The Dreaded Black Ships EXPLAINED By An Australian | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@majorkill]

Ironic that the Black Ships are the ones that travel the galaxy, enslaving and killing a persecuted minority Never change Warhammer Idk how to tie that statement in with Geologie so ima just drop my 70% link off here : geolog.ie/MAJORKILL70

[@unbiasedman2752]

Boy oh Boy how the turntables

[@johnnycracker640]

Yay geography

[@grantpaterson1016]

The black ships being okay makes the hatred of the Night Lords a little like dbl standards...😂😂

[@V.B.Squire]

One thing in Watchers of the Throne the high Lords prime minister whatever his in universe title is said emphatically they were never deliberately run down look how institutions decay over 100 years let alone 10,000

[@quarkedbutt3957]

Can you do a video on the Necrons holding the Tyranids off at the east side of the galaxy? I saw somewhere that the Silent King woke up the Necrons to keep the Tyranids at bay.

[@rexlumontad5644]

TTS Rogal Dorn: "Are you aware of the phrase "You are what you eat", Father? After you consumed millions of psychic screaming children."

[@Voltamatum]

TTS Man-Emperor: “ Wow Rogal, way to drop the fucking hammer. “

[@tcrabbe1583]

Sergeant Agun Soric's story in Gaunt's Ghosts with the Black Ships is truly one of 40k's saddest, grimmest moments.

[@randomuser3555]

I remember being upset when he was betrayed, and his last message was him begging for help. Good Man, tragic end.

[@w4rd3n14]

@@randomuser3555 he appears later in The Jago Mission and gets mercy killed by commisar ...Hark? in englisch the book is called only in death.

[@randomuser3555]

@@w4rd3n14 No, close, Hark is the one who took him to the black ships. I still haven't read books 10 and up so if he appears I will be pleasantly surprised. He only ever used the note to try and save his troopers from heretics. He got did dirty IMO!

[@TheFirebird123456]

​@@randomuser3555spoilers...

[@w4rd3n14]

@@randomuser3555 its a later book but Hark and he have a forgifness moment as he puts the suffering now combat syker out of his misery.

[@clintontilden1786]

Majorkill " You can't stop a demon or Psyker with a bayonet charge" Krieger * Defiant and determined muffles*

[@samael2607]

To be fair kiegers would be using shovels

[@karldehaut]

👍😂

[@malcolm_in_the_middle]

A shovel charge is not the same as a bayonet charge

[@jamestagge3429]

Muffles??? Like the kitten??? lol jk shit was funny, but I think you meant “muffled speech,” or “muffled complaining,”

[@trimeerious4349]

Just waiting for the video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would have reacted in Guillimans situation as imperial regent

[@DocLeQuack]

Ah yes the Konrad Kurze regency

[@lUseMyBlade]

Like it's not even feasible, Wtf are Angron and Konrad gonna do? Ferris is DEAD AS FUCK Fulgrim is a Grape Snake Peter turbo would probably decimate the galaxy cuz his toy train broke. Like thats already 5 primearchs down. We know what happened with horus and lorgar since the Horrussy was their attempt at ruling The lion Is back Vulkan would Hug everyone Corax would make screamo music popular again and Magnus is a Schizophrenic Sanguinius would rule just fine and so would dorn We already have king blue berry and I think thats all them done Morty would just fart all over the place. And Jaggatai would just hook up everyone with spacebikes.

[@DocLeQuack]

@@lUseMyBlade They literally said PRE HERESY ya jackass

[@azariyelvarro6271]

Horus: Well, this is awkward. Big E: No sass, now get out there and clean up your mess.

[@Iets12341]

@@lUseMyBladehe’s talking about pre-heresy primarks, so all 18 of them are alive and mostly not yet tainted by chaos.

[@gwilym1991]

The Custodes abandoning the Sisters of Silence to politics is one of the few bits of grimderp lore attached to the Custodes imho. It's so dumb that they just would neglect something as a vital as the Silent Sisterhood and still be called competent.

[@120mmsmoothbore2]

Custodes are just written as dipshits honestly. Yeah sure they're cool and all, but you sat and sulked for ten thousand years while the Imperium slowly burned because you felt bad? Jesus man, I'm sure the Emperor would be so proud of the work you've done. Losers.

[@indrickboreale7381]

A lot of bad cases of neglect happened irl too, so it's not unlikely

[@bobjohnson1633]

Even custodes can be corrupted. Just not by chaos.

[@rexlumontad5644]

Sister of Silence: "Be very quiet. I'm hunting Psykers."

[@dontgetmarried]

A++

[@Malkieification]

That story about the very first psyker plugged in was intense... I was just transfixed as i read it. Have to love the old white dwarf story about the apex twins, even a black ship couldn't stop them.

[@RogueBoyScout]

Read that as Aphex twin. Picturing a 40K version of "Come To Daddy" with Slaneesh replacing Richards face in the film clip.

[@rexlumontad5644]

At least the Psykers get a free trip to Terra where they meet the Man-Emperor of Mankind and either give their power to him or trained as Sanctioned Psykers.

[@Bread-nx9fo]

Man being a sister of silence must suck, you have to be basically in solitude or else you can hurt normal people aside from your sisters, can’t speak, and hunt evil beings forever basically.

[@lokensicarius9347]

Could be worse, could be a underhive serf with no future that works 20hrs a day, covered in chemical burns an toxins induced tumors who eats tasteless food thats in short supply, constant fear of gangs, cultists, an your neighbour Gary eyeing you up like a piece of meat.

[@robertnelson9599]

They don’t hurt non-psykers, everyone just hates them the second they see them.

[@tentativelonginus1036]

Serving the emperor is the greatest bliss mankind can achieve. Living on a world that isn’t a war ridden shithole and dying a peaceful old age death is also good.

[@zhangtony6307]

Well, psykers really aren’t inherently evil.

[@dudeboydudeboy-zj8kd]

Lore on the Imperial Navy, Ecclesiarchy, High Lords, and Mutants please

[@RusselTheFox]

i just finished gaunts ghost only in death last night. the black ship character in that book was heart breaking and almost brought me to tears. black ships arnt "cool grimdark" or "scary gripdark", they are sad/grim grimdark.

[@leovalenzuela8368]

You get it. Way too many dipshits out there would take in that story and just be like “man that was sick!”

[@XXMatt0040XX]

​@@leovalenzuela8368 That's why I *genuinely* judge a person if they like 40k. There's a *large* amount who are just bad people. More times than not I find someone into 40k to just be a mean person who uses 40k as an outlet.

[@beardfistthegoldenone7273]

​@@XXMatt0040XXWhy are you here then?

[@thatonekriegguardsmen6140]

I think that a video on the relationships between the first founding chapters and there most prominent successors would be cool

[@robertnelson9599]

Yeah, although the relations seem to go from “secretly a legion” to “who cares”.

[@timothymaitland2859]

I saw that this was uploaded 4 minutes ago and came here to be the guy to post the "A video on pre heresy Primarchs waking up in Guilliman's shoes and having to rule the Imperium" Meme, but someone beat me by three minutes.

[@rexlumontad5644]

Black Ships: *exist* Psykers: *confused screaming*

[@svahn1]

"Fun" fact: assuming that the 1000 per day number is acurate, as of 999M41 the Emperor has consumed over 3.5 billion psykers.

[@nightazday7988]

I feel like all time travel stories in 40k are like that. Someone finds out how to time travel, try to retcon the Horus Heresy, the inquisition finds out about them, and kills them off. Since 40k runs basically on Murphy's Law that's probably for the best.

[@lokensicarius9347]

Except Revanor, dude went 3 or 4 thousand years in the past an bk to the future using his exhausted powers with probably the safest(by 40k standards) most accurate teleporter/ time machine, what did he end up doing with it? used it to blow up a deamon.

[@soidz4569]

Would love it if GW did a story specifically related to the black ships. Particularly the "average" crews.

[@jvsjoranjvs]

@voxinthevoid?

[@JoshuaAndres]

Anyone else really feel bad for the sisters of silence?

[@Tortle-Man]

Me, that would be me. But not for there in lore circumstances. I feel bad GW doesn’t give them any new models.

[@tannerpeterson6167]

Gw should bring them back or write some novels about them. Stoic psychic warrior women simultaneously hunting and saving psykers would make for great stories.

[@JoshuaAndres]

@@tannerpeterson6167 that would also be a GREAT opportunity to explore themes of loneliness in the grim darkness of the far future

[@3volution636]

@tannerpeterson6167 Not an official work. But "A Vox in the Void" did a great audio fan story on their channel. It's called: "Daughters Of The Abyss" - Warhammer 40K Audio - Sisters Of Silence

[@Bread-nx9fo]

@@tannerpeterson6167they exist they’re just under the custodes for some reason, wish they had new models

[@provenbeat3395]

Majorkill hasn't mentioned the spicy stuff on his patreon in a while. Should we be concerned? Has an alpha legionnaire replaced him?

[@HPkobold]

Oh, oh, NO

[@anzaca1]

Nah. He mentioned in a comment reply on his latest artwork post that the spicy stuff will be returning soon.

[@Gunsaint2000]

Its always a pleasure when you upload majorkill

[@vaporsouls6752]

Majorkill, can you do a video on the imperial guard? Maybe going over a case where the Imperial guard won against a supposedly superior foe? (CSM, Deldar, Neck Rons, Nids)

[@TheFirebird123456]

Are u asking for ciaphus Cain, the hero of the imperium! Bc those are in his books.

[@tahaghassan6004]

​@@TheFirebird123456Cai Cai caiphas cain HERO OF THE IMPERIUM

[@anzaca1]

Literally any battle led by Yarrick or Creed.

[@JIMJCJIM]

Wooooo, new vid on my favourite series and on my favourite space wizard ships

[@sasanahadian2859]

Superb video as always @majorkill. Could you make a video dedicated to the Navigators, the major houses, their politics, relation to the overall Imperium and factions, etc?

[@deanmcintyre4334]

We need a video dedicated to black library of chaos

[@wobblytide]

Yes! Finally! Thank you for, erm, shedding your light on the Sisters.

[@CycloneRecords113]

The lore about the lost black ship from the end of the video is from a short story in the HH book tales of the heresy. Definitely a good read as tales of the heresy also contains the last church which is an incredible read

[@primary2630]

Cool I was wondering this. I will add it to my list lol

[@CycloneRecords113]

@@primary2630 glad I could help

[@Cocarat206]

As much as I tend to prefer old school factions like the Space Marines and Guardsmen, I have been slowly learning to enjoy the Custodes and Sisters of Silence, the more I learn about them. Wild stuff.

[@Rakanarshi2]

That sister that killed the other one spoke about it later on...she spoke! my goodness!

[@Nxla666]

I read the story about the time-traveling Sister, as I recall the Future Sister was killed by the other one because the Present Sister had sipped Lorgars Kool-aid and believed the Emperor was a god and therefore if the Heresy had occurred it was because He had willed it to be so.

[@xMoobyx]

Nothing like a bit of Majorkill in the morning. But just the tip

[@CoreyRive]

Theres a good short story in one of the Warhammer Horror anthologies about some psyker kids and the Black Ships

[@stripeybag6977]

I still like to imagine part of their stealth tech is looking like a van. Day 306 of requesting a Commissar Yarrick Major Mini pls and thank you.

[@thomasmuennich2680]

You are the best keep up the good work.

[@hydrahimself]

The thumbnails are really getting a lot better and I like them. Keep it up majorkill!

[@rickrains7661]

"shit was fucked" was the perfect phrase to describe that time travel mishap

[@withlovefromlightindust591]

Hello Majorkill, Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.

[@PerfectlySaneIndividual6969]

video actually starts at 2:15

[@mirakluaragnos2863]

I do wonder, most large ships like this have entire generations of people being born and life on a Ship. How screwed up would such people be on a Black Ship? An entire Culture dealing with frequent transport of untrained Psykers?

[@w4rd3n14]

Each Black Ship has a Virus Bomb onboard for either Enemy attack or Prison Breakouts.

[@djtodorov]

Thanks for turning me on to geologie, I've been loving the skin routine

[@IC3XR]

Nothings scares humanity, because humanity has already done all the most horrific shit to itself

[@Nobo364]

You are the only 40K creator who has described blanks correctly, that’s a win my friend

[@michaelhowell2326]

Psykers' power levels vary a huge degree from those that can barely use them to full-on wizards, but does blank power vary, or is it just on or off?

[@mysticalseapotato8303]

A video explaining the general map and space terminology of the galaxy

[@ltcinsane]

I've kind of wondered about Blanks since considering how useful they are particularly to one of the Assassin Temples & Inquistion why they wern't shall we say breeding blanks or vat growing them or something. I also have long wondered whether a blank could become a space marine or not ... i suspect not since Geneseed seems to be psychically empowered to some degree.

[@Sarindanvelor]

as i understand the mechanicus has tried that a bit especially to help the culexis temple because blank assassins are very useful but a lot of things with blanks have to be done behind closed doors in the imperium because their very existence disturbs the hell out of people

[@raptorxrise5386]

I think the culexus assassin that was part of the team that took out the black paraiah was a clone. So at least they do it.

[@patrickstar1-f9o]

A Majorkill video on Friday the 13th! Nice 👍!

[@gamerkid2717]

Would you mind doing a dedicated video explaining the redemptor Dreadnought it's different from the other dreadnoughts you touched on it in your Dreadnoughts video but you didn't actually explain us the in-lore differences like who made them?

[@somenerdpng]

Hey Majorkill I just wanna say, despite not using geology you talking about skincare and how good it is has gotten me into skincare routines for myself and it has made me feel 10x better than I use to. Gotta start hitting the gym and doing more exercise, but just wanted to say what you do and have done for many of us cannot be understated! The warhammer videos are cool as well

[@Joshknar]

This makes me wonder: I can not imagine that every strong psycher who posesses combat relevant powers will become a space marine or a member of the inquisition... So, where are they?

[@lokensicarius9347]

The strongest get sent to the Astra Militarum as battle psykers, the unstable or disloyal are fed to the throne, but the rest regardless of capability get sent to the astra telepathica until the Astra Militarum needs replacement.

[@ianyoder2537]

GW internal logic: Pariah: Some one who's presence shuts down the warp. Demon: The physical manifestation of a warp entity. Black Pariah: Pariah squared. Chaos Marine: Super solder who worships the warp and uses the power of the warp. Conclusion: Warp worshiper used the power of the warp to control the most powerful anti warp entity and placed a warp entity inside of it to make it more powerful.

[@Jalabeoth]

Unleashing a banger like this on my birthday. Cheers m8.

[@convolutedconcepts]

Theory: Big E actually died and was reborn. He then went on his merry way. The 1000 souls a day are actually powering the throne.

[@Maysy787]

Love MajorShill, wouldn't have it any other way

[@dekuvisuals9847]

I was waiting for your take on this.

[@BryanLopez-kt9lh]

Please make the next vídeos about the name characters of the silent Sisterhood like Varonika Sulat or Jenetia Krolle

[@marcopeter7581]

3:26 death Korps of Krieg: Challenge accepted

[@alexhulea2735]

Let's hope inquisitor martyr isn't made cannon. It'll be hard to get our minds around the Alpha Pariah

[@transfan962]

Do a video on the chief librarian from each legion

[@venkelos6996]

I'm sure it mostly comes down to several different matters of scale; something GW can struggle with, anyway, but I find it odd that, at least at times, the majority of the Sisters of Silence could all be on Terra, and no issues, but the even smaller number of Untouchables that could survive, and compromise the Culexus Temple, their anti-souls were strong enough to interfere with the Astronomicon, and they had to be wiped out/ relocated to a distant world? Sisters aren't shooting nega-soul blasts, sure, but even the Culexus, I think, need their Animus Specula to do that, and another thing those arcane helms do is suppress their blank auras, so it's odd, too me.

[@danielpetrus9552]

0:51 the nightlords agree

[@legio-IV-Cataphract]

The top ten community wholesome moments would be great

[@Cheeky_Bandit]

Hmm. Between the Imperium colonizing my world or Chaos Colon-izing me. Decisions. Decisions.

[@fcomolineiro7596]

I wonder if you throw an eldar into the astronomicon, how many human souls are those like 150? 500?

[@grayrook8637]

Wait there was an Ecclsiarchy during the Heresy? Also the time line of when imperial Saints start appearing also does not line up with the Big E's death. Lore video on the Imperial Cult when?

[@kylefraser36]

Just for reference the "emporer" has sacrificed 3.6 billion people to power the golden throne, he is 100% a god of the warp, probably the worst one, at least nurgle just turns you into a streamer

[@karldehaut]

Did you hear that? In the name of the God Emperor of Mankind, I condemn you to the mercy of the Emperor, heretics (Wooosh)😆

[@matheusataide3368]

A video about Saint celestine would be nice, you've talked about her in some videos before, but nothing detailed.

[@SatyreIkon]

Majorkill: Presenting not only cool lore in a unique style, but also actually decent ways to get all those sad basement dwellers into tip top sexy super-nerd shape with his ads and recommendations 😂

[@DeanNatheos-eq3hl]

Thank you for the very Informative video on lore .

[@patrickdees5256]

Best way I could describe the time bs. "spacey wacey timey wimey shenanigans".

[@darkendgeek5249]

Was literally just checking your channel when this was uploaded lol

[@marcashman9767]

What would happen if some sisters of silence gave a cheeky lap dance for the emperor?? Wouldn't that fuck everything up??

[@azurebrown3756]

best line of video "That's a bit of a RIP" 😂😂😂

[@Tampenismall]

Do guardsmen need to send to black ships? Like suddenly his psychic powers manifest in the war zone

[@RuinedAtlas]

Video explaining the Webway? Is it a pocket dimension that doubles as a Highway with cities? Is it a bunch of pocket dimensions that are connected by highways? It’s never been clear to me, at least.

[@feralprocessor9853]

Black ships hunt for blanks and hunt for non-compliant sphyckers for batteries for the golden throne.

[@chthulu27]

I'm assuming the general answer is yes, but can psychers work together to create stronger effects and manifest greater powers? If so, had the imperium ever fielded whole squads of psychers (outside of the thousand suns) to wreck people's shit? Or is it simply too much of a risk with chaos?

[@shotgunsandsmoke]

Potential video idea: “Could we see the return of the Space Marine Legions?”

[@jolo6767]

Yaay i was hoping for that video

[@bunnieskitties293]

You guys notice that?? Even Timmy uses Geologie. Wherever he is, deep in the basement of Majorkill, we know even Timmy's face is absolutely gleaming in the reflection of Majorkill's private golden boy collection down there.

[@arthurdotson9579]

AT 2:18, "Untamed SEXUAL power is one of the greatest threats to the galaxy...", it fits so well, lmao!!!

[@RandmGhost]

Off topic I wonder how sangui-angel would be with the butchers nails and anger-ron kept his paladin preset

[@mysticalseapotato8303]

A video explaining general terminology of the verse.

[@TheGrandOracle]

Since it’s nearly Halloween how about some 40K body horror

[@Romczy]

Since Blanks have their souls inverted, wouldn't healing warp-spaghetti power hurt them?

[@Frazoor]

'Shit was fucked' Me - 'You make a good point'

[@Tortle-Man]

Yes, my glorious sisters return.

[@lokensicarius9347]

I don't get why they don't just man them with soulless clones like the gray knights ships.

[@bulfcrog]

Love how an advert hits just after listening to a load of advert for man skincare

[@usonumabeach300]

I find popculture references to those few with extraordinary abilities to be an allegory on firearms. Watch anything regarding superheroes: Batman v Superman, the MCUs civil war arc, anything regarding X-Men or mutants, and you'll see fear of uncommon strengths/abilities. It's all about evolutionary arms races and trying to deny a potential adversary an advantage. Firearms are about as an extreme in disparity in force as it can get on a commonality scale. A 95 yr old frail woman can conceivably defend herself successfully against multiple large, strong, robust men in their prime if she is armed with a firearm and they aren't. Knights were the epitome of martial prowess before the introduction and proliferation of the firearm. These were wealthy nobles who were capable of affording not just the exceptional armor, weapons, and horses that common foot soldiers were incapable of affording, but they also could spend the time to train to have better physicality and techniques. If you're a billionaire, you can afford to spend all day in either a gym increasing your strength or in martial arts training increasing your skill set. Someone struggling with working 3 jobs to put food on the table and is barely able to keep themselves healthy wouldn't stand much of a chance in hand to hand combat against said hypothetical billionaire. Arm both of them and that ability gap shrinks drastically. The witch hunters are the 40k equivalent of the ATF.

[@scottyelder8351]

The Black Ships creep me out I'm sure The Emperor will purge my cowardice !

[@agrowthnerd]

At least we know that if youtube doesn't work out, you can try being a gigolo to support yourself.

[@therealcutman]

Niiiiiice one bro!!!!💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[@3volution636]

Question: Why doesn't the Imperium just sedate the Psykers? or put them in stasis? Seems like the best way to reduce the silly warp voodoo.

[@lokensicarius9347]

Psykers are still vulnerable to possession, perhaps even more so while dreaming an can still use their powers even when out cold, the especially powerful ones can project their souls like a outer body ghost. stasis will probably stop the Psyker but not deamons or warp shenanigans, trazyn learnt that the hard way.

[@Frescko]

Video 42 of asking ‘What if Nykona Sharrowkyn killled Fulgrim’

[@jimmiewd]

"Definitely not witha bayonet charge, I'll tell you that for free" . Hahahahahahahahahaha Just imagining some little big hearted guard soldier running sole towards some chaos psycher beast with all the courage of an ant running at an elephant 😂😂😂😂😂

[@KnightsWithoutATable]

Diet is another key thing for skin. Dairy, fish, or that right plants have to be eaten regularly. You are what you eat.

[@treeeyed8578]

Oh wow early but on another note its nice to learn about something new 40k pretty rare for me

[@enovos3138]

More blank content whoooo!

[@inductivegrunt94]

Every Unsanctioned Psyker gangsta 'till the Black Ships arrive.