Inside an Imperial Navy Warship l Warhammer 40k Lore

[@JohnnyMn4monic]

I love hearing about life inside different things and places within 40k, it's the best lore

[@JKavanagh-tq8rp]

That moment when your tech tree is stagnant at entry level in Stellaris and ES2 and you're calling a Corvette an Emperor Class Battleship.

[@Grim-Crusader]

Hmmm... It sounds like other verse heretics have entered the chat???

[@melijahv]

Remembering the great war for the Orion system.

[@Hortifox_the_gardener]

it is not stagnant - it is regressing. Significantly.

[@vandarkholme4745]

Based

[@Welsh7133]

9th reply

[@jupiterjunk]

Battleship, not Frigate. 1:38 - Dimensions 1:57 - Crew number 2:53 - Command deck 3:43 - Captain's Quarters 4:28 - Officers 6:26 - Common areas 7:45 - Captain's Bridge 8:45 - Command deck externals 9:17 - Enlisted quarters 9:40 - Non-commissioned Officers 10:31 - Specializations 11:22 - Rank and file 13:02 - Conscription 13:47 - Astropathic chamber 15:35 - Navigator's sanctum 17:07 - Gun Decks 18:50 - Ammunition forges 19:20 - MACRO cannons 20:17 - Bombardment cannons 20:45 - Lance batteries 22:16 - Lasers 23:16 - Torpedos 24:18 - (note on void shields and torpedos) 25:04 - NOVA cannons 26:14 - Armour 27:07 - Void shields 27:43 - (weaknesses) 28:15 - (on large vessels) 28:51 - (outside of combat) 29:16 - (weaponizing/tactical uses) 29:48 - Turrets 30:21 - Hangers and launch bays 30:57 - Fury 31:52 - Starhark 33:28 - Lightning and Thunderbolt 34:25 - Marauder 35:27 - Cargo holds 35:53 - (note on logistics and nutrition) 36:26 - Engine room 37:00 - Plasma engine 38:09 - (dangers) 38:40 - Warp drive 39:11 - (dangers) 39:45 - Geller field generators 40:29 - (dangers) 40:53 - (Geller Plague) 41:22 - Voidsmen 42:09 - Ecclesiarchy and Temple 43:00 - Lower decks (and primary cargo door) 43:50 - Blackmarket 44:18 - Other specialists (Techpriests, Duty Officers, Medical, etc.) 47:01 - Chaplin and Commissar

[@skeeeeeep...]

++ For the algorithm gawd 🙏🏾

[@vinceoliross]

Ave Dominus Nox

[@stevenesbitt3528]

Not a metre of space wasted, also here is a massive ceremonial hall and a library😂

[@mastrblckhwk]

Hey those are super important 😂

[@JordanKennedy-e5u]

are you suggesting pray to the god emperor "wasted space" Heretic!!!

[@mastrblckhwk]

@@JordanKennedy-e5u Call the Inquisition!

[@bshinn4884]

Even in real military service, ceremony is important to teach and reiforce common values and disipline, for morale, and honoring deeds. Libraries importance is knowledge based.

[@boydsinclair7606]

Storage? Those ceilings better be vaulted when I go in there 👮 💀

[@ryanhampson673]

“250,000 to maintain an acceptable standard of living for the crew”….Standard of living may vary.

[@darthbrooks4933]

An abysmally low standard is still a standard, lol

[@21Jaromir]

Better than six milion it was originaly

[@Pyro978]

unless you are a decent ranking officer or a space marine, standard of living is a loose term.

[@dalemorgan8263]

"Acceptable" to whom is the real question

[@darthbrooks4933]

@@dalemorgan8263 sounds like heresy talk….

[@Here_comes_Hope]

My man. I don't know how you pump out one of these per day, but keep going. They are awesome!

[@1stNoBLePuP]

At this rate we’ll run out of lore in about 3 lifetimes

[@Dj.MODÆO]

One of my favorite tales from the warhammer 40k universe is the short story “a tale of ancient history” written by Andy Chambers that is here on KZbin in the form of a mini-audio novel and is narrated from the anthology book “let the galaxy burn” where a criminal is captured and press ganged into service aboard an imperial battleship. The creepiest part was that the inner wall and service corridors were filled with murderous “muties” who would creep out to steal food and commit murder amongst the loyal crew while they slept. Every one hundred years the number of muties would become so high that the captain would dock the vessel and evacuate the crew and pump deadly poison gas into all the service corridors and into t he spaces between the walls as a form of pest control. That story was awesome and filled with mystery.

[@beskararmor7966]

Only in 40K are fighters and bombers the size of small frigates in other verses.

[@Maddinhpws]

There is a book series called "Rise of an Empire". Iirc the smallest ships the Empire uses are like 600m wide and long and 300m tall. It is because there is no point in using smaller stuff. Smaller stuff cannot get through the armor and anything smaller, you'd just use rockets instead of ships.

[@Wayoutthere]

Dang it, we badly need 'The Expanse' quality series about the Imperial Navy!

[@xxhowisuxx]

I read that as "the expense" and wanted to hear about imperial supply lines and the endless thousand of vessels brought along to maintain a Imperial fleet

[@grzegorzswist]

The titular Corvette would be destroyed on its first patrol.

[@ryansauchuk7290]

Supposedly void shields disperse incoming energy into the warp meaning its not impossible that a daemon just walking along took a macro cannon blast to the face

[@severalcakes3267]

Serves it right!

[@Stop_Gooning]

There was some fluff in the first Halo tie-in novel that humans always want to be able to look out of windows, so the bridge is always in a vulnerable location. Covenant command decks are centrally located inside the ship.

[@jogzyg2036]

This unit agrees with covenant assessment. Windows are structural weaknesses.

[@severalcakes3267]

From this we can conclude the Sangheili are a bunch of moody teenagers who stare at screens all day.

[@saltymisfit6566]

Maintaining discipline through regular floggings And let it be known they will continue until morale around here improves 😑

[@xxhowisuxx]

Eh commisars would likely just execute at random so theyre pretty lucky

[@presleyfunk4362]

[@skeeeeeep...]

😂😂😂😂 yes lord inquisitor, this is the one that I was talking about!

[@SuperKinganthony]

This one is fire. Its story is correct. It is militarism at its truest form. Sufferance and discipline. Tasty sleeping storytelling. Thank you!

[@michaelrosenberg2332]

It's stellar

[@dikl6949]

Navigating an imperial ship: Hundred of people each with years or decades worth of training and experience working in unison to make it happen Navigating Ork ships:" ME SMASH RED BUTTON!!!"

[@Gunnar001]

Hundreds? Nope. Even the smallest Imperial voidships have crews numbering in the tens of thousands.

[@xxhowisuxx]

I remember in brutal kunnin the orks were driving somewhere and there was a literal "go faster" button on their buggy. And when pushed it did indeed go faster. Right into a damn warhound. Right as its voids were down. They managed to blast their way in. Orks are great

[@filanfyretracker]

I mean the button being red makes whatever it does happen faster.

[@Reaper78665]

here is a church so incase of a losing battle you can run between the gun halls and go ask the emperor to kiss your ass goodbye .40k is so out there the lore alone drew me to this universe and has kept me there since the first words.

[@BaronVonMott]

Amen! The sheer absurdity and insanity of the universe have always been my favorite parts of 40k!

[@jamesmorgoth2100]

I don't play the game, but the lore has me listening for hours. The Horus heresy...my complements to the chef.

[@mikkelnpetersen]

"It is economies that wins wars" - The truth.

[@h.m.sanchez4934]

Perfect explanation with a multiple volume of vocabulary describing all aspects of this monstrosity of a ship. I love it.

[@clarktent]

THE ITERATOR DOES NOT MISS

[@SuperKinganthony]

Facts, his picks stories the emperor would approve of

[@tackytrooper]

Never expected to see a Space Engineers build here, nice

[@fredhercmaricaubang1883]

A more appropriate title for this video should be "Inside an Imperial Navy Warship".

[@TommygunNG]

Looks like they listened to you.

[@axiom1967]

AIN'T NUFFIN BETTER THAN A IMPERIAL EYE-TRAITOR VID AFTER A LONG DAY OF BASHIN' EADS

[@Gabriel-br4qe]

I like the narrator's voice. Feels like I'm listening to the Greybeards in Skyrim lol

[@shazrael446]

And then you play Tabletop Battlefleet Gothic and expend these things in a single turn to win a battle lol.

[@Furibundia]

What a wonderful and complete job. As an imperial navy simp, I enjoyed this a lot. Thanks!

[@ewc2861]

bro, look at a picture of the “MSC Magnum VII” and imagine that being a torpedo.

[@espenstormcrow8950]

In the far future ther is no time for sleep only time for lore!!!

[@bitty_beastly47]

"Where would the Emporer be without everyday sacrifices of thousands of people?" In more ways than one lol

[@pierrelahaie6359]

Emperor-worthy documentary. There's enough info in there for years of RPG, if you want.

[@Ramsesdgr8]

This was a great video. Thanks for putting this out.

[@mikewaterfield3599]

Speaking for the real world US Navy warrant officers are an order of magnitude above NCO’s. To become one, one needs to have achieved the rank of chief (E7 very senior NCO), have at least twelve years service with good conduct, be declared a subject matter expert in their given rating, and be confirmed by a council. They are the rarest ranks in the fleet. My last command station had fewer than ten on a base of six thousand personnel.

[@KibuFox]

One thing you left out: To court martial a navy warrant officer, requires an act of congress. Literally.

[@mikewaterfield3599]

@@KibuFox SMEs are rare, we enjoy certain latitudes in respect of that.

[@leighz1962]

Join the guard and become an E7 due to a position opening promotion.

[@mikewaterfield3599]

@@leighz1962 F that, never was and never will be a weekender. Anything worth doing should not be done in half measures.

[@hunterno7704]

@@mikewaterfield3599 I understand if you feel that not fully committing to the active duty isn't your thing, but the reserves and national guard form a huge supply of both combat arms and support units honed by members working in the civilian industry. You cannot underestimate the talent for technical MOS' that possess skillsets present in the civilian industry who typically have much higher job skill requirements. National Guard combat arms units are a mixed bag, but some consistently win marksmanship and other competitions. There exists two National Guard special forces groups for example. Never discourage someone from joining a component of the military that also allows them to pursue a professional civilian career.

[@Xithar_tri]

I think I have not learned so much about 40k in a single video in years. After listening to lore vids for a long time and reading most of the novels, I thought I knew almost everything, but you have gathered so much here to prove me wrong. Great job!

[@andrew3203]

Externally, the Imperial Navy ships do resemble old-era ships, in particular the ships of early 1900 (and earlier ships-of the line), much like their tanks as well.

[@spencerherron5539]

I would love to read a story about the day to day life of the crew of a Emperor class Battleship. Just a glimpse at the culture and traditions that must come with life on a massive war machine in space.

[@thecocktailian2091]

Clearly stores would not support the needs of the entire crew. But one would think the entire of the crew would always have a supply of condensed emergency rations to see them through a month or two.

[@BaronVonMott]

Worse case scenario, they could always make up a batch or two of good old fashioned "Corpse Starch"! (And yes, that is EXACTLY what it sounds like!)

[@Pfasma5]

Wonderful piece of work

[@zachariahjonahmaldonado5897]

I was like 'Is this going to be the video that mostly exists because of all the screen shots which can be pulled from the newer Battlefleet Gothic and Rogue Trader games? And it is.

[@mojo_joju]

I wish we had a game where you could pilot a fighter and land on other ships like in Star Wars Battlefront 2 the original version

[@PrivateAccountXSG]

It wouldn't matter if there were miles thick of armor, a warp speed anything will go through anything.

[@BaronVonMott]

You're thinking of Star Trek. In 40k, closest thing we have to actual lightspeed within realspace, is the high-powered railguns and mass-drivers used by Tau warships.

[@jamesgornall5731]

The game Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 includes the Phalanx and Guilliman's Gloriana Class Battleship, which makes an Emperor look like a regular cruiser

[@JamesSmith-js6je]

For the ALGORITHM! For the Nurgles hugs!

[@OMGz1122]

So 37000-ish years from now, this is the kind of ship we will build?

[@syndromeofadowns]

37,000 millenia

[@Bododolive]

Lol no 37000 years​@syndromeofadowns

[@bouldergage181]

I wonder how much this narrator would charge to verbally destroy my enemies

[@tankheadzz]

Absolutely love you content lure with the old school blue planet narrative voice

[@filanfyretracker]

well the end commentary there is the old lesson that tactics win the battle at hand, logistics wins the war.

[@isaacnickel]

Your voice helps me sleep (no offense) ,subscribed❤

[@ryansauchuk7290]

The slow torpedo penetrates the shield

[@free_at_last8141]

These are great, I'm really enjoying your content. Where are you getting these scripts? Are you writing them, or are these transcripts of existing works?

[@danielapel1976]

Suppose , its his work.I read the White dwarf since 1996. Never read something like his script.

[@stablegun314]

The ship being described is a battleship, not a frigate.

[@bobsuruncle2112]

Why are the characters from Disneys Atlantis featured in this?

[@russellsimmons5795]

I love the narrator's voice.

[@Jack-Tactical]

How does the shield hold in atmosphere while also allowing slow moving objects like torpedos to pass? Also seems like it should destroy things passing through if it will cut through anything in its path on activations, but maybe that’s just an effect of the initial field being formed.

[@chrcz8346]

Would like to know your workflow. The amount of people here that don’t get how you pump out these vids is mindboggling….or not recognizing the voice thinking it’s you.

[@CaptainFalcon07]

Are they really bigger than a hive city? I mean I don’t doubt it but damn… hive cities are pretty chunky

[@jasonwright8546]

I listened to that line, and I don't think it was referring to Frigates specifically. Some, few, Imperial ships are as big as hive cities.

[@АлександрКоролев-ъ5в]

Hardly, given that hive cities house billions of people and the biggest battleships' crews are a measly 250-300K. The population density should be about the same on average, maybe even denser on the ships

[@jasonwright8546]

@@АлександрКоролев-ъ5в Did some digging, and I have to say the statement is correct. A Gloriana Class Battleship is 20km long, and is larger than some Hive Cities, which can be 4-5km in diameter. The reason why population is so much higher in a Hive City is because the vast majority of the ship is taken up by engines, drives, reactors, Void and Geller field generators, life support, weapon decks, flight decks, and armor.

[@hybrid9mm]

Truth be told bigger, the Arc Mechanicus Speranza is said to be the size of a continent, titans can walk its halls and it is essentially a space born forge world. 40k has a habit of go big, go bigger, go bigger etc because over powered is ridiculous fun 👍

[@captainobvious9233]

Captain then Lieutenants? No Commander or Lt Commanders in between? No Ensigns? Sargents instead of Petty Officers? They need a major overhaul of their rank structure ASAP! 😯

[@NautilusSSN571]

It's directly based off 18th and early 19th century British navy ranks. Ensings and Lt Commanders were made up relatively recently, back then the lowest ranking officers were midshipmen and the rank Master and Commander was given to officers in command of smaller ships such as sloops(eventually the master part would get dropped and they are now just called commanders) Same with chiefs and the division of petty officers into 3 classes, back then there was only one petty officer rank and they actually had major authority over the crew.

[@Manac0r3]

Keep up the great work. 🎉🎉 in the future there is only war, and the grind. ❤

[@tigermafia6251]

My uncle used to work in one of that ship

[@zico739]

It’s not a town, it’s a city.

[@Dj.MODÆO]

Not by WH 40k standards….250k people is nothing when the smallest cities in the imperium have population numbers in the tens of millions and planets have populations in the trillions

[@zico739]

@ 250,000 is the low end.

[@manawa3832]

i've been arguing this obvious fact for years to the point of going crazy but there is an endless supply of fanboys who really do think their precious pew pew humanoid shooters even bulked up on gene steroids are going to decide the galactic war and not the imperial navy. cadia didn't fall because the guardsmen or space marines or titans faltered planetside. it fell because the gothic fleet could not stop nearly the entire black fleet from bearing down on the planet orbit side. a lost 40k ground battle is some cute little story in a novel. a lost 40k space battle is a planet ripped asunder into nice big meaty chunks floating in space.

[@anastasijajelic3298]

Without the new ships and with only the ancient ones, Emporium of Man would seise to exist many many millenia before the "present" events.....

[@johngillan4475]

Some good information thank you

[@diegoviniciomejiaquesada4754]

300 m standard torpedo. For comparison a modern torpedo is Russia's Poseidon with 24 meters.

[@zombieshoot4318]

Surprised they don't have some farms on the ship. LOL

[@nickc1425]

Don’t need it, they just repurpose “resources” on this ship into corpstarch

[@FlawlessEntropy]

1,2 by 8 km seems quite a small space for 250k + people.

[@fulalbatross]

Actually sounds very reasonable. Not considering the number of decks, that gives 9.6 square km, meaning a crew population density is 26000 per square km. There's 13 actual cities in the world today with higher population density than that. And they're not living in buildings comparable in height, to the height of an Imperial warship. If anything, it sounds like there'd be plenty of room for troops and other passengers with such a slimmed down crew. 😊

[@FlawlessEntropy]

@@fulalbatross Hm... You might be right, I didn't take into consideration the vertical space. Still a bit crowded for my liking.

[@fulalbatross]

@@FlawlessEntropy Haha oh yeah, definitely too crowded regardless. Warships still aren't built for comfort after all 😄

[@Maddinhpws]

I can tell you the ship I served at was something around 130m length, 20m height and 15m width. That makes for around 39,000m³. Our ship had a crew of 220 people. Looking at this battleship. The width seems to be roughly equal to the height. Lets say 1km for both just to not only take the largest parts, but average it out a bit. That makes for 8km³ or about 8,000,000,000m³ So in relation to the ship I served at. They have about 180 times the space per person.

[@gundam2jimmy]

22:41 Emperors Flagship. Which game can I play this?

[@wgeorge18]

Battle fleet gothic 2 with skallgrim mod

[@jamesgornall5731]

How did you get Tom Baker to sign on to narrate this?

[@MoonGoblin]

How do you make such huge videos so fast? It's a little unsettling lol Do you actually write and voice these? The amount of time to even get the info together, let alone make it sound good like this has gotta be huge. I'm curious, cuz you operate at like 10 times the speed of even the most prolific and dedicated 40k channels and idk how that's possible 🤔

[@ImperialIterator]

Big team working hard :)

[@MoonGoblin]

@@ImperialIterator Damn, that's still really impressive

[@tictcha612]

Nice video !

[@jack37133]

I wish writers would consult more with experts. There are many who have served on Iowa class battleships, or several classes of aircraft carriers, that would be able to consult on life and how certain systems work. I realize it’s not a 1:1 comparison, but it makes zero sense that the bridge is so vulnerable as in real life redundancy is carefully designed into warships - battleships had armored citadels that housed everything needed to command the vessel during combat even if the entire bridge was destroyed. That’s just a single example of something humans today have figured out since the age of sail that seems odd people in the far future would forget. Another thing would be crew berths - we already have combat ships that carry thousands of personal on and berthing is one of the least concerning aspects - you can hot bunk, or on larger ships set up temporary berths in mess spaces etc. It isn’t necessary for crew to live in squalor on a ship the several miles long even with such a large number of crew - in theory serving in the navy should be the most desirable job in the imperium. I am very new to the lore though and maybe just looking to far into it where it coincides with another interest of mine.

[@BoOb-yd4dk]

What are you chatting about

[@jack37133]

@@BoOb-yd4dk I’m chatting into the void about subtly adding realism where appropriate.

[@miles2378]

Games workshop is in love with 18-19th century royal navy recruiting methods, and living standards.

[@drewcagno]

Long live the algorithm! Number 7. Lol

[@uk6396]

My warhammer knowledge is limited to the loren, never payed the board game. Are spaceships playable in the Board game? Or only ground units?

[@CurtMortis]

Ground troops and vehicles with a few jetpack units and some hovercrafts

[@John_Smith2302]

What technology is used to achieve anti-gravity?

[@toodlepop]

whoa it's asmongold's editor narrating this, FYI.

[@bearfootball1]

Asmongold editor?

[@Pzlineman2017]

Is the tittle wrong? Says frigate but it’s about battleships

[@joshuablakeney2983]

The title is frigate but he talks about battleships and the next rank down from admiral is lieutenant? What even is this video

[@omuploii]

The video says "the next rank under captain is lieutenant" Are you mentally challenged or is English not your native language?

[@OmegaUberDeathbot]

You would think a British man over 70 would be better at Latin. Lol

[@ELRVMBO]

Yo sleep club 💤 where u at

[@magnuskallas]

Listening.

[@bladewind0verlord]

Looked up at 46:30 and saw fucking Nicholas Cage?!?

[@j.r.young2]

Frigate is not battleship?

[@ultramarinus2478]

250.000 of crew? Imperial Iterator, stop lying. Quarter of a mill is a crew for a BATLESHIP, not for a FRIGATE. Those have crews in TENS of thousands. Effectiveness of use of internal space in imperial starships? Have you seen some? They have rooms tens or hundrets of meter high inside. Efectivity of work is laughable too, with all the servitors and slaves from lower decks, who are maually spinning the generator.

[@PandorasFolly]

Secundus

[@kiwiboy1988]

100% based content

[@joe13squirrel]

Bro wtf is this? This is so inaccurate.

[@Lexluther120]

Yes I love this !!!!!!!

[@nachtmacher6237]

😊

[@PerfectionHunter]

02:36 "The creators of this type of battle ship seem to have done everything possible to avoid the useless waste of even a cubic meter of space inside the armored Hull"... and then immediately shows the inside of god damned CATHEDRAL. Why do you even write a lie like that? It's obviously not true and has never been true to 40K that they use their internal space economically in imperial spacee ships. Don't lie like this in future videos, you devaluate the whole video when you do so. I'm not gonna finish the rest of the video now because now i believe the rest of the video is probably gonna be filled with bs like this.

[@metallitrunks1]

Seek help

[@theobtusemongoose3980]

In universe, that isn't considered a waste.

[@DaytonaRoadster]

Wait hol up...maybe its because of some werid ass britbong writers. But this is a battleship or equivalent yes? So you're telling me the entire command staff is a captain...a lieutenant and a dozen ensigns?...😂 Wtf bro, that barely enough officers for a corvette. There should be AT MINIMUM, a Commander/XO, at least two Lt. CMDRS or equivalent and about a dozen more Lts. This ship is hugely undersatffed...its like a boomer is running this ship

[@jasonberger9]

thanks for not using AI art

[@banecaomhnoir2725]

Love it

[@BryinWillis-e8g]

$0

[@Mega_vegeta]

Everyone of your videos is like an hour long but 40% of it is you just repeating the same information over and over. Do you even notice this or is just about making it as long as possible ?

[@xxhowisuxx]

Its just his style. He is meant to be a literal iterator talking to a crowd. So repetition is important. Thats important to remember in his videos. Its not like say. Weshammer, who is just there to talk about 40k.

[@indiomoustafa2047]

Did you accidentally set a loop or something? Theres enough structure here to warrant timestamps. Lol

[@TripleRez]

Can you make the voice not so S’y, the S’s are pain to my ears and there are so many

[@bigearl3867]

120th!

[@marshhawk3997]

First!!!

[@darrinstephenbartlett4435]

Wat kind of evil stuff is this omg gimme a break.i guess reality isn’t good enough.use ur own imagination not others

[@indiomoustafa2047]

Do you are have stupid?

[@adrianmillard6598]

I really don't like your robot voice.

[@dannyelliott5023]

Love your videos but what’s with all the females? Kills the immersion imo. Female captains, come on now..

[@chronus4421]

It is pronounced 'Lieutenant" - No F.

[@BaronVonMott]

Warhammer is a British creation, so using "Leftenant" is technically accurate!

[@rickwalker2]

No, it is being pronounced correctly.

[@The-Music-Archive]

zirq nyueurg nyorgk zirq zirq always has a way to fist my anyul hole-gap.