THE IMPERIUM'S WORST JOBS - Part 2 | WARHAMMER 40,000 Lore / History

[@Luetin09]

Nearly three years to the DAY since the last Worst Jobs video, which is crazy. This past month has been the busiest for me in the past two years with unavoidable real life stuff. So appreciate everyones patience in the delay - more new stuff soon though, and I want to focus on finishing some of our ongoing series like Dark Origins - then I want to get into stuff pending like Imperial Guard, Sororitas - Marine Chapters and so on - - - As always guys big thanks to your support - ENJOYED? Hit the Like if you so please.

[@TrainsRcAndMore]

Epico o7

[@Prophetofthe8thLegion]

Again you need to be more specific Because the imperiums worst jobs does fuck all to narrow it down.

[@deanm4771]

Mate I need more videos haha but this is my night of painting helped. :) Thanks for the content!

[@shumishumi2059]

I love your videos man, they really helped me take my mind off of some some bad things and provide amazing escapism, not to mention enterntainment. All the best, thank you

[@liamhumber1203]

Will always love your content dude. Big love

[@CrackyCreates]

Worst ork job: kinda bummed out you aren't fighting but it's still good Worst imperium job: literally disintegrate as you carry nuclear material to refuel a ship while dying a horrible death

[@Ballin4Vengeance]

On the other hand: That sounds metal as fuck

[@asfm2]

"You wouldn't want to live in the 40k universe" Yes I do and I wanna be a digganob.

[@stone1432]

Well at least your pumped with anti pain Stims I'd rather do that once then be a servitor

[@atomicbuttocks]

​@@asfm2 i wanna be a mad dok all the fun i could wish for AND i get paid? datz gud tinkin roight der!

[@etherealcat6521]

​@@atomicbuttocks I wanna be a guardsman on a doomed planet to die for the Emperor, as he is the one and true savior of the humankind

[@mattwoodard2535]

Alien: In space no one can hear you scream. Warhammer 40K: In space no one cares if you scream.

[@tonyjones1560]

Somebody might laugh when you scream…

[@gelraldoldo5152]

Or something…

[@kemarisite]

And if they do care, it just means turning down the volume or cutting your vocal cords.

[@mho...]

well, the dark gods might actually care, tbh!

[@DanielWW2]

Gather around, loyal citizens of the Imperium. For the Loremaster speaks about how our lives could be much worse.

[@Toccen]

Glad to listen as always!

[@Gudility]

Praise the Loremaster!

[@jdperfect4565]

@@Gudility For the Lore Master

[@DanielWW2]

@@Zlyxon *_Yes Inquisitor, this heretic right here._*

[@grumpymonk2460]

This made me laugh way harder than it should of

[@kenspiracy2792]

"Golly gee, why does Chaos keep gaining a foothold in the Imperium...it's a mystery."

[@davidkamali3602]

The slack morals of the lower classes, better punish them harder.

[@BattleBrotherCasten]

I'm going to the Tau empire after this. I bet they even have clean bathrooms...hell...bathrooms.

[@Bananaskin101]

Which is why I think Guilliman wants to improve the average Imperial Citizens life. I think he knows the squalor they live in, feeds the Dark powers and to raise the Imperium up, is to break that cycle.

[@Dakooties]

Yeah, he told Dante to rebuild Baal so that the people no longer have to live like savages.

[@carljohan9265]

How to fix problems like this, engineer a solution. Therefore, the imperium's greatest sin is stifling progress and development. Sure, they were set back by several large scale disasters, but they could have re-built if they really wanted to. The mechanicus does share a LOT of the blame on this particular subject.

[@marethyu.t1724]

@@carljohan9265 Don't you dare put the majority blame on the Mechanicum on this, the Emperor fucked it all up with his Treaty of Olympus, and caused the whole civil war on Mars. Many of the leaders Mechanicus were slowly losing their dogmatic ways, and didn't even really care if a Magi was innovating in Mechanicum. However the Treaty of Olympus caused the Fabricator General to betray the Emperor because of how shit the deal actually was. Then boom the Mechanicum was back to its dogmatic ways, and now only a handful of Magi actually innovate in secret.

[@carljohan9265]

@@marethyu.t1724 So basically they are fine with fucking over untold billions of people just so they get to throw a never ending temper tantrum. That's plenty evil in my book.

[@gohunt001-5]

frankly, most of what made the imperium as stagnant and shit as it is from my knowledge, is the ecclesiarchy and the shit that happened post-age of apostasy, no?

[@wookiepoon7170]

I always liked the idea the the machine spirit of a ship would flat out refuse to load a terrible weapon such as a planet killing virus bomb so they have to be loaded by man power alone

[@joaop4585]

Like the ship throwing a temper trantum and saying "No, screw you capt, i didnt get my premium oil then i wont shot shit!"

[@june570]

It's funny how a machine to hold weapons has a better moral compass than it's own captain

[@KalashVodka175]

@@june570 In all fairness that Captain is probably only executing an inquisitor’s orders. And in fairness to that inquisitor, there might not be any other solution to the problem at hand. Letting a planet become a daemon world is essentially inviting chaos to continue infesting near systems. Moral compass is subjective here. Is it worse to let millions if not billions of peoples live to see the moment their world becomes a daemonic hellhole (in which case many will die but many more will survive potentially forever in torturous existence because their new deemonic masters feed off their worship and suffering) instead of simply killing everyone instantly?

[@maltheri9833]

@@june570 Literally would probably be severely disgusted by humanity so easily wiping out billions of lives

[@bobdrooples]

Pah, you shouldn't give AI nukes. It's not morals.

[@LithNeo]

First and foremost, please dont stress out about any release window. I only speak for myself, but I love all of your videos and all of my friends that enjoy Warhammer 40k also enjoy listening to your videos while we paint and build our armies. I hope you have a fantastic holiday season Luetin!

[@Nyctophora]

I agree 100%, though in my case it's ... crochet Take care of yourself Luetin, we'll be here to listen when you post :)

[@untypicalguy7324]

Preach it, brother!

[@mcc_1024]

100% this 👍

[@robisclimbing5359]

So say we all!

[@GeoffreyBronson]

He speaks for us, Luetin

[@sgtrock68]

IDK. I worked in one of the oldest nuclear plants in the US. It felt like you were moving around a cramped submarine. That's because it was built by the Navy using what they had learned from the nuclear Navy. Hence the crawl spaces and hatches. I was there to do a refuel of one of their 2 units, not as a operator under normal operating conditions. During a refuel, every 18 months, per unit, it takes over 1000 contractors converging on a plant from all over the US, 6 weeks to refuel and get maintenance done in places normally NO ONE can go . And this is happening in every nuke plant across the world, whether they have 2, 6, or 12 units. Inside each unit there is a place that is closed and locked during the 18 months of normal operation, called "confinement". This is where most of the work of a refuel will happen, other than work on the steam side which is pretty normal "boiler" type of work. In confinement areas are designated "high radiation" and "Locked High Radiation". This is where the glowing purple/blue water is. The water shields the radiation. If the water wasn't there it would be almost instant death. For this plant, at least around 2007, this plant in Michigan was ranked the worst nuke plants in the US...and I learned why. One task that stands out in my mind but was typical. Something I have done thousands of times in all kinds of chemical plants, refineries, the oil field, and even a Bush's Baked Beans in Tenn, and an ice cream plant in Bakersfield. All I had to do was come up through a hatch in the floor(submarine), that just barely fit my shoulders, then cross a room, maybe 30 feet, to a pneumatic valve, then radio the control room and have them stroke it (yes, that stopped being funny 30 years ago) I would observe the action, record it's data plate, adjust it if necessary, and return the way I had come. 10 minutes in an ice cream plant, I figured a least an hour in this tangled mess and with other...obstacles. It took over 36 hours. 3 shifts. Most of that is paperwork just to start the job over with a new person, LOL insane! The issue was, the heat exchanger taking up one entire wall that I would be crossing in front of to get to the valve was the single hottest, most radioactively HOT, piece of equipment, in the entire plant. Standing in it's presence for more than 5 or 10 minutes would have been suicide and in this room it was IMPOSSABLE to be more than 7 or 8 foot away from it. For weeks leading up to this, as soon as confinement had been opened open, they said, they started constructing a wall remotely, out of lead bricks. Same size and shape of house bricks but probably 20 pounds each. But the wall was only a few courses high...wobbly, and not tight. I was looking at the scene by CCTV from the wall building robot. It looked homemade or stolen from the bombsquad of the 1980s. I would have to low crawl and stay in the "shade" of that way too short and shitty wall, with death looming just on the other side! WTF? I was like "are we all out of freakin bricks? What happens if my butt pops up out of the shade and the 20 very serious men giving me the briefing for this...OPERATION, all turned from the CCTV at once and said, "don't do that". Ok wait a minute, lets talk about this. Well to cut this short, a little, it happened just like they had it set up, don't know WHY the wall couldn't be taller...or permeant! Building this wall every 18 months since the 50s is more nuts than realizing they didn't have robots and probably didn't bother with the wall. Just a diet of more red meat and a few extra Pal Malls and it'll be fine sport! I know my dosimeter, a pin on pager type thing that measures in real time the radiation dose you are receiving, and for the day. It vibrates once every 5 minutes to let you know its on and faster in higher rad. The most I has seen was a buzz every 60 or 30 seconds. In that room it was trying very hard to jump off my collar and get the hell out. In there it vibrated continuously, lead blocks be damned. Not long after the refuel I did, the nuke police(NRC) came in, shut them down, and made them just pretend to run a nuke plant for 2 years before they would allow them to crack anymore atoms. It wasn't bad management though it was just a really old plant, designed poorly, and unable to upgrade due to the nuclear bureaucracy. So there! We all made it through the story, and I'm still alive, for the most part.

[@fleshduke5834]

Great story man

[@joelaugustin6407]

So do you guys carry one of those punch cards for a free sandwich and each punch is a different type of cancer?

[@AnimeFan9833]

Sounds like an interesting job

[@ohno2943]

Thats fucked up

[@Allen667sjja]

Just out of curiosity how much were u even paid for this

[@balonkita185]

In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, there is only job dissatisfaction.

[@henryviiifake8244]

_Meanwhile, in the 21st Millennium..._ 🙃

[@nguyentrunghieu8806]

@@henryviiifake8244 you mean the 21st Century, 3rd Millenium

[@BobelPop]

Unless your job is to be a Dark Eldar's sex slave that the Imperium requires you to be due to whatever the circumstance was...

[@dumaskhan]

you do your job, or you are food. There is no dissatisfaction; if you're cursed enough to even fell that emotion.

[@genericusername8337]

@@henryviiifake8244 Living in the 21st millenium, are you? Communicating with mere mortals in the 21st century? Sounds like somebody is working with the Ruinous Powers... Agents of the Inquisition will meet you shortly. Get ready to answer for your sins.

[@DarthEvilicus]

Internet article: “if you could be any character in your favorite franchise what would you be?” Me, a Space Marine enthusiast: “Do I have to live in that universe?” Internet article: “Yes” Me, no longer a Space Marine enthusiast: “Guess I’ll be a Jedi in the Old Republic”

[@TemmieContingenC]

Honestly, dying with some form of honour as an imperial guardsman wouldn’t be too bad

[@robertnett9793]

@@TemmieContingenC Ah... you most likely get shot, because somewhere on the other side of the planet was some demonic infestation. Not much glory in that.

[@TemmieContingenC]

@@robertnett9793 Anything that doesn't include my epitaph saying "died to a Commissar's bolt pistol"

[@MemeLordCrusader]

@@TemmieContingenC well you won't get an epitaph

[@TemmieContingenC]

@@MemeLordCrusader not unless you’re a war hero. At most your friends might erect a makeshift grave and etch out some words Epitaph or not it’s embarrassing

[@Khalith]

Hey sometimes the plebs of on the ships get a break. In the devastation of Baal novel, some gun loaders did so well that the space marine captain rewarded them with extra rations and an extra 6 minutes of sleep.

[@megabrick1071]

Ah yes the 40k version of a surprise "pizza party"

[@Palemagpie]

Captain's pets

[@Gh0zT-777]

Jeez a whole 6 minutes

[@tbone9474]

The Emperor protects

[@gabrielandradeferraz386]

ahh I too would do an exterminatus for an extra snickers bar and 6 minutes of sleep

[@Ulysses-xl4pv]

Serfs under salamander: “Ok, so your armor should be good, I’ve even polished your visor.” Salamander: Thank you, I can see better now.

[@michalsoukup1021]

Serf under Lamenter:"I have quadrouple checked all your equipment My Lord, it is flawless..." Lamenter:"I know, friend, I will try to bring it back in one piece" gets into a drop pod and heads for a warzone. Serf: "May Emperor watch over you, my lord, and to Warp with 'Orc Snipers'"

[@moondaiandtrashpandadeluxe]

Serf under Space Wolves: one last toast for battle? *with giant tankard* Sw: fuck yeah!

[@klvsyk4708]

@@moondaiandtrashpandadeluxe Serf under Death Guard: "I shat in your helmet!" Death Guard: *Puts on helmet and vomits aggresively* "Perfect"

[@willy4170]

@@klvsyk4708vomits aggressively” 😂😂

[@JarnathanNoooo]

Man.. at this very moment I am taking my morning shit and.. I've gotta tell you.. This made me laugh so hard I blessed my porcelain throne with a round I didn't even know I had in the chamber! May the emperor shine his glorious light upon you and yours sir! Thank you sincerely for the laughs and the gastric stimulation!

[@elcapitan9141]

Haha, never thought we’d return to this series. One of my favorites! Take care Luetin and happy holidays!

[@Gaden6893]

I literally just had the idea to look for the original video just now and here I find there's a new one 🤯🤯

[@jerichokaschnigg3157]

@@Gaden6893 J

[@pnda595]

It was 1 video

[@bobloerakker7010]

I believe there was a serf who sacrificed himself by venting the compartment he was in into space thus saving nathaniel garro from a virusbomb and thus arguably the entire imperium. I forgot his name, but put some respecc on it regardless. 😉

[@FelineMcpusserton]

That my friend was Caleb

[@chriswalker5061]

The Imperium: "We hate mutants!" The Imperium: Causes the type of environment that creates mutants.

[@xzenitramx666]

Well otherwise they wont know about then.

[@crazysithslave]

Yeah we hate mutants.... unless they can enable star travel.... or be used as living weapons.... or control other mutants and non desirables..... but other than that.... we hate mutants

[@Theoxuesu]

@@crazysithslave I think you miss the part about mutation can be caused by environmental factors like ionising radiation or by exposure to the raw psychic power of Chaos. The reason it's a crime to be a mutant in the Imperium is because of its connection to sympathy or worship of Chaos as once you do become a mutant you don't really have anywhere else to go other than Chaos, Chaos cultists even enlist mutants into their ranks and thirdly depending on the nature of your mutation you might be able to go your entire life hiding it, like say you have an extra toe or something.

[@shlomogoldstein3373]

@@Theoxuesu I will find that extra toe

[@6969scoots]

I think it’s funny this is how they operate when most of the imperium is comprised of basically mutants, other than regular un touched citizens and guardsmen

[@jakekilley9037]

your the only person who describes wh40k like this dont ever stop take your time do it right i found you 7 months ago i swear not a day has gone by i haven't listened to a nice story about a world i was so oblivious to before your teachings keep going for the imperium for the will of man !!!!!

[@EvidensInsania]

Luetin does play into the whole narrative that Games Workshop are insanely trying to push these days that the Imperium are the real bad guys when he should know better. The complaining about the lack of tolerance and progressive values in the Imperium is ridiculous considering the situation humanity faces. They are surrounded by different alien species who all want to wipe out every last human and someone simply thinking the wrong things can literally open up a portal to hell out of which demons will flood to devourer the entire world. So the fact he makes out as if these factors are secondary to the Imperium just being mean for the sake of it is nonsense.

[@TheExterminatorGuy]

@@EvidensInsania it’s not that the imperium is mean for the sake of it; it’s that complete authoritarianism isn’t an effective governing strategy. It just isn’t. And a large part of the books and the stories; hell the whole point of the satire of the Imperium of Man is that they *could* be so much more but they cling to authoritarianism, fanaticism, needlessly brutal hierarchy in the name of ideological purity, so on. To say it’s justified because there’s a big threat is to fall not just for the propaganda of the imperium in universe, but for the real world propaganda of oligarchs, dictators, and authoritarians everywhere. That’s why so many get uncomfortable when people see the imperium as the ‘good guy’. And justify its horrible actions with the same vague language of external threat authoritarians have for decades.

[@TheExterminatorGuy]

@@EvidensInsania obviously due to demons a certain amount of centralization needs to occur simply to keep back demon invasions. But the imperium goes far, far beyond that. And at least in reference to real life; demons aren’t real.

[@EvidensInsania]

@@TheExterminatorGuy You clearly don't understand the Imperium since It is not authoritarian. The only thing the Imperium cares about is that each system pays their tithes for the war effort and worships the Emperor. Beyond that they don't care about how each system governs itself so across the Imperium you get all manner of different local governments, some good and some tyrannical and corrupt. But it's the planetary governors who are to blame for this, not the Imperium. Also why on Earth are you saying that demons not existing in real life as a critique of the enforced Emperor worship? We're talking about 40K here where demons are absolutely 100% real.

[@carljohan9265]

Luetin also drops such gems as "titan thralls, can you guess what role they are assigned? It's titans" XD

[@monkewithinternetaccess6107]

The number 1 worst job of The imperium: Being a human.

[@twat9192]

Being a xeno in the imperium would be worse though

[@normmacdonaldliveseason3ep866]

That's deep.

[@charlottewalnut3118]

@@twat9192 not an Ork

[@aymanelkadouri8235]

@@charlottewalnut3118 ork are having the greatest time in their life

[@omegawilliam95s36]

Being anything of worth.

[@deusexaethera]

The Imperium's Worst Jobs: 1) Emperor 2) Emperor's Press Secretary 3) Literally everything else

[@ThechaosInsurgency-1]

The the Emperor is inside "The Golden Throne" all day all century

[@flaviofr4v0]

"If I lived in the 40k universe, I would wanted to be a space marine." Reality: gets turned into a flying skull that communicates through "beep-boop" sounds

[@millenniumf1138]

This sort of deep dive into the 40K universe makes me think that a 40K movie could really have only been made in the 80's. The 80's was a crazy time when filmographers were unafraid to try concepts like a dystopian society where we had no hope for the future, and would take wild and crazy dares to create their vision, even if the special effects or production design weren't up to the challenge. I don't think a modern movie studio would have the balls to make a 40K movie that properly showed how insane and dire and hopeless the Empire of Man really is.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

Oh absolutely. Modern executives would butcher it into a scifi action film about space marines fighting a faction of xenos (but with the Imperium only fighting for its survival and not the genocide of that species in turn). Said enemy faction would be presented in the least interesting way, and in the end what we'd get would be in-universe Imperium propaganda.

[@Lorian667]

Some Jobs come to my mind (sorry if they where mentioned already!) 1. Loading-Canonier-Slave: basically the guys loading cannons on the space ships. They load the gigantic cannons without even seeing the enemy, or knowing whats going on. They are whipped to work harder/faster and go deaf from the noise, blind from the powder smoke and get internal wounds from the blast wave. They only make it a few rounds before the next batch has to take over in order to retain firing speed, as the old slaves slowly bleed to death from internal wounds. 2. Adeptus Ministorum Cleaning Crew: baiscally the guys that have to clean up whats left after the space marines have conquered an objective. Like in the game viscera cleanup crew, they have to clean up the blood and splattered organs, and have to deal with the occasionally monster/wounded left alive. ;-)

[@minhucovu6321]

The first one I always feel a bit unusually stupid? Basically you have to keep thousands of people aboard alive whose only job is pulling shells, and they are not even remotely efficient at the job as they die by the hundreds/thousands every battle? If then ran out of people mid-battle then they couldn't load the cannons anymore? It is just incredibly illogical just for the sake of being grimdark. I know 40k is suppose to be illogical and grimdark, but that is just stupid, when they could simply use some kind of automated crane, hydraulic or rail transport system. But maybe the ridiculousness is the point.

[@dogman9223]

@@minhucovu6321 didn’t the admec hoard all the autoloaders, or is that made up fannon that just got around?

[@dogman9223]

Man I’d play the bejesus out of a 40k VCD, burning the corpses of xenos/heretics/mutants, occasionally shooting whatever is left with a shitty stub rifle (if they even have that) and picking out stray chunks of power armor to either have melted down or given as holy trinkets to menials or something

[@Theoxuesu]

@@minhucovu6321 I think while it's entirely possible for things like cranes, hydraulic systems, or as you say even rail transport to be available and more efficient than standard human workers I think it comes down to the fact that the Imperium has to spend resources on these things when it can just use the masses of humanity to do it for no resource cost save the death of the worker who will extremely likely just be replaced with the next unfortunate victim. Or you could look at it as a way of "cutting corners" on producing warships which are in high demand all around the Imperium. Just my 2 cents

[@UGNAvalon]

I love how these two ideas & the first comment were addressed in this video. xD Great minds think alike!

[@landotucker]

One of the biggest plotholes in 40K is why imperial citizens would want to have kids

[@Storiaron]

Same as on earth. Why are the worstshitholes the most overpopulated

[@willy4170]

Why would be a plothole?

[@landotucker]

@@willy4170 Because there'd be no one alive if they didn't

[@souldanny.]

Probably lack of education as well as just wanting to feel joy for once in a lifetime.

[@rickwrites2612]

maybe they don't allow birth control? you don't need to want kids to have them. you just need to be het, fertile, and have sex.

[@MechMK1]

"but most are depressingly broken individuals, worn down to shells of human beings, through the endless drudgery of their existence. Most would gladly welcome death" - That became a little too relatable right there.

[@noelgebert]

If you need help plz message me

[@desupocalypse]

Indentured crew really gets to me, it's like getting a surprise life sentence to a North Korean death camp. Take a wrong turn and suddenly you get disappeared, your family can only guess at what happened, to toil for the rest of your short life in the bowls of a massive space coffin that makes regular trips into hell. For the sake of the Emprah of course.

[@dansexton676]

It's obviously based on the press gang into the British navy and just as bad

[@federationprime]

Forges of Mars follows the story of a number of bondsmen on an AdMech starship, it’s pretty brutal.

[@logandeathrage6945]

Let us not forget China and the Uyigars that are used as slave labor at this very moment.

[@mightypingas2108]

The great threads of Tzeentch have you all ensnared, mortals

[@thesilverreich3947]

Karl mark's: our imperium comrades for the emperorMarxist

[@butareyoureally1868]

I absolutely loved the depiction of scribes in Ravenor. Really drove home the despair, anonymity, and soul-draining monotony and futility of being just a tiny clerk in an overwhelmingly-huge bureaucracy.

[@BeigeFrequency]

I love how expansive and deep the 40k lore is but sometimes the extent to which it insists on being bring grimdark is just a bit absurd. It kind of breaks the immersion built up by so much of the story. Then we venture into grim derp territory.

[@Gormathius]

That's kind of the point though, to be grimdark to the point of self parody.

[@Knoppersnoskills]

but isn't that also sort of what 40K is about?

[@sylumgand]

@@Gormathius Ive always felt that was a cop out for letting writers write themselves into corners with no way of explaining the how and why. And since the internet's turned grim dark into a meme, they just ran with it.

[@NotSoSerious69420]

@@sylumgand if I remember right a lot of the lore from before it was big on the internet was basically the way it is now. I don’t think 40k inherently takes itself very seriously but is more of a commentary on whatever the given story is trying to convey. Also it isn’t always super grim dark that’s just what it focuses on because honestly I’d rather hear about that than whatever is happening on paradise worlds or better worlds thatre probably just more generically futuristic.

[@HydraulicDesign]

@@sylumgand 40K is the origin of 'grimdark,' it's the point. It was not supposed to be taken 'seriously.'

[@Dakooties]

I would argue that the Schola Progenium is very dependent on which one. The one that Cain teaches at wasn't so bad, and to my knowledge him and Gaunt never said that the ones they went to were hell.

[@mapleflag6518]

It probably depends on how wealthy/influential your family is/was as well.

[@sniper0073088]

Cain also said that they excanged pornography and stuff like that, it seems that really not all places were as hardcore as the one memtioned in the video

[@KROMOSOMIKOMMARI69]

Recently been getting into wh40k finally after years of being scared of the vast amount of things to know, thanks to you ive gotten a fast start. Take care, stay safe and happy holidays.

[@Cthulhuwarlord]

Don’t spend so much time enjoying 40k that you fall asleep on watch. The forsworn are everywhere in markarth

[@jimbodini9512]

40k is the best franchise to be a fan of. Don't want to paint miniatures? There is an entire section of fans who would do that for you. Dont want to play the tabletop? Play the video games. Dont want to play the video games and only have enough money for five or six minis? Kill team is here. Cant paint, dont want to play the tabletop and dont want to play the videogames? Welcome to the Black Library.

[@kotletschabowy4169]

@@jimbodini9512 And if you even you don't care about the lore that much (which is a heresy), you can always find a calm youtuber to listen to while you do something else

[@tbone9474]

Welcome to the richest lore in any fantasy setting

[@dubdan31]

The knowledge you have on Warhammer 40k is so great and for the past few years now I’ve been fully transfixed in it. All the hard work you put into all the projects and videos you do amazes me. While I’m working or at home with the tv on…You’ll be the first to be put on. I think I can speak for everyone here we don’t care about time scales. We all care for is you… and what you bring to us with amazing quality! Thanks!!!

[@morgyrmz]

Your timing is impeccable my man, just winding down for bed. As always, very much appreciated.

[@Luetin09]

The timing impeccable, the subject... unfortunate

[@morgyrmz]

Very true, though thought provoking to listen to either way and that makes it enjoyable all the same. Great work as always man.

[@TheSH1N1GAM1]

Do I get the impression that I’m not the only one that loves to fall asleep to these videos?

[@antonanuell4678]

sleep tight dude

[@danielvlasblom]

@@morgyrmz wadayatalkinabeet?

[@UncleJames95]

It was your first worst imperium jobs video that got me into Warhammer, which has now gone as far as me getting a 40k tattoo. I love hearing about everything in 40k and how futile and gruesome everything is. Would also love to hear about the Tallarn desert raiders as your video on the catachan jungle fighters and others like them are great to listen to. Thanks and keep it up U.J.

[@j.d.1291]

I am a simple Imperial citizen - I see a voxcast of Luetin, I praise the Emperor and listen to it zealously

[@CptLolles]

Get back to work pleb! Those quotas are not gonna fulfill themselves... I'll put the Loremasters Voxcast on the factory speakers, so I expect at least 30% more worker output this shift! Anything less will be considered heretical...

[@TheJibbajabba12]

I've always said that the "G. T. F. O" game looks like a job in the 40k universe.

[@nervmeister]

Pfft. A Wednesday for an underhive gang at best.

[@sammymcsam1576]

GTFO but in a drifting space hulk, now i'd play that

[@nonidentifie5169]

I personally don't feel like falling asleep when hearing your voice, on the contrary: the stark contrast between your calm tone and the horrors of the 41st millennia somehow gives me the feeling of someone living during that time, and considering those said horrors as a mundane, everyday thing. Anyways, thanks for your hard work, and don't forget to rest! I don't mind waiting, if it means getting such interesting videos!

[@bemindful924]

I really appreciate your work, Luetin09. Really love how you also dive into the grim mundanity of W40k, making it almost innocuous in the grand scheme and scope of the deranged, outlandish but wonderful Warhammer universe.

[@Uajd-hb1qs]

The mention of the loading of the macro cannons makes Warhammer 40k a similar kind of sci-fi to steampunk. It’s a form of retro-futurism, the concept of highly advanced technology and futuristic capabilities but built and performed in an archaic and primitive way. Much like a steampunk robot being built out of wood and powered by clockwork, the Emperor’s ships are capable of humanity’s dream of traveling through space but are built like gothic cathedrals, can support a planets worth of life but run like medieval England and have advanced weaponry capable of operating in space but are loaded like an 18th century sail ship. It’s a form of sci-fi I love as it follows an aesthetic that’s more beautiful while setting a universe that’s mysterious and fascinating. It’s constantly makes you wonder what happened. We achieved our greatest goals of traveling space, discovering different planets and being able to inhabit them and find life outside of our own solar system but it’s all done under a violent, religious dictatorship onboard ships that seem to be as reliant on the humans to stay operational as the humans are on them to stay alive. The life we so long to discover is hostile and a constant threat. It’s ying and yang. The pinnacle of human achievement in the most primitive way possible.

[@trunk_slamchest]

whenever i want to feel better about my life, i just listen to Luetin talk about the Imperium's worst jobs.

[@IAIWE]

I don't really know where I should post suggestions, and I do not want to DM you directly, but I feel we need an Ultramarines video from you, because right now they are just a fricking meme and everyone is hating on them for all the attention GW gives them. 😅 Thank you for a new video!

[@mapleflag6518]

I imagine that the Adeptus Arbites is a bad job because you sometimes aid the Inquisition in dealing with chaos cults which means that if you get captured, you are going to have some horrid things done to you.

[@Cruuvo]

You are always right there when I open YT for something to listen to for a shower or start some work, and you uploaded like 8 minutes ago 👌 always immaculate content

[@SeaDog337]

The Navy: 40,000 years of tradition, unimpeded by progress.

[@Kaiserland111]

It's kind of funny that, if the Imperium has millions of worlds with human habitation, and because they don't dictate what form of government must exist on planets, there must be thousands and thousands of worlds with democratic governments, decent standards of living, functioning economic systems, etc. I know we fans don't talk about them, but it's interesting to think that they certainly exist alongside the absolute horror of many other worlds of the galaxy, so there is a place for most fan head-cannon somewhere.

[@crazymanmot]

Yes, but they do dictate the imperial tithe. So even among the places of good standards of living that is probably paid off by them either straight up being heretic traitors that lie in their reports to keep their tithe low or having a slave class of persons worked to death to meet it while others slack off.

[@AntiGamer15]

Right here, inquisitor!

[@noosa187]

@@crazymanmot Realistically most of the things the imperium does only serve to massively reduce productivity and maximize human suffering. Too many shitty writers have been involved in 40k over the years so it can't be taken too seriously.

[@Eloquence00]

@@noosa187 I feel like the reduced productivity and maximized suffering was largely the point. Yes, some of the writing is overly grimdark for the sake of being grimdark edgy. But in a lot of cases the argument could be made that the in-universe tipping point has been reached and the continuous ridiculous failures aren't the cause of their problems but the symptoms. As such, yes, a lot of what the Imperium does is basically pointless; but that pointlessness is the point of writing it in. It serves to show how dire the situation is. The Imperium is on it's last legs, literally held together by scrap, chems, and an absolute faith in a barely living corpse is the only thing that allows them to barely traverse through their oversized empire. They openly scorn technology, only tolerating the Adeptus Mechanicus because they have to. They don't educate anyone because doing so would be both costly and inevitably lead to the kind of intellectual renaissance that causes revolt. The enemies of mankind are enclosing on the Imperium from all sides with new ones coming every day, and the Imperium would rather make enemies with everyone than admit that an alien would make a viable ally. The reduction in productivity is the inevitable result of forsaking education and technological progress in favor of religious zealotry and faith. The maximization of human suffering is intentional - as mentioned in this video - meant to punish those who aren't already a direct part of the system for their "sin" of ignorance. Meant to cleanse their sins of uselessness by making them useful, even if that use is limited and preventable. The imperium can't sustain itself any longer. The emperor is about to die with nobody who can take up his mantle, all because the tech-priests can't fix the throne he has been sitting on for 10k years because the Imperium scorns progress and technology. The million-world empire will be unable to rally any of its resources once that happens. All the effort to maintain order, the atrocities committed to raise their armies, the sacrifices made to defy chaos - none of it will matter. All because over the course of 10k years nobody has even attempted to find a workaround for feeding a vegetable 1000 people a day to keep their transit system functional.

[@vylbird8014]

@@noosa187 It wasn't intended to be taken seriously. Remember that WH40K was originally intended to be satire. The satirical element has been downplayed over the years, but it's still there.

[@jiggermole]

The ultimate end of the phrase "machines can be fixed but humans are replaceable"

[@berserk6855]

Give us IMPERIUMS GREATEST VICTORYS!

[@Tekdruid]

"Evolution has not prepared you to be happy, it has prepared you to survive." In that sense, the Imperium of Man is much like a living organism; it exists not because it _should,_ but because it _can._

[@IymmTR1]

Just want to say it's kinda sad that in the course of 2 weeks I have officially ran out of Luetin09 videos. I have been listening to your videos at work and it has gotten me lowkey obsessed over W40k lore. Thank you and much love

[@RadeFoxxy]

Add the ABorder Prince lore channel, into your work day listening...for more extra content.

[@SkywalkerWroc]

[Job idea] What about all those people working in various extreme enviroments? Sewage divers, people maintaining nuclear cores (without being aware of what ratiation or nuclear powerplant even are), heck: even animal control services get wild if you don't know whether it's cyber mastiff or some insane alien.

[@hayte4650]

By far my favorite notification. Praise the emperor for he protects

[@ElonTusks]

Hi Luetin Just wanted to say thanks for the content , I used to be into 40k when I was younger but your videos have reignited my passion for everything 40k , even managed to pick up a paint set and tactical squad yesterday !

[@soya7955]

Another hour long video. Absolutely superb, Luetin!

[@michaelkimberling7307]

service plumber here glad to see that even thousands of years from now people can't get rid of my profession. :)

[@goldengod5284]

Well it's about damn time! Thank you Luetin for the escapism to a slightly more dark universe!

[@Luetin09]

Alas, an unavoidably busy past month for me, should be a little calmer going forward, emphasis likely on the little.

[@HTWW]

Yeah, *'slightly'* is one word for it...

[@ezragoldberg3132]

40K is the Darkest timeline

[@Luetin09]

@@HTWW There is a continually disturbing overlap lol

[@lukatunjic]

@@Luetin09 Man I am pretty sure I'm talking for a lot of us here. Your health comes first and foremost, take care of yourself and do your thing at your own pace. Not just for us, do it For The Imperium.

[@koke6886]

Lost my grandfather yesterday... its been a rough couple of days and I’ll appreciate sitting down later today and listening to this in peace.

[@BUCKikwi]

I pray that he rests in peace.

[@Cynocehali]

This is definitely one of my favorite topics on your Channel Luetin, I've been reviewing Tower rigging as a new job and realize all the different dangers it poses. This series though gives me better perspective.

[@briarblack7437]

I'd really love to see you do profiles on primarchs. I'm not a 40k guy, I just like your vids, your editing and accompanying art, and the way you dictate things are what entices me about the channel; That being said I know *you* love 40k and I would really like to hear about these mythically powerful guys who really I know next to nothing about.

[@kingscrump]

Something truly terrifying is that there are just so many humans. How could anyone have a system that works to unify such a vast group? Has anyone ever made a video on how to repair the Imperium?

[@Starwarsdude8221991]

I would find it interesting however I feel such an undertaking would be more massive than it a own creation.

[@mydloSA]

It would require like a god-like figure... hmmm

[@enriquegarciacota3914]

You can’t “repair” what’s working as intended. The imperium needs defects, otherwise it would be just another Tau (they themselves are also not perfect, mind you). Since it is massive, it’s defects must also be massive. A little bit of corruption just won’t do.

[@oldstyle5114]

​@@joaocosta3374I think that's Fulgrim, but that was pre-Heresy.

[@michaelmacvittie6977]

The irony of "workers wouldn't stand for that" when we put up with so much we shouldn't NOW.

[@KalashVodka175]

I believe the « kill your fellow progenia friend that you’ve lived with for years » test is usually assigned to those progenias selected for as potential Commissars rather than for progenias as a whole. After all the schola progenium will weed out a lot of candidates through extreme discipline and training « accidents » so forcing progenias who are nearing graduatioj to becoming tempestus to kill eachothers, while undeniably an excellent way to measure their blind obedience, might be a waste of already well trained manpower (unless of course they were provided with, say, an unloaded gun in realistic conditions)

[@YoBen100]

I come back from work tired and just sleepy after helping clients. But the moment I see the new Luetin video, I make my dinner and watch to rejuvenate my energy.

[@trioritydev]

I've always wondered whether this was what the Emperor wanted - or whether he was after something less dystopian.

[@trioritydev]

@@capturedflame Wouldn't put it past him. He's certainly not the most "helpful" of people for humanity

[@lukedodge4811]

@@trioritydev HERETICS!

[@trioritydev]

@@lukedodge4811 Which is rather dangerous !

[@dirpyturtle69]

It’s absolutely not what the emperor intended to happen. He definitely leaned more towards facism but the state of the empire is pretty much the exact opposite of what he wanted.

[@trioritydev]

@@dirpyturtle69 I would hope not, although he was rather ambivalent towards democracies

[@timmorin6657]

The dark gods of the warp feed on negative emotion The imperium: Let's make sure everyone have a bad day.

[@THEHEADOFTHEPACK]

Your stuff is so quality the time it takes is irrelevant - i will always watch it. I watch and fall asleep to your videos, so i end up watching and rewatching a million times, i think it was 4 months before i finished all of the emperor ones :)

[@legobattledroid4110]

Leutin I think this is the first time I have ever made what I assume to be an educated in warhammer opinion, let me just say I love your videos, and would love to see more ork, and weapon themed videos! Anyways, I listened to what you were saying about how one of the imperiums strength is in being able to turn a human into nothing more than an unfeeling robot, and I think a good example of this is in the book "The Watcher In The Rain" where we find out one of our main characters (an imperial Inquisitors apprentice) got put in a situation where he lost his interrogation gear, so he had to use whatever he had on hand to extract information, from what turned out to be his mother... when asked by his master on his feelings, he said it felt like lacing his boots, or polishing his equipment... nothing. the grimdark is a scary place

[@thescarletcultist113]

Given how bad living in it is, I’m shocked that the Imperium doesn’t have a massive suicide rate.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

love how ciaphas kain makes the joke about soylent veridian all the time. like he knows its corpses but its also his imperial rations so he's gonna eat it like the old hiver he allegedly is

[@tacticalpossum7090]

Sometimes the writers of 40k make the universe misery just for the sake of itself

[@jennifervan75]

I'm new to Warhammer and I can't thank you enough for making these videos explaining lore and everything else.

[@coastyfish1]

Looks like Christmas came early. You single handedly have roped me into the lore of 40k. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into these. Happy holidays brother

[@spaceangelmewtwo9074]

I still am partial to the idea that being one of the people who has to actually watch the logs after a mission undertaken by an Eversor assassin has to be one of the worst jobs in the Imperium. Imagine continually having to watch recordings of unthinkable ultraviolence while holding off the whispers of Khorne as you do so.

[@yorsho1974]

I think an episode on the most powerful/largest navy ships would be awesome! They're always incredible to look at, yet I feel like there's hardly any lore to them online/on youtube. On that note, maybe a series on the imperium's largest constructs would be cool as well!

[@sampocalyps3691]

Having never played the table top games, even to this day, my friend told me about WH40K, and that kind of peaked my interest. Upon doing some searching, I stumbled across your channel, and have enjoyed pretty much everything you've ever produced involving this highly loved franchise, GW price gouging aside. Truly, I enjoy your deep dives into these topics, and always look forward to the next one! I'm certainly not picky about what type of video you put out next, as I'm sure that I'll thoroughly enjoy it! I hope you have a great holiday season, and I look forward to whatever you do next!! Thank you!

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

Just what us working joes needed to hear. That all things considered, our jobs aren't too bad.

[@bearsaroundhere]

doesn't mean you shouldn't unionize and fight for better conditions :)

[@JoelRiter]

@@bearsaroundhere yo. Fight for employee ownership and destruction of unnecessary minimum wage jobs.

[@timarchnase6405]

I dont even play warhammer but I love your videos and listen to them every night to fall asleep. I've listened to all of them multiple times and get excited when I see that you uploaded a new one. you're a great story teller with a soothing voice and lots of dedication. keep up the great work, I hope you're doing well!

[@trapezeoidthreelobed7683]

All of them. Part three? This could easily be a 100 part series 😂 Thanks again for the incredible, atmospheric production

[@robomonkey1018]

Nice so Cains imposter syndrome and unknown origin totally makes sense and is possibly common lol

[@DAR_23376]

The navis imperialis equivalent of being a grunt in the astra militarum would be being a indentured worker, who were basically slaves press-ganged from a world's slums or taken en masse from penal colonies to do hard labour like hauling meltaguns and burning their hands off, turning flywheels, and carrying supplies, equipment, and Macrocannon shells. Many were killed from disciplinary action from higher ups and malnutrition as well.

[@sarahts21]

The impression I get, from the various books, is that most hive cities have some form of rebellion going on somewhere within them. Plus sections of the underhive are usually, literal, war zones most places you look. But with the sheer scale of it... even law enforcement might be unaware of it if it's happening far enough away from their jurisdiction. Why don't people rebel? They do. Regularly. But nobody gives a shit because ultimatley it's a city of a Billion+ people and a few hundred thousand rioting... won't be missed.

[@FriezaReturns00001]

Still doesn't actually make life in 40K ideal, just so-so. Meaning it's either the fault of the people's beliefs, the people itself, the imperium's thinking or all the above.

[@sarahts21]

@@FriezaReturns00001 "All of the above". Probably with bells on as well. There is no ideal life to be had in 40K: everything sucks in its own way.

[@sarahts21]

@@capturedflame Yep and that's without anything 'fun' like a Mechanicus enclave going Heretek or a four-armed Emperor cult springing up.

[@shadowrobot7708]

I think the problem is that I would think that most if not all of the workers in these positions would rebel. It wouldn't be a few hundred thousands it would be millions if not billions depending on the hive.

[@sarahts21]

@@shadowrobot7708 You are vastly, vastly, overestimating the "indomitable will of man" and underestimating just how big and in many respects controlled a hive would be. Your phone is monitored, the TV shows are all various type of propoganda and you grew up thinking all of this and your suffering for "The Throne" was a perfectly normal life. The same life your parents, grandparents and great grandparents all had. 40k is 1970's / 1980's UK dystopia filtered through a fascist scifi lens, much the same as Hellblazer is for magic & fantasy. And whilst their was limited discontent the whole country did not, as one, riot. So neither would a whole hive.

[@sonofangron2969]

Nothing to make you feel better about your own disappointing job than a Luetin video explaining how some poor bastard in the grim darkness of the far future has it a million times worse…

[@MourningShark5Gaming]

Like and comment boys and grills, gotta make sure the mans gets the right attention for the phenomenal series he puts out. Keep up the great work man we all appreiciate your hard work and the effort that you put into research/editing for these videos.

[@jonathanthomas8736]

Man, before I even start, thank you. Simply seeing there's a new vid of yours makes my night.

[@cy2002]

Great work as always. I would love some more Tempestus Scion videos. Humanities finest and most bad ass Warriors. I don't think they get enough love and respect!

[@TheRaven-WingGaming]

Brother, stuff like this is what fuels my mind while I'm painting. What I'd like to see though is some stuff like "Jobs" or more tasks among Chaos. This way I can really set into the darkness of it.

[@Trust751]

One of the things that makes WH40K so unrealistic for me is the simple logistical problem of its utilization of people. It's this exploration of a worst possible future where the darkest and most disturbing parts of human nature reign supreme and in realizing that it makes every single facet of life as absurdly horrible as possible. Forget stagnation or regression, I can't believe that it wouldn't just collapse in a couple centuries, if not decades, due to rapid population decline. It has this mentality that it doesn't matter how many people die doing literally anything because they seemingly have an infinite supply of living bodies, all the while I'm thinking about the amount of time and energy needed to make even one person and how frankly unlikely it is that this kind of environment is going to create as many people as it consumes. Even a million planets, each with populations in the trillions, isn't going to be able to sustain itself with things like a high average infant mortality rate (additionally hindered by the increase of defects due to things like chemical poisoning) and almost every job having such ridiculously low life expectancies. Where are these people coming from? None of these planets seem to have environments that would encourage population growth. Even using widespread cloning wouldn't be enough to meet the demands. It's like making a story about a society that subsists solely by cannibalizing their dead, the amount of food you are going to get from one corpse is not equivalent to the amount of food it takes to make that corpse. This is simple maths. This isn't a criticism, really. It's just a reason why I can't take this setting seriously. It'll only every be an overly exaggerated satire for me. It is interesting, definitely. Even if I find much of the actual stories and writing to be rather lackluster, just on the concepts and setting alone it invites creative participation almost as well as other fantasy settings like D&D, but explaining the intricacies of its operation seems to me like a sisyphean task akin to explaining magic as if it really existed as a scientifically accurate system.

[@niina83]

The more lore i learn about Imperium of Man, it feels like the writers of these things are just competing with each other for the nr1 spot for coming up with the most horrible and crazy shit. Shock value loses it's flavor if it's a constant extreme after another. I get it, it's dark, its grimdark. It's horrible.. But the extremes just go overboard to a point where you just start going "oh i'm sure they eat each others brains with straws for nutrients" and you later learn you aren't that far off.. Nothing against the lore but it's just.. too edgy.

[@Brxwn9]

Agreed…like what is the imperium of man even atp

[@Brxwn9]

@@niina83100%

[@VIPOdyssey176]

Getting a luetin video is like having a good day at work. They happen every so often, but they come when they come. I’m good with that and would rather you be ok and happy before you release a video you become resentful for having to rush to a deadline.

[@sciencemage]

Hey LT, I just wanted to let you know how much I love your content. I listen to the Warhammer Videos in Order everyday at work. When it’s over I just restart. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@maxedout9783]

Your videos got me into the 40k universe. The videos are so well structured I feel like I'm sitting through an amazing lecture, so good.

[@wintermute7378]

Cultists in 40k: "man...life sucks...ima make it 1000 times worse and for forever"

[@Swarm561]

The last segment addresses one of my biggest gripes with the 40k universe. Its really hard for me to buy into the idea that any of the governing systems that exist in the narrative would function at all. I mean, it doesnt matter how brutally or effectively you put down uprisings if the alternative to uprising is an equally (if not more) torturous existence serving the imperium. I understand that the almost comical levels of human misery are part of the *vibe* of 40k, but it cheapens the worldbuilding

[@v3listube]

I started watching Luetin harboring a hatred for Chaos but after videos like this I am now convinced that the primordial truth is the only answer.

[@thergonomic]

I would like to propose one worst jobs, or more accurately, duties in the Imperium. Being an Inquisitorial Acolyte, but not just any Acolyte, an Acolyte to an Oblationist Inquisitor. To the Puritans you will of course still be a tool, but at least they are not forging you to be a tool whose worth is measured by how much of your immortal soul you are ready to damn. Well not at least intentionally. Radical Inquisitors on the other will, most of the time, try to hide their true intentions and slowly start to give you a bit rope, and some more rope, and some more rope, once they think you can keep the secret. Until you are as condemned as he is, but you still might have a chance to notice their trickery and maybe bring them to justice. Maybe. Oblationists however will try to craft you into one of their sullied tools and when the taking of the Oath comes you will still be relatively pure. But once you take it, there will be no way to turn around for you have willingly invited damnation upon your soul and joined your Master in his hubris, thinking that such corruption can truly be controlled.

[@UnicornstalkRGaming]

Nobody: Schola *"They'll put you in the wall! Brother."*

[@skinwalkers1516]

"If i were starship refueler, i wouldn't die like that" - Mark Walhberg

[@TreeFrogOnATree]

id love to be one of those floating skull speaker things

[@Gilder-von-Schattenkreuz]

I still think Thrown Geld is effectively nothing else but the Common Soldiers Pay. This would make the most sense really. Large Empires Paid their Soldiers in their own Currency and Generally Forced everyone under that Imperium to Accept that Currency even if they had their own Currency already. Thus making sure that their Soldiers would always be able to Buy the stuff they need when Stationed or Garrissoned somewhere. Often even Dictating a certain Value for that Currency to make sure their Soldiers could live more Comfortably at the Expense of the Vassal or Occupied Country. This Currency especially in Occupied Countries often became more valuable than the Local Currency because of this Dictated Value and because it was good to use in the entire Empire. In Reality this was also used to make sure that Tribute and Shares were properly Valued. And could thus not be Increased in Value or Decreased in Value by the Occupied Country or Vassal as the Tribute and Shares were calculated in the Empires Currency. As such I think that its actually not so much a Super Rare Currency. But is simply the Currency of the Imperial Army and thus is Dictated to be Universally Accepted in the Empire at a certain Value.

[@kriss3d]

Normal scifi : in the darkness of space, nobody can hear you scream. 40K: in the darkness of space, nobody cares if you scream.

[@terrymcdonald7877]

I don’t play warhammer 40k, but these lore videos are so entertaining and well done. Caps off to you.

[@phurian_6560]

This is somehow more depressing than any battle you've covered in 40k Well then again, the daemonculaba is probably the only thing that tops this by far imo

[@meltedicet777]

Luetin… please understand your worst imperial jobs video is what got me into 40k. It’s cool to see it return. Thank you

[@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit]

Luetin: The Schola Progenium is one of the worst aspects in the Imperium for stripping away people's identities. Ciphas Cain: Went through all that and is still part college flunkie and part HERO OF THE IMPERIUM.