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Interesting bits from the "Darkness in the Blood" novel by Guy Haley aka the third Dante novel. 

This isn't a summary. I don't do those. This is just me recounting the things that caught my interest in the novel. Here we go! 

-In the intro of the novel, Guy Haley says that GW had it be all hush hush over whether the Primaris Angels can fall into the Black Rage or not. The answer they can but since there are no Black Company Primaris models yet, GW decided to make it vague for the time being. 

-New Blood Angel supplement is coming soon featuring the Blood Primaris connection to the Black Rage. The novel acts as a tie in to it. Guy Haley is happy that his work is influencing the studio material. It’s part of the efforts to make novels and studio stuff be more in line with each other in terms of canon. 

-Novel takes place months after the DoB 

-The Warp was being disturbed to an extreme by the Great Rift. Vortexes of raw emotion are gathering so much energy from the chaos around them that they threatened to develop sentience but ultimately, they fail and collapse into nothing. Stillborn gods dying in the wound of the Warp. 

-Dante is described the greatest hearted of all the marine heroes. But a few lines later, we see him submerged in the “stolen blood of innocents” in his healing coven so whatever, Guy Haley/GW. 

-Warp travel in the Dark Imperium era is danger af. Each moment in the Warp courts disaster. Ships in the Dark Imperium have to do short hops, having nothing to guide them. Not so for the Blood Angel fleet. The Blood Angel fleet follow the spirit of Mephiston in the Warp that's being projected from the Bloodcaller. Mephiston is following Sanguinor who is guiding the Blood Angels through the Warp. This allows the Blood Angels to do long Warp jumps unlike the rest of the imperium north. 

-Warp walking is extremely dangerous. It's dangerous for the body, mind, and soul. Only misguided and foolish sorcerers do it and not without dire consequences. Yet Mephiston does this with ease such is his power. The Warp holds no fear for him. However, each time he Warp walks, he returns to the mortal realm more power than before. A subject of concern to him. What is he becoming? 

-Navigating the Warp in the Dark Imperium is extremely dangerous for Navgators. Where once navigator lives were measured in centuries, now they are measured in voyages. All navigating techniques are useless in the stormy darkness of the north. Previously, one navigator sufficed to guide a ship, now a whole team is needed. During the voyage, a navigator succumbs to the terror and madness. Rather than allow his madness to spread of the Navigator team, the lead navigator activates a kill switch that kills the maddened navigator. The soul of that navigator departs into the Warp where it was swiftly devoured, the lead navigator witnessed it all. 

- Sanguinor as he is guiding the Blood Angel fleet is engaged in fierce battle with a powerful entity in the shape of a dark angel. The crossing of their swords sends shockwaves into the Warp. 

-Sex slaves are apparently a thing in the Imperium. 

-Dante doesn't like his men looking at his naked face. He doesn't want them to see the worn-out tired features of his aged face. He is more comfortable behind the face of his Primarch 

-Kyriss the Perverse makes an appearance in this book. It's manner of entry into reality is gorey af. It rips its way out of a hundreds of feets high living pillar of flesh made from thousands of helpless ship crewmen. 

-Kyriss offers the Dante and Mephiston the same offer given to their Primarch. He reveals that Slaannsh like Khorne covets the Angel's bloodline. They are a bloodline of temptations and artistic excess the perfect champions of Slaanesh. The offer is if Mephiston goes with Kyriss to the Warp to become Slaanesh's champion, then Kyriss would extinguish the Black Rage. When the time comes, the Blood Angels will rule alongside Slaanesh as lords of their own kingdoms. Naturally, this generous offer is refused and battle is joined. 

-After a very intense fight, the Blood Angels managed to kick Kyriss back into the Warp. During the fighting, A black angel manifested behind Mephiston matching his movement and attacking in tandem with him like some kind of JoJo stand. When the fight is over, Mephiston is overwhelmed by his power and gets KO'ed 

-It's revealed that somehow during his ordeal on Armageddon, Mephiston’s geneseed was somehow activated. Rewriting his genes and changing him into something. Body and soul, Mephiston is transforming. 

-Daemons are all over the place. Previously chapters were mind wiped and entire worlds were extermintus'ed for seeing a fraction of the mess that's happening galaxy wide. Secrecy about daemons is becoming very difficult to outright impossible. 

-Guess who is back? The Hivemind. It's not finished with the Blood Angels. While in the Warp, the Hivemind directs its attention to the Blood Angel fleet. So powerful is its presence that it stills the Warp and turn it as calm as a moonlet pond. But the Hivemind is still diminished and healing from the Great Rift shockwave so all it can do is stare. A Bonus thing is that we have confirmation that the Hivemind is a Warp entity. Something akin to an alien Warp god. 

-Qvo-87 makes an appearance in this book. He offers Dante the Rubicon Primaris procedure. It has a 60% success rate for normal marines but in genetically divergent chapters like the Blood Angels the success rate is lower. 

-Principia is Cawl's term for the old version of marines 

-Dante has no idea what Thunder Warriors are 

-Legion era marines are functionally immortal. They did not/do not age like 40K era marines. 

-Normally, Tyranids would leave things they are not interested in alone. Not so with Baal. The Hivemind directed its Tyranids to despoil and ruin the Blood Angel monuments and art in an act of pure spite. It tried to deface and despoil all what the Blood Angels held dear. 

-The Blood Angels Librarius is powered by a boon from the Emperor. A star plucked from space and crushed by the Emperor's will. It serves a reactor of the Librarius and it wards. In DoB, the proved matched to the Hivemind itself since no Tyranids managed to breach the wards 

-Beneath Baal there are mysterious stone tunnels. The material that comprise the tunnels are not confined in space-time. The only thing known about these tunnels is that they weren't built by humans. 

-Dante wanted to go through the Primaris procedure but the normal marines strongly objected not wanting to risk losing him. The Primaris were divided on the issue. It was decided that Mephiston is going get it instead. The might of a Primaris body might be able to contain his growing psychic powers at least for a time. In the novel, Dante continues to be tempted by the Primaris transformation. His body is aging, his wounds are not healing completely. Eventually, his body will give out. The Primaris strength could be the answer for his woes but the risks are too great at the moment. He is needed. However, he is determined to undergo it in a future date. Primaris Dante get HYPE! 

-In the spiritual odyssey that Mephiston goes through during the procedure a few interesting things are revealed : 

Within the Warp, the golden angel of light fights the angel of darkness and shadow. The golden angel represents the nobility of Sanguinius’ bloodline. Each time one of his sons creates a work of art or give his life to protect the innocent the golden angel grows stronger. On the other hand, each time one the sons of the blood succumb to the Black Rage and slays his brothers, the angel of darkness grows stronger. It's revealed that these angels have been fighting for an eternity. Long before the Primarch was born, long before mankind settled the Baal system. The xenos civilizations that lived on Baal were influenced by them and so did the humans that settled Baal after them. After mankind passes from the galaxy and another race takes its place on Baal, they too will be influenced by the angelic struggle but that's assuming that Chaos won't win and reduce all existence into its eternal playground. 

The angel of darkness is winning, slowly overpowering the golden angel. The reason for this is that the children of the blood are all doomed to be consumed by the Black Rage. The only agency they have in this is whether they will end their service as monsters or heroes. 

What's also revealed in the Warp is that the Emperor is stirring, the minds of men are opening to the Warp, and the Black Rage is closing its grip tighter than before thanks to the Great Rift. 

The Golden Angel is Sanguinor. He was once a mortal marine but into him was poured all the nobility and heroism of the sons of blood across the ages. The angel of Darkness is no one (not yet). It is rage set loose with no limit. Sanguinor can no longer contain it. So, it needs an anchor, an avatar in the material realm to vent some of its rage in order to balance the struggle for a time. Mephiston must be this avatar. He must take the burden in order to save his chapter but they will not know his burden. They will grow to hate him more than they already do but they won't know why. 

Because of the Warp ignores time. The Angel of Darkness exists, have always existed and will forever exist. It is Mephiston since he will transform into it one day, and yet it's not him. I am getting headache from this. Anyways, because of the connection between the Angel of Darkness and Mephiston, he will become its avatar no matter what. If he refuses, he will die and his soul will be cast into the Warp to meet its final fate however his body will be possessed by the Angel of Darkness turning it into a dark version of Sanguinor that will destroy all the children of the Blood. If he accepts, he will be more of an outcast within his chapter and one day he will become the crystallization of all that's monstrous in the bloodline. 

All of this is explained by a figure that appears as bloody masked angel. The Angel in the end removes his mask to reveal that he is Sanguinius. Sanguinius tells Mephiston that Abaddon's desperate gambit unleashed forces he cannot hope to control. Things that were not possible before are now possible. He says that the Warp is not evil. It is corrupted but it contains everything including evil as well as good. 

Suddenly the angels stop fighting and they stand besides Sanguinius looking down on Mehpiston. Mephiston's soul is dragged back into to the waking world but before he fades, he apologies to his Primarch. Sanguinius smiles sorrowfully and tells him that he isn't Sanguinius. Sanguinius is dead. 

-When Mephiston's soul returns to his body an outburst of psychic energy and he is lifted into air in vortex of material and psychic energy. Dark wings shoot from his form and some of the librarians fall dead. Everyone shits their pants. Mephiston managed to contain his power and he withdraws it back in. He halted the Black Rage flaring in his fellow Angels. 

-When an uneasy peace descended on the chamber, Astrorath demanded that Mephiston be killed before it's too late. Dante quieted him down and asked Mephiston who he was. He said he isn't Calistarius nor Mephiston but something else. Mephiston’s Librarian friend confirms that he is Mephiston yet isn't. This is okay with Dante and he spares the Lord of Death. 

-Dante and Mehpston discuss their sightings of their Primarch. They could not confirm it was him. It might be a Warp illusion or it's possible that it's a part of Primarch's soul that lingered in the Warp. Mehipston explains that powerful psychic souls can survive in the Warp for quite a while and the Blood Angel Primarch was one of the most psychic of the Emperor's sons 

It was a fun read. Qvo was a treasure. I can't wait for its follow up in the Psychic Awakening series

Инквизитор Клод Фролло из Ордо Еретикус

Мой с детства любимый диснеевский антагонист в своё время вызывал у меня куда большее сочувствие, чем главные герои мультфильма "Горбун из Нотр Дама". Пожалуй, ему стоило сжечь Эсмеральду, и тогда его участь не стала бы столь печальной... 

Клонирование в мире Молота Войны 40к

Клонирование в мире Молота Войны 40к

Многие из вас слышали и знаю, что в любимом нами мире ВаХи существует такой процесс, как Клонирование.

Про него есть много версий и слухов: якобы что оно запрещено, что оно забыто, используется только хаосом или тёмными эльдар, также, что якобы Криговцы размножаются клонированием или о происхождении Примархов, а так же о том, что Магос Биологис не всё нам рассказывают.

Так что вот решил разобраться с этим вопросом.

Что можно заявить однозначно: клоны в мире "Сорокатысячника" существуют, и это вполне себе каноничная информация.

Некоторые клоны считаются даже не то чтобы обычными Хомо Сапиенс, а уже подвидами людей, Abhumans. Часть подвидов, таких, как скваты, ратлинги, огрины, знают практически все, про остальных кто-то вообще даже никогда не слышал (как и я пока не начал собирать информацию по ним). На всякий случай, список некоторых подвидов людей, официально принятых или ранее считавшихся частью Империума лежит где-то тут в комментах за моим авторством: http://wh.reactor.cc/post/2872064

Итак, что мы знаем о клонах? То, что в разных фантастических и иных вселенных предлагаются разные варианты. Каминоанские Клоны в ЗВ, Гхолы и Тлейлаксу со своими "Матками" в Дюне, Мила Йовович в Пятом Элементе и в Резидентах...

Что можно сказать о клонировании в Вархаммере? Прежде всего то, что оно тут представлено несколькими разными технологиями.

Часть из них описана более-менее широко, часть лишь только упоминается вскользь и некоторые предстают просто догадками.

Итак, начнём, пожалуй, с самых известных и перейдём к остальным.

1) Примархи. "Император использовал свою ДНК" для их создания. Конечно, прямого указания на клонирование тут нет, и "Использование ДНК" может быть всего лишь самым обыкновенным способом размножения, но, всё-таки, тут дело, скорее всего, именно в выращивании клонов или потомства искусственным способом. Не точных клонов, а особей на основе имеющейся ДНК. Более того, были упоминания того, что у Императора, помимо примархов, были и обычные биологические потомки - Sensei, ну там свои тёрки с Инквизицией, Иллюминатами и оживлением Императора. Они изначально описывались, как всамделишные дети императора (не путать с легионом) и имели особенность в виде отсутствия биологического старения, хотя и являлись смертными. Всё просто: инквизиция считает их опаснейшими мутантами, Иллюминаты спасают и собирают для своих целей. Является ли сейчас инфа о них, как и о Звёздном Дитя каноничной - сказать сложно. Так что Примархи - скорее всего, продукт клонирования и генной инженерии самого Императора.

2) Известная многим возня с тушкой Хоруса, которую хотели клонировать Дети Императора, но Чёрный Легион был против, и понеслось.

3) Коракс со своей Гвардией Ворона проводил таинственные и бесчеловечные эксперименты по клонированию и ускоренному росту, после чего, как известно, немного тронулся головой. "Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."

4) Мини-тексты про различных инквизиторов и других исследователей, упоминавших опыты по созданию монструозных астартес в лабораториях то ли механикусов, то ли их тёмных коллег, с результатами вскрытия одного тела.

5) Криг.

The Vitae-Womb is a method of genetic reproduction utilized by the scientists of Krieg to keep the planet's population up on their dying world in order to meet their Tithes for the Imperial Guard. A mysterious and little-understood technique outside of Krieg itself, this technology of mass-producing human organisms is seen as abhorrent to the Adeptus Mechanicus. Nonetheless the practice is tolerated as the Death Korps of Krieg are so vital to the Imperial war effort.

Технология, называемая "Вита-матка" или "Жизне-матка", слабо понимаемая и не используемая за пределами Крига, которая и допускается только на Криге, Империум закрывает на это глаза. Судя по всему, представляет из себя не чистое клонирование в пробирке, а нечто сходное с матками дома Тлейлаксу во вселенной Дюны. Тем не менее, вполне может считаться формой клонирования. Хотя оговоримся, стопроцентной точной инфы по этому нет, и слухи разнятся вплоть даже до простого предположения о том, что это всего лишь некое медицинское средство для увеличения скорости роста человека, либо беременности и так далее.

6) Сервиторы и органы. Со ссылкой на роман "Эйзенхорн", указывается, что в Империуме возможно клонирование отдельных органов и частей тела, а также создание человеческих тел для использования при производстве сервиторов. Существование клона человека для самостоятельной, обычной жизни - техноересь. Впрочем, это не касается ребят из предыдущего пункта.

7) Replicae\Реплика.

Чистые, классические клоны.

Replicae are artificial beings created by genetic engineering, the branch of the science known to archaic humans as "cloning." The science was widespread during the Dark Age of Technology, but barely understood in later eras.

Широко распространённая в Тёмную Эру Технологии наука, которая еле-еле вообще может быть понята в более поздние эры. Реплицирование искусственных существ посредством генетической инженерии. Учитывая, что технология, по большей части, крайне сложна и комплексна, а отдельные её фрагменты совсем утеряны, то каждый случай её применения в ВаХе можно считать различными видами технологий в связи с тем, что приходится заново изобретать большую часть технологического процесса, с разными результатами, методами и косяками. Первый - это уже упомянутый Коракс в М31. Второй - как ни странно, в М41, по изменённой технологии, но на том же принципе.

In M41, in the wake of the disastrous Arkio Insurrection, Apothecary Majoris Caecus of the Blood Angels proposed using replication. Commander Dante disapproved, but Caecus continued his research in secret. Caecus believed he had succeeded with the aid of a mysterious Magos Biologis, but his creations, the Bloodfiends, though at first promising, turned into bloodthirsty monsters, manifesting extreme versions of the Blood Angels' geneseed flaws, the Black Rage and the Red Thirst. It is uncertain how much of this catastrophe was accident caused by Caecus's incomplete knowledge, and how much was deliberately engineered by the Magos (who turned out to be the traitor Fabius Bile in disguise).

8) Afriel Strain

The Afriel Strain was a shadowy experimental process which used genetic material from a number of the Imperium's greatest heroes to, in effect, make clones of them. The legendary Macharius was among the individuals replicated in this manner.

The Afriel Strain was an attempt to create the perfect soldier, though it resulted in unforeseen mishaps. For no reason that their creators could ascertain, the Afriels appeared to attract the animosity of other warriors and suffer from the most appalling bad luck. In each case when the Afriel Strain has been fielded, it has met with a period of success - for its soldiers are undoubtedly superior - followed by a rapid decline and destruction of the regiment. Nonetheless, whoever the creators of the Afriel Strain may be, they continue to experiment, fielding their "perfect soldiers" across the war zones of the Imperium.

Создание клонов на основе материала лучших героев и полководцев Империума. Пытались создать идеальных солдат, в итоге получились "Солдаты неудачи", в прямом смысле, прям как Орден Плакальщиков, тотальные неудачи преследовали этих клонов. Но это - стопроцентные клоны.

Подведя итог, хочется всё-таки сделать некоторые ремарки и пояснения. Часть из описанных моментов может на поверку (если будет больше официальных, бэковых источников или если того пожелает ГВ) оказаться вовсе не тем, чем кажется - например, Криг окажется этаким вариантом ЭКО, только выращиваться полностью в пробирке и всё такое, а технологии Байла в М41, Байла с Хорусом, Коракса в М31 и Императора - вообще полностью одной и той же штуковиной.

Но мы имеем точное представление о том, что клонирование существует в рамках Империума, что оно появилось ещё, как минимум, в Тёмную Эру Технологий и что на данным момент, в том или ином виде, оно существует во вселенной 40к. Да, в Империуме оно, по большему счёту, под запретом из-за очень уже частых косяков при применении в прошлом и, как предполагается, из-за сильного влияния Хаоса на процесс (или на него можно списать рукожопство техножрецов, которые могут вообще не понимать сути этой технологии - такое случается в М41 очень часто, даже по отношению к технологиям 10.000, 5.000-летней давности). Да и не нужно оно - солдат всё-таки ещё надо готовить после выращивания, ресурсов на это может уйти много и гораздо проще, в конце концов, набирать бойцов с огромного множества миров в Империуме. Настоящих людей.