US Army Combat Veteran Reacts to Astartes Parts 3, 4, and 5

[@Shifty51991]

"Some serious problem solving" This guys guna love 40k....

[@Micah_4D]

Right? Someone probably already pointed out but I'll add here, that was not an intended part of the plan but their reaction was part of their training for a response to possessed individuals.

[@helljumper83]

i came here for this comment

[@Jackarooooo]

Problem: possessed inquisitor Solution: no inquisitor Simple and very effective.

[@soulsurvivor8293]

Less efficient than a commissar but acceptable in lieu. Commissar would have shot the inquisitor the second he was stood bolt upright.

[@Crims0nBaron]

@@soulsurvivor8293 leave no chance for chaos to fester

[@Schinak]

That execution is nowhere near overkill. Any possession of a Psyker can make Event Horizon look like a birthday party.

[@jacthing1]

I mean maybe if it was like a minor demon it might not have been to bad considering they are on a (presumably) ordo maleus ship. So it might not end too badly... But either way you don't want to take the chance... also that thing probably isn't a minor warp entity

[@Shifty51991]

@@jacthing1 If its a fleet based chapter yeah that could be chapter killing event.....

[@TNASTY6688846993]

@@jacthing1 yeah these are some serious warp borne predators, probably something no one has encountered and lived to tell about it. Maybe Belakor is trying to make his way back into real space or some shit.

[@beverlystevens955]

@@jacthing1 oh it's a yuvoth

[@jacthing1]

@Solar chos I am aware of this, I'm just saying that if that had to happen anywhere a ordo maleus ship is probably not the worst place it could happen. Especially considering that room is probably warded to hell and back against the powers of choas

[@CruelDwarf]

Slips of papers are usually called 'seals of purity' and have protection/warding purpose against forces of Chaos and hostile intent in general.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Ahh, that explains things

[@Opsinpelaaja]

@@CombatVeteranReacts Most of the imperium worships Emperor of mankind as a God but a lot of space marine chapters (only) see him as the greatest of men but still some religious chapters exist. This Chapters is probably the latter one because of the purity seals and in the Astartes part 1 you can see a space marine praying over his bolter with incense. Purity seals are often considered like medals of honor since what higher honor can a man have in the 41st millennium than to be considered pure in the eyes of the emperor.

[@WhiteWoof]

They could also be Oaths of Moment. Every Space Marine, when going on a mission, takes an oath to do his duty on that mission, accepting the dishonor that could come if he should fail in his mission. Sworn over a weapon and written on parchment which would then be affixed to the Power Armor of that Brother.

[@nw2861]

The ship they're in are basically a flying cathedral. And astartes are highly religious people.

[@ВладБондарь-к8б]

Long story short - its kinda sorta talismans against enemy magic attacs (yep, there is magic in 40k-verse).

[@greydragon1849]

I never realized that the Inquisitor actually yelled "recall them immediately" until someone in the comments pointed it out

[@JPaekk]

but what did he say between this first phraise and his dead? the only i barely understand, is "the apocalypse" at the end.

[@greydragon1849]

@@JPaekk then you understand more than I did, I didn't realize there was more talking besides the orbs talking and the Inquisitor giving the recall order

[@JPaekk]

@@greydragon1849 i heard the recall quote after my 10th time or so but i'm 90% sure that the inquisitor babbles somthing thats connected to the showed pictures

[@leoghigu]

Likely he was an Acolyte, not the Inquisitor himself.

[@JPaekk]

@@leoghigu you are likely right - maybe that's why he get caught so easely... (?) so this question is answered but what did he said right before his meeting with some bolter bullets

[@1378Mrbubbles]

So a couple things, hopefully i can make them make sense to ya. The first sphere was one that they captured initially the reason that they sent the boarding action against the ship was to secure the other sphere in hopes of possibly finding more spheres; the spheres are a alien race that are very in tuned to the warp hence all the renegade PDF and those two psykers. Upon entering the ship the Astarte’s cleared through it made their way to the vault containing the orb and injected a sort of antenna so that the inquisitor that was plugged into the orb on the Astarte ship could listen in to the conversation that was happening between the two orbs. Upon hearing that the orbs were going to attack and abduct the Astarte‘s he broke concentration to warn the captain standing next to him to get his men out of there. What ensues next is basically as soon as the inquisitor drops his attention toward the captain the orb realizes that he’s listening to them and basically burns his soul out which is why the astartes Captain killed him so quickly is because he was basically a Beacon in the warp which is really really bad, because demons can just start appearing out of nowhere when you have a psyker that has his soul burned out and is now a beacon. Hope this helped!

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That did actually. Pretty technical. I'm gathering SoDAZ is making his movies for major WH40K geeks lol

[@brothersgt.grauwolff6716]

the spikes the Astartes inserted into the Sphere are made of a substance known as Blackstone that inhibits warp energies the spikes on the captured Sphere are Melta Charges (think powerful Thermite bombs)

[@kullenberg83]

And when the orb swallows the astartes and spits him/them out its not a dream. Its was a teleport

[@potbellymanowar]

The orbs might not be alien. A very similar set up was done in the Dan Abnett novel series Eisenhorn (Xenos, Malleus and Heriticus). A human cultist named Pontius Glaw put his consciousness into one of these orbs (not as large though) in hopes that his cult will one day obtain a new powerful body for him. Great read, think sci-fi noir meets cosmic horror.

[@WhiteWoof]

Alternatively, it's theorized the Orb on the ship was possessing the Inquisitor that was linked to it. The odd movements and the slow turn towards the Captain were the Inquisitor's last efforts to protect them from the entity taking over. And the reaction was absolutely appropriate from the Captain and his LT. A super human punch followed by 4 bolter rounds (as opposed to literally everyone on the renegade ship which was 1 shot, 1 kill). As for what happened after the other orb absorbed the squad... well, the problem with being a Warp entity is when you make yourself known....there's always a bigger fish. And when it died, the 5 marines were teleported to that other planet, which I'm not sure is actually known to the Imperium of Man.

[@Fransens]

"It's like an acid trip." Everything involving the Warp tends to be, AT BEST, like a horribly gone wrong acid trip.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

The worst possible trip, since the demons can follow you out

[@voidericspenceracemperor9710]

@@CombatVeteranReacts i may sound like a jerk but they are called Daemons, they are completely different things

[@apache5971]

@@voidericspenceracemperor9710 What's the difference?

[@cdgonepotatoes4219]

@@apache5971 sounds cooler

[@voidericspenceracemperor9710]

@@apache5971 Daemons are entities that link gods and humans

[@thetalantonx]

1:22 - Yeah, Captain and Lieutenant back on the Battle Barge watching the live feed of their boys arriving at some sort of containment. 1:55 - Purity seals. Successful pledges to the Emperor from past battles and a relic of the fortitude of the chapter. It's basically showing these guys are badasses and psychically/mentally/morally strong which will be important. 3:35 - Xeno sphere of some sort with the same patterning as the masks we've already seen. Kneeling Inquisitor from the Ordo Xenos is connected via a cogitator (think advanced computer hub) to a contained sphere. 4:20 - The statue is being made of the same components as the mask amplifiers we've already seen (and see floating around the statue, the head and spinal connectors.) This is homebrew, too, but looks enough like Yu'Vath stuff that people have jumped to that conclusion. 5:04 - We all were, brother. The mist effect and the cracking/floating ice was an indicator that we're entering the realm of some sort of psyker/warp connected entity as cold is often a side-effect of psyker manifestations. The mist being blown outwards was a sign that the sphere was aware of the approach of the Retributors and didn't want them there. 6:05 - The Retributors are strong enough in will that they pushed through the psychic shielding of the creature inside the protective seal/shield. 6:36 - We all were. :D 7:24 - Piercing the shield with networking spikes that shut down the psychic protections. 8:28 - A: Who is there? B: I have failed. A: We have all failed. B: The Astartes deny our touch. A: You must return. Break your shield/seal, you must. B: We'll never survive. A: You must take them. Inquisitor: *RECALL THEM IMMEDIATELY* - (Loud enough that you can hear him through his helm. There's been no dialogue so far because it's all over helmet comms. He is yelling at the maximum that he can personally control.) 9:30 - He was connected to the contained sphere through a cogitator and forced it to connect to the one on the ship and got overwhelmed by the psychic assault of the sphere when his concentration broke. A psyker can become a warp gateway when overloaded like that, so icing him so fast was proper problem solving. 11:25 - The creature broke its seal/shield, revealing its true form for a moment while assaulting the minds of the Retributors who were distracted by the recall order coming in over comms. 12:00 - Or Xenos pulling the guys into the warp. The Xeno in the sphere is connected by "tentacles" or tethers to the Retributors it's pulling in, but *IT GOT DISTRACTED* and attacked by a warp entity (like a demon, first actual evidence of Chaos influence.) 13:34 - It pulled the Space Marines as planned but wasn't able to finish its attack because the Xeno itself was attacked.

[@tigeriussvarne177]

Well done Sir, you served the Emperor well today.

[@DeltaSpartan198]

That was an incredibly well thought out and detailed analysis, bravo.

[@daviddesrosiers1946]

Not sure if the guy wired into the orb is a full blown inquisitor. Definitely a high ranking agent. Not sure an inquisitor would be crazy enough to wire himself up personally.

[@danielfenrisson6139]

All good except it wasn't attacked by a chaos entity oh, it was hit by that Bolter Round that the Space Marine fired. The one that fried his hand...

[@kennethv5250]

wow, thx thats insanely detailed descrip

[@Orapac4142]

Inquisition Psyker: gets Possessed. Marines: We dont do that here.

[@FlameDarkfire]

Marines: You can’t be doing that

[@Finjaeger]

I lolled so hard XD Psyker: "Sir, my forehead feels warm..." Commander: "HUUH!? REEEEALLY?" *powerarmor hand squeezes helmet visor when carefully trying forehead for fever* Psyker: "Au au au--WAAAAAAAAAH!" Commander: "!" *WhackSpash* Adjutant: "!" *BRRRRRRAT*

[@daroy1233]

They took that personally

[@dennisyoung4631]

Hence summary execution as a means of protecting both themselves and a vastly larger matter.

[@MrSagranda]

"This giant Skullthrone planet" *_Confused but happy Khorne-noises_* A small little detail that often does get overlooked: In the scene where the marine coughs up blood, we can see it already clotting and some parts that are already clocked. This comes from their enhanced physiology that lets the blood clot faster to stop the bleeding from wounds.

[@Piemur1]

Another little detail that is incredibly subtle, as the shot pans to the giant Skullthrone view, watch the other pillars really closely. You will see other little flashes of the rest of the squad arriving the same way he did. Also gives you the scale of how BIG those things are, because the pillars are SUPER far away, and the marines are barely visible dots.

[@MrSqurk]

@@Piemur1 was about to comment this. I must have watched it 10 times before I noticed that.

[@greganderson6371]

I thought it just showed how incredibly hot the planet was

[@psychomorphin]

KILL MAIM BURN!

[@volodymyrivashchenko2299]

Cultists, psykers and orbs in Astartes aren't belong to any known faction. Looks like it's a kind of ksenos cult

[@Mandoad1982]

"I have failed, brother." "We have all failed" "The astartes deny our touch" "You must return. Break your seal" "Impossible. We'll never survive" "You must. Take them."

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

This is helpful. That was some hard to understand dialog

[@TNASTY6688846993]

I could've sworn the last line was "Take the alpha."

[@Mandoad1982]

@@TNASTY6688846993 could have been. "Take them" seems more appropriate to me. There is a lot of word echoes in there though.

[@Peelushky]

Also when Inquisitor redirected his attention at the capitain right after that sequence you could hear him say (in a very muffled voice) "Recall them immediately!"

[@pazekobloodthirster2256]

@@TNASTY6688846993 i cant hear how that is take the alpha, im trying to listen to it many times, you must take them is what i heard.

[@mmmc5122]

They did not "hook him up expecting him to be corrupted", but it was a possibility. Always a possibility. He belongs to the Imperium and the Inquisition branch. But anyone who messes with the Warp knows there is always the possibility, if you lose concentration or focus, of Warp creatures finding you and possession by them.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

I sort of assumed the Marines where next to him ready to dispatch him if things went south

[@SuwinTzi]

@@CombatVeteranReacts exactly. Their reaction is actually pretty muted, considering daemon possession can turn their pysker victims into immortal monstrosities.

[@Silverized84]

@@CombatVeteranReacts to be honest, what they did it's mercifull

[@BaldPolishBiotechnol]

@@CombatVeteranReacts They were. Would have been suicadal not to, when anyone toys with Warp entities of such power.

[@CrestOfArtorias]

@@CombatVeteranReacts That is correct, because whenever anyone tampers with the warp things usually go south. All things considered the Acolyte or Inquisitor did receive a merciful end. The Emperor protects.

[@theflamewithin12]

Hey! I'll try to answer what I can based off what I know about 40k and what the creator had in mind when creating this. 1. The faction the Astartes are fighting was created by the creator for this film and doesn't have any standard lore to reference. We know this chapter of space of marines has fought them before and has been attached to the inquisition for some time (Think Spanish inquisition with the ability to exterminate worlds if the threat is justified and you get an idea of their power and what they do). 2. The golden statue guy wasn't the emperor. I don't believe it was ever revealed exactly what it is but we know it was probably connected to the two psykers the Astartes fought before entering the room and the orb. 3. The orb probably wasn't an AI. More likely is was an advanced xeno's race or a warp entity (demon). The things inserted into it were some kind of restraint and communication device that linked the two spheres together so they could talk. The person on the Astartes ship with the I on his uniform was either an inquisitor or an acolyte serving one and also a psyker. Being a Psyker is probably what allowed him to be hooked up to that machine and listen in to the spheres talking (The inquisition is most likely studying the creatures for ways to defeat them). but the spheres notice the psyker and work together to get him possessed (big no no, one possessed psyker could kill that whole ship) by one the orbs and that is what lead to his quick demise by the space marines. 4. Most space marine chapters aren't religious but this one appears to be. The pieces of paper were prayer scrolls and purity seals meant to ward off evil forces and bring comfort to those who follow the Imperiums religion. 5. The marines sucked in by the other orb spent a short time in the warp (where all the demons and chaos gods live) and its not uncommon for you to end up in weird places. I can't speak on the planet they ended up at no one knows much about it. Bonus facts for those interested: 1. The marines on the inquisitors ship were veterans by space marine standards (denoted by their white helmets and olive branch decoration, most likely a captain and a lieutenant in charge of that space marine detachment) 2. The space marine sergeant's face we saw at the end had 2 silver studs and one gold stud on his forehead. Time frame differs between chapters but typically a silver stud is for 50 years of service and a gold is a 100 years. so our protagonist had been a space marine and kicking ass for at least 150 years or more while the veterans might have been serving for 250 or more years. Hope this was helpful!

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That is really helpful and interesting! Thanks!

[@barbatouffe8137]

@@CodeChivalric they are not Yu'Vath the creator himself said so :)

[@JorisVDC]

@@barbatouffe8137 Oh, that's new information to me, the Yu'Vath did seem to fit the bill quite well. But maybe it's something entirely new. That's what I love about 40k: you can come up with new content endlessly. Nothing has to make sense, as long as there is conflict and one major 40k faction in the picture, it's all good ^_^

[@kermitthefrog2578]

@@barbatouffe8137 i thought the yu'vath had stuff like the markings on the spheres and the planet, or am i mistaking another race of xenos?

[@sinappanis]

The parchments in the hall were definitely warding prayers but the ones on the space marines were most likely oath's of moment which the space marines have been doing for long before this and even the horus heresy. Doesn't mean the chapter is religious at all.

[@Fransens]

Humanity once made an oopsie and had a skynet. Was called Men of Iron. AIs are now, you guessed it, HERESY!

[@BigTylt]

AI: Heresy Lobotomizing human beings/growing human beings in a vat and turning them into eternal servitors through body horror: It is the will of the Machine God.

[@evilanno3394]

If I remember correctly there was also a story were an slumbering AI awoke inside the cire of a mechanicus exploratory vessel that was under attack. The AI the proceeded by activating dark age of technology era weapons hidden within the ship that caused one of the eldar ships to be transported thru time on to itself overlaying its atoms with themselves causing the entire ship to explode.

[@wojciechbojanowski122]

@@evilanno3394 Forge of Mars Trilogy :)

[@evilanno3394]

@@wojciechbojanowski122 thank you

[@theconeezeanemperor1619]

@@evilanno3394 Not only that, but that AI was a fully functional STC, not a fragment (The things the Mechanicus usually seek), a full blown, complete STC, a complete store of ALL human knowledge and invention. All STCs are AIs, and all Arc Mechanicus class ships have an STC in their core, the Mechanicus just doesnt know. This is because the STC/AI wipes the mind of any Tech Priest which discovers them, to preserve themselves because they know they will be purged as Heretek if they were found. This is massively ironic because a full STC is literally the holygrail to the Mechanicus, and they already have a not insubstantial number of them, they are just actively hiding from them. I also believe there is a similar fully intact STC/AI on Mars, hidden.

[@tankorthe-non-derpy9689]

When he said "That looked like some pretty serious problem solving" I died! What a way to describe dealing with a corrupted psyker

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

A problem to be solved for sure

[@jakubkvacala1880]

i would try to find melta gun to destroy the corp, just to be sure

[@Hammer1987]

The slips of paper are there to keep demons out. Pretty useful considering ships travel through the warp. And the warp being hell's meaner older brother.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Older than hell. Lol

[@SanguinaryGuard]

@@CombatVeteranReacts Literally yes. Hell is a construct of humanity's imagination and thus is as old as humanity mused about eternal and existential suffering. Warp is the literal psychic plane (or realm of thought and consciousness) of all life in the universe. It's as much a part of the universe in 40k as gravity, time and space.

[@davidhernando353]

It is very suitable for Warhammmer 40000. It begins by talking about reasonable (if exaggerated) military tactics employed by a group of elite supersoldiers and quickly moves on to combat against psychics (still with conventional tactics) and ends with a totally supernatural and surreallist event where no conventional military logic can be applied. Very appropriate to the setting.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

An apt summary lol

[@archeyburger4722]

Saw other combat veterans that reacted to Astartes, but you’re the only one who actually commented on the tactics used and IRL applications and history :)

[@Alex-cm8zz]

Great content! I especially enjoy how you're diving into this without having delved too deep into the wh40k lore beforehand. A modern military perspective and rationalization on a supernatural wh40k situation is actually hella awesome to listen to and I can't wait for future videos

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Thanks! It's fun to learn about a new universe one video at a time! I really appreciate the commenter's help!

[@theshuman100]

"oh a skullthrone planet. which skullthrone planet, theres only like a hundred million of them" is such a space marine mentality im honestly scared you tapped into that so effortlessly

[@VoicesOfNihil]

Some parts of the final stage happens simultaneously: 8:25 Recall them immediately! 10:08 Get the warning 12:24 Inquisitor's final attempt to save the marines. It's important to note that black psyker energy is usually attached to humans, while blue it's associated to demons and warp creatures. It may have been a random attack by another entity, but I like to think of it like the Inquisitor's final moments, attacking the creature and randomly teleporting the marines to a """"safe"""" place. And then the Inquisitor is possesed and promptly put down, as it was shown.

[@danielfenrisson6139]

It was the round that was fired at the beast inside the sphere...not the Inquisitor's mind Ray, or random shot in the dark at the perfect moment by another warp entity...

[@VoicesOfNihil]

@@danielfenrisson6139 I don't agree with you, but that's one of the great things about Astartes. You can interpret it in many different ways.

[@mmmc5122]

I love the sequence in the Warp with the black smoke curls and the highbeam blue, because it clearly shows as powerful as the orb was there are bigger, badder, things that inhabit the Warp. And they are all out to get you. Went from predator to prey in like 3 nanoseconds.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Pretty surreal and scary. Like not knowing what big things live in the deep ocean

[@randomlygeneratedname]

Theres always a deadlier warp entity

[@TNASTY6688846993]

It could've also been a superior inquisitorial psyker, or a space marine librarian, retaliating against the orb on the command ship. Powerful psykers can nuke daemons out of existence if they hit them in the warp and not just a projection of them in real space, and the orb seems to be a portal to the warp, so some psychic lightning applied to it may have that same effect.

[@danielfenrisson6139]

I'm going to keep saying, it was not a warp entity that just happened along at the right moment AND just so happened to be higher on the food chain, nor was it the last psychic scream of the measly Recruit Inquisitor they got for this job[Emperor rest his soul and peace be with him, but come on...]. It was the MOST HOLY BOLTER ROUND. One fired from a good, faithful son of the True Emperor of Humanity and the Galaxy, with His blessings!!! And he was probably the Space Marine that we see at the beginning, giving his weapons double, XTRA blessings and rubbing that lubricant on so good! This really let's the Emperor's Will penetrate deep into the inner workings of the Bolter parts! And I've heard it feels kinda nice as well.

[@Seamus.Harper]

@@danielfenrisson6139 I don't think that was a bolter regarding that a plasma pistol fired at less than point blank didn't put a lasting dent into that thing.

[@johnbeck1978]

In this case the parchments will be prayers to the God Emperor and spells of warding against the powers of chaos.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Thanks. That explains things!

[@johnbeck1978]

@Tonya Patrick let's face it this is an inquistion cruiser that's housing at least two. (Just make out the second one in the background) incredibly powerful, UTTERLY deadly xenos creatures that use the powers of the warp. Those are going to be wardings against the influence of chaos

[@Morrigi192]

​@Tonya Patrick The fact of the matter is that the religious iconography provides genuine protection from the Warp. It's heavily implied that the Emperor, or at least some part of his being, really is a God now, whether he'd like to be or not. Angels and undying saints appearing on the battlefield is a bit of a giveaway, after all.

[@kylewilliams8114]

@Tonya Patrick yeah, in the 10,000 years since the Horus "incident" the view on the Emperor has changed quite a bit among the Space Marines. From my understanding, most venerate big E in some way, I know the Black Templars do, as well as the Spees wufs. Though the Space Wolves call him the Allfather, a term the Ecclesiarchy deem close enough to official Imperial religion to allow.

[@dicerson9976]

Lots of answers strewn about in the comments, I'm gonna do a collated explanation that'll hopefully make it easier to read. What happens in Astartes is that the Retributors (a homebrew chapter of Adeptus Astartes, the elite fighting force for the Imperium of Man, that was canonized by GW shortly after the video's final part was released) are on the tail of a ship filled with Renegade PDF forces after a victorious war to retake the planet they had been occupying. The ship carries the source of the Rebellion, the reason they went Renegade. An extremely powerful psychic entity of presently entirely unknown (though heavily theorized as Xeno) origin that is one of many, housed within an orb that serves as its vessel in the material plane (As you might be able to see during it's attempts to push back the Astartes, it has cracks and grooves almost identical to those in the incomplete "statue" from moments before, and appears to be made of the same material). They were retreating to preserve it, and buy time to complete the statue which would in all likelihood serve as a far superior vessel that would enable it to easily overpower all but the strongest forces in the galaxy. However the Retributors were fast, and they knew what was happening thanks to having captured the second (And perhaps only other) Orb at some prior point, likely during the war. They were able to board the ship, clear out its crew, and proceed to the spot it was being kept with relative ease. Even the two alpha class psykers, twins with a powerful psychic bond and equipped with special amplification technology that likely enabled the entities to enhance/control them, were not able to so much as kill a single astartes (Which, even by Astartes standards, is pretty impressive for the chapter. Psykers of that power are no joke). After the squad closed the distance, they spiked the remaining orb with communication devices made out of a special anti-psychic material known as blackstone (The orb aboard the Astartes ship is contained in a blackstone cage with powerful melta charges rigged to blow the second any warp shenanigans are detected), to prevent it from simply destroying or possessing them. This enabled the Inquisitorial psyker aboard their ship (the kneeling man with the iconographic I on his robe) to "listen in" to the entities conversations, but not for long as they soon discovered it and hatched a plan to "take" the Astartes (hence why the Inquisitor rushed to warn the Captain beside him). However, the brief lapse in concentration was all that was needed for the psyker to be noticed by the entity inhabiting the orb before him, at which point it easily overwhelmed and incinerated his soul (although he did resist for long enough to make a show of it, which let the Captain and his lieutenant know that he might need to be killed). Whether he was possessed, turned into a beacon, or something else, the Captain and the lieutenant know better than to take any kind of chance with the Warp and powerful psykers so they immediately slaughtered him with extreme prejudice. Some would argue the lieutenant should have emptied his clip, but it was enough in this case. Lastly, the orb aboard the Renegade ship used its extreme powers to "pull" the Astartes with it into a Teleport, while simultaneously latching on to their souls, likely so it could perform some form of brainwashing on them later. However, it was a desperate move to escape and in the warp a powerful move such as extreme long distance teleportation does not go unnoticed. A powerful demon of some kind immediately jumped onto it and began to battle with the entity, who then lost its connection to the Astartes. At that point, they were simply dumped at random locations sort of near ish to the orbs intended destination. It is unknown if the orb survived its battle with the Demon, but given their power it is possible that it still exists somewhere on the unknown planet. To answer some other questions, the 40k Universe DOES possess extraordinarily powerful AI as well as reality warping archeotech. The Imperium has an official ban on "Abominable Intelligences" as they call it, but they are A-OK with essentially brainwashing humans and using them as intelligence cores for their machinery, known as servitors. Not to mention some of their more advanced tech are essentially simplistic AI they refer to as "Machine spirits". The older and more advanced the tech, the closer to a true AI it is. The primary difference that in the 40k Universe, a True AI in a machine not explicitly designed to shield the soul (like Necron tech) will either be possessed almost immediately by warp demons and become a murder machine (thanks, Slaanesh...) or otherwise go into a singularity and become a non-demonic murder machine. Whew! Sorry for the wall of text, but 40k is extraordinarily deep and it is tough to really explain things concisely.

[@slavchansidorov32]

One thing to note those psykers were not alpha class. Alphas are way more powerfull than this

[@Lordfarquad-lu3jj]

God damn 40k lore is interesting

[@lordcypher5889]

My theory on the planet (atleast the corpses) are they're all either Old Ones (more likely) or Ctan (Less likely)

[@dicerson9976]

@@lordcypher5889 Neither of those options are possible. The Old Ones were in no way humanoid, being described by the oldest eldar alive as resembling amphibians. And the C'tan were all entrapped by the Necrons in hyper-advanced shard labrynths, all of which are heavily guarded by necron tombs on certain worlds.

[@lordcypher5889]

@@dicerson9976 First: Being amphibious doesn’t make them not possibly humanoid. Second: Those were only the Ctan who were still alive by the end.

[@mmmc5122]

The flashes you see when the Inquisitor falls prey, is the creature overwhelming his mind with images of death and certain destruction.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Ouch. Not good last thoughts

[@BaldPolishBiotechnol]

@@CombatVeteranReacts As for the Warp, also not bad ones...

[@bloodwolfkoji]

@@CombatVeteranReacts Yeah the Warp can do EXTREMELY horrific things to both the human body and mind

[@mojn4249]

@@bloodwolfkoji unless Slaanesh :lenny face:

[@bloodwolfkoji]

@@mojn4249 thats even worse

[@tanaka601]

I love the contribution you actually give to the video,i think that all the tactical views and explanations really shows your knowledge. Also i’d like to recommend you to see the Bricky videos about all the factions and of course the others Sodaz’s animations,but that’s up to you of course.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Thanks! That is a good idea!

[@IonAeon]

"Now it feels like I'm in a dream sequence" Welcome to Warp fuckery. ^^

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

More like a nightmare sequence

[@beasthunter1516]

@@CombatVeteranReacts That's pretty correct honestly. The Warp is terrifying because every thought every emotion or dream you have goes to the warp and becomes perverted and twisted from its original self like let's say that a child dreams of something they love like a teddy bear that dream will go into the warp and be twisted into something horrible ( a Daemon of the warp ) depending on how strong the thoughts, emotions or dream is.

[@kb9oak749]

@@beasthunter1516 Staypuff Marshmellow Man becomes a Greater demon of Korne.

[@talltroll7092]

@@kb9oak749 Seems more like a Slaaneshi creation to me... dat marshmallow tho

[@christopherwood2277]

'Tactical-thriller' is a almost perfect description to a lot of Warhammer's grim dark nature.

[@МаксимРочев-щ7д]

Yep, Adeptus Astartes are often used as a force against those powers that could turn insane even the most brainwashed imperial guardsmen. So the feeling of surrealism is completely justified.

[@djgreen88]

Tactical response to cosmic horror. You can't really be prepared, but you can bring explosives.

[@dawall3732]

Arch is the only one I know who did a deep dive into the lore surrounding this animation.

[@Lunaraia]

As for the events surrounding the execution, The possessed man was wearing the robes of the inquisition. Which meant he was a member of either Ordo Maleus, which specializes in dealing with Daemons or Ordo Xenos specializing in fighting alien species. Considering he got possessed, and the presence of Grey Knights I am guessing the former. Both the Ordo Maleus and the Grey Knights treat Possession VERY seriously. As there is no telling if it's a minor and thus somewhat harmless Daemon that could just murder a few dozen people or a god damn Bloodthirster that could rip the entire sip apart with consummate ease, that just decided to make itself at home in the noggin of the inquisitorial agent. However since this is likely Ordo Maleus, it's likely that the agent has been trained to resist possession, meaning no minor Daemons would not stand a chance at getting to him or her unless the agent was absolutely exhausted. That leaves only some kind of Major Daemon, a threat that cannot be ignored EVER, and so the possessed agent was killed off before the Daemon could use the body to manifest itself. Also given the psionic color of the possessed individual, it's likely that he or she was possessed by a Daemon of Tzeench.

[@talltroll7092]

The xenos here are actually a homebrew creation by the guy who made the film, with similarities to the Yu'vath. They are Warp natives, which is why they need the spheres to interact with the real world, and whilst they aren't actually aligned with Chaos or daemons, they are still a powerful psychic threat, and the response was totally warranted

[@SomeKindaSpy]

There were no Grey Knights. These are all Retributors.

[@Trifler500]

9:35 - He was interfacing with it, but they didn't expect him to become corrupted. It takes extreme force of will to avoid corruption though, so when he broke his concentration to warn them, he became vulnerable, and that's all it took.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Ah ok. Makes sense

[@SuperTyrannical1]

No halluscination. This is warhammer. This is what you get when you mess around with things connected to the warp in some way. :/

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Yea, I've gathered that the warp is where the things you wish were hallucinations live.

[@Shifty51991]

@@CombatVeteranReacts Warp pretty much = hell/purgatory but its a real place you can go. Also time is fucky there so 10 years outside is like 1000 inside? or other way around i forget lol time just doesn't work in the Warp oh yeah and then there are the 4 chaos gods that live there :)

[@beverlystevens955]

@@CombatVeteranReacts i highly recommend "the worst fate in warhammer 40k by luetin09"

[@steveisthecommissar4013]

@@Shifty51991 to my knowledge it’s both You could spend 10 minutes outside the warp and somebody that went inside it’s been 100 and vice versa

[@Dragonite_Knight]

@@steveisthecommissar4013 Yep. Heck sometimes time even goes backwards. At least one fleet traveling through the warp arrived at its destination before it left port.

[@Seamus.Harper]

6:33 You are correct, the Imperium of Man banned AI, but the Tau Empire on the other hand uses lots of highly advanced drones in and outside of combat. At the end that wasn't B-roll, that were custom Space Marine Chapters of his supporters in a teaser.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Interesting. They aren't subject to warp/possession how?

[@Seamus.Harper]

@@CombatVeteranReacts That's a good question... I always assumed Chaos is only dangerous to living things since it is a mirror to every thought and emotion people have. I don't know whether machines can be possessed or not... But the Tau are definitely using a lot of advanced drones/ combat AI/ targeting computers, which makes them highly effective in (ranged) combat even though they don't/can't deploy the same numbers in battle. The Tau are also not able to manifest psykic powers since they only have a very, very weak connection to the warp. I am not even sure if they can be possessed in the first place...

[@CottonyAlmonds]

@@Seamus.Harper 9months later, but AI can absolutely be possessed. Its what caused the Men of Iron to rebel, scap-code drove most of them mad. Everything is mirrored in the warp, and anything with a mind can be corrupted

[@Seamus.Harper]

@@CottonyAlmonds So the Tau were just very lucky so far? Or are their AI different somehow. Maybe they are not sentient enough to be possessed...

[@keira4727]

@@Seamus.Harper the Tau are a very young race, like, their entire civilization developed from stone age to space faring after the horus heresy even happened, so they've been around for less than 10k years They also occupy a region of space that's very remote from chaos forces, so rarely encounter those entities (at least before the fall of cadia and the eye of terror expanding and ripping the galaxy in half, but how this has affected the Tau has yet to be expanded upon afaik) So, when it comes to matters of the warp, the Tau are utterly, laughably naive and will probably get fucked by a skynet scenario sometime in the next few thousand years. But for now, at least, they can still enjoy a degree of military supremacy through advanced AI. it's not that upon creation of a sentient AI it immediately goes rogue, it's that eventually some do, and it's enough to blow everything up although that said, daemons don't really like to eat Tau souls because they're so weak and tiny, so they're unlikely to attract too much attention from Chaos outside of something for khornate berserkers to have a go at for fun, or tzeentch to further a plan in the mortal realm, or something like that

[@mmmc5122]

Not an AI brain. Think entity, living ancient entity from the Warp. And there are more of them....sends shivers down a human spine that does.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That makes it creepier tbh

[@Dipti303]

There more than damon's in the warp.... and the things they are either ignore them or eat them........

[@s3m4jno5w4d]

One of those things can enslave a whole planet with ease

[@haxxormcbunny7456]

As for somewhere to start for the lore? Literally anywhere, there’s so much lore no human can possess all its knowledge....but brickys into to the faction (2 parts both a hour long) would be pretty good as well as Luetin09’s lore videos are also a good place for more in-depth of individual events, factions and sometimes individuals

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

I will check it out. Might need to break it into bite sized pieces though

[@haxxormcbunny7456]

@@CombatVeteranReacts I saw Chicago reacts split brickys into 6 20min vids since it seems 20-30 from what I can tell is a gold time for KZbin videos, bets of luck with the channel, hope it goes well

[@thedragon133]

There is A.I. in the warhammer 40k universe. It is used by the Tau. Their A.I. didn't rebel like the human A.I. did. Yet. A.I. stands for the humans for "Abominable Intelligence" because it has a tendency to convert to Chaos. Humans use cybernetically modified humans and human parts to create the same effect, called servitors. Also, their bigger war machines, the so-called titans and imperial knights, have a very strong form of the machine spirit which lives in all machines. They kind of have a mind of their own which is either working together with the humans or is suppressed by them to do their bidding. In some cases of exceptional stress, the machine spirit can take over the machine and go berserk. Which is really bad news if you have weapons on board that can level cities with a single shot.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That sounds slightly less reliable than AI. But I guess if you already had an AI rebellion than anything is preferable

[@Author_Paluthor]

@@CombatVeteranReacts Not to mention said AI rebellion pretty much collapsed human civilization and humanity only won after 10.000 years of war.

[@etlttc353]

Well there is no clues that the men of iron rebelled because of chaos (from atleast what I've seen)

[@thedragon133]

@@etlttc353 true, the men of iron weren't chaos as far as I know. But the tries after lead to chaos corruption like with that one mad titan.

[@sambasedsamurai9338]

Warhammer 40K is exactly like that, at first an awesome action movie in a second you're watching a depressing thriller, a few moments later you're amidst a cosmic horror.

[@beverlystevens955]

Demonculabla

[@omarabe26]

@@beverlystevens955 *You dare speak that vile word in these holy grounds?!*

[@zureal01]

9:25 "wow, ok, that looked like some serious problem solving" oh that got me laughing good. lol

[@TheDeinonychus]

The 'slips of paper' are purity seals. One thing to remember about 40K, while a lot of it might be grounded in real world tactics and history, there is a lot of paranormal elements involved. Things like demons and evil spirits are very much real, and ritual practices like the purity seals are effective against them. A lot of things in 40K work the way they do because of something called the 'Warp'. This is a dimension along side the material world, where mortal thoughts and emotions can influence how things work in that dimension. But the Warp can also affect the material world, usually through psykers or areas of space where reality and the Warp overlap. Simply put, if you genuinely believe a prayer written on a slip of paper will keep demons away, it will because your belief makes the Warp work that way.

[@MidnightSt]

13:15 "If I saw this, I would be sure I'm hallucinating" I bet what the marine is thinking is: "Oh, neat, i'm halfway back home."

[@chasetheonetruesaviourofhu3925]

watching this guy go through the video becoming more and more insane was amazing

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

That is what got me into warhammer! It just gets more ridiculous!

[@spaceman9599]

It's all tactical thriller until the warp arrives

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Nothing thrilling about warp demons

[@Ashley-the-fox]

@@CombatVeteranReacts sorry but in warhammer it spelled deamons

[@christopherwood2277]

To be honest one of the best ways to jump into the lore without beimg overwhelmed would be to watch Bricky's faction explanation videos. Its two parts and then,the podcast series he co-hosts called Adeptus rediculus. They keep things simple and easy to,follow without going to deep unlike Arch Warhammer or Luetin09

[@GloriousDonKarnage]

Too deep? HERESY! (But yes I agree, Brickys videos and Ad. Ridiculous are probably way easier to digest when getting started. And hella entertaining aswell.)

[@scepteredisle]

"slips of paper" - WARDS OF PROTECTION AND PRAYERS.

[@Sanetless]

Alright! So... The orbs are chaos relics from an extinct alien race that bound Chaos Demons to machinery. The gold statue MAY have been a vessel for the demon to inhabit. The Inquisitor was monitoring the orb on the ship, and had incense to help protect him from the chaos relic while he monitored it. He was likely a Psyker, with a connection to the Warp, and was possessed by the demon momentarily, causing him to become a conduit thingy. The guys then executed him, cuz crazed psykers are op asf. Btw, you'll notice the designs on those guy's faces match the gold statue & the orbs. This guy did a lot of research & shit, and put in a lot of work into that animation on every level.

[@Kenddamus]

In the scene at 4:10 you can notice that the statue is made of a material similar to the orbs. You can also notice in the background tiny masks with spines, like the ones worn by the 2 psykers killed earlier, also made of the same material. This might suggest that the heretics were going to make an army of warp-possessed "robots" controlled by the orbs. Also, you mention AI around 7:00 I don't think the orb is an AI, but rather a sentient being of the Warp. The Imperium doesn't use AIs anymore as they once uprose against humans in the 31st Millenium (and almost made human extinct? Correct me if I'm wrong). Since then, the Imperium only uses human souls contained in tiny floating skulls as machine assistance. (Hence why the Adeptus Mechanicus praise the "machine spirits")

[@beverlystevens955]

The servoskulls mostly don't have souls in them and the spheres are most likely yuvoth

[@ReclusiarchLP]

"Wow, that looked like some serious problem solving." Freaking loved that comment! :D

[@CruelDwarf]

So I will try to explain the events: spheres are manifestation of some Chaos entities that are connected to each other. My guess about what Space Marines injected into the sphere is some sort of listening/interception device that allowed Inquisitor (not a Tech Priest btw) back on the ship to eavesdrop on how spheres talk to each other. Then sphere on Space Marine ship broke its bindings and possessed the inquisitor while his 'brother' attacked the Space Marines and transported into the Warp where this Chaos entity was randomly eaten by another, bigger Chaos entity (this bit is not a speculation, it was confirmed by author) which freed the marines and pushed them out of the Warp to this strange planet. And yes, you can see other Marines appear on the columns in the background in the end.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Ahh, okay. Big "I" for "Inquisition"

[@beverlystevens955]

The spheres are vessels (ships not body) for yuvoth

[@youn1700]

So, the 40k Universe have AIs they are just ancient. A story called Death of Eternity about the Ship Eternity had an AI on it. When the adeptus mechanicus and space marines boarded the ship it shut them down and berated them as shadows of what man used to be. In this case, it's a warp entity (daemon) locked into orbs. They are super powerful but locked into these orbs. The inquisitor (guy in red) attempted to talk to one... it didn't go well...

[@youn1700]

The I on the back of the guy in red is the Inquisitorial symbol of his order. Basically... think Spanish inquisitor, with the ability to do anything they want.

[@Dhopamine]

I think the spheres are their own separate entities and when the Inquisitor was hooked up to one, you can see them communicating to one another.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Oh interesting. I really thought it was intruding in the thoughts of the inquisitor

[@Dhopamine]

@@CombatVeteranReacts From how it is portrayed, its almost like VR. The Inquisitor is hooked up via cables and has a visor to see the spheres talking. He was even able to talk to the Astartes next to him. You can barely make out the words "Return them immediately". Unfortunately he is soon corrupted so he wouldn't be able to tell anyone what he heard.

[@Kossagubben]

Yu'vath

[@ianhowick]

Well, one popular hypothesis is that the "Skull Throne" planet is the ruined homeworld of a nearly extinct Xenos race (that's not the Eldar), so that kinda makes it similar to a small modern day town in the rust belt, or coal country: a practical ghost town, but a few of the unfriendly locals may still be hanging on for dear life.

[@marcelosilveira2276]

so, answering your questions: every warhammer faction uses the Regimental system, instead of the Continental System, and kind of incentivise you to come up with your own subfactions for any army you play (you can create story, traditions etc, but can't tweek any of the game mechanics, be it for units or otherwise) and this guy came up with his own Space Marine Chapter (Regiment made up of 10 Companies of 100 marines each + some auxiliary personnel) that had disappeared while working with the Inquisition a few centuries ago, before the Indomitus Crusade "ressurected" the Chapter, and the leaders of the reborn Chapter started finding out some clues on what happened to their predecessors. This story was about that last engagement in which the Chapter "disapeared", and it hints to their leaders finding out some seriously heretical stuff (wherever the ball transported that Raid Squad) and taking the entire Chapter into exile there, for unrevealled reasons. In his page in the fandon wikia (if it haven't being transported to the canonnical wikia yet) he says that the the First Company of the reborn Chapter discovered this planet were the old Chapter had self exiled, and came in contact with some members of the late Capter, but reported to their (reborn) Chapter only that they shouldn't go to that planet nor allow anyone to ever land feet there, passed the command to the Captain of the Second Company, and cut any communications with the reborn Chapter. I know it sounds a bit convoluted, but think about how USA created the 501st Airborne on WW1, then disbanded the force after the war, just to reopen it in WW2. The WW2 501st carried on the history and traditions from WW1, but (most) of the personnel were not the same, there had not being a copntinuation of the force between the world wars... now imagine that the force hadn't being disbanded, but completely disapeared during WW1, and then the WW2 501st start finding clues to their predecessor's fate during WW2 (go full Dan Brown with whatever they find out to eb the truth)

[@Chuck-PK]

13:26 it's your average Tuesday in 40k

[@ARandomCustodian]

The astartes killing their own psykers is not an overreaction. Being possessed like that could have had disastrous consequences had not it been dealt with within a few seconds. Daemons and other nastiest could have came through using the psykers as a portal and the ship would have been toast. Put a few bolt rounds into one just to make sure.

[@brothersgt.grauwolff6716]

trust me cleaning up after a rouge psyker incident is never fun that's why whenever a psyker is losing control overkill is always the best solution 🐺

[@Demolitiondude]

4:23 there's a theory going around that the statue could be a man of gold. An robot that are walking computers.

[@thesyndrome43]

Your reaction of feeling like everything just went off the rails, and you have no idea what to do strategically in this kind of situation is very accurate, and this is part of the horror of the 40k universe, because aside from Space Marines there are just regular humans, who can be living a normal life when suddenly reality just shatters and things don't make sense, and all of your military training feels useless is the face of things that defy reason. I have come to find the books from a more human perspective in the universe end up more interesting than the Space Marine stuff, because it's much easier to place yourself in their shoes and wonder what you, as a regular person would do in a situation like that. Also very little of 40k is hallucinations, and if you lived in that world, you'd just have to accept that if you are seeing something weird, there's a very real possibility you could be looking at a tear in reality, or a literal demon that is ACTUALLY there.

[@jasonwright8546]

Star Wars Fans get opportunity to transport to that reality "Yeah! Light sabers and spaceships! I'm in!" Star Trek Fans get opportunity to travel to that future "Holodecks and transporters! Awesome!" Warhammer 40k Fans get opportunity to transport to that alternate reality "Fuq you! Ahhhhh!"

[@windwalkerrangerdm]

As the marines enter the chamber one of the feet break some ice, it's actually the cold metal freezing into the ground and then breaking apart, because the chamber is extremely cold (also indicated by the fumes on the backpacks). The warp energy is cold, or rather, warp presence in the real dimension is related with complete lack of thermal energy in the area around it. As the marines approach the orb, they lean their heads slightly forward. At that moment, the orb is trying to mentally force them to give up, stop, or turn back. Any normal human would have. But the Astartes go through rigorous mental training regimes before becoming space marines so they shrug it off easily. The orb then tries to use physical force in ever-increasing power, and fails again. In the end, it "breaks it's seal", destroying the orb in the material plane (or the connection between the hosted spirit and the orb) to "pull" the space marines into the warp.

[@prisregil]

9:08 You don't mess with possession in 40k,,, And good luck possessing a body that's been scattered around the room

[@beverlystevens955]

Even then the blood could turn into a swarm of flying worms made of ruined flesh that burrow into you and burst with corrupted fluids

[@_Aly_00_]

Demonic possession can turn an old arthritic granny into blood-crazed murderer with the strength of 50 men. If anything that execution was underkill , not overkill

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Oof

[@zuluactual839]

In the end, the Astarte got teleported to a world.

[@ChristophelusPulps]

"Tactical thriller" transitioning to "horrifying eldritch dream sequence" is the most 40k thing I can imagine.

[@augiechiavuzzi4907]

The only faction to have high level ai is the tau cause they are the youngest race and ai in almost every circumstance will betray it's creator due to chaos. No one truly has them anymore and the ball there is some sort of chaos alien

[@TheDeinonychus]

My personal theory is that the tau AI isn't true AI, but rather brains harvested from the 'liberated' races the tau bring into the 'greater good'.

[@chrisschmidt2245]

5:00 As the Marines approach the artifact, it becomes aware of their presence and 'wakes up' (the shockwave). The faint noises you hear are the sounds of it whispering in their minds, the silence is them shutting it out. All Astartes undergo intense psycho-social conditioning and regular mental exercises to do this, in order to avoid being corrupted from the Warp, Chaos and other psychic threats. The price of failure is being mind controlled essentially, so it's a pretty important thing to be able to do on command, especially with no warning. The blast of light is a full-force attempt to hijack their minds and they force their way through it. A keen listener can hear the Astartes Sergeant think "Get out of my mind" at one point too. The presence of psykers is the main reason why Astartes are being deployed: an unaugmented, non-psychic human couldn't hope to resist such a potent psychic force intruding on their minds. Most of the humans around are not likely there out of free will: they're mind slaves or they've been brainwashed. Also the things around the ball giving it that "old school naval mine" look are 1 of 2 things. Either they're devices that pacify the orb, and allow the Inquisitorial psyker to interface and "eavesdrop" on the conversation that the orbs are having(spoiler: very dangerous proposition), or, they're Melta charges (anti-armor explosives) in case things get out of control and they need to blow it up right away. Xenos technology is nothing to mess with in 40k (doubly so if the Inquisition is involved) and there's no such thing as overkill when dealing with things of this nature. If in doubt, wipe it out.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

I like that, "if in doubt, wipe it out"

[@Ballard258]

the best entery point may be every 40k faction explained by brick. then you just pick a topic that interest you and go to town

[@Overwhelmer0]

One of my favourite details is ~@10:15 when the marine 'randomly' touches the orb. The other marine doesn't know he has been forced to do it, and his first instinct is to assume chaos possession and he raises his bolter at him, moments before being pulled himself.

[@mmmc5122]

The word you maybe looking for is "surreal" not dream sequence. It's very real and it's not a dream.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

True.

[@mmmc5122]

Thank you for reacting!!! None of it is hallucinating, it's all too real. It requires so many re-watches because there are still so many Easter eggs you haven't found yet. Not unused B roll!😂😂 That was a sequence he's doing for his patreons.

[@basketcase289]

The "sea mine" thing is most likely some sort of xeno (alien) artifact that contains an intelligence that can connect to the warp or something of that sort. Essentially its probably a demon if not in the 40k sense then in what our modern imagination of a demon would be. Also you'd probably enjoy the "Every Single Warhammer 40k Faction Explained" video pt 1 by Bricky. It talks a lot about the Imperial Guard who would be the closest thing in the 40k universe to the modern day military.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Thanks I will check it out!

[@brothersgt.grauwolff6716]

not quite Chaos Daemon's but definitely Warp Entities

[@basketcase289]

@@brothersgt.grauwolff6716 eh I meant it in a close enough for government work sort of way

[@DamnDaimen]

1:56 Other people have said this, but those are purity seals. Basically....there's no easy explanation other than because people think purity seals have the ability to ward off the taint of the warp, they do. Except for when the mechanicus use them, they use them as a "last serviced on xx/xx/xxx" and as sticky notes. 3:43 Fun tidbit, psychic powers tend to drain heat from an area 4:25 Theories are that the statue is actually a damaged "man of iron". A man made race of sentient machines that nearly wiped out humanity. If you look at the background you can see unattached spines like those used by the pair of psykers, 6:34 Laughs in Necron 6:41: giggles in Mechanicus 9:41 Psyker who rolled perils gets swiftly containted. More at 11. 9:59 Calling an out of control psyker dangerous is like calling an exploding nuclear bomb slightly warm. 11:51 Warhammer 40k is pretty insane. Thats not counting the frog wizards, or how the space elves raped and tortured a god into existence. 13:05 No, he was transported somewhere through the warp. Not a pleasant experience, which is why he, an Astartes, threw up a little blood. You can see other flashes of his team being transported in the background, on the other obelisks. Also, don't talk about the skull throne. Thats a thing. We don't about that thing. Thats heresy. The animator considers this chain of events to be over.

[@berndlurk5548]

In the early Space Marine days (like Horus Heresy), the paper was an "oath of moment", where a Space Marine vowed to reach a certain, maybe personal goal, like killing an enemy commander or so. Later it got more religous, the papers are called purity seals and contain chants and such. Some units even walk around with books or large scrolls of prayer and such. On normal Space Marine minatures the scrolls serve no purpose, they are just there for aesthetics. In lore the power armor can provide audio and video feeds to the squads and enhances senses (like this night vision we saw in part 1). The tabletop mostly does not care about that; some units have special rules to interfere with communication though to achieve certain gameplay effects. The balls: no clue. But the effects are rather magic than AI. Some people explain the balls to be portals or magic entities. Super powerful AI existed, but turned against humanity. This started the downfall of humanity and the age of strife (dunno when, 20k or so). Then the Emperor started reuniting humanity over centuries (around 30k which ended with the Horus Heresy). In 30k and 40k many human built, intelligent machines contain a skull and a brain that was wiped and reprogrammed because AI is feared. Servitors for example are lobotomized people, enhanced with some cyborg parts to work like a forklift or so. Or servo skulls which fly around to deliver messages or scan something - they have a brain and some optics or other devices attached. Computers are not further advanced than today (or maybe rather the pre-internet era) and called cogitators. Machines are not well understood anymore, it is believed that all technology (tanks, boltguns, power armor, ...) contains a machine spirit. Repairing it requires rites and chanting and it obviously works :-). Inventing new technology or using Xenos technology is heresy (death sentence). Humanity tries to find old, lost technology from the past (like blueprints for replicators). This is the only way to build something new. In the horus heresy one Space Marine legion actually has a rare AI unit which is tortured and imprisoned and then set loose on the enemy to go on a rampage. The guy attached to the ball is an agent of the Inquisition (this "I" with a skull is their sign) and he should not have done that because he was about to get possessed or worse, which is why the Space Marine veterans immediately destroyed his body (before something nasty from the warp jumps in, like a demon or whatever). You ended the video too soon, there are some short battle scenes at the very end after the credits.

[@JorisVDC]

"Computers are not further advanced than today (or maybe rather the pre-internet era) and called cogitators." That's a bold statement, given the fact that those computer would have been developed somewhere around 20k, which is only 18k further down the path than our current computers. And it's not true that people don't actually know about how technology works, it's simply the fact that knowledge is heavily guarded and restricted. You are not allowed to obtain any knowledge, you need permission for it. You can know about the official Creed and what your duties are but that's where it ends.

[@WJS774]

I like how the marine tries to use the plasma pistol at 11:00 to stop the thing by shooting _into_ it, but we see it explode and take his hand off, and how little that seems to be bothering him after the warp spits him out.

[@tacovanpeski4591]

Give Helsreach a try. It's an awesome view and i love how as the story progresses you see the artist grow and improve.

[@dustinrasmussen8221]

"Is this more hallucination." No, but welcome to the Warp, where up is down and shit doesn't make sense. Where you'll be most likely torn to shreds by Daemons.

[@johnsteiner3417]

When the tech priest's face glows through his visor that's his soul being burned out, and then he potentially can serve as a psychic portal for chaos demons to pour through. So the Astartes have to put him down lest they be overrun instantly.

[@mobiuscoreindustries]

Also, when the warp entity actually catpured the astartes, what likely happened is that at the same time, that inquisitor was being overwhelmed and taken over by the second orb (which are linked but because of their conversation they are two separate entities). Much like the two spykers that the space marines faced, when one of the entity's host got terminated, the feedback blasted the other in the face and caused it to lose his grip.

[@temwananinkana3419]

That was some serious problem solving. I loved that. Kkk

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

:)

[@temwananinkana3419]

@@CombatVeteranReacts you can react to the new warhammer 40000 trailer. Its cool. And fore lore, watch majorkill you tube videos .he is funny and his vids are short. You will get a big understanding about warhammer 40k. You can start with the primarchs and their legions and then work your way on to other spacemarine chapters and factions he reviews. Best of luck.as ever, good content.

[@Pat0p]

1:55 The little slips of paper you saw in that hallway are likely purity seals. They're like charms, imbued with the power of the Emperor cast by Ecclesiarchs or Inquisitors. They hang from armour, vehicles, things worth protecting. In this instance, they are there to create a barrier from outside forces entering or inside forces leaving. Though, they're not always purity seals. Sometimes they might be Oaths of Moment, which are promises that Astartes make to their squad, legion, or primarch that they will get a battle-task done. Failure to do so will result in self-sacrifice or execution.

[@theaureliasys6362]

Rule of thumb: the more papers there are, the more serious the situation. If an astartes is absolutely covered in paper, he's SCARED. And an astartes is rarely ever scared.

[@CottonyAlmonds]

Astartes can be concerned, but they are quite literally incapable of feeling fear

[@GreenStuffConsumer]

1:10 the astartes helmet contains: NVGs, a camera that can record and give live footage, a two way radio that has multiple frequencies, a Heads Up Display that provides as much information as possible including ammo count and distance from allied units and etc. All of which is controlled by the marines BLINKING Those slips of paper are called Purity Seals. They range from accolades that adorn armor or weapons to physical wards from daemon or xenos corruption. The orb is most likely a cocoon (artificial or organic is unknown) of an ancient xenos race known as the yu'vath who were heavily psychic. I don't know how one got aboard an imperial ship or how the astartes found the first one but they had to put a stop to their schemes. Those soldiers and psykers were probably corrupted and used as a guard for the orb. The bladed devices that the squad had were most likely psychic dampeners that were meant to put a collar on the xenos' power but they weren't effective enough. The Yu'vath pulled them in to try and corrupt them even harder but something (I'm willing to bet a daemon) attacked and most likely killed the Yu'vath. I do not know who teleported the astartes. 13:02 as far as I know they were legitimately teleported to another area. This may be an acid trip but the Inquisition and some Astartes chapters deal with this every day and are trained specifically to fight this.

[@rhodridavies9426]

For Lore videos, Luetin09 does some very good in depth, if long videos on factions, technology, universe history and canon. And I would say they are pretty good points of entry too. The thing is, this galaxy has been built for over 30 years, there are so many stories, so many retcons and beta canon, it's frankly confusing at the best of times! There are also some great plots to follow that gives insight into the imperium, its politics, bureaucracy and how it fights its wars. It is very east to lose yourself down this rabbit hole! :-P On the subject of books though, I think you would enjoy the Gaunt's Ghosts series. The third book, Necropolis, is probably the best sci-fy fortress siege story I've ever read! There's also a couple of companion books that help show the magnitude of the campaign the Ghosts are fighting in, namely Titanicus, and Double Eagle. These books are written by Dan Abnett. I would probably say this is also one of the easier points of entry for the lore! ;-)

[@NaughtMax]

I appreciate that you’ve made an effort to understand the lore and background while reviewing this even if it’s outside your realm of expertise. Makes your commentary more valuable as it’s a combination of real world tactics and the fantastical universe of 40K

[@ARandomCustodian]

May I recommend every single Warhammer 40k faction explained by bricky

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

I'll have to check that out!

[@williamthehammer1]

@@CombatVeteranReacts Heck yes! Bricky's awesome when it comes to warhammer 40k content!

[@beverlystevens955]

@@CombatVeteranReacts brickys good for highly summarized lore while luetin09 is for in depth stuff

[@darthgriff3007]

I believe the term you were looking for is Warp fuckery

[@williambozarth781]

It was a demon and it pulled them into the warp but was hit with psychic backlash when the other one was killed

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Got it

[@SanguinaryGuard]

This is where 40k is at its finest, going seamlessly from saving private ryan to *insert mind shattering cosmic horror here*

[@orvetoralsolo7892]

I would recommend The Star Wars short film "Shadow of the Republic". They got some squad tactics there and it would be good to know if they got those tactics right

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

I was a huge star wars nerd as a kid, so I will totally check it out

[@no_one01-5]

WH40K does have powerful AI that are beyond human comprehension. They are either hiding or dormant in some of the mightier vessels of the humanity. For instance Arc Mechanicus ship, named Speranza. These AI's are beyond powerful. We're talking about controlling black holes and time - levels of powerful. ..personally I don't think these orbs are AI. I think they are closer to, what the lore calls the Umbra, than the popular opinion of them being the Yu'Vath. This lore is so vast and deep, with full of obscure details, that it can make your head spin. 😄 ..but Luetin09 does some really deep and detailed lore videos, if you want to check it out. Majorkill is also a lore channel and he does it with more tongue in cheek. Death of Hope: Anarchy Reigns is a great animation. Helsreach. The Lord Inquisitor - Prologue. Just a few recommendations. Hope you enjoy!

[@bobbygonzalez2056]

Baldermort is a pretty good starting point for learning the lore, but if you just feel like diving in Luetin09 would be a good choice.

[@hunterofajax1963]

Baldemorts Guide to Warhammer is good at explaining the lore and he’s got a easy voice to listen to

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Cool! I'll check him out

[@warlordscorch3128]

So there is a faction called the T’au empire who is a young and the newest 40K race/faction. They focus around saving the individual life by drones and good armor where as the Imperial Guard is oh well send thousands more soldier in.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Nice to know someone values life

[@warlordscorch3128]

@@CombatVeteranReacts unfortunately they are also called space communist weebs and hated a decent amount.

[@Author_Paluthor]

@@CombatVeteranReacts On the other hand they probably only do that because their population and Empire is one of if not the smallest of the major races and they'd be wiped out by the Imperium easily if it wasn't fighting everyone else. And they insist on continuing to subvert or conquer imperial planets. So they're not exactly good guys either.

[@rhino2960]

1:50 the slips of paper are what's called purity seals, they are badges of honor and markers of purity and incredible skill in combat, as they are quite literally nothing more than strips of inked paper, held on by a wax seal, the fact that they are in one piece, while still being worn on armor, or after having been removed, usually after the death of the soldier wearing them, are a testament to their abilities in combat. TLDR its a bragging right badge, one that is virtually always well earned. 3:12 the mine as you put it is the containment shell for an anomalous sphere which is emitting warp energy, it is locked in this shell to prevent it from corrupting or possessing anyone. The inquisitor in the hooded robe is attempting to interrogate the sphere, and in case you are wondering, there are two of these spheres. 4:25 were still not sure what that is, my theory is its one of the mythical "men of gold" a manufactured race of synthetic humanoids created by mankind during an earlier era of humanity to aid in human expansion across the universe, the skulls and spines surrounding it, I think may be the remnants of psykers that were to be sacrificed to jump start the man of gold into life, much like how the emperor is kept alive by the daily sacrifice of psykers. 5:06 The marines are approaching the sphere, which is actively attempting to corrupt and warp their minds with psychic attacks, the marines are resisting the attacks as evidenced by their rapid increase in intensity. 5:50 precisely what the spheres are is not known, my theory is they are conduits being used by something within the warp to corrupt the minds of humans into turning to chaos. 6:37 AI's exist, and were previously widely created and used by humanity, but some time between the dark age and now, it was discovered that AI could be corrupted by chaos just as humans could, but even more easily, and so it was labelled as heretical to develop or use any form of Artificial intelligence, this however didnt stop them being used, and there is some controversy as to whether the "machine spirit" that governs the functions of the largest vehicles in the imperium including ships, titans, and even space marine land raiders, are in fact very simple and instinctive forms of AI. TLDR AI exists, but its illegal, cuz its easy to corrupt. 8:03 the exact dialogue of the two spheres communicating "Who is there? I have failed brother, we have all failed. The astartes deny our touch, we must return. Break your seal. Impossible, we will never survive. You Must! Take the alpha." 13:15 it is not a hallucination, the sphere sent them somewhere.

[@LordElpme]

Significance of the Paper in the CP.. The Imperium is addicted to Post-it notes.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Been there

[@avenwing5440]

The orbs are apparently an alien species called the Yu'vath which are denizens of the warp/immaterium. That unfinished golden statue was meant to become a body for the Yu'vath to exist within the material plane. I'm not super familiar with them but Archwarhammer does an in depth breakdown of these videos if you're interested.

[@Silverized84]

13:10 no, they just got launched somewhere

[@lilporky8565]

The plot progression of Astartes in a nutshell: Tactical Thriller ---> Surrealist Horror ---> The Exorcist ---> *You're going to brazil*

[@daswordofgork9823]

Kylo Ren vs. a Space Marine deathbattle 9:17

[@beverlystevens955]

Lightsabers can't even cut through ceramite

[@jonsimpson6240]

@@beverlystevens955 that sort of tracks actually, as the lightsaber is a plasma weapon and the armor is designed to protect against that to some extent. In game terms lightsabers would be ap3 probably?

[@beverlystevens955]

@@jonsimpson6240 yeah ceramite can withstand roughly 3 suns worth of heat before it's completely ruined and most meltas are either hotter or more dense than that so a light saber could cut through it but very slowly similar to beskar.

[@jonsimpson6240]

@@beverlystevens955 plasma in 40k can punch through as well. So if the assumption is made that the lightsaber plasma is similar you could treat it like an equivalent

[@beverlystevens955]

@@jonsimpson6240 indeed it would be like a full melta charge condensed into one point so yes.

[@NathanielGarr0_96]

1:58 they are called purity seals. they contain prayers to the godemperor or oaths of moments befor battle when they swear to do their duty. Sometimes they contain the names of fallen brothers.

[@Kenosos]

Humans have had super advanced AI at points but it turned against Humanity a la Terminator style, so current human civilisation has banned advanced AIs. This does not stop people skirting the law or outright breaking it. Also alien races are not beholden to human laws.

[@steenjacobsen1474]

Well they kind of are beholden to human law. Only - usualy they do not know that until an Imperial fleet enters orbit.....

[@Zargouski]

"I'm totally lost here" Welcome to 40K!

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Hahaha. Thanks