Ex-Military | A Warhammer 40k Story

[@lorenzorodriguez9481]

This story reminds me of a fan-brew chapter called the Conservators. They are a successor chapter of the Imperial Fists they are in charge of protecting a series of Agri-worlds on the edge of Imperial space called the Ashen March. The agri-worlds are medieval in all levels of society cause they live out of the boonies of space. An ambitious plan was underway, however, to bring the worlds of the Asharn March into the Imperium proper, uplifting the tech levels of the worlds in question to produce more helpful tithes of men and material than corn and grain. This plan included the upgrading of a Mechanicum held world called Chiron IV to a true forge world, the establishment of trained PDF forces, and lastly the founding of a new Astartes chapter to act as the cornerstone of the March's defenses. They are badly equipped for an Astartes chapter due to refusing to abandon the human worlds against an Ork Waaagh!! when the local Forgeworld is asking for assistance. This proved to be a fatal choice cause the Adeptus Mechanicus got angry that the Forgeworld, Chiron IV, got ransacked and the Astartes didn't come to their aid. They cut off communications with the Chapter and refused to give any kind of aid be they giving weapons, armor, and technical help. An embargo was set to make sure this chapter suffers for choosing the peasants over the Mechanicum. Of course, the Conservators stayed despite the Imperium withdrawing any support from the failed modernization effort. So they try their best in defend the worlds. They are more pragmatic and would resort to some tactics other chapters would find dishonorable. They are so intertwined with the citizens of the March that they even live with the human communities much like the Salamanders. Indeed, the Conservators in general see themselves not as the stewards or defenders of the March, but rather as the citizens of the March who take the expected steps to defend their homeland. This of course has led to a much more relaxed view of the Astartes amongst citizens of the March. While in the early days they were seen as amazing figures from beyond the stars, almost two centuries of casual close contact have Conservators has all but entirely removed such sentiment. The Astartes are simply members of the community who have a special burden and responsibility to bear. They are to be respected and admired, but they are hardly looked upon with the fanatical devotion that other citizens might look at marines with. Being freshly formed when they took residence within the March, and primarily composed of native recruits due to the die off of initial members, this sentiment is shared by the Conservators, who are among the most humble of marines one might ever encounter. To a citizen of the March, there is nothing at all odd with seeing a hulking superhuman figure tending the bar at their favorite tavern, before he dons ancient power armor and embarks to fight aliens on a different planet. For them it's been a fact of life for generations.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

I need a novel of this. Pronto. This is some damn good stuff.

[@suacemanaquiatan9380]

@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas I agree with this guy, Warhammer may focus on the big stuff, but I want common people to have a bit of normal human behavior and children playing on the streets.

[@obi-wankenobi9471]

That’s what in my opinion makes 40k so awesome and at times wholesome, because in the grim darkness of the far future people especially space marines shouldn’t forget what there truly fighting for.

[@lenny_1369]

that tavern scene gives me goosebumps i can just imagine an opening scene showing a seemingly normal medieval town for seconds until a not so seemingly normal vehicular transport, device, _or someone_ that holds a level of significant value appears in the screen in the background without the viewers noticing until the frame focuses on it or until the characters talk about it in a casual yet not so obvious manner because the characters themselves know that its a routine sighting/event and at the very end of the scene an epic music starts playing while the main character(s) start dawning their rusty gears and clanking armor while chanting their motto or war cry, like veterans getting their late party invitations received from a very tired mail man that looks like he needs a sip or two, but not too much cuz his belly might ache

[@georgeblair3894]

My new favorite chapter. Any images?

[@EATMEGUD]

“A farmer really? A man of your talents” “It’s a peaceful life”

[@user-unos111]

"Also, I have seen the kind of civilian jobs the ultramarines do and I would rather deepthroat a genestealer than dedicate my life to that stuff. I want a stress-free occupation, Emperordamned"

[@satreayudi893]

I agree

[@audgusto]

It’s not just peace, there is purpose in every action of farming. There is something similar to many of the menial tasks that befall soldiers were not in combat that gives them purpose.

[@CrazyDuckJoseph]

"At last, it is a honest job"

[@kabob0077]

It's lonely, I imagine.

[@eyelessman]

SM1 : "wait that's your kid?! Brother we are sterile" RSM : "Did you check?"

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Perfect retort!

[@wolflightning2331]

"It took alot of attempts"

[@karenmindock1898]

He got the 1% drop

[@garlicbreadstick404]

Legendary item

[@chengkuoklee5734]

Ever heard of the ancient technology of stem cell?

[@ahmedshaharyarejaz9886]

The Salamanders would probably just wonder why he chose to settle on anywhere other than Nocturne.

[@doggo9567]

I mean salamanders live with their families during off time they get to stay in their communities and keep their freinds

[@fionn2220]

"well nocturne is an absolute shithole brother, have you taken off your helmet recently? its why our skin is charcoal black and our eyes are blood red remember?"

[@TheWarmachine375]

@@fionn2220 And Vulkan was hiding in the deepest darkest corner of his room, playing miniature models of Battlemace 42 million.

[@jonathanathor117]

@@fionn2220 Just buy sunscreen.

[@ahmedshaharyarejaz9886]

@@fionn2220 But he could still live happily undisturbed with a family there.

[@lolbit1232]

To those wondering about the cliché of the soldier going to farming this is because it’s been proven that common tasks like this are very much liked by men who suffer severe trauma that are combat related All the way back to Ancient Rome...To him it is literally peace after a sea of hell

[@DaHuntsman1]

Also it could be a philosophical thing, where men who had spent years of their life causing death and destruction, now only want to try and leave the world a slightly better place in their last days, to perhaps achieve some small form of redemption.

[@lolbit1232]

@@DaHuntsman1 yep

[@jagar5580]

Also also because soldiers in the middle ages were often farmers or the sons of farmers so once their military career was over they could live as farmers

[@lolbit1232]

@@jagar5580 Yes but in ancient Rome legions In the late republic to the main imperial age or professional soldiers who could’ve came from all walks of life

[@robertstan9733]

@@lolbit1232 someone who served their 25 years in the legion would receive citizenship and a plot of farmable land in one of the provinces. I think this is related to the trope as well.

[@466chalk]

Dark Angel: *whispers angrily* "Traitor!" Salamander: "Based."

[@enanundefeated7816]

Oh ye they are Salamanders...

[@joezigg3523]

@@enanundefeated7816 no this is an old dark angels color scheme

[@Volgalist]

@@enanundefeated7816 Salamander using more brighter tone of green, Dark Angels use dark green with hood.

[@mirkoberante1457]

​@@enanundefeated7816 He's white

[@Nakorli]

Yeah, the hood is what gives it away

[@RedwolfDogrocket]

Why did the rogue Astartes farmer get a new medal? Because he was out standing in his field!

[@blazermettro2059]

What are you doing here? Laughing God of the Eldar. Shouldn't you be somewhere in the webway?

[@gagaplex]

Inquisitors have called for a planet to suffer Exterminatus for lesser crimes. You deserve the most severe pun-ishment.

[@TheWarmachine375]

@@blazermettro2059 Cegorach: *[BAZINGA!!!]*

[@kriegertechpriest7011]

@@TheWarmachine375 *In the background* Brother! The clown returns!

[@just_a_tophat5759]

*Exhales from Nose*

[@TheWarmachine375]

Dark Angel: "Really, a farmer? Even though you abandoned your oath and loyalty to the Emperor, someone with your talents like you chose such occupation?" The Fallen: "It ain't much but it's honest work."

[@simoneichler7320]

We were this close to secure the Imperium!

[@hammer1349]

I mean this is basically what Corax wanted after the Great Crusade was over. Just to retire to somewhere peaceful and live a life not as a warrior, not as a god among super soldiers but just a normal man

[@GodittoC]

69 likes, make a wish!

[@Chawk282]

Brother Sneed's Feed and Seed formally Brother Chucks

[@spookyghostwriter3110]

@@hammer1349 Honestly in a better timeline Arhiman should be known for making the best wine in the Imperium.

[@gianlalwet647]

I'd like to think that the Dark Angel let him live in peace and left him alone...but what with knowing Warhammer being Warhammer, chances are too slim

[@slavabakh5391]

Let's call him Jerry, now that he is a named charakter he has somewhat of a plot armor, his story shall go on for hundreds of years

[@simoneichler7320]

"Your duty only ends in Death" in some ways he did his brother a favour. No he will be brought before the Inqusition and forced to fight against tyranids barehands. Death is maybe the only Peace there is

[@_x_X_shal0w_g00se_X_x_]

Only in death the duty ends

[@TheArklyte]

@@simoneichler7320 only because Astartes are nigh immortal(there are a few, who grew old, but it'll take another 20k years to put them in their graves) so they'd destined to die in combat(or workplace incident). However not all Astartes forever stay with their chapters. Techmarines can be summoned to serve AdMech and stay there, Apothecaries can also be taken into Administratum and AdMech employ, marines can join Blackwatch and stay with it and finally Inquisition... a person can be made inquisitor by another inquisitor. Meaning that somewhere sometime at least once there was an Astartes inquisitor.

[@jakub_paints6775]

It's warhammer. He shot the farmer before he got 2 words out. Then shot the kid and burned the farm with people still inside. That is what grim dark is.

[@swindle9695]

"Why should we care for a race so weak and frail?" the Astartes asked, turning their backs on the nameless trillions that bled and died for their honor.

[@mrhonk8821]

"because once in our life.. We were in their shoes brother"

[@TheDoctorFromArknights]

@@mrhonk8821 "We were not born as Astartes, we suffered as they do with hellish training, through the surgeries we had to endure, we were made not born, and what can be made can either be destroyed, or reverted back once again to it's core element."

[@gardenthefermentingsound6218]

He's not an Iron Hand. Dark Angels don't hate humans.

[@Scatmanseth]

40k Humanity's weak only in a physical sense. Their strength lies in their willpower to flip the bird to a universe that's doing everything possible to kill them.

[@GameLover45408]

Reminds me of that one excerpt featuring Fulgrim reprimanding his son's for mistreating the normal civillians.

[@tanks451]

As I was listening to this, just as he told his child to leave and the Marine to kill him a clap of thunder rolled over head IRL

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Coincidence? I think not!

[@DemocracyOfficerWood]

A vision from the Emperor!

[@thatgirlfellowgal7669]

Just as planned...

[@TriptuneRadio]

And the thunder rolls...

[@macosh7979]

Since there was no bolter round shot. The dark angel probably gave pause to the whole thing and took him to the Chaplin to be interrogated in efforts to give him a chance to return to the fold and in 40k fashion it was all in vain as interrogation is another word for torture chambers yet the dark angel didn’t know at the time. This single action will haunt him for the rest of his days.

[@tonytheconquistador7803]

Why you gotta bring this up bruh, I’m stressin over the dark angel now

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Ooof...

[@chosen-slayer9669]

He passed his memes to him.

[@mikecampos1193]

You know I thought I think he thought he was cypher a member of the fallen but found it he not him.

[@dragonfell5078]

@@chosen-slayer9669 Expose a child to anger, and it will learn to hate Now there's a pretty meme, exquisite!

[@Ibian666]

If only all fallen were so compliant.

[@TheKingsPride]

If only most weren’t fucking monsters

[@InsideYourClosetRn69]

@@TheKingsPride if only most weren't heretics

[@macshadow1150]

@@TheKingsPride The problem is, that we dont know how many Fallen really fall or was just misguided and is now treat as such. Everything will be known soon

[@jamescawl6904]

@@macshadow1150 the fact that the fallen betrayed their own legion and Primarch already sealed their fate. There is no redemption among Astartes much so the 1st Legion.

[@wolf2965]

@@jamescawl6904 Except the whole point of "repent and die" policy of Dark Angels is that the true Fallen do indeed find a chance for redemption in death. Pandorax has a nice excerpt on this. Azrael speaks to a little shitstain of a Chaos Marine from a successor chapter that had a temerity to consider himself one of the Fallen: ‘Though they fell, they were pushed and still have the chance to rise again in death, to denounce their dark masters and recognise the folly of treachery. You were not pushed, [name redacted for spoilers], you jumped into the arms of your new god, and for that *we do not grant you the honour of considering you among the Fallen.*’

[@TheWarmachine375]

This reminds me of Star Wars The Clone Wars episode where Captain Rex met Cut Lawquane, a deserter of the Clone Army, who became a farmer and has a family with a hot Twi'lek woman and two half-Twi'lek kids.

[@rockman9377]

This is that episode brother

[@terminallove3531]

Those weren't his kids. Su had them already when he met Cut.

[@ConceptsCool4993]

Now I imagine a short story comic where a heretical former guardsman is found with a young child who looks like him while having suspiciously pointy ears and a wife who is a psyker for....definitely no special reason whatsoever which definitely isn't the reason he's classed as a heretic.

[@Tacoguy1000]

@@ConceptsCool4993 I honestly don't see an Eldar doing that with a human of all things.

[@ConceptsCool4993]

@@Tacoguy1000 well the galaxy is fucking huge so honestly it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if members of certain races did things viewed as extremely uncommon by the majority of them and did actually have things occur like the aforementioned interspecies hybrid making thing.

[@SolarBrain4128]

The great thing is that the former space marine is defying the chaos gods but simply choosing not to play the game. No war = no blood for Khorne. He wants nothing more than to be a family man, and while he does have a family, it appears to be only a single child (and in some lore, Space Marines are sterile, so he likely adopted this child). He is content. A lack of desire and lust means Slannesh doesn't get to have any fun. Tzeentch might gain something from a space marine making such a big change, but in the end, he is just a single man leaving an action-filled life for a humble one, and ultimately he will bore the god of change. The only one who might be powered by this man is Papa Nurgle, who would be pleased that a Space Marine is accepting that he will one day die and rot away to be one with nature. However, Space Marines live much longer than normal humans and know much about the universe. If this Space Marine is left alone, he will live beside generations of his newfound family, helping them tend to the farm, protecting them, and nursing their wounds and sicknesses. Simple peasant humans will live decades longer with the aid of their guardian angel, and his legacy will deny the chaos god the despair he craves. Emperor protect this man.

[@A-TALKING-TOASTER]

Depending on how the chaos guys are actually like he might be doing the opposite the empire certainly does like writing all sorts of crap about their enemies especially the ones they don't understand

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Nice analysis!

[@SolarBrain4128]

@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas Thank you so much :)

[@legion6211]

Tzeetch would protect him for sure, He needs shenagins done to laugh at

[@countercomeback5504]

It's not wise to assume they won't do something about that they will only spectators and not pulling strings and using their powers to make what they wanted to see. Hell, tzeentch will definitely do something about if he ever gets bored watching former space marine.

[@gigamix7394]

His response will be. “Only in death does duty end…”

[@excursor4296]

A dreadnaught will like to know your location

[@gama343]

@@excursor4296 Dreadnaughts are given the choice to continue serving after death or embrace peace with the Emperor in the afterlife, so yes, their duty is ended, but they still serve by choice.

[@ColdNorth0628]

@@gama343 i mean when you are preconditioned to fight on. You kinda dont really have much of a choice. Even if you want to die.

[@excursor4296]

@@gama343 I know

[@devildolphin2102]

In the words of the Lion El’Johnson Primarch of the First Legion. ‘I do not care who knows the truth now, tomorrow, or in ten thousand years. Loyalty is its own reward.’

[@UtubeH8tr]

Captain: Marine, why have you returned without his head? Astartes: There was nothing left of him to bring back. Captain: So he is dead? Astartes: I couldn't kill that which has already perished. Captain: Is this true? Astartes: Everything he once was is no more. Captain: Good work, praise the emperor. Astartes: praise the emperor...

[@michelveilleux2075]

the Dark Angel who watched the Marine spare the farmer: *takes a vow of silence as he spared both brother Astartes and the farmer's family*

[@rabidporcupine0]

Plot Twist: Everything he's saying is completely literal. An exterminatus was called on the planet.

[@TheWarmachine375]

@@rabidporcupine0 Too bad that only the Inquisition can do that and they're at Commorragh with Leman Russ and Kaldor Draigo at the Dark Eldar gladiatorial arena

[@Inqusitor_VDM]

@@TheWarmachine375 not all of them joined up with karimazov though, only the most trigger/exterminatus happy, radical, extremist, team killing fucktards actually joined up with him on his "crusade" to cleanse Holy Terra

[@darkoracle7534]

@@TheWarmachine375 Continuation never ever. Thanks, Games Workshop.

[@samuelheller3042]

I was expecting it to end with the sound of a bolt gun firing, but it didn’t. Still, really good work dude! Keep it up!

[@inquisitorthornside3p494]

here you go *BLAM*

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Cheers!

[@lionhunter1296]

Me too brother

[@adventure_skaut]

Was expecting his speech to be cut short by it when he got to the part that sounded like trying to convince his brother to also give up his duty

[@samuelheller3042]

@@inquisitorthornside3p494 thanks

[@HeroAndReporter]

A good reminder that this is what many of the Astartes and even some Primarchs imagined their lives being once the Crusade was finally over. Ahriman of the Thousand Sons wanted to make beautiful vineyards. Primarch Bean Counter had lingering thoughts of becoming a farmer.

[@TsukimuraMidori]

Honestly, that's always been one of the wildest things to me about 40k. The fact that, once upon a time, even the Traitor Legions had dreams of peaceful lives after the Great Crusade.

[@hackergaming6372]

I imagine leman Russ wanted to party and get incredibly drunk

[@ahmedshaharyarejaz9886]

Primarch Bean Counter wanted to grow Beans so he could Count ever more Beans. A Galaxy Brain idea right there.

[@Spartan135]

but they all forgot that they live in the shittiest universe imaginable...

[@thanhlamlam1842]

@@TsukimuraMidori But then a Chaos wordshiper joined the World Bearer legion and made them all dirty.

[@LordyT34]

"... Only in death does duty end..." the Dark Angel says... Then slowly... He lowers his weapon, resting it at his side... His hatred not gone, but... Cooled, redirected... Tamed... "And your duty is to them now" he gestures to the child "Ensure you serve them, as you would us... Brother"

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

In a perfect world.

[@TheWarmachine375]

@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas I can see Maria inspired to join the Imperial Guard or even the Sisters of Battle to fight for the Imperium like her surrogate father before her upon growing up and her descendants continue to do so for generations

[@knifetheslenderman6478]

@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas Despite The Grim Darkness of 40k... there is such a possibility...

[@edtazrael]

Heresy.

[@davisdf3064]

@@edtazrael Oh my Emproh Hershey, impossible, horrible, Hershey

[@tonycollins1729]

I was a 11B( Infantry) two tours in Iraq. And I tend crops, feed chicken and other livestock. Thier is something about creating something from nothing. And yes its helping me.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

I'm glad it's helping.

[@chaossausage3940]

Thank you for your service, you will never know how much it means to us simple folk.

[@jaded_titan8204]

God bless you and thank you for your service sir!

[@Indubidably0]

For old warriors like us, to create and nurture life... it brings peace. I've seen enough horror, I've seen enough death, I've killed enough... I just want to help things grow. Are you strong enough to be gentle, brother? Yes, you are.

[@bikehunter82]

Former 68W, 11 years 5 tours I work in a pediatric office now... helping adorable, chunky babies feel better is my "farm".

[@RedwolfDogrocket]

Interviewer: How much amount of milk does your squig produce? Alpharmerus: Which one, black one or white one? Interviewer: Black one Alpharmerus: 2 liters per day. Interviewer: And the white one? Alpharmerus: 2 liters per day. Interviewer: Where do they sleep? Alpharmerus: Which one? Interviewer: The black one Alpharmerus: In the Barn Interviewer: And the white one? Alpharmerus: In the Barn Interviewer: Your squigs look healthy...What do you feed them? Alpharmerus: Which one..black one or the white one? Interviewer: Black one Alpharmerus: Grass Interviewer: And the white one Alpharmerus: Grass Interviewer: (Annoyed) but why do you keep on asking if black one or white one when answers are just the same?? Alpharmerus: Because the black one is mine Interviewer: And the white one? Alpharmerus: It's also mine.

[@thecommentguy9380]

Alpharmerus: I am hilarius

[@RedwolfDogrocket]

@@thecommentguy9380 We are Alpharmerus and we are hilarious Brother!

[@thekaijuhunter4881]

Hijo de me engañaste en el último no lo esperaba jajjajajja

[@RedwolfDogrocket]

@@thekaijuhunter4881 Welcome to Chaotic Voices Brother Kaiju Hunter!

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

I absolutely love this joke!

[@CdrChaos]

He chose a life of honest labor, growing the food that will feed the people of the Imperium. Even in retirement, he’s still serving the Emperor.

[@sirblast6863]

"If you could show the cabbage that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn't dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never ending war." -Renegade brother Diocletian M41.

[@kevinoriordan3323]

0:22 he said beFALLEN.... in front of a dark angel....

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Oh nooooo

[@HeIsAnAli]

_[Excited Asmodai Noises]_

[@pepperjack3777]

Damn it's too bad this poor guy wasn't a salamander, I hear they don't just allow astartes to keep in touch with their families but they straight up encourage it.

[@houndoftexas5723]

It helps remind them what they are fighting for, to interact with their family and essentially experience life as normally as possible.

[@locarno24]

True but given that's a Dark Angel I don't think just going AWOL is the reason the chapter is hunting him.

[@tfan2222]

@@locarno24 Hahhaha, yeah. It is. They’re that petty.

[@auugh43546]

@@tfan2222 They are, but there's likely another reason cough he might've Fallen down cough cough

[@TheWarmachine375]

@@tfan2222 And they have the trait of Lion El'Jonson being petty and keeping secrets from everyone and themselves

[@Muspell_97]

Everybody asks where's the Fallen, but nobody asks how's the Fallen.

[@HeIsAnAli]

Whenever Asmodai is involved, there’s no point in asking how the Fallen are.

[@JuanLopez-kk9wi]

He never left his duty he simply found another way to serve.

[@helwrecht1637]

The dark angels may forget the names of their men, but the Black Templars don’t. Their squads are their personal crusader squads of chosen comrades. Marshals takes hosts of personally chosen sword brothers into battle. The chaplains and initiates commit to memory the names of past Champions and marshals. Grimaldus will never forget the true heroes of Helsreach

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Grimaldus always gets my love.

[@travzac619]

and reason why Grimaldus never recruited more Templars to his squad because he still missed his old squad, those who died in the final battle of Helsreach.

[@benjamintim3542]

Not entirely fair here; the Dark Angels have the Angelica on the Rock, where they honor their fallen by memorializing their names forever. Remember that the Dark Angels, for all that they inherited the secrecy of their Primarch, also inherited the practicality and mentality of "do what must be done," whether or not they guide that energy correctly.

[@NightLordsEnjoyer]

This reminds me of a fanfic called Like the Angel on Cold Open Stories, which is about this exact situation. And lore-wise there was also a 30K Smurf who was tasked by G-Money to stay behind on Sotha to guard the Pharos following the Heresy. When the Smurf Village remembered to come back for him, they found out that the locals think of him as a "mysterious mountain sage" and that he spent all his time just chilling (and getting free dairy from the villagers when his cow died). He was kind of a dick though. But that might just have been his Astartes autism. The short story is called The Aegidan Oath, part of the Scythes of the Emperor series.

[@redyakArt]

What do ya mean by astartes autism?

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Imma read that, but I expect it to be written like your comment.

[@saeyabor]

I heard about this. It's something like he was the last surviving member of the Smurf company that took a new Oath of Moment directly to Papa Smurf to guard that area, so the last survivor refused to be relieved by anyone not bearing direct word from Papa Smurf, and they Totally Did Not Bribe Him by disbanding the company and making him the founding Chapter Master of the Scythes.

[@NightLordsEnjoyer]

@@redyakArt I'll let this excerpt from The Aegidan Oath speak for Mr Smurf. Reaching up slowly to smooth his long whiskers, the aged captain’s gaze moved to the mortal cowering in the archway. ‘You,’ he barked. ‘I remember you. You are called Benvis. You brought me milk when my bovid was taken by the rot.’ The herdsman let out a gasp of relief. ‘Yes! Many years ago, I think you mean, when I was a boy.’ He patted the strap of the las-lock on his back. ‘You taught me the best way to hold a rifle, as thanks, and-’ ‘Shut your mouth,’ Oberdeii growled. Benvis did not need to be told twice. Well, being a genetically engineered superhuman who was hypno-indoctrinated, he may just be socially stunted like most of his peers. But I'm leaning towards him being kind of an ass. Also, I can't see your comment on the video, only through my notifs. SMH youtube shadowbanning people

[@NightLordsEnjoyer]

@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas Do check out the story of the Fallen Angel on Cold Open Stories as well. It's short but very well-written, and is really sweet... in the beginning T_T

[@alannatherson7721]

Dark Angel: If only you had a son. It would be ironic to induct a son of the Fallen into the Dark Angels.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Brütal!

[@wartorngaming1037]

if that is the case the farmer whud fight touth and nail to defend his son

[@just_a_tophat5759]

I want to see a story like that

[@artzilla3]

A regular ol Brother Honsou knows just what to say

[@PerturaBased]

@@artzilla3 the iron warrior?

[@holyxenoslayer6879]

0:48 I've heard enough of this traitor's vile words. He would doom us all to Hell and turn his back on the Emperor. *Blam!*

[@synergy8879]

“i fought in the unification wars, i fought in the great crusade, rangdan xenocides, the thramas crusade, the siege of terra and the great scouring. i could quite literally use this rake to kick your ass.”

[@TimeCircleBlue]

You know, considering the erratic warp foolery that cast the Fallen’s ships so far across 10,000 years, that’s actually possible. And that’s horrifying.

[@theren-8933]

"There is still war Brother. Worlds in the distant sky still burn, and millions still shout in agony. Why do you care so much for that one child, how could she be more precious than the whole of humanity, than the brothers you willingly lost. The duty we shared, and what you left on our shoulders to carry forth. There are children like yours... Slaving under alien masters, crawling through crumbled hives for a morsel of food, or holding the line against an abominal enemy. You were Missed brother. People in the galaxy prayed on every day that the Emperor's Angels may grant them deliverance. But you were not there, you were here tending to dry fields, covering in a broken hovel, and spending your talents for two humans only. Your life is the mark of Heresy. It might be a morsel of justice to make it all burn, and make you see it all burn... But I spent enough time to hunt you. My duties call me for a burning galaxy and a ravaged Imperium. Only in death, does duty end."

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

He does raise some fine points.

[@menschgebliebenergossenpar9213]

Blahblahblah grimderp GW lore blahblahblah Marines must fite dem enemiez of emprah blahblahblah No hope and philosophy, only boomboom war, exterminatus, heresy and chainsword swinging blahblah yeeeeh 40k rocks duuuude hurr-durr!!!! Boring

[@just_a_tophat5759]

Brother... Why do you hide? :

[@venom0825]

@@menschgebliebenergossenpar9213 butthurt much, 40k is not for everyone. If you dont like grimdark, then go to some other syfy setting that appeals to your fragile ego.

[@jerrytc2978]

@@menschgebliebenergossenpar9213 cope

[@Ace-Intervention]

“But farming... A man of your talents, really?” “It’s a peaceful life.”

[@utes5532]

God, imagine having an astartes as a farmhand. You wouldn't have work left.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

I retired at 35

[@zachialadams9279]

The only winners in a war like this, are the one's that finally put down the sword and take up a plow. Better a warrior in a garden, after all.

[@Dekartz]

Not really? A good number of their enemies aren't things that can be reasoned with or lived with in peace but straight-up existential threats. The Tau and the Eldar could maybe live in peace with the imperium. But the tyranid aren't going to stop consuming, the orks aren't going to stop fighting, and chaos isn't going to stop corrupting.

[@valhalanguardsman2588]

"Millions die and here I farm"

[@andreaven2287]

The Fallen : "Run, my child..." The D.A : " Oh, you think we are not going to kill everybody you ever met to keep our secret safe ? That's adorable."

[@kathywray9619]

THAT CHILD IS DEADER THAN THAT ONE ELDAR CHILD!!!

[@studentaviator3756]

Astarties live a long time. The dude may of built a hut. In a field and started farming. Then people came to him for protection and leadership, he took them in.So in a hundred years a village is built around him. The occupants he considers to be his family. 10 years ago he finds a baby and looks after it. Now she considers him her father. Now after 110 years of peace he is discovered. He isnt as strong anymore the rigorous training regime he can not access, he has become accustomed to humans he is still a giant. But a more humanly proportioned giant.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

And the village saw the dark angel arrive, the village is prepared

[@studentaviator3756]

Thanks man I'm quite a fan of 40k so you're story made me think up a back story about it. Maybe the agre world got attacked by dark eldar. He got shot by those pain needles disappeared from his brothers sight and was assumed dead. The pain put him into a month long coma. And when he awoke he was alone . He found a world in a post apocalyptic state. Society had broken down there was no Arbities or government and the farmers where being attacked by starving gangers Him not seeing a way to rejoin his chapter decided it was duty to protect the valunrable, and so brings him to this point.

[@JRBDWD]

@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas Prepared for what? Getting their skulls exploded?

[@TheWarmachine375]

@@JRBDWD Yeah, Dark Angels got their skulls exploded indeed.

[@Bacxaber]

*may HAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@asianbandit4054]

One of the Fallen wanting not to be forgiven, just to be forgotten

[@reginlief1]

“They can’t make you into a cool mini, brother.”

[@word6344]

They shall make you into a wholesome mini

[@UltraVast]

"I am at peace, because I realized, I am only human."

[@karroarmado9272]

The Salamanders truly embody the Emperor's Will, The Emperor put humanity first, and so did Vulkan to His Sons, and so did His Sons to the frail and helpless.

[@WolfT33]

The bit about being remebered really makes me think about the line "you will not be remebred" from the original opening text all the way back from rogue trader, and I love it, great voice work and writing

[@bulbainquisition9590]

This video reminds me of a campaign idea my friend came up with. The idea was for a group of war-torn children to come across a badly wounded space marine buried alive, and, of course, the space marine forces the children across the planet to fight the forces of chaos.

[@cassandrabelyeu2419]

If only he’d been a Salamander.

[@carlgman7420]

yknow since the Farmer is a former Dark Angels marine. I actually wonder what would his Primarch feel about this? Would Lion spare the man and leave his son in peace? his son isn't a traitor and just left his Legion behind to live as a simple man? or would this be Lion the soldier, who would put his own son to the sword because he had gone AWOL? The video also asks the question of what will happen to the Astartes and The Primarch themselves once peace have finally settled?

[@wardoge4112]

To answer that last question, the emperor planned to do to the Astartes and their Primarchs like what he did to the thunder warriors

[@oreo-postraphe]

@@wardoge4112 Doubt

[@piratekingthaszar7912]

​@@oreo-postraphe the Emperor really only cared for the custodes and to a lesser extent, the primarchs. the astartes are a flawed creation but a valuable tool and nothing more.

[@mentoss2197]

@@wardoge4112 I don't agree that Primarchs would share the same fate but Space Marines? Those most likely would share the same fate, or to an extent most of them and maybe few would be spared(I highly doubt this part but hey you never know)

[@jasperzanovich2504]

He'd just let them grow old and die that way. The only reason he ended the thunder warriors was because they were unreliable and prone to kill uncontroled. On the contrary Space Marines are capable of suffering peace.

[@manuelkfc7916]

This is simply beautiful, not everything has to be glory, war, riches or bloody competition, but compassion and understanding into working for something more than just the bunch that won't care for you, but for yourself and the ones you love close.

[@lokket9995]

The man clad in armour lowers his weapon and walks away without word.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

One can dream.

[@cassandrabelyeu2419]

The man clad in armor knocks the farmer out cold, cuts out his Progenoid glands, and brings them back as proof of death.

[@bradenwelenc7764]

"It is better to die for the Emperor than live for yourself, brother"

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

'My death now only serves yourself, brother. If you kill me, it will only tear the imperium further apart and sow the seeds of heresy.'

[@thelunchlord4530]

Damn the writing and voice acting is fucking top tire 👌

[@The13thRonin]

Top tire hey? Great air quality? Stay in school kid.

[@MrPlea6]

​@@The13thRoninHas it ever crossed your mind that he just made a little mistake while typing tier? Also, the way you phrase your sentences doesn't make you look any better.

[@The13thRonin]

@@MrPlea6 Top tire comment. Such wow, much original.

[@MrPlea6]

@@The13thRonin Much better👌

[@Ornzora]

Okay, but imagine his generation turned out to be astartes level human, then later the whole planet inhabited by astartes farmer because their child keep reproducing with another inhabitant of that planet 💀

[@HH-xe3sk]

BASED

[@bennyang2200]

thats not how that works. astartes arent born they are made. pumping the body full of artificial chemicals & inserting artificial organs.

[@the_dropbear4392]

Astartes are sterile

[@ethanwinters3281]

By the emperor they would have a whole army of astartes, screw bioengineering just get people from that planet and you are done

[@designator7402]

You know, when I was really into 40k this was the kind of story I was hoping for. Occasionally. Not in the mainstream, but on the side. A tale of humanity regained.

[@SwaggStar03]

He was allowed to speak a lot of heresy before the end. Makes me suspect our other brother of harboring heretical thoughts as well....

[@kevinnoonan5534]

"When I die my name will not be on a wall that no one reads, I will be missed." Wow.

[@relogos]

I came for the lulz, did not expect the feels. Good job.

[@mrschizo2837]

"Farming? A man of your talents?"

[@FreudsHotDad]

"When I die I won't be a name on a wall no one reads." Goes hard, yet hurts so much.

[@astalkus7540]

There was one StarWars the Clonewars episode where a Clone also quits his duty and becomes a farmer and founds a family. Its pretty simlliar just the Commander Rex spares his brother and gives him the life he had chosen.

[@Onyvox]

Imagine if a lot of chapters allowed their oldest marines to settle down and work with the populace. How much stronger the communities could become? Plus if some shit would stir, an old marine could still kick some ass and protect the people he lives with.

[@Darqshadow]

Would help get around the 1k Marines only by alllowing those who wish to retire to do so, but are charged with being defenders of the world. A bolter, their armor, and a communicator with little else save the people

[@Texas_guy76]

I love how they say that they wipe love and fear and other emotions from space marines, but this shows its never really gone, and some reclaim it, like this guy.

[@fictionschmiction4478]

You have to respect a man who can walk away from it all. He was bound by duty, propaganda, and genetic engineering yet he overcame all of it. He sounds like a glorious man. Others will know him as a coward who betrayed his brothers, but he remains honorable even in peace.

[@jonjim1265]

Brother I am a farmer on Catachan, please tell me you brought more than just one bolter. I may accept my fate, but you won't be able to go back after leaving my garden.

[@ColdNorth0628]

"you may kill me but my gaurd-plants will not like it"

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Imagine a farmer on Catachan... what an absolute mad lad he'll have to be.

[@jonjim1265]

@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas at Sly Marbo Farms, catachan grows when we yell at it to grow.

[@randomcenturion7264]

"I came to this world, believing I had found evidence of The Fallen." "And?" "...No. There were no Fallen on that world. Only the Lost. And...I think he should stay that way."

[@isacc8324]

Farmarine:“We can all live in peace we don’t need to fight endlessly” Dark Eldar, chaos, tyranids, orks, necrons, and the other 20 alien species that have zero concept of morality: “are you sure about that?”

[@lonelynerdy2956]

*imperial fist two blocks over* : I am but a simple contractor. I build schools for the emperors flock

[@ahmedshaharyarejaz9886]

The Salamanders chapter do have families of their own on Nocturne that they live with whilst off mission.

[@skeyedrake5929]

The emporer hates him. The gods despise him. Yet he comtinues to loves himself.

[@averageroach9927]

Well technically hes fighting the ruinous powers in his own way they feed off extreme and negative emotions and I don't you will get many of those being a peaceful farmer

[@cheshire_skatkat9093]

"My child,Maria, run home and do not look back." Maria: nah, fam this bout to git gud.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

*pulls up stool* Git 'im paw!

[@justadogobeingdogo5766]

This is what we need more of in the 40K lore! Not that James-burp shop whatever do anything like this.

[@oreolord7794]

"Farming!? Really, a man of your talents?"

[@jackmack4181]

I will say this, it takes great strength to go beyond the call of battle but it takes even more strength to say “I’m done, I’ve had my fill of blood”. We are not machines, we are not gods, we are not always unstoppable, we have our limits and we must face them. It is not cowardice, for cowards would run at the first given chance. This arstartes before has done his job for the imperium and his family, he has stared down enemies that would frighten normal people and I can see those eyes as he watches us judge him for his “betrayal”. As a man who served in the guard, I to understand his case and I cannot in good judgment shoot this man for the case of living.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Nicely written!

[@TheMasterSheo]

Why would it take more strength to quit fighting? You can say something with conviction, but it does not make it true. The weariness that you feel in your soul - it is easier to give into it than to continue to push onwards. It is understandable to deem yourself unable to continue, but it is not bravery. Quitting the fight is not what is celebrated, what is celebrated is what you did while you were able.

[@northernalpine4350]

"Why this? why resign yourself to this?" _"After walking through the gates of hell, Staring countless hellish creatures eye to eye and seeing my own brothers die in these two filthy hands, this man has earned a little peace, does he not?"_

[@thebrutalistboi1846]

This hurt my soul man. In a good way though, you did a fantastic job with the voice acting, as well as the writing of the dialogue. I really enjoyed the cliffhanger, leaving it up to our minds to fill in the blanks.

[@flashn00b]

Honestly, I figured that if the Dark Angels really wanted that Fallen dead, they woulda sent the bone white Terminators against him. My interpretation of that image was more along the lines of the Chapter needing that former Astartes' skills in combat a lot more than they need a corpse, but they'll take the latter if they can't have the former.

[@STbattlefront]

I love to see a story of a Marine wanting a better life for himself. Also something in the back of my mind is asking if the daughter is his stepdaughter or his biological daughter? Lore wise a space marine can't reproduce due to them being sterile though I'm not against the idea of him falling in love with a single mother. There is also the fact the sterilization method is "optional" example is the space wolves chapter who still have working parts lol.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

It can indeed be both, I personally like to think he married a war widow and is raising the children as his own.

[@TheWarmachine375]

@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas Like Cut Lawquane did

[@STbattlefront]

@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas awww that's the most wholesome 40k thing I ever heard.

[@randomprimarissalamander8735]

I mean the sterile part is weird because some marines do have biological children

[@the_dropbear4392]

​@@randomprimarissalamander8735 No they don't. Lukas had children before he became a marine

[@alessiostaccioli9151]

That ex-astartes is the only kind of astartes that can truly win over chaos: there is no more war, no secrets to undercover, no excess, no pain to endure. No one of the Chaos gods could corrupt him. In that place, Chaos was defeated.

[@EzraTheWitt]

Every space marine: Angry noises Salamanders: Cool beans bro Guilliman: "Wanna switch?"

[@RelativelyBest]

And then he knocks the bolter aside with the rake, draws his gun and shoots the marine through the eye. "Yep, I sure am glad Maria didn't have to see that."

[@TimeCircleBlue]

@Calebola X savage.

[@cato_sicarius]

Yeah since in the current lore the fallen/redeemed are like john wicks

[@Seraphinus112]

I forgot if it’s Eisenhorn or a Gaunts ghost novel, but there’s a high commander that basically did the same thing, counting pigs every day and was threatened to not mess up the numbers.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

I'd love to know if anyone has the right info!

[@locarno24]

Soul Drinkers. The Administratum adept who got them involved in the first place gets tracked down on an agri-world, where - being a senior adept waaaaaaay more gifted than a backwater would normally rate - she's turned the place around into one of the best organised farming worlds in the sector.

[@DocWolph]

1. I think the Dark Angel took the "Retired Marine's" progenoid glands and a rib as proof he killed him. 2. That specific Dark Angel would report this retired Marine to the Reasonable Marines just to keep an eye on him knowing they would not axe him and are good enough to keep secrets. 3. The Emperor would not damn him for refusing to fight further, but keep him as a possible course of what to do with Space Marines in the future, in part to let Marines earn some peace, falling back into a kind of reserve force, instead of being driven until they die or old age and/or fatigue. And bless him not to be troubled again until truly needed. "You duty does not end save only in death. So, I will burden you with a new duty. To live and love and build with the mighty hands I have gifted you and you earned so long ago. Serve your new homes as you have served me, come when called, for your duty has not yet ended. The challenges and struggles of a simple mortal life shall compete mightily with the challenges and struggles of the most pitch battles and desperate sieges. But always remain ready. Come when called. For your duty has not yet ended." -An Ecclessiarch, reciting "The Beyance of Just Retirement" to a small collection of marines.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

I love that last paragraph!!

[@michelveilleux2075]

I want this cannon. I do, I really do.

[@thelordz33]

>the Emperor would not damn him Considering the Emperor is barely more than a vegetable I doubt he could damn anyone even if he wanted to.

[@legion6211]

​@@thelordz33He can still do smiting, Just by proxy by getting a living Saint to kick his teeth in, And he's waking up, He's becoming less vegetable more god now

[@DUxMORTEM]

This is literally inspired by the magic the gathering card "swords to plowshares" which depicts a soldier who put down his arms for a simple life but not because he wanted that life, because he struggles to deal with the battles that he fought, the people he killed and the reasons he was ordered to kill.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

I get the similarly. It's a common theme indeed

[@hthtss]

This makes me think how always the only alternative after leaving the Emperium seems to be joining chaos. More scenarios like this or marines joining the Tau or becoming rogue traders would make very interesting stories.

[@vltraviolence7640]

"This is the Grimdark of 40 thousand. Even we superhumans don't even have rights."

[@H_Eli]

"Very good speech.. Now repent, Heretic!"

[@datemasamune2904]

Salamanders: Leave him alone!

[@catnipflowers5803]

This... This is what we need in 40k. I haven't read any of the novels, only seen/played the games. 40k lacks some deeply human elements, such as this. Space marines may be super human beings made only for war, but it takes a human to become a space marine, and somewhere, underneath all that.. there is a human. Its why Salamanders are so beloved, and the Lamenters mourned for. You can identify with them.

[@dinkledord7026]

I disagree. let them be broken freakbeast killing machines

[@christianblair8663]

There are a lot of humane elements in the 40k novels. Night Lords for example, despite being focused around one of the most sadistic and brutal Legions, has a ton of heartfelt and emotional moments that show you how even monsters have hearts.

[@lawindacera7219]

Too noblebright. It'll lose it's grimdark appeal. Same reason why the tau took step back from the altruistic idealism faction and they added culture wide brainwashing, caste system and borderline brainwashing.

[@TheWarmachine375]

@@dinkledord7026 Salamanders: "Time to hug you little man."

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

@Iawin dacera I do not like it, no sir.

[@saltsaltius9831]

“… wow… I never thought of it like that… anyways” *bang*

[@non-applicable3548]

"I found him, but he was already.....dead."

[@bleepbloop-v2w]

"When i die I wont be a name on a wall no one reads, I will be missed" What a line

[@ColCoal]

A small amount of tweaking and this could be a conversation between games workshop and an employee who proposed “You know the Imperium would do better over time if it tried to remove grimdark elements of life of citizens and would even cost them less and make their war machine more efficient.” “You are a traitor and I am going to have to bolter you in the head.”

[@saulernestosanmiguelflores1785]

Dark Angel- *Shoot his Bolter in the middle of his speech* Yes, that is was a traitor say....*double tap for be sure*....*Capture the child*

[@darthjekyll3648]

Kriegsman from future saves his future wife(she's his age in his time) and sends the marine back to the rock

[@JohnWick-c5q]

Dark Angel: *Shoots the bolter in the air.* “There is no space marine here, my brother is dead.”

[@AVoxintheVoid]

Fantastic voice acting my friend! Truly moving stuff. Top notch

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Heyy, thanks Vox, I appreciate it!

[@AVoxintheVoid]

@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas not a problem. It really is fantastic. Look forward to the next one

[@oecmnnncxzo7796]

He died living a life of happiness.

[@chaosincarna]

He died a weak pacifist. He fought for so long for a cause that obviously lost it's meaning, then when it came time to fight for something real he surrendered. He is a mockery of a man, with no sense of the value of violence against those that would take what you love from this world. And to die is to be reaped of all things you love.

[@TheWarmachine375]

@@chaosincarna Befitting from a Chaos Space Marine who witnessed it and bitterly mock it.

[@ColdNorth0628]

@@chaosincarna So what did Abaddon lose at now?

[@novocainejr.6951]

@@chaosincarna cringe

[@chaosincarna]

@@novocainejr.6951 Cringe is being capable of living a long life with your family and then being cucked by your weakness to protect that time and chance at a long life with that family. I don't know of any veteran that wouldn't fight back. You have no idea what harm will come without you at least taking a chance to prevent what happens next. He is weak because he won't even fight for what he is willing to sacrifice his life for, peace isn't worth having if you can't defend what you love.

[@moisesfranco1109]

The way he speaks the way he tells the truth to his dark Angel brother about being free and at peace actually made me cry a little beautiful video I wish for him or had more wholesome moments

[@RedwolfDogrocket]

Outstanding. Outstanding. Bravo!! Exquisitly read, beautifully written and a big well done to the artist encapsulating it all in one frame. Brother Chaotic Voices you are destined for something big.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Thank you!!

[@riches3581]

"It is better to die for the emperor than live for yourself"

[@Gaster_021]

One would never imagine that a space marine would truly desire the peace of a simple life. Inspiring to know that even men that were born and breed to fight a never ending war wishes and can have peace. RIP noble marine, may you know peace.