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  • Опубліковано 17 лип 2024
  • Today we explore the main location of Warhammer 40K: Darktide. The Hive Cities. Exploring their purpose and the different areas within them.
    This is the lore behind the hive cities of Warhammer 40K.
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    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introduction
    2:02 - Origins & Purpose
    5:58 - Spires
    8:00 - Upper Hive
    9:27 - Lower Hive
    12:07 - Under Hive
    17:26 - Summary
    19:35 - Thanks For Watching
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  • @WiseFish
    @WiseFish  Рік тому +69

    Hope you all enjoyed this look into the Warhammer 40K universe. I tried to research this as much as possible but if I got something wrong let me know! Cheers again guys.

    • @GusOfTheDorks
      @GusOfTheDorks Рік тому +8

      I think you got the spires wrong. Made it sound very idealistic. Its not. For instance you dont get free power. And you dont get assigned there or assigned living space. It tends to be that everything there is as expensive as can be. It also just so happens to be that everyone who lives there is loaded with money beyond belief. That or have the authority to kill everyone on planet if they happen to feel the urge to. Also the bits about power usage are kinda odd? The use of power in the lower parts of the hive are going to be less about energy costs, and more about not understanding technology and not being able to get a tech priest to give you the machines you need. I mean dont forget, even something as simple as a wall switch to turn on a room light is going to require religous ritual to create and install.

    • @GusOfTheDorks
      @GusOfTheDorks Рік тому +5

      Also the excursions into the under hive by local PDF forces typically arent attempts ate bringing law and order. Sometimes they are. But sometime its for training, to give PDF forces combat experience and keep them sharp. The clearing out of criminal elements is just kind of a bonus.

    • @GM_LEONG
      @GM_LEONG Рік тому +1

      You know it’s going to be a good day when WiseFish drops a new lore video

    • @nikik5567
      @nikik5567 Рік тому +1

      I will say, I’m fairly certain that give cities were the invention of the imperium, as every dark age settlement I find in reading the novels does not resemble a hive city in any way shape or form. As for the electricity thing, the spires aren’t free, the people living there are just so rich that cost is a non issue. And in the lower give they have electricity, it’s just a matter of if it stays working. Their tech is very old and run down, and with not tech priests to repair it light can get kinda scarce.

    • @GusOfTheDorks
      @GusOfTheDorks Рік тому +1

      @@nikik5567 Well, the problem is that there is no real canonical origin to most hives. Thing is, some hives do originate from and before the dark age. You also have to keep in mind that the dark ages spanned a couple of thousand years, so it is possible for a dsrk age settlement to start out as a small town and then end up as a massive hive some 3000 years later.

  • @nikolapetrovic4814
    @nikolapetrovic4814 Рік тому +169

    They are not really poorly made. They are very uncomfortable and lack amenities but they are also very reliable and durable. They can last for thousands of years with some basic maintenance.
    They can withstand ground quakes and planetary bombardment.
    The construction itself is very solid it's just everything else that sucks.

    • @matthewanderson9754
      @matthewanderson9754 Рік тому +19

      Which is exactly what they need, no sense in making pretty and comfy if it will be destroyed right away.

    • @Tuberuser187
      @Tuberuser187 Рік тому +15

      Not always, they have "Hive Quakes" where instability in the structure itself causes a phenomena thats closer to seismic events than structural collapse, whole sections, including spires can topple. The only reason they can resist orbital strikes is the immense void shields, far stronger than even many warships have. Some hives do have armoured exteriors but this is often for protection from the environment, storms of caustic chemicals or razor sharp dust - or both in windspeeds that are closer to tornados but in storms larger than hurricanes.
      That armour can protect them from tactical strikes from orbit but wouldn't last long under a strategic bombardment. Those weapons can break up a planets crust, even without specialised Exterminatus weapons like Cyclonic Torpedoes, only void shields provide any measure of protection from that.

  • @jeankirchstein2552
    @jeankirchstein2552 Рік тому +105

    And thus began wisefish maddening decent into becoming an exclusively 40k lore channel

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 Рік тому +37

    I don’t like living in cities of the Imperium. they give me hives.

  • @mrsgaap1
    @mrsgaap1 Рік тому +17

    “Those trapped at the bottom rarely pray for an end to the system. They just dream of being the one cracking the whip.”

  • @thomasholden3323
    @thomasholden3323 Рік тому +93

    If you think hive city's are bad, try a forge world that now that's a bleak existence.

    • @nikik5567
      @nikik5567 Рік тому +12

      Dear god, I don’t think I could ever live on a forge world. Or a death world for that matter. Yeah hiveworlds aren’t that bad compared to some of the places mankind lives in 40k

    • @XSilver_WaterX
      @XSilver_WaterX Рік тому +1

      Chaos forge worlds actually make elite necron troops hesitate on their battle plans as the Dark Mechanicus has literally managed to demoralize true ai enemies, something necrons are purely based on during their soul transfer as next to all necrons have NO soul!

    • @bullpupgaming708
      @bullpupgaming708 Рік тому +1

      I just think of Kreig and what it must be like to live there and I genuinely shudder

    • @detroitbecomesurvivaltrain7813
      @detroitbecomesurvivaltrain7813 Рік тому +3

      @@bullpupgaming708 krieg aint that bad, mad orgies to breed new soldiers and vacations to vraks!

    • @somerandommen
      @somerandommen Рік тому +1

      ​@Detroit: become survival training Sadly, no. It's confirmed everyone from Kreig is a clone of a guy named Hanz who died 5,000 years ago...

  • @dariustiapula
    @dariustiapula Рік тому +134

    Eldar, Tau, and other intelligent races would be disgusted and horrified at the living conditions of hive cities. But hive cities is where the Imperium grow their armies.

    • @GusOfTheDorks
      @GusOfTheDorks Рік тому +15

      Eldar, Tau, and other intelligent races would be disgusted at most of the thing we do and have a bad habit of eating us.

    • @degeneratepervert6255
      @degeneratepervert6255 Рік тому

      Nobody cares what xeno trash think. An inquisitor re-education squad is en-route to your location, heretic.

    • @davidfrancisco3502
      @davidfrancisco3502 Рік тому +1

      @@GusOfTheDorks Cannibalism in the Imperium isn't any taboo or crime is a basic mean Of survival.

    • @GusOfTheDorks
      @GusOfTheDorks Рік тому

      @@davidfrancisco3502 It is a crime. You do have to kill someone in order to eat them meaning you have commited murder. Plus cannibalism is right next door to some chaos stuff so law enforcement tries to crack down on that. Now, does it happen in lawless areas and do people get away with it? Sure all the time.

    • @davidfrancisco3502
      @davidfrancisco3502 Рік тому

      @@GusOfTheDorks The main food source for the inhabitants Of the low hives and underhives is something called 'corpse starch'. It's a gruel made Of recycled organic matter from all kinds especially processed human dead bodies.

  • @77chance
    @77chance Рік тому +24

    11:50 WiseFish was really lucky to be on a mission with one of the greatest heros! I heard that he once encountered a noise marine and was asked to keep it down.

  • @matthewanderson9754
    @matthewanderson9754 Рік тому +17

    Man, I love the universe of 40k, it's so insane, like there's no limit to the insanity that occurs in 40k lol

  • @foogrot
    @foogrot Рік тому +16

    I'm so stoked that you are doing videos on WH40k. I listen to your videos as I paint Minitures and now you're doing lore videos on that sybject I enjoy the most. Thank you for your efforts and this video was great it did not seem like you are new and your research has not gone unnoticed.

  • @akramgimmini8165
    @akramgimmini8165 Рік тому +18

    Now that you've entered the Warhammer 40k Warphole you can't esquape!
    Awesome video as always 👌

  • @gr8tbigtreehugger
    @gr8tbigtreehugger Рік тому +15

    Very awesome! Love W40K! Many thanks!

  • @Warrior-Of-Virtue
    @Warrior-Of-Virtue Рік тому +5

    It's worth noting that Astartes Chapters regularly recruit from Under Hives which is one Hell of a rags to riches story. You go from being at the literal bottom of society to being outright worshipped by most Imperial citizens.

  • @christiansamuelstadeus
    @christiansamuelstadeus Рік тому +9

    Warhammer Content. Awesome...just awesome

  • @samuel10125
    @samuel10125 Рік тому +5

    It's a daunting universe but I hope you do more WH40K lore. A good example is Armageddon its an industrial Hive World dedicated to pumping out armoured fighting vehicles from Chimera IFV to Heavy Tanks like Baneblades also their own Imperial Guard Regiment the Armageddon Steel Legion the atmosphere is so toxic they have to wear gass masks hell there's an area so toxic you can step foot in it unless your in an armoured vehicle and there's also the fact Armageddon is host to numerous volcano so many that when they erupt its called the Season of Fire.
    I'd rather be a Guardsman

  • @GlitterGothBunny
    @GlitterGothBunny Рік тому +3

    Love your videos! Most of these games I don't play but it's interesting and fun listening to your lore videos even when I have no idea what a games about. Keep up the great work 💜

  • @SirFleetingFury
    @SirFleetingFury Рік тому +2

    Love that you’re getting into 40k content as well. Keep up the high quality work! 👍🏻

  • @rayvendes7427
    @rayvendes7427 Рік тому +1

    Great analysis as always. Thank you for your content, WiseFish.

  • @steinhaynes4179
    @steinhaynes4179 Рік тому +2

    I subscribed to your channel a wile ago and IV been waiting for 40k content the hole time best Syfy genre around

  • @Hammer_Of_Olympia
    @Hammer_Of_Olympia Рік тому +3

    Great video, especially given it’s a 40k one so I know lore can be pretty hard to articulate / get right!

  • @connorshort2308
    @connorshort2308 Рік тому +4

    Loved this video I would love to see more about Warhammer 40k lore

  • @shillslayer7767
    @shillslayer7767 Рік тому

    Such an amazing concept, hands down one of my favorite vids besides the metro series

  • @Mic936
    @Mic936 Рік тому +2

    I have been seeing this game in my suggestions never heard of it before glad ur exploring the story

  • @racspartan1
    @racspartan1 Рік тому

    Awesome Video. 👍 Quick and Simple Explanation of the Hive Cities.

  • @topcat59
    @topcat59 Рік тому +4

    Great vid bro.😺

  • @GusOfTheDorks
    @GusOfTheDorks Рік тому +4

    This is.........close enough. Its got some stuff thats wrong, but like, as an intro to the subject gets the broad strokes right.

    • @WiseFish
      @WiseFish  Рік тому +2

      What did I get wrong?

    • @GusOfTheDorks
      @GusOfTheDorks Рік тому +2

      @@WiseFish Well, Ive been posting a few of the specific things in your pinned comment where I go into detail on what exactly. So you can look there for exacts. I think the big over arching problem would be that you tried to draw concrete conclusions on a topic that tends to be pretty fluid. There are literally hundreds of thousands of hive cities in 40K, which makes definite statements kinda.....not effective. I think the only things you could really say about all hives is that they're giant, have tons of folks, and rich people tend to live on top. Aside from that taking specific looks at indavidual hives is a little better for getting the flavor of what they really are.

  • @darklordmalthric3633
    @darklordmalthric3633 Рік тому +4

    You should cover the Exosquad

  • @kamalalsb7292
    @kamalalsb7292 Рік тому +2

    40K is hilarious cuz the Imperium are like "EVERYONE'S OUT TO GET US! :C" and then the Imperium is doing shit like this, everywhere, all the time, and it's like ...Yeah they should be???

  • @modernhaze3
    @modernhaze3 Рік тому +2

    Do all the primarchs each one has to be plus 2 hours or so

  • @pscalpha1765
    @pscalpha1765 7 місяців тому

    money mattering when the galaxy is literally a living nightmare is crazy

  • @ZINGERCRUNCHBURGER
    @ZINGERCRUNCHBURGER 8 місяців тому +1

    I would definitely love to live in the underhive

  • @jaxprismite6672
    @jaxprismite6672 8 місяців тому

    Imagine how horrified the Tau would be

  • @waltermartinez9110
    @waltermartinez9110 Рік тому +1

    So let me rate this Hive Cities
    Spires: Useless
    Upper Hive: Useful
    Lower Hive: Really Useful
    Hell: Useless and fuckin risky

  • @damirbabic7403
    @damirbabic7403 Рік тому

    What a great video thanks friend The best dark fantasy sci fi universe i played dawn of war 1&2 i say: long live the empire of man

  • @fanta4897
    @fanta4897 Рік тому +1

    Hopefully you'll do more WH40k videos.

  • @cyberleaderandy1
    @cyberleaderandy1 6 місяців тому

    Makes you realise that being an ex prisoner soldier of the Inquisition, in Darktide, aint that bad.

  • @revanknight2927
    @revanknight2927 Рік тому

    When are you going to make a dedicated "Old World Blues" video for fallout new vegas?

  • @Gimorian401
    @Gimorian401 Рік тому +3

    Welcome to Warhammer lore where there are no good guys and research is pretty hard

  • @darthspliffius7772
    @darthspliffius7772 7 місяців тому

    10:25 bold jada smith

  • @a-youtube-rat
    @a-youtube-rat Місяць тому

    You're telling me there's no cinema or youtube in the year 42k

  • @callanbarclay1248
    @callanbarclay1248 Рік тому

    WiseFish is a loyal servant of the emperor

  • @Bowen_Landry
    @Bowen_Landry Рік тому +5

    I am not a fan of Warhammer. But I do love your lore videos. Great job.

  • @thecommissar4461
    @thecommissar4461 6 місяців тому

    Can't believe my character Havelock appeared in the video footage

  • @byron1723
    @byron1723 8 місяців тому

    More warhammer please!

  • @JeanLucCaptain
    @JeanLucCaptain Рік тому +1

    thinks hive cities are bad THEN finds out about forgeworlds and servitors.

  • @dot2562
    @dot2562 4 місяці тому

    ah the 15TH milinium chesea at last win a final😅🎉

  • @dot2562
    @dot2562 4 місяці тому

    to short .longer video please😮😅😂🎉❤

  • @richardhooper9527
    @richardhooper9527 Рік тому

    I would choose the imperial guard any day!

  • @user-fi5hc9um6q
    @user-fi5hc9um6q 11 місяців тому

    why did i just play with someone named celeste and haveloch ?? my name was AGENTEN

  • @armchairphilosopher6880
    @armchairphilosopher6880 Рік тому

    Rather live in a hive or fight on the frontline?
    Id rather kms

  • @sebulller
    @sebulller Рік тому

    I rather try to become a space marine insted

  • @phantomhurricane666
    @phantomhurricane666 Рік тому +2

    BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!! HAIL KHORNE!!

  • @Luckmann
    @Luckmann Рік тому

    Not all hives in WH40k are like this. Nu40k was a mistake.

  • @fredgt45
    @fredgt45 Рік тому

    Big shout out to will smith

  • @kevingonzales5149
    @kevingonzales5149 Рік тому

    Did he say 100 billion people, this lore is flawed. We barely have 8 billion on Earth right now.

    • @MrSwccguy
      @MrSwccguy Рік тому +3

      Then you don't know the lore then.

    • @somerandommen
      @somerandommen Рік тому +2

      Wow... it's like the lore takes place in the 42nd millennium! You know? 39,000 years from now?

  • @seanferrell9244
    @seanferrell9244 Рік тому +1

    You got a crazy amount of info factually incorrect.

  • @RW-ij1ci
    @RW-ij1ci 2 місяці тому

    This is so ripe for a 40k Souls like game....
    Political prisoner, banished to the under hive....

  • @PyramidHACK
    @PyramidHACK Рік тому

    Thanks for this. Really unfo5rtunate you can't learn about any of this in-game.