GENESTEALER CULTS: A PLAN GENERATIONS IN THE MAKING | Warhammer 40k Lore 

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As a former active duty Marine, I can say that if we’re not supposed to eat crayons, then why do they make them in 120 different delicious flavors?

Man, the fact that Shy used her text to speech for BEEP instead of just using a beep sound for censorship makes me unreasonably happy.

You didn't mention my favorite Genestealer Cult story: They've reached the Tau. When a Tau Fire Caste met one of the 'children' it was a tentacle faced little bastard and he essentially went "Oh Ethereals. THIS is why the fucking Imperium is the way it is. Oh fuck they have a point, oh no."

Am I the only one who can see a scenario where an inquisitor hears a planetary governor talk about a bunch of genestealers and orders an immediate exterminatus. But then it turns out he was just complaining that, due to an intense, unpredicted geothermal freeze there was a resource shortage and some factory workers began stealing each other’s pants to stave off frost bite and it just became locally known as the “uprising of Jean stealers.”

'Bricky: have you seen X? DK: no' Should definitely be on the bingo card at this point

Genestealers don't work on Orks because the orks heard someone say "Genestealer" and they immediately responded "Sounds like a humie problem, we don't wearz jeans!" And that was the end of the Ork jeanstealer problem.

I'm going to be that guy and point out you can identify physically if someone has been infected. In one of the Ciaphas Kain books, he is able to identify a sort of flesh bundle thing in the chest of a dead infected marine. Also in the the devastation of baal a Blood Angels Apothecary is able to identify a civilian who is infected before calmly explaining to the man what is going to happen, giving him a few moments to collect his thoughts and then quickly snapping his neck.

I love the story about the Genestealer Cult that took over an Eldar Craftworld, and the Cult's Patriarch became the Avatar of Khaine; resulting in a being referred to as the Patriarch of Khaine that was a weird fusion of Genestealer and Eldar God.

An optimists opinion : The jar was half Fullgrim

After the questionnaire at the beginning of this episode I feel it’s time to bring up a complaint of mine. Despite the fact that both shy and bricky have had multiple episodes on their preferred factions, dk and his thousand sons have not received one even though that would be a great opportunity to create a series of episodes leading into the chaos god tzench. So it is in response to this unfairness to dk that I must request that the next marine video be on the space wolves.

20:40 To this question about Gen 1. Remember. Geene Stealers have Hypnosis. The very moment that thing comes out it will instantly uses it to implent the idea into the parents head that "It is the most beautiful baby there is and you need to protect it" and from that point on the Cult starts to grow.

The people who clean their Nurgle models are the true servants of Chaos

The cult's existence might be a sign that the Tyranids are not just driven by hunger. The connection the cult members have to the Tyranid hive mind made them and the people they affected worship the Tyranids as a god but then, once they arrived to feed, the Tyranids first cut said connection off, making the people they affected see, with clarity, the monstrosity they had worshipped as a god and beckoned to come for their salvation... And only THEN did the Tyranids started eating. If the Tyranids are just driven by hunger for biomass, the result of the Tyranids' infestation should be similar to a zombie outbreak but instead it's more like DOOM's hell cult which suggests that the Tyranids are actively malicious, as malicious as, if not more so, than Chaos.

Genestealer Cults are not a new army, we had them in second edition, then GW ignored them for 30 years but for some reason didn't squat them, and now they're back for 'reasons'.

Fun fact: considering that, while incredibly rare, it's not unheard of for Genestealer Cults to fall to Chaos (the Cult Tenebrous for example which worships Nurgle). This, combined with the fact that other races have been infected by Genestealers before means that there is a tiny but non-zero chance for there to be a *Tau-based Genestealer Cult that worships Slaanesh.* You now have triple the waifu in one bundle.

I love jokes about the USMC. M.A.R.I.N.E - Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Essential What do you call a Marine with an IQ of 70? General. How do you kill a Marine? Throw a shovel full of sand against a wall and tell him to hit the beach! How do you spot a Marine on an Air Force base? He's the one throwing bread to the helicopters

"Humanity has always looked to the stars for enlightenment and at last, THE STARS HAVE ANSWERED!"

Something seldom mentioned is that the tyranids don't just discard the genetic coding for the specific genestealer cultists. Some of them are recreated within future cults, popping up all across the galaxy. The kelermorph is the most notable example.

I love the "spreading" methods of the stealers. There is one that just has so extremely efficient and obedient workers and soldiers that they export them to other systems to spread XD

Looks like the RU-vid machine spirits are cooperating now.

A thing to note is, if space marines were born from genestealer infested parents, the broodfather can still influence them, maybe not direct control but still enough to suggest things

There are actually cases of genestealers which at least attempted to infiltrate into T'au culture. For that I recommend short novel 'Greater Evil' by Peter Fehervari. Really good read. After that you can read his entire 'Dark Coil' cycle.

As a united states Marine...I approve of this also, Muscles Are Required Intelligence Not Essential

Not the purple faction I was hoping for (Emp's Children, Rylanor when?), but this will do nicely. I love my espionage bug boi cults.

Has anyone else noticed how a lot of the Gene Stealer outfits (more so the simpler ones, not the cloaks n shit) look a lot like the kind of uniforms of the resistance in the original Star Wars trilogy? There’s a picture of a gene stealer mini somewhere that looks like he literally stole an X-wing flight suit

I had an idea of GSC called "The Faithless", their neural link never formed correctly due to conditions of the world, but still had their urge to rebel, so with the power of their Patriarch they had conquered their world, but soon after turned on their Patriarch, and prepared for their former masters to arrive. Not to revere them, but to repel them. It was a heavy subversion from the normal GSC stories, as it turns into more of a fight for a real free life of hope, rather than the grimdark "Everyone is processed in goo vats" norm.

“Where’d all the denim go? The genestealer took it!” No, don’t leave! This behaviour is encouraged!

i only just realised the books are part of his power armour and not in the background.

Dang, I JUST saw Majorkill's video of geenstealers just now... Creepy. Rather appropriate considering it's the Tyrannids

I've only just realised that the head of a genestealer is pretty much a direct copy of the baby from Eraserhead

the blue skin isnt a standart thing, while it is the most common for them to be blue/purpletinted the tint is a remnant of the hive fleet the original genestealer was a part of so depending on the fleet they can also be dark skinned or red skinned or even green or just pale it is always just a slight tint shift, not actually making their skin really weird colors, its just a few shades off from what it should be

I love that part Willy wonka’s great plan to find a successor hinged on him suddenly acting like an old-shitty man to kids and their parents, or at least the ones Oompa Loompas didn’t devour and replace with candy based robots

Genestealers are one of my favorites, it’s like a weird mix of the Rebel Alliance and Cthulhu spawn. Also I think it used to be that the first generation looked the most human and later generations looked more alien until they retconned it, which IMO makes more sense and would make it easier to hide the cult in it’s early stage. EDIT I’ve been told I’m mistaken about the retcon bit, but I still think looking more human at the beginning makes more sense,

Majorkill and Adeptus Ridiculous doing Denim stealers? What a collab that would be!!

Granted, its a lot more efficient to get them to walk themselves to the pools, they have to break the link at some point, and I doubt having the node (gaunt, genestealer, or otherwise) die is particularly pleasant for the hive mind. It wouldn’t have been grimdark if GW didn’t address it, but you know, GeeDubs.

I wouldn't say Genestealers are bad. I mean, they always have dinner ready when guests arrive. That's a wonderful trait to have!

I love Genestealer Cults because they are the working man's army. Their heavy support weapons are repurposed mining tools, their tanks and APCs are stolen construction equipment, their fast attack vehicles are just civilian model motorcycles and ATVs, their melee guys are using drills and buzzsaws to cut through armor because they've probably never even heard of power swords before. My dream project is to collect a full squat army loaded out with GSC-esque improvised weapons and run them using GSC rules as just an angry human imperial workforce in revolt. I already have a squat kill team and I'm having a blast playing them.

*Official message from the Sector Governor to a Hive City:* _Make sure to keep an eye on your clothes while you leave them out to dry, these "Jeanstealers" might try to steal them._

13:21 man, I didn’t know Imperial Governor Armstrong was secretly a genestealer. Thank goodness Inquisitor Raiden stopped him

Xenos be praised, Tyranids and Genestealers hopefully will be a highlighted major faction later in 9th, they got such strong lore.

So apparently there are reason why Humans are the primary targets of Genestealers and why other factions don't have a big a problem with them. Chaos - Sure they have to deal with it, but Chaos worlds don't exactly lend themselves to this kind of infestation, what with the demons being present and doing what demons do. Orks - Apart from the infected don't act Orky enough and I guess that they also rub the Ork's gestalt psychic presence the wrong way as well, so it's like they have a target on their back regardless and get killed. Also because they reproduce asexually, while they can infect the Ork's fungal spores, I guess over time the Ork spores tends to weed out the infection over generations, so it doesn't really get to progress that far. Kroot - They apparently taste each others pheromones and immediately pick up that something is wrong with the infected, so they don't breed and the Kroot Elders know what it is. Eldar - They don't reproduce fast enough and have a more advanced genetic makeup which means it takes a lot more generations before the cult can manifest and spread, so it's incredibly easy to catch it early. Also, because everyone is a psychic, they pickup on who is infected incredibly fast as it's implied the infection disturbs the warp enough that they often catch it and purge it incredibly fast. T'au - Whatever connection the T'au have with the Ethereal Caste that lets them command the T'au I guess the Genestealers can't wholly overcome it, or if they can, refusing the orders of an Ethereal reveals them and gets them killed regardless. In theory if an Ethereal got infected, it could cause problems, but they are expected to be leaders and are nearly always in regular contact with other Ethereals, so them slinking away, unnoticed from the public eye is incredibly suspicious. T'au society also being far less religious and far more efficient (IE: Fewer dark places for the infected to hide and fester in) means it's far easier for them to pickup on the infection before it approaches critical mass. Not sure Genestealers are public knowledge amongst the T'au but could totally see it being the case. Space Marines - Are Sterile because of the Geneseed and they can resist the psychic urges of the infection. It doesn't really go into more detail then that, I'd presume though the Geneseed eventually takes care of the infection and the Mechanicus screen the Progenoid Glands for possible genetic corruption (from Chaos) regardless so if it mucked up the Geneseed in some way they'd stop it then and there. Necrons - Are robots

I'm a bit sad Bricky didn't talk about that time thousands and thousands of cultists jumped from a cliff just to break a bunker where a few guardsmen where hiding and the sound of flesh and bones breaking on stone and metal made them have a mental breakdown.

In fact, in the Cyaphas Cain novels, our brave commissary use a knife to estract the genestealer parasite from two guards that he execute to prove they are recently infected.

As someone that didn't know anything about the Mcree thing, I shat myself thinking they were talking about Mercer.

Official GW lore "genestealers cant make you preggers if you are wearing sweatpants even though they want to even more now"

Kind of cool that the Tyranids use the genestealers as a psychic beacon for planets with enough BioLife.

Im w/DK on this one, I feel like im in a better spiritual place not knowing about the beep jar meme

I’d love to se a plague inc like game where you’re Tyranids or a genesteale

their aesthetic is definitely inspired by the original Total Recall.

*Sees Fulgrim in a jar “Ya, I get that ham (unfortunately)"

I'm actually not sad about this one since it ties in well with the Angels of Death show currently going on. I know very little about the Tyranids and even less about their jeanstealer boys. However, it's day 17 of me requesting a Space Wolves Lore video 🙏

i'm just really happy Bricky has seen the gloriousness that is Happy Souls

It very much up to the hive fleet, how they deal with their cults. Some let theM join the fleet and travel with the to the next worlds to conquer.

It makes so much more sense for the genestealer generations to work the other way around.

Something i find really dumb about genestealers is that their generation cicle is fully backwards but it ends up in an astartes type atrocity. Wouldnt it make more sense that the first generations look more human like so it is easier to infilitrate and the later generations are more mutated?

15:02 As someone who almost exclusively wears jeans, this reality is far more terrifying than getting turned into a tyranid hybrid.

Small correction, there is some precedent about finding foreign organisms inside gene stealer infected humans, it's hard to find, but it does grow like a small, extra organ, I can't go into details since it's got something to do with one of the books you guys are reading next.

Some worlds have similar levels of technology as we do right now and people there use wheeled vehicles to travel so traffic signs are most likely used aswell.

I like the idea of a novel about a hive fleet that is getting frickin reckt, and they arrive at a planet taken over by genestealers, and there is like a really good genestealer comissar and the tyranids let the genestealer cult live so they help with their superior military tactics

Shout out to Killdozer. May he watch the roads forever.

You know what would slap? An X-COM 2 like game but you play as a genestealer cult slowly planning and enacting an uprising of a Hive City. You could have different types of Hive Cities with different types of enemies, from underhive gangs to Arbites to different Guard regiments to Ad Mech to even Marines or the Inquisition if things really start going crazy. You could customise all your guys, give them all the different ramshackle, improvised and ransacked weapons that the Cults use, get different specialized gene upgrades and mutations from your patriarch, lead actual genestealers or big boy brutes, do assassinations, sabotages, political machinations and eventually prepare for the full blown invasion of the world by the nids. You could have the doomsday clock ticking be the time until your base is found by the Hive forces and completely destroyed, or once the uprising begins the time until a full Imperial force shows up to wreck your shit or exterminatus the planet. That'd be awesome, give other factions besides fucking marines, chaos and orks a chance to shine.

And I have a new favourite joke from Bricky within the first 5 minutes... "they eat Crayons"

Genestealers “cults” is another way of saying Sussy Alien Cupid

Thanks Bricky and DK now i know more about the aliens who wanna steal my jeans🙏

In the Last Chancers novel one singular genestealer started a cult which caused the hive city of Coritanorum to rebel in a civil war against the Imperium. All the tanks, guard regiments where fighting for inpdependence. Because of one genestealer. Not even a Patriarch.

Fulgrim in a jar he is gonna get what he deserves ... JUSTICE FOR RYLANOR

I had to google the jar meme and now I know what it is. May the emperor, the chaos gods, Gork and Mork have mercy on my soul

The Shy censor beeps were surprisingly cute.

The Deathwatch have some Scanners to find/see Genestealer Infections.

When Bricky started talking about them using mining lasers and saws it reminded me of dead space 1 where all your weapons save for the assault riffle are just stuff you found lying around. Like the flagship weapon is the cutting blaster, there's a buzzsaw, a chemical sprayer that Isaac repurposes as a flame thrower iirc, and that's just the kind of vibe the cults' weapons give me.

You know your DNA is screwed up beyond repair when even Kroot won’t eat you.

the location of the implantation does not matter the gene altering parasite can take hold anywhere usually they aim around the abdomen or thigh as a wound will not draw too much attention there but when attacking marines they usually aim around the neck as its less protected by bone plate

The scariest thing this episode was that picture of Pat as Thor.

ill always remeber that deathwatch story were they send an inquisitor lady to an infected planet to basically get fucked by a prime; "rescued" by deathwatch squad just to be brought back for experiments

When you guys started talking about Nurgle, I was holding out hope you would talk about the Only canon chaos genestealer cult, Cult Tenebrous who are devoted to Nurgle. P.S also the Grimfang's Kult which is the only somewhat successful Ork Genestealer cult.

As far as I remember, the first genestealer army list came out about 2 years after the first edition of Space Hulk, in the early/mid-nineties

In the name of the four armed emperor, it is all coming to plan

Okay, I know Bricky said he wasn't going to do a blood angels episode anytime soon, but (on the very rare case) if Bricky or Dk is reading this, my friend is new and wants to start a blood angels army, and I don't know much or any of their lore details, so I want to give him a warm welcome to the Imperial truth On other news these episodes have made wednesdays a small littl break the week for me, I eeally enjoy these, keep it up

When given three guesses the first guess should always be Alpharius! Second guess is the Alpha Legion.

Hive fleet Jormungandr is absolutel awesome and I'm glad you mentioned them.

Stop signs in 40k probably have Gothic text and a Servo Skull on top that monitors traffic

The twisted helix has got to be one of the most powerful genestealer cults in existence.

If I’m remembering the lore right, genestealers can work on any race or creature, but with them being a very recent threat (in the area of the Milky Way) they can’t really affect many other races than humans. Orkz are… orkz, necrons aren’t biological beings, elder are fucking hard to find on a good day (not to mention the dark elder don’t reproduce much and the craft world elder don’t reproduce at all so it would be hard for genestealers to take root), and I guess the tau could be affected, it’s just that GW hasn’t made any lore of them experiencing a genestealers infestation.

Isn’t weird that last lore video majorkill had was the same subject and this week adric and majorkill do the same subject again are they in kahoots with each other

The inquisition is doing its job well because I have zero idea what a BEEP jar is.

Oh the happy souls reference made me well happy. Made even better since it is one of my favorite bits from the animation. You phrased that really weird but I know exactly what you're talking about

Sadly no mention of the Bodguard guy. He'd be there while the Matriarch is having negotiations in the guise of "peace" except when it doesn't go as they want the bodyguard has a little button on his sword that he'd secretly press to give the other party bad juju and extreme agression so the guard can strike them down in the name of "self defense"

Fun Fact about Genestealer Shenenigans: One time i played with my Word Bearers against Gene Stealers and the genestealer player plopped out his Kellermorph and obliberated not only my Dark apostle Turn 2, but also my buffed up Deamon Prince. Next Turn one of his Psykers mind controlled my Contempetor with double Plasmacannons and overheat shot my Terminators dead and dealt 2 mortal wounds to the contemptor due to rolling ones. But still really fun army with al lot of funny stuff to pull off!

DK: "The cu--" Shy, censoring: "BEEP." DK: "--jar meme." for some reason this bit fucking killed me

I love how you guys are covering this at the same time as majorkill.

Geanstelers have bean around since RT, they got their info from WD all brought together in the 40K Compilation back in '91, they had their own list in Codes Army Lists (in the 2e Core Box) and had their own army list in the 'nids 2e Codex

36:36 i thought you were about to say that the man mowing your lawn was a gene stealer cultist in this hypothetical lol

Someone make a Big iron parody involving the genestealer doming Celestine

There was one GSC eldar maiden world i know of. The other eldar were creeped the hell out by them. Long and short, the tyranids showed up and the non infected eldar noped out of there real fast

In a sisters of battle book a sister warns the govener of the world of the threat cause her world died from them and he ignored her believing they could be easily handled. He was wrong so wrong

YOU CANNOT STOP ME FROM ATTAINING AN ARMY OF CLEAN NURGLE MODELS! However I will draw the line at demons. No clean demons allowed

This premiering right as my World Religions class begins! Is this a sign?

There is recent lore that actually states that the tyranids sometimes don’t actually sever the link, so they would die thinking they were ascending

There was an aeldari crafworld infected, intentionaly to escape Slaanesh.... they were killed by the Ynnari... they had a @@@@@@ Patriarch mixed Avatar