Warhammer 40k background question

[Mokona]

The Illuminati are the humans who've escaped possession that I was thinking of. Thanks for helping me find it. Star Child was the reference to the emperor that I was looking for.

 

[Desdichado]

Apparently the whole sensei, star child and illuminati ideas have been scrapped. They haven't been brought up in ten years or more, and some of the more recent fluff, like Codex Necrons, for example, outright contradicts some of the stuff from the old Realms of Chaos boxed sets about the nature of the warp, the origin of the Chaos Gods, etc. Although most of the specifics about the Emperor himself are kept pretty close to the vest.

 

[Olive]

Green Ronin have the rights to Warhammer 40k RPG. It's slated for spring 06 I think?

No they don't. BI have the rights, and there's certainly be no announcement about a release date for it.

GR have been contracted to develop GW's IP (ie. Warhammer and WH40K). As Pramas says on his blog, that doesn't mean that GR will be doing the DC game. It also doesn't mean thata 40k game will ever be made, just that if it does get made, GR will make it.

Just a point of clarification.

 

[Testament]

Apparently the whole sensei, star child and illuminati ideas have been scrapped. They haven't been brought up in ten years or more, and some of the more recent fluff, like Codex Necrons, for example, outright contradicts some of the stuff from the old Realms of Chaos boxed sets about the nature of the warp, the origin of the Chaos Gods, etc. Although most of the specifics about the Emperor himself are kept pretty close to the vest.

Yeah, but if we go by Codex Necrons everything is the C'Tan's fault. I was seriously waiting for that book to tell me that the C'Tan killed JFK.

 

[Zappo]

Apparently the whole sensei, star child and illuminati ideas have been scrapped.

Yep. The designer that came up with them left GW. I think that the official line is now that the sensai and illuminate either were all killed by the Inquisition, or they were wrong/insane all along.

Now we get such high-quality background as, uhm, the Tau. Blargh. :\

At least, the Necron backstory was cool, but rather too far-reaching. On a few message boards, it seems that "who's a C'Tan?" has become a popular game. Depending on who you ask, any of these entities could be a C'Tan: the Machine God of Mars, the Laughing God of the Eldar, the Hive Mind of the Tyranids, the Emperor (!), and/or the Greater Good of the Tau.

 

[scourger]

Wow, that WH40K fluff bible is a big document. Sadly, I find the utter lack of any real good in the universe to be a big drawback for the WH40K setting.

 

[Desdichado]

Yeah, but if we go by Codex Necrons everything is the C'Tan's fault. I was seriously waiting for that book to tell me that the C'Tan killed JFK.

Naw, written by a bunch of Brits. They probably don't have the same JFK assassination morbid fascination that Americans have.

 

[Desdichado]

Yep. The designer that came up with them left GW. I think that the official line is now that the sensai and illuminate either were all killed by the Inquisition, or they were wrong/insane all along.

Rick Priestley left GW? The founder of the company? Or was it someone like Graeme Davis who invented the sensei stuff?

At least, the Necron backstory was cool, but rather too far-reaching. On a few message boards, it seems that "who's a C'Tan?" has become a popular game. Depending on who you ask, any of these entities could be a C'Tan: the Machine God of Mars, the Laughing God of the Eldar, the Hive Mind of the Tyranids, the Emperor (!), and/or the Greater Good of the Tau.

The Machine God of Mars probably is, based on a lot of hints in the Necron book. The rest of those are nothing more than idle speculation. There are, after all, only four C'tan supposed to still exist, and we do know who two of them are.

 

[Desdichado]

Wow, that WH40K fluff bible is a big document. Sadly, I find the utter lack of any real good in the universe to be a big drawback for the WH40K setting.

Funny -- I find that one of it's strong selling points.

 

[BullMarkOne]

Wow, that WH40K fluff bible is a big document. Sadly, I find the utter lack of any real good in the universe to be a big drawback for the WH40K setting.

True, its just so hard to pick only one evil! My personal preference has always been for chaos marines however.. but maybe thats because I like hacking up mini's..