I know a little about Orks and their weird group psychic thing where painting their ships red to go fast really makes them faster, and their tech only works because they think it should. But then I guess Orks aren't even in this game.

I get that it's a violent, black-vs-grey universe. I think it's the originator of the term grimdark? The emperor is some immortal Mr House asshole who's worshipped as a god, which powers some of their tech and protects them from chaos via his psyker shit? And he's kind of a fascist, but it's that or bloody chaos?

Rogue traders seem like somewhere between a privateer and a baron, plundering tithes in their castle-ships and acting as an arm of the Imperium in backwater space?

There are more wizards than I expected. Not sure if these mechanicus dudes are pulling "Temples of Syrinx" thing, or they know how the tech works but not why so they worship it? Or if it's actually machine spirits?

Anything super foundational that I'm missing?

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    Are the Tyranids actually evil? They’re horrific from our point of view but do they even have the concept of evil? They’re just hungry.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    They are at best neutral, in the way a hurricane or volcano is neutral.

    They destroy all in their path in a way that seems indescriminate, but no one knows what the hive mind thinks.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    They also were on their way somewhere else, and the Emperor, and the imperium at large set up the Astronomicon, which is basically a giant beacon to the bugs that screams "there's food here!"

    Were it not for the imperium, that particular version of the milky way wouldn't be nearly as fucked as it is, but it would still be pretty fucked because Slannesh would still have been born.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

    T'au weren't originally, so GW scuffed them up a bit

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

    I played Tau mega-yonks ago (for the greater good!). And they were pretty good matured then...ish.

    What did they scuff up?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I'm still new to 40k lore, but apparently a lot of players/lore fans thought the T'au didn't fit the grimdark aesthetic, so GW made them more morally grey.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Yes, I understand that.
    What I'm asking is what they changed to make them more morally gray.

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