_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!
That's one thing ive never understood. If ships from any other race is exposed to the warp then they are INSTANTLY possessed, torn apart, driven to insanity or otherwise neutralized. How is it that the orks can just treat a Gellar field failure like any other fight?
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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”😂
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.
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.
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.
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.
My first ever game in the 40k universe was on a Space Hulk. My local game store had on Saturdays a program for getting new people in to tabletop games. They would run one game from like 10-12 then a different game 1-3. We had 10-12 people running a squad or two of infantry and the shop had set up a table with paper and felt rooms and corridors all over. Each person was give a different starting point and draw a card with their secret mission on it. Some missions like go to X room for X # of turns, kill X player's team, and stuff like that. I had two 5 man squads of Space Marines with one missile launcher and a combi-flamer(between this and Aliens I love combi-flamers to this day). But the highlight of the game is when someone threw a Vortex grenade and on a following turn it went though two walls and a corridor that did bad things to someone unit. After that all movement for the next few turns was planned around it.
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.
"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 ?
Honestly, this was one of my most favorite videos you have made yet, It might have something to do with the dark and curious nature of spakcehulks, but either way very good video :)
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.
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
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
returning to this 3 years later i find it as fascinating as ever, glad i benched through your entire channel so far. Hopefully there will be a followup on this eventually....preferably before the heat death of the universe.
Apparently Ork's emit their own natural Gellar fields through their collective psychic energies. Perhaps the odd daemon can still occasionally get through to keep them happy. They would be getting too much of a good thing otherwise no-one would normally survive that.
I like to think that the Morris Thule is truly just random, because Tzeentch wants to force you to try and figure it out, despite there truly being no pattern. There’s more than one way to whisper madness in 40k, but I do wonder if that Badaab space hulk had a Whisperer ship from that race from Astartes crammed into it. Unlikely given that the clashing copyrights make their canonicity dubious.
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
Welcome to space crusade! I still remember that brutal voice as the game loaded on my amiga 600. Was fun to play with friends too, although it usually ended up in a brawl/survival deathmatch instead of cooperation. Ultras, B-angels and Fists i think were the player options and the aliens were Soul Suckers, android, goblin and whatnot they called them. It was my favourite when I was a kid.
...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,
_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.*
Necron: Target practice
You forgot Mechanicus: MINEMINEMINEMINE
Dark/Imperial Mechanicus: Flea Market but it's a battle royale
Daemons: Oh, the bus is here.
Dark Eldar: Can we torture it? No? Is something to torture in it? No? Okay, worthless!
Warp entities invading spacehulks? The orks call it "in-flight entertainment"
*Ding* "BOYZ, DIS YER KAP'N TOLKIN! SNAKKZ AN ENTATAINMENT IZ BROUGHT TO YOU BY DOSE FLESHY GITS TELEPORTIN' IN. NOW GET KRUMPIN!"
@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!
Looks like deamons are back on da menu boyz
Welcome to our flight to Armageddon. Enjoy our special offer of duty-free dakka and demonic incoursion.
That's one thing ive never understood. If ships from any other race is exposed to the warp then they are INSTANTLY possessed, torn apart, driven to insanity or otherwise neutralized. How is it that the orks can just treat a Gellar field failure like any other fight?
"So how many guns and engines do you want on this space hulk?"
"Yes."
There are 30 already on it
Put another 12 randomly so we can do a barrel roll
@@donwebber9071 Ork (Slaps roof of space hulk) Yous Grots can fit so much engines and dakka in 'ere!
@@CommisarHood MORE DAKKKAA
"As many as want to"
@@donwebber9071 WWWWWWAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!
Demons, after spotting a space hulk full of souls: "It's free real estate."
The orks inside said space hulk: "VIBE CHECK"
Tuscas Day out
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.
Mhhhh Orks .... Not something like? ... WAAAAAAAAGGHHHHHHH!!!!
@@NetMoverSitan tuska is one of the few fates in Warhammer 40k that got a happy ending
@@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.
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Have you ever seen it?
The greater good is a real psychic entity. so why would the omnissiah not exist?
Everything not marked for Exterminatus will always turn to bite your ass sooner or later...
Isn't your omnissiah a void dragon? Love zenos much hmm?
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.
Nah it's warp magic but once it's warped it just lingers kinda like how chaos marines that get "blessings" can use those outside the warp
The Warp defies the laws of physics just like the Orks, it just takes longer and/or the direct intervention of a Chaos God.
@@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.
"It's borking at me"
Well there's the next shirt
"It's boring at me and I don't like it"
The ship form the film "Event Horizon". The original Space Hulk.
Liberate Tutemet Ex Inferis
@Sichael Mender Facts...
I think it can be argued it's an unofficial prequel to 40k
@@KS-PNW it is
The "Occurrence Border" from TAGP makes more sense now. XD
"Smashed together" I believe the term you're looking for is vibration welding
The correct term is friction welding.
Ackshually
@@seagullsays5831 no no no
You forgot something
*smacks lips* Ackshually
how does that work?
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..
@OMGitsAzreal it was a dude, looked like 331 Erock. Although there was a tidy nurse on ward who joined in
@@scrubsrc4084 I'll pretend I didn't see that and instead imagine it was a qt
"Whats on a space hulk?"
Me: Orkz. Lots and lots of orkz. On the best of days. *laghs in gorkamorka*
Space hulk's are just the amalgamations of kids playing with Legos and putting their collections together.
more like what happens when you try to assemble all your Battlefleet Gothic minis at once, while drunk, and are rather careless with the glue.
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.
That would be the one Space Hulk the Mechanicus would want to blow up rather than salvage.
@@robertnelson9599 don't break my heart by telling me the truth
All of those things (except the time machine) is in the book "Death of Integrity" by Guy Haley, have a good read :)
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.
The AI also taunted the tech priest and became deeply depressed that humanity turned into a bunch of zealots
Ah, Space Crusade, my first venture into 40K after Heroquest introduced me to GW. Goddamnit I feel old now.
Haha be glad you were a part of it. I know how you feel.😎
@@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.
@@Will831100 Advanced Space Crusade was amazingly good imo. It was all about taking down a tyranid ship from the inside
Ultramarine: "Hey - wanna see my Space Hulk impression?"
*teleports without homing beacon and ends up half way through deck*
Arch Lore video - ok , friday is perfect.
I don't call it Friday I call it loreday
@@trooperofman727 pardon my lack of knowledge :)
Movie night is usually on a Sunday evening, but as of right now, it has been extended.
Agreed, just made my day
Space hulk goes through the warp
Deamon: it's a free real estate
Ork: I'm about to end this man's whole career
Tyranid: nom
@@rebeccaconlon9743 Deamons would be the "fat-free" option, as they aren't even made out of real stuff
@@anangrymarine9174 was on about the orks, but you are right, deamons would be more than fat free lol
@@rebeccaconlon9743 "Diet Korn-Flakes"
@@anangrymarine9174 lol, yeah
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.
This looks like a job for blood angel terminators!
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.
@@commanderbastard1993 I like termites of all chapters.
but We were in space hulk first before the little fallen hunters
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.
Morty Jhones survivors*
Space Hulks in an nutshell
EVERYTHING ELSE: *SCREAMING*
Orks, Tyranids and Daemons: *moaning*
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Necrons: Hmmm… interesting 🧐
Ork Warboss: Da humiz aint gona no wha hit em
*crashes space hulk into a planet*
*Planet become part of the space hulk
*wheezing*
"Back in my day we'd only find those pesky Tyranids on space hulks. We need to build a wall around the galaxy."
And make the Necrons pay for it!
tyranid lives matter REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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.
"Red truck run faster" - this mean any micro-transaction for orks should boost stats, even cosmetic? :D
That would depend what color the cosmetic is, and even then different colors affect different stats. But yes.
"I have made a multi-part lore series with custom art and diagrams just to show how wrong Von Straab was." - What Arch meant.
As Arch has said: "There's always more room for Dakka."
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.
So basically a space hulk is like the Tate mordern, maddening as to how it exists and filled with junk?
It's also incredibly ugly from the outside and needs to be reduced to rubble. So yes very similar.
Another beings trash, another's treasure..
Based
Can anyone tell me if there has even been a case of a Space Hulk dumped in your system that didn't go horrible wrong?
No, never. Something ALWAYS Goes Wrong.
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.
Not always if you ask Herman von Strab
The phalanx’s discovery and repair was pretty peaceful though could’ve been cause Dorn is there one shoting everything that moves on it
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.
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....
Thats alot of valuable scrap.
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.
@@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384 that would be fun as well. Plenty of cool options for good games in 40K
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.
"Is that an Augar sensor or an artistic representation of a toilet ?"
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”😂
You know a space hulk is bad, when even an ork mek has gone crazy on it and wants to get off.
Forgot about him.
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.
Ork: SPACE HULK SMASH!
Marvel/Disney: Ahem…
Orks: LAWYER NEED MORE DAKKA!
Marvel/Disney: Can you PLEASE stop krumping our legal team?!
I should like to see Arch do an in-depth video about Rogue Trader, itself.
Necron Lord: *sees space hulk, scoffs at it, insults the lesser organics, ignores it and goes back to hes millennia old business*
The Space Marines at 0:20 are what I imagine Boglin space marines to be
Who else thinks Arch should run a 40k rpg with Sargon and the crew
There was Lurking Hunger, I wonder if there will be a season 3?
"Think" the Inquisition does not ask it decrees, Arch shall run a 40K rpg with Sargon and the crew.
@@VioletDeathRei So it shall be.
@Only Death #BlameKyle. Even when it isn't his fault, it clearly is. :p
@Only Death I believe there is a breed term in there somewhere, lol.
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.
So Bedab was started by an Event Horizon style possessed ship?
Or as the Navy calls it, Wednesday.
the crew doesn't even need eyes
"Sir?! The reactor is growing spikes and leaking red stuff"
@@daviddickson412 "Sorry, I was distracted by a vision of my dead wife."
Never pushed on a notification so fast! Love your lore vids arch!
I took 18 mins :(
Sounds like 40k version of loot boxes with a surprise.
Native inhabitants of the warp brutilized by ork.
Orks da best
and da strongest
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.
I believe that is what the cog boys call a "techgasm".
So essentially, Space Hulks are warp cakes with a suprise, that everyone wants a piece of.
More like a dozen cakes warp fused to each other? ;)
Sarpadon and the story of the soul drinkers remains my utmost favorite story of space marine traitors/deserters
Arch mentions Lamenters.
Everyone else: Oh Emperor...now what!!!
I was asking myself about wtf space hulks even are the other day, it’s like you read my mind
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.
My first ever game in the 40k universe was on a Space Hulk. My local game store had on Saturdays a program for getting new people in to tabletop games. They would run one game from like 10-12 then a different game 1-3.
We had 10-12 people running a squad or two of infantry and the shop had set up a table with paper and felt rooms and corridors all over. Each person was give a different starting point and draw a card with their secret mission on it. Some missions like go to X room for X # of turns, kill X player's team, and stuff like that. I had two 5 man squads of Space Marines with one missile launcher and a combi-flamer(between this and Aliens I love combi-flamers to this day).
But the highlight of the game is when someone threw a Vortex grenade and on a following turn it went though two walls and a corridor that did bad things to someone unit. After that all movement for the next few turns was planned around it.
I think ork gellar fields are supposed to keep the demons in, not out
long live Sarpedon, long live soul drinkers. my favorite chapter in 40k lore
Is there anything more magnificent than a space hulk full of horrible flesh shredding aliens. Please a full video on genestealer cults.
I would love a video game, where you're standed on a mega sized space hulk, and your main mission, is to survive.
That's called Dead Space
Dead Space turned up to 11
Nice timing! I just got finished with a session of Deathwigs with friends.
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.
4 minutes in and your vernacular alone has earned you a new sub. Looking forward to the rest of this with your style.
"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 ?
Arch mentions War for Armageddon... *SIEGE OF VRAKS PTSD*
Feral Orks, Genestealers, Chaos Cults and heresy, oh my!
“Is that a sensor array or is that a artistic interpretation of a toilet?” 🤦🏻♂️😂
"The space hulk itself was possessed by a malevolent entity"? Sounds like one of my favorite sci-fi horror movies, Event Horizon.
Space Hulk also known as ....PARTY BUS!
Any onther species is constantly wary of daemon intrusion, Orks pin it under "welcome distraction on the journey".
And as always, true mastery lies in the big green hands of the orks.
16:18. Favorite Ork saying: you can never have TOO MANY engines on ANYTHING! ;)
I own the 1989 version of Space Hulk. I love this game, so much fun.
Thanks for keeping me entertained during my quarantine. Would have gone insane without your content
Honestly, this was one of my most favorite videos you have made yet, It might have something to do with the dark and curious nature of spakcehulks, but either way very good video :)
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.
So write it yourself if you can. I'd gladly read it.
@@siebensunden man I can't write I can barely read lol. This is why I listen to arch lol
There is leutin09 talks about it in his video about STC and fall of humanity
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.
I dunno how arch makes his lore videos so fast but I appreciate the shit out of it
Hope they write a story of Commissar Caiphus Cain accidentally landing in Space Hulk and then hilarious incidents occurs
An Arch lore video... on a friday... what a way to start my holiday
Can I just say thank you for such a great vid of 26 min without any annoying adds very humble
YT demometization. He would have an ad before every video otherwise and a midroll one for 40min+ videos.
For some reason old videos still have ads.
Friday Arch video and a blunt? Hell yeah
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
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
Great video thanks man , I cannot wait for your next lore Video!
returning to this 3 years later i find it as fascinating as ever, glad i benched through your entire channel so far.
Hopefully there will be a followup on this eventually....preferably before the heat death of the universe.
Thank you so much for making this, I've never laughed so hard at a genuinely informative 40k lore video before!
So now i can say 'I am here in the Elder Days'? the Dark Angel Chapter! Deathwing Company!!
Wow, I feel like you really had fun making this video, fucking loved it!
Apparently Ork's emit their own natural Gellar fields through their collective psychic energies. Perhaps the odd daemon can still occasionally get through to keep them happy. They would be getting too much of a good thing otherwise no-one would normally survive that.
You can tell Arch had fun with this one
is he talking faster? it feels like he's had a bit too much coffee
the man is excited about space hulks
He obviously had an absolute blast with this one
been waiting for this one, Arch, thank you!!
I like to think that the Morris Thule is truly just random, because Tzeentch wants to force you to try and figure it out, despite there truly being no pattern.
There’s more than one way to whisper madness in 40k, but I do wonder if that Badaab space hulk had a Whisperer ship from that race from Astartes crammed into it. Unlikely given that the clashing copyrights make their canonicity dubious.
The Soul Drinkers are awsome. Arch needs to make a full video on them, but you all need to read the books first.
Can a space station be part of a spacehulk? Asking because a RPG idea...
Well if Orks get involved anything you want can be part of it, even the Orks.
@@VioletDeathRei it's about the characters crashing in a "planet" and having to scape, so founding a ship, some crew from other survivors etc.
If you had it sucked into the Warp before then yes....or if the Orks looted it.
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
Welcome to space crusade!
I still remember that brutal voice as the game loaded on my amiga 600. Was fun to play with friends too, although it usually ended up in a brawl/survival deathmatch instead of cooperation.
Ultras, B-angels and Fists i think were the player options and the aliens were Soul Suckers, android, goblin and whatnot they called them. It was my favourite when I was a kid.
My favourite space hulk is the one Capt'n Bluddflagg "borrows" from the blood magpies. He out thieved the chief thieves.
Space hulks are easy to stop, shoot all the active engines on the left side, make it turn in a circle.
I find it difficult to encompass that "absolute madness" of the Orks.
it's hard to explain to someone that isn't in the hobby.
Just tell them they're like British football hooligans that run on loony toons logic.
I'm American.
People dont know what football hooligans are lol.
We have ours I guess... but its just not the same
I had that 1989 Space Hulk board game as a kid. Loved it, especially the general design.
Imagine a blackstone hulk, as in a hulk made of black stone fortress.
...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,
@@dropdead234 Then Orks land on it.
@@MachineMan-mj4gj but they are infected with genestealers
@@PressA2Die The hybrids start worshiping Khorne...
You’re forgetting the Squats that have nested in engineering