Noobs React to Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader - Official Reveal Trailer

[@averagecringefan2964]

The thing you said looked like it was aligned with tzeench is actually a demon engine! Their machines made or stolen by the dark mechanicum and have a powerful daemon trapped inside. usually the only reason a daemon would agree is to obtain permanent presence in reality, this is useful as they have to be summoned into reality (voluntarily or not) by a psyker. the trade off is however that it will be in great pain and discomfort whilst it’s flesh slowly shifts into metal and the metal starts to grow all kinds of disgusting biological components. So I’d say a pretty good deal! Btw way most of them worship chaos undivided.

[@GMineo]

That is sick! We'd heard of them before but couldn't remember what that were called! Not sure why we thought it was tzeench either but it makes sense they are undivided

[@Noisemarine]

The first iteration of 40k was actually called Rogue Trader and was more of a rpg skirmish game dealing with the fighting on the frontiers of imperial space and where most of the lore and history got fleshed out.

[@jacobosaldarriaga4820]

Rogue traders are very interesting in 40K, as they bring a lot of variety to the setting and specially the Imperium, as rogue traders have the "Inquisition vibe" of mixed retinues of followers and individual goals, but unlike the Inquisition, they serve no allegiance to the Imperium and are as the name implies, usually very wealthy and powerful individuals that do kind of whatever the hell they want, they have zero qualms with working with xenos, using Chaos shit or other sketchy stuff, since they do as they please. I think this lady is original to the game, and at first I thought she was an Inquisitor as she definitely sounded and looked very Imperial, but I didn't see any Inquisitorial symbols so she just might be a pretty normal rogue trader or perhaps some sort of nobility. Also I think that mechanical demon thing, was a Daemon Engine, which can be of any God, though that one looked red, scary and pissed off so Imma guess that's a Khornite demon trapped in there.

[@jonttul]

Well you're pretty wrong that Rogue Traders don't serve any allegiance to the Imperium. Rogue traders are nobles who have the right and the duty to explore and bring new worlds to the Imperium. So they are loyal and serving the Imperium, for the most part at least.

[@legionaireb]

Okay, so here's the deal with Rogue Traders. Back when The Emperor began his Great Crusade to reunite humanity, he only had so many ships and armies. He couldn't just send armies out blind in all directions hoping to find lost worlds, so he needed an expeditionary force to scout ahead and find the worlds so that his armies knew what to look for and what they're up against. He gathered together an army of merchants and explorers and he tasked them to go out into the darkness and find the lost worlds. As compensation for their risk, he granted each a Charter naming them official representatives of the Imperium with wide-reaching rights to explore, establish relations with the worlds they encounter, both human AND xenos, and to create mercantile contracts for resources and information, both for the Imperium's interests and their own. Millenia later, the families of these original Rogue Traders still ply the stars seeking lost worlds (it's a big galaxy), new opportunities, and new profits. It's the closest a human can get to being a free being in this grimdark universe.

[@N0-1_H3r3]

A few things: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader was the full title of the original version of Warhammer 40,000, back in 1987. Rogue Traders are these privateer/explorer types who are given permission (and resources like ships) to voyage beyond the edges of the Imperium to discover worlds for the Imperium to conquer, and to reclaim worlds lost to humanity. They're often accompanied by an eclectic mix of warriors and other agents. The original wargame was well-suited to warbands of eclectic warriors led by swashbuckling leaders like Rogue Traders, but it refocused on armies in later editions. Around 2010, another game called Rogue Trader came out: a tabletop RPG where the players would be a Rogue Trader and their retinue of experts, specialists, and advisors, aboard a ship sailing the hostile darkness of unexplored space. The game was set mostly in a region known as the Koronus Expanse, a place filled with unclaimed worlds to plunder, spatial anomalies to avoid, as well as Chaos reavers, Eldar Corsairs, Ork Freebootas, and worse. The press release for the video game says it'll be set in the Koronus Expanse.

[@GMineo]

That sounds awesome! No wonder people are excited for it hopefully it's as cool as it sounds

[@Aenarion28]

Rogue trader is the first edition of Warhammer 40,000. When second edition was released, it was just called Warhammer 40,000

[@GMineo]

That makes sense! Plus I'm sure we can trust the emperor with the history of Warhammer😂

[@elitegamer9310]

Hey, would you guys like to learn a bit about the lore of Starcraft? You seemed interested in it earlier.

[@andreanecchi5930]

You should watch some video about the lore of rogue traders

[@betathoughtexperiment]

You guys literally joined warhammer in both its brightest and darkest hour. Enjoy it. 10 years ago you had the dawn of war trailers and space marine and a bunch of fan artwork today you have everything and ever since destroying the fan community, which is still alive, games workshop has seemed to actually get them to do useful things.

[@GMineo]

Yeah it really seems like they are trying to use the franchise to the fullest right now. It is very unfortunate that we weren't able to experience the time of the fans though