Unironically, why hasn’t the Imperium just virus bombed Commorragh into oblivion?
>>96718759>they don't know how to get into the WebwayThere's problem #1>there are eleventy billion more immediate threats to humanity's survival that must be dealt with RIGHT NOW and Commorragh is absolute backburner shit because they're not a threat for survival, just sadistic assholesThere's problem #2>the Drukhari are more useful to the Imperium to keep around than anything; human life is cheap as hell and the only easy currency they have to barter with, which just so happens to be exactly the wares the Drukhari are interested inThis is problem #3. The Adeptus Mechanicus and Administratum maintain loose diplomatic ties with Commorragh. It's how they were able to arrange to smuggle a Haemonculus onto Terra to analyze the failing parts of the Golden Throne so he can manufacture replacement parts for them. It's not the first time they've collaborated and it won't be the last. They've been selling Imperial worlds to Commorragh for complete harvestation in exchange for assistance in vital matters for thousands of years.
>>96718923>They've been selling Imperial worlds to Commorragh for complete harvestation in exchange for assistance in vital matters for thousands of years.Got anything to back up that headcanon of yours?
>>96719109Vaults of Terra: The Hollow Mountain, and the sequel, The Carrion Throne, both touch on the extent of the corruption within the Adeptus Terra and their dealings with the Drukhari.The Custodes get on board with the plan to build replacement parts for the Throne in exchange for giving the Drukhari several worlds to harvest as they please. They only back out of the deal when an Inquisitor shows up and reveals that the true goal of the Drukhari is to create a lobotomized Emperor clone to power their own twisted Throne device that would hold the Gate of Khaine togetherYour next words will be >BL slop >canon
>>96718759Drukhari are virus bombing each other on a regular basis, it wouldn't be a concern
>>96718759Commorragh is really just a bunch of sub realms connected by gates that Vect can close off whenever he wants, so even if you managed to get a super weapon inside it could only do so much damage. In addition the Dark Eldar are perfectly capable of striking back hard enough to make any attempt more trouble than it’s worth
>>96718759>The Imperium virus bombs Commorragh.>Vect cuts off the affected sub-realms, probably taking out a few of his rivals in the process, while the Archons of High Commorragh hole up in their spikey panic rooms with their courts and some MREs (i.e., slaves).>Everyone else starts killing each other even more than they already were before.>The Haemonculi sigh and yawn at the scene before going back to working on REAL super weapons.
>>96718759have a bump, botbro
>>96722314BOTH look like coworkers of me
>>96718759deldar are not a pressing issue
>>96719165I mean... would that even be a bad thing? Yeah, its unpleasant but lets be honest the Imperium has no problem with getting its hand dirty. The reality of the situation is that *if this works* it changes everything. We hate Chaos, they hate chaos, lets work together and start mass producing this shit. Emperor-clone tech becomes the new Geller Field, every planet gets one, Chaos can fuck off.
>>967187591) Because they Imperium can't enter the Webway on a whim. 2) When they can, it's usually small Webway gates that wouldn't accommodate a large ship, let alone a fleet. 3) Even if they did send a fleet in somehow, they'd get lost. 4) Even if they didn't get lost they'd be picked apart by Dark Eldar hit and run tactics before ever reaching Commorragh. 5) Even if they did reach Commorragh, it's a massive clusterfuck of subrealms and you can't just bomb it like you would a city in realspace.
>>96724297that's not the censored version, anon
>>96718923>they don't know how to get into the Webway>>96724297>1) Because they Imperium can't enter the Webway on a whim.False. Salamanders and a few strike cruisers from other chapters got in there by following a librarian's psychic signal in m35. Wrecked everyone's shit in ways that entirely destroyed the dark eldar's ruling cast with less than a chapter's worth of marines. >all part of the plan Sure, still fucked everyone up easily.
>>96724822Kek dark eldar shits are so embarassing>N-NO YOU CANT ATTACK US WE HAVE A BILLION DEFENCESDark Eldar only persist because theyre such a small problem no other faction is concerned about them
Reminder that the Drukhari killed the khan
>>96724822>False. Salamanders and a few strike cruisers from other chapters got in there by following a librarian's psychic signal in m35You absolute secondary shit-for-brains, Vect was luring them in. He left a Webway gate open for them.>Wrecked everyone's shit in ways that entirely destroyed the dark eldar's ruling cast with less than a chapter's worth of marines. Because Vect sabotaged their defenses and organized a massive rebellion against them to occur at the exact moment the Salamanders arrived to provide a distraction. The moment that Vect was done purging the noble houses, he rallied Commorragh's confused defenders and the Salamanders were immediately forced to retreat. >Sure, still fucked everyone up easily.If you consider grievous casualties and a forced retreat easy, then sure... retarded ESL
>>96724670No, it isn't
>>96724822>Salamanders and a few strike cruisers from other chapters got in there by following a librarian's psychic signal in m35The only reason the Librarian was in Commoragh to do this in the first place was because Vect purposefully disabled his ship and brought it into Commorragh to serve as bait.
>>96724985>Vect had to rally the entirety of Commoragh to put up a similar level of resistance as one (1) necron tomb world
>>96724985Why did Vect do this?
>>96725040Vect wanted to be Commorragh's dictator. Naturally, all preexisting dictators had to go.
>>96725040It was both a coup d'état to get rid of his opposition and a false flag operation where he can solve the crisis he created and paint himself as the savior of Commorragh.
>>96725039Okay, I'll put it simply so you can understand: Vect directly sabotaged the city's defenses by providing a backdoor, told the Salamanders where the backdoor was, disabled all other defenses and set up a massive distraction so the Salamanders could kill the people he wanted to kill. Once that was done, he went and kicked their shit in with minimal effort and they fled with their tails behind their legs. Vect came out of this as a hero, with his rivals all incinerated and his dominion of Commorragh uncontested. The Salamanders did not win against an unified Commorragh: they won against a bunch of guys who Vect had finished punishing down severals flights of stairs 1 minute ago.
>>96725040>"Asdrubael Vect tricks his would-be rival Archon Kelithresh into opening a casket that has ostensibly been presented as a tithe. Held precariously in the collapsing field of the casket is the unstable essence of a black hole. Kelithresh’s entire realm is plunged into a howling, yawning vortex.” - Drukhari Codex, 8th edHe's done worse.
>>96725161I mean, if you get sent a package by Asdrubael Vect and then just go and open it you deserve everything that's coming to you.
>>96725137Sounds a lot like D'eldar cope to me
>>96725225You can go on and believe that if you want, but the squirming Salamander flesh chairs in Vect's office aren't moving from there.
>>96725225Established codex lore isn't "cope", coomer-kun.
>>96725225I accept your concession little nun
>>96718759Commorragh is huge. It's larger than multiple planets put together (maybe even the size of a solar system or two or five), with a population to match. The Imperium would have an easier time virus bombing the T'au homeworlds.
>>96718759why hasn’t Commorragh just virus bombed Terra into oblivion?
The Dark Eldar unironically could solo the current Imperium if you actually have read their lore and stories (something less than 1% of 40k fans have done). They have already won in the setting, the entire galaxy to them is literally a giant pasture full of cattle for them butcher and milk
>>96725161All dark elder fluff is like this. It's always "evil lord Perylous Trapmeister the Betrayer asked a space marine to pull his finger with... unforeseen consequences..."They're not good at traps, everyone else is just fucking stupid.
>>96718759me when I get my lore from youtube shorts
>>96718759The simplest answer is Commorragh is not a singular place. It's a huge megacity sprawling across the webway lit by several stolen stars. You can blow up parts of it but the whole remains.
>>96728907DE have negative amount of reasons to seriously hurt Imperium as long as it bears the brunt of attention from Chaos forces, regardless of capability.
>>96726671Wyches vs SoB is a kino matchup and not just because of the coomer potential, but because "gladiators in it for the fun and games vs uberpious no-fun-allowed religious fanatics" is cool.
>>96724297I can't get over the fact that her shoes would make the most horrible scraping sounds whenever she walks, and she'd be leaving puddles of poison everywhere.
>>96730355That's how she likes it.
Why doesn't anyone else try to virus bomb>>96730581 Holy Terra?
>>96730618The Orks would think it's boring. The Tyranids don't have access to virus bombs and annihilating a planet's worth of biomass would be ridiculous to them. The Dark Eldar and the Eldar would rather not have the Imperium collapse. The Tau don't have the ability to get a virus bomb there. Chaos wouldn't be able to approach. The Necrons are too feudal and local to try that move.
>>96728854That would be like nuking your local supermarket.
>>96729038>evil lord Perylous Trapmeister the BetrayerLol. Thats a good one im gonna use that
>>96719165What's the downside? If the Emperor could be cloned, you could stick a clone on the job of handling the Throne Webway portal business, and then the actual Emperor could heal himself.
>>96725200He probably sends some that are just nice things, no trap at all. It makes the actual trap ones all the more unexpected.
>>96730751>Vect sends you a pair of socks and a card every torturemas because you're well out of his territory and he doesn't care to kill you
>>96730242Ohh Dark Gods I besidge thy make 11th starter set SoB vs DE and dont put any tranny nu_gw models in it.
>>96730626>nu-crons were mistake.
>>96730746The novel all but states outright that one of the Emperor's highest standing orders for the Custodes is to never, ever let him be cloned. As soon as they are told what the Drukhari truly plan, they flip their shit and go straight to all out violence to prevent it. They manage to prevent the Haemonculus Covens from getting their hands on a sample of the Emperor's DNA but are wiped out in the process.
>>96730795DE politics is a nightmare for sure. Everyone's all smiles and pleasant gifts until the other shoe drops and then you're back in the slums again with nothing to your name.
>>96718759I feel like releasing horrifying genetically engineered plagues onto the general public is something Haemonculi do about once a week.Short of full-scale collapsing their series of interconnected webway bubbles back into the warp with S+ grade psyker bullshit, dropping almost any horrible shit into Commoragh is like pissing into an ocean of piss.Commoragh is like hell, with worse guest facilities.
>>96719182I always found this excuse goofy, an organized enemy effort to crippled their combat infrastructure can't be the same as their own pragmatic gang violence
>>96731470As explained earlier in this thread, the Drukhari employ enemy efforts to cripple their combat infrastructure as part of that gang violence. It's absolutely as bad, if not worse.
>>96731470We've seen Commorragh fight off numerous daemonic invasions, including the Gate of Khaine, which was an outright apocalypse-scale Chaos invasion, and Vect successfully fought it back by uniting the Incubus Shrines against it. The street violence is just how they sort the wheat from the chaff and select only the most promising inductees to Kabals and Wych Cults. They still see more than their fair share of real combat in Realspace raids and when a Dysjunction occurs.
>>96731470Oh yeah, I forgot about it, but there's also an entire realm of Commorragh called Sec Maegra where aliens are welcome to carve out their own little empires on the streets, with Orks, Sslyth, Humans (like Rogue Traders), Kroot, and all kinds of other alien mercenaries waging endless wars trying to conquer the place while the Drukhari sit back and watch and pick the choicest of the mercs to support their Realspace raids.
>>96731470if they had to live in realspace and weren't armed with unfathomably high tech superweapons that would be true
>>96730355Silly, she just has slaves laydown a red carpet (it's also made of slaves) for her to walk on/poison. No scraping involved.
>>96718759Because they can't, dumbass Imperium glazer.Next question
>>96724985You absolute can't read a post let alone a novel. >all part of the plan Still wrecked their shit. There's no shortage of ambitious and retarded dark eldar, getting another webway portal open isn't difficult. That's before you get into any of the other factions or just taking one from the exodites.
According to Talon of Horus, the Black Legion besieged the Dark City and destroyed one of their Kabals in revenge for murdering Khayon's Drukhari friend.If the Bllack Legion can do it, then so can the Imperium. The Imperium has more intel and resources.
>>96718759>so, faction A just goes into faction Bs capital and uses a pretty common planet killer weapon>Faction B is now fucked and deleted from the settingAnd now everyone is clapping for such a thrilling piece of exciting storytelling. People are on their seats, demanding more. This is exactly the kind of narrative the IP needs.
>>96719165>spoilerNANI?
>>96737932wow, they destroyed one (1) kabal! what a massive staggering act of revenge. it's not like there's hundreds of those and they come and go by the dozens every year
>>96730746I can't imagine that cloning the Emperor would really work any better than Fabius Bile cloning Primarchs - it's probably not canon anymore but I'd wager its the mega-soul made up of all of the shamans that's more integral to what makes the Emperor the Emperor than anything specific to the flesh.
>>96737932>in a city of infinite subrealms they defeated one no name kabal no one cares aboutOh no! Let me guess: A Kabal that happened to be not in Vects favor? Maybe a rival even? That would be very shocking!
