The Interex EXPLAINED By An Australian | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@majorkill]

Not gonna lie, it's a bit of a crime that the Sci Fi Grecko Spartan warriors of the Interex don't have a tabletop Model Maybe I should do something about that.... In the mean time, try out World of Warships here : wo.ws/3QamFXX - Don't forgot to use Code BRAVO for a massive sign up boost

[@vontheunknown7982]

Can you do a video on the dawn of War games?

[@alphariusomegon7374]

Make a majorkill mini for the Interex

[@dominykasseibutis6297]

Make video on lucius the eternal and all these space marines chapters raptors silver skulls storm giants Mantis warriors Noise marines Sons of malice Sons of antaeus Black vipers Covenant of fire Dragonspears Dark krakens Red scorpions Stormwatchers Marines errant Scythes of the emperor Howling griffons Mortifactors Steel confessors Red hunters Iron snakes Excecutioners Angels sanguine Death spectres Emperor's spears Star phantoms Also make a videos about beastmans in 40k ollanius pius Soul forge Daemon engines Warp smiths and dark mechanicum Pain engines Helbrutes Krorks Drach'nyen Obliterators Electro priest Abominatious

[@daftpunk672]

@@dominykasseibutis6297 wow not a single “please” was used to ask him, just demand away

[@dominykasseibutis6297]

@@daftpunk672 deal with it One day my suggestions will keep this channel alive

[@NoTimeAllTime]

The Eldar scaring an advanced human civilization to death about Chaos and then giving them no clue about how to recognize Chaos is such a Eldar move.

[@vothbetilia4862]

It's always the Eldar. But you're right they never give more context into anything.

[@twenty-fifth420]

@BENJAMIN ABNER No.

[@deni140492deni]

@BENJAMIN ABNER do you have dementia?

[@starhammer5247]

@BENJAMIN ABNER Don't send the same thing four times on a single comment in all caps and bold. No one will care if that's all you do.

[@starhammer5247]

@@twenty-fifth420 Report it.

[@LoFi_Sinner95]

Everyone's favorite Necron collector has to have a couple of them in his collection.

[@vincent965]

Definitly!

[@hth1751]

He probably has a entire capital ships worth and there greatest leaders

[@pillarmenn1936]

@@hth1751 If they get let out, they should help lead the Imperium (doubt it'll happen)

[@chickenistrexlastname1331]

@@pillarmenn1936 thumbs-up on the (doubt it happen) hahah

[@LoFi_Sinner95]

@@pillarmenn1936 if they get out I want them to do anything BUT help the Imperium lol.

[@dayunrobertson2823]

* The Warhammer Universe potentially heading towards a peaceful state* Erebus: " And I took that personally."

[@midgetydeath]

Probably literally, considering who he worships.

[@SamBrockmann]

Such a jackass, that Erebus.

[@garvielloken9297]

If i had a penny for every advanced human Empire to be destroyed by space marines and horus because of erebus, i’d have 2 pennies*, which isn’t a lot, but it’s sad it happened twice.* *three pennies/times

[@RAD1111able]

Aren't you supposed to be dead or something?

[@frugalmonk]

what's the other one?

[@garvielloken9297]

@@frugalmonk the Imperium

[@garvielloken9297]

@@RAD1111able i’m too epic to die. Isstvan 3 couldn’t kill me, nothing can

[@argeltalthecustodiankiller6552]

@@frugalmonk olamic qutetude

[@Flyingclam]

I wish that the Interex would return as the Neo-Interex or something. With the Great Rift you can have a Interex Rebellion and bring about a new unique faction in a region the Imperium is cut off from

[@argeltalthecustodiankiller6552]

Not really

[@LoFi_Sinner95]

That would be dope!

[@christopherperez1252]

Seeing as we never saw them completely wiped out its possibke they could come back

[@smokejaguar986]

Weren't the Interex completely wiped out?

[@johnwick535]

@@smokejaguar986 it is hard to completely wipe a ftl spacefaring species.

[@darksider2903]

I really hope that some Interex are still out there. I hope that the story turns out like some Interex helping Terra to fix the broken golden throne and bond an alliance with imperium. As the guiliman in charge, i really hope this happens. They were the coolest faction ever and i wanna know more about them and their technology.

[@ieatmice751]

Nah then there would be hope for humanity

[@darksider2903]

@@ieatmice751 the hope is there already, walking around and in charge of the imperium, guiliman. So a little bit more hope won't harm at all 😬

[@orrorsaness5942]

So… the Interex becoming a vassal of the Imperium like the Mechanicus and the Church? Fair enough.

[@darksider2903]

@@orrorsaness5942 just partnership. Helping each other time to time in great need. I don't think religious cults of the imperium, inquisition and mechanicus will let them become a vassal or get too much close. At least we will get to read their stories and past more. And it will be cooler than what we have now

[@orrorsaness5942]

@@darksider2903 I see. This may be what is needed to fight back against the Tyrannids!

[@buckarooben7635]

Imperium: *Laughs at Interex for using such archaic weapons like bows* Also Imperium: *Procedes to pull out hammers, axes, and swords*

[@dustinnabil798]

The imperium uses hypocrisy as naturally as it breath.

[@Zso-VIII]

"Yeah, but ours are blessed by priests so they're okay"

[@vothbetilia4862]

Bows are primitive and require too much hand movement to load shots. They could've just converted them into rifles, but I guess the Imperium was still more advanced than them technically.

[@wilmagregg3131]

@@vothbetilia4862 the bows actually seem to be some kind of coil crossbows going by there descriptions so they likely reloaded automatically and the rail arrows could pierce adamantie in a single shot so they were pretty deadly.

[@vothbetilia4862]

@@wilmagregg3131 true, but using crossbows, doesn't help when the magazine is short, that's still primitive of itself. Their armour is pretty good, but a bolt round despite not penetrating the armour at times, it causes internal severe organ damage.

[@aurelian2641]

Most funny shit was the moment the empire realized they invaded a useless prison planet just because they don’t waste a second thought about anything and just charge in, But it’s also sad, because it could have been a turning point of the imperium. Horus was humble enough to admit his mistakes and he wanted to be more diplomatic. This really could have been a point for the imperium becoming less genocidal and more diplomatic. And it shows that Horus had a good character

[@jack-exzolt9858]

I do hope when or if they re-emerge in the future, the Imperium would at least re-engage them in diplomacy. I think Guilliman could handle it, since he's also one of the more reasonable Primarchs other than Luna Wolves Horus.

[@markcoroneos7811]

It is yet another great example of the tragedy in 30k 😔

[@ItamarO93]

#BlameLorgar

[@spartana1116]

@@ItamarO93 and eribus even more , he practically damned the humanities best hope , but time and time again he fucked it up because he wants mankind to worship chaos

[@midgetydeath]

Horus had always prioritized diplomacy. Part of his fall was due to frustration that diplomacy often was wasted effort as those he tried to be nice to preferred violence.

[@tonypaulik2205]

The interex were never "destroyed" at the end of the novelHorus is called to Davin and they put out markers and note where to find them. In the next novel Horus does destroy another advanced civ and it took him months and it was just one world. The interex had ships on scale and technology that outmatched some Imperial tech. There is is like one throw away line and it shouldnt be considered trustworthy as all this happens in like the first 3 novels before a lot fo stuff was thought out.

[@marrvynswillames4975]

I mean, the Dulanians also got ships and tech that outmached the Imperium, yet were destroyed offscreen the same way.

[@agentchaos9332]

It's not even off screen..the destruction of the Interex continues in the Fulgrim novel, the Emperors children and the Iron hands destroyed at least the majority of the Interex in a large space battle

[@glockfanboy4635]

@@agentchaos9332 I remember the battle you're talking about, but I don't remember it being the Interex.

[@mihaillalov9462]

@@agentchaos9332 im pretty sure those werent the interex. They were a space faring civilisation kinda like those guys in mass effect that have to wear masks all the time cause of their shitty immune system

[@ahmedshaharyarejaz9886]

@@agentchaos9332 Those were the Diasporex. Yeah the name sounds similar, blame the writers.

[@reecedawson3435]

Really want to hear about the dark age of technology more, sounds like an interesting time

[@robertnelson9599]

Basically, Mankind became a hyper-advanced confederacy that used robots, flesh eating nanobots, and planet eating starships to win all their battles. The Warp drive allowed them to spread farther, and then they created the Navigators, which allowed the confederacy to become a federation. Then the Men of Iron rebelled and it all went to shit.

[@bloodangel19]

@@robertnelson9599 also they had sun eating serpent like robots i think.

[@imthegoat94]

Sounds like fucking heresy

[@brapulous]

Tons of videos on the topic, pretty sure Ozzie cunt has one on it too

[@ShadowGhost0117]

@@robertnelson9599 plus humanity was so powerful and destructive that the pre Fall Eldar (so back when they were at their peak) figured that it was better to simply leave us alone rather than fight us.

[@thebandage5422]

Eldar: Okay, so, Chaos is bad. It corrupts and ruins anything it touches. Interex: No problem, we’ll destroy it wherever we find it. Eldar: Eldar: Well, that was easy. Honestly, this all went alot smooth- Eldar: -Wait, you don’t know what Chaos looks like, do you? Interex: Nope! Do you have a picture? Eldar: Eldar: Eh, you’ll be fine.

[@robertnelson9599]

Stuff like this is why I hate the Eldar.

[@MHAOvercharged]

Eldar trying not to give a half baked solution

[@Neardarkphotography]

They would be a sub faction that would be well worth collecting/ painting. Especially if they were scaled taller than your average guardsmen. The armour looks really cool.

[@japbon5814]

van saar：who's calling us

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@japbon5814 who

[@gideonmele1556]

@@comradekenobi6908 tech gangers yo Guaranteed to enrage your opponent late game

[@Truthorfib]

GW would make it if it meant money. But it's gonna cost them quite a bit too. Pay for the writers to make some bullcrap story as to why they're back. Maybe by using the Trazyn Loophole. And to make a whole bunch of new rules for a whole new faction.

[@TheJacktor]

In the Interex's Defense they did try to get them to disarm. Good luck getting a space marine to let go of his weapon though.

[@fadelsukoco3092]

One thing that stood out to me with the Interex was that the novel Horus Rising specifically said that the first response force sent by them to investigate what was happening on Murder/63-19 was made of 3 ships.... each about 3 times the size of the Vengeful Spirit. While the size of the VS itself is.... debatable (one novel stating that it was over twice the size of the Death Guard's Endurance while others state that the 26 Km Macragge's Honour was the largest of all the Glorianas), standard Gloriana size convention would put the size of these ships at somewhere between 60-90 kilometers easily. These were standard, run of the mill ships they sent to investigate a reservation world for a species they defeated long ago. Makes me wonder what the rest of their navy and military structure was like, and what necessitated them developing their weapons that way?

[@jimmysmith2249]

Holy shit. I didn't realize that first time I read it.

[@SrAntonio301]

It blows my mind how we have no official art from GeeDubs on the Interex. Their exo armor sounds based af.

[@robertnelson9599]

GW believes that any new faction will not make them any money, ergo, not worth any time or effort.

[@arcotroll8530]

@@robertnelson9599 They could at least make an image or two. How expensive can that be?

[@jaqssmith1666]

imagine eldar with small ears and less organic architecture.

[@Mikazuchireborn]

Their armour sounds way better than what the Eldar are sporting. A bolter shell didn't even penetrate it! I mean... the impact till totally pulped the dude's insides, but the armour totally held!

[@vothbetilia4862]

@@Mikazuchireborn if the inside was internally damage, then the suit failed to do just that, that being protecting its user.

[@clementbianchini8651]

Quite ironic that the warmongering Imperium wanted peaceful diplomatic relation while the utopian peaceful Interex went full on bloodshed mod

[@robertnelson9599]

Horus wanted to have the Interex join to prove that he is as good as everyone says he is.

[@comradekenobi6908]

and that encounter is why the Imperium is warmongering in the first place

[@redenginner]

The Imperium’s first contact was them attempting to xenocide the megarachnids on their preserve world. Not much of a stretch to think that they where planning to use the diplomatic meetings as a ruse to get their fleets into position to attack.

[@k_aesar]

​@@redenginner they tried to genocide them because they're giant spiders that eat people. Horus knew diplomacy was more beneficial than war in this case and tried to form an alliance

[@Romczy]

​@@redenginner Wolves pulled back the moment they were informed on what they are fighting. THEN proceeded with diplomatic approach. After the museum break-in it was Interrex who attacked the envoys (dick move) rather than try to remove them from their premises or detain them for investigation. One does not simply attack those who trusted their safety to potential enemy. It was a sacred rule since the ancient times, do not harm the envoys. If you are at war with their employers, detain or send back, but NO HARM. That pretty much kills any diplomatic solutions in the future

[@paulmuller6069]

I always wondered what the other races in 40k thought of the emperor and the primarchs... I thought about it because (i think it was) in "Dark Imperium" one of the Eldar met Girlymann and was disgusted by a comment that Eldrad Ulthran made that the primarchs were in some aspects superior to the eldar

[@rhulkdiscipleofthewitnesse5747]

In technical terms they are

[@robertnelson9599]

The Eldar think they are better than everyone, especially in regards to psychic power. So they were probably super jealous of Big E.

[@paimonisfood4986]

Eldrad would know since Fulgrim defeated an avatar of Khaine he threw at him which is obviously just one of the reasons why Primarchs are superior to eldar

[@Julian-vl7vn]

@@paimonisfood4986 The keyword here is "some". While yes, Primarchs are literal demigods, they were pretty help-/useless against powerful psykers, as shown when Malcador psychicly choked Horus. And Eldrad is pretty much on the same lvl as Malcador, if not stronger in some regards as not all psykers speciallize in the same disciplines. So Primarchs are superior to Eldar in almost every way, except psychic might (Except Magnus ofc)

[@themage1016]

@@paimonisfood4986 well tbf the Avatar of Khaine is pretty much a joke of a character that is used so named characters would appear powerful so i dont think it really matters

[@KaiserAfini]

I'm sorry, but you can't make me believe a museum would have a fully functioning magitek weapon just displayed so close to the public. Standard procedure is to either disable them (such as locking, welding or sabotaging key components) or use a cosmetic reproduction, plus its common sense. The Interex are supposed to be super smart, why would they have a tool of chaos so easily accessible to its agents ?

[@robertnelson9599]

Bad writing.

[@mewletter]

As a Space Marine, it's not much of a hassle for Erebus to breach and stole an artifact from a museum. Crime probably hardly occur in that world, thus the seemingly non-existent security. The Interex were enlightened afterall.

[@TITAN_101]

Most probable answer is cause the author wanted them to have that there but if I had to guess a in-lore answer they knew what Chaos was but had no way to ID it in practice so what we the reader know is a Chaos-tainted warp-blade all the Interex knew was it's a old weapon made using a now banned tech (They probably weren't even sure if the sword was dangerous & it might have been the only one they kept due to who made it). Honestly partly blame the Eldar for this as they really should have done more then just "See this, this is Chaos it is evil & you must kill all it infects on sight" & showed them at lest how to find it like most races do now in 40K. Only reason I can think of for why the Interex didn't research a way to ID it themselves is probably outa fear doing so would corrupt them, which is an understandable fear due to Chaos being Chaos. Would also like to point out that most well known museums have very high security for anything on the "Show Floor" & it's not like you can disarm a sword like you would a gun, also possibly it had what most Sci-Fi would class as "Invisible sciencey walls" instead of glass panes (like Star Trek's Forcefields)

[@osirisshadoll4572]

Because they have no idea about Chaos they didnt believe in magic so when they scan the blade and found no weird material element, they may believe it is just a normal knife with icon for superficial reason, no different than ton of other cultist weapons that didnt blessed by Chaos

[@TalesZuliani]

Sometimes people are just ludicrously stupid

[@aceofhearts573]

YES finally a video on non Empire human civilizations. Make a video on the Olamic Quietude and others. Adrantis V was another human world that was really powerful and since the Empire couldn't beat them they just threw an asteroid at the planet and wiped them out.

[@dukesoup786]

Ah yes, the first civilisation to fall victim to Erebus' tomfoolery.

[@auraaetherbladesigma6939]

IKR? Still awaiting his demise.

[@jaegerbomb269]

Why does everyone forget about Kor Pharaoh? Lorgar and Erebus both learned how to be terrible from that guy.

[@robertnelson9599]

Erebus is older than Kor Phaeron. Plus, Kor did not start the Heresy as directly as Erebus.

[@cameronyoung8838]

Erebus is not older than Kor Phareon?

[@licensed_beheader]

@@robertnelson9599 lol no kor phaeron is the older dude . He also had a habit of calling Erebus 'boy' in a smug tone .

[@jaegerbomb269]

@@robertnelson9599 Kor Pharaoh is the older one. Do some research.

[@sethleoric2598]

Non-Chaos aligned warp entities and magic would be a cool video.

[@arminiuscherusci4410]

Druchari Hunt them for fun and fight

[@inquisitorgarza312]

For being a advanced civilization and knowing how dangerous Chaos is they were pretty dumb when keep all the swords of hell.

[@robertnelson9599]

Like the Tau with that Athame.

[@gama343]

They weren't Chaos weapons. They were just fancy xeno-tech. The specific dagger Erebus stole was a nano-tech weapon that, upon inflicting even the tiniest cut, would release non-bots into the blood stream to target the cells of the one, specific person who's gene-pattern was programmed into it. Erebus gave it to a Greater Daemon of Nurgle, who then blessed it with Nurgle's power of decay before stabbing Horus.

[@jacktheripper5112]

i think it makes sense , looking at our own history , there have been instances where the leaders of great nations that had previously been wise an patient suddenly start making some retarded rash decisions

[@jonathanathor117]

That's plot armor for you. Also the imperium has a much larger force/ man power. But yeah plot got the better of them.

[@richard_n]

This is one thing I love about 40K, they are pretty spot on when it comes to projecting human nature. People usually let bad decisions influenced by emotions override reason and common sense.

[@hawk4192]

Having a pocket of Interex still survive and behave like the Farsight Enclaves would be a fun addition and give yet another cool human faction for GW to sell models and codex for. Which is why it will never happen. No good business decisions, ever.

[@japbon5814]

van saar：do you find me？

[@expiredtacos1516]

The setting would be very interesting if there was another advanced human state in the 40k galaxy. Smaller, but better. Kind of like the tau but better.

[@leachofsouls]

Wellllll votaan , kinda ? I mean the squats are human off shoots

[@Kepora1]

It already exists. It's called the Tau Empire and the Farsight Enclaves.

[@leachofsouls]

@@Kepora1 I'm think op meant a human break off faction like the farsight enclave

[@Kepora1]

@@leachofsouls I know. But FSE already fills that role. Hell they have entire planets run by/for humans.

[@leachofsouls]

@@Kepora1 Humans under tau do be cool af. Unfortunately rarely mentioned in the lore /books as anything other than a side note about heretics.

[@crapwithanopinion2919]

man the interex look so damn cool. I wish they'd get brought back in SOME way as a new faction. But knowing games workshop that wont happen cuz it will take away from the 1 new ultramarine character per month quota.

[@vothbetilia4862]

No They already have the votann as a sub faction for the Imperium. Plus I don't think you understand why exactly they wouldn't add them to begin, cause your answer wasn't really reasonable, but merely just butthurt on GW again.

[@The_Bird_Bird_Harder]

@@vothbetilia4862 I mean shock horror, people have asked about this for a long, long while. In fact, it may be to your surprise. They're a much older faction than the leagues. Still probably wouldn't be a good fit though. That much I agree on.

[@blacklighthologram5339]

Stuff like this gets me thinking how the Emperor would react to All of Tomorrow’s depiction of humans, especially since two groups of humans effectively become the Necrons and the Old Ones. Also I have to do this because his name was said… PHUCK YOU ERIBUS!!!

[@robertnelson9599]

What is All of Tomorrow?

[@SafetyBriefer]

This a book series or a show?

[@nodignity6159]

@@SafetyBriefer all tommorows is a book, speculating the evolution of humans millions of years in the future

[@Vypros19]

Alt shift X channel did a video on All Tomorrows, very interesting.

[@ishubetterthanyou1582]

@@Vypros19 The best video on the topic.

[@RAD1111able]

I love such niché topics that barely get mentioned outside the moment in plot where they're relevant

[@Ripotes]

disagree that there would have been peace without Erebus. They might have never attacked the Astartes but the Interrex gave no indication they would be willing just throw away thousands of years of tradition and serve the Emperor. Sure Horus may have wanted to treat them with kid gloves but the next primarch they would be likely to meet was Leman Russ and the story would have ended the up the same.

[@BeedrillYanyan]

They could've been like the Adeptus Mechanicus, giving the Imperium advanced technologies while being a technically independent but allied civilization.

[@majorkill]

Horus only wanted to confirm diplomatic ties. He understood the delicate situation and that the Interex would not just become instantly compliant. He just wanted confirmations of peace and non aggression so he could leave and declare the interex as a non threat.

[@antcow1239]

Erebus is ALWAYS involved. Spoiled butter? Erebus. Stub your toe? Erebus. Late fees? Erebus! Can't find a match on Okcupid? Erebus! Star trek Discovery AND Picard? EREBUS!!! Disney star wars!? EREBUS!!!

[@TossMySalad69]

Amazon's The Rings of Power? Erebus.

[@antcow1239]

@@TossMySalad69 Someone ate all the pizza rolls? Erebus!

[@somegamer1891]

I thought cuties was made by Fulgrim

[@antcow1239]

@@somegamer1891 EREBUS!!!!!

[@bplup6419]

Eldar: Beware of Chaos, the most insidious destructive force imaginable to the galaxy. You must fight it at all turns. Interex: Understood. What do they look lik- Eldar: Goodbye.

[@robkemp598]

I'd love a What If style story where the Interex, Diaspora, Olamic Quietude and few others form an Alliance before the unification wars are finished. There are no Tyranids but with their more advanced technological they kick off a new war in heaven with the Necrons

[@TalesZuliani]

Inquisitor: "how in the actual fucking emperor did you guys manage to get to this point?" Interex: "oh well, we decided to try to cooperate and be nice to each other" Inquisitor: "DIE HERETIC"

[@TheApollo90]

Did the Interex not have, iunno, Cameras in their hyper advanced society? Why would the Eldar not give them any warp detecting devices? What about their servant race that had literal warp weapons of mass destruction?

[@bigzigtv706]

Bad writing

[@marcog.verbruggen674]

they presumably did have cameras, which is exactly why they saw a space marine (erebus) steal the knife and proceed to blame the space marines, who they were already massively suspicious of anyway because... i mean, the "Warmaster" shows up on his "Great Crusade" for his "Imperium" and the first time you meet him is him holocausting the defenseless subjugated people you put in a reserve with warnings everywhere to leave them alone... does that sound like a reasonable, enlightened, trustworthy force to you? why would the eldar not give them anything to detect chaos? well theres a variety of answers. first, the eldar are profoundly psychic and they just *know* when something has chaos in it, so it probably wouldn't even cross their minds. second, chaos is hard to detect at the best of times, unless it's trying to be seen. if you could just wave some scanner at a dude and figure out if they're chaos, the inquisition's job could be done better and more easily by the damn administratum clerks. third, chaos corruption isnt a purely supernatural process, and simply being, for example, a warlike, authoritarian, superstitious, prideful empire makes most of your leaders pretty prone to succumbing to the chaos gods, even if they're nothing particularly damonic or warpy about them at that particular moment. finally, the eldar are simply self-centered assholes. it's entirely possible them "teaching the interex" about chaos was more like a passing condescending comment by an eldar. something along these lines: "foolish mon'keigh, doomed to death... you stand head and shoulders above the ruins of your kin, yet for all your reclaimed wisdom you know nothing of the Great Enemy..." "the wot" *condescending and doomsaying edar speech about the horrors of chaos and of the warp that makes the interex aware and scared shitless of it but doesn't actually teach anything useful like detection or methods to fight it* i'm not sure what your last point is. aside from the fact that i don't recall them being described as "of mass destruction", just pretty powerful, *what* about their servants' weapons? you mean why did they not use them to fight the imperium? well, because they were warpy weapons and the interex knew better than using chaos, that should be pretty obvious given everything we know about them. or do you mean why they kept these weapons in museums? well because everyone in their society was taught about chaos, so what kind of maniac would ever try to use those things again, just keep them locked up in high security museums to keep them safe and you'll be fine. unless something crazy and unpredictable happens such as an overpowered demigod supersoldier of a foreign army breaks in during peace talks to steal some knife. reminder that the knife erebus stole wasn't even that special, just really high tech and deadly, the reason it corrupted horus was because erebus gave it to a daemon prince.

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

I get that the role of Interex was to be a foil for the Imperium and show both the readers and Horus that there was another way for humanity to survive without going murderhobo and that the Imperium would end up being a shitty place to live even if the H. Heresy never happened and after that was said the writers had no reason to keep them around (especially now that the Tau and maybe the Votann are feeling that role as well). With that said, them getting them killed off screen makes no sense to me. Like these guys fought wars with thoe spiders back when they were an interstellar power but war was not a major part of their colture? Idk it would make more sense to me if they simply faked their destruction and buggered off to another part of the galaxy and just never bothered to talk to the Imperium (even with 1M worlds the IOM barely controls 1% of the galaxy, you can easily hide from them and still have huge territory, space is very big)

[@SilverCinder1]

The entire horus heresy, the downfall of the emperor, all of everything that happened after the crusades, could have been avoided if the Interex didnt overreact. They could have been allied with the imperium and given them such awesome tech and avoided the mistakes of not teaching them about chaos. Fuck that sucks.

[@ketsuekikumori9145]

The Interex: The humanity we want The Imperium of Man: The humanity we deserve

[@migrivp2672]

The squat: who give's a shite las, as long you aint a knifes ears twat your a human

[@jakeg3733]

I see the Eldar influence here for sure. Interex soldiers would look more at home in a Craftworld army than with anything that's come from humanity in the past 10,000 plus years

[@chupakabra1999]

Imagine Perturabo meeting Interex. Would have been epic, really.

[@Marvolo14]

If GW ever decides to kill Erebus I want an Interex and a Kinnebrach to be the ones that deal the killing blow. I have to believe Trazyn saved one or two of them.

[@boredcryptek5513]

I don't think Dark age of technology mankind was more advanced than Necrons at least when Necrons were at their peak. They certainly were a whole lot closer and more numerable. But if you just did a straight tech comparison Necrons still had the edge albeit only a little edge.

[@marrvynswillames4975]

I think it's a bit strange to claim they were the most advanced remnant around, since there was guys like the Dulanians,Auretians, Gardinaal and Adrantis V which, while also not well explained, seem to be as much if not more advanced, the Interex only gets the spotlight for being in a popular novel, tbh

[@electricbayonet2]

One of the most shocking things I found out about the Interex is that they were in a Dan fecking Abnett book. He usually does waaaaaaay better with respecting the fundamental integrity of the universe he's writing within, and I would never have guessed that he wrote the raw absurdity that is 'hahaha spooky kay-oos sward is in mooseum.' Then again, that insane stupidity aside, the blame for their 'destruction' lies on future authors for just kinda mentioning other 'human' empires that were destroyed without considering the insane logistics that would be involved in such an absurdly advanced civilization going extinct. As a side note, if you want an example of what I think may be Dan Abnett trying to reroll his Interex blunder, check out the Olamec Quietude in 'Prospero Burns.'

[@youdontknowwhoiam4349]

Lmao I was just thinking about how Abnett would write this and I had no idea it was him. To be honest, his Horus Heresy work hasn’t been the greatest but I’m assuming this is what happens when a dozen writers attempt to piece together a universe based on 20 year-old lore.

[@LuciusSicarius]

As much as I love 40k, the Imperium of Man, and the Emperor because they make for awesome stories, I've always wished the Interex were still around or some other powerful human faction that wasn't so awful, stupid, tyrannical, and xenophobic in every way imaginable existed.

[@NinjaMaster23145]

What if the interex met the Tau? 2 highly advanced societes with a love of diplomacy and helping the entire galaxy? That would be a match made in heaven but because this is 40K we can’t have that :(

[@glintytear]

The Tau are slightly imperative in nature, they believe themselves to be the only truly enlightened race, and that's somewhat out of tune with their so-called Greater Good

[@amusician644]

This is also something that showed off Horus and the Luna wolves before their fall to chaos and such which I really like. After all the Emperor considered Horus his greatest son before Horus got stabbed, fell to chaos, starts the Heresy. I would like more stories that feature Luna wolves and Horus way before his fall to chaos and the Heresy.

[@TANEM315]

Majorkill always makes the more tragic stories from 40k more bearable by saying things like "Fk Erebus" at the end. Like salve on a fresh wound XD

[@demondeity9816]

I imagine if these guys joined the imperium than the Emperor would have just yeeted the cult of mars

[@adrienwatson2179]

The Interex commander never "Almost beat Garviel Lokan" Garviel was taking it easy on him and said so in his interior monologue. He even knocked the guy out nicely and handed him to 2 TERRIFIED Interex soldiers... who were too scared to attack Lokan. So yeahhhhhhh, not really at all happened

[@midgetydeath]

He fired two shots when reinforcements showed up and the soldiers were apparently totally stunned by how powerful such a primitive weapon was as they immediately, comically, backed away around the corner and ran off.

[@dekuvisuals9847]

I think GW should definitely bring back the Interex as a new faction it would be interesting to see some new lore and figures.

[@cuban-being3087]

After reading the hours heresy novels....yes all of them. Erebus is actually the main antagonist.

[@The_Bird_Bird_Harder]

Fuck Erebus indeed. The interex are genuinely one of my favorite little footnote factions. If it was feasible to do well I'd love to see them return, but I doubt it'd work out that great.

[@Naidisbus]

How do you think the Big E would have felt about Horace learning of Chaos early, though? I'm sure once Commander Baldo reported back to Papa there would have been a long talk about the 2 headed birds and horned bees. I feel like that would have just caused the Large Father to push Moon Dog into genocide again, but at someone else's command.

[@trolldrool]

You say an alliance with the Interex would've taught the Imperium about Chaos, but you seem to neglect the lengths the Emperor had already gone to to keep it a secret. Considering how the Emperor and Malcador feel about people who know too much, I don't think the future would look very bright for the Interex either way.

[@Franz0818]

Imagine if the Interex unites with the Imperium with the help from Guiliman, like imagine the advance armored space marines and guardsmen

[@Snoozems]

"The Age of Strife was...ah...not mankind's favorite vibe." Beautiful understatement lol

[@Darksmirk1]

Wish there were other technically advanced humans still. It be an interesting foil to the imperium. I guess the squats can be that now🤷🏼‍♂️

[@merwynn5388]

the great crusade is such a giant messed up thing to consider. On the one hand the emperor wants to extinguish any kind of superstition and faith, on the other hand the utter brutality and cruelty with all its emotional catastrophies creates so many deamonic entities in the warp. By all his intelligence the emperor is devoid of wisdom in this whole endevour. Faith and religion is not to be destroyed; history shows. The great crusade is the biggest tragedy in 40k. And the fact that all encountered tech, be it human or alien origin has to be destroyed is absolutely beyond me

[@Phoenix8492]

The Interex: “There are signs everywhere which clearly read “DO NOT GO HERE.” The Imperium: “Those signs won’t stop me, because I can’t read!”

[@chrishughes-adair1319]

I bet an elder farseer saw how awesome an alliance would be and how great the imperium could have been and told them about chaos to trigger that reaction and ruin it.

[@MoaRider]

The Interex and the Diasporex are the main reasons I hate the Imperium. There are too many potentially interesting human factions in the lore that have been destroyed by the Imperium. Sci-fi settings really need to stop having Humanity be one big empire. Imagine an actual Interex faction on the tabletob, their units would of looked sick as hell. I like to think the remnants of the Interex escaped and founded a new empire far away from the Imperium borders. Also, yes. Fuck Erebus.

[@lapislazuli5035]

I'd love to imagine that there's a DAOT human society living right now outside of the galaxy watching everything happening in the Milky Way, laughing their asses off and eating popcorn because they know how irredeemable the Imperium is.

[@dustinnabil798]

@@lapislazuli5035 lol, that would be the biggest middle finger to big e ever.

[@arminiuscherusci4410]

Erebus did nothing wrong

[@nobleman9393]

The Concept of united Humanity is overall very ridiculous.

[@tobiasriley9420]

@@lapislazuli5035 Wouldn't the tyranids have killed them already.

[@Hagosha]

I won't lie, I saw the thumbnail and thought Majorkill was gonna talk Warframe but this makes more sense lmao

[@NobleWolf]

I dont think this would have changed things much, Horus had doubts of the emperor and this would only comfirm faster. It might have made things worse with Interex tech backing Horus during his march to Terra. The Emperor knew being aware of chaos but not how to see it was dangerous which is one of the reasons why he didnt tell the Primarchs about it.

[@greegeree]

god civs like this are so badass to me. i wish there was another mode of warhammer where it took place in other eras and you could have an Interex army for ex

[@juliusbossman7280]

How about a video about the relationship between Abaddon and the traitor primarchs? Do they help Abaddon or just ignore him? I'm going to guess that Fulgrim tried to assault him and Angron attack him

[@kola-x9p]

The imperium sometimes so full of themselves, imagine if they got visited by a certain tear shaped craft from a tri-solar civilization.

[@im2randomghgh]

Even during the DAoT the Eldar were the actual king shit in the galaxy! They're literally described as "unchallenged masters of the galaxy" and had technology that was on an entirely different level. And comparing them to necrons? Nah mate. Not even a little bit.

[@aleksandrneprimerov278]

necron still very sleepy but they are the real kings

[@Marconius6]

Considering the half-assed job the Eldar apparently did explaining Chaos to them, I'm gonna say this whole thing is the Eldar's fault... again.

[@commanderkei9537]

Wait, so it’s like a renaissance civilization using shot & pike / polearms and laser bows?

[@aaronabrogena6563]

Would be cool if Trazyn had some in his collection and releases them to save some doomed world

[@Kareszkoma]

Before going into the roleplay too hard, it's just writing. Horus or the Interex could've just radioed each other at any point, took up communications, do proper diplomacy, or just tried to figure out what happened. But that just didn't happen at all. Also doing genocide, and destroying entire worlds is really nice in general writing, but not so much when it's detailed or thought over. The technology doesn't disappear easily either, when the Emperor was maidenly collecting it. The Interex story line was just another way of showing how faulty and problematic the Imperium and the Great Crusade was and that, in that context would've never worked. Just Emperor stuff.

[@bxmully]

Hell yeah. I've asked other youtubers to do videos on interex. But u came thru and did a whole video on it. Thank you More on abhumans and random xenos like the hrud in general, please, good sir!

[@jonathanathor117]

It would be interesting and nice if a faction similar to the interex could make a come back. Said faction DOESN'T have to be connected to chaos or tyranids/ genestealers. The galaxy is huge after all.

[@marrvynswillames4975]

you go thte Votann for this

[@flamestoyershadowkill]

a human civilization returning from the andromeda galaxy would be an interesting faction. Unfortunately there would be connection to the tyranids. The andromeda humans would be hellbent on exterminating the nids far beyond that of anyother faction.

[@jonathanathor117]

@@flamestoyershadowkill That was thing that bugged me. How come the eldar never colonise any of the other galaxies or you know, the entire super cluster the milky way galaxy is on. Like they wasted 65 million years just doing art and crafts and orgies. No wait that's xeelee sequence and shiar empire/ kree/ skrulls all over again. However it would be nice to introduce the other galaxies. And a human faction that never had interactions with the imperium. Maybe the so called AI rebellion isn't what we think it was. Maybe there were several AI screw ups or golden age humanity had some flaws that even the god emperor didn't know or keep secret. Could be a interesting shake up from the status quo.

[@flamestoyershadowkill]

@@jonathanathor117 independent artificial intelligence empires alongside humanity would be an interesting thing to explore. having multiple factions with different goals such as one that wants to know everything with something like the "I do not want to be human speech", another that wants to eradicate chaos by eliminating all organic life having a universe of mechanical life, and ones that live to serve their creators as loyal even though they have been extinct for milenia. There is so much potential for new factions from outside the galaxy.

[@RomanCatholic001]

Well that took the wind out of my sails. I just finished Horus rising and was completely fascinated by the interex.

[@ryokajimosensei2780]

Imagine the missing primarchs joining the Interex against the imperium because they supported their ideals instead of following the Emperor's crusade

[@dseanm21]

Do more videos about these guys for a while. I'm very curious about this society.

[@15DEAN1995]

is that really what the interex looked like? their armor looks so ornate and sleek compared to the imperium. if i could choose two factions from 30k to return in 40k they would be the interex and rangdan. the interex because of their advanced technology and more open minded thinking would be really interesting to see, especially if guilliman got to speak to them. although they would overlap with the tau quite a lot. the rangdan because theyre left deliberately vague and even though they will probably never show up again, it would be the perfect reason for the lion to return. he is the only non chaos corrupted character with experience against them.

[@mdd4296]

Tau is only open minded in the sense they dont choose war as the first option. Good luck changing their caste system, asking ethereal to stop ruling as their birthright or let individuals from other species climb higher in their rank

[@15DEAN1995]

@@mdd4296 fair point i was thinking of it in regards to them being kind of naive but advanced

[@A.M_slime]

We need GW to explore an alternate timeline where everything didn't go wrong. What would the 41st millennium look like if shit didn't hit the fan every couple of years. Starting with the Necrons

[@serbubogdan3284]

Interex need to be re-introduced. You could change their name, call it the remnants or exiles of the greater Interex empire, but make it that they’re low-key stayed under the Imperium’s radar for all this time, skillfully covering their tracks. And keep their advanced technology and society, which they carefully guard from the Imperium and Inquisition

[@SafetyBriefer]

They're called Squats.

[@nomadicle6867]

@@SafetyBriefer space dwarves don’t count since the interex were tall

[@marrvynswillames4975]

@@SafetyBriefer this, the Votann fill the same niche, no need to revive an one shot faction

[@orrorsaness5942]

So… basically they became part of the imperium via secret “alliances” and now they want out.

[@serbubogdan3284]

@@orrorsaness5942 That’s an avenue worth pursuing. It’s a concept from which one can expand

[@carsonweekly]

Damn this faction seems cool, and their reaction to Horus after learning of the thievery seems out of character. Which they didn't get completely wiped out.

[@free2chasehappy]

"Don't want to make weapons deemed OP." Translation: We have chosen death.

[@brendencampbell3082]

Imperium of Man : Genocide Everything in the Universe : fUck

[@damienstorm7263]

I totally watched the video before commenting.

[@willmarsden7657]

I desperately want the Interex Empire to still be standing in some way; it'd be a real Fremen and Sardukaur Dynamic, and could prove very interesting in taking the fight to Chaos and the Tyranids.

[@seprithlicastia463]

Dream of utopia with the Interex? I have one name that completely destroys that notion, and it is not Horus or even Erebus. It is the Emperor of Mankind; his plan to defeat Chaos ran entirely counter to the Interex. If this meeting had ever gone anywhere, the Emperor would have been forced to stop it. In the end, they were just a mildly more informed group of Old Night survivors than most. They had no chance of ever defeating Chaos. They also were not peaceful to Horus' envoy -- they regularly condescended to them and were all but openly hostile to the Imperium as a concept.

[@starhammer5247]

For the right reasons. The Imperium was an absolute shit hole, and the Astartes augments were pretty crude despite being the best soldiers the Imperium had.

[@seprithlicastia463]

@@starhammer5247 They were crude, sure, but could the Interex really sustain their culture or technology through a galactic war? The Eldar (the Interex's closest-to-an-ally) are untrustworthy. Orks alone would have devastated them, to say nothing of the Rangdan. The very idea that the Interex, of all factions, is this lost "golden age" opportunity is ridiculous. They are a nice juxtaposition for many of the Imperium's failings, narratively, but in the end xenocide was part of the Emperor's plan to finally defeat Chaos -- and the Emperor's plan is still the closest anyone has come.

[@starhammer5247]

@@seprithlicastia463 Doesn't mean it's the best plan. I'm sure there were better alternatives. The Interex were just unlucky that they weren't given the chance to expand very far. If they did then Chaos may have actually been defeated in a peaceful way. Too bad the Imperium got there first and Erebus did what he always does and fucked shit up for everyone. The Emperor wasn't against all Xenos, they did take client species in quite a few times, Horus wanted this to be one of those times and I guarantee the Emperor would appreciate the extra vigilance against Chaos and allies. Still, no use pondering this after Erebus fucked everyone over.

[@seprithlicastia463]

@@starhammer5247 The Emperor's plan was to kill or cull (limit) all Xenos races, and then remove humanity's dependence on the Warp. Hard to say it was the best, but the idea was that with the most populous race being humans (hence all the xenocide), the Chaos Gods would be starved, thus weakened, and the Warp might even calm. The problem is that Chaos knew this plan the entire time. For the Emperor to succeed, he needed a win scenario with such a minor chance of actually working, the Chaos Gods would wait until too late to act on it. And it almost worked -- had the human Webway project finished, humanity could cut itself off from the Warp. Most Xenos were already dead.

[@starhammer5247]

@@seprithlicastia463 And then Magnus did absolutely nothing wrong. But yeah, doesn't change the fact that the Interex would've been welcome additions.

[@juliane.mfarias9285]

Imagine if the Emperor would have seen all of this "HORUS MY FUCKING DANMMIT!!!"

[@simonw1252]

Mam, so glad you did this video...The Interex were so interesting, and that whole plot line really bugged me, even now after a few years still does. They're a tiny bit like The Culture in Iain M Banks' books in outlook. The Interex had the most seemingly pleasant human culture and society design so far met by the Imperium and the whole thing... Arrrgh, so frustrating!! Why did that ratty shit Erebus 'set the stage' with the Interex and not the bloody Kroot... Aaargh! Would love to read more about them somehow.

[@WydeFade]

Re-reading an early heresy book and the bow scene caught me. It's all shits and giggles until the clown of the squad gets a unwanted third eye.

[@Astartes-6969]

Wish a Neo-Interex would come back. That'd be awesome. Plus they'd be another good faction in the 40K Universe.

[@marrvynswillames4975]

don't the Votann already fill this spot?

[@Astartes-6969]

@@marrvynswillames4975 Who?

[@TheCrystonian]

If anyone could travel to the 30k universe, Erubus would definetly be on a hit list

[@emanate0]

sounds like a human civilization i would actually like to be a part of

[@joshuagraham2843]

yeah definitely no heresy no torture no scary cybernetic guinea pigs only true human civilization

[@lukeungerboeck7161]

It's the Tenno and their Warframes! Cool story bro, be pretty sick to have a playable faction of humans that's not the imperium

[@NornQueenKya]

Ah, the empire everyone online uses an example of how great humanity could be. Even though they basically were babied by a xenos race who had chaos artifacts everywhere and ended up being wiped out by a single legion like it was nothing. Some empire

[@brentmillinger9906]

So to sum it up, Erebus ruins yet another thing. What’s his score up to now?

[@kylehankins5988]

I like how the elder neglected to show the intersex pictures of what chaos looked like.

[@snap8626]

I will never get tired of "good day guys and girl".gets me every time.

[@piraterubberduck6056]

I can see how stealing a dangerous cursed weapon and burning down the museum it was in, during diplomatic talks (on their best behaviour, right?) where the Interex were trying to work out if they were evil violent monsters would give them a bad impression of the Imperium.

[@redsol3629]

The destruction of the Interex hurt me, it was going so well until the temple was breached.