From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.
They may be nonbinary, but they sure do speak binary.
Computers can speak n-ary actually.
It’s much better for efficiently speaking to devices - for example, PCIe 6.0 is 4-ary and USB4 is 3-ary.
All of that may be true, but the Mechanicus native tongue is “binaric”
The horror.
That would almost be as bad as kissing a girl for the first time and then she demands you watch The Notebook, and then the whole Twilight movie series with her.
One time, back when my fiancée and I were just dating at the beginning of our relationship, I went on a long tangent on how a lot of context has been lost to modern readers of Jane Austen’s books, particularly Pride and Prejudice, since at the time they were contemporary fiction and Jane Austen expected her readers to just understand stuff like why exacly did the future of the Bennett family depend on Elizabeth marrying well. Next thing I knew, my clothes were gone.
Oh, don’t worry… It’s actually quite easy to understand! You see, it all started before written history, when there was this one dude who was created by a bunch of super-powerful shamans…
Nono you can’t start from there, you need to know who the dude is and why he did that to truly grasp the scope of the setting. It all started several million years ago, when a race of soulless machines commanded by living clouds attacked…
Earliest we can start is the necrons right? Before they were machines tho
The order i always heard people explaining 40k was:
- An explanation of what the warp was before everything
- The old ones and what they did (webway, seeding the galaxy etc etc)
- What are the necrons and how did they discovered the c’tan (and what a c’tan is)
- War in heaven
- What are the eldar (and the orks) and what they did
- Then all the human history and recent events
Look, believe it or not, there are good guys in WH40k universe: the Tau. Yes, they will wipe your planet out if you refuse the Greater Good, but that’s what you get for being selfish bigots.
I love how one of the issues the Imperium has with the Tau is that they keep losing worlds to the Tau because they secede after the dramatic improvement in quality of life vs. life under Imperial rule.
