THE IMPERIUM'S 10 WORST JOBS | WARHAMMER 40,000 Lore / History

[@Luetin09]

Hi guys - back with this before we continue the Grey Knights. Tell me your thoughts about the worst possible jobs in the 40K verse. If you like this kind of format as a series happy to continue it.I also am trying out a different audio post process in this video - let me know if you think it sounds better than usual, or not as good.

[@grantmajoor9928]

I think its great that you focus a few videos on "civilian life" in 40k, as it is a huge part of 40k that goes mostly ignored. Only a few novels touch on it (Eisenhorn and Shira Calpurnia novels. If you google 40k Civilian life you will see that there are a lot of fans asking questions, but not many answers. I would love to learn more about it, to enhance the RPG (Dark Heresy) game that I am running. Who are the people that the Adaptes Astrates and the Astra Militarum put their lives on the line for?

[@Elenrai]

Worst job? Servitor with consciousness. Being trapped in your own body with no control, possibly in agonizing pain, for millennia, doing nothing but a single motion of your hand to pull a curtain aside at 8 AM in the governors palace?? If you gave me the choice between that, summary execution, or a penal legion, id thank the god emperor for a spot in penal legion or even being placed in front of a firing squad!! Imagine a job being so shit you wanna shake the hands of the firing squad, thanking them for doing you a FAVOR.

[@michaelhowell2326]

I'm only able to watch and listen to these videos on a phone so I can't tell any difference in the audio except the new background music which is great. Can't wait for GK pt.2 and have my fingers crossed on an Assassinorum video!

[@Tacoguy1000]

Sensual Armpit The emo elves? The gay lord’s cohort would like a word with you about how badly they treat their captives.

[@Sarymbo]

Hmmm... Life as a Dark Eldar slave? (Although that's not an imperium job per se)

[@iainclark8695]

On organ donor with a regeneration modification. Kept alive and imprisoned to be operated on without anaesthetic over and over and over again.

[@local9701]

Yeah, that does sound bad.

[@hyp3rk1ll_aoc39]

@Martin Booth Those vats would cost money. That body cost nothing.

[@Powaup]

@@hyp3rk1ll_aoc39 damn harsh but true :(

[@fireemblemistrash75]

Justin Owens Keeping a body alive with healthy fleshy tissue requires more than sticking them permanently to a table. Plus I believe a growing them artificially in a vat would be more cost efficient as it would be possible to grow multiple than rely on a few flesh bags. FLESH IS WEAK!!!!

[@arandomindividual4037]

@@fireemblemistrash75 Also, there might be a problem with rejection. If it was artificially made the organ can be modified to be compatible with the patient. With a live donor the organ will probably be useless to most of the patients save maybe immediate family. Though this is 40k so... they might be able to fix rejection?

[@johnskylark1527]

Ork rips off Guardsman arms and beats him with them Guardsman: it could be worse, I could've been taken by the Dark Eldar

[@MrGamer-xd1pf]

*lves

[@yorkeeshinkurea]

Lmao

[@Death_Korps_Officer]

Everything is better than been taken by the Dark Elves.

[@blister_sw2805]

@@Death_Korps_Officer whats so bad about dark elves?

[@Death_Korps_Officer]

@@blister_sw2805 First, they are an extremely sadomasochist race. Second, they had explored every act of pleasure and torture so they could feel everything there's to feel and the same will happen to you if you get yourself caught by one of them. Simultaneously, everyday, and every hour of the rest of your prolongued life. Third, they are bounded by Slaaneesh, so they are "forced" to force you, when in reality, they actually (now) like it, because they have to do unspeakable things to others in other to escape from her/him/it. And finally, every other race *will* kill you, either in sight, or later. Dark Elves *won't* , and the reason for that is because alive you will make an excelent furniture or fuel for their deviations. Either way, your chances are better in the Warp than in the hands of a single Dark Elf.

[@mitchl5220]

Huh so that's why Chaos infiltrates their worlds so easily. Everyone is miserable and desperate.

[@jeffmusyoka1876]

Yes

[@Madhattersinjeans]

At least that's the common trope used in 40k. I'm sure there's plenty of worlds in the imperium that are a bit less draconian and laughably inefficient. And there's probably a good number of military units that aren't treated like "operation human shield". Only the most idiotic military commanders treat their soldiers like tissues. It's basic military tactics. Use the minimum of resources and manpower to achieve the most possible. Burning through those resources makes no sense most of the time. And the mindless slaughter of soldiers for no reason or as a "shield" is also idiotic to the extreme. It's a nice trope to play around with but, I wouldn't put much stock in it. And most examples from our history tend to have a bit more detail about bloody military actions, they're generally a bit romanticised and the facts are ignored in favour of making a story.

[@EasterTurkey]

@@Madhattersinjeans Wars of attrition are the most efficient on the scale of trillions. The US Civil War is a perfect example of this. If you have the superior manufacturing and manpower, then you're better off throwing bodies at an issue until it goes away. Being extremely tactical is time and resource intensive, plus adds more risk to situation.

[@zalekvoris1517]

And genestealer cults

[@Venezolano410]

@Nacho Friend Once the bulk of humanity gets exposed to the Tau philosophy of the Greater Good, it will only be a matter of time before the Imperium falls.

[@valbroderick8156]

I love how you can apply for retirement as a guardsman after 20 years of service, when the average time a soldier fights before death is *15 hours*

[@jakehearn432]

Well if you survive that long fighting all the horrors of the galaxy would you want out?

[@kamenneikoo7854]

Luckily most guardsmen wont even see a fight. The galaxy is wide and some worlds are very isolated.

[@kiryukazuma8089]

Imagine how absolutely monstrous that guardsman would be thou, or lucky

[@jeremyc4811]

@@kiryukazuma8089 his name is Sly Marbo.

[@Voldrim359]

20 years of PSTD that make the one in Vietman looks like a joke

[@myrnacaraig2681]

It's odd how Orks live and die in happiness while the Imperium gets... This.

[@marclytle644]

No Humi... Orks live and die in WAAAAAAAAA!

[@JP-sm4cs]

Orks have it the best by far. You lost an arm bro? Here have one of my spares, now let's fuck shit up! Waaaaaaaagh!

[@shocker6093]

Orks also have an iq equivalent to a box of rocks so even if it would suck to us they are to stupid to realize anything else.

[@marclytle644]

@@shocker6093 Oy humi, dis is my shoota! *holds up a stick that looks lvaugly like a gun and proceeds to fire rounds from it*

[@shocker6093]

@@marclytle644 and it's bullets are painted red because every orc knows "rehd meeeens fstaasaa".

[@Volvith]

"Each man executed is a man who can no longer serve..." Nonesense, even in death, your corpse can serve the imperium.

[@jooot_6850]

you can always serve as a sandbag!

[@Midnight-Starfish]

@@jooot_6850 Or food. People got to eat and we're not gonna let a good slab of meat go to waste.

[@Greensiteofhell]

.. or fuel ;)

[@DocWolph]

@@Midnight-Starfish "Recycled food. It is good for the environment and okay for you." -Body Recyc Services for Mega City One, Judge Dredd (1995)

[@garretth8224]

@@Midnight-Starfish Soylent green is people

[@eriviscale2]

"Yes Inquisitor"* points* " This video right here"

[@muninrob]

"initiate signal quarantine process 27 alpha 4, dispatch exterminatus engine number 42, may the Emperor have mercy upon their souls."

[@NRV0]

@@muninrob Still learning 40k lore( got a year in) but exterminatus....I know that's not good 😂

[@edday4093]

And then he turns to you. Oh bugger

[@eriviscale2]

@@edday4093 only in death does duty end.

[@edday4093]

Erevis Cale true. But no need to facilitate retirement

[@Gabryal77]

If this level of depravity doesn't create a new Chaos God it really makes me wonder what the Eldar did

[@DigiDawgDaddy]

That’s literally all I can think about when watching a video like this 😭 I mean I guess it’s just EVER eldar doing deprave shit at the level of a tech priest. But I couldn’t even imagine WHAT they’d do

[@lordofthecries7478]

That uhhh- fundamentally misses how Eldar were able to do that. Eldar are extremely psychically gifted, that they were able to manifest a god, just like khaine, ceogorach, ynnead etc

[@scromberprofessionalautist1017]

I believe they just did the most depraved shit like 100 million individual orgies inside a pocket of the warp for thousands of years.

[@DJNightshiftMoondai]

They partied too hard

[@wombleofwimbledon5442]

Malice?

[@Crackdalf]

You're speaking alot of heresy for someone within purging distance

[@jeffmusyoka1876]

😂

[@pellejohansen]

a heresy a day keeps the false emperor away

[@thaxtoncook8296]

Purge with holy flame

[@Scottish_Sasquatch]

*sniper scouts dispached*

[@enitsu-142]

Not as heritical as your grammar my dear. That’s a lot of heresy

[@MyJourneyConcludes]

*_"For that weak sack of flesh that you so gleefully mock is no super soldier, no immortal warrior, no creature cursed by chaos like you. He is a man, an imperial guardsman drawn from some forgotten corner of the Imperium to fight for his species and for the safety of the people he loves. He is a factory worker, a farmer, a storekeeper, a father, a brother, a son, a mere man. And against creatures like you, teeming and numberless, powered by the very will of thirsting gods......... He holds the line. He has held the line for ten thousand Years."_*

[@shmee123ful]

MJ C the planet broke before the guard

[@Correon28]

Yet, for the sake of a whole galaxy...20 billion lives are *nothing*

[@Nyctophora]

_Cadia Stands_

[@baker90338]

...and he sometimes even pushes the line forward.

[@barrylucas505]

So there!

[@codysing1223]

Guardsman: "whats the worst job in the Glorious Imperium of Mankind?" Commissar: "Being a sandbag". Guardsman: "Sir?" Commissar: "even your corpse can serve the Emperor" (1000 Guardmen have went to stand by him) ][ The Emperor Protects ][

[@rhorybader4054]

Wall of Martyrs. They build their dead into their fortifications, and it offers a surprising amount of protection.

[@marciofernandes7997]

So that's what guardsman are for huh?

[@codysing1223]

@@marciofernandes7997 The Space marines have to have some cover ;]

[@antonkrieg3708]

Climb that mound of bodies to a dead end. But..why? Because the Emporer tells you to! Foward! Once more into the breach you dogs!

[@lowkeyarki7091]

The emperor protects. But having a bunch of human sand bags never hurt either.

[@luigilain5692]

starship refueler actually looks like a wonderful job for the imperium: 1) they give you good painkillers. It can't be overstated. This is a setting where only the lucky ones get to just die, and full of "you are supposed to be unconscious, but you can feel everything, just not act". But to refuel a starship, if the painkillers fail, you fall to the ground screaming, you are unable to complete your job, and you spill all that precious and dangerous fuel around the ship. So they HAVE to give you actually good painkiller. 2) it doesn't last long. No 20 hours shift, life of servitude, or any of that crap. You are assigned the job, and you get over it in minutes! 3) You get to die in the end. If you are a common person living in the imperium, you probably want to die anyway. Except, if you try to suicide they will take your brain while it can still be reanimated, and make a servitor out of you. You can't even suicide without facing a fate worse than the one you are escaping. Except by being a starship refueler. That's your easy escape from it all. I'd volunteer for the job, thank you so much.

[@sinwithagrin4243]

Well when you put it that way fuck it.

[@Shovel________________]

yeah i was thinking something similar. like, it's a comparably merciful death when all the other options are to die in horrible working conditions or be slaughtered by whatever invading factions, or to live in constant agony and simply not allowed to die in peace

[@OnlyTysonator]

My Boss telling me: It is a great Honor for you to Refuel this Ship. Fulfill this task and be honored. Me knowing i will die: YEHAAA! LETS GOOOO!

[@articcarton752]

mf this wasnt a job fair LMAOOOOOOOO

[@pilotbug6100]

when you put it like that, sign me up. Just one question, is there "life insurance" of sorts for my "pay" like will my family get some extra corpse starch after I am done?

[@Arto257]

"You, as an individual, are an unimportant speck in the grand scheme of the Imperium, and you will do what is required of you. Because that is your reality." Jesus, that's a line and a half I could see in a dystopia novel.

[@darkdogzstudioz]

tbh even appropriate to real life.

[@Cruentus]

@@darkdogzstudioz I was thinking the same. ^^'

[@alphawolf6708]

It exists irl and its called China.

[@nickniehaus1763]

NPC-D0G 5187 not really at all

[@Danneman92]

@ｋｙｓ MILLIONS of Mexican babies? Riiiight. Source?

[@mig1739]

I love warhammer 40k cus there could be lost feudal planets where they are still using swords and bows and knights in chainmail thinking psychic powers are magic and then theres the futuristic hive planets with gangters with laser rifles and robotic limbs all in the same universe.

[@arthurbordet8754]

It's cannon, and it's called warhammer

[@sunjamin99]

Arthur Bordet that’s what he said, Warhammer, what’s your point? Also, you spelt canon wrong.

[@steveaguilar7510]

Arthur Bordet Warhammer fantasy hasn’t been confirmed to be in 40k.

[@ElZilchoYo]

I like to imagine many modern earth like worlds

[@gavinrussell6157]

Or our universe. There could be a war hammer 40k

[@swolejeezy2603]

Honestly being made into a Servitor sounds horrifying like on a “I have no mouth and I must scream” level

[@anuvav9524]

TTS reference identified

[@wpeniche]

@@anuvav9524 indeed a great reference

[@fin2751]

I rarely see anyone who's read that

[@Sara3346]

@@fin2751 I think that's fair, the video game seems more detailed at any rate.

[@Dreadlng]

Great book and game. I could definitely see that as well

[@leftypistolero5983]

I've got a "worst job" for you. Someone probably already stated it, but: a psyker wired into a Warlord Sinister Titan. Gives me chills. A claustrophobic tomb you can never leave, leaching your energy and forcing you to feel so that your suffering can be used as a weapon of war.

[@agentmonika2521]

My cousin is out fighting Xenos, and what do I get? GUARD DUTY

[@biomodified]

This made me smile. Thank you.

[@TheJolle]

Patrolling the Death world almost makes you wish for a Exterminatus

[@praetorian9823]

A lesser known quote in one of the last good Bethesda games that should've been memed as well.

[@__Theta__]

@@praetorian9823 it's really an obsidian game and was meme'd to death. Bethesda's just provided the licensing and game engine

[@praetorian9823]

Matthew Tyler really? I thought Obsidian split after that bullshit bonus that they were screwed out of

[@jdn2772]

Me (trying to get a grasp on the lore): *mind drifts for 0.05 seconds Me (0.05 seconds later) wait... what?

[@rw1693]

James Nash same

[@Simotin]

This!

[@Kthatslife]

It's the way he talks, needs to slow it down a bit and add some expressions.

[@keys72]

My life

[@ricknavarro8181]

Me trying to listen to the Horus heresy via audio book. Have to rewind all the time cause I missed something or they did a time jump.

[@Eric-ff7mu]

Bruh I’m so high watching all these videos and I don’t even know what 40k is but it’s lore is wild

[@brandoncalderon2095]

Same sounds brutal af

[@eliasmontoya7515]

@@brandoncalderon2095 yeah I don't play the games or read into the lore, but I've learned a shit ton by listening to 40k videos as I fall asleep

[@brandoncalderon2095]

@@eliasmontoya7515 lol

[@pkre707]

This channel started me reading the 40k books. Specifically Horus Heresy. They are really entertaining! If you just like sitting back and listening to these videos I also recommend the audiobooks. They are narrated fantastically. Good stuff. I haven’t ever read any novelizations of games or movies, and generally spurned them before, nor have I played any 40k games specifically. But I went out on a limb on these and was really surprised. They aren’t master pieces, but they have very well constructed plots, characters, and of course lore. The Emperor protects!

[@anthonyokeeffe4280]

🤣🤣

[@Nikolai90able]

17:57 I just wanna point out, that this is absolutely not how the Medieval peasentry lived btw, You can't sow crops and harvest crops 12 months a year. They had really long downtime periods during the summer when all they had to do was essentially look at the crops growing, feed the animals if they had them and during winter when there was nothing to look at grow most animals had gotten slaughtered except for breeding stock for next year where you would also spend alot of leisure time. They would spend most of these days working on hobbies or other trades. Like Carpentry, Brewing, Weaving, Forestry and a number of other vocations. This whole view of: "Peasants in the middle ages lived horrible lives all they did was work land and slave for their feudal lords" Is completly skewed, this is also how the different lords and kings worked also, they would for example not go to war during spring or fall. Because if they did, the peasant levies that they had wouldnt be able to work the land that provided their foods. Economy in the medieval eras was alot more complex than most people think it was.

[@jjmichael5059]

Also many peasants had a remarkably well rounded diet, because they need to work on their land and hard labour. TLDR; it's a far cry from the hellscaps view of pop culture

[@Scyzzles]

Yeah, being a peasant on some feudal world seems like one of the best lives you could get as a human in the 40k universe.

[@francescotierno2756]

Surely their life and situation was way more complex than it is shown, but peasantry had no such thing as hobbies, it was always linked to survival, sewing clothes for your children, maintaining the house/barn, pottery because you need to drink from something, fixing... Fatigue was a constant in these people's lives, some moments were just more tolerable, that doesn't mean they didn't enjoy life or couldn't, but never there's any rest in this kind of lifestyle.

[@strings1586]

Exactly. Until the industrial revolution, 90% of humanity were farmers and hunters.

[@Tinfoil_Hardhat]

@@jjmichael5059 Many also DIDN’T have a well rounded diet and mostly ate grain. It differs depending on the time period and area

[@Dev_Six]

"Guess I'll die. Please." -Anyone in 40K universe.

[@MrStephansucks]

Your death is not permitted committing suicide will be considered destruction of an imperial asset marking you as a traitor where you will be executed

[@davecrupel2817]

I wouldn't be suprised if thats what the Emperor wants. So that he may ressurect anew, no longer tied to the Golden Tomb, to bring the Imperium back towards a much more unified age...

[@John-Stark]

@@MrStephansucks ...You going to bring him back as a Servitor just to shoot him?

[@MrStephansucks]

@@John-Stark servitor yes shoot him again no, this would be destruction of imperial property also being a servitor is worse than being shot

[@TheReaper569]

you know in death CHAOS GETS YOU, there is no way in this universe that you get to get out of misery.

[@NitsujKarasagi]

When the administratum is exactly your IRL job description...

[@delboythethird1200]

In Fifteen Hours, there's a chapter of a guy who has to just type numbers into a computer for hours and hours on end. He has no clue what the numbers mean and what the point is to these numbers. Just typing a code of numbers, and another and another for ten hours a day every day. He makes one mistake, and it leads to a company of men being dropped on the wrong world and killed quickly

[@adamohare3174]

Pretty much school for you

[@alchemispark7751]

@@delboythethird1200 this is a story of a man named stanley, stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was employee number 427. Employee number 427's job was simple, he sat at his desk in room 427 and he pushed buttons on the keyboard. Orders came to him through a moniter on his desk telling him what buttons to push, how long to push them and in what order.

[@LizardKingTF2Halo174]

The gobermant appreciates your service.

[@luxsings6871]

Came here to say exactly this...

[@Michael.Virtus]

4:20 - Servitors 6:36 - Manufacturing 7:48 - Guardsman 11:10 - Administratum 13:52 - Psyker 15:19 - Refueler 17:33 - Feudal Peasant 19:01- Agri Labour 21:57 - Eversor Assassin 25:05 - Penal Legion Overseer 26:54 - Unknown Horrors

[@Michael.Virtus]

@Byzantium Thanks

[@fakename287]

6:43 - manufacturing 19:02- agri labour

[@GGorsty]

Thank you for this! This comment needs to get to the top for obvious reasons!

[@donwebber9071]

They need the worst job ever. The poor schlub who has to watch aland notate thenafter action reports of eversor assassins

[@Michael.Virtus]

@@fakename287 Manifacturing was there from the start. Thanks for the Agri Labour - I added it now.

[@fuzzwobble]

The lasgun meme makes some sense in context, but *fans really undersell how lethal a lasgun really is.* A lasgun is far-and-away immensely superior to anything humankind has ever had in our real world. They blow a fist-sized hole right through people instantaneously from immense range. If a foe doesn't die from a vital hit, most normal creatures perish from what's called 'thermal shock'. Furthermore, they have a huge array of different models for different tasks. A humble laspistol kills with a headshot, a lasgun can explode your limb and send it flying off your body, turned right up it creates actual explosions on contact that are devastating. A gatling lasgun nest can clear a killzone in seconds. Lasgun sniper rifles fire their 'round' instantly, ignoring wind and other issues a sniper may otherwise experience. Not only is their ammunition basically just power, but you can charge them with sunlight if you have time, or throw the battery packs in the fire if you're pressed and there's no techpriests to rage at you. The reason people think they're weak is because they're being compared to things like fully-automatic rocket launchers, weapons that disintegrate you on a molecular level, and pistols that ram wire into your body and tear you apart inside. The reality, however, is that while one such brutal weapon is terrifying compared to one lasgun, a lasgun is extremely good at what it does: being used in a formation by many people. It doesn't matter if you're a killing machine that will tank a fist-sized hole through your torso, or even if most shots won't penetrate your advanced armor. When a dozen or more lasguns are pointed at you, as in specifically you, you're in trouble. It doesn't matter if you're a powerful monstrous humanoid from across the galaxy. You're going to die. "The Legionnaire that scoffs at a lasgun has not charged across an open field against a hundred of them." - Maor the Scarred, Siege-Champion of the Scargivers, Black Crusade

[@fuzzwobble]

@MirroredVoid You can't charge a 50 cal by leaving it in the sun, crank a knob, and make it create explosions at impact point with its 'ammo' moving at the speed of light.

[@БеняХандзо]

I don't they are underselling, one part is intentionally playing into the memes because that's what gets you likes/upvotes/views, and the other part is so disconnected from actual game and lore, they take the memes 100% seriously.

[@alksi1]

Yeah and no bullet drop to ridiculous distances.

[@blackslade1524]

Yea but compared to what you face from warp horrors to legions of demons...you might as well be shooting them with nerf darts lol

[@floricel_112]

My favorite quote about the lasgun is (and I'm paraphrasing here) "the lasgun is the greatest weapon in the history of mankind. With it, the imperium managed to wipe out 99% of its enemies....now you get to deal with the 1%"

[@robertfullchim923]

Don't forget, in every hive city someone has to clean the sewer system so it doesn't back up...

[@frostywasp1743]

Oh jesus...

[@hasameli1083]

And it could be filled with abominations, mutants on top of rats and other disease filled pests

[@alvinlaurentius7270]

@@hasameli1083 Don't forget dead bodies. Dead bodies everywhere.

[@420xanatos]

@@frostywasp1743 Only Nurgle can help you there.

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[@deusexaethera]

The worst job in the Warhammer 40k universe is... *drumroll* ...being a Disney Imagineer. ^_^ Seriously though, the worst job belongs to the Emperor himself. Trapped in a zombie body, having no way to communicate with the outside world, connected to highly-invasive life support systems by people who don't care if you still consent, continuously battling demons in your mind, _never getting to sleep,_ and knowing you can't even give up and die because nobody else is qualified to do your job. _For ten thousand years straight._ That's not a noble sacrifice, that is actual hell.

[@Zilegil]

Shawn Elliott you missed out going through intense physic torture meanwhile There's a reason the throne would destroy any mortal mind. It slowly rips your soul to bits

[@deusexaethera]

@@Zilegil: Everything I described falls into the category of "intense psychic torture."

[@theofficialkebaberofarmeni7104]

Dont forget the itching nose

[@nathanaelmaugre7824]

My body is a cage!

[@hdgskevdb]

I think part of what's makes it such a noble sacrifice is that he went to the throne knowing it would be hell.

[@micaelmaya-peinl535]

Soooo people manually carry fuel to the thrusters of a starship and get disintegrated along the way but they can't just make a tube to send the fuel down?

[@aguyhere7945]

Welcome to the Grimderp of the far future.

[@justinlegrand992]

Who needs tubes when you got near infinite basically slaves. It's a waste of time and materials to build a tube.(I'm just joking)

[@cb44868]

@@justinlegrand992 Actually Justin you're not joking. The principle to remember with the Imperium of Man is that human life is the most readily available and easily replaced commodity in the galaxy. Why waste so much as a scrap of metal that could be used to make a bullet when you can just round up a bunch of vagrants from the lower levels of a hive who would otherwise just be more mouths to feed?

[@joethestrat]

I'll be honest with you guys... Kinda sounds like a lot of Heresy going on in this comment...

[@joshuasimons7883]

@@cb44868 still makes no sense. They need a bunch of drugs and chems to do this which is a recource which can't be easier to produce than some metal tube. You would have to place this tube just once while you need an endless amount of drugs for the humans.

[@Rayfireful]

it kinda amazing when you see the level of inefficiency of the imperium, the grim work condition, the reality that they still waging war against everything that moce and the fact they still had to feed the emperor 1000 souls a day, the imperium still able to expand, both from resource and human resource view

[@jamestown8398]

The worst job is probably being The Emperor Of Mankind. In life you had few confidants and no real peers, which must have been very isolating. You had to genetically produce the Primarchs because you couldn't father children of your own. Because of your long life, anyone you befriended or fell in love with died and turned to dust millennia ago. And you had to witness horrors beyond imagining in your time; you had to see mankind rise to great heights in the Age of Progress and then crash and burn in the Age of Strife. Once you revealed yourself, committed yourself to uniting mankind, you would constantly have felt the immense weight and pressure of it all on your broad shoulders. A single misstep would mean trillions die, and if you fail then the entirety of the human race goes extinct. It becomes your mission, your obsession, to prevent that. Then some of your beloved sons betray you, throwing their souls away to the evil powers that want to exterminate mankind. Among those sons who stayed loyal to you, many of them died in this war too. You had to watch Sanguinius, your favorite son, die in front of you! Right after that you had to kill Horus with your own hands. And to keep your Empire and Species alive, you had to sit atop the Golden Throne and endure immeasurable and ceaseless pain for ten thousand years. All the while you see your dream rot under the care of your subordinates, see many of your valued ideas discarded, and indeed you are forced to become a God - something you despise - to give your people hope and to protect their souls from the maws of demons. Your body rotted away to almost nothing, you have no way of knowing if any of this will work.

[@cemjimrocks]

Agreed... when you put it in perspective that the Emperor has been doing this for 10k years, it makes all the other jobs seem not as bad. Normal humans will probably live less than 50 years, servitors will disintegrate after like a 100 at most, and astartes can live a few 100 years maybe if they don't die in battle right away, but not necessarily a bad job. The emperor, on the other hand has not only been alive for about 50,000 yrs (according to the lore), but like you say, in addition had to endure loneliness, betrayal, the twisting of his legacy... and then exist in a near-death state for TEN THOUSAND years which makes all the other short lifespan jobs seem not that bad.

[@kishorraika6411]

damn thats deep

[@jeffmusyoka1876]

And you watched your closest confidant turn to dust on the golden throne. survived assassinations. You guide the entire galaxy through the astronomican that means you can't even sleep. You don't eat anything and you are powered through the sacrifice of psyker souls daily. You are getting weaker and the chaos gods know it so you are more or less buying humanity sometime before the inevitable happens. Then after all this, you can hear a peasant at the edge of the warp shouting "fuck the emperor"

[@tescomealdeal9901]

Jamestown if I was the emperor, to punish the confidants, I would probably disconnect from the thousands of souls you live off of to end my pain and suffering, and begin it a new for those who ruined my dream

[@johnfothergill5372]

Trapped in a body that isn't allowed to die by a gargantuan bureaucracy that feeds on lies that you never intended. Watching your beloved species being dragged further down into misery and dudgeon under the weight of this self-perpetuating monster of a system. It wouldn't surprise me if the Astronomicon isn't actually the Emperor's silent scream of rage.

[@ds2781]

You forgot a worse scenario for the psykers , being put to use by the Grey Knights space marine chapter . They literally use psykers as human firewood to heat the forges that they make their special power armor in . These psykers are forced into the furnace alive and are slowly burned to death as their mind and soul is consumed and the armor cooled in the ashes of their cremated bodies to give it it's special anti-psyker abilities . All it takes is the slow agonizing death of hundreds if not thousands of psykers to make a few suits of power armor , but remember the Grey Knights are mankind's shepherds and protectors , they can do no wrong .

[@Cruentus]

But is this still a "job" in any way? I know he mentioned other psykers just being fed to the emperors soul, but i won't consider this a job either. ^^

[@ZASurvivalist]

ds2781 did I just read heresy?

[@LegendofLaw]

I'm not understanding what the problem is...

[@Peztllence]

This material has been deemed heretical.

[@jeffmusyoka1876]

*ATTENTION CITIZEN. MULTIPLE THIRD PARTY INDIVIDUALS HAVE DESCRIBED ONE OR MORE OF YOUR RECENT ACTIONS AS BEING INAPPROPRIATE*

[@sbraypaynt]

*ATTENTION CITIZEN, MULTIPLE THIRD PARTY INDIVIDUALS HAVE DESCRIBED ONE OR MORE OF YOUR RECENT ACTIONS AS BEING INAPPROPRIATE*

[@falcondestroyer1gaming200]

TTS lol

[@biomodified]

Lol. Thank you.

[@myszorg]

Fuck you im joining Chaos !

[@budowniczypylonow7026]

@@myszorg Did I hear "Joining Chaos"? SMASH IT! *exterminatus bang*

[@MrDoYouKnowMe2211]

@@budowniczypylonow7026 CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICK

[@joethesheep4675]

11:45 - I am reminded of the guy that simply didnt show up for work anymore and wasnt missed for 6 years, while still receiving payment. The company eventually found out but only because the dude was about to be honored for being in the company for 10 years. XD

[@oliverp3545]

What happened after?

[@ひろゆき二十一]

Who was that? Lmao

[@JBo77]

Where did you work?

[@bleflar9183]

10. Living in the Imperium. 9. Living in the Imperium. 8. Living in the Imperium. 7. Living in the Imperium. 6. Living in the Imperium. 5. Living in the Imperium. 4. Living in the Imperium. 3. Living in the Imperium. 2. Living in the Imperium. 1. Living in the Imperium.

[@user-tx4cn6vv3u]

Do you want me to get an inquisitor?

[@Scarecrow964]

@@user-tx4cn6vv3u The emperor is dead all hail nurgle

[@user-tx4cn6vv3u]

@@Scarecrow964 INQUISITOR!

[@theholyinquisition389]

No one expects the Inquisition

[@crocsin4wd]

@@theholyinquisition389 It's all fun and games till someone accuses you of heresy

[@ReaverLordTonus]

Something to consider, the imperial guard has a rank structure meaning officers are basically guardsmen who outlived their fellow recruits. Fear the old man in a profession where men die young.

[@wtfisthis7795]

Epic

[@juliancalero8012]

And they have to be smart in sacrificing their charges to win against certain foes

[@Inactive_Account29283]

That depends because for some like vostroyan firstborn they conscript firstborn nobles instead of military veteran

[@hungryburger1170]

They lasted one day on the job and got the promotion. Granted, it's 50/50 on a promotion or getting executed for a quota

[@ULTRAINFINITEJUSTICE]

nah, there's nepotism, merit, schola, a dude making you a colonel cause he likes the cut of your jib. the whole gamut really.

[@ripwolfe]

You touched on the most fascinating part of the Imperium - the abyssal gap between those worlds that are verdant and "modern" and those worlds where humans are not chattel, barely slaves, nor even considered beasts of burden. Rather, they are simply recyclable, disposable, opposable thumbed tools. The worst nightmare for an individual on the latter worlds has to be finding out that the humans on the former worlds live in relative lives of luxury -- and they will *never* have a chance to escape their haunted dream.

[@jimbeauchamp1135]

There's tens if not hundreds of thousands of perfectly pleasant worlds comparable to modern Earth in the Imperium. The books tend to focus on the worst shitholes in the galaxy for obvious reasons. Which leads to videos like this that make people think everything is horrible in the Imperium. Trillions of people live peaceful lives and have their rights respected, it's not all doom and gloom.

[@jimbeauchamp1135]

@Soviet who Cuts Well if the Imperium goes down then humanity falls to Chaos which is sooooooo much worse. As.....non-ideal as the Imperium may be it's still better than every other possibility, especially considering the most likely alternative is a humanity united under the Ruinous Powers. I believe there's a prophecy to that effect, that Chaos eventually wins. You think life sucks under the Imperium? It would suck a lot worse under literal demons from hell.

[@Maddinhpws]

@@jimbeauchamp1135 Yeah, it has to be. Like from a logical point of view, if the entire imperium would act like this, they would never get shit done. Just imagine, like nobody going to school, nobody learning their actual trade in university and similar. Who would build stuff? Like the guys who do the genetic modifactions, they would've needed to learn how that shit works. They are not orcs, they can't just will the genetic modifcation into being. As such they would need to go to university, probably for a long time.

[@thedemonhater7748]

Jim Beauchamp chaos can’t win. The nature of the universe will eventually lead to galaxies spreading out further and further. Stars will die, and after an uncountable amount of years, even black hole’s will fizzle out. And than chaos will have nothing at all to feed off of. No life, no motion at all. Literally *NOTHING.*

[@Washeek]

@Maddinhpws Well you are sort of right. Of course, there must be worlds which function quite differently than described in the video, but the education point you are making does not really stand. We know, that technology in 40k is mostly forgotten and everything is dumbed down to religious ritual practices. If you think modern day education system sucks, how would you like learning latin, by rewriting passages in latin, a language that you don't understand, until you eventually do understand it and getting beaten if you do not progress fast enough. That's medieval learning, when schooling was provided by priests. Now imagine that with the mechanicus or the administratum. Every time you would show a modicum of free thinking you get violently punished. Even the ones who work with genetic modifications often do not really understand what they are doing, but are taught an exact process that they than can repeat ad nauseam.

[@Т1000-м1и]

There could be an incredible city management sort of game made where you're balancing sacrificing tons and tons of long-term resource gain just to meet deadlines

[@firesturmgaming]

Being a refueler is like being the guy who looked in the exposed reactor core of Chernobyl Reactor 4.

[@cypher2194]

Just way faster

[@firesturmgaming]

@@cypher2194 By about 600 thousand times.

[@12halo3]

The second stupidest thing I've heard from 40k honestly.

[@thomasp506]

@@12halo3 Yeah sometimes writers try a bit too hard to be grimdark, and just make fools of themselves.

[@thomasp506]

@The One And Only Exotic Butters Yeah see, that's what I'm talking about. I feel like that sort of thing crosses into grimderp. Forget making sense, we want maximum darkness!

[@Postdotfuzz]

Now I want to run a D&D campaign, that stats out like a normal, fighting orcs and goblins. It'll be a dark, gritty fantasy though, especially when the demons start showing up. And when the whole world is being over run by orcs and demons who fight each other as much as the humans, the Imperial guard shows up. With guns and shit. And suddenly, like 6 months into the campaign, the players realize what universe they're actually in.

[@nickcarroll8565]

Lol. I like to tell fellow nerds about my theory of LOTR being a 40k planet. Sauron is a chaos agent and Gandalf is just a perpetual as well as a psyker. Hobbits and are mutant humans. The ring is a chaos artifact that corrupts. Orcs are just feral orcs, and elves are exodites (?spelling). Dwarves are squats.

[@noscopeingnarwhal9913]

Postdotfuzz; thatd be awwsome

[@noscopeingnarwhal9913]

Nick Carroll: that makes some sense

[@pedrogouveia4326]

@@noscopeingnarwhal9913 no it does not bcs lotr was made before warhammer fantasy even existed

[@darkdogzstudioz]

@@pedrogouveia4326 that's really not the point. ever heard of head-canon?

[@tauIrrydah]

I'd forgotten just how pointlessly depressing 40k was

[@rageoftyrael]

It seems that the point of 40k is to take the concept of a dystopian future and stretch that as far as you can, without fully hitting absolute null chaos. It's a world that functions, but seems to thrive on functioning in ways that are pure sado masochistic fantasy. Some lives, a very small number it seems, are decent, but it doesn't seem like anyone can really lay claim to paradise. The point, is to give people a chance to play and imagine a dark world of unimaginable horror. There is no true hope, there is only deep despair. Why? Cause how often do you get delve into such darkness? Most people prefer the idea of happiness and hope, and most of our art and entertainment reflects that. For those who are bored, or perhaps like myself, just interested in the darkness, 40k is a way to look at a story that has no happy ending. Even when the "good guy" wins, all they've won is the continued existence of people who's lives are barely better than being in hell. It's a world so dark, that it could very much be argued that humanity being wiped out at that point would be the true victory. Everything else is just continuing our misery. This approach is likely why there are so many stupidly horrible ways of doing things in this world. Many of the jobs and such are so bad because they're designed to be bad, which isn't at all what we would hit in real life. Now, it could be that they do these things because life is cheap, when you have trillions upon trillions of people to draw upon, but it's mostly just that we're intentionally creating a hellish dystopia for our own dark amusement.

[@Tacoguy1000]

@@rageoftyrael Basically, it's fun to see people die.

[@fabioribeiro4627]

@@rageoftyrael In reality, the Dark Eldar are the architects of the Warhammer 40k universe. All that edginess and suffering must be a millionaire feast.

[@fabioribeiro4627]

@@rageoftyrael So let's welcome Necrons and Tyranids as our deliverers from this sadomasochistic dream.

[@dizzydial8081]

@@rageoftyrael For entertainment's sake, you hit it right on the head. I like hopeless stories and cosmic horror. In a reality where just about everything in the universe wants you dead, you have to have a brutal response, and that seeps in to everyday "regular" living. There's an actual scientific way of thinking of first contact that 40K seems to borrow from: If intelligent life is encountered, we we should assume they assume we are hostile and in turn should be hostile. I think this has a name but I can't remember it.

[@Casperski1312]

This is the first 40K lore video I ever saw and I've been obsessed ever since. Thanks for getting me involved in the grim dark.

[@bandito-yj3in]

The lasgun isn't THAT bad, its capable of killing an Ork in a reasonable amount of shots if it doesn't have much armour on. Sure it isn't a bolter, but it gets the job done...eventually.

[@Luetin09]

FOCUS FIRE LADS

[@Tacoguy1000]

bandito 007 Eventually isn’t quick enough. But don’t let that discourage you. If you can’t, don’t worry, your deceased body will serve well for the guy that might do the job... ...or not.

[@Scrombo2]

'An Ork' being the key there, basic Orks are lower on the food chain in terms of close combatents and they can still survive far more punishment than an average human, and add their often massive numbers and yeah as a gun the laz gun may be alright, but in the grim dark future where there is only war.........yeah you'd be slightly better off with a sharp stick

[@fort809]

The important word here is ‘orks’. An ork is nature’s rendition of a murderous slab of concrete, a better example would be that the lasgun can blow a head sized hole in normal humans.

[@Scrombo2]

@@fort809 basically

[@Argonien]

As someone who loves listening to your narration on long car rides, this extra post-processing is greatly appreciated. On a side-note, regarding your last community post, don't worry about the ads. You invest time and effort and knowing we support you by having them included certainly makes them worth it!

[@markusmellert5421]

Couldn’t agree more. I mean, just imagine all the countless hours he spends on searching for information about 40 k. Like luetin has stated before, the lore of 40 k is massive! And he compounds it into easy to understand presentations, it’s honestly impressive

[@IzzGoobyTime]

I rewatched all his lore videos at least thrice now. Fave so far is the ork one, I've been playing it for months now. I can't stop. Send help

[@scottmurphy4946]

I dont work fpr free and a short 5 sec ad is frig all for the work he puts into these videos

[@gilesking6974]

I agree and also yes the ork video is the titis

[@sci-fifuture465]

I just wish the ads were at the beginning and the end. Mid video ads are really annoying but I understand you have to make bank. If you can put them at the beginning and end of videos it would be great.

[@davedogge2280]

Chaos No.1 Worst job : Nurgle toilet cleaner...

[@Error-mn4el]

you mean shit eater? nothing has to go to waste you know... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@Elenrai]

@@Error-mn4el shit eater...hmm... I think you just described the average imperial citizen there!

[@kekishkhan9321]

Toilets are for sanitation! Nurgle shit on the floor!

[@yuven437]

Daemonculaba, dont look it up... or do look it up, im not your supervisor

[@thebobman56]

why would nurgle have any cleaners?

[@incredibleflameboy]

The worst part about having to refuel a star ship is that you can be press ganged into the job. You already live a pretty miserable life but its a life at least then some arbites turn up and effectively kidnap you to carry radioactive isotopes into a generator. I suppose you do have an option in it though because you'd make an excellent servitor.

[@MeatGoblin88]

fun fact, gong farmers actually made pretty decent money back in the day and lived better lives than most. the only downside was that they had to inhale shit chemicals

[@cyrilkhoury8847]

And there was always the risk of drowning or suffocating in the crap if you where cleaning a particularly large latrine. While deaths from this was uncommon, they where quite a few cases.

[@dannywhite132]

@@cyrilkhoury8847 this makes me shudder because my grandfathers grandfather apparently worked in a factory when he was young and part of his job was to go into large pipes filled with essentially waste from (I think pottery but not sure) the process, and clear out blockages. He said that often pipes would get turns back on by mistake and people would get stuck buried in a mixture of clay and water and a few drowned. It makes me realise that late 1800 early 1900 life wasn't too far from some of the nicer 40k worlds

[@basedspacemarine821]

You might want to change the title into "10 honorable Ways to serve the Emperor"" *Exterminatus intensifies*

[@Keln02]

Worst job: being alive in the 41st millenium xD

[@CommissarDan]

To be fair, there are planets in the imperium that are peacful. You could live your entire life on Agri world.

[@TheDunestyler]

@@CommissarDan there's worlds in the imperium which aren't just peaceful, but actually good to live on for just about anyone. the majority of worlds are pretty mediocre actually, with just the biggest manufacturing centers and worst hellholes being the most renowned and with that those that give us te picture of a purely hellish imperium.

[@a.jbinaday5331]

unless you are on Tau...

[@minkrain5877]

you can rest when chaos if dead

[@StarSage66]

The classic issue in 40k is there aren't too many interesting stories to tell about the peaceful worlds with democratically elected planetary governors. So while they do exist (in pretty good numbers no less) they almost never turn up in stories except the odd occasion where that world ends up in the path of whatever horrors the galaxy feels like tossing at them that day. As for life as a tau, it's relatively comfortable as it trades in the relative freedoms of the imperium (the fact that's a tradeoff says something) for the relative stability/social security of the tau. And orks, well okay, being an ork is actually pretty great. I'd love to be a freebooter and go on space adventures.

[@mathewkanapilly796]

i love how they took inspiration from real life penal battalions that were used basically in the exact same way as the imperial guardsman as fodder for some suicide mission and how they even took inspiration from the barrier troops that sit behind the penal battalions with machine guns ready to gun down any penal troops that waver

[@Reqex]

Before I watch: Job #1 - long suffering then death. Job #2 - long suffering then death. . . . Job #10 - long suffering then death. Edit: After watching: silly me...death is a mercy in 40k.

[@jocosesonata]

In some cases, death then long suffering.

[@DoveEnigma13]

Uh. Servitor has to be the worst

[@DeadSomething]

@@DoveEnigma13 it sounds a lot like dementia: sometimes being able to grasp what has become of you and not being able to change it.

[@DoveEnigma13]

It depends on how much they understand of what has happened to them. I have brain damage from a brain tumor and the surgery to remove it, then radiation to destroy cancer that couldn’t be seen. I am not really aware of what I’ve lost. I know things are missing and things are different, but I don’t know what. I’m aware that I can’t remember things, but what they are I don’t know. My language is broken at times and I don’t notice until I take a break and look at it again later. Would I notice if I had lost “free will?” I don’t know. I still think being a servitor would suck. Worse if they knew what they were before. At least dreadknoughts still have free will and knowing they are honored members of astartes society. Servitors have neither of those. Sentient coffee makers and vacuum cleaners in our world. Ricks butter robot

[@ShadoWafel]

Better than being caught by Dark Eldar raiding party that's for sure

[@Corristo89]

I wonder what the Emperor would think if he was to ever return and see how his subjects are overwhelmingly living a life of utter misery, poverty, violence and near slavery, forced to work for the glory of a person who vehemently rejected the notion of being a god and being worshipped as a god. "Why do I still live? What more do you want from me? I gave everything I had to you, to them. Look what they've made of our dream. This bloated, rotting carcass of an empire is driven not by reason and hope but by fear, hate and ignorance. Better that we had all burned in the fires of Horus' ambition than live to see this." Roboute Guilliman.

[@nickcarroll8565]

The Cabal was right!!!

[@physe8052]

You should check out the series "If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech device." It's basically a parody doing exactly what you describe.

[@KJ-pu8dw]

He would know that Chaos won back at the Horus Heresy. It was not for Horus to beat the Emperor. It was to disrupt. It was for constant strife and war. The Chaos gods need the Imperium of man. The warp is the mirror reflection of all the bad of life. The Imperium creates and fuels endless 'bad'.

[@striderwhitefox1]

In the novel "The Last Church" The minister called it. That the people would not come to view the way of things as the Emporer does. But rather to see him as a God Emporer. When the Emporer tried to convince all of Terra, there was no such thing as an omnipotent being.

[@raylongoria3565]

Damn

[@thehairyhikers710]

I used to be a guardsman.. until I took a bolter round to the knee. Now I'm a mindless servitor

[@pr6897]

If a Bolter hit your leg, you are 100% dead those rounds are high explosive

[@declicitous1763]

@@pr6897 or you’d just lose your leg completely

[@mapleflag6518]

@@declicitous1763 And possibly die of blood loss.

[@declicitous1763]

@@mapleflag6518 definitely die of blood loss

[@nicholascarrasco2141]

Or your commanding officer puts you out of your misery

[@WolfPackGameing]

you forget that many scribes, mainly field scribes are executed by inquisitors or Space Marines after completing a task simply because they were curious or worse, happened to be tasked with transcribing something relating to Warp Energies and deemed Heretical.

[@isaiahgraham2228]

Speaking of the last point, I once ran a Fallout tabletop campaign that was actually set on just another world of the vast Imperium. My players had no idea until they ran into a Space Marine fighting some tunnelers. At first they thought he was just a member of the Brotherhood of Steel.

[@DvNezarto]

They were in for a surprise weren’t they

[@noscopeingnarwhal9913]

What happened? Did more space matinee show up and annihilate them for being irradiated “mutants”? Or something?

[@mr420quickscops2]

NoScopeingNarwhal They were just men in crude fusion armour from an old Knight House world, nothing to worry about for Astartes

[@noscopeingnarwhal9913]

Mr420QuIcKsCoPs: it must’ve been so awesome when they bust in and the bullets bounced off them! And then one rushes a marine and he just grabs him in his tracks and freaking choke slams him even though he’s in full brotherhood armor! And then a Gatling laser and miniguns badly affect then! ABD THE BOOOOM MININUKE RIPS A HANFUP OF MARINES APART AND THE A TERMINATOR CHARGES THROUGH THE BLAST AND POWER FIST CHAINSWORD RAAAMPWAGE AAAAAHHHHHHH FOR THE EMPEROR!! HURAAAAAAA

[@noscopeingnarwhal9913]

Hahaha

[@lolroflroflcakes]

That is NOT how commissars act. They may be stern and unflinching but they will only execute if you force their hand, it is a responsiblity they are taught to take with the utmost seriousness and those who abuse it are treated in an extremely harsh manner. For example, it was in a Ciaphas Cain novel I believe, a commissar acts in the manner you describe and he is arrested pending trial and execution because they were not his lives to take. If you are just hesitant to throw yourself at the enemy the commissar is more likely to remind you what is at stake, kick your ass over the lip of the trench, then jump up with you and charge. Their job is to motivate, not to execute traitors. Also 99% of the time the Guard is just sent in to skullfuck the shit out of a random bum-fuck PDF on a planet that rebelled because the governor just didn't want to pay his tithe, they then get to sit on that planet for the foreseeable future unless they really impress someone. So really their lot in life is far better than one could hope for as hiver working in a manufactorum.

[@zacharybray6200]

The guards life is only bad in the worst case scenario, the vast majority of the imperium is "peaceful" so a guard is likely going to put down a handful of riots at most and that's it.

[@saintdolanchirosius3704]

Precisely and as an added bonus you get to shoot people. What's not to like?

[@MrGabol100]

I'd much rather choose to voluntarily join the guard, get a pay, food and clothes and most likely end up garrisoned at some forgotten corner of the galaxy than work in a factory or in an agri world and be a slave. Can't believe he'd put servitor before the guard. Yes, in combat you are outranked by any of the heavy lifters that are in-setting made to be toe on toe with the Space Marines or the Guard's armour, but not everything in the military is combat. Most of it is logistics. Shit, Guardsman might be one of the best jobs in the whole Imperium, unless you find yourself so hilariously unlucky as to be sent directly to a hotspot, your regiment turns or something rather chaotic happens.

[@Washeek]

Guys... I think you are forgetting that being a guardsman might not be the worst jobs because of how many ways you could die on the battlefield, but because of what could happen off the battlefield. As Gabol said, the military is largely about logistics and who is in charge of that? The munitorum. And they might just stick you somwehere on a ship and forget to have you offloaded and have you die of hunger or thirst or asphixiation, they might loose your transport and then shoot it down because of bad iff, they might forget to deliver rations or munitions to your front, they are just the worst and you are just a spec. But yes all in all, rather this than civilian service without the freedom of thought and speech that we have now.

[@MrGabol100]

@@Washeek Well that's untrue, the imperium might be endless, but the operations are not led by a single man. If you're loaded on a ship whoever is in command of that ship won't forget about a crewman just for the sake of it. If you're loaded into it you're going to have a job, and if you're there in the first place you're there with your people, may the Emperor Protect if they forget about unloading a whole regiment.

[@GoliathosUS]

Because a conveyor system to refuel a warp drive is probably heresy....

[@silvertrimhill9844]

Probably techno heresy

[@joethestrat]

Excuse me, are you questioning whether or not a conveyor system is probably Heresy!? That sounds like Heresy to me...

[@CanIHasThisName]

If you have even the slightest suspicion it might be heresy, it probably is.

[@thenukeofduke5542]

Want a nice cup of bolter with that heresy

[@TheReaper569]

*HERECY*

[@Wheres_the_money_lebowski]

Imagine we are a forgotten outpost of a huge galactic empire. We think we've got a handle on things, life is what it is, only for us to be pressed into service one day for an endless intergalactic war. Kind of scary and maybe not entirely impossible.

[@TheBinaryHappiness]

I am so early Horus is still a loyalist.

[@qiushuang239]

I am so early angron still had his brain intact.

[@DarthBane959]

I’m so early that I traveled to this video in a calm, rather pleasant and storm free warp!

[@jackurquhart7994]

horus was always as loyalist, what came out of the Delphin on davin was not horus

[@jocosesonata]

I'm so early, The Old Ones are called the The Young Ones.

[@sethhovey8227]

@@jackurquhart7994 i like to believe this

[@ctmcreature]

You know what, a feudal planet doesn't sound that bad. After looking at how the lives of real-life peasants were... its not that bad. Open-air, some level of self-determination, food, and some level of peace... not that bad

[@DeterminedGoat]

And then the dark eldar came

[@c.m.b.598]

Much rather be with the Tau...for the better good. Damn, I'm depressed. 🤣where is my bottle.

[@boooster101]

@@c.m.b.598 "Thanks for choosing the Glorious Tau Empire, Gue'Vesa. Please go this way for your voluntary castration. This Tau Por will then guide you to your labor camp, I mean living quarters. For the greater good."

[@Peti-kc6wg]

@@boooster101 ??? There are no such things in the Tau empire.... You literaly described the life in the imperium

[@darrynmurphy2038]

Not that bad, not that good, but paradise compared to a hive world

[@saintricardo8746]

When the emperor returns, he will be so disappointed he'll just go back to sleep.

[@mho...]

just like any other religious figure, he would either laugh or cry(or both), seeing what has been done in his name! -.-

[@cmelton6796]

@@mho... Or burn it all and start over

[@GRBoi1993]

Nah he’ll be outraged and save humanity from those who’ve mismanaged it.

[@saintricardo8746]

@@GRBoi1993 wasn't there a theory of what will happen if the emperor DID return?

[@JacketDude.]

No he would scratch everything and take a shower

[@zizthesin]

The final section of the video is the reason i love plaging games like rogue trader and dark heresy. It allows you to explore so much of 40k you don’t get from the table top wargame.

[@nickolauscantor1572]

*guardsman complains about 'working' conditions to commisar* Commisar: hmm... these are very valid concerns, guardsman. Let me refer you to the complaint department. Guardsman: complaint department sir? Commisar: *pulls out pistol* this is julie from HR. She will be taking VERY good care of you... *pulls trigger*

[@Nxtl68]

I would name my bolt pistol Juie from HR if I was a commisar

[@nickolauscantor1572]

@Primarch Ferrus Manus nah man, HR is clearly a death world now XD. Thanks for liking the story

[@adept151]

The commisar later that week died heroicly for the emperor yet nowhere near the front lines. Turns out randomly shooting guardsmen can get you fragged.

[@nickolauscantor1572]

@@adept151 but that's basically the job description of a commisar: shoot cowardly, heretical, & treasonous guardsmen (insert your own personal definition of coward/treason/heresy here), inspire courage & loyalty (or fear of the emperor) into surviving guardsmen; rinse & repeat XD

[@mwnciboo]

If ever there was an organisation that viewed "Humans-as-Resources"...It would be the Imperium.

[@goodman4966]

Have you heard the tragedy of Horus Lupercal the Warmaster .

[@bonomael7902]

I thought not, It's not a story the Inquisition would tell You.

[@crunch9876]

bono mael what’s that story? No joke.

[@crunch9876]

Abserd O Hahahaha no way that’s actually canon lol. But it’s Great fan fiction Hahahaha

[@bonomael7902]

@@crunch9876 It's a Chaos Legend. Horus Lupercal, the warmaster of the Imperium, so powerful and so wise, he could use his intelect to lead his legion to victory... He had such Knwoledge of mankind he could even make his brother follow him for whatever he want. The power of the Imaterium is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He came so powerful... The only thing he was affraid of was His father show himself as a god to submit humanity and his legion. Wich enventually,a deamon show him this fate. Unfortunatley, he taught his brother and legion what he see. And they all became slave to chaos god's and when horus mortaly wounding his father, the other human gave him the statut of God Emperor. Ironic, he would prevail this fate to mankind, but set in motion instead.

[@datman2433]

@Abserd O the fuck did i just read xD

[@kiwishrew1]

"Servitor-like machines would collect the remains of the carriers" So... why not use said servitor-like machines in place of the refuellers? Inb4 heresy

[@Zombiewithabowtie]

Because the cybernetic components of the servitors would also suffer degradation from the intense radiation: and in the Imperium of Man, human life is genuinely less valuable than that tech.

[@kiwishrew1]

@@Zombiewithabowtie You make a good point

[@Ubersnipe]

A conveyance, like a cart on tracks, could roll the payload into the required position and be retrieved afterwards by servitors or other means. Shielding from the harsh conditions could then be replaced or the cart could be melted down and reforged

[@stevenschnepp576]

Because some authors cross the line into grimderp.

[@saucevc8353]

@@Ubersnipe But if people in 40k were actually smart it wouldn't be so grimdark would it.

[@AMorphicTool]

The Emperor: "Damn the Daemons I bargained with are getting out of hand, I should probably strive to make humanity better for everyone." Horus: *Laughs in lightning claws* 10,000 years later and humanity is all the things it tried to destroy.

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

Can't forget about the Navy. The press gangs are pretty bad as well. Conscripted when ever a ship needs a crew, often put into dangerous and deadly positions like the gunnery tubes where you get to man handle star ship ordinance into the tubes by hand. Risking death and worse at any moment as your salvers whip you into action in hot, moist bowls of the ship. Oh and of course the risk of constantly crossing the warp and the horrors it contains.

[@phreakazoith2237]

working conditions in hive manufactorums aint much better.

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

@@phreakazoith2237 Well yeah life in 40k basically sucks all around. Even the so called Nobels suffer from constant in fighting, back stabbing and games of political power. Mean while at any given moment an enemy of some kind could drop out of the warp and destroy your world. It could be an alien, a warp entity or even just some one in the Imperium itself who had an axe to grind. Perhaps some inquisitor heard a rumor of some heretic on the planet and decided it needed to die. 40k life varies between instant grisly death in combat or long drawn out death through over work and horrible living conditions.

[@gama343]

Flash-lights and T-shirts get a lot of shit thrown their way, but they're pretty much the best thing a regular human can use without loads of extra training. Lasguns are easier to use than rifles, since its just point and shoot. No leading the shot or accounting for recoil, which leads to exceptional accuracy even in the hands of an amateur. Combine this with destructive power similar to high caliber rifles and you get a picture of the lasgun that is not often presented in 40k; a devastatingly powerful, uncannily accurate tool of the Emperor's will which purifies all comers in searing, crimson beams of holy light. Common flak armour is likewise much tougher than is often assumed. Just because it can't take bolter fire or shrug off energy weapon hits. Flak armour makes the user highly resistant to shrapnel, and practically immune to stubbers (aka real life modern projectile weapons). A squad of guardsmen sent to clean up and underhive full of gangers and cultists can pretend to be Astartes while they walk forward into the wall of bullets, using beams of concentrated hatred to cut off limbs and blast fist sized chunks out of actually unarmoured opponents, all the while only having to keep an eye out for ambushes and traps. When it comes down to it, the guardsman's standard kit seems pathetic because IG strategy doesn't use it for its intended role very often, and doesn't update their tactics to make better use of their gear despite often operating well outside their intended role. The Guard was originally intended to fight human-level threats, not be thrown at post-human level threats in sufficient numbers to overwhelm them or stall until the actual post-humans arrive.

[@JimboDoomface]

well said

[@TheManofthecross]

but even then the guard get's it done regardless. though at some point once enough hope comes in and they find a way to get the emperor back alive or something equivalent then the reforms will be needed etc to get the guard back up to speed so they can fight dual threat.

[@collectiusindefinitus6935]

Well yes they’re strong and all but think about what they’re fighting, brutal creatures that wield guns and melee weapons , giant snakes and horror creatures and some aliens in overpowered exoskeletons b

[@collectiusindefinitus6935]

Sorry for the typo

[@Mattress1996]

They get a bad rep for the games and the paper RPG's. The fluff may make them strong. But BOY in practice are lasguns and flak armor's useless against gang members.

[@RainRaiderX]

"I'm doing my part, I'm doing my part, I'm doing my part too! They're doing their part, are you? Join the Imperial Guardsman of man and save the world, service guarantees the Emperor.... Would you like to know more?"

[@biomodified]

I love that holovid! 👍

[@trinitybobo]

Uuuu... Well done My bro... Well done...

[@krisharmon5572]

I honestly felt like starship troopers was the precursor to 40k

[@Hydorior]

*desire to know more intensifies*

[@Guardsman_Greg]

I am the protector of mankind serving my now destroyed world 8th cadian for the win

[@TheDukeOfDallas]

5:42 is from the movie "Fire in the Sky." This is right after the dude was screaming and they put the "silence gravy" in his mouth so they could feed a tube down it and hook other science instruments up to him. It's a wild movie, shows why you'd never want to be abducted by aliens and if you were why you'd never want to remember it.

[@soldiert0144]

I have a "fictional" worst job in the imperium idea: the under-hive "dredger". the under-hive dredgers job is to go down into the under-hive and "clean" it, scooping out all of the toxic chemicals and "disposing" of them, they also have the unenviable job of reinforcing the hives structure to prevent sections of the hive from collapsing. this is to be done WITHOUT protective gear AND without protection of any kind, which means you are sent with nothing but a shovel and a backpack bucket into the under-hive where all manner of mutants and monsters lurk to scoop out literal toxic waste so strong that if even a single DROP of the stuff touches your skin. it will melt and burn its way to your bone, and emperor help you if you fall in the stuff, most likely what will happen is that you will be melted in seconds by this toxic sludge in a excruciating fashion, oh and did I forget to mention that your job is also to lug around MASSIVE STEEL GURDERS to attempt to prop up unstable bits of the hive? so your job is now also to go to unstable parts of the hive surrounded by falling metal debris, acidic toxic sludge that will melt you in seconds, monsters, mutants, hive gangers, chaos worshipers, AND EMPEROR KNOWS WHAT ELSE! and you have to clean up the sludge and stop the whole hive from collapsing in on itself, and at any moment entire roof sections will collapse on you and if your not crushed to death then potentially more toxic sludge from higher up in the under-hive will start raining down on your head and melt you alive! now THAT is a horrible job in the imperium! let me know what you think! and emperor help anyone in the 40k universe who actually has to do this "job"

[@reverendrico5631]

soldiert01 while I’m sure it isn’t the fluff, I have no doubt that is a ‘real’ job on a hiveworld

[@jocosesonata]

Hey, it could be worse! Because in the Grim Darkness of the far future, there is always room for more grimdark.

[@theLivind]

I'm guessing that if you somehow survive the colapse of the roof, you'll be executed for conspiracy and sabotage to destroy the hive instead.

[@starmann7372]

Living the dream

[@JL-dance]

soldiert01 i think the no protection part is a bit much, because what would be the use if skilled workers if they keep dying all the time.

[@cruciblevideos1295]

To those questioning how this society could function: As with everything in 40K, best not to take it seriously.

[@yoruichixx6951]

it could function but with a ridicoulus suicide rate, like all of that sounds like torture

[@tefky7964]

@@yoruichixx6951 For some time after death is possible to save them and for failure to perform work for Imperium are made servitors,which is often 100x worse than their normal work.

[@yoruichixx6951]

@@tefky7964 they thought about everything did they

[@GRBoi1993]

Or not take it so generally. There are some worlds that are hellish and others that are nice. Most in between. It’s not the sardonic joke it was back in the 80s, but it’s become a proper universe with good stories. Not just cheap “wow we live in a society” pulp fiction that was so common in the Cold War.

[@anonguy772]

Alternatively, it couldn't. Several parts of the Imperium are in perpetual decay and have been since the Golden Throne and FFFFFFFFFUCKING HORUS. So yeah the WH40K universe is fucked, who knew

[@clifton1776]

Anybody else think that feudal peasant is actually the best job in the Imperium? You basically live in pre-industrial Europe, have the same church, and demons are real. What's not to love?

[@captain0080]

The demons part, i think.

[@unknownanonymous2651]

@@captain0080 I think having the entire continent in one church building every Sunday, shit, EVERYDAY, has to smell fuckawful, and take forever to get through.

[@ErSatrio]

@@captain0080 damn it, I'm late

[@coycook7268]

Pre-industial Europe not that bad? Ever needed some medicine? Enjoy not having to kill or harvest every single one of your meals without the use of modern pesticides and crop growing techniques? Like drinking clean safe water? Kiss all thst goodbye. I'd rather go out in a drug fueled trip to refuel some warp shit.

[@amicheroner4751]

Hahahaha

[@MrMarinus18]

I like to think the imperium does have a unified currency but it isn't really in widespread use that much. It's also how a lot of medieval kingdoms operated with the hard currency usually reserved for the church and cities with only occasional use in other places.

[@MrAlexkyra]

Why build a tube to automatically refuel the Warp Drive when we can cause hundreds of horrific and avoidable deaths each flight by sending a human to do the refueling?

[@Irrespons]

The fuel is human sacrifise, the chest they carry is the last who delivered the fuel. The carrier is the next persion in the chest. The pain and agony is what the fuel is. And you want tthem to crawl trough a pipe.

[@Irrespons]

The warp drive open a gate to the warp, a rift in space. Today it will be called Hell gate. Since the gate is so huge to fit these huge ships the toll must be paid. It is litterly hell, ofc just much worse since its Warhammer 40k. But its so much faster to travel trough "super" hell that real space, so worth it. This is new tec, I belive old tec they skipped the whole human sacrifise since religius stuff like sacrifise and rituals not accaptable for the emperor dreams and truth, so I bet its easyer to build human sacrifise ritual instead of bypassing it like before, or the technology is lost. Sorry if the english is poor.

[@stevenschnepp576]

@@Irrespons That makes significantly more sense than any other interpretation.

[@declanedmison5442]

I’d assume only some ships have such brutal methods. Some ships are probably much better.

[@thomasp506]

@@declanedmison5442 There was a discussion about this a little further up the comments. Most of this is due to poor writing from some grimderp authors who try way too hard to make this grimmer and darker. But once it it becomes obviously needless, it becomes comical and actually detracts from the goal and theme. Then, other writers later down the line have to clean up and make it clear that these are exceptions rather than standards. This applies to servitors, refuellers, and most notably to the conditions faced by Imperial Guardsmen. Most of the horror stories you hear are just that. Horror stories detailing fairly rare occurrences.

[@Ultimus31]

'Algae is harvested from mineral-rich ocean worlds to create a protien-rich gruel...' Oh that doesn't sound so ba- 'Which is then fed to the Arokian Bile Fly, which upon reaching an appropriate *plumpness* is then mashed and shaped into *"* buiscuit *"* bars.'

[@swedisheinherjer]

All these jobs kinda suck either way in the 40K universe, but what I find the most disturbing fate is of the Servitors. Sure, if you get a total mind-wipe, sure. You don't feel or think... But the thought of still being alive and aware while your body has turned into a machine which you can't control just sends chills down my spine. Being trapped in a freakin hybrid machine skeleton with your brain hardwired to it's design.... My god...

[@tonyjones1560]

Really…anything but a servitor. I wonder if they can still use you after a swan dive off the highest point you can find. With any chance at all, I’d jump off of *something.*

[@anatoldenevers237]

@@tonyjones1560 Yeah, servitors are the worst. One of the more disturbing concepts I've seen in fiction honestly, especially when they go into detail about the process of creation

[@tonyjones1560]

@@anatoldenevers237 It’s probably a small mercy that they lose any sense of self. I’m certain that by the time that happens, these people have got to be gibbering batshyt crazy from pain and the assorted horrors of this process. Afterwards, they’d either be paralyzed with madness or VERY actively suicidal. Useless to the Imperium either way…

[@anatoldenevers237]

@@tonyjones1560 Yeah, hopefully they're totally lobotomized. It wouldn't surprise me if some servitors still do have some awareness stuck in their though, trapped and unable to do anything except their programming but being aware even so. It's not like the Imperium would care for their suffering as long as the job still gets done. By the way, have you read "The Bookkeeper's Skull"? There's a truly disturbing bit about servitors in that book.

[@primalreversion7034]

The Medicae Servitor from Darktide had a failed lobotomy, its voice lines reflect it

[@-AxisA-]

17:46 Don't quote me on this, but I heard in Feudalism the peasants had to work only around 180 days a year, because you know the crops don't gros in the winter.

[@HumanistGordian]

I once had a nightmare, and the story about the refueling of warpdrives made it come back instantly. I was clothed in dirty brown monk robes and stood in a long line with equally clothed people. We came into a chamber with typical grimdark industrial features where a mechanicus instructed us what to do. We had to fill pails of a liquid and pour them into bowls on a conveyor. The mechaincus said if we manage to pour three pails we did extremely well. Then the line moved into the production room, it was very clean and covered in white tiles it was ovoid in shape in the middle was a glass dome with an opening on the top. A dolly operated manually by mechanicum in heavy lead aprons and masks. We saw what we were tasked to do, a person from the line before us was strapped to the end of the dolly, in its hand a pail it was inside the glass dome trying to lift the pail and pour it into a bowl on a hand cranked conveyer .It seemed that no electronics would work there, as when we stepped through an airlock we heard the sounds of rad counters fill the place. From the sound of its panting we knew it was a struggle of someone who was close to total exhaustion. The sound of rad counters was everywhere. There was a large window made out of armoured glass behind it sat a mechanicus observing the process. The person on the dolly managed two pails and was taken out of the glass dome and taken off the dolly. Mechanicus detached it and dumped the person on a cart. It was still alive and so where the other people stacked on top of the cart. They were all too weak to move . I asked the nearest mechanicus what will happen to them. He answered in a robotic voice:" They normally die several hours after their duty, the stronger ones who can get up again will be put in line again. If they manage a pail or two then they are truly blessed to have served the emperor well". He gave me a pair of lead lined gloves. The person in front of me was just lowered into the dome. He started to ge a seizure but held onto the pail and pulled his first load out of a pool of what looked like mercury. I could hear his panting and struggle and as he poured his first pail he vomited into what I now saw was a mask with a hose to let the vomit run into a plastik bag fitted to his belt. He managed another pail before collapsing. Then it was my turn, the mechanicus fitted me with a mask which smelled heavily of desinfectant. Another strapped me in. I looked up to the window the mechanicus observer nodded and gestured to the dome lifting three fingers. I knew what to do. The radiation was already heavy in the chamber but when I got lowered into the glass dome it hit me with a fist. I lost control of my body in a seizure but managed to hold on and was decended to the pool. My teeth tasted badly and the first teeth loosend and dropped into my mouth. I pulled the first pail out and poured into a bowl of unknown material. It must have been quite tough to hold such a terrifying liquid, the pail was made out of the same . I pulled another pail, then I vomited and the taste of blood was all over my mouth. My teeth were all gone my eyes hurt, everything hurt. The second pail was pure torture. But I was awake and pulled another pail. The mechnicus gasped. I poured it and was pulled out. I collapsed on the foor crying in pain and fear. That's when I woke up. That my friends seemed the worst job to me.

[@delboythethird1200]

Damn, man, that should be a short horror movie

[@SPECTR_Eternal]

@@delboythethird1200 someone watched HBO's Chernobyl recently it seems like. Because that's basically the WH40K version of "We gear you up so you won't die immediately and let you do some manual work with extremely hazardous materials. You do more than a norm before you die - you're a hero". Fitting for WH40K but in no way creative. Because no dreams are truly creative, just iterations of something seen/felt/lived.

[@valtersplume3726]

I'm not jealous at all. I love 40k, but I don't want it to invade my dreams. A dream involving 40k can only be a nightmare. And also be glad there was no Chaos or, of course, Dark Eldar involved.

[@ScampiTheSighted]

Sometimes when I have horrible, realistic dreams like this, I can't help but wonder if this is what my subconscious is certain will happen to me, and is trying as best it can to prepare me for.

[@thisSh1tHard]

In warhammers reality, they wouldn't disinfect the mask

[@NewAnderL]

"...do the same thing,every day,without end,without oportunity,without MEANING..."...Well,thanks for describe my life!

[@Danneman92]

lol

[@penelope9744]

Luetin 40k vid is like eating at a damn fine restaurant.

[@ConcealedCourier]

The Cadillacs of 40k videos.

[@spethmanjones2997]

Except it only leaves me hungry for more!

[@jorgefierro8241]

@@spethmanjones2997 Yeah like fine restaurants.

[@crabmansteve6844]

You know, out of all of these, being a shit-collector sounds downright relaxing and care free in comparison

[@Smilomaniac]

Here's a dystopian and depressive thought; There might be women that are bred for creating soldiers or workers, living through constant stress and pain until their bodies give out from being perpetual incubators. I'm sure by far most women in the Imperium have no access to contraceptives and must work while being pregnant (and immediately after giving birth), but I could imagine that on some worlds they would likely take human baby factories to the next level. What's worse, is that there's a large amount of mutants in 40k and I'd be willing to bet that a lot of them would be from genetically modified wombs that could repeatedly carry a 'litter' of humans. Many of these might even be servitors, rolling around on threads doing manual labor while carrying a sagging belly full of infants in the making. Merry christmas..!

[@Luetin09]

Yeah I have thought about this before, I actually think something along these lines is a strong possibility but never found any actual reference to it or anything to do with this subject.

[@Smilomaniac]

Luetin09 - I doubt there is any, other than the CSM version. It’s like you said, you have to just imagine that some of these things just exist.

[@SuperColodude]

Luetin09 daemoncubula, essentially the same thing but to turn boys into Space Marines through...unsavory means.

[@Luetin09]

I initially read that as - unsavoury memes

[@iainclark8695]

I'm glad GW shy away from the reproductive side of things because of ideas like this.

[@geraldfreibrun3041]

Being the God-Emperor is probably the worst job you can ever have.

[@ThePaydayer]

Trump?

[@saheterabakutisha1476]

Siraaj Haque What? That’s what you took from that?

[@imperialguardsman521]

@@ThePaydayer I'm *not* Trump for the last time, regardless what you believe I prefer to sit in the back and observe, plan, intervene in times of struggles that could last for centuries. Humanity in this day and age is quite peaceful compared to the past, most of the conflicts we see today are the after effects of imperialism, empires, and civil wars, terrorism, stuff.

[@ThePaydayer]

@@saheterabakutisha1476 nah I'm just playin

[@tacokid99]

Gerald Freibrun hell yeah having to kill your son listen to everyone’s cries having to sit on a chair and hold close a warp tear while the empire you created crumbles around you

[@bjark4.792]

Next time if one of my friends tell me: "I'm just gonna paint this 41st Millennium Soldier" Me: "That's not just a 41st Millennium Soldier.."

[@MidnightmoonRR]

Actually. in lore, as far as I know, the Lasgun is actually said to be pretty darn powerful. Especially on its highest setting. But that comes at the cost of having less ammo than on the lower settings.

[@dominusbalial835]

it makes fist sized holes in unarmoured targets. It will blow apart unprotected human limbs within a single shot. The energy is so intense it causes the blood to instantly turn into a gaseous state in which causes a micro-explosion of scalding hot gore. Lasguns are extordinarily powerful, but so is the armour in the universe. Thats the only reason why it is refered to as a flashlight.

[@DoctorProph3t]

It’s said to have similar firepower to a .308 cartridge. Which just speaks to the nastys of the 41st millennium when the rifles that shoot lasers akin to a high-powered hunting rifle don’t do shit against Orks or Tau or Chaos.

[@bacnguyen9304]

@@DoctorProph3t lasgun effectively killed ork boyz in one shot to the head and ork head is huge as hell . Against chaos if you don't 1v1 greater demons or chaos marines you will be fine because chaos cultist are pretty pathetic in general. And I was laughing when you mentioned Tau, Tau are exactly like humans or even less physically capable . Against battle suits the lasgun will do shit because you are shooting an infantry gun at a tank but against fire warriors the lasgun will have no trouble .

[@DoctorProph3t]

bac nguyen Pfft shows what you know if you think an Ork dies to a simple headshot. As for the Tau, their armour is tested by their weaponry, an ion field gestalted super-critical-mass particle moving at near-light speed. The armour will take a shot, or two, direct hits before failing. There’s a reason they’re called “flashlights”. I don’t even know where you’d get the idea that Imperial Guard or Lasguns are singularly matched against the eldritch horrors of the 41st millennium, yet here we are.

[@alyssinclair8598]

tbh. the guard are treated relatively well, getting better rations than everyone else and being treated with respect. Buuuut, orks can take a missile to the face and survive, no double rations make up for that

[@ShadowFox178]

Worse fate is a slave to the Drukhari Perhaps a world is actually run by the drukhari as a form of subtle ironic torture.

[@Tacoguy1000]

ShadowFox178 I think the Emperor’s children would challenge you on that.

[@jocosesonata]

**Cenobites arrive in Commorragh.** Drukhari: "We have such sights to show you."

[@robertnett9793]

@Lord Inquisitor Steiner von Willhelm : I take the perk 'too kinky to torture' then. Do I win?

[@robertnett9793]

@Lord Inquisitor Steiner von Willhelm : Damn....

[@Maddinhpws]

@@robertnett9793 For all we know they could pull a black mirror style and simply throw you into a white room with nothing in it for 1000 years without you able to sleep nor needing food.

[@olefredrikskjegstad5972]

I can imagine "Mine Clearer" to be a pretty awful job in the Imperium. They're probably just gonna round up a whole bunch of people and make them march straight ahead until they trigger a mine...

[@Tacoguy1000]

Pyro Gear That’s what the penal legion does.

[@etiam5267]

Pyro Gear fun fact, that is a good counter to minefields. The main purpose of a minefield is to slow armies down, so having a penal legion wander across one to clear a path is a very efficient method.

[@kaiheadstrong8660]

Abhuman regiments are normally used for that. you got a useless mutation, guardsman? turn in you lasgun and gear, and go join your new friends! they are just on the other side of that minefield watched with snipers seriously, it is cannon that they are used as meat shield of the highest order. they are used worse than conscripts. check the Regimental Standard.

[@thedemonhater7748]

Disco Bandit it’s not efficient at all. You could draft those psychopaths to do anything else, but instead they’re just blowing themselves up so the people with guns don’t get fucked.

[@olefredrikskjegstad5972]

@@thedemonhater7748 It is "efficient" from the Imperium’s perspective. The Imperium is so insanely wast that its incalculably vast population means that human beings are one of its most plentiful resources

[@questorincompetus8841]

My job, but on a hive city. I'm quality control at my plant. Tensions go up whenever I reject my coworkers work. I could only imagine how bad things could get when errors get punished the way the imperium does. But you can't just let errors go through, because that could bring punishment on yourself. You'd be forced to choosing between your own suffering or that of another on a daily basis.

[@DoubleK1990]

I kind of have to disagree with the guardsmen part, lasguns are actually quite effective against small targets like basic orc infantry, heretic cultists and the such, and their body armor is actually very high standard, as mentioned in the gaunts ghosts books, where they are on an industrial world that still uses projectile weapons - the armor is of much use there and lasguns are far superior. Also guardsmen, even if they are expendable on a large scale, have things like comraderie and care for each other, it just does not quite effect the grand thing when "the atmosphere collapsed under the millions of tons of steel entering the orbit all at once when the drop pods entered the atmosphere" ---- you get where i am going

[@williamarmstrong7163]

I actually thought being a psyker was a pretty good job as you can either sacrifice youself to fuel the invaluable light of the golden throne or become a badass wizard who can cleave through hormagaunts and turn even the biggest orks to dust

[@Phil9874]

I feel like the refueling job is unnessecary they really ought to mechanize that whole process

[@jeffmusyoka1876]

I feel they don't want to for some reason. I think it's a job the mechanicum gives to people it doesn't like

[@hakont.4960]

Part of the point of the Warhammer 40k universe is that religion and tradition has replaced reason and logic to a far extent. Why change the refueling process when it works as it is, you certainly don't wanna anger the "machine spirit".

[@AremStefaniaK]

how do you replace that refueling that mechanism then if it gets hit by another starship in space battle. it all comes down to the cheapest computers and conveyors, humans

[@DoctorProph3t]

THEY DONT KNOW HOW. How is this hard to grasp with the imperium, it is literally millions of times cheaper to have human labour do the work than design, fit, install, update, tweak, and maintain an entirely new machine in a civilisation that does not have the knowledge to recreate or reproduce ANY of their previous or current technology. The ships these people use are several Millenia old and NO ONE knows how tf works or how to make new ones. Technology is backwards for humanity in the 41st millennium.

[@DoctorProph3t]

Håkon T. That’s not the point at all, that’s what you choose the point to be to confirm your contentions.

[@generaltomfoolery8299]

I imaging that there is a hive that has a rule that each day you must hug someone you like. The idea is to weaken the chaos gods making it a war effort. Since it's a war effort it is considered desertion to not hug somebody, punishable by death.

[@uptherockies]

Why the starship fuel can't be loaded by machines is beyond me!

[@iainclark8695]

High levels of radiation prevents electrics from working. But yes, you'd think they'd be able to come up with something. Maybe warp fuel is nasty in some other, more esoteric way.

[@donwebber9071]

Machine cost money, bodies you can just grab the closest rubes not smart enough to run like hell

[@adept151]

Ropes and slaves are cheaper then refueling machines.

[@aquila4460]

@@iainclark8695 Because machines need specialised industry to be build and maintained. A human just needs two other humans to be build. And the Galaxy spanning trillions of orbitals bodies harvesting empire of mankind has exactly one resource in abundance.... humans.

[@elysiankentarchy1531]

It probably is on ships run by the mechanicus. Their ships tend to be a bit more automated than the navy's. That aside yeah I would expect them to have created a servitor for this or something. But since it is warp fuel and the Warp arguably is harder on machines than humans it is probably best to use humans.

[@TovenDo.O.Video-]

In the grim darkness of the future there is no simple automation

[@lukelblitz3627]

@@postconsolepeasant6538 are you suggesting that we use abominable intelligence when the simple and easily replaceable resource human life could be used? Do I need to call the inquisition?

[@trazyntheinfinite8393]

@@postconsolepeasant6538 They dont have AI because AI becomes corrupted by the warp so turns to Chaos shortly after its creation before the Imperiums formation an AI led robot rebellion almost destroyed humanity so it was banned. Only the most simple barebones AI can't be corrupted by Chaos

[@MagikarpMan]

@@postconsolepeasant6538 I’m not sure if your new to warhammer but AI is strictly outlawed in the imperium and is the reason humanity is in this sad state in the first place. Anyone caught making self aware AI is put to death on the spot

[@MagikarpMan]

@@postconsolepeasant6538 i advise you watch luetins 3 part series on the emperor of mankind. It goes through pretty much all of humanity’s history from the rise to the fall. It’s really good and makes for a great watch

[@cbabula5662]

@@postconsolepeasant6538 While artificial intelligence is banned, automation does exist in the form of servitors.

[@pianospawn1]

Me and 2 other guys just finished a 12hr shift, cooking a 3 course Xmas dinner for 130 people...that now doesn’t seem so bad in retrospect 😅

[@iainclark8695]

I used to work in catering and I feel your pain.

[@ArtyTheta]

Wait... these guys are gonna eat 12 days old food? Oof, thats a dinner I do not wanna be part of (No disrespect to your cooking skills)

[@pianospawn1]

Arty Theta it was a Xmas party thing for an entire rugby club...they ate it that night you dummy. 😂

[@ArtyTheta]

@@pianospawn1 Oh come on it's not a christmas dinner if it aint on christmas!

[@jocosesonata]

"If you think your job sucks, at least it's not a job in the Imperium." People should live with that kind of thinking.

[@JasoniusRexington]

Also made me realize how hilariously extreme 40k is. I can see the main guy from Soylent Green running out of a corpse starch facility screaming, "Corpse starch! It's MADE OF PEEEOOOPPLLEE!!!" Then some random guy goes, "Yeah? That's why it's called corpse starch. Now I'm going to 'meat' some dead people." Basically, a horrir sci-fi idea is a humdrum trivial fact in 40k, lol. I also forgot to mention on my previous post, thank you for your hard work. I can only imagine the many hours youve dedicated to your craft and research. Your videoa are always entertaining, thought-provoking, and you're a gifted storyteller and narrator. Thank you.

[@derlerner2683]

Timestamps: 0:00​ Opening 4:20​ - Servitors 6:36​ - Manifactorum 7:48​ - Guardsman 11:10​ - Administratum 13:52​ - Psyker 15:19​ - Starship Refueler 17:33​ - Feudal Peasant 19:01​- Agri Labour 21:57​ - Eversor Assassin 25:05​ - Penal Legion Overseer 26:54​ - Unknown Horrors

[@MsAnnoyingComment]

Around the point where "bio-matter" became a common word I realized that people in the Warhammer universe probably don't fear death because life is literally hell.

[@vraska8799]

Administratum... you just described my job as an accountant...

[@iainclark8695]

I was about to rebuke you because you don't have to work hard, physical 12 hour shifts in wet boots around windswept moorland. But then I remembered that I actually love my job and I'm never bored.

[@leadpaintchips9461]

Now imagine doing that since you were able to speak, and knowing that you will probably do that until you die at your job, and if no one notices that you died, you condemned your family to death because of the inefficiency of having a dead person at your work station.

[@lisabrowner]

I have a labor Job, Im never bored and have a good day every day as long as I break a sweat. Don't be afraid to make a change. You can make money and see a bit of the world instead of a box around you every day

[@trilechedelarosa4898]

i am accountant too =D was very funny

[@syndicalist-0]

Print out imperial propaganda and secretly post it around your workplace until someone brings it up lol

[@auugis123]

bro i used this video to fall asleep for like a few years now and I'm sure some of your takes are just inbedded in my brain forever good fucking job