I'm sorry I haven't been introduced into the lore a lot. Who writes these books. In 20 years of gaming I have heard almost nothing about the lore and Warhammer games. Why is Warhammer so underrated.
@@beastmasterbg Am guessing cause people paint GW as nerds with models old troupe, but yes it's very underrated www.blacklibrary.com if you want to get into the books
@@beastmasterbg warhammer books are written by a collection of authors and published to the black library. Id say the reason 40k is underrated is due to 2 main factors: 1) im gonna get a lot flak if anyone sees this but in reality its just over over over the top star wars/halo etc its the same genre but goes too far as its main point. Which means if youre already hyper invested into lets say star wars it just from your perspective becomes a silly over the top joke And 2) WH40K itself comes from the board game. With models and building and painting, which isnt for everyone. And its expensive, so it means the main core focus of 40k is based around something that less than most would be interested in.
Don't dive in too far or else you'll turn into a sweaty neckbeard who circlejerks on every forum they can find about how great and how much better 40k is than every other franchise.
There aren't that many Grey Knights. In fact, there aren't enough Grey Knights for them to be everywhere they are needed. Moreover, those psykers aren't daemons, so the usual anti-daemon McGuffins that Grey Knights bring to the field won't be all _that_ effective against them. Chances are, the Grey Knights would need to bring some of their own psyker tricks to bear, since every Grey Knight is an accomplished and powerful psyker in his own right.
@@Schwarzvogel1 well ofc it's only one chapter. But that's still definitely an army. And don't forget about the Libarius. Also the amount of counters the Imperium has to warp fuckery is unlimited.
"Are space marines human?" Well yes, but actually no. They are transhuman. Genetically and physically modified and trained throughout their adolescence to be mighty warriors, capable of far more than any ordinary human. Able to survive wounds that would kill a man in seconds and incredible feats of strength and endurance.
Not genetically. No gene-tampering really happens, here. The gene-seed helps the body grow, as well as accept the new organs, but even those organs are artificial in nature, transplanted into them, rather grown in them. They are transhumanist, yes, but not gene-edited.
@@inccubusdaniel9249 not quite true - genetic editing *does* happen (that's what the gene-seed does, and it's a significant part of how they get so ridiculously swole). The extra organs being added manually rather than being left to grow independently is more of an efficiency thing (in terms of time-saving and lowering the risk of rejection) than anything else, as far as I understand it.
@@inccubusdaniel9249 In the Horus Heresy books it's mentioned how some Legiones Astartes would take on a resemblance to their Primarch. Horus Aximand was actually called 'Little Horus' because his geneseed made him resemble Horus Lupercal.
"If there was like an army of them that could do the telekinesis thing? They would be unstoppable..." Well well well, let me introduce you to the Thousand Sons...
That punch and 4 shots to the psychic guy? I saw Astartes before this but the first viewing i had my doubts on what was gonna happen. Those guys REALLY handled business 😂 🤣
@@gamerleal9265 that is actually what happened to me reading your comment, for the first time in years that dreadnought voice came back to my mind (and the quote ofc). So thank you for making me remember the venerable ones.
@@davehood2667 they are not what you think they are. theyre a homebrew xenos race made by the creator of astartes. though, they probably have some xenos supertech, so ya know.
They were confirmed as a kind of noble caste of a human strain with low level psyker abilities. The spinal attachments help boost their psyker abilities but they still only really have telekinesis for offence
Don't forget about epic intestinal and bladder fortitude... Unless of course the 30-minute undress involves Chapter Serfs giving them a thorough post-operation cleaning with wet wipes...
you don't need to get into the models, the lore itself is so vast you can spend months just reading stuff about the lore Edit: I know you could probably take longer, I just didn't want to scare the newbies XD
@@andrewheddy6361 yeah! How stupid of me to forget that, I legit bought it to try out a bunch of factions. Plus with covid it's been a really good way to keep up with the hobby
"Astartes! what is your duty?!!" "To serve the emperor's will" "What is the emperor's will?!" "That we fight and die" "What is death?!" "It is our duty" What is your duty?! "To serve the emperor's will" "What is the emperor's will?!" "That we fight and die" "What is death?" "It is our duty" "What is your duty?!" .....
@@Minotaur-ey2lg Thing is. Ultramarines have a primarch, Roboute Guilliman, is by far one of the loyalist men the Imperium. He believes in the will of the Emperor and knows what the Emperor wanted. He even is against the idea of making the Emperor into a God. He is extremely against it. Though he was loyal to the Imperium and would try hard to keep the Imperium from shattering anymore than it has. Even going through great efforts of taking on the religious sector of the Imperium and limiting their power. Which has mix results.
An explanation for the ending, Markiplier is a big warhammer fan. When the astarties channel got hacked, he jumped in to help. So that's why he was thanked there
Not sure who they were but they held his account for almost a year and started reuploading episodes of lesser quality. They also consistently deleted commenters who called out on the fact that it was hacked. He actually ruined a the audio for a couple of episodes so when astartes got it back he had to download what the hacker had posted and try to fix it the best he could (because he didn't have the originals anymore).
As a non-40K fan, here’s what I know about this: - The projectile firearms used are bolters. They use .75 caliber rounds, which are rocket propelled with quad solid fuel boosters, and have explosive charges. That they straight-up turn targets to mist is entirely normal. - The space marines are heavily augmented humans, like halo’s spartans, but taken to an extreme (this progression is pretty standard for W40K). Multiple redundant organs, extensive mechanical implants, etc. - After you see the space marines absorbed by the sparkly light ball, what you’re seeing is them traveling through the Warp. The warp is W40K’s version of FTL travel, except that it also happens to be a dimension of eternal eldritch horror and torment. Like if Star Trek’s subspace was the home of everything Cthulhu would consider a fear-worthy cosmic horror, and the Federation chose to use it for a highway anyways. Stats are mostly vague, but word is that W40K Warp travel CAN have up to a 10% lethality rate.
UP TO 10% lethal? Sir or madam, that's with one or more gellar fields. I'm convinced the only thing that kept the warp from mulching our marine, body and soul, was his brief exposure.
Honestly the best part of 40k for me is that it doesn't *have* to be expensive to lose yourself into it, but you can throw an ungodly amount of money into it if you want.
Have watched Astartes a dozen times. Watched as many reactions. Only now did I notice that the two gold psyker guys were 'unfinished' constructs. One of them only had a single arm, though it had two eyes, and the other had both arms, but only ONE eye. They weren't even finished constructs. Probably the Sphere rushed them into action, maybe when the Astartes breached the ship.
The best thing about the Astartes series is that the Space Marines do genuinely come across as these giant, unstoppable badasses that the lore tells us they are. The figures just don't reflect that these are a super-mega elite force of beings so genetically modified that they're barely human. Same with their weapons; an ordinary person would not be able to handle them. And it captures that dark, gritty and brutal atmosphere that is exactly how I've always imagined 40k to be.
I was a US Marine as a CQB instructor in Virginia when a unit of Royal Marines came over to train with us. One night we all went out to the bar and one of these crazy fks yelled, "NAKED BAR!" at the top of his lungs. Needless to say US Marines or the Royal Marines are not allowed back.
What always amazes me about this short film is the movement of the marines. Every single move they make has a purpose and its cariied out with absolute focus.
"If there were an army of those guys they'd be like, unstoppable." Hahahaha-no. Sorry, those guys were actually on the incredibly weak end of the power-scale for their kind. (Known as Psykers.) This helps to explain why the Beakie and Mr.Capeman (a decorated veteran of this Chapter of Space Marines, Possibly 1st Sergeant) were so quick to put down the Acolyte/Agent (the guy in the cloak who was 'praying' to the orb.) was because he was signifcantly more capable in base ability and training than the ones in the masks with mechanical spines (a Psychic Hood). Said agent wasn't some form of traitor- well, not in the way you meant. In 40k, to be capable of Sorcery is to be in some way able to manipulate the warp, which is a seperate but connected plane of existence formed entirely out of the emotions and beliefs of living things, and inhabited by primordial creatures with primordial urges and corruptive capabilities. The agent lost control of his defences either by loss of personal attention/control or by force and IMMEDIATELY had his soul eaten and his body possessed by a Daemon. A highly capable Psyker is fully capable of wreaking havoc on the scale of planets and -possibly- solar systems if they don't have to worry about getting their soul eaten. Space Marines themselves, actually have Psykers in the form of Librarians. To get an adequate understanding of the scale of Warhammer, you need to understand that Space Marines, for all their bullshit by our understanding, are the bog standard of this universe. they are the base level requirement an individual has to be in order to stand up to most enemy factions in the setting. The imperial Guard die in the hundreds of thousands to the millions in a single day of battle for the sole purpose of holding the line, and win more often than not through attrition rather than a strategic victory. Full planets are rendered lifeless or outright destroyed because in many cases, that is simply a better outcome than ceding it to the enemy, be they Orks, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Tyranids, or worst of all, Chaos. (or the dirty space communist weebs.)
What speaks most to me is that that psyker was in the Inqusition and they probably take about every 1 in 100,000 SANCTIONED psykers and to be put on the task of eavesdropping on xenos means that psyker was powerful and had proven itself and they were still overwhelmed in less than 10 seconds. A Librarian may have been hard pressed to hold it's own against those balls of.... whatever they are. I hope the artist does more because their artwork is spectacular and their story brings up many questions.
These are two separate orbs communicating with each other, the psyker was eavedropping on them, and revealed himself to them in order to warn the space marines who were dealing with the other orb. If you look carefully, you can see the moment where the commander (Red badass robo-eye) receive the warning, but too late.
One person, doing it all, puts the whole of Hollywood to shame Talent, effort, persistence and grit. This person has them all. Hope to see more from him in the future.
Conversation between xenos is: Who's there? We have failed, brother. The Astartes deny our touch. We must return. Break your seal! Impossible! We will not survive! You must! Take the alfa. Then the inquisitor listening to the conversation breaks his concentration to warn the commander 15:30 - "Recall them immediately!"
Absolute minimalist description of every 40K tabletop army: Imperial Dudes - Worship the god emperor Space marines/astartes - The sort of genetic supersoldier that captain america wishes he was. Come in many flavours. Imperial Guard/astra militarum - Basic human soldiers who can be anything from a stone age tribal with an axe to a highly trained specops paratrooper with high end body armour and a laser gun. Stormtroopers/Tempestus Scions - Like the guard boys but better in every conceivable way. Sisters of Battle/Soritas - Crazy killer nuns in power armour. Imperial knights - You dig giant robots, I dig giant robots, fair maidens dig giant robots forsooth. Adeptus Mechanicus - Imagine an engineer who is convinced machines are an extension of god. Who has alzheimers and thus has forgotten half of what he used to know. Adeptus Custodes - The sort of genetic supersoldier that space marines wish they were. Also come with their own posse of anti-magic hot bitches who have a thing for topknots. Chaos Dudes - Worship a bunch of gods from another dimension who are really into mutating people and causing chaos. Chaos Space marines - Basically space marines but with added mutations and more infighting. Also come in numerous flavours. Rebel guard and such are present in lore but don't get any tabletop funtimes except as meatshields for chaos marines. Chaos knights - Basically imperial knights but with more whacky stuff and infighting. Daemons - Demons. Alien dudes - Do alien stuff Tau - Space weeb communists Eldar/Aeldari - Space elves of the high fantasy sort Dark Eldar/Drukhari - Space elves who need to torture people to continue living. Fortunately for them they also derive an erotic thrill from it. Orkz - ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ! A collection of memes and 80s football hooligans Necrons - Space egyptians who basically went to war with the galaxy in the distant past, sort of won then took a nap to dodge the consequences. Sold their souls to preserve their minds in robot bodies, this was a bad idea. Tyranids - Bugs. Eat everything. Genestealer cults - What happens when bugs send bugs to infect your populations genepool. Harlequins - Space elf clowns. Bazinga. Theres a few others but they're basically irrelevant. Many more in lore who are even more irrelevant. ~EDIT~ Ok so few things to answer other questions. One: Space marines are human. Just augmented through a lengthy, dangerous and difficult process of genetic and surgical augmentation. Multiple organs are grown and implanted alongside a program of genetic modification. By the end the basic astartes is about 8 foot tall, has an extra heart, a predigestive stomach, can go without sleep for months at a time among many other things. Two: Robe boy. He was part of a group called the inquisition, who basically handle all sorts of shit. Probably an inquisitor. Generally space marines are not on friendly terms with them but some chapters are the opposite. He was also pretty obviously what is called a "psyker" basically a guy who can crazy psychic bullshit powers that are powered by another dimension called "the warp" which is also where the chaos gods live. Using psyker powers is very dangerous and requires considerable training, conditioning and proper equipment to do so with any degree of safety. That being said the Empire is heavily reliant on psykers for various purposes. What happened to him by the look of it is that he lost focus when he signalled something to the space marine next to him and that loss of focus let the big orb alien thing hijack his mind (or try to). The space marines response of basically punching his head to paste and shooting him repeatedly was a very reasonable and subdued response as psyker stuff going wrong is a great way to find yourself dealing with a rift into the warp that shits out copious quantities of demons. Three: Real world military tactics don't work too well in 40K. Its a setting where melee combat is common and the empire mainly uses WW2 era tactics for its basic human forces. If you're lucky they're using German or British tactics. If you're unlucky its Russian. Space marines meanwhile do their own thing. Typically surgical strikes on key elements of the enemy force in a warzone. Lot of them prefer melee combat where a space marines advantages can often overwhelm other forces. Different groups (challed "chapters") of space marines have their own specialities and preferences. Also fun fact: The gun they use is called a bolter. It fires a .75 two stage armour piercing explosive round. In basic terms take a tiny rocket, give it an armour piercing tip and an explosive charge. Then you put it in a conventional bullet. The normal gunpowder charge gets it out of your gun (dodging the gyrojets low initial velocity) at a reasonable clip, then the rocket motor ignites and keeps it on a straight trajectory while upping its armour penetration qualities. Once it hits something the explosive fuse is set off which give it a fraction of a second to penetrate then explodes.
It is debatable whether Space Marines are truly human, though. It really depends on how you define "human." Is a being that is much larger than any human being, and has three lungs, two hearts, a fused ribcage, and can spit acid truly a human being? And who also has a psychology drastically different from that of humanity, and is not capable of sexual reproduction to produce more of its kind? The funny thing is that if anything, Astartes would be the textbook definition of _mutants_ (yes, I know that is a heretical statement, and will submit myself to any Inquisitorial review, but shut not your ears, good Imperial citizen). Your average Astartes is as much a mutant as an Ogryn or a Navigator, but I do agree that a Space Marine is far more human than some of the more eccentric members of the Adeptus Mechanicus; those cogboys can get real freaky. I do disagree with your third point, somewhat, though. The main thing that seems to be missing in 40K when compared to the real world is the abundance of precision-guided weapons that modern militaries employ nowadays... as well as a surprising lack of tactical nuclear weapons. (I don't think even an Ork horde would fare too well after being bombarded with several 10 kT nuclear warheads.) As for the claim that the Imperium doesn't use real world military tactics, it's worth noting that your available weaponry determines your tactics, and that trench warfare did not die out with WWI and WWII; it was employed as late as the Iran-Iraq war. Moreover, the Guard tends to fight in large-scale battles which we have _not_ seen since the Second World War, thankfully. You really cannot compare modern counterinsurgency operations to the sort of massive battles that occur every Tuesday in the 40K universe. It's quite possible that a WW3 near the end of the Cold War would have eventually looked like an Imperial Guard battle as both sides ran low on guided munitions and C3 capabilities were degraded. What made "Astartes" so memorable for me is that you _do_ see the Space Marines and their opponents using realistic small-unit tactics, and not just wading in to Hulk-smash everything like we see them doing in virtually every other media description of the Adeptus Astartes. Their opponents are not crazed or idiotic mooks; those traitor Guardsmen are smart and brave. They set up ambushes and have multiple positions to fall back to. Those tactics would have worked well even against real-world special forces operators. Unfortunately for those traitors, they weren't facing Delta Force or Tempestus Scions. They are simply _outmatched_ in every sense of the word. As for bolters, I've seen in some sources that they use .998 caliber projectiles, but the lore really isn't consistent on this. It also doesn't explain how they avoid the Gyrojet's other problem--horrendous accuracy due to inconsistent spin-stabilization. I guess that the bolter ammunition is just made with a much higher level of quality control than the original Gyrojet rounds. The ironic thing is that the humble Guardsman's lasgun is more technologically advanced (from a real-world perspective) than the bolter, and, in the real world, a lasgun would be a far superior weapon. Who _wouldn't_ want a 3.5 kg rifle that (somehow) fires eye safe lasers with enough energy to shear off human limbs, has a "magazine" with at least 50 shots, and uses power packs that you can recharge with solar energy or even by tossing them into a campfire?! And that comes in a package durable enough to use it as a club or a walking stick? The lasgun is a logisticians wet dream, and a weapon with which to conquer worlds... and the Imperial Guard has plenty of experience doing that.
@@Schwarzvogel1 Strictly speaking the space marines fall into the transhuman category. Human origin but modified artificially to something beyond that. Which is one of the reasons the Emperor made them male only. Didn't want humanity turned into astartes over time. Now as for weapons. Theres different kinds of bolter. You're referencing the heavy bolter which fires a larger round. Typically mounted in vehicles but also carried as a heavy weapon by a lone astartes. The spin problem isn't really a problem if your manufacturing standards or methodology are up to snuff. Gyrojets were made at a time when that kind of precision was hard for small batches. Imperium is post dark age of technology which was when humanity basically "finished" science. The lasgun meanwhile seems cool but is weak sauce compared to the bolter. Its armour penetration is balls and compared to other weapons, armour and vehicles being fielded is woefully underpowered. Which is half the point of 40K, its so over the top the guys with a laser gun that is putting out energy per shot equivalent to a .50 BMG are on the lower end of power scale. Overall it seems that las weapons are relatively easy to defend against for most things on the battlefields of the 40k universe. Either their physiology is able to deal with the damage or prevent it. Or their armour is designed explicitly to manage it. The bolter meanwhile is designed explicitly to get into things then explode. Now strategy. You do see precision guided munitions, its just that theres a lot less of them. Personally I think any major war scenario between developed nations would see these precision weapons quickly exhausted then never replaced. They are a lot of effort to make and maintain. Easy to justify and cover for in peacetime (or just engaging in one of the USAs foreverwars) but much harder to manage in an all out war.
5:13 - "The atmosphere that they're making with this, makes it feel so dark & gritty" Main tag line for the games/books etc... "In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war!"
This video made me realize how fucking effective the storytelling in astartes is. No words spoken and yet someone who only vaguely knows 40k understood really well what was going on. Thats amazing. Even the dune influence, the connections between the orbs the size and might of the space Marines. You understood A LOT of whats going on in your first watch through great Job man.
If you wanna know more about 40k I HIGHLY recommend you check out Bricky he has a two part lore series that explains every faction while also being entertaining. The first video is focused on humans and the second is focused on alien races but be warned the videos are about an hour long each Part 1: ruclips.net/video/xCGKPRiJp84/видео.html Part 2:ruclips.net/video/Y6jnsX77TCU/видео.html
@@crushcommando8637 Fair enough. I'm not subscribed to either of them and have watched a limited amount of their respective content. My stated preference was based on voice, narration style and overall ease of watching and with those parameters in mind I'd probably watch NornQueen Alexis over these dudes anyhow (if she did lore stuff). Then again, I'm new around here so what do I know? :)
17:56 "He looks mutated in some way." Oh boy you have no idea. These guys go through a series of surgeries to implant at least 19 new organs over the course of 6 years. The 3 earliest are a second heart, an implant to increase bone development (which includes fusing the rib cage into a solid plate of bone), and another implant that causes the same growth to happen to the muscles. And that is ideally in the first two years of your process from human to transhuman.
Fun fact: The standard issue "rifle" for the Astarte's, The Bolter, is chambered in a .75 calibre. It basically looks like a massive M433 grenade and is a fraction of the explosive force. That's how you see all those soldiers getting ripped apart by the guns with a mere shot. (I originally said a quarter, but looking through everyone's comment on this one, I changed it to a fraction, because in the lore of the Bolter, it was stated that it did have some explosive within the bolter rounds.)
its a .75 "calibre" fully-automatic assault weapon firing a self-propelled miniature armor piercing rocket, of a myriad varieties from standard HEAP, to viral, acidic, fragmentation, even fucking MAGIC inscribed rounds.
“Quarter of the explosive force” there is not actually any lore about how strong the bolts are. Writing has them anywhere from blowing a guy in half to killing him and several dudes around him. Considering we could easily do that with modern explosives in a .75 shell, I’m leaning towards it being anti-squad level power. The only reason grenade launchers aren’t like that is expensive of such explosives and difficulty of using a fuse for it in such a frame reliably. The Imperium would have no such issues for Astartes armament.
@@r4v3nw1ng1 When they put down the Inquisition agent, the elite's cape also moves in time with the shots. The level of detail the guy put in is insane.
Hey, update time. The Astartes project was originally made by one dude as a fan project, last week he was officially hired by Games Workshop, and the project was endorsed. So now he has greater resources and access to other professionals, I can't wait to see what he releases next.
Are space marines human or robots?? **Grabs the giant ass Lexicon and slaps it to the table, along with the lexicon to explain terms** *Three hours later* ''And that was Tl,dr.''
@BenjaminTheRogue i read on his reddit Q&A that he has done 3d for 20 years and videogame art for 10. His father also had a animation studio so he probably started learning whilst still a teenager
@BenjaminTheRogue You can actually learn pretty quickly and the guy himself said that with modern tools it's a lot easier now, it's just all about effort and learning, if you are only willing to do a couple hours each week then it will take ages, but about four or five hours each day, you could probably get at-least competent within six months to a year. Also, there are tonnes of tutorials online now, which wasn't a thing in the past, you had to read the 1200 page manual or something crazy like that.
As someone who had to wait for each part to come out it was painfull but worth waiting for each one. Watching other people now get to experience this masterpiece is so great and knowing it was all done by one guy is the mind blowing part.
@@Yozcenk66 are you new to the 40k universe? If so, get into the game/lore and you’ll understand why. The ‘Royal Marine’ that ‘reacts’ to this fan film is done with such little knowledge that he continuously asks stupid rhetorical questions. An example of this is what your comment refers too.. The ‘rest of us’ (those that are in the 40k hobby) know the answer... It’s a chaos entity.... and that’s heretical. What that means in the lore is anything that goes against what the Emperor’s Imperial Truth. Still don’t know what I’m talking about? RUclips 40k lore... lots of info.
@@willingandable3565 first of all mr. high and mighty I dont know if it was your intention to sound like an asshole and talk down to people but you kinda did... secondly I dont just want to know that it is a choas entry and tied to the warp. I want to know its purpose, why is it there And what it did to the space marines. And even from a lore stand point there is most likely someone or something designed to do that. (Which would most likely be or accompanied by Grey Knights) It isn't heresy to try to understand it.... but it would most likely be a death sentence if you did try (lore wise)
17:29 When you pause it at the moment it becomes bright enough to see, you can also see other entity of the Warp in the bottom right corner. That creature that took the Space Marines told the other one that it wouldn't survive when it breaks it seal. You saw how bright it was with its blue glow, probably psy-energy and beings of the warp are drawn to it like moths to the light.
Also to add to yours. That black mist that surrounds the Marines and the black mist that hits the warp entity is likely the psyker's last ditch effort to save them before he got possessed.
@@keenfire8151 Can't be, they got the call to get out after the psyker died. Why do you think I said this in the first place? Because alot of people thought that, but no. It is not the psyker.
@@archerbascha8757 the only reason i said that is because the time of the video isnt linear....and i follow the artist...he gave a thumbs up to someone who said that.
@@keenfire8151 Only because he gave it a thumbs up isn't the same as for him saying what is actually happening. Not like the time everyone thought what those aliens are excactly, only for him to come out and tell everyone that they are made up ( and that he probaby got influenced by the lore a while back but couldn't remmeber it which is why they look familiar ). And I am pretty sure I saw other thumbs up on other comments, either lore related or not. And you can follow the timeline. The moment the Astartes is send back to the com station, the psyker is attacked by the alien. He wouldn't have time to help the Astartes on the other ship while fighting and losing that battle. I am not saying that he couldn't multitask, but usually a psyker needs alot of concentration to fight any Warp related attack, especially at that skale. And I also doubt that the artist designs the Warb entity in the backgrond the same way an attack of the psyker looks like. He has clearly shown that when he does something, you can distinguish anything what is happening on screen from each other, to let the viewer not getting confused. There is also that moment the aliens talk with each other where the Psyker hears in. It was kind of foreshadowed that it is a bad idea to go into the Warp, since the one that breaks it seal and takes the Astartes said that it wouldn't survive. I doubt that it was talking about a Psyker following it into the Warp.
It fun watching people see this for the first time. I only got into 40k in 2018 and this cemented my love for it, truly badass and created by a single person... like WTF? I've seen major studios who don't get close to this level of quality.
If you watch the last scene carefully you can see his squad members flashing in on some of the pillars in the background..the level of detail is exquisite.
I am going to say. So far, the best way to start without being overwhelmed with the lore, and getting a story, and a laugh out of it, Emperors Text to speech.
"The guys that had wolves with them were my favorite when I was a kid..." *laughs in Vlka Fenryka* once a Space Wolves player, always a Space Wolves player. Heidur Russ!
13 surgeries minimum, all without anesthetic, and one where you're literally flayed alive. and you dont even get the battle-plate (armor) in most chapters until you've already served a while as a scout or some auxiliary role.
_40K Theories_ and _Leutin_ are great channels for easily digestible 40K lore. They cover a lot of specific detail in relatively short documentary format and both have a "40k Lore for Beginners" playlist on their channels.
As badger put it, "We're talking two hearts; we're talking three lungs; we're talking eight foot tall, 800 pound monsters that look like Hulk Hogan ate Boogie2988!"
Not sure how many times these have been answered but: “Who were those metal dudes and the balls?” We have no idea yet “Are the Astartes human?” Technically yes, but they have been heavily modified since childhood to be hulking perfect soldiers of war. And also, that dude who “betrayed” them was most likely a psyker (think Jedi that can use the force, except they draw power from the warp, which is basically save hell) and was corrupted by the ball.
"I would honestly love to learn about it" "I wanna know more about these guys." Once you stepped into the Warhammer 40k universe, there is no turning back. You'd crave for more and more and more till like how the Imperium's finest warriors dedicate their lives to destroy it's enemies in the name of the Emperor.
4:48 Here's a fun fact: That's the Space Marine equivalent of "suppressing fire". Also I just want to clarify some things: The guys in the mask are Psykers, and the spinal cord-thing is part of their battle gear most likely. The guy in red is also a Psyker, who works for the Inquisition. Specifically the Ordo-Hereticus, based on the symbol on his cloak. Ordo-Hereticus primarily handles human affairs. The "valves" on the huge ball are most likely Melta-Charges, basically huge bombs intended to totally destroy the sphere in case it does anything...odd. Inquisition doesn't mess around, much less Space Marines, with anything out of the ordinary, so even a faint glow could result in the sphere getting blasted out of existence. Space Marines are humans who have first undergone extensive physical and mental training, then (don't quote me because I'm not up to date on this) have had something called a Gene-Seed implanted into them than further transforms them into the massive hulking monsters that they are. Unfortunately, even an entire army of Psykers is useless against the Tyranid race (See: Shadow in the Warp) The two spheres are not the same at different points in time. Everything that we see on the Space Marine ship and the (assumed) rebel ship are happening with two different spheres at the same time. But it's easy to get confused. The trippy conversation was happening between the two spheres, and the Inquisitor was listening in. Apparently the sphere on the Space Marine ship noticed and didn't take kindly to it, so it possessed the Inquisitor's (which can happen, very often with Psykers) and either fried his brain after subjecting him to (what I only assume) were the sphere's own thoughts. Or he tried to turn the poor bastard into a demon to attack the Space Marines. Fortunately this particular Chapter knows exactly how many bolter rounds it takes to kill a demon-in-progress: All of them. Because if the Psyker had actually become a demon, it would probably take all of the aforementioned Melta-Charges just to weaken it enough for a couple squads of Space Marines to collectively finish it off-then blow up that entire section of the ship. Demons in Warhammer aren't just horrifying to look at it, they're damn-near unkillable. And they can leave behind traces of corruption that really do require the entire area be "cleansed in flame". The place the squad appeared in after getting sucked in was probably the Warp. I can't possibly explain the Warp in detail without writing a book, so let's just say the Warp is Hell. The shadow that attacked it in the Warp is very mysterious. Not sure what happened there, it could've been another demon but personally I think it was a psychic attack; either by a Psyker among the Space Marines or some kind of backlash from the other sphere getting rekt while possessing the Inquisitor's body. Don't worry about his arm. That's like getting a papercut to them.
To sum it up, they were once human. Now they are superhumans wearing some of the strongest armor and hardest hitting guns in the imperium. I mean, that rocket launcher soldier hadn't even been up a second when his buddies got shredded by bolter rounds, and he barely even had time to fire before he was turned to mist. Not to mention stabbing a guy behind you through the chest without even looking at the poor guy.
This also reminds me of a quote I remember seeing a long time ago: "The Aeldari may look down upon humans as under evolved monkeys but are still concerned about Astartes the same way that you would if a gorilla in full plate burst into your living room wielding a automatic shotgun."
"Who animated this?"
One guy. Just one guy.
Dammit, I was just about to say this
That's the power the emperor gives you
He did have some people come in on occasion to do specialized stuff like music and some tweaking of lighting etc
"With all due respect, sir, you can’t win a race by committee." Carroll Shelby from Ford vs. Ferrari.
One guy. But backed by the full weight and might of the Imperium.
The Emperor Preserves!
"This looks like something you want to watch in 4k"
How about in 40k?
How does this comment not have more thumbs up?
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its should have 40k likes
You weren't supposed to do that
"There was a bunch of books made"
*looks over at my wall of over 200 books thats no where near complete*
"Yeah theres a few"
Exactly the same with me hahaha
I don't have shelves anymore just data stacks of codexs,novels,and LEs
I'm sorry I haven't been introduced into the lore a lot. Who writes these books. In 20 years of gaming I have heard almost nothing about the lore and Warhammer games. Why is Warhammer so underrated.
@@beastmasterbg Am guessing cause people paint GW as nerds with models old troupe, but yes it's very underrated www.blacklibrary.com if you want to get into the books
@@beastmasterbg warhammer books are written by a collection of authors and published to the black library.
Id say the reason 40k is underrated is due to 2 main factors:
1) im gonna get a lot flak if anyone sees this but in reality its just over over over the top star wars/halo etc its the same genre but goes too far as its main point. Which means if youre already hyper invested into lets say star wars it just from your perspective becomes a silly over the top joke
And 2) WH40K itself comes from the board game. With models and building and painting, which isnt for everyone. And its expensive, so it means the main core focus of 40k is based around something that less than most would be interested in.
"Are Space Marines humans?"
Once... Once they were.
They are humans in the sense that they are part of humanity.
However they will never _be_ the same as the rest of us.
Original comment about has it down. The emperor is what humanity can be, astartes is what we need them to be.
look up Exploring warhammer 40k creating a space marine🏴 The exploring Series
Now they’re revealed as gods or something holy from a humy point of view.
“Well yes, but actually no...”
The entire Warhammer 40k community:
One of us. One of us. One of us.
More like, "Run, before GW gets your wallet in their vice of a grip!"
*ONE OF USS*
*JOIN THE HIVEMIND*
Don't dive in too far or else you'll turn into a sweaty neckbeard who circlejerks on every forum they can find about how great and how much better 40k is than every other franchise.
I’m so fucking new to this community and I was chanting it too
"Don't get me into 40K."
ONE OF US. ONE OF US.
ONE OF US. ONE OF US.
VULKANLIVE [smack a table 2 times]
MUST... RESIST
ONE OF US. ONE OF US.
Oooobaa ghabllll ooooooba ghablll
ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US.
Astartes is animated by one person and that’s what makes this even more amazing!
He spent years on this as well I think
One talented guy, if I remember someone said he already worked in the filming Industry before hence the quality and experience.
It’s true and they did such a great job
@@ToxicTeraaa no such thing as talent, its all pure skill my man
AND HE’S DOING IT AGAIN!
"I wanna know what's in this ball thing"
My Heresy sense is tingling
Did some one say heresy “ presses the exterminatus button
Bailey Strahan3 SMASH IT
@@xekon14 *smashing button intensifies*
I'm oblivious to Warhammer, but what was it
@@xd._.earnest1672 best guess is some sort of Tzeentch related warp entity
"Are space marines human or are they robots?"
*inquisitorial heavy breathing*
“Cogitate needing to breathe.”
-Magos Memeus
Well, if you're talking about the Iron Hands and any of their successors, then that is debatable
laughs in adeptus mechanicus
"Confused Iron hands rambling "
hes jus a simple peasant who dont know the might and greatness of the God-Emperor, he need to be enlighted, take him to the priestess, he need to know
"If there was an army of them guys that could do the telekinesis thing they would be unstoppable, they really would"
*laughs in Grey Knights*
Laughs in biomass
There aren't that many Grey Knights. In fact, there aren't enough Grey Knights for them to be everywhere they are needed. Moreover, those psykers aren't daemons, so the usual anti-daemon McGuffins that Grey Knights bring to the field won't be all _that_ effective against them. Chances are, the Grey Knights would need to bring some of their own psyker tricks to bear, since every Grey Knight is an accomplished and powerful psyker in his own right.
@@Schwarzvogel1 well ofc it's only one chapter. But that's still definitely an army. And don't forget about the Libarius. Also the amount of counters the Imperium has to warp fuckery is unlimited.
Demon hunters are still canon in my opinion!
Thats what we call a librarian, every Chapter (except for the Grey Knights, Black Templars) has a few (grey Knights are a Chapter of Psykers)
"Are space marines human?"
Well yes, but actually no.
They are transhuman. Genetically and physically modified and trained throughout their adolescence to be mighty warriors, capable of far more than any ordinary human. Able to survive wounds that would kill a man in seconds and incredible feats of strength and endurance.
Not genetically. No gene-tampering really happens, here. The gene-seed helps the body grow, as well as accept the new organs, but even those organs are artificial in nature, transplanted into them, rather grown in them. They are transhumanist, yes, but not gene-edited.
As the RussianBadger once said, It’s as if Boogie2988 ate Hulk Hogan and was armored up in a Landrover
@@inccubusdaniel9249 not quite true - genetic editing *does* happen (that's what the gene-seed does, and it's a significant part of how they get so ridiculously swole). The extra organs being added manually rather than being left to grow independently is more of an efficiency thing (in terms of time-saving and lowering the risk of rejection) than anything else, as far as I understand it.
Ah yes 7-8ft tall GM religious killing machines
@@inccubusdaniel9249 In the Horus Heresy books it's mentioned how some Legiones Astartes would take on a resemblance to their Primarch. Horus Aximand was actually called 'Little Horus' because his geneseed made him resemble Horus Lupercal.
"If there was like an army of them that could do the telekinesis thing? They would be unstoppable..."
Well well well, let me introduce you to the Thousand Sons...
Nobody sneeze!
@@xMANinTAN Remember that time their dad got murdered by an angry furry?
@@lolroflroflcakes “I PUNCHED OUT ONE OF HIS HEARTS, WHY DOES NO ONE REMEMBER THAT”!!!
Tell that to the Sisters of Silence
Gray knights ?
I love watching reactions to this series right when they get to the "standard exorcism protocol"
100% guaranteed exorcism or your money back
you know your into 40k when you get exactly what you were saying.
That punch and 4 shots to the psychic guy? I saw Astartes before this but the first viewing i had my doubts on what was gonna happen. Those guys REALLY handled business 😂 🤣
Falcon Punch!
Tbh considering it was a possessed psycker that was bare minimum treatment
The best thing is that Astartes 1 - 5 is made by one man.
pretty sure he hired help for the 5th one to rush it along
@@flanny701 still insanely impressive. Somebody needs to hire this guy haha
@@jack9315 he was hired by games workshop.
@@yanivgalmor1747 good to hear
@@jack9315 It's not good to hear because it was basically the death of the Astartes series.
"Don't get me obsessed with 40k"
Brothers, our mission is clear
@@gamerleal9265 To my last breath and beyond,I will honour my brethren,my Chapter and my Emperor.
@@gamerleal9265 "It is better to die for the Emperor than live for yourself"
Is the quote you are looking for.
@@gamerleal9265 fair enough
@@gamerleal9265 that is actually what happened to me reading your comment, for the first time in years that dreadnought voice came back to my mind (and the quote ofc).
So thank you for making me remember the venerable ones.
@@gamerleal9265 speaking of personal twists:
"It is better to live for the emperor than die for yourself"
"They're off to fight this Rebellion"
No. The Astartes do not FIGHT rebellion.
The Astartes END Rebellion.
This is not war, this is pest control.
Unless they are the rebellion, then its just down to plot convenience.
If you want to capture a city send a spuad, a planet send a company, a culture send a chapter.
Unless you count the Horus heresy and renegade chapter in which case they start the rebellion
There is no such thing as a rebellion and to speak of one is HERESY!
*He's not even bothered with his arm being torn apart.
Space Marines: Only in death does duty end
Lawl, tell that to a Dreadnought...
Dreadnought: Even in death, I still serve!
Meh just head on over to your local Apothecary and he'll fix you up with a spanking new 100% Omnissiah approved prosthetic 😊
The Pain is fleeting.
Faith Endures.
*laughs in Krieg corps*
Tell that to the Legion of the Dammed
Death is not an Excuse to avoid your Duty
"I wonder how many book there are?"
*laughs in Black Library*
''Do you have your library card?"
@@gamerleal9265 TTS 40K, another great piece of work
ruclips.net/video/XlzACP58lSw/видео.html
@@gamerleal9265 hon hon a hon hon a hon hon
@@kenrudd6362 Don't you have a protein shake to give to Ephrael Stern??
are there any comics>
"if there was an army of them teleknesis guys ... They'd be unstoppable"
*laughs in culexus assassin
If those are what I think they are (C'tan cultists) a Culexus would be screwed, as they're only immune to psychics, not xenos supertech.
@@davehood2667 they are not what you think they are. theyre a homebrew xenos race made by the creator of astartes. though, they probably have some xenos supertech, so ya know.
They were confirmed as a kind of noble caste of a human strain with low level psyker abilities. The spinal attachments help boost their psyker abilities but they still only really have telekinesis for offence
I’d be worried more about the daemon head implosion and possession lmao
Laughs in crusade age thousand sons
Ah yes, I remember googling something about warhammer 40k once. It was 2 years ago, and I'm still googling.
Hahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha
Same.
Yeah I googled about wh40k in 2019
hahaha lol it takes years to understand it too
When you look into the abyss, it is looking at you as well.
They were human, once.
these dudes have 2 hearts, 3 lungs and literal iron stomachs.
Its crazy, man...
No it's... WARHAMMER 40K!!!
well, maybe you forgot one or 16 additionally implanted organs in you enumeration ^^
Don't forget about epic intestinal and bladder fortitude... Unless of course the 30-minute undress involves Chapter Serfs giving them a thorough post-operation cleaning with wet wipes...
they're also about 7 feet tall
@@hairydave82 and those are the normal Astartes. The Custodes are bigger and Primearches are even bigger than that.
Him:"This looks like something you want to" watch in 4k
Me:"more like 40k"
You made me smile
Boo get off the stage,,🤣
Thus... Does put a smile in my face
Omg get out.
you don't need to get into the models, the lore itself is so vast you can spend months just reading stuff about the lore
Edit: I know you could probably take longer, I just didn't want to scare the newbies XD
or just sub Luetins channel
I read about 50 pages of lore in about 2 hours, what fascinates me the most is their 3 lungs and 2 hearts
I object
Tabletop simulator on steam is also an option to circumvent model prices and painting
@@andrewheddy6361 yeah! How stupid of me to forget that, I legit bought it to try out a bunch of factions. Plus with covid it's been a really good way to keep up with the hobby
"If there was an army of telequinesis soldiers, they would be unstopable" NOT IN 40K
laughs in sisters of silence
Until one of them gets possesed and starts a demon invasion smack middle of your army
Funny thing is, those two dudes weren't even that powerful in terms of psykers.
@@newgame8883 I've definitely had sanctioned psykers wipe tac marine squads before
Laughs in Valka Fenrycka
"Astartes! what is your duty?!!"
"To serve the emperor's will"
"What is the emperor's will?!"
"That we fight and die"
"What is death?!"
"It is our duty"
What is your duty?!
"To serve the emperor's will"
"What is the emperor's will?!"
"That we fight and die"
"What is death?"
"It is our duty"
"What is your duty?!"
.....
And this is why Big E hates Ultramarines. Their Ultra-fucking-chanting is drilling into his skull.
*PUKE**PUKE**PUKE* ultra smurfs
But who's on first?!!
@@Minotaur-ey2lg Thing is. Ultramarines have a primarch, Roboute Guilliman, is by far one of the loyalist men the Imperium. He believes in the will of the Emperor and knows what the Emperor wanted. He even is against the idea of making the Emperor into a God. He is extremely against it. Though he was loyal to the Imperium and would try hard to keep the Imperium from shattering anymore than it has. Even going through great efforts of taking on the religious sector of the Imperium and limiting their power. Which has mix results.
Everybody here be discussing 40k lore and I the casual just got freaking goosebumps from remembering that video lol
An explanation for the ending, Markiplier is a big warhammer fan. When the astarties channel got hacked, he jumped in to help. So that's why he was thanked there
thank you i was wondering this for months
Thank you, I actually wondered why he was thanked and I figured it had to do with when the channel was hacked but I never really knew
woah wait, they guy got HACKED!?
Please tell me we know who
Not sure who they were but they held his account for almost a year and started reuploading episodes of lesser quality. They also consistently deleted commenters who called out on the fact that it was hacked. He actually ruined a the audio for a couple of episodes so when astartes got it back he had to download what the hacker had posted and try to fix it the best he could (because he didn't have the originals anymore).
@@glitchmaster2228 Sounds like jealous friends.
All this by one man? Surely he had SOME kind of help.
Always more to these things
As a non-40K fan, here’s what I know about this:
- The projectile firearms used are bolters. They use .75 caliber rounds, which are rocket propelled with quad solid fuel boosters, and have explosive charges. That they straight-up turn targets to mist is entirely normal.
- The space marines are heavily augmented humans, like halo’s spartans, but taken to an extreme (this progression is pretty standard for W40K). Multiple redundant organs, extensive mechanical implants, etc.
- After you see the space marines absorbed by the sparkly light ball, what you’re seeing is them traveling through the Warp. The warp is W40K’s version of FTL travel, except that it also happens to be a dimension of eternal eldritch horror and torment. Like if Star Trek’s subspace was the home of everything Cthulhu would consider a fear-worthy cosmic horror, and the Federation chose to use it for a highway anyways. Stats are mostly vague, but word is that W40K Warp travel CAN have up to a 10% lethality rate.
Every black templars is religious to a really powerful man of science
UP TO 10% lethal? Sir or madam, that's with one or more gellar fields. I'm convinced the only thing that kept the warp from mulching our marine, body and soul, was his brief exposure.
great enemy to boloney mist armament XD
“I would love to learn more about it...”
Famous last words. Good luck.
Ten year $30,000 rabbit hole, easy.
@@cliffnpaige2009 Already probably a million dollars in 😂
Let me just look "1" thing up on the wiki. 6 hours later.
@@cn9707 Facts
Hey, just read the prequel novel series. it's only fifty-something books
"Do not get me hyped!"
Me: I have a feeling he wants to get hype. Lol
Honestly the best part of 40k for me is that it doesn't *have* to be expensive to lose yourself into it, but you can throw an ungodly amount of money into it if you want.
this fan film doesnt show astartes fight, it shows them eating their meals
yes
If this is what a fan can do, imagine what an air conditioner could
Upvoted for the dad joke that it is.
I appreciate this
Vulkan approves👍
This is some serious heresy
Bruh, lol
"Dudes with green guns." That'd be Necrons for ya. SPACE TERMINATORS!
I did a head swap of a terminator head on a skorpekh lord
@@jasonmolenaar119 I need to see this
More like angry space egyptians.
@@beanslinger4616 Or angry Space Egyptian Terminators.
@@johnrussell9836 I'm away from my models, but check out northernpainterr on Instagram. Will upload pics soon
Have watched Astartes a dozen times. Watched as many reactions. Only now did I notice that the two gold psyker guys were 'unfinished' constructs. One of them only had a single arm, though it had two eyes, and the other had both arms, but only ONE eye. They weren't even finished constructs. Probably the Sphere rushed them into action, maybe when the Astartes breached the ship.
thank you for clarifying that they were psykers
Holy shit I never realised they were actually constructs! I thought they were just psykers who accepted influence from the orb
Astartes are to humans what a knife is to a piece of metal.
That's a very apt way of putting it.
More like a greatsword I would say
That is one of the best short description for Astartes I've heard I love it
More like what a knife is to a potato peeler.
@@gurpyaresingh6189 I think the point being that a piece of metal is unforged.
"Is he a human! He is... looks mutated in some way"
-Understatement of the 41st millennium.
Laughs in Nurgle’s Blessings
The best thing about the Astartes series is that the Space Marines do genuinely come across as these giant, unstoppable badasses that the lore tells us they are. The figures just don't reflect that these are a super-mega elite force of beings so genetically modified that they're barely human. Same with their weapons; an ordinary person would not be able to handle them.
And it captures that dark, gritty and brutal atmosphere that is exactly how I've always imagined 40k to be.
He's getting into SCP and getting back into Warhammer, hell yeah
Get him into Cyriak. Here is a good start - ruclips.net/video/FavUpD_IjVY/видео.html
A man of taste
Hmm I wonder what the scp foundation will do to contain a space marine, specifically the Liberian. Or how they'll react to one.
I was a US Marine as a CQB instructor in Virginia when a unit of Royal Marines came over to train with us. One night we all went out to the bar and one of these crazy fks yelled, "NAKED BAR!" at the top of his lungs. Needless to say US Marines or the Royal Marines are not allowed back.
Sounds like something a devil would do
I work with several ex-Royal Marines and I can tell you that this is perfectly normal behaviour.
@@beauselecta8575 Very accurate statement lol. I had a blast.
Friends post bail.
Good friends post bail that night.
Friends in the Marine Corps do not post bail, because they're sitting next to you in the cell.
It was either going to be that or mess tin order, nothing but a stable belt with one or two mess tins hung from it.
"If there was an army of those telekinesis guys they would be unstoppable" *The Grey Knights would beg to differ*
*As would the Sisters of Silence and that one Assassinorum Temple*
@@itzbeendakavgaming5632 Eversor, if memory serves
Zoanthropes would consume them!
What always amazes me about this short film is the movement of the marines. Every single move they make has a purpose and its cariied out with absolute focus.
"thick guy running"
yeah that's basically sums up the space marine quite well
That part kinda look toy story woody Allen like run. The space guy.
You also got to remember these dudes running in power armor are basically running at like 60 miles an hour They can easily keep up with vehicles.
Show this to your dad if you painted models together back then, see how he reacts
Yes
Showed my dad this he was awestruck
"If there were an army of those guys they'd be like, unstoppable."
Hahahaha-no. Sorry, those guys were actually on the incredibly weak end of the power-scale for their kind. (Known as Psykers.) This helps to explain why the Beakie and Mr.Capeman (a decorated veteran of this Chapter of Space Marines, Possibly 1st Sergeant) were so quick to put down the Acolyte/Agent (the guy in the cloak who was 'praying' to the orb.) was because he was signifcantly more capable in base ability and training than the ones in the masks with mechanical spines (a Psychic Hood).
Said agent wasn't some form of traitor- well, not in the way you meant. In 40k, to be capable of Sorcery is to be in some way able to manipulate the warp, which is a seperate but connected plane of existence formed entirely out of the emotions and beliefs of living things, and inhabited by primordial creatures with primordial urges and corruptive capabilities. The agent lost control of his defences either by loss of personal attention/control or by force and IMMEDIATELY had his soul eaten and his body possessed by a Daemon.
A highly capable Psyker is fully capable of wreaking havoc on the scale of planets and -possibly- solar systems if they don't have to worry about getting their soul eaten. Space Marines themselves, actually have Psykers in the form of Librarians.
To get an adequate understanding of the scale of Warhammer, you need to understand that Space Marines, for all their bullshit by our understanding, are the bog standard of this universe. they are the base level requirement an individual has to be in order to stand up to most enemy factions in the setting. The imperial Guard die in the hundreds of thousands to the millions in a single day of battle for the sole purpose of holding the line, and win more often than not through attrition rather than a strategic victory. Full planets are rendered lifeless or outright destroyed because in many cases, that is simply a better outcome than ceding it to the enemy, be they Orks, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Tyranids, or worst of all, Chaos. (or the dirty space communist weebs.)
A million Guardsman deaths in a day?
More like...
_A billion an hour_
sounds depressing.
What speaks most to me is that that psyker was in the Inqusition and they probably take about every 1 in 100,000 SANCTIONED psykers and to be put on the task of eavesdropping on xenos means that psyker was powerful and had proven itself and they were still overwhelmed in less than 10 seconds. A Librarian may have been hard pressed to hold it's own against those balls of.... whatever they are.
I hope the artist does more because their artwork is spectacular and their story brings up many questions.
These are two separate orbs communicating with each other, the psyker was eavedropping on them, and revealed himself to them in order to warn the space marines who were dealing with the other orb. If you look carefully, you can see the moment where the commander (Red badass robo-eye) receive the warning, but too late.
Fun fact: the average life expectancy of a guardsman once he's been deployed on a battlefield is 15 hours, depending on the corps
Oh man, wait until he discovers the Death Korps.
Ahem
Ah a loyal soldier of the imperium i greet you
Oh boy wont he be surprised by the Death Korps of Krieg from the dead world of Krieg
Aren't they technically non-canon anymore or some BS like that. I just feel like Warhammer (both fantasy and 40k) are so mismanaged by GW.
@@acnash27 nah you cant remove the krieg since they are quite popular in the eyes of the warhammer 40k community
One person, doing it all, puts the whole of Hollywood to shame
Talent, effort, persistence and grit. This person has them all.
Hope to see more from him in the future.
Well now he has opened the pandoras box that is 40k fandom aahhhem: For the EMPERAHH!!
hahahaha true, my friend!
now, let me give you a hug
DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR.
ALL IS DUST
The emperor is weak
@@Silverized84 mood kindred, i have fiNally, found you!
BURN THE HERETICS BROTHER.
"He looks mutated in some way."
Well yes, you could say that.
Just don't call him a mutant to his face. You'll become a smear on the ground, and the wall, and possibly the ceiling.
Black Templars intensify
Conversation between xenos is:
Who's there?
We have failed, brother. The Astartes deny our touch.
We must return. Break your seal!
Impossible! We will not survive!
You must! Take the alfa.
Then the inquisitor listening to the conversation breaks his concentration to warn the commander 15:30 - "Recall them immediately!"
Absolute minimalist description of every 40K tabletop army:
Imperial Dudes - Worship the god emperor
Space marines/astartes - The sort of genetic supersoldier that captain america wishes he was. Come in many flavours.
Imperial Guard/astra militarum - Basic human soldiers who can be anything from a stone age tribal with an axe to a highly trained specops paratrooper with high end body armour and a laser gun.
Stormtroopers/Tempestus Scions - Like the guard boys but better in every conceivable way.
Sisters of Battle/Soritas - Crazy killer nuns in power armour.
Imperial knights - You dig giant robots, I dig giant robots, fair maidens dig giant robots forsooth.
Adeptus Mechanicus - Imagine an engineer who is convinced machines are an extension of god. Who has alzheimers and thus has forgotten half of what he used to know.
Adeptus Custodes - The sort of genetic supersoldier that space marines wish they were. Also come with their own posse of anti-magic hot bitches who have a thing for topknots.
Chaos Dudes - Worship a bunch of gods from another dimension who are really into mutating people and causing chaos.
Chaos Space marines - Basically space marines but with added mutations and more infighting. Also come in numerous flavours.
Rebel guard and such are present in lore but don't get any tabletop funtimes except as meatshields for chaos marines.
Chaos knights - Basically imperial knights but with more whacky stuff and infighting.
Daemons - Demons.
Alien dudes - Do alien stuff
Tau - Space weeb communists
Eldar/Aeldari - Space elves of the high fantasy sort
Dark Eldar/Drukhari - Space elves who need to torture people to continue living. Fortunately for them they also derive an erotic thrill from it.
Orkz - ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ! A collection of memes and 80s football hooligans
Necrons - Space egyptians who basically went to war with the galaxy in the distant past, sort of won then took a nap to dodge the consequences. Sold their souls to preserve their minds in robot bodies, this was a bad idea.
Tyranids - Bugs. Eat everything.
Genestealer cults - What happens when bugs send bugs to infect your populations genepool.
Harlequins - Space elf clowns. Bazinga.
Theres a few others but they're basically irrelevant. Many more in lore who are even more irrelevant.
~EDIT~
Ok so few things to answer other questions.
One: Space marines are human. Just augmented through a lengthy, dangerous and difficult process of genetic and surgical augmentation. Multiple organs are grown and implanted alongside a program of genetic modification. By the end the basic astartes is about 8 foot tall, has an extra heart, a predigestive stomach, can go without sleep for months at a time among many other things.
Two: Robe boy. He was part of a group called the inquisition, who basically handle all sorts of shit. Probably an inquisitor. Generally space marines are not on friendly terms with them but some chapters are the opposite.
He was also pretty obviously what is called a "psyker" basically a guy who can crazy psychic bullshit powers that are powered by another dimension called "the warp" which is also where the chaos gods live. Using psyker powers is very dangerous and requires considerable training, conditioning and proper equipment to do so with any degree of safety. That being said the Empire is heavily reliant on psykers for various purposes.
What happened to him by the look of it is that he lost focus when he signalled something to the space marine next to him and that loss of focus let the big orb alien thing hijack his mind (or try to). The space marines response of basically punching his head to paste and shooting him repeatedly was a very reasonable and subdued response as psyker stuff going wrong is a great way to find yourself dealing with a rift into the warp that shits out copious quantities of demons.
Three: Real world military tactics don't work too well in 40K. Its a setting where melee combat is common and the empire mainly uses WW2 era tactics for its basic human forces. If you're lucky they're using German or British tactics. If you're unlucky its Russian.
Space marines meanwhile do their own thing. Typically surgical strikes on key elements of the enemy force in a warzone. Lot of them prefer melee combat where a space marines advantages can often overwhelm other forces. Different groups (challed "chapters") of space marines have their own specialities and preferences.
Also fun fact: The gun they use is called a bolter. It fires a .75 two stage armour piercing explosive round. In basic terms take a tiny rocket, give it an armour piercing tip and an explosive charge. Then you put it in a conventional bullet. The normal gunpowder charge gets it out of your gun (dodging the gyrojets low initial velocity) at a reasonable clip, then the rocket motor ignites and keeps it on a straight trajectory while upping its armour penetration qualities. Once it hits something the explosive fuse is set off which give it a fraction of a second to penetrate then explodes.
Neat
It is debatable whether Space Marines are truly human, though. It really depends on how you define "human." Is a being that is much larger than any human being, and has three lungs, two hearts, a fused ribcage, and can spit acid truly a human being? And who also has a psychology drastically different from that of humanity, and is not capable of sexual reproduction to produce more of its kind? The funny thing is that if anything, Astartes would be the textbook definition of _mutants_ (yes, I know that is a heretical statement, and will submit myself to any Inquisitorial review, but shut not your ears, good Imperial citizen). Your average Astartes is as much a mutant as an Ogryn or a Navigator, but I do agree that a Space Marine is far more human than some of the more eccentric members of the Adeptus Mechanicus; those cogboys can get real freaky.
I do disagree with your third point, somewhat, though. The main thing that seems to be missing in 40K when compared to the real world is the abundance of precision-guided weapons that modern militaries employ nowadays... as well as a surprising lack of tactical nuclear weapons. (I don't think even an Ork horde would fare too well after being bombarded with several 10 kT nuclear warheads.) As for the claim that the Imperium doesn't use real world military tactics, it's worth noting that your available weaponry determines your tactics, and that trench warfare did not die out with WWI and WWII; it was employed as late as the Iran-Iraq war. Moreover, the Guard tends to fight in large-scale battles which we have _not_ seen since the Second World War, thankfully. You really cannot compare modern counterinsurgency operations to the sort of massive battles that occur every Tuesday in the 40K universe. It's quite possible that a WW3 near the end of the Cold War would have eventually looked like an Imperial Guard battle as both sides ran low on guided munitions and C3 capabilities were degraded.
What made "Astartes" so memorable for me is that you _do_ see the Space Marines and their opponents using realistic small-unit tactics, and not just wading in to Hulk-smash everything like we see them doing in virtually every other media description of the Adeptus Astartes. Their opponents are not crazed or idiotic mooks; those traitor Guardsmen are smart and brave. They set up ambushes and have multiple positions to fall back to. Those tactics would have worked well even against real-world special forces operators. Unfortunately for those traitors, they weren't facing Delta Force or Tempestus Scions. They are simply _outmatched_ in every sense of the word.
As for bolters, I've seen in some sources that they use .998 caliber projectiles, but the lore really isn't consistent on this. It also doesn't explain how they avoid the Gyrojet's other problem--horrendous accuracy due to inconsistent spin-stabilization. I guess that the bolter ammunition is just made with a much higher level of quality control than the original Gyrojet rounds. The ironic thing is that the humble Guardsman's lasgun is more technologically advanced (from a real-world perspective) than the bolter, and, in the real world, a lasgun would be a far superior weapon. Who _wouldn't_ want a 3.5 kg rifle that (somehow) fires eye safe lasers with enough energy to shear off human limbs, has a "magazine" with at least 50 shots, and uses power packs that you can recharge with solar energy or even by tossing them into a campfire?! And that comes in a package durable enough to use it as a club or a walking stick? The lasgun is a logisticians wet dream, and a weapon with which to conquer worlds... and the Imperial Guard has plenty of experience doing that.
@@Schwarzvogel1 Strictly speaking the space marines fall into the transhuman category.
Human origin but modified artificially to something beyond that.
Which is one of the reasons the Emperor made them male only. Didn't want humanity turned into astartes over time.
Now as for weapons. Theres different kinds of bolter. You're referencing the heavy bolter which fires a larger round.
Typically mounted in vehicles but also carried as a heavy weapon by a lone astartes.
The spin problem isn't really a problem if your manufacturing standards or methodology are up to snuff. Gyrojets were made at a time when that kind of precision was hard for small batches.
Imperium is post dark age of technology which was when humanity basically "finished" science.
The lasgun meanwhile seems cool but is weak sauce compared to the bolter. Its armour penetration is balls and compared to other weapons, armour and vehicles being fielded is woefully underpowered. Which is half the point of 40K, its so over the top the guys with a laser gun that is putting out energy per shot equivalent to a .50 BMG are on the lower end of power scale.
Overall it seems that las weapons are relatively easy to defend against for most things on the battlefields of the 40k universe. Either their physiology is able to deal with the damage or prevent it. Or their armour is designed explicitly to manage it.
The bolter meanwhile is designed explicitly to get into things then explode.
Now strategy. You do see precision guided munitions, its just that theres a lot less of them.
Personally I think any major war scenario between developed nations would see these precision weapons quickly exhausted then never replaced. They are a lot of effort to make and maintain. Easy to justify and cover for in peacetime (or just engaging in one of the USAs foreverwars) but much harder to manage in an all out war.
I love how warhammer is so intricate a "minimalist description" still requires an essay to explain lol
Speaking of giant robots, living in New Jersey, fighting villains from afar . . .
5:13 - "The atmosphere that they're making with this, makes it feel so dark & gritty"
Main tag line for the games/books etc...
"In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war!"
This video made me realize how fucking effective the storytelling in astartes is. No words spoken and yet someone who only vaguely knows 40k understood really well what was going on. Thats amazing. Even the dune influence, the connections between the orbs the size and might of the space Marines. You understood A LOT of whats going on in your first watch through great Job man.
Me: takes a laon to buy more 40k stuff
Also me:" Even in debt I still serve "
Nice Russianbadger joke and *loan*
If you wanna know more about 40k I HIGHLY recommend you check out Bricky he has a two part lore series that explains every faction while also being entertaining. The first video is focused on humans and the second is focused on alien races but be warned the videos are about an hour long each
Part 1: ruclips.net/video/xCGKPRiJp84/видео.html
Part 2:ruclips.net/video/Y6jnsX77TCU/видео.html
I don’t even need to look at the videos to know this is Bricky.
Tried watching his stuff, cant make it through 10 mins. Gimme Leutin09 any day.
Those two videos were what got me into 40K.
@@lyfeordeth5270 Idk chief, a man who simped that hard for DOW3 and defended it vs the fanbase despite the lore heresies lost any respect.
@@crushcommando8637 Fair enough. I'm not subscribed to either of them and have watched a limited amount of their respective content. My stated preference was based on voice, narration style and overall ease of watching and with those parameters in mind I'd probably watch NornQueen Alexis over these dudes anyhow (if she did lore stuff). Then again, I'm new around here so what do I know? :)
17:56 "He looks mutated in some way."
Oh boy you have no idea. These guys go through a series of surgeries to implant at least 19 new organs over the course of 6 years. The 3 earliest are a second heart, an implant to increase bone development (which includes fusing the rib cage into a solid plate of bone), and another implant that causes the same growth to happen to the muscles. And that is ideally in the first two years of your process from human to transhuman.
And those first three implants are put in between the ages of 10 and 12.
This astartes videos got me into 40k. Only lore though, can't afford all the stuff
Start with Kill Team. Legit teams can be found for 50€ or so and well... it's only beginning there.
For me I've always liked the lore more. I have a squad of death corps just for show.
Jeff Bezos can't even afford all the stuff
Cant afford models, at least try the video games. Preferably Dawn Of War 1.
You can mate. Remember these models can last you a lifetime. Just build slowly over time. Indomitus boxset is a great way to start.
Fun fact: The standard issue "rifle" for the Astarte's, The Bolter, is chambered in a .75 calibre. It basically looks like a massive M433 grenade and is a fraction of the explosive force. That's how you see all those soldiers getting ripped apart by the guns with a mere shot.
(I originally said a quarter, but looking through everyone's comment on this one, I changed it to a fraction, because in the lore of the Bolter, it was stated that it did have some explosive within the bolter rounds.)
its a .75 "calibre" fully-automatic assault weapon firing a self-propelled miniature armor piercing rocket, of a myriad varieties from standard HEAP, to viral, acidic, fragmentation, even fucking MAGIC inscribed rounds.
And the Bolter was made to be cheaper than what there was before it. IT STILL IS VERY EXPENSIVE THOUGH!
“Quarter of the explosive force” there is not actually any lore about how strong the bolts are. Writing has them anywhere from blowing a guy in half to killing him and several dudes around him. Considering we could easily do that with modern explosives in a .75 shell, I’m leaning towards it being anti-squad level power. The only reason grenade launchers aren’t like that is expensive of such explosives and difficulty of using a fuse for it in such a frame reliably. The Imperium would have no such issues for Astartes armament.
Best part is that if you slow the video down when they first board the enemy ship, the guy took the time to animate the explosion of the bolt round.
@@r4v3nw1ng1 When they put down the Inquisition agent, the elite's cape also moves in time with the shots.
The level of detail the guy put in is insane.
"Of there was an army of those guys with the telekenisis thing they would be unstopable"... *laughter noises in gasmasks intensifies*
Glad To See Some 40K Reactions You Should Check Out Death Of Hope
That feeling of "dark and gritty" is this wonderful little thing we call grimdark.
Hey, update time.
The Astartes project was originally made by one dude as a fan project, last week he was officially hired by Games Workshop, and the project was endorsed. So now he has greater resources and access to other professionals, I can't wait to see what he releases next.
GW keeps such a tight lid on things, he won't be releasing anything else. It'll be GW that does
OH YEAH
they ruined it
that aged like milk
Great prediction
Are space marines human or robots??
**Grabs the giant ass Lexicon and slaps it to the table, along with the lexicon to explain terms**
*Three hours later*
''And that was Tl,dr.''
18:39 Luke: “Are we going to get anymore?”
Syama Pedersen: I’m glad you asked!
''If there was an army of them...''
Me : Actually they are 1 million or something like that, they ARE unstoppable.
that is until a certain great goldy man decides to pull a _"aight ima restore the golden age of humanity again"_
@@aunusuallylargecat1779 yay! lol
"They were mostly space marines that had wolves with them?" You mean the Space Wolves? 😏
My first tastes of 40k lol. Been a 8 year wild with no end in sight.
@BenjaminTheRogue "Corgimancers!"
Nick Craig Unless he was a Heretic and played Luna Wolves.
Space Vikings are my favorite Astartes as well. But, well, my favorite faction is "Blood for the blood god!"
@@fizzlefinch you mean the space furrys?
I wish i was as talented as the guy who made this
30 years dude. 30 fucking years of experience is needed to be that good (guess we should start now while we still can 😜)
I'm actually hell-bent on matching or maybe even beating this guy in his craft because of this animation.
Hahahaha. You and me both, man.
@BenjaminTheRogue i read on his reddit Q&A that he has done 3d for 20 years and videogame art for 10. His father also had a animation studio so he probably started learning whilst still a teenager
@BenjaminTheRogue You can actually learn pretty quickly and the guy himself said that with modern tools it's a lot easier now, it's just all about effort and learning, if you are only willing to do a couple hours each week then it will take ages, but about four or five hours each day, you could probably get at-least competent within six months to a year.
Also, there are tonnes of tutorials online now, which wasn't a thing in the past, you had to read the 1200 page manual or something crazy like that.
As someone who had to wait for each part to come out it was painfull but worth waiting for each one. Watching other people now get to experience this masterpiece is so great and knowing it was all done by one guy is the mind blowing part.
This guy: I wanna know what’s in this ball thing
The rest of us: HERESY!
*paranoid suspicion intensifies*
JOIN US! JOIN US!
MAIM! KILL!! BURN!!! MAIM! KILL!! BURN!!! MAIM! KILL!! BURN!!!
Why is it Heresy i wanna know. God damn
@@Yozcenk66 are you new to the 40k universe?
If so, get into the game/lore and you’ll understand why.
The ‘Royal Marine’ that ‘reacts’ to this fan film is done with such little knowledge that he continuously asks stupid rhetorical questions.
An example of this is what your comment refers too..
The ‘rest of us’ (those that are in the 40k hobby) know the answer...
It’s a chaos entity.... and that’s heretical. What that means in the lore is anything that goes against what the Emperor’s Imperial Truth.
Still don’t know what I’m talking about?
RUclips 40k lore... lots of info.
@@willingandable3565 first of all mr. high and mighty I dont know if it was your intention to sound like an asshole and talk down to people but you kinda did... secondly I dont just want to know that it is a choas entry and tied to the warp. I want to know its purpose, why is it there And what it did to the space marines. And even from a lore stand point there is most likely someone or something designed to do that. (Which would most likely be or accompanied by Grey Knights)
It isn't heresy to try to understand it.... but it would most likely be a death sentence if you did try (lore wise)
Yes brother become one of us!
"I would legit watch a full movie like this."
Well you're in luck because this dude is making like 6 more of these fucking things. :D
Unless some major studio drives up to his house with a truck full of money
Then you'll have to wait 3 years for a 40K feature film
@@jamesricker3997 well sadly the dude has now been hired by Games Workshop so now I want death.
@@mechanicpluto2430 yeah, betting he’s now making cinematics and ads for them. At least they did the right thing and didn’t sue him, but hired him.
"They would be unstoppable"
Laughs in Exterminatus
Recalls survivors of the life eater virus in sealed bunkers.
Lamentors: "for those we cherish, we die in glory!"
@@confusedlemur12 Sobs in Man Emperor
17:29
When you pause it at the moment it becomes bright enough to see, you can also see other entity of the Warp in the bottom right corner.
That creature that took the Space Marines told the other one that it wouldn't survive when it breaks it seal. You saw how bright it was with its blue glow, probably psy-energy and beings of the warp are drawn to it like moths to the light.
Also to add to yours. That black mist that surrounds the Marines and the black mist that hits the warp entity is likely the psyker's last ditch effort to save them before he got possessed.
@@keenfire8151 Can't be, they got the call to get out after the psyker died.
Why do you think I said this in the first place? Because alot of people thought that, but no. It is not the psyker.
@@archerbascha8757 the only reason i said that is because the time of the video isnt linear....and i follow the artist...he gave a thumbs up to someone who said that.
@@keenfire8151 Only because he gave it a thumbs up isn't the same as for him saying what is actually happening.
Not like the time everyone thought what those aliens are excactly, only for him to come out and tell everyone that they are made up ( and that he probaby got influenced by the lore a while back but couldn't remmeber it which is why they look familiar ).
And I am pretty sure I saw other thumbs up on other comments, either lore related or not.
And you can follow the timeline. The moment the Astartes is send back to the com station, the psyker is attacked by the alien. He wouldn't have time to help the Astartes on the other ship while fighting and losing that battle.
I am not saying that he couldn't multitask, but usually a psyker needs alot of concentration to fight any Warp related attack, especially at that skale.
And I also doubt that the artist designs the Warb entity in the backgrond the same way an attack of the psyker looks like. He has clearly shown that when he does something, you can distinguish anything what is happening on screen from each other, to let the viewer not getting confused.
There is also that moment the aliens talk with each other where the Psyker hears in. It was kind of foreshadowed that it is a bad idea to go into the Warp, since the one that breaks it seal and takes the Astartes said that it wouldn't survive.
I doubt that it was talking about a Psyker following it into the Warp.
@@archerbascha8757 The psyker used a 'spell' to save the astartes before he died. Thats all there is man, you're looking into it too much.
"If there was an army of them they'd be unstoppable" *laughs in Tyranid*
If I could recommend a book series for someone military minded like yourself. Gaunts Ghosts by Dan Abnet.
Or Caiaphas Cain, if you are up for a good laugh as well
Gaunts Ghosts series. Read them. They're superb
Abnett's short story 'Cometh the Hour', so good. In fact I'm going to listen to it again now!! So *GOOD!!*
Last Chancers. 14 hours. The Macharian Crusade books, are some good ones.
My friend has literally just recommended me these books!
It fun watching people see this for the first time. I only got into 40k in 2018 and this cemented my love for it, truly badass and created by a single person... like WTF? I've seen major studios who don't get close to this level of quality.
1. "It's about putting down a rebellion"
2. Start speculating what alien races they could be fighting against
3. Be surprised it's just humans
Lol.
Astartes killed my wallet. Now I'm sitting at my table with my nurgle boys.
But think about the joy that the little painted men in armour with little guns gives you:)
same but i first got the indomitus box and then death guard .
wait that's heresy
" They had wolves with them. " The Space Wolves, or as the Emperor renamed them; Space Corgis.
Or as Magnus says: "Fucking FURRIES!" 🤣
If you watch the last scene carefully you can see his squad members flashing in on some of the pillars in the background..the level of detail is exquisite.
Holy crap I never noticed
An absolute must read shoggy's "All Guardsmen Party" its just a wonder story set in 40k
Psycher gets possessed?
Shoot first ask questions later, no exceptions.
Psyker*
@@Sykohsis The lore creators and original game makers spelt it wrong don't @ me.
Yeah, the Psycher risked himself to save the Astartes team
"How are they gonna carryin' that out there ?"
*[ unpack the remote explosives ]*
"w e w o n ' t."
I am going to say. So far, the best way to start without being overwhelmed with the lore, and getting a story, and a laugh out of it, Emperors Text to speech.
"The guys that had wolves with them were my favorite when I was a kid..." *laughs in Vlka Fenryka* once a Space Wolves player, always a Space Wolves player. Heidur Russ!
Hell yea! I'm so simpy for the Space Wolves, i have them as my background on my phone.
"The atmosphere makes it feel dark and gritty."
That's why it's called Grimdark.
"I used to play 40k when I was like super super young with my dad"
Sounds like responsible parenting right there. xD
"Looks mutated in some way"
You have no idea.
Sweet summer child hahaha
Waiting for him to find out about the implants done without anesthesia. Open heart surgery while you're awake... fun times.
@@cojones8518 getting your skin peeled off then put back on over top of that power armor stuff.
@@cojones8518 open heart no anesthesia surgery to ADD ANOTHER HEART
13 surgeries minimum, all without anesthetic, and one where you're literally flayed alive.
and you dont even get the battle-plate (armor) in most chapters until you've already served a while as a scout or some auxiliary role.
_40K Theories_ and _Leutin_ are great channels for easily digestible 40K lore. They cover a lot of specific detail in relatively short documentary format and both have a "40k Lore for Beginners" playlist on their channels.
The subtle details are amazing. Like how when they went full auto over the railing and braced against the railing itself to eliminate the kick.
As badger put it, "We're talking two hearts; we're talking three lungs; we're talking eight foot tall, 800 pound monsters that look like Hulk Hogan ate Boogie2988!"
"Who animated this!?!".....A absolute genius.
Not sure how many times these have been answered but:
“Who were those metal dudes and the balls?”
We have no idea yet
“Are the Astartes human?”
Technically yes, but they have been heavily modified since childhood to be hulking perfect soldiers of war.
And also, that dude who “betrayed” them was most likely a psyker (think Jedi that can use the force, except they draw power from the warp, which is basically save hell) and was corrupted by the ball.
@BenjaminTheRogue well... If the creator says they aren't... Then they aren't.
"I would honestly love to learn about it"
"I wanna know more about these guys."
Once you stepped into the Warhammer 40k universe, there is no turning back. You'd crave for more and more and more till like how the Imperium's finest warriors dedicate their lives to destroy it's enemies in the name of the Emperor.
You gotta realize that Space marines and psychers have internal headsets to communicate think of how loud that psycher is chanting
17:04 it's the detail like the twitching fingers that REALLY gets me.
Space marine are super human, they have 2 heart so If one fail they got a backup one
And 3 lungs
@BenjaminTheRogue And Primaris have even more (Let's not talk about Primarchs)
They are also about 2,4m tall.
That's 7,8ft for you imperial wierdos across the pond
4:48 Here's a fun fact: That's the Space Marine equivalent of "suppressing fire".
Also I just want to clarify some things:
The guys in the mask are Psykers, and the spinal cord-thing is part of their battle gear most likely. The guy in red is also a Psyker, who works for the Inquisition. Specifically the Ordo-Hereticus, based on the symbol on his cloak. Ordo-Hereticus primarily handles human affairs.
The "valves" on the huge ball are most likely Melta-Charges, basically huge bombs intended to totally destroy the sphere in case it does anything...odd. Inquisition doesn't mess around, much less Space Marines, with anything out of the ordinary, so even a faint glow could result in the sphere getting blasted out of existence.
Space Marines are humans who have first undergone extensive physical and mental training, then (don't quote me because I'm not up to date on this) have had something called a Gene-Seed implanted into them than further transforms them into the massive hulking monsters that they are.
Unfortunately, even an entire army of Psykers is useless against the Tyranid race (See: Shadow in the Warp)
The two spheres are not the same at different points in time. Everything that we see on the Space Marine ship and the (assumed) rebel ship are happening with two different spheres at the same time. But it's easy to get confused.
The trippy conversation was happening between the two spheres, and the Inquisitor was listening in. Apparently the sphere on the Space Marine ship noticed and didn't take kindly to it, so it possessed the Inquisitor's (which can happen, very often with Psykers) and either fried his brain after subjecting him to (what I only assume) were the sphere's own thoughts. Or he tried to turn the poor bastard into a demon to attack the Space Marines. Fortunately this particular Chapter knows exactly how many bolter rounds it takes to kill a demon-in-progress: All of them. Because if the Psyker had actually become a demon, it would probably take all of the aforementioned Melta-Charges just to weaken it enough for a couple squads of Space Marines to collectively finish it off-then blow up that entire section of the ship.
Demons in Warhammer aren't just horrifying to look at it, they're damn-near unkillable. And they can leave behind traces of corruption that really do require the entire area be "cleansed in flame".
The place the squad appeared in after getting sucked in was probably the Warp. I can't possibly explain the Warp in detail without writing a book, so let's just say the Warp is Hell. The shadow that attacked it in the Warp is very mysterious. Not sure what happened there, it could've been another demon but personally I think it was a psychic attack; either by a Psyker among the Space Marines or some kind of backlash from the other sphere getting rekt while possessing the Inquisitor's body.
Don't worry about his arm. That's like getting a papercut to them.
"Oh, is he actually a human?"
Space Marines are as far above humans as humans are above chimpanzees.
A more apt comparison might be Lemurs and Humans.
You severly underestimate just how close to chimpanzees we are.
To sum it up, they were once human. Now they are superhumans wearing some of the strongest armor and hardest hitting guns in the imperium. I mean, that rocket launcher soldier hadn't even been up a second when his buddies got shredded by bolter rounds, and he barely even had time to fire before he was turned to mist. Not to mention stabbing a guy behind you through the chest without even looking at the poor guy.
This also reminds me of a quote I remember seeing a long time ago: "The Aeldari may look down upon humans as under evolved monkeys but are still concerned about Astartes the same way that you would if a gorilla in full plate burst into your living room wielding a automatic shotgun."
ya but they have no peepee so we're even
"Are Space Marines human?"
Depends on what you define as human, I suppose.
"if there was an army of them guy that could do telekinesis, they'd be unstoppable"
*Blanks would like to have a word with you
the sister of silence laugh at you......quietly
When I watched this with my dad we were both amazed especially my dad because he loves warhammer40k and he loves board games.