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warhammer_40000
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Updated:2019-08-24
š Created:2019-08-24
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Description
Warhammer 40,000 is a space-fantasy tabletop wargame/RPG set in the far-flung, grim dark future.
"It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuriesĀ The EmperorĀ has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whomĀ a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.
Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, theĀ Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: theĀ Imperial GuardĀ and countless planetary defence forces, the ever vigilantĀ InquisitionĀ and the tech-priests of theĀ Adeptus MechanicusĀ to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - andĀ worse.
To be a man in such times is to beĀ one amongst untold billions. It is to live inĀ the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable.Ā These are the tales of those times.Ā Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned.Ā Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in theĀ grim darkĀ futureĀ there is only war. There isĀ no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, andĀ the laughter of thirsting gods."
