40 Facts and Lore on the Blackstone Fortress Warhammer 40K

40 Facts and Lore on the Blackstone Fortress Warhammer 40K
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[@Lachdonin]

It's heavily implied that the Blackstone Fortresses were built by the ancient Eldar, after the War in Heaven, and were based on Old One technology designed specifically to kill C'tan.

[@fuafuafuafuafuafua]

You can not kill a C'TAN

[@I_dunno_yet]

Angel cavalera Very true, as far as we know they can only be torn into shards

[@11cacoo]

not quite accurate legends say comrade Vladimir Pikalov once killed a C'tan that was emerging from chernobyl as a result of a previously unheard of radiation phenomenon.

[@Lachdonin]

@@fuafuafuafuafuafua Way to not give me proper messages, KZbin... Anyway, yes, you can. Though it appears to be insanely difficult. The Eldar and the Old Ones apparently managed to kill a single C'tan during the War in Heaven, though it has never been named. And the Necrons themselves managed to kill Llandu'gor the Flayer.

[@fuafuafuafuafuafua]

@@Lachdonin i don't tink You can complete kill a C'tan You can bring then to the point of almost no exitance, but a true dead. Flayer are the prof if the espace god that curse them is truly dead the curse would ve no more, but a bit justo a bit is still alive in every flayer, due he curse them in real espace, not using the warp or any psyck trick or comand protocol, the silent king remove the comands at the end of the war in heaven. sorry for My Bad English.

[@Nemisis025]

I stopped playing 40K years ago but I still watch these because they're so interesting. Keep it up!

[@swaswa1]

My cousin used to play when we were young teenagers and he got me into it and he let me play with his tyranids and sisters of battle since he knew I loved the alien franchise and the sisters of battle weren't super humans so it gave a more challenging aspect and watching these videos reminds me why I wish I would get back into it

[@50blessings13]

I’ve never played, huge fan though I love the lord

[@NetMoverSitan]

They're basically the Death Star without the ridiculous weak spot. | The 12th was covered in the game "Battlefield Gothic: Armada".

[@irraka5222]

I like how you referred to the Imperium as we.

[@kainbeamsley187]

Well a assume everyone watching is a human and the imperium is humanity.

[@murderc27]

Careful. Don't ruin anyone's immersion.

[@aurorabora7557]

Dis boiz iz roight we aints de imperium

[@potandpoliticswithmr.broph1420]

What if the Fortresses were what was used by the Necrons to finally shatter the C'tan? Necron Warp tech derived from the Old Ones?

[@insanitywolfy5082]

But don't the necrons hate the warp

[@acannon2700]

​@@insanitywolfy5082only because the ctan told them to, likely because it was the only real weakness of the ctan

[@tylerlionfhang3148]

Suggestion: The War in Heaven

[@01Khalifa10]

You're like, the dad the tells me bed time stories I never had, thank you OneMindSyndicate, love you

[@Jinisinsane]

looks like a fucking giant beyblade.

[@mikelms20]

Jinisinsane Dont you mean BAAAAAAANEBLAAAAAADEEEEEEEE

[@mrflyingcow5423]

Jinisinsane let it rip

[@bandoblack7578]

mikelms20 lmfao why the fuck did i yell this out loud

[@allways28]

Steady yourself brova!!!

[@imaooo954]

I had to look this up because I can't have Henry be nerdier than me and I actually love warhammer 😭.

[@yaroslavnedzelskyi8117]

Or even better question- what if Alpharius remained loyal to Imperium, and Omegon decided to joing Chaos, is there any possibilities that Alpha Legion was divided on two parts- one is loyal to Emperor, and another are heretics? This theory would prove the unstable information about their legion and their Primarchs)) Hydra Dominatus!!!

[@markblakey3456]

Read the heresy books you find out they remained loyal by falling to chaos. They believed the emperor when he said he didn't want to be a god so they saw falling as the only way to prevent it. I know circular logic and it failed anyways but in the first book dealing with them as the main legion Omegon and Alpharius have this exact conversation.

[@wymarc10]

Thanks guys. I remember requesting this a couple months ago. Having a rough day, and this brought me out of it for a few minutes.

[@joshmaggard6]

Would love this as a map in a Warhammer game. Sounds so bad ass.

[@artificialgravitas8954]

So chaos only adopted the symbol?

[@somnitek]

SUGGESTION: I see you mentioning the Sabbat worlds more and more! There is a TON of interesting lore surrounding these. You should do a video on the Sabbat worlds crusade!

[@BC-vg3zf]

Be interesting to see/find/hear of the ship yard/manufactorum of the Blackstone fortresses and the webway building machines

[@gude1037]

Suggestion: The Imperial Palace (size, staff, location...)

[@Masonicon]

Blackstone Fortress are like Loki's Scepter when it come to capability of giving people superpowers

[@wessbrown5162]

Suggestion : necrons, I love this videos, great job guys

[@ThouHast]

Definitely old ones battleships. No way they're necrons as they used warp tech + they can access webway

[@MatthewBester]

Apparently the Mechanicus now has a Blackstone Fortress "key".

[@colin8696908]

When feel more meaningful if Abaddon hadn't captured like six of these things.

[@xthukuh]

Perhaps weapons created by the Old Ones during their war with the C'Tans. Maybe that's why the deceiver wanted them scattered.

[@Newageimp]

Great videos now my number one watch on KZbin keep up good work have you ever done chaos Dreadnoughts if not could you 👍

[@leadersupreme4435]

Suggestion: tyranids

[@LuisPandabmb]

The board game based on the blackstone fortress looks sweet

[@SrStakeholder]

Looks like a chandelier

[@markbrigandi7497]

Hey Gursh- thanks for the video- and for your opinions/viewpoints. I always enjoy listening to what you have to say, and this video was really good- thanks again for keeping it so interesting!

[@umbrellacorpinc1475]

Question: whos the largest/most powerful tyranid in the 40k universe ?

[@AgentK-im8ke]

The ancient one, is a bioship that maintain the hive mind connection but actually only the necrons have prov themselves capable of destroying such ships because they are deeply inside a big fleet of tyranids bioships

[@mynkir-sol2150]

Where does the info on the central chamber being easily 100 Terran miles across? Is there an accurate measure to the Blackstone's overall dimensions? I have repeated trawled web for info on the size of the Blackstone Fortress, with unsatisfactory results.

[@ilikemusic5440]

The blackstone is said to be some kind of alloy or metal that can be harvested, (given enough time, effort, knowledge, and capability) but my idea is that there is some kind of process to actually create this material. They made at least 7 of these things and they dwarfed a Deathstar so they had plenty of material to work with. It couldn’t have been too difficult to synthesize this material. I believe this is Old One technology and I believe there is an Old One who still knows either how to create this technology, or knows of all the dormant blackstone fortresses just waiting to be discovered.

[@acannon2700]

The old ones last stand is likely in the segmentum where the 6 Blackstone fortresses are, the necrons decimated the old ones, the enslaver plague finished off the rest.

[@tysongardner2821]

cool video, great content and topic👍

[@johndonachie8272]

suggestion siege of terra

[@commissarlee864]

Great lore

[@intselec2184]

5:00 Portal created for giant... you mean krok the ancestor of the ork

[@chriscalvin5083]

suggestion imperial navy ships and stations

[@hughgedney3393]

Great video One Mind syndicate And gursh 1

[@MegaCodman24]

suggestion: Siege of Vraks

[@JonathanXLindqviust]

Man there's so much godamn retcon'ing in Warhammer40k, a lot of it to the worse like titan-sizes, the c'tan and the blackstone-fortresses. Basically the original idea of the fortresses were that once all 12 would be powered up, they'd be able to *literally* destroy the warp and kill all life that had a connection to it. The C'tan were to basically murder the chaos gods and almost all sentient life in the galaxy. However the warp-entities spread to fast, basically forcing the C'tan to go slumber, the Old Ones to flee the galaxy and for all sentient life to almost die out anyway. Only the warp was still left intact, the fortresses dormant. The reason why this is much more interesting is that the original necro/C'tan lore makes them be entropy personified, even Chaos feared them, they were the end of all things, the heatdeath, inescapable even for the vain gods, now they've been retconned into tomb-kings in space.

[@the_dropbear4392]

Krehlmar No

[@JonathanXLindqviust]

I grew up in the 90's, I still have white-dwarf's from 91 and forward when necrons had 2 units, this is the original lore of them. Orks back then weren't mushrooms either, they had "mates" to reproduce.

[@ZiGGi03]

This was epic !

[@roberttrela5336]

Question: Is the Void Dragon the only C'tan that wasn't shattered into shards, or is the being imprisoned by the Emperor on Mars only another shard?

[@theatagamer90]

Robert Trela. I think that the Void Dragon is one of the only C'tan that wasnt shattered alongside one other. I think the Devourer is still unshattered since it disappeared.

[@the_dropbear4392]

Robert Trela Several are unknown, Void dragon and the outsider are confirmed unshattered

[@KatherineLP]

What do the red eye's on Horus's power armor mean? The look like deamon eyes... has this got anything to do with the speculation that the god emperor is a demon?

[@scottduncan9220]

Suggestion: Brazen Claw Space Marine Chapter. Far more interesting that Red Talons...

[@countb5842]

Where is the painting from 01:49 from?

[@TheZero666]

Question- do you think 40 K will get savage orks

[@codranine6054]

Damn like after this one. Then thinking of uR-025 it’s like this predates even him.

[@billysmith1873]

I like to think some alien race unknown to everyone built them

[@PhatCunt]

Guliman was captured by the red corsairs!!!! Have i missed everything? Where can i read up on this?

[@theunclethatdoesnttouchyou]

Suggestion: Red Corsairs

[@TEXASUSA45]

I need to get one....

[@chriscalvin5083]

great video

[@sofakingcool1555]

Cool topic.

[@heavyflamerheresy2581]

What if chaos is the old goods. They created us, and we created them. The chaos goods say they existed before time, so I could make sense in the lore. And lose why chaos can control black stone fortresses and why necrons have obelisk aimd at the warp and why want to close it

[@yaroslavnedzelskyi8117]

Guys- I like ur videos, but i have a question- wat if genestealer will absorb DNA of Adeptus Astartes, what are the main changes in ur opinion will be in organism of the tyranid itself? P.S. sry for my disgusting english)))

[@ramonvicentevallesterosric7802]

Yaroslav Nedzelskyi don't worry SJW snowflakes here... Oops... Forgot about the Tau Commies... :))))))

[@gosonegr]

They would die, the Astartes DNA is toxic by itself, is like a virus, it colonise the cells and mutate them with no way back, that's why marines are high on painkillers most of the time and with hormonal treatment, without those, they would die under pain, so that would be the genestealer fate

[@casperchristensen8354]

gosonegr Uhm...no?

[@tobysquires1272]

Genestealers don't absorb DNA, they infect other races with there DNA, and when the infected hosts procreate it's infected with genestealer dna. However, it's believed hive fleets have assimilated SP DNA, tyrant guards have fused chest carapace very similar to a marines

[@cormacphillips2585]

40 facts about Eldar Striking Scorpions .

[@nomelitoarquillano7454]

you clumsily forgot to mention the cute spindle drones

[@02bby]

What if we living in a warp that we cleaned up or just adapted too 😂

[@kurogurochan7957]

Is it possible to manipulate Tyranids and use them as weapons?

[@oulpas9627]

Yes,the Orks did by finding Tyranids that were not linked to the Hive mind and they became the squigz. Later on the Hive mind got them but some squigz were still with the Orks.

[@ac4th371]

I get the impression they predate the Eldar. If I remember correctly didn't the C'tan say to the necrontier that the Old Ones defeated them before? Maybe the Blackstone Fortresses was how they did it? My money is on the Old Ones building them.

[@1nePercentJuice]

Great content. You sound like youre wearing headgear though.

[@Torhen19870527]

suggestion: high Marshall helbrecht

[@jakubslavojmusilek5184]

Suggestion : Marines Malevolent

[@Lulu-ex7fc]

Phalanx pwns BSF.

[@vegetasonnapp4324]

Suggestion : tau

[@EternalXSamurai]

Tyranids!

[@akruiner]

Maybe the Jokaero made them with the old ones. Who Knows.

[@sorcererberoll4641]

Is it me or does the side parts of the fortress look like warships

[@arthurdotson9579]

QUESTION. Doesn't the Cult Mechanicus' modifying of the Blackstone Fortresses go against their beliefs on strict use of technology???

[@barrybend7189]

Arthur Dotson their cult forbids self made innovations but not reverse engineering of anchient races.

[@darktitan9788]

Question who would win in a fight the tyranids or halo's flood?

[@lewisf508]

Dark Titan A very great question actually

[@benfrancisco3590]

Tyranids can evolve to meet a new threat, and we dont know how many there are. The tyranids woudl win

[@prussianking5079]

Does the flood have old one eye? I dont think so

[@oulpas9627]

Nids,if I'm not wrong they adapted to bio-bomb that eat carbon based life.

[@ekulerudamuru]

Dark Titan the Nids obviously the flood will be devoured like a whale eating planktons..

[@spartana1116]

Either the old ones or is made by the chaos gods themselves

[@the_dropbear4392]

Spartan A111 Nothing to do with the chaos gods,was made my the eldar god Vail (they are called Talismans of Vaul) and were designed to be used against the C'tan

[@the_birthday_skeleton]

༼ ༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ༽ blackstome cherrryyyyyyyyyyyyy

[@kphan4643]

did one get destroyed during fall of cadia?

[@Lokarus85]

Question: What is in the Eastern Fringe?

[@kalebgonzales4009]

Weebs, comunist and for the great good ;)

[@IronDanWalker]

Thank you for reading the wiki for me. Was hoping to find out something new. Oh well.

[@cameronmcallister7606]

Do you just read the wiki? Because I read the wiki post on these... this is pretty much quoted at points, paraphrased at others.

[@Herpkid56]

That's what most of these videos are tbh

[@stalingrad4]

Makes no odds to me these videos are awesome

[@masterblaster6942]

Who da fuck reads!? Am I right? Just joking, but that's why these videos are so great. I learn better when others explain it to me.

[@florintanase9348]

what else did you expect from them?

[@Panczekolada]

It's not like he invents it or gains access to designers and writers, so he can only compile what already is on the internet and in books, lol.

[@lordinquisitorsionmasterof128]

So its the deathstar of 40k

[@Cole-ui8bi]

So who made them? due to it's design could be chaos

[@corvuscorax9028]

or chaos steal blackstone fortress design

[@eddysplosion]

100 Terran miles across...... FK MY BRAIN SOME MORE

[@Sereze001]

It is a fortress. That is made from Black Stone.

[@fumarc4501]

Just wait, more will be found. No doubt, there are more than six.

[@the_dropbear4392]

FUmarc There are either 9 or 12

[@markhayes3523]

Question can the primarchs have children

[@MikeFoxclaw]

Okay after listening to you a lot you sound a bit like dunkey

[@derrabbit7289]

Yeah, these are probably old one tech

[@helio1055]

You sound like dunkey the video game reviewer

[@edgychico9311]

Blackstone Fortresses Vs The Imperial Death Star.

[@Matt-md5yt]

mirrored design.

[@Tarorc79]

Oh nice, another wiki read :D

[@Cottam89]

Do vids on the current lore updates z

[@Thetreetroll]

GG

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

would be cute fluff if say...making a 'what if?' Novel of the emperor awakening and even as his human imperium almsot become EVRYTHING he strived to 'save' humanity and perhaps even other species from suffering ..as he must focuse on counter messuring the unstable warp devouering the materium since thoughts partly 'shapes' the warp... leeting,...remnants of blackstone fortresess crash onto factorum worlds with the dormant intellegences lingering in the derelict partial hulks awakening for the first time in ages ,...and sort of true to the old ones 'all life is sacred' but also sparked to truely awaken in ther 'killed' states inffluenced by the emperors reincarnated pressence and the humans thoughts. ends up making a bargin with the emperor himself...pledging to if given ther inpendence as 'Arcane citizens' resources of the world and its factories take as many humans they can carry inside them and try keep them safe through the raging warp storms and all the demonic entities it will give solid form it brings. awaiting the chance to start journy bettwen worlds to re-colonice after what might perhaps be the tiping point battle if the warp will spill forth like a tidal wave and devouer the materium itself ,or....if the emperor and old forgotten half functioning safe guards of the old ones can create a new balance one even if the etherium never can be made benelovent agen at least...make it 'stable' ....to a point. ye ye ,cliche ...but most fluff is XD..jsut love the thought of since the original AI Titan is a chaos worshiper ,why not have Titantic constructs from before the warp got twisted ripe for both demonic ,but also benelovent 'arcane minds' to inhabit trading the restrictions of the materium for the safty of existing regardless if anyone worshiped them or not ^^

[@nidhoggvomwalde2280]

The black fortresses are not connected to the blackstone fortress.... Different topics....

[@FishBallista]

If you talked less at the end I'd be more likely to listen to the end rather than going to a new tab.

[@nathanmontes3040]

Wherent there 9 of them?

[@TheBlackstonej]

I’m a BLACKSTONE. I approve this video lol.

[@cormacphillips2585]

Brilliant. Get visuals.

[@schparque]

It looks like an ugly Cylon Basestar

[@Eiysuu]

First!

[@DestroyerofToast]

wow. he lost me after 30 seconds

[@VectorGhost]

Blackstone Fortress are practically useless and overhyped in the lore

[@the_dropbear4392]

VectorGhost Not really

[@Liquidazot]

another HALO ripoff

[@jokerjapitana9379]

Zzzzz.... try to research which lore came first. Youll find out.

[@Liquidazot]

@@jokerjapitana9379 being honest first was Artur C clark with his RAMA series.

[@jokerjapitana9379]

@@Liquidazot Lets say this game starts with table games, then evolve in different kinds till today. well, it dorsnt mean your a big fan from the other series and got some things here that is a little similar, it is a reft off or copy? Welll Inever judge things, but inthe way you are talking, you only try to criticise this for being pain cause of the fan war between two series. I am a fan of Halo same as Warhammer, but it doesn't mean that the two have to be the same. Try not be a fan, but an artist who is equal to all art works. If you wont change, the cycle of pain will not end.

[@Liquidazot]

@@jokerjapitana9379 wtf ate you bablin about.....

[@jokerjapitana9379]

@@Liquidazot So dont compare this vid to the halo. if you still do this, you might not understand what I mean.

[@bradyjoehaha]

could you do another video on saint Celestine please