Xenobiologis: Genestealers (Warhammer 40,000 Lore)
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Being a record of the tyranid xenoform known as the Genestealer, a wickedly deadly alien threat whose danger goes far beyond their own lethality.
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I have absolutely binged your channel because you are not a "warhammer lore creator" or whatever, you completely commit to the ongoing performance of The Historitor which is *AT LEAST* as interesting as the stuff you're talking about, and that makes things way more interesting to listen to. And now I've said that in a place you can read it. Thank you for the passion you put into our weird little content niche!
Cultist Simulator PFP!
Well spoken
Him and Luetin have provided company on the loneliest of my nights, bless their souls.
Historitor, not Iterator. The latter profession has been extinct for over 10,000 years in-universe.
Well said
Part of me always pictures them as Jeanstealers.
Purloining my precious pantaloons
he who control the pants control the world!xD
the xenos scum is after our JNCOs
I just don't want to be looking for a lictor and find a whoremonegaunt
They hide among a population, slowly subverting them. I know how I picture them.
The women love it when you lictor
Behold, the original Orator. Look upon his works ye lesser AI voice channels and despair.
AI sloppery archeotech heresy will could only dream of imitating him.
Abominable Intelligence indeed.
Omnissiah bless your cogitators and data stacks, servant of the Oculus.
Tomorrow's my wedding, and this is one of the best gifts I could get (especially to lower my nervosity). Thank you, Oculus ❤
Congrats!! And have fun tomorrow! Oculus always helps me relax lol
Whoooo!
To help increase your nervosity, what if, WHAT IF, your significant other, is a genestealer? Or jeanstealer.. one is fun, and the other is just inconvenient. You choose!!!
Oh wow, congratulations on your wedding! I hope it's a wonderful day 😁
may the god emperor smile upon you and your family
“Man these new guys are weird with their smiling four-armed Emperor statues but they are great workers. Never seem to get tired, hungry or complain. And is it just me or do they just keep pumping out kids?”
What is better than a sub-species that can be "othered", sent to the mines, and forgotten about while maintaining high output quotas?
Guy missed his calling. Lost in forgotten data stacks when he should be teaching at the schola progenium.
New video idea? 🤔
You're assuming his recordings aren't assigned showing at the Schola. Picture a group of teenagers bound for the commissariat one day, but today enjoying lunch together while this plays from a small vox remitter.
@@pretzelbomb6105 Possible, you never know. There may be a one eyed youth of ten holding up a fox hailer in just such a cafeteria on Terra it’s the aid of over developed leg muscles. Though I think that kid was officially taken in by Custodese who seem to be allergic to clothes.
At a point in time where I feel like I'm losing my mind and the pressures of my life are steadily mounting, this couldn't have come at a better time. Thank you Occulus.
Totally understand how you feel. I hope things get better for you, friend.
We're with you, brother. Keep moving forward!
Courage and Honour Brother
The Star Children have blessed us this day.
Praise be to the Four-Armed Emperor.
Genestealers are not gonna be having a good time when Skaven Cults start popping up
40k doesn't need Skaven, it already has the Imperium.
You think skavstealers won't be a thing?
@@LexYeen I disagree
Yes-Yes...
"Xenos dirt-filth don't deserve life, but loyal Rat-Men-- I mean abhumans, are most beneficial-good citizens! Yes-yes!
Thank you for your consistency and dedication to your fans. I’m still sober. And still listening to your every word. Ave imperator
Congratulations on the achievement; keep going!
The flesh may be weak, but the Light of the Emperor is strong! Continue forth, battle-brother!
Oculus Imperia's Ever More Lunatic Vocabulary
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Superlative - 3
Exteme(ly) - 4
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Sheer - 3
Utterly - 4 (rapid fire!)
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OH THE CRUSHING COSMIC TERROR OF BEING KNOWN
@@OculusImperia I for one approve of your sesquipedalian loquaciousness.
Jokes aside, a sentence is usually improved by removing adverbs.
It makes me sad that people think that is a complex vocabulary. Read some books people! Language is wonderful
@@criticalcommenter username checks out. Critizing people for no reason and making generalized statements about everyone. 10/10. Would roll eyes again.
Praise be to the Oculus! I've long awaited the next Xenobiology lesson.
Please ensure you keep a close watch on your denim products, especially your trousers.
Your commitment to bringing this lore to life through a powerful command of the vocal arts is, as always, appreciated by all. Much love ❤
1st ed Space Hulk was my very first taste of 40k, and it still puts a smile on my face of better times. Good to see the bugs finally get some proper autopsies.
Warp yeah! New Xenobiologis datastack!
Agent: Inquisitor wake up, A Oculus video just dropped..
Sleepy inquisitor: {Points bolt pistol}
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the higher-ups actually like Oculus and gifted him a servitor that is actually the Inquisitor he met. Lobotomy not included just for fun.
Excellent work Historator.
0% Ai slop
100% Human talent.
Glad you're back!
Your work is incredibly enthralling, my only hang up is quality like yours takes time to make. Thank you for your dedicated effort. Not just the best lore channel, you’re one of my favorite channels on all of UA-cam! Please keep up your work!
Praise the Emperor, a new occulus record.
Dear Adept Oculus. Your videos have been so integral for me for more than 3 years. I can’t thank you enough for the comfort and enlightenment that you have brought me. Many is the night that I’ve sat listening and watching (in many cases re-listening and rewatching) your lectures while I work overtime, enjoy a simple dinner or as I lie in bed waiting for sleep to find me.
My hat goes off to you. I am 28 and the hobby (namely the lore) has been a huge part of my life for 21 years. You really capture the nostalgia and I feel like it’s the 3rd edition era when I listen to you. Thank you.
Quick aside, and I apologise if you have explored this in previous records but I would love to see you expound on the Catachan regiments when the inclination is there for you.
PS, do you think that the Catachan Devil is a vestigial subspecies left behind by a bygone hivefleet?
Salutations,
Daniel
Absolutely here for the next entry to this particular data stack. A recounting of the ways the genestealer cults manifest will prove most illuminating
As somebody who has insomnia, your contents is a godsend the amount of times i autoplay your channel just to get a few hours of blessed sleep. I owe you a bleesed thank you.
Ave Imperator. A most enlightening sermon once again.
Can I just say that your channel and its content its the most unqiue and graceful I have ever come across! Oculus, I have been watching your videos for the last 7 years! I was 17 when I first found you and now I am 24! God time flies but I am always so grateful to have shared it with you brother!
14:58 the guy on the right with the hood is like "day 254, they still have not suspected a thing, soon my infiltration will be completed and I will be able to send my superiors this information."
Oh man, I loved this one. The xenobiologis series is really interesting, glad to see it return.
New Oculus when I've had a few cans and am winding down for the evening? Perfect.
Thank you for your tireless efforts on our behalf ❤
Did you know cockroachs can survive for up to 24 hours after being decapitated? I wonder if genestealers are similar?
Neat idea, my theory is no, as they are directed psychically. Then again I see the idea that some just keep flailing around doing damage.
24 hours without an ed is nuffin for a ork
Seems like most worlds could keep infections under control by making sure that they aren't alien abominations before issuing a birth certificate.
By the way, you need to go to 40k Theories to defend your championship.
That idea wouldn't really work 'on the ground' (so to speak) in the 40K universe. The Imperium's level of control of its member worlds varies from planet to planet, but almost all of those worlds have underclasses, itinerants and fringe groups that are largely ignored by the authorities unless they cause obvious trouble. Birth certificates just aren't a thing for people who live in the more lawless sublevels of the underhives of worlds like Necromunda or in the peripheral wastelands of uncounted planets. The sheer scale and density of the population of many Imperial worlds makes strict control of the populous in the area of administrative compliance with things like censuses and birth and death certificates in day to day life wholly impractical. It is through this 'soft underbelly' that Imperial worlds are often infiltrated, and it is from those marginalised groups that the genetic contamination then spreads through the rest of society, slowly filtering into the more comprehensively surveilled and protected classes only after the cult has resources and influence enough to conceal its presence from even the most stringent examination.
Even if you could somehow force every citizen on an Imperial world to submit all children born for genetic screening, that probably wouldn't work anyway. Any person infected by the Genestealer Kiss exists under the psychic sway of the Genestealer who infected them, a creature that has human like intelligence focussed solely on the successful infiltration of a target world. It would know from its victims' memories that such a system of examination existed, and so would suppress the immediate impulse of those it infects to procreate and would instead bide its time until it had a chance to start infecting, or dominating through its hypnotic psychic powers, those responsible for administering, overseeing and reviewing the tests to new born infants. Once a sufficient number of such officials are under its sway, it would be a simple business to fake or substitute results to create the impression that everything was fine even as the cult continued to insidiously spread unimpeded.
you are mostly right
even if most planets dont actually keep track of births, because the numbers are just too big
thats why old better lore didnt have the first genereation be the most genestealer and then work its way back to being pure human
instead the first generation was almost pure human and work its way to pure genestealer over generations
this allowed the first few generations of very human looking hybrids to get people in those positions that would do the checking, policing, administrating, doctoring, and the midwifing
current lore basically forces them into the underhive in the first generation
and good luck trying to work your way back up from there
making any real infiltration into the powerstructure of a planet or the guard hopeless
another good piece of lore lost by gw not reading their own books
By the great throne and him who sits upon it, there couldn't have been a better time for this missive.
I hope you never stop doing these. Your voice is so unique and pleasing
Most excellent. I caught you on the Jugz podcast. Fantastic all around.
YES! Been waiting for this episode! Absolutely amazing quality as always, Oculus.😁
Several people have said it already, but your work, style and creativity make this channel one of, if not THE best WH lore channels...ever.
Excellent work as always Oculus.
Ah, sychronicity my old friend, just as I start an Imperium Maledictum campaign and need all the 'stealer lore possible, we get the in universe Historitor's explanation. Lovely!
Would you mind creating one giant playlist with all your 40k vids ? I love your detailed playslists, but sometimes I just want to listen to rhe entire bulk
You can go to the startpage of his channel (*home*)
then, scrolling down, in the second category (*videos*)
next to the word 'videos' there is a link to a playlist with all his vids (*Play all*)
Incredible work as always, each release is a celebratory occasion and is treasured for its wealth of knowledge and the consideration given to your character’s place in M42 and the Logos Historia Vertia. A privilege to experience, thank you for your efforts and for sharing it with us!!❤
Ah yes, while we may pity those infected by Genestealers through no fault of their own we must all remember the words of the Inquisition. "Innocence proves nothing."
Amazing and engrossing as always!
There was a few funky ideas. Like a chaos hybrid cult, where the cult patriarch sometimes falls to chaos and takes their cult along.
Orks also beat up anything un-orky. They beat up orks who start to follow chaos too.
I'm just happy this isn't one of those channels with a synth voice, pronouncing the word as "jennastealers." Thank you so much.
My man, your content is just incredible, thank you for the work you put in.
Nice timing as I'm just listening to Ciaphas Cain books.... A+
Ive heard rumors of these kinds of hybrid abominations before, in a dark and sickened corner of the world called..., Innsmouth
Orks shed spores theyr entire life, they just release a large quantity upon death.
YEA F... YEA. You posted again. Nice.
“The concept of a pathogen…”
Nurgle followers: “Aw yeah! Finally it’s our time to shine!”
“Fear & panic that can become just as dangerous as the pathogen itself.”
“Yes! Yes! This guy gets it!”
“In an apocalyptic _ALIEN_ horror”
“… wait, what?”
“A record of the Genestealer.”
*”AW HELL NAW!! 🤬”*
Good to hear a real voice. And great writing too.
Sitting here painting and then there is new ear candy. Thank you sir for the pleasure you bring to us all.
The cult limousine is still the best Warhammer vehicle. It's proper style when an armoured limousine out of a Heavy Metal cover rolls up and a squad of early-generation cultists pile out.
This seems like the perfect place to ask I’ve been thinking about this for a while now.
Seeing as how the warp reflects ideas and emotions and then twists them due to being super hell, and seeing how the Tau auxiliaries created a greater good warp entity. Is there theoretically a critical mass that the Genestealer Cults can reach before they spawn a warp entity? While being connected to and influenced heavily by the hive mind the genestealer cults don’t directly worship the hive mind as they do ideas that either mirror, are analogous to, or reflect the hive mind. The cultists still have souls, Xenos tainted they may be but the Eldar are clear signs that humanity isn’t the only souls capable of spawning warp entities. I feel like everything I know about the warp points towards this but im really open to ideas about this. It’s also probably not a plot hook in a campaign I may or may not be running.
What do you think fellow Scholars?
Seems possible in theory, but most Genestealer cults span only part of a planet. A system at max. I don't think, that's enough belief for a proper warp entity. Furthermore they are all part of a psychic network with their patriarch as the hub. Maybe the belief is siphoned of by the patriarch and this is why it is growing in size and developing psychic powers.
Excellent question. It’s my theory personally that there is purpose the gene cults beyond destabilization of planetary defenses. Faith has a real and tangible impact on psychic phenomena and the warp. Faith in the emperor as a god for example, is why the golden throne hasn’t fully broken down yet. Faith cultivated by a genestealer cult, faith in the so-called “four-armed emperor,” likely empowers the already massive psychic powers of the greater tyranid hive mind. And it has been observed that under the right conditions, tyranids can literally consume souls (the doom of malantai). So by cultivating billions and trillions of believers in the underbelly of imperial society, human souls and their collective faith in the star children enable the growth of the hive mind’s giga-soul just as the ravenous tendrils’ armies enable the physical growth of the swarm by consuming biomass. There is a 3rd player in the spiritual war between chaos and the imperials that may one day consume both sides just as it consumes them in the physical war.
Genestealers... To me, the scariest thing in the Galaxy
Genestealers are very, very creepy, and the loss of self they threaten is a different kind of fear from being shredded into pieces or otherwise killed.
Amazing work as always! But I gotta say... There was a missed opportunity at the end to change your last line for something more in the name of the four armed emperor! In theme for a genestealer video
Gooood, gooood, Every Imperial citizen should be aware of the genestealer danger! thank you once again Occulus!
As one wise man once said: "Flamer Brother, HEAVY flamer".
Another great video of your awesome content! Cant wait for more!
The correct pronunciation is something like: *“Be-‘heee’-moth”* with emphasis on the ‘heee’. Else great video ;)
How many Tyranids did it take to destroy Halxion 4, a significant hive world with robust defenses and a significant orbital presence.
A 100 billion, no a trillion, no 10 trillion, would all be the usual answers, and they would all be wrong. The answer is 1, it took 1 Tyranid to destroy Halxion 4. When asked how such a thing could be possible, you simply need to point at one creature, the genestealer.
Fell asleep listening to the tale of Isstvan 3
Woke up to find a new xenobiologis lecture oh yeaaa
Another outstanding video. Thank you
I miss the Kaijubuttstuff email address😂
Loved this one, any more xenos lore coming soon?
Genestealer video! Let's go!
Remember when they didn't have the tyranids??
Was only for a short time.
The first Tyrands were more like 'The Thing' evolving and changing constantly during it's life cycle.
Then with the first Hive fleet lore they were shaping creatures into bioforms instead of using their genes.
All squigs' ancestors had been Orks modified by Tyranids and saved by other Greenskins.
That's why the first Tayranid army list contained squigs as units
Your librarium is growing steadily, it is like an old vinecellar full of but the finest and most exclusive quality.
So don't mind me moving into this place and getting drunk in the far away corner, just throw me some food from time to time will you?
Excellent video!
Another masterpiece.
Bust out your buzz saws and dirt bikes, comrades! Its time to overthrow our oppressors!
I never knew that genestealer cultist became more indistinguishable the longer they were infected. I assumed that the 2nd and third generations became MORE genestealer like, growing the extra arms etc.
Great intro, as ever!
KEEP PUTTING OUT XENOS VIDEOS YAHHHH
Hey man, good to see a new vid :)
Question-How would a human genestealer cult and an ork "Green Brood" interact with each other? Would they fight, or given the chance, would they work together?
Straight away, Cthulu is that you?
Right off the bat, a blue Astartes helmet.
Another banger video
My apologies, Chronicler, I have mistaken this lecture with one about the vile Xeno strain discovered on the world of Levi, in the Strauss system.
You are brightest light in this darkest future
I see Oculus Imperia, I sooth the machine sprit by clicking the like button. I am a simple man.
Just the best ❤
Very cool!
Thank you 🙏
Ngl bro, your talents are wasted on sending me off to dreamland. Crushed it in the parenting tho.
Glory to the Star Children! Down with the Pretenders!
No! You can't drop this right at bed time!
The David Attenborough of warhammer
Sorry but it’s actually jeanstealers. They go into clothes shops and steal all the jeans.
Like in LA?
GLORY TO THE FOUR-ARMED EMPORER!
Oculus is always appointment viewing.
I always thought the Genestealers generational life cycle should have been reverse. To me it would make more sense. If the first couple of generation could pass for human they would be less likely to be found out.
Those infected by a Genestealer remain entirely human in appearance - it is only their offspring that are hybrids. The Genestealer(s) of a Cult don 't stop infecting people after the first few either, but rather the growing population of the infected find ways to bring more people in to the fold. Genestealers can also psychically dominate victims through hypnotic powers without infecting them, all ensuring that there are plenty of cult members who look human, or are still biologically entirely human, that can conceal those hybrids who are more obviously alien.
When will start selling your own mini? I think we all need an Oculus mini for kill team or Blackstone fortress.
Nice
My glee at finding this today is hard to describe. Bored with other lore channels and disgusted by all the ai pretended.
I wonder, why there has never been a mention of an Ogryn hybrid or even cult.
There's not much mention of the abhuman homeworlds at all. But it's implied there are worlds out there where the entire population are ogryn, space hobbits, cat people, squats etc.
One option in Only War was to make and play an extremely rare full abhuman regiment. They are usually split immediately and doled out as detachments but you could play an entire regiment with thousands upon thousands of massed ogryns with a tiny little baseline human officer corps. Like a group with all ogryn PCs and their pet commissar.
Between you and baldermort I'm quite spoilt for long form 40k content