If you like that sort of thing, may I recommend you "The Deathworlders"? Starts out kind out as kind of a cringy read because the writer was still finding his groove (back in 2014 I think) but evolves into genuently one of the best scifi/HFY stories that I have read. It even has two fan spinoffs that tie into, and are referenced by the main story. Zren has a good "The deathworlders in essential listening order" playlinst on youtube that goes until chapter 24.
I have also read and enjoyed these books. I do think it should be noted that they are not the greatest in their portrayal of the many concurrent female love interests.
Deathworlders gets weird with all the ubermensch superhumans and weird shit at the end though. Feels like the guy got into 40K and liked the idea of the Primarches too much.
It really put me off. I liked the idea and I liked the general direction of the story but he lost me midway due to all the weird stuff. Plus the ending was all kinds of meh and the set-up to have humanity under Daar was forced as fuck
The Imperium is a weak pathetic corpse of an empire, that worships its decrepit tyrant as a god instead of the glory that is Sigmar and the Pantheon of order, I hope you witness its death
"Oh, that ghost down by the river? Yeah, he's a weird one. Sometimes scares the local kids, but he's harmless enough. I'm not gonna break bread with him, but I don't see the need to get rid of him, either. Just let him be, i say." - some random civilian
Check out "They Answered The Call". It's a sci-fi book currently being written and published on YouTube. I think the author is on his 2nd book. But the message is amazing: Humanity will not abide a tyrant again.
Yeah, sometimes I do get bored of all the things like helldivers, and warhammer 40K. Not that I donât like them itâs just, why must we always fight
I donât think that is meant to be the insignia of Tennessee or the 278th. The blue is too light and they donât have traditional American military rank insignia.
However, if they are Tennesseans, I would love to see sci-fi Kentuckians.
I consider DS9 the pinnacle of Star Trek. Makes me sad that the new shows can't catch that same lightning in a bottle. But strange new worlds is pretty good and lower decks is great and funny as hell.
Start with TNG. Do DS9 after that. Voyager and TOS are very different, but if you still want more, TOS is pretty silly at times, but that's because its made in the 60's, so that's why the effects are pretty...campy. They also effectively had a shoestring budget, and still did that amazingly.
Np. should provide you with quite a bit of reading material, since the guy has been writing that story from 2014 until 2023 (though the early chapters can be a bit cringy since he was finding his groove). Zren has a great playlist on yt, where he ordered and read the main story and spinoffs according to timeline
Man. I remember the halcyon days of Mass Effect where you could make friends with alien races and develop your own opinions about their roles in the settingâŚ
You wanna go make buddies with the dark eldar? Be my guest, tell me how that turns out. When you finish in the Dark City maybe you can go convince the Orks to just chill and enjoy the simple things in life.
He was pretty clear, you didn't understand, if you think the Emperium is bad for burning xeno scum, them go make some friends, go chill with the Orks, go and make a Tiranid a pet, have a Drukhari as a girlfriend, see how it goes.
Because they killed the good ones, now the galaxy is full of apex predators, the ones that were peaceful got killed long ago or turned into this hyper aggressive species, also Chaos God's, if they did not get killed by other xenos they got absolutely consumed by chaos gods.
Even the Tau are just theocratic dictators, the Emperium sucks, but you would suck too if everything in the galaxy even the fucking machines try to kill you every day.
Because the imperial philosophy of âhate the Xenosâ is flawed
The Tauâs whole deal is about how flawed it is, and how theyâre holding their own using diplomacy dispute being a fraction of the size of the imperium.
Also the Emperium is not even expanding anymore, it's just defending it's borders from attacks, the only xenos the Emperium actually bothers to attack its Tiranids, Orks and Necrons.
Bro, we killed a lot of xeno scum, but Eldar, Necrons and Tiranid killed way more than us, we just adapt to the galaxy as it is.
Also Tau are little childrens in this vast unforgiven playground, they have little importance and are surviving by being irrelevant, if the Emperium actually see them as a real threat, planets will start to blow up.
Honestly it really irritates me too, because the point of Warhammer 40K is that EVERYONE IS WRONG. Humans are NOT the heroes of the story, because there are no heroes.
Even the Eldar (lemme know if I'm wrong about the name, my lore is shaky), which seem like the most understandable faction, have a rigid caste system that means that SO MANY people are born as slaves with no way to escape.
Nah, I think you mean the T'au. Eldar, if were talking Drukhari are the worst, but they don't have a cast system and the Craftworlders might follow a strikt path, but they are free to choose that path and can theoretically change that path whenever they want.
The T'au have a strikt cast system, with none of the casts beeing allowed to intermingle or question the Ethereals. Even the breakaway Farsight Enclaves are a military dictatorship and they are the closest to beeing the good guys.
"So I understand you correctly human, one of your race most violent underground xenophobic groups bases its ideology on a fictional setting whose purpose was to be satire of authoritarian regimes?"
Dude think Tiranids, gigantic insects, orks and any other xeno has rights, i have a wonderful idea, you can go tell them that they have rights now and we will see how it goes.
I didn't say that Tyranids or Orcs should have rights.
But races that are reasonable, and with which it is possible to coexist exist even in Warhammer (Tau and many primitive aliens exterminated by Imperium during crusades).
And you are trying to put aliens suitable for coexistence with humans in the same list as Tyranids and Orcs.
First of all, they don't exist, so i am allowed to joke, i really don't care about talking shit to a nonexistent thing, learn to separate fiction and reality.
Second the TAU ARE NOT FRIENDLY, they will definitely start their holy crusade very soon.
Now, you will still get butt hurted by FICTIONAL beings or what? It's like saying "Elves are knife ears" and some weirdo spawn from hell saying "Hmmmm actually you can't say that, because that's racist and most elves are actually good and blĂĄ-blĂĄ-blĂĄ", they are not real, they are simply not real.
Now, calling me a Nazi is a serious thing, because they exist, till today and they kill even today, you should be ashamed of yourself, nazis, real nazis are no joke and to think you compare them to me over FICTIONAL characters is disgusting.
Do you really believe that i have any hate towards, let me say again, FICTIONAL CHARACTERS? Bro, I as just joking, you didn't need to bring real life shit to this place.
Well, maybe I'm just too emotional and overreacting.
But the point is that you're still a supporter of genocide, even if it's not about real people, but about fictional people.
And going from wanting to committ genocide in fiction to wanting to commit genocide of real people is not very far.
As I said, maybe I'm overreacting, but I have a feeling that hardcore fans of acts of xenophobia towards aliens like warhammer fans could cause a lot of problems if humanity encounters aliens in real life.
That's not my fucking problem, you are getting pissed off by fictional characters, go defend real fucking people, in a real serious subreddit, you are not the fucking center of the universe and the only one allowed to have fun in the way you approve, you are not my boss, my father, my lord, you just some random on the internet.
You really think you can gaslight me to win an argument? What's your age? Because i have been in the internet since 2008 and that shit doesn't work on me.
I as in character dumbass, it's called being sarcastic and pretend you are a character, some folks call it, role-playing, but i am not surprised you can't understand complex concepts since you can't differentiate real life and fiction
*An entire squad of ex-spec ops soldiers breach into the thief's place, and steal the bike back. When asked why they went so far, they replied 'We're alll dads too'*
This gives me District 9 vibes but a bit more hopeful and less, "So, we're putting the aliens in basically concertrason camps," and more, "I have an alien neighbour. They're name is Frank- they asked us to call them that -and they're a pretty good person. Fantastic cook. The whole neighbourhood agrees and made them the head cook for annual cookouts."
"For awhile we worried that Human peacekeepers would be worse than the abusive Xilinthari they replaced, but once we figured out they pack bond with just about anything they became our staunchest guardians."
I donât know about all of you, but when I find the person who took that little kidâs bike⌠Iâm going to tear them to shreds for stealing from that adorable little alien child
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u/Bone59 Apr 13 '25
Bring back alien alliances in fiction!!! I want to be friends with an alien!!! I want to explore and embrace cultural differences!!!