The Force Commanders Guide to Purging Nurgle - Ep. 20

Ectar and the others give us their thoughts on recent developments after the craftworld mission and the Edict sets out into the expanded sector to stop the spread of four more new strains of plague.

[@nervaaugustus7089]

At around 10:35 you mention that you don't really know how Prognosticars work. Grey Knight Prognosticars are specialized psykers who carefully study eddies and tremors within the warp, using them to detect daemonic incursions by the wake they leave in the Immaterium. They never leave the Augurium upon Titan, but they are capable of attuning themselves to sectors of space across galactic distances, in much the same manner as an astropath. There are specialized systems on Gray Knight vessels that serve as a beacon for Prognosticars, signaling them to attune themselves to nearby areas of the Galaxy (erroneously called an Augurium in this game; the Augurium is upon Titan, not upon the Baleful Edict). They're one part oracle and one part hunting tracker; their job is to detect daemonic incursions before they occur and warn their battle-brothers, allowing the Gray Knights to muster their forces and assault the daemons before they can manifest in realspace. Some Daemons and chaos cultist Psykers can sense the Gray Knights tracking them this way, and thus if a Gray Knight Prognosticar is sniffing around, they have to take steps to hide their efforts. This, naturally, forces them to scale back their operations and use more subtle methods, which by necessity are slower than the overt tactics they'd be using in areas without Prognosticar coverage. This is why attuning a Prognosticar to world reduces bloom spread and makes it take longer for missions on that world to time out; Nurgle's minions have to operate more slowly and carefully in areas where you have Prognosticar coverage, otherwise they'd tip their hands to the Gray Knights and risk disaster. Plague Marines do have apothecaries, all Chaos Space Marine factions do. The twist is that each particular flavor of Chaos has their own spin on it. A Loyalist Apothecary's jobs are to ensure that Marines stay combat-ready, and to retrieve their geneseed if they perish. A Khorne Chaos Apothecary will keep their battle-brothers combat ready... so long as the alternative is failure or defeat; even then, they'll leave the pain and scars as a reminder of failure; they're also not above 'improving' their brothers through tech-heretical augmentic procedures or mutagens. A Slaanesh Chaos Apothecary will keep their battle-brothers combat ready... and ensure they survive whatever extreme sensory bullshit they're excruciating themselves with, such as ensuring that Noise Marines can still hear orders over the vox. A Tzeentch Chaos Apothecary will keep their battle-brothers combat ready... and afflict them with whatever mutation Tzeentch thinks will best serve his plans at the moment. And a Nurgle Chaos Apothecary has his hands full - not just keeping his battle-brothers combat ready, but also afflicting them with whatever bacterium and parasites the Apothecary has on hand, and ensuring they survive the experience.

[@thestic6349]

26:07 So, Gros-Michel bananas do still exist, and are even still farmed in parts of the world (Myanmar, Cuba, Malaysia, Hawai'i, and, in small scale, Florida.) However, Panama Disease took out the largest sources of Gros Michel bananas in Central America, where they were replaced by the Cavendish (or the plantations were replaced by the Cavendish preemptively.) (The reason Panama Disease is so devastating is because the Gros Michel is a seedless cultivar, so the Gros Michel trees weren't just closely related, they were all exact genetic clones! The disease actually spreads through the soil itself, and can lay dormant for decades, and once it got into the soil of a plantation, the entire orchard was a writeoff.) So, rumors of the extinction of the Gros Michel are greatly exaggerated, they're just harder to get ahold of, compared to the Cavendish. The Hawai'i version of the Grow Michel is called the Bluefield! ~~The More You Know~~

[@JadeStarLP]

Why am I learning so much about Bananas in a warhammer 40K game?! This is clearly the work of chaos.

[@thestic6349]

@@JadeStarLP Olesh has beckoned the Yellow Legion: The Banana Brigade. FEAR their use as a measurement of radioactivity!

[@mrpedantic]

Lucky Charms strains!

[@nervaaugustus7089]

Poxus, Mort and Necro; Tentarus, Dolor! A rainbow plague of Nurgle, diseases spread galore!