++Astropathic Choir Intercept ZY007, Kyne’s Fury 3.717.873.M39++
++Message to Inquisitor Tas Rovini++
++ Transcript Appended++
Thought for the Day: Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise.
My Lord,
The xeno is beginning to regain some of her nerve. It appears that the earlier phenomena were at least in part a reaction to psychic imprints left on her home planet by the genocide of her species. She grows somewhat more relaxed the farther we go from it, though I stress this is a relative term. She has also demonstrated a greater level of courage when in realspace, despite the fact that she doesn’t consciously sense the difference (or at least doesn’t tell me if she does). If not for the current streak of bad luck (another Ork attack, a pirate raid) afflicting the Imperial planets with which we have attempted to rendezvous, I would have given her a prolonged interrogation in the Materium rather than continued our work while in Warp transit. Now that we are some distance from Equis III, it is my hope that she might soon prove up to recalling useful intelligence within the comforting confines of natural reality.
Our work with her world’s cultural objects seems to back up my theories on the origin of the xenos species. They used primitive tools such as hammers, saws, forks, and other such things with little to no modification from the way mankind creates them, in spite of the manifest unsuitability of these objects to their fingerless bodies. Much of “their” culture appears to have been directly appropriated from a backwards human society. When questioned about this, the xenos seemed more interested than offended. She commented that the idea sounded fascinating, and that she wished to participate in these studies. For the first time, she requested to be let out of her cell. I denied the request, of course, but she does not seem to have given up. It is in this context that the below interview should be taken.
++Interrogation the Fifty Eighth++
Setting: Cell 59XBA. Cell remains brightly lit. Xenos is batting game pieces around on the table absentmindedly.
Kylara: Hello Twilight.
Twilight Sparkle: Hey there Ky. What’s up?
K: Oh, nothing too much is new. How are you?
TS: Fine… Fine… Don’t worry about me, I’m just peachy in here!
K: You’re not feeling well, are you?
TS: Too much?
K: You’re not very good at subtlety.
TS: Maybe I need to work on that.
K: Perhaps. Now tell me, what’s wrong?
TS: It’s just… All this… is great and all. But I’m just… I’m just… getting tired of this place. I’ve been in here for one month, one week, five days, fourteen hours Equestrian time. I know it’s to help me, but why can’t I go out? I can help you. I’d like to meet your scientists, talk with them about their theories. Who knows, maybe our species did meet before. Maybe we did borrow stuff from you. I’d like to get out and do something again.
K: Really?
TS: Yeah! I can learn about you and teach you more about us! And we can go out and see other planets and catalogue what we find and everything! [I have understandably been reluctant to let her know what my actual profession is. She has been led to believe that we are more of a group of explorers and scientists.]
K: Very well.
K walks up to door and inputs access code. TS claps hooves in a manner suggesting excitement. The door opens momentarily.
K: Go on.
TS walks up to doorway, looks outside.
TS: NO! NO PLEASE! Please, make it stop! They’ll get you! They’ll get me! HAVE MERCY!!! [Just as anticipated.]
K: Coming?
TS screams incoherently. K seals door behind herself.
++Interrogation Ends++
++Thoughts++
My Lord, this is becoming unacceptable. The xenos is increasingly asserting her own wishes into my attempts at interrogation. I may have dissuaded her from leaving her cell at this juncture, but my instincts tell me it will not be long before she simply requests more light out there, and then freedom. Her mind, as best I understand it from prolonged interaction with her, is too sharp to be fooled by any obvious lies about inadequate ability to light up the corridors. She has at least a basic understanding of our technological levels, if not much of one of our society.
If I give in to this, she will start asking for more and more. Thus far I have declined to reveal official Imperial policy on xenos, due to the strong sense of betrayal and moral outrage this would almost certainly cause in the xenos. If she learns that the Emperor commands us not only to never befriend the xenos, but to actively seek out and exterminate all who will not bow unconditionally to humanity's will, her reaction is likely to be severe. She would immediately turn against us, out of both self-preservation and moral indignation. In the best case scenario, she would clamp up and refuse to speak to me any longer. In the worst, she could become outright violent, lashing out with her not-inconsiderable psychic abilities. As I noted before, we may not win such a confrontation.
If even the best case scenario were to happen, all my work at “befriending” her would almost certainly be for naught, and I would be forced to start from scratch with a much more hostile subject. As before, torture might simply destroy what is left of her sanity altogether, making her worthless except as a subject for dissection. On the other hand, a refusal to allow her out might also cause her to lose faith in me. She might believe (correctly) that I am conspiring to keep her in the cell for reasons beyond her own good. This would similarly make my efforts thus far in vain. Now that she believes me her friend, she is expecting certain things from me.
Of course, I will admit that I was the one who fostered this idea in the first place by my attempts to use more gentle persuasive techniques. I now question my own methodology in this case. Have I inadvertently spoiled the xenos so much that she will refuse to talk until she gets what she want? In such case, I may be forced to break her the old fashioned way. Gaining the information on the menace to our Imperium is too important to leave to the whims of a pony seemingly out of some inane children’s animation. Still, you have given orders to preserve her if at all possible. Beyond that, there remains the risk of destroying her mind in the process and making interrogation of any kind utterly untenable. Despite all our efforts to acquire one, we have no backup specimen to speak to. If this xenos dies, any chance of learning about the dire threat you have spoken of dies with her.
Therefore, Lord Rovini, I must seek your guidance in this matter. Do I have your permission to go to more forcible methods if she does not crack soon? I request a response as soon as you can.
Your servant,
Interrogator Kylara
++Message Ends++
Necrons, more specifically flayed ones. Equestria may have been a tomb world where a cadre of necrons who had the flayers sickness awakened first. This was like followed by a destroyer lord and their retinue. Also no bodies suggests the heavy use of gauss flayers.
Great story.
Is Twilight going to tell them that Discord was a god(Spirit actually but...) of chaos and disharmony?
Cause that would pique their interest I should think.
Waiting eagerly for more
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I believe it could be a lictor created for a similar purpose as Deathleeper,
1-lictors do not eat the body so it actually can be the nids
2-terror tactics, that is exactly what Deathleaper was, why not another lictor
3-Dark ones, either that was the chomeneolic (I have no idea how to spell that) skin, or the color of the hive fleet, could happen
4-for all who say necrons, the world would be worse than a lifeless pit
5-for all who say Dark Eldar, they wouldn't completely wipe out a planet of life
6- Pretty much all other races are N/A for obvious reasons
That is my reasoning! Good day to you
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Gotta love tomb worlds.
I'd say Necrons, and I really hope it's them.
Though this mask in the picture looks like a Dark Eldar leader's bodyguard.
Soooo, basically this just skips over everything important and flat out slams the reader with nearly everything is dead but Twilight.
And then spends most of the time slowly building up her torment, in a universe that is as F'd up as anything ever.
And I'm still supposed to care?
Sheesh, I could just write a story where Space Nazi's have gassed all the races on the planet in that case.
I doubts its necrons, at least not an entire host. At most it would be massive uprising of flayed ones that dragged everything living on the planet into their weird meatspace pocket because every other group of necrons would have scoured the planet entirely of life, including microbes and such, while destroying anything in their way and they certainly would have been more then shadow creatures.
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If you don't like the story and/or 40k universe, it's your opinion. Also, this fanfic has just been started, so let's wait and see what the author has planned for the rest of the chapters before judging the whole thing.
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Aren't we talking about a planet with magic, fairy ponies managing the weather, moon and stars controlled by two alicorns, among other things?
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You're overlooking the important fact that on Equis III, weather doesn't happen unless ponies *make* it happen. The fact is, if the planet were following the laws of physics as we know them, the moon would have crashed into the planet and finished off Twilight and everything else long before the Imperium arrived.
4575252 Yeah, but we're also talking about the Warhammer universe, and a planet that has had it's magical inhabitants slaughtered.
So regular effects of temperature, air pressure, and evaporation would take over.
4576195 Well, the other issue is that in the canon Equestria, the ponies move the Sun too. That's an absolute fact after the Tirek episode (It was a concrete fact before, but people kept doubting the evidence until Twilight sending the Sun on a wobbly path into the sky blew away all hope of plausible deniability.)
So we're dealing with a quasi-magical world with powers imposed upon a formerly normal solar system.
I'd expect simple things such as heat transfer and evaporation would simply occur because they're very basic effects.
In any case, the Sun simply wouldn't heat the oceans enough to evaporate them in a few decades. You're greatly underestimating the heat capacity of such massive bodies of water. It'd take decades simply to heat them to near-boiling at Earth-like distances.
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How about we let the author decide how physics work in a magical solar system in his story?
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You're arguing for our present-day interpretation of physics in a combined MLP/Warhammer 40k crossover, based purely on IU speculation. You may want to pause before you continue.
I've come to the conclusion that Warhammer 40,000 humans are uncompromisingly xenophobic, racist, and generally complete and total fucking douchebags.
4660722 as a space marine, i agree.
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That's been common knowledge for a while.
Now that I re-read this after reading some of the sequel, I have to wonder if this is part of how Twilight wasn't executed. Stable mutated human species are abhuman. It could be that Twilight is labeled as abhorse or, perhaps, a kind of extreme abhuman.
That generally only applies to species that attacked humanity. Whether during or after the Age of Strife. Most worlds conquered by aliens become known as Hell Worlds and Nightmare Worlds. For very good reasons. During times that the Imperium needs more worlds to house it's hundreds of billions of refugees, the Imperium is not above exterminating primitive xenos (no protectorate xenos, that is) for their worlds. That is only done at the times I mentioned, though, as it is otherwise a waste of resources on non-threats. So, the xenos who don't die are the ones who A) aren't killed off during times of desperate colonization, B) aren't wiped out by any of the Imperium's enemies, C) aren't stupid enough to attack the Imperium and aren't unlucky enough to have attacked humanity during the Age of Strife, and D) if they don't meet condition C they at least have the sense to surrender and accept protectorate status, or E) did all of A, B, and C, and accept protectorate status. Those who fulfill condition C but decline protectorate status are ignored and left to fend for themselves. Needless to say, they quickly come to regret their decision.
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You should see the other guys. They prove the Imperium's way of life to be both necessary, right, and healthy in their universe.
4660722 Theyre really more xenophobic and bigoted. But for very good reasons. Because literally every other alien species are trying to fuck them over or kill them in horrible ways. Also homosexuality is pretty much Slaanesh's MO so the Imperium adopts a "Just be sure" policy to make sure no horrors of chaos come out and rape them. Other than that all humans are welcomed with open arms (even though that's stated in lore all the art of the Imperium shows Caucasians. Nice going GW)
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Also, the Big E said that Anyone who doesn't try to murder fuck humans, or subjugate them are welcome to join. Basically... You ain't a dick, you can join.
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Unfortunately a lot of what the emperor proclaimed has need kept secret from the public by organizations like the ecclesiarchy, while they server a purpose it's not what the emperor wanted, he wanted a technologically based secular people that advanced human kind, unfortunately after his placement on the golden throne there wasn't much stopping people like goge vandire from messing it up
I am getting really tired of the rabid xenophobia. Damn I hate the Imperium.