_Space Hulk, according to..._ Imperium of Mankind: Dangerous labyrinthian amalgamation of ships and space debris that hoarded and hosted equally dangerous contents and inhabitants. Eldar: More or less the same as above. Tau: More or less the same as above. Chaos: A test and a gift from the gods in one package. Tyrannid: Breeding and/or spawning pool for genestealers. Orks: *5-star cruise, with its dining, accommodation and entertainment already been paid for, and at the end of the trip, said "cruise ship" can be taken for free as a lovely souvenir.*
@John Beck snotling: Boss! Da boyz are gettin bored krumpin each otha ta bitz. Wat should we do? *Warp portal appears* Warboss: Problem solved. WAAAAAAAAGHHHH!
Basically Orks wanting a good time...unless it's Tuska Daemon-killa's boyz, in which case, they'll do all they can to AVOID the psychotic fungus monsters...unless they have Weirdboyz to attract their attention.
@@ichmich9324 Weirdboyz draw them in like moths to an artificial light source, it worked with Tuska, even though he and his boyz are scary to DAEMONS. (2nd only to Blanks)
The fact arch has ANY doubts that the omnissiah is a real and powerful entity, greatly upsets me. My mechadenrites are in an absolute twist, this is shameful.
My ongoing theory is that every Space Hulk has at least some Orks inside, maybe even hidden deep in the core, who provide the requisite physics overwrite to make the thing functional. Hell I could easily imagine a full population of Orks living in an erzats chamber within the hulk, happily warring with each other and keeping the Hulk working by virtue of their certainty that their 'world' is strong and unbreakable.
@@robertnelson9599 Honestly it doesn't even seem to NEED the Chaos Gods to do anything sometimes. At times the Warp itself feels like it is it's own thing and even Chaos is just along for the ride.
@Jon dow I don't want the imply it's planned by the orks, so basically a big cavity forming when all the debris making up the hulk collided. All you need is one relatively small rock infested with spores to get going.
@Jon dow space hulk forms, but there's a natural big empty space inside just from how everything smashes together. Toss in some debris from an Ork ship infested with Ork spores. The spores form shrooms, then Gretchen who tend to the shrooms, and eventually Orks, all living inside the empty space, killing and eating each other, with more spores falling. Rinse and repeat and you get a society of savage Orks. Remember a hulk is easily several kilometers wide, a random hole inside it can still be the size of a city.
A nurse tought me to play 1st ed space hulk in 92 when my parents bought it as a gift when I spent a few weeks in hospital and I've never let go. ..... only panzies turn da gella feeldz on..
Imagine there could be a Space Hulk out there with a fully functional AI aboard. And maybe even a time machine or STC. The lost knowledge and experience is one of the most fascinating parts of 40k.
Haha, there is a Reason they normally show Dark Angels Deathwing doing the job. I respect the Blood Angels but let's not forget who was the template and who's Primarch would have made the best Warmaster to fight chaos. The Emperor's Paladin.
Commander Bastard Best general, not warmaster. Lion lacked the charisma and people skills to pull of the warmaster-gig. He had the knowhow and skills, bit he was not a people person.
Yea lets send the Blood Angels in... After all 3rd times a charm and mabie they will not get 98% of the chapter killed this time... Sin of Damnation Round 1...... 1,200 personel enter.... servivors -- 2 Round 2...... 100 terminator, and 150 support staff enter........ Servivors 3 terminators. 5 support staff.
@@bobloerakker7010 The only problem is that nowadays I don't even have so much as a broken Ork figure to show for my efforts. Damn parents for throwing your "old" toys out as they call them.
I know the feeling. I threw a Rouge Trader only insult at GW when I sent my emails. I had Advanced Space Crusade, fighting inside a Tyranid capital sized ship - sooo sticky...... The foes included hunter-killers (termagants) , screamer-killers (Carnifaxes), Genesteelers and Zoats. There where later rules published where you could take Imperial Guard into the squid ships. I don't know why, that just sounds messy.
@@Heegaherger Didn't get to play advanced Space Crusade. Got to have a go at Advanced Heroquest but only after a loooong time of me and my pal pestering his dad to let us near his set. He wasn't too trusting of young kids messing with his models and I kinda get it nowadays a bit more even if the models in those sets weren't worth what some can be now in the Warhammer games.
A perfect example of how dickish W40K setting is: something that can be a great boon or the apocalypse and finding out means it's already too late to do anything about it if it's the latter.
I think there was a bit of older lore where a space hulk was inhabited by some men of iron and a hyper-intelligent cogitator. After a company of terminator-clad space marines had cleared it, the admech showed up to begin disassembling it and several tech priests and all the space marines' terminator armor got hacked by the hyper-intelligent cogitator.
Rick: The first rule of space travel kids, is always check out distress beacons; nine out of ten times its a ship full of dead aliens and a bunch of free shit! Rick & Morty
well as governess of the Korvak system there was that one time a small one ( 50 km by 30 km by 5 km) drifted in. local pdf came in it was empty. we claimed it, salvaged up 5 old imperial ships out the wreck and then gave them out to the navy as out systems tax over the course of 5 years saving us mountains of cash! sure yea the battle cruiser heart of dorn was later discovered to one massive sleeping damon engine and the cruiser gorgan vanished one year after recovery without so much as a distress signal. but by then it was the navys issue not mine so everything was fine.
Gene based bio weapon could solve the issue. Granted you would need to hit as many as possible at once or they would develop an immunity. Also the fact they move slowly means that some of the fusion based weapons used via ships during the 30k era would be very useful.
@@MachineMan-mj4gj They kinda tried doing that for Chaos, but the material that makes these “walls” are extremely rare, as is a lot of things in the 42nd millennium.
2:00 That is a nice way to say that the chaos gods made an instant dungeon, either that or Gork & Mork are sending presents to the galaxy. They also sound like amazing once captured, full of redundancies that could help turn the tide in void combat.
I have a love hate relationship with space hulks because on the one hand they are so cool and mysterious full of so much lore and writing potential that anything could happen and the fact they lean more into the dark of the grim dark is just icing one the cake. However they also can just be used as a bullshit no inspiration writing crutch for authors to just insert in to give a faction an uninspired MacGuffin or a Chekhov’s gun. Why did the orks win an Unwinnable space battle it’s because the space hulk had a dbz level finale transformation no one could have predicted or why does the Imperial planet have a weapon of mass destruction because they found one on a hulk. In my humble opinion they are way cooler when they have no logic behind them and no one can really control them making them just as dangerous as they are effective. The imperium could try to find lost technology in them but it’s safer just to scrap them and not risk the space marines. Orks could use them as mega battle ships only to find over half the guns are pointing inside the hulk killing countless of millions of orks. Gene stealers could use them for transportation only to forever be lost in the warp. They should always give great rewards at the highest prices so no matter what faction is trying to use them their is a reason they are risking everything for them.
I want a story where someone in the inquisition or the Imperial navy...well anyone really finds a space hulk and sees a ship from the the golden age of technology bound inside the space hulk. I want the story to be about the landing crew slowly getting fucked with once they enter the long dead imperial ships after passing through some alien ones. They soon find a ancient dormant AI that you had to mind meld with to dual run a ship. At this point they dont know if it's the AI or aliens fucking with them. I want one of the men to get greedy and link with the AI with will figure take over most of the space hulk...if it was a movie it would the best part as the whole thing lights up and the AI start cataloging the ship. The ai will come up with a plan to free its self (the ship) after the crew salvages the other ships... What I want is to experience the golden age of man for a moment. The AI well a powerful tool, person and ally ALL AI go evil and have to be destroyed. So they send a space marine chapter fleet to hunt down a salvaged and rebuilt ship from the golden age of man.... This is where it gets tough wise...do we end it here or say they ecapsed...maybe this AI will stay different. I want the AI to show ancient videos of what humanity once was to everyone who enters the ship after waking up...trying to convert them over to its side.
I think there was one, I don’t remember what it was from, or if it was actually canon, but basically it was confused as fuck, laughed at the mechanicus and hacked into the space marines armor, locking up their servos, and eventually got pissed enough at their attempts to destroy it that if fucked off Granted, no clue if this is real, or just something random that somehow slipped into my hesd
So you want a story that shows you what the golden age of humanity was like? You could have said that instead of giving us an entire plot synopsis of some imagined story.
@Jon dow Very, very, true. Well done. Envy, jealousy and bitterness destroy lives. Both those infected with them, and those that bear the brunt of the infected people's harm on society.
Why does the sight of a space hulk remind me of my grandfather's shed? Filled with endless things all smushed into a tiny area, filled with all manner of crawling abominations, and the space hulks are quite similar as well....
We need a sub sector command game that's RTS where you have Navy, Guard and such and have to decide what planets to defend. If a Hulk is worth investigating or just blasting. And in rare occasions calling for backup from Astartes and Inquisition elements.
Honestly I want a sim game where youcan be the tyranid hive, warboss, Warp entity and can grow and improve the hulk slowly over time with more and more raids.
I do love how arch is so 100% determined to mess with primaris in his videos, you wait the day it all goes wrong with them, arch will have video in minutes saying “I told you I bloody told you”😂
Ah old-school Arch, you have been sorely missed. Never knew half or a quarter of this stuff, I just thought there were particularly large Imperium ships that were scuttled and shot into the warp...you know because of their appearance and the fact any time I've seen the inside of one it's an Imperium ship with either orks using Imperium tech or gene-stealers harvesting gene-seed. Oh by the by, be awesome (the american word for acceptable) to listen to an RP centred around a rag-tag group of misfits who stumble upon a spacehulk.
Been waiting a long time for this one. You did not dissapoint; very informative with the usual touch of humor. I find these behemoths to be utterly facinating! Honestly can't get enough of them. EDIT: Favorite part start at 5:07, best Arch rant I've ever heard.
Arch, why does people hate you so much? I literally GOT thrown out the local gamingclub because i recomended you, and when They ask’ed me to not mention you, shit hit the fan.
Space Hulks really remind me of things like hairballs, pearls and owl pellets. They're bits of the materium that slowly coalesce in the warp, and once the warp is bothered enough by this bit of sanity among the seas of madness, it spits it back out into the materium. Actually a really cool bit of worldbuilding. Much like we aren't particularly fond of bits of warp-stuff in our side of the dimensional plane, the immaterium probably isn't too fond of the bits of real space it can't eat up and digest.
I'd love to have a story or game where an Imperial ship gets trapped in a space hulk and the crew and soldiers have to fight their way through it and take over the other engines on the hulk to escape.
yes, literally anything can make up a space hulk, you can do space stations, craft worlds, hell you can even do necron and tyranid stuff with a space hulk
It can be literally anything as long as it’s not a planet, has loot in it that the ad mech wants to sack, so big you question how it was able to function in the first place
With orks they would strap engines all over. Then just think and you can make it do a barrel roll. Orks inside......WHHHHEEEEEEEE (LIKE ON A ROLLER COASTER)
Orks and Space Hulks, ugh. I can see a returned Beast making Space Hulks as intergalactic Drop Pod Missiles carrying trillions of Orks, and painting them all red. Speaking of the War of the Beast! The writers couldn't really think up anything besides "Great Crusade 2: Electric Boogaloo", except staring the Orks in centre stage?
"It would not be at all unusual to see a sleek, smooth, craftworld constructed eldar raider smashed together with a massive bulky imperial warship whose bridge has been replaced entirely by an orc kill cruiser." Why does this sentence make me laugh ?
Can you imagine finding a space hulk on your own. Going inside just to find literally NOTHING. Not even bloody Orks, just a drifting space wreak. Armed to the bloody teeth and functional.
Surely there are other ways for a space hulk to form? Outside of the warp could ships not become conjoined by ork pirates welding them together and still becoming much stronger because the orks that it is full of believe so? Could the tyranids not fly their fleet into some ships and bring them together to use as a seeding or hibernation thing and produce some specially secreted acid goo that melts everything into one? Edit: made my own mind up. Yes it is possible they would form in other ways.
You know, with the occasional temporal fuckery of travel in the warp, genestealers and other tyranid stuff showing up in the past and not being known as 'nids until later could easily make a lot of sense with it...though the entire Shadow thing might screw with that somewhat
Temporal fuckery of the warp............... Is it possible that the tyranids are less from someWHERE and are more from someWHEN? Warp travel can deposit individuals at a destination before they left. (See legion of the damned) is it possible that the tyranid are from the future of the milky way? A terrible experiment of the mechanicus' biologis branch perhaps? Possibly some godawful fleshcrafting experiment of the druchii? Created by the orks ever present and burning need to have something to "krump"?
@@jaredfritsch6833 Personally, I don't think the entire thing is a temporal mess, just that the first contact might have been something like the hive mind noticed the galaxy because genestealers and other organisms got dumped back in time and it came to investigate the anomaly
aint there some irony hidden in the fact that our beloved Behemoth 40k started with something smashed together from all kinds of origins and franchises?
Ooo the Bedab War. Can't wait. Love how it starts out as a fairly reasonable dispute over the limits of a space marine charter and the associated impact on tax collection.
I like that arch talks about the Mortis Thule, part of my favourite 40k rpg. Check out Ark Of Lost Souls for more information, it even has a space hulk generators
sounds like when i tryeed play survival space engineers a few years ago testing a mod for the first time..a hacking mod.. aka change owner ship of stuff , and got into the slippery slope of just attaching hijacked ships togheter in an increasingly happ hazzard way to make use of factories , refinerys and cargo containers 'before' rebuilding them...and well.. never got around to rebuild any of it and soon the charm of having the bridge of one ship sticking into the hangar of another or the sproblem of a corridor of one ship being torn open by weapon fire sovled by it being melted into the side of another ship turning into the open air high overview walkway of a reactor room with engines poking out in every direction and nock and crany...that not hade a random turret of missle port instead hade me hooked in the ''all shall be assimilated!'' thinking XD..shame i lost that save :/
...Melded with a fragment of a necron tombworld, that somehow found its way into the warp. And the necrons woke up during their little trip. And are now very violently insane,
@@yolofullsend Wait so that would mean they could invade the Eye of Terror and other such areas in the Galaxy no problem.... Yet the Warp is supposed to be a place in which no laws of our reality apply. The Tyranids are also adapting to Chaos on the battlefield.. Doesn't that make them very overpowered?
hol-up-a-minute 0:31 so those wimpy golden aliens in 5th element were SPACE MARINES? My poor murderous, psychotic gods among men, what did they do to you? I blame the French for this, possibly the eldar as well.
I don't mean to ruin the fun, but surely any planetary governor in reality would just nuke the space hulk as soon as it was detected. Unless of course they considered the potential chance of obtaining some lost tech more valuable than billions of innocent lives... OK yeah lets just take a quick look.
I had to do some holy rites to appease a temperamental machine spirit, but watching this on anything less than the home theater system with glorious surround sound would be wrong.
this video is making me sad that all the procedural Sci-Fi ~delving~ games have ended up being shite in some fundamental way specifically looking at you space hulk: deathwing ~sadface~ upside, things like steamworld heist exist which rescue the matter somewhat though not quite with enough variety.
Arch could we get a video on the current adventures of ghazghkull thraka since your last mention of him from the Armageddon series. What he had been up to. Your Ork videos are always my favorite.
I love 40k, its like a well made chocolate, you bite into it and there is so much rich taste...the chocolate not a space marine, that might not end well for you😂
