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At National Prayer Breakfast, Hegseth Says US Soldiers Gain Salvation by Dying for ‘Christian Nation’
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Some Warhammer 40k shit right there
sounds like amon from sc2. he said to taldarim follower, dying is the best way to please me, or "Ascend"
Terrorism = heresy in the USA version of 40K
asked a cpl times now but - do you know a good starting story for 40k lore to read? looking for a new series.
The Cain series is fun. Silly and less grimdark. But fun.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1531183.Space_Marine
I'm old and this is the story I grew up with. Good foundation for any of the Horus Heresy stuff
I second starting at the Horus Heresy stuff. No particular book but its easier to follow chronologically. Also new stuff seems to have forgotten everyone is supposed to be the bad guy.
That's why heretic books like the Fabius Bile or Nightlords trilogy are great. Even authors who forget they should be writing villains on the loyalist side can remember that the traitors are evil. However, at least for those two trilogies, their authors also write them as likeable characters somehow. I would hardly call them anti-heroes, but they are understandable in their own messed up ways. It's how I feel the loyalists should have been written.
Oh yeah Fabius is the guy. He is a piece of shit undeniably but you cant resist how cool he is. And its totally how the loyalists should have been written. I dont think any loyalists has ever hurt chaos with words alone that I can recall. But Fabius does it on a whim and he means what he says so much it hurts.
thanks!
I recommend Ghaunts Ghosts. Gives you a good idea how diverse the empire is.
Dune.
loved the entire series lol.
Honestly, most of the 40k books are.. Not great.
It's basically just Dan Abnet
The Eisenhorn trilogy is what i've usually heard recommended.
I’m working through it now. Would highly recommend it.
It dips your toes into the universe without you needing to know too much. And Abnett knows how to write a good story in general.
Good to hear! I've got it on my list but haven't gotten to it yet, hopefully soon.
thanks!
I'm also dipping my toes into 40k lore
It kind of depends on what factions you care about, and what kinds of stories you like to read, this is pretty much where I'm at.
The horus heresy - I'm still working my way through this, there's a ton of books and stories, not all of them are necessarily worth it and some of them kind of rehash some of the same events from different perspectives. Read the first 3 or 4, then you can kind of skip around until the end, there's a few suggested reading lists floating around online to help you decide what you want to read. The heresy takes place 10k years before the main 40k universe, so it gets you a solid primer on why the universe ended up the way it is.
Pretty much all of the eisenhorn stories are pretty good, and get you a bit away from the giant battles with space Marines and such so you can get more of a feel for what else is going on around the imperium.
Pretty much anything written by Dan Abnett is pretty good, he's pretty widely accepted to be one of the better and more consistent 40k writers. There's some valid criticism of him, I won't pretend he's the world's best writer, but pretty much everything he's done is readable and enjoyable.
If you like orks (I like orks) Brutal Kunnin' and Da Big Dakka are both fun reads, and Mike Brooks seems to get orks and other xenos pretty well.
That's about where I'm at personally. Not too sure where I'll go from here, I got a ton of the heresy left to get through still, and besides that I'll honestly probably just grab whatever happens to catch my eye at a book store or library
thanks!!
More or less start somewhere. There may be a chronological order (in the heresy) but after that it's more of a suggestion. Pick a faction or topic you like and go from there.