5 Incredible Human Civilisations the Imperium Annihilated | Warhammer 40k Lore

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[@majorkill]

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[@NathanAurelianus]

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[@McCool117]

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[@TheWarmachine375]

Imagine if these most powerful human civilizations fought against Chaos during the Horus Heresy with their technologies that surpassed the Imperium and Mechanicus

[@LewisChappy]

And what if some of them turned to Chaos....

[@jonathanathor117]

@@LewisChappy It's not impossible but I don't think it would be so easy.

[@jonathanathor117]

It would actually be refreshing if there were other human civilizations outside the imperium.

[@ML-rk2cx]

@@jonathanathor117 There very well could be. Undiscovered by the Imperium. We just don't know about them yet, cause the Imperium doesn't either.

[@jonathanathor117]

@@ML-rk2cx Maybe the andromeda galaxy. Or the Plumbers. The plumbers were pretty cool.

[@anthonylamonica8301]

I'm noticing a theme here... whenever a halfway decent non-Imperium Human civilization ends up being destroyed, it is _always_ at the hands of a soon-to-be Traitor Legion. It makes me wonder what would have happened if Rogal Dorn was the one to encounter the Interex instead...

[@thecommentguy9380]

they're mainly assholes anyway, like they rather genocide xenos that proved to be helpful and cooperative than you know, keep them around and learn from them

[@amandeepgill5206]

Dorn: Your fortifications are impressive, surpassing even I.

[@utubrGaming]

"This planet, with their technology, resources and population is an asset to the Imperium. Purge the priestly caste, build mansions for their leaders on Terra and conscript the first generation of their noble castes. Their loyalty to Terra needs to be... *FORTIFIED* "

[@nomadd8403]

Good one, what if it was roboute guilliman

[@irishwristwatch2487]

@@nomadd8403 he'd have jizzed himself senseless upon discovering their language was maths

[@crucibleuser2807]

A video on non-chaos aligned warp entities would be cool ngl.

[@Anthony05171998]

He made one

[@Iceisnice1]

I dread the day Majorkill actually makes that video and the meme will end :(

[@dessert506]

@@Anthony05171998 where!!!!

[@dessert506]

I genuinely want this video though..

[@forspartaaa2348]

Hey guys who is that guy in the thumbnail with a bald head and a mecha suit ? Please answer

[@clan741]

The more you look at what they actually did during the Crusade, the more you realize all the imperiums problems weren’t just cause of chaos. Their shitty dystopia was long in the making, and by their own hands.

[@budhhaatif1641]

Facts the more I read and understand warhammer the more I realize the emperor doomed mankind with his crusade, with all those other colonies humanity would been perfectly fine just not under one government suffering sp much

[@TheAngryXenite]

@@budhhaatif1641 Nah, Chaos would have found other champions, to say nothing of the threat posed by the Orks. *An Imperium* was necessary if humankind was to survive in the long term. It's the Emperor's failure to understand his sons and the need to explain Chaos to them, as well as his frankly hypocritical and bitter xenophobia, which poison the Imperium.

[@robertnelson9599]

@@TheAngryXenite I always assumed Big E would have put all his time in effort into turning the Imperium into a decent civilization, he just wanted to make sure there was no one who could destroy said Imperium before he went on with improving it.

[@yezerjimenezsoriano9753]

@@TheAngryXenite Maybe but even the Laeran (Xenos Chaos Workshipers) were lesser evil than Human Chaos Cultist

[@branlex1315]

Yeah. Now on the other hand, while the Emperors's regime was brutal and autoritarian, it did indeed brougth much progress and power for some time, kind of like a small "golden age"

[@zacharyweaver276]

I like to think chaos manipulated things for the Imperium to destroy more advanced humans so they'd be weaker tech wise

[@comradekenobi6908]

I mean spoilers Erebus did that to interex, so fk Erebus

[@peterbarca8783]

@@comradekenobi6908 Yeah, and more spoilers, Horus did that to the Auretian Technocracy straight after he turned to Chaos on Davin.

[@lalas3590]

@@comradekenobi6908 Didn't the Eldar told the Interex that the Imperium is corrupted by Chaos, because Eldrad tried to warn Fulgrim about the heresy beforehand and Fulgrim's daemonsword went "ding! DING!! DING!!!" thus confirming Eldrad's suspicions?

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@lalas3590 the Eldar are too vague lmao, they literally just told Interex "The Imperium is tainted by chaos" while at the time most of them aren't yet, and *left* without specifying which guy they should look out for It's like saying saying to a hiker in a mountain range that "the mountain has wild beasts" then left without saying which mountain he should be careful off, making the hiker paranoid of any mountain he came across even though not all of them have wild beasts

[@sarubet8725]

No. This "chaos did it" sh1t is boring af.

[@a15thcenturysuitofgothicarmor]

This is a certified Imperium classic

[@SrAntonio301]

No cap fr fr str8 bussin on God Emperor of mankind. 🔥 ⚔️

[@HelloThere.....]

Majorkill :Their technology could absolutely butt rape an astartes in one shot, and a terminator in 2. "Also majorkill: So one legion started blasting and instakilled 99% of the entire planet worth of humans with tech that can one shot the members of said legion. Okay, it seems gw throws all logic out the window for plot armor and plot bombs.

[@PeachDragon_]

The horus heresy is a total mess, if it wasn't Warhammer it would be laughed at as the worst sci fi saga ever written. I love 40k, space marines and the primarchs, but if you're a book reader first and a 40k fan second the entire HH series is puke inducing. If you're a hardcore sci fi fan 40k will still service you as fast-food style entertainment but 30k will make you puke.

[@KaijuBiologist]

​@@PeachDragon_ ya know, I think you're right.

[@yousaidthusly461]

It seems most of the civilizations here were killed because of the heresy, with only two specific cases being destroyed due to intolerance and policy. I wonder what the Emperor thought of these losses if they were tragic, if they were necessary, or if he did not care at all or never heard of it

[@licensed_beheader]

He probably didn't care that much . Remember some primarchs were actively performing war crimes and he didn't even care .

[@isaiahgrey2458]

Bold move of you to assume 'war crimes' were anything less than a checklist for Big E.

[@spacewargamer4181]

100% sure that his answer was "I am busy"

[@blacktemplar1139]

He didn't care because they worshiped gods

[@vrcommandoata5403]

@@blacktemplar1139 One of them worshiped him.

[@ArcturusMinsk]

Commissar: Can you imagine a world without the Imperium? *imagines children of all races playing happily together in a beautiful meadow* the commissar shudders in disgust: EXTERMINATUS!

[@ArcturusMinsk]

@Aquarium Gravel if he yells hard enough

[@patrickbo2045]

@Aquarium Gravel I bet Yarrick can do that!

[@Briselance]

This is why everyone hates most Commissars.

[@thehermitman822]

HERESY DETECTED.

[@galvasthehighlordoftheumbr5111]

@@patrickbo2045 Everyone respects Yarrick. I’d Exterminatus if he said so.

[@cp1cupcake]

"...makes you wonder is the Imperium is really the protagonist of the setting." I think you are confused as to what a protagonist is; its who the story follows, not who are the good guys.

[@logangrimnar3800]

Considering the massive size of the galaxy and how advanced humanity was during the Golden Age it's possible there are advanced shadow civilizations the Imperium is not aware of. Too advanced for the Imperium to detect or hidden in the darkness between stars.

[@alpineassault]

lol Imagine if there was an undetected advanced human civilization just watching from afar and laughing at the imperium for trying so hard to solve problems that already have solutions.

[@BadVoodo0]

@@alpineassault this is exactly what the eldar do. but at the end of the day they're the ones that are hiding from the imperium not the other way around, and they still probably look the space aliens and demons creeping in

[@logangrimnar3800]

@@alpineassault that's exactly what I imagine, too. One that even looks down on the Eldar.

[@orrorsaness5942]

@@alpineassault Meanwhile in the Andromeda Galaxy. An empire ruled by thunder warriors who names their nation “The Imperium Of Mankind”, is ruled by the former emperor of Earth 6119, who had been rescued by the warp and became their emperor (after the thunder warrior sacrificed him to the emperor of mankind in secret and pulled him out as he is now an avatar of the Emperor of Mankind.). They have been kidnapping other civilizations that came before them and are the most advanced civ inside the Imperium as well as the Andromeda galaxy. As they look at the Milky Way the thunder warriors laugh as they get to war with other human and XENO civs, have a good time while the rest of humanity has to suffer them.

[@user-bbvhcf]

You would be correct ever heard of the league's of votann

[@unknowDwarf]

kinda sad that these civilizations were destroyed, they seem much better and dare i say more interesting than the imperium

[@logangrimnar3800]

Yes well they lacked diversity so they were destroyed

[@kacperjastrzebski1880]

Everything is more interesting when it's mysterious. After all who dosent like a good mystery? I am referring to the fact these factions don't have a lot of lore. So a lot of things can be imagined which makes them seem cooler.

[@darkclownKellen]

I mean when you think about it, it really isn't that sad cuz they don't actually exist

[@spectralassassin6030]

@@darkclownKellen Whaaaaat? They don't exist?! I could've sworn all this was real!

[@bigchiefsmackaho387]

seems like The imperium's biggest strength and weakness are both just how massive it is. They can overwhelm almost anyone with sheer numbers and force but in some cases(as is stated in this video) their sheer size leads to miscommunication and infighting leading to mistakes such as glassing a planet with greater tech who was already in full compliance with the Imperium thus losing that tech forever.

[@TheWarmachine375]

0:05 Man-Emperor of Mankind: "In order to ensure security and continuing stability, the Federation will be reorganized... *INTO THE FIRST IMPERIUM OF MAN! FOR A SAFE AND SECURE SOCIETY!!!"*

[@sadiqahmed4143]

In an alternative timeline ALL HAIL THE FEDERATION Emperor:- i must take control ! IN ORDER TO PROTECT HUMAN INTRESTS , I DECLARE THE IMPERIUM OF MAN AS THE SOLE LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT OF HUMANITY ! I ORDER YOU TO KILL THE XENOS, MUTANTS AND HERETICS Man of Iron :- No Please Close your mouth and See Up Man of Stone :- Please evacuate this area Man of Gold : LEAVE THIS LOCATION NOW OR DIE Man of Diamond ( If the Federation survived till M42) Perhaps a few singularities occurring in your mind and everywhere you have any form of presence should make you sane or perhaps i should simply Delete you from existence just as we did with the tumors in the Warp or maybe i should recommend you to a Therapist In another AU All hail The United Human Federation Emperor:- All hail the United Human Federation Everyone:- All hail the United Human Federation

[@Slavesforsale1]

40K would of been a far more interesting setting if these human civilizations were allowed to exist instead of just being fodder for showing how strong or stupid the Imperium is. Also, the story of the Disaporex is the saddest thing I've ever heard about Warhammer lore. RIP to a homies, just wanted to be left alone.

[@utubrGaming]

You don't like the imperium because they're a stagnant, paranoid and militant theocracy. I don't like the imperium because I prefer other human civilizations. We are not the same.

[@comradekenobi6908]

Haha you don't have to worry about that, most people have a thing called Headcanons they can use

[@bloodangel19]

I sort of like it. It's like LOTR. Everything we see is a shadow of it's former self and everyone is sad about it

[@indrickboreale7381]

@@bloodangel19 Not everyone. Hobbits are fine

[@bloodangel19]

@@indrickboreale7381 yeah but to them this is the peak, the Shire is their Gondolin, their Numenor. They have no good old days when the world was better to look upon, this is their best time to be alive.

[@TheWarmachine375]

Whenever the Imperium goes for a walk, they ask these human civilizations how is their health plan. Apparently it was great.

[@parkermaisterra8532]

I understood that reference

[@auraaetherbladesigma6939]

Hellsing abridged for the win! XD

[@jonathanathor117]

The imperium is Alexander Anderson the faction.

[@spiffygonzales5899]

@@jonathanathor117 Nah. Anderson was a good guy. He just didn't like Vampires. Pretty much everyone else was entirely safe from him. Imperium shoots at everyone. Including themselves.

[@Jamesgates355]

@@spiffygonzales5899 didn't like Vampires or anything that wasn't catholic...that and Nazis, man hated nazi vampires, but LOVED boondock saints

[@peterhughes3461]

Interex human/kinebrach empire coming back in to the setting as a playable faction, after the escapees of the destruction of their original empire spent 10,000 years on the fringes of the galaxy building and biding their time, would be cool as fook. They could be mega anti imperium and chaos and do all they could to mess with them even allying with the tau and elder.

[@orrorsaness5942]

Or they could be pro imperium and anti chaos and Tau. Maybe they might ally with the Necrons.

[@aidieltaufik9954]

@@orrorsaness5942 i think its can be possible ..yes the video tell they die but ..its a story if the author want to make new human civilization with more advance human they can but the problem they always make a clithe storytelling.

[@tobysharples111]

The diasporex made me really sad. Hell, they all did. Those last words from the wounded alien very well sum up what’s wrong with the imperium. In HH book 1, Ignace karkasy gets the shit kicked out of him for asking ‘why did we invade them? They had survived for five thousand years! Who were we to take that from them?’

[@15DEAN1995]

The humans who once lived on what is now called nercomunda are another human civilisation that were wiped out. They had giant wormhole gates that could be used to move between their planets and helped them during the age of strife. They were very advanced from what I recall but all except one planet was wiped out by the imperium. Nercomunda surrendered and survived but an alien race got involved. This forced the imperium to destroy the wormhole gates and resulted in the levelling of necromanda.

[@colers2366]

You are incorrect; the warp gates were of unknown origin, and they did not know how to make new ones. And it wasn't a xenos species; it was a breach in the warp gates that caused a flood of demons that would continue until the contingency mines around the gates were blown up. The Imperial Fist contemporarily asserted they were xenos because by that point all instances of daemons were seen as just weird xenos

[@15DEAN1995]

@@colers2366 ah right I miss remembered that part. I thought that happened after the heresy and assumed it was necrons or something.

[@robopope7584]

The bodyguards of the Emperor of 6319 were called the Invisibles. They wore silver armor reminiscent of the Custodes. The Invisibles had cloaking technology that would leave them invisible, with a ripple in the air where they would be. They could employ this field aggressively, firing it like a beam of pure, invisible force.

[@CloudSephiroth]

I bet if Vulkan met all of those civilizations, he would be able to get them to join the imperium or have a truce and they could all just forge dope weapons. P.S. Vulkan lives… STOMP STOMP STOMP

[@daswordofgork9823]

He’d give all of them hugs.

[@CloudSephiroth]

@@daswordofgork9823 Vulkan’s hugs work against everyone in the 40k except Nids, Orks, and maybe Dark Eldar… it’s cannon lore and you can’t change my mind about that.

[@daswordofgork9823]

@@CloudSephiroth Amen to that!

[@adrienwatson2179]

Other than that time he met peaceful humans that were friends with Eldar And proceeded to butcher them all

[@daswordofgork9823]

@@adrienwatson2179 They we’re not friends

[@grayrook8637]

I would give a special mention to one other civilization that the emperor crushed under his boot heels. Terra, whatever was left of mankind's original nobility and beauty that survived even the Age of Strife was burned to nothing in the Unification Wars. In The Last Church we see that mankind's culture at least survived everything in some way shape or form, seemingly alot of forms. Until the Big E turbo murdered all surviving culture until only his Imperium was left.

[@DeliriumTrigger2]

lmfaooooooooooo, yeah man the Emperor just absolutely destroyed everything and everyone and all simply to aggrandize himself /s. You have a very poor understanding of the setting and the things that happened within it

[@sheevpalpatine2128]

But thats not what happened lol 😂

[@BadVoodo0]

@@DeliriumTrigger2 people say that, yet at the same time the emperor always existed and surely had several chances to take over the human race but never did, i think the emperor sees the imperium as the last chance humanity has against chaos and its a matter of survival rather then aggrandizement

[@ashraffhashrin4196]

@@BadVoodo0 You can say he was seeing how humanity would go at first. I think he probably was impressed for a while during the golden age

[@DeliriumTrigger2]

@@ashraffhashrin4196 i think he was hoping against hope, but he always knew what needed to be done eventually and he was right. He just failed. Ave Imperator.

[@sethleoric2598]

Non chaos aligned warp entities and magic would be a cool video ngl.

[@josiahgoodman1734]

I know right

[@Engifarting456]

ikr

[@ComeNalgi]

You know right

[@askashik]

That's the one thing I have ALWAYS hated about Warhammer 40k. Everytime a badass/interesting new human civilization is introduced, they get utterly destroyed by the Imperium. Just once, ONCE, I want to see one actually survive and exist alongside the other powers in the galaxy. They don't even have to be a major power! I just want to know that somewhere in the galaxy, there is another unique human civilization with its own unique history struggling to survive like everyone else in the grimdark. Hell, I would even settle for a world of loyal Men of Iron that fought to save humanity during the revolt.

[@greenxxxable]

Leagues of Votann. Technologically advanced Squats who have Men of Iron in their ranks.

[@spiffygonzales5899]

There are numerous human civilizations in 40K. Imperium is just the biggest. Most either have a planet or a small few planets.

[@malfuy9558]

Well the wiki states that there are many very small human factions not belonging to Imperium, which makes sense, but I too would love some official ones

[@DeliriumTrigger2]

that isnt the point of the setting

[@sheevpalpatine2128]

@@DeliriumTrigger2 exactly 💯

[@AdrianMartinez-ho6db]

I’ve been sayin for years that if the emperor’s vision for humanity was…..more welcoming, for lack of a better term, we coulda seen the emperium ally wit most if not all these human civilations and have it’s power be taken to new heights. Anyone who’s familiar wit the Halo franchise, think of this as the same scenario when ancient humanity and the alien race of the Shan Shiyum became Allies and held off the Forerunners numberless armies for 50 plus years.

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

Heritic

[@Drunken_dready]

Am I the only one worried seeing majorkill wave that knife around like a mad man🤣

[@majorkill]

:)

[@Drunken_dready]

@@majorkill ❤️

[@iannordin5250]

Interex had the best approach the Chaos. They approached the Warp as another natural phenomana and the chaos as a rational malignancy in it. They faught it through a clinical lense, learning how to control and tame it as one would a cancer or a disease.

[@chrisgarbutt1893]

Most of these civilizations would've joined the Imperium if the Emperor himself or Macaldor found them first, but Lorgar and his crew had to mess it up like always!

[@TherandomshitstormerCXVII]

That is the only proof on why Magnus did nothing wrong

[@igncom1]

Imagine if a battlefleet of flying cathedrals showed up with filled with an unlimited number of space Albanians and tried to conquer earth by drop-podding medieval knights into our cities. Like yeah sure we have the technology to kill a shit ton of them but eventually.... eventually these space Albanians are going to win. And we simply won't understand why they won't believe us that this is the real earth, and that our god/gods are the same as theirs.

[@thehermitman822]

I'm imagining with all the tech they still melee only. 😆

[@ireallycant4416]

Most peaceful Albanian in the world

[@astarion5903]

Albanians 💀💀💀

[@BadVoodo0]

best way to put space marines, although most of the deaths would be peasants with pitch forks throwing bricks aka the imperial guard

[@True_black_swordsman]

Hahahaha space albanians 😂😂😂

[@christiancowles9436]

Some miniatures inspired by some of these civilizations would be cool. I even like the idea that a few ships survived from each civilization that have stayed hidden, very slowly rebuilt, and view the Imperium as techno barbarians pledged to chaos.

[@bigman9854]

Could work well as a kill team; just a small set of models

[@AHH96]

"trust me we killed them all for a good reason, and believe me when I say there was no other way." -every empire ever

[@Kardel_VA]

Sadly, knowing GW writing, there will never again be separatist human groups/factions that are not connected to Chaos. Its either brain dead zealotry to the Emperor, or brain dead zealotry to Chaos.

[@The_Lute777]

its because the neckbeard hordes will not allow anything not grimdark

[@TheWarmachine375]

Schmuck Civilization: "Hooray, we are saved by our new neighbors from Terra and would want to be their friend!" Imperium: "Oh hohoho! I wouldn't say saved. I would say... Under new management."

[@teal_m_101]

Hey Lois, this reminds me of the time when Horus slew the Emperor

[@hungreyginger7478]

“Hey Lois” “What?” *train horn*

[@hungreyginger7478]

Scam

[@yvaerosreaver9278]

Imo it would've been way cooler if the Horus heresy started over the Emperor demanding the interex (one where Erebus didn't piss them off) be purged (because they knew about chaos), and Horus and the other traitor primarchs rebelling to defend them You could have the traitors get corrupted with the best of intentions, like the word bearers introducing chaos warpfuckery as a radical new weapon to save the Interex people and go on from there

[@kawaiiqueen303]

Wouldn't make sense tbh

[@WhoCares3435]

@@kawaiiqueen303 yeah, because even if the Heretics were defending the Interex the Interex would've started trying to kill them.

[@stickthesecond5085]

Ironically the only civilization on this list that survived attacked the imperium first

[@rhoydplaz2853]

Nice

[@TheWarmachine375]

13:03 Abaddon was the one who coined the term, "Death to the False Emperor!" there.

[@thecommentguy9380]

saying death to the false emperor before it was cool

[@letsplaysvonaja1714]

I like how most weapons are measured by how efficiently they can kill a space marine

[@posterus4413]

Man, it would have been really cool to see all of these civilizations exist in present time 40k. I mean, we have the Leagues of Votann, but want all of these other civilizations now.

[@utubrGaming]

Horus Heresy Game - I know you like space marines, so why don't we make a game where space marines fight space marines? Great Crusade game - and absolute mishmash of unique and different races, technologies, personalities, ideologies across the galaxy. Hell, you can still have the imperium getting bitched like the [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] legions, or a few campaigns so bloody and pyrrhic that the Imperium just scrubs over their maps and pretend like those planets are never there to begin with

[@robkemp598]

My Head cannon to explain the existence of these guys back on the battlefield (if I could get my hands on some tabletop models) would be that certain survivors from these races and others like the Olamic Quietude or Arraneus Continuity all find their way to a massive Dyson Shpere somewhere in the ghoul stars. Imagine an army of Interex Hoplites, Olamic graciles, Robusts and Super-Robusts, Follower of the Storm Guardian spiders the size of knights/titans. Fighting the Imperium for dominance

[@polmMM-uk1rz]

You didn't talk about the people of ghenna that were crushed by the world Eaters, okay they were on one world, but they found a way to build and to control millions of bodies with just a decade of sick people

[@WhoCares3435]

It'd be awesome if you did release some models for these civilizations. They honestly deserve the love

[@Writh811]

At this point, the narrative of 40k really needs the Imperium to properly lose big with multiple other factions gaining significantly. I posit that GW would have a better time drawing other people to the story of other factions if they actually had momentum. The Tau Empire are on the Nihilus side of the rift with they should gain a significant portion of territory, this would make more logical sense and gives us a forward moving narrative of the Tau trying get things going in a place where the Imperium is all but on life support. Whatever the Orks are upto needs to start being more tangible. Is it me or is every book that mentions orks since Guilliman's return always talking about how they are amassing but still nothing is coming of it. Let's get some books and campaigns that give them a central goal. Necrons could use some Empire building Campaigns and Stories, the Silent King is back for crap sake, lets see the overlords bend the knee or rebel as he Necrons try to reconstitute some sort of united front. Heck have them start being active on worlds that put them in conflict with the Nids that is honestly a fight I want to see. Eldar need "hope" and ambition, I thought the Ynnari were gonna be that but GW was like "PSYKE!" let's un-psyke. Or they can try again and start with forming a stronger alliance between Craftworld and Exodites, square them against Nurgle. They reject the call to death of Ynnead and seek life. Their narrative pushes them towards Isha as the Isharii (why bet on a god who hasn't even been born yet when they could just focus on rescuing one they already have). Chaos needs to lose Abaddon and Huron Blackheart needs to become more significant. I maintain that the Red Corsairs should seize control of the Nachmund Gauntlet and just be jerks to the Imperium and the Black Legion about it. Cause a proper Chaos Space Marine Civil war.

[@Lightscribe225]

Orks have a goal. Ghazgkull wants to fight a Primarch, and he refuses to die before then. Part of the reason Ragnar failed to kill him.

[@Writh811]

@@Lightscribe225 Yeah but he isn't doing anything to make that happen in the narrative. That's the problem. Orks and Ghaz are just kinda there AMASSING but not really advancing so to speak. In lore decades of background muster is not really interesting.

[@kinoman4875]

@@Lightscribe225 i honestly dont know how ghazkull is gonna fight a primarch when he got beheaded by ragnar

[@DeliriumTrigger2]

sounds like shit, keep seething though

[@Lightscribe225]

@@kinoman4875 By getting bigger and meaner. Which is what happened. And also while he was dead the gods basically told him he wasn't going to die until he turned the galaxy green. Basically a promise to bring him back again and again until he stomps the galaxy flat. Meaning the WAAAGH! the Imperium is trying to stop before it happens, is going to happen regardless.

[@ronmiller5968]

Majorkill you rock! Keep up the great work

[@RenMagnum4057]

Plot Twist/Correction: 5 Incredible Human Civilisations ruined by Erebus

[@slumpmachinegaming]

Dude, the first one you mentioned has me fucking floored. They genocided the whole planet, only to realize they were already worshipping the Emperor, and are compliant. That's gotta leave an impact after murdering the whole planet.

[@LuciusSicarius]

Think I remember the Space Wolves destroying a pretty cool "human" empire as well. Believe they had essentially turned themselves into cyborgs or something and I think even uploaded their consciousnesses matrix style.

[@stripeybag6977]

Surprised no mention of those Halo humans that fought the Blood Angels, earned an attempt at peace, betrayed the Blood Angels trust, and got the full wrath of the Sons of Sanguinis. Also that is 5 bad endings versus the 999,995 other cases where people were eating their own kids to survive, being enslaved by Orkz and Dark Eldar, had aliens using them as cattle, and mutants overrunning what little habitable places existed on certain worlds among other things before the Imperium.

[@NirvanasBoyfriend]

"Dont play with knives kids. Especially when they're made with Japanese steel" -Majorkill 31/8/2022

[@TheRogueminator]

*31/8

[@utes5532]

Kamikoto knives are a scam. Not much to do with your comment, just leaving this here so hopefully people see it. It's some of the cheapest, softest steel sold at a massive upmark

[@Atnat57]

I know he has been doing it for awhile, but I am sure his one girl view feels really seen by the "guys and gal" opening. I wonder what her name is.

[@ComeNalgi]

I think I know who I've sent a girl I know this guy's videos 🤣

[@TheWarmachine375]

Poor Olamic Quietude being left out by Majorkill

[@justino4567]

My favorite is the one from Prosperous Burns that the SW encounter. They are hyper advanced and called the human diplomats "not true humans" because when they were vivisected they found numerous (2k+ iirc) biological differences from them.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

These are some of the other rarer human civilizations that are barely mention. Gardinaal, single system with 100 billion people ruled by the Lords of Gardinaal and they used genetically engineered soldiers with gamma ray weapons. Dulanian, had imperial guard like soldiers alongside power armored soldiers called Scarabines and also had powerful shields called Aegis shields. Carinae Soladity, had archeo tech weapon called the Arch-Comptroller which turned all normal humans into mindless beast but this did not affect space marines. Golden Apostles, an alliance of human and xeno which allowed them to have a powerful fleet. Olamic Quietude, post human civilization that integrated bionics from birth and by adulthood it encompassed their entire body leaving only the brain, skull and spnal cord. Adrantis V, advanced human civilization of only one planey which fought against Solar Macharius

[@dominykasseibutis6297]

Make video on lucius the eternal and all these space marines chapters raptors silver skulls storm giants Mantis warriors Noise marines Sons of malice Sons of antaeus Black vipers Covenant of fire Dragonspears Dark krakens Red scorpions Stormwatchers Marines errant Scythes of the emperor Howling griffons Mortifactors Steel confessors Red hunters Iron snakes Excecutioners Angels sanguine Death spectres Emperor's spears Star phantoms The doom eagles Also make a videos about beastmans in 40k ollanius pius Soul forge Daemon engines Warp smiths and dark mechanicum Pain engines Helbrutes Krorks Obliterators Electro priest Abominatious

[@majorkill]

No u

[@DatGitGhaz]

@@majorkill plot twist: he does it and becomes the biggest Warhammer channel overnight

[@dominykasseibutis6297]

@@majorkill (angry)

[@cesare_1302]

@@dominykasseibutis6297 Random voice from the warp: jokes on you he already made them... _in the FUTURE_

[@dominykasseibutis6297]

@@cesare_1302 (not random voice) NANI

[@BeyondtheMovingPictureStudios]

So this is probably a dumb question. Do any mercenary groups in 40k have some of this tech? Like a ragtag team of pirates with lost human civilization tech. Going around fucking people up? Might be a cool video game.

[@aczeartk7032]

Like Harlock?

[@patrickb1303]

“Their technology was far past that of the imperium” then proceeds to be annihilated by the imperium.

[@BigKnecht]

We have laser weapons on navy ships but a 9 gazge is still more than enough to handle any normal guy. The americans were on the moon before they lost a war to illiterate farmers wearing AK's who couldn't tell you what gravity was.

[@destructivepanda5226]

This was a super fun episode because it’s been a while since I had absolutely no clue on the topic. Great job!

[@llamchiplayz5580]

Love the frequent uploads, keep going 💪💪

[@alfieingrouille1528]

I love your vids majorkill keep up the good work you absolute mad lad

[@themangix357]

Wait a minute! Brotherhood = Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout Diasporex = Quarians from Mass Effect Interex = Humans-San'Shyuum Alliance from Halo So even games gets inspirations from 40k. Sweet.

[@bigch33se11]

Brotherhood of Steel was based off the Tech worshipping Catholics from "A Canticle For Leibowitz", not 40k. In fact the early Mechanicus was also ripped from the book. With monks preserving technology and soon worshipping inventors with a colony ship leaving earth to make a safe haven somewhere else.

[@kinoman4875]

Honestly i dont think this is so because the horus heresy wasnt even properly fleshed out before 2006

[@spiffygonzales5899]

More like 40K rips off everything it can find

[@SuperMrHiggins]

I love how youre just playing with the biggest knife they have. Hilarious. Dig the content, as always.

[@dyslegein]

Really puts the heresy into perspective, it's not just that they crippled the imperiums existing power, they lneecapped their potential

[@dessert506]

A video about non chaos aligned warp entities and magic would be very cool ngl 😎

[@chomper720]

Would been cool if all these civilizations survivors united, to make a new imperium for humanity and their allies. 😅

[@utubrGaming]

The Anti-Imperium, ironically much more closer to the Imperial truth in their ideals than the current Imperium, based on pluralism, cooperation and diverse thoughts and technologies. THE FEDERATION OF THE GALAXY.

[@cheesyman10]

maybe they'll join the squats

[@ireallycant4416]

Surprise surprise.. the ones who did the purgings all become chaos simps after the Horus heresy

[@Alex-cq1zr]

@@ireallycant4416 Perhaps Chaos saw the danger in all those other Empire and, thus, used it's future pawns to eliminate the threat while it's still young.

[@lucasw501]

the avenians from the novel 'a thousand sons' were pretty sick, literally rode giant birds and had super cool guns and armour

[@daverage4729]

Love that skit at the start. Quite like 'The Brotherhood'. Very cool armour. Can you imagine a legion of Imperial Guard with that power armour?

[@volks2605]

Great video! I think the more obscure human factions in warhammer are an interesting side to 40k. You missed Dulan and the faash :( (Also I wish the other human factions had more art)

[@Zaflon]

We need a paralel franchise with some of these other awesome human civilizations

[@benmiles00]

Just catching up on the videos I've missed. This was another really interesting one. Thanks dude.

[@hadibendakji3858]

Entertaining and knowledgeable as always.

[@Boxanadu]

Please do a list of wars the Imperium lost… BADLY.

[@tereninsecundus6084]

Just check out "the Imperium's worst defeats" by Lutien.

[@_Bostan_]

Большество войн с империей Тау?

[@LilianneBlaze]

Olamic Quietude definitely deserves a mention

[@DimoB8]

The Quietude were fucking rad as hell, mechanicus but sleek and on roids

[@ireallycant4416]

Holy shit.. they are cool wtf? Why gw would destroy them

[@soccersoma]

bro I'm addicted to your content haha thank you so much for these videos!

[@thehermitman822]

This is now one of my fav vids of yours.

[@aceofhearts573]

Great video. I actually never heard of the Storm. You forgot to mention the Olamic Quietude and Adrantid V human civilizations.

[@thomaschitham3487]

I don't know where he gets the "Followers of the Storm" name, but they are apparently from the planet 47-16.

[@timbomb374]

I feel like it'd be cool to have other human armies that use things other than space marines.

[@tian5797]

Im so glad you made this video

[@funwithfrank7522]

Majorkill killing it right now

[@tjpprojects7192]

Fun fact: Kamikoto knives are likely made in China.

[@dougfoust117]

I work with a guy who has one of those knives. We traded knives for a minute, I liked it. Great edge out of the box. Almost silent on the steel. Definitely came with a better edge than my knife,, better steel too. I wasn't the world's biggest fan of the geometry, but I was the only one in the kitchen with that opinion. Still wanted my 40 dollar Victorinox back, and one close call with the floor later, he also uses a 40 dollar Victorinox.

[@jkgf4671]

If he had Kamikoto knifes then your knife definitely had better steel quality. Kamikoto is a scam, they are using the worst steel quality there is. While advertising it as good quality knifes.

[@aethertech]

If my choice at $40 is between something else and Victorinox, it's gonna be the Victorinox.

[@McCool117]

As someone who is born in November, it is very clear that I have been blessed by the God Emperor of Mankind. Great calendar btw.

[@morgymomo8535]

That knife skit... Was very cool.

[@alfieingrouille1528]

Isn't Ashwood endangered or something?

[@TheWarmachine375]

11:23 If you want to see a comment claiming that the Interex wasn't destroyed by Horus and his Space Marine Legion at all.

[@vasiliskirlis3041]

scions of the storm was one of the best shorts i have ever read GJ MAJORKILL

[@seirramoon388]

You and weshammer are probably my favorite 40k youtubers ^^

[@Deantem11]

Majorkill you're in Australian National Treasure like keep it up bro I expect to see you doing big things dude let's just say if anyone has got it you definitely do so go for it bro!!! I have yet to view a video of yours that didn't have me rolling laughing my ass off I can dig it bro keep it up

[@edgarcarlylesaraga96]

What if we are humans on this planet that was supposedly part of the imperium but weren't brought to compliance yet.. would the emperor/primarchs kill the shit out of us? 😅

[@rhoydplaz2853]

We will defend this planet and never join the emporium

[@edgarcarlylesaraga96]

@@rhoydplaz2853 welp.. we're all doomed then

[@bumpdat01]

I would love for Major Minis of these Human Civilizations to have models!

[@justsomedude7583]

Hey Majorkill, long time fan and I would really appreciate if when you did videos like this you would list in the descriptions of the videos where links are posted that you would name the Black Library books or codices/rule books where these juicy lore bits were discovered because I'd love to read about some of them first hand myself!

[@Ch1maera]

I am a simple man. Once I see a major kill video I click it.

[@Cptraktorn]

I'll be honest, I find all these to be silly in the setting and for the most part these always come across as a weird way to try to dunk at the imperium. the imperium is so absurdly technological and had the supposed greatest mind of all time at it's head yet it gets clowned on by backwater planets with "STC's XDDDD"

[@blingsing5383]

It’s supposed to show just how insane having STC can be and how nerfed humanity has become without

[@thecommentguy9380]

@@blingsing5383 and it only make the imperium look like a bunch of retards for not even trying to recover any of the techs

[@utubrGaming]

There's a theory out there that for all the Emperor's supposed unparallelled genius, much of that hype is simply his own reputation in the Imperium. The actuality is that he happens to be a Perpetual and a super-psyker, but as a scientist or engineer, he's rather middling, and as a philosopher, hasn't really matured passed "Bronze Age Warlord" in his political savvy. After all, the Holy Boltgun is basically a handheld 20mm rocket-propelled autocannon. Outside of the metallurgy, weight and recoil issues, not too unfamiliar to us right now and would probably exist by the 28th century, nevermind the 28th milennium.

[@Cptraktorn]

@@utubrGaming I feel like thats a theory made to cope with how utterly stupid the emperor looks. especially when some of his crowning achievements have been nudged to be the work of others (Erda and Astarte).

[@sammckissock]

Great choices. I thought you might add the Quietude as well.

[@greegeree]

man. i never knew any of these existed before this. i love all these civs way more than the imperium.

[@NornQueenKya]

I mean were they really all that incredible if the imperium was able to destroy them?

[@thecommentguy9380]

the imperium relied on number and roided soldiers, half of those faction would shit on the imperium if the imperium didnt have the number advantage

[@NornQueenKya]

@@thecommentguy9380 ... so the Imperium won because it was bigger and better. Got it.

[@thecommentguy9380]

@@NornQueenKya NOT better, just bigger

[@spiffygonzales5899]

@@NornQueenKya The First Galactic Empire from Star Wars Legends would wreck the Imperium of Man. 40K OR 30K

[@NornQueenKya]

@@spiffygonzales5899 big SW fan but the SW universe is not even comparable from size alone to the 40k universe. Even at the absolute height of say the sith empire or heck rakata, that's a droplet compared to the unending waves of the imperium

[@palpadur1112]

humanity's potential was, and continues to be, one of the casualties of the Imperium. so close to greatness, all they had to do was raise the cup to their lips and drink from it. but they lowered their guard, loosened their grip, and along comes a fool that would later be known as "the Emperor," pulling the cup from their hands and not allowing them to drink from it. all that knowledge, technology, and power, gone. all because they let a fool tell them when and how they could drink.

[@brianmurphy6480]

Kill the heretic! 😡

[@josephboustany4852]

Actually 3 of these civilizations were destroyed due to traitor legions and the other 2 by legions that would become traitor in the future at least 2 or 3 of these civs would have been integrated to the imperium if not for that

[@kacperjastrzebski1880]

Ah... a Heretic. I was almost worried I wouldn't find one.

[@spiffygonzales5899]

@@stalinjustafellowrussianco7440 I mean... they kinda did... this video kinda proves that they did.

[@spiffygonzales5899]

@@stalinjustafellowrussianco7440 Galactic Empire > Imperium of Man

[@ALDS-zk9ko]

7:35 I will never stop loving your pronunciations XD

[@bots2beasts]

Haven't even seen the whole video at the time of writing this...giving thumbs up JUST for the knife "commerical".