The 40k Lorecast - Episode 103 - The Pariah Nexus pt2

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

On today's cast we conclude our coverage of the pariah crusade. We open with the events of the Kallides battle group and its experiences against full strength Necrons. From there we jump over to how the sisters were able to resist the effects of the stilling, and Ephreal Stern going hard core. We then jump into the dual campaigns of Draxus and Cawl to disable and then collapse the pylon networks. But then the Silent King returns and soon after the entire segment is descending into mutually assured destruction war. Only then for Imotekh to make is move. We then close with the sector exploding into an all out conflict as numerous other factions join the fray.PatreonMerchandiseDiscord Link:Our WebsiteRetro RecallOur Sponsors:* Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com* Check out Pebl: https://hellopebl.com* Check out Pebl: https://hipebl.ai* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/loreAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome to the 40K lore cast. Welcome to the 40K lore cast with me, John Barsani and Bradchester. This guy. On today's cast, we're going to finish our coverage, well, sort of, of the Nephilim. Like, no, we're not. John, why do you turn this podcast into a house of lies? It's more fun that way. We're going to, we're going to stop talking about it after this podcast for a bit.

How's that for an answer? Fine. We are going to cliffhanger the hell out of you guys. That's not our fault. GW did it. So I just, this is me just passing the buck. Here it is.

It's literally the royal rumble that's going to go. Yeah. See you later, guys. Yeah, it's basically, someone's got a hot plate and handed me a hot plate and went, here's a hot plate. And I went, cool, let me give the next person. They can have that hot plate.

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battle group entering the Nephilim sector. They were the first ones to really see the effects of the pylons in the stilling firsthand. Well, people had seen it before, but they were all dead. They're the first ones to report on it, by the way of saying it. After pushing forward, they discovered this massive Necron pylon on a world named Mesmach. And upon its discovery, the group master named Maron realized he'd found the first of his targets in the system.

But what Marin didn't realize that he'd been watched the entire time. And not just watched, by the way, watched and monitored. I would say study to me. more accurate on that. Yeah, probably. But what I'm trying to do is he also infiltrated in the sense that he's not just being stifed, but what he's doing, Cizoros is not watching from a distancing, like, like, with a notebook, like, oh, this is kind of interesting, like a documentary. Well, he actually, he infiltrated the computer systems of. Yeah, exactly. That's why it's a, but Brad's right. He was trying to see what's going on. So Marin puts out this call across the

system for all of his forces about the pilots. And he receives word back from all the places that these pylons are present all across the sector from scout ships. At the same time, he's receiving word that the pylons were not unguarded. Necron forces are being seen on the ground and in orbit all around the systems, and some had already started attacking the scout groups that had gone in. It's a very good fleet commander. And the reason I point that out is a lot of times in GW writing, someone like this would be adult. Oh, he fell for a trap.

No, Marin's very, very good. And Marin realizes pretty quickly that he cannot handle the necrons spread out. So he decides I'm going to go kind of what the U.S. did with the island hopping in World War II. I'm just going to pick key areas, blow them up, and move on from there. Let's say he pulls all his forces together, centralizes them, and then goes, they can't beat this centralized, basically, pocket of force. They can't, we can't take them on if we try to hit them where they are, which is everywhere in the system. Yeah. or the sector, but we can win individualized small wars everywhere.

Yeah, except he was totally wrong on that. You got his ass kicked. Oh, yeah. I'm just saying that's what his strategy was. No, you're right. His strategy was that. The truth doesn't go that well. So he decides to start at Mesmock because it's the largest pawn discovered so far.

So he assumed if I blow up this one, probably has a good effect. Unfortunately, the necrons had been calculating this plan since they started putting the pylons down. Cizoros knew that would muster all his positions. I love this. You know, why he knows this? Because in almost infinite amount of simulations they ran, already this happened. So he's already ready for this yet. Numerous times, by the way.

Yeah, they knew they would do this. The big problem is that as Marin begins to do this, the first problem was into is the power of the pylon was so much that disrupted the warp travel in and out of the system. So when Marin's force arrived, it was kind of hodgepodge, Only two-thirds of the fleet arrived, and they were spread all over the place and delayed in transit. The bigger problem, though, is that when they got there, they forgot how fast necrons can arrive. Which is instantaneous.

So they were showing up in ones and twos, and the necrons showed up with yes. Yes, what the necrons are able to do is they have something very similar to Eldar Webway, whereas the Eldar actually used the Webway portals to travel through. the necrons have something that it lines up they have dolman gates which is similar but they also have phase shifting so they've got two ways of moving through like this but what they can do is appear in an instant in force and that's exactly what happened suddenly the planet mesmock was covered in orbital defense platforms so as they're getting closer to it it just begins opening up and then in space a ton of necron warships arrive marron knows this battle is going to be a total loss if he doesn't get rid of

of the Pylon ASAP. So he deploys his forces planet side. The ultramarines actually lead the attack, supported by Black Templar Death Watch. Yeah. Kill teams, Birogarde, but also the Ultramids are leading the attack because if you're going to get heavy fire, you need somebody that's covered in thick-ass plot armor. Oh, it's a very good thing. Because, yeah, they do, it's actually not even a big squad of space marines, but they also

did have a warlord titan, I should point out. The fleet in orbit begins just bombard. barring the pylon from space. And this turned, all of this, though, was fleeting at best. This an apocalypse class warship unloaded a full barrage at it. And the best I can give the example of, and I know people don't love this movie, but Star Wars episode eight. Hate this movie, but continue. No, eight's, look, the thing we talk about hating Star Wars movies, eight doesn't make the top three.

You're high on crack cocaine. What are the worst? One, two. No. is so bad. Well, nine's really bad, too. That's my point. One and nine are definitely the worst, and I would think, I would argue two's worse than eight. I don't know. Duel of the Fates came out of one, though. Cool song and cool. So in episode eight, there's a scene where they shoot everything at Skywalker, and then it

finishes he just standing there. That's what happened here. They fired everything in the pylon, and then as soon as the dust cleared, the pylon was just hanging out. But unlike Skywalker, if the pilot was actually there, they just had it shielded. Yeah. And the issue, they realized pretty quickly is the Necron possess these force fields that can completely negate distance bombardment, which they also kind of stole from Dune, if I'm being honest, because that's how the Dune shields work. It's why everyone in Dune is to stab everybody. They realize they have to get close, and that becomes the next plan. Let's get really close, and then we'll blow it up when we're right next to it. This doesn't go great, candidly. The Necrons, encountered by imperial forces,

outside of maybe the admec had always been partially awakened tomb worlds or isolated ones. This world is neither. This world is a key world under the protection of Cesaros. The forces that they ran into are both coordinated by Cesaros, but also equipped by one of the largest dynasties in the galaxy. So the imperial forces hit the greatest necrown foe. They've probably ever faced. Well, actually, yeah, no, definitely the worth of it.

Because everyone who's faced foe like this is dead. So for these people, this is the worst neck run they've ever had. Assault in the pylon quickly turns from like a minor gain for the imperial forces to a total route and then a very furious retreat. By the time the landing crafts got back to the fleet in orbit, the losses were not, I wouldn't say catastrophic,

but highly significant. At the same time, though, I would say catastrophic. Well, the reason I won't say catastrophic is because Marin does actually, he's able to get his forces back together later. If it's catastrophic, I would say it's over. So this wasn't over.

Yeah, but this was bad. At the same time, though, Cesar has been popping these traps all over the place. Every imperial force in the entire sector is being overrun. Well, let's set it up from before, though. They're not trying to kill all of them because in the end, the Necron's want someone so they can retake, Yeah.

Mortal form. And they also know that they need something to stop the tirnids because so that was the whole plan is to get humanity kind of speed bumping the tyrannids for them and for them to get their bodies back. Yeah. And they did it in the most necrone fashion possible where they just tried to exert dominance expecting that everyone would just cowtow to them. It's a cowtow or cowtale.

It's cowtow. Is it? Okay. Caltow. Everyone's just trying to kow to them and say, you guys should be our leaders. There's a lot of the movie Stargate floating around the Necron.

100%. Just like not SG1. We're not having this fight in Discord again, but I'm still standing by my statements from before. It's a great show. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, my viewpoint on Stargate SG1, Briscoe County 2, there's a bunch

of these just sadly kind of the next files. Yes. If you want to get riled up, John will occasionally pop and go, things that you like suck, I'm out and never follow up at all. They don't suck. Just never watch them again. It's all I'm saying. The memory in my heart of some of these shows is fantastic.

I tried rewatching them and I made it like 30 minutes. Like, I'm not going to ruin my childhood. I'm just telling us off right now and just let it sit as the perfect memory in the back of my brain. Anyway, all over the sector, the battle groups are under complete assault and Necron forces. And the biggest problem they're running into is that in lore, Necrons are basically unstoppable. We play the game in the tabletop where they're very much so not. Highly stoppable, except for that little blip in 9th edition where running, was it 60 scarabs?

How many? Yeah, that was before. That was 9th. That was 9th because it happened here. It was in Michigan. 9th edition launched right before I moved to Michigan. There was so many stuffs. But anyway, the thing about necrons in the lore is they excel in.

in air and space combat. One of these, Brad hates on tabletop. The other one isn't on the tabletop. And this is because necrons are living metal. They don't have internal organs. So G-forces just don't matter to them. We talk about the Eldar being able to handle high G-force. They're still living beings.

The necrons can do more. So necrons ships can move, stop, turn. Wait, you can do 180s in mid-air. Yeah. Yeah, at impossible speeds. So one of the problems the Imperial Navy runs into it's why they're just kind of their butts handed to them is that they will lose 99% of their forces in a dogfight. They cannot dogfight against the necrons.

The only chance they have is to use high volumes of fire, where they just turn the ship sideways, fire all the guns look like flat cannons. Hold on, but to be far, it's kind of the specialty of the imperial forces to volume out whatever it is. That's their go-to. Hey, man, is this a tricky, powerful foe that we don't understand? How about we just use either tons of bodies, tons of volume of fire, tons of people, period, and that's just what we're going to do. We'll just cover the sky with bullets and see how it works out.

Yeah, the imperial forces use this now. They realize that these battles are being lost. They have to retreat from all these areas and reform again somewhere else. So they do exactly what Brad said. They turn the ships to the side and fire all the guns to retreat. The problem is that Cesaros is not done with his trap yet. He effectively turns the pylons up to an 11. You might ask, why not just make 10 the loudest?

It's because these pylons go to 11. Turn it up. Spinal tap that crap. It's so, God, that movie is good, and I'm so excited for the sequel. But as the Imperial Forces try to muster and use the warp to get out, they discover there's no warp. Their warp drives just won't engage. And the navigators have nothing to navigate because it's just,

they look outside and go, hey, I can see blackness, period, nothing else. Yeah. And so they had to make like an FTL retreat back out of the system. Now, I have to be honest, guys, what we're going to describe here, I'm going to do what sounds like a jump. This is happening at about the same time. Because the entirety of the Indomitous crusade,

everything's happening all at once ever. So while this is occurring in one section, there's another section that's also under attack, for lack of a better phrase. But this one involves the Sisters of Battle. And this ends up flipping it around back for the Imperium. The Sisters of Battle had been fighting word bearers, actually, on the edge of the Nephilim sector. Obviously not in it because the word bears wouldn't have enjoyed being under the pylon effect. When word came that the Imperium had been taking heavy casualties, though, the sisters deployed to the area to support.

Because remember, the sisters are multiple groups. You've got the sisters of battle, which will we play on the tabletop. but you also have the sisters who are nurses and medical aid. So when the Imperium is struggling, they deploy to those areas. Because the sisters have different orders. They have, and they're hugely, the medical, the help, they have the preachers. The sisters of battle, the ecclesiarchy is gigantic. And the sisters of battle are a huge arm of that.

And they have more than just the fighters. The fighters are actually a smaller portion than everything else the sisters have. The sisters are likely. I think I'm assuming it's probably. imperial armies of guard, then Navy, then sisters. It would be my guess in size. Arbites possibly could be in there, but as far as, like, official arms, it would be somewhere in that realm. That's how I put it. So the key thing about this is that the sisters deployed to these worlds where there are endless casualties. And these are worlds under the effect of the stilling. When they get there,

unlike the commissars, and they see these people who are effectively giving up on life, they don't just start executing them. What the sisters begin doing is actually encouraging them, preaching the light of the emperor and telling them, hey, through the emperor, you can regain yourself, regain your composure. And the interesting piece here is that this whole time, this is a scene in the book, by the way, it's well written. The sisters who are present in this area don't feel the effects of the stilling. So they're actually at 100% just walking around. And what the sisters start doing is they start preaching to them. Believe in the emperor.

He is your guidance, whatever. And people start getting up. The stilling starts to vanish. All we know about this situation is that in the Nephilim sector, the sisters of battle felt none of the ill effects of the stilling. They actually were outperforming space marines because of that. And when Imperial soldiers were around them, not so much like an aura from them, but he hearing their battle cries and their encouragement into believing in the emperor and supporting the emperor, they actually started feeling less of the effects of the stilling.

And GW never really explains how this works or any of the stuff that the sisters do. So either it's the power of the emperor is so great that even with the pylons in place, he can reach through the warp and still power it. Read the primer, John. Read the primer. The emperor protects. Exactly. The poem states, how does he protect it? I don't really know. Whoa, whoa.

That sounds like some heretical kind of speech that you're given right there. What do you mean? How? It just does. Yeah, but I like the how. The other one is possible that the emperor's power doesn't come from the warp at all, but from the materium. Because is it, and this is where I think it might be.

I think the emperor is so powerful that when he was created, he became part of humanity itself. And that's why, like, how the Golden Throne works, how all these things work. He's almost, for those who don't know, like Genghis Khan, I think is really like 6% of the entire human population. Yeah. It's somewhere in that realm, but not as gross.

I think the emperor may actually, all of the citizens in the Imperium may actually have some sort of physical connection to the emperor, be at the molecular level. he's able to reach through to them channel through. We are not going to do one of those stupid things in Star Wars that ruined the force for me. Please don't. What is that called?

No, I won't talk about it. I will not talk about the mediclorians at all. Yeah, no. Ruined everything. So anyway, long story short, the sisters aren't affected by the Stilling. That's going to matter a lot because the next part of the Pariah Crusade gets a little bit goofy. Friel Stern. So, Friel Stern

And Caganel? Yeah, when we did our coverage of the Sisters of Battle, we hinted at F. Real Stern and didn't cover her. I do if I can check that, by the way. So I'm going to do a quick hit on her real quick to clean up some of the backstory. Real Storm may be the most faithful of all this is of battle, although not perfectly attuned to all of their teachings. So Stern.

Is you cruised with an aldar? Yeah. Well, a harlequin makes it worse. actually, I think. Yeah. So, Ephrail Stern was a sister superior in a convent called Parnas. This convent got targeted and overtaken by a keeper of secrets.

The keeper then linked all of their bodies and minds together of all the sisters there to torture them as one, to maximize the joy for her and the pain and suffering for all of them. Screaming cage. The plan backfired, though, because all the linked sisters poured all of their, what was left to their souls and energy into Ephrail Stern. And she was able to escape.

Stern, actually, she doesn't escape yet into Stern. Stern then kills herself, which then released her from the screaming cage. And then the remaining sisters energy resurrected her outside of the cage. We've all done this move in video games. Yeah. But also, that is super cool game-wise. They do this in the game because the characters can instantly get back up. Yeah.

So she then escapes, but what's fascinating is that she escaped and is found by the sisters. And the sisters are not thrilled at what they find because she was just with, for years, potentially, under the effect of the Keeper of Secret. So they literally lock her away for, I want to say it was a debt. It may it wasn't a decade, but they locked her away for a very long time and just kept checking for any sign of corruption. Corruption. Because they thought she was a sleep region, basically. Yeah. no corruption at all.

But she's imbued now with the warp, but no corruption. And there's more to her backstory. There's literally three novels that she takes part in or maybe the graphic novels, but still a lot more than what I'm doing. She's got both on that. It's really cool. I like her as a character quite a bit, even when she meets Canada. Oh, I do too.

I think she's way more interesting than St. Celestine. I think, but she's probably number two to Stelisian and Power. And depending on the novel, she might be number one. It's, that's how rough she is. Yeah, she'll, yeah, but to breadth of point, she also does travel out with a former harlequin. There's a lot going on there. But after a little stern, she's cool.

She's cool as hell. And the models, good, not great. Just candidly, it's good, not great. You know, for us Eldar players, it was super annoying for the first new Eldar of 10th edition to be a sister's model, by the way. That was funny, actually. Then we got a bunch of models.

and everyone got excited, and they rebased all of our models, and we all got less excited. Boo. If you guys don't play Eldar, just as a lot of us who've been playing them forever, GW did us the great joy of giving us a model update for the first time in 20 years,

and then told us that if we had the old models, we had to go buy a bunch of base extenders and rebase all of our models because they changed all the sizes. Three millimeters. Yeah, it was a lot. Some of them were actually a lot. Anyway, Etsy solves problems.

So, Ephrail Stern is in the area. And she hears about the great loss that Maron in the force took, and she goes to him. And he says, look, let me lead a counterattack into the necrons. And this is for two reasons. One, she wants to bolster the campaign by claiming some land and destroying necrons. I think this is one of the bigger things, because people, there is low morale. Because they just got, they're doing the paxon of, I don't know if you keep a score, man, we're going to ask it.

Yeah, exactly. They're not happy. They're not doing well, and they also have a stilling overwhelming than they make it even worse. Marin agrees, because he'd heard about how their sisters were actually able to hold up against the necrons, and the stealing wasn't affecting them. But Marin does something. That's why I like Marion. He doesn't do the, let's give him a small force and see if it works out.

He gives Stern the majority of what was left of his battle group. After the defeat at the Mesmach, Maron knew that the, the imperial forces were doomed unless they could turn the tide here. And the force of the Nekrons were bringing to bear were so great, like a small incursion to see if this would work, would auto fail. So he goes all in with Stern. I love everything that comes up to here. The choice of where they decide to fight is suboptimal.

All right. So this is, GW just gets a little too dramatic sometimes. We make this final tap joke of the 11. They love the turn key moments at an 11. We're in 7 would be great, guys. So they decide that we're going to go and we're going to push back into the necrons. And so what do they choose? They choose Cherist, which is...

There's so many that you could have chosen, though. Go ahead. I'm sorry. But this is so dumb. This one's incredible. Let me get through all the details of this. So you guys are saying how dumb this is a choice. It's an Arctic death world.

And what they mean by that is, It has blizzards of razor sharp ice, low light, so it's all night fight. We're bringing it back, Brad. Night fights back, 11th edition. Geisers of liquid nitrogen. So if you're a T-1000, you also would die here. These are all things that are fatal to humans and not to living metal robots. So good choice, Imperium.

But the, God, it's sorry. It takes me out of it, how dumb this world is. but the Imperial did learn their lesson, and rather than attack the Necron's directly with ordinance, they actually used the planet against them. So what they did was the Necron had a bunch of shielding around the tomb worlds they had there. So from orbit, they just blow up the mountains

that are right next of them or enough of the land in front of them to just collapse them into the ground. So either a mountain fell on top of the tomb world or the tomb themselves fell down into a chasm. Pretty good move. And this opening salvo gets the attention of the necrons who come launching themselves out to meet the attackers. But Efril Stern was correct.

The light of the emperor did shine within the attackers and rather than quickly overwhelm them, which were the necrons expected. The necrons found themselves in a pitched battle with the Imperium. And then we get into 40 pages of GW writing of the battle going back and forth, certain victory becomes certain defeat and then glimmer of hope and blah, blah, blah. But a couple of key moments happen, namely when Efril Stern sees the tide turning against her. And she feels within herself a lack of faith in the emperor, which she doesn't think very highly of. And then she goes, I can't pronounce a spread.

I didn't watch. Super Zion. Thank you. Super Zion or Zion? All right. Super Zion. And she can do this, by the way. She starts going nuts.

She basically does the white earth moment when he's just no and walks into the middle of the river, which is what she does. Yeah. So she solos the leader of the Necrons and all of its lich guard. Which is bananas, by the way. Necron. Yeah. The leader of the Necron forces Farron Shemvok, who believed the powers the work wouldn't work here,

dies at her hand. Let's say what she is. She turns into what's called on the game and the demon fuge. Yep, which is super Sion sister. Yeah. But I'll be honest on the tabletop. I wouldn't really go super Sion. I go, nah, Sion.

She's good. Yeah. But I mean, yes, it's more, if you could turn it from one to 11 on the tabletop, she goes like maybe a three and a half. Also on the tabletop, there's zero chance she's killing the entire unit of Lich. But continue. Yeah, this is. Necrons are actually one of the armies.

We've discussed this before that the custodes are the worst lord of tabletop, but necrons are actually up there. Pretty close. Because in the lore, they are insane. But it's fine. Whatever. All right. While Effrol Stern is doing this, Cesaros is watching. He's kind of a mix of horrified

and intrigued. He didn't care that this imperial's murdered other necrons. That means nothing. But he's a being of science at its core. And he's watching this happen. He can't figure out how the humans with their God Emperor. I think this is a big deal for in the book and in the turning point because he didn't

believe that this was a real thing and then he actually saw the power of the emperor because he just thought it was just a battle cry for them and it wasn't a real thing before. Yeah. The way I looked at it was I think Cesaras assumed and believed that the emperor was just a super powerful seger who used the warp and he viewed him almost like a street magician using magic to convince everyone he was the most powerful being and now he's seeing no there's real power here there's something in the imperial they don't understand until now he thought he was a charlatan he was just all smoking mares and of course aserosa's next thought is how do we harness this i'll be honest the necrons and the admec are really close and they're both kind of entertaining

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First, once they started to attack them, the necrons would just phase into the system with an overwhelming force, and this all-out assault would just devastate the fleet. So you'd lead to just Pyrrhic victory after Pyrrhic victory until you couldn't actually have a victory anymore. Because there were just too many pylons for them to take these kinds of losses for.

The bigger problem they found was also that when they destroyed the pylon, they took the world with them. Yeah, they were breaking the world in half. It was an exterminatist. And again, the book of Silent King, they cover this really well, what it's like when they do this. They launch it and the entire atmosphere collapses, everything falls apart. And they turn a world to death world. Well, what's the damn point then of conquering this part of the galaxy?

If everywhere you conquer, you have to destroy. So they have to find a way to pull these things down without catastrophic losses for the Imperium or destroying the world itself. And they get their first breakthrough in what's called the Tretica system, probably pronounced that way. with Tredica. Sorry, guys. It's just the way this stuff goes, when I have to read this. An Imperial Task Force of Sions, which are the special forces of the Imperial Guard, had returned with vid recordings of a Pylon Network. Inquisitoradraxus reviewed the recordings and saw something, what appeared to be effective a control center sitting in there, and she realized

if she could access that, then maybe she could figure out how the Pylon Network worked, and thereby disable it. However, as Admiral Akbar would say, it's a trial. Yeah. The Sions had actually been captured by the necrons and had mine scarabs implant into them. These are, it's nanotechnology scarabs. Nanotechnology. That the necrons used to both mind control beings but also see through them. This way, getting spies in twofold. First, they'll give over false information, but also they'll actually transmit information to you.

The good news for the Imperium is Draxus was aware of that technology, within the necklines, and she knew the science of it. So she knew that the information that science were brought was both accurate, but it was also a trap and somewhat incomplete. So if she could just avoid the trap, the reward is real, though. So worth it.

Daxus puts together a pretty ballsy plan, I'm being honest. First, put a ton of fake planning. It's not even just fake planning. Daxis puts on a full theater production in front of a... science. Yes. And for those of us who were big history buffs, in World War II, this is what the Allies did. Within England, they make the Germans look at it and think it was over there,

but secretly goes somewhere else. That's what they did. The fun part about this is that the reason it worked is because as smart as Cesaras is, he's also an elitist. So he assumed the humans were too stupid to know his tricks. So he fell for all of these faints. The next thing that Daraxas knew, though, was that the sisters of battle could resist the effects of the Steli. So she goes and grabs Ephreel-Start to join her on this little adventure. I said, I don't know the order of operation here. Yeah, we should also throw out, because in the book, they actually, they don't talk about it a lot, but everybody around the sisters apparently at least has some sort of resistance to the Stilling. Yeah, it's in the more recent one.

They talk about this. The sisters, when they keep preaching the God Emperor to everybody. And if you start preaching it back to them, he then fills you. And so it removes the stealing as an effect. Yeah, you get like a shield from it. Yeah. What Draxus realizes is that if she brings enough forces, the necrons would be engaged for a while, and her strike force could hit the inner sanctum.

Also, I should note in these books, the amount of imperial soldiers that just get sacrificed to the necrons and feints is not small. Because this is going to buy, this is like a third time that we're going to do a faint, or people are going to die. Anyway. Yeah. When we say a faint and a few people are going to die, it's millions of people each time. Yeah.

It's, your losses are wild. Yeah, these are entire, multiple regiments. And we're about to talk about some space marines. So arriving in Tratica, everything goes to plan. The Black Templars goes easy to sacrifice. They lead one raid. Since there's a battle and guard special forces of science lead another. And his two front campaign targeted all the key installations around Tretica,

because Tretica was a key world in the Necron Empire, but there were key manufacturing areas, et cetera. So the necrons respond in force. While this is happening, Draxus and Herretinu drop right next to the pylon. The necrons are focused elsewhere. So Draxas and team were actually able to deploy to the area pretty quickly. And it was her, sisters, Death Watch, AdMack, they move into position.

However, once they get close, close enough, Cesaros becomes aware and he attacks, bringing in first aircraft and then a massive ground support. Because his goal was, all right, I fell for your trick. You all die now. Yeah, he wants to make a point of it, too. So he wants to overkill them to show the superiority. Because he also leads the battle himself. Yeah. Now, the problem for Cesarus is Draxus actually really knew what she was doing. She knew that the site was true. from the vid recordings. What she saw on the vid recordings were the markings of Dolman gates. Dolman gates are the Necron's version of a Webway gate. They still do use the Webway, but the

difference is the Necron's can't walk around the webway the way that Eldar can, but they can, they can use portals within it. The Dolman gates are portals within it. So the Necron plan was to use the aircraft, hit Daraxas and her group, and then pop out of the Dolman gates behind them, which would then make them retreat, and as they retreated, they could just mow them down as they went into Cesaros' next trip, because that's what the math said they would do. The problem is that Draxus knew this. So the second the Dolman Gates began engaging, Daraxus and her crew ran towards the gates to attack people coming out of it, forcing them back. Cesaros sees this, and Cesarus is very good, flips his attack and goes after them again.

And as he goes in, he's met this massive blinding light. And it was from the ad mech. The ad mech had some sort of device and they were able to use the Dolman Gate to jump into the pylon. And then part two. And part two is even better part. This is surprise because the Death Watch go, hey, man, you know what's better than one Meltabom? All of the Meltabombs. Yeah, the Death Watch left a solid middle finger surprise where

every single one of those dome and gates had actually been trapped. So as soon as Draxas and the crew go through the gate and disappear, all the gates blow up, leaving Cesarus on the other side and Draxas and team on the inside of the pylon. You give credit, there was a whole bunch of them that just stayed and got blown up by their own bombs to make sure that they did it, though. So boss mode move. Oh, yeah, this is badass. Once inside Draxas and the crew, the good news is,

Sizeras, his guys are outside. The bad news is, wraith constructs, scarabs, and spiders are still all inside. Yeah, it's everything that says conoptic and then something in front of it. Yes. Because that's everybody that's inside that takes care of the manufacturing, the repair and everything else. Scarab, spiders. And I just, again, any canoptic? Yes, it's inside here.

The next part of this, though, is super cool. So they keep pushing and fighting through them and get to the core. And in the core, they're searching for these data crystals. And inside these crystals is the knowledge that Draxas needs. So she just gets, he's going to hold these crystals and start basically diagnosing them. I don't know you're decoding them. But when she gets there, she finds something else. The power source of the pylon, which is a C-Tan.

Well, C-Tan shark, not a full C-Tan chart. It's a C-Tan jar that is shackled. inside there and is powering the entire complex. This is so wild, though, because this is, pride is the downfall, a bit of the necrots in this, because you're using a piece of a star god just to kind of give an F you to them. We won. We enslaved your pieces. This is so dangerous.

It is, but it's also, they do them a lot, though. To be fair, I mean, they are. It is a great power. Rogue trader. your final boss is a C-10 chart. Like it's, sorry, if you have beaten it by the game, it's over, like, two years old now, it's on you. But there is a bunch

of this stuff. Also, make your, either play on low difficulty level or make the most broken builds ever, those games are so hard. Alcat doesn't mess around. Or do a job. Yeah, or he's a safe game editor, like an adult. My life is hard. I don't need my video games to also be hard. I don't just need to live in a

life of just labor and I want to escape. Anyway, wave after wave of necrons start crashing on Draxus to crew while she's trying to break apart these crystals and diagnose them until eventually Cesaras himself shows up. But GW writing is GW writing. So as soon as Cesaras shows up and the force are circling in, she finally is able to decipher and decode the crystal and gets the information she needs. But it's kind of too late because there's no escape. Every route around them is cut off. So she does the only thing you should do in that situation.

Throw on a power fist and start punching controls until the C-Tan gets out. Who's not, I would say, less than happy? Yeah, I think was this Jurassic World 2 where they just let the T-Rex out? That was the going, screw it. I do like, by the way, the scene is funny because the C-Tan comes out, looks around, sees necrons and just beelines after the necrons to go start beating the crap out of them. Cizoros starts just freaking out

and doesn't even care about Daraxus anymore. He just ignores the humans. And at one point, the C-Tan, though, after just pulling a bunch of necrons limb from limb, turns to Daraxis and points at her. Draxus assumes, well, here's how I die. And then an instant later, her and what's left of her reds,

are on the bridge of her ship up in orbit. I guess the C-Tam gave her the good old shooter McGavin. It wasn't the pointing at you angry. It was the, I got you here. At which point, by the way, Daxson team, get out of Dutch. It is, we're done. Everyone on the planet's probably dead anyway, but we're leaving now. They're looking like at the end of Rogue One, when they're trying to get the information,

go, go, go. Just go. With Vader right behind you. Was that the greatest movie clothes you've ever seen? Yes. I don't believe. I think so. You know,

I actually see you could get unforgiven, but that's another thing. I was going to Departed, the end of Departed where you discover, like, that one's also really, a really good wrap up. But it's long. But not as good as. Just one, just this is crazy. Yeah, not as good as. Yeah.

Anyway. So here's a fun story, guys. That whole story I just told you of Draxas and the C-Tan, all of stuff. That came from the Pariah. by a psychic awakening book, which was released in June of 2020. In July of 2025, which was not that long ago. One month ago after this recording. Yeah.

G.W. released a book called The Silent King. And in it, it turns out, Call did all the same stuff Daxus did before Daxus did any of it. So we're going to cover that now. But it's not really a repcon. It's just more another layer. Also on the other side of the galaxy where Kyle was doing it. No, it was also in Nephlin. This is all in Nephlin.

That's the whole point. I'm sorry, sorry. Not the other side of the county. The other side of the sector. In the novel, it turns out the entire Kaladis assault going on at Mesmuck in the areas was all a distraction by call. Call knew the necrons would attack in force once they started pushing the attack in the pylons. And in doing so he could create enough noise around it that a small group could then actually infiltrate one of the pylons. And this book's really cool because they actually.

use a drop pod to get down to the surface, but they have to pull all the machine spirit out of the drop pod and have to manually use the drop pod to hit it. Well, let's talk about why, because the necrons can track machine spirits. Yeah, because the machine spirit probably comes from nectron technology. Sorry, we know there's a shard of the void dragon sitting on Mars and they've had access to it for a lot, 10,000 years, 100,000 years, million years, who knows. But long story short, Yeah, John theory, but I do believe that all machine spirits come from Necron technology. So anyway, they had to sneakie get down to the surface. They had to turn off all the machine spirit.

Call in his group, permeate the inner sanctum of this pylon, and call once he's there, does three things. First, he shuts down the pariah network, which is what actually allows the Kaladis battle group to escape. Let's say temporarily. Oh, very temporary. It's not down for long, but it's down for just enough. shuts the tractor beam controls, Obi-Wan style. Yeah.

The next thing he does is he downloads the workings of the Pylon network so we can figure how it blocks out the warp. And the third one, this is just, this sounds lame, but in the book it's really cool. He reveals that the inner sanctity of the Pylon is actually a pharaoh's device so it can actually teleport a

Star Trek. And so they do that. So they all just phase back up with their battleship and then again, leave. And all of this is actually unknown to the necrons, because Call had a special device with him that all the scarabs that were going around the tomb network that they were in thought they were other necrons and just let them be but once he gets back to his ship call goes to work and he starts calling for all anocleth which is the imperial term for blackstone

to be sent to him and he starts building this device he calls the luminal abrasers why i don't know Kind of be a cool net? Yeah. What these are is they're either kind of, they're attached the ships and then drug along with the ships in the fleets. And they're a negative to the negative of the Pylon network. Yeah. He's in the most basic of terms.

He's trying to push away by his turning the magnets on each other so it forces away. But it kind of makes a warp bubble. Yeah. So he basically brings access to the warp with him as he moves around. this obviously pulls a stilling effect off, but also makes warp travel functional. Weirdly enough, it makes warp travel super accurate because they can only come where he is. That's true. Yeah, it doesn't make life a lot easier. And so he gets back and this is where they retcon a little bit so that now they blend together what Call is done with what Draxas has done.

And what they just, they come together and realize call now has a way for the battle groups to get into the sector, move around the sector and fight in the sector at full strength. Draxas has a solution where she's made a code that'll actually make the pylon implode on themselves, destroying themselves and preserving the planet. I think that you meant to say, just like Independence Day, she had a plan to upload a virus into their network.

I completely forgot that was the plot of Independence Day. I haven't seen it in so long. This is exactly what this is. You're right, it is. It's not a great. It's fine. It was really cool when I was young. So now the Imperium can avoid the effects of the stelling. They've got a way to destroy the pylons. All they have to do is land on them, infiltrate them, and they're off to the races. This was hard to do before what happens next. The Silent King is the person that was getting all this together. And he took offense to what? was happening. Yes. The Silent King shows up. And out the gate, this is quite bad for the Imperium, because the Silent King is two main things. One, he's a master tactician, incredible tactician. He also, though, commands all the dynesies and the Necrons. And so his presence and

his forces presence increase the efficacy of other Necron forces. Silent King arrives. He practically has battle meditation. He's also riding on a three. He's also riding on a throne with two big old monoliths next to him that do a crazy amount of damage. He has basically ship weapons on his personal transport. And so the silent king comes in and starts unleashing hell on the imperial. All of the imperial advances halt and become retreats pretty quickly. And he's bringing boss mode stuff. One world, he unleashes a trillion scarabs that tear,

every single imperial soldier, everything apart, there's just almost basically a sea of goo is all that's left. On another one, he takes five sea tan shards, which you never do, by the way. They're different sea tans, obviously, but still five shards along with wraiths and annihilation barges and just destroy everything. You know, you could have said the annihilation barges annihilated them.

Oh! But to be fair, of those three things, five sea tan shards, rages. An annihilation barges. The annihilation bar are actually the lowest tier on that group. That is true. You're not wrong.

Tabletop, they're great. But just Laura's name like, oh, there's also an annihilation bar. Oh, and the race that face in and out of reality can face into your body and blow you up from the inside. Which is not great. Yeah. Those things. That sounds scary. That does sound scary, but you know, it's a little bit scarier is when the Silent King went,

hey, I don't think you guys are moving fast enough. Get on it or die. Yeah. And so the pylon network, the next thing he does, he begins increasing the placement of the pylon network. And his goal is very clever here. It's not only to, it's not just to increase the size and the scope of the network, but to actually more be strategic in placement and the attack imperial is there.

So you turn the stumbling up to an 11 and then attack immediately. So you've got them just completely back. footed and easy prey. Now, this is the part of the GW writing that we're going to get to where this seems to escalate like an anchorman, where it just, man, that escalated quickly. Every G.W. Like, war zone. Chian Trident?

Yeah. Chip killed a guy. Yeah. Every G.W. writing is that at the end where you're like, what is happening? So as the war is faltering for the Imperials, Gilman deploys. himself and his battle group, along with call and his battle group to the sector. Which is a significant battle group of each. And so now they start pushing the Necrons back.

It's just this kind of stalemate, but the Imperium is going to get a lot of help from a very unlikely source right now. as the Silent King is doing this war in the Nephilim sector, not all of his dynastic subjects are following his lead to the letter. A bunch of them saw this increased power as opportunity. Because a Silent King enables tumourles to activate fast as normal. They're finding themselves at full strength or close to. And a Sun King brings resources.

So you're manufacturing, all that stuff is. better. The necrons are still going to necron, guys. And you're like, look, man, if you're going to turn your back to me, how am I going to knife you in the back? It's so effective. Yeah. So while taking in all the support from the silent king, a number of the smaller dynasties do raids into other small dynesies to kill them off because they just didn't really like them. So this is happening over in the area. Others were also taking vengeance. You had some who had issues with the orcs who were like, yeah, I don't care about these humans. Those orcs were an issue.

I'm going to go make them not exist anymore or Death Watch or AdMack. Anyone who'd really wronged them in the past, they're spreading out. So the Silent King is not quite the focused force that he wants to be and needs to be in this era. That, though, is nothing compared to what's going to happen next. The Silent King right now has to be going, man, if only I had command protocols right now, can force everybody to do exactly what I want them do immediately, as opposed to infighting with everybody and backstabbing and wandering aimlessly around. Yeah, and the thing about Necron leadership is Neckron leadership is earned,

but it also must be forcefully held. And so any sign of weakness is a chance for rivals to come in and try and challenge for power. So the war going on in the Nethlehem sector with Gilliman and Calls arrives, is now turned into basically World War I. It is entrenched areas. The battles are just brutal attrition. Emotech, the Stormlord, sees his opportunity. Emotech does not agree with the Silent King's overall goals of reversing biotransference.

Oh, feeling. Well, let's talk about it. Emotech thinks it's awesome to be in a necrodermis art. He thinks this is great? He's made of instantly healing. incredibly strong material. He's all but immortal and invincible. He doesn't want to go back to being squishy. At the same time, he sees not only that and himself, but he sees this is how necrons can conquer the galaxy. We are the superior being species in the galaxy. It's ours to take.

And also, it's ours to take forever, and I can rule forever. Yeah, because Emotech also ran the largest and most powerful the dynasties, the SELTEC. The Silent King had a large one, but the Souttec dynasty itself is the biggest and the most powerful. And they got there by force, by the way. They conquered a bunch of other Necron Tomb Worlds, enveloped a lot of their warriors into their own and killed everybody in their way. They are massively powerful. Emotech has been biting his time since the return of the Silent King, waiting for a chance to challenge him for control of the Necron's. had to wait because the silent king had to show weakness first. Once the silent king shows weakness

and then he can attack, all of the other dynasties would stay out of it because they don't want to get pulled into being on the wrong side. In case he lost, exactly. Yeah, because the silent king loses and they were on team Silent King, then they're getting Emotech's full wrath. And they also won't back Emotech because they don't want the Silent King's wrath. But so they all just play Switzerland. Everybody's got a half. with two bills. Sensing that the silent king had been stalled out by a lesser species, Emotech makes his move.

And in an instant, the civil war erupts all across the Nephilim sector, as necrone forces appear and attack other necron forces. Sometimes destroying the imperial forces that are there, fighting with them, sometimes ignoring them completely. And at first, it's kind of funny. This is a huge boon for the imperialian. They're great. The necrons are fractured and they start making massive gains.

Daraxis and Call are moving in. Their new tactic is pulling down pylons. But as they start pulling down these pylons, the Silent King gets pissed. And he decides, fun story on the necrons. Much like the admec, they've got a bunch of quote-unquote forbidden technology. Whereas the necrons, it's not a way. forbidden. They just view it as unnecessary, as opposed to the Imperium,

where the ad mech are actively told, you never get to use this weapon. Ever, ever, ever. Because the difference is the necrons will use a galaxy destroying weapon when the galaxy has to be destroyed. The ad mec will use it when they see a cockroach. Let's just see what happens if I

push the big red button. But it says not to. Let's push it anyways. Yeah. And the necrons do in this situation, what have this, draw first blood. They deploy something called the technomandroids, which are, they appear randomly in a few codexes and then in this one book. They are this collection of what are referred to as super cryptex that date back to the war in heaven, that the necrons and a sign thing actually imprisoned because they were so afraid of the power that they wielded. There's not a lot of detail

them, guys, I'm giving you all that I have, by the way. They can outfit forces with the extreme weaponry, like world destroying weaponry. And so they kind of talk about it because they're uncontrolled word destroying weaponry, as in you push the button and you hope that it blows up your enemy because it's going to do some destruction. Where that goes, nobody knows. Yeah, the technomanderites just attack and they're sent out and they just start ripping apart this admec fleet.

And the admec respond with something called the Ark of Oblivion, which is a great name. and the Ark of Oblivion is a missile in space, by the way, that when fired, breaks everything down. Brett and I discussed templates before. This is a large template that they then place in space and everything under the template is broken down to its molecular state. Worked against the necrons pretty well. Also took out a bunch of, as tradition with the admec, a bunch of admec vessels at the exact same time. Well, it's crazy because because of this, I don't even know because of this, they start just, flinging Catan.

So the Cetan... Yeah, the Necrons respond by going, here's all the shards of Cetan. And these, if you play 40K, these are not the ones you see on the tabletop. These are big, holy crap. I'm gonna... Did you just bane a battle cruiser?

Yes. Well, and one of the ones I liked in this is that one of the Cetans actually could melt the minds of Skittari and actually took out some Ligio-Titanicas. It had them almost shooting themselves. So the ad mech, though, love a one-up fight. And so the ad mech and the necrons are just doing this.

And we are right on the path of mutually shared destruction that's going to take out the Nephilim sector and maybe everything around it. My favorite one of them all was the necrons shackled a dwarf star and flung it into an admec fleet. They basically trebuschained a dwarf star. Yes. During it by the admec did break one of the shackles. so it also did hit a bunch of necrons ships,

but it doesn't matter. They were fleeing a star at each other. Now, luckily, cooler heads prevailed and call sees this and realizes that we're going to lose not just a sector, but maybe a segmentum if this doesn't stop, and makes all the admecs stop firing their stupid guns and just go back to normal battles. As I said before, we have now entered the part of GW writing

that is the fight in anchorman, because it escalates very quickly and kind of randomly. Now, GW is going to add in some more players here, and it's going to come off as, hey, what the hell just happened? Why did you guys speed up a bunch at the end of the cast? I'm not speeding up. This is literally how this stuff's written.

What GW likes to do is they'll, and they're not wrong in this, they're writing a battle sector. And the sector will start with a pitched battle between one, two, maybe three players, and those are adding more players in, like 90s Royal Rumble style, until everyone's engaged. And they do this not because they're poor writers.

They do this because this game is meant to be all-encompassing of all factions. We can't have 24 factions a game, only three of them are playing in the lore. So they add everybody else. But this also makes sense because of the fact that the Necrons were stealing down the Rift, which meant that chaos effectively wasn't allowed to. to play. With us breaking, I love the us again, I'm part of the Imperium. And with us breaking the pylons, it put chaos back into the game. Yeah. And so what happens is, to exactly the Brad's

point, these pylons come down, and now there's warp access again. And the forces of chaos are kind of like, hey, we couldn't see this area. Now we can. What's going on? And there's a massive battle between the Imperium and this highly technologic Xenor race. And the force of chaos decide, well, this is interesting. And by forces of chaos, I mean one. Vashtore. Vash Tor. Vashor, who is the arms broker of the warp, all things technology, demon engine, anything that's super powerful, tech-wise, he wants to be part of it, wants to control it so he can give it out to who he wants to. rumor is that Vash Tor is the reason for the dark age of technology. He is the one that created the problems within the Met of Iron. Abadon, by the way, of note here is still just basking in the

glory that is him destroying Kadia. So he doesn't really care. Vashtor is going somewhere. He's like, go have that it. So Vastor sees this because he wants to become the fifth chaos god, the god of the machine spirit, for lack of a better definition. And he needs to do is he needs a lot more power to flow to him, much like the other gods who are powered by the actions of the mortal beings. Vashdor is powered by the machine spirit and AIs of the galaxy performing arcane and cruel actions. He's like a vampire, an evil spirit, anything drawn by cruelty, fear, vengeance. He is all of this AI, all of this super powerful technological weapons being used on each other.

That just brings him like a moth. to flame, and he just has to be part of it. At the same time, though, Magnus sees Vashdor go, and Magnus does know that there is a potential timeline in the future where Vashdor does become a fifth chaos god. And we already have four chaos gods, which is more than Magnus wants in the first place. So he then deploys... No, no, which is four more than... That's true, yeah.

I would actually say five more. I say four is five more than he wants. Yeah, true. He's not a... saying. Yeah, and he's on their, and he's technically on their side. So he deploys with the Thousand Sun Sorcerers, who, by the way, not huge fans of being around Necron Pilons. Doesn't go great for them. Kat and tie their world, but they're doing it because they have to stop Thashdore. And then, just because it's funny, Fabius Bile discovers, so there's just a ton of

genes. Not to help anybody, I was about saying, just to do terrible things to all the fallen. Because he just realized there's a ton of gene see just sitting around. around on planets because the space marines like massive losses and went, yeah, I'm going to go there too. And that, by the way, is where this story line just ends. Now, unlike when we had

the Unari timeline where it ended and then other stuff happened, this has ended because they actually haven't advanced the storyline beyond this moment. So this is all going on. So we are now at current 40K. Yep. The necrons are fighting

the Imperium, Chaos, and themselves. The tyrannids are not that far away. All of the Imperium is involved. All of chaos is coming in. I don't know where Genes or Colt are, but they're probably not that far out. And Tao are still in their little sector doing their hell thing. But that's fine. And Votan hadn't. Yeah, Votan, when Pariah was written, Votan weren't in the game yet, right? Because Votan were ninth edition and Pariah's eighth edition. Yeah. So Votan weren't the game yet. But with that, we're going to finish this because that's really all we have on it. Next week, though, is our two-year anniversary of the Lorcast.

Who knew? And rather than give up now and call it a success, we're going to continue on until it's not, I guess. We'll see. They'll be making me sad that way. That's what you do, though. That's what every show is. Every show is, well, we just can keep going. You will stop watching.

And sometimes your three seasons. Until we live long enough to be the villain. I was to say sometimes you turn into one of those soap operas where it's really, it's like 40 years old. Yeah. Or we could be Game of Thrones Season 8. Yeah, 20, Lorcast, 241. You're dead, and I'm not doing this anymore either. Actually, I might be dead.

41, we're adding 20 years. Hopefully, I'm still alive, but there's two new hosts. It's just your son and somebody he met. Exactly. So next week, you guys are you going to double dose of episodes from us. First is you're going to get something on YouTube and Spotify, where Brad and I are going to review all the stuff we messed up. So many things.

Forgetting to hit record buttons, using the word literally so many times. It actually bothers us to, when we... Oh, my God. It hurts me so much because I have to listen to the cast as we're editing the stuff for YouTube. Yeah. Other one is how incredibly loud a lozenge is in your mouth when the microphone's in front of you. My bad. That's a fun one.

Yeah. And a lot more. But same time, next week, we're going to jump into what I think is the most. most important part of all 40K lore, the Ultramarines. Brad didn't know this. I kept this a secret home. So next week, we're going, boys in blue. Everyone's been asking for it, and I was going to do it, but I had to wait for the proper

time. And I was going to let it be salamanders because Brad was dreaming that we were getting Vulcan, and we got. We did not. We did not. We did not get Vulcan. It's that sequel in Deadpool 3. When he jumps off the...

No, no. It's the flame on. Oh, it's the wrong one. I thought you were going to give the one where he jumps off the stool. Mary the Red. No, I love that one where it's like, he's going to say it,

flame on. It's the wrong one. So next week, we're going to start our coverage of the ultramarines, which I assume will last two to three months. It's going to be fun. I don't even know how we're going to get through. There's so many ultra Marines characters.

It's the problem. We can do a cast on you. Each one of them. We're just going to do Bobby G. Tegarius, Titus, Tegius, Talia. Paris. Sycarus. It gets Calgar.

It is brutal. It is the ultramarines, for those of you who don't play them, I'm sorry. I'm kidding. Actually, I sold up my ultramarines. But the ultramarines are maybe the deepest faction in the game. They have, they're the poster points. Yeah. They weren't originally, though.

It used to be, it was the imperial. Fists, right? Well, you had Blood Angels were for a long time also. Oh, it's right, because it was Bladels first and then Imperial Fists and then Ultramarines. Ultramarines have been for a while.

The Boys in Blue have been carrying. Yeah, and what I would say is, what you can tell is, as much as the Blood Angels were popular, once the Ultramids got really, let me say it better. The Ultramines got really popular

around the same time that GW started expanding the named character part of the game. Yeah. And so the Ultramids got all of the names. named characters, and some of them are ridiculous. Like, the dude, he's only half a body who you put on top of one of your tanks. Tellion.

Tellion? Was it Tellion? No. Yeah. Is that right? He's the one that could go in. I would just, yeah, I would that guy. Or what maybe he was?

It was a sniper. Tellion was a sniper. Tellian was a sniper. Who goes in the thing? Yeah. People are going to correct this. By the way, we're going to do, I don't know how we're going to do ultramarines guys. I haven't written it yet.

So it's going to be interesting. We may just do a chunk of ultramarines. have to come back to them more later because, ooh, that is a long and involved thing. But I do love them. Cronos. Sergeant Cronos. Yeah, he's doing a sergeant. But you can put him on top of a Land Rader and make it hit on twos.

Yeah, he was awesome. Yeah, it was a good time. There was some good times in eighth edition. Anyway, so with that, this has been John Barsati and Bradchester. This guy. See you guys next week.