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Whether I am victorious or slain, my sins will know retribution.
Whether I am victorious or slain, my sins will know retribution.
I don't think this will work as a tv series. Are there that many specific individuals that are worth presenting? (well, it's not like they can show whole decades, even if they start at the dawn of the age of Imperium).
I suppose they could just start with the Tyranid invasion, but that is just humans vs tyranids and little different from Starship Troopers. Iirc the concurrent events are the human-tau war and then the tau-orc war. Still will be hard to present as something making sense.
Yeh. particularly when 30k has its own rules to represents HHA Horus Heresy TV show might work as well. That whole era of the 40k universe has all the character drama and political intrigue to make it pretty much a 40k Game of Thrones.
Plus, I think done correctly, the Drop Site Massacre that kicked off the Horus Heresy would be amazing to see on screen. Especially the duel between Ferrus Manus and Fulgrim.
I don't know if the novels are half-believable, but the lore itself has many inconsistencies. Eg orks, some primitive race of war-crazed monsters, happen to produce a planet-sized warping spaceship "just through trial and error". Sounds rather silly ^_^
Maybe the Eldar would be good to present in a grim-dark setting (fall of the Eldar, Chaos gods etc).
The lore is intentionally inconsistent. GW has said as much. Basically they create lore that is contradictory and leave it up to fans to decide what they believe is the "truth".
This is summed up by GW's official stance when people ask them if a particular bit of lore is canon or not: "Everything is canon, but not everything is true.". So basically, 40k is an entire fictional universe based on the premise of the unreliable narrator.
Still sounds more like a cop-out than a well-planned concept
Though I haven't read any of their books - just saw videos and read articles online.
I can see how it seems that way, but it all does start to make a weird kind of sense if you really dig deep into the lore.
To use the Ork example you brought up: The Orks seem primitive and bestial, but there are certain Orks called Mekboyz that have an inmate understanding of technology and machinery. They are the ones who build all the weapons, vehicles, etc. for the Orks. Also, while their technology appears ramshackle, it works perfectly fine. That's because the Orks have a collective psychic ability that allows their belief to become reality. So while one of their shootas (what Orks call a gun) may just be a hollowed out piece of metal with a crude trigger attached, it will still fire in the hands of an Ork simply because he believes it should fire. If a human tries to fire it though, it will not function.
And they have these abilities because the Orks did not evolve naturally. They were created as a bio-weapon of sorts by the Old Ones millions of years ago to fight the Necrons. So the reason Orks are able to build massive starships despite appearing primitive is due to the innate technological prowess of Mekboyz coupled with the Orks' belief that they should be able to build such things.