I take it that P'ul already scanned and the tech and all the databases on the ship and handed everything to the Empire's R&D people. Rehabilitating the AI is all well and good but that tech can save a lot of people and there is no reason to let it sit there.
Assuming he could do it.
Yes, the Ark Mechanicus class.
Man, talk about some obscure lore deep cuts. As for the decor, I suspect after any amount of time aboard an Imperial vessel, anything without gothic architecture, skulls and incense will feel relaxing.
Surprised the On-board General Intelligence hasn't devised a usename fro contact with its crew or guests.
AI is a literal crapshoot in Warhammer 40k, what with the high risk of daemonic possession or murderous psychopathy. There's a reason the Mechanicum call them 'Abominable Intelligences', after all.
Though they're probably taking copious notes during their observations.
Ah, the possibly-Maltusian vessel's study was interrupted, of course.
No doubt making sure all signage is in Tau, Federation standard and English...
I would have hoped they'd have taken a moment to observe from a distance before approaching an unknown world...
Well, compared to Federation-era standards, they are medieval peasants with salvaged hypertech...
And some people wonder why others think the Imperials are evil. To be fair, they are zealously religous and trained to be excessively paranoid about 'heresy'...
Only natural. Wonder if he ever got bored waiting for the crew to catch up with his electronic reflexes?
Ah, not that interested in whatever P'ol suggested, then.
Which probably consists of transcribing the lyrics, checking them for heresy, and praying. Assuming they can translate them (I assume P'ol provided his own translations.)
Not least the rather scrappy Latin use. Technically correct but ugly.
If he's advanced enough, he probably has visible emotional networks, of which P'ol can sense the Desire framework.
Honestly, it's not clear which would be better for the Imperium: The Emperor dying (which extinguishes the Astronomican at minimum, and possibly unleashes a fifth Chaos God for good measure) or him reassembling and reviving. At which point a lot of people get killed because 'What the fuck did you do to my empire!' is likely to be his first response. And the current leadership will probably take that poorly.
Yes, he did other things than 'Star Trek'. Sadly, he didn't live to see it air.
That seems exceptionally foolish. Probably because they didn't consider the full implications of the concept.
Isolation is a terrible thing for a social animal like Humanity, and that applies to the things we create in our image.
...Not what he meant, but then, he didn't specify.
Ah, classic 'are we talking about the same thing, or..?' misunderstandings. Age-old comedy.
Well, that's better than some people alternate Pauls interact with. Just look at Inquisitor Vail back there.
And defence platform, because Federation-era starship. Even a pleasure yacht could have weapons far in excess of anything modern Human vessels posess.
Well, once he gets them to stop praying to or screaming 'Abominable Intelligence' at him, he might get along with them.
Probably easier to work with for resupply...
He has nothing but time, after all.
Since the Tau probably aren't the greatest conversationalists even without a language barrier.
Why do I suspect he's got a room filled with just such things, likely produced via generative VI and physical scans?
Given the many AI we see that don't get possessed at the drop of a hat? I'm willing to bet money on the Mechanicus not being all that right about AI. Like, the STC making Iron Men in Gaunts' Ghosts had been sitting on a Chaos controlled planet for centuries or millennia; that's hardly normal circumstances. The Tau seem to be managing just fine. The Votann, not so much, but that's due to the Kin overloading them with junk data, not Chaos.
AI's don't get emotions in 40k due to emotions originating from the Warp, so if you see any AI possessing them it's either not actually an AI, a Chaos Daemon pretending to be an AI, or a Mr Zoat rewrite.
The Emperor woke up for 30 or so seconds recently, he seemed relatively chill with things outside of blasting Nurgal with enough power to seriously wound him.
They do not.
General reminder that the thing that lets normal people resist Chaos is a positive or negative warp presence.
You know, if you're going to claim someone is wrong it's usually a good idea to provide evidence backing that claim up.
I don't think that's quite true. Terminator Armour is based on reactor maintenance protective suits, but even the Imperium has modified them a bit. And since this is a 2nd Edition story, we're going with the 2nd Edition description of Knight Worlds: human worlds that reverted to primitivism during the Age of Isolation and were rediscovered by Mechanicus exporation fleets.
I doubt it. Chaos ships in Battlefleet Gothic are what the Imperium used to use, so they are changing the design a bit. Mode likely they crib a few systems off records relating to colony ships because that's all they have.
Only in the Horus Heresy series, which I don't think much of.
Thank you, corrected.
No, I think that's right.
He hasn't. Oh, he scanned a few local systems when he first boarded it, but he isn't trying to penetrate the database. He knows that the AI is very sensitive about the whole situation and doesn't want to do anything that would set it off. It's not like the tau are advanced enough to put anything in there into production immediately anyway.
That's a fairly recent addition to the background. As far as I remember, the first mention of 'Men of Iron' was in Gaunt's Ghost, where they were simple combat robots. The next was in the 3rd Edition rulebook, where a deranged Imperial historian regurgitated some nonsense half-remembered stories about pre-Imperial history where he mentioned Men of Stone, Men of Iron and Men of Gold, and it sounded like he was talking about types of augmentation or political parties. The modern 'AI=Abominable Intelligence=Men of Iron' is a recent lore addition.
No, there was an episode where the ship's mind got damaged and the mobile unit was the only thing that remembered what was going on.
A dissadvantage of the caste system. If they'd sent a few water caste members it would be going better.
Because you secretly lust for my naked body?
Off screen.
Nope. 3rd Edition Codex Necrons. There are 4 c'tan, and they're whole.
In-universe, from the SI's point of view, having a more efficient Imperium isn't necessarily a good thing, even if he could guarantee breaching the statis fields around and healing a poison he can't analyse before he breaches them, which he can't.
The whole Monarchia thing comes from the Horus Heresy novels. The previous version was less stupid.
I've seen things in recent fanfiction which suggest to me that GW has had the Imperium write the traitor primarchs out of history.
I said nothing about great success, simply that it worked and has worked for thousands of years.
No... No it's not. Leaving aside the chapter cults and the entire Mechanicus, there are major tolerated divisions in belief and practice in the Ecclesiarchy. The Temple of the Saviour Emperor tried to maintain uniformity when they declared a War of Faith against the Confederacy of Light. It didn't work. The Confederacy of Light hung around until Sebastian Thor legitimised them. Then there's the Death Cults, the Redemptionists, the Imperialists and the Brethren of the Light to name a few. They all practice the faith differently and none are called heretics.
Except... Those things are actually threats. Heretics, mutants and (most) aliens are active threats to the Imperium and its people. It's not an invention to keep people scared, it's a simplified but basically literal description. In the medieval context, it's the difference between 'Jews eat Christian children' and 'Muslims raid Europe and carry of Christians as slaves'.
Was this a rebuttable of Ardy or me?
I suspect it's error operator. Humans with a warp presence have beliefs about machines, which accumulate warp energy as a result. Tau on the other hand don't have much of a warp presence and so don't have the same problem.
Beyond The Startide Nexus, one of the few times the Tau have actually encountered Chaos, shows their technology is just as vulnerable to even incidental chaos effects as all the others.
It's called Completely Sane Science. It's on spacebattle.
That should say 'crowd'.
I'm guessing the Anti-Life plus any changes as a result of the research and attacks in the Dream made Ahri'ahn's plan in the Renegade timeline unfeasible. Hopefully whatever he's doing here will be easier to disrupt.
"slowly"
"settle"
Well when the magic you use requires you to eat people, it makes sense why it would be illegal.
Either he's using a more subtle Dreaming method, or he may be manipulating them through the grafts.
He's...cutting himself to feel alive...
Thank you, corrected.
After all, the people need food, and they cannot live on seaweed and fish alone anymore. I expect a lot of the remaining underwater territory will be reallocated as farmland. And of course they need swimmers to work it...
Surprised Ahri'ahn didn't think of that, or maybe he has spells he knows that can do the job, but... Spending millennia underwater won't have done the country much good in terms of soil viability.
Presumably they have the freedom of the city, but if they try to leave...
Hopefully they can contain themselves until then.
True, Robert probably wasn't exactly a regular visitor to Atlantis back in the day. School, work and his being a thaumovore probably all contributed..
Well, they can barely keep up with her, and he can discreetly monitor her, so...
No doubt the only weapons allowed are those supplied by the arena itself.
There's a definite etiquette about where you enter a place, though. No swimming in through a 'window' unless invited, for instance?
And presumably working together as a resistance group, perhaps.
Subtle. On both sides.
Must feel strange to have such a divergent body shape to his usual. Probably going to feel real satisfied when he Wholeness Rightly Assumes his way back to normal.
As much as you could bow underwater without looking like you're simply attempting a somersault.
Lamprey, Lamprey... Not ringing a bell. I assume some outcast Atlantean sorcerer.
OL, you're kind of skipping a step or two.
Amusing, given what some alternates could do. But then, this world is a bit more realistic in his biology.
Especially with how sound carries underwater.
So, nothing big, really.
So the effect may be stronger above water, or at least within Poseidonis and the higher cities? I'm guessing she snuck up there to get information.
...Ow. Perhaps OL can offer a bit of healing, then. I'm guessing she was in an area she wasn't supposed to be and received lashes or the like.
I'm guessing it has something to do with his newest scars.
Ah, sensing the creepy 'not there' effect with his magical perception from the concealment tattoos...
He'd probably rather bite his tongue off.
Indeed, that's why he's here. Ahri'ahn is keeping mum and curating outside access to the country so no-one can see what he's been up to. Quite super-villainous behaviour, even if he claims to be a patriot.
Ah, good, a flashback laden with exposition. Thank goodness!
Seriously, every group who came into the city not under his control seemed to have him or a phantom copy monitoring them. That is suspicious as all get out.Steven turns to Robert as the three of us swim after her.
...clearly having a direction in mind...
She looks mildly disappointed, but snatches the stone...
I hold up my left hand for a moment, showing my ring.
Aqualad's counterpart from Earth -14. He ate his version of Tempest and is married to Aquagirl's counterpart against the latter's will.