Adeptus Ridiculous - IMPERIAL NAVY: ANCHORS AWEIGH, MY BOYS, ANCHORS AWEIGH! | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: November 30, 2022

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podcast. My name is D.K. Diamante's. My co-host is Bricky, and we're going to be learning about some Warhammer 40K. Everybody's favorite topic. But before we do, if you enjoy today's episode or you just enjoy Adeptus Ridiculous in general, heading over to patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous and consider supporting us. You get bloopers if they happen. At the $15 tier, there's the HD posters, access to the Discord, lots of great stuff. Patreon.com Alas, Adeptus, ridiculous. Bricky, how about books and merch? Book, we got to read Bloodlines. Great book, good book, all about the new art detective stuff,

but with Warhammer Coat of Paint. Love it. And then the merch, do we remind. It is Black Friday. It is full-on deals and stuff. There are not one, not five, not even 10, but 11 of our old school posters, currently available as well as Matt.

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all right, I guess I'm printing eight posters for this person. It's like, I'm, the Great Devourer, the Conqueror's Abbs. The Sh, the Shia, okay, so, all right, so out of all of the old posters, top five most sold,

what do you think? Uh, got to be, got to be the Latar. Surin Conquer, Zabs. I think you already told me that the Great Devourer was up there. Got to be the Grey Saint one, where

the two of them are just in a loving embrace. Ah, man, after that it gets tough. I would also say the Bone Zone and the Eldar one. Because those are kind of saucy. Hmm.

Interesting. So Conqueror's Abbs is number one, definitely. Way to go, crew. Then it is the Bone Zone, which Necron Supremacy, proud of all of you. I wasn't expecting Bone Zone to be two. I was number two. The Great Devourer is on its heels at three, which is one of those ones I'm kind of mad about because it's like, Tyrndon girl, but it's also like.

It's a very good art. piece. And then after that is in fact Celestine and Great Fax followed just a hair currently by one the Shadow Sun one, which I hope stays far below.

Yeah, the Shadow Sun one is a little surprising actually. I mean, it's a great art piece. You and your fucking and your fucking Tauab shit, you're surprised, it's low. Well, the thing is, the Shadow one doesn't have any Tauabs. It's

It's a pretty respectful, like, full-armored Shadow Sun. Like, she's looking badass. And maybe that's why, because it's just a great art piece of a great towel. But, yeah, I wasn't expecting that. Well. There it is. I will, well, oop, there it is. Oop, there it is.

All right. All right. Are you ready for your quote, D.K.? No, but do it anyway. All right. That's got to be the greatest pirate I've ever seen. That's got to be the greatest pirate I've ever seen. That's the quote?

Mm-hmm. Is this an orc episode for the free Buddhas? Because actual, well, if it was an orc episode and if it was a free, you'd give me an orc quote. All right, here's a different one. All right, here's a different quote. Okay, okay, okay. So you have heard of me. Oh, so you have heard of me.

Don't you worry, D.K. It's all, today we're doing a Disneyland episode. We're talking all about the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Oh, boy. Except the ride is... You know, I was thinking about... I went to Disneyland recently, and I was thinking about the... We're doing the Imperial Navy.

But I was thinking about the idea if you did the damn Pirates of the Caribbean ride, but you did it all 40K like and you're like, oh shit, the Gellerfields are going down and all the pirates just start like getting 40 eyes and start rolling around being crazy. Oh, that would be great. The, I am not a Disney. We're getting off topic. Shine's not even here, so she can't even post to get on with it. You know what?

She can't. So let's just be off topic for a little bit. Yeah, you know. Let's do this. What about new? Anyway, we're doing the Imperial Navy. Hooray, the Navy. Hooray.

Sail the Seven Seas in the Night. Anyway, go ahead. You know, I can't even do the damn SpudgeBob reference. Fucking hell. Nope, you can't. Squatward, the robot's taking over the Navy. Not the Navy. Fuck.

All right. We're doing the Imperial Navy. The Navy. So, one of the major, actually, like enormous branches of the Imperium that we have not talked about and arguably probably more important than the Imperial Guard

because they you know like move the guard places I guess you know very very important is the Imperial Navy the novice imperialis it is a very lots of lots of stuff involving this the main thing to note

is that next episode after we chat about it a bit, we will have our good friend Kyrioth over to talk about the vessels of the Imperial Navy. And he will mainly be talking about imperial vessels because holy Christ, if we were

to do all the Xenos ones. Now remember, Bricky, you have told everyone that Kariath is going to be here next episode. So don't let it come as a shock to you if at the intro of the next one I mentioned Karioth. Not really a spoiler, right?

That is true. I will forget when you tell me again. Okay, okay, cool. But the Imperial Navy originally was this overall encompassing group, of course, as the Navas Imperialis, which was split up into various such sectors and subsectors following the Horacea, kind of the classic, like how all the space marines were swapped into chapters so none can, if they revolt, can really held a whole lot of power. Yeah, yeah.

Similar kind of deal with that. Now, the first ships of the Navy were built way back in the orbital foundries on Terra, and then they moved on to the Mars Ring of Iron. You remember that Ring of Iron thing, that giant, like, halo. Then there's shipyards on Saturn and so on. The main thing that made the real strength of the Imperial Navy was the Martian alliance with the Emperor way back when, which is the only reason it all allowed to work as well as it did.

Emperor was like, I'm leading a great crusade. I need a ton of ships. Let's work together, a ton of ships, build your stuff. Classic, classic. Yeah, got it. So, the Imperial Navy is split into five segmentums. They are the segmentum solar, obscures, tempestus, Ultima, Pacificus, Atlantis, and Indias. GW is just so creative with their naming schemes

I just Oh, oh, I was joking Oh man, see, I mean, I'm so used to stupid GW names And I was like, yeah, that sounds right, yep Oh, no, I ended at the Pacificus I said there are five, five segmentums, Solar Obscures, Temesis Ultima Pacificus, those are the five But after Pacificus I just went with the other oceans

Yeah, I totally believed it too. I was like, oh, yeah, sure. I can see GGB being that stupid, sure. Pacificus is enough, though. Yeah. So each one has a fortress dedicated to the Imperial Navy, a gigantic production and shipyard. For example, Segmentum Solar is the one that incorporates soul system and terra and stuff.

So naturally, Mars would be their main fortress. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. And each segmentum is then cut down into, because each segmentum is generally like the entirety of the Milky Way, I'm pretty sure. And then each, I'm assuming that's how it's split up. I'm going to double check the map, but they are, the map,

they are then cut down into various battle fleets. And their job is to safeguard the sector they are assigned to. For example, there is the Gothic sector, which has... I was about to ask, is that like Battlefleet Gothic? Exactly. Ah, like the game!

Yep, Battlefleet Gothic. And so there will also be like a Battlefleet, you know, cruises or Battlefleet obscurest or... Actually, that's a segmentum. You know what I mean. Yeah, yeah. And each sector

that the Battlefleet is assigned to is commanded by an officer known as a Lord Admiral. And they have major control over that whole thing. A battle fleet is normally around 50 to 75 main vessels, which are mainly battleships and cruisers, along with tons of squadrons of support craft and fighters as well, including all manner of other things like transports, messenger crafts, orbital defenses, space platforms, and so on.

Damn. So to be a Lord Admiral, you got to be like really hot. got to work your way through the city. Like, that's a high honor. Like, how does one become Lord Admiral? Um, well, there are two, the Lord Admiral. I'm assuming it's the classic rise through the ranks. Um, but there is one more rank above the Lord Admiral. Uh, well, sorry, there's the Lord Admiral.

And then there is the Lord High Admiral. Uh, I believe that the Lord High Admiral is actually the one that manages the segment. Tom, I am going off memory. I will double check, double check my notes. Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll. Lord High Admiral, also known as a battle fleet commander, Lord High Admiral is the highest commanding rank of the Imperial Navy.

Only five of these individuals exist, each for one segment to major. Let's fucking go. Hey, you were right. Way to go. You got great memory, sort of. Sort of. Yeah, I was right, but also unsure. Yeah.

There is one higher than him. the Lord High Admiral of the Navy. He is the guy. He is the one who is on Terra. He is a High Lord of Terra. I guess it makes sense that the Lord High Admiral would be a High Lord of Terra. We don't chat much about the High Lords of Terra before. They really don't.

No, the High Lords are rather interesting. They are, you might have seen a, you know, You might have seen them because in the Emperor Text to Speech thing, they kind of use their PNGs of them to make fun of them as old men because they look. Like they, here's what they look like. They are, they are an interesting group. Oh, wow. Yeah, I mean, this is a bit of old art, but it's like, wow. I mean, that's great art, but yeah, they are, their skin is like hanging off their bones.

Well, except the admec. Well, naturally. No skin. Who is that? Is that Belisarius call? That's the only, that's the only, like, big time admec dude that I know. So, I call. Not currently, no.

So the, I guess we'll probably have an episode on this one day, but we'll, we'll talk a teeny bit about this. The high lords have nine offices that are always a high lord, which is the master of the adeptus administratum, a representative of the Inquisition the Ecclesiarch of the Ministerum, the Fabricator General of the Edis Mechanicus, which is not Call, it's what Call is gunning for. The Grand

Provost Marshal of the Arbides, which is like the Judge Dreds, the paternal envoy of the navigators, which is actually something that's important, because the navigators and the Navist nobility to pilot a spacecraft to pilot the Navy, send navigators

out to the Navy, and allow them to work with the military. Master of the Astronomicon. The Grand Master of the Officio Assassinorum, who is a problem person. Yeah, I would imagine that the head of the assassins, yeah, I could imagine them being just ever so slightly problematic. Sure.

And then the Master of the Adeptus Astro telepathica. However, there is a bunch of other high lords as well, and these are often imperial leaders. Example, the Lord Commander of Sankton Solar, the Lord Commander Militant of the Astramilitarum, the Lord High Admiral of the Imperial Navy. Hey! Anyway, the Lord High Admiral is a High Lord of Terra

in the Imperial Navy, and the various ranks kind of cascade along with that. Actually, funny and interesting note, the rogue traders were a... originally way back when meant to scout ahead and provide information for the fleet. Oh. They've kind of adjusted their role a bit now where they might scout ahead and get information, but that gives them a whole lot of like personal responsibility,

which kind of makes them start doing things like trading and relations and getting money. Oh, no, not relations. Relations. And they might swap that cash for information. which they bring back to the Imperium for more cash and things like that, you know? Capitalism. Hell yeah. The rogue traders are the closest you will ever get to making your own decisions in 40K.

That's true, yeah. And not having everything done for you. But anyway, these battle fleets that I mentioned with the 50 to 75 battleships and cruisers are them split up into battle groups. normally one or two cruisers or a battleship combined with a bunch of escort craft okay okay nice little escort nice little flotilla yeah a little flotilla i believe battle groups are generally how you fight in the game it's like one battleship and then some cruisers and some escort craft you know oh you mean in like in battle fleet gothic i believe yeah like The actual kind of fight itself is a battle group,

because you're not commanding the entire battle fleet, so many ships. So the Imperial Navy vessels are something that we will probably cover much more with Kyrioth. But I wanted to just kind of go over each of them in a little light bit. So you have the classic battleship. The battleship is gigantic. It is e-fucking normus E-fucking norman E-fucking normas

It is so big They range pretty heavily Like there is the apocalypse-class battleship and the emperor-class battleship and the invincible class fast battleship And the retribution battleship Wow, there's something bigger than the emperor class? I think it would actually be the apocalypse class

Geez, how dare they do the emperor like that? I believe the emperor class, well, the emperor class might be the biggest. The Apoculus one might have been something that's a little bit like side note. Oh, okay, because I was going to say, how dare you besmirch the emperor by making a class of ship bigger and grander

than the namesake of our lord? The namesake of our lord, of course, of course. So the, yeah, the actual like, size of these ships can range quite heavily. There is this classic image that often shows the various types of ship size. So that top one is the Retribution Class Battleship. Wow. And then you've got...

Yeah. And you've got cruisers and light cruisers. And I believe the Covenant of Blood was a strike cruiser. Oh. Okay. So is a respectable ship. I mean, it's, you know, it's no retribution class, but it's, you know, it's... God, that retribution class is insane.

It is genuinely, like, laughably large. That's, that's like a spacefaring city. There are other things like the Gloriana class battleship, which is just I believe that's the one the primarks were given Glorionic class battleships Okay

They're the emperor battleships There are battleships There are battleships Make up the The gigantic fuck-off ship that is then used In order to Basically have all the other

Cruiser stuff Surrounded as it's like You know you have your big centerpiece basically Yeah And then past that comes down into the cruisers

and cruisers are the main source of the battle fleet. It is, oh God, they're like grand cruisers, battle cruisers, regular cruisers, light cruisers. You've got Avenger class, Exorcist class, Vengeance class, Armageddon class, Dominion class, Long Serpent class, Merchurface, it's a lot. It's a lot. They are the main line ships of the Imperial fleet. Like, for example, a battleship, can range in size between up to eight kilometers long.

Okay. And they can house between 25 to 3 million people. So they're like floating countries. They are floating countries. They are enormous. Actually, they could be floating continents. Often they don't even, often they have like these gigantic, heavily armored prows, not just for the armor, but because they will literally ram you.

Yeah, that makes... Oh, that's, there was some ramming in the, um... What book? Oh, no, that was the Necron book where the Necron ships were like ramming shit, so I guess that doesn't. It's just the orcs, I suppose, too, where they just hit the big red button and they go vroom. They go vroom, yeah. The best way you generally deal with a battleship is to somehow board it, because if you notice, the entire side of it is just guns.

Yeah. It is armor-plated with guns. And then, and so with that, you obviously have the cruisers that kind of surround it. And then you have escort craft that tend to surround that. These are often frigates, destroyers, corvettes. Pretty mostly frigates, which are the little smaller ones. And even that little picture of shy posts. Like there's the battleships, the top.

and then you've got the cruisers, the Grand Cruisers on the right, and then cruisers on the bottom right, and then more light cruisers in the bottom left, and then there are some frigates in the center and little stuff like that. There are also obviously a ton of attack craft. Fury Interceptors are the big ones.

These are like three-man genuine, like, you know, they're Starfighters. Yeah. There are Starhawk bombers, other interceptors. I mean, these battle cruisers spit them out like a Nurgel infested deathguard spits out flies. Like you just have the Balochruiser and then just from it you see this gleam of thousands of craft

just start leaving its ports like a hive of bees. And you're like, oh my God. This sucks. Well, that's true. I guess if they're that big and they can hold that many people, they can probably hold a lot of starfighters too. Like shy posts rowboat Girl a Man's ship on the front. and I just see the immediate, like,

what is it like, I don't want to say a rosary, but the wreath. Yeah, the little wreath on the head. What are those things called again? Reef? Well, isn't there like a name for like the little, the little like leaves that you put on,

like by your ears and stuff? Yeah, I'm sure there is. That's a, I don't want to say, is that a Roman thing? Olive wreath. Oh, yeah, okay. Olive wreath then. Okay, sure.

You were right, wreath. Hooray. Hooray. But anyway, that is the large makeup of a battle fleet, or even just a battle group would be the big destroyers surrounded by cruisers, surrounded by escort craft full fighters. As for the Navy ranks, you have, because a whole part of the Navy is the people in the Navy.

No way, really? Listen, listen. I'm just using it as a segue. You can't have a Navy without people? I woke up for this. Woke up this morning and shows violence. Violence to me. Yep, I sure did.

All right. So there is the, like I said, the Lord High Admiral of the Navy, the High Lord of Terror. The Lord High Admiral contains and controls all of each individual segmentum. There is the Lord Admiral itself, which is the one that generally requires messing around with the battle fleets themselves. Oh yeah, their uniforms are, it's pure drip. It is absolutely old school like 18th century ships, you know, obviously. And look at all those medals that this guy's got. Holy geez.

The Lord High Admiral is the five of them that have each segmentum, the Lord Admiral, or so. sector commander is the naval operations for a sector. There's also a solar admiral, which is a little bit less common, more for reinforcing fleets or special duties. But then there's also the admiral, which is the allocated command of a portion of a sector's fleet, the vice admiral, which, you know, and then there's the rear admiral. He cleans the poop deck. Ha, ha, ha, rear, yeah.

We're 14. Yep. And then of course there's the Commodore Lord Captain, and then of course there's a captain. And captains are obvious. They are the captain of the ship. There is the commander, a lieutenant, midshipmen, and so on. There are also a bunch of warrant officers too,

like the Shipmaster, whose entire job is to make sure the ship is moving smoothly. The gun captain, which is a very important officer entirely in commanding a gun crew. of an Imperial warship. So they basically are like a gun foreman to how, because in order to reload.

Because if you're reloading like a torpedo on a destroyer, the torpedo is the size of probably like a small bus. Maybe bigger. Probably bigger. Cruiser, yeah. So you need to, so your, your gun captain probably is going to be like managing 50 people.

You got to have them working together. Oh yeah, absolutely. Maybe more than 50. Like with the size of some of these ships, Like, you're, you know, you're probably ordering around a small city. There is also the sergeant at arms, which is entirely based on working with charge squads of armsmen. These are the general troops that move around either to board other people or in order to protect against borders. They're entrusted with all of the weapons lockers and stuff per deck and allow them to help clear each deck of possible hostiles.

And then there is the Bosen or Bocwayne, which are like taskmasters and disciplinarians. Okay. Which leads us into the main crew of a ship, the classic raiding. I had to... Raid. Raid Shadow Legends. Listen, I'm just saying, if we get a Raid Shadow Legend sponsor, I'm buying that damn Estreus tank. And I will put the stamp down and I'll buy that damastrae. So if you ever see a raid Shadow Legends sponsor on this channel, just don't think damn, they sold out.

Think damn. I can't wait to see that painted Estreus tank. Can't wait to see Brick's a Stray's Tank. It's going to be dope. So the rating. So a rating is the name of the enlisted voidsman. A rating. Yeah, a rating.

Yeah, I know, right? It took me a second to figure that out. But a rating is the name of the crewman. Okay. The rating is a basic voidsman whose entire point is to take care of lots of menial tasks. We're talking hauling shells, cabling stuff, removing debris, maintenance, tons of different kinds of subclassifications for these ratings, different kinds of classes. Like, this person is the fuse changer. This person is the gun loader, et cetera, et cetera.

A lot of them also make up the bulk of the crew and will do a lot of the fighting. when a boarding action will arrive. However, this might surprise you in the Imperium. Most ratings are volunteers. Really? The pay is very decent, more than you'll ever make in a hive city, and the conditions are a million times better

than most imperial worlds. You are also serving on one of the God Emperor's, like, God machines. True, but it's a very big. very dangerous job. Like, you, you need to deal with the borders like you are going to see combat, almost guaranteed. And your life is on the line against, like, Zenos, uh, orcs, uh, nids, probably, like, Eldar. That, that's, that's a rough job. I mean, the conditions might be good, but the, uh, mortality rate has got to be not grand. Well, the, the, the main thing

to note when it comes to this is that remember despite the fact that we are in a galaxy of nothing but war you will not always see combat you know because think about like think about how long

you might survive on a ship if you'll say you are on one of the cruisers in some part of some sector that just might not see much you might live 50 years on this ship and not see any combat.

Now, it's a bit unlikely, sure, but whether or not you see combat depends on whether, like, who are you combating? Because 90% of the time, the Imperium is killing itself. True. I would imagine, like, current time with the cicatrix maledictim splitting the universe wide open, you probably see a lot more combat now, though, right? And you're going to be fighting all sorts of bullshit. Um, this is

I wouldn't volunteer for it me personally Well, think about it this way Um, you might see combat, but you might not be boreded You know True, you might not be You might just be doing classic Yeah, you know, loading guns and things

Yeah, loading shells and just doing the media That's true But there's the thing though You say like, oh, you don't want to volunteer for it Because of, yeah, it's certainly hazardous Like yeah, you're going out in the Imperium and that kind of stuff But here's the other question.

Where do you live? Is where you live better? I mean, I guess that's true. There's so many like radiation cursed planets that barely have a hospitable surface on them. And even if it is hospitable, you know, it's probably turned into a giant hive city where you literally can't make a living

because the population is overwhelming. And yeah, I don't know, I guess, maybe. Think of it like this. There are a lot of things that are important when it comes to a job. Like a real life job, right? Sure. Pay, company, fulfillment of,

like, what you want to do, and a few others. But the pay is good. It's way better than any other thing would be. So you got okay pay. Yeah. The company you keep, you know, who knows what your life on the Hive City was, but you are going to be working with fellow men and women who work hard on a spaceship.

Like, that could certainly be that level camaraderie. You have no issues in what you're doing. You are serving on one of the emperor's glorious naval vessels. Like, you are... Something to be proud of. Stoked. Yeah. You could shore leave.

You could spend all your money on various planets you go with. You're, you know, you're probably... not seen, like, you're not going to be seen like the Americans were in Japan post-World War II or anything like that where it's not seen well. Like, you are going to chill at some shore leave in some planet and you are going to be a major rating on an imperial vessel. People are going to like you. You are going to get laid, most likely. Well, when you put it like that, sign me up. Glory to the emperor. Get that tall glass. Lanoosh.

Oh, yeah. No, no more. That's all you had to say. Well, shit. That's all you had to say. We can't do the exact quote because... No, we cannot.

My lawyer is advised me that's a continuous joke. Definitely. But, anywho, the actual rating has a ton of different jobs. And yeah, they're mostly volunteers. They sign up, much like you sign up for the Imperial Guard.

There are voidsmen and armsmen. The major... rating of course, but a voidsman is generally an enlisted crewman that have some kind of training or skill conduit maintenance, repairs, polishing, so on.

There's also the armsman, which is, you know, you could guard the captain. You can guard the bridge. You can, you know, just stuff like that. You mean they're not in charge of the crew's literal arms and making sure that everybody's working out properly?

Man, I would love to know if there was like a personal trainer. What would a personal trainer look like on an imperial vessel? They probably be some kind of ecclesiarch person. Like, oh yeah. Gaines for the god emperor. One day together we can lift the golden throne. Anyway, there are also plenty of other specialist ranks. You have the tech priest Majoris. You have your classic senior navigator. you have your masters of ordinance, master of gunner, your surgeon, you know, there's a fleet commissar often. There's often a confessor, which is there to promote the imperial creed, you know,

God emperor, all that stuff. And that's all in between the ludicrous level of fire, power, weaponry these things have. Yes, they do. Just insanity. Because that's the thing is every single gun that we talked about on a titan is insane. but these are on ships. These are larger. Yeah.

Well, because they're for void battles, and they're on these absolutely colossal space-faring ships. So, yeah, they're probably the size of a Titan sometimes. Mm-hmm. There are also a large amount of other workers. Thing is that not everyone might volunteer for work on a ship. And if your classic battle cruiser has between 25,000 to, 3 million people

you may need some extra crew maybe so so what do you do you go you make your way down to

that's the sound of the ship you know I was like damn Brickie you know you just went completely static right I thought your discord was malfunctioning I didn't know

what to make of that. Wow. Hey, listen, not everyone can be as cool as me, okay? That's true. You know, hey, hey. You make great ship sounds. Don't let anybody tell you different.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anywho, the passing, moving past that hole, uh, uh, the, sometimes you might just need more crew.

So you will, will go find yourself a beautiful hive city or perhaps a penal colony and be like, get on the ship. Ah, forced labor, eh? Oh, indentured servitude makes up a massive portion of the Imperium's ship crew. You got to have someone work on that plasma reactor that gives you radiation. You got to have someone dredge. You got to have someone shoveling coal, you know? Mm-hmm.

Do they ever, I mean, I guess they probably wouldn't, but do they ever worry about like indentured slaves like causing problems or not doing the job rights or anything like that? Is there someone that's always watching them to make sure that they're not doing the fucky-wuckies? Oh, absolutely. You will have many crew die due to accidents. Because they'll crawl into a vent and they'll just get asphyxiated. they'll lose a limb, or sometimes they even died disciplinary action, like the commissar or something. Yeah.

But, yes, that image that shy posted is indeed how they reload their torpedoes. A gigantic amount of hundreds of slaves moving the torpedo. There are literally, yeah, there are literally gangs and societies that are formed around reloading guns. Wow, that torpedo is,

enormous. Holy hell. I love the guy that's in the front that just got his arms up like Faster for the Emperor. Yeah, that's good image. That's a good image. What a interesting idea.

What if you create like a drama, like the wire, but the gangs are literally which gun port on the battle cruiser you're in? Yeah, which gun do you reload? It's like, yeah, we over here at gunpoint starboard A5 really fucking hate Port B7 And we're gonna kill them in a gang war

And then the Commissar comes and then kills all of you Because you killed the other crew in the gang war Yep Damn, that is a crazy image though of reloading that torpedo That's insane And they just you'll go to a you'll go to a you'll go to a a penal colony, you know, and you'll just grab inmates

and stuff. You will take your tithe for the Imperial Navy and they will just do what you tell them to because they have to or they die. Yeah, you could probably take a whole penal yard and just put them on different torpedo ports. Probably. All of them. Most likely, yeah.

I mean, there is entire societies formed from, I mean, the lower decks, as you can tell, they talked about plenty in the Night Lord's books. The black market. This entire market formed from just the lower dredges and dregs

of a Astardis cruiser. Yeah. It's a whole whole civilization's down there, Jesus. It's certainly an interesting vibe having the Imperial Navy because for all the insane power and fear that the Adeptus Astardis might have,

they are stuck in a ship. Yeah, they are indeed stuck in a ship. Just going from place place, yeah. And if you, and a normal ship of normal crew that are not a startis base, can blow them out of the, of the world, I was going to say out of the sky, but out of space. Yeah, out of the void. Yep. And like, it can just happen. And the, the competency of the captain and commander and the crew is all hinged on that entire, you know,

that entire, those engagements, which is why those stories are scary. Yeah, it's like a whole ship of Astardis could get blown out of the sky by just not Astardis. Because the other captain was better at void combat. That is exactly why the Astardis ships, which are often called battle barges, do focus mainly on enemy boarding actions. They focus on putting the Staris in a drop pod and landing them in your ship, because, holy shit, how are you going to deal with that?

Yeah, if you're going up against the non-A-starity ship and you let like three Astardis board, it's like it's over for the Humi ship that has, you know, no space brains. You've got a, you've got a difficult problem on your hands. Very, very. You can absolutely take them down. Perhaps maybe you have some admec catafrons or just some well-placed gun emplacements. Astardis are powerful, but if you have enough auto guns in one spot, that's, you know. They're not immortal.

They are not immortal. They're strong, but not immortal, yeah. And that, yeah, so it's like, it's much better to just get them into your ship. So that's the number one thing you got to be careful of when you're fighting the Astardis is to keep your void shields up and make sure they don't get their shots on. Because once those shields pop, here come the drop pods, and you have a... And then you're really screwed. You have a big problem on your hands.

Mm-hmm. Oof. So, besides that, the other thing, to really know is things like the Inquisition The Inquisition will often While they make demands of the Militarum a lot more than the Navy They can obviously use

The Imperial Navy as a source of transport Often smaller vehicles, frigates and stuff Because no one can really prep a battle A fucking battleship for five days Just to get it up and going To have Mr. Inquisitor go A planet over Unless it's a really important inquisitor

True, but I think they would prefer not to anyway Because the inquisitors like to Move post haste Ah, okay That's true, that's be quick Their time is money, I gotta do my thing Yeah, that's fair They uh, and you know

It's a, um, it's the inquisitor While people don't necessarily like having them on board Because they're creepy and they scare the shit of them Um, the inquisitor is of course as we always talk, has the utmost authority out of everyone ever in the Imperium. But it's always good to be careful with how much you try to stretch that power. Yeah. You don't want someone stabbing you in the back because you're a douchebag.

Yeah, it's a pretty bad idea to walk up to the captain and saying, I'm in command of this crew now. As the captain standing on the raised dais and the 100 crewmen kind of turned their head to you like, what did you just say to me? Yeah, and they're all like pulling out their Las pistol. Yeah, it's like, because you have to, you think about the, uh, mindset that goes in your head right there. It's like, this is my captain.

I am loyal to a T. And I know that this Inquisitor, despite having the power they do, will not crew my ship as well as my captain can. Yeah. Oh, captain, my captain. And because of that, if I let this Inquisitor get away with what they're doing, and the captain does, my life can be measured in days, depending. Oh, yeah. And so, how many times does this happen?

I mean, I don't necessarily know, but it's more of like a thing to state. Right, right. And it's like, oh, the Inquisitor might end up with a knife in their back. Yeah. Oh, yes, the Inquisitor in Dark Tide travels in a light cruiser. The tiny cruiser is our ship. Oh, shit. Really? Yes, the morning star is a light cruiser.

Wow, okay. Well, that definitely puts the size into a little more perspective, because the morning star is massive. It is very big. Holy shit. Okay, okay. It's impossible to truly show the grand. scale of these ships.

It's like when you see a Titan, you at least have a bit more of a reference to how it is because you can see the people on the ground. But a ship is so high in the air. Like, you can only compare it to other ships, which is hard to truly get a real grasp on how fucking big these things are. I mean, I guess you could try comparing it to like how big it is next to like a planet or a moon. But I mean, that's a planet.

That's a celestial body. Yeah, it even still doesn't quite do its job there. Yeah, yes. Oh my God, shy. Okay, so there is a U.S. aircraft carrier. Mm-hmm. On that above photo, there is a light cruiser. And there is the Eternal Crusader.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That, that, wow. Oh, okay, so, so this Eternal Crusader is, I'm assuming a battleship, it is 3.56 kilometers long. Do not forget that some battleships go up to eight. Eight. They will be double the link. Double. Oh my God.

That's silly. Like, the carrier is smaller than some of the just normal spires on, on the Eternal Crusoeuvre. That is insanity. Yo, who side are you on? Are you on the Bloods, also known as Gunport A14B3? Or are you on the Crips, also known as Torpedo Port 54433? Like that, that, the Eternal Crusader is like, it's a floating continent. It's like floating North America.

I wonder how big craft worlds are in comparison. Eldar craft worlds. Craft worlds have to be so much bigger because that's like a world. Honestly, other than that, the life on a naval vessel is actually one of the better ones for the Imperium, if you're not a slave.

Make sure to reiterate that, yeah, if you're there of your own accord. There are a lot of issues you have to run into. You'll probably see combat, but, you know, like, I don't think you'll be boreded super often. It depends on what you're fighting. Yeah. You do have to worry about like the Geller Field, of course.

Oh, yeah, of course. Got to worry about the Geller Field, the war, demons, you know, chaos. So wrapping it all up, the Imperial Navy, you know, it's not, it's not a bad gig. It's not a bad gig. You have, if you volunteer for it, your life will be hard, as all things the Imperium is, but you have room for advancement. You can become an arbsman and they become the master at all. arms, then who knows, maybe you'll move even farther to be able to...

Who knows? Maybe one day you can captain your own ship, and life as a captain is a good one. Yeah. And I suppose if you're just, like, in the dregs, and there's not a whole lot going on in your life anyway, you know, you're living in, like, the slums, and there's just nothing. It's like, well, fuck it. Why don't I enlist? Why don't I volunteer?

At least then I'll have, you know, a... three square meals a day. I'll have a job. Who knows where that. Yeah. So I guess it could be a lot worse in the Imperium. It's like, hey, what are you going to do? You want to keep living on the Stromo or do you want to be part of the Navy?

Oh, God, yeah. It's a fine job. I'd say that as far as a plus also, you know, you can maybe if you are some hot shot, you can become a pilot. Because, you know, like aircrafts, Valkyry, transports, starfighters, that's all part of the Navy. And so you can just kind of, you know, just kind of fly yourself an aircraft and have your own, have your own fancy, fancy Valkyrie that you can pilot around.

And it's, you know, being a pilot's cool. Yeah, you too could be the next Luke Skywalker. Mm-hmm. So that's that. Kirook will be around next time to talk about the myriad amounts of Imperial Naval Vessels, the ornaments that are on them and how big those guns can get. Oh man, I'm looking forward to the armaments

and just how ludicrous all of those cornucopia of guns can be. What do you, if you had to name a gang that reloads guns, what would you name your gang? Um, what would I name it?

Um, oh man, you just, gonna put me on the spot like this? I, I, I, man, this is, this was already like a, uh, a really popular, uh, you remember motocross when that was at like,

you know, an X games and stuff? Yeah, I remember I remember a remote cross. Dude, do you remember the group that was a, the metal militia? Oh my God, with the skull and the helmet. Yes! Oh, dude, I had a, I had a backpack of that one while I was in middle school. Oh, back then the metal

militia was so cool. Oh, I love them. So yeah, I'd go with the metal militia. Slap a Imperial Aquila on the helmet. Call it a day. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. That's pretty good.

All right. That's pretty good. All right. All right, everyone. If you remember the metal militia, do comment below. Allow us algorithm likes and shit because I'm bringing back middle school level shit right now and I love it. All right. I'm going to go.

I'm going to go. I should go. We're going to go. I should go. I should go. I should go. We should go. Rex.

Take me home. You fucked it up.