Adeptus Ridiculous - VASHTORR RETURNS IN CAWL vs. NECRONS DOOMSDAY WEAPON EXTRAVAGANZA | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: February 14, 2024

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousBattle Group Kallides was the first sent to investigate the worrying Silent Zone, only to be immediately set upon by its Necron custodians. Unable to evacuate through the doldrums of the Nexus-stilled warp, the Imperial Fists instead sought a way to request aid from the wider Imperium. Their gambit has paid off, and reinforcements are inbound – including Battlegroup Hephaestus, composed primarily of a large Adeptus Mechanicus fleet led by the Archmagos Belisarius Cawl. Perhaps predictably, rescue plans have taken a low priority in Cawl’s stack of tasks. His cogitators are instead dominated by schemes for acquiring and processing vast quantities of noctilith – better known as blackstone – to manufacture his new liminal abraisers. These devices, he believes, will allow his fleets to precisely modulate the energies of the warp – grinding away at the strange xenos-crafted field dominating the Pariah Nexus.Unbeknownst to the self-proclaimed greatest mind of Mars, the Necrons have become embroiled in a civil war. Dynasties loyal to the Silent King are locked in combat with those who have aligned themselves with Imotekh the Stormlord – who has denounced the authority of the mute monarch.Support the show

Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous Podcast. My name is D.K. Diomontes. His name is Bricky and, ooh, Warhammer 40K. I was about to go woof, woof, but I was like, are we still doing space wolves? I don't know. I guess we'll find out. But before we do, if you enjoy today's episode of the podcast and you want to maybe support us, heading over to patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can get access to the Discord, bloopers if they happen. The $15 tier gets you access to all. all of our posters in crispy HD digital format. We have the Watchers poster right now is the new one.

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Oh, okay. It's not like the Watchers one where it's sarcastic. Oh, Brickie, you're... And it's... You're probably gonna like it. So you just like have a bowl of ice cream in 30 milliseconds. Like, oh, Bricky. Yes, I was savoring the suffering that you were going to have.

Yeah. Well, speaking of death and suffering, Warhammer 40K. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. So, I mean, unfortunately, my friend, you're just not going to get this, because there really aren't that many quotes here. And honestly, even if I gave you a quote, you would still not get it. Because I have no faith in you whatsoever, and I hate you.

I mean, that's fair. All fair points, sure. So what are we doing? That being said, even if I had faith in you, you wouldn't get it anyway. We are continuing the modern day. The ongoing story of Warhammer 40K, and we are going into the next major events occurring in 10th edition Warhammer. We're continuing the story.

Oh, okay. All right. So it's just the continuation. All right. Where did we leave off? So this, what we're doing today is based on the newest crusade. book that came out of Warhammer called the Prya Nexus. It has a pretty baller cover art.

Oh, that is great cover art. It is quite something. It is just monumental in scale, but as you can tell, it is very much centered around the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Necron's. That's a lot of green. And, well, we last left off on the Leviathan and the Tyrion invasions that were coming about. But we're taking a bit of a break from that.

While Lord Solar Leontis and his group are out and about dealing with the Tyrannan and menace, this time we are centering around the war between the two major figures of the Associated Factions, Belisarius Call, and Mr. Big Daddy King himself. Big Daddy King himself. What else would you call the silent king, sir? Not big daddy king. I would probably just call him the silent king. That's only because you lack ingenuity.

Well, also probably because I have some shred of pride and dignity left, whereas you have truly just removed all hope. Listen, if there's one thing that has a lot of pride, It is most certainly the necrons. It's true. So, here our story begins in a different region of space. This is the, well, it says the war of sorrows and silence, but. Oh, boy.

Yeah, I mean, it's kind of a. Fun stuff. I mean, we're, we talked about, like, oh, yeah, but they committed genocide. And we're like, oh, well, hmm. You know how little that narrow. it down. So this is taking place in a particular zone of space

known as the pariah nexus to some, the stilled region to others. And much like the usual imperial bureaucracy, it was just an area of space that just kind of stopped responding. Ah, never like

to see that, because what made them stop responding? Maybe they just have a faulty radio. Yeah, well, and also, it's buried beneath monumental amounts of, what is it, of, like, data and scrolls and logistics. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So by the time they actually get to it, it's been already quite a problem. Yeah, yeah.

But basically, this area was this kind of circle, slowly expanding circle, known as the Priya nexus at the erendomitous kind of time frame. and base, it's hard to truly describe but it's an utterly

silent area of space. Wow, totally silent and just nothing comes out of it? Zero. Like,

like, it is a completely black spot on the map. You can't send psychic signals in, no signals are coming out.

You can't go through it. You can't, you can't, like, enter it. At least this is not, not like, in a more natural way. It's just, it's just blank. Oof. That's a problem. It's a bit of an issue.

Yeah, that's a problem. Especially considering how important psychic signaling and stuff is for the warhammer. Yeah. No communication. Once you're, like, once you're in there, you lose all communication, that whole thing. Yeah, that's a big, if you're in there, that's a big problem. And if you're not in there, it's like, whoa, what? what's going on, why can't we hear anything?

Why can't we, you know, ping anything in there? Oh, yeah, that's, that's, issues. Issues are had. So to save us a bit of time, because they kind of go along with this like, ooh, what's happening thing for a bit in the book? I think we've talked about this before. This is a area of space that are built with these large blackstone pylons by the Necrons to remove the warp.

Right, right, right, right. Because we talked about what Blackstone was and why it's so important. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So basically what the Silent King is doing is he's building up an area of null space. He's charging these blackstone pylons with a negative kind of energy. And that is literally removing the warp from this area. Yeah.

So without a warp, you obviously can't travel through it. You cannot... You can't use warp travel, you can't communicate, you can't do a whole lot of anything. No, it's complete dead. Or at least it's mostly dead. Eventually, after enough time has passed and this growing area of nothingness is getting larger and larger, Gilman is like, hey, what? Yeah, what's that blank?

spot and why is it getting bigger? That seems like a problem. This is a little this is a little weird. I'd like to maybe deal with this. Yeah, that's a good call by Gilliman. Probably want to deal with the blank spot that's getting bigger on the map. Sure, sure.

Yeah. So he takes, he not himself, but he tasks a fleet to go out there. And this region, once they finally reach it, or like the border of it, some of them enter into the region. And, and let's just say it's it's not an easy time going into the region a lot of the astrophats end up just exploding or because there's no warp so they just

yeah they just kind of do or they just they kill themselves um which is pretty common um the commissars have their work cut out for them as uh disobedience starts to like skyrocket across all the ship decks basically what this whole area, once they arrive into it, with this shuttering barely able to make it in kind of, I don't know, it's like really turbulent waves, except there's no waves. I don't know, it's kind of hard to describe. I guess you can still fly a void ship through a blackstoneed area, right? If there's no warp, like, can you?

Like, does a, does a ship travel on warp nons? sense? I mean, no, you can like fly it, you know, but the issue is that it's just, like with everything in Warhammer, there are very few absolutes. It's just, instead it makes it very hard. Okay. But once they arrive into this stilled region or the silence region, every place they go, every, every planet that stopped communicating is just still.

Like, spaceports, refineries, mining for, certifications, all that stuff. They just stood empty, as if the entire area was just plucked from, like, from God, like the rapture. You know, food was on the tables, molding, all that kind of stuff. But in reality, they didn't actually go away. They just stopped. Oh. So people just, where they were, just kind of died and then just, bit.

Pretty much. Servitors are still there, but their minds are just blank. So they just kind of stand there. And then there's litters of bones and ash across the ground. People would just have their food plate and they would just stop moving. Oh, wow. So it's kind of like, did you ever see Serenity? The Firefly movie? Where they talk about how the Revers were born, because they were like, they were testing. a way to make people more calm so that war would end and nobody would ever be angry and whatever. And it ended up being like, oh yeah, it worked, but it worked too well. And everybody just stopped caring about living and they just sat there tranquilly and died in place. But unfortunately, one percent of the population had like the absolute opposite effect. and they went stark, raving mad, and became just like these savage cannibals that, like, if they found you and got you, they would just rip you to shreds, eat you, and have their way with you. Oh, is that how the Revers became the way they are? Yeah.

It was like humanity's darkest, most awful secret that they wanted to hide. I did not know that. Is that they made the Revers. I did not know that. I've watched, like, three episodes of Firefly, and I know about the Revers being bad, but I didn't know why. I mean, yeah, I mean, that is basically what it is. You know, certain areas suffered far more because a generator was now unmanned and maybe would go critical or a car would just stop using it and then it would just crash into something else and, you know, that usual stuff. But for the most part, it's just the stilling was what it was called.

It got, it gets, they go into pretty some pretty nasty detail. Like some people would, uh, some of the guardsmen would, uh, some of the guardsmen would, be walking on like a planet's surface in the woods and they'd realize that underneath their feet, they aren't crunching on trees and stuff. They're crunching on the myriad tiny animals and insects that just lay there now. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's, wow, that's, that's, that's, that's crazy. You have, you have basically and completely cut your soul off

and everyone's soul off from the war. Like, you know, in Warhammer we have a soul. Oh yeah, and it goes to the warp and yeah. Yeah, and it's just gone. So you have either one of two things happen. You either just completely lose the will to do anything, or you hyper accentuate an already strange personality quirk, which seems like it was taken exactly from Firefly.

Maybe. Well, yeah, well, yeah, it could be. They could have taken inspiration from Serenity, sure, sure. They could take inspiration from a bunch of other stuff, so why not that too? So this is the Silent King's plan. It is to cut off one of the biggest threats to the galaxy, which is the warp in chaos, and in a sense still the entire region of the Milky Way galaxy, to then have an un, like just an unrequited amount of leftover biological mass and matter

to utilize to rebuild themselves. Well, that would do it. If you got enough blackstone, that would probably do it. I was going to say, hey, on the bright side, no chaos, huh? No chaos. I mean, it's a huge bright side. Chaos is a huge threat to the necrons because it's psychers and stuff and it's very anathema to them.

Oh, yeah. If you're the necrons, it's all positives. But if you're the humans, it's like, well, at least there's no chaos, I guess. It genuinely is, hey, make a region of space with blackstone so large that we will salvage the worthless husks of the organics and turn us back into flesh and blood again. Kind of sounds like Reapers a little bit. You know, I want to say yes, but at the same time, the Mass Effect Reaper thing has gone over so many rewrites that I don't even know which is witch anymore. Fair enough. Fair enough. Fair enough.

So essentially, he just wants to, like, from corner to corner have, like, these black stone, are they, like, pillars or whatever? And just completely encompass the Milky Way galaxy in this sort of null space. Blackstone pylons, yeah, basically. Okay, gotcha. And then, you know, you negatively charge them as the whole point. Right, right. So with this, obviously, this becomes a potently difficult situation for a lot of the imperial forces that arrive.

Not only is it, one, an area that has no reinforcements for you, no way to communicate particularly well, unless you blow up half of your psychers brains and trying to do so. But also, your guardsmen, for the most part, just really struggle to even, like, clean their gun. Yeah. The only fact, I mean, the space marines are doing mostly okay. Some get a little wacky. Like, the Black Templars kind of are resorted a bit to just their base zealot instincts. So they kind of, they stop, like, listening to orders very much, and they just start murdering. Oh, great. Good, good, good. Love that. As if the Black Templars weren't bad enough.

Okay. Enemies. But it makes some bad at formation and stuff, you know. Yeah. Yeah, it'd probably be hard to command people like that. Yeah. Yeah. Ironically, and I don't quite know how we're supposed to understand this, but the only faction that has any resilience to this in a massive way are the sisters of battle. the power of their faith keeps them not immune to the effects but quite resilient the sheer strength of their faith stops this from affecting them as much

as affects everyone else so just because they believe harder than everyone else they aren't as affected for some reason shield of faith is a genuine major thing here and they're pure

just like probably the same reason why the Black Templars are doing so well as well despite the fact that there's kind of running ahead and killing everything. Yeah. It's a really, yeah, it's a really weird situation

because sisters get their power of faith from the manifesting in the warp. Yeah, I was going to say like it doesn't, work like that, doesn't? No, it doesn't. And as Shai said here, Luton did also

made a video about how, like, this is a huge plot hole. But the fact that they're doing it again makes me wonder if they've got some kind of reasoning up their sleeve that they haven't quite shared yet. Hmm. Or maybe it's just a MacGuffin. Or it's a MacGuffin.

But like, but they really specifically call attention to the importance of faith. And it's, It's actually a major utilized part of this book. When Call is dispatched out here by Gilamim to deal with this problem, he specifically notices the importance of faith to bring it down. And so they utilize tech, like machine god, tech faith. They take some of the most fervent of machine gods, what is it, like tech priests.

And they have them go out to raise marijuana. morale and assist, you know, Skatari troops and the like. All right. So, yeah, they're either doubling down or... I don't know. So if you have strong enough faith, you won't be as affected by the null space? Yeah, pretty much, pretty much. All right, well, hey, pray harder, fools.

Hey, yeah, pray harder. Pray harder. I don't know. I don't know exactly what they're getting at right now, but clearly they're going for something here. I guess they need to have some way to operate with proficiency in this null space, so it's not just a one-sided, bleh? I guess. Yeah, because on one hand, they need a MacGuffin because or else it's just humanity just loses. Yeah, because you go into the null space and then you just stop and ships just fall out of the sky because, well, we stopped caring about anything ever. So I guess you need some way for one side to actually operate in this pariah nexus. And on the other side of things, like when they do call for help in this area, like later on in the book, and by calling for help out of the pariah nexus, like I said,

said earlier, nothing is ever absolute. It just makes it really hard. So they were able to get a signal out to, like, Gilliman, but it costs them, like, half of their astropaths, basically. You know, it's just... Oh, geez. It's all about just, like, oh, it's so damn difficult to do. Yeah, yeah.

I guess if you're stuck in there and you're like, well, the only way we can get a message out is by killing half of you astrophaths, I guess it's kind of worth it, because otherwise you're all screwed. Yeah, I don't know. It's a little weird. One could maybe argue that the sisters of battle in their massive fervor have such a strong faith that it can break past the Pride nexus and reach out into Warp Space because it's never a permanent deal. True, yeah, I suppose. But then wouldn't that suggest that like chaos could exist there because, you know, nothing's absolute.

if you're a crazy enough chaos thing, you can find a little soft spot and... It's a lot of stuff. Obviously, we're kind of spitballing here, but... Yeah. Once you start down that iceberg, like, it's like, oh, hey, this is... Don't worry, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

And it's like, uh-oh. There's a lot more under the surface. So, yeah. Regardless, eventually, once Gilliman realizes what is happening, happening in this space, he sends out call to go, you know, do call stuff. And he brings this one. Yeah.

What? It is. He called him. He did call. He called him on his cell phone. Yeah. He called call and gave a call to go out to the, you know, to go out to the space and do whatever he can do to deal with what's happening in the Pride Nexus and call in his

intelligence made it so that he decided, all right, Blackstone is the null when charged a certain way, but Blackstone can also be used in the opposite in a sense. I'm assuming if you positively charge it, it does the exact opposite and makes like a warp rich area? Exactly. It can be utilized in a polarity to enhance the warp in a way. Oh, not sure you want to do that. I don't think you want to do that.

Well, Cole is maybe crazy, but he's not dumb. And so he goes out and he's like, okay, you know what, sure, sure.

I'm going to bring a large contingent in my fleet and I'm going to have the acquisition of blackstone as the most important thing out of all. It is the most important. We need to go acquire as much blackstone as we can. And, you know, at first,

it's a little bit it's a little rough at first it's a little tough there's a lot there's a lot going going with it all and it takes a while mainly because

a lot of the other rival tech priests are they kind of got their own ideas oh so not everybody fully believes

calls ideas about the Blackstone is that what you're like they think it's something else? So, Admec hate call. Yeah, that's true, because he is, he goes against everything the Admec stand for and he keeps

inventing stuff. Yeah, that's true. He's kind of got a bit of a, a bit of a bad rap. A little bit, yeah, yeah. But also, there's the idea that utilizing the Necron's resources against them is no better than being alien scum. Oh, that's true. they would think that, wouldn't they?

So utilizing their own powers against them is not something that people particularly love. And not just that, but to deal with such an insane level of a, not to say power, but this space area against the necrons,

they decide to bring with them a couple artifacts, some sort of dark age technology stuff. Oh boy, dark age of technology stuff, all right. Yeah, They were like, you know what, if we're going to be going out and doing all this, let's bring the big guns.

Let's bring the things locked behind 9,000 vaults and keys. Yeah. One step away from the stuff that's locked under the golden throne. So they made their way out and about. And by going into this whole Prya Nexus with this large fleet and working on gathering Blackstone as much as they did, they encountered quite a few Necron resistance. patches obviously. Naturally, yeah. Because, you know, there's a ton of necrons there, and they're quite,

are quite upset. Yeah, and I imagine they wouldn't want you touching the blackstone for anything. So, yeah, makes sense. So, so a couple of people, particularly an Inquisitor, Inquisitor Curia Draxis, Lord Inquisitor Curia Draxas, actually. She actually has a model. She's like a bald-headed lady. She carries around like an Eldar gun.

She kind of, cool. Cool. She has like a cool, like, like, wyvern. like dragon on her arm kind of thing. It's neat. But she took her way out to study as much of the necrone stuff as she possibly could. And by doing so, she figured out a way to possibly destroy one of these necron pylons. Okay.

I'm also assuming she's a bit of a radical. She is considered a radical. Yes. Shocking development. Now, this came after. a large contingent of battles back and forth between the ad mech and the necrons. The ad mech were for a bit doing okay

but then kind of getting trounced a bit because one, Brian Nexus, two, the Silent King's forces, and three, a certain a certain Sautek noble, who you will know as Imatech, the Storm Lord. Ah, yes, the old Storm Lord, let's go. Didn't much like what the King

is up to. Oh. So he decided to say, screw you and attack a lot of his forces. Wow, really? So, okay. So it's an important thing to note between Imitech and Zerick. So Zerick just came back. He's got a huge army.

He's the silent king. Many people bowed to him regardless. Right. Imitek thinks that the idea of returning to flesh and blood is stupid. Right. He's one of the people that's like, oh, look at how perfect we're. are, we're immortal, we want for nothing, we're perfect, we're perfect. Exactly. Zerick wants to undo his sins. Zerriks, guys, their names, Zerik wants to undo his sins. I'matech believes that

right now where we're currently at is where we should always be. Oh, okay. So he naturally doesn't want, he definitely doesn't want the Silent King to succeed in anything, and he probably doesn't like this pride nexus at all. No, because he, I mean, he doesn't mind the necessarily the cost of the pride nexus because it is destroying and killing humanity, which he's pretty stoked for. But it's not his point.

And so for the most part, Imatech, because he actually, he might actually command like equivalent forces to the king, because he's been awake for so much long. Well, yeah. Zerick has been awake, but, you know, in the game. for so much longer, he is leading in a sense

a kind of sort of civil war against the silent king. And so a lot of times the ad mech are getting their asses kicked and then all the Nekron's just leave because like, oh God, Imatech is beating our ass elsewhere. Immatech's back.

We're needed elsewhere. Zerick is none too happy about this, by the way. He doesn't say much. No kidding. You don't say. he's not happy about the Civil War. He doesn't say much because he's the silent king, but it is said here that he has a menacing cold outrage against this.

Yeah, not happy. No, not pleased at all. No, not, uh-uh. Nope. But after all this kind of occurs, Draxas eventually, Lord Inquisar Daxus finds a way to destroy one of the pylons. She finds a way to be able to actually take it out from within.

Okay, there's her model. It's pretty cool. Oh, wow, Draxas is badass. Yeah, her, it's like a sharking cannon, I think she uses from the Eldar. Dang, what's that on her shoulder? Is that a... Tearing? Oh, like a...

No, it's like a... Like a Welp, like a psychic whelp or something. Okay. Damn, that's cool. What a badass. Jesus Christ. So with all of this stuff happening, eventually the humans do find a way to lead of force directly on the currently in, imbidered, bridle. Necrons that are indisposed with problems caused by imotech.

Okay, okay. Land on the pylon, enter it, and blow it up from within, and topple the whole pylon. Okay. And then suddenly the parian axis gets smaller and... A bit of a hole reopens up in the war. Moral increases. Things get better. Start sending out messages about what's going on in here.

And hey guys, we're okay. We did it. It's the blackstone. Get us out of here. So this, this is the turning part of our story. Okay. Because the Silent King was fucking furious at this. Oh, I bet.

He must have been absolutely outraged that they destroyed one of the Blackstone pylons. But, like, it's hard for me to, like, I got to truly express to the extent of how mad he was. He started talking. There's a great story here of a Necron Overlord who is walking underwater with this Lichgard flank. Yeah. And currently, a bunch of doom sites and other, like, craft are flying around, just firing at the humans on this. base and he's really pissed off because he has to take to going underwater in order to get out of the range of the artillery guns and the like.

And a lot of his warriors are old and decrepit, so they're going really slow, walking and trudging in this muddy underwater thing. But particularly, you know, the overlord is fighting the humans with... Okay, with past, sure. So necrons have a very strict code of conduct. Okay, shy, that's a fucking hilarious meme for a couple reasons. We'll get to that in a moment. So necrons are all about the chivalric code.

That's knights. But they're very much like the triarchal code, the code of conduct with battle. You don't You don't You know Insult your and it's like that's like revolutionary war shit Where you Because all the Necron's walk in lockstep

And they're like you know Legions and legions and flanks and stuff And you know To do to not fight like that Is not Necron of you Yeah sure So despite the

Despite the You know Fact that this is a war against inferior beings You still treat the inferior beings with a certain level of, you know, respect. Respect. Sure.

Now, at the time, this overlord is a little pissed off. He has to do that, but it is what it is. It is what it is. That's how you operate. That's how you operate. And for the most part, at this point, the thing that bugs him the most is that behind him, there's a plasmancer, which is one of the various cryptex, who is very very, you know, What's the word?

He's staring at the back of his head all the time because this plasmastery's got all of the dastrali stuff. Okay. The not kind, not respectful weaponry? Ah, all right. What kind of weaponry is respectful, by the way? Well, respectful weaponry is the ranks and ranks of Necron warriors walking up and firing and walking up and firing.

And then the noble lichgard's surrounding, you know, for honorable dual combat against an enemy captain. Okay, okay. And this plasmancer is just not, he's being a disrespectful whelp or something. Like what? The plasmancer is, like the overlord is a lot more of a, you know, guys, we gotta do honorable, respectful combat

where a plasmaster is like, let's just like poison their water support. burn their crops and deliver a plague upon their houses. Let's... Ah. Okay, gotcha. The plasmancer just wants to get it done by any means necessary. They are...

They are... Science bordering on magic is what the Necron plasmancers and stuff do. And they're all about death. Okay, okay, okay. So, destroying this pylon had the silent king send out the call that the humans have chosen dishonorable... combat. They have destroyed one of these sacred

pylons and they have decided to move this combat to the point where they no longer deserve respect. You may now do whatever you want. Oh boy. So the plasmanser is just licking its lit, well, it's not licking its lips because it doesn't

I have lips and I need to lick. I have no lips and I need to lick. But yeah, so they're just like, oh, yeah. Yeah, liminers are off. I can do whatever I want. Oh, hell yeah, brother. Basically, the plasmints are heard this, and his eyes flared wine.

It was like, oh, yeah. Hell yeah, brother. So this began a doomsday weapon arms race between the two factions. Oh, God. Yeah, I don't suppose, you don't really want to have a doomsday off with the necrons, do you? I don't think that's a... Well, in Cole and his buddy's wisdom, they decided to... Oh, it's true.

Call's there. So, Call probably does have a wide array of Tombstone machines to... Okay, okay, I forgot about Call's interests. Well, yeah, he decided to bring a lot of old-school STC level. The Dark Age of Technology stuff, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, boy. Okay.

So, when the Necron's, oh, I don't know, took a Caton shard and spread its influence into thousands of conoptic flying creatures that flowed like a ghostly, shadowy cape through the night and turned all of the admec forces on each other to kill each other. a call then responded with firing the tiny little black box at the Necron fleet, which slowly expanded into a black nothingness hole so large that it consumed half the planet. Whoa! And then just removed it from existence. Whoa! He just dieded half the planet? So like, I hate that I have to make a Jojo reference.

I'm genuinely furious about this right now. Then don't. Okay. Oh, wait, you didn't see part four. Yeah, I didn't. I haven't seen past, uh, Diamond is Unbreakable. I never finished Diamond is Unbreakable.

Okay, well, part three sucks that, so it's okay. Oh, it sure does. That's why I didn't admit that. That's why I stopped Jojo. Um, okay, so there's a guy with a power in the fourth part that has something similar to this, but like, imagine you're on Photoshop and you have an eraser, like an eraser circle. Yeah, and that's, he used a big version of that on half the planet. Well, you just like slowly keep increasing the eraser circle size larger and larger and larger.

Yeah. Until it just, it was a giant block of like black orb that just deleted from existence, like half the Necron fleet and accidentally half the planet. Accidentally half the planet. Because the adeptic don't know what they're doing because these are dark age of technology weapons. Oh, man, that's a crazy weapon, though. That is an insane weapon. In response to this, the Necrons grabbed a dwarf star and just, like, threw it at them.

What? They just yeated a star at them? They had, like, a Tesseract, like, labyrinth, like a treason box. And they just, like, threw it at them. And it just turned into a dying star. And then it was, like, destroyed half their fleet. And I'm like, okay, sure. So, so called dots half a planet and, and their forces.

And they respond by just lassoing a dying star and just chucking it at them and just, they fire, like, they fire, then the ad mech came in and was like, hey, you want to, by the way, here, we're to fire this gravity well. and then it's just like this giant lightning well grabbed a bunch of necrons ships and just crush them into into like atoms. And this just happened back and forth at nauseam. Like it was just, dude, your doomsday weapon will counter my doomsday weapon with my doomsday weapon. Literally a doomsday off. It's insane. Wow.

Shy, the Katon bit in the notes you mentioned. Is that the, is that the bit about her or is that something else? Yeah, shy. Oh, yeah, that's right. You want to read this? This one was funny. Draxas and her forces were confronted by a contingent of necrons led by Zaris. A brief skirmish within a tomb ensued, which ended when Draxas used her power fist to smash a Catan shard and release it. Ooh.

The shard teleported the imperial forces back to their fleet and began a rampage against the necrons. Oh, okay. So Drax has just punched a Catan shard and released it? Yeah, she let a Katon shard She just let out of Katan because she punched it? Well, no, she like opened, she broke the Pokemon, right, right, right, right, right.

And then the Katan shard's like, thanks, bro, and then just started murdering the Necrons. I'm sure as soon as that thing got it, I was like, oh, it's Necron killing time. So it's just this never, it's hilarious what they write in here because Call's doomsday weapons against the Silent King's doomsday weapons, because obviously the Necron's didn't quite expect the humans to have weapons like this.

Yeah, they weren't accounting for call. But honestly, the tech priests so excited to use their unfathomably frightening stuff, kind of killed themselves as much as they killed the Necrons. That's fair, because they probably would be really, it's like, oh boy, we finally get to use this thing. I thought I'd never get to use the Doomsday weapon. Oh, God, we took a little overzealous and, yeah. Turn the planet into like the Apple logo with a giant bite out of it.

Oh, damn, some of our forces were on that. This actually was particularly rough for the Silent King, too, because the use of the super high-level cryptex known as the Technomandrites, utilizing their high-level stuff, made the other nobles kind of pissed. Because, like, that's not cool. That's not what we do. Like, fake king, fake king. Oh, yeah, that would be a problem for him.

Yeah, it's not a, it is not something that a true noble of the Necron lineage would do. Oh, so his status was kind of lowering because he was kind of, he was stooping to calls level. Exactly. He was, he was not even stupid to cause level, but just in a sense, like, This goes against our code. Right. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Which in doing so, brought more people to Imotech side.

Yeah. I imagine Imotech would get a lot of Necron supporters. So at the moment, you know, it started off with the Pariah Nexus being a bit of a really bad zone. And then Imitech, I mean, despite age sickness, is the number one thing that's stopping the necrons from killing everybody the numbers no political infighting oh well yeah political infighting i thought it was because a lot of them hadn't woke up and you know it is also that but yeah the necrons like to fight each other all the time i get there's a little excerpt about treason who uh apparently um uh during this whole schick during all these all these things

going on and all the all the happenings um used the necrons civil war as a way to rome multiple tomb ships. He would. He would. That sounds, that's on par for Trayson, sure. And Orkin was there as well. Orkin, though,

Orkin was out there because his divinity of the future was getting off. It wasn't working. As well as it should be. Oh, okay. So he was out trying to figure out

what the hell's going on. Like, there's some zone of space or something going on that's ruining his seeing the future. He's trying to figure out why or what or anything that's currently happening. Okay. So all the cool necrons are here. They're all here, basically. Yeah.

But, Orkin finds out what's happening. Mm-hmm. And after this giant space rift has arrived and, like, opened, up and the warp has arrived. You notice a mass, Orykim realizes that this area is where all of his problems are occurring. And what's even more scary for him is that he

is, quote, powerless to stop it. It's not about an issue with his divinity. It's about the fact that there's nothing he can do because this area has been preordained by the cogs of the universe for like a long time. Oh, okay. So this is, there's no change in what's about to happen here. This is set in stone. No chicanery is going to be able to warp or twist this. Who in the world of 40K would be the most stoked having two massive factions using the most dastardly doomsday weapons against each other?

Well, that sounds like something chaos would be a big fan of. Who specifically? Probably. That sounds like a corn thing. It sounds like corn would be happy by a giant war where people are just blipping each other out of existence, mass killing. That sounds like a corn thing.

Think about it. Untethered scientific prowess of gigantic doomsday weapons. Mad men inventing the most destructive things known to man. Who does that feed? Zinch? You're gonna change? Think smaller. How about you just tell me?

Versace, baby? Oh. Mr. Versace himself. I wasn't even thinking of him as a chaos god. So what happens now with this all happening? Guess what a rent in reality opens

and the gigantic, reanimated version of Caliban, Wormwood, arrives into real space because Versace, Mr. Versace himself is like, I gotta get a load of this. Oh, yeah, I had a buddy called him Versace, and I can't not call it Versacee now. Oh, good old Versacee, yeah, yeah. I have a Versacee Cologne.

Oh, I do too. Is it the red one? No, it's the green one. It's Eros. Oh, okay. You have the... It's a different one, I forget. But yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's square one. Yeah. Okay, sorry, that's good. Shai is like, Berkey, call him Vashdor once. People can understand what's going on. It's Vastor. It's Vastor. Well, you probably...

Yeah, that's true. I guess if you're listening on a podcast service where you don't see the video, Shai probably put up a picture of Vashdor, but that doesn't help if you're, you know, listening on Spotify or something. Mr. Vashdor, Yeah, I mean, when two factions, though I guess the Necron's being solace, I don't know how much it would actually feed him, but utilizing madman technology, massive, massive levels of destructive doom state of vices.

This feeds the boy. It's supposed to dog in him. He got that dog in him. He got that dog in him. He got that dog in him. Yeah, I don't know. I wasn't thinking of Vastor as a chaos guy yet. I know he wanted to become a chaos god, but I didn't think he had actually, like, you know?

Well, technically not, but it's more just the concept that does feed him, you know? Yeah, okay. So Vashdor arrives, and with Wormwood, his gigantic planet. And it's actually a really great section where he kind of floats his planet really close to another planet of Imperial Defenders. and the gravitational pull and chaos stuff just yanks them all from the surface and yanks their mountains out of the dirt and pulls them towards them

just like an apocalyptic gravity well it's really cool image damn people are just like flung from the planet all across space that sucks for them that sucks that's awful

it's super awful but like mountain just getting ripped out from the ground holy And then of course they get chucked directly to Wormwood, the demon engine planet. Oh boy, if you survived, you'll wish you hadn't. Yeah, kind of. Little awful situation there. That's Unicron, is the planet-eating dude in Transformers.

The Unicron. Yeah, but he doesn't eat it. He's just yanking gravity. He's just eating, yeah. It's just planet next to planet gravity. Well, there's a part in the Transformers movie where he like, his mouth is like this big gaping mom and it kind of sucks everyone literally off the planet and into his mouth. So Vashdor clearly is very excited by this. He, in a funny sense, he kind of just arrives and he's like, bro, I got to see this.

I need front row seats for this thing, because this is wild. Even chaos is like, bruh, this is dope. Which is why Orkin had a hard time figuring out the divinity because Vastor, in a sense, had already planned his... Because Vastor is weird. Like, Zinch has an all-as-planned, Ne-he-he-he thing. Yeah. But Vash-Sor has an all-as-planned as well, but his plan is more like, I've specifically set the cogs in motion years ago to arrive at this precise moment. Oh.

Damn. It's not like, ooh, the change, the difference. Like, no, no, no. My train has arrived at this stop exactly when I put my foot down. Damn. Vash are kind of badass. He's a baller. There's a really dope thing where he's on this gigantic tower,

a spiral stairway tower full of cogs, some the size of 50 feet, some smaller than like a grain of rice. And he just like moves his hammer. And it twists the entire tower around so we can look in different directions. It's kind of baller. That's dope. Let's go. But he says, quote, alas that your erasure must I engineer here in this place. For you are now but grit in the flywheels to be whisked away.

Machines have you made for such purpose as I cannot condone. And yet uses I shall find. for your nodal matrix little king lengths yet are there to which you have not been driven mayhap I shall wield the goad damn imagine

because he talks like a weirdo silent king little king imagine imagine being on such a pedestal that you look at the silent king oh little king like he's some child like he's just some petulant child like that's the silent fucking king

so it would appear that after getting his webway device to move his giant demon engine planet around the stars. He has arrived here to an area that will feed him heavily. Yeah. And also he apparently has a

use for his Nodal Matrix from the Silent King, as he says. Okay, okay, okay, all right, all right. And that's where the book ends. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So, so this takes place before Or, no, this takes place after.

When was the last time we saw Vashdor? At the end of the... Arks of Omen. Arks of Omen. He's got the key, but we don't know what for? Yeah, he has the key, but he's trying to find the lock. Okay, gotcha. And this is after that?

Yes. This is his... This is his most recent thing that's happened, is him arriving back into real space. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, Just making sure I got the timeline right. Okay, cool. So we don't know what he's out here.

What a way to show up. Right, dude? He's just like, man, I got to check this. Look at this fun stuff. I'm here. I'm ready. I got to see, I got to get front row seats to this doomsday off.

Like, geez. And those are crazy weapons that they're using. God damn. I mean, 40K's got some wild stuff, but like this is just, damn. It's just damn. It's doubly funny, too. because Gilliman is now entering the sector.

He's making a personal trip with his fleet to assist. He should love what he finds. I'm sure he's such a big fan of call. He's gonna, what's the meme of the guy who like, he like walks in the room with the pizza and it's like everything's on fire? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's totally gonna be Gilliman. Oh, Gilliman.

Shy makes a funny point. It is, it's just a gigantic nerd fight. It's Call the Silent King, Emmetech, and Vashdor all just... Well, Vashdor just arrived, but... Yeah. All just kind of beating on each other. Yeah. Shai said it's like a slap fight, and it's like, I don't know if intergalactic doomsday weaponry usage constitutes as a nerd slap fight.

You know, I don't know. I think it's a little more extreme than that. I Chad, did you just make that? Wow. That was so fast. Well, I mean, hey, you know, you gotta do what you gotta do. You know, you gotta do what you gotta do.

Well, it is, I am very, I'm very excited. I am our, I am our biggest Vastor simp. I love Mr. Versacei, so. Not you. Well, see, now I don't know who, well, I know who I'm cheering for. it's not call. Oh, shocking. But, like, there's so many characters that I like here.

I like Imitech. I like, I like Zarek a lot. I like Vashdor a lot. Like, who am I supposed to root for? You know you're rooting for Vashdor to just obliterate everything or suck everything up into, you know, machine tendrils and drain them dry. You know you're rooting for Vash Tor. Don't.

Okay. Don't play that game. Shai says, is he still shit on the tabletop? Yes But we're not on the tabletop right now He's so bad He's so bad So bad

But dope mini One of the best chaos minis out there Dope mini So cool So absolutely incredible He's so bad He's so bad He could probably go down like 40 points

And he would still be bad Oh my God Wow Oh, fuck. It's genuinely shocking. They're just waiting to buff him. They're waiting for the big moment to buff him. When he finds what that key is for,

they're going to just shoot him to the moon, you know? So in the Blood Angels, there's a character named Captain Tyco. I don't know much about him. But there's also another character you can run called Tyco the Lost. And apparently, it's Captain Tyco is the pre-Bron blood rage version of or black rage version of Tygo the Lost. Okay. So you can run like the, you know, the normal and then the blood or the black rage

version of him, the death company version of him. But, you know, where my, I got my Vash Store mini, but where's my Vash Store the ascended mini, you know? Yeah, exactly. We need. Where's my, that's what we need. That's what he gets, when he finds that keyhole, you know. When he finds the hole

When he finds the hole That's the goal Every hole's a goal And he's gonna ascend Once he, you know He did it all for the nookie Wow I hate you so much

I'm ending the episode for that alone You sir You sir I you smell terrible So you can take that cookie It's sticking up your year