How the Space Sharks Mentally Broke a Dark Eldar - Warhammer 40k 

Really warms one's heart that the ancient Terran tradition of waterboarding has been preserved so earnestly.

Space Shark using their Raven Guard ability for stealth and Night lord ability for pyschological warfare in its finest.

"Cousin, how did you manage to break a species dedicated to the art of torture?" "We were very boring."

They did the exact same thing to an Emperors Children marine in the latest episode of Hammer and Bolter, kept him in a sensory deprivation chamber to torture him. Be it Emperors Children or Dark Eldar, the worst torment for them is boredom.

Necron in the same context : "Aaaaaah ! Finally, a calm place to repose my circuits. Let it last a few centuries or more"

Giving a dark elder a cold shower. The equivalent of throwing a bar of soap at a nurglite.

Reminds me of the old joke: One day, two parents come home early and hear some weird sounds coming from their son's room. When they quietly open the door, they see their son in a gimp suit, flogging his back with a leather knotted whip, the boy's moans muffled by a gag. They carefully close the door again, and look at each other. "What are we going to do?" asked the mother. The father replied "I don't know. Spanking him probably won't work."

Almost felt sorry for the poor guy, then I remember he's a dark Eldar

Refreshing to see a deldar get what he deserves. No glamorous death, no cacophony of suffering. Just the crushing silence of the Void. That, and the indifferent gaze of the Void's hunters as he breaks before them.

If any of you wonder how bad this could possibly be. The hyper-sensitive mind of the Eldar perceives stimuli much more intensely than a normal human can, and the Dark Eldar's penchant for constant stimulation has upped this to an even higher degree. A few days of solitary confinement would feel anywhere between months or years of isolation to them. Add the withdrawal symptoms from whatever drugs they were taking, and you have enough true pain that Slaanesh themself probably noticed it.

The entire Imperium should use this as standard when handling Drukhari.

Very normal loyalist chapter behaviour

Basically how to kill Slaanesh: complete lack of stimulus.

Man, imagine a Deathwatch Kill team made up of members from the Carcharodons, Black Dragons, Black Templars, Storm Giants, Mentors, Minotaurs, Flesh Tearers, Silver Skulls, Exorcists, and Marines Malevolent. That'd be a pretty wild bunch.

The dark elder taunts the abyss to make it illicit a reaction. Today the abyss stares back.

What people forget is that the sharks are also masters of psychological terror.

The Carcharodons Astra also managed to humble the CSMs of the Emperor's Children on occasion, when upon being fired at by a squad, surrounded by captive humans, the sharks responded with a couple of modest and controlled volleys aimed too high to cause any collateral damage, but also away from the CSM's vitals. This enraged the sons of Fulgrim, who viewed this as an insult. When the inevitable melee finally occurred, no amount of finesse and insatiable lust for violence could match the wild abandon in which the sharks ripped and tore their adversaries, while remaining utterly silent and almost distant throughout the entire combat. [Angels of Death: The Judges, In Their Hunger (Short Story) by David Annandale]

That's what i love so much about them the space shark's will always turn the tables on their foes. My favorite has to be when they trap a hunt some Night Lords in complete silence.

Even worse, such sensations are the offerings that the Dark Eldar make to Slaanesh. Without them, Slaanesh will pull on their souls, eventually devouring them.

In one of the Salamanders books Vulkan He'Stan threatens a dark eldar with being buried alive and left alone for years to get them to talk.

Space sharks dont even have to brutalize you to be absolute menaces the most physical thing they did was hit him with the hose and while painful isnt the worst torture imaginable

This is a real form of torture that is still in use today(also by the USA). People have been subjected to this for months and are incredibly traumatised.

This is why the Carcharodons are the imperium's TRUE apex predators something the Dark Eldar have to learn the hard way.

A narcissist vs psychopaths. Poor bastard never stood a chance.

Bros first strategy was to seduce the space marines. 😂

Agreed unlike most space marine chapters who values courage, glory and honor above all else, where even the pragmatic ultramarines tend to get blinded by honor and glory where it becomes a disadvantage rather than battlefield effectiveness where they value an honorable duel or a more direct and personal approach rather than say the raven guard or fire hawks who have little values in the ways of honor and unlike most other space marine chapters who cry out their glories out loud, the hidden blade is just as effective as a weapon that can be seen

Dark Eldar getting a small fraction of what they deserve.

This was such a fantastic book and such a humanizing look into one of the most inhumane and brutal chapters. As a fan of the previous space sharks books I loved a deeper look into Te Kuharangi. Also the twist about the "brothers" was heart wrenching.

Utakk thought his confinement was a tragedy. But now we realize... it's a comedy.

I think that was genius in the way they broke him. Idk why they did it but it was awesome the way they did it

To his Credit, this guy really did prove he had WAAY More mental fortitude than Humans. Most of us would be broken by just the initial four days, this guy resisted for Weeks, and most impressively of all, he did so as a DARK Eldar. The fact he was used to Slaaneshi-levels excess would make you think he'd be far quicker to crack, but no

The imperium needs to get in contact with the SCP Foundation and see if they can borrow SCP-2701 “True Solitary” to use on the dark eldar. The sensory deprivation chamber from hell.

So basically they bullied a nerd, got it. Jokes aside, the Space Sharks are pretty neat. I especially love that they have a giant aquarium filled with ancient giant monster sharks on the bridge of their flagship. And as for the story here: I got kind of hooked on the part where the DEldar was appalled by the fact that humans could live like this, in a monotone and sterile environment. It's a subtle reminder that while they Eldar may be incredibly advanced in many ways, humanity is still as alien to them as they are to humans.

Unironically kinda feel bad for this Eldar. The way this is described is basically what it's like to suffer a withdrawl from addiction.

The space sharks are one hundred percent one of the most badass chapters in the galaxy and the fact they could be of nightlord stock makes them all the more interesting to me.. Also really well done narration, I can tell you have a knack for it!

That was satisfying and a little funny listening to him go nuts with boredom. It reminds me of a very old piece of lore from the original Dungeons & Dragons. "Boredom is the archenemy of all Kender" or something like that. If I remember correctly, the old lore says that the cruelest thing you can do to a member of the Kender race is lock him in a room with literally nothing to do. It made this story all the more funny when I remembered that tidbit. Also I got a question, when they opened the shutters and he gazed out into nothing, what was that supposed to mean? Like literally no stars? Or a blank wall that was designed to make him think he was staring into real space but with a lack of stars? Or could it be that they had literally left the entire galaxy all together and made him face out into the literal void between galaxies?!

Such a brutal chapter..... they break DE with the silent treatment and lack of entertainment.

Now tell me that Charcharadon Astra aren't loyalist Night Lords I dare you

Solitary confinement, a Rambo 1 style of shower, silence and boredom to break a Dark Eldar. Concidering that this is 40k this doesn't sound that cruel. At least when compared to what the Dark Eldar do to their victims. But since Dark Eldar are all about dark emotions and sadism to enhance their vitality it's like a drug withdrawal. Something some people concider a pretty hefty experience.

Never thought the Carcharadons would such massive trolls.

The first torture method that came to my mind was "Baby shark dut-du-dut-dut-du-du!"

I think they should have brought in a servitor or mechanicus adept to constantly talk to him about meaningless technical details and code scripts over and over again while at the same time feeding him lies that are as believable as truths so his entire reality is not only dropped to mundanity but also there is the aspect that within the boredom they created for him he could no longer process what was true or not. Constantly change the rules of his captors while making it seem like its his fault for breaking rules he was never told, ie changing the goal posts. Ie when he talks they blast him with the cold water, when he is silent they come in and talk to him and when he responds or complies with demands they blast him with the water. They should make it a point that they own him, he is not a superior being and they will do to him whatever they want while he will never be able to win or understand. The goal is total break down of the will and total submission by destroying the ego to the point he wouldnt even think of trying to escape, not even consider it was torture one way or the other. Its called learned helplessness where i believe the army put a dog in a box with 2 compartments and window in the middle it could jump through while both floors were electrified and could be activated to zap the dog promting it to jump through the window to the other side to avoid the zaps. Eventually the dog would break down and just accept the zaps without trying to escape. It works on humans too.

Humans best weapon against Dark Eldar. The ability to think nothing. Just stare into the void and shut off the brain.

I fucking love the charcaradons, who the hell else would hose down a drukarii with a water hose. "I AM THOUSANDS YEARS OLD!! YOU CANT JU-" * High-powered water hose sounds * "I will forgive you for this slight, but only- " * High-pwered water hose sounds * "You will regret thi-" * SLAM *

This is pure comedy gold. I love the Dark Eldar and this did justice to all parties involved.

Im sorry but i couldnt stop laughing imagine a skinNbones elf being flung into a wall by water and subsequently repeated everytime he wasnt expecting it.

This is how someone discribes eating diner without RU-vid

To quote the wise words of big E himself in TTS: *YOU KNOW, FOR ALL THE TERRIBLE ATROCIOUS SHIT THAT GOES ON IN THE GALAXY, IT IS SORT OF REFRESHING SEEING THEM HAPPEN TO SOMEONE WHO ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY FUCKING DESERVES IT.*

I would have shut the eldar in a soundproof clear cell with one way speakers for him to hear all the kids playing with puppies around him while baby shark plays on loop😂

You should read the Salamander Trilogy. Vulkan Hestan (not the primarch) was not only able to speak the Eldar tongue but with the combination of promise and a threat, he was able to get webway portal open to the dark city from a haemonculus.Though what the space sharks did was brutal and got the same result. Vulkan's method was way faster.

I always hated being grounded more than any other punishment as a kid so I can relate lol 😭

fun fact: the sharks actually enjoy staying in a silent cell (in cold salt water) or walking around endless corridors in a never changing environment

Only thing better would be the twist; that a sister of silence or a 'blank' was just sitting on the otherside of the door.

Boredom is a pretty common police interrogation tactic in real life. Lots of suspects are juet held in the interrogation room for hours and hours to be left alone with their thoughts and possible guilt

I think this is the funniest story in 40k. I'm not sure why. The brutality and sadism towards the brutal and sadistic... I don't know why it is so funny but it is.

Bruh, I read this book. Damn they really made the Space Sharks more scary than other factions

I know you don’t know me and I don’t know you but, you somehow knew EXACTLY what can get me to immediately click on a video: dark eldar getting impaled on the receiving end for once. Well played sir!

This actually made me feel bad for the poor guy. At the end of the video, even if he did escape, he would never be welcomed back to Commorragh. He would be an exile at best and murdered at worse

A reminder that the Dark Eldar deserve every bit of suffering they get. Imagine the atrocities of Imperial Japan but magnified. That’s Dark Eldar. They deserve to suffer.

I never thought a warhammer story with a dark eldar would make me laugh but every time they fired the water cannon it was the best punchline.

Great story, from an excellent book. Borther Zartath from the Black Dragons Chapter also did something similar to the captured Dark Eldar, but that xenos changed into so called 'Husk' very quiclky.

I love the mental image of a Space Shark casually blasting an Eldar with a firehose.

Am I the only one who chuckled when he "are you gonna--?" *WATER CANNON*

I saw the title and just thought: "Yep, totally something the Void Guppies would do."

More than 40k years later and still nothing beats the padded white room and the daily session with a chair, rag and a water bucket

I’m fascinated how the idea of basically just literally ignoring them is torture for them I wonder if the same thing works with slaanesh followers

Haven’t had this much fun since Leman Russ played a Mon Keigh baby game with some dark Eldar. The fact that this is canon and that this torture is done to a creature that deserve absolutely no pity makes this VERY enjoyable. Great video!

In a universe where innocents needlessly suffer it's absolutely satisfying when it happens to someone who absolutely deserves it.

To be fair, I think there is a story from HH where the Deldar homonculluie have made the night lord's afraid of the dark.

this is why i love the sharks, no rituale crap, no theatriques, no speeches. just brutal efficiency

I wish they had an Ogryn on board. As the door 🚪 opened, the dark elf heard a dimwitted voice yelling, "Purge the unclean." 🌊🚿

Great video! Love the Space Sharks and you really did the scene justice!

Awwww... The dark eldar begun to cry - For the Eldar to think they have mastered all kinds of torture is just natural to their Arrogance

Were this happening to anything other than a dark eldar, it'd be such a dark and tragic story. As it stands, it's goddamn hilarious.

I mean... He is xenos. Usually that's a burn on meeting offense. He's lucky.

one of the chaos space marines in one of the novels broke a dark eldar he injected his hand with tims to numb it and make it usless he then said after breaking boath his legs the next lot will go in th back of your neck therefore paralysis from the neck down and unable to die the dark eldar went nuts as he did not want to turn into a husk paralysed from the neck down as dwrk eldar dont realy die he told him everything he wanted to know

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only the time-out chair.

Just came across your channel! Glad to have seen such a tale, Dark Eldar are one of my favourite factions, and it's definitely very, very well deserved to see one of them face at least a modicum of torture. Subscribed, looking forward to more 40k content!

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Hilarious how the supposedly superior alien can’t handle 3 days of nothing, when even an Imperial Guardsman would be completely mental/morally solid after that.

im beginning to believe that space sharks are.more of a night lords than a raven guard

A loyalist nightlords doing good deeds 😊 edit: after all they are the expert of psychological warfare and underhanded tactics to break their opponents spacesharks really got that from the night lords

You know, for being great poets, they obviously never heard of the sound of silence

Took me a moment to realise what that black empty void was when they opened the window shutters. The sharks spend most of their time patrolling above or below the galactic plain. What Utakk was staring at was Dark Space. The void between galaxies. Empty nothing

I liked this breakdown! Always good to see more 40k voices and content creators.

That dark, silent void that broke this Dark Eldar is something I imagine that the Renegade Chaos God Malice aspires to. Think about how the Sons of Malice act, fighting in silence, devouring their victims, and living by a mantra of denying the Chaos Gods and their followers any emotion. It reminds me of this.

“GET IN THE HORNY BOX!” _”REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-“_

I hope you keep making vids like these. It's great!!

Bro, not gonna lie, the beginning of the vid had me intrigued but the ending had me fulfilled. excellent work on storytelling.

"We do a little trolling " - Space sharks

Well narrated. This is a damn cool passage.

That was most awesome, thanks for sharing this!

Man, this elf basically feels what I have felt for years at my job, so I don’t feel bad for Mr “a week was to much”

They definitely seem like loyalist night Lords if anything

This is what the youngsters call "getting rekt."

Love this book…. Need more Carcharadon Astra books in audible…

dark eldar ''we zee masters of torture you think you can torture uss monkeg ha! we so 'superior' species.. wait.. why are you just locking the door doing nothing..wait..no..NO!''

Like true Terrans from the Raven Guard Legion

3 days in a cell to crack a dark eldar? I'm amazed this isn't done en masse

this just makes me respect the space sharks more