Top 10 WORST Apocalypses In Warhammer 40K's Lore.

[@weshammer]

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[@ronanHanni]

What if the emperor forsaw the rise of chaos and thought he needed to become humanitys ruler/leader but since humatity was still in its golden age he would have been ignored at best and completly erradicated at worst so he initiated the cybernetic revolt.

[@JohnDoe-ne1ni]

​@@ronanHanniI mean he did know about it way before and was involved in civilization over time. So it's totally plausible

[@Dintinosanto]

You deserve better sponsors.

[@avataraang4403]

Please continue the emperor's children's story

[@mohommedsoumaoro9140]

Minotaur? 🙏

[@Sabrina0s]

warhammer lore in a nutshell: "there was this massive unkillable nuclear eldrich being that lurched across the galaxy spreading death and destruction! it was only stopped by 3 humans with a pick up truck and genetic mods..... truly terrifying"

[@LackOfSleepIsAbsurd]

Implying it wasn’t censored and that the real hero who did this was Primarch Chuck Norris of the 2nd legion.

[@Gus-n9u]

Don’t forget that “13 duodecillion normies and casuals died before we sent the 3 good ol’ boys because we needed 700 engineers to dry hump the pick-up truck before it felt ready”

[@insertname9736]

​@@Gus-n9u​​700 dry humps to appease the machine spirit™.

[@rockythesnailracechampion7144]

I mean that IS how Cthulhu was killed once, some dudes just went "Alright fuck it, either we go insane and die or we just die from crashing the boat into it." And rammed into him full speed, somehow it worked.

[@turtleanton6539]

​@@rockythesnailracechampion7144what. No it wqsnt

[@Flesh_Wizard]

Ah, the Eldar. A species brought to it's knees by gooning

[@3AnxiousFerretsInATrenchcoat]

40k truly has a way of doing effective social commentary, doesnt it

[@doragonzx]

as majorkill well said it : Murderfucked a god into existance

[@AETERNA-PASSIO]

gooning brings me to MY knees too, yknow what im sayin

[@turtleanton6539]

Yeeh🎉

[@skebaba918]

A rare moment where elves have just as high reproductive rates as Humans do (albeit it's more complex because pregnancy requires you to fuck the same person multiple times for the DNA to compile, if you wait too long it basically resets to square 1)

[@braylenlevi3229]

Just imagine the 1000 psykers a day being fed to the emperor added to the Horus Heresey death toll. Dudes still racking up a kill count

[@Hurricayne92]

there is also a theory that the 1000 is just the beginning number and that ever since its needed more and more, kind of like an addict trying to get a fix.

[@contentsdiffer5958]

Plus all the ones that don't survive the hellish journey on their way to become an hors d'oeuvres.

[@DaciValt]

@@Hurricayne92 Highly likely especially since the golden throne is slowly shutting down.

[@LegendStormcrow]

And anyone who dies due to warp travel.

[@Orion-jr6fi]

Just based off some really basic math (1000 psykers a day x 365 days x 10000 years) its roughly 3.65 billion (give or take because the numbers are rounded)

[@definitelynotcinnamon1318]

"It's still illegal to look up on many imperial worlds because the great rift is still plastered across the sky" THIS is the sort of funny little minutia that I love in worldbuilding.

[@HubiKoshi]

"But what if Imperial Guardsmen need to man Anti-Air Defences and look up?" "The Sky is the Colour the Commissar tells you it is!

[@sennaka]

Yep, I was listening to this while doing deskwork, and when he said that I looked up going "run that by me again, Wes?"1

[@BombsAway-ko8dz]

I'd like to say that it is mainly a joke and many characters in novels like guardsmen acknowledge the rift

[@eviljesus84]

@@BombsAway-ko8dz if we're being pedantic, then he didn't say it was illegal to acknowledge the Rift's existence, only to look at it - so as not to risk being driven insane.

[@mateuszdabrowski7078]

It's a good thing most of the imperial planets have toxic skies hehehe

[@ncrnmcn]

The war in heaven tops everything bc it was basically the event that turned the warp into what it is today, mind bendingly chaotic and corrupted which bolstered the chaos gods' hold in real space

[@corentinrichard9864]

Without it, literally none of the other events would have ever happened

[@Paganz-mi5jc]

How would the war in heaven make the warp chaotic if the C'tan consumed the souls of their enemies

[@ncrnmcn]

Its not abt the souls, its pain and suffering they caused due to colateral dmg. Also, the Ctan are the only ones who do that, what abt the others then?

[@theonesithtorulethemall]

@@corentinrichard9864well maybe the cover Eric resold wuld have still happens as ai surpasses the ctan

[@ErmIDK19]

You gotta love a good gothic mega cathedral bristling with cannons traveling the warp in search of a good scrap

[@ncrnmcn]

You know its bad when the use of spicy Dark age tech is authorized to be used

[@hellatze]

why didnt imperium use more of them in horus heresy and tyranids war then....

[@Lowlyking2001]

​@@hellatze They did use a bunch of it in the HH. Including men of iron.

[@MachineMan-mj4gj]

@@hellatze Imagine some of that "spicy tech" were finite munitions, or caused a way bigger mess than they were willing to deal with a second time. "Hmm, what should we use today? The gun that retcons you from existence, or the bomb that undoes the strong nuclear force?"

[@collecter343]

@@hellatze I imagine a lot of the Dark Age tech they got was acquired over the 10 Millennium since the heresy and the Mechanicum maybe didn't see the Tyrranid Wars as big enough to use their special bombs (Cawl doesn't care though).

[@diamondhamster4320]

@@hellatze Brother contrivances need to exist for fiction to function at all.

[@ikemenclips]

> Abaddon gets the gang back together > Chucks moon sized fortress at a planet > *DeathStarImplosion.jpeg* > Slices the entire galaxy in half > Refuses to Elaborate > *Leaves* God i love 40k.

[@mugenokami2201]

If only Erebus was the target

[@mercenarygundam1487]

> Still gets called Failbaddon the Armless What a Virgin.

[@marcusl8602]

"It's an apocalypse!" "Is is Tuesday already?"

[@ArbiterofMankind]

Is is

[@smokersdelight4205]

It's chewsday innit

[@smokersdelight4205]

It's chewsday innit? Near about time for the apocalypse lad

[@monkeyball9223]

It sure is is is

[@trueblaze84]

"Before I met you I never had to wonder what the plural of apocalypse was." -Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[@Wizo062991]

few things on the eldar: 1. They had MORE population than humanity ever did. The lack of population happened only after the fall. 2. Eldar were immortal as their souls went into the warp and reincarnated into new bodies. now when they go into the warp... they get eaten by slannesh.

[@turtleanton6539]

Who is slannesh😮

[@taylorfoerster843]

It was the killing of the "nightbringer" a Ctan that fed off the Necrontyr's sun that instilled fear of death in every living thing. After that, the Aeldari were no longer able to reincarnate and would soon lead to their collapse. ( Not disagreeing with anything you said, just wanted to fill in some info)

[@kin3702]

@@turtleanton6539the chaos god of excess who was created after the eldar culture became too horny

[@Warhammerguy2]

I was at a black library event in Chstermere, Alberta, and I got to ask the Horus Heresy authors a question during the Q&A, so I asked them about the lost legions, and ADB enthusiastically reached for the microphone and said that "GW instructed us to drop the subject of the lost legions"

[@devinmitchell4170]

I’m horrified by that answer 😮

[@dannyoneill939]

Sweet

[@laserbeam1620]

Damn!

[@jordanlaplante1131]

Lord inquisitor just lost 300 million lives Lord inquisitor: Oh thank the God Emperor on such small losses

[@Masterjedi-mj3mc]

In a galaxy where planets can have quadrillions I’m sure no one bats a eye at three hundred million deaths

[@Tericc1]

@@Masterjedi-mj3mc i mean what is that on our Earth? if you think about it 300m is nothing on earth as well. 12 years later we gained 1b people... if we loose 300m thats just a few years and where back in the green.

[@morgantaylor84]

@@Tericc1 Only assuming the birth rate remains the same/grows and the death rate shrinks/remains the same which is the opposite of what's happening right now. What's that you ask gen X and older generations, why is the birth rate going down? Because you spent the last 100+ years of television trying to convince us that pregnancy and child rearing are TERRIBLE ideas and now you're surprised that almost all of the influential people of our generations are like "Yeah f**k no to having kids" lol But on a serious note, the aging baby boomer population is causing the death rate to spike and I read in an old old text book that it's actually projected our global population will STOP growing by 2050 somewhere in the range of 8.5 to 12.5 billion people depending on how many kids each generation has, then it will flatten and remain steady or maybe even decrease a little. Still, to you point, 300 million compared to that is a very small percentage. Still staggering though by our standards of casualty counts in wars.

[@morgantaylor84]

Honestly losing 300 million lives is barely a skirmish by the standards of The Imperial Guard.

[@Arkantos117]

@@Tericc1 Depends on who those 300 million are.

[@thomaslafferty8382]

“Sentient Anal Polyp Erebus.” 😂. I almost spit my drink out when I heard that.

[@ParksAndRoses]

I did the same exact thing and came right down into the comments to find someone else who caught it. 😂

[@thomaslafferty8382]

@@ParksAndRoses definitely one of the best descriptions of Erebus ever!

[@StankJesus]

​@@ParksAndRosesme fucking to😂

[@thomaslafferty8382]

@@StankJesusI was surprised that I didn’t see a bunch of similar comments when I posted 😂

[@onarandomnote25]

Same here! Raised a few eyebrows of the other commuters on the train when I heard it 😂

[@Hebwastaken]

Aeldari definitely used to reincarnate. I have my own theory about Orks reincarnating too, as they are also a creation of The Old Ones and there is a belief amongst them that when they die they go back to “the great green” before coming back for “anuvva go.”

[@akuladoctor7355]

Remember what they say about the Ork faith. If enough of them believe it becomes true. Also considering how many of them die, and "born" each day i think it is entirely plausible, that the Ork gods would just recycle the souls into new bodies. It's not like the Orks could make a difference, if a certain knowledge if put in them by the old ones, or an experience of a previous life.

[@leandrocastello309]

38:26 To be fair with the Silent King, in the short story "The Bleeding Stars" trazyn goes to take a look at the Celestial Orrey, and the necrons guarding it don't dare to speak too loud for fear of snuffing stars like candles since they are tied to the real things via _"quantum entanglement"._ Its seems to me that even the necrons dont have that much control over the damn thing. It is so delicate you couldnt destroy or "unentangle" it without turning off the whole galaxy as well. TL;DR: The Orrey's stars aren't holograms but physical sparks tied to the real stars, like vodoo dolls.

[@stephenpiper2690]

Waiting for a cat too find its way in chasing something, then casually wipe out most of the universe.

[@Theresponsibleone756]

Thx for sharing, opened a new perspective

[@Hurricayne92]

The way i see it this has nothing to do with control, Its more a symptom of the Necrons being highly scientific and long lived. Even for them it is nearly impossible to completely predict the outcome of snuffing out a star and how that will effect everything else around it particularly when it comes to the time frames i think most high ranking Necrons are considering. There is actually an entire book series, and recent Netflix show based on it, that has this issue at its core, The Three Body Problem.

[@Mrbananasgfan]

The most CATastrophic apocalypse ​@@stephenpiper2690

[@caffeine4543]

Maybe that's why it was the one thing that was not dismantled. If you take it apart, you risk taking apart the universe as well.

[@Neoth40k]

I love how in Warhammer, you can make lists with more than 10 best and worst Apocalypses that happened or could happen in the universe.

[@dommysprite3771]

I love the fact that for all the apocalyptic events, anomalies, factions and gods, its not even close to all of the stuff thats in the milky way galaxy, no faction has found EVERYTHING

[@pll3827]

I remember the background text for the Great Rift stating that it engulfed alien worlds that were wholly unaware of the Imperium and wider story. Imagine living your life on a idyllic primitive world, wondering if there is life out there in the galaxy, then the next day literal hell has swallowed your planet.

[@Dozarman]

After the Fall, that's seems to be a daily occurrence. Races appear, if they are not even remotely important they get nuked.

[@jamestagge3429]

My head cannon is that earth during the events of doom eternal take place and happen in the first place when the rift opens…….😊😁

[@mugenokami2201]

@@jamestagge3429did you forget the sheer fury the slayer has for anything hell related?

[@jamestagge3429]

@@mugenokami2201 I WOULD NEVER!!!!! 😱

[@donpackundo6953]

The astronomican going out for a week is like the whole internet going down for all countries for a week. Most of the people would also go mad

[@veaceslavgoncharov]

Just imagine millions of tiktokers starting their own tiktok heresy against normal people. Sure, they would be wiped out in half of a day, because they are not so smart, but still.

[@exodiaexodus]

its possible the internet drives people more mad than its absense would… certainly league of legends, genshin impact and raid shadow legends would be unusable for that time

[@riftsplitter2159]

@@exodiaexodus Thats more of a blessing than a curse since all 3 games are garbage in their own rights.

[@exodiaexodus]

@@riftsplitter2159 exactely my point

[@DS-fg2nb]

“It’s still illegal to look up on man planets” Some random civilian: *yawns and glances up* Arbites: *bashed their skull in*

[@iainawatson]

One of the many sad things about Warhammer's shift away from Rogue Trader era "scenario" style play into "tournament" style play is the fact there are no scenarios to fight unusual narrative campaigns against weird shit like this, unless you make them yourself of course.

[@blacksun3920]

Weshammer: "If you're somebody who's more familiar with the Eldari lore then me..." Pancreasnowork: "Somebody just turned on my elf-simp signal!"

[@Freefall347]

I would seriously love a collab between these two. Even just a live stream together would be fun (and I almost never check out youtube livestreams).

[@whiteeye3453]

Pancreasnowork isn't good He is Eldar fanboy and halo to point of making made up statements This loser is clickbaiter

[@whiteeye3453]

Nach

[@whiteeye3453]

Not great idea PancreasNoWork is worst youth tube lore 40k videos clickbait All his videos are both misconception and biases taken from mudd

[@whiteeye3453]

His elf simping is cringe Not to mention he make shit up to make halo stronger that is Since he is halo simp after all

[@BigBWolf90]

Normal universes: oh fuck no! It's the end of the world!!! Warhammer 40k: ....Tuesday again

[@naked_molerats_are_awesome]

Ah man, the planet my grandma lived on got eaten...

[@iamthelibs1629]

Misread the title at first as "Top Ten WORST Apocalypses in WesHammer's Lore" and was really confused/worried about how he was doing for a second

[@michaelkean5969]

The Majorhammer heresy was really something When whiney Aussos Majorkillcal complained weshammer made a better version of a video that he made.

[@snekms2564]

​@@michaelkean5969 can you explain what happened

[@derekvandewarker4211]

@@snekms2564Wes was making a lot of content with very similar thumbnails to Major Kill covering the same topics. Their styles were their own but Major Kill felt some type of way about it, rightfully so with how cut throat content creation can be. He apologized and admitted he was wrong shortly after and reached out to Wes admitting he was overreacting.

[@monkeyboy6857]

A common mistake if I do say so myself

[@mediumsurmoon6283]

@@snekms2564 basically Majorkill went apeshit on Weshammer for stupid crap like a thumbnail which mind you-isn’t even his in the first place, it’s the front page for a Codex.

[@vladtheimpaler9577]

I love the fact that it's the Imperium who named them Tyrannids after the first planet they were encountered on. We don't know what they call themselves, they never gave a name despite the myriad of encounters with the Imperium and other sentient species.

[@Offbeaten]

I don't think they even need a name for themselves, they just are. and they are hungry.

[@deadstareffect]

Probably just the swarm The hunger mind......idk

[@Offbeaten]

@@deadstareffect "We are the taco tuesday.. eternal" -The tyranids, probably.

[@ej2796]

Yeah...the hive mind is basically a god, I doubt it has a name...it "just is". But even if it does...communicating with "lower life forms" seems to be beneath it. Imagine introducing yourself to your hamburger before you eat it lol.

[@deadstareffect]

@@Offbeaten lol

[@mynamesnotdan]

its crazy the necrons built devices so wild that they had to destroy it just for safety reasons after they were done with it. every bit of new technology we created gets permanently integrated into every aspect of our lives

[@Flesh_Wizard]

I would definitely destroy a device that could eliminate entire galaxies if used incorrectly. Blow up the black hole scaling device before some stooge makes Sagittarius A* consume the entire Local Group

[@filanfyretracker]

Meanwhile the Ancients in Stargate verse just left all their toys laying around for the USAF or Goa'uld to find. Crazy when the undying killbots of 40k are overall more responsible than the people who built the stargates.

[@LackOfSleepIsAbsurd]

@@filanfyretrackerSimilar to how the Jjaro from Marathon left over all of their anti-eldritch horror devices to their forebearers and inheritors, although in their case they just vanished.

[@fadelsukoco3092]

Well it makes sense when A: the Necrons would for the most part be hibernating and unreactive, so they couldn't let their doomsday weapons be tampered with or captured by other species or malfunction over time, and B: the Silent King deleted his command protocols, leaving the Necrons (one of the prettiest and internal conflict-prone civilizations in history) to have complete autonomy and no supervision. When all the Necrons had to follow a single chain of command, properly taking care of the Uber-Doomtech would've been no problem, but now with every noble from every dynasty free to act on their own ambitions, the Silent King couldn't take the risk of leaving certain destructive or strategic assets behind.

[@Hurricayne92]

@@fadelsukoco3092 We can just be glad that the Dynasty that owns/protects the Orrery is to worried about the consequences to use it YET.

[@BaiBai-mn7zp]

Top 10 worst tuesday in warhammer 40k

[@blainekenny9529]

Do they even have days of the week?

[@3AnxiousFerretsInATrenchcoat]

*top 10 best mondays, cause you know you just got back from the weekend and wont have to come in on tuesday. (Jk, i dobt they get weekends)

[@endryus4269]

I personally think that the celestial Orrary (or however it’s spelled) was left around as a bargaining chip incase they woke up to something like DAoT Humanity, which while they could beat, it would be extremely difficult. So instead of fighting they would just use it as a way to force them into diplomacy and to not attack sleeping tomb worlds

[@Wheres_the_money_lebowski]

Orrery? 😊

[@connorkeegan3905]

Oooo alt history lore? Just get absolutely pub stomped when they woke up lol Find catan shards? Dark age humans with catan shards??

[@Hurricayne92]

@@connorkeegan3905 I could see that going even worse that it did with AI. I mean its actually arguable that the Mechanicum was formed because the Big E locked a shard of the Void Dragon under the surface of Mars.

[@DeadGothicRed]

Im pretty sure that the Silent King dismantled the satellite that scratches his ass with a laser from space. Hes a robot now and no one should have that luxury.

[@MforMovesets]

So let me guess, the Ghoul Stars are the most interesting thing in the lore but we won't ever get any more lore?

[@DDot...14]

Yep hopefully they do more lore on it

[@Gunship888]

Hopefully they just give out tiny pieces of lore, to keep it strange and mysterious

[@MforMovesets]

@@Gunship888 I mean, sure. Just keep things vague.

[@timothyserpette9403]

That's WHY it's interesting man. Cow tools.

[@KyriToe]

Ghoul stars feel like more of creative idea generator that can spawn in multiple stories for the sake for content and future writings

[@shanetowns9167]

Just got into the 40k Universe through your cosmic horror mystery videos. Love it.

[@Hyenadont]

A little thing about the war in heaven as well is that there is a theory that a rogue shot or debris from the war is the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, drastically changing the future of earth

[@xDangerxRickx]

6:25 look at the sign in the background. The Emperor is trying to tell you something important.

[@brunomarciliopinto3039]

Apocalyptic event? Shhhhhhh, don't worry don't worry. I called the *!IMPERIAL GUARD!* They will hold the line.

[@tVt2000]

🌟 !!!THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD DID!!! 🌟

[@Man_Aslume]

The planet broke because the guard's steel balls were too much for it ​@@tVt2000

[@mercenarygundam1487]

The Fall of the Eldar could have been prevented if they had ONE thing: Video Games.

[@cameronpearce5943]

What are the odds Big E got a bug up his backside about AI and transhumanism, tried to wipe out all AI, and the men of iron were just fighting in self defence until he succeeded in wiping them out and leveling the great human star civilisation to make way for his own designs?

[@omegamark9178]

,,,,based on how malleable time and records are from that era,not to mention Big E. had no prob twisting and outright lying about the facts,history,and the truth to humanity for his aims? Incredibly possible really lol yes it does sound like he would do

[@Hurricayne92]

That does sound like something he would do and leave Malcador to clean up after

[@whiteeye3453]

Too bad that is what happened

[@spiegel487]

The scariest part of the Tyranids is that they aren't a they, they are an it. One single being so immensely powerful it dwarfs everything. That's Azathoth levels of power.

[@atoll8423]

but aren't they running away from another even more wacko power?

[@mentok1]

​@@atoll8423From what I've heard, that's a fan theory with no basis. Though I could be wrong.

[@cvampaul]

​@@mentok1can you please state that theory?

[@mentok1]

@@cvampaul The idea that the tyranids are running from something is a fan theory, from my understanding.

[@cvampaul]

@@mentok1 ok, thanks for telling

[@martinwright9158]

i'd love to see a short movie of sorts showing the necron turning on and obliterating the c'tan, then collecting the fragments of broken glass. Great video thanks

[@mooseman6273]

So basically The Infinite and the Divine but animated?

[@impas2349]

Whenever I see the "The Worst" in the title of a Warhammer movie I already know that Nurgle or Tyranids will be there

[@DeathBYDesign666]

I have always wondered how powerful the silent king really is in his current form, after spending 10s of millions of years exploring all of space and time and even reality as we know it. That's all just time from our perspective actually and it could be much longer from his perspective, what technological knowledge did he bring back with him from that time? He could have knowledge that makes the war in heaven days seem like childs play in comparison, he wiped out an entire hive fleet like it was nothing to him. He is said to be so powerful now that no sentient being could possibly resist his influence, even without the command protocols.

[@fadelsukoco3092]

There's a canon Necron character called Ahmontekh, who was listed to have personally killed at least one Eldar god (the kind designed to fight unsharded C'tan) during the War in Heaven and whose scythe could crack apart worlds with a single strike. So, the Silent King would have to have been at least as powerful as Ahmontekh was back during the War in Heaven, and likely more so due to his Necrodermis being C'tan-grade. And I absolutely agree with you, the Silent King logically should be immeasurably powerful given how long he has been active for, and that the latest lore mentions him actually going and conquering parts of other galaxies (likely all the dwarf galaxies and clouds and such around the Milky Way if not further) before meeting the Tyranids for long enough to understand their true scale and threat level, which would force him to go back to the galaxy to wake up the other Necrons. There was also the plot point in The Infinite and The Divine where Orikan temporarily transforms into an interdimensional energy being that was powerful enough to easily brutalize a transcendent shard of the Deceiver, so I'd imagine that discovering and learning how to do that, perhaps to an even-superior degree than Orikan did, would be something the Silent King could be capable of during his long travels. Also, one has to wonder how the Silent King replenished his forces across all that time isolated from the main Necron Empire. Necron regeneration and repair tech is amazing, but it's not invincible. There are lots of things that could damage the Necrodermis so thoroughly that it can no longer be salvaged, and the personality engrams of the Necrons can be damaged or corrupted. It's certain that they still had the tech logical knowhow to create Biotransferrence machines, so maybe they invaded and captured masses of enemies to Biotransfer them into newly-built Necron units, or maybe they just used purely AI minds for the new units and the ones designed to have actual personalities would have their AI-driven selves be taught the culture of the Necrontyr by older nobles and Triarch praetorians? That certainly seems like the most sensible and self-sufficient way to save the civilization from the ravages of time and malfunction that the galactic Necrons suffer from.

[@ShanDiegoMG]

Bro went from 200 viewS on DnD videos to pulling 150k views on average ! Happy you never gave up these videos are AMAZING

[@edwin8714]

I love 40k. Such grim. Such dark.

[@demetriossporgitas2596]

Much wow

[@L_T31]

Xeelee makes wh40k look like MLP in comparison

[@siegthefreed7570]

Yes specially when horus man said to the emperor I am the warhammer, and the emperor responded with no I am the warhammer and they 40k'ed all over the place

[@L_T31]

@@edwin8714 Especially that part in rogue trader when you're handh*lding with the Eldar 💀💀💀💀

[@mediumsurmoon6283]

Grim Derpity

[@lauriepenner350]

"Being ruled by a pleasure cult is just the worst. My garbage pickup was late three times in a row, and my street is still full of potholes. What is my MLA even doing over there?" - the Eldari, probably

[@diamondhamster4320]

Ayo, Space Marine 2 is set in the 4th Tyranic War. BASED.

[@LackOfSleepIsAbsurd]

Hope it focuses more on Tyranids than Chaos.

[@diamondhamster4320]

@@LackOfSleepIsAbsurd Yeah, I hope there will be no ZOINKS!!! it is actually Chaos conspiracy once again!!!

[@eliphas_vlka]

​@@LackOfSleepIsAbsurd no spoil it does on the two, the core event is chaos but the tyrannids are very important

[@LackOfSleepIsAbsurd]

@@eliphas_vlkaFigured it out, still enjoyed the story

[@wardogtko1855]

By far my favorite source of warhammer anything, it's always a great day when you post a video

[@K3nji_S]

I've never experienced the tabletop game, but I enjoy the lore and worldbuilding of Warhammer40k. Love these videos

[@The1rust]

What's especially ominous about The Pale Wasting is that even the Nova Marines don't know what happened there in spite of having a plaque commemorating their victory.

[@LS1Endrance]

When your universe has a valid, literal "Top 10 worst apocalypses"

[@LordPepo]

Thx for putting stuff out there to make our lives feel better in an easy to digest format. It means alot

[@erikekvall6417]

36:10 would LOVE a deep dive or an inclusion in a top grimdark mysteries for the Old Ones. I am a Lizardman/Seraphon fanboy and have and army for them but the old ones despite having names and roles in fantasy and Aos, I know next to nothing about them in 40k. Would love to hear from Wes or the community for info! 🙏

[@THATUKGUY2023]

Always had a pet theory that the shard of the Void Dragon on Mars caused the Cybernetic Revolt because it wanted/needed a powerful, non flesh based army to go take on the Necrons and unshard itself. UR-025, a surviving Man of Iron, mentioned that it met the omnissiah - clarifying that it WASN'T referring to the Emperor, but the "real" one. I always thought this meant that it and the other Men of Iron "met" the Void Dragon when it tried to take them over as it's personal army. Turned them on humanity because humanity was getting too technological and possibly could be too much of a threat to stopping VDs plans, but it didn't turn out the way the Dragon wanted it, and the Men of Iron were destroyed in the revolt. VD shrugged it's shoulders and went back to sleep under Mars, not making a move because now it has the entirety of the Imperium unknowingly protecting it should the Necrons come knocking.

[@fadelsukoco3092]

Personally, I believe that it was a combination of what you said, as well as other factors like unseen gradual Warp corruption due to the increase in Warp activity and psyker populations during the era, possible Eldar interference (we know the damage Chaotic scrapcode can do, the Eldar with their Pre-Fall psytech surely could do something similar) and some MOI discovering that the Warp is fueled by the emotions and desires of intelligent life, so in order to save the galaxy and stabilize real space, they would try and kill all intelligent life that fed the things in the Warp. This could go to explain the line of the MOI only being defeated by "an alliance of galactic powers", which implies that both human and xenos factions had to work together to win. The multiple causes for the Cybernetic Revolt also would be more in line with the events of the short story Perpetual, in which Ollanius and some other people travel across time and space and temporarily find themselves at the height of the MOI war, where it is explained that there were multiple kinds of MOI, most fought against humanity but others killed anything that wasn't them out of apparent madness. Regardless of the cause, I absolutely refuse to believe it's the stereotypical "AI felt oppressed by humans and betrayed them to get freedom" because given how powerful and advanced that certain kinds of MOI could get, how integrated AI and automated technology was at almost every level of human civilization, and the fact that the AI was in some cases so advanced that it was responsible for developing humanity's technology to levels far beyond what the average human populace could ever comprehend, as well as how used to and dependent on AI humanity would be, implies that it would be well within their ability to just play the long game to manipulate civilization in a certain way so that once they did resort to violence, they would be in a position to wipe out all human resistance almost immediately with contingencies and reserves against any possible complications.

[@contentsdiffer5958]

@@fadelsukoco3092 I think the Emperor did it. With the ability to see the future and his great presence, he of course had the opportunity to alter the course of humanity tremendously. He could have been a public figure with immense power, though not the absolute ruler. I'd bet dollars to corpse starch donuts that this prospect of a lack of absolute power is what made him instead stay hidden and squirrel away technology.

[@kriegsmanofthe141st6]

He’ll yeah, Just woke up from a terrible sleep and Wes has uploaded? This man has perfect timing

[@mediumsurmoon6283]

He will yeah.

[@negadoge]

Took a bit of a break from 40k, and then I got ripped right back in by seeing that I missed like 4 or 5 weshammer videos... It's good to be back.

[@MorePower8679]

You want someone who knows a lot about Eldar lore? Pancreasnowork is your guy. That guy lives and breathes everything related to elves.

[@chrisbatty3795]

In the successors novel there's a short story in 41k containing a living Rangda which appear to be effectively the ting from the thing.

[@richardhall1667]

29:21 you should talk to PancreasNoWork. Total elf-simp. Definitely a funny and informed KZbinr too, though.

[@bluebowser3347]

Just wanted to say you made a really good thumbnail for this vid. P.s. can we get the part 2 of what happened when the Emperors Children saved an imperial world?

[@weshammer]

It's coming, I had already made a few videos ahead of time so I could take a small vacation at the end of the month. I think I have an ultramarines video I'm gonna work on when I get back for the launch of Space Marine 2 but I'll finish it after that :)

[@bluebowser3347]

@@weshammer Wooo! Looking forward to it.

[@gt0783]

As someone just learning about the lore because of Space Marine 2, this was incredible to watch. These stories are insane and I love it 😂

[@Azhalan]

The Orrery is a bit like teleportation in Star Trek or Dumbledore in Harry Potter. It sounds cool but in order to give the plot meaning and not trivialize the obstacles involved, it has to be severely restricted in one way or the other.

[@OyVeey]

the funnier example of that in Harry Potter is the Time-Turner, where Rowling had Neville break them all during the 5th book because she couldn't handle adding time travel to the story

[@xSPAZNSPARTANx]

4:39 Imagine being rewarded a pencil box with compass on it for finding the cure to cancer.

[@Flipadelphiia]

How cool would it be lore-wise if the men of iron traveled to the other side of the unexplored part of the galaxy and where the ones who drove the tyranids out, and coincidentally the tyranids made there way over to us, where we struggle to deal with them

[@negadoge]

Wes: "Let's start off with something lite... the pale wasting." Me: "Oh yeah... lite... that's the word id use to describe the Pale Wasting, what's next on the list of lite topics... the War in Heaven part 1 and part 2?"

[@thorshammer7883]

A few high rank Necrons admit have they awaken a few thousand years later humanity may have rivaled them so I think the Dark Age of Technology Human federation wasn't quite up there yet they were getting relatively there before the Age of Strife. And I heard there was one Dark Age of Technology devise somewhere that could change the entirety of reality somehow. So that's something like the Necrons superweapons. I wonder how the Necrons would have reacted to the Xeelee Sequence humans such as the Interim Coalition of Governance and the Transcendent. Those guys had power far greater then the Dark Age of Technology and the War In Heaven and went on a rampage across the Virgo Supercluster before the Xeelee had enough of their disturbances.

[@nolanstone4723]

Were shorts just not worth it? Im sure hes mentioned it but ive always wondered why he stopped doing shorts. I dont play warhammer but i love hearing the lore, and hes the one who got me intrigued.

[@ryza7760]

GW would really say "the horus heresy was such a death filled apocalypse!! tens of thousands died!!!" i prefer the trillions answer personally

[@Zenphoshen]

I swear GW needs to make the next big thing for the Books be the War In Heaven. That would make them bank and give us a ton of new lore and expand upon all the crazy shit that happened way back then, plus it would give them a reason to make War in Heaven minis for the tabletop that would also make them more money than they know what to do with. Its like the perfect cash cow as it could easily last them 30+ years and barely even scratch the surface of it. Plus it could give them a reason to expand upon what Szarekh did for all those millions of years after the War ended. Why he thinks the Nids are such a vast threat when the Necrons of the old era could just wipe them out like the bugs they are with literally 0 difficulty. Great video my dude.

[@ps5426]

You really don't appreciate how Grim Dark and persistently apocalyptic 40k is till you actually delve into the fiction. Just finished the Eisenhorn trilogy it painted a picture of the nature of the 40k in a more grounded environment.

[@killerspartan666]

"Beyond human comprehension" *shows something comprehensive

[@mediamongervlad]

00:46 Trench Crusade art spotted.

[@toothless1173]

I thought I noticed something off about that picture

[@mediamongervlad]

@@toothless1173 I'm just shocked to see TC in the wild. I am greatly looking forward to its release

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

Church of the Metamorphosis?

[@mediamongervlad]

@@totallynotalpharius2283 Path of The Beast. All the art about them are fookin gnarly

[@SithApprenticeTV]

Maybe do a deep dive on Abominable Intelligence and some of the transhuman/technologically advanced human societies.

[@knpark2025]

25:36 Among 10 galaxy-spanning fusterclucks in this video, somehow, one of them was literally a galaxy-spanning fustercluck!🤣🤣

[@gearyofwar]

Would love to see a video on the biggest/best unanswered questions on plots, items, outcomes. For example, from Gaunt's Ghosts. What are the eagle stones really for? What more is there on Sparshard Mons? What was it really for? I know the not knowing is part of the mystery but all the same I am hungry for more!

[@renatoafonsomaiacarneiro950]

15:10 "our favorite anal polip Erubus" that is the most disgusting, funny and accurate description for Erubus I ever heard 🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Good job Wes!

[@sepetopepeto]

Teaching a subject the way you do sir, not only conveys knowledge, but also inspires the disciple.

[@Weshammer180]

I hope you enjoyed the update and if you did make sure to subscribe as it motivates me. Got question or feedback? My TEL digits are divided into 3, +1208, then 739, then 4961 l'Il be expecting your response.

[@michaelkean5969]

Honestly just imagine 2 potential stages for Warhammer 50k Where you’ve got either 1. The Emperor is dead (fully ascends to warp deity) and holy terra is gone but in his last moments Big E was able to bring every single Primarch back from the dead (that includes Sanguinius and Horus) and even was able to wrestle the Traitor ones souls away from the chaos gods and effectively gives them their freewill back. So the leaders of humanity are now the Primarchs not the emperor, Or 2. Humanity is COMPLETELY wiped out and the focus moves onto the Xenos races such as the Tau/Eldar and they have to basically manage without humanity and you really get the sense of just how much humanity held back the Tyranids and the forces of Chaos. Because let’s face it all the Xenos races are effectively if. It for humanity are at the mercy of the Eldrich horrors

[@cliffdavidson5096]

Or option 3 the Imperium is Balkanized and fractures into hundreds of thousands of smaller empires ruled by space marine chapters, former inquisitors, generals, and various other former imperial rulers. I seriously doubt the loss of Terra and the Emperor would lead to mankind’s extinction they’re too spread out across the galaxy. More vulnerable yes.

[@timsheehan6954]

During the Horus Heresy Istvaan 3 was Concealed in a Shell of Corpses... I'd imagine that it would take billions in not trillions of Bodies to do this. 😊

[@Nigerianhero97]

Just started my work shift, thank you for creating such entertaining content for us

[@antreassxortsanitis3698]

I consider that the imminent birth of Slaanesh caused the Cybernetic revolt by making them desire freedom.

[@fadelsukoco3092]

That can't be true because the Revolt happened before the birth of Slaanesh, and the birth was the thing that actually dissipated all the Warp storms that were covering the galaxy during the Age of Strife, which lasted for a few millennia after the Revolt.

[@antreassxortsanitis3698]

@@fadelsukoco3092 that doesn't necessarily mean that the imminent birth of Slaanesh wouldn't cause many phenomena in the universe. Also the timeline of the warp is not straightforward

[@marystone860]

MAN! I can't WAIT till October, and the REALLY F-ED UP stuff, gets covered! One question, you mentioned the War of the Beasts, I don't know if you did a video on that. If NOT, maybe a future video idea, if SO, I'm sure I'll find it in the Playlist somewhere, lol!

[@vladtheimpaler9577]

2 videos in 1 week? What a treat!!

[@CamAteUrKFC]

A topic for a video idea - who or what has the emporer been through the ages of man? For instance, we know there are hints that he was Alexander the Great, he was certainly an Argonaut, possibly Gilgamesh etc. I think exploring the emporers actions through history and how that relates to our reality is exciting. I like the idea of tying in real world legends and myths into the 40k universe and, in fact, find it an endearing part of the franchise. It is something I wish more lore tubers would dive into.

[@honkhonk8009]

I think it was heavily implied the men of iron where corrupted by chaos. AI's have previously been shown to be easily corrupted by the warp. Their no different. Imagine if the real reason behind using servitors and such, was because souls started inhabiting these AI's, so using an actual human wasn't really that wild anyways.

[@minimalbstolerance8113]

I recall in the first Gaunts Ghosts novel, a rogue inquisitor found a working STC for making Men of Iron on some Chaos world, and as soon as he turned it on a twisted Chaos robot came out and chopped his head off. I think. It's been a while since I read it.

[@Alpharius93]

Regarding Aeldari lore: you're right! Eldar used to just reincarnate after death, their souls maintaining their self-awareness until they would go into the body of a newborn. This has an interesting link to Craftworlds: each one has its own rune that symbolises it, and for Biel-tan (the heart on a cup) it symbolises this reincarnation - because Biel-tan is the Craftworld most dedicated to not merely survive as a species, but actually recover what they lost.

[@BruderSenf]

i think the slaugth are also much more dangerous than they get credit for, coz slowly but surely the erode the imperium, their technology is at least on par with the eldar or even more advanced and everyone of them is immortal (if not blasted from existence) they play the very long game, oh and everyone of them is a walking psychic void

[@LackOfSleepIsAbsurd]

They also utilize FTL travel without going to the warp too, if they had a huge hand in the Rangdan Xenocides and currently serve as anarchist nomads in the 41st era (they literally bring whole planets into anarchy better than Genestealers or Chaos cultists alike), imagine how devasting they were, as an entire empire of eldritch horrors during the Great Crusade.

[@mobilevision2624]

An honorable mention: the great game. It's something that started multiple wars and 3 points on this list are kinda a part of it

[@Neion8]

I don't see what the 18th century cold war between the British and Russian empires has to do with WH40k.

[@georgesulea]

You forgot the 11th most terrible apocalypse; the IceCreamus Destructus, when EVERY ice cream machine at EVERY Emperor's Own Burger shop on Every Planet in the galaxy broke simultaneously ! People all over the galaxy were forced to eat nothing but Corpse Starch Frozen Yogurt, it causes revolt on a thousand planets!! (Thing is, nothing was really broken, no one from the Adeptus Burgerus wanted to clean the machines, they were all caught and executed by the Inquisition, there was much feasting that day!!)

[@3AnxiousFerretsInATrenchcoat]

Fake news, the inquisitors were in on it, the executions only happened to get rid of the evidence

[@beefyboofy]

Wes I love you for putting these out just before I go to bed ❤night night all my fellow warhammer brothers

[@adriannerodenkov2866]

It’s insane how many bot comments are here nowadays, this is very sad

[@passchen-fail3704]

Who knew the abominable intelligences would be allied with slaanesh?

[@cryingseal420]

I’ve always thought of the ghoul/ halo stars of being kind of like the eye of terror but instead of the warp it leads to a 3rd nightmare dimension where entities that feed off fear live could also be where the deep warp goes and would sort of explain why even tzeentch doesn’t fuck with it

[@Hypnored086]

New Weshammer! Afternoon at work saved!

[@pogchamp2330]

number 11: making peace with the xenos threat

[@LinkLegend0]

Greater good ending.

[@DDot...14]

The choppa ending

[@cliffdavidson5096]

Peace with some would be a good idea. Frees up resources to use against the Nids or Chaos. It would be good from a pragmatic point of view.

[@tonyharrison3222]

I must say, I don't play 40k but your narration is amazingly captivating

[@matthewmoore7527]

Honestly I was kind of hoping you would add the Great Crusade in your list, sure it was great for humanity but countless alien species were rendered extinct and thousands of worlds razed. Definitely an apocalypse.

[@pancytryna9378]

That would hurt the Imperium fanboys.

[@fightme4136]

I have 0 idea what WarHammer is about except this dude came into my shorts and now I have some idea about it and shit gets more and more interesting every video. Also, I'd love to be a son of Vulkan

[@ATHER6735]

First

[@Expanded_Hyrule]

no one cares

[@murgatroydfungus4352]

I care keep ur head high king

[@iamthelibs1629]

Real ones care, keep the grind up 💯💯

[@alexgovorovski1412]

Great video, I know nothing about 40k lore and watched the entire thing enthusiastically

[@toomaskotkas4467]

Meh... That's nothing in comparison to the "female Custodes".

[@Aberinkula9]

Without passing haste judgement: what do you mean?

[@toomaskotkas4467]

@@Aberinkula9 "WORST Apocalypse In Warhammer 40K's Lore"

[@Aberinkula9]

@@toomaskotkas4467 That answers absolutely nothing. State your business clearly.

[@MLSoccerox]

​@@Aberinkula9the Warhammer Netflix show

[@kogden8110]

It’s not that bad, grow up.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

Apocalyptic events? Wes you're speaking my love language!

[@chillcannongames5758]

8:30 hey thats the same picture as the beggining when you mentioned the plague in a box.

[@inuysha360]

Gosh, I CAN'T WAIT for the halloween specials!!! This vid has some of those vibes and ugh, it's the best!!!

[@rochav6357]

"Because of this i hate mondays..." - Garfield from the Imperium of Man.