Adeptus Ridiculous - Lair of the Tyrant: The Red Corsairs Return

Episode Date: April 15, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://shop.orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousWelcome back to another episode of Adeptus Ridiculous! This week, DK, Kirioth, and Bricky are setting sail for the nightmare that is the Maelstrom. We are diving deep into the 10th Edition campaign book, "The Maelstrom: Lair of the Tyrant," which is packed with 76 pages of pure worldbuilding. In this episode, we cover: - The Maelstrom Zone: A massive galactic Warp incursion second only in size to the Eye of Terror.- Huron Blackheart: The former Chapter Master of the Astral Claws, who is now the supreme pirate king and Master of the Red Corsairs.- Pirate Empires: How Huron operates out of New Badab and Corsair's Keep, a Blackstone Fortress gifted to him by Abaddon the Despoiler.- The Aeldari Threat: Prince Yriel leading the Eldritch Raiders into the storm and the lore behind the Raid on the Crimson Eyrie.- Maelstrom Locals: Everything from Ork Freebootas and Night Lords to terrifying daemon worlds like Fleshmyre, which devours visitors with continents of quivering flesh.Support the show

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Hell yeah. Yeah, kind of insane, actually. So, yes, for those of you who may or may not have seen, from last episode, we have the technical difficulties shirt. And, oh, God, my circle's large coaster available for a limited time is also a bundle of the two of them. It was only for a week and therefore we are giving you until tomorrow morning. When I, when I wake up on Thursday, Thursday, yeah, Thursday morning. What day would that be the? Bright and early at noon or are you actually waking up at a regular like 8 a.m.

I normally wake up at like, I normally wake up at 7. Okay, I was going to say, are we talking a self-employed start to the day or a I have responsibilities? Like a real job. There's a big difference. Yeah. There really is. Gotcha. No, I mean, I'll be up.

I'll be, I'll be up at like a regular time. But when I'm there and on my computer, I'll be turning it off. So you got, you most likely have about 24 hours from the start of this podcast to catch those last two eyes before they are gone. Um, so enjoy them, enjoy them all you can. And then, uh, and those will start shipping out probably in a, you know, one to two weeks, give or take as time goes. as time goes, as the coins arrive and yada yada, so yabee! Yeah.

Also, Craig's here. Hi, Craig. Hi, Craig. Oh, and Kariah's here, too. Hey, Carrie. It was a begrudging hello, but I gave him on hello. What's your deal with hating on Craig? Yeah, what's your damn deal, Kariov?

That wasn't hate. Previously, he got hate. But now, now there's just, there's acceptance. I'm leveling back up to, you know, being nice to him. Al, I guess that's true. There's that English cynicism that you've got too where just a hello is actually quite cheerful, right? I mean, pretty much. Wait, wait, hold the goddamn phone, everyone here.

What do you mean, acceptance? You said you gave him a begrudging hello. Look, I'm not going to lie, half the time when he shows up, he makes me jump, because he's really loud. And I forget to turn him down. And then, you know, we go another one. week or, you know, in most cases, we go two days and then we start recording again and he's there and he makes me jump again and I forget to turn him down again. Some would say this is self-inflicted, but you know what? There's also, you know, he could be considerate. He could just be

considerate. That's what, that's all I'm saying. All right, well, the two of you could have your marriage counter later. Yeah. So what, what's, what's the deal, Kierreth? You told us, you told us this was a gertie episode. your word specifically gurthy. I mean, not, he did not say that, by the way. He said it exactly like that, with that accent and everything. I was perplexed. I mean, I would say that, but I didn't specifically say that this time.

I've done enough thumbnails in my day with the word girth just written across it in giant letters that I would absolutely use those words. But it is, it is quite a monster. We've got a good 17 pages here on, frankly, a very interesting subject. So, you know what? I'm going to give you the quote. And, I mean, you will most likely get it, and I'll be shocked if you don't. Ready? Oh, no.

Don't, don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby. Don't sound that way. Help me, Tom Cruise. That's be done. What rumors you've heard about the maelstrom are true, and they are but a fraction of the danger in this region. Now, swear an oath, grow strong. With undying loyalty to me, there is only one power in the maelstrom that you need to fear. My wrath.

The closing lines of Huron Blackheart's induction speech for new Red Corsairs. Well, gosh, I don't know. You said who said it? I did. There's also, there was another word that was mentioned a couple of times. there. There's also the male structure. I'm short.

I'm sorry. Just like, you said who said it. I'm like, that's correct. God damn it. He's in all cylinders right now. I mean, I know what it is because I help sometimes choose these episodes. However, it is, you're thinking too hard, D.K.

You're thinking too hard. Think dumb. This is the most on the nose one, to be fair. I think, I think this one is genuinely just, you know, there is, there is a word in there a couple of times. and the guy who said it, and that's really all the information you need. Oh, it sounds like it's an episode on The Mailstrom. Correct. Pretty much. Yep.

Fantastic. See, Shai? Got it right. First, first try, shy. So, you know, eat shit. No, I totally get it. I have very often overthop these things. And like, hmm, literally years of oblique references and, you know, this, this quote vaguely mentioned something that one guy said as part of an overall faction. You know, when it's that clear, I do not, I do not like hold it against you for trying to look a bit deeper. I also feel like usually like the times I've pulled the quote, I specifically won't say who said it because it's on the person that said it.

And so I'm like, no, I can't tell you who said it because if I tell you that, you know the episode. And so once you were like, yes, it said by Huron Blackheart in the thing. I'm like, well, we've got two options here. We've got the guy that said it or the title of the book he said it in. It called be that. That's too easy. In fairness, this is an exciting time because this is on the Maelstrom and here on Blackheart, a.k.a. this is the next chapter in the current timeline of 40K after the tightest,

stuff. And that's cool. Oh. Because it's new things happening now, and that's fun. That is fun. And it's our favorite tax evader. Oh, 100%. It's also rammed, like absolutely rammed full of, like, law and background and fluff this book.

Possum was both impressed and somewhat concerned about trying to squeeze it into an episode. So with that in mind, not everything is going to get a mention, because it's actually quite a different book. But we'll get into it. So in our last episode in the 10th edition is ending, so here's a bunch of campaign book series. We had the 500 Worlds campaign, which served as a bridge that brought Titus over from Space Marine 2 to the tabletop, and also took a little narrative step forward when it comes to the Necron's, as well as putting the lion at the doorstep of his brother. This whole little narrative that takes a step forward thing is very common for these end-of-edition books,

so you're probably thinking that the Maelstrom, Lair of the Tyrant, is going to be, kind of the same, but with Red Corsairs and Prince Uriel's Eldritch Raiders. The thing is, this book is way different to that, and is far more interesting from a law perspective. The conflict between Titus and Necrosar took up the majority of the 500 World's Law Book, while the conflict between Uriel and Huron is well under four pages and is treated far more like a, this is kind of what goes down in the Maelstrom story instead of a big reveal-heavy conflict with mind-blowing law implications. What makes up the rest of the book is about 76 pages worth of world building for the Maelstrom itself,

including background on Huron's Band of Corses, Uriel's crew, a timeline covering the events before and after the Bidab War, and all of the other pirates that call this Hellish place home. We're also going to talk about the lad himself, since him post-Badab hasn't really been covered, but at least it's all in one place. There is pretty much enough for two episodes here. So this is going to be quite abridged today,

and everything we're going to cover is specifically in this book. So with that being said, let's set sail into the Maelstrom, which, having read this through a couple of times already, this might be my new favourite bit of just like 40K space, genuinely. It's that good. The maelstrom itself? Yeah, it rules. I mean, I mean, in the, we're referring to the maelstrom, like,

Nailstrom is the eye of terror in this situation, right? The area around it. So you've got, like, right in the, uh, in the northwest of the galactic core, the maelstrom zone, it's a separate place to the eye of terror. It's a super weird area. Sometimes people, I feel like I've heard people refer to the eye of terror area as like the maelstrom of the war kind of things. So maybe it's got mixed up.

I think it's like, oh, I see there. Okay. Kind of become, I think for some people use it as a bit of like a generic term, whereas in 40K there's like a very specific area. It's another like warp incursion and it's second incised the eye of terror. Like it's not as big, but the reach is a lot further than the defined borders of the Maelstrom. And it kind of behaves a bit differently to the Eye of Terror as well. since that was caused by the birth of Slaesh, whereas the Maelstrom is even more ancient and likely was around in some capacity before the opening of the rift. As far as ancient history is concerned, there's a myth that the Imperial Fists have from M32

of one of their chief librarians sealing away nine demon lords within the Maelstrom. On the surface, this kind of gives the impression that it's more stable to pass through than the eye, and there are plenty of people whose lives involve either attempted to claim stuff in it or to map it out, but something being stable doesn't mean that it's safe or smart to visit it. It's still a massive warp storm that fluctuates in size and has a radial impact around it that causes warp travel to be exceptionally difficult even on a calm day. You could just be like sailing around and then out of nowhere an asteroid phases in and blows you up or something way worse could happen as well, which we'll discuss in a little bit.

Okay, so we need to go, so this is what happens when we go through the Omega 4 relay. Poor Kerry. You can't hit him with the Mass-Speck references, man. It's so early for a Mass-Effect reference. It's never too early for a Mass-S-S-T reference. How dare you, sir? How dare you? He was on your side.

Now he hates. Yeah, now I'm on Brinkie's side. How dare you say it's too early for a Mass-Effect record? Also, why would anybody want to go through? this thing, like just looking at pictures of it and knowing that it is a warp storm, I would want to avoid this thing

at all cost. I mean, I guess to some degree you probably want to map it because Huron's in there doing Huron-esque things and that's not great. But, God, I, that's a... I mean, just looking at the picture and seeing just the way space shifts

and phases and everything is just kind of like distorting inward. Nah, I'm good. I'm staying the hell away from that. Because money and power, baby. Yeah, that is the Imperium way, isn't it? Pretty much. I mean, short answer, there's a ton of cool shit in there, and that's pretty much all you need to know.

Yeah, resources, artifacts, potential weapon remaking stuff, yeah, I guess. Yeah. And money. And money. Oh, yeah, you also need to guard it to prevent crazy shit getting out. Oh, that's, you know what thing. Fair. There, you don't want all the crazy Huron war bullshit getting out of there and causing havoc, yeah, okay. And the rest. So warp-based anomalies are far-reaching, and the impacts can extend to worlds that are a safe enough distance from the eye of the storm.

There are, of course, a lot of worlds near the Maelstrom, and the most well-known sector near it is the Bedab sector. But this is also White Ska's territory, as the Yassan sector and the home world of Chagoras is just to the south. Katachan's also nearby, and a whole load of essential forge worlds as well. So despite the Imperium saying, please don't go near here, it's kind of difficult to avoid going near it. And for a long time, the impact of the Maelstrom could be sort of disregarded, with a sort of heavy quotes around sort of. There is at this point, though, a great problem in the area that's made the Maelstrom even worse and has brought attention back to it. The opening of the rift has juiced the maelstrom and the creatures inside of it to unfathomable levels and though the storm hasn't grown monumentally, the borders of impacted space around the maelstrom has grown

and more worlds have been sort of claimed. Not in a they're lost in the warp forever demon world kind of way, although there is plenty of that going on, they're just really tough to get to and getting back out is even harder. The impact of the Rift has dampened the already flickering light of the Astronomicon out here even further, meaning less and less coverage and less ability to chart it on the side of the Imperium. And of course, less Imperial presence means that the levels of unchecked lawlessness in this region have spiked, and the disbursement of numerous factions, thanks to the opening of the Rift, has made this a bit of a popular area in recent years. even the planets on the fringes of the maelstrom's reach are visually impacted with the night skies of those worlds looking like a glowing, sickening rash.

Nice, lovely. Love that. Oh, all right, that's nasty. You ready, kids, the sun's going down. It's time to do a bit of Stargates. Oh, dear. Yeah. Oh, I don't like that.

Also, I've seen that picture so many times, and it never doesn't hit of that, like, crazy strip of the warp with all the, like, tongues and eyes and teeth and... Yeah. Absolutely. They actually use that for a magic card, too. I believe it's the reprint of teromorphic expanse, if I am unmistaken. It's a good card to use it for. Oh, it's gross. The other elephant in the room here is that for quite some time, there wasn't really anything that was, you know, like, all.

organized inside of the Maelstrom. It was just a bunch of warp bullshit, and warp bullshit is to be expected when you're going near tears in reality. Thanks to a particular tax evader, though, there are bands of renegade space marines that reach outward from the Maelstrom to bother the bordering planets before retreating back into the storm, because, believe it or not, resources are a bit thin in the middle of a massive hell hurricane. This combined with more and more factions deciding to dive into the maelstrom to loot some of the worlds that have been long abandoned have kind of forced the imperium's hand into action. Now, we've said there's organization in the maelstrom, but according to Huron Blackheart, he controls it. This is like a guy on a surfboard

saying he controls a tsunami. You cannot control the maelstrom no matter how much you try, but you can certainly use it to your advantage, and there's no denying that Mr Blackheart is doing a pretty good job, making his presence known and feared in and around it. And there may even be some evidence that he is somehow connected to the maelstrom directly in some sort of spiritual way. Now, we're going to cover him in much more detail after we introduce some of the other stuff happening in this area because it will really put the chaos, both figurative and literal, in this area, into better context. All right.

As we mentioned before, the maelstrom is not impossible to navigate. through and is relatively stable. This of course means that there's plenty of things happening in here, whether the Imperium likes it or not. There's plenty of external raiders and pirates that plunder the Maelstrom and leave, but the waves of the storm include civilizations, kingdoms and dedicated groups of pirates that call it home. It's a messy home, but it is a home to some. A home that, so far, hasn't been fully consumed by the Wharf yet. Those who call the Maelstrom home know its quirks and are able to use it to their advantage. Going back to the surfer analogy, some people will whiff it and crash into the waves, but with practice, they'll be able to learn the rhythm of it and ride

the storm. So before we talk about Huron and his crew, let's talk a bit about what else lies within the maelstrom and what's able to survive it. In order to survive in a place like this, you need to be ruthless and you need to be able to hold an almost impossible foothold in an environment that simply wishes to kill you. So it shouldn't be surprising when we say that those who are the most successful are the ones that are most out of their mind or just looking to hide. Yeah, that that does track. Yeah, that sounds about right.

You're basically living in a warp storm. Yeah, you've got to be a little out of your goddamn mind. What's that, what's that terrible sign that you find in on like, it's, you know, those t-shirts that are generated for people? there's a sign that is decades old that is like you don't have to be mad to live here but it helps that kind of it's that sort of thing i don't know whether that's a thing that you get in the u.s the horrendous garden center decorations that have little cute slogans on like the it's champagne a clock or give me coffee or i'll commit murder that sort of thing i mean we do we do have those

without a doubt exist yeah but yeah nobody of any importance wears them harsh I'm sorry it's like those weird shirts are like oh this better be important I stopped watching anime to be here and it's like God get away from me consider yourself shunned

yeah that's exactly the sort of thing shy it's weirdly depressing so people who have turned their back on the Imperium or have had the Imperium turn their backs on them are common in the maelstrom either as refugees and nomads or raiders and pirates,

heretics, abhumans, mutants, criminals or scapegoats. Some of these people will hide the truth of their reason for being there, while others will proudly flaunt it. You've got your gun runners who are cutting through the maelstrom to shave off time on shipments, or picking up goods from the numerous dark mechanic and facilities that operate within the storm. You've got slavers who tried to capture people and drag them into the storm. Think classic pirate stuff, but in the middle of a... hurricane made out of hell.

Now, God damn. Casually. What is that long neck dude there? I was trying to say the same thing. What is the bottom left dude doing? Um, that guy's

freaky as hell. I mean, they're all freaky, but yeah, that, that dude is, um, yeah, I don't know what to tell you guys. I know what to tell us. Let's tell us. the answer of what the fuck i don't think care that has an answer for you you know he's just as perplexed this is a very weird pull um but for some reason that guy reminds me a lot of a

particular dead by daylight killer known as the the unknown i know i know everyone everyone put your put your pussies away i know i know we're we're we're we're we're We're really crazy right now. But like, I know a dead by daylight reference got you all kinds of ways. But it looks like the dead by daylight. Oh, no, no, no. I see it. I totally see it.

If you made the unknown a little more like mechanical looking, I, I see the vision. I see what you mean. All right. Good, good. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, I see it. I'm a bit concerned by I started Googling it. and the top result after dead by daylight,

the unknown, was controversy. That's a little bit alarming. Oh, it's dead by daylight. Chances are some people were tundling with him and everybody got mad about it. Yeah, it is most definitely not something important.

Yeah. That's good. It's always a worrying moment where he goes to Google something and that's like the second or top result. It's like, oh, he's too strong. He's not strong. and it's probably something like that. Oh, your classic nonsense, that.

So, despite the lawbreaking, there's also some degree of imperial presence in the Maelstrom, but it's not really advertised. There are some outposts on the worlds of Scrom and Oblastus, one has been there for a bit, and one was recently engulfed. There's also a few inquisitorial black sites, including the Null Bastion,

as well as a fortress of the Death Watch, all of which remain out of sight and out of mind as they exist in an area that would easily tear them apart if people knew that they were there. There's also plenty of Xenos hiding in the Maelstrom, many of which humanity has run to the brink of extinction. By name, they mention the Terrellians, the Gotharty and the Voizen. You also have some of the Xenos that we know,

like Kruit, Dracari and Kin of different backgrounds. The Necrons have reason to believe that Fazaar the pirate king absolutely legendary legendary name oh my god write a book about him hell yeah um

his necrone pirate king Jesus I want a a necrone overlord with a pirate ask hat I just I'm sorry I was thinking that

that's great love that idea an additional idea however what if you were to do it but he had one of those big, like, powdered wig-style pirate things, but it's a bunch of, like, scarabs and various, like, Necron artifice.

Oh, that would rule. That would be way better. Sold. Make it. Games Workshop. Right now. Get aside. He's also, by the way, the usurper of the Samek dynasty, and he's gallivanting around

in the maelstrom and attacking long-lost tomb worlds. Unfortunately, there's, where there's an abundance of life, there's also a an abundance of things that wish to eat it, and the tendrils of the hive mind have also made their way into the storm. Being connected directly to the war, but it should be no surprise that demons find it awful easy to breach the veil and operate in the open around this region, and when there's demons, there's also traitor legions. For the most part, the traitors that operate within the maelstrom keep to themselves, all have motives that are relevant to their legion. Black Legion war bands operate and work to amass armaments in relative secret,

either to focus on a new attack on terror or to potentially blow Huron out of the water. See, despite Huron having control over the Maelstrom, it's not really absolute and also not fully trusted. He's got an alliance with Abidon, but as you'll see in a bit, it's a little bit tricky. It's also chaos, so, like, who's really going to keep their word, right? Like, oh, yeah, I see something I want, but you have an alliance with me. I don't care. Almost like the famed horrific infighting or something. It's almost like that is literally their history, their core history.

Anyway, yeah. Most of the traitor war bands are there just to be a menace. The Empress children, for example, love to just fuck around and stalk ships attempting to flee around the maelstrom because they're infatuated with the resilience of anything that lives in such a horrible place. Similarly, the night lords wish to do what they want in the maelstrom and be left alone while doing so. They're one of the biggest threats within its borders because they like to.

to do the Reavers from Firefly slash Serenity thing, where they capture ships in a surprise manner, board it and turn everyone into jumpers. They also like to haunt roots that Huron is set up, and it really messes with this whole control thing. Now, he did put a big bounty on the heads of the Night Lord Warband, the skin twixt and the shadow barons get. Okay, that second one's pretty good. Would you like, I'll tell you what, Bricky, you can read, Because this is night lords. You can read this one. This is how well Hurons put a price on their head thing went.

All right. After the first mercenary captains to try and claim the prides were discovered, peeled open and stitched back together in excruciating new forms, few others have attempted the hunt. Jesus. I mean, it's night lords. I shouldn't be surprised, but fucking hell. That's a little, that's a little Drakari-esque as well.

Yeah. Jeez. Look, this skin twixt and the shadow barons get don't want nothing to do with it. Leave them alone or they'll do that. Something about excruciating new forms is really haunting me.

I'm just not. Just don't like it. And I bet that excruciating new form was alive for a while too. I bet they like stitched them together so that they survived that whole process for a while. Oh, you know it. 100%. It's not an effective warning if you don't find him screaming.

Oh. Now, of course, the book this episode is all about, came out with models for the Aldari, but we'll talk about them a bit later because first we are going to talk about the one thing in the maelstrom that might be the biggest pain in Huron's side, which is the orcs.

And this is literally labeled Shai's dedicated section about freebooters. So, so possums ensuring that they get in there. The orcs around the maelstrom are about as ridiculous as you can imagine. The Death School's warlord Snickmack, control a world they call Reckers World, which is a scavengers paradise.

Due to some messed up warp rapids, crippled void ships will veer off course and end up around this world, which the lads then repurpose into huge scrap forts. This is essentially an orc equivalent of a hive world with spires made out of any stricken vessels they can find. There's also some fortress moons, which include morx tusks and worklaw hordes that are protected by crude idols carved from blackstone,

which is class. That sounds really dope, actually. Just like an orc hive city made of junk and scrap. That sounds so cool. I love it. Orcs doing orc stuff is always the best part. I was literally typing up freebooter stuff just a second ago to see if there was anything in particular that like there was new happening. And I remember because earlier I was I was seen in my local game store, they had a, they had like a free Buddha crew kill team.

And I'm like, did I miss something? And it was the old Flash gets that I'm not. I didn't miss anything. Oh. The excitement followed by. Oh, well. The grim disappointment of mediocrity. Yeah.

Now, not all orcs here are organised, and you probably guessed it, freebooters love this place, and they seeming it will come out of nowhere and disrupt anything around them as a quote-unquote unexpected variable in the maelstrom. Huron is absolutely sick of this lot, and he offers bounties and rewards for anyone who can take down orc pirates, but this just makes the orcs attack harder. There's de Black Star Bandits and Cap'in' Gold Tusk's Git Stompers, who are notable, pains in the ass, but the one orc pirate that is the bane of Huron is Admiral

Sun-Smasher. Wow, that's a hell of a name. I'm a... Well, tell me how he got his name, Kariath. Or do you know? I will say, I love the orcified spelling of Admiral. He's tried his best, bless him.

Also, I feel like you didn't quite sell that one Curia. That is clearly Admiral Sun-Smasher. Edmereau, soon, smesh. Yeah, see, there. There we go. Got to slip in the orp voice when we can, right? Now, admittedly, the way he got his name,

I'm not entirely sure this is accurate, but I do love the myth-making. So his gilded power claw allegedly extinguished a star. Sure. Well, you know, Allegedly. Allegedly, yeah.

Realistically, what probably happened... A incredible amount of heavy lifting. What probably happened was coincidentally, there was a supernova in the area, and he was like, Oh, look, I did it! Gilded Claw and everything, Sun Smash her. Yeah. He's still my new favorite. He's my new favorite.

He's got the name. He's got a great backstory. It's clearly not true. All around fantastic. Yeah. Sure. he knows how much Huron hates him and he loves to antagonize him. In his eyes, Huron is the biggest boss in the Maelstrom, and if he takes him down, he'll rule the place.

Oh yeah, he might have crashed his spacehawk into the star by accident and pretended it was on purpose. Also, if anyone could survive crashing their ship into a star, watching it explode as they flitter off into space, it would be an orc. He just styled it out. That's all it is. He just styled out the accident and now he's got an amazing reputation. Now, this is as good a time as ever to reintroduce the big man himself. In the past, he was Lodf Huron, the last chapter master of the Astral Clause, and now he is the supreme pirate king and master of the Red Corsese, Huron Blackheart. There is little to no doubt about his charisma, influence and treachery. His survival after the Bidavis, War was viewed as nothing short of a dark miracle, but it came at a great cost. Half of his body had to be completely reconstructed with bionics and augments, including the tyrant's claw, and those who repaired him remain high in his favour. Some under him believe he was given gifts directly by the dark gods themselves, and even believe that the escape into the

maelstrom was fate determined by the gods. But Huron does not speak of such claims. He also doesn't deny them either. I mean, he do got the the eight-point star of chaos on his crotch. Yeah, he do. He's kind of, he's, he's wrapping them pretty hard for not sort of going all in on them. It could be that or like, or like, hey, I'm not a religious guy, right? I'm not a religious guy at all. However, if you were to, if you were to take me skydiving, I might bring a cross around my neck.

just in case. Bring a rosary just because like, well, you never know. You always want to be prepared for every situation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or maybe he had to come to God's moment where half of his body was, yeah, obliterated and he's like, still not sure on that one, but, you know, maybe, maybe someone's out there watching. It's worth at least putting on a brand.

Also, Shia is right. He has dripped out both Loyalist and Trader. He looks phenomenal. That big old claw of his. is doing a lot of heavy lifting on the trip, but looks good, looks good. Yeah. Now, Huron does not seek the favor of the dark gods, similar to how Abadon works. He wishes to gain rewards from the warp, but doesn't want to be its pawn.

And he's fine with you worshipping whoever you want, so long as you swear unwavering obedience to him. If you do that, he permits you to slay and raid as you please within reason. It's like one of those jobs where you have unlimited time off. if you exploit it, you'll probably go into the gallows. Huron also has absolutely no trouble negotiating and working with anyone or anything to make sure he accomplishes his goals and keeps his foothold. This can be higher-ups when it comes to the traitor legions, but also the Dracari and other Xenos. His limited forces, when they first arrived in the Maelstrom, faced an uphill battle,

but he was able to slaughter the first pirate stronghold he found in a matter of hours. He made the survivors swear allegiance to him, and this would start a violent, rain that he still holds to this day. Now, the most obvious aid to this comes in the form of the Red Corsairs. Some would call them a warband, but this is a dramatic understatement of how organized they actually are. Like, they were born from the ashes and blood of the Badaab War, and made up initially from the remnants of the Astral Clause. Fighting the hell of the Maelstrom hardened them and ingrained their business until they became something unrecognizable from what they once were. They would deface their former heraldries with a bloody red hue, and the name

Red Corsairs would reflect this, a final revolt against their former lives. The Red Corsairs are now made up from many sources, most of which are renegades from loyal chapters who have fled into the Maelstrom, but others are made up of Traitor-Legian members who have decided to abandon their ranks in favour of a leader like Huron. All of these different origins help expand the strength of the Red Corsairs, because no matter the source, they all provide one thing. More and more information. Knowledge of doctrines, deployment, ciphers, and command structures. The Corsairs have so much information that a large invasion from them is more than possible, but they much prefer smaller raids. Swift, shock and awe tactics to disorient their foes and make them more than memorable.

You know, I will say this, like, they, I mean, obviously, obviously as being more renegan than strictly chaos obviously puts them in a bit of an interesting camp, you know, overall with how they look and things like that. But I must, I must say the, they seem, I don't know, relatively fair sounding, which is odd. Yeah. Like pretty much anyone in is a borderline unheard-off thing it feels like when it comes to 40K. Like where else do you find an accepting group who are like, oh, well, I mean, he might have been an Iron Warrior, but he wants to be one of us. That's true. Abadal do it.

The Black Legion? Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Fair. No, no. You are right, though. It's just this, but with a handful of. a smattering of pirate to kind of go along with it.

I mean, between Huron also being like, I'm not going to be chaos is porn, I'm going to do my own thing, and Abadon holding basically the same sort of standpoint, and the accepting ways that their underlings let people in and, you know, as long as you swear feel to you good, is, it feels like a weird sort of shadowing situation of like the Red Corsairs and Huron are,

basically the same, just not as hardcore chaos about it. Yeah, just more pirate willing to stick to the maelstrom, right? Yeah. Yeah, I just kind of keep to yourself, do your thing. Keep yourself to your thing, raid your stuff, don't raid too much stuff, and, you know, keep the spoils, have a good time.

I mean, I mean, hell, so many of the characters in the new kit have, like, really cool pel. and stuff like that and like old school armor it's pretty cool things like the yeah things like the power packs as well

having a mix of different mark of armor power packs it's only a small thing makes them stand out a lot looks like properly different to everything else it's pretty cool they are actually quite fun

really smug Reaver captain too that dude's like looks maxing I'm Skyler White Yo face just gets me I was going to say that I'm assuming that's the guy in the middle of that first one shy posted

Kind of looks like Jim Carrey if he was bald That's a strange comparison But you are right Yeah It's the first thing that came into mind Like I just thought of Ace Ventura bald Doing like his weird little smiley face But anyway

He's out of line but he's right There is there is no version of that model painted that doesn't make him look like Wallace from Wallace and Grommet. That's just how the head looks. Extremely loud and incorrect buzzer. I'm going to pull up Fletcher from

Tabletcher from Tabletop Tactics, the most goaded insane painter of all time. And I'm going to find his Huron. Both of those shy. I mean, that's fair. They both do not look like

Wallace and Gromit. I'm still getting it a bit from the top one. A bit? Not as much. But the second one, yeah, okay, that's, that's, that is. Those are phenomenal. Gally. Shadding on that.

By Joshua Hill. God, damn. Nice job. I found it. I found it. I'm sending it over. Sam lens. Okay.

Good old, good old Fletcher from Tabletop Tactics did a tintsy bit of green stuff. Um, to just slowly fill in. little bits of the mouth. You might have a hard time seeing this because Instagram is the worst platform of all time. So true. However,

I will take a quick screenshot for our viewers as well. And yeah, so just a little bit of a cleaning up of green stuff for the interior of the mouth is what was posted. And once again,

Fletcher is the goat. Yeah, the face looks phenomenal, but I can't get over how nice that power claw glow looks. That's crazy. It's just like it's slowly gradienting. Oh, man, that's great. Yeah. That face is so much better, though. It really is.

That makes such a huge difference. Yeah, that was how it went. You may recognize Fletcher from the dude who green stuffed a face on top of Fulgram's face. so it looked like he was wearing additional skin. Oh, that's a solid. I don't think I saw that. What, you don't see that? That sounds insane.

No. Okay, hold on, hold on. This has become a, uh, a, a Fletcher sim post. Well, with, with minis like that, that's fair. You know what? Go for it. Oh, gross. Gross in the best way possible.

Oh, gross. Oh, my God, that's so good. What the hell. That's so fucked up. I love it. Oh, that is proper nightmare material. Oh, that's some crazy-ass joker shit. Yeah, it's really awful to look at it in like a good way.

Yeah, that is wild. Yeah, the dude, the dude's actually like insane. He was really nice to meet too, bit of a soft-spoken guy, but I got to watch him work a little bit. and he was the time of visiting last year. He was working on the Space Wolf Headtakers, I think. And golly, are they something else? They really got, they really got someone of the best in the biz. Yeah, that is, that's crazy.

Even things like the little detail of the strap holding it on, having just that little bit of, like a little sort of button in it. Oh, my God. A little thing there, yeah. Ugh, awful. Awful stuff. Absolutely amazing. Mm-hmm. Now, back to Red Corsairs to some degree, although Empress Children raid as well,

raids are a way of life in the maelstrom, and they are necessary to survive, be it gene seed, weapons, materials, or captives, the Red Corsairs are willing to take what they can get to assure their dominance in the region. This is, of course, a common trait when it comes to any space marine that tends to go renegade. There was a period of time in the past where going renegade was kind of easy. Now, it's a scavenger's life, and most of the time these renegade gates will fall into the ranks of the corsairs, whether they want to or not. Much like how the Red Corsairs are an amalgamation of different chapters, their fleet is made up of various prizes they've claimed over the years, destroyers, frigates, battle cruisers and more. Actively, they will

seek out and claim ships capable of interstellar travel, with the hope that they can also keep the crew that managed to pilot them in the first place. The now ancient Astral Claw ships serve as the core for many of their flotillas, and even if they claim a ship, they'll work to make it as warp capable as possible. Every so often, though, they'll capture some truly powerful ships that have a major impact when it comes to their foothold. One of their most prized, captured ships is a former SpaceWool Strike Cruiser, known as the Wolf of Fenris.

Huron claimed this in a raid on the world of Perensis, where they hijacked the ship and managed to wipe out large numbers of deathhawks and the Space Wolves, but they were also aided by some sons of Russ who decided to betray. their battle brothers. These space wolves would swear fealty to Huron and call themselves the red wolves. However, no prize is greater than a gift that Abedon gave him as a, like, great job with the whole Badaab thing present, which is a blackstone fortress called Corsair's Keep. Oh my God, he has his own two. He has his own blackstone fortress. Oh, no. I mean, aside from hopefully not throwing that,

that's a pretty serious thing to give someone. Like, I did not realize Siron had his own blackstone fortress that he just swags around in. And it being a gift as well, it's like great work on the rebellion, have this priceless ancient. Oh my God.

Funnily enough. He could use that for throwing. Yeah, absolutely good. Funnily enough, this gave Huron a sense of legitimacy and strengthen the eyes of those around him, because of course it did. It's a last stone fortress. Abadon did get a gift in exchange for this offering, though, which is loyalty. Loyalty from Huron and from the Red Corsairs for pretty much anything Abidon is willing to do.

With a gift as big as this Blackstone Fortress, though, you need somewhere to put it. Unfortunately for Huron here is quite a bit of real estate in the Maelstrom that sits relatively uncontested. Though there are many named locations in the Maelstrom, two specific locations are important for what we're talking about today. The Tyrant's Crown and the Howling Gaia. I believe Guy is correct. Those are words. Is it GYR? No, that's not the right thing.

Yeah, GYR. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Complete failure on a copy paste there. There's a war frame. name Jire. I know it's a word. Is that the one that has like a billion red crits?

You know how little that narrows it down. You're so right. You're so right, King. Never mind. I think she's kind of electric, actually. Anyway, Kiriath, go on before. Electric Avenue. We're going to start with the tyrant's crown. And at the center of this is Nubadab, which is the base of operations of the red corsets.

It is well fortified and not only how to... is all of the soldiers, both the Staris and human, but also billions of slaves. Of course. That's rough. Billions. Me pogging my, my gourd out right now. And meanwhile, the Imperium being like, we got, that's rookie numbers, brother. You got to opt those numbers.

I just, the, the whiplash of care of being, oh, yes, there's billions of slaves. And then immediately, like, Bricky being like, yo, I'm pogging out of my gourd. It's like, what just happened? Happened, D.K. I was bogging out of my gourd. My neck is broken from the whiplash. So the dark yards house hundreds of ships, and at the southern pole is Huron's bastion

known as the Palace of Thorns, a twisted reflection of the original Palace of Thorns on the original Badaab. In order to get to Tyrant's Crown, only have to cut through the broken narrows, which is a heavily monitored and dangerous route that's so difficult to navigate that it borders on the insane. Also in the area is Hell's Iris, which was a former Imperial Star Fort that orbits the broken world of Eurackel. It's surrounded by warp taint and orc debris, but it also serves as the primary way station and black market for the region.

I remember this. I'm interrupting you, just like I did to paint this 19 times last episode. I remember this. Hell's Iris points, Wojack points, is the place in the second night lord's book where Septimus and, um,

uh, it starts with an M. I forget. Old man guy. Old man guy. Um, I can't if I forget his name. He was a great character.

Um, they go to have chill at a port. In the meantime, while the nightlords are refueling and stuff. And then, um, they had the really funny interaction, where a really, like, sensual lady, like, goes up to the older man, like, kind of, like, flirt with him or whatever. And she's, like, wearing a bunch of skin of other people.

And he's like, I don't think I want to be here anymore. And then they go knock out a pregnant woman and steal her to make more night lords because it's fucked up. Oh, Tom. That, you know what? I am not surprised that that is the core memory of this place that you have. It's like, oh, yeah, this was featured in my favorite tree. of books, yeah, about the Night Lords. I remember, how's Iris?

I remember, because I remember that being a really fun, like, sort of humanizing section where the two humans are, like, kind of on shore leave, but they also do horrible things. I don't know. It was kind of fun. It was a neat little section despite it being so awful. About on par with what we've heard from the Night Lords in this episode as well so far. So that's nice. Very true.

Yeah. The final note of. Morrook. Marook, that was his name. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. That was the name Maruk, yeah, yeah. All right, whatever. Just, you're doing, ah, yes, and then, Maruk!

It was Maruk! That was a little, it was a little straw. You put a little flare on that. Me, never. Oh, God. I'm now so hyper. aware of the chance of an interruption for comedic effect that I'm struggling to start starting going on again.

Well, I just said, get on with it. I'm just going to plow on. And if you say anything, I'm just going to keep talking. Yes. You know, shot I can deal with it in the edit. The final notable thing in this region is Carfast Anchorage, which is a deep void gravitic anomaly. This location is a safe haven for damaged ships and serves as the primary shipyard for all of

Huron's captured prizes. The ones that are good to go are heavily protected, and the ones that need to be repaired or retrofeited are retrofitted, are able to be fixed up here without fear of interruption. Now, the next area is called the howling Gaia. Why is it called the howling guyer? What do you reckon? Um, I'm guessing, yeah, I would, I would guess turbulent, uh, I would guess lots of thunderstorms, lots of whirlwinds, lots of tornadoes, lots of just gnarly-ass stormy chaos bullshit. You know what? It's not a bad guess, but in this situation, once again, the literal interpretation is

right. It's because it just resonates with the terrifying sound of void ships inexplicably screaming. Oh. Nice. Nice. That works too. Yeah. Now, unlike Tyrant's Crown, Huron has limited rule of this region.

This is the home of a Necron tomb world known as Cochalus and the secret null bastion of the Inquisition, and a world called Fargas Hex. This world existed in the pale stars outside of the Maelstrom before it simply vanished one day. Now, the planet appears randomly within the Howling Gaia and is considered to be a fell omen. When the planet appears, broadcasts from the inhabitants on the surface, fill the region with pleas of help, but many in this area view these as siren calls, luring wayward travelers to an unfortunate end. That's badass, and I love it. Yikes. So did you say this planet just randomly pops up? There's no, it's just kind of blip-blop bloops all over the place in the Howling Geier.

It just shows up, starts broadcasting, and everyone's asking for help, and then disappears again. That sucks. I think that's one of my favorite little bits of information. It's great. Well, that's also true. Even the Maelstrom, who's going on see he calls for help than Nighthorts. Yeah. Your best bet is that like the Red Corsairs hear it. And they're like, oh, yeah, you've got something valuable.

So we're going to take you away as a slave, I guess. And not to which are you to kill you? Yeah. Where else are they going that appearing in the Maelstrom is the preferred place to cry for help? Like, it's got to be bad. else they're going, surely. Yeah. I mean, you might as well try.

You never know. Someone nice might be listening. There's never anyone nice listening. It's Warhammer 40,000. The most important world in the Howling Gaia is known as Galmec, which is as close as you can get to a forge world in the Maelstrom,

and is a primary base of operations for the word bearers. The planet's covered in grand forges tended to by heretic tech magi and forge masters of the Iron Warriors. It's also the home of infernal households of chaos nights like House Shard. The planet orbits a blood-red star, and the other worlds and moons that orbit this star have been twisted demonically to funnel power directly to Galmec, and the pylons and sacred towers on the surface serve as an almost impenetrable void defense. The star system it's located in is in the heart of a crystalline nebula with glittering crystals that range in size from void ship to the size of a torn-off fingernail.

The resonance on the planet, combined with these crystals, shrouds it, and even the most powerful augurs are rebuffed, preventing it from being discovered unless passage is explicitly permitted by the word bearers themselves. That's cool. Crystalline, like, parts of the galaxy? Like, that's super dope. Yeah, I really like that detail. It's very fun. Yeah. Before we meet the key players in Huron's crew, we're going to go over some recent history in the Maelstrom.

There's enough past history and other details to make its own separate episodes, so for today we're going to focus on stuff post-Great Rift. The biggest event immediately after the Great Rift opening was outlined in the Gathering Storm series, but it's truncated here into one neat little paragraph. So you can do this one, D-K. Nice. The returned Primark, Robute Gilliman,

and his Taryn Crusade attempted to reach the soul system amidst the catastrophic upheavals of the Great Rift's emergence. Their ships are forced into the maelstrom where, through a malefic spell, Gilliman is brought low and delivered to the Red Corsairs. The traitors imprisoned Gilliman aboard the Blackstone fortress gifted to Huron by Abidon the despoiler, but the Primark escapes, thanks to the suspicious allies through a Webway Webway portal at the installation's heart. Huh.

So they capture Bobby G, huh? Wild. Yeah. Yeah, it was, it was interesting. It wasn't bad, it was just interesting. I think that they managed to actually capture Gilliman is kind of like wild. Because like at this point, Gilliman is kind of cracked, right? I mean, I guess he's always been kind of cracked, but like, you know, at this point, he's got the Emperor's sword, right?

I think by that point he did, yeah. Oh, you're right. Yeah, you're right, Shoy. Yeah, I think it was Cypher. I think Seifer just showed up and was like, hey, I've unlocked your door or whatever. And then they were off. They're away. There is, Parson does point out, to those curious at home,

no, this book does not explain how McCrack's honor managed to escape this capture. Sorry. So if you were curious, what happened to that ship? Do know, but it got away, so we're all good. Cool. Typical Safer behavior. Yeah. The Blackstone Fortress would become a big focus for the elder art as the Harlequins of the Shattered Mirage would begin a campaign of violence against it.

I don't know why, but that really got me the first time I read it as well. It just, just an excellent combination of words. I'm going to begin a campaign of violence against this. And when it's Harlequin starting it, that's not, that's not great for you. No. They would be aided by a rogue faction of Asiariari from. the, oh god, Yam-Wimlock,

who seek to capture this talisman of VAL. I meant to look up how to pronounce this earlier and I totally forgot to do it. Nah, 40K names, like 40K Zenos names and 40K like, L-Dari names, you got no chance, brother, you just do the best you can with what you got.

Unless they have specifically said it in a Warhammer official video, you do the best you can, man. Like, that's Yimlock. Like, great. lovely Y-M-E-L-O-C. You go fuck yourself, G-D-W. I'm like,

it's true also, Shire. Yeah, they did, they did go to the palace, murdering everyone on site while screaming we come in peace. And then one of them killed like three custodies, or whatever it was. Oh, that's right. They absolutely shredded the custodians, didn't they? And we were like, what the, what the, right? What a series.

Yeah. What a series. So we're going to focus right now on the Red Corsairs that did not get a miniature. Because quite a few got miniatures, but the Maelstrom book has more people in there than we got miniatures for. And not all of the important ones got their own mini. So we're going to go over them first. We've got Lord Drac Tarazar, the Iron Reve. He was an officer of the iron hands.

What a name. and the iron hands didn't like what he was doing because he allowed too many other iron hands to die. That's fair. Oh, look at the ugly mug on this guy. Yeah. Christ. God damn.

It doesn't say whether it's down to incompetence or malice, but I'm assuming probably malice, right? The record says, I'm going to be like, apparently you suck at your job. Welcome in. You are now lord. seems unlikely. Can we appreciate this dude's chin? Like, really appreciate the fact that he has a giant spiked chin. It's a choice. It's a, it's a strong choice. Yeah. I mean, you got to be a

particular dick, if any chaos, uh, war band is like, you're a little too mean and you let a little too many people die. You got to, you gotta cut that shit out, brother. Oh, have you just done the cardinal sin? I think you've done the cardinal sin. Oh, no, I did you do the Iron Warriors Iron Hands thing. Oh, no. God damn it. I haven't done that for a while. Well, I was going to say maybe the last time we talked about Iron Hands or Warriors.

I'm sure I made that blunder again. But we've just been talking about the Mailstream and Chaos stuff. And, oh, man. Oh, shy. That's kind of, you know what, I'm going to say it. To be fair, nobody cares about Iron Hands. I'm sure all three fans of the iron hands and the audience will be truly devastated to hear you say that. And one of them is Andy the Remembrance, sir, who's shaking his hand heavily right now.

Wagging his finger at us, like, how dare you? They're great. Remember, this is separate. Please come back on the other one to do more dead space. We love you on acceptable losses, please. There's two more dead space games in so many books. Please. What we say here is said in isolation and should not be carried over.

So Lord Drac Tarazar was sent into the Death Watch, but he saw this as a betrayal of the edict of his Primark. So he killed the pilots of the transit ship and vanished into the maelstrom. What a hero. His hatred of humanity and a view that it is inherently flawed helping rise in the ranks of the Red Corsets. he sees Huron's time as over and views himself as the logical replacement. It doesn't take long, does it, for them to go full chaos.

This guy's an idiot. I can get rid of him. I've only been here for two months, but you know what? It's my time now. Now, this is so hardcore and so good. It might be one of my favorite things in this whole episode. Next is the Crimson Choir, the Geist of the Red Marches. This is the name given to a dark apostle who serves Huron, along with his warband, known as the Thirsting Sons.

Despite Huron not really caring about favour with the Dark Gods, the Crimson Choir is kept around because he is quite a lot of gene seed reserves from over a dozen lineages. It's believed that he's a former son of Sanguinius, but no one knows. In fact, his mannerisms have changed frequently over the years, implying that this isn't a man so much as the Crimson's. in choir is a title. He's freaky looking. I was like, is that a chaos orc? With the horns and the whole thing?

I was like, damn, what the... Is this, wait, did you see this guy was a word bearer? He's rumored to be a former son of Sanguinius, but he is part of the red corsairs. He's got so many word bearer

ass scrolls on him. He does. He does. He does have a pirate hook hand as well, which rocks, of course. Mm-hmm. And half a Terminator face. Actually, is that a hook hand or is that just a symbol?

No, it is a hook hand. Okay. But, like, he does have a lot of word bearer scroll looking things. Yeah. I just, I love the, I love the, like, the suggestion that it's just a bunch of different people somehow. Like, his mannerism is changing the way he presents himself, changing over the years and being called the Crimson Choir, like a choir is not one dude. That's, that's,

the implications there. Yeah. And I like it. Um, we also have bailmaster Veerless Creel, who is known as the enslaver of the Ark and is a vicious and deadly reaver known for ship to ship combat. And the thing that helps him out with this quite a bit is the fact that he has his very own arc of Omen. He is one of the few surviving members of the branch of Mantis Warriors that defected during the Bidab War, and he has vowed never to forget Terri's faithlessness towards him during this war. Now, finally, the last one without a model, is General Heinrich Falcriber, also known as the Black Wolf.

He was once a spire marshal, now he serves as one of the most powerful traitor militarum officers in the Maelstrom, who is a callous spender of the lives under his command. Before he fell traitor, he had dreams of becoming a commander, but he was relegated to an anti-piracy division stunting his path to promotion. He flunk himself into learning about piracy and determined that he could do it better. What a great logo that is, though, that he's got. Because he's just, yep, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's a bloke in a helmet. That's, that's, that's a bloke in a bucket, you're right, um, with a cool logo, but it's like, damn.

Cool backstory anyway. That's great. He has a cult of personality that surrounds him that adorn their armour in tanks with feral beasts and lupine fetishes and they've seized remarkable amounts of armaments under his rule. He's fought side by side with the Red Corsairs

and has commanded respect of even the most elitistartes in Huram's command. I love that guy. I love that. You are going to be anti-pirate from now on. You're going to find out how they work and deal with them and then researching it and going, this lot of shit, I could be a way better pirate than them.

And then committing to it, brilliant backstory. That is pretty good. What a guy. What a guy. Now we've got the Red Corsairs that actually got a Mini. So first off, we have Gary and the Corps Master. So good. Lord Apothecary of the Red Corsairs.

He's the guy who loves his job. His manager's great. He looks so happy. He served as the Senior Apothecary of the Astral Clause and is one of the few original battle brothers of Badaab that not only survived the uprising, but also remained in Huron's favour. This is because he's one of the few men responsible for putting Huron back together and saving his life. Huron is not a man known for sentimentality, so his gratitude for Garion's service

is a combination of him remaining in his favour, and also Garion basically getting away with anything he wants. Garion is responsible for the biological survival of the Red Corses, and he screens or recruits for mutations. both negative and positive, as new stronger traits have been manifesting after years of corruption. If you find something new, he'll add these lineages to his store of genetic knowledge, and new inductees will often vanish while being monitored by Garian, never seeing any combat. Yeah. What is it? Well, I mean, I feel like most chaos-aligned apothecaries tend to go mad doctor,

because it's just, you know, they're crazy. Does that happen a lot with loyalists going kind of mad doctor-ish? It depends on how you define mad doctor. I don't think so. But the most part, they're just kind of doing their thing. But, I mean, if you're going to become a mad doctor, that's the guy. Oh, for sure. I mean, he clearly loves his job.

Look at the expression on his face. He's just, he's having a wail of the time. He can't believe his luck. He gets to rip out of someone's throat again. Great day. So any mini with the extra arms and the microdermis and all that that the apothegary and the tech marines have, that's a win in my book. It looks so good every time. Also, something that I really like about this model is the fact that, at least in the promotional image for it, he's doing that to an ally.

Like, it's not an enemy. It's another red corsair that he's standing on who is clearly. reaching up to be like, uh, what are you doing? And his robot, and his robot arm is about to like, pull his arm out of the way and like, no, no, no, no, no. I got to get this stuff. Oh, he's so good.

He just, he flinched just too much with the eye drops. So he's got to pin him down so he can get the eye drop. Take your parisites. Stop coughing back off. Come on. Exactly. He's a cat trying to take his medicine. He won't take us.

Now, due to the lack of guaranteed resources in the Maelstrom, he's responsible for perfecting imperfect or damaged gene seed, and his focuses are less on being a combat medic and more of a pirate Fabius bile. As renegades come from all different lineages, he's constantly splicing things together and he offers his services to non-aligned renegade space marines who are in desperate need of repair or treatment in the resource scarce Maelstrom. Unfortunately for those seeking help, this results in them becoming new guinea pigs for his experiments, or best case scenario, new recruits for Huron. Now next up is Qatar Garrick's the headman. He's an executioner that has served alongside Huron since the Bidab War. In fact, he was a member of the Executioners chapter. The space marines led by Garrix act as the enforcers of the Red Corsairs to make sure that the other soldiers are kept in line. Huron knows that Garrick's loyalty is dependent on order being retained and a steady stream of victims for Garrix to decapitate with his aptly named weapon, the axe of ending. Well, yeah, that's, yeah. He's the most, like, generic master of executions looking guy out there.

You know, he's just there. And at the same time, like, this is, I don't know. This is exactly what I expected his lore to be like. Yeah, I'm here. helping keep letting me kill people and I'll stick around done also his armor is appropriately adorned with human skulls uh even though looks like a pretty fresh one hanging from his belt with a hook through the mouth that's yep yep yep he he is what it says on the tin another one who clearly loves this job maybe a little bit too much you find a job you love you never

work a day in your life We also have Garland Soul Eater, who is known as the tyrant's witch and was a former librarian of the Mantis Warriors. He is a born orator, but the only thing more powerful than his commanding voice is his mind. He's the primary provider for enemy intel and is able to sift out the loyal, the disloyal members in Huron's rank with ease. He reaches into the consciousness of all captured foes to bolster tactics and serves as Huron's mouthpiece in the Imperion. There's a rumor that nobody has ever seen Garland's true face as it's constantly obscured by a helmet. This isn't true, as he had removed it many times in the past. Now, however, it seems that either he chooses to no longer take it off or he simply can't,

and it serves as his true face. ominous. This damn, someone like Zinche or someone just thought it was really funny and just sort of like kept it on. What's the way, what's this quote? your mind is a grim war I can peruse at whim. Let us see what dark dreams can be leveraged to my advantage. Garland Sorcer. I like his mini a lot.

He's very, like, plain, but in a good way. I also love the hands grasping the eight-pointed star. Yeah, that's very cool. That's a fun detail. Oh, what a lad. We also have Marcala, Euros, Vah, Damn it. Damn it. I practiced this. And I got it wrong. Marcala. No, it's all falling apart. I've crumbled. I've crumbled under the pressure. Marcalor, Urios, Vanistra. There you go. Nicely done. Let's go. Kerioth. First try. G. G. Z. Z. Is this the alien?

There's also more. It's actually Marcalor, Urius Vanistra von Sargata, 21. Sorry, 21st. Oh, it's Captain Sargata. It's the sick-ass chick on the dais. Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, just, yeah. I knew I was going to stumble over that, and I sat there this afternoon and laid it out a couple of times, and I was like, yeah, no, this is fine. Immediate failure. Anyway, she was born into an aristocratic dynasty in the soul system that were reportedly some of the greatest saturnine void masters. She learned at a young age how to captain a ship and swiftly became a big. name in the Navy. However, after a surprise heretic attack, the other leaders of the Navy who were

scorned by her took it as an opportunity to demote her. She was cast to the backwater sector of Gorvillus, where her promotions were stripped. Conveniently, the naval headquarters in this sector located on the planet of Scorand was invaded within a few months of a being stationed there in a conflict known as the Scorand Infamy. Thousands would die, billions of tons of material would be captured, and Sargasso would vanish. She now commands Huron's ship, the reign of spite. I love the name of that ship. Perfect name for his ship, too.

So good. And her skills as fleetmaster have resulted in some of the greatest void victories in Red Corsair's history. When the Corsair's strike, she joins the fray directly above a board, a servo platform called the Misenwale Dias, which can connect to enemy ships and control them like a parasite. Oh, that's kind of Ope. I'm shy. I love this mini. It's my favorite of the range. Not only does she have the metal pegleg and giant saber and coat and like bird skulls and stuff, but just that image of her from the book with the insane servo skull.

And like, like, she, she means business. Mm-hmm. She is what you expect from like a proper pipe. pirate space captain. 100% love that. Also love that she's got a big old side piece, big old, big iron just strapped to the waist.

Ironically, it's just a las pistol, but it is cool. It looks great. I don't care. Also, a little bird skull. A little bird skull on the shoulder. Two birds skulls. I mean, just a little nod to having a pirate,

given that such a thing for pirates, I just, it's just a very cool little, cool little nod. Cool nod, cool imagery, yep, whole nine, yep. Hell yeah. Finally, we have Huron's prey taker. Her true Terrellian name translates to something like Lord Nine Sorga, but the Red Corsairs reject this musky naming convention and instead call her the enforcer.

Huron doesn't give second chances, so those who rebelegates them will flee after doing so if they survive, and if they flee, the enforcer goes after them and ensures that it's always known that betrayal has fatal consequences. She once wiped out an entire pirate crew because they took ammo from one of Blackheart's caches. She snuck on their vessel and cracked the outer hatches open in the midst of a black market sale,

killing everyone on board. But this is not the most vicious thing she's done. Here you go, Bricky. You can have this one as well. In theory. Possibly not, though. I'll tell you what. I thought it was very nightlord appropriate, but I guess you can do it instead.

Yeah, you know what? Maybe I'll craft this quote here. Oh. At Garvinus Starport. Oh, my God. I thought my mic was, why was in me? Oh, my God. You were me.

Oh, my God. I was all the way. Okay, whatever. At Garvinia Star Fort, she caught up with Skolvin Sowermain, a bea-becile mutant whom the enforcer had discovered. It was about to hand information on Blackheart's movements to an adept of the Inquisition. When she returned to Huron, she handed over the data slate Sauramein had stolen along with his de-gloved hide. He was still alive when he was discovered in his own chamber. Oh, God.

You know, all of that, all of that's screwed up. And then, but the word de-gloved brings me back to some of my, like, EMT stuff when I had to learn about that. It was not my favorite. They snook right. Snoke right. Oh, me, yeah, I can't imagine learning about actual, like, de-gloving. Like, because I'm just like, oh, yeah, sounds gross to me, icky, and I can't. Ooh.

sound gross to me Ike, I don't I'll take I'll take world's biggest understatement for 500 Mr. Trebeth. Yeah. It's fair.

It's fair. It's worth pointing out that the next line from Possum is, God forbid a girl have hobbies. Yep. True.

Yep. the dog is also cool oh yeah yeah is there anything on the i'm assuming dog is just dog that you know chases down people running like ang ang ang on enforcing it gets in digoloz you know can we're gonna move on i said i've seen i've seen one de gloving of a finger and i never need to think about it again but now i am so that's nice Though she can speak to others Yeah, very icky, icky. Though she can speak to others with a stolen lingua vox coil

and does serve as almost a Xenos liaison for Huron, she prefers to work in silence alongside her Vagisi that's named Plunder, though she doesn't often use plunder in battle. She uses Plunder as a threat that she rarely releases because the threat alone is enough for compliance. She hates humanity, but has nothing more than slight disdain for other Zenna.

us. She's achieved great things as a member of her species and can ask no more of this harsh galaxy. Now, the other big thing that came out with this book were a bunch of Eldori Corsair minis, so now we're going to talk about them a bit. We had an episode about a year ago we went in depth with them more so, so we'll go over the stuff focused on this part of the galaxy for now. Obviously, the Corsairs, or as the Eldari called them, Arath, Anrath, sorry, like to explore, but there's areas they will not go to. particularly anything with severe warp taint. The concern about She Who Thirst scares most of them,

but the bold corsets will seek out these areas to find ancient and lost Eldari worlds and the treasures they may hide. Several fleets raided shipping routes in the Maelstrom and have attacked a wide variety of ships regardless of who they belong to. At the height of the Badaab War, the Sun Blitz Brotherhood and the Sky Raiders were very active and exploited it so they could raid unattended worlds.

but in recent years the Eldritch Raiders have begun to enter the Maelstrom and Huron sees their presence as a genuine threat to his authority. Of course, Prince Uriel is the leader of the Eldritch Raiders. When we last saw him, he took up the Spear of Twilight and was looking at Eurane's cause with a degree of hope. However, the Yenari quest has begun to dissolve into extremism and zealotry. He questioned Eurane's methods and petitioned to redirect efforts to focus on the rising threat of chaos. These requests were denied on Ayanden, and Uriel needed to plan his next moves.

Fortunately, members of the mask of Midnight Sorrow gave him something new to focus on, tales of lost Eldari treasures deep in the maelstrom. He didn't want to watch his craft world follow a misguided prophet into total damnation, so he decided to seek out the lost treasures of his people, wage conflict with lesser species, and hopefully strike notable blows against chaos. If I Andon petitioned and called for his aid He would help as he'd always done But for now he would wage his own campaigns

He would summon his captains Ready his ship the flame of Azurion And would follow the mask of the midnight sorrow Into the maelstrom itself I also always mispronounce as that word as well But you know Azaryani or Yeah I always

I always get the emphasis on the wrong part of the word I'm never actually sure I'm saying it right either, but I've just gone with Azurian Azuriani. I might be wrong to you. That's all I ever call it too, Assyan Assyani. Yeah. Also, is he just looking for random Eldari artifacts in the Maelstrom? There's not like one specific like world bending one that would turn the tides of battle. He just thinks that's a better idea than what's become the zealotry of what's her face?

You've rain? Yeah, he's just out for treasures. Treasures that can help. I mean, at this point, he's probably thinking anything that helps would be nice. So he's just kind of pseudo-pirating around in the maelstrom, but for a better cause? Yeah, he's doing the whole noble pirate thing.

Mm-hmm, okay. I mean, that's cool. That's still dope. Like, you know, noble pirate elves? Yeah, sure. Why not? It's a nice contrast to the Red Coursera approach for show. Yeah, definitely.

Accompanying him deep into the storm would be the greatest of the void dreamers, Car Seth the Athemancer. The towns of Carceth can guide an entire fleet, enabling them to thread the needle through minefields, warp, storms, nebulas, and the most narrow of webway tunnels. Their powers can also be channeled for combat and offence, focusing the power of their waste-ave to alter the fabric of reality to echo the true horrors of the void, emulating foes with bursts of starfire, or collapsing enemies entirely, with cold and lung-collapsing depressurization.

What a way to go on that last one. Yeah. Also, at first, I thought you said Carves Will the atheist. I was like, how the fuck you go and be an atheist in 40K when you have literal chaos gods roaming around? Yeah, his name is Fabius Bile. You know what? That's true. The only atheist in 40K.

Yeah, not really, but it's funny for the meme. Hell yeah. that's the most important pit of 40K Lord the meme isn't it that that's that's true that's true did you know that the Tao found a dread not older than this you know you know DK I actually I've

we spared you the pain of that particular meme nice so yeah I was going to say I don't know that meme so I can just sit back here and be like yay listen if I ever if I ever feel like imposter syndrome on on any kind of Adrick lore stuff. Not really anymore because of opossum, but before that, I would just watch any number of

Warhammer lore YouTube shorts and feel substantially better about myself. Oh. I'll tell you what, there's some, there's some, there's some, there's some, there's some, there's some, there's some interesting interpretations of stuff that you don't really need to interpret floating around on, on a whole law short circuit. And if you catch one and you don't skip past it fast enough, oh dear God. Oh, you get so many more. Yep, yep.

Oh, it's not great. It's not my preferred method of like video watching shorts. It's so easy to get not great stuff. I'm trying to be very diplomatic here. Tell you what, let's move on to the Sky Reefers because they are his shock troops in the event that combat is engaged. the Sky Reavers have perfected their crafts in many ways, either on craft worlds in military training, experience through raids, or on the grim streets in the dark city.

Once deployed, they are perpetually on the move, screaming cries of battle as they leap from rooftops onto the decks of void ships. Their hit-and-run tacks are disorienting, and the variety of their weaponry makes it rare to see two Sky-River bands equipped in the same way. Now, if you're going to be a super-fast pirate, you need super-fast ships. and Vipers are the solution. They were first constructed on Sam Han to provide the windrider hosts, a vehicle that can keep it with jet bikes,

while also being a lot heavier. They have a small crew, a pilot and one gunner, that share a blood or soul-bound pact, literally drift-compatible. Most crews have a modified version of the Viper that's referred to as the Star Fang. It's almost exactly the same, except the targeting systems are modified

to incorporate Comerite tech in the shape of grenade, launches or disintegrator cannons. Also, they look a lot like the Star Wars snowspeaters. Well, that's the VICA version, which looks less like the Star Wars snow speeder. But there's the other version. Looks cool, but that backseat looks weird to me. The backseat's a little odd. Yeah, if that wasn't there, I would still like it.

Like, if they just kind of like designed it differently, that back cannon is so strange. There it is. Yeah, I love that look. that looks so much better. It's not called the Viper. It's called something else. I forget. It's probably some other.

I forget the name of it. But Star Fang. Thank you. Star Fang. I think the problem with the Viper one is it like the Rio cockpit, like the gunner section, it's like on a little plinth. Yeah, it's elevated too much. Yeah.

It's just sort of got a couple of things that just stick up to make it high enough and it spoils the lines. It looks weird. I also on both of them, I want two cannons instead of just one cannon on one side and then just the stubby little whatever on the other side. It just looks strange to me with it, not with the two cannons. Oh, I love a bit of asymmetry. I quite like it. I don't know if that's fun to me.

Oh, fuck you both anyway. Now, we're going to have a good day. Fair. Fair and justified. We're going to go over the brief story in the Maelstrom book, which is the raid on the Crimson Erie. So Uriel, being a prolific pirate, has a large web of contacts and a vast network of agents and spies that give him info. And it was because of this network that you learned about a fleet of Red Corsair Raiders that had just completed an attack, and were heading to a void station known as Crimson Erie.

Their raid resulted in the seizing of many Aldari treasures, as well as members of a fleet of a fleet. from Craftworld Altioch. Uriel felt that any wound that was inflicted on the Eldari, regardless of which Kraftwold they're from, and he felt that Huron could not go unpunished for this. Going over the information compiled from his network as well as scouting parties, he came to the conclusion that given the composition of the Red Corsairs, as well as their combat ability, he could probably pull something off. Though his ships are more fragile, they were more maneuverable, and he could hit Huron where it hurt. The system which housed the Crimson Erie was the Arak system,

and at its centre was a red dwarf star that emitted constant radiation waves that messed with navigation systems for any ship that entered, including the Red Corses. But Uriel has something that they don't, a non-binary void dreamer that can see through space and time better than anyone else. Karseth was able to sense the sub-molecular disturbances that were common with warp translations and zero in on the energy signatures of the core.

corsair's fleet. They would stay beyond or spec's range with hollow fields active to avoid detection. Carceth is grossly overpowered. Yeah, unfortunately, he is not that overpowered in the table top, but he's very okay, but the things he's doing are crazy. As the Red Corsairs began to unload, he would swiftly

attack with his ships, while his flagship, the flame of Azuran and its companion, dragon ship Jade Chris waited in a gravity well. Huron himself was part of the fleet and his plans to stop at the Crimson Erie were only meant to be a temporary refuel and take a quick break before going back to New Bedab. As the refueling and docking procedures had been initiated and cargo was removed, they were swiftly attacked. The displays couldn't determine the attackers as the blips on the scans kept flickering. He knew immediately this was an Eldari attack and he ordered his fleet to engage. The two dragon ships and the gravity well would then slingshot themselves towards the now

unguarded station, as Uriel was confident that time was very short and they had to act very quick. The speed at which the dragon ships launched towards the eerie was impossible for the gun batteries to keep up with, and the two ships were able to blast sizable holes in the outer hull of the station. They would then unleash swarms vampire raiders to eliminate the auto-defences, and Uriel was able to blast through the walls and commence the raid. They cut free dozens of prisoners and recovered a trove of stolen artefacts, ranging from blades to spirit stones. The remaining red corsairs on the station would engage directly, and this is when the Eldari would begin to falter. Their light armour was no match for the ruthless chain weapons of the corsairs. However, Yoril alone would match

their strength, and he would swing the spear of twilight around like a blur, finding weaknesses and cutting down lines. But, all that be said, they needed to go now. Huron would learn of this immediately thanks to the call of psychothralls emitting an astopathic alarm and the volume of his mistake would frustrate him beyond measure. He would order his ships that weren't directly engaged to turn around and he would lead the charge. By the time he returned, the dragon ships were vulnerable. He'd been out-maneuvered, but Huron could still win this conflict. The flame of Azurán would pull away from the station, but the Jade Chris was stationary, and he ordered the other ships to pursue the flame, while his Tyranny Incarnate would engage directly with the Jade

Chris. They would unload on the ship, and it would be captured with ease. His sorcerers would commence a bloody ritual on the bridge of Tyranny Incarnate to open a portal in the warp, so that he could board the Jade Criss personally, and the wave of empiric energy would decimate the Eldritch Raiders caught on the ship. The Voids Guard fought well, but they were no match for the tyrant. The baron of the J. Chris would be immolated within Huron's tyrant's claw, and any meaningful resistance would burn with him, and the ship would become his.

The Eldorri had embarrassed Huron, and the only way to answer this insult would be with bloodshed, and he would swear that a reckoning would be inevitable. If and when he found the flame of Ageron, its crew would know what it meant to suffer. That goes pretty hard, though. Yep. Uriel would watch the capturing of the Jade Chris with gritted teeth.

The saving of the prisoners and reclaiming of relics was a victory, but he had little to celebrate. The loss of a dragon ship was a very heavy price to pay for this attack, and he hoped it would be worth it. I mean, for a little story in the book, that's pretty solid. And Huron swearing revenge is great. Yeah. You really don't want Huron to have a reason.

to want revenge against you. And hopefully, he doesn't get the chance because he sounds like he would properly fuck you up. De-gloving is going to be the least of your problems when he gets his hands on you. Is this the most number of times de-loving has been brought up in an episode of, I was going to say this podcast.

Eddie podcast. I was going to say, this is the only time it's been brought up, brother. It's been a few times. The saturation is just unreal. So that's one of many of the stories of the Maelstrom, but the story of combat is far from the most common in the midst of this storm. There is a true darkness in this space, and this book ends with notes and stories of unfortunate souls who have survived the true horrors of the Maelstrom.

So the next section opens with this, this here quote. I'll tell you what you can do this one, T.K. All right. You shall find neither sanctuary nor salvation amidst the tides and eddies of the gyre. You shall find only misery and madness. And if you are fortunate, death. Great. Well, yeah, you don't need to be turned into weird furniture things again, you know?

Yeah. Malesstrom tourism board knocking it out the park again, I see. Yeah. Better that place than Gathriman. Well, unless you get that one right time at Gathriman. I love Gathriman. I've always wanted to go. I tell you. Born just in time to explore Catherine.

So earlier, we mentioned that it was believed that the male straw is relatively stable. This isn't actually the case. In fact, the true nature of it may be even more corrupting than many believe. Stories of ships with even the strongest of void shields becoming corrupted with chaos are common, and even a quick visit within the male storm can result in irreparable damage. We can't cover all of the stories for this, but here's a few, just a couple. So Captain Sullyana Thren witnessed the Mortex firsthand. The Mortex is a storm of blood that floats through the void and the bloody tempest is capable of tearing apart a ship.

The Mortex closed in on her. The viewports were smeared with blood and blood hail tore at the hull. The Vox system of the ship was filled with inhuman cries and the bridge servitors would open their mouths and scream while ripping the cables from cogitators. Even disabling the Vox channels could not. not stop the spread of insanity. Well, that's fun.

I'm having a good time. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Well, then, we've also got a log from the derelict sword-class frigate Dramathon, which would tell the story of minor fluctuations in Gellerfield integrity, which meant that the ship would need to flee back into real space.

They would leave the warp, but astrogation was impossible. Nothing was visible. Vox networks were filled with static and contact with the enginearium was lost. Eventually they would find the creature that used to be the engine seer near the Geller device.

She was a mass of molten, fused metal and twisted flesh that stretched across the entirety of the Geller device's housing. Organs dripped like cables and screeches of pure horror and insanity

would be muffled by puckered skin, dragging people into the embrace of the creature at the core of the engineerium. Jesus Christ, what the fuck? That's horrendous. Can you imagine walking in on that? God.

Now, we do also have... Can they just burn the ship down? Just blow the whole damn ship up after you evacuate? Like, what do you do with that? I mean, that is an event horizon situation. You just got to get distance. We're leaving. missile at it until it no longer exist.

Yeah. Now, we mentioned Gathriman. We do also have some world shenanigans. So whole worlds have been turned into horrors of pure chaos. So we've also got the planet called Fleshmire. Great start. Fucking phenomenal. And it roams through the heart of the maelstrom.

Those caught in its orbit are hypnotized with the desire to go to its surface. But those who land planet side are quote, and quote, devoured by its continent of quivering flesh. Oh. Quivering, mind you. This is any, any type of continent and flesh. It's quivering. Quivering is an upsetting descriptive for that one.

Yeah. You couldn't have picked any other word. This is basically just the big fat Solonesh planet guy, except different. Except not sent. Well, I mean, maybe it is. sentient. The big lad. The big lad is the big lad in spite.

Correct. By definition, the big lad is what I would refer to him as. Damn, if only we could make a big lad, uh, Excel coaster. The big lad question mark. Have you ever heard about Ramina? Um, I don't think so. The name sounds familiar. Oh, oh, which one is it, though?

Oh, it's a Junji Ito manga. Let's go. There's a, yeah, there's a few of those, and they're all upsetting, from what I've read of them anyway. I'll give that a... Nice. I'll give that a looksy, shy. Now, there is stuff that, you know, might be worth looking on these worlds for. Some of these worlds may hold some of the greatest treasures ever imagine.

The demon planet of Hell's Teeth is said to hold the Omnicapeia, Omnisopoeia, which is a device that contains every STC with a psychic component. The Admec have sent many billions of Skittari to Hell's Teeth because the claiming of this device could mean they could finally weaponise humanity's psychic dawn. Few have ever returned. Not great rate of return on that one. Okay, now. Okay, I know that 40K doesn't understand numbers very well, but billions of Skittari, not like, we were talking about billions of slaves earlier and that was chill.

Like, all right, that's fine. Billions of Skittari, like, specified soldiers? That's a lot of Scatari. That is a lot. They won't even give us a Skatari for Darktide, let alone billions of them for this. Planet? No, no. Some would argue, that's too many.

Some would. Some wouldn't. I love the way you said that. Just so casually, about a billion's guitar. Some would. Just say, not everyone would be in favor of that, right? Although most space marines are like, that's not enough. What do you mean?

Send more in. Fucking Admec loser. Oh, my God. What? Okay. So, that's Remina. All right. Oh, Christ. Yakes. It's always upsetting every time. Mm-hmm. There are a lot more stories to tell, but we definitely don't have time to do so. So instead, we're going to end with something that isn't a horror story, but could end up becoming one. The final page in the book is a highly coded transmission from the null bastion from Inquisitor Scalon of the Ordoistab.

and is directed to an unnamed commander. Scalon is very angry with one particular person, Raboussae Gilliman. He's doing something that this unnamed commander feared he would do, which is grant the Emperor's absolution to the Mantis warriors, the executioners and the Lamenters, all three of them. He's called for them to cease their respective penitential crusades after the events of the Bidab War immediately.

They are to regather their forces, strengthen their numbers and reform as the warders. The absolution has one caveat. Their first deployment will be to the heart of the Maelstrom to claim the head of Huron Blackheart himself. Now, the Inquisitor agrees that Huron needs to be killed, but also thinks this is a grave mistake. These chapters failed the Imperium once before, and the Inquisitor believes they will most likely do it again. The Imperium cannot afford another Badaab, especially in lieu of the Great Rift. The Inquisitor begged for the commander to instigate the contingency you and others have prepared against this fateful day. If the chapters prove them wrong, then they can reinforce.

But if they collapse like they did on Badaab, the Inquisitor has a weapon in place ready to strike them down. A weapon the Imperium lacked on Badaab the first time. No idea what that is. But it's pretty ominous. So that's nice. I was waiting for you to tell us what it was. And I was, all right. I got a bit of mystery.

Got to leave it as an open, an open-ended, potentially something catastrophic is going to happen. Potentially. Potentially. It might be fine. It might be all good. It's not going to be all good, is it? No.

It will not be that good. So yeah, that is effectively as much of the Maelstrom book as Possum could fit into a a sort of film-length episode of redeptus. Oh, dear. Redeptis ridiculous. Love it. That's a new one. I haven't had that one before.

That's impressive. Redeptis-addiculous. Love it. Yeah. I don't know what happened there. It happens. Happens to me all the time. I don't know if that makes you feel any better that you're on my wavelength, but, you know,

it happens all the time. I feel like we spend enough time together at this point that it was inevitable. So. Yeah. D.K., I left in your fuck up on the Dead Space episode. Really? That wasn't even that big of a deal. Acceptable losses.

I accidentally said Adeptus ridiculous because we... Oh, please. Right? Thank you. I mean, it's the other way around as well. It's only fair. Yeah. But yeah, that's the maelstrom.

It turns out it, rules and more information on it was very fun and there's all sorts of chaos based horrible bullshit going on great time honestly those um those pages where they show off all the mashes the maelstrom are always the coolest part because you get all the artist renditions and stuff you get that cool like black and red look agreed also just just hearing about his war band or like his little um what's his little circle of uh i almost called them what are his groupies called again. The masters of the maelstrom.

Yeah. They're really cool, too. I love their minis, and they're all really dope, especially the, I just want to call her the pirate queen. Captain Sarkata. Yeah, she's Sarded. Also, dude, they got, they got like old man black beard here, too. Look at this guy.

Bailmaster, Verilus Creel. Yeah, we heard him. You, bailmaster. Oh, God. No, I mean, this is, it's a lot, but like, it's kind of cool that they had, they decide to carve out this little spot in space to be like, yeah, this is the pirate zone. This is the turbulent waters of the galaxy and all kinds of mishaps and people are here. They'll steal your plunder and turn you inside out. Yeah, this is pirate zone.

You can't go wrong with that. I mean, I guess you could, but they didn't from what it sounds like. Lovely. So we're all in agreement. Mailstrom, great. Huron, great. Everything else, great. Phenomenal.

Carriot, do the thing. I like the dog. Yeah, yeah, sure. What the dog doing, yeah. The alien dog. Yeah. The Barghisi dog. Plunder the Barghisi.

Best character. See like the bark easy Because it's a dog Barky Marook