Adeptus Ridiculous - What Perturabo Has Been Doing for 10,000 Years | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://shop.orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousWhat happens when the biggest hater in the galaxy spends 10,000 years locked in his room with an endless supply of daemonic data? You get the Infinite Citadel. Bricky and DK dive into the massive new background information on Perturabo and the Iron Warriors. From ditching Horus during the Siege of Terra to torturing Rogal Dorn into submission at the Iron Cage, Peter Turbo has always played the long game. Now, operating out of the nightmare world of Medrengard, he's weaponizing his resentment to build a fortress system so massive it spans the gulfs between stars. Get ready for the Reign of Iron.Support the show

Welcome, everyone, to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamanties, that's Bricky. You know why you're here. And if you enjoy today's episode of the podcast, maybe head on over to patreon.com slash adeptus Ridiculous and consider supporting us. You get access to the disc score, bloopers if they happen, $15 to you get you access to all of our posters in just the most immaculate form ever. You should check it out.

Patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous. Bricky, how are we? I am good. It's only the two of us and shy here today, which automatically makes it a worse episode. It's wild. Absolutely. Can you imagine that it was just us for the first like three years?

Who the hell watched this shit? Yeah, Karyoth really stepped up our game. And now it's just, it's weird not having him. It is. And also, you know, no possum before. You know, we had to rely on me trolling random books and wiki articles and the occasional excerpts. How did we ever survive? Oh, yeah.

Those first bunch of fantasy episodes where I did not have a possum proof reading the scripts were stressful. I was like, oh, God, I hope the fantasy community doesn't, like, crucify me for not knowing everything about a thing I just learned about. And then pancreas decides to whip his head around the corner and I don't know. I don't know what he would do. But he'd do something. That's something, something, Star Wars reference, Vigita on Twitter. I don't know. B1 battle droids come out, kill you for the Republic.

I don't know. Something like that, yeah. But today, actually, it's almost a little bit, not ironic, but I guess apt that is just us right now. because we are going to be covering a topic that we have covered before. I would try to get you with a quote and stuff, but Shy has posted the schedule for this month. It's true she has, hasn't she? And it's a damn fun-looking schedule, too.

It's a, one would say it's a little metal. Cadever. A matter. A wreck. need. Emol mansor. A cemetery. Anyway, so today,

you know, this is actually perfect because the title of today's episode is Peter Turbo, weaponizing cringe to his advantage. And like, this is a perfect name for the episode. Oh yeah. Hell yeah. Weaponizing cringe, Peter Turbo. Yep, yep, make sense to me. So, very similar to about a year ago when we did that episode on Folgram, where we talked

about what he's up to now in the current setting because of the new model release. Well, now we are having one where, oh, right. Also, do you remember when they said they were going to release a book that explained what he's been up to the whole time? Mm-hmm. And the book we got was apparently a black temple. our novel with Fogram on the cover and didn't tell us jack shit. Ah, that's, that sounds just great.

That's good times. So now, Games Workshop has decided to try it again by releasing a big old picture of Demon Primark Protraba with the promise of learning what he's been up to and what he's doing now. And the payoff is a hell of a lot more stressful. All right, all right. I mean, that picture's dope. I've, I've seen it. It looks amazing.

Um, yeah, stoked. He's a big boy. Not really much to say besides that. Like, it just looks awesome. It's just an awesome photo. Phenomenal. Yeah. What do we say?

It's funny. There's that one ad meg that's like, I'll 1v1, you Peter Turbo. Yeah. I don't know why you give him that voice, but it sounds apt. Because yeah, there is that one Skatari that's like, oh my God. But he pulls out his little sword. He's like, I'll try.

Yeah, I'll give it a shot. Why not? I'm going to die either way. Might as well go out in a blaze of glory. So the third of the like goodbye 10th edition campaign book series is reign of iron. And it has given us a kind of a gold mine of information on the eye of terror, the current conflicts. And most importantly for this episode, a lot of background information on Perchirabo and the Iron Warriors. And though they have been somewhat active since the heresy, they are like all the chaos war bands,

kind of doing their own thing, or at least it seemed that way at the time, when in fact the actions of the warsmiths and the Iron Warriors have been a part of a very long and tedious plan established by their primark. Long and tedious does sound like the kind of thing Perchiraba would be up to. Oh, yeah, nice.

Uh-oh, is he, is he siege or fortify? He would be siege. Yeah, he's siege. Okay, yeah. I was like, Dorn's got to be fortified. Anyway, go ahead. I mean, Perchrombo would have liked to have been Fortify, but there's that whole, that's a whole deal. I mean, they do, they do both do both.

But if you're referring to the meme, he is the same. Yes. Oh, if only Biggie had let him be fortified. If he had, maybe if Biggie had let him be fortified, there would be a different spot right here. But regardless, though, the constant thinking is strategizing by the corrupted Percherovo has become so heavy that he is in a sense a living. cogitator fueled by vengeance and hatred. Now, unlike his other brothers, Percirava was not really swayed by chaos during the heresy. Fulgrim and others tried to trick him into ascension, but he held back.

It just so happens that his lofty goals of, you know, destroying the home of his father that was reinforced by his least favorite brother aligned with the goals of Horace and the others. gods are cringe, but the enemy of my enemy is my friend, yada yada. Sure, sure. They've got a gigantic standing army to do it. So it's like, well, sure, why not? I don't have that. So over time, he has viewed the forces of chaos as a means to an end.

And after a catastrophic massacre of the imperial fists, he was promoted to demon primark of chaos undivided for that reason. Chaos is very, very happy that it's being fueled. and they are very more than happy to give Peter Turbo what he needs to keep up the good work. And though his actions align with those of his ascended brothers, like, well, Ascended Brothers as well as Abadom, he does not consider himself aligned with them.

And in fact, over the past millennia, he has actively engaged in combat against them often. Oh, I bet the chaos guys actually kind of think that's funny. Zinich would think it's hilarious. Cornwood would be pretty happy about it, probably. Yeah. So regardless, Peter Turbo is still at this point in time fighting his brothers because of course he is. And now that his big master plan is imminent, he plans on actively engaging in combat with anything that gets between him and destroying Terra, because of course, that's what he wants in his revenge quest.

Sure. Sure. I mean, I would imagine all the demon primarks kind of want that, right? They all want to, like, destroy Tara. It's just, you know, they're a little busy with others. stuff too. I think it's also the fact that certs and Dian primarks want to destroy Tara more than others. Like, uh, yeah, full, full grim, it's probably on his bucket list, but I think he's kind of happy just being awful and a problem. Yeah. I mean, just, just like in the siege of terror, where it's,

you know, the emperor's children are just happy to make drugs out of humans and torture people and have weird, sexy nonsense going on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, like, there's a couple folks. A lot You'll want to, maybe not just destroy Tara, but they want to kill the emperor or they want to destroy the imperial. Or like, regardless, death to the imperials is a big part of it, no matter what. You know, death to the false emperor and all that. Yeah. So today we're going to go over his ascension to demonhood from the issues he ran into that caused him to bail on the heresy to the massacre of enough inferial fists to earn a promotion and what he is doing now in his new fancy glory, as well as what the iron warriors are up to. and a bit of an intro to one of the major players

in the upcoming reign of iron episode. So you can kind of think of this as like a bit of a prequel to the next book. A little bit of a primer. Now, some of the stuff like the Iron Cage was covered a bit way, way back in the early days. But we're going to touch on it again in more detail because it's more relevant.

And as joked about in the beginning, yeah, you know, the early days were the early days. Yeah, Iron Cage, that's the one that, um, I don't want to say he tricked Dorn into being like, you can't take this place. I'm, I'm so much better than you. You're a scrub lord thing, right?

I mean, that's the one basically, yeah. Okay, that's the nice abridged version, I call it, yeah. Okay, cool.

I'm just glad I remembered what the iron cage was for the most part. I mean, it is the massive massacre of the Imperial Fists because, lower Mao. But, so as you mentioned in the start, We're going to take a big old step back in time with Portarabo, specifically the tail end of the heresy. And in fact, without him, the siege of terror likely wouldn't have been possible.

The solar war began with the arrival of the traitor armada in the soul system, and the two-prong attacked rocked to the system from the get-go. The sons of Horace attacked Pluto, while Petrobo struck Uranus. Yep, he sure did. Got that, got that planet. Yep, he did. These attacks were simultaneous, and allowed for an even, larger force to bypass other defenses set up along the galactic disk. Perchiraba was on the iron, was on the iron blood when the traitor forces poured through the

Elysian gate. And after clearing through gun platforms by ramming mass conveyor vessels into them, he saw to it that the gigantic spacehawk known as the daughter of woe, amazing name, was able to unleash hell on the remaining bastions on not only the surface of Uranus, but also the moons of Cordelia, Oberon, and Umbriel. Oberon rework. Let's go. Wow, Bricky bringing out the Warframe reference. I actually haven't even tried out the Oberon rework.

I've never liked Oberon, so neither have I. But, you know. We'll be upon ye. Whoa. Now, the second sphere, oh my goodness. The second sphere fleet was forced to retreat and per trouble up the A&T even more by launching transports, of mutants and a bunch of dros.

And that system-wide chaos was overwhelming. And though there were some pockets of resistance in the outer soul system, things began falling like easy dominoes. A successful direct assault with forks on Jupiter and its moons. And then the soul system defenses had fallen and the retreat to Terra was complete. And we got that amazing map that we are a big fan of. Yeah, I feel like I've seen this map like on seven different different occasions and every time it's just like, oh man, can we, can we hype this map up again?

It's, it's so blanchy. It's so John Blanchy and it's just, it's just so pretty looking. It's so good. Now, both Uranus and Jupiter were gigantic defensive spheres for the imperial fists, and the capturing of both of them were monumental for the war effort. Perch Raba was pretty hyped at this point, as his strategies were sound, his ability to cripple the defensive lines, surely meant that he would be at the first. front of the line when it came to hitting Terra. Horace had other ideas. Gilliman's fleet was on its way at some point soon, and instead of leading the tactical

charge on the throne world, he was charged with re-fortifying the system in a defensive manner while still having to provide at least some degree of insight into the data regarding the void shields on Terra, so everyone else could have some good old fun. Now, this, as you can probably guess, really pissed off Per Chirabo. Of course, he was able to go through the data and provide extremely significant insight and all that, but not being able to do things directly, really frustrated him. And so Horace attempted to have a nice cooperative, like, you're really an important member of the Horace heresy family kind of chat with his brother to try to reduce his stress,

especially because he was starting to run out of faith of his other brothers. Yeah, he had to have the PR talk with Purdy. You're a valued member of the team. We love you. Please don't quit. We need you. Please. You're the only person who knows what this code works.

You are the only person who knows how the code works. Please, God. You're the only reason this thing is advancing at all. Please. Please. Folgram is out there snorting bone dust. Please. Now, he said that Per Trava was the only one he could truly trust,

but he still denied him the opportunities to find on Terra directly at the start. He had to fortify, clear off landing zones, and just be more of a resource than anything else. Now, Perchirabo still felt some sense of honor for Horace, and he wanted to serve him to an extent. But by now, he kind of saw the writing on the wall, mainly that Horace was not really being driven by himself anymore. Because this is like, Horace is like corrupted horror at this point.

Oh, yeah. He is demon corrupted at this point. He's juiced to the gills with chaos. So this is when Perchirabo really began to dig deep into the lore of the warp so we could start to figure out how to, use it himself to his advantage. But this isn't a full episode on the siege. There have been three whole dedicated episodes on that one. So we're going to focus on the two most important bits during it for the sake of getting

Per Tramma on the modern day. This also is kind of a prelude to why Portrabo was starting to like figure out chaos a bit more. Now the first, the two main things here is Rogaldorm and the Mortis crash out as Possum puts it. Hell yeah. So Perchirabo was able to eventually dock at the Lions Gate spaceport, and after doing so, he encountered Rogel Dorm. Now, throughout the siege, it was really more of a, the traitor Primarks are goading the loyal ones into fighting, kind of like a series of encounters. But this one was a bit different as Rogel Dorn was like really pissed off at Perchirabo and was getting desperate to 1V1, him like Rust NW2. intervention only.

But Per Chrabo was able to see this, and he knew that this wasn't how Dorn would normally act, and that these taunts are kind of meant as a distraction. Like, Dorn might be a living human brick, but he is, you know, like Dorm being like, get over here, fight me, idiot. It's not entirely his schick, you know? No, it's really not. And I vaguely remember us talking about this, about this. in like the Horace heresy episodes

where it was like, weren't they both like doing like kind of the same tactics? And it was like, oh yeah, that ain't going to work because I think like you or something. There's always a little bit of that

because the two of them are a lot more similar than they would like to say. Oh, for sure. They're like two peas in a pod. If, you know, but like two peas in a pod

except the two of them are like fists fighting in the pod. Yeah. They're similar, but they want to kill each other. It's like the problem where like, okay, one brother is.

stoic, cold, and doesn't open up and is too blunt. And then the other brother is the exact same. It doesn't make you like each other more, makes you hate each other more. Yeah, it's like if you got two people in a room that both think they know everything, of course they're going to butt heads. They're going to butt heads all the time, yeah. All the time. Oh my God.

Wait, I got to find this. Oh, no. There's a meme I got, there's a meme. I was about to say you're looking for a meme I've never heard, aren't you? I definitely am. There it is. Interacting with someone less autistic than me, I detest your ambiguous rules and the cruel, unfair manner in which you expect others to intuit them.

Your ways are illogical and illegible. Me interacting with someone more autistic than me. Damn, bitch, read the room. That's how I think this is. I was going to say that's Dorn and Purdy. Yeah, this is too. two people interacting with someone they deem more autistic than the other. Damn.

There's just damn bitch. Read a room, but in like what a Primark would do. But anyway, he knew that Dorn would have do this kind of stuff. So he refused to give in to the bait and told him that if they were to face that they would be well after the palace fell. So as we know, the fighting on terror was really drawn out. And as things got more and more expansive, the more detached the traitor of Primark's got. and like herding cats, Perchrabo began to question whether or not his brothers were in it for the siege or if they were like totally driven by the ruinous powers. I mean, Angron is insane.

Curz is crazy. Mortarian is a giant moth now. And his whole group is corrupted. Fulgrim, God knows what he's up to. It is, like you said, it's like hurting cats. Everybody's just kind of doing their own thing. Nobody's really concentrating on the siege. Perciarabo is really the only one that's pushing this thing forward.

He's at least doing a lion's share of the work. Oh, yeah, absolutely. You lose Percirobo, you lose the siege, basically. So, I mean, with that being said, and worst of all, for Petrobo, he wasn't allowed to have his victories because Eureus and Jupiter was like, hey, we did this. What a great company effort there. And like he got the tone from that from people like like Angron. And and whenever Perchabba was like, oh, I did this. This was me.

He would be brushed off. And so the true breaking point came after a strategy devised by him was denied by Horace. He had warned Horace against the deployment of the Mortis knights and warned that it would be a death march. Horace refused to accept his tactical advice and instead said that it was going to work because he knew it would work. and the idea of throwing out a tactical decision for the sake of a gut instinct really made Perchirabo upset and seeing the field of battle

becoming more and more demonic reinforced his view that this was not the same conflict he initially signed up for. Would you like to do a little, oopsie, would you like to do a little reading? Oh my God. That's a big old quote in it. It was supposed to be broken up into paragraph

but whatever. That's fine. Send a signal to all our forces. Full withdrawal. Bring our fleet into dock and begin to embark. We will move to the system edge and translate. This is immediate. Forks did not move.

The words he had just heard rang like bullets hitting iron. Lord? It is over, said Perchirabo. Horace has given this battle to sorcerers and beasts. The war of legions is over. Mortarian comes here to take this place. He and what he has become is what this war is now. He comes at the will of horse to be the agent of what will happen.

But he did not order our withdrawal. I order it, growled Perciarabo. It is my will. There is no victory here, just creatures and parasites pulling down a dying beast. It is gone. The Legion war is dead. The chance is gone. The cause is gone.

Perciarabo paused and then shook his head. We will not bleed for this. We will not break the circle of our iron for this. So that will be a mortis crashouts. Valid and justifiable crash out. Like we heard about this, this crash out in our previous Siege of Terra episodes. And brother, it is a deserved crash out. I don't think anybody blames Purdy for wanting to just get the fuck out of there.

So he would eventually flee the planet and would station himself close. closer to Mars. While aboard the Ironblum, he would receive word that the reckless nature of the traitors actually paid off and victory was almost inevitable. So the gut feeling was right,

which really upset him more. Yeah, I bet they're really stuck in his car. So he basically had like the Kylo Redden crash out where he took his hammer, he just broke everything around him because now he felt like his greatest triumph against his father was now denied because he,

bailed. So he hated his, he hated the emperor, absolutely, right? But he started beginning to hate Horace even more. And so he felt the only solution after Horace's inevitable victory was to kill Horace after that. But he couldn't do it alone. So he would need to evolve, adapt, become stronger, deadlier, and he might need to use the ruinous powers in his favor as opposed to the other way around. If he's going to kill Horace who's juiced up, well, he's going to maybe need a bit of that same juice. You want to bench 500 pounds against someone who's on trend. You might need a little bit of the needle yourself, you know?

Yeah, perfect analogy. That's the analogy I was going to go for to, too. Absolutely. Why are you lying to me, D.K., why do you lie? Why do you lie to my face in such a manner? You don't know that I'm lying? I actually was thinking he needed to get juiced on steroids to beat the guy that's like juiced on super steroids.

I just forgot the word trend. Super steroids. as opposed to the normal one. Yeah, he got that turtles two ooze that turned Shredder into Super Shredder. You're not kidding. That's a reference. I cannot get that one. I'm very sorry.

But I do believe that... Is the secret of the ooze? Come on. I was never a TM&T guy. Evan Nash played Super Shredder. I... See previous statement. Big Daddy Cool, Diesel?

Now you're just saying shit. That was his nickname. That was his nickname. Big Daddy Cool Diesel? Yes, it was Big Daddy Cool. No. What? Yes.

His name was Big Daddy Cool Diesel, Kevin Ash. He's one multiple WWE World titles. Oh, it's a wrestler. That makes so much. That makes so much more sense. So much more sense. Okay. Yeah.

All right. Well, anyway, regardless. So, as we all know, as we all know, Horace didn't win this whole thing. And the traitor legions had to scatter. And so while the scattering was beginning, he saw something, which was that the word bearers were attempting something on Neptune's moon of La Medea. I always can't pronounce that one. They were attempting to restart the war by causing some sort of war nonsense,

because this is the word bearers. And Per Trobo found this to be. like insanely cringe. And so he would not only mock their attempts, but he would snuff the plan out and strip the moon of its resources and then take a dog and send it to murder people. He sent a dog?

Like a juiced up crazy chaos dog to just kill people? Wait, did you not hear my dog barking in the background? No, I couldn't. Oh. Oh. I was like, he did what? He got a juiced up dog and there's just a chaos war dog rolling around killing word bears. That's amazing.

I didn't realize Mortar was actually barking in the background. I genuinely had a popping on the OBS or maybe not on the Discord. So yeah, they were woofing big time and I was like, all right, never mind, never mind. It's not me being stupid. I couldn't hear the dog. How was I something? Shy. This is, yeah, shy.

Hey, hey, take it easy, man. back off. Yeah, back off. Pretty home. Hey, Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The chaos got that new, like,

character combination group that has a dog in it. Okay, checkmate. Yeah, and maybe he made like a mechanical war hound thing or whatever. You don't know, shy. You don't know. I really hope this script has a dog in it, that Per Trourobo sense at some point now. That would be amazing.

However, I mean, he already has a dog. Okay, per Trouble likes demon engines, right? Big fan of demon engines? Check it out. Mall or fiend. Basically, a big dog. Basically, giant dog. You're so right.

You're so right. Checkmate, shy. Checkmate. Checkmate. Iron caged. Now moving on. He made it, idiot. Now, now moving on.

Now, the aftermath of the heresy saw Dorn personally leading his legions against the traitors and their remnants. But of all the different legions, he was very much dead set on. dismantling the Iron Warriors most of all. Obviously. Dorn really truly hated Pertarabo in which to do everything in his power to dismantle the power structure he had developed from the Great Crusade onward. And of course, the feeling was mutual. Per Trabo didn't like that Dorn's hyperfixation on the worlds he had, sorry,

Per Troubo didn't like Dorn's hyperfixation on the worlds he had conquered. And he wanted to stop Dorn dead in his tracks. And the world of Sebastian's four offered him some prime, real estate to do something new. Hell yeah. So, moving from that, the World of Sebastian's Four, he made a trap, a very convoluted and borderline ridiculous trap. The eternal fortress was 20 square miles of bunkers, razor wires, tanks, deep trenches,

stifers, tiber towers, automated gun systems, minefields, tunnels, defenses shaped like the eight-pointed star of chaos. And the center was a bunker that had no other purpose than to serve. as a decoy. Dorn would learn of this place and would state very clearly that he plans to go there personally and bring back to Terra and bring Petravo back to Tara in an iron cage. How'd that go? Well, blinded by Fury and Ambition,

Dorn would attack Sebastian for without much planning, very, very abnormal for him because he just really hated him that much. that's crazy Dorn going in without a plan is just like that really shows you how much he despise Pertie I mean he was again they're a lot more similar they like to give him credit for

he was indeed molding and seething Yep So orbital bombardments done by him wouldn't really have any effect as all the traitors have retreat under the ground anticipating this attack And so remote weapon silos would be activated far away from the fortress and it would force the imperial fists to slip up or sorry split up and so as

the fists approach the iron warriors would detonate the silos blocking out communication and triggering a surprise space assault from the iron warriors the orbital fleet would be scattered and reinforcements would be unable to be deployed the defenses of the world overseen by proterobo were heavy and the iron warriors were able to pin down the fists for a substantial amount of time of course uh we Once they were able to break free, the fists that proceeded saw less and less resistance, which was part of the plan, as Petrabo was able to direct the fists into various areas around the fortress, tricking them into kill zones, traps, things like that, and he was able to break the fists into separate companies and eventually separate squads. And by the sixth day, the fists had been so scattered that formations were nothing more than a few battle brothers.

And this went on four weeks, three weeks to be exact. The ammunition of the fists were ran dry, resulting in most of them using nothing more than combat knives. And, I mean, you know, the imperial fists are very tough. They refuse to submit. And they would use the bodies of their fallen brothers as makeshift cover to protect themselves from unrelenting iron warrior attacks. And the captains pleaded with Dorn to formulate some kind of, retreat and he refused forcing the eternally loyal fits to die

fighting alongside him yeah it's gonna be rough to get to get him to retreat from all this after he's made all this and it's it's per trarabbo you've already lost so many people's like I can't pull out in it like it's it's too late we're either dying to the last or we're getting him like

there's no other option I mean he is at the end of the day a stubborn bastard. Yes, sir. So with that, and eventually after another additional week, Gilliman's Ultramarines finally intervened,

and the Eternal Fortress was not designed for reinforcements of this magnitude. So instead of focusing on the ground assault, Per Trobo's side of focuses efforts on denying the Imperial Fists a clean escape, preventing them from collecting their wounded and they're dead.

So Per Trabu was able to ensure that 400 imperial fists were never recovered. And due to how overwhelmed the fists were, it was pretty clear that Petravo could have ended this at any time. But the torture of Dorn was more than enough for him. I mean, like, actually, here's a little quote for you to kind of encapsulate it. So that's like over 400 gene seeds that they don't get to recollect, right? And arguably, the Iron Warriors get to.

to repurpose. Oh, that sucks. That's, oh, all right, quote, Rogaldorn was a broken man. It was 19 years before he and the Imperial Fist could once again go to war. They left over 400 Marines at the Eternal Fortress, and every

refugee carried horrific wounds. The gene seed captured was sacrificed to the dark gods. It returned for Perchrabbo's elevation to demon prince. One insulted, been avenged, and since then the Iron Warriors have lived only to settle accounts with the corpse on the

golden throne. Yikes. Good times. I mean, that's a big Perchrabbo dub. Dorn, on the other hand, not so much. Yeah, if not for the Ultramarines, Rogal Dorn

is dead, and there are just no imperial fists anymore, right? I mean, I hate to say it, but if it weren't for the Ultramarines, like the Imperium would have no chance. They have come by to save people all the time. I mean, they were the ticking clock in heresy. Was Gilemon's fleet and the lion's fleet and et cetera, et cetera.

Like, like, they, without them, without them, that, like, that, like, fear of their return, pretty sure they would have, the chaos would have just taken over terror and done with it. Shai wants to know where they were when Tara burned, Bricky. I just said they were the ticking clock. They were the ones that forced quick choices that were problematic. Yeah, yeah. The looming threat of the ultramarines caused, you know, quite a few problems for Horace. Yeah, very true.

But in the pre-13th Black Crusade activities moving forward, one of the last major true assaults per trouble led before his long time in seclusion was on a forge world of toil toil forge world ad mech yeah t o i l ad meck is not uh not really being subtle anymore as if they ever were she's true well i you know toil i you assume it's like forge world planet toil b four five one one three zero dash five x oh true true not just Just to toil the end, period, yeah. But to accomplish his goals there, he invoked Nurgel and unleashed a curse onto the forge world that infected all the machinery on the planet. And for seven days, ha ha, the curse festered both on the surface and through the pipes and wires that were dug underground.

And on the eighth day, infernal engines and horrific mechanical beasts would burst from the ground and overwhelm the surface. The corruption was so deep that even the forges and factories grew legs. and became predatory creatures that proud the surface of the world annihilating all life. That's badass. It's actually sick as fuck. Yeah, that's really crazy cool.

It's also, I mean, I guess it makes sense that as a demon prince of chaos undivided, you could just invoke Nergel and be like, yeah, now disease. And it's like, oh, okay, invoke whatever you want. It doesn't matter if it doesn't really fit per Chirabo to be with, like, more, Not Mortarian.

Nergel, but it's like, yeah, like he's undivided, chaos print, sure. I'd like you to please watch. This Shai will get this one, this timestamped clip of The Simpsons. This is exactly how I imagine it going down. Oh, man, it doesn't play for me. That's like,

never mind, there it goes, that was loud. Just, just the house growing legs getting up and falling over and dying. That's a classic video. But that's how I imagine. That's how I imagine it, just except with like more teeth. Yeah. More teeth and more random fleshy bits. And more guns.

Anyway, though not one to always help out Abadon, we'll get wide to that later. Per Trambo did aid him during the 10th Black Crusade thanks to an alliance. Abadon agreed to settle a longstanding vengeance, fueled debt against the iron hands. And in exchange, Per Trouva was able to open up a warp route out of the eye of terror for his fleet. But even with this incident, Per Trouba was not. directly involved, and this is intentional. For millennia, Perch-Rabbeau has distanced himself from the iron warriors while he has resided on an infernal world.

He's been pretty okay with his warsmiths, basically waging their own campaigns because he benefits in the end, and as the armies of his warsmiths rage and grow, the weak links in his bloodline are whittled away, leaving only the most resourceful, tactical, and violent standing. His hands-off approach has actually allowed the blades. of his legion to be very sharpened and he needs them as sharp as possible for his long-term plan. So he's taken a step back intentionally and let

the bad war smiths die and the good one stay. I mean, that's not a terrible strategy. The less they have to rely on him, the better. So, I get it. It's fine. It makes sense from a concept. Better than him doing the old thing where he like

killed one-tenth of his legion if they didn't conquer stuff in time. Not a great plan. not a plan made for longevity. Not necessarily. Yeah, I guess now he does it just indirectly just lets them all die on their own. I don't know. It's not by a sense.

You know, hey, just don't be weak. So for centuries, the Iron Warriors had conducted raids with the sole intent of gathering entail and insight. But packs were also sealed during that time that were just as beneficial, be it an alliance with the Alpha Legion or something more infernal, like entities such as Versace the Archiphaean, who Perchirabo collaborated with heavily during the Arks of Omen campaign

when they went after the Rock. Should you remember that whole segment back in the day? The Rock, Versace, man, my brain is just trying not to correlate them to, you know, the wrestler and the brand name. Yeah, well, the Rock is correct. I mean, obviously, it's in Vash store, but Versacee, the Archiphan, is just too good.

good. Yeah. So, he's dripped out in all the Versace locos. Yeah, yeah. I mean, also Vashtar rocks. He's so cool. He does. He is a really rock star.

So, warsmith, Zagra, whatever, it's weird name. It was invited by Abidon to take control of the Ark of Omen, known as the Herald of Misery, which he bent to his will. The interior of it was turned into a labyrinthine tangle of defenses, both Tetonel technological and sorceress. And keeping up his end of the deal with Abandon, war smith Zagra struck at, it's like, it's C-Z-A-G-R-A.

So it's like, I don't want to call it Kazagra, but Zagra actually makes it sound like an orc name, so I'm kind of torn here. Yeah. I mean, I would go with Zagra, unfortunately. Even though it does kind of sound orky, spelled like that, because I wouldn't go with Cassangara on that.

That C is absolutely supposed to. be silent, right? Or like an S or type, yeah, like, Zagra. But like, it makes you want to call like Zagra Iron Smasher. Like, I don't know. Yeah, it does. It sounds really orky. Boy, he looks cool, though.

That he does. Anyway, regardless of that, defeating the defenses on the planet and the blood angels that were sent his reinforcements, they were able to claim an artifact. And the war master was freed from his obligations to the Black Legion, which he then turned his attention to the worlds of the Red Skull. in hopes to exploit them in the wake of the Highfleet-Leviathan destructive path that were really, you know, sticking it to the blood angels at the time. Now, in the galactic core, warsmith Balderon, much easier, carved out a base of operations with the renegade warlord Abriel Shard.

And this base was located in a trio of nebula, known as the Hadean trinary, which was the result of warp storm or grveir's appearance, causing a huge amount of supernovas and leaving warp riffs in its wake. I'm sorry if none of that registered into your brain because that was just an absolute fucking tirade of random like pronouns. Yeah, man, 40K in the names is crazy. Simple it. Dumb it down for us a little bit. It's okay. Like, you don't, everything doesn't have to be silent C, Z.

Born Barney and just, give me Bob. We have Warsmith, Warsmith, Balderon and Renegade Warlord, Ariel, shard in the Hadean trinery with warpstone or Gavari's appearance. Yeah, this is more pronouns than Starfield. How are we going to survive, D.K. How are we going to survive? We can't survive this crazy. But yeah, it's okay, 40K.

You can you dumb this down just a little bit? Like, it's okay. You want to give us Bob and Steve. It's okay. I'm okay with Bob and Steve. Now, now they did fight a bit of kin, some leagues of Otom, of the Greater Thurian League and wished to force the kin into a wasteful war

so they were blood dry and they can easily scour the ruins of their former homes. Now, the tide of kindred blood has been irresistible to the ruinous powers and therefore very beneficial to the Iron Warriors.

Now, another little thing that the warsmiths have been up to is over in the Ultima Segmentum, warsmith Malik Ugar of the 45th Grand Company. Oh, we're going to do it again. Malaguga. Another fortuitary set his sights toward the fortress

world of Althus to gain recognition for Charabbo. Oh, actually, this one's pretty okay. So he had a bunch of defenses flooded with cultists, gathered a bunch of data, including some bombardments, used a bunch of demon engines,

mutilators, obliterators. He had a fancy landerator called Abdur at Will. There's a lot going on here. However, this is just like some of his war smits doing cool stuff. The most favorite of his war smiths, however, is the architect of ruin Cravick Morn. He is, to put it bluntly, an unrepentant monster, even amongst the Iron Warriors.

And also, Cravick Morn is the brand new named Iron Warrior character that has been released as a miniature. Oh, is he dope? he is on the cover of the reign of iron book, which is this one right here. Oh, shy, beat me too. That's not, that's not, Ambricky. That's a twerking, uh, crewman.

It's a reply to the twerking, the shrewking crewman was to get your attention to click on the attachment. Imagine. Man, Perciarabo is fiendish. Sending that into the battlefield, crazy. Uh, but he also just had a miniature. which I did just recently build. Hey, yo, let's go.

It was a very solid build. The mini looks very good, big fan. Oh, yeah. Not too hard to put together with the exception of his mechatendrils on the back that were a little finicky. But besides that, a huge guy, by the way, massive dude, like the size of an obliterator. something. He is a thick model. Oh, so this, this picture does not quite do justice, just how

big this mini is. Because I was like, oh, yeah, he's probably like a little bigger than a space marine or whatever. It's fine. He's a big. He's a big lad. No, he is really large. I wish I could like, like, I wish I could like, like, I wish I had like some kind of, um, way to to scale it as a scale it. But like,

yeah, he's about the height of like an obliterator. for all the chaos fans out there who have obliterators. And like he's way bigger than Gravis Terminator is like, he's a big guy. Hell yeah. And so Cravick Morn was forcibly recruited during the scouring of, oh yeah, there we go. That's a regular Terminator on the right. Wow. Yeah, he is a big boy.

Yeah, he's very large. Yeah. Love it though. So he was forcibly recruited during the scouring of Kotos by a Worsmith cord. and served alongside Portraba with unreasonable fanaticism for almost 2,000 years. He leads the 17th Grand Company, and his nickname is well earned. He has reduced entire civilizations to nothing more than scorched Earth. His Terminator bodyguard is known as the Adamant Eternals,

and competition is fierce within the 17th Grand Company to join the ranks of said guard. The adamant Eternals favor breaching. armaments such as heavy flamers, while enduring all of the terror that their master unleashes. Their armor is scorched in a superficial manner as a means of showcasing the many sieges they have survived, and they ride into war aboard land raiders. And leading the land raiders is the war engine harpaxis, and running alongside them are packs of obliterators and mutilators that also obey orders of acravic morm, further solidifying his undeniable power.

To make it clear, they do this thing pretty often, where whenever there is a brand new kit, they talk about it a lot. And so in chaos, they have a new thing called mutilators. And by new, I mean, they actually used to be around. It's because it's so familiar.

Yeah, so here is an obliterator. It's on, God, I hate, there we go. Yeah. Obliterators on the left. That's an obliterator with the obliterator virus, tons of guns, craziness. And on the right is the old mutilator, which is awful looking. Yeah, it's the face. The rest of it's fine.

That face is brutal. These are the new mutilators. Oh. Much more metal. I also built the mutilators. Very fun kit to build. Very easy, actually, big chunky parts. a bit monopose, but honestly, I'm kind of okay with those.

They look very good. And so basically these hulked out behemoths listen to Cravick Morn, which is kind of wild. Yeah, they also, what a glow up. Oh my God, what a glow up. Good Lord, they look so much better. Shai says some people are upset that they're too normal looking. I'm pretty okay with that, honestly. That's actually weird, though.

because like too many or a lot of people were saying that they don't like the new defiler because it's too demon looking with too many fleshy bits and they wish it was nothing but metal like the old one so i think it just depends on your preference yeah um maybe i mean i guess i get it because the old one was very like kind of fleshy and stretched out and these kind of just like oh yeah it's it looks kind of like a big chunky terminator with some fleshy bits and you kind of lose the sort of um like like I said, it's still a little mutated, but like I think people would probably want more mutated face, maybe more flesh popping out of the armor and stuff like that. I can see it. I can see it. It depends on what side of the, what side of the aisle are you on?

Are you on demon engines with way more fleshy bits? Or are you in the side of like demon engines and demon things with way more like metal and like armor bits? So it kind of just depends on which one you prefer. I like the new mutilators because I think

the old mutilator model just looks like dog shit. However, I also think I also like more chunky armor. And so this being basically just melee obliterators is fine with me. Yeah. I also think I probably just have recency bias because I wasn't around for like the nostalgia to really get into like the old mutilators. So I'm just like, oh, old mini, ew, icky. And then I see the new one and it's like, oh shit, these new ones are rocking. Hell yeah, brother.

So I might be, you know, a little skewed. To your point, shy, you asked a question, why do we insert this brand new Iron Warriors OC is the coolest guy we never heard about and where the fuck is Hansu? I mean, you know this shy. The amount of times games workshop has been like, this has always been here is all the time. Yep. And that's common with all kinds of factions, notably custodians. There's also been the Rogal Dorn tank for Guard, the new Walker, the Knight de Stestrius, I think is what's called for Imperial Knights.

And so they always do this. That being said, my cynical reason is that they really, they were updating the amutalators. They were making a bunch of new Iron Warrior thick boy kits. and they wanted a Iron Warrior leader to be able to lead gameplay-wise, the thick boys that they are just launching. Because Hanzu is like a somewhat normal Marine kind of character. And so that would mean he would most likely lead legionaries, chosen,

the non-new things. And this guy, Cravick-Morne, who is the Iron Warrior guy, Like, what do Iron Warriors tend to put in their armies? Tanks, havocs, and Terminators, obliterators, and Demon Engines? Cravick Morin can lead Terminators, obliterators, and mutilators. The big new stuff. So my guess is they wanted to make an Iron Warrior's character that could lead the new miniatures and the Iron Warrior stuff as opposed to a guy who could lead just normal stuff.

Yeah, and Hansa's busy making a new demon Kilbasa, so, you know. Hmm. Kilbasa. He's grilling. Brother's grilling. Let him cook. Listen, I'll come, listen, I'm happy that Iron Warriors have a named character.

Should it have been Hansu, probably. But I see, this is my assumption. And I think knowing Games Workshop, I got good grounds for it, but at the same time, I don't have a named Nightlord's character, so whatever. Yeah. Also, Cravick Morn looks great. So I don't mind. The new guy looks awesome.

Yeah. Yeah, he looks sick as hell. So, you know, Hansu will, Hansu's got to come in time. But yeah, traffic worn. Real cool. Yeah. I mean, dude, we don't even have a modern figure of an aribus. Like, you can't play Arabis.

Yeah. Yeah. You can't play Arabis as CSM. So, like, we got a long list of CSM guys that need to be coming back. Mm-hmm. also fuck arabus you mentioned arabes so fuck arabus maybe they'll do something like that for um because they did that thing recently that was actually one of the few times i was really happy with new space marine kits where they

added all those like new chapter masters for white scars and ravengard and and then they updated like vulcanistan for salamanders and darn it lysander for aerial fists that was really really cool maybe would do something like that for cSM that'd be sweet hell yeah brother Hell yeah. They got plenty of cheese. Anyway. They do. Anyway, anyway. So Cravick-Morne has focused so long on siege warfare that he is basically a siege weapon himself. He's obviously gigantic. He wears adapted cataphracti Terminator plate that he calls his iron mantle. He's got a bunch of augments and systems in his suits that are so advanced that they require a mind-impulse unit to regulate.

And he does not care about trophies or embellishments as he thinks it's tedious to upkeep them. so he doesn't give much thought into reapplying heraldry to it. So as he marches into battle, he swings with his hammer, aptly named last argument without much discrimination. I love the way 40K names their cool, like unique weapons. So they're having a big thing for the last argument? Yeah, last argument is perfect. Perfect. Got to be of a quote here if you'd like to see it.

Yep. He is a blunt instrument with nothing of subtlety about him, and yet within his narrow field of strategic expertise, he is an undisputed genius. If the enemy's defenses have a weakness no matter how slight or well hidden, mourn will identify and exploit it. He can predict his foes overlapping fields of fire to a precise tolerance and has a sixth sense for ambushes and traps.

Damn. Damn. You don't sound like he needs bodyguards. No, but damn, is he cool? I don't know if he's quite very good on the tabletop while we're on that topic. He's a bit pricey. He hits really hard, obviously. Yep.

But there's a problem where like, if your character hits really hard, you tend to want a lot of bodyguards. And running him with like Terminators is fine, but like mutilators maybe, but like three mutilators and him is like 320 points. That's kind of a lot. So it's kind of like, eh, maybe. I bet you get a cool mini out of it. So that's good enough. Rula cool.

Yeah. No, I mean, I built him, you know, obviously. Yeah. Anywho. Medriengarde. So the infernal adopted home of the Iron Warriors in Perchrabbo himself is the demonic war scape of Medrindgard. The lands of the world are impossibly bleak.

Outside of the fortresses and the cities of this world, no life exists. It's an ashen desert speckled with rivers of law. and hanging dead in the white sky of this world, and hanging dead in the white sky of this world, is a single dead black star that casts no light. In fact, it absorbs life from the surface to fuel it. So those souls who walk too long under the sun find themselves drained of their life force.

And the smoke that pours from the black star mixes with the plumes of smoke from the infernal factories that burn for eternity. if any life exists outside of the cities and in the void-like desert, it's nothing more than failed experiments, monstrous constructs that haunt the surface in perpetual pain and driven mad by hunger. That is the first in an image of Medrindgaard that Shai has just posted.

Oh, that's where the demon kilbasa happened. Okay. And if I'm not mistaken, there's a reason, why that book is called Dead Sky Black Sun. Fair. Now it makes sense to me after the way you describe that place and what happens there. And wow, that's honestly. Like, I know it's kind of edgy and kind of like, oh, yeah, the shit is dreaming you like.

It's so cool. I know what you're saying. It's so cool. It's like edgy and kind of like hot topicy, but it's like, fuck that. It's so cool. I want to know more. That's that. This is the kind of Warhammer where it's so unfathomably.

ridiculously edgy, that it circles back into being awesome. 100%. Absolutely. Yeah, more. So the largest forge citadels on the surface belong to the warsmiths, and each one stands as a testament to the might of the master who raised it, piercing the skies and even the atmosphere itself

on the backs of millions of slaves. They are brutal constructs that exist purely for function and nothing more. The void ships of the grand companies surround these buildings tethered and ready for deployment at a moment's notice. And at the very top of these structures, the fortresses that the Iron Warriors call home end up sitting. They rarely descend further than these bastions as they don't wish to silly themselves with the slaves and surveyors that work on their behalf. And over many millennia, thousands of these monstrous fortress citadels have been constructed and raised to the ground by challengers. and the grandest of these synodels are built atop the corpses

and ruins of those that have fallen. Now, the grandest of these fortifications on this planet is Arazykion. Arrazykion. Good enough. It is a... Your silly names.

Yeah, I mean, there it is. Arazirazir. Yeah. Arizikian. Arizona. I hate to see it. Arizona. Yeah.

You're damn sucking up the life with its sun. Yeah. It is a sprawling industrial city, nestled in a valley, surrounded by mountains, who's, and I quote, peaks radiate pure malice. That's a little goofy edge of that one. Yeah, that's a little, that's a little too much, but that's all right. The rest of it's cool. It's fine.

You can radiate your mouths. That's fine. The city is covered with dome-like structures where the mortal population shuffles and silently and swiftly. and the towering and bloody demon forges work endlessly around its borders. At the very heart of the city sits a lake of molten lava. At the center of this lake is a black island and rising from it is the sanctuary of the Iron Lord Colascic. Colaccon. Colaccon. Holy Christ.

Easy for you to say. Oh, boy. Yeah. Classicon. Yeah. It sounds like a convention. That's true. The walls of Colossicon are yards thick and sitting behind them are monolithic cogitator banks that are fueled with endless amounts of information and data. The data that we mentioned before, well, some of it is from word of mouth, while other bits come from other places.

And what places you might ask? Well, it's torn from the minds of captives. It's obtained through Alpha Legion infiltrators. It's divined through prophecies. It's hissed by demons. it's purged through cybercathralls, it's all of the above, baby. Hell yeah, brother. So regardless of where it comes from, it's filtered and force-fed into these machines,

and the streamlined data is poured out and into Percharabo's central sanctum. Perchirabo then spends an endless amount of time analyzing it and making sense of it, while also simultaneously engaging in psychic communion with distant agents and demonic entities. Perciarabo interprets and extrapolates all this information with cables attached to his head. These cables twitch and ride as he figures out things and learns more. And he has discussed, what the hell is that shy? I mean, more or less, that is kind of sort of what he's doing. Except it actually works.

You know, it's not just a meme picture. He's actually, you know. Who's to say that's working? me. Why would you say that? Because you can't you can't get a book into your brain with car battery jump cables.

Man has no faith. None, zero. Have I tried? No, shy. I'm just, you know. Yeah, silly me. So, he has discarded millions of plans as either being imperfect and practical or incomplete and aligns the walls and the floors and gives the structure of his home.

shape. So for now, for the first time in centuries, Per Trambo has begun to stir with intensity and vigor not seen in those centuries. He has begun issuing new orders to his warsmiths for plans that requires an incredible amount of mustering, and this vigor has given the Iron Warriors hope. The labor of Per Trambo may be coming to an end, which means action is inevitable. Ooh, dun, dun, done, done. I'm assuming this is the big to be content. moment. No, we got more. Oh, let's go! So, though rarely seen by his own legion, Perchirabo's demon form is an all-consuming and all-encompassing physical embodiment of resentment. His contempt for those below him is so strong that lesser life forms that look upon him

will wilt as if they have been exposed to an atomic reactor where he walks, clouds of steam, and bitter smoke churn and manifest. And within these clouds, half seen bladed cogs are said to be visible and are a manifestation of his endless analysis of every failure, insult,

and disappointment he has ever suffered. Mind you, again, looking at Perchirabo canonically gives you intense radiation poisoning as you wither and die because, again, he is such a hateful

and spiteful person that you just die when you look at him. This is, and I cannot stress this enough, canon 40K. Not even the weirdest 40K thing, but I, it fence.

That is, that is perjurabo's thing. He's just a walking, he's just walking spite and hate and just you know, that's, that's just how he is. Yeah, he's a toxic redditor. He's like the top mod on, on Reddit, you know? You look at them and just radiation.

We have had, we've had toxic before, metaphorically, he is competitively toxic. He's a league player for sure. He's a mid-max league player. His eyes apparently glow like coals and his presence looms like an imminent avalanche. Physically, he has become a living, breathing data center, embedment of a fortress. His voice is said to be like the pounding of hammers in a forge, and his breath is the cracking of bone beneath tank tracks or fire pouring through weakened fortress walls. His alteration by the ruinous powers is nothing short of monstrous.

But even with all these alterations, one thing remains prominent at his core. He cannot stop obsessing over what could have been on 10. Hero. Victory should have been his, and he was denied this victory. Though it was taken from him, he believes that this can be rectified. And every thought he has had for thousands of years has been on how to write this wrong. Millennia refining and perfecting plans that bore a line on the insane and stretch out through his mind like an endless labyrinth. There is a competitive version. of holding a grudge and he is winning gold baby oh yeah he's he's far and away the poof also man when he when he starts like really getting going the way he's been planning the way percherabo has been planning he is about to start some shit like it is gonna be bad when he like really get schmoving oh it's gonna be awful this is the kind of plans that i imagine can only be thwarted by some kind of of Stinos interaction. Like if he's really doing it like this, it would have to be something he has not accounted for. Yeah, yeah, yes. No, you're, you're so right shy.

Yeah, you're so right shy is the embodiment of when you finally think of the perfect comeback later in the shower, but on a military industrial complex level. Yep. No, that's that is that is appropriate. That is a hundred percent per traabo. Mm. God. So. So his activity.

Post of the Great Rift. So after the opening of the Great Rift, Voltaire, etc., Percharabo has unleashed endless scores of war bands across the segmentum obscureus. Some were just little brigades or cultists, while others were huge companies of iron warriors supported by the covens of the Dark Mechanicum and Schrader Titans. During these conflicts, he had an encounter with one of his fallen brothers. Mortarium and his death guards sought out the world of Dysactis because a heathen temple called out to him. On the surface, they were met with an enormous iron warriors force that was supported by corrupted machines from the legio of Horix. The continent shattering battle between Perchirabo and Mortarium saw hordes of demons being summoned, and this duel lasted for seven hours and was reminiscent of conflict that wouldn't be out of place in the Horace heresy.

The iron warriors inflicted terrible damage on the death guard, but of course, as the battle drew on, the death. the deathguard would get their upper hand, as the plagues would begin to spread through the ranks of the iron warriors, and their engines would rust and come to a halt. The crippling of his war engines would cause Protrabo to concede defeat, but not before detonating some pre-prepared trench bombs, mauling the now victorious deathguard, but not stripping them of their victory.

So in typical Petrabo fashion, he's like, I guess I've lost. Fuck you. Click. If I'm going to lose, you are too. Now, one major focus, it's the perfect thing. He's literally been sitting there, power, like his brain hooked up to whatever, thinking about how he could win the thing 10,000 years ago. Now, the forces that survived the fall of Cadya retreated to neighboring systems and worked,

sorry, I got to roll this back. One of Petrabo's very major focuses, has actually been Cadya after the Great Rift. Even though it had fallen, it wasn't the way he wanted it to fall. So the forces that survived the fall of Cavia, Cavia, oh dear, Cadia, retreated to neighboring systems and worked tirelessly not only to brace themselves against chaos, but also reinforced the area to keep the terrorists from spreading. Every single one of these defenses has been attacked directly by Pertarabu's forces.

Some look at these attacks as nothing more than scatio. battered attacks driven by spite. But in the labyrinth of Per Chrabba's mind, these are all dominoes for his most ambitious and intricate plan yet. Now, the last segment we have here. Over the lifetimes of Endless thought, Perchrabbo has come to view the Imperium of Mam as a fortress, and Terra as that palace's inner keep. The fall of Cadya, in his eyes, was the first significant breach in the fortress of the Imperium since at least the heresy. Thanks to Avedon, half of the Emperor's realm is being held at bay. And now is the time to really make some moves when it comes to accomplishing the goal of conquest.

But he finds Abedon's goals to be frustrating and interesting. The Crimson Path is something that Portrabo views as reminiscent of Horace's push towards Terra 10,000 years prior. It's too headlong, it's too rash, and absolutely doomed. Abidon risks spreading himself too thin, and an overestine risked. Overextended plan is ultimately something the Imperium is great at fighting back against. Ultimately, he can't stand to Abidon because of these similarities. He couldn't even think about Horace without wanting to kill him at the end of heresy. And the heresy and Avedon just reminds him of that rage.

He looks at him like your stupid dad is stupid and I hate you. It's fair. I was going to say at some point, like Perci Raba's got to get super sick and tired of Avedon. because like the similarities are there, right? He's very upset by it. Oh, yeah. I kind of figured at some point it would come to like, you know, Per Trouba wanting to kill Abadon because Abedon is like,

oh, you're just like all those other idiots. I mean, he's the son of Horace and he's like, God, he acts like him. He's just, son, bitch. So Per Trobo's plan is different. And in his eyes, perfect. He calls his plan the infinite citadel and has been outlined in, quote, sanity blasting detail. At its core, it's a network of interlocking fortifications that defy moral comprehension. He sees worlds turn in it keeps, moons covered with city-sized demonic artillery, and entire systems turning to nothing more than rubble to allow for the building of ramparts so massive that they stretch.

through the warps veil and span the gulf between stars. The Infinite Citadel is an expansion project that is to move outward from the eye of terror and will dominate system after system like an iron warrior's killdozer. One after another, he plans to fortify subsectors before moving forward and caging stars to allow for more power. There is no rush with this plan, as rushing is what doomed the heresy and what will doom the crimson path. Infinite amounts of patience keep his plan afloat, and the progression of the infinite citadel can only be justified if no foe remains to the rear flank. The oceans of bloodshed in each campaign will serve as offerings to the dark gods to make the citadel even stronger,

and with each conquered piece of land, a black stone menier will be raised amidst the ruins to harness the power, of the Great Rift itself. His hope is that the size of this infernal grid will be so large by the time he gets to the soul system that it won't even be an invasion. The endless expanse of the Infinite Cedar will have assured that his victory had been claimed well before him and that fighting back against him would be an act of futility. There is no doubt that Petravo despises all mortal beings and his genes sons are no exception. him. But despite his hatred, he recognizes the usefulness of his iron warriors and knows that each of

his warsmiths has a part to play when it comes to raising the infinite citadel. Some more than others, though, Kravik Moran has been entrusted by Percharab with one of the most pivotal campaigns to start that effort, and it's a world that Morne has clashed with many times with mixed results. Though he does not prize trophies or glory, he has received an essential gift from his gene father. the genetic ability to hold an unshakable grudge. Perciarablo knows this, and he knew that Morn would be driven by desire to humble this world at once and for all. And he wouldn't trust this mission to any other warsmith. The infinite citadel begins with the Segmentum Obscures and the remnants of the Cadian Gate.

The forge world of Agrippina needed to fall, and Morn has sworn to accomplish this or die trying. And so the rain of iron will begin through the ashes of Cadia. And it will begin now. Damn. That is where we are. God, Cady you can't catch a break. Cain, you just can't catch a break. Well, other than the planet-sized breaking, you know.

Well, of course. I mean, as required. The planet broke before the guard did. Yeah, yeah. Damn. All the usual stuff. Yeah, no, so he's basically, like, I see what he means. Like, the Imperium is so vast.

It's so all-encompassing that any kind of major attack directly risks your ass being covered by every other star system sending in reinforcements. Because that's literally what happened during the heresy as they were freaking out over Gilliman and the folks. Yep. And so he's just like, yeah, screw it. I'm going to make star system spanning empires. and the infinite citadel so that there just isn't a back. There is no behind me anymore. Yeah, there is no reinforcements for you.

Nobody's going to come to your aid. Like you said, it's not even going to be an invasion. It's just going to be a child's play. Yeah, he's just going to take it because you can't stop me because there's nothing else left. There's no reinforcements. The only thing behind me is the Infinite Citadel. And it's everywhere. is actually everywhere.

Yeah, so that's what Perciro's up to. He's like, I'm going to make a construction of iron and warp so big it spans the rest of the galaxy. So it's a giant fist that I could just close over terror. And that's the end of that. Imagine your plan just being like, yeah, I'm going to make an army and Citadel so vast. It is going to, it's a closed, fist around the Imperium. That's crazy.

It's one of the reasons why I feel like Xenos intervention is one of those things that's going to have to happen here. I feel like this is the kind of thing where the Silent King is like, wow, that's a problem. Yeah. Hmm, maybe we should deal with this

or maybe the tyranids eat at all or something like that. I don't know. I could see Necron's coming in because, I mean, you got Hanso with his liquid metal arm too. and you know, so there's some little connections with like necrons and them. So, you know, I could see that. Or of course, El Dari. What did I say?

Hanzo reporting for Overwatch. Sorry. I'm just, yeah, but you get it. You get it. So it could be necrons. I mean, obviously the Eldari are probably going to do something because they're going to see it happening. And they're like, whoa, that's awful. We've worked with the Imperium before.

hooray and then you know gilliman's wife will come back and you know all that good stuff i like a weird reaction to you saying gilleman's wife i was just like what are you talking about and then i was like oh right right right you have to you have to do he loves d'lard yeah you have to you have to say it brickey say gilliman's wife i will not also i have played a little bit of excom shy why do you ask her trouble was waging more like i was playing xcom one step forward, Overwatch, one step forward, Overwatch.

Oh, I guess that's an ability in XCOM, eh? Oh, yeah, so it's just like, there's nothing going to be behind me,

and Sama's going to go forward and kill it all. Yeah, I gave up on XCOM because those percentages are just brutal. It's like that, that classic gif of XCOM where the barrel of the gun

is right on the alien's head, and it's like, oh, yeah, it's a 45% chance, and it's like, what do you mean? Good time. But yeah, no, Perchirabo's got things going on.

Oh, that's the day. There it is. Good job. Thank you, Shire. It is. Thank you. Yep. Yep.

But yeah, no, I mean, that's the stuff. That's the stuff. That's where we're at. Perchirabo sounds cool, looks cool. Hey, I'm, I'm here for more. I want to see how this infinite citadel goes. I want to see his master plans and actions. I want to see more of him and, and, and the whole nine.

This is dope as hell. Love it. Heck yeah. Then that is where we are. We are here to Murdercadia. Petrabo is so immensely toxic that looking at him gives you radiation poisoning, literally, actually, factually. And that's canon. That's canon.

That is a canon fact. And that's where we are at. Thank you, everyone, for listening. We will return to form next week with the reign of iron book led by Kirioth, I believe. and we God damn God damn you and that is where we are at for today

thank you everyone so much for watching and listening and we will see you all next week