If enough time passes beings like this become so powerful that once when an inquisitor captured one of them, they had to throw them into a nearby star as nothing in their armory could kill the bastard
In one of the Dark Heresy games I was in we went up against a *thing* that used to be an owner of a Halo Device. We barely escaped its lair (a secluded mountain retreat that looked more like a butcher shop than anything else) alive and called in an orbital bombardment to deal with it. It says *a lot* about how utterly terrifying that abomination was that even after the bombardment (that damn near levelled the mountains the retreat was in) was over we still wasn’t sure if it was actually dead or not since we never found a trace of it or the Halo device. Now logically I know that the thing died in the bombardment, but our GM never did confirm it one way or another and always looked a little too mischievous to my liking whenever we brought it up…
@@JamesPolymer idk, I just know it was on both a majorkill and Wes hammer video on the halo stars, I personally like it he ghoul stars more due to the bone kingdom of drazak
@@AllRyeTea Jax "You want a piece of me, Megatron?" Megatron "No, I want TWO OF YOU" proceeds to rip a Transformer in half. Welp, that was a repressed memory unwillingly unlocked.
@@skycryztalsit's a sci Fi universe dude. Within context it's either 1,000 babies die a day or the Emperor dies and all of humanity is doomed. I'd say it makes child murder worth it
Tbf, Corpse Starch isn't made from Human Sacrifices, but from people who were dead anyway. Gunshot victims, terminally ill, the very VERY rare Old Age. There are no graveyards on a Hive World. These people are having living Human beings dragged in and messily killing them themselves. There is a difference.
Even more terrifying is that basically one in every 20 of these devices doesn't have any side effects, but the person who uses the Halo device can never actually truly know if they were one of the lucky ones, because the transformation takes place after an onset of AT LEAST one century. The chance that you could use it and be perfectly fine while still retaining all the benefits is actually what draws people to retrieve them and make use of them in the first place as well
@@vencislavgynev8282 i like those odds sign me up. also funny short story idea a guy who does win the halo lottery spin but doesnt know it so he in his paranoid mind beliefs hes becoming a cannibal and starts eating people in his own delusion
Yes I also heard this to be the case… Do those people actually live forever as well? I can’t seem to find the lore on it but I’d definitely read it somewhere…
There's also the fact that like 1/1000 of them has no drawbacks at all, so it will provide you will the vigor, immortality, and improve physiology without the monstrous mutations, devolution into a monster, or flesh cravings, and i'm pretty sure a lot of people are willing to take that gamble.
those are better odds than the lottery, and considering corpse starch is a thing i lore, and blood angels bathing in the blood of civilians, and ofcourse servitors exist, it isnt even immoral by 40ks standards
@vencislavgynev8282 I'm not going to lie, if I could spend 100 years being fucking superhuman, I'd use one too. Sure, 999 times out of 1000, I wind up an unkillable monster if I allow the symptoms to progress too far but if that happens, I will just throw myself into a volcano or something when I start craving flesh so as not to lose my mind. I'll have had a good run, longer than a standard human lifetime even, and if after 100-150 years I don't devolve into a flesh eating abomination, all the better.
You are right and wrong at the same time. You are right, that in some very rare cases there are good effects without bad drawbacks, but it is not because the certain device itself, but because some people can match with that certain device perfectly( they had rare biology, which is in some king unique or perfect for matching the device without drawbacks), but this doesn't mean, that other people will have the same success. So it's more of that some people have the needed biology and DNA to match perfectly with some of these devices or somenof them. Because also one human can be a perfect match for some halo device, but not for other devices. Just the work with them is very tricky.
As a person who has a halo device I can confirm it took 150 of my best private guards just to put the device back in it’s case and remove the Eldridge horror it created
While the corpse-grinders workers and burocrats may get... "overzealous" in their search for... "raw materials", corpse starches are usually made out of corpses lying around of those unfortunates who have no one to bury them. Besides, the corpses are grinded to their basics components, so you are not eating a body: you are eating a bar of proteins, carbohydrates and others such nutrients extracted from a body.
Corpse Starch is made of already dead people, while Halo Device mutants crave living flesh and they are picky about their eating, so usual “virgins and children” macabre menus galore.
Honestly kinda funny if we also go by how the imperium uses good ol corpsestarch to feed their population- Edit: well now I didn't expect to ever get 1k likes but I feel like it's being used in place of the dislike button so for the umpteenth time I know what corpsestarch is and how it's reprocessed what I was pointing out is that basically the nobles would have ways to hide their abominable acts via throwing whatever they don't eat into the processing plants that are responsible for making corpsestarch which lore wise happens more than people seem to realize. Even if we were to ignore that and go by those agri-worlds to exist they're not really reliable because nurgle aims for those worlds due to their overall country and primitive style lives at least in the sense that their only tech comes from those workplaces made to process what they get from harvesting. I mean hell I can give an example being the king of pigs in which nurgle *literally* was breaking the mind of a slaughter house worker while the plague father made his world more to the liking of his own and mind you slaughter houses can be found from hive cities to agriworlds more so the agri-worlds tho given they can maximize their harvests. Anyhow if people wish to point out everything they do they should realize chaos is a thing as has in numerous cases gone to fuck over the imperium if it meant more souls to the chaos gods themselves like this is one big game to them where the losers and winners are described as the most successful in this grim harvest. Even then this would be ignoring that the imperium suffers from more than *just* that of chaos like you've orks,eldar,druhkari,tau,tyranids,and those races in-between each vying to be the sole ruler of the galaxy and they aim for ANY world that is ripe to be taken like I won't say that is the case for the orks however as honestly with them its more or less seeking out a proper fight and finding worlds ripe with conflict.
@lukeBryen2 no no my friend you misunderstood why I pointed this out, basically means the nobles have a way to keep eating still living people while discarding what isn't eaten into corpsestarch because let's be real here when are corpses IN the 40k ever not come in pieces? Basically means the nobles have ways to hide their atrocities and none would be any wiser to it because hey don't question your superiors lest you be branded heretical and given the sway the nobles have even those that use the halo arrays you can see why I say this right? Basically no one would know and those who did couldn't exactly say anything without being gaslit as faithless dogs against the emperor again I say this because if we look at the overall state of the imperium even worse the inquisition unless you hold a place of power or friends in high places like within the inquisition you're nothing but soon to be corpsestarch if you ain't tread lightly or carelessly go about it.
One of my favorite hypocrisies of the Imperium is that hives are fed on Corpse Starch, but if you resort to cannibalism to stay alive when you have no other choice, you receive summary execution.
@@GardensAndGamesbecause corpse starch is so heavily processed its essentially just nutrients. While eating human flesh , even if cooked will lead to a whole array of diseases and even potential addiction to cannibalism.
As others pointed out, corpsestarch is heavily processed to the point it has been broken down to it's constituent proteins and nutrients, therefore nothing about it is still recognizable as a former human. The Imperium makes a big difference between eating this distilled product from a public dispenser and eating straight from the source, dead or alive, since the latter is more often than not the product of Chaos or Xeno corruption, rather than desperate measures...
Honestly, it’d be a great trade if it weren’t for the “mindless” part. Warped and insane, but still coherent? I wouldn’t bat an eye at that. A slobbering animal? That’d be the dealbreaker.
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I mean in some cases( 1 of 1000) there is success with these devices. But with genestealer cult is always no win situation, especially in long terms. Also the cult is sometimes planetary or even solar system level of treat.
For most worlds and armies, corpsestarch is only used in periods of famine. Think Soylent Green when the hive world burns its last ocean away when it was at first a civilized world that could feed itself
The weird part is we have NO IDEA what these things actually are; they're xeno in origin, so it's been theorized that they have the effects they have because they're juuuust compatible enough with human biology to sort of kind of work, but even that's not for sure. The only things we know for certain are that whatever foul xenos built them once lived in the Halo Stars, and that there's no going back once you start using it.
Their end transformation kind of looks like a Necromorph if you ask me… Brethren Moons perhaps? (Let’s face it, you could insert so many different sci-fi universes into 40K and it wouldn’t be completely implausible for them to have existed somewhere in the galaxy at some point. Maybe not exactly as they are, but some modifications and it’s certainly possible (pre-Age of Strife of course))
Well the Necrons are rife in the halo stars so I’m guessing it’s a bio transference device, as this type of body morphing tech is right up their street.
@@Docktavion That doesn’t make any sense though; bio transference devices were large machines that ripped the essence from a biological being (destroying the body in the process) and placed it into a body of necrodermis, the soul being devoured by the C’tan. If anything, it’s more likely to be something the Old Ones cooked up during the War in Heaven, or even used themselves before the Necrons even left their home planet, since biology is kind of their shtick (Eldar, Krorks, and possibly the Rangdan and Hrud, as well as anything and everything they could’ve thought up to battle the Necrons and their Gods (somebody even presented the possibility to me that the Tyranids might have even been Old One creations)).
Somewhere somehow in the galaxy a boy was abused by some noble and 500 years later that same boy now one of The Emperors Angels comes back and kills that same noble now a Slaneesh cultist.
Yo, remember me bitch? 500 years ago you force me to wipe your ass with my mount. I has vowed to not rest until I made you suffered the same fate. You should scream by now because our chapter asswipe servitor be destroyed in previous battle with all shit you summoned and I need a huge dump after wake up.
@@vencislavgynev8282 My battle brother, I never said they were. Swap out Slaneesh cultist for any other type of threat that would warrant the deployment of space marines. The halo device would be how that noble lived for so long.
I find the Halo Devices fascinating, in the same way one would an incredibly dangerous SCP. One thing I like about them, is that one of the known Halo Devices is called the "Psycharus Worm", and is described as "Appearing like a tarnished brass maggot some six inches in length, the worm is cold and greasy to the touch". I love that, because to me that description makes it sound so insidious and like an eldritch artifact.
Yeah I believe that's why these nobles and government officials use them at all, because they think they're just built different, which fits with the arrogance they probably have.
The more interesting part about them is that its not even guaranteed that they'll do that, there's a 10% chance that they just keep the immortality while not doing the cannibalistic monster thing, which is why their use is common enough to be of note.
@@tonypringles2285 Why is wanting your politicians to not be decrepit walking corpses a partisan issue to you? Because I can assure you it isn't to us.
@@icecoldmagicI mean seeing the alternative (being consumed by the chaos gods upon your death) one could make a valid argument that turning oneself into a xeno might still be the better choice...
Not only immortality. Your body becomes immune to all diseases and toxins. Some theories also suggest, that warp can't control you of effect you, but if only the device didn't transform you in abomination. 😂
Probably wouldn't work. The Halo Devices aren't seemingly intended to make people into monsters, it's just that human physiology is close enough to allow it to work, but not close enough to have it work perfectly for most people. There's a slim chance you won't become a giant cannibal rags monster, but this is quite rare, and clearly the device is doing something different between these two. Anyway, my point was that they probably wouldn't work on Astartes or especially Custodes, because their physiology is too different from baseline human.
How do people still believe this made up crap? They always turn you into a monster. No that's not a thing, it never has been a thing. You are just spreading crap.@@AveSicarius
Pretty terrifying, but I'd still take becoming a mindless abomination over the usual death-scenario of having my soul thrown into the warp to be torn to shreds by hungry daemons.
I just love the darkest dungeon blood plague art that was shown in the middle of it could be coincidence but I truly think that one of the things was based on the darkest dungeon dlc enemy
Instructions unclear. I've activated the device and instead of giving me great power, it has erased me and every other species from existence except for this weird sentient fungus. I believe I used the wrong Halo device.
Imagine doing this, but getting cybernetic implants to replace a lot of your brain, so you can stay sane and resist the urges. As long as you don't mind a little body horror, it'll be great!
Fun fact there’s a chance (small one if I remember correctly) that it grants immortality without the flaw as long as they have the device, not atomized, etc..
This hits a whole lot less when you remember the Imperium recycles dead bodies into spam and we also feed the emperor a thousand babies a day to keep him alive. Literally the only problem with this is the mental decay. Otherwise they'd be encouraging people to use them.
A few of those photos are actually enemies from Darkest Dungeon afflicted with the Crimson Curse. Fun DLC, its a vampirism plague but instead of bats they mutate into hyrids of ticks, fleas, and mosquitos
If enough time passes beings like this become so powerful that once when an inquisitor captured one of them, they had to throw them into a nearby star as nothing in their armory could kill the bastard
Holy crap...which book was this?
In one of the Dark Heresy games I was in we went up against a *thing* that used to be an owner of a Halo Device. We barely escaped its lair (a secluded mountain retreat that looked more like a butcher shop than anything else) alive and called in an orbital bombardment to deal with it.
It says *a lot* about how utterly terrifying that abomination was that even after the bombardment (that damn near levelled the mountains the retreat was in) was over we still wasn’t sure if it was actually dead or not since we never found a trace of it or the Halo device. Now logically I know that the thing died in the bombardment, but our GM never did confirm it one way or another and always looked a little too mischievous to my liking whenever we brought it up…
@@JamesPolymer idk, I just know it was on both a majorkill and Wes hammer video on the halo stars, I personally like it he ghoul stars more due to the bone kingdom of drazak
@@Red0543 if you dont find a corpse , assume its alive in that scenario, that DM has smt planned, speaking from experience as a DM myself
@@JamesPolymerjust looked it up, apparently it’s from Dark Heresy: Disciples of the Dark Gods; an rpg. And also rogue trader core rule book pg360
Something to note here is that the final transformation turns a user into a monster that can tear a fully armored Space Marine in half
I really see no downsides to using one tbh.
If you don't have a name you are basically a walking zipper
@@AllRyeTea Jax "You want a piece of me, Megatron?"
Megatron "No, I want TWO OF YOU"
proceeds to rip a Transformer in half.
Welp, that was a repressed memory unwillingly unlocked.
@@BlueBasuk I feel the need to apologize............
But also skill issue cause I don't even remember a Megatron get gud repression
@@AllRyeTea it's from the first Michael Bay Transformers movie
Meanwhile the emperor, casually sipping on 1000+ psychic children every day:
wait, I thought they were babies?
😂
@lukeBryen2 *cough* Child murder apologists.
@lukeBryen2 Were you cheering on Hitlers trains from the sidelines?
@@skycryztalsit's a sci Fi universe dude. Within context it's either 1,000 babies die a day or the Emperor dies and all of humanity is doomed. I'd say it makes child murder worth it
Another thing- those mindless horrors REALY DONT DIE EASY
I believe one of them had to be launched into a nearby star as nothing they had could put it down
I don't know, just visit your mates over in the Halo Universe and use their Halo superweapon to kill it
@@sandran17 again they needed to throw it into a star, and technically they can confirm if it’s dead or not
@@karlwes6273 Doom BFG will do the trick.
@@benjyyxThe imperium uses weapons a lot more powerful than that frequently. It would not do the trick.
Remember that eating people is very bad if you're not a Space Marine, CorpseStarch Enjoyer, or live in a Hive City.
I mean it becomes a problem when they become insane and stop doing their jobs.
It's only a problem if you don't pay your taxes
@@wildspirewarrior211 exactly
Tbf, Corpse Starch isn't made from Human Sacrifices, but from people who were dead anyway. Gunshot victims, terminally ill, the very VERY rare Old Age.
There are no graveyards on a Hive World.
These people are having living Human beings dragged in and messily killing them themselves. There is a difference.
I think its fair to say that recycling dead people and taking living people and sacrificing them for consumption are two different issues.
Even more terrifying is that basically one in every 20 of these devices doesn't have any side effects, but the person who uses the Halo device can never actually truly know if they were one of the lucky ones, because the transformation takes place after an onset of AT LEAST one century.
The chance that you could use it and be perfectly fine while still retaining all the benefits is actually what draws people to retrieve them and make use of them in the first place as well
According is more rare. One of 1000😂
@@vencislavgynev8282 i like those odds sign me up.
also funny short story idea a guy who does win the halo lottery spin but doesnt know it so he in his paranoid mind beliefs hes becoming a cannibal and starts eating people in his own delusion
@@kingthe13
Actually that will be so 40k grimdark. And also sounds really interesting.
And psykers and those who have fallen to Chaos cannot use them, as the Halo Device will serve no other master.
That makes this makes sense. I was wondering why they would consign themselves to be an abomination, even the narcissistic ones.
There's like 1 in a 1000 that do impart perfect immortality without these drawbacks.
Source?
Probably on the older lore
you will still eventually transfigure and become alien you just get to enjoy the benefit phase longer
Yes I also heard this to be the case… Do those people actually live forever as well? I can’t seem to find the lore on it but I’d definitely read it somewhere…
How do people still believe this made up crap?
No that's not a thing, it never has been a thing. You are just spreading crap.
Nice to have Abraham Lincoln there. If only he was there to slay the vampires
In this universe he slay the drukhari😂😂😂
Eyyy Countess from Crimson Court nice 🗿
;)
isn't the baron there aswell? not 100% sure tho
I was gonna comment on the usage of Darkest Dungeon Crimson Court art, lol
Right? Glad darkest dungeon got a mention if only in a pan-over
So basically the billionaire version of vampires
Vampires are already depicted to be of higher class, billionaires are easy for them
Vampires folklore literally comes from fear of aristocracy and the ruling class.
@@torm0 out ancestors were wise. Funny how little things change.
"We have to activate halo to destroy the flood"
There's also the fact that like 1/1000 of them has no drawbacks at all, so it will provide you will the vigor, immortality, and improve physiology without the monstrous mutations, devolution into a monster, or flesh cravings, and i'm pretty sure a lot of people are willing to take that gamble.
Especially the noble ones, who think that are something more than others. The pride comes with price.
those are better odds than the lottery, and considering corpse starch is a thing i lore, and blood angels bathing in the blood of civilians, and ofcourse servitors exist, it isnt even immoral by 40ks standards
@vencislavgynev8282 I'm not going to lie, if I could spend 100 years being fucking superhuman, I'd use one too. Sure, 999 times out of 1000, I wind up an unkillable monster if I allow the symptoms to progress too far but if that happens, I will just throw myself into a volcano or something when I start craving flesh so as not to lose my mind. I'll have had a good run, longer than a standard human lifetime even, and if after 100-150 years I don't devolve into a flesh eating abomination, all the better.
I’d take that gamble in a heartbeat
How do people still believe this made up crap?
No that's not a thing, it never has been a thing. You are just spreading crap.
These feel like a thing that Nurgle and Tzeentch collabed on to fuck with humanity😂🤣
Yeah, anything true immortality related usually has a bit of Nurgle in it
Isn't fucking Slaanesh's territory?
@@Merilirem Yes but more on a soul type level or the physical literal way. Otherwise deception and all that is Tzeentch's job.
Can we get a lore dive on your own Chapter heraldry, it about time >:(
TRUE
The fashion is too good to have no explanation
Holy crap, some of the art in the background is terrifying.
Thought I saw the Crimson Court
If i remember well
SOME halo devices do give true restoration without making the user into an abomination
They are RARE but they exist
You are right and wrong at the same time. You are right, that in some very rare cases there are good effects without bad drawbacks, but it is not because the certain device itself, but because some people can match with that certain device perfectly( they had rare biology, which is in some king unique or perfect for matching the device without drawbacks), but this doesn't mean, that other people will have the same success. So it's more of that some people have the needed biology and DNA to match perfectly with some of these devices or somenof them. Because also one human can be a perfect match for some halo device, but not for other devices. Just the work with them is very tricky.
How do people still believe this made up crap?
No that's not a thing, it never has been a thing. You are just spreading crap.
Thats not a thing. How do you guys make this crap up?@@vencislavgynev8282
this seems like something the inquisitors would crack down on really quick
At least I wasn't the only one who thought my Man was talking about Halo 🤣
Average Necromunda highborn activity, no xenos tech required
As a person who has a halo device I can confirm it took 150 of my best private guards just to put the device back in it’s case and remove the Eldridge horror it created
Isnt this like.... the normal thing? I mean there is Corpse Starch....
While the corpse-grinders workers and burocrats may get... "overzealous" in their search for... "raw materials", corpse starches are usually made out of corpses lying around of those unfortunates who have no one to bury them. Besides, the corpses are grinded to their basics components, so you are not eating a body: you are eating a bar of proteins, carbohydrates and others such nutrients extracted from a body.
Corpse Starch is made of already dead people, while Halo Device mutants crave living flesh and they are picky about their eating, so usual “virgins and children” macabre menus galore.
Yeah the Imperium uses that option out of necessity, these are just degenerates
@@MrVlad12340
Damn! But look in 1 of 1000 cases it has a success.😂
Honestly kinda funny if we also go by how the imperium uses good ol corpsestarch to feed their population-
Edit: well now I didn't expect to ever get 1k likes but I feel like it's being used in place of the dislike button so for the umpteenth time I know what corpsestarch is and how it's reprocessed what I was pointing out is that basically the nobles would have ways to hide their abominable acts via throwing whatever they don't eat into the processing plants that are responsible for making corpsestarch which lore wise happens more than people seem to realize. Even if we were to ignore that and go by those agri-worlds to exist they're not really reliable because nurgle aims for those worlds due to their overall country and primitive style lives at least in the sense that their only tech comes from those workplaces made to process what they get from harvesting. I mean hell I can give an example being the king of pigs in which nurgle *literally* was breaking the mind of a slaughter house worker while the plague father made his world more to the liking of his own and mind you slaughter houses can be found from hive cities to agriworlds more so the agri-worlds tho given they can maximize their harvests. Anyhow if people wish to point out everything they do they should realize chaos is a thing as has in numerous cases gone to fuck over the imperium if it meant more souls to the chaos gods themselves like this is one big game to them where the losers and winners are described as the most successful in this grim harvest. Even then this would be ignoring that the imperium suffers from more than *just* that of chaos like you've orks,eldar,druhkari,tau,tyranids,and those races in-between each vying to be the sole ruler of the galaxy and they aim for ANY world that is ripe to be taken like I won't say that is the case for the orks however as honestly with them its more or less seeking out a proper fight and finding worlds ripe with conflict.
@lukeBryen2 no no my friend you misunderstood why I pointed this out, basically means the nobles have a way to keep eating still living people while discarding what isn't eaten into corpsestarch because let's be real here when are corpses IN the 40k ever not come in pieces? Basically means the nobles have ways to hide their atrocities and none would be any wiser to it because hey don't question your superiors lest you be branded heretical and given the sway the nobles have even those that use the halo arrays you can see why I say this right? Basically no one would know and those who did couldn't exactly say anything without being gaslit as faithless dogs against the emperor again I say this because if we look at the overall state of the imperium even worse the inquisition unless you hold a place of power or friends in high places like within the inquisition you're nothing but soon to be corpsestarch if you ain't tread lightly or carelessly go about it.
The imperium does have agri worlds.
One of my favorite hypocrisies of the Imperium is that hives are fed on Corpse Starch, but if you resort to cannibalism to stay alive when you have no other choice, you receive summary execution.
@@GardensAndGamesbecause corpse starch is so heavily processed its essentially just nutrients. While eating human flesh , even if cooked will lead to a whole array of diseases and even potential addiction to cannibalism.
As others pointed out, corpsestarch is heavily processed to the point it has been broken down to it's constituent proteins and nutrients, therefore nothing about it is still recognizable as a former human.
The Imperium makes a big difference between eating this distilled product from a public dispenser and eating straight from the source, dead or alive, since the latter is more often than not the product of Chaos or Xeno corruption, rather than desperate measures...
Idk why you gotta take shots at the US Congress like that.
Huh
@@tonypringles2285 woosh
sure pal@@Negan-lo7yr
Master chief. You mind telling me what you're doing in the year 40k?
"Sir, I am fighting these space bugs."
“sir, shredding these nurglings”
If Doomguy have the buff against Demons, i want Master Chief have buff when against xeno scum.
Honestly, it’d be a great trade if it weren’t for the “mindless” part. Warped and insane, but still coherent? I wouldn’t bat an eye at that. A slobbering animal? That’d be the dealbreaker.
Wish we got the ghoul stars explained more in novels
"Halo theme starts playing"becuse I'm a dumbass and I heard Halo
Same
I get mad every time, when i want to hear the Halo main theme and then comes the song from Beyoncé.
You are not alone. Anyways, (clears throat and steps up to microphone) To all halo fans within this comment section, rally to this thread immediately. We will rise once more to reclaim the rings and begin the Great Journey.This isn't over.
@leonelimalevu7302 great journey mentioned
ON THE BLOOD OF OUR FATHERS ON THE BLOOD OF OUR SONS
HOORAH
This would be the one instance where a genestealer cult would be a good thing
I mean in some cases( 1 of 1000) there is success with these devices. But with genestealer cult is always no win situation, especially in long terms. Also the cult is sometimes planetary or even solar system level of treat.
no thats false.@@vencislavgynev8282
Meanwhile regular people eating corpse starch every day:
For most worlds and armies, corpsestarch is only used in periods of famine. Think Soylent Green when the hive world burns its last ocean away when it was at first a civilized world that could feed itself
I wish they put this in some novels and not just the rpg
Damn, I thought they were supposed to kill the flood....
The Imperium issued coffee cup is a nice touch.
Sir, what are you doing?
Sir, fi- wait why are there vampires here?
The weird part is we have NO IDEA what these things actually are; they're xeno in origin, so it's been theorized that they have the effects they have because they're juuuust compatible enough with human biology to sort of kind of work, but even that's not for sure. The only things we know for certain are that whatever foul xenos built them once lived in the Halo Stars, and that there's no going back once you start using it.
I think they start replacing the noble's DNA with Xeno's DNA and they slowly turn into monsters over it's use.
Their end transformation kind of looks like a Necromorph if you ask me…
Brethren Moons perhaps? (Let’s face it, you could insert so many different sci-fi universes into 40K and it wouldn’t be completely implausible for them to have existed somewhere in the galaxy at some point. Maybe not exactly as they are, but some modifications and it’s certainly possible (pre-Age of Strife of course))
Or it isn't compatible with Human DNA, and they're supposed to have a different effect.
Well the Necrons are rife in the halo stars so I’m guessing it’s a bio transference device, as this type of body morphing tech is right up their street.
@@Docktavion
That doesn’t make any sense though; bio transference devices were large machines that ripped the essence from a biological being (destroying the body in the process) and placed it into a body of necrodermis, the soul being devoured by the C’tan.
If anything, it’s more likely to be something the Old Ones cooked up during the War in Heaven, or even used themselves before the Necrons even left their home planet, since biology is kind of their shtick (Eldar, Krorks, and possibly the Rangdan and Hrud, as well as anything and everything they could’ve thought up to battle the Necrons and their Gods (somebody even presented the possibility to me that the Tyranids might have even been Old One creations)).
And here i thought this was gonna be about life annihilating rings
Somewhere somehow in the galaxy a boy was abused by some noble and 500 years later that same boy now one of The Emperors Angels comes back and kills that same noble now a Slaneesh cultist.
Yo, remember me bitch? 500 years ago you force me to wipe your ass with my mount. I has vowed to not rest until I made you suffered the same fate. You should scream by now because our chapter asswipe servitor be destroyed in previous battle with all shit you summoned and I need a huge dump after wake up.
Actually halo devices have nothing to do with slaneesh or other Chaos god or the Chaos itself.
@@vencislavgynev8282 My battle brother, I never said they were. Swap out Slaneesh cultist for any other type of threat that would warrant the deployment of space marines. The halo device would be how that noble lived for so long.
The fact that you can FIND a device that presumably grants immortality should give fodder for thought.
Umm do we call the Master Chief to destroy them???
I find the Halo Devices fascinating, in the same way one would an incredibly dangerous SCP. One thing I like about them, is that one of the known Halo Devices is called the "Psycharus Worm", and is described as "Appearing like a tarnished brass maggot some six inches in length, the worm is cold and greasy to the touch". I love that, because to me that description makes it sound so insidious and like an eldritch artifact.
Isn’t there like a 1 in 10 chance that you get immortality from it without the side effects
Yeah, it might be lower.
Yeah I believe that's why these nobles and government officials use them at all, because they think they're just built different, which fits with the arrogance they probably have.
One in a thousand more like, but yeah
No. Thats a BS rumor started on some forums that just will not die.
1 in a 1000
The more interesting part about them is that its not even guaranteed that they'll do that, there's a 10% chance that they just keep the immortality while not doing the cannibalistic monster thing, which is why their use is common enough to be of note.
How do people still believe this made up crap?
No that's not a thing, it never has been a thing. You are just spreading crap.
not me thinking that this would be a crossover episode of Warhammer and Halo CE
well this was perfect
exactly what i needed from the algorithm before going to sleep
One of my homebrew chapters maintains a constant vigil over the halo stars. So I must now right a short story of them facing one of these devices
Thought he was talking about the forerunners from halo
An immortal devolved planetary governor that ate the population of his entire planet
One rich guy who just eats corpse starch “y’all eating people? Bit messed up in’it?”
Another paragon of my father's failure, no matter how hard they try, mortals always seek to replicate what I have discovered through my faith.
Took me a second to realize that you weren't talking about halo rings
And that's where Inquisution has the job to do.
*When you first saw the Halo device, were you blinded by its majesty?*
Oooh, this suddenly makes a lot of sense after encountering one of these Nobles in the Rogue Trader game.
One of the most fun devices I've used in Dark Heresy.
And then 343 sues Games Workshop for using the name”Halo”
Is it True? Btw sue Beyonce as well😅
Oh shit, we have that in America. We just call them politicians
Conservative spotted
@@tonypringles2285 Why is wanting your politicians to not be decrepit walking corpses a partisan issue to you? Because I can assure you it isn't to us.
i thought you were one of the people who think our politicians eat children@@000tragicsolitude4
@@000tragicsolitude4apparently not wanting to pick between two barely functional skinbags is a conservative opinion…
@@tonypringles2285buddy, conservatives aren’t the only ones who agree that our politicians are shit.
I mean.... lots of dead bodies when the emperor has had his souls, corpse stach exist, left over from the tech priests and criminals
This sounds super bad until you remember most hive cities eat corpse starch.
Good thing there's a lot of corpse starch
No matter the franchise, Halos are scary things.
There is also a chance a it doesn't effect you and only grants immortality (the only reason you use one)
And why the nobility are willing to play roulette with the halo devices
@@jakehearn432 because they are scared to die, and that could grant free immortality
@@icecoldmagicI mean seeing the alternative (being consumed by the chaos gods upon your death) one could make a valid argument that turning oneself into a xeno might still be the better choice...
Not only immortality. Your body becomes immune to all diseases and toxins. Some theories also suggest, that warp can't control you of effect you, but if only the device didn't transform you in abomination. 😂
How do people still believe this made up crap?
No that's not a thing, it never has been a thing. You are just spreading crap.
Imagine a halo device implanted into something like a primaris marines or a custodies
Probably wouldn't work. The Halo Devices aren't seemingly intended to make people into monsters, it's just that human physiology is close enough to allow it to work, but not close enough to have it work perfectly for most people. There's a slim chance you won't become a giant cannibal rags monster, but this is quite rare, and clearly the device is doing something different between these two.
Anyway, my point was that they probably wouldn't work on Astartes or especially Custodes, because their physiology is too different from baseline human.
How do people still believe this made up crap? They always turn you into a monster.
No that's not a thing, it never has been a thing. You are just spreading crap.@@AveSicarius
When someone says halo I think master chief
Pretty terrifying, but I'd still take becoming a mindless abomination over the usual death-scenario of having my soul thrown into the warp to be torn to shreds by hungry daemons.
As an Australian once said
"That hasn't stopped the inquisition from throwing them into suns"
Literally sounds like who controls Earth today
Yeah, I don't want that. Get that thing away from me far away from me.
I just love the darkest dungeon blood plague art that was shown in the middle of it could be coincidence but I truly think that one of the things was based on the darkest dungeon dlc enemy
If that ain't symbolic of the corruptions of wealth and power, I don't know what is.
Instructions unclear. I've activated the device and instead of giving me great power, it has erased me and every other species from existence except for this weird sentient fungus. I believe I used the wrong Halo device.
We had one of these Halo devices in our Wrath and Glory 40k game. It was absolutely terrifying
Jesus this imagery
Ah so they just become apostles.
Imagine doing this, but getting cybernetic implants to replace a lot of your brain, so you can stay sane and resist the urges. As long as you don't mind a little body horror, it'll be great!
But why would I be lookin at that when I could be lookin at Haloooo?
Took me a sec to realize this was warhammer and not a certain fps.
What fps?
@@tonypringles2285 Halo lol
I thought the Halo devices was meant to be fired to starve the Tyranids, by destroying all biomass in the galaxy, thus defeating them 😊
Damn, so that's how the people of WH40K know about Dracula.
So it's just Congress drinking chrome.
Ayo, someone call the Mamster Cheimf
Damn so that’s what’s going on with the countess from the Darkest dungeon courtyard DLC?
relatively 100 years is pretty short
Omg that's what it was???! Came across this in Roguetrader but had no idea
For a second there I thought you meant the Halo Rings lol
Don't forget. There is like a 1% (Maybe 10% I forget) chance that you get no negative affects
In 40k, eat the rich, before they eat you
This seems to be inspired by that one movie of the golden scarab that ataches to the hand of a dude.
Art mimics reality
How so?
Fun fact there’s a chance (small one if I remember correctly) that it grants immortality without the flaw as long as they have the device, not atomized, etc..
Not all Halo users want to eat people, the effects vary greatly.
Cant they just eat. Corpse starch like everybody else?
Give new meaning to "let's order chinese"
This hits a whole lot less when you remember the Imperium recycles dead bodies into spam and we also feed the emperor a thousand babies a day to keep him alive. Literally the only problem with this is the mental decay. Otherwise they'd be encouraging people to use them.
And there are somr inquisitors who want to use one on the emperor.
I thought they gained an alien intelligence that gives them memories abd thoughts that aren't their own
This feels more like fantasy than Sci Fi.
Starting to think humans might be the bad guys in this universe.
The Didact: Speaking of Halo's...
The rogue trader game have this item , and once it equip, it cant unequip. That noble npc you need to defeat is like super zombie.
Hold up couldn’t they just eat corpse starch and be satiated
A few of those photos are actually enemies from Darkest Dungeon afflicted with the Crimson Curse. Fun DLC, its a vampirism plague but instead of bats they mutate into hyrids of ticks, fleas, and mosquitos