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kiss with its ovipositore and inject them with its blessed DNA.

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As we said earlier, there's yikes.

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Mommy gene stealer.

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No, no, that is not the intro.

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I swear to God, we're not having mommy gene stealer.

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It's the intro.

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You foul man.

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Mommy big forehead.

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If someone made an image of this, I'm going to be so upset.

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I hate it so much.

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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Lore crimes.

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Today we have a very special episode for you because we are going to talk about the worshipers

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of the star children, that and many other names, those fine folk who love to tear you

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apart in the death watch video game.

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We are talking about the gene stealer cults today.

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Yeah.

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Before we begin, Hal has something he'd like to ask all of you.

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Yeah, before we get into the, I call them Levi thieves as a name because it's obviously

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gene stealers.

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If anyone enjoys that.

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I know.

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Yeah, total pun.

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So if you are new or you've been watching along for a little while, we want to try this

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new little cheeky thing and we want to hear a little bit from you, the audience.

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So we'd like to pose a question to you and we'd love to absolutely hear your response.

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The spicier, the better.

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Maybe not too spicy.

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Let's be honest.

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Try not to swear.

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I think YouTube might give us a big no-no.

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If we, maybe a bit, bit strong there.

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responses.

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The funnier, the better.

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And the next podcast episode, we will read the funniest ones and we'll obviously all

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try and behave like mature adults, like we all really are.

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We will dissect that and enjoy that.

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So the question we'd like you to answer is what's your hot take on your least favourite

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Primark?

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Hashtag hot take in the comments if you want to participate along with this Tom foolery,

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shall we say?

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And yeah, we want to, I mean, the funnier, I said earlier, the funny, the better.

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And if you win, we'll give you a big shout out and you will obviously tickle all of us.

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That sounded really bad, didn't it?

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Tickle our humour.

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There you go.

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Saved it.

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Tickle how?

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What?

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Not in the contract.

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This is not us.

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I can hear the sirens already.

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So yeah, the funnier, the better.

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Don't be afraid to go a bit crazy.

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Obviously try not to swear, but we'd love it if you would participate in this little

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Tom foolery.

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That's all I'll say.

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Leave it at that.

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Tom foolery.

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Let us know why Perturabo is the worst.

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Oh no, he's my favourite.

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Any way of spelling Lorgar there?

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I'm getting tickled already.

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But that's not what we'll be discussing today because today we are discussing a little insidious

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faction, shall we say within the Warhammer space.

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Little shadowy, I would say spooky, scary skeletons, but not quite.

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Sussy barkers.

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A lot of sussy barkers.

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Levi thieves.

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The nicknames are coming out immediately off the gate.

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I haven't even said my damn words.

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There are gene stealers among us.

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Son, please, where was it edited?

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It has to put like the sus among us.

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So today we are talking about gene stealers slash gene stealer cults, boys.

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Yeah, it's going to be a fun time.

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Strap yourselves in, prepare for some not quite heresy, but some shenanigans, some Xenos

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love today and let's get straight into it.

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So if anyone here is new or is not quite familiar with gene stealers in Warhammer, we'll give

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a little bit of a brief kind of description of what gene stealers are.

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So gene stealers are a kind of cultist, Xenos slash kind of human, human like hybrid race

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that infect so many of the worlds in the 41st millennium, unfortunately, nothing.

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Filthy mutants.

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Absolutely filthy.

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Definitely scum.

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And they are kind of these weird like chitinous, multi-limbed, bulbous head creatures.

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They have a lot of human characteristics.

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I wouldn't say they look, they definitely don't look human, but they're kind of recognisable

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and they are very much intimidating.

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A lot of them are quite, quite a few of them have like purpley kind of sickly skin and

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a big point, as I said, just a second ago is the multi-limbed part.

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hairlines are socially distancing because none of them have hair.

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that bit where Bill goes into like a thing and he gets turned into like a Pokemon mix.

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I was like, imagine him and then Ekans.

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That's basically a gene stealer.

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That's actually quite a good idea.

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the guy who sends Ash on the quests?

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can be with his mom.

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Ash's mom is with Mr. Mime.

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Oh my Lord.

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They are all continuing the trend in Warhammer.

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All evil characters are bald.

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perspective, but we'll get more into that in a little bit here.

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And so if you are kind of a little bit new or maybe you've not really dabbled too much

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in Warhammer, but it might be cool to learn that gene sealers themselves are actually

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inspired by H.P. Lovecraft.

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I finally get to talk about it.

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My favorite thing.

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The king in yellow comes.

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He does.

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the creepiness of Lovecraft work in Warhammer, but they kind of, gene sealers themselves

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are inspired by the story of the shadows over Innsmouth and they're kind of a play on what

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was the deep ones, the kind of these underground fishy people that looked very human.

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They're kind of gross.

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Whoever's doing the edit on this will see a picture and they'd be like, oh, and they're

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not going to enjoy that.

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this is going to sound a lot, sorry, it's going to sound very familiar to you as we

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absolute, I would say Chad, but I've nicknamed him Senator Armstrong slash Edward Scissor

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Teeth as a nickname for the, this is the pure gene sealer.

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basically starts it all.

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bulbous head, like weird.

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Do you want to ask guys, do you think they're ugly?

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I think they're kind of ugly in my opinion.

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I might have to talk to the local Magus about what you've been saying lately.

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You just don't fit very well into the congregation.

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All of them are beautiful.

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In the interest of not demonetizing the channel, I won't go into what I find attractive.

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Oh Lord.

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Oh Lord.

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I know, they're very ambidextrous.

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That's all I know.

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We'll leave it at that.

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Imagination is more powerful.

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Mommy Magus, Mommy Magus.

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What is monetization?

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So the Genestealer itself is a kind of infiltratey, creepy, multi-limbed Xenos and this is like,

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it definitely is, I'm trying to think of the primogenitor, that this is the whole, this

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is the one that gets the ball rolling.

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So a Genestealer will infiltrate and I put quotes, infect a victim.

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It's implied that they kind of do, it's not anything racy, shall we say, but there's like

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an infection of a, typically a human victim and this will sort of start to spread the

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genes and this sort of original Genestealer becomes the patriarch.

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You know, he becomes like a beacon for a certain, I guess, hive mind, shall we say, and he becomes

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the origin of the Genestealer cult within whatever little area it's infesting.

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their go, they've had their cigarette and they're like, oh, I'm having a bit of a rest

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powerful and they kind of sit in the dark spaces.

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So this is, forgive the names by the way, cause I'm going to mess up every name because

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they all got awful naming.

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Cause like, I don't know how to pronounce them, but it's called a Contagy with two I's at

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the end.

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Contagy?

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Contagy.

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That makes a lot more sense.

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Contagy, I'm trying to remember back to like Rome, total war where they'd scream like triorei.

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Maybe it's like Contagy.

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Triorei, I'm not sure that was the inspiration, but it makes sense to be fair.

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So this is the, the Genestealers come in and this is the person that's been infected by

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the Genestealer.

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the Genestealers.

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Cause this one is it's horny baby.

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Yes, I actually made that joke.

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This is the usually like a regular human and they've just been infected and they essentially

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want to go and procreate, shall we say.

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So this is the person who's like, wow.

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So this is the Austin Powers generation.

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Makadababi.

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The next generation of a Genestealer cult is called the, oh my God, the Malygenese

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or Malygenese.

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I think it's like Malygenese or something like that.

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It's very, again, words hard.

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infected victim.

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And this one is just a beast of a thing.

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It is an ugly, just, yeah, we said a bulbous head earlier.

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This thing is like, oh, it's like, could ram a brick wall down.

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Like it's pretty big.

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You can imagine them getting bullied at school.

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Rhino head.

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Like, what did you call me?

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My naming for this stage, I call it Patrick from SpongeBob.

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Because as I imagine their sound, they're not very intelligent.

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And I put a little kind of a little quip here, a little thought I had, which was they're

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only useful for synchronized grinning because that's how stupid they are.

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Just going in on them.

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If anyone's thinking, let that sort of mix with you guys, synchronized grinning.

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Who'd win in a spelling, the them or the O'grins?

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Oh, that's a tough question.

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Probably them, but they wouldn't, they can't actually, they can't really speak these ones.

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So probably the O'grins, but they win by just the attempt.

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They're called the hybrid generation.

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A lot of these have like multi limbs still.

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They can actually speak, which is obviously scary.

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not human.

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It's like Lovecraftian inspiration there.

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Like things that look slightly human often appears more scary.

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A bit uncanny.

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A bit uncanny valley sort of thing.

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I nicknamed this one the Sacha Baron Cohen, because that guy could inhabit any role.

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like Bruno, if anyone's seen that film.

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That's a bit, a bit overstimulating, shall we say.

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But they are essentially, yeah, they're pretty, they're in between what a original Genesee

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or multi-limbed one is, and you know, a bit more human.

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And this is when we get to the next stage, which is the true hybrid.

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So this is the one where this is the first time they can actually blend into human society.

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They are, again, it looks like slightly off.

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It looks a little bit off.

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The person looks a little chunk, shall we say, a little bit chunk.

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A bit uncanny valley kind of feel.

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Pretty much, yeah.

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This one, you'd have to have like a, you'd have a double take, if you know what I mean.

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It looks like Emperor, what's his name, Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One.

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You're like watching it like, that's not Peter Cushing.

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There's something off.

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I don't know.

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There's something, doesn't quite work.

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A little bit like that.

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A little bit like that, yeah.

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I nicknamed this sort of group the Modern Warfare 2 Lobby back in the day, because they are

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like slightly, they are human, obviously, but you can tell something's slightly off.

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So I thought that might be the, does anyone have any controversial opinion about that?

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I think they might be okay there.

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And I think the, so the last generation we get here to is called the Primacy, which is,

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this is the one which is, it's literally could be human.

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This is the very much, oh, this is the person who will infiltrate higher ends of society.

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And if you're say like a typical human like us, unfortunately, you will probably encounter

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or that this is the one that will be that the face of a Genestealer cult.

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Nicknamed this group the Elon Musk simps, because I figured like they're pretty much

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99% human, but they've got a little bit of a weird behaviour.

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So I thought that that might be the sort of tick, if you know what I mean.

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So we have a, you know, sends at Armstrong's to the Austin Powers, to Patrick from SpongeBob,

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Sacha Baron Cohen, Modern Warfare 2 Lobby, and then Elon Musk simps, if everyone's following

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along.

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Well, it's a good thing we don't have a Twitter account for this channel.

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Very much so.

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But I thought people might enjoy that because it says that there are, Genesteals are a nice

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like kind of undercut.

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They're like, can be scary, but also a little bit funny.

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So you know, I thought it's nice to have a little bit of humour in Warhammer eventually.

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And we get to funny enough, the most human looking Genestealer will then produce the

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Puri which is actually original Genestealer at the end of it.

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So essentially, it's spelled P U R double I again, was I think it's not a pure like

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a P pure right?

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Not like a P pure you have with you.

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Genestealer puree goes great with pizza.

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And not like something you have with your mushy peas or anything like that with a fish

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and chips get your cultural reference in now.

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Two of you guys have no idea what I'm on about.

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It's perfect.

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And yeah, I like fries, fries, chips, chips, fries, fries, love me puree.

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Susan made dinner.

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Lovely.

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Oh man.

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And yes, they kind of basically the cycle begins again.

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And everyone is like, oh, you know, oh, no, the Genestealer has returned.

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And all the new generations will spawn from that one.

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Now you've said it like that.

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I'm just thinking about Elton John's, it's the circular genes just like the disgusting

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way that that doesn't that hits wrong.

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That hits really wrong.

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Oh my god.

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So for Genestealer cults themselves in Warhammer, where you'll typically find these disgusting,

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sorry, excuse me, enlightened places, Eli, excuse me for being so misguided.

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Enlightened places.

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A lot of these are like found in like Hive cities, space hulks.

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A lot of the time they're kind of hidden in, I think I put it like they're very like the

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downtrodden areas of the Imperium, of the Imperium, a million worlds, obviously a lot of places

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for Genestealers to hide and they often will put themselves in places where the Imperium

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will say security is light, shall we say, they're security is diet, diet security there,

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because it's just not something they want out in the open yet.

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And a Genestealer cult itself will often, as I said, just a second ago, they'll be underground,

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they're kind of, as most cults things do, they're kind of hoping to infiltrate and spread.

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So they'll start from very underground, you know, they won't be, they won't be open at

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all.

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They'll be recruiting, I say, I'm going to say recruiting, I mean, spreading the gene

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see, the genes.

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So they'll be spreading the genes and they will kind of lead into their genes like margarine.

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Very much so, and they'll eventually lead into a sort of a open rebellion and war.

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And this is a big bad no-no for the Imperium in Warhammer.

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They're not having it.

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Yeah, it's not, it's not good.

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It's not good.

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They're not happy with that part.

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All the parts before that to be fair, but that's like the big kind of thing, like when

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a Genestealer cult essentially unleashes itself.

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And the kind of first time that Genesteals in Warhammer were found was an event called

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Gossar Quintus, called the First Contact.

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So this was a mining colony and this is sort of where the, I think Colin might have mentioned

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this even just before we started, but it's where the, I think it's the Xenos, who's the

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space marines who fight Xenos in particular?

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Deathwatch.

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Deathwatch, excuse me, Deathwatch, law crime there.

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So the Deathwatch, they first encounter Genestealers there and the Imperium was just not happy

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after that.

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It was not a good time.

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And just a few little spicy names of some of the cults, because they're quite well organized,

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unfortunately for humans.

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And a lot of them have like kind of, a lot of them have like really cool names.

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I'm actually quite a big fan of them.

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So ones like, some of the more famous ones like Bladed, oh sorry, Bladed Cog, Hive Cult,

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Inner Worm, Pawper Princes, I actually like that one, probably my favourite, Rusted Claw,

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not a fan of that one because it makes it sound a bit dodgy, Twisted Helix, Cult of

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the Four-Armed Emperor, Cult of the Second Son, the Brotherhood and the Sons of Jormungandr,

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which actually to be fair, that's the most, but that one slaps hard.

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That name goes hard.

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Sons of Jormungandr or something like that, with a proper accent would be better.

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Norse mythology, yeah.

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That one, that one hits hard.

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I like that one.

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And sort of the unique powers of the Genie Seals, because they are obviously not a carbon

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copy of anything, shall we say.

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We'll get to spoilers later.

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But they do have like some unique powers within their race.

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So they, a lot of it's like focused around manipulation, influencing, a lot of the, all

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of the cult members, even ones which was the infected one, the Contagi, we said earlier,

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even they all have this kind of link to each other.

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They feel like a psychic pull, and so they all follow a kind of greater consciousness

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that is projected out, or should I say, beaconed from their patriarch, as we mentioned earlier,

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but we'll go into more of that later.

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And particularly if you're playing on the tabletop or you see that little models, the

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really cool part of them is their technology, which is essentially Mad Max.

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If everyone, I think everyone might agree with that.

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It's essentially a copy of Mad Max there.

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And so it's all like kind of salvage material.

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It's all a bit run of the mill.

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They kind of all found it.

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They often use actual Imperial arms, I think like las ground and things like weapons like

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that.

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Like there's a cool model, oh sorry, my voice went there.

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There's a cool model of like a buzz saw, I think as well, which is actually quite grim

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dark because I don't think he uses it only for war.

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But he-

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Texas chainsaw massacre.

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Yes, it's pretty, they're pretty like gnarly, I'd say.

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They have like a sabotaging equipment too.

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And the kind of, so if you would like encounter a genie seater cult, which obviously won't

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happen anywhere in the real world, but they're kind of big thing.

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Like if they were encountered by humans, you see their worship and their whole shtick,

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they worship like a doomsday event.

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Like every one of them, or the various names I mentioned earlier, they're all kind of hoping

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for, I guess, a rapturous event.

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And they all worship this multi-limbed, four armed emperor character, which is kind of

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creepy.

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Actually more than kind of, it is very creepy.

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And it's, sorry, not creepy.

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Sorry, like, excuse me.

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It's the perfect representation of the emperor.

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I have to remember this, excuse me.

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My heresy there.

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And this kind of rapturous event, this day of ascension is what they're all building

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towards.

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Their patriarch will tell them, they'll all rise up when this day comes and all the cults

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will be singing their praise.

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And it's essentially when that day arrives, that will be the end of the cult.

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But we won't spoil that just yet.

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But does anyone have any questions or quips about genie sealers so far?

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Does everyone okay with the nicknames I used?

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I was going to say, I thought when you brought up the, like, the first one, they're like

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fat and good at grinning.

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Synchronized grinning.

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Only use that for synchronized grinning.

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You said that and I thought, I don't know why, I thought a Janemba from that Dragon

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Ball Z movie, like the first one where he's big, fat and yellow and stupid.

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That's genius.

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That's hilarious.

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That's the only kind of quip about them.

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They're not the smartest, essentially, but they are.

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They're chunk though.

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They're pretty dumb and chunk.

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Is that the rapturous awakening when Gogeta comes and beats the hell out of them?

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If only.

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I still unlock Ultra Instinct for that moment.

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Oh, this is just not happening.

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Does anyone else have any other questions or little comments?

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Is there like, are there ways, do they have the equivalent of like operating feytans for

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you to rise up if you have so much money to get into the certain hierarchy of the cult?

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Little Scientology joke for you there.

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I was about to say, I wasn't, I'm not sure we're going to name drop that, but I can actually

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confirm there is, I think I mentioned there's like cult of the four armed emperor, David

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Miscavige.

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No, the Scientology, obviously famous one we're all familiar with, but it's that they

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don't really have a kind of complex system like that.

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It's more like a, I can feel you're powerful.

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You will do good.

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Go do the thing.

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There's no Gene Steeler, like Tominius Cruzes or something?

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No Tominius Cruzes.

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No, who's the guy from Greece?

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John Travolta?

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There's no Johnius Travoltaus.

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He sounds like an ultramarine though.

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Or Willius Smithius, because there's no Willius.

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That was one there.

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But yeah, so if anyone has any other questions or quips before we move on to the expert section?

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Yeah, I think I'm, I think no.

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That's for now.

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Perfect.

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So we'll hand it over to our esteemed, our leader, our cultural guide in the ways of

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the Gene Stealers, Eli.

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So Eli will take it away with our expert section.

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Go ahead.

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Indeed I will.

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We will learn about the Gene Stealer cults from the perspective of a true believer.

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So starting from the top.

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I did alright.

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I did alright.

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I did alright.

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Starting from the top.

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The Gene Stealer itself, as Hal said, it's a xeno species of a divine race known as the

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Star Children.

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The Star Children are led by their gods, who aren't really named completely, they're just

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the Star Children.

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We originally see the Gene Stealers on the moons of Ymgaro, and they thought they were

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separate from the Star Children, but then would eventually find out that they aren't.

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They're part of the big massive conglomeration of the nomadic race that they are.

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When a Gene Stealer makes a planet fall, because the Star Children send them out far and wide

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to grasp all of their sons and daughters and their wide arms to one day bless them with

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ascension.

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But the Gene Stealer goes to ground immediately when it is upon a planet.

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It goes into hiding, because obviously the Imperium does not quite understand the divine

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properties of this being.

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This is so much propaganda guys, I have to say.

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The Imperium understands just well enough where to put the Boltershells.

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Can I have a question?

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Do they ever like, I have an image in my head that they, you said like they are like they

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rocket towards like a planet.

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Does someone like throw them like a javelin?

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Like just yell like yeet.

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Like B2 in Titanfall 2.

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I think they're just sent out from the ships.

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That's a funny image.

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They spend a lot of time in, what do they call, space hawks.

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There's a lot of them in space hawks, but overall they're just sent in their little

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spore packages basically.

477
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:19,840
It goes to ground, it hides, and then eventually when a lucky individual comes by, they will

478
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:24,240
be lured in with hypnotism from the Gene Stealer.

479
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:32,120
And it will give them a kiss with its ovipositore and inject them with its blessed DNA.

480
00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:33,640
As we said earlier, there's...

481
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:34,640
Yikes.

482
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:35,640
Mommy Gene Stealer.

483
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,560
No, no, that is not the intro.

484
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,160
I swear to God, we're not having Mommy Gene Stealer.

485
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,040
That is the intro, you foul man.

486
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:45,040
Mommy big forehead.

487
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,840
If someone's made an image of this, I'm going to be so upset.

488
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,960
Like it's just going to be like, hey there.

489
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:54,800
I hate it so much.

490
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,280
The Gene Stealers themselves are...

491
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,640
They have six limbs, as we said.

492
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,640
Two of them usually end in like talons or something spiky thing.

493
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:04,640
They're very...

494
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:05,640
That's right, many-armed mummy.

495
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:06,640
That's right.

496
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:07,640
They're very fast.

497
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,640
They're extremely fast and extremely cunning, very intelligent.

498
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:17,920
They're an apex being in general, wherever they go, basically.

499
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:23,560
And one could say that they're probably the biggest threat to the Imperium, which I know

500
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,200
is probably said a lot about a lot of things.

501
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:33,840
But compared to Chaos, the Gene Stealers are far, far more widespread and dangerous.

502
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,800
So our blades of grass will be fine.

503
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:43,200
So, once the Gene Stealer gives its blessing to this individual, the individual and all

504
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:50,800
of its offspring forever now will be under the angels' guidance, let's say.

505
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,320
They're all linked together in one brood mind.

506
00:29:54,320 --> 00:30:01,400
And as the generations go on and this thing is fed psychic might, it will become a beautiful

507
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:07,920
and immensely powerful being known as the Patriarch, who is the four-armed Emperor,

508
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:12,640
sent by the Star Children to liberate their people and bring them into the Embrace on

509
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,120
the Day of Ascension.

510
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,680
It's what people were talking about.

511
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,560
Me and Eli said this before we were...

512
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,960
We had a joke, like, is this what they mean by take down the Patriarchy?

513
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:29,760
Because it's an actual Genesee, like, because that makes a lot more sense in the world.

514
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,720
Can you spin on Patriarchal Tyranny if I ever heard one?

515
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,480
Is literally there.

516
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,720
So, the first gen...

517
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,240
Well, I guess the pre-generation, I wouldn't...

518
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,800
I don't know if we'd call it the first generation, is the Contagia.

519
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:47,840
As we said, they're just regular people, live in regular lives, and all of a sudden they

520
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,560
really want to have a family and settle down.

521
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:52,560
And so they do.

522
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:59,080
And then they give birth to probably, potentially one of the most blessed generations of the

523
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:00,080
Oppressor's children.

524
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:01,080
For they...

525
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:06,960
Hang on a minute, I thought this was Gene Steelers, not Slyneash.

526
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:12,600
They are far more angel than they are human, usually coming out of the womb with five to

527
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:19,000
six limbs, and eventually become acolyte hybrids, which lurk in these shadows waiting for the

528
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:25,080
Day of Ascension, because the Oppressors often misunderstand their blessings for corruption.

529
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:30,120
So, they cannot be revealed, and often the great aunts and great uncles of the Congregation

530
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:35,440
will hide away in tunnels and secret passages until they are allowed to come to lights,

531
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:39,600
climbing on walls and hissing.

532
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,400
How far the Imperium is from the truth indeed.

533
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:43,400
Next!

534
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:44,400
With all the rest of the vermin.

535
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:45,400
Fitting, maybe, in the tunnels.

536
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,400
I was going to say, I'm going to joke, just like my aunt.

537
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,040
I'm so sorry, Auntie.

538
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:59,360
She's not walking on the walls hissing, I swear.

539
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:06,760
Moving forwards, we have the basic hybrid, who is similar, but a human form is slowly

540
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:07,920
starting to ebb through.

541
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:12,040
They can speak in mutters and utterances of low gothic.

542
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:18,040
They still have the extra long arms, purple skin, but they start to stand a little taller,

543
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,960
instead of hunched over like the originals.

544
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:26,240
But they're far, like all the generations, they are faster and stronger than the non-believers.

545
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:34,200
Thirdly, we move on to the true hybrid, who now pen passed as a mutated human in most

546
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:39,880
of the overpopulated and poorly treated societies, where a lot of mutants already are.

547
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:45,720
And as much as the Imperium hates its mutants and stuff, on hive cities and planets with

548
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:51,360
like hundreds of billions of people, or however high the populations get, mutants are pretty

549
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:58,680
common and generally aren't that out of place in the really lower class and under hive and

550
00:32:58,680 --> 00:32:59,680
all that stuff.

551
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:07,400
So they can kind of walk among society, depending on where the cult is at the time.

552
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:13,520
But a lot of the heroes of the cult will come from the third and fourth generation, which

553
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:14,520
we'll get into later.

554
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:20,600
There's a lot of different forms of beings that come from the brood, and they're all

555
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,000
blessed in their own ways.

556
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,480
But now the true hybrid obviously stands straight up.

557
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:30,280
The only difference between them is a little bit tinted skin, yellow eyes, and a lot of

558
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:35,400
them, most of them, will have a third arm, which is awkward for balance, but I'm sure

559
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,280
they get used to it, and it's quite handy.

560
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:44,280
Sixthly, fourthly, sorry, this is my sixth point, but fourthly is the...

561
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,400
Primarchi, or whatever we said.

562
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,440
Primarchi, okay.

563
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:50,440
Yeah.

564
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,520
They pass as fully human.

565
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:57,400
They're just dudes, usually with the yellow eyes as well, sometimes a little bit tinted

566
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,240
skin, but generally they just look like pure humans.

567
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,160
Are you telling me they're not Elon Musk simps?

568
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:09,960
Because I feel like I've got that really wrong.

569
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,480
They generally look pretty normal.

570
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:16,760
They use Neuralink, but other than that, you know.

571
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,400
Little bit of headcanon.

572
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:23,320
What's Mark Zuckerberg's thing he's making with the virtual world?

573
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,200
What's it called again?

574
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:26,200
The Metaverse.

575
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:27,200
I think it died pretty quickly.

576
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:28,200
Oh my God.

577
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,280
I feel like they use the...

578
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,920
These guys use the Metaverse like 100%.

579
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,720
Mark, he does look a bit like a gene sealer, doesn't he?

580
00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:36,720
A little bit.

581
00:34:36,720 --> 00:34:37,720
Oh, that's a bit unfair.

582
00:34:37,720 --> 00:34:38,720
I think that's a bit unfair.

583
00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:41,720
You're going to have to do everything like the Sharple Tang is going to do.

584
00:34:41,720 --> 00:34:42,720
Whore are we offending?

585
00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:43,720
Faceball?

586
00:34:43,720 --> 00:34:44,720
That's true, that's true.

587
00:34:44,720 --> 00:34:45,720
Multi-millionaire?

588
00:34:45,720 --> 00:34:46,720
Oh, don't bully him.

589
00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:49,720
Yeah, I mean, I think he's fine.

590
00:34:49,720 --> 00:34:50,720
Unfair to the gene sealers.

591
00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:51,720
They are more glorious.

592
00:34:51,720 --> 00:34:52,720
Yeah, that's right.

593
00:34:52,720 --> 00:34:55,720
That's what I was going to say.

594
00:34:55,720 --> 00:34:57,200
They, the...

595
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:02,160
Primarchi use these things that I should have written down the name of because I don't remember

596
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:07,160
what they're called, but they put these things under their fingers and their skin kind of,

597
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:12,800
and it mimics the signals that tech adepts have and stuff, so they'll infiltrate places

598
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,200
and get through doors and register as normal to all the tech guys.

599
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:18,720
I really wish I remember what they're called.

600
00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:22,760
Maybe if you know in the comments, if you read The Day of Ascension, it's a good book.

601
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,040
You can tell me there, I guess.

602
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,040
Anyways.

603
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,920
I can't hear the flood and their logic plague.

604
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:30,720
I need more Halo lore.

605
00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:33,000
Halo's good stuff.

606
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,360
Anyways.

607
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:40,720
And then lastly, as we said, an angel is born to the congregation and a pure, strange gene

608
00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:47,120
stealer in all its beautiful glory arises and is usually sent away on the holy quest

609
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:54,920
and pilgrimage to the stars to become yet another emperor for a bent and battered and

610
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,440
oppressed people to save somewhere out there.

611
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,880
Yes, there's only one emperor and only one type of angel.

612
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,920
The angels are deaf.

613
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,840
That's Susan with dinner.

614
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,040
There's only one phoenix king.

615
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,400
Oh, Finnebar.

616
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:22,720
Malekith is not a phoenix king.

617
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:23,960
I think I'm not sure.

618
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:30,480
I think it's a bit of a handover to me here because I get to talk about my favourite thing

619
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:31,480
again.

620
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:35,880
We're going to talk about the HP Lovecraft inspiration, boys.

621
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:36,880
Yes.

622
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:37,880
My favourite thing.

623
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,880
Yeah, you don't sound too excited.

624
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:46,720
So this is a bit more about what the shadows over Innsmouth story is because once I think,

625
00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:51,760
again, as I said earlier, once you hear a bit more of it, you go, I see.

626
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:58,080
So the shadows over Innsmouth is a Lovecraftian story which is about the kind of worship of

627
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,920
the old one called Dagon.

628
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:06,080
And this is done in the town on the East Coast of America.

629
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:11,400
It's a really rundown, like kind of even the towns described like an ugly place.

630
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:17,320
And the Innsmouth people over time, they kind of their whole shtick is that shtick, sorry,

631
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:23,640
I don't know why that's there, but they slowly become more fish like and their eyes like

632
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:24,840
start to bulge.

633
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,760
They have like pallid skin, like sickly spots.

634
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,280
They have like scales and things like that.

635
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,120
Is this the same story that they got?

636
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,280
There was a game on the original Xbox called, I think it's called of Cthulhu and it was

637
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,280
like a village.

638
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:44,800
Oh, that's, there's like a kind of link to that where they make a nod to what's called

639
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:45,800
an Innsmouth.

640
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:50,880
And it's like a really good horror game for it becomes a really bad first person shooter.

641
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:55,640
Yeah, actually, I almost bought that game, but I'm glad I didn't because people said

642
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,960
it was like, it's better to watch them play it.

643
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:03,440
So I, we're never going to get a good Lovecraft game and it makes me upset.

644
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:04,440
Darkest Dungeon.

645
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,000
Oh, that's just a good point.

646
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,000
That's a good point.

647
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,040
Trick of the light.

648
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:17,000
As I was saying with the, so the Innsmouthers, the people who live in Innsmouth, the town,

649
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,560
they are kind of described as having what's called the Innsmouth look.

650
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,560
And when someone, if someone ever said to you in real life, you have the Innsmouth look,

651
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:31,280
someone is calling you ugly because they look...

652
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:32,280
It's what they meant.

653
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,640
Oh, God, I'm going to make a phone call after this.

654
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:35,640
Yes.

655
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,280
These, these like, they look like fish people.

656
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:42,440
It's kind of, so these are the whole kind of secret that they have within them is that

657
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:48,520
they were, they are hybrids of the deep ones, which like the original kind of fish people

658
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:49,880
I mentioned earlier.

659
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:55,840
So back in there, like, so they, I guess their genes were messed with, shall we say, and

660
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,000
they were stolen.

661
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,680
They were stolen pretty much.

662
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:05,640
And eventually over time, like the people who live in Innsmouth, they would slowly transform

663
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,640
into deep ones.

664
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,320
And like eventually that they'd basically be a fish person.

665
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:14,080
But like, you know, the people who say the mermaid thing, but the mermaid is like not

666
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,040
the bottom half, but the top half.

667
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,040
So they have legs, but they have the top half fish.

668
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:19,040
Family guys.

669
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,760
Yeah, that's, that's essentially what it is.

670
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:27,800
And eventually when they're fish people, they join their gods in the very deep ocean, like

671
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,200
in underground cities.

672
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:35,020
And even in Innsmouth, like the people who live there, even before they become deep ones,

673
00:39:35,020 --> 00:39:38,360
they have the cult of Dagon, which is spread throughout the town.

674
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:43,120
So I'm pretty sure you're seeing the, obviously the link with gene sealers themselves, and

675
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:47,360
they worship the deep ones and father Dagon, shall we say.

676
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,400
And they kind of, the whole thing is they look down towards the depth of the sea and

677
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:56,680
obviously gene sealers themselves look up to the heavens, shall we say, for the day

678
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,400
of ascension, as we mentioned earlier.

679
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:04,000
And I'll chuck it back to Eli to describe their amazing living habitat.

680
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:08,520
You know, they're a nice apartment, shall we say.

681
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:09,960
Sure.

682
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:13,640
That wouldn't say it's overly comfortable.

683
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:21,360
But most cults can be found in human populations, especially hive worlds, but humans are not

684
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:25,280
the only race lucky enough to receive revelation.

685
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:32,960
The orcs and Eldar and Tau and the likes are all accepted by the star children's embrace.

686
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:38,560
Human civilization is just a lot easier to infiltrate because they are extremely overpopulated

687
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,640
usually on places like hive cities.

688
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:48,240
And usually the Imperium is fairly, or maybe a little more than fairly, oppressive towards

689
00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:52,360
their people, depending on the world, most worlds.

690
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,480
This one here.

691
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,880
And living conditions usually kind of suck in general.

692
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:05,880
But more than that, the security, it's very hard to police billions and billions and billions

693
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,320
of people in such a gigantic place.

694
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,840
And as you may know, a lot of hive cities have under hives, which are already just like

695
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:18,840
crime dens and nothing, no police are ever going to go down there, Arbeedes, whatever,

696
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:20,080
I guess.

697
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:24,040
Space hawks, common sight for the gene sealer brood, of course.

698
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:30,200
But also, other than the human civilizations, we do have minor Eldaric craft worlds.

699
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:35,360
It doesn't really work that well though, because the Eldar are a lot more vigilant.

700
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:40,240
I think Colin, Colin, how we have to ask how you feel about them touching your precious

701
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:44,680
Eldar because I imagine you are not happy.

702
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:49,840
Good luck to the one who tries because he's going to be Kentucky Fried Gene Sealer in

703
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,040
short order.

704
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:55,480
Yeah, that is unfortunately usually what happens.

705
00:41:55,480 --> 00:42:01,680
It takes a lot of extra breeding cycles to get the gene stealer stuff going in the Eldar

706
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,520
because their genetics are a lot more refined.

707
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:05,920
Yeah, refined.

708
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,160
That's a good word.

709
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:10,480
Refined.

710
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:14,920
And their societies obviously a lot more vigilant.

711
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:19,280
Vigilant is the word I'd probably think of.

712
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,520
Vigilant in general, yeah.

713
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,480
Yeah, so the Eldar are kind of hard to get.

714
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,640
Orcs also kind of hard to work with.

715
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,360
We'll talk about that later though, I guess.

716
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,920
I'll keep going about the general living habitats.

717
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,800
Oh, like, orcs are born through mushrooms.

718
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,640
Surely that kind of interferes with the process.

719
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,560
It makes it harder, but it's still possible.

720
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:46,440
The gene stealer goes just like, I like a challenge.

721
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,600
Flecks in front of mushrooms.

722
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:57,640
Gene stealers try to avoid the orcs, but like, if a gene stealer has been waiting like centuries

723
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:02,480
to find a good host population and orcs are the only things that are around, then they

724
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,760
might as well try.

725
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,600
Take what they could get.

726
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:14,480
For humans though, hive worlds the best, egg-free worlds are also actually pretty good because

727
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:22,080
there's a lot of open field in general, so the populace are kind of like spread out in

728
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:23,960
tight clumps, I guess.

729
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:29,960
And if the cult can take over the egg-free world, then they have a very convenient way

730
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:36,920
of spreading the gifts of the emperor to the stars in the form of corrupted or, well, not

731
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,560
corrupted enough for us, of course.

732
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,320
Extra ingredients in the food that they send off.

733
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:49,440
Just let's say that, so that they can spread the genes throughout the stars in rations

734
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,200
and whatnot, in livestock.

735
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:58,040
So that's pretty nice and convenient for most cults who are on egg-free worlds.

736
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,920
Shrine worlds are somewhat susceptible as well.

737
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:06,600
They're the religious kind of crypt worlds, the worship worlds for the emperor, so there's

738
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:13,000
a lot of ecclesiarchy going on and a lot of robes are worn, which is very convenient for

739
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,080
hiding a third arm and other such blessings.

740
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:20,880
I like the idea that on the agri-worlds it's really difficult to get a hoodie.

741
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:25,120
Just can't find the attire.

742
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,800
All they can find are very large sun hats.

743
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:32,040
They find like a sack of potatoes, they put the potatoes in and they're like, well, this

744
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:33,040
will do.

745
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:39,720
But on a Pope Benedict world there's like plenty to go around.

746
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:44,880
There's also lots of crypts and tombs in those worlds of nice underground maze type places

747
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,880
to live in.

748
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:54,880
Also though, the populations on shrine worlds are used to having great reverence for a divine

749
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,320
entity, albeit the wrong one.

750
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:04,640
But they're halfway there, so they just need a little purple push, let's say.

751
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:06,840
Purple push is a nightmare by the way.

752
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:07,840
Purple push?

753
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:08,840
I don't know if I can sleep after saying that.

754
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,280
Sounds like a new variety of Vimto to me.

755
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:15,080
I'm thinking of like one of those like push pops or something.

756
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,440
I'd quite like a purple push.

757
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:17,440
What's a push pop?

758
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:18,440
Is that like a frozen?

759
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:23,880
Yeah, it's like this little frozen ice cream kind of thing where you push it out of the

760
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:25,360
container as you're eating it.

761
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:29,440
Oh yeah, we don't have the same brands, but we have the equivalent in the UK.

762
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:30,440
They're pretty cool.

763
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:31,440
Yeah.

764
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:38,200
Sorry, we're doing GCNs and not ice cream.

765
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:42,680
Delve worlds lastly are a good place to go.

766
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:47,200
Like Gozar Quintus was, they're called their mining worlds, just some called Delve worlds

767
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:48,280
I guess.

768
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:54,600
For pretty obvious reasons, there's a lot of places to hide on a mining world with tunnels

769
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,320
going literally everywhere.

770
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:03,360
And also the conditions on mining worlds are like, you can't get much worse than that.

771
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:09,640
So it's pretty easy to find downtrodden and oppressed people on places like that who are

772
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,200
already pretty willing to rebel.

773
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:13,200
They just-

774
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:14,200
North of England in the 80s.

775
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,200
Or Florida, as we said earlier.

776
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:22,600
They just need a couple extra arms to get the job done.

777
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:27,160
Lucky for them, there's some extra arms to be spared.

778
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:31,320
We'll talk about Gozar Quintus soon though.

779
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:37,040
But we'll talk about, for now, I suppose, the stages of a cult.

780
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:40,640
It's not overly complicated.

781
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:46,040
I mean it is for them, but the actual ways of doing it.

782
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:52,000
So the genie stealer shows up, blesses some people, and the generations start to spread.

783
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:57,560
Obviously, this starts out really slow, and they have to be really, really, really careful

784
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:01,520
to not be found out, otherwise the whole thing could just be burned away.

785
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,320
Oh, my dog's barking.

786
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,720
I'll have to pet the genie stealer.

787
00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:11,160
Sniffed out a genie stealer.

788
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:18,200
They operate in extreme secrecy the whole time, but especially in the first beginning

789
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,520
stages, they have to be really careful.

790
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:25,360
Because if the Inquisition finds you, then it's kind of over.

791
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:29,160
Well, it is over.

792
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:30,760
And the planet's probably over too.

793
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,440
All the Grey Knights, we've got a problem.

794
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:35,720
They're just in the vicinity.

795
00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:37,320
Are we going to get any demons?

796
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,920
We'll sort this out while we're here.

797
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:46,640
So they will continue to spread angel blood throughout the population ever so slowly.

798
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:51,200
Eventually, it proliferates very quickly though, obviously, as you can imagine, as more and

799
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:56,280
more people are touched by the Emperor.

800
00:47:56,280 --> 00:48:02,480
And they can soon spread after a few generations, sometimes even hundreds of years, they will

801
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,320
spread across the entire world.

802
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,760
And sometimes maybe just the Hive City, if we're in a Hive City.

803
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:16,240
The entire world is now running around in tunnels, being cool and blessed and whatnot.

804
00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:22,960
But the Day of Ascension, which is the end goal of every cult, it can be triggered early

805
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,040
if it has to be.

806
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,280
It's not ideal ever.

807
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,200
Usually, sometimes I guess they can trigger it early if they need to.

808
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,920
You don't want a premature cult.

809
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:35,600
Yeah, pretty stupid.

810
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,160
So inconvenient, am I right?

811
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:42,080
If your Day of Ascension lasts more than four hours, make sure to consult a doctor every

812
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:46,360
day.

813
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:50,160
So I guess I should say they remain secret until the Day of Ascension, obviously, when

814
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:54,040
they rise up from the tunnels and underground and take the planet for themselves.

815
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:57,760
But this can be triggered early, because it usually only triggers when the Star Children

816
00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:59,080
are near.

817
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:06,160
If a foreign invader comes to the planet, like say the Tao invade an imperial world,

818
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:14,520
and the patriarch feels that the planet is in risk of being taken by the Tao, then the

819
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:20,640
Ascension will be sprung early and they'll actually fight against the Xenos alongside

820
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:23,080
their imperial brethren.

821
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:30,680
And then when the day is won, unfortunately, the guns will turn and in a shocking revelation,

822
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:39,840
the imperial dogs will crumble beneath the might of the forearmed emperor.

823
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:45,120
Even the sirens are kicked off.

824
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:46,120
Good days.

825
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:47,120
Good days.

826
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:53,240
I think we kind of mentioned it already, but the oppression of imperial people in general

827
00:49:53,240 --> 00:50:03,720
is very widespread and is very easy to find on most worlds unhappy people.

828
00:50:03,720 --> 00:50:08,480
Working conditions suck depending on if your tech adept is good enough or not.

829
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:13,040
Usually they're not very good though and all they care about is, what's the word,

830
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:16,040
proficiency, productivity, there you go.

831
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:22,560
So they'll do everything in their power to increase your productivity, when I mean, one

832
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:31,200
might think that means having a happier workforce, but usually it means using dangerous chemicals,

833
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:34,000
slave drivers, the likes.

834
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:38,840
The Imperium's classic go-to's to just keep the war machine running.

835
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:44,280
Two to maybe three meals a day, you pray to the emperor, that's all you need.

836
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:49,520
Two to three meals a day is a great luxury.

837
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,920
You'll get your one corpse bar and like it.

838
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:58,360
One corpse starts in the Warrens down below the earth and all your people are dying of

839
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,320
lung cancer from your coal mines and whatever.

840
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:02,800
That's fake news.

841
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:04,800
There's nothing going wrong.

842
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:05,800
It's absolutely fine.

843
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:11,880
Everyone has absolute respect and feeds them well and there's no problems ever.

844
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:14,520
There's puppies and ice cream for everyone.

845
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:18,920
We have therapy dogs in the mines every day, just to be sure.

846
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:24,760
Shakespeare's in Karl Marx.

847
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:30,040
So the star children of course hear the cries of all of these poor people.

848
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:37,920
So they send their glorious angels and patriarchs out to save them and unify them as the cult

849
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:44,960
to one day rise and be blessed by holy union with the gods above.

850
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:54,560
So as the cult grows larger, they will slowly try to infiltrate positions of power, especially

851
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:56,200
just political stuff in general.

852
00:51:56,200 --> 00:52:01,960
The planetary governor, maybe the planetary governor's advisor is secretly a cultist

853
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,240
type of thing.

854
00:52:04,240 --> 00:52:05,240
Things like that.

855
00:52:05,240 --> 00:52:11,560
And many of their children will likely be taken by the tithe to the imperial guard.

856
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:17,520
And this, depending on when they want to ascend, can be a good or bad thing.

857
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:21,400
Bad because they're losing manpower for the time being obviously, but good because this

858
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:28,920
is giving some of them combat experience and they can spread the word of the emperor throughout

859
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,800
the stars wherever they end up getting shipped off to.

860
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,320
If they survive and come back then it's good times.

861
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:38,520
If they die then it sucks, but at least they've spread some word.

862
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:42,840
Or they might become part of the planetary guard, which is really great because that

863
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:47,800
means we're primed and ready for the day of ascension and they have easy access to stolen

864
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,240
goods like las guns and the like.

865
00:52:51,240 --> 00:52:52,240
Real nice weapons.

866
00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:55,480
Sent them all that good stuff.

867
00:52:55,480 --> 00:53:00,160
Very safe and OSHA approved vehicles.

868
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:04,120
Was there a gene stealer in the Kifers Kane book?

869
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:05,720
There's a couple books where they...

870
00:53:05,720 --> 00:53:06,720
I don't know, spoilers.

871
00:53:06,720 --> 00:53:10,200
No one has read Kifers Kane.

872
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:15,400
It's not too much of a spoilers because the premise of some of the books is just, yeah,

873
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:16,880
Kane's fighting gene stealers.

874
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,360
Yeah, that makes sense.

875
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:25,520
Shout out to Pancrasnowork for his excellent video on Kifers Kane.

876
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:32,080
My favorite answer in a pub quiz, shall we say.

877
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:34,080
My lore crime.

878
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,080
My poor lore crime.

879
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:40,040
So, yeah, like I said, they're joining the Imperial Guard.

880
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:44,080
They're infiltrating the upper echelons and now in the factories, if they're working in

881
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:49,760
factories when overseers aren't looking, they'll start stealing scraps and putting together

882
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:55,120
makeshift firearms like shotguns and stuff and stowing them away under their belongings.

883
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:56,120
Well, they don't own anything.

884
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:57,120
Who am I kidding?

885
00:53:57,120 --> 00:54:00,120
But stowing them away where they can hide.

886
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:01,120
That caught me off guard.

887
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:04,640
I thought you were saying they knit as well.

888
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,080
So they knit secretly or something.

889
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:09,840
But nah, they don't own anything.

890
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:17,360
But they store those away and start to stockpile these refitted weapons and civilian mining

891
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,960
vehicles often.

892
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:26,440
Often these vehicles will be quote unquote lost and refitted for combat.

893
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:30,880
There are some famous ones that are pretty general for all the planets.

894
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:35,560
But yeah, the cult makes do with what they have depending on the planet that they're

895
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:36,560
on.

896
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:41,240
A factor one planet will obviously be easier to make firearms and get the technology.

897
00:54:41,240 --> 00:54:44,400
Whereas an agri world, probably not.

898
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,040
You're gonna have to just, I don't know, do what you can.

899
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,240
But also an agri world is probably not gonna be...

900
00:54:49,240 --> 00:54:50,240
I don't know.

901
00:54:50,240 --> 00:54:51,240
This might be wrong.

902
00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:53,040
This might be lore crime.

903
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:56,320
I assume that they're not overly heavily defended.

904
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:57,640
Maybe that's wrong.

905
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:01,160
But there's a lot of ground to cover where there's just like farm.

906
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:03,880
I just like the idea of them herding cows and like these will do.

907
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:05,640
We use them as weapons.

908
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:12,960
I will say that for agri worlds, I guess they have access to genetic experimentation, which

909
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:18,560
we'll learn a little tiny bit about with the twisted helix and some other ones.

910
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:25,400
You know how they're trying to genetically modify all their livestock and what nots and

911
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:26,800
be efficient in that way.

912
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:32,400
They have access to labs and stuff where they can splice genes and do more genes to their

913
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:33,400
shenanigans.

914
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:34,400
Yeah.

915
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,400
So here's some cool skin.

916
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:37,400
Yeah.

917
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:42,560
But as we continue, the cult is quickly growing now.

918
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:44,120
It's very big.

919
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:45,760
They have lots stockpiled.

920
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:47,360
They're waiting for the day of ascension.

921
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:51,680
But if they're on a very protected planet, they have to be really careful and they need

922
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:57,680
to meticulously perfectly plan the day because we have to remember they are just civilians

923
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:04,840
with very little combat experience other than the specific bioforms that are made for specific

924
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:10,800
tasks and a lot of the hybrids are good at fighting, but still the large majority of

925
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,440
the cult are just regular people.

926
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:18,480
So even if there's a ton of them and they have a ton of equipment and weapons and the

927
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:22,680
element of surprise is still winning is not guaranteed.

928
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:27,720
They could just be turned upon by the Skitarii or the astromelotarm and just guns down and

929
00:56:27,720 --> 00:56:29,680
killed.

930
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:36,440
But usually the fail safe for that is that there is broodkin within the astromelotarm

931
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:37,960
and Skitarii.

932
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:45,200
The Skitarii can be infected and no matter how many layers of code and falsehoods that

933
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:53,240
they put in the heads of the...what's the right word here...just the Skitarii.

934
00:56:53,240 --> 00:56:55,360
They've been lied to a lot obviously.

935
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:56,360
The cogboys.

936
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:57,360
Yes, the cogboys.

937
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:59,480
They've been lied to by the ecclesiarch.

938
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:04,960
They have codes placed in their brains or their logic engines and whatever so they have

939
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:07,880
to follow what the tech adepts say.

940
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:16,120
But those who are blessed and then later reawakened at times by a magus or other powerful individual

941
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:22,760
can actually break these shackles of the false emperor and ignore any orders and codes given

942
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:25,200
to them from tech adepts which is cool.

943
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,960
And he's not happy about the false emperor.

944
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:31,640
I'm even going to say such blasphemy for the omniscihe.

945
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:35,160
He's one of my favorites as well.

946
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:41,240
I say without too much spoiling that is in a Caiaphas Cain book as well.

947
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:45,920
Some followers of the omniscihe find out that they're not quite as safe as they think just

948
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,760
because of machinery.

949
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:52,680
There is a cult that follows the true omniscihe as well.

950
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:53,680
But that's true.

951
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:55,680
There's only one omniscihe.

952
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:57,680
Yeah, it's Vol.

953
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:00,280
Get out of here.

954
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,520
Even I'm not with you on that one.

955
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:03,520
He's not omniscihe.

956
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:07,400
Oh my gosh.

957
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:12,600
Back to what I was supposed to be talking about, I went a little off topic there.

958
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:17,840
But the cult's growing, we have equipment, we have lots of stuff that we need, and now

959
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:25,040
tales of heroes, folk heroes in general, start to arise as forms such as the kelemorph emerge

960
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:30,080
from the breeding cycle which is a three armed vigilante who sparks the need for adventure

961
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:33,320
in the criminal and a desire for freedom in the oppressed.

962
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,640
We'll talk about her a little later.

963
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:43,040
Kelemorph is like the fan favorite, I would say, of the general gene-stealer believers.

964
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:44,640
So there's lots of heroes now.

965
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:49,880
They're going to get some guidance from bioforms such as the primus being made who is a very

966
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:53,560
straight backed military officer, strong type guy.

967
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:58,880
But yeah, so they have lots of people to look up to and there's really, really starting

968
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:09,240
to have their claws deep into much of the imperial hierarchy and system in general.

969
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:14,760
You're going to start seeing graffiti of the great worm form or depictions of the four

970
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:21,960
armed emperor throughout the streets and the majority of the plant society will eventually

971
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:22,960
be blessed.

972
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:24,920
Typical, typical, Xenos mutants.

973
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:31,520
Not only are they, you know, dismerging the imperial, vandals as well.

974
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,240
Worst of all, loitering too.

975
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:35,240
No lollygagging.

976
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:36,240
That's the Skyrim guy.

977
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:37,240
It's every five minutes.

978
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:45,640
I just imagine the video of the guy in the swimming pool who did like the NPC, you know,

979
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:50,120
the NPC, it's like, you there, stop there, criminal scum.

980
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:54,720
Just like swimming, he's in the swimming pool and it's like, ah, why won't you die?

981
00:59:54,720 --> 01:00:01,240
I'm thinking of a video where someone dives at a pool and then a panther, you know, there's

982
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:07,320
a sign that says no diving, that some guy tries to, Batman beats the snot out of him.

983
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:10,080
This is no diving.

984
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:13,720
That's a good, that's a good Batman voice.

985
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:14,720
What the heck?

986
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:15,720
All right.

987
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:16,720
Thank you.

988
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:24,480
It would be interesting to say that production rates and the compliance in general of these

989
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:31,240
planets usually in the latter stage of Ascension are actually increased because the workforce

990
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:38,560
is working fervently and they have hope in their hearts that soon all the pain and all

991
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:40,880
the slavery will be taken away.

992
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:46,520
So they work tirelessly to ensure that they are not discovered and with great energy as

993
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:52,440
they are so close to the blessed unions as the angels draw near to their planets and

994
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:57,760
their shackles will be torn asunder by the beautiful saviors.

995
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:04,880
So I think that's for now about the stages of the cult.

996
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:09,440
When the star children come near Ascension day will happen, which we'll talk about a

997
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:10,440
little bit later.

998
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:15,640
It's very exciting, very momentous day when the shackles of oppression are thrown off

999
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:23,120
and violence erupts and everything goes crazy and they either win or lose basically.

1000
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:24,840
I feel like we should stay at this point.

1001
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:28,040
This is very heavily from the perspective of the gene sealers.

1002
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:30,040
No one has gotten that yet.

1003
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:34,000
Because I just like the idea of when you were getting started with the different stages,

1004
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,680
like imagine the parent gene sealers having the talks, right?

1005
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:41,440
When a mommy gene sealer or a daddy gene sealer love each other very much.

1006
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:45,640
There's this date, then there's this date and this, this, this, and this having a Venn

1007
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:49,800
diagram to explain to the child like this is where you fit in here.

1008
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:51,920
This is where you build the lasgun in the factory.

1009
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,200
He's like, what the hell, what's that got to do with the love part?

1010
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:56,760
It's like, what do you mean love?

1011
01:01:56,760 --> 01:02:02,040
I like to imagine that's how some inquisitors find out there's gene stealers.

1012
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:05,120
It's like things are too productive here.

1013
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:07,200
You guys are working too hard.

1014
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:08,200
Something's not right.

1015
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:11,160
It's a very good point, isn't it?

1016
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:12,160
Yeah.

1017
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:16,960
There was, I remember when you were mentioning bits, like bits of the kind of uprising and

1018
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:21,800
such though, there's a really good episode of Hammer and Balter called A New Life.

1019
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:26,760
And if anyone has Warhammer Plus, go and watch that episode.

1020
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,080
Because I remember like the whole series, I'm like, it's kind of okay.

1021
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:33,600
But that episode in particular, it's about the gene stealer cults and it's really good.

1022
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:34,600
Nice.

1023
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:37,120
I should go watch it.

1024
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:38,120
I haven't seen it.

1025
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:40,000
I've only seen the Eldar one.

1026
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:42,160
It's the most recent one at the time of recording.

1027
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:43,960
RIP Avatar of Cain.

1028
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:48,680
Yeah, literally my face when Avatar gets killed by ten balters.

1029
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:49,680
For the fifth time.

1030
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:50,680
Really slowly as well.

1031
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:54,480
Yeah, he just sits there while they shoot at him.

1032
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:57,240
At least the striking scorpion in that shot.

1033
01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:58,760
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

1034
01:02:58,760 --> 01:02:59,760
Baller.

1035
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:03,880
Should be called Cain, should be called Victim because the lore writers just keep ruining

1036
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:04,880
it.

1037
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:05,880
Oh man.

1038
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:11,480
Well, speaking of Eldar, why don't we talk about gene stealers in Xenos races and other

1039
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:13,040
races other than human.

1040
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:16,120
And then we'll talk about Gosa Aquintis a little bit.

1041
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:21,320
So like I said, you can find gene stealers in basically every race.

1042
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:23,640
I don't think it works in Necrons.

1043
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,160
I'd be pretty surprised.

1044
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:29,640
I haven't heard of it working in Necrons, but I mean, if the Flayer virus can spread

1045
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:32,440
in Necrons and the Destroyer virus.

1046
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:34,600
Or if Lucius the Eternal.

1047
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:38,760
Lucius the Eternal can emerge out of a Necron for some reason.

1048
01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:40,600
We can get gene stealer.

1049
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:42,560
We can't get gene stealer Necrons then too.

1050
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:43,560
That'd be cool.

1051
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:44,560
It'd be wild.

1052
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:45,560
All right.

1053
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:46,560
Anyway.

1054
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:54,920
But usually the way of infection for other races, it's good in like merchant ships and

1055
01:03:54,920 --> 01:04:00,440
rogue traders for a gene stealer to hide away in secrecy while trades are being done.

1056
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:05,520
Oh no, your box of, I don't know what's a funny thing to be in a box.

1057
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:06,520
I have no idea.

1058
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:07,520
Your box of stuff.

1059
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:08,520
Definitely not Hentai.

1060
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:09,520
Definitely not Hentai.

1061
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:12,760
Okay, we had to blow that part.

1062
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:14,760
So beat that out.

1063
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:18,760
Your box of stuff all of a sudden has a gene stealer in it instead of whatever you were

1064
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:20,360
supposed to be getting.

1065
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:23,800
How convenient for the Star Children.

1066
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:30,080
Tau fleets are very susceptible because as some might know, the Aircast are really usually

1067
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:34,480
the only ones who stay awake when Tau go places because they don't have warp travel.

1068
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:39,600
They just have, they have faster than life, last I checked, but they don't have warp travel.

1069
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:44,360
So it still takes some time and Tau life cycles are pretty short.

1070
01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:48,120
I think they live like 60 years on average or something.

1071
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:50,800
Yeah, unless you're a Farsight, he's a G.

1072
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:54,520
Just like the Chad, like at the start he's like, I live to be however long until I'm

1073
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:55,520
sharp.

1074
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:56,520
It's amazing.

1075
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:57,520
Oh yeah.

1076
01:04:57,520 --> 01:04:58,520
I wonder how old Eldred is.

1077
01:04:58,520 --> 01:04:59,520
Huh?

1078
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:00,520
Yeah, yeah.

1079
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:01,520
Yeah, yeah.

1080
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:02,520
Younger than the Emperor.

1081
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:05,040
He's using a lot of hair dye at this rate.

1082
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:06,040
Yeah.

1083
01:05:06,040 --> 01:05:14,480
So the, yes, a lot of times the Tau, the Firecast and Earthcast who are sleeping in status,

1084
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:21,160
status might just wake up to a completely new society that's just gene stealers or

1085
01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:22,520
they won't wake up at all.

1086
01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:24,840
That's probably the actual reality.

1087
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:26,560
Did you lot always have four arms?

1088
01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:34,680
Yeah, I was just thinking, we're going like one, two, hmm.

1089
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:38,400
And like I said earlier, the Eldar are a lot harder to get into.

1090
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:44,080
They like it's, it almost never really happens because they find the hybrids right away and

1091
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:45,080
just dead.

1092
01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:49,400
Wasn't there once, there's only like 15 of them.

1093
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:51,760
So they'd probably be like, hang on, you're acting a bit weird.

1094
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:53,480
I know you really well.

1095
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:55,280
You didn't have three arms yesterday.

1096
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:56,280
What happened?

1097
01:05:56,280 --> 01:06:00,960
Wasn't there one where they'd let them, is this like an obscure piece of law?

1098
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:03,640
They let themselves be, do you want to say that?

1099
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:05,480
You probably know more about it Colin than I do.

1100
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:09,440
May I tell the tale?

1101
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:14,240
It was basically, I don't remember the name of the craft world, but it was before Spirit

1102
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:17,520
Stones had gotten around to the Eldar.

1103
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:24,160
So they had no way once they died to keep their souls from going to Slynege.

1104
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:30,120
So they figured, yes, the perfect way to do it is to instead let Jean Steelers infest

1105
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:31,880
the whole craft world.

1106
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:36,560
That way our souls will not go to Slynege when they die.

1107
01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:41,400
Which I, you know, I can't say, I can't say I follow.

1108
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:43,120
They work?

1109
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:46,720
Well I don't remember, but I do know the Yanari wiped them out.

1110
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:49,480
Oh, that makes sense.

1111
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:58,880
I mean, to be fair, the soul stones I think were in millennia 32, 33 they were invented.

1112
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:03,120
And the Yanari weren't till the end of the 41st millennia.

1113
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:06,720
I mean that's a solid 8,000 years of just chilling to be fair.

1114
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:07,720
That's true.

1115
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:08,720
That's true.

1116
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:12,120
Just like the idea that the Yanari came in and was like, we are ending this science experiment.

1117
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:14,960
No, this is whatever Eldar Heresy is.

1118
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:18,760
Bugs and burns on the table like burn it all, no more.

1119
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:23,520
Whatever the Eldar version of Heresy was they found it that day.

1120
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:29,720
I guess it's not on my nose, but it would make sense to me that Eldar Corsairs are probably

1121
01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:33,000
the best bet to go with for the Jean Steelers.

1122
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:34,840
I would assume, right?

1123
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:38,080
Like they're just, they're just, they're probably the patriarchs hiding.

1124
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:43,000
Especially because a Corsair band can be anything from, you know, Yriel with his tens of thousands

1125
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:47,120
of ships to one guy who decides I want to be a pirate now.

1126
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:48,120
Yeah, literally.

1127
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:53,920
So them and maybe some outcasts, Yield Rangers and whatnot.

1128
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:58,080
Probably not Exodite Worlds because they're already so antsy, all that stuff.

1129
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:00,320
I assume they would just, they get it.

1130
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:01,320
Tegzin's Gildar.

1131
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:02,320
I'll never forget it.

1132
01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:03,320
Oh my god.

1133
01:08:03,320 --> 01:08:09,560
Plus their worlds are alive so the trees themselves would be like, you don't seem right today.

1134
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:10,560
Yeah.

1135
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:12,320
I like the idea that the trees dobbed them in.

1136
01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaking of...

1137
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:18,400
You're like, shut up, Teg.

1138
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaking of not feeling right, we can go to the orcs.

1139
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:24,960
And orcs can be infested by Jean Steelers.

1140
01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:31,800
The Jean Steelers kiss the brood cycle will go through the spore reproduction.

1141
01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:34,280
So it still works with the spores.

1142
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:36,520
And sometimes they get away with it.

1143
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:37,520
Very rarely.

1144
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:42,960
But actually, the less civilized orc society, as funny as that might sound, but the the

1145
01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:46,640
federal orcs who are infected usually...

1146
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:50,240
Is that the snakebites?

1147
01:08:50,240 --> 01:08:52,000
The ones who are a bit more tribal?

1148
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:53,520
I think they are.

1149
01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:57,200
Just in general, like planets with orcs who are not evolved.

1150
01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:01,600
Yeah, like some of the orcs, like after a while ends and it's just spores left, they

1151
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:07,680
don't grow into like, I say less advanced orcs like that means anything.

1152
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:10,080
Like Lurehammer fantasy orcs lost in 40k.

1153
01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:12,760
That's what I was gonna say.

1154
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:17,880
They're the perfect orc, as imperfect as the host is.

1155
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:24,000
They are the perfect way to do it because they're not quite as connected with everything.

1156
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:29,440
And the societies that they're in don't notice quite as quickly that something is up.

1157
01:09:29,440 --> 01:09:33,960
Do they end the whole thing of like, have you ever seen a purple orc?

1158
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:37,280
And they're like, ah, sneaky orc.

1159
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:42,280
I think, I don't know if you're gonna touch on that, but my favorite part about them infiltrating

1160
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:47,800
orcs is that they never usually make it in orc society because they're not aggressive

1161
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:48,800
enough, isn't it?

1162
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:49,800
They always get crunked.

1163
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:55,240
The genes of the orc, because it's just not orky enough.

1164
01:09:55,240 --> 01:10:02,440
So it's just like, how about we just take a minute and we sit down and we wait a while

1165
01:10:02,440 --> 01:10:06,400
and then maybe in another generation, then we'll do a while.

1166
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:12,680
And then we'll be like, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

1167
01:10:12,680 --> 01:10:13,680
Yeah.

1168
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:14,680
Were you gonna say something?

1169
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:16,360
I was just gonna say like, yeah, they can tell he's not right orky enough.

1170
01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:18,840
They know something's not right with this lad.

1171
01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:19,840
Exactly.

1172
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:27,960
And the gene stealer, it's like a connection distorts the waa field and they'll be kind

1173
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:29,840
of disconnected from the waa.

1174
01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:35,480
So they can just inherently feel that around them, that there's something wrong with this

1175
01:10:35,480 --> 01:10:37,280
lad right here.

1176
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:43,120
And then they eventually find out that they were taken over by the bug eyes.

1177
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:50,320
Thanks to that waa.

1178
01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:52,960
The they do work sometimes though.

1179
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:54,920
Freebooter bands are great.

1180
01:10:54,920 --> 01:10:56,340
Freebooter bands are perfect.

1181
01:10:56,340 --> 01:11:01,560
And they become green broods as they kind of float across the galaxy as freebooters

1182
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:03,640
do being orky.

1183
01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:06,960
But generally, Earth society, also bad.

1184
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:09,440
So the good ones are Tau.

1185
01:11:09,440 --> 01:11:10,840
And even the Tau aren't great.

1186
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:15,040
Like the actual Tau society wouldn't go well, but Tau fleets are great.

1187
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:16,920
And humans.

1188
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:20,160
But it does make it very fun for the tabletop.

1189
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:25,840
Because if you want to, you can make gene stealer Sektari or gene stealer Tau or like

1190
01:11:25,840 --> 01:11:27,400
convert any models you want.

1191
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:31,880
There's a lot of opportunities for doing that stuff on the tabletop, which is really cool.

1192
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:36,520
Do you reckon we're gonna see a gene stealer leagues of Voton thing at some point?

1193
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:37,520
Probably.

1194
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:38,520
I wouldn't be surprised.

1195
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:39,520
Make him interesting.

1196
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:41,480
I still haven't looked into the lore.

1197
01:11:41,480 --> 01:11:42,480
I'm not gonna lie.

1198
01:11:42,480 --> 01:11:51,360
I uh, without, you know, uh, a hold off on why we might not see that till the end.

1199
01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:55,040
But I do have some reasoning why that might not be too likely.

1200
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:58,440
Good thing that's your later.

1201
01:11:58,440 --> 01:11:59,760
Yeah.

1202
01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:02,000
So let's talk about Ghosts Arquintus.

1203
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:06,320
The first contact, well, first discovery of the gene stealer cults.

1204
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:10,920
There was a high chance that they weren't the first and they were already there, but

1205
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:16,440
it was the first and it was around the time, pretty sure of the first emergence of the

1206
01:12:16,440 --> 01:12:18,840
star children into our galaxy.

1207
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:22,400
Because that should be good to mention the star children aren't even from our galaxy.

1208
01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:27,880
They're truly divine beings coming from the ends of space to help our galaxy.

1209
01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:31,080
Because they're so privileged to see them here.

1210
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:36,960
But yeah, Ghosts Arquintus, it was the first imperial world to be found blessed by the

1211
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:40,040
formed emperor by the star gods in general.

1212
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:41,360
And it was a Delph world.

1213
01:12:41,360 --> 01:12:42,680
It was a mining world.

1214
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:45,200
So a great starting area to start.

1215
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:47,700
They also shipped a lot of things from this world.

1216
01:12:47,700 --> 01:12:49,400
So even better.

1217
01:12:49,400 --> 01:12:51,440
We'll see that in a little bit.

1218
01:12:51,440 --> 01:12:53,880
The population was very well behaved.

1219
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:56,000
They performed their duty to a high degree.

1220
01:12:56,000 --> 01:13:01,560
In fact, they produced a fifth more on their tithes than was demanded.

1221
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:08,760
And were content to live off the gross rations and tasty nutrient pills that are provided.

1222
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:10,880
Yeah.

1223
01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:17,560
The great beliefs of the cult slowly spread until Inquisitor Shagrin, I think is his name,

1224
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:18,560
he took notice.

1225
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:23,360
And he believed it to just be some form of twisted imperial creed.

1226
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:28,360
He didn't know what it was quite at first, but then he showed up and was like, oh, something's

1227
01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:30,560
very wrong here.

1228
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:33,880
Unfortunately for him.

1229
01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:37,400
Well, maybe not unfortunately for him.

1230
01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:39,000
Unfortunately for the Imperium.

1231
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:45,800
The last communication that he ever sent off was that the planet's ruling dynasty was doing

1232
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:49,040
a great and diligent job and that nothing's wrong.

1233
01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:53,440
And then they never heard from him ever again.

1234
01:13:53,440 --> 01:13:58,480
And a year later, just a regular kill team was sent to further investigate them.

1235
01:13:58,480 --> 01:14:01,000
And then they were also lost.

1236
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:05,080
The large pit of the world.

1237
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:06,080
What was it called?

1238
01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:08,680
I think it's just called the Great Pit.

1239
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:11,560
Yeah, I think that's it.

1240
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:13,280
Just a really big hole in the world.

1241
01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:15,240
They went down there to investigate.

1242
01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:16,240
Yep.

1243
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:17,240
Yep.

1244
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:19,040
It literally is though.

1245
01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:21,840
They went down there to investigate and they never returned.

1246
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:29,840
And so Mr. Chaplain of the Altar Mains, Ortan Cassius, famous guy, he picked out his very

1247
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:32,640
own kill team, defined the truth.

1248
01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:37,880
He would, sadly, they would slay the patriarch and kill lots of people.

1249
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:40,640
But it was too late.

1250
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:43,560
He was the savior of imperial celebrations.

1251
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:44,560
Savior of imperial celebrations.

1252
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:45,560
It was far too late.

1253
01:14:45,560 --> 01:14:53,440
It was far too late because when they checked the shipping logs, the gut wrenching truth

1254
01:14:53,440 --> 01:14:59,200
was revealed to them that the cult of the four armed emperor had spread possibly to

1255
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:02,400
literally half of the entire galaxy.

1256
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:03,400
Nice.

1257
01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:04,400
Oof.

1258
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:05,400
Big oof.

1259
01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:09,360
We've got enough bolters for all of them.

1260
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:10,360
It's fine.

1261
01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:17,560
I picture that last transmission the guy sent where he was like, everything's fine.

1262
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:21,800
I picture the scene from Episode Four of Star Wars where Han Solo's like, everything's

1263
01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:22,800
fine.

1264
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:23,800
You don't need to check on it.

1265
01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:24,800
How are you?

1266
01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:25,800
How are you?

1267
01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:30,160
I was imagining a little at the end of the message, just a little smiley face, just to

1268
01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:31,160
be like, fine.

1269
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:34,040
They're like, hmm, that seems a bit weird.

1270
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:39,600
But it's like your parents doing texting and the emoji's not used at the appropriate time.

1271
01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:41,280
It's a bit off.

1272
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:43,760
And the receiving message goes, where's my kisses?

1273
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:44,760
And you go, oh, come on.

1274
01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:45,760
Kiss, kiss, kiss.

1275
01:15:45,760 --> 01:15:50,840
It's like someone with like someone, like a screenshot of someone saying like, oh, you're

1276
01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:52,960
like, so you're, so yeah, grandma, grandma.

1277
01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:53,960
Skull emoji.

1278
01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:54,960
Oh man.

1279
01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:55,960
Oh man.

1280
01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:59,320
Oh boy, yes.

1281
01:15:59,320 --> 01:16:02,200
This is the reality of the Star Children.

1282
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:03,520
They will win.

1283
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:08,280
The galaxy is theirs for the taking and it is primed for their embrace.

1284
01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:13,560
Then they will come and the false emperor will not save you except the embrace of the

1285
01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:16,840
true emperor or be condemned to death.

1286
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:21,800
And I might as Calgar might have a few words to say to be honest.

1287
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:24,280
One as Calgar can only fight so many gene stealers.

1288
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:26,280
We got plenty of other Astartes.

1289
01:16:26,280 --> 01:16:32,360
I also have remind me earlier, you were talking, we were talking about the other races.

1290
01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:38,480
There's also the sected Kamara that knowingly infected themselves with gene stealers because

1291
01:16:38,480 --> 01:16:40,480
they're not any funny.

1292
01:16:40,480 --> 01:16:43,280
They want to see what happens.

1293
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:44,280
Oh my gosh.

1294
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:46,280
That must be really bored.

1295
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:49,280
I mean, they are the Dark Eldar.

1296
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:54,920
So now we can go on to the different cults.

1297
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:58,120
How do you have your favourite cult?

1298
01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:03,320
I picked a favourite cult because there's quite a few and I picked one that's a little

1299
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:06,680
bit, a little bit of a different flavour, shall we say.

1300
01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:11,840
So my favourite gene stealer cult is cult Tenebrous.

1301
01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:20,680
So the kind of unique thing about them is that they were essentially infested with someone

1302
01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,120
else's influence, shall we say.

1303
01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:31,640
So they were in a bulk lander and it was swallowed by a warp storm and it kind of left them essentially

1304
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:40,120
in the worst place, the smelliest place in the galaxy on the edge of the garden of Nergal.

1305
01:17:40,120 --> 01:17:45,040
So you can imagine, I mean, I don't know what the, what's the city that everyone makes fun

1306
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:46,040
of in America, Colin?

1307
01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:47,040
Like, is it Detroit?

1308
01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:48,040
Detroit.

1309
01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:51,680
I think it's like Detroit, but twice as bad as Detroit.

1310
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:54,480
Detroit become Nergal.

1311
01:17:54,480 --> 01:17:59,000
I think that's a bit rude to Nergal's garden.

1312
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:07,640
And so essentially the gene stealer cult, so sorry, Eli, but they discovered a new way

1313
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:09,760
of thinking, shall we say.

1314
01:18:09,760 --> 01:18:18,880
They became enlightened to a new master and they were now infected by good old grandfather

1315
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:26,400
Nergal's plagues and they essentially have re-emerged back into real space and they are

1316
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:30,440
essentially a gene stealer cult that serve chaos.

1317
01:18:30,440 --> 01:18:35,840
I think they're quite a nice like bit of spice, a bit of a different flavour.

1318
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:37,400
Are they the only one who does that?

1319
01:18:37,400 --> 01:18:38,800
There's not like a corn one.

1320
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:40,200
I mean, that'd be kind of rubbish.

1321
01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:43,000
They just run around smashing people with their claws, I suppose.

1322
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:45,800
It might have happened in other gene stealer cults.

1323
01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:49,520
I can't, I might have a minor one.

1324
01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:53,000
If you think of a gene stealer cult, that could be a thing.

1325
01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:56,240
It probably is, honestly.

1326
01:18:56,240 --> 01:18:59,440
Slaneš's gene stealer case is a lot less safe.

1327
01:18:59,440 --> 01:19:00,440
Yikes.

1328
01:19:00,440 --> 01:19:06,600
I'll hand it back to Eli because he's going to talk about some of the more popular, the

1329
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:07,920
main cults that you can buy.

1330
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:08,920
What was it?

1331
01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:09,920
The little transfer sheets.

1332
01:19:09,920 --> 01:19:15,920
A lot of these ones you can play in your actual games of 40k.

1333
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:16,920
Yeah.

1334
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:19,760
So the main ones with rules in the codex.

1335
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:21,160
We went through a lot of names earlier.

1336
01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:22,520
We'll go through them again, might as well.

1337
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:26,640
But we have the cult of the four armed emperor originating from Gulsar Quintus.

1338
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:31,680
As we said, their specialty is tunneling and surprise assault.

1339
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:34,040
I think I forgot to mention that earlier.

1340
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:37,840
In the planning of the cult, they spent a lot of time with their mining equipment and

1341
01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:41,720
stuff, making tunnels to their own...

1342
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:42,720
It's an underway.

1343
01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:44,960
It's like the Skaven Underway that they basically make.

1344
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:48,440
Or the gene stealer Great Escape.

1345
01:19:48,440 --> 01:19:52,760
Just like they're more standing in a tunnel doing their mining with their hard hats on

1346
01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:56,920
and then just being like, hmm, tunnel.

1347
01:19:56,920 --> 01:19:59,840
And then that was just the inspiration, just standing there for hours and then it just

1348
01:19:59,840 --> 01:20:03,680
clicked and they were like, ah, perfect.

1349
01:20:03,680 --> 01:20:09,040
Then we have the Hive Cult, who are just like military experts.

1350
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:15,480
They're all a bunch of warriors and a lot of the astrum militarum consists of their

1351
01:20:15,480 --> 01:20:16,480
cults.

1352
01:20:16,480 --> 01:20:17,640
They're pretty epic.

1353
01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:20,960
We have the Twisted Helix, who are a bunch of mad scientists...

1354
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:23,040
Oh, I'm sorry, I don't know, mad scientists.

1355
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:31,840
Genius scientists who specialize in kind of genetic splicing and they have these really...

1356
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:37,320
They have a lot of aberrants, these gigantic monstrous beings that have been blessed with

1357
01:20:37,320 --> 01:20:43,200
incredible strength and a small mind.

1358
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:44,200
Let's see.

1359
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:48,480
Imagine what Fabius could do with some of them as samples.

1360
01:20:48,480 --> 01:20:50,680
Probably quite a lot of...

1361
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:52,960
Yeah, yeah, I don't know what Fabius...

1362
01:20:52,960 --> 01:20:54,640
I don't really know what Fabius would do with this.

1363
01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:55,960
They wouldn't be his new men.

1364
01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:59,800
They'd probably be like the old, the very old, old, old men because we're not going

1365
01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:02,120
backwards towards that.

1366
01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:03,480
Oh man.

1367
01:21:03,480 --> 01:21:11,080
Yeah, but the Twisted Helix basically blends human flesh with angel blood and void stuff

1368
01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:17,840
and all this conglomeration of just wild, wild, crazy stuff.

1369
01:21:17,840 --> 01:21:21,740
Moving on though, so we can say there's specialties in melee.

1370
01:21:21,740 --> 01:21:23,280
They get good rules for melee on the tabletop.

1371
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:26,940
I think they're like a fan favorite on the tabletop because you can bring pure strange

1372
01:21:26,940 --> 01:21:28,640
genie sealers and they're really good.

1373
01:21:28,640 --> 01:21:31,800
The Hive Cult doesn't have good rules sadly even though they're really cool.

1374
01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:38,200
But anyways, the Epopper Princes are probably the most fanatical and religious of the cults.

1375
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:44,080
They have living saints just like the Imperium does and the followers of the Epopper Princes

1376
01:21:44,080 --> 01:21:47,200
will go to any lengths.

1377
01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:50,360
Any cult will go to basically any lengths to protect their superiors, but the Epopper

1378
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:55,080
Princes will go to new heights that you could not imagine.

1379
01:21:55,080 --> 01:22:03,440
Those and droves, just people running in front of their truly blessed beings to protect them

1380
01:22:03,440 --> 01:22:07,440
and serve them as they should.

1381
01:22:07,440 --> 01:22:12,520
We have the Rusted Claw who are survival specialists.

1382
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:17,360
They have lots of biker gangs and yeah, that's pretty much it about them.

1383
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:19,440
I don't remember this much more.

1384
01:22:19,440 --> 01:22:23,480
There's not a lot of lore, I should say, unfortunately, about the different cults.

1385
01:22:23,480 --> 01:22:26,920
There's not a lot of lore in the Genie Stealer cults in general.

1386
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:30,440
We're basically covering literally everything today.

1387
01:22:30,440 --> 01:22:33,000
But yeah, that's the Rusted Claw.

1388
01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:34,000
They're cool.

1389
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:35,000
They're very tough.

1390
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:36,000
Then we have...

1391
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:39,360
What else do we have here?

1392
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:48,240
We have my favorite personally, the Bladed Cog who are a mix of Omnissiah worshipping,

1393
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:53,360
our children worshipping things.

1394
01:22:53,360 --> 01:23:00,960
The cult is very analytical and the initial day of ascension was undergone by a blessed...

1395
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:01,960
What's the word for them?

1396
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:04,360
Skatari guy, Skatari Alpha.

1397
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:10,400
So the regular cult has meticulous planning, but these guys are even bringing it all the

1398
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:12,160
way further.

1399
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:13,160
It's great.

1400
01:23:13,160 --> 01:23:14,160
You know how...

1401
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:15,160
Out to 11.

1402
01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:16,160
Yeah.

1403
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:17,160
They already have...

1404
01:23:17,160 --> 01:23:18,160
They run the numbers.

1405
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:19,160
They're bunched in the numbers perfectly.

1406
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:22,080
And I'll give that to a Genie Stealer cult.

1407
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:24,120
And it's like the perfect uprising.

1408
01:23:24,120 --> 01:23:25,120
They...

1409
01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:30,000
It reminds me of that thing where there was that chess grandmaster went up against a computer

1410
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:31,000
and he lost.

1411
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:32,000
It's like, that's them.

1412
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:33,000
They're the computer.

1413
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:34,000
Yeah.

1414
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:41,840
They mesh their blessed flesh with machine flesh, the forearmed Omnissiah as he wills

1415
01:23:41,840 --> 01:23:42,840
it.

1416
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:51,280
And there's lots of really scary things in the Bladed Cog, just like animalistic half

1417
01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:55,080
living thing, half machine.

1418
01:23:55,080 --> 01:24:00,840
You can just imagine the scariness of regular Ad Mech in Warhammer and the grim darkness

1419
01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:02,040
of that.

1420
01:24:02,040 --> 01:24:06,320
And then just put Genie Steelers on top of that and you get even better.

1421
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:08,120
Good ol' Warhammer stuff.

1422
01:24:08,120 --> 01:24:09,480
It's actually pretty intimidating.

1423
01:24:09,480 --> 01:24:11,840
I have one pitch in my mind.

1424
01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:12,840
Yikes.

1425
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:13,840
Yeah.

1426
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:17,720
And then those are the major cults, really.

1427
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:18,960
And we have some minor cults.

1428
01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:21,920
There are six of them that I have here for you all.

1429
01:24:21,920 --> 01:24:30,160
We have the Inner Worm, who I believe their patriarch came from the inside of a void whale.

1430
01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:32,200
So they're very like guts oriented.

1431
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:34,000
They're like guts and slaughter.

1432
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:36,640
I'm going to make a particularly interesting entrance.

1433
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:37,640
Yeah.

1434
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:40,080
I find that's the beginning of a Your Mum joke there.

1435
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:45,080
Like, Your Mum is so big, she come from a void whale.

1436
01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:51,960
We have the Star Kindred, who believe, I believe that when the angels come, the star will be

1437
01:24:51,960 --> 01:24:54,360
revealed on their ever dark planet.

1438
01:24:54,360 --> 01:25:01,960
We have the Blessed Wormlings, who to be like their ancestors, I guess we can say, they

1439
01:25:01,960 --> 01:25:09,920
eat worms and they feed people to these big giant bugs and then they eat the big bugs

1440
01:25:09,920 --> 01:25:11,680
and it's really weird.

1441
01:25:11,680 --> 01:25:12,680
Eww.

1442
01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:16,400
The circle of genes.

1443
01:25:16,400 --> 01:25:18,520
We have the Cult Hydraic.

1444
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:21,640
I don't remember their thing really, I think they just spread everywhere because they're

1445
01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:22,640
a Hydra.

1446
01:25:22,640 --> 01:25:23,640
That makes sense to me.

1447
01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:28,480
We have the Sons of Jormungandr, I said earlier, I like them a lot.

1448
01:25:28,480 --> 01:25:33,680
They instead of coming from below, they come from above and they infest a large amount

1449
01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:34,680
of space stations.

1450
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:37,440
Oh my god, I just thought of fucking Randy Orton.

1451
01:25:37,440 --> 01:25:41,600
You know, like, he comes from Randy Orton slithering out.

1452
01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:45,920
Here comes the Patriarch with the steel chair.

1453
01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:53,160
They come from a string of infested space stations that stretch across the Black Nebula.

1454
01:25:53,160 --> 01:25:55,240
So it's relative peace and privacy.

1455
01:25:55,240 --> 01:26:00,560
It's a very good place, bred obviously, because there's not much resistance.

1456
01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:08,080
And they take inspiration from the nomads of Star Children that they witness in the

1457
01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:09,480
area.

1458
01:26:09,480 --> 01:26:15,120
And those Star Children take asteroids and fill them with stuff and send them down to

1459
01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:16,120
planets.

1460
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:20,440
So like them, the Sons of Jormungandr infest cargo ships and stuff and go down to planets

1461
01:26:20,440 --> 01:26:29,280
and then burst forth and take it over or alternatively infiltrate the planets to start the revolution

1462
01:26:29,280 --> 01:26:31,080
and spread the word from there.

1463
01:26:31,080 --> 01:26:32,640
I like them quite a lot.

1464
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:37,480
The world's most horrifying ODST.

1465
01:26:37,480 --> 01:26:43,160
I think one of my favorites, which this is kind of a spoiler for the Day of Ascension,

1466
01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:50,520
I guess, but there's a cult in Ultramar and they're called the Behemoid Undercult.

1467
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:52,520
They all stab their eyes out.

1468
01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:57,560
They stab one eye out because they worship none other than Old One Eye.

1469
01:26:57,560 --> 01:27:00,920
Old One Eye literally has his own cult, which is awesome.

1470
01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:04,360
Yeah, I assume, do you guys know who Old One Eye is?

1471
01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:05,360
Oh yeah, from the...

1472
01:27:05,360 --> 01:27:06,360
The artifacts?

1473
01:27:06,360 --> 01:27:07,720
The Battle of Macragge as well.

1474
01:27:07,720 --> 01:27:08,720
The Moilers?

1475
01:27:08,720 --> 01:27:09,720
Magnus the Red?

1476
01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:10,720
Yeah.

1477
01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:15,040
That'd be a weird thing for them to do.

1478
01:27:15,040 --> 01:27:20,280
Old One Eye, for those of you who don't know, the altar means fought, a war against the

1479
01:27:20,280 --> 01:27:21,600
Star Children.

1480
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:27,960
And Old One Eye has remained, he's just this immortal, invincible angel that they've left

1481
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:31,320
behind and he has his own cult now.

1482
01:27:31,320 --> 01:27:40,040
He's making his way downtown, he's walking fast.

1483
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:45,360
Like Old One Eye, these guys believe in a creative physical strength and aggression,

1484
01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:50,400
and they have big giant armored engines that are big, like an aberrance.

1485
01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:53,840
Talk about those soon, that are just living battery rams basically.

1486
01:27:53,840 --> 01:27:56,760
That's awesome, they're awesome.

1487
01:27:56,760 --> 01:28:02,560
There's a few other random cults that don't really matter though, that I've never even

1488
01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:03,560
heard of.

1489
01:28:03,560 --> 01:28:06,440
They're on my list, but I don't even know what they are.

1490
01:28:06,440 --> 01:28:10,120
Yeah, there's an infinite number of cults, literally.

1491
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:15,600
If you could think of one, if you could home for one, it's logical enough for it to exist,

1492
01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:17,440
to an extent I guess.

1493
01:28:17,440 --> 01:28:22,920
There are, I should say, there are an infected space marine chapter, I forgot to mention

1494
01:28:22,920 --> 01:28:26,160
that, I really like that, they're called the Sides of the Emperor.

1495
01:28:26,160 --> 01:28:28,160
Oh yeah, I remember that.

1496
01:28:28,160 --> 01:28:33,560
It's not in my notes, I'm just going off of memory here, but basically they've been

1497
01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:36,100
affected by the Gene Stealer's kiss.

1498
01:28:36,100 --> 01:28:42,560
So they wear psychic hoods to keep out the call of angels and Star Children, foolish

1499
01:28:42,560 --> 01:28:43,560
space marines.

1500
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:50,640
But yeah, they wear hoods also to hide themselves from most of the world, because Gene Stealer

1501
01:28:50,640 --> 01:28:55,440
space marines sound pretty scary to me, but that's cool.

1502
01:28:55,440 --> 01:29:00,960
Kane again, and without too many spoilers, they do take precautions because space marines

1503
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:02,440
very much can be infected.

1504
01:29:02,440 --> 01:29:07,640
That was a big worry in one of the Caiaphas Kane novels, dealing with the space hulk,

1505
01:29:07,640 --> 01:29:13,000
they all had to be safe because they didn't want the operation to end and then uh oh,

1506
01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:17,160
some of those marines came back with a few extra bits.

1507
01:29:17,160 --> 01:29:23,280
If I remember correctly, maybe remember correctly, the Sides of the Emperor set off the Pharaoh's

1508
01:29:23,280 --> 01:29:25,080
beacon, I think.

1509
01:29:25,080 --> 01:29:29,680
No, they are, chaters are assigned, they're assigned to protect it.

1510
01:29:29,680 --> 01:29:35,960
Yeah, and they have the heraldry of Barabastantiak on their, their like armor with the skull.

1511
01:29:35,960 --> 01:29:38,600
Oh no no no, that's silver skulls.

1512
01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:42,440
Yeah, I always get them confused because they have the look, but yeah.

1513
01:29:42,440 --> 01:29:47,520
As the Emperor, it's because they, the people who lived on the planet with a Pharaoh's beacon

1514
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:52,680
is they had like these big scythes that would, they would use to cut their um, not wheat,

1515
01:29:52,680 --> 01:29:55,440
but like, you know, wheat equivalent, shall we say.

1516
01:29:55,440 --> 01:29:58,960
And so it was like the people of that world and so they basically took that like their

1517
01:29:58,960 --> 01:30:01,240
badge of honor.

1518
01:30:01,240 --> 01:30:07,160
One of them helped Belisarius Kull as well when he was trekking around and was dispatched

1519
01:30:07,160 --> 01:30:08,760
as like his little bodyguard.

1520
01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:14,200
Was he, I think he was involved with the, the little match that Belisarius had with

1521
01:30:14,200 --> 01:30:16,320
a katan shard, I think.

1522
01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:19,120
In the, Belisarius, his book, The Great Work.

1523
01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:20,120
Yeah, maybe.

1524
01:30:20,120 --> 01:30:21,120
He's definitely on the cover.

1525
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:22,120
I did not know that.

1526
01:30:22,120 --> 01:30:27,720
Well, we'll talk about that in another video when we talk about Belisarius Kull.

1527
01:30:27,720 --> 01:30:33,160
Yeah, I believe Hal has a fun little story to tell.

1528
01:30:33,160 --> 01:30:34,160
Yes I do.

1529
01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:39,920
I've been dying to talk about this because this is just to talk a little, like an interesting

1530
01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:45,800
thing in the lore that happens to a genestealer cult and it was to deal with your main man,

1531
01:30:45,800 --> 01:30:49,280
not Ranny Savage, but um, Trezin the Infinite.

1532
01:30:49,280 --> 01:30:56,280
So in Trezin the Infinite's book, spoilers for say now, there is a, a small cameo, shall

1533
01:30:56,280 --> 01:31:01,460
we say, of a genestealer's and it was on the world of Serenade.

1534
01:31:01,460 --> 01:31:08,520
It was, the whole book is essentially around Trezin and his rival, Oricon the Diviner.

1535
01:31:08,520 --> 01:31:14,840
They kind of, they were forced to work together and they're trying to unlock the secrets of

1536
01:31:14,840 --> 01:31:22,280
the world of Serenade and they're like, sitting in this human amphitheatre, they're watching

1537
01:31:22,280 --> 01:31:28,360
a play happen and it's a little play called King Mischief.

1538
01:31:28,360 --> 01:31:33,360
It's like a special performance of the planet where they have a little ventriloquist doll,

1539
01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:37,200
I think it's called, is that ventriloquism isn't it?

1540
01:31:37,200 --> 01:31:43,960
And it has like a puppet and it requires like a third puppet hand to help perform the magic

1541
01:31:43,960 --> 01:31:48,480
tricks which is really funny because it's like, it's, so I should perform the mischief

1542
01:31:48,480 --> 01:31:53,280
and I put in brackets here, apparently it's a comedy because apparently people find it

1543
01:31:53,280 --> 01:31:55,520
funny that there's a little puppet.

1544
01:31:55,520 --> 01:32:00,840
And him and Oricon are just like in disguise, just like, you know, jab, you know, throwing

1545
01:32:00,840 --> 01:32:03,400
jabs at each other, talking smack.

1546
01:32:03,400 --> 01:32:10,240
And there's a point where Oricon notices that the performer's third arm is not a fake arm

1547
01:32:10,240 --> 01:32:12,120
or a puppet arm.

1548
01:32:12,120 --> 01:32:18,960
And this literally unveils, I'm sorry, unveils a genestealer uprising in the middle of it.

1549
01:32:18,960 --> 01:32:26,960
And the reason this happened was because centuries earlier, Trezin, for a laugh, took a genestealer

1550
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:31,640
out of his like collection and he threw it at Oricon because he thought it would be funny.

1551
01:32:31,640 --> 01:32:37,100
And so that led to the genestealer surviving, running off and essentially starting this

1552
01:32:37,100 --> 01:32:40,320
cult that then takes over the world of Serenade.

1553
01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:44,320
And Oricon is like not happy because he's like, bro, we need this planet.

1554
01:32:44,320 --> 01:32:49,080
And that jokey pool two centuries ago has messed it up.

1555
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:54,960
That was like a, I love that little part because it just shows, you know, essentially they

1556
01:32:54,960 --> 01:33:00,720
are in, there are like little cameos in other parts of different stories, but it's so funny

1557
01:33:00,720 --> 01:33:02,880
in that book.

1558
01:33:02,880 --> 01:33:05,760
It shows that necrons are goofballs, basically.

1559
01:33:05,760 --> 01:33:07,720
Oh, Trezin is definitely.

1560
01:33:07,720 --> 01:33:08,720
Yeah, they truly are.

1561
01:33:08,720 --> 01:33:11,560
I gotta read that book still, frick.

1562
01:33:11,560 --> 01:33:15,800
And we're going to briefly talk about their powers.

1563
01:33:15,800 --> 01:33:21,440
So I think I'll hand it back to Eli just to talk a little bit about their strengths and

1564
01:33:21,440 --> 01:33:22,440
stuff like that.

1565
01:33:22,440 --> 01:33:26,360
Although I think I might go first, to be fair, because I want to talk about a particular,

1566
01:33:26,360 --> 01:33:30,440
I'm just talking about one particular unit, which is called the Magus.

1567
01:33:30,440 --> 01:33:32,720
Funny enough, I just did a Magnus stuff.

1568
01:33:32,720 --> 01:33:35,560
So, and Magnus has caused the Magus of Prospero.

1569
01:33:35,560 --> 01:33:38,000
So that's quite interesting.

1570
01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:43,600
So a Genesealer Magus is essentially a Genesealer hybrid Psyca.

1571
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:46,360
This is the one that is, I think you see a lot like art.

1572
01:33:46,360 --> 01:33:47,680
There's a lot of art for this one.

1573
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:51,640
It can be like a man or a woman on the face of it.

1574
01:33:51,640 --> 01:33:56,160
Again, bald hairline gone.

1575
01:33:56,160 --> 01:34:01,640
And they are kind of, they're often the face of the cults.

1576
01:34:01,640 --> 01:34:07,400
So these are people who be like, oh, that kind of semi-famous person if you're a regular

1577
01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:09,880
Imperial citizen, you'd be like, I've heard of that person.

1578
01:34:09,880 --> 01:34:14,200
That's the person who leads that like weird sect or something like that.

1579
01:34:14,200 --> 01:34:16,640
And they have like a special role within the cult.

1580
01:34:16,640 --> 01:34:20,080
So like they're ceremonial leaders, diplomats, things like that.

1581
01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:25,600
But they also have their own like psychic abilities, which allow them to be even more

1582
01:34:25,600 --> 01:34:28,220
effective at, I guess, manipulating people.

1583
01:34:28,220 --> 01:34:33,380
So they have manipulation within the cult, but then they can also do it on other people

1584
01:34:33,380 --> 01:34:34,380
as well.

1585
01:34:34,380 --> 01:34:37,840
They also act like a beacon to what's called the call in the warp.

1586
01:34:37,840 --> 01:34:41,080
I think we mentioned that a little bit earlier too.

1587
01:34:41,080 --> 01:34:42,720
And that's like a boost to that.

1588
01:34:42,720 --> 01:34:49,360
A little funny part, I think I'm just remembering is that other Maguses, they actually compete

1589
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:53,560
with each other in terms of like who could be the better Magus, which is quite funny.

1590
01:34:53,560 --> 01:34:54,560
They're not like working together.

1591
01:34:54,560 --> 01:34:59,000
Essentially, they're a little bit like Trezinn and Oricon in a way, because they're very

1592
01:34:59,000 --> 01:35:00,000
much.

1593
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:04,560
I would say they're not independent thing, they're not independent thoughts.

1594
01:35:04,560 --> 01:35:07,280
Is that the way I say it?

1595
01:35:07,280 --> 01:35:14,520
But they're very much a highly motivated agent of the cult and they are deadly.

1596
01:35:14,520 --> 01:35:19,720
They are pretty, I mean, you don't want to face one in battle pretty much.

1597
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:24,080
And I think I'll hand it back to Eli to talk about some of the other special members of

1598
01:35:24,080 --> 01:35:26,760
this beautiful star children race.

1599
01:35:26,760 --> 01:35:31,840
I should say, Mommy Magus wears, literally wears high heels.

1600
01:35:31,840 --> 01:35:35,240
No, I should all that you ruined it.

1601
01:35:35,240 --> 01:35:36,240
Oh my lord.

1602
01:35:36,240 --> 01:35:45,440
Yeah, I'll talk about some cool units that the Gene stealer called has also correlates

1603
01:35:45,440 --> 01:35:50,000
to how freaking expensive they are on the tabletop.

1604
01:35:50,000 --> 01:35:53,280
But because there's a lot of unique units.

1605
01:35:53,280 --> 01:35:57,640
Unfortunately, depending on where you live, characters can be pretty expensive.

1606
01:35:57,640 --> 01:36:03,640
Anywho, the blessings of the form Emperor are many, and there are a large amount of

1607
01:36:03,640 --> 01:36:08,600
unique forms which emerged from the breeding cycles usually around the third and fourth

1608
01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:14,760
generation, especially when the star children come near, they can kind of the disturbance

1609
01:36:14,760 --> 01:36:20,400
in the warp and all the turbulence will make these wacky genome start to sprout sprout

1610
01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:24,000
forth from the brood.

1611
01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:29,760
I can mention earlier, everyone's favorite basically is the color morph, which was going

1612
01:36:29,760 --> 01:36:31,200
to a little more detail.

1613
01:36:31,200 --> 01:36:33,480
They are three armed gunslinging hero.

1614
01:36:33,480 --> 01:36:38,280
They have from the third generation of the local cult, and they are genetically designed

1615
01:36:38,280 --> 01:36:43,160
there specifically designed to symbolize the glorious freedom fighting cause of the star

1616
01:36:43,160 --> 01:36:44,240
children.

1617
01:36:44,240 --> 01:36:49,000
They will three liberator auto stubs and can fire them off like unlimitedly.

1618
01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:50,960
Basically, they get to fire twice on the tabletop.

1619
01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:51,960
It's fun.

1620
01:36:51,960 --> 01:36:56,080
They're a one man army with guns blazing away and they waved through enemy lines with

1621
01:36:56,080 --> 01:36:58,720
their enhanced reflexes and strengths.

1622
01:36:58,720 --> 01:37:03,560
They're specifically made to exploit the human psyche, or I suppose whatever race of psyche

1623
01:37:03,560 --> 01:37:05,240
they were going to be around.

1624
01:37:05,240 --> 01:37:09,520
But as I kind of said earlier, they bring hope to the oppressed and adventure to the

1625
01:37:09,520 --> 01:37:14,040
criminal and something in the human brain just kind of like sparks when they see the

1626
01:37:14,040 --> 01:37:15,420
color morph.

1627
01:37:15,420 --> 01:37:19,760
They are blessed with heightened senses, speed and strengths.

1628
01:37:19,760 --> 01:37:24,720
And at times before the times shortly before Ascension, they are like they're literally

1629
01:37:24,720 --> 01:37:27,200
just a folk hero.

1630
01:37:27,200 --> 01:37:33,640
Being a hero to the people, a defender to the weak and a savior to the downtrodden.

1631
01:37:33,640 --> 01:37:37,600
No governor or overseer is safe from these stealthy skilled assassins.

1632
01:37:37,600 --> 01:37:43,880
And the color morph plays a key role in slaying the oppressors and figureheads of the world.

1633
01:37:43,880 --> 01:37:49,000
And when the day of Ascension comes, they stand with the armies being a great inspiration

1634
01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:53,760
to the masses as they cut down swaths of enemies with a hail of bullets.

1635
01:37:53,760 --> 01:37:58,360
They can even be equipped with ammunition called Wormtooth rounds that can destroy heavily

1636
01:37:58,360 --> 01:38:00,480
armored vehicles.

1637
01:38:00,480 --> 01:38:01,480
Cool stuff.

1638
01:38:01,480 --> 01:38:03,640
I get this is your favorite I feel.

1639
01:38:03,640 --> 01:38:09,640
This might be I think it's probably I think it's probably it's like everyone's favorite.

1640
01:38:09,640 --> 01:38:10,840
I don't know what my favorite is.

1641
01:38:10,840 --> 01:38:11,840
It's kind of hard to choose.

1642
01:38:11,840 --> 01:38:12,840
There's so many.

1643
01:38:12,840 --> 01:38:14,560
I like the color morph.

1644
01:38:14,560 --> 01:38:17,520
I like the Sanctus a lot as well.

1645
01:38:17,520 --> 01:38:22,760
I like the Jack of Elf because he rides a motorcycle and looks cool.

1646
01:38:22,760 --> 01:38:25,960
But there's so many cool ones.

1647
01:38:25,960 --> 01:38:27,440
The Nexus is really cool.

1648
01:38:27,440 --> 01:38:29,000
I'll talk about next.

1649
01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:32,220
He's literally the big brain of the cult.

1650
01:38:32,220 --> 01:38:33,560
His head is gigantic.

1651
01:38:33,560 --> 01:38:34,560
Literally.

1652
01:38:34,560 --> 01:38:39,440
Oh, that's the one of the model where it's like their brain is swelling, isn't it?

1653
01:38:39,440 --> 01:38:40,440
Yeah.

1654
01:38:40,440 --> 01:38:41,440
Yeah.

1655
01:38:41,440 --> 01:38:42,440
Oh, that's disgusting.

1656
01:38:42,440 --> 01:38:43,440
Yeah.

1657
01:38:43,440 --> 01:38:44,440
Sorry.

1658
01:38:44,440 --> 01:38:45,440
Sorry.

1659
01:38:45,440 --> 01:38:46,440
It's so many names.

1660
01:38:46,440 --> 01:38:53,080
They are blessed with beautiful, incredible intelligence and a knack for strategy and

1661
01:38:53,080 --> 01:38:55,760
pure memorization.

1662
01:38:55,760 --> 01:39:00,800
If you have a photographic memory, take that and times it by literally a million.

1663
01:39:00,800 --> 01:39:01,800
And it's these guys.

1664
01:39:01,800 --> 01:39:09,360
And their specific blessing and genome allows them to absorb thoughts and images from individuals

1665
01:39:09,360 --> 01:39:12,560
simply by touching them, if I remember correctly.

1666
01:39:12,560 --> 01:39:18,800
And these thoughts are then stored and I forgot, I don't know the word, search for the sea,

1667
01:39:18,800 --> 01:39:19,800
whatever.

1668
01:39:19,800 --> 01:39:20,800
They're stored.

1669
01:39:20,800 --> 01:39:21,800
Categorist?

1670
01:39:21,800 --> 01:39:22,800
Something like that.

1671
01:39:22,800 --> 01:39:23,800
Search for the sea and then I know I think.

1672
01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:24,800
What's the name of the unit again?

1673
01:39:24,800 --> 01:39:25,800
Compartmented.

1674
01:39:25,800 --> 01:39:26,800
There you go.

1675
01:39:26,800 --> 01:39:27,800
What's the name?

1676
01:39:27,800 --> 01:39:28,800
Compartmented.

1677
01:39:28,800 --> 01:39:29,800
Nexus.

1678
01:39:29,800 --> 01:39:30,800
N-E-X-O-S.

1679
01:39:30,800 --> 01:39:31,800
Nexus.

1680
01:39:31,800 --> 01:39:36,440
Oh, because I thought we could probably count that with like we throw a colon at it and

1681
01:39:36,440 --> 01:39:39,720
be like, read his mind and see what he has seen.

1682
01:39:39,720 --> 01:39:40,720
That's the thing.

1683
01:39:40,720 --> 01:39:41,720
It must be distracting.

1684
01:39:41,720 --> 01:39:44,440
You're like all of a sudden you just brush someone's shoulder by accident.

1685
01:39:44,440 --> 01:39:46,600
You walk in front of them and see everything they think about you.

1686
01:39:46,600 --> 01:39:48,600
You go, oh, bleach, bleach.

1687
01:39:48,600 --> 01:39:50,600
More of a curse.

1688
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:55,640
You brush past someone's mind and in the course of three seconds, the entire B movie is filtered

1689
01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:56,640
in earring.

1690
01:39:56,640 --> 01:39:57,640
Oh my gosh.

1691
01:39:57,640 --> 01:40:03,800
It does originally, it does sound like a curse at first because like how could anyone have

1692
01:40:03,800 --> 01:40:07,120
that much information in their mind and not just go crazy.

1693
01:40:07,120 --> 01:40:12,280
Why have I now got that video in my head where like someone's like watching B movies like

1694
01:40:12,280 --> 01:40:14,520
I think that woman's going to F that B.

1695
01:40:14,520 --> 01:40:18,280
Sorry, sorry, sorry.

1696
01:40:18,280 --> 01:40:19,280
Okay.

1697
01:40:19,280 --> 01:40:22,560
So they are genetically made for this though.

1698
01:40:22,560 --> 01:40:24,200
So it's like second nature to them.

1699
01:40:24,200 --> 01:40:25,200
They don't mind.

1700
01:40:25,200 --> 01:40:27,000
They're not actually in pain or anything.

1701
01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:28,000
They just look wacky.

1702
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:31,000
They're big fans of the B movie.

1703
01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:32,760
It's fine.

1704
01:40:32,760 --> 01:40:39,440
Their main task and job for Ascension Day is to create a replica map down to every single

1705
01:40:39,440 --> 01:40:45,160
tiny meticulous detail of the entire area where they'll be ascending.

1706
01:40:45,160 --> 01:40:48,360
So sometimes literally the entire planet.

1707
01:40:48,360 --> 01:40:52,640
They make these really wacky, cool 3D modeled planets.

1708
01:40:52,640 --> 01:40:55,800
The model for Warhammer actually is really neat.

1709
01:40:55,800 --> 01:41:00,920
They're over this little map thing from, yeah, anyways.

1710
01:41:00,920 --> 01:41:06,920
They do this to the tiniest detail and so incredible are they that usually the cult

1711
01:41:06,920 --> 01:41:11,480
itself knows more about the environment and the place and the planet they're going up

1712
01:41:11,480 --> 01:41:17,400
to fight on than the actual like planetary guard and military knows about it.

1713
01:41:17,400 --> 01:41:21,040
People who have lived there forever potentially.

1714
01:41:21,040 --> 01:41:22,040
That's the Nexus.

1715
01:41:22,040 --> 01:41:23,040
He's cool.

1716
01:41:23,040 --> 01:41:26,720
On the tabletop he gives you free command points and stuff and gives out tokens and

1717
01:41:26,720 --> 01:41:28,720
whatever.

1718
01:41:28,720 --> 01:41:33,920
The Sanctus, which is the last one I'll talk about in length because there's like literally

1719
01:41:33,920 --> 01:41:34,920
10.

1720
01:41:34,920 --> 01:41:39,480
But Sanctus is the main assassin of the cult.

1721
01:41:39,480 --> 01:41:42,400
They're masters of stealth, obviously.

1722
01:41:42,400 --> 01:41:46,440
But unlike most of the cults, they're very reclusive and they don't talk and mingle with

1723
01:41:46,440 --> 01:41:49,800
the congregation like most people would.

1724
01:41:49,800 --> 01:41:52,940
And they generally only hang around the patriarch.

1725
01:41:52,940 --> 01:41:54,720
Very privileged indeed.

1726
01:41:54,720 --> 01:42:03,280
They wield an atrophic blade, which is distilled using the Genesis pool of the cult, which

1727
01:42:03,280 --> 01:42:10,120
has all the fallen brothers and Broodkin and the psychic might of all of these individuals

1728
01:42:10,120 --> 01:42:12,440
pooled together in this goop.

1729
01:42:12,440 --> 01:42:19,640
And then that's used to make this blade, which is also probably used from the patriarch's

1730
01:42:19,640 --> 01:42:20,640
throne.

1731
01:42:20,640 --> 01:42:25,040
Could one call it like a poop knife?

1732
01:42:25,040 --> 01:42:29,840
Yeah, the Sanctus has a poop.

1733
01:42:29,840 --> 01:42:32,000
This is the closest I'm ever going to get.

1734
01:42:32,000 --> 01:42:33,400
Come on boys, let me have it.

1735
01:42:33,400 --> 01:42:34,400
Three armed poot.

1736
01:42:34,400 --> 01:42:35,400
Oh gosh.

1737
01:42:35,400 --> 01:42:36,400
Three armed poop knife oosie.

1738
01:42:36,400 --> 01:42:39,400
Let's just get them all out of the way right now.

1739
01:42:39,400 --> 01:42:40,400
Oh my god.

1740
01:42:40,400 --> 01:42:45,160
Oh, Megusy is, yeah there you go.

1741
01:42:45,160 --> 01:42:46,160
Next oosie.

1742
01:42:46,160 --> 01:42:48,280
Oh my lord.

1743
01:42:48,280 --> 01:42:54,640
So the poop knife, when it touches somebody, their heads explode basically and their brains

1744
01:42:54,640 --> 01:43:00,480
are reduced to slag as they're filled with the psychic shock and screams.

1745
01:43:00,480 --> 01:43:01,480
So stupid.

1746
01:43:01,480 --> 01:43:05,120
The poop knife inserts the entire Bee movie into their brain at once.

1747
01:43:05,120 --> 01:43:06,120
Literally, literally.

1748
01:43:06,120 --> 01:43:09,120
The Bee movie poop knife reduces.

1749
01:43:09,120 --> 01:43:12,120
Oh, that's just gross.

1750
01:43:12,120 --> 01:43:17,120
What's the deal about poop knives?

1751
01:43:17,120 --> 01:43:21,200
You like ass?

1752
01:43:21,200 --> 01:43:26,680
They also carry sniper rifles, which usually fire like toxic poisonous darts that are designed

1753
01:43:26,680 --> 01:43:28,500
by the cults Biofagus.

1754
01:43:28,500 --> 01:43:32,440
The Biofagus is like their doctor kind of and scientist.

1755
01:43:32,440 --> 01:43:37,400
They're effectively, they're especially effective against psychers.

1756
01:43:37,400 --> 01:43:43,200
Certain toxin will overload their brains and allow the psychic fortress that is the angels

1757
01:43:43,200 --> 01:43:48,440
and the star children to just have full consumption of them.

1758
01:43:48,440 --> 01:43:52,960
And as they're overloaded with this insane psychic might, their heads also explode.

1759
01:43:52,960 --> 01:43:55,520
There's a lot of exploding heads going on, I guess.

1760
01:43:55,520 --> 01:43:59,760
But yeah, they're pretty good.

1761
01:43:59,760 --> 01:44:03,320
They usually running around with them is a little familiar.

1762
01:44:03,320 --> 01:44:07,760
That the patriarch is like handmade and the patriarch can see you through the familiar

1763
01:44:07,760 --> 01:44:09,600
and give extra orders to that.

1764
01:44:09,600 --> 01:44:13,440
The patriarch will also psychically stamp an individual.

1765
01:44:13,440 --> 01:44:16,000
Oh, that's not the right way to describe it, I guess.

1766
01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:20,720
Each individual has their own psychic scent and the patriarch will give this to the next,

1767
01:44:20,720 --> 01:44:22,960
the sanctus.

1768
01:44:22,960 --> 01:44:28,360
And so like they basically can't hide no matter where they go because it has their scent picked

1769
01:44:28,360 --> 01:44:29,680
up on their trail.

1770
01:44:29,680 --> 01:44:34,840
They wear these fancy three-eyed goggles as well that they usually make or steal that

1771
01:44:34,840 --> 01:44:37,240
sees in whatever every vision.

1772
01:44:37,240 --> 01:44:39,880
They never miss that type of thing.

1773
01:44:39,880 --> 01:44:43,200
On the tabletop, they actually literally never miss their attacks automatically hit.

1774
01:44:43,200 --> 01:44:44,200
Pretty neat.

1775
01:44:44,200 --> 01:44:45,200
Oh, that's pretty cool.

1776
01:44:45,200 --> 01:44:46,200
Nice.

1777
01:44:46,200 --> 01:44:47,200
Yeah.

1778
01:44:47,200 --> 01:44:48,200
Yeah.

1779
01:44:48,200 --> 01:44:52,760
Some honorable mentions, which are basically just all the other ones, are the primus, who's

1780
01:44:52,760 --> 01:44:58,520
a strong-backed military leader, the biophages, who's the genius scientist, doctor type, the

1781
01:44:58,520 --> 01:45:00,080
aberrants and aberration.

1782
01:45:00,080 --> 01:45:06,400
The aberrants are basically purple three-armed augrins with big hammers and the aberration

1783
01:45:06,400 --> 01:45:08,360
is slightly smarter.

1784
01:45:08,360 --> 01:45:11,840
The aberration model you might have seen, they have like two heads and they're splitting

1785
01:45:11,840 --> 01:45:12,840
off from each other.

1786
01:45:12,840 --> 01:45:15,160
It's pretty wacky.

1787
01:45:15,160 --> 01:45:23,360
The clamviss is a propaganda slash truth machine who can upload basically like this wacky screen

1788
01:45:23,360 --> 01:45:29,480
thing to all the Vox networks and make people's ears bleed and brains melt and stuff.

1789
01:45:29,480 --> 01:45:30,480
The reductus saboteur.

1790
01:45:30,480 --> 01:45:33,480
The Alex Jones of the...

1791
01:45:33,480 --> 01:45:36,760
Turn the freaking frogs into...

1792
01:45:36,760 --> 01:45:42,080
The reductus saboteur is a cool one.

1793
01:45:42,080 --> 01:45:45,720
They're a genetically designed domestic terrorist.

1794
01:45:45,720 --> 01:45:46,720
That's fun.

1795
01:45:46,720 --> 01:45:49,720
That's a hell of a sentence.

1796
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:51,560
There's a quote right there.

1797
01:45:51,560 --> 01:45:55,480
The demo man, but with three arms and also purple.

1798
01:45:55,480 --> 01:46:01,240
They are masters at making bombs and blowing things up and that's it.

1799
01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:06,000
Basically they can like squeeze through pipes and stuff though to get to the pristine location

1800
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:07,240
to blow it up.

1801
01:46:07,240 --> 01:46:12,120
They make the cults explosives, which kind of moves us into the technology section.

1802
01:46:12,120 --> 01:46:19,960
After I say this one last one, which is the Jackal Elfus, who's a bike ganger sniper guy.

1803
01:46:19,960 --> 01:46:24,920
Moving on to the technology of the cult, what they use to fight with, which is also a reason

1804
01:46:24,920 --> 01:46:28,600
why they're fighting with a disadvantage.

1805
01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:33,840
They have to be very, very meticulous in their planning and have the perfect strategy because

1806
01:46:33,840 --> 01:46:40,000
most of what the cult fights with are just repurposed civilian vehicles and handmade

1807
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:41,480
weapons.

1808
01:46:41,480 --> 01:46:45,740
Something like the Hive cult is going to be better equipped obviously and take their Lehman

1809
01:46:45,740 --> 01:46:50,180
Russes and Basilisks and all the hijacked stuff if they get.

1810
01:46:50,180 --> 01:46:55,160
Other cults might be lucky and have enough sleeper agent types in the astromelotaur,

1811
01:46:55,160 --> 01:47:01,560
but usually it's just salvage technology, stuff they put together, like literally buzz

1812
01:47:01,560 --> 01:47:07,440
saws and mining equipment, which sounds funny at first, but when you think about it in the

1813
01:47:07,440 --> 01:47:13,520
41st millennium, mining equipment is pretty efficient and it's pretty dang good at cutting

1814
01:47:13,520 --> 01:47:16,680
through the hardest materials that the galaxy has to offer.

1815
01:47:16,680 --> 01:47:31,760
So these buzz saw look at things and power tools and slice through power armor and they

1816
01:47:31,760 --> 01:47:34,080
definitely get the job done.

1817
01:47:34,080 --> 01:47:40,520
Before we go too far from the tabletop stuff, could I say two things about it really quick?

1818
01:47:40,520 --> 01:47:42,440
Of course.

1819
01:47:42,440 --> 01:47:48,360
One would be, well I haven't looked too in depth on them yet, the Gene Stealer Combat

1820
01:47:48,360 --> 01:47:54,160
Patrol box is actually one of the better ones for what you get.

1821
01:47:54,160 --> 01:47:58,680
The only thing that looks a bit redundant might be the Magus.

1822
01:47:58,680 --> 01:48:04,200
Everything else you can more than certainly use multiple copies of.

1823
01:48:04,200 --> 01:48:08,440
So for repeat buys it's definitely one of the better boxes.

1824
01:48:08,440 --> 01:48:16,200
The other thing was, I absolutely love that the aberrant hit two more damage than the

1825
01:48:16,200 --> 01:48:17,200
custodians.

1826
01:48:17,200 --> 01:48:25,120
One of them is just wielding a yield sign and you rip it out of the ground.

1827
01:48:25,120 --> 01:48:31,760
So on the one hand you have a perfectly crafted demi-god of war, crafted to be God's personal

1828
01:48:31,760 --> 01:48:38,640
bodyguard, and in the other corner you have Steve from mining with stuff that's ripped

1829
01:48:38,640 --> 01:48:46,440
out of the ground and Steve hits harder.

1830
01:48:46,440 --> 01:48:48,160
They're lots of fun.

1831
01:48:48,160 --> 01:48:50,680
We can talk about the aberrants for a second.

1832
01:48:50,680 --> 01:48:55,520
The aberrants aren't born as aberrants.

1833
01:48:55,520 --> 01:49:01,100
Their origins are kind of debated actually by Imperial scholars.

1834
01:49:01,100 --> 01:49:05,860
Some might think that they just emerge because the angels are close.

1835
01:49:05,860 --> 01:49:08,160
Sometimes it's a bio-phage just tinkering with genetics.

1836
01:49:08,160 --> 01:49:15,520
But basically certain individuals of the cult will undergo this huge, very painful transformation

1837
01:49:15,520 --> 01:49:18,720
over the span of like a week or so.

1838
01:49:18,720 --> 01:49:25,320
And they'll end up these gigantic, like Colin said, gigantic nine feet tall purple beasts

1839
01:49:25,320 --> 01:49:28,840
who are capable of tearing men in two like paper.

1840
01:49:28,840 --> 01:49:31,480
They're basically augrins though.

1841
01:49:31,480 --> 01:49:37,200
They can be entertained by a children's toy and just are just nice.

1842
01:49:37,200 --> 01:49:41,760
But when the day of ascension comes and it's time to fight, they are not to be reckoned

1843
01:49:41,760 --> 01:49:44,080
with for sure.

1844
01:49:44,080 --> 01:49:49,640
Usually a lot of times they're led by the bio-phages who helps in their ascension.

1845
01:49:49,640 --> 01:49:50,640
Back to the technology.

1846
01:49:50,640 --> 01:49:53,080
It's not a lot more to say.

1847
01:49:53,080 --> 01:49:55,720
It is really just basic stuff usually.

1848
01:49:55,720 --> 01:49:57,840
There's just enough of them to make it work.

1849
01:49:57,840 --> 01:50:04,200
They have like handmade or homemade flamers, like little pistol flamers.

1850
01:50:04,200 --> 01:50:12,040
The most famous of their vehicles probably is the widespread generally used mining vehicle,

1851
01:50:12,040 --> 01:50:15,360
which is the Goliath STC design.

1852
01:50:15,360 --> 01:50:18,960
There's the Goliath truck, which they use as a transport.

1853
01:50:18,960 --> 01:50:24,680
And then there's the Goliath rock grinder, which is made to grind, like I said, the galaxy's

1854
01:50:24,680 --> 01:50:27,080
hardest materials down to dust.

1855
01:50:27,080 --> 01:50:33,880
So it's very good for running into people and buzz sawing them into little mushy bits.

1856
01:50:33,880 --> 01:50:36,800
The kit for the game is a freaking pain.

1857
01:50:36,800 --> 01:50:40,240
It's literally a hundred pieces and it's not even bigger than a camera.

1858
01:50:40,240 --> 01:50:41,240
Oh lord.

1859
01:50:41,240 --> 01:50:42,240
But yeah.

1860
01:50:42,240 --> 01:50:45,920
That is woe to you who buys the GeneStealer cults kits.

1861
01:50:45,920 --> 01:50:48,640
They are quite the pain to build, but they're cool and fun.

1862
01:50:48,640 --> 01:50:50,720
If you're good at building it, it's pretty fun.

1863
01:50:50,720 --> 01:50:53,160
Oh yeah, they're the perfect meat grinder.

1864
01:50:53,160 --> 01:50:58,680
They're designed for extreme terrain and hazardous places, so they're pretty tough.

1865
01:50:58,680 --> 01:51:02,640
You don't have to worry if they're only going 80 kilometers an hour at most, maybe like

1866
01:51:02,640 --> 01:51:05,200
60, I don't know.

1867
01:51:05,200 --> 01:51:11,040
They still hit hard enough and can run through vehicles and stuff like that.

1868
01:51:11,040 --> 01:51:15,120
So lastly, right before we get to the Day of Ascension, I can touch a tiny bit on how

1869
01:51:15,120 --> 01:51:16,120
they worship.

1870
01:51:16,120 --> 01:51:19,480
It's also not overly complicated.

1871
01:51:19,480 --> 01:51:21,680
It's just a congregation of people.

1872
01:51:21,680 --> 01:51:23,300
They're very tight-knit community.

1873
01:51:23,300 --> 01:51:26,320
They help those in need in the community and pick them up.

1874
01:51:26,320 --> 01:51:29,440
They laugh when others laugh, they cry when others cry.

1875
01:51:29,440 --> 01:51:30,440
That's from the Bible.

1876
01:51:30,440 --> 01:51:31,440
Sorry.

1877
01:51:31,440 --> 01:51:34,560
Did you just quote the Bible on a G-State?

1878
01:51:34,560 --> 01:51:35,560
I paraphrased.

1879
01:51:35,560 --> 01:51:37,560
I very much paraphrased.

1880
01:51:37,560 --> 01:51:40,360
I don't know if that's a law crime or something.

1881
01:51:40,360 --> 01:51:41,360
A real crime.

1882
01:51:41,360 --> 01:51:42,360
Or if it's a Bible crime.

1883
01:51:42,360 --> 01:51:47,800
But yeah, they're very, very tight-knit community and they're led by the Magus in their worship

1884
01:51:47,800 --> 01:51:48,960
usually.

1885
01:51:48,960 --> 01:51:52,080
The angels sing to the Magus and she can hear them.

1886
01:51:52,080 --> 01:51:53,880
As they get closer, she can really hear them.

1887
01:51:53,880 --> 01:51:59,680
So they all sing hymns to the four-armed emperor and have their own ways of worship.

1888
01:51:59,680 --> 01:52:05,280
Yeah, it's a grand old time in the underways of Jean Steeler cults.

1889
01:52:05,280 --> 01:52:10,360
Nice little cozy community going to Sunday church.

1890
01:52:10,360 --> 01:52:12,480
Yeah.

1891
01:52:12,480 --> 01:52:14,800
Committing untold amounts of heresy.

1892
01:52:14,800 --> 01:52:18,880
That's one way to look at it.

1893
01:52:18,880 --> 01:52:26,360
So, they have the day of ascension, which is the grand finale.

1894
01:52:26,360 --> 01:52:31,280
What the cult's been waiting for, what they've been promised for generation after generation

1895
01:52:31,280 --> 01:52:33,240
and it's finally here.

1896
01:52:33,240 --> 01:52:39,040
They will finally be freed from oppression and taken into the embrace of the star children

1897
01:52:39,040 --> 01:52:41,800
in a holy union.

1898
01:52:41,800 --> 01:52:45,720
And depending on how you look at this, that is true.

1899
01:52:45,720 --> 01:52:46,720
It is true.

1900
01:52:46,720 --> 01:52:50,000
I have a quote here, someone can read.

1901
01:52:50,000 --> 01:52:53,000
Who wants to read a quote?

1902
01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:56,000
Who's filling out for that one?

1903
01:52:56,000 --> 01:52:57,000
I haven't posted it yet.

1904
01:52:57,000 --> 01:52:59,000
I'll read a quote if it's okay.

1905
01:52:59,000 --> 01:53:03,560
Yeah, I legally put it in the regular chat instead of the fancy chat.

1906
01:53:03,560 --> 01:53:04,560
Toe her horsely.

1907
01:53:04,560 --> 01:53:08,960
All right, I'll have to, I got to get my voice nice and hoarse for this.

1908
01:53:08,960 --> 01:53:10,880
It's a tech ad up to them.

1909
01:53:10,880 --> 01:53:11,880
Gotcha.

1910
01:53:11,880 --> 01:53:14,240
Unfortunately, I can't speak like a speaking bell.

1911
01:53:14,240 --> 01:53:15,240
So I...

1912
01:53:15,240 --> 01:53:16,960
You're one zero.

1913
01:53:16,960 --> 01:53:17,960
Yeah.

1914
01:53:17,960 --> 01:53:19,560
You're making, I'll do my best.

1915
01:53:19,560 --> 01:53:20,720
You're making a mistake.

1916
01:53:20,720 --> 01:53:22,240
He told her horsely.

1917
01:53:22,240 --> 01:53:25,240
The things you want to call out to, they will consume you.

1918
01:53:25,240 --> 01:53:27,800
They're not angels, they're monsters.

1919
01:53:27,800 --> 01:53:31,600
Her face was beatifically calm when she answered him.

1920
01:53:31,600 --> 01:53:32,680
What makes you think?

1921
01:53:32,680 --> 01:53:35,440
She said that they are two different things.

1922
01:53:35,440 --> 01:53:40,720
Yeah, she then proceeds to put the pistols of the tech ad up's head in.

1923
01:53:40,720 --> 01:53:45,520
It blows brains out, it was awesome.

1924
01:53:45,520 --> 01:53:46,520
That's major spoilers to The Day of Ascension.

1925
01:53:46,520 --> 01:53:48,760
I guess you should have been expecting that though if you're watching this.

1926
01:53:48,760 --> 01:53:52,000
The Day of Ascension is an awesome book, you should read it.

1927
01:53:52,000 --> 01:53:54,000
Can we say the fun word yet?

1928
01:53:54,000 --> 01:53:57,880
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1929
01:53:57,880 --> 01:53:58,880
They come.

1930
01:53:58,880 --> 01:53:59,880
They come.

1931
01:53:59,880 --> 01:54:05,600
The Star Children, the gods, they have finally arrived and it is the Tyranids.

1932
01:54:05,600 --> 01:54:14,200
The great, vast, monstrous, all-consuming, Xeno species from beyond our galaxy.

1933
01:54:14,200 --> 01:54:17,200
The four Fetishists.

1934
01:54:17,200 --> 01:54:19,440
I should have gotten a second quote though.

1935
01:54:19,440 --> 01:54:21,800
The Sekiri, no not Sekiri, what's her name?

1936
01:54:21,800 --> 01:54:23,960
I don't know, the main character of this.

1937
01:54:23,960 --> 01:54:27,680
She is not allowed to be part of Ascension sadly.

1938
01:54:27,680 --> 01:54:30,440
She has to go on and spread the truth amongst the stars.

1939
01:54:30,440 --> 01:54:35,800
So she leaves the planet as Ascension Day is coming and she sees the Tyranid biofleet

1940
01:54:35,800 --> 01:54:43,120
emerge above the planet and sends spores down to the planet to reclaim their children.

1941
01:54:43,120 --> 01:54:45,920
To her it is just as she imagined.

1942
01:54:45,920 --> 01:54:53,600
All the spines and teeth and tendrils, it's beautiful to her and it's quite glorious.

1943
01:54:53,600 --> 01:54:56,400
So not everyone, it's not bad for everyone.

1944
01:54:56,400 --> 01:55:03,320
Basically the Tyranids come and conveniently the planet's military has been killed and

1945
01:55:03,320 --> 01:55:08,440
destroyed and now all this biomass is free for the taking.

1946
01:55:08,440 --> 01:55:15,920
So the cults and the planet and everyone with it is consumed by the Tyranids in glorious

1947
01:55:15,920 --> 01:55:19,040
union with the Star Children.

1948
01:55:19,040 --> 01:55:20,660
Hooray.

1949
01:55:20,660 --> 01:55:26,800
This isn't to say though, this isn't to say that cults always die when the Tyranids come.

1950
01:55:26,800 --> 01:55:29,720
Usually the very general case is that they eat.

1951
01:55:29,720 --> 01:55:32,400
They would always die if they didn't have other options.

1952
01:55:32,400 --> 01:55:33,400
Yeah.

1953
01:55:33,400 --> 01:55:35,400
9 out of 10 times.

1954
01:55:35,400 --> 01:55:40,720
Yes, but 1 out of 10 times they aren't, well I don't even know if 1 out of 10 is the right

1955
01:55:40,720 --> 01:55:44,640
probably like 0.1 out of 10.

1956
01:55:44,640 --> 01:55:52,080
There have been reports though of ships and cultists leaving the planet with the Tyranids

1957
01:55:52,080 --> 01:55:55,800
which is crazy.

1958
01:55:55,800 --> 01:56:00,800
Sometimes the cults will join the Imperial defenders and believe that they've made a

1959
01:56:00,800 --> 01:56:03,960
mistake and help fight off the Tyranids.

1960
01:56:03,960 --> 01:56:08,840
Usually though they'll just fight with the Tyranids to destroy the Imperials or whatever

1961
01:56:08,840 --> 01:56:09,840
world they're on.

1962
01:56:09,840 --> 01:56:12,880
Is that if the Patriarch is killed because the signal's worse?

1963
01:56:12,880 --> 01:56:14,880
Probably, it probably helps.

1964
01:56:14,880 --> 01:56:16,880
The call of the Tyranids.

1965
01:56:16,880 --> 01:56:18,880
The angels of death series.

1966
01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:20,880
Yeah, they do not look happy.

1967
01:56:20,880 --> 01:56:24,520
They're like oh you run away, yeah go and run back to your house.

1968
01:56:24,520 --> 01:56:29,320
I was going to ask that because I think sometimes, because obviously the Tyranid hive mind is

1969
01:56:29,320 --> 01:56:31,720
sending out a signal the entire time.

1970
01:56:31,720 --> 01:56:38,160
Obviously that's what's kind of, the Patriarch is boosting that signal for the cult.

1971
01:56:38,160 --> 01:56:42,120
I think sometimes it just goes I don't need to blast the signal anymore.

1972
01:56:42,120 --> 01:56:44,640
Sometimes it's devouring and then they go oh no.

1973
01:56:44,640 --> 01:56:47,760
That's when some of them realise what's happened.

1974
01:56:47,760 --> 01:56:49,320
Yes.

1975
01:56:49,320 --> 01:56:53,600
Sometimes the cult believes that they've made a mistake.

1976
01:56:53,600 --> 01:56:54,800
Sometimes they don't.

1977
01:56:54,800 --> 01:57:01,320
In the end they do truly become unified with the Tyranids, with the star children.

1978
01:57:01,320 --> 01:57:06,840
They are biomass that is then used by the Tyranid fleet to create other organisms and

1979
01:57:06,840 --> 01:57:10,200
return to their pilgrimage amongst the stars.

1980
01:57:10,200 --> 01:57:15,480
And they are freed from the shackles of slavery and oppression and all the pain is taken away.

1981
01:57:15,480 --> 01:57:17,400
That's one way of putting it I suppose.

1982
01:57:17,400 --> 01:57:19,960
Wow that was a lot of propaganda.

1983
01:57:19,960 --> 01:57:20,960
I have to say.

1984
01:57:20,960 --> 01:57:22,880
I have to say.

1985
01:57:22,880 --> 01:57:23,880
Thank you.

1986
01:57:23,880 --> 01:57:25,680
Propaganda is based.

1987
01:57:25,680 --> 01:57:28,080
The faction you like the most is always in the right.

1988
01:57:28,080 --> 01:57:29,080
That's right.

1989
01:57:29,080 --> 01:57:30,080
That's freaking right.

1990
01:57:30,080 --> 01:57:31,760
That's actually kind of true.

1991
01:57:31,760 --> 01:57:34,120
The best factions are the one I like.

1992
01:57:34,120 --> 01:57:35,120
Yep.

1993
01:57:35,120 --> 01:57:36,120
Yep.

1994
01:57:36,120 --> 01:57:37,120
Thank you.

1995
01:57:37,120 --> 01:57:38,120
Oh, was that what you were going to say?

1996
01:57:38,120 --> 01:57:39,120
No, you can keep going.

1997
01:57:39,120 --> 01:57:40,120
I was going to say.

1998
01:57:40,120 --> 01:57:41,120
It called me awesome.

1999
01:57:41,120 --> 01:57:42,120
Thank you so much Eli.

2000
01:57:42,120 --> 01:57:47,120
That was a, I think we, we got, we are the experts on genusialis now.

2001
01:57:47,120 --> 01:57:48,120
We can actually.

2002
01:57:48,120 --> 01:57:49,120
What?

2003
01:57:49,120 --> 01:57:50,120
This is the first time I've been.

2004
01:57:50,120 --> 01:57:51,120
That's like basically everything.

2005
01:57:51,120 --> 01:57:53,120
I actually feel like an expert now.

2006
01:57:53,120 --> 01:57:56,120
I'm going to go rob a Levi's store now.

2007
01:57:56,120 --> 01:57:59,920
That's the only reason this is a joke.

2008
01:57:59,920 --> 01:58:02,600
Did you guys have any, any questions or comments?

2009
01:58:02,600 --> 01:58:09,480
Do you have like a particular favorite maybe unit, a favorite cult or a favorite type of

2010
01:58:09,480 --> 01:58:10,480
genusialis?

2011
01:58:10,480 --> 01:58:17,720
You know, the center Armstrong, Austin power, Patrick, one more thing to lobby Elon Musk

2012
01:58:17,720 --> 01:58:19,480
simp, you know what I mean?

2013
01:58:19,480 --> 01:58:24,080
I really liked the idea of like, like there was the, what was its name again?

2014
01:58:24,080 --> 01:58:25,680
The one that started worshiping Nergal.

2015
01:58:25,680 --> 01:58:27,720
So I'll T I know.

2016
01:58:27,720 --> 01:58:29,480
Coltenebrous Coltenebrous.

2017
01:58:29,480 --> 01:58:33,320
I like the idea of that happening with other like deities.

2018
01:58:33,320 --> 01:58:38,320
And I like, I, this really funny image in my mind I have of them accidentally going

2019
01:58:38,320 --> 01:58:43,440
full circle and a gene sailor cult starts worshiping the actual emperor.

2020
01:58:43,440 --> 01:58:47,040
Like if you like, I don't know how this happened.

2021
01:58:47,040 --> 01:58:48,160
The two armed emperor.

2022
01:58:48,160 --> 01:58:49,160
How holy is he?

2023
01:58:49,160 --> 01:58:55,480
Like accidentally it's just like, it's some inquisitor goes like, I feel like I should

2024
01:58:55,480 --> 01:58:58,640
do something about this, but I'm not going to.

2025
01:58:58,640 --> 01:59:02,600
Or an inquisitor finds a way to like mess with their like signal and turns them against

2026
01:59:02,600 --> 01:59:03,600
and goes, right.

2027
01:59:03,600 --> 01:59:04,600
Use our emperors.

2028
01:59:04,600 --> 01:59:05,600
Yeah, that'll work.

2029
01:59:05,600 --> 01:59:06,600
That'd be good.

2030
01:59:06,600 --> 01:59:09,680
The two leg, two armed emperor.

2031
01:59:09,680 --> 01:59:14,880
Does the idea of what they actually are, is that clear enough?

2032
01:59:14,880 --> 01:59:19,400
Do you think we might have to do a tyrannids beginner to expert one of these days for all

2033
01:59:19,400 --> 01:59:22,120
those newbies to really understand what the tyrannids are?

2034
01:59:22,120 --> 01:59:28,040
I think, yeah, I've got a really good grasp because they're, they're quite a, like a

2035
01:59:28,040 --> 01:59:34,680
unique flavor, I think in one as well, because they are a bit, they're not like orcs where

2036
01:59:34,680 --> 01:59:41,200
orcs are a bit, you know, they're common, but like, they are pretty much a, again, like

2037
01:59:41,200 --> 01:59:43,440
I said before, it's like a different flavor.

2038
01:59:43,440 --> 01:59:47,200
It's like, it's so opposite to what a space Marine is nice.

2039
01:59:47,200 --> 01:59:48,520
They're like, they're a good enemy.

2040
01:59:48,520 --> 01:59:51,040
If you know what I mean, I enjoy, I enjoy that.

2041
01:59:51,040 --> 01:59:52,040
Yeah.

2042
01:59:52,040 --> 01:59:53,040
Oh, sorry.

2043
01:59:53,040 --> 02:00:03,280
I was, I like how they're like, obviously, Jesus, as a whole are a pretty big scale threat,

2044
02:00:03,280 --> 02:00:08,000
but like individual gene sealer cults, they're really only a problem for the planet they're

2045
02:00:08,000 --> 02:00:09,000
on.

2046
02:00:09,000 --> 02:00:13,480
I like that it's smaller scale than Abaddon rocking up to blow up a star system for the

2047
02:00:13,480 --> 02:00:14,480
10th time.

2048
02:00:14,480 --> 02:00:15,480
Yeah.

2049
02:00:15,480 --> 02:00:19,520
And I guess it should also be said that like, sometimes the tyrannids don't even show up.

2050
02:00:19,520 --> 02:00:24,320
Like that's the thing, sometimes the day of ascension happens and they win.

2051
02:00:24,320 --> 02:00:31,520
And then they just, it's just like a deadbeat dad is like, okay.

2052
02:00:31,520 --> 02:00:35,760
This is like, you know, when black Friday, like, and then started out and it was a big

2053
02:00:35,760 --> 02:00:36,760
thing.

2054
02:00:36,760 --> 02:00:40,320
And then now black Friday and like, you know, the people, the videos, like people opening

2055
02:00:40,320 --> 02:00:43,400
stores and like, no one's rushing in because they already know that they've already hiked

2056
02:00:43,400 --> 02:00:44,400
up the price.

2057
02:00:44,400 --> 02:00:53,320
I remember just Amazon or cyber Monday buying.

2058
02:00:53,320 --> 02:01:00,440
The cults, like, you know, a lot of people don't like the faction because they think,

2059
02:01:00,440 --> 02:01:03,280
oh, like all my cool characters just die in the end.

2060
02:01:03,280 --> 02:01:06,640
I mean, like, yeah, but they do.

2061
02:01:06,640 --> 02:01:08,800
So does everyone.

2062
02:01:08,800 --> 02:01:10,000
Everyone dies eventually, right?

2063
02:01:10,000 --> 02:01:16,600
Like these aren't immortal beings like the Eldar or space Marines and the towel characters

2064
02:01:16,600 --> 02:01:21,040
only live because they get put to sleep every time they come out and like that's not going

2065
02:01:21,040 --> 02:01:22,040
to happen.

2066
02:01:22,040 --> 02:01:23,040
Spicy poop knives.

2067
02:01:23,040 --> 02:01:24,040
Yeah.

2068
02:01:24,040 --> 02:01:25,040
Yeah.

2069
02:01:25,040 --> 02:01:33,160
Also guys like the sons of Jormungandr, they don't even live on planets, they live in space.

2070
02:01:33,160 --> 02:01:36,440
A lot of cults will spread to the stars in general.

2071
02:01:36,440 --> 02:01:43,120
Like I said, from the day of Ascension, the girl leaves with the skitarii alpha to go

2072
02:01:43,120 --> 02:01:44,120
spread to other places.

2073
02:01:44,120 --> 02:01:47,920
So it's not always the end for everyone in the cult.

2074
02:01:47,920 --> 02:01:53,000
It helps them like with the tabletop aspects of Warhammer because like with like with the

2075
02:01:53,000 --> 02:01:56,520
immortality thing, like, you know, we're booted Gillam it like the Primarchs aren't going

2076
02:01:56,520 --> 02:02:02,160
to age to death, but in the context of a war game, there's nothing stopping him from some

2077
02:02:02,160 --> 02:02:06,480
random towel rail gun or tabling him turn one of them mad.

2078
02:02:06,480 --> 02:02:11,160
And then narratively, that would be the fate of the Primarch of the Imperium.

2079
02:02:11,160 --> 02:02:15,800
Some guy in a rail gun, a hundred feet away blew his head off.

2080
02:02:15,800 --> 02:02:20,980
Versus, you know, with the gene stealers, it blends with them being a war game faction

2081
02:02:20,980 --> 02:02:25,440
in a way because yeah, their end result is they joined the star gods, they get eaten

2082
02:02:25,440 --> 02:02:30,920
by tyranids, but it makes them more war game in a way.

2083
02:02:30,920 --> 02:02:36,600
I have to say thank you so much, Eli, because you did a lot of research there.

2084
02:02:36,600 --> 02:02:37,920
We appreciate that a lot.

2085
02:02:37,920 --> 02:02:40,040
That was a we are experts.

2086
02:02:40,040 --> 02:02:44,440
100% I feel like at the end of the day.

2087
02:02:44,440 --> 02:02:50,280
If you were listening along with us, enjoying this, please like subscribe.

2088
02:02:50,280 --> 02:02:52,040
It helps help us please.

2089
02:02:52,040 --> 02:02:55,040
It's like a big business.

2090
02:02:55,040 --> 02:03:03,120
We do have eight arms in total.

2091
02:03:03,120 --> 02:03:05,960
It's just a multiple of four.

2092
02:03:05,960 --> 02:03:09,240
We have the eight armed emperor.

2093
02:03:09,240 --> 02:03:13,960
And tune in next time for our next episode.

2094
02:03:13,960 --> 02:03:19,320
We'll be doing, we're turning a little bit to Horace Heresley, Horace Heresley, Horace

2095
02:03:19,320 --> 02:03:27,720
Heresy, era slash 30k, we're talking about the, the giga chads themselves, the Primarks

2096
02:03:27,720 --> 02:03:31,520
little dabble into all of them.

2097
02:03:31,520 --> 02:03:33,520
He likes robot girly man.

2098
02:03:33,520 --> 02:03:38,900
Oh, don't forget to if you made it this far.

2099
02:03:38,900 --> 02:03:39,900
Thank you.

2100
02:03:39,900 --> 02:03:44,400
Firstly, and also the question we did at the beginning where what's your hot take on your

2101
02:03:44,400 --> 02:03:48,960
least favorite Primark hashtag hot take for your comment there.

2102
02:03:48,960 --> 02:03:51,360
And we'll see you all next time.

2103
02:03:51,360 --> 02:03:55,720
Thank you so much for listening and watching everyone.

2104
02:03:55,720 --> 02:03:58,160
Well, blessings upon you.

2105
02:03:58,160 --> 02:04:21,520
Love you all.