Return of The Interex (And Why They Suck) | Warhammer 40K Lore

[@zodiacstarlegues]

Dude it is not that they didn’t care about Chaos, it is that before they met the Eldar, they knew nothing about it. When the Eldar told them about the Ruinous Powers, the space elves never told them HOW TO DETECT CHAOS CORRUPTION. So we have these people that know about chaos and it’s’ dangers, but have no way of detecting and are trying to find out how to detect and resist it.

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

Yeah but they just accepted that it will consume the universe one day. And if they themselves knew so little about it then why the massive arrogance when talking to Loken

[@Demigodish4o3]

​@livefromtheblacklibrary Can you give us a direct quote from the book? I've recently read Horus Rising and I don't remember that ever being a statement.

[@MrTrees77]

​@@Demigodish4o3yeah I think this kid doesn't have the best media literacy. I read this exact book multiple times...and yeah they knew about it and did try and protect themselves from it....but they also knew that it's part of all like it's in all living creatures with souls....so to get ride of the warp and the entities in them, you would also ride the galaxy of what makes humans, human. What made eldar...eldar....also they didn't have just 30 worlds....they had 30 systems.... SYSTEMS HOMIE. they also state they knew that the kenabrack make them with magic and dark sorcery...that why they are basically a slave race cus the interacts beat them in a war and forced them into compliance....read people read.

[@ancientgearsynchro]

So what you are saying is blame the knife ears for the galaxy's problems?

[@AliceBowie]

When they met the Sons of Horus, they suspected them of being corrupted by Chaos. Eventually they realized the Imperium at large didn't ever know about Chaos yet. The problem is Erebus was there to fuck them over. Nurgle had a grudge because the Interex saved the Kinebrach from Nurgle's influence

[@someguy4405]

"Centaur cybernetics" is among the best phrases I've ever heard, but besides that, I can sort of understand keeping a Chaos object in a contained environment similar to how we keep viruses IRL, although putting it in a museum is asking for trouble.

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

Exactly lol

[@parkermaisterra8532]

*Interex look at Skitarii Serberys Raiders* “Primitive amateurs, get on my level”

[@zeppelincraft1443]

It's crazy these cybernetics can easily fight a Space marine. Like, not a lot of factions can even do that.

[@emzetkin1100]

The dreaded Sagittary...

[@Actionzombie98]

That chaos object wasn't touched by chaos in the first place it was a knife that destroyed biological matter from the inside out but Erebus gave it to a nurgle demon to bless it with nurgles touch to make it deadlier the reason it was in the museum is because it was an old weapon to them that was too dangerous and had security but it wasnt designed for space Marines in mind

[@HalfTangible]

6:06 The impression I got was that the Interex had believed it was impossible to travel the warp and not know of Chaos. So when Garviel Loken reveals he has no idea what that is, the Interex guard he's speaking with is flabbergasted moreso than intellectually superior. (Imagine, if you will, a seafaring island culture that has no idea what a whale is). This could have been a diplomatic breakthrough for the two sides (since if they didn't know what Chaos was there's no way they could be its willing pawns as the Interex thought could potentially be the case at that point) had Erebus not stolen the Anathame at that point.

[@MoaRider]

The idea of 40K getting more non-Imperium/non-Chaos human factions is based as fuck. I hope the Interex comes back more wizened and understanding, like how the Tau started off very naive but slowly caught on to the way things work in the galaxy.

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

IT ONLY WE’D GET A SINGLE FUCKING BOOK ABOUT THE LEAGUES OF VOTAAN

[@johncanavisw]

​@@livefromtheblacklibrary "Let's reintroduce the Squats." "Okay, we reintroduced them and clarified it isn't an April Fools... Now what do we do with them?" "Absolutely nothing." "👁️👄👁️"

[@ksh2596]

True. Some non-Imperial human factions would be nice

[@____-ju6mx]

seems more like a reference to some of Dan Abnetts other works tbh. in the gaunts ghosts novel ''Only in death'' the ghosts find and use kinebrach energy weaponry so there are definitely remnants from that civilization remaining and its definitely not beyond the cognitae to get their hands on such a relic

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

Ahh I see! I didn’t know that!

[@etiennegarant7545]

I don't believe a low profile attitude toward Chaos for a civilization of that size is an unreasonable attitude for the Interrex. Staying aware of Chaos and keeping it somewhat contained in a more passive manner is much safer than any grandiose plan the Emperor set in motion. That backfired spectacularly and allowed Chaos to thrive and grow by orders of magnitude VS what it might have been before the Imperium was a thing.

[@rajukoley9249]

No they suck for doing anything to prevent because chaos would win other wise

[@TheAggravatedApe]

@@rajukoley9249 Nah

[@stephenjenkins7971]

​@@rajukoley9249Chaos literally couldn't do anything on a galactic scale until they got Primarchs and Space Marines. Before that; only a few minor Daemons could ender the material plane.

[@serronserron1320]

@@stephenjenkins7971 That's debatable. The birth of she who thirsts infected an entire advanced civilization and dragged numerous worlds of other races in with it. Yeah Chaos has many ways to infiltrate dreams of ordinary people or show up on mass in ghost fleets of ships lost in the warp.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

@@serronserron1320 Manifesting a Chaos God was a unique event. It's not something Chaos can inflict on the material plane, or that the Imperium could even stop if it wanted to. Chaos manifesting in dreams or corruption is a small-time threat. It's nowhere near the problem of Chaos Space Marines, who don't need that and can reinforce and work in tandem with Chaos to inflict immense damage.

[@magnusthered8652]

I re read the book not long ago i i really don't think the problem was that much the fact the anathame got stolen but the big fire erebus started, even then, the interex wanted to restrain the luna wolves and horus they didn't just started attacking and it is a very logical thing to do, you have an entire army in your city and it catches on fire, you will want to see them surrender their weapons and cooperate to clarify the situation, instead the luna wolves got mad and started acting super suspicious, while everyone except the one guard that spoke to loken still had suspicion that a big armored guy called the warmaster was a khorne follower or something

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

Hmmmm, that’s a fair point

[@DrakusLuthos]

What if there are multiple, splintered factions of Interex now? Some who have developed culturally, some who have regressed, some who hate the Imperium, and some who hate Chaos. EDIT: The centaur cybernetics reminds me of the bull centaurs of Fantasy. Maybe a Chaos Interex faction could be the Chaos Dwarves to the League of Votann's regular Dwarves.

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

🤔🤔🤔

[@flonkplonk1649]

We need a new playable faction! 😆

[@donkface8509]

The Interex augmentations sound like something the Noise Marines/ Emperor's Children would love to play with

[@mrsniffles5417]

Interex survivors wouldn't necessarily have to directly working with the Cognitae for their agent to get hold of their weaponry. Xenos weaponry and technology smuggling is a notable black market in Imperial space. Some of the Interex could be selling weapons to smugglers to fund their own personal plans and not really care who ends up with the weapons.

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

Eh, I dont think there's an issue with the Interex not attempting to destroy Chaos- it would literally mean conquering the entire galaxy/universe which may as well have been impossible.

[@a.r.h9919]

They could have an alliance with the necrons and tau

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

@@a.r.h9919 This video sucks tbh

[@aownbey609]

They didn't go too war because they thought The Warmaster had the sword stolen, they said if he wanted the sword all he had to do was ask. It's because the shit head Erebus stole the sword and the BURNED down the museum district

[@TheLeftie600]

Until the Chaos Legions became a thing, what was chaos's threat to the Interex and how could the Interex go on the offensive? It's like hearing about conflict overseas that you've never seen and can't do anything about.

[@Biotear]

Ngl I'd love to see the Interex return as a sort of minor faction of regular humans with busted technology and a deep hatred of the Imperium. Just normal humans with incredibly powerful weaponry and really good armor, doing minor attacks on Imperial targets. The firepower to do a lot of damage, but lacking tne numbers to ever be more than a nuisance.

[@tarazzzs]

Personaly, I really really REALLY hope that the Interex are still there somewhere, even as a minor faction. And a place where the 'Blue Scout Boy' can hope to get new tech to boost his forces in war against Tyranids. My friend even work on a fan fiction that involves them having hidden colonies all over the Milky Way, waiting for a moment to take down the Emperium.

[@volks2605]

I wish we got some actual art on these age of strife survior factions.

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

Yeah sadly they’re just not relevant :(

[@willogsdon7092]

The Bequin books talk about how objects from humanity's past have a tendency to end up in Queen Mab (this is the reason Bequin knows the lore/language of old Franc etc) so it's likely the kinnebrak beam pistol arrived there as a result of this phenomena

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

Hmmm that’s actually an interesting point…

[@cegesh1459]

I really like the idea off the Interrex. They were prepered to take on Chaos (Kaos). You are flat out wrong.

[@DGneoseeker1]

They just thought the Imperium were aligned with Chaos, right? So claims the wiki.

[@Iworkatthekinkos]

They were concerned that the Imperium was infected by Chaos when they first encountered them before the outset of the Horus Heresy. Neither they, nor the Imperium, knew that Lorgar had already been coerced by Chaos. Erebus (iirc) steals a forbidden weapon from their galleries, which leads them to believe their suspicions about the Imperium.

[@Iworkatthekinkos]

They never dial back the aggression between the two branches of mankind after that.

[@Emeldavi]

I've had a bit of a pet theory for awhile now that the Tau's sudden advancement was due to the Interex, I don't really have anything to support it but it somehow feels more correct to me than "lmao we just united and technology happened".

[@Eddman368]

sounds like his gripe is less with the Interex and more with plot inconsistencies the writers had, cause he's right it's kind of stupid to keep a suspected chaos weapon out in the open even if they didn't fully understand chaos.

[@garryame4008]

It'd be cool to see interex bowmen and centaurs as gue'vesa members of the Tau empire

[@clayandros2038]

The interex can never come back because the loud part of the community would scream and screech about "muh grimdork" at the top of their lungs because nothing isballowd to be good(and i dont mean morality wise) in 40k.

[@KanjoNights]

After watching Majorkill's video on the Interex, I immediately became a fan of them. It's awesome to see an arm of humanity that hasn't been shackled by tech heresy, theocracy, and stagnation. Much like when the Leagues of Votann were introduced. I hope they bring back the Interex. I'm here for it

[@some_shitposting_idiot3023]

Majorshit has zero clue what hes talking about

[@raphaelalexandreyensen6291]

so my mother was a museum director at the smithsonian and well I can tell you umm some native american artifacts are said to be cursed, and happen to be on display, and yes having a shaman deal with it with proper ritual is a thing, so umm if the interex are idiots so are we.

[@martintheaquilanshield3917]

The Interex or Diasorex joining the tau empire would be interesting.

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

That would be cool but I don’t think there would be enough of them left or if they’re in the right part of space

[@PeachDragon_]

Hell no

[@guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285]

The Interex joining the Tau would make a lot of sense; They have similar perspectives to the Tau, the Tau would be able to afford them some protection and their centaurs would bring an interesting cavalry element to tau forces that matches their "mobile firepower" doctrine.

[@iamscoutstfu]

Why would they join a technologically inferior empire? Itd be like the US joining the sentenalese. Morenlike the Tau would join the interex.

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

@@guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285 Or, alternatively, they could be allies.

[@khelom]

Mathematical music exists . It is called "Jazz" Édit : one could argue that Bach is pure mathematic as well .

[@rajukoley9249]

No

[@cinderguard3156]

One of my biggest complaints about warhammer is in how the imperium is the only real human faction. If im wrong then im sorry its a big universe and i probably missed some non imperium or traitor factions but i just think its kind of a missed opportunity that we dont get to play other galactic human powers that survived the old night and the great crusade. I was a little exited when i saw this video at 1st but now im a little disappointed cuz they just sound like eldar in humans clothing.

[@bencox3641]

It has to do with the fact that Space Marines are GWs bread and butter, so not much of a reason to make a new human society when everyone is just going to play Chaos or Imperium anyways. And any other human factions are just going to get pushed to the sidelines anyways like what they do with the Xenos races.

[@Orlando_P]

Canonically in the far away borders of the empire, There are planets/colonies with nearly 0 direct influence of the Administrorum (except Imperial Tithe every 100 or more years) and are more like Self-sustaint / Self-Goverment sectors. Really strange how thye didin't become something like ultramar, a much more Autonomus sector.

[@Mystyx-Sama]

You seem a bit off on this one, but everything else is pretty cool. I would LOVE to have The Interex become a playable faction. Ever since I first read Horus Rising, they stood out to me like a pimp at a wedding, and they were so damn cool the way Dan described them. No idea how they would play, but they wouldn't suck at all. Considering how a lot of their weaponry punched wholes into ceramite armor with ease, how one of them withstood FIVE direct bolt pistol shots without showing outer damage(Loken's POV), and how they incorporate xenos and their tech into their society(Kinda like T'au?), I think they would be a great, shiny alternative to the depressing gothic Imperium.

[@NG-gy6iv]

Like how the tau used to be and should have stayed

[@redknight5318]

The crazier part is that it wasn’t five bolt pistol shots. It was from a freaking *Storm Bolter*, and it took 7 consecutive bolts to punch the armor. It’s crazy

[@matthewstegall7921]

Ahem, Molech, ahem, tsuns being mutants before magnus, ahem, psy titans... ect. Big E totally was flippant with using the warp.

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

Most of those non-Imperium human civilizations that survived the Old Night are super interesting and most of their stories leave you with a bad mouth taste as the permanent loss of even the hostile ones (like the Olamic Quietude) is always a loss of potential and knowledge and a step closer to damnation for humanity as a whole.

[@Alexmax2020]

Could it be that the Constantine Valdor co-opted what was left of the Interex and used them to inflitrate the Cognitae? Constaintine Valdor could not have gotten the spicy tech he has such by stealing it from the Adeptus Mechanicus. Having the remnants of the Interex would be pretty useful to that end. The Interex would no longer risk setting breaking like when the Imperium first found them, since their know how and industrial capacity would have taken a fat L after Horus destroyed them. Also while the interex would deff still be mad at the imperium, the fact that the one who destroyed them also turned on the imperuim killing trillions might make them pin more of the blame on Horus rather then the Imperium; not that they would be all buddy buddy with the Impeirum now.

[@stephenkellett7836]

The Interex didn't just attack because the sword was stolen, Erebus also blew up the whole museum.

[@wilczekkubam]

I want them back as part of an alliance of human and subhuman(?) races that the Empire is not friendly towards. Iterax could turn out to be even more advanced and could withdraw into webwey. They may not have lost, but they decided that victory would be too costly and temporary, so they left at almost full strength. Since we have Votans who are more advanced, we can have more human civilizations after the great crusade and heck maybe they are even part of the Votan league or one of the clans.

[@Ollaniusperrson]

I'd play Interex always liked their story arch. Think GW should expand the universe again by adding in the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy that perpendicularly intersects the milkway along with a few more. Say an expansion fleet had become isolated and returns 10k years later to find the milky way in shambles and their empire ruined

[@rick_bassman]

Calling it now: the interex end up allying with agents of the the alpha legion, implanted in the cognitae to recon the king in yellow.

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

Ohhhhhh maybe!

[@thedubstepaddict3675]

I think their disposition towards chaos makes some sense. They have probably seen pther factions fight it only to become consumed or annihilated. Isnt thst an extremely common line in 40k? Fighting betrayal, chaos and corruption just to end up serving it? Think of Horus, Magnus the red, Mortarion or Huron Blackheart.

[@theconspiracyguy6993]

I love the megamind memes. Your meme making abilities are just as good as your soothing passionate voice like silk or velvet. Honestly your an amazing channel. I could listen to you ramble on and on and 40k lore and id never get tired of it! Cheers and thanks for another interesting and fun video! Your definitely one of the best 40k lore KZbinrs and deserve a place among the top 10!

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

THANKS MAN! Honestly I was worried my voice was too nasal and my first channel was a 40k meme channel so I needed to put the skills to use XD

[@curtisbrown547]

I've always supported the tau, evolving into kind of a "Combined xenos response" to the imperium. I mean it makes sense, there's only so many species the imperium can genocide before all these sentient species start to put their quibbles aside and group together to deal with the larger threat. you see it all the time in real life. I could see the interex, the leagues, the tau, the kroot, and like a dozen other species all kind of combining forces to form a extremely solid "anti-imperium" block in the galaxy

[@iamscoutstfu]

By this logic they would band together with the imperium against the tyranids and chaos, which are vastly larger threats.

[@curtisbrown547]

@@iamscoutstfu band together with the... Imperium? That's.. the imperium would never agree

[@iamscoutstfu]

@@curtisbrown547 They wouldn't really have a choice.

[@curtisbrown547]

@@iamscoutstfu never underestimate the imperiums ability to knowingly hurt itself

[@ethancook3245]

I remember when I read the early Horus heresybooks the interex were really cool especially there duel with loken

[@mumbo_fuze2484]

Hell yeah I would want them back! One of the aspects that always made me love the lore so much was the mystery behind The Golden Age of Humanity. I found it very fascinating how advanced they were and honestly made me both pity and hate the Imperium. Pity because it shows how far they have fallen and hate because in that book you mentioned where the ships AI destroys the Mechanicus there is a part where the GAOT people arrived at the closest planet to warn them about the Cybernetic Revolt. Imagine their shock instead of understanding they find people basically living in the medieval times and were then taken to be interrogated then executed for heresy. Like for a few precise moments The Imperium had people who came from the Golden Age and maybe they could have helped Humanity Advance and become stronger. But no they died because they didn't know about a guy that didn't even show his face yet. The Interex represent something similar in my eyes. An advanced society that shows how despite the cruelty that exists in the galaxy they can still act like civilized being and not drown themselves in bureaucracy and hatred! Also, they were friends with the Eldar and as an Eldar fan that gives them some brownie points in my eyes.

[@micaigneous_01]

It's always nice to see an Eldar throwing shade at other Eldar because those Eldar are idiots lol. Great video Chrono. The laughing God smiled on you for this one.

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

Nobody hates the Eldar more than the Eldar

[@micaigneous_01]

@@livefromtheblacklibrary it's like they became the Skaven of 40k.

[@TheDeadPoolfan]

Now that your channel is growing, have you had any other channels reach out to ya? Id love to see ya join the LoreCrimes podcast with the Amber King, Pancreasnowork and Deadlifts for the dark gods. Always love seeing canadian creators thrive, and its always cool to creators i like collab

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

Sadly I can’t collab much because of my schedule and home situation but I am on good terms with the LoreCrimes guys!

[@TheDeadPoolfan]

​@@livefromtheblacklibraryfair enough, keep up the good work and hopefully you'll be at 100k subs in no time

[@fern1009]

I mean, the Leagues of Votann basically came out of nowhere so at this point, why not?

[@jipowap]

I feel like them linking up to the Tau would be the natural next step for both their societies. In the course of a thousand years they could be an empire of equivalent size to the other forces, using wormhole tech rather than warp lanes to found colonies in the 'dark' patches of the star charts. Make it make sense to have Segmentum Solar forces face off against a Riptide.

[@davidmathieson8661]

A faction made up of surviving fragments of the multitudes of human civilisations that the Imperium of Man has "wiped out", would be cool...better than the Votann at least

[@SSecularScholar]

While I he Anathe is most likely sorcerous, it’s possible it’s advanced Xeno Tech, likely Necron origin, or possible even Old One Tech.

[@christopheraaron1255]

The issue with this theory is that Abnett is very clearly peppering the books with references to his previous works. There is essentially an Abnett-verse that he makes reference to all the time. In Eisenhorn, there's a reference to the Titan comic - which Abnett wrote. In that same sequence, they are throwing flect bombs which are from Ravenor. There's a bit in the first Bequin book where she gets some tea and biscuits that prime Bequin ordered in Xenos. There's a short story called Lepidopterophobia, which has books listed in it that either exist in our world, predict the future, or which don't exist but are hinted at as inside jokes. It's just an easter egg.

[@arcahmwinters70]

Like Peter Fehervari and the Dark Coil books?

[@Novictus]

Well if you like that sort of thing Brandon Sanderson has a literary universe of his own with tons of little bits like that

[@Nyghtking]

A small change that would have made them more understandable would have been this: Have it so the reason they accept that chaos will win is because they're apathetic, and this is because before they ever met the impirium they tried everything they could possibly think of to fight chaos, and none of it made even the slightest dent. So that way when they say they're ok with chaos destroying everything it's because they don't think there's any way to stop it so it's inevitable.

[@friendlyneighbourhoodsunwheel]

I'd very much like to see either the interex or a similar civilization that wethered the age of strife make a lore or table top return. There was this faction called the FAASH in the Horus Heresy that was very similar to the imperium but didn't wish to join, the space Wolves killed off their civilization over the course of the series of books. But it' would be a refreshing angle in the lore in the imperium nihilist where the astronomical cannot reach older civs who have hide start expanding or come into contact with the imperial on that side of the galaxy. They could be xeno aligned like the demiergue/squats/votan are recorded as being or just as fanatical as the imperials are with xeno but with the adoption of tech and it would lead in my opinion a nice juxtaposition of values in a context that shows the imperium as not entirely right about everything but also shows that it's a baseline for existence. Trade between worlds like between a imperial world to a lost civ world to a xeno world could happen as the imperials see it as work around to achieving their goals to cynically use others to achieve the things they themselves are not permitted to do. Kinda like the Shabbos goy who do all the things the orthodox Jewish community don't do on sabbath to avoid God's wrath. It's just a funny idea I had and to me would make the universe a bit more fleshed out.

[@strat550]

This is an amazing channel. I found it with the antiwarp video and it was both coo coo crazy and somehow made perfect sense so I've become a regular viewer ever since. Keep up the good work!

[@anotherconsumer3044]

I think it would be cool to make a faction that's just a mish mash of every xenos race that barely survived during the great crusade and acts as a total folly to the Deathwatch. Would be nice to see some Interrex minis

[@shy_dodecahedron]

Chaos has corrupted the absolute best of humanity. Primarchs, heck, even the robotic custodes, and BLANKS have been corrupted by chaos. So my theory stands as: A: they've been in the process of being corrupted by chaos, and that's why they were apathetic about it, (and those musical instruments reek very much of f-ing chaos) B: the blade was a powerful warp-based tool that'd been corrupted while in the hands of Erebus. And here's an independent shot: they calculated all of the odds, and figured that their technology wouldn't be used correctly to defeat chaos, due to the mechanicus being greedy religious idiots that can't do science; to be fair when mechanicus did find a fully working STC they failed spectacularly at using it for humanity's good. Not to mention all of the dark age level stuff just being hoarded on mars and understand terra. I'm most definitely biased, but I'd go so far as say that the mechanicus are the humanity's biggest problem. 10,000 years and the galaxy's worth of brainpower are more than enough to invent new stuff and to recover the olld, but mechanicus are mechanicus.

[@Tunderpimp]

I always thought the Interex was the tip of the iceberg of a larger empire, and the sword was a trap. Win the war and only lose 30 plants at the far edges of your territory

[@der110]

For me the Interex is more of a plot device to initiate Horus fall. They also reminded me too much of the forerunners from halo and something like that has no place in 40k in my opinion.

[@joemerino3243]

You really don't get tired of all humans being North Korean Religious Zealots with a rust-and-vellum aesthetic?

[@der110]

@@joemerino3243 That's why there's halo or star trek or babylon 5 or whatever. 40k is quite unique in its grim darkness, it should stay that way.

[@JacatackLP]

@@der110that contrast WITHIN the setting is what makes them great

[@joemerino3243]

@@der110 Star Trek and Babylon 5 are far too optimistic and smug to take seriously, and 40k is far too grimdark to take seriously. There needs to be some balance. Krieg corps is too far, people born from tubes and indoctrinated to die and eating corpse starch while sitting in mud is not compelling.

[@myduckisonqauck7227]

​@@der110grimdark is NOT what makes it unique

[@petra4385]

I personally don't find the interex stupid logic wise with the blade as there's things such as AI, machine spirits and other tech we're entirely unaware of that could be used to make the blade. The idea of Keeling over and waiting for chaos to kill everyone is dumb

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

Yeah but it seems like everyone just is

[@petra4385]

@@livefromtheblacklibrary not Keeling over might be a human specific thing that we can flip flop between. Something about the old ones is likely related to that

[@benreed4957]

What if the interrex are gone but the kinabrax are not? Opens up a new race that no one has even seen.

[@manusnigrum]

I think it would make a lot more sense for the Interex to be revealed as having one of their worlds actually survived inside Tau space and be the real reason Tau tech had evolved so rapidly.

[@davidzhang7881]

Think of this. Instead of just the Interex returning; What if most, if not all the human civilizations, including the Interex and the Auretian Technocracy survivors, banding together and forming a mini coalition of sorts somewhere in the fringes, perhaps along with another alternate advanced like-minded human civilization that has been hidden all along? It would be keep the setting interesting, keeping the space magic while also getting to see more ancient tech.

[@zbhudson6831]

Yeah that sounds cool I think it would be really interesting to see the imperium react to them and them being the cost of their actions.

[@jamesthelamenter5464]

The funny thing about the term "King in Yellow" form a horror story by Robert W. Chambers with the idea of the King in Yellow being someone who has gone insane because of forbidden or otherworldly knowledge. Ironically the title for Valdor is kind of a spoiler if you think about it or are knowledgeable with the works of lovecraft. In fairness GW and Black Library have not been one for original ideas. Other than that I think that the interex should just stay as a one time thing simply because the universe is getting pretty bloated with factions.

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

Personally I like to think of that as an homage

[@ast0nv8]

The Interex being actually alive and working for the Inquisition would be a shocker. Especially if they’re working on a way to get the emperor into either a mechanical body or upgrading the golden throne…

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

Perhaps the Interex survived by coming into contact with the Kin/Leagues of Votann with the survivors descendants either becoming Kin themselves and/or some of the original surviving Interex people uploading digital copies of their brains into some Iron Kin androids.

[@WilliamDeemer]

Thank you for treating the Interax accurately. I’ve always thought they’ve gotten the kid glove treatment from most lore channels.

[@dominickdambrosio783]

Leans over to my blade champion. “He’s an angry elf.”

[@tiggytheimpaler5483]

Actually there is a small pocket of interex on a reservation of sorts. But this is also a line of throw away lore so by m42 it may not be the case. Personally I would love it if the reason the Primarchs started coming back wasn't to end chaos/Nids/Ork/etc but because all the different human civs thay got ass blasted by the Empire, or those that have had alliances with xenos or regular interactions start a massive Civil War where the empire actually fractures forcing the xenos races to actually do something other than act as window dressing in lore

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

OHHHHH WHERE IS THE LINE FROM

[@tiggytheimpaler5483]

​@@livefromtheblacklibraryI can't remember 😢 it sucks because I've been looking for it. It's an off hand line about Horus leaving the scraps of the Interex broken on a agriworld somewhere out of guilt or something

[@tiggytheimpaler5483]

I wasn't interested when I read it because I had fallen out if the Fandom at the time

[@Peterblack12]

I started listening to the monologue of the video with all intention to disagree. However, the more and more he spoke the more I agreed. The only thing I Did disagree with was that the interex are said to control 500 planets in the galactic north. Barring that, the interex are dumbasess full stop. Once he made the point about the kinebranch swords on display, that pretty much ends the discussion. It's not that chaos did them in, their own negligence did. When the conquistadors defeated the Aztec, they destroyed their literature. In some of this literature was step by step instructions on how to make poisons, build weapons etc. Now historians still bitch and complain about how "stupid" they were for destroying history. I don't see it all as black and white like that. I think the Spanish knew this was a serious threat and Stent Weren't thinking about what historian would read about them in 200 years they made a decision that at least didn't harm their survival chances. As far as the interex, their nonchalant attitude about anything other than chaos, caused something that wasn't ostensibly chaos to destroy them. They thought they'll listen tu the Eldar cause, well look at their ears. I wish I had ears like that. Now I run around scared out of my wits about something that I don't even know what it is

[@alexblanchard4433]

You should check out the book “ the king in yellow” by Robert Chambers, it’s got a lot of similarity’s to the current 40k king in yellow and gives possible insights to how the story line may go

[@jackthemegagamer3217]

I love all the theories you come up with!

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

Thank youuuuu!

[@historyking9984]

I’d love the Interex as a faction . Their energy bows are extremely powerful capable of punching through even a Space Marine's armour from a range. And their centaur armor would provide great mobility and agility on the tabletop. They also possessed automated drones and technology . And unlike the Tau they have plenty of close range options. The Gleves ,warriors of Interex who used long-bladed perfectly balanced metal spears. The Kinebrach had physical strength as well as the anathames, primitive close combat weapons which the Interex claimed were semi-sentient and capable of recognizing a particular target.You could also give them bonuses against chaos.

[@wumpusmcgrumpusesquire6965]

Yo dude, thanks for the upload. One of the best 40k tubers in the game. Big ups pimp, loved your iron warriors video👍, sorry to hear about your own situation.

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

THANKS MAN! I’m glad you enjoy my inane ramblings🧡

[@InternetSupervillain]

Wow, you convinced me. Ur vids are always well thought out.

[@unclesamlore]

Great stuff man! Loved this one!

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

THANKS BRO!

[@unclesamlore]

@@livefromtheblacklibrary OF COURSE BRO!

[@jamalsodipe772]

Keep going on a roll

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

WOOP

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

WOOP

[@davidragan9233]

From other lore-ist I've heard, say they knew about Chaos but didn't know enough about the specifics when is were they ran into trouble.

[@AzrealMaximus]

Monodominant Inquisitor😮😤 SMASH THE EXTERMINATUS BUTTON NOW! MAO!😡

[@o.w.n.1327]

THIS ISNT ABOUT SPACE MARINES REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

*REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

[@muskrat1983]

I could see the Interex being brought onto the table top as a Killteam faction; a few models, light lore, quasi unique rules. But I seriously doubt GW will bring them back as a fully fleshed out faction.

[@TheRealSamuraiSlade]

I would love to see the Interex come back, I've felt that way ever since I first learned about them 3 hours ago.

[@onewowen]

Interex is a victim of bad writing.

[@clintonclay3158]

Id love to see the Rangdan with the Slaught and their biomechanical monstrosities come in as a tabletop faction with the interex as another new faction. Think of the Rangdan VS Interex box 😂

[@zbhudson6831]

Lol that would be cool 😅

[@clintonclay3158]

@@zbhudson6831 I'd love there to be a Unification wars format too 😭

[@Wolfkin18]

Yes, I'd b delighted to see the Interex come back and actually do something for a change.

[@nobleman9393]

Knowing that a big disaster is coming, but it can be stopped with great effort, but nobody does anything about it because it requires a lot of work and it will definitely not affect me specifically is such a human thing.

[@Orlando_P]

Canonically in the far away borders of the empire, There are planets/colonies with nearly 0 direct influence of the Administrorum (except Imperial Tithe every 100 or more years) and are more like Self-sustaint / Self-Goverment sectors. Really strange how they didn't become something like an autonomus federation but still allied with the imperium. Like Votann trade with Tau.

[@lordcommissarthomas1922]

To sum it up: 20 in Intelligence, 3 in Wisdom.

[@jo_ken]

I like that this is part lore and part rant video

[@morganholsomback4851]

If the interex knew about the webway they could be everywhere.

[@AzrealMaximus]

Adepta Mechanicus: 01010101010011100 (DO NOT EXTERMINATUS! Looking for STC chips😤)

[@vladline1882]

Then there's Custodes operations who will hunt that threatens the emperor

[@mushroommann100]

serious comment tho, Ive been into 40k lore for about 4 years and your channel is slowly becoming me favorite, thx for what you do brother ❤

[@empireschild1]

I think it was a nod. But we can hope. I would love a mini for the deadly "sagittarius" to quote the warmaster.

[@robkemp598]

I disagree that the Interex suck but I'll hear you out

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

👀👂

[@robkemp598]

​@livefromtheblacklibrary hmmm I think your point about them being idiots boils down to the writers not bothering to give them a plan because they were just going to have Horus wipe them out. A fate of many interesting sub factions, they are there for someone else's backstory

[@Dadecorban]

In fairness.....there was a demon sword in the museum.....and it caused them no problems, at all, as far as we know.....until Horus. There's your sign.

[@RunningOnAutopilot]

If the interex were left alone long enough then they would probably have chafed from the fatalist attitude and started to do something

[@eg_manifest510]

they did care quite a bit about Chaos though, the whole reason they turned on Horus is because they panicked and thought that he was on the side of Chaos. If they were so passive to Chaos then they wouldn't have cared when a supposed agent of Chaos was calmly talking to them. They weren't a doomsday cult, they were shitting themselves trying to sniff it out, even writing a book about how evil and dangerous psykers and daemonic powers are

[@LostProblematique]

Th reason why Im hesitant abiut new human factions re-entering the setting is beacuse xeno fans will be in even more of a drought

[@mekolayn]

Damn, so many based takes. I was watching your earlier videos that you made before I started watching you and knew your opinion on certain things, but recent videos just make me honestly respect you as a person.

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

THANKS MAN! THAT MEANS A LOT

[@dlastkatipunero2185]

It belongs in a museum- a famous archeologist (when the movie series were cool)

[@cheeselovingtree]

The interrex said they had a way of putting chaos in its place. I wonder what it was.

[@BarelyDecentProduction]

The look cool, maybe if they're returning Pete the wargamer might make a kitbash of them

[@livefromtheblacklibrary]

YES PLEASE

[@CrimsonTemplar2]

That’d be interesting. Fun video. I’d love to see something about the King in Yellow

[@blackstar567]

You are the best. I appreciate your talent and hardwork. Thank you!!!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉