ooh, Steve Lyons. His name is Steve Lyons. Steve Lyons, good for him. Steve Lyons. Really, a familiar face or two. Yes, sir. I am hyped.

I love a good guardsman book. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I am biting my tongue. not telling you who's in it and what it's about. Okay, I'll get into it. I really, really want to. I'm not that far in. I'm like maybe two hours in at the most.

All right. I'll get working on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. DK, you know when you spent, you like, pull an all-nighter or something, and if you feel like you have a lot of energy, but by the time it's about 2 p.m., you just kind of, like, die? All-nighter, not sleeping? I have no idea what you're talking about.

Please, tell me more about this sensation. You want to tell our audience the reason why you didn't sleep, D.K.? Well, I've been on a wonky sleep schedule. Like a couple nights ago, I just couldn't sleep. So I was like, ah, who cares? I'll just play Eldon Ring all night. And so now I'm on a really bad sleep schedule because Eldon Ring has consumed my soul. That was a whole lot of bullshit for you just to say the words Eldon Ring.

The reason is Eldon Ring. It's part of it. It's not the main reason, but it definitely, it's a factor. You're deflecting. You're parrying me right now. It's called copium. Huff it, D.K. Mm. Mm. Huffing it like gamer girl anime feat.

What the fuck? No maidens? No maidens. Uh, L plus Den, plus Ring, plus no maidens, plus touch grace. Okay. L plus Denn is actually pretty good. I never heard that one yet. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm sure the rest of our fan base has been consumed by Eldon Ring mostly. I hope so. It's an amazing game. Except for the guard players, their vision has gone. They can't play hard games anymore. The arthritis in their hands is just like, I can't hold a controller.

They're too busy smoking meats and learning about World War II and three. Damn. We've been on the smoking meats topic for a bit. Anywho. Eldon, ooh, Eldon Ring aside. You're ready for your quote, D.K. Um, I mean, no, but yes. Okay.

It's Slinish. You fucking got it. He did it. That'd be great if it actually was. We just did Slanish. I know, but I just want more, I want more anime monster boobs. You can't blame me. I thought you wanted more demonic Willy Wonka's chocolate

factory. Ooh, that too. Anyway, sorry, go ahead. Quote me. United, our will is greater than any other force. We shall inherit the stars, even if we must first cleanse them in blood.

You're never going to get this one. There's no way you're going to get this one. Oh, boy. I mean, that could be guard shit. This could be any faction. Yeah, like, I was thinking that could be guard shit, because like, you know, you

the guard are really strong and they could totally unite the stars and bathe them in blood though I mean it could also be Eldar it could be any number of Astardis

there's a particular word in this entire quote that doesn't match with the M.O. of most other races Oh maybe unification because everybody just wants to destroy everything and nobody's really worried about unification.

I don't know. You're on the right track? Come on, DK., you're doing well. It's the Tao. Let's go! Yes, let's go! Is it actually the Tao? It's the Far Sight Enclave's today, actually.

I will be 100% after I said Tao and you were like, Oh, he got. I was going to ask if it was Farsight because the regular tower just brainwashing, and I would imagine Farsight are the only one that care about unification and good tidings. Also, let's go Farsight. Yeah, well, we're not going to be talking much on like Farsight because that man has, they basically decide, okay, of all the character lore we're going to have for the towel,

we're going to put it all in him. So we'll talk about him a bit, but, but, He could take like three fucking episodes, if I'm being totally honest. There's so much on this man. Oh, I'm so hype, dude. I'm ready. Farsite Enclave? That's the, that's like the Tau faction I like the most.

And I don't know anything about their lore. Like with, I love the eight. Love the eight. I mean, immediately just cuts off. Anime bobas and abs. Fucking hell. Fish. They're fish people.

Yeah, that's okay. Okay, all right, no maidens. No maidens, just fish fish, fish abs. Oh, this is, oh, no. Oh, no. Wait, what the hell? Wait, what the hell? I was scrolling through Farsight's Wikipedia page to see that I could get some better quotes for the one I just did. I just, I see a quote and it says, I've seen things you wouldn't believe. And I'm like, that's Blade Runner, what?

Wow. Entire worlds and flames. Chains of supernovas on the edge of, of nothingness, the great hole in space. I am changed and outcast now. That is literally the blade run. Damn. That, that, I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack shifts on fire.

That's literally, okay. Forgot. Games Workshop. Games Workshop. My, my guy. They gotta take it from somewhere, right? Mr. Workshop. Jimmy Games.

Fun fact. The Tears and the Rain quote that is so notable, was completely ad-libbed by, oh, shit, what was his name? Like Horace Kruger, something like that? The guy, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He completely ad-libbed that part. I didn't know that.

Yeah, that wasn't in the script. Did you know the story of Matt Damon and his brothers in Saving Private Ryan was also ad-lib? I've actually never seen Saving Private Ryan. It's very good, but that's a hard watch. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Anyway, Tao Farsight Enclave.

Farsight Enclave! Let's go. So we're going to be talking a little bit more about like, when I say the Farsight Enclave, I'm referring to like the group. The enclaves themselves. Well, that's a little bit on Farsight, but honestly, he deserves his own little little section in his own rights. But so the Farsight Enclave is actually, you need to take it very literally.

It is a Tao Empire. It is the enclaves. It is an area of space. That generally is how the Tao seps operate. So like sisters have orders, guard have regiments, the Tao have seps. And seps are, if I am not mistaken, actually referring to a area of space. You know, it is a section. Okay.

So if you are a, there's the Tao Sept where you come from the major tau-area, but then there's also things like Viourla. And Viola is an area of space that you can come from. Or Sasea is one of them as well. There's also Dalia, I believe. And then Borkan, a couple others. Borkan, these nuts. Anyway, go ahead. I say, go ahead, man.

Like, what's the, what happens after the... D.K. Yeah. I was in, I was in the supermarket a few days ago, right? Uh-huh. And I was, you know how they have those things where you need to, like, weigh like a bunch of nuts in a bag or something, like the big shovels? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There was a symbol on there, and it said, it was an acronym. It said LBS. Do you know what that stands for? Yes, yes, I do. What does it stand for, D. That's Oh no Stands for

Stands for pounds Yeah, pound this Pound this dick down your throat You fucking morons I couldn't help it Bork on like What are you bork on these nuts What are you borking on

What the fuck are you a dog What are you borking on these Anyway Go ahead Oh my God I mean this day and age I couldn't pass that up I could not pass it up

It doesn't even work Doesn't matter No maidens Anyway, the Farsi Enclave is a section of space. It is also known as the forbidden zone by the Tao Empire itself, as they are obviously separatists.

There is a bunch of heavily fortified Tao colony worlds that are completely independent and in direct opposition of the Tao Empire, and more importantly, the Atherials. If you play at Farset Enclave in game,

I don't think you can even run an ethereal. Like, you are locked out. Yeah. Now, of course, this was helped founded by Commander Farsight himself, also known as the hero of Viola, the protege of puritide, the bane of green skins, and even the renounced traitor of the greater good.

Many names. Many names. He wears many hats. Yes. And the name Farsight is actually not his real name. That's a nickname. Oh. It comes from his ability to anticipate and exploit the actions of enemies,

like as if he already knew their battle plan, as if you could see the future, as if he had Farsight. Oh, okay. So that's where his name Commander Farsight came. In reality, he just has a pair of binoculars. Man, imagine Commander Farsight had to, all this training, and got a pair of binoculars. He came a Farsight in two seconds.

His actual name is, or he is ruled by, or the Farsite enclaves are ruled by the firecast member, Chasseau, Viola, Chauva, Kais, Montere. Oh, boy, Farsight, way easier to say. Or better known as Commander Farsight. And I probably said that horribly, but Chasseau, Viola, Chauva Chiaas Monteer, which is actually a, is actually cut up and has its own individual, like, statements in it. So Shas S-H-A-S is means a member of the fire cast. O, so Shaso is

like a Tao commander, which is the highest rank attainable. So a lot of times when you have like certain people, like there is one of the members of the eight whose name is Shasvier Ovesa. Ovesa, high, you know, high ranking member.

Sure. Then you've also got Viorla, which is the sept where Farsite was born. Remember that The Far Side Enclave is something that he created, so he was in a prior set before that. So he was part of Viourla. Shova means far-sighted. So that's the core concept of his name. Okay, gotcha.

Kais means skillful, and Montere means bloodied, or bloodid. Like, I guess blooded could be referred to as, like, veteran. Though I don't have any, I don't have any sort. I don't have a source to back that up, so I'm just guessing. Yeah. Damn, so their names are like, are almost like their history and what they're good at. Like where they come from, what they're good at, and not necessarily so much is just like, oh, this idea, you know, my name's D.K. What does D.K. stand for?

These canuts? I don't know. Dude. But, like, their names seem like really important. Like, it's not just a passing thing. It's literally where you come from, what you've done, what you're good at, and, and, like, what rank you are. So, like, it's not, like, just this sort of trivial thing that, you know, whatever. I'm kind of curious. I'm kind of curious, though, if any of those parts of his name were actually just his name.

Like, could his actual name be Keis Montere, you know? Because it means skillful and blooded. Maybe just, you know, maybe just his name is Keis. who knows but obviously because Shoss is a member of the fire cast and O is Tao Commander so Shasot

he wasn't born like that he could be you know far-sighted as the Shova party could just be Viorla Shova I don't know I'm not sure I didn't read his book

maybe they tell us there but maybe regardless that's of course now he's just referred to his commander Farsight because that's a lot easier it's a lot easier to say

yeah but you lose some of the really cool like aspects of the of the town name. That's true. I do like their nomenclature. No. The way they say their names. Yeah. So if we back up a little bit, the first ever major meeting, I suppose, I use that in quotes, was known as the Damocles Gulf Crusade.

If we know anything about the Twice Dead King, a crusade is quite frightening. Oh yeah. And the Damocles Gulf Crusade was the first major military conflict with the Tao. Okay. I don't know if it's not necessarily the first time they met them, but it was the first time they had any major, like, bat. Like, this is the big initial, think of, like, the first tyrannic war with, like, the Ultramarines and the Tyrannids. Yeah.

Like, this is the first big one. Okay. So large amounts of far-reaching imperial worlds, think Caiaphas-Cainbook, began trading with the Tao Empire, just very far out backwater worlds, right? Where the Imperium doesn't really come around a lot and you could have generations upon generations of people changing. They would end up trading with a Tao and the Imperium arrived to put a stop to it. just like in the Kai of this game book like you said except this time a massive massive war broke out

in an enormous war involving tons of guard space marines just every huge fight giant crusade this ended up actually coming to a standstill now the Imperials lost billions

the Tao lost billions it was horribly bloody. God, that is a lot of, that is a big loss of life. I think the Tao lost more, actually, by quite a decent margin. But I think that may have been the volume of space marines, but I could be wrong. But then again, Tao getting their ass kicked as like a common theme in GW lore. So it's like the night lords.

Yeah, that's their lore is just losing, unfortunately. Hell yeah. Trying to be good and then losing and then being brainwashed. So after the war broke out They eventually came to a standstill At the Tao Sept world of Dallieth Prime So you remember Daliath is a Taucept And I'm assuming Daliath Prime is their first planet

And eventually a peace was brokered Ironically As the Imperials were not gaining any ground And the Tyrnid High Fleet behemoth Was bearing down on them in other worlds Ah, so they needed to put their resources elsewhere. Man, this is, this is very similar to the Caiaphas Kane book, kind of. It really is.

I wonder how much of that was like helped for, because the Kane book came out a while ago. I wonder how much that helped form the Tao as a culture. Yeah, that is, because that, yeah, that's exactly why. Oh, yeah, there were Gene Steeler Colts in there. Yeah, that is exactly why the, uh, the Imperium really didn't want to start a war with the Tao on that planet because they just couldn't afford the resources there. They couldn't afford to get into a bloody war with the Tao

because the Tyrannids were making a big fuss all over the place. And they were like, no, we can't get into war with the Tao. We need our resources elsewhere. And it's like, oh, familiar. Very familiar. And very, very Tao. You know, Tao probably were like, we come in peace. And then the Imperium were like, they come in peace, break their legs.

Kill them, kill them, kill them. Very Simpsons. Anyway, so with that, of course, the imperial's begrudgingly Brokered a piece as the Tirinah Heifle was about to eat their ass In the aftermath of the Crusade, a particular firecast commander, Farsight, led an expeditionary force which broke away from the empire to set up colonies on the far side of the Damocles Gulf, Damocles Gulf Crusade. Far sight, far side, I like it, I like it.

That's not, okay. That's not okay. That has nothing to do with it but okay. I like it. I like it anyway. It's got a nice ring to it. Farsight went to the far side. I like it.

Oh, my. So anyway, the ethereal's, of course, as he broke away to form his own group, which his motivations for doing so are probably more outlined in both one, his book and two, his lore, which we will not cover too much today. But so shy hits me with a paragraph here. She says, I read by Farsight pieced out. He met demons and was like,

what the fuck is that? And when Ethereal said, uh, don't worry about it, it's just new aliens. He was like, bullshit. You guys have been lying to us

the whole time, possibly about everything, so I'm out of here. Whoa, the ethereos have demons? No, no, no. He met demons.

Oh. And the ethereos were like, eh, it's just aliens. Don't worry about it. He's like, hoarse shit, I guess.

Okay. So Farisite actually, like went to a planet, he saw demons, and it was like, whoa, whoa, hey, Etherio, what the fuck is that? And they're like, uh, don't worry about it. It's nothing. This is very Magnus the Red sounding. I, uh, when I first read that from Shai, I thought it was literally like the atherials were like communing with demons. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, when did Tao become chaos? What the fuck? Um, but yeah, okay, that makes more sense now. If he just stumbled upon a demon somewhere and was like, hey, uh, found a little weird thing

out here, guys. I guess that makes sense. It's like if you were in a relationship and someone lied to you about something and you'd be like, well, they lie about this one thing. What else could they lie about? What else could they be lying about? Yeah. What other skeletons are in the closet? Yeah, and ethereal's are lying about demons. Yeah, which is a big deal.

Oh yeah, speaking of other things that could wipe out Tao, demons. Oh, yeah, chaos. Just chaos in general, yeah. Chaos demons. They're too busy fucking each other up, though. They couldn't give a shit. That's true. Well, chaos undivided might consider it, right?

You know, Abadon and all that, right? Nah, Abadon doesn't give a shit. He just wants to hurt the Imperium. That's fair. The tower are just annoying people. They're just an annoying roadblock. Imagine thinking a group like the town's just like, ah, roadblock. It's like, why are you here?

I want to bleed the emperor. Fuck you. Get out of my sight. Fair enough. The Ethereum's attempted to rewrite history, however. and paint Farsight as a cowardly deserter or just avoid as mentioned entirely snuff him from all history. The Aetherials forbid all travel to that area and anyone who argues against that is generally never seen again. Ah, that sounds like a very imperium way to go about it.

They're in the walls. And so Atherials kind of sort of brainwash the populace of Tao? they have like suggestive pheromone type things which I think brainwashed them and they remind me a lot of the prophets from Halo now granted it is I think it's in the Imperium says that they do this

so I'm not fully sure and you know people like Farsight it's hard to tell because that's like what Imperium like Magos biologists say admec biology master And, you know, ad mech are a little crazy. A little bit. Just a little, just a smidge.

So it's a little difficult to truly be 100% sure. But the ethereals do seem like, they remind me a lot of the prophets from Halo, where they seem like they are the overall ruling class, and they kind of proliferate lies. Right. You know, they're very manipulative. Yeah, where they're not necessarily brainwashing, but everybody's just come to believe everything that they say

because they're like the higher ups and they're the leaders. So you're not necessarily under their mind control, but you have no reason to doubt what they say either. Yeah, I go with that. And anyone who goes against them, well, is they're branded a heretic. That's much more of an Imperium thing. But you are going against the status quo.

and that does create problems. And to think about it, the Atherials are at, they are, I mean, the Tao have reason to be frightened. Most to all other races can cause them some real hurt. If the Tyranids decide to really focus on them,

fuck. Well, if any of the factions decided to focus on the Tao, they'd be fucked, right? Like, well, if the Imperium focuses on anyone, you're done. matter who you are, but I mean, that's a lot of resources. They'd have to almost bleed

themselves dry and leave themselves open to an attack from anybody else, but, I mean, they could. The orcs will fuck anybody up. The Eldar would, you know, so... I don't think the Eldar, the Dark Eldar, would have a chance. Oh, really? Okay. I think they're too, they're too

small. The Dark Eldar member are almost entirely in Comorahara. That's true, yeah. And the Craft World Eldar are having difficulties of their own. Very small. But, but, like, orcs,

you think about the three horde armies in the game, right? Orks nids and the Imperium of Man. Yeah. They would probably, yeah, they'd fuck anyone.

To an extent, of course. The tyranids and the orcs probably the most part. But it doesn't mean the Tau wouldn't put up a fucking fight. Yeah. Yeah. Anywho,

moving on to have to talk to the enclave stuff. The enclave, of course, is actually, the area of space now, is surrounded by a bunch of floating fortresses, these giant like orbital platforms, which creates a pretty formidable barricade against all invaders and tau incursions. The colonies, or the Tao have sent drones and scanner drones into this area multiple times to try to spy on the enclaves, and most often don't get anything back. but sometimes one makes it through

and the colonies scanned are very interesting they're heavily built up worlds giant populations in the enclave and entire moon bases dedicated to like manufacturing the enclaves originally bore symbols of other seps

mainly Viorla Viorla is a pretty large portion of the enclaves but there's also Sasea the Tau one and more now they have have created their own symbol as a unified banner, uh, of course,

unsanctioned by the imperial, or imperial, ethereal high council. No kidding. Yeah. Um, however, as a distant colony,

their war gear is a bit dated. They've got some like older kind of stuff because they don't get their stuff as easily. However, a lot of fancy-pancy tau, ethereal level prototypes have been seen there. classified ones. Ooh.

So they might have some peeps in your midst. Okay, okay. They've got some double agents working in the Tao Empire. They probably got plenty. Oh, okay. So how many people sort of, I don't want to say went heretical, but how many people went with Farsight? Like when he was like, yo, these ethereals are lying their balls off.

Like how many people were like, oh, yeah, I'll totally forsake these guys. that I've trusted my whole life on the say-so of this one really good commander. Like, how often do people turn and go to Farsight? A reminder that Farsight is basically like a war hero. He is a god-tiered commander, and so everyone kind of loved him to begin with. And then when he leaves, it's like, it's like if you're, I don't know, it's like if Marnius Calgar bailed. But still, like, if your ethereal's are like, yeah, he might be a war hero. but he's a traitor.

Don't trust him. Like, who do you trust in that situation, right? Because you're, you're conflicted. You've got the ethereal that you've always trusted and always been conditioned to trust, otherwise death, and you've got your war god who's saying that the guy that you've always believed in

is a fucking liar and you should try. Like, that's such a conflict. Like, how does a Tao deal with that? Imagine, imagine you're like an ultramarine, a blueberry. And you've got, Marnius Calgar and then you've got the head of the Ecclesiarchy Ecclesiarch Decius or something

You've been following Decius your entire time The head of the church and the head of all this stuff And then Calgar is the one who says we gotta fuck fuck the church We gotta go You generally probably would have a little bit more comfort in the battle brother The guy you fought with Instead of like the the hocus pocus pointy hat ethereal On a disc floating around

doing things like that. That being said, I don't know how big the far-sohnclaves are. I know I have actually a collection of their planets, which we'll talk about in a moment. It's kind of cool as five of them.

But I'm assuming, you know, however many people can fit in five planets. Like, it's billions. It's not trillions. It's billions. But, you know,

you also think of 40K scale. That's true. It's going to be a lot. Compared to the imperial. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I guess, I guess soldiers would be way more willing to go with Farsight regardless of what the ethereal said, because like you said, if you're a soldier that's fought alongside Farsight

and he saved your life countless times by being a great commander, of course, you're going to put your trust in him. Brother an arm over anything, you know? Yeah. And yeah, like, you know, the Imperium literally has a million planets. Yeah, and you've got five. Not exactly the biggest threat on their radar No

But you know actually In talk of these planets Let's discuss them But let's also discuss the cast system first Let me try to remind you about these There's the forecasts Earth, water, air and fire And they wielded all these elements

And And some bald fucking kid with an arrow on his head Decided to Kill everybody Everything was going well until the fire nation attacked. I mean, the fire nation is the military cast of the empire. So yeah, I'd say so. Shocking development. All right. Cool, cool, cool. The fire cast are, yeah, they're the military cast. They tend to be a little bit taller, a little more muscular, uh, the people themselves. They're

professional soldiers. They're in training regime at right after birth. They're thrown right in there. They're discipline, hard work, you know, that camaraderie. They're the classic warriors, you know. right at birth, huh? Well, hyper, hyperbole, but you get the point. Very early on. What is it? It's just like if you're born to someone from the fire cast, you're just like, yeah, you're going to be a soldier. Like, you have no say in the matter? I think so. I mean, maybe you could pop your way out of it, but it really depends. I'm not sure how they handle people who don't want to be part of their cast. It's hard to go against tradition to such an extent and also against the entire cast. And to the point, if they're if they're more muscular, possibly even

genetics of this cast. Oh, that's true, because that's right. You said they're taller, a little more muscular, yeah. So genetics would have them be a soldier. Fair enough. After that, you have the air cast. The air cast normally are messengers, but they're also the pilots and starship crews.

So when you think of air, you literally do think of air. Pilots, crews of ships, but also, they are communications. You know, they're a little smaller, apparently, but also because of their constant exposure to zero and low gravity environments. So they're a little bit taller. Their limbs are a little slender.

Their bones are a little more hollow. But they tend to be much more operative in the... They're sometimes called the invisible cast because they operate outside the borders of the empire. They're maybe a little bit of trade, you know, A little bit of messaging, you know, pilots, that kind of stuff. Okay. So they're kind of sort of like an Air Force.

Yes. But also with a lot of messenger stuff too. Right. And they often help move around the watercast. The watercast are merchants, diplomats, and administrators. They are entirely the annoying politics group. I wonder why they're the watercast. Like, because the other two makes sense because fire is, you know, very typical symbol of war, combat, air is, you know, they're in the air, they're flying, they're talking, requires air, communication. Why are merchants water?

I am going to assume that it is about the concept of, since they are bureaucrats, negotiators, politicians, merchants, diplomats is all entirely dedicated to the smooth flow and function of the empire. Oh, I like that. Good, good, good. Did you just make that up? I just made that up. I'm making an assumption. I like that. That's kind of deep.

I like it. I think we should go with that. That's a fair guess. I like it. You know what else is deep? These nuts? I was going to say water. Oh, I thought you were going to try and get me back for doing that this whole episode.

Oh, no. I had nothing. I played myself. You've only played me. Oh, well, that's fine. Oh, my God. Okay. Last but not least, there is the Earthcast.

And the Earthcast is farmers, laborers, technicians, mechanics, industry. Industry, industry. Also lots of artisans and scientists, you know, engineers, that entire idea. They are constantly building. People of the soil. People of the ground. Exactly. People who create and craft and repair the earth.

cast. So. I like that. I like that cast system because everybody's cast makes sense as to what they specialize in. And it's kind of cool because all five of the worlds are, well, four of the five, are related to a cast. And this is honestly like, I'm actually shocked the amount of effort and detail put into it. This is the interesting thing, right? Like the Imperium is a million worlds. There's a chance for a million stories. That's how the Farsite have five worlds. Therefore, there's a chance for a very well-crafted in specific story. Oh, yeah, definitely.

So the main one is known as Viorlos. And Viorlos is the capital of the enclave, and it's the home of Farsai himself and the majority of his forces. It is covered in lots of water, tons of underwater underwater sea life, but there's lots of landmasses, but they're rimmed by. volcanic chains and tons of geothermal and volcanic energy. So think of it, I think of it a little bit like the Pacific. Okay. You know, lots of volcanoes, like the islands and land masses, but there are lots of blue water and all this volcanic, you know,

activity makes tons of geothermal energy and power. Makes sense, makes sense. I don't know why, but that suddenly reminded me, There's, uh, I wonder how that island, that new island is forming in Hawaii. There's, uh, there's an island that, uh, I think they call it Lahaina. No. They have a name for it, but it's, it's supposed to pop up, it's start popping up in like a thousand years or something. So probably hasn't made too much progress since I was last there.

Since you were last there, you say, yeah, in, in like 2000. It's so silly. But it makes sense. It's okay. It's just the concept that a new island is being formed. I'm sure it's common, but just the fact that it's happening. Yeah, it's happening. As we speak, there is a new Hawaiian island being formed underwater.

We're the people, we're the Chinese government trying to make man-made islands or something? Probably. Probably. Yeah, that sounds like something that would happen. It sounds like something America would do, too. This is why they have no maidens. Anyway, obviously, this is the home of, of the firecast and there are a ton of natural resources,

but also a huge amount of training grounds in on this planet because it is the home of the major military functions, the home of Farsite, all of his forces, et cetera. The next planet is Tenecla or Tinnikla, whatever. It is very weird. It is a planet-sized crystal polygon. Oh. It is an enormous,

like diamond of this enormous crystal and the aircast live here floating around it in habitation pods and orbital stations orbiting a gigantic crystal this giant mineral crystal is so close to true transparency

that they actually like originally it wasn't and they cut it down to try to make it as transparent as they can to represent the beliefs of the air The orbital stations look like the same crystal. So it's like little baby crystal stations orbiting it around to show the power of its aircast and the and the overall strength of the enclaves in like its form and function. Wow. It is a giant translucent crystal surrounded by stations and hab pods orbiting it that look like crystals. That's that that that sounds really cool actually.

It is really bizarre, but it's super dope. I wish there was like an artist rendition of it because that sounds so strange for like your home planet. It's like it's your home planet, but not really because you're just hovering around outside of it in other little crystals and hab pods. And that sounds like some serious like that sounds like a really good setting for some sort of like sci-fi movie or book. Ooh, I actually found an image of it. It's not, it's not, it's like a diamond. It's more of like a dodecahedron. Ah, okay.

And it's, yeah, it's like this kind of turquoise-looking crystal. So all the stations are more like odecahudrian style. It looks like a D20 almost. Yeah. And look, that's, that's so cool. I love that. It's, it's an engram.

Oh my God, it's a destiny engram. Open it. Open it. Oh, no, it's a blue. Oh, it's actually. actually a green. Oh, no. Oh, Oh, God, D1 syndrome. Oh, did you think you got a legendary? Sorry, it's a green. Uh, uh, absolute trash.

Garbage day. The next one is the Guavasario. Hey, Guvessa. It is home to the main human population. Oh, okay, that makes sense. Yep, who broke off and decided to join the Tao Empire. Yeah. The, the, is, is a, a human planet.

It's got Tao on there and stuff, of course, but it is the home of the main human population. And I mean, I mean, yeah, there are plenty of humans that saw the Tao as better, and they broke off and went to the Tao. And they have a planet there. For a second there, I thought you were going to say it was only humans. I was like, wow, very trusting Tao. Holy shit. Very trusting and tolerant. You don't usually see that kind of tolerance in 40K.

but damn. Well, even if they were, I mean, let's not forget the Tao probably have like a million satellites and like they could probably see anything and everything because they're super advanced. Yeah. But also, I don't know, what are they fucking going to do? Like, is the space marine going to come help them? Wow, that's true. I mean, they're really into the Tao too, so like they have no reason not to trust them.

Yeah, that's true. And the Tao probably seemed like an absolute like picnic after deep. kneeling with the fucking Imperium for so long. The next one is the Salachet, or Salachet. This is a weird one. It is a collection of giant viscous gloves of liquid. Wait, did you say a collection of viscous gloves? Yeah.

If you look at this picture on the right hand side, it is an oceanic cloud. It is a, it is like water in zero gravity, but to an immense scale. Whoa. That is so weird. They're each the size of a small moon and they orbit a nearby sun as like a group. And naturally, the watercast live there. No shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I just had to make it clear. I had to make it clear. Fuck you, these nuts. It looks really cool, though. It's literally like a collection of just like bubbles that are just kind of floating around as a collection. And that's that's such a weird, odd, very cool idea for a planet, though. Like a water planet that's just like a collection of gigantic bubbles. And the, obviously, the watercast, they spent a lot of time there to like meditate on like the fluid nature of the cloud and the

fluid nature of life and apparently they don't shut the fuck up about it. Apparently somewhere in the book if you ever visit there or someone from there, it's like being a vegan or CrossFit, they'll immediately tell you about it like instantly. Yikes. It's like, yeah,

we live on such a shame and the beauty of the water and the belief is like, oh my God. And don't forget, these are all like diplomats and politicians. I was going to say you can't get a politician ever shut up anyway, right? And it's merchants that I always want to sell you on shit

And I always want to talk your ear off anyway So yeah, that, that fits I went to them to the Salishay Because I wanted to save them But they saved me I hate it They're white women in Africa Oh God

Very cool looking planet though Super dupe They have really really cool planets Holy shit Um the last one is Louvre Graal and this is obviously home to the Earth class because it's the only one we're missing

and it is a bunch of drab earthen erthian erthian drab earthen spires oh spires okay and well not like the whole thing is inspires or anything but it's like

it's kind of it looks like a hexagon so what you're saying is it's inspired oh my God it's a terrar It's a terrestrial, it's a terrestrial arid world, all right? However, it's covered in drab, Earth and Spires, and it is, the interior of the planet is woven

with miles and miles of white and silver tunnels laced with technology, like fucking Elon Musk's boring company, but, like, working. You know? But, like, working. That's something Elon Musk could never quite figure out is the working part. As a man who owns a Tesla, the car is very good and is all the rage. But the concept of making a tunnel without the ability for emergency services like ambulances and one lane and nowhere to go is not that smart.

No, that's what we call in the business a death trap. That is what we like to call in the business not based. No, it is very cringay. Oh, that's an interesting argument, D.K. How about you back it up with a source? Sources, fuck you. Oh, you didn't get it right. It's the Senator Armstrong thing where he's like, my source is I made it the fuck up.

Oh, that's right. Ah, you showed me that meme and everything. No maidens. Oh, God, I need to touch grace. The fact that it's actually touched grace is so funny to me. Right. Considering how recent the touch grass meme is, they didn't do that on purpose. It just, it's just happened stance.

It's so good. Yep. Anywho, the interior woven that way, but obviously the Earthcast is in there, and they never stop building. They never stop creation. Those areas covered in mag trains, vaults, research centers, observatories, everything. They do not stop. it is pure industrial complex sometimes scientific industrial complex

sometimes military industrial complex sometimes habitual like sometimes they will not stop creating stuff in fact it's actually a little frightening I worry that they're going to be like the think tank in fall in New Vegas with all the

lobotomite guys the brain dudes and they're just going to keep on building and it's going on going and going and did you know that they um did you know that they that the fall in new Vegas those dudes with the with the screens and the brain did they made the casadors

uh what are the casadors again the horrifying orange winged wasps oh they made those yeah they just fucked around and spliced some tarantula hawk DNA with like other stuff because they because they felt like it Oh, because they just didn't stop. They just kept making new stuff and they just, oh, okay.

They also made nightstalkers, the rattlesnake like coyotes. Oh, God, those are, I remember those. Those are not fun. They're not good people. That's like the big kind of ending with that one. I guess the Earthcast kind of could become that. If they just never stop creating and they're always making something and they're always building something, it could eventually get to that point.

Like if they just, you know, if nothing, you know, exterminatus is their planet. I'm assuming they could over-industrialize. You never really know. But I'm hoping that their overall government and I concepts will keep them from doing so. And, you know, because as you can see on the planet, there are enormous hexagons cut through it. And that is, that is the Earth cast is doing. Damn. Those are massive, too.

like that's a that's a lot yeah it's it's pretty nutty yeah um so those are the main planets of the far side enclaves all very much the epitome of the various casts um you want me to tell you about the eight oh i would love to hear about the eight that's what made me like the farside enclave in the first place let's talk about the eight torch star that is the one that has the least lore. Abbs. Okay. Of course, the leader of the eight is Commander Farsai himself.

I'm not going to go over that one. Yep, because I'll try to do an episode on him. The next one is Honor Shasvier Ovesa. And Ovesa is not a Shasvier at all, which I don't know what Shasvair means. I know Shas means firecast. I don't know what the VRE means. But they're actually an old Earthcast colleague of Farsight. kept alive by micro Jones

Micro Jones Micro Jones Town I love lean Micro drones of his own invention And given that Commander Farsai is a diehard fire cast person And it doesn't really like the other castes a whole lot Then it speaks a lot to like their bond Oh Vessa is the great honor of piloting the battle

suit as an Earthcast, which is very rare. But they pilot the biggest one, the XV-104 Riptide. Ooh, the big boy, huh? Mm-hmm. Lots of AI has been invented

to integrate into the riptide to make it really strong. And along with his technological genius, it compensates for his lack of a lifetime of training through all of his use of AI. Right. Okay.

Next up is Commander Bravestorm. This is kind of like a dreadnought. They were entombed in a life support system after critical injuries. And since them, they were actually confined into their battle suit using a core support cocoon into an XV8 crisis aridium mantle. It's a crisis suit. Okay. Bravestorm, despite this all, has not lost their love for, you know.

the greater good and still fights, despite the fact that they're basically a dreadnought. All right. Cool. Tau dreadnots. Apparently they got them. Yeah, cool, cool, cool, cool. Next up is Commander Brightsword.

Commander Brightsword, if I'm not mistaken, this might be the weird one, or maybe somebody else. He better have some energy swords, I swear to God. Yes. They are, they are, they have a pair of fusion blasters. And if I'm unmistaken,

fusion blasters are like oh wait they're short range like melta weapons oh which I think can be changed to fusion blades which are like the armored core swords okay um so I think they are that way he is a lead from the front kind of guy rapid insertion

into battle and then finds the most powerful target annihilates them first and tries to get out very very aggressive he's kind of a melee unit, if you will. Yeah, we'll go, well, not really a melee unit. Sort of hit and run. Close range.

Okay, gotcha. I would assume that with that, they are in, if I know anything about Tao, he is in a cold star commander suit, which is one of my favorites of them all. I'm going to assume that. I might be wrong. Okay.

But I'm going to assume. Next up, you have Commander Chavastos, which is the first Tao to be fitted with a pure time, Puritide Engram Nero chip which is a fancy fancy chip to make them super smart.

Okay. However, this prototype chip known as the sword of puretive was not working properly and was only saved from their subsequent lobotomization after the far site sealed them away in a stasis chamber

until he could find a cure. And a couple decades later, he was able to find the way to recalibate the chip and reawaken the old warrior so they may continue to fight and live. Oh, okay, so the chip works well now. Yes. It's not, you know, making him go crazy or anything. Okay, cool.

It took a couple decades to get it done. But the fact that they're always able, they're kind of like Farcite where they're always able to know what the enemy is doing before them is kind of the part of the whole deal. Nice. The next one is Shasvier Obletai, 9-0. This is a little bit of a weird one. Oblet, they are in a broadside battle suit, which is one of my more favorite ones. All right. And Obletai has a whole bunch of goddamn missile launchers and crap.

And they are not piloted by a person. They are piloted by an AI engram of the original person, Shasvier Obletai. Hence why they are Shasvir Obitai 9-0. Oh, so it's an AI of the person instead of like an actual person? It is an AI recreation of the person. Wow, that's some serious heresy right there. Oh, that is fat heresy. The Imperium is molding right now.

They are indeed molding, yes. They are particularly good at using support fire because they are covered in missiles. If you can look at their picture, it's the second one down. The third one from the bottom, just missiles in the arms, missiles on the back. Oh, shit, yeah. That is just all missiles. The next, the second to last is Commander Erycom. They are in a enforcer battle suit, which if I am not mistaken, is a good way to say, big and chunky, and I think punchy.

All right. All right, cool. They are known for mounting a huge suite of anti-infantry weapons. and they basically just like burr down entire formations they seek out masses of enemy foot soldiers and they are just basically kind of like just like try to mow them all down

they're a very analytical person and they encourage the rest of the eight to review and critique their past battles via like a hollow vid kind of like a team watching their prior fight yeah yeah you gotta watch the footage got to review the footage and see where you can be better It's my mentality that Erikan is kind of like the nerd

who's like everyone wants to go drink after a battle and it's like, no, we need to check to make sure that we need to see if we do better. We need to look back at our videos. Obel Thai, you really need to step up your game and this and this and like beep boop. Yep, it's the annoying coach that wants you to spend too much time reviewing tape.

Last but not least, we have sub-commander George Star. Let's go. Oh, the mighty torch star, the best of the eight, am I right? They are a defector from the Tao Empire as well, and they are the youngest of the group, and the most impetuous, I think is the term. They carry around with two twin flamers and are known for having flame tattoos on their body.

And being ripped as fuck, right? No, that is not canon, just the tattoo part. Oh, well, I'm making it Canada. I know. Tartre Star is ripped as fuck. I know. We'll eventually get the fucking poster. Flaming. We'll get the poster made at some point. Just sweltering

abs. Yeah, let's go. Sweltering. Yeah. Because they're so Torch Star, you know? She swelters you. You could fucking, you could fucking make sushi on those abs. Hell yeah, you could, you could boil an egg on those abs.

Fucking, let's go. Omlet abs. She is considered to be quite omelette abs. She's considered to be quite reckless. And she just kind of literally charges headfirst, headlong with double flamers and torches everything in the path, hence the name Torstarr. Let's go. What a badass. And that's the eight.

And they took them out of the new Tao Codex. Yeah, that's such bullshit. That is fucking ridiculous. That is a hot load. I'm assuming they're just like, well, you can just make them yourself was by taking that many commanders, but it's lame. It's lame as shit, because then they're just a regular built one. They have no fancy-pancy abilities.

Like, Gant's ghosts, every character has an ability. Like, everyone has their own thing. They're so, they're not great in the game, but they're so well-made. and they could have done something like that and they didn't and it's cringe. Is there any chance that they're going to add them with like a supplemental codex or something? I don't know, but they could and they might if people want that and they like money. So if they do, then well, we'll see. So what you're saying is we need to tell everyone to pitch pizza shit fit on the internet about getting the eight back in.

so that GW will be like, hey, people really like these eight and they want more of the eight, and then they'll add them back in and make new minis for them? Probably not, but maybe. Fuck it. As long as it's canon that Torchstar has sweltering abs, I'm in. As long as it's canon, you say. Yeah.

Well, I've got bad news for you, buddy. In my head canon, it's all, facts. These are true facts. That's what facts are is true. That's what my dad used to say all the time. He's like, oh yeah, I did this, this, and that, true fact. And I was like, wait, what? Isn't that? You confuse me, dad. All right. You know, D.K. I think we, I think, um,

I think it's time for us to go get some maidens. Oh yeah. Definitely time to go outside and touch grace. Mm-hmm. Yep, yep, yep. I'd rather just touch grace inside. Oh, well, I guess you could do that too. Can't get any maidens inside, though.

The internet says otherwise. Well, that's true. Ronnie is, uh, hmm. Mm-hmm. Battlesuit Ronnie. Battlesuit Ronnie. Yep.

Fires up. Rony sitting in a tree. Moons. And they're both blue, too. This is dumb. Like, it's now it's canon that Ronnie is a tau. This is dumb. I, God, God, God, God, what is my week been?

I spent, I spent all the, all the last week grinding up for the new witch queen, fucking day one rabe. Did the day one rabe, took nine hours and couldn't get past the second boss. Fucked caretaker, literally didn't have the damage, no matter what we try him. Couldn't get through there. Immediately the day after, play Eldon Ring, touch, Grace. I'm living in a simulate. The fact that a major plot point of Eldon Ring is to be touched by a woman is fucking shocking to me.

Miyazaki is on the sauce. He is on the sauce. And when you finally get Fia to hold you, she gives you a health debuff. She does? Yeah. She gives you a little bit of a health debuff until you, I think you have to use her blessing and then rest at a grace before you can get rid of the...

Is that what that red square is on my screen? Yeah, the red square with the down arrow. That's from her. Oh, no, I didn't know that. That's from her. That's from Fia. I remember her being called the Deathbed Companion, but I got touched anyway because I felt like it.

She gave me the clap. Yes, she did. She stole your hell. I knew I should never have trusted women.