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Commander's CornerZdravstvuyte, Tovarichi! Okay, Happy 234th Birthday America and 143rd Birthday Canada. Work responsibilities have kept me away from updating this site but here we go again. I have said several times, I am not entirely enamored of the official GW setting. When designing my own fluff I borrowed a lot of ideas from Frank Herbert's Dune and the Dune Encyclopedia. I am mining a lot of those ideas for my 40k background as well since Warhammer 40,000 borrows extensively from Herbert's Universe. The god-Emperor, the female warrior-priestesses (called Fish Speakers in Dune and Sisters of Battle in 40k), the Imperial Catholic Church (called the Ecclesiarchy in 40k) which is really an amalgam of Catholicism and Islam though we do learn latter that other religions - specifically Judaism and Hinduism - exist. We also have the Great Houses and their household armies (the Planetary Defense Forces and by extension, the Imperial Guard), the genetically enhanced super-warriors of the Emperor (called Sardukar in Dune and Space Marines in 40k), the Spacing Guild with its psychic navigators - it's all there. Add the decadent Eldar, the warlike Orks, the upstart (and collectivist) Tau, the implacable Tyranids not to mention the ultimate baddies - the Chaos Marines - and you have got an interesting setting. Personally I tone down the Crapsack World trope from 11 to around 4 and the game starts to get interesting for me. With Psychers replacing wizards, you can adapt much of the standard FRPG trope to 40k as well - an added bonus, in my humble opinion. I have on tap finishing the actual modeling of my Chaos Marines (I hope to have them done before the summer is out) and I am preparing the fluff for my Orks (which begins next month) and continuing the development of fluff for my Space Marines, the Maccabees, a Dark Angels successor chapter and another story for the legends and lore section Dosvedanya,
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