40K - HIVE CITIES - Structure, Economy, Currency, Daily Life | WARHAMMER 40,000 Lore/History 

Wow this was early

Another video by the great and possibly heretical Luetin. Yay

2:11. You can't be teasing us like that.

I wonder how Pandemics impact Hive Cities. Perhaps some Governors have an idea of controlled Pandemics to stop their homeworlds from turning into polluted Hive Worlds. Historically Black Death has interesting implications: www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/nico.v/Research/Horsemen_REStud.pdf

I've looking for an in depth video on hive cities. Surprisingly there really aren't many. There is one that I know of that's only about 40 minutes long and isn't in too much depth.

Being a karen is a heresy and the inquisition Will be informed if one shows up.

"Keep those legs moving, citizen! I'm not paying you to breathe!"

It is good that he prefaced that part of environmental conditions with the need to suspend disbelief. But it is hard to suspend disbelief, believe me. When one has mastered controlled nuclear fusion power and one had antimatter power, one can have an Earth sized planet with a trillion people with a lower carbon footprint than presently exists on Earth. Nuclear fusion power is 12 million times more efficient than natural gas and antimatter is 200 times more efficient than nuclear fusion power. Nuclear fusion power comes from hydrogen which can be obtained via electrolysis of water. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in existence. Nuclear fusion and antimatter power means no greenhouse gas and very few pollutant emissions from such power stations, and it also means no secondary emissions from land vehicles because electric vehicles and hydrogen vehicles will be powered from non fossil fuel sources. With regards to wastes being produced by factories, all wastes can be sequestered, dissociated, recombined, and reused, instead of just spewed into the atmophere or spilled into the environment. Ashen wastes can be utilized to produce graphene, Bucky balls, and carbon nanotubes. What cannot be reused or if it not wanted to be reused can be launched into space and then dumped into the nearest star. The Imperium is not lacking in technologies for space launch and spaceflight and has lots and lots and lots and lots of spacecraft. The explanation that the rulers and power elites of the worlds do not care a hoot about their planets and environments does not cut it either. Given that they possess the technology to make environment much much more pleasant than what prevails in the narrative, even if they mistreat the people that they govern, they would actually like to be able to readily visit pleasant places and surroundings regularly and cheaply. On Hive Worlds those would be placed not occupied by Hive Cities, and even Hive Worlds mostly have far more space not occupied by Hive Cities or any settlements at all than they do. With the technologies at their disposal, they'd be able to ensure that such spaces are ecologically well kept, being mostly verdant and having streams, lakes, and other bodies of water with little pollution. The toxic ecological wasteland narrative of Hive Worlds is ridiculous given the very advanced technological capability of the Imperium and also the logical desire of rulers and elites to be able to easily access and have much in pleasant surroundings on their worlds, even if they do not care much for those that they govern ...

@@musafawundu6718 It's not so much that the elites of a world give a crap about the general citizen, it's more that as a matter of policy, Humanity has little more than a most basic understanding of the technology it runs on - and I'm talking about the guys who're supposed to be maintaining it, the Mechanicum. The average citizen would see their work as a place of magic. All you'd need in a situation like that are small failures gradually snowballing over time to produce toxic leaks and with less inefficient technologies replacing the failing archeotech the toxicity gets built into the system

Or 2020

Never learned enough ;)

Clearly the warp is real :)

@@allancarey2604 had ever doubt? Of course the warp is real.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"…its was the grim dark past of 1.8k

@@christiantoftgaard5969 wrong way to date. It should be 8xx.M1or M2

Agriworlds dont get enough credit they do honest work to provide plenty of food for the rest of the imperium id like to know more about these worlds they seem much more interesting than industrial hellscapes or boring warzones they give some welcome variety to this grimdark future.

Living in latam literally feels like living in an agri World...

@@thebestdad9816 "it aint much but it's honest work"

@@theghostwolf15 what and where is latam

LATAM is Latin America i think

And actual sci fi technology not being hindered by a cult

@@bruno17289 will likely be destroyed like the one other advanced human civilization Horus invaded.

@@joevenespineli6389 at first i read 'invaded' as 'created' and i was like bruh

Kinda like Earth huh?

There are.

always has been* but still good meme

Be aware, our future.

In Armageddon, a family of four living in a 200sq feet apartment is appalling, meanwhile in Hong Kong, families of four living in 150sq feet is the norm.

it actually started mercantilism (which in turn created the middle class) So I would beg to differ. Plus, It made people more educated/skilled, despite the early industrial revolution being rough, it got better once the British govt churned out workers rights. (of which now all the world (nearly)now use.) This is why I laugh when people go "but if we leave the EU we have no WoRkeRz RiGhtZ"... when we created it LOL

The rich and beautiful irony of someone believing the British government "churned out human rights" while watching a video that starts with a quote from Dickens, a man who was instrumental in highlighting the plight of British industrial workers, particularly children, precisely because the British government weren't doing anything about it and had to be forced into action by popular protest. Lol.

Well there goes my productivity today

"No boss, can't work now. Lutin posted a 2 hour long video in the middle of the work day. Go and outsource my position"

@@Huffman_Tree im not saying im not working...im just saying that obviously my work computer hasnt gone to idle...so i must be here

@buff battle boy you have been in the bathroom 2 hrs now... what are you doing!?!?

@@Huffman_Tree damn. lmao

What was the revolution if not 40k take away all the cool space ship after all?

@@erikoverland9926 decaying empire and all

My thoughts exactly. Very clever way to start the narrative.

That’s what I thought it was!

It still describes the actual time. Just take a look at a Chinese/Pakistani sweatshop. People will live under these conditions untill we are able to fully automatize the workforce... That's why in the Imperium there are no robots or highly developed AI, if there were any, this type of horrible conditions for workers wouldn't exist, and humans wouldn't die by the billions during battles with xenos and chaos. But you know, if the Imperium uses robots it wouldn't be 40 k.

@@pedrosalvador1146 If they did use robots extensively, it would still be horrible, as the Imperium is beset on all sides by threats to their existence, more likely, the freed up manpower for factory work will be sent to the meat grinder of battle.

@@pedrosalvador1146 You need to watch lutins video on STCs... Imperium doesnt use robots on purpose.

@@TheKodiak72 I think they have Servitors working on assembly lines in the more advanced manufactorums.

Isn't the entire point of 40k sociopolitical commentary taking real life problems and ramping it up to its logical critical mass if given 38000 years to inflate the numbers

i guess not much has changed in the thousands of years since the 21st century

Truly the grimdarkest of all possible futures.

Grim darkness of the present?

@Ethan Magor Not really. War is more fun.

The anarchists lost. But was it worth the price? Yes, yes it was.

Praise the Sun! \[T]/ Oh shit! Stepped into the wrong universe! [Runs away from the inquisitors]

TK421 why aren't you at your post? TK421 do you copy?

@@Pile_of_carbon HERESY !!!!!

@@jamespearson2823 Arbites have been dispatched to investigate this deriliction of duty.

@@jamespearson2823 Dammit! You beat me to it.

The only reason I understand this reference is because of Anthrax's Among the Living album. Lol

Mega city one has more unemployment though whether unemployment is better than eternal service to a manufactorum with bad working conditions is your choice.

@@thebestdad9816 much prefer dealing with block wars and recycled food, than the possibility of having warp monsters or tryanids descending on my planet.

Everything is relative.

@@thebestdad9816 I mean Mega City One is better it's not even a contest. Being bored and having to subsist on soylent green in an overcrowded building might be bad by modern sensiblities but it seems like hive "citizens" have more in common with a slave labourer in a death-camp.

Praise be

I love this lmao

This tech priest appears to be giving critique of our glorious imperium?

Tech priest, you have not Praised the omnissiah in this statement. Prepare for swift destruction

@@cyrolocker1229 I think he was roleplay "critiquing" the video, not the Imperium.

There's something very disconcerting about listening to Luton set the scene for a video about grim dark future with what you assume is a quote from 40k, only for it to be from our relatively recent past. And a description from a contemporary of those events.

Me too..

@@somethinglikethat2176 It also, unfortunately, very accurately describes the present for numerous people.

@@somethinglikethat2176 totally agree, while listening to the quote i was thinking “yeah that sounds like a hive city” then BAM its Dickens and i felt a little disturbed by that....

Happy Sanguinala!

@@WASDLeftClick Ah, so that's why there's decorations on all the suicide nets.

@@gso619 nets are too expensive , it's cheaper to just let them fall then recycle the corpses

That emoji makes you look like you’d look at some sort of torture chamber and smile warmly and think to yourself, “ah, it brings me such joy to know how much pain they’re in! Ó_-“

Just like Christmas!

Stealing this for a d&d campaign thanks

@@npgabriel Sounds cool =) Depending on the setting you could easily replace technology with magic. A society that used to use golems for all their labor, but as the knowledge to make golems is forgotten the city spirals into decay.

@Lord Admiral Spire I haven't played it in years but there was a series called Rifts made by a group called Palladium. Mass cross over series compatible with every game type that company made. It was a table top RPG much like Dnd but it had high tech robots and power armor, lasers, rail guns etc on one side. Then fantasy elements like magic, dragon, Vampires etc on the other. Whole concept of the game is a massive diasaster broke out and killed off like half the population of the world. All that psychic energy flooded the planets lay lines and caused magic to go out of control and open "Rifts" to other dimensions. From those rifts crawled out super natural horrors which killed more people, flooded more magic into the system and became a self sustaining issue. If 40k could ever cross over perfectly with any RPG I always thought it would be that game.

A few million? Undoubtedly, they're over capacity now but a few million is ridiculous

@@georgerafa5041 Depends, numbers up for debate and not all hives are equal. But consider they are meant to be more or less a single city, not a world. If you consider the upper spires where Nobel's live were perhaps the only area's designed to hold human life (and thus held to a much higher standard) it would make sense. That is the main thing about a balanced eco system, lower population density than you'd expect. There is a reason small town living was sustainable for hundreds of years and more modern mega cities destroy every thing around them.

19th century factory worker is living his life compared to *any* factory worker in 40k.

They can still see the sun/sky sometimes.

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​​@@lkvideos7181 around 10% of workers in Britain around the late 1800's and very early 1900's payed a full board/ rent rate for a "place" on a taught line of string to sleep on, in a warehouse with a few hundred men sleeping on the same or adjacent lines of string. The exposure to pollutants would have likely been worse or the same for the British workers than many in Hive cities. The WH40K world is merely a mirror of our own world, very little can be fully newly imagined when our own reality contains such grotesque treatment of very real humans.

@@RoryJordaan That still is paradise in comparison to the horrendous living conditions of 99% of humans in 40k, tbh. 40k is satire, and ultimately takes real life horrors and cranks them all hundreds of times over. The "grinding of humanity under the wheel of industry" is taken very literally with people being turned into food once they die; for example.

_New to 40k lore/Luetin, i see?_ :P

@@Volvith Yes and Not. Yes, because 2 years (both deep into 40k and subscribed to Luetin) is not a lot (compared to some veteran fans). And Not because 2 years deep into the 40k lore and subscribed to Luetin is not making me exactly... New. The thing is I am still amazed by the Luetin's depth. It's unique.

@@Michael.Virtus 40k is so vast it's kinda intimidating when coming in I've been into 40k for 10 years and still feel new lol.

@@thissmithymanga7119 Yeah I know exactly what you mean. I feel both adept and new at the same time. But yeah, 40k is immensely vast AND deep. It's crazy.

I shall consume it all. MORE WAR LORE.

I really didn't expect it. It's quite horrifying what conditions people lived in just a few generations ago

@@fanaticaltechpriest1002 we still do in most places

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war" was written by Charles Dickens?

@@FuzzyChubbyPurpleUnicorn in china and other such places maybe.

Dickens is outstanding. For something more recent, you could also read The Road to Wigan Pier.

-Joseph Stalin

Yeah. There’s brutal, then there’s ‘starved several million people to death while exporting grain because my plans are perfect, no-one’s actually going to care’ brutal. Still, the Man of Steel was a valuable tool in the greatest bitch-slap of human history.

Peak Joseph Stalin would make even the most brutal of Imperial nobility tremble

@@cilliancallaghan9788 Off the top of my head, I can't really see Stalin deciding to make himself younger by grinding up babies into rejuvinant fluid if he had the ability to. Those babies would have more value to him as future workers. Hitler, on the other hand, did have people manufacturing soap with corpses, including babies, that's probably where 40k got the idea from. The Imperium mixes and matches so that the most horrific things in human history all are happening at once all the time for thousands of years. I think they'd win any brutality contest by sheer virtue of there being some low the Imperium is fine with that any specific person or nation in reality would go to war over.

@@alexanderward5286 are sure that isn't an Pol Pot or Angela Merkel quote?

Late comment, but wasn't golden age humanity already using warp travel? The sublight starships were, iirc, sent out in in M18 to M22 and by then, warp travel took over. Still, an interesting concept.

@@rishidronadula7260 They were. Pre Eye of Terror the warp was a fairly calm place, so warp travel was far more common and far more regular. No Navigators were needed.

​@@lozfreak17I think navigators were still used but they didn't need the astronomicon to get everywhere

Truer words have never been said

Life is the Emperor's currency, spend it well

@@thebestdad9816 your name is a lie

@@temugebagira6592 false

This deserves to be pinned

Same here, been hurting with money and negative thoughts. Hang in there!

Nathan Thanks man, you too! The Emperor Protects

Pffttt... Come live here, this place is a Literal Hive City, we can Swap places. but that is human, to say your condition is worse than others help you endure somehow, never helped me to say that, so dunno just try to enjoy what you can or fall into Lunacy and Madness like me and Hear the Voices of the God of Blood and Slaughter. Soon... Soon when Civil War Erupts here i Shall Revere and Worship my Lord as it fit, with Rivers of Blood running red the Streets and Skulls for his Magnificent Throne...

The pain and brokenness is temporary. The Emperor protects brother

Do you want to talk, because I'll listen

Which SciFi Universe are we actually going to wind up in: Star Trek: rofl, hell no, we can't afford that kinda stuff. Star Wars: If we are lucky, sounds a lot like a golden age. 40K: ....Let's be real honest with ourselves, here...

@@attemptedunkindness3632 To be honest if humanity does´t change dramatically we will wipe ourselfs out before we are even near some of any of this SciFi scenarios.

@@Schattennebel Enter Age of Strife.

We will end up on “Planet of the Apes” future. Sounds great actually. Return to Monke gang forever.

The universe of The Expanse seems likely

40k is my favourite anime

Yes Inquisitor, this coment and that answer

@@theghostwolf15 If 0947-kun and 0978-chan can find a boiler room in the underhive, we can get the hotsprings episode of the anime

@@nayas1885 we can even have a beach episode out in the Ash field next to a pollution lake :)

@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 Of course we can! It'll have to be short because they may die from the poisonous gas if they stay too long. So it might be like an ova

Then in really small print on the sign it says "try not to drink the water"

@@matthiasthulman4058 (but our water is still better than whatever the fuck is found on Necromunda Prime)

@@nekrataali lol yes, this.

In M41, the entire state of Michigan had its lake destroyed millennia ago, and now it's just one huge crumbling, former manufactorum after all the menial jobs were outsourced to Segmentum Obscuris

Michigan is the most revered place on holy terra

And millions of them burn every day. Imagine the trillions of story that could all be set within a hive, only for an unstoppable horde of xenos or Chaos to sweep over and bring every subplot to a bloody, meaningless end. This, is life in 40k.

Yeah, i thought that i could catch up to speed during the quarantine (i hadn't delved much into 40k lore before) but now i realize that you could base a whole academic department from bachelors to doctors degrees on 40k lore.

Exactly. And that's why THIS is the part of the 40k universe that interestd me the most, much more so than the galactic wars.

You should read the Kal Jerico trilogy.

That's the idea, you don't buy into the story of the 41st millenium you buy into a framework to author your own stories.

If you stray too close to the lore it just sucks you in brother.

I started watching these in much the same way. Have you practically finished them all at this point as well? Now I just have to wait for the new ones or go back and rewatch.

Welcome to the hobby my friend. As all encompassing as chaos. Enjoy your stay

Hey, a bit late, but i'd be really interested in what happened! :D You lost your life and time or you came out unscathed after finding w40k?

At least on Necromunda, the hive city isn't as huge as a continent. They have a lot of surface because they pile on high, not because they spread out. Between the hives of Necromunda is the dust wastes where millennia of industrial pollution has choked out almost everything. Only trains between the hives and a villages surviving on scraps and salvage are out there.

Except for all the other hives.

I heard that phrase was first uttered in M38 by a powerful unregulated psyker named Ken Binobi while speaking to his young apprentice Duke Skystrider on some desert world on the far rim.

Was he referring to pre-conquest terra?

@@orumonuldor1340 it's quot from Samurai Jack, no?

@@MenRot No, Babylon 5, maybe.

The one complaint I have is TERROR and TERA sound very similar.

I agree wholeheartedly

Let’s be honest. The English accent is far superior to the accents of other English speaking countries.

@bearshy couldn't agree more

I use his videos to get to sleep in an instant. Plus side is I can hear his videos again and again because I aleays fall asleep fast

Better to live in a shitty world, then to live in a HOLY FUCK EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE WHY AM I ALIVE world.

Wait this wasnt a audio book hey where are my 15 bucks then?

@@leonst.7471 Tzeentch. It is all part of the plan :)

...or better yet. MAKE HIS OWN.

YES PLEASE!

I tryed listening to audiobooks from a free audible access... i couldnt really stand the animated voice of the narrator, it was just too tryhard. This is perfect for me..

Shit he covers alot but there's a helluva lot more to dig up this universe has been going since the 80s

You are WEAK

Armada and Armada 2 are fun. In the grim dark future of mankind, even space ships engage in melee

@@JoshuaKevinPerry and in broadside barrages

@@_DrSimon_ peak of tactical efficiency

Zap:so i threw so many bodies that it overdrive the robots kill switch! Imperial Commissar: Brilliant give this man a medal and a promotion!

"Clogging the enemy turrets with wreckage" Zapp Branagen.

Zap was 37k years ahead of his time

A 40K building simulator sounds... Kinda cool actually

Nice idea. And the endgame is setting up a nice industry and pop growth to support PDF garrisons and Guardsmen regiments.

I would play the heck out of that. Aside from the awesome physical building mechanics, imagine all the cool political stuff you could do, like having your Arbites root out genestealer cults or trying to satisfy the inquisition so you don't get half your population executed.

Fallout: Shelter, grimdark edition.

With political choices, frostpunk style.

There are hydroponics in use in 40k, But that involves technology, tech priests, oil, incense and chanting. U can easily just stand land and lights in a tower and throw unlimited manpower at it.

@@timsearle5837 well said

Right? I'm trying to see the downside.

@@daisho13 the downside it LT taking 6 months to make it.

6 hours? Why not, I like looooooong film reviews from the loooooooong man Mauler

@@kredonystus7768 no regrets! 😆

I thought his name was kitten.

BEHOLD, THE GREATEST SACRIFICE OF OUR AGE. LUETIN THE ARCHIVIST IS NO MORE. HENCEFORTH, HE SHALL ALWAYS AND ONLY EVER BE, LUETIN THE HERO.

Crime is not that bad, as long as you know what areas to stay in, hell some rural areas have worse crime rates than cities and the worst crime rates in the states is not actually in the mega cities (LA and NYC) but in the medium sized rust belt cities. Now I know cities are not for everyone and that is all good, but they are not horrible places to live as long as it's not flint or Detroit lol. Anyways the a million inhabitants would be a large city, did you mean less than a thousand people?

@@duitk Plus, if you have the cash to support yourself, and your family. With a pretty good job, you can get a pretty good life living in the city. Plus, the convinience of living here is really great.

I don't live in a actual City (i technically do but this city was created by merging three towns that touched each other) but there is two cities close to me one is ok in the other one you just need to avoid certain places but luckily no neon lights everywhere

I am staying out in the countryside.

As a country boy who grew up in a regional agriculture town in the mid west of Western Australia with less than 1000 people who lived in Sydney then returned to the country town it was good to be able to disappear amongst the crowds without anyone knowing your who you are, who you are talking to and getting a root pretty easily

I was your age when I started in 2001!

@@retributorminis2424 It's odd that people would tell you to play 40k from D&D. They're completely different games. Playing and RPG won't prepare you for a wargame.

ParallaxNick Ah yes, I understand that. I believe that whoever told me might’ve not known much about 40k, and it also might’ve been correlated to me trying to find out the darkest parts about Star Wars, so it might possibly have either been related to that, or D&D.

@@retributorminis2424 don't give up on star wars though. that stuff can be dope as hell. though, nowhere near as dark as warhammer can get.

Brothe4

Probably lower than one would think. Because people lives there from the start. The horrendous lifestyle would tend to kill the weaker so early they wouldn't have have time to contemplate suicide.

@@charloteauxvalerian3875 Yeah... that's... not how that works.

If we take the Charles Dickens quote as a guide then we could use 19th Britain as a reference. It starts at roughly double that of today (in 1863) and rises as easier methods for doing so become more available (to about 3 times today's average in 1905) and drops during both world wars with a large rise during the great depression. academic.oup.com/ije/article/39/6/1464/736597

@@geofff.3343 Ok, you got a point ! :D

@@geofff.3343 There are no high suicide rates because for one, people in 40k simply don't know any other lifestyle as they are born into it, and grow up with the heavily indoctrinated perception that their entire purpose in life is to do service to the Emperor for there is no higher calling, and secondly even if someone developed delusions of a better lifestyle and contemplated suicide ( which again, is highly unlikely ), not just himself, but his entire family and generations down the line would face severe punishment for even the thought of wasting imperial resources. In the worst case, the immediate perpetrators would be turned into mindless servitors.

That's great!

Why I love Dune

It's why Disney owning star wars meas things will be kinda neat but g rated from hear on out on all official releases

Figuratively _and_ literally.

A toaster*

piece of toast to the loremaster*

@@marcolaf6948 Toasters for the Toast God!

@@marcolaf6948 Did someone mention cyberdongs?

@@johnivanoplimo5172 Bread for the Bread God! Slice up this Toast!

Fool, the hive city can never match the holy mechanization of our automanufactories

This is why I generally don’t like fantasy anymore. Authors generally don’t craft realistic worlds. Everyday life, trade and governance are missing so many basic details. Being able to poke holes in a world simply by asking the question, “How does this work?” completely breaks my immersion.

"Don't hate the player, hate the game." -Joseph Stalin

In the grim darkness of the far future, it is a terrible truth.

Alternate comment: Joseph Stalin does what’s called a statistic

@@Wuoffan1 ahhh no lol

@@thomasgross8289 "I'm gonna do what's called a Pro-Gamer Move." -Joseph Stalin

Yee brah its lootin

@@icetea9092 Time for some lootin maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

Where my another warframe crossover to Warhammer 40k I want more :)

@@TheDragonfriday where's the RU-vidrs privacy. I'm sure they clearly want more people bugging them everywhere they go too.

@@mostlyjovial6177 It's a public forum, mouthbreather. RU-vidrs can easily get in contact with each other privately.

Technically salary doesn't have to mean money, it could mean food and/or other supplies for personal use.

Like a lot of stuff, it varies. Planetary governments are free to run their economy as well. They can issue local currency or allow guilds and houses to issue their own private scrip. Places can run like planned economies where you're issued basic food prepacks and a pair of shoes every few years.

The only currency is souls. You only own your life? That's worth enough to survive another day, if you put it to work. You are a noble in charge of thousands, millions or billions of souls? You're a bit richer. You are a Space Marine/Sororitas? Your soul in particular is worth a lot to the Imperium, so you're better off than most, just be a good soldier and don't ask for stuff because we would have to give it to you because you deserve it. If you're an Inquisitor the life of whoever is in front of you is in your hands, so you're as wealthy as you need to be. We trade in human lives on the Imperium

The idea at the beginning of patrols through an abandoned hive sounds great. Small pockets of squatters ignoring the decree to live of the scraps left behind, a local ork infestation settled in the former corpse starch factory, warp apparitions as echo from the event that caused the fall of said hive ...

guild members, traders, merchants and high ranking civil servants are the usual middle class citizens.

I want a tale about a small business owner in a hive-city, attending to tired workers day after day, hearing about local people that have just been deployed to the frontlines just to know that they won’t never be seen again... One day an invasion comes to his planet, but he manages to survive and the Empire retake control. We then could have the first hand look of the aftermath of a victory - How is the rebuilding, how do people deal with the countless dead, etc. It would be an interesting point of view to this universe outside of a space marine on frontlines or an inquisitor unveiling demonic conspiracies... People like that Imperial Guards precisely because there’s a charm to a regular person charging against the larger than life cosmic horrors. What would be more relatable than a civilian outlook at it? Someone who cannot act, just react to it. I think there’s potential for a short story about it.

literally went into guilds and merchant class. that's your middle class. it was talked about at great length in this video.

@@lordblazer I like populating the hive with factions. You can decide how often regular folks actually see a full tech-priest. Sometimes there's tech-guilds who preserve their little parts about the greater whole, like how to keep a certain water plant running or a tram system going with the tech-priests mostly moving in the background dealing with advanced things like the power system.

Considering that any functional Dystopian Society needs to eliminate the Middle Class of order to survive, I highly doubt a Middle Class exists in Warhammer 40k. Middle Class people represent the most likely possibility of change, and that needs to be stamped out if you wanna run a dictatorship. That's why Tyrant States are always poor.

When Netflix or Hulu decides to make a new megseries, hopefully this guy gets picked up for the scriptwriting dept

@@globaladdict aged well

saw a "reaction" video to Astartes where they wondered if anyone had ever written any books on Warhammer. Oh boy have they some catching up to do 😃

Well........ I’m screwed....

You know, let's just cut out the middle man here and just... *_FIRE!_* **planet subjected to exterminatus**

_In the grim darkness of the 41st century, there is only cancel culture_

It's done more efficiently by machines? How.

Electrolosys of CO2 is one way. Heating up CO2 until it breaks appart is another. Bottom line is that trees are extremely inefficient, less than 1% if I remember correctly. Trees are not ”designed” specifically to convert CO2 into oxygen and carbon, they are ”designed” to survive and reproduce, tasks infintely more complex than simply converting CO2 to O2, hence they use most of their energy for that task, surviving.

@@beaconofwierd1883 I think I read somewhere that moss produces alot more oxygen than trees and grass.

Inquisitor Fart Lord Might be true, sounds a bit distorted though, it might be that they are more efficient than trees and produce more oxygen per kg or something like that. Overall Algae produces the most oxygen but I do not know if they are more efficient than trees or if there’s just so much more algae than trees/plants.

This and the idea of living in squalor. Less than 100 million people are truly productive today. Now imagine a planet where EVERYONE is productive. They're not going to be in poverty, it's inevitable

Lutein made me spring for YT premium. Can’t go back

@IntrepidTit an indication of what can come to be. Although not as...extreme.

@IntrepidTit yeah, I suppose.