Autumn in sight edition: Yearly costs are all paid for, time to donate if you can!//DA4 concept art, Anthem revamp, ME HD remaster, hey, it's something
Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
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I managed to scald the crap out of my right hand with hot tea last night. The burn isn't severe, but I did manage to get all of my fingers, which is possibly the most annoying placement I can think of.
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
https://www.warhammer-community.com/201 ... ra-begins/
"The final battle is beginning. Tomorrow, thirteen years of the Horus Heresy series will meet their culmination in The Solar War – the first in an 8-volume megaseries that’ll bring the story to its epic climax. We’re letting you know about this one early, as it’s expected to sell out incredibly fast.
The Solar War, by John French, details the first stage of this epoch-defining battle as fleets clash in the void of the Sol System. Horus’ armada is huge, his treacherous forces bolstered by the powers of the warp – but Rogal Dorn has had close to a decade to prepare the Throneworld’s defences. The various spheres of defiance within the system hold more than a few surprises for the invaders – and the Imperial Fists themselves relish the chance to finally get to grips with their erstwhile brothers.
This limited edition is more than just your first chance to read this incredible story. It’s an opportunity to add a stunning artefact to your bookshelves. From the exterior design, which will be echoed across future limited editions in the series, to the extravagant interior artwork – including character portraits, black-and-white illustrations and full-colour studies of a number of primarchs – the book is a true collector’s item. It also includes a detailed afterword by author John French talking about the process of writing the book, and the series, in unparalleled detail.
There are just 2,500 copies of The Solar War Limited Edition available – and they’re not likely to last long, so don’t miss out on your chance to order this piece of Horus Heresy history, which you can do so tomorrow."




"The final battle is beginning. Tomorrow, thirteen years of the Horus Heresy series will meet their culmination in The Solar War – the first in an 8-volume megaseries that’ll bring the story to its epic climax. We’re letting you know about this one early, as it’s expected to sell out incredibly fast.
The Solar War, by John French, details the first stage of this epoch-defining battle as fleets clash in the void of the Sol System. Horus’ armada is huge, his treacherous forces bolstered by the powers of the warp – but Rogal Dorn has had close to a decade to prepare the Throneworld’s defences. The various spheres of defiance within the system hold more than a few surprises for the invaders – and the Imperial Fists themselves relish the chance to finally get to grips with their erstwhile brothers.
This limited edition is more than just your first chance to read this incredible story. It’s an opportunity to add a stunning artefact to your bookshelves. From the exterior design, which will be echoed across future limited editions in the series, to the extravagant interior artwork – including character portraits, black-and-white illustrations and full-colour studies of a number of primarchs – the book is a true collector’s item. It also includes a detailed afterword by author John French talking about the process of writing the book, and the series, in unparalleled detail.
There are just 2,500 copies of The Solar War Limited Edition available – and they’re not likely to last long, so don’t miss out on your chance to order this piece of Horus Heresy history, which you can do so tomorrow."




"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
https://www.warhammer-community.com/201 ... iscordant/
"After Shadowspear and Abaddon, could the new Chaos release get any cooler? Yes. Yes it could. Meet the Lord Discordant. We’ll give you a few seconds to take it all in. This is the Lord Discordant – a new HQ choice for Chaos armies that combines the might of a Maulerfiend, the wisdom of a Warpsmith and the leadership of a Chaos Lord into one deadly package. This is Chaos turned up to 11, then turned up some more, until the dials fall off and start leaking blood."
"Lords Discordant are Chaos Space Marines who have a sinister, arcane mastery over machinery, similar to Warpsmiths in their training and fell purpose. However, while Warpsmiths are generally found behind their mechanical charges, enacting repairs, Lords Discordant prefer to lead from the front, fighting from the backs of scuttling Daemon Engines known as Helstalkers. Bellowing profane litanies that cause nearby machines to glitch and seize, they specialise at dismantling tanks, skimmers and the like with prying mechadendrites and brutal swings of their impaler chainglaives. Lords Discordant feed off the suffering of the machines they destroy, using their captured motive force to repair their Daemon Engines and annihilate the enemy with coruscating beams of repurposed energy."





"After Shadowspear and Abaddon, could the new Chaos release get any cooler? Yes. Yes it could. Meet the Lord Discordant. We’ll give you a few seconds to take it all in. This is the Lord Discordant – a new HQ choice for Chaos armies that combines the might of a Maulerfiend, the wisdom of a Warpsmith and the leadership of a Chaos Lord into one deadly package. This is Chaos turned up to 11, then turned up some more, until the dials fall off and start leaking blood."
"Lords Discordant are Chaos Space Marines who have a sinister, arcane mastery over machinery, similar to Warpsmiths in their training and fell purpose. However, while Warpsmiths are generally found behind their mechanical charges, enacting repairs, Lords Discordant prefer to lead from the front, fighting from the backs of scuttling Daemon Engines known as Helstalkers. Bellowing profane litanies that cause nearby machines to glitch and seize, they specialise at dismantling tanks, skimmers and the like with prying mechadendrites and brutal swings of their impaler chainglaives. Lords Discordant feed off the suffering of the machines they destroy, using their captured motive force to repair their Daemon Engines and annihilate the enemy with coruscating beams of repurposed energy."





"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
https://www.warhammer-community.com/201 ... ge-post-2/
"With Vigilus Ablaze on the near horizon and the events in the escalating conflict coming to a head, we’re taking a look at the main antagonist and protagonist of the story’s climactic final chapter. What circumstances drew both Abaddon the Despoiler and Marneus Calgar – two of the 41st Millennium’s mightiest commanders – to Vigilus, and who will emerge triumphant should they meet in battle?
Abaddon the Despoiler, Warmaster of Chaos, Lord of the Black Legion: There are few more infamous beings in the galaxy than Abaddon the Despoiler. From his earliest days as First Captain of the Luna Wolves, he was renowned for his skill and ferocity in battle. Now he stands as the undisputed master of the Traitor Legions, having won the favour of the Daemon Primarchs and Chaos Gods alike. His authority is absolute and his deeds are steeped in dark legend. 12 times the Warmaster has led Black Crusades against the Imperium, each campaign taking a terrible toll on the systems around the Eye of Terror. The 13th Black Crusade – now known as the Fall of Cadia, after the indomitable bastion world was finally overcome – marked the Despoiler’s greatest triumph and the culmination of all of his previous efforts. Yet the destruction of Cadia was merely a catalyst for Abaddon’s true goal. A vast rift in reality was torn across the length of the galaxy as an intricate network of ancient pylons designed to hold the warp in check finally came undone. So was born the Cicatrix Maledictum, and half the Imperium was isolated from the guiding light of the Astronomican. Having cruelly preyed upon the vulnerable worlds of what became known as the Imperium Nihulus, Abaddon has now turned his sights on Vigilus, which stands sentinel over one of the few stable routes through the Great Rift – the Nachmund Gauntlet. In over ten millennia of war, hundreds of worlds have fallen before the Warmaster. Why should Vigilus be any different?
Marneus Augustus Calgar, Lord Macragge, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines: For more than 300 years, Marneus Calgar has led the Ultramarines in the defence of the Imperium. During that time, he has cast down fell Daemons, slain traitors beyond count and even hurled back a Tyranid Hive Fleet from his home world – his tally of victories is quite remarkable. Though his strategic brilliance is legendary across the Imperium, he is also a warrior of great renown, having triumphed over one of Khorne’s Exalted Bloodthirsters and an Avatar of Khaine in personal combat, and even held his own against the Swarmlord at the Battle of Cold Steel Ridge. It seems fitting that such a storied hero as Marneus Calgar was the first Space Marine to cross the Rubicon Primaris. Marneus Calgar is now stronger than ever and clad in a masterwork suit of Mk X Gravis plate known as the Armour of Heraclus. If ever there were a mortal champion that could defeat the Warmaster, it would be Marneus Calgar. Marneus Calgar is leading the defence of Vigilus, and marshaling its embattled forces to stand against the approaching Warmaster. Roboute Guilliman himself has declared that the sentinel world must not fall, and Marneus Calgar has sworn a mighty oath not to fail his Primarch.
Who Will Win? Now that we’ve introduced the two rivals, let’s take a closer look at what may well give them the edge in the next chapter of the fighting on Vigilus…
Strategic Mastery: Having engineered an ingenious plan that reached fruition over ten millennia, Abaddon is the undisputed master of the long game. By contrast, Marneus Calgar is well versed in adapting to circumstances as they unfold and turning them to his advantage. Given the rapidly evolving nature of the war on Vigilus and Calgar’s current (albeit tenuous) control of the embattled world, we give the advantage to the Lord Macragge.
Fleet Assets: Naval reinforcements have been steadily trickling in-system as more and more Imperial forces joined in the defence of Vigilus, but Abaddon has arrived aboard the mighty Vengeful Spirit at the head of a huge fleet that vastly outnumbers and outclasses the Imperial flotilla. The Warmaster has the clear edge here.
Fighting Skill: Both Marneus Calgar and Abaddon have triumphed in (or at least survived!) many epic duels with powerful adversaries, so it would be difficult to pick an obvious winner. However, despite the fact that Lord Macragge is clad in potent new armour and bears the fabled Gauntlets of Ultramar, the Warmaster wields two of the deadliest weapons in existence – the Daemon blade Drach’nyen and the dreaded Talon of Horus. Were they to face each other in battle, Abaddon’s unholy wargear may just give him the edge."




"With Vigilus Ablaze on the near horizon and the events in the escalating conflict coming to a head, we’re taking a look at the main antagonist and protagonist of the story’s climactic final chapter. What circumstances drew both Abaddon the Despoiler and Marneus Calgar – two of the 41st Millennium’s mightiest commanders – to Vigilus, and who will emerge triumphant should they meet in battle?
Abaddon the Despoiler, Warmaster of Chaos, Lord of the Black Legion: There are few more infamous beings in the galaxy than Abaddon the Despoiler. From his earliest days as First Captain of the Luna Wolves, he was renowned for his skill and ferocity in battle. Now he stands as the undisputed master of the Traitor Legions, having won the favour of the Daemon Primarchs and Chaos Gods alike. His authority is absolute and his deeds are steeped in dark legend. 12 times the Warmaster has led Black Crusades against the Imperium, each campaign taking a terrible toll on the systems around the Eye of Terror. The 13th Black Crusade – now known as the Fall of Cadia, after the indomitable bastion world was finally overcome – marked the Despoiler’s greatest triumph and the culmination of all of his previous efforts. Yet the destruction of Cadia was merely a catalyst for Abaddon’s true goal. A vast rift in reality was torn across the length of the galaxy as an intricate network of ancient pylons designed to hold the warp in check finally came undone. So was born the Cicatrix Maledictum, and half the Imperium was isolated from the guiding light of the Astronomican. Having cruelly preyed upon the vulnerable worlds of what became known as the Imperium Nihulus, Abaddon has now turned his sights on Vigilus, which stands sentinel over one of the few stable routes through the Great Rift – the Nachmund Gauntlet. In over ten millennia of war, hundreds of worlds have fallen before the Warmaster. Why should Vigilus be any different?
Marneus Augustus Calgar, Lord Macragge, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines: For more than 300 years, Marneus Calgar has led the Ultramarines in the defence of the Imperium. During that time, he has cast down fell Daemons, slain traitors beyond count and even hurled back a Tyranid Hive Fleet from his home world – his tally of victories is quite remarkable. Though his strategic brilliance is legendary across the Imperium, he is also a warrior of great renown, having triumphed over one of Khorne’s Exalted Bloodthirsters and an Avatar of Khaine in personal combat, and even held his own against the Swarmlord at the Battle of Cold Steel Ridge. It seems fitting that such a storied hero as Marneus Calgar was the first Space Marine to cross the Rubicon Primaris. Marneus Calgar is now stronger than ever and clad in a masterwork suit of Mk X Gravis plate known as the Armour of Heraclus. If ever there were a mortal champion that could defeat the Warmaster, it would be Marneus Calgar. Marneus Calgar is leading the defence of Vigilus, and marshaling its embattled forces to stand against the approaching Warmaster. Roboute Guilliman himself has declared that the sentinel world must not fall, and Marneus Calgar has sworn a mighty oath not to fail his Primarch.
Who Will Win? Now that we’ve introduced the two rivals, let’s take a closer look at what may well give them the edge in the next chapter of the fighting on Vigilus…
Strategic Mastery: Having engineered an ingenious plan that reached fruition over ten millennia, Abaddon is the undisputed master of the long game. By contrast, Marneus Calgar is well versed in adapting to circumstances as they unfold and turning them to his advantage. Given the rapidly evolving nature of the war on Vigilus and Calgar’s current (albeit tenuous) control of the embattled world, we give the advantage to the Lord Macragge.
Fleet Assets: Naval reinforcements have been steadily trickling in-system as more and more Imperial forces joined in the defence of Vigilus, but Abaddon has arrived aboard the mighty Vengeful Spirit at the head of a huge fleet that vastly outnumbers and outclasses the Imperial flotilla. The Warmaster has the clear edge here.
Fighting Skill: Both Marneus Calgar and Abaddon have triumphed in (or at least survived!) many epic duels with powerful adversaries, so it would be difficult to pick an obvious winner. However, despite the fact that Lord Macragge is clad in potent new armour and bears the fabled Gauntlets of Ultramar, the Warmaster wields two of the deadliest weapons in existence – the Daemon blade Drach’nyen and the dreaded Talon of Horus. Were they to face each other in battle, Abaddon’s unholy wargear may just give him the edge."




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https://www.warhammer-community.com/201 ... damnation/
[[ The tyrant stood in his accustomed position on the bridge, his expression stony as he gazed out of the viewing arch at the planet below.
The Warmaster had come to Vigilus.
It was a sizeable world, and well defended. That much was obvious by the naval presence dotted around it and the ident runes of a score of loyalist Chapters scattered across the viewing arch’s vintage interface.
They were in disarray, battered by the brutish xenos that had intuited the immense value of this planet as the waystation closest to the northern end of the Nachmund Gauntlet, one of the only known stable routes into the Imperium Nihilus.. But the Imperials would fight, and hard. He wouldn’t have had it any other way. When he claimed Vigilus, he would do it in fire and splendour.
The hoarse breathing of his captive played on the cusp of hearing, disturbing his reverie. Abaddon cast a glance towards the fallen Space Marine, his ruined body impaled in a dozen places by the blades of the Possessed that had brought him. The Warmaster noted the smears of blood that had clotted in a dozen places across his broad, once-handsome face. Breaking loyalists – it never lost its charm.
His time would come, and soon.
The Warmaster looked around the bridge of the Vengeful Spirit, and bathed in its magnificence. Vaulted gunnery alcoves ranged its edges, many tall enough to fit an Imperial Knight inside, with the murderous servitors of the Dark Mechanicum flesh-melded into their cabled intestines. Sparks of warpflame wound through the air, exhaled by the mighty ship’s gargoyle-mouthed venting pipes. The grille underfoot was stained rich brown with spilt blood.
They were marks of history, those fallen droplets. Some had come from the veins of the hated Emperor himself; the blood of a god, as some would have it. Yet more had come from the Angel Sanguinius. Rich, dark spurts of it, spattering in great measure. Abaddon smiled as he flexed the Talon of Horus, borrowing its memory of the Primarch kill, savouring it once more.
At his back, the Daemon sword Drach’nyen seethed, jealous of its rival weapon’s prominence at that time, in that place. ‘Rest easy,’ snarled Abaddon. ‘You will drink the blood of heroes soon enough.’
‘You will destroy only yourself…’ coughed his Space Marine captive, bright blood joining the dried gore on his chin and spattering his bright yellow armour. ‘Dash yourself to pieces on the aegis of this world.’
‘You amuse me,’ said Abaddon, though his deep bass tone had not a shred of mirth. ‘Every court has its jester.’
The Space Marine coughed once more, and fell silent, but Abaddon could feel his hatred boring into the back of his head. It was… invigorating.
The Vengeful Spirit would have his forces on the planet within the hour. The vessel was an ancient god of war, cast in the form of a Gloriana-class battleship – his battleship. After ten long millennia, he felt part of it, body and soul. The great ship had only been made more potent over the ages by the raw hatred of the warp, the dark energy that coursed through its bilges. That other famous flagship of the Black Legion – the Planet Killer – had its uses, and he was using it well, even now. But he would rather die than abandon the Spirit.
Behind the flagship came a hundred macro-class vessels and more, contingents from the Stygius war zone and the infernal forges of Nemendghast joining it with every new day. It would be easy enough to overcome the battered naval presence before them. The Spirit alone was a broadsword matched against knives, and it would hack a bloody hole in the paltry defence before them.
The Warmaster revelled in the feeling of being on the threshold of victory. Did his predecessor Horus ever take a moment to relish his anticipation before launching a critical strike at the Emperor’s false domain? Abaddon felt certain that he did. Oftentimes he had been there in person, so long ago.
But Horus had failed. Horus was weak. Where Terra had stood, Vigilus would fall, and soon. A full half of the galaxy would be cut off from the Emperor’s Light. Then could begin the endgame. Then, with his prey crippled, he could make ready for the kill.
‘Have the Worldclaimer attend me,’ he said, turning to the beast-masked sorcerer already etching an octogrammatic rune of summonation upon the deck. ‘I would hear of the promise he has made on my behalf.’
‘As you will it, Warmaster,’ said the sorcerer, bowing low. He was careful not to make eye contact, as ever. A coward, that one, but useful.
The scent of burning human bone wound through the bridge as the incense of communion was lit, and the rough syllables of the dark tongue growled out of the sorcerer’s vox-plate, echoed by a dozen of its acolytes. The air above the octogram began to shimmer, as if in a heat haze, and then resolve.
The red eye lenses and distorted maw of the Worldclaimer swam into focus, lit from below by eight candles of flesh-tallow. The sorcerer bowed, and retreated into shadow.
‘Haarken,’ said the Warmaster. ‘Speak.’
‘We have brought fire and damnation in your name, my lord, but not conquest,’ said his herald, his voice overlaid with a dozen Daemon-echoes. ‘Not yet.’
‘I am conquest given form,’ said the Warmaster, opening his arms wide. ‘And here I am. Who stands against me?’
‘The Lord Macragge, four of his fellow masters, and their Chapters. The Ecclesiarchy and their Sororitas. The Knights of Dharrovar and Terryn. And the soldiery.’
Abaddon sighed, and looked away in disgust. ‘I am disappointed in Guilliman’s lack of foresight,’ he said. ‘The head of that pompous fool Calgar upon my bridge will have to do.’
‘Time runs short,’ said the herald. ‘I spoke of this planet’s doom two lunar months hence. The Helspear bit deep, as ever. The claim was made. Yet the planet’s defenders believe it to be an idle boast.’
‘It could not be more true,’ said Abaddon, his hand straying to Drach’nyen in its scabbard to reassure it that the slaughter was close at hand. He motioned for the greater teleportarium decks to be activated, and a clutch of servitors spasmed into sudden life. ‘This world will burn, that much is certain, and become that which it hates the most.’ He smiled, his pointed teeth the leer of a shark.
‘You will die to a man,’ said his Space Marine captive, venom under the agony in his voice. ‘Vigilus will not fall!’
‘Enough.’
Abaddon made a curt gesture, extinguishing the incense bowl and thus ending the communique with his herald. He strode over to the captive, drawing Drach’nyen from its scabbard. It made a slick, ugly sound, like that of a cinder drake licking its fangs. The Daemon sword screamed in hideous anticipation as its glowing tip was lowered towards the captive’s throat.
With a deft and practised flick, the Warmaster gouged out the fallen warrior’s progenoid glands with the tip of his hateful blade. The captive spat at Abaddon, acidic spittle sizzling on the Warmaster’s boot.
‘Show him,’ said Abaddon.
The Daemon sword Drach’nyen glowed as it let the Space Marine glimpse the full futility of his struggle before his death. His eyes went wide.
‘No,’ managed the loyalist.
‘Yes,’ said Abaddon, nodding sagely. ‘Vigilus has already fallen.’ ]]
[[ The tyrant stood in his accustomed position on the bridge, his expression stony as he gazed out of the viewing arch at the planet below.
The Warmaster had come to Vigilus.
It was a sizeable world, and well defended. That much was obvious by the naval presence dotted around it and the ident runes of a score of loyalist Chapters scattered across the viewing arch’s vintage interface.
They were in disarray, battered by the brutish xenos that had intuited the immense value of this planet as the waystation closest to the northern end of the Nachmund Gauntlet, one of the only known stable routes into the Imperium Nihilus.. But the Imperials would fight, and hard. He wouldn’t have had it any other way. When he claimed Vigilus, he would do it in fire and splendour.
The hoarse breathing of his captive played on the cusp of hearing, disturbing his reverie. Abaddon cast a glance towards the fallen Space Marine, his ruined body impaled in a dozen places by the blades of the Possessed that had brought him. The Warmaster noted the smears of blood that had clotted in a dozen places across his broad, once-handsome face. Breaking loyalists – it never lost its charm.
His time would come, and soon.
The Warmaster looked around the bridge of the Vengeful Spirit, and bathed in its magnificence. Vaulted gunnery alcoves ranged its edges, many tall enough to fit an Imperial Knight inside, with the murderous servitors of the Dark Mechanicum flesh-melded into their cabled intestines. Sparks of warpflame wound through the air, exhaled by the mighty ship’s gargoyle-mouthed venting pipes. The grille underfoot was stained rich brown with spilt blood.
They were marks of history, those fallen droplets. Some had come from the veins of the hated Emperor himself; the blood of a god, as some would have it. Yet more had come from the Angel Sanguinius. Rich, dark spurts of it, spattering in great measure. Abaddon smiled as he flexed the Talon of Horus, borrowing its memory of the Primarch kill, savouring it once more.
At his back, the Daemon sword Drach’nyen seethed, jealous of its rival weapon’s prominence at that time, in that place. ‘Rest easy,’ snarled Abaddon. ‘You will drink the blood of heroes soon enough.’
‘You will destroy only yourself…’ coughed his Space Marine captive, bright blood joining the dried gore on his chin and spattering his bright yellow armour. ‘Dash yourself to pieces on the aegis of this world.’
‘You amuse me,’ said Abaddon, though his deep bass tone had not a shred of mirth. ‘Every court has its jester.’
The Space Marine coughed once more, and fell silent, but Abaddon could feel his hatred boring into the back of his head. It was… invigorating.
The Vengeful Spirit would have his forces on the planet within the hour. The vessel was an ancient god of war, cast in the form of a Gloriana-class battleship – his battleship. After ten long millennia, he felt part of it, body and soul. The great ship had only been made more potent over the ages by the raw hatred of the warp, the dark energy that coursed through its bilges. That other famous flagship of the Black Legion – the Planet Killer – had its uses, and he was using it well, even now. But he would rather die than abandon the Spirit.
Behind the flagship came a hundred macro-class vessels and more, contingents from the Stygius war zone and the infernal forges of Nemendghast joining it with every new day. It would be easy enough to overcome the battered naval presence before them. The Spirit alone was a broadsword matched against knives, and it would hack a bloody hole in the paltry defence before them.
The Warmaster revelled in the feeling of being on the threshold of victory. Did his predecessor Horus ever take a moment to relish his anticipation before launching a critical strike at the Emperor’s false domain? Abaddon felt certain that he did. Oftentimes he had been there in person, so long ago.
But Horus had failed. Horus was weak. Where Terra had stood, Vigilus would fall, and soon. A full half of the galaxy would be cut off from the Emperor’s Light. Then could begin the endgame. Then, with his prey crippled, he could make ready for the kill.
‘Have the Worldclaimer attend me,’ he said, turning to the beast-masked sorcerer already etching an octogrammatic rune of summonation upon the deck. ‘I would hear of the promise he has made on my behalf.’
‘As you will it, Warmaster,’ said the sorcerer, bowing low. He was careful not to make eye contact, as ever. A coward, that one, but useful.
The scent of burning human bone wound through the bridge as the incense of communion was lit, and the rough syllables of the dark tongue growled out of the sorcerer’s vox-plate, echoed by a dozen of its acolytes. The air above the octogram began to shimmer, as if in a heat haze, and then resolve.
The red eye lenses and distorted maw of the Worldclaimer swam into focus, lit from below by eight candles of flesh-tallow. The sorcerer bowed, and retreated into shadow.
‘Haarken,’ said the Warmaster. ‘Speak.’
‘We have brought fire and damnation in your name, my lord, but not conquest,’ said his herald, his voice overlaid with a dozen Daemon-echoes. ‘Not yet.’
‘I am conquest given form,’ said the Warmaster, opening his arms wide. ‘And here I am. Who stands against me?’
‘The Lord Macragge, four of his fellow masters, and their Chapters. The Ecclesiarchy and their Sororitas. The Knights of Dharrovar and Terryn. And the soldiery.’
Abaddon sighed, and looked away in disgust. ‘I am disappointed in Guilliman’s lack of foresight,’ he said. ‘The head of that pompous fool Calgar upon my bridge will have to do.’
‘Time runs short,’ said the herald. ‘I spoke of this planet’s doom two lunar months hence. The Helspear bit deep, as ever. The claim was made. Yet the planet’s defenders believe it to be an idle boast.’
‘It could not be more true,’ said Abaddon, his hand straying to Drach’nyen in its scabbard to reassure it that the slaughter was close at hand. He motioned for the greater teleportarium decks to be activated, and a clutch of servitors spasmed into sudden life. ‘This world will burn, that much is certain, and become that which it hates the most.’ He smiled, his pointed teeth the leer of a shark.
‘You will die to a man,’ said his Space Marine captive, venom under the agony in his voice. ‘Vigilus will not fall!’
‘Enough.’
Abaddon made a curt gesture, extinguishing the incense bowl and thus ending the communique with his herald. He strode over to the captive, drawing Drach’nyen from its scabbard. It made a slick, ugly sound, like that of a cinder drake licking its fangs. The Daemon sword screamed in hideous anticipation as its glowing tip was lowered towards the captive’s throat.
With a deft and practised flick, the Warmaster gouged out the fallen warrior’s progenoid glands with the tip of his hateful blade. The captive spat at Abaddon, acidic spittle sizzling on the Warmaster’s boot.
‘Show him,’ said Abaddon.
The Daemon sword Drach’nyen glowed as it let the Space Marine glimpse the full futility of his struggle before his death. His eyes went wide.
‘No,’ managed the loyalist.
‘Yes,’ said Abaddon, nodding sagely. ‘Vigilus has already fallen.’ ]]
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
Raga wrote:I managed to scald the crap out of my right hand with hot tea last night. The burn isn't severe, but I did manage to get all of my fingers, which is possibly the most annoying placement I can think of.
Sorry to hear that!
Hope you get better soon.
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
Anyone that's not Rune know anything about laptops?
Basically what they're worth and the the best I can get for less than £500 ($665.90 / 586.98 Euros)
I have asked Rune already but my replies have been missed as I think he's busy.
Basically what they're worth and the the best I can get for less than £500 ($665.90 / 586.98 Euros)
I have asked Rune already but my replies have been missed as I think he's busy.
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Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIWaUSGfU0U&index=10&list=WL
Note to self, never use epic game store.
Note to self, never use epic game store.
the post is over, stop reading and move on.
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
Rune wrote:Mazder wrote:Anyone that's not Rune know anything about laptops?
Basically what they're worth and the the best I can get for less than £500 ($665.90 / 586.98 Euros)
I have asked Rune already but my replies have been missed as I think he's busy.
Sorry I rarely ever use discord. Didn't I respond earlier though?The dell with the 2500u in it would be a much better choice. The integrated graphics in it are at a level an i5 would never dream of touching.
It's okay man, I don't think to pester you on other platforms, I respect your privacy, lol.
I think I'll go with that one then, unless there is a better one I can get in the same range that I see, or you see, lol.
Oh, build quality question.
I have heard Dell Inspirons might have lesser build quality, can you attest to this or is it a guessing job?
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
https://www.space.com/halo-drive-black- ... ravel.html
[[ Future spaceships could use black holes as powerful launch pads to explore the stars.
A new study envisions firing laser beams that would curve around a black hole and come back with added energy to help propel a spacecraft to near the speed of light. Astronomers could look for signs that alien civilizations are using such a "halo drive," as the study dubs it, by seeing if pairs of black holes are merging more often than expected.
Study author David Kipping, an astrophysicist at Columbia University in New York, came up with the idea of the halo drive through what he calls "the gamer's mindset."
"Sometimes, in a computer game you find an 'exploit,' a hack which allows you to do something overpowered that would otherwise be forbidden by the rules of the game," Kipping told Space.com. "In this case, the game is the physical world, and I tried to think about exploits that would allow a civilization to achieve relativistic flight back and forth across the galaxy without the vast energy expense that one might naively assume."
A key challenge to using rockets to fly through space is that the propellant they carry with them has mass. Long trips need a lot of propellant, which makes the rockets heavy, which in turn requires more propellant, making the rockets even heavier, and so on. That problem gets exponentially worse the bigger the rocket gets.
Instead of carrying propellant for propulsion, however, spacecraft equipped with mirror-like sails could rely on lasers to push them outward. The $100 million Breakthrough Starshot initiative, announced in 2016, plans to use powerful lasers to propel swarms of spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own, at up to 20 percent the speed of light.
The spacecraft that Breakthrough Starshot aims to launch are each only about the size of a microchip. In order to accelerate larger spaceships to relativistic speeds — to a significant fraction of light speed — Kipping sought the aid of gravity.
Spacecraft now regularly use "slingshot maneuvers," in which the gravity of a body, such as a planet or moon, hurls the vessels across space and boosts their speed. In 1963, famed physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that spaceships of any given size could rely on slingshot maneuvers around compact pairs of white dwarfs or neutron stars to fly at relativistic speeds. (Dyson came up with the notion of what became known as a Dyson sphere, a megastructure that encapsulates a star to capture as much of its energy as possible to power an advanced civilization.)
However, a "Dyson slingshot" runs the risk of damaging a spacecraft through extreme gravitational forces and hazardous radiation from those pairs of dead stars. Instead, Kipping suggests that gravity might assist spaceships by increasing the energy of laser beams fired at the edges of black holes.
Black holes possess gravitational fields so powerful that nothing can escape them once it gets close enough, not even light. Their gravitational fields can also distort the paths of photons of light that do not fall into the holes.
In 1993, physicist Mark Stuckey suggested that a black hole could, in principle, act like a "gravitational mirror," in that the black hole's gravity could slingshot a photon around so that it flew back at its source. Kipping calculated that if a black hole was moving toward a photon's source, the "boomerang photon" would siphon away some of the black hole's energy.
Using what he called a "halo drive" — named for the ring of light it would create around a black hole — Kipping found that even spaceships with the mass of Jupiter could achieve relativistic speeds. "A civilization could exploit black holes as galactic waypoints," he wrote in a study accepted by the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society and detailed online Feb. 28 in the arXiv preprint server.
The faster a black hole moves, the more energy a halo drive could draw from it. As such, Kipping largely focused on using pairs of black holes spiraling toward each other before a merger.
Astronomers could look for signs that alien civilizations are exploiting pairs of black holes for travel with such an engine. For example, halo drives would effectively steal energy from such binary black hole systems, increasing the rates at which pairs of black holes merge above what one would expect to see naturally, Kipping said.
His findings were based on boosts from pairs of black holes orbiting each other at relativistic speeds. Although there are an estimated 10 million pairs of black holes in the Milky Way, Kipping noted that few of those likely orbited at relativistic speeds for long, since they would merge rather quickly.
Still, he noted that isolated, spinning black holes could also launch halo drives at relativistic speeds, "and we already know of numerous examples of relativistic, spinning supermassive black holes."
The major drawback of a halo drive would be that "one has to travel to the nearest black hole," Kipping said. "It's akin to paying a one-time toll fee to ride the highway system. You have to pay some energy to reach the nearest access point, but after that, you can ride for free as a long as you like."
The halo drive works only in close proximity to a black hole, at a distance of about five to 50 times the black hole's diameter. "This is why you have to travel to the nearest black hole first and [why you] can't simply do this across light-years of space," Kipping said. "We still first require a means to travel to nearby stars to ride the highway system.
"If we want to achieve relativistic flight, it takes immense energy levels no matter what propulsion system you use," he added. "One way to get around this is to use astronomical objects as your power source, since they possess literally astronomical levels of energy within them. In this case, the black-hole binary is essentially a giant battery waiting for us to tap it. The idea is to work with nature and not against it."
Kipping is now investigating ways to exploit other astronomical systems for relativistic flight. Such techniques "may not be quite as efficient or fast as the halo-drive approach, but these systems possess the deep energy reserves needed for these journeys," Kipping said. ]]
[[ Future spaceships could use black holes as powerful launch pads to explore the stars.
A new study envisions firing laser beams that would curve around a black hole and come back with added energy to help propel a spacecraft to near the speed of light. Astronomers could look for signs that alien civilizations are using such a "halo drive," as the study dubs it, by seeing if pairs of black holes are merging more often than expected.
Study author David Kipping, an astrophysicist at Columbia University in New York, came up with the idea of the halo drive through what he calls "the gamer's mindset."
"Sometimes, in a computer game you find an 'exploit,' a hack which allows you to do something overpowered that would otherwise be forbidden by the rules of the game," Kipping told Space.com. "In this case, the game is the physical world, and I tried to think about exploits that would allow a civilization to achieve relativistic flight back and forth across the galaxy without the vast energy expense that one might naively assume."
A key challenge to using rockets to fly through space is that the propellant they carry with them has mass. Long trips need a lot of propellant, which makes the rockets heavy, which in turn requires more propellant, making the rockets even heavier, and so on. That problem gets exponentially worse the bigger the rocket gets.
Instead of carrying propellant for propulsion, however, spacecraft equipped with mirror-like sails could rely on lasers to push them outward. The $100 million Breakthrough Starshot initiative, announced in 2016, plans to use powerful lasers to propel swarms of spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own, at up to 20 percent the speed of light.
The spacecraft that Breakthrough Starshot aims to launch are each only about the size of a microchip. In order to accelerate larger spaceships to relativistic speeds — to a significant fraction of light speed — Kipping sought the aid of gravity.
Spacecraft now regularly use "slingshot maneuvers," in which the gravity of a body, such as a planet or moon, hurls the vessels across space and boosts their speed. In 1963, famed physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that spaceships of any given size could rely on slingshot maneuvers around compact pairs of white dwarfs or neutron stars to fly at relativistic speeds. (Dyson came up with the notion of what became known as a Dyson sphere, a megastructure that encapsulates a star to capture as much of its energy as possible to power an advanced civilization.)
However, a "Dyson slingshot" runs the risk of damaging a spacecraft through extreme gravitational forces and hazardous radiation from those pairs of dead stars. Instead, Kipping suggests that gravity might assist spaceships by increasing the energy of laser beams fired at the edges of black holes.
Black holes possess gravitational fields so powerful that nothing can escape them once it gets close enough, not even light. Their gravitational fields can also distort the paths of photons of light that do not fall into the holes.
In 1993, physicist Mark Stuckey suggested that a black hole could, in principle, act like a "gravitational mirror," in that the black hole's gravity could slingshot a photon around so that it flew back at its source. Kipping calculated that if a black hole was moving toward a photon's source, the "boomerang photon" would siphon away some of the black hole's energy.
Using what he called a "halo drive" — named for the ring of light it would create around a black hole — Kipping found that even spaceships with the mass of Jupiter could achieve relativistic speeds. "A civilization could exploit black holes as galactic waypoints," he wrote in a study accepted by the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society and detailed online Feb. 28 in the arXiv preprint server.
The faster a black hole moves, the more energy a halo drive could draw from it. As such, Kipping largely focused on using pairs of black holes spiraling toward each other before a merger.
Astronomers could look for signs that alien civilizations are exploiting pairs of black holes for travel with such an engine. For example, halo drives would effectively steal energy from such binary black hole systems, increasing the rates at which pairs of black holes merge above what one would expect to see naturally, Kipping said.
His findings were based on boosts from pairs of black holes orbiting each other at relativistic speeds. Although there are an estimated 10 million pairs of black holes in the Milky Way, Kipping noted that few of those likely orbited at relativistic speeds for long, since they would merge rather quickly.
Still, he noted that isolated, spinning black holes could also launch halo drives at relativistic speeds, "and we already know of numerous examples of relativistic, spinning supermassive black holes."
The major drawback of a halo drive would be that "one has to travel to the nearest black hole," Kipping said. "It's akin to paying a one-time toll fee to ride the highway system. You have to pay some energy to reach the nearest access point, but after that, you can ride for free as a long as you like."
The halo drive works only in close proximity to a black hole, at a distance of about five to 50 times the black hole's diameter. "This is why you have to travel to the nearest black hole first and [why you] can't simply do this across light-years of space," Kipping said. "We still first require a means to travel to nearby stars to ride the highway system.
"If we want to achieve relativistic flight, it takes immense energy levels no matter what propulsion system you use," he added. "One way to get around this is to use astronomical objects as your power source, since they possess literally astronomical levels of energy within them. In this case, the black-hole binary is essentially a giant battery waiting for us to tap it. The idea is to work with nature and not against it."
Kipping is now investigating ways to exploit other astronomical systems for relativistic flight. Such techniques "may not be quite as efficient or fast as the halo-drive approach, but these systems possess the deep energy reserves needed for these journeys," Kipping said. ]]
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
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I just got back from Dallas as a last minute helper/salesmen for the Marketing company my mother works for.
I was at the Hearth, Patio, and Grill convention. Which exists. So very many hearths. And Patio furnitures. And grills.
People from all across the country. The world even. For grills. And Patio Furniture. And Hearths.
Had some fucking sweet barbecue though.
I was at the Hearth, Patio, and Grill convention. Which exists. So very many hearths. And Patio furnitures. And grills.
People from all across the country. The world even. For grills. And Patio Furniture. And Hearths.
Had some fucking sweet barbecue though.
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Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
Rune wrote:Food is the only thing I miss from Texas.
You ever have a hamburger made of ground Short-rib and chuck? And then topped with a creamy blend of cheddar cheese, cream cheese, and pimento?
I'd murder a child no questions asked for another taste.
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Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
Rune wrote:It varies model by model. For consumer laptops dell basically reuses the same clamshell for all of its units so you should be fine.
Thanks, I'mma go with the Lenovo, better screen resolution.
Rune you're a godsend.
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Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
Rune wrote:Nah. The only thing about me that isn't terrible is my knowledge of computers. If you can find any with a 2700u in your price bracket, aim for that. But the 2500u will beat the pants off of anything without a discreet GPU.
Ah don't knock it, that's a skill others need. And if you're good at something never do it for free, so I owe you.
And anything with a 2700u puts it into the "sod it i'll borrow my dad's PC and upgrade my main rig" prices.
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0

https://gematsu.com/2019/03/dragon-ball ... 15KVwlywFM
https://www.destructoid.com/dragon-ball ... 6608.phtml
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019 ... n-the-game
Yet ANOTHER version of Goku? Really? Sigh...
Where's Caulifla/Kale/Kefla? Janemba? Zarbon? Toppo? Dabura? Imperfect Cell? Mr. Satan? You got so many fun potential characters at your disposal... and you choose another Goku variant.
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
Have you guys ever been to Restera? It may be the worst online forum I have ever encountered.
I've seen it brought up on a certain image board over the past few months, and morbid curiosity pushed me into actually visiting the website. I've taken to lurking in it for a hoot here and there, but the payoff wasn't worth it. Those people are absolutely "progressive," and calling it an echo chamber would be a grave understatement. If you disagree with the kool-aid they serve you, you aren't just ostracized for having a different opinion, you get banned outright and are accused of being an alt-right troll.
This is a website that George Orwell would be ashamed of. They don't encourage discussion, they want their safe space, and frankly I thank that their website is more or less a containment site for these people.
I've seen it brought up on a certain image board over the past few months, and morbid curiosity pushed me into actually visiting the website. I've taken to lurking in it for a hoot here and there, but the payoff wasn't worth it. Those people are absolutely "progressive," and calling it an echo chamber would be a grave understatement. If you disagree with the kool-aid they serve you, you aren't just ostracized for having a different opinion, you get banned outright and are accused of being an alt-right troll.
This is a website that George Orwell would be ashamed of. They don't encourage discussion, they want their safe space, and frankly I thank that their website is more or less a containment site for these people.
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Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
You just described half the online forums and groups around nowadays, really.
Welcome to the Age of the Echo Chamber.
Welcome to the Age of the Echo Chamber.
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
Alienmorph wrote:You just described half the online forums and groups around nowadays, really.
Welcome to the Age of the Echo Chamber.
more like welcome to the age of Snowflakes.
the post is over, stop reading and move on.
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Alienmorph wrote:Look what I've just finished painting!
Holt shit! This is a level far above me. Awesome work.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/PdxInteracti ... 9021288449



"Paradox teased possible new Vampire the Masquerade with screenshots."



"Paradox teased possible new Vampire the Masquerade with screenshots."
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Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0

…aaaaaaaaaand its official.
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
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WHY IS NO ONE IMPRESSED WITH THOSE POKEMON SHIRTS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
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Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
Dragaros wrote:
…aaaaaaaaaand its official.
I'd be more OK with this is there weren't already 7 Goku's in the game
Re: Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0
TheodoricFriede wrote:WHY IS NO ONE IMPRESSED WITH THOSE POKEMON SHIRTS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
I only just got here and they're amazing and I can never own one, stupid tiny asian market sizes.
Where's my LandWhale sizes?
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Mazder wrote:I only just got here and they're amazing and I can never own one, stupid tiny asian market sizes.
Where's my LandWhale sizes?
They-re pretty damned customizable from what I have seen. I'd be surprised if they couldn't make something for you.
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