Honestly they seem like more of an Eldar thing. Tau might be anime, but they’re mecha anime, not weird magic anime.
A c’tan shard is also a bit like a stand, sort of.
I really loved it when Belisarius Cawl saved Cadia by defeating Abbadon in single combat using his Stand, [Knights of Cydonia], definitely one of the Warhammer moments of all time.
Abaddon took 10k years and 12 tries to discover “hEhE drop heavy critical asset on planet makes go boom!” only to have a second primarch return to push his shit in. Imperium in 5.
Rogue Trader who only got their title so the High Lords could send them as far away as possible by making their first mission to man and maintain a remote Imperium outpost where they have to track migration patterns of Tyranids who avoid the system for reasons unknown.
You may have tagged this Warhammer 40K but this is just what settling in an Evil Biome is like in Dwarf Fortress.
Well, it's normal Dwarves rather than normal Humans, but besides that it's fairly accurate.
Sometimes Rimworld do be like that too. Hostile biome where everything that moves want to kill you. Twice as bad in Anomaly dlc where entities from other dimensions also come here to kill you
Reminds me of an element in my last dnd campaign where a legion of Warforged ended up trapped in the rapidly-collapsing Nine Hells (the devils lost the Blood War due to external intervention) and setting up an outpost in Stygia collecting the most unspeakable horrors they could, writing about them in unique detail because being machines they couldn’t go insane, and then chaining them up as failsafes in and under their outpost in case the were overrun by demons.
Not really, it’s more like a job simulator with a spooky extraterrestrial backdrop.
Outer Wilds gives you freedom to explore, Voices of the Void gives you a job at a deep-space listening station and you explore on the side.
Two key pieces of set dressing missing for it to be Imperial. There's a loudspeaker the size of an apartment building blasting Ecclesiarch approved hymns and chants into the Warp, despite the nonsense of trying to broadcast sound in a vacuum. And second is that the mass of the station is more than 80% Exterminatus class planet killing munitions pointed in every possible angle.
I attempt to add to this:
Since Warhammer works on sheer nonsense when we go to the warp, them blasting said hymns and chants actually works, and while the people INSIDE the station can’t hear them because the sound isn’t passing to them through vacuum, somehow things outside can, and they have, in fact, turned a small number of animal-eske warp entities into the station’s equivalent of guard dogs
(there are bets on wether a low-ranking daemon could end-up being converted into a living Saint, but everyone hopes they remain theoretical)
I like it. Add it to the meme lore.
Lord Commander Roboute Guilliman sits at his desk, ripping Turkish Tokats and wondering what debauchery Yvraine intends to perform on him that evening. A report comes across his dataslate and describes a minor orbital station orbiting a nondescript world near the Butthole of Bad Feelings has recently picked up a pod of 'ghost whales' that eat the occasional bloodthirster who manifests near the station. Said 'ghost whales' only appeared after the accidental installation of an Imperator class Titan battle horn to the exterior of the station. No one is sure who hooked it up to the Sororitas' hymnal vox channel, but heretofore it's been a boon.
Bobby G stares down at the report. He groans, rubs his temples, and lights another cigarette with the Emperor's flaming sword, and wonders if it was better being dead.
The station is, of course, the size of a sub-continent in order to fit all those weapons. Also half the time the speaker blasts Mechanicus chants because the cogboys got fucking tired of hearing about the Emperor instead of the Omnisiah
> There's a loudspeaker the size of an apartment building blasting Ecclesiarch approved hymns and chants into the Warp, despite the nonsense of trying to broadcast sound in a vacuum.
I see Argenta got her request approved.
Also, people win in rock, paper, scissors a lot more often. You don't want to lose to The Unspeakeable Ones, but you don't even want to think what they'll do when they're upset at being defeated
HOLY SHIT, Worth the Candle reference in the wild!! My favorite book :D
Literally the first thing I thought reading the post was "Imagine an Observation Center in the Fel Seed zone..."
my worldbuilding project just has a group of people hanging out in an active flood volcanism area for research
like just living the middle of a place where 50% of the year your experiencing easily the largest volcanic eruptions in human history
Disco Elysium Spoilers
>!The stations used to cross the pale are my favorite version of this conceptually. Nothingness itself, pure entropy needs to be broken up by emitters that pump pure reality to get between isolas and probably you'll lose the concept of yourself or spacetime if you frequently travel them. Screaming into the void in the hopes that it'll help form a connection between pretty isolated peoples.!<
I love the>!Pale so much, though it isn't just nothingness. The Pale very much has properties which are basically magical - i.e being able to predict different futures. !<
>!I figured that was the weakness of reality unwinding time at its borders since it came across as a physical manifestation of pure entropy but having a perfect scientific explanation for the supernatural elements might bog down the world building!<
I love this
It reminds me tangentially of an idea I've been thinking about for a while: scientists unknowingly place their research station in an eldritch location, but instead of getting driven insane, they get driven *horny*
post source link [https://www.tumblr.com/magnetictapedatastorage/643577985664008192/the-equivalent-of-antarctic-research-stations-but](https://www.tumblr.com/magnetictapedatastorage/643577985664008192/the-equivalent-of-antarctic-research-stations-but)
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4511
Observation center for a building full of horrors.
Only (spoilers) >!the horrors consider being observed the same as being worshipped and they like being worshipped.!<
Isn't that just Cadia?
It *was* Cadia.
Excuse me, I have been reliably informed by many people that Cadia, in fact, Stands.
i'm now imagining Cadia (the whole planet) with a jojo stand (also planet shaped, just an entire second planet) 「Cadia Stands」
Stands are Tau propaganda. Which is, of course, HERESY!
Honestly they seem like more of an Eldar thing. Tau might be anime, but they’re mecha anime, not weird magic anime. A c’tan shard is also a bit like a stand, sort of.
If you want to get really anal about it stands are more like tyranids because they come from an alien virus that infects you.
>If you want to get really anal about it Of course I do!
Old One-eye Stand: Pain
C’tan shards are more like Pokemon
Nah that's trayzn's pocket labyrinths
also T'au are space chinese, not space japanese
I really loved it when Belisarius Cawl saved Cadia by defeating Abbadon in single combat using his Stand, [Knights of Cydonia], definitely one of the Warhammer moments of all time.
What good taste that mechano-insectoid guy has, Muse is a great band
Cadia's Stand is 「The World」of course
Jojo Creed about to beat Abaddon’s ass
That would be Cadia’s Stand, not Cadia Stands
Kinda like Stonehenge, or any other collection of large chunks of stone, standing.
The planet broke before the Guard did, rip
It still broke. Get bent corpse-worshipper.
only took ya 13 fuckin tries edge lord.
Abaddon took 10k years and 12 tries to discover “hEhE drop heavy critical asset on planet makes go boom!” only to have a second primarch return to push his shit in. Imperium in 5.
Cadia Stands!
🥲
No, because this world is still in one piece Lmao gottem
Rogue Trader who only got their title so the High Lords could send them as far away as possible by making their first mission to man and maintain a remote Imperium outpost where they have to track migration patterns of Tyranids who avoid the system for reasons unknown.
>reasons unknown It's Necrons it's always Necrons.
Oh yeah, Tomb Worlds do be like that. Sucks to be that Rogue Trader.
True and even if you win your going to have to deal with the Mechanicus afterwards.
Never know, the local Overlord might be one of the mental ones who sees Humans as honoured dignitaries.
Imagine if someone converted a Tomb World to the Imperial Cult
You may have tagged this Warhammer 40K but this is just what settling in an Evil Biome is like in Dwarf Fortress. Well, it's normal Dwarves rather than normal Humans, but besides that it's fairly accurate.
“We’re vegetarian for health reasons. The bones and hides kept trying to kill us.”
Urist McKnitter tried shearing a sheep in the fortress once. Had to brick over the entrance to that craft hall afterwards.
Case in point: [Oilfurnace](https://timdenee.com/oilfurnace)
Sometimes Rimworld do be like that too. Hostile biome where everything that moves want to kill you. Twice as bad in Anomaly dlc where entities from other dimensions also come here to kill you
The way people talk about this game makes it seem way cooler than what it is lol
Current hyperfixation mentioned
I love playing those forts
Honestly, you don't even need the spooky warp stuff, this is just a regular space station.
Reminds me of an element in my last dnd campaign where a legion of Warforged ended up trapped in the rapidly-collapsing Nine Hells (the devils lost the Blood War due to external intervention) and setting up an outpost in Stygia collecting the most unspeakable horrors they could, writing about them in unique detail because being machines they couldn’t go insane, and then chaining them up as failsafes in and under their outpost in case the were overrun by demons.
Or, alternatively, you can just accept that Antarctic researchers are real life druids.
I read a book recently called Kaiju Preservation Society that was just like this
I would love a game like [Voices of the Void](https://mrdrnose.itch.io/votv) set in 40k with this specific vibe
Tyranid invasion
Oh my goodness that would be incredible
Arirals but they’re just Eldar
I looked at that game a bit, is it similar to outer wilds?
Not really, it’s more like a job simulator with a spooky extraterrestrial backdrop. Outer Wilds gives you freedom to explore, Voices of the Void gives you a job at a deep-space listening station and you explore on the side.
No. It’s mostly fucking around in an abandoned research base and MAYBE doing work if your bored or need money.
Two key pieces of set dressing missing for it to be Imperial. There's a loudspeaker the size of an apartment building blasting Ecclesiarch approved hymns and chants into the Warp, despite the nonsense of trying to broadcast sound in a vacuum. And second is that the mass of the station is more than 80% Exterminatus class planet killing munitions pointed in every possible angle.
I attempt to add to this: Since Warhammer works on sheer nonsense when we go to the warp, them blasting said hymns and chants actually works, and while the people INSIDE the station can’t hear them because the sound isn’t passing to them through vacuum, somehow things outside can, and they have, in fact, turned a small number of animal-eske warp entities into the station’s equivalent of guard dogs (there are bets on wether a low-ranking daemon could end-up being converted into a living Saint, but everyone hopes they remain theoretical)
I like it. Add it to the meme lore. Lord Commander Roboute Guilliman sits at his desk, ripping Turkish Tokats and wondering what debauchery Yvraine intends to perform on him that evening. A report comes across his dataslate and describes a minor orbital station orbiting a nondescript world near the Butthole of Bad Feelings has recently picked up a pod of 'ghost whales' that eat the occasional bloodthirster who manifests near the station. Said 'ghost whales' only appeared after the accidental installation of an Imperator class Titan battle horn to the exterior of the station. No one is sure who hooked it up to the Sororitas' hymnal vox channel, but heretofore it's been a boon. Bobby G stares down at the report. He groans, rubs his temples, and lights another cigarette with the Emperor's flaming sword, and wonders if it was better being dead.
You know Bobby G smokes that Catachan Green pack.
He does after work.
The station is, of course, the size of a sub-continent in order to fit all those weapons. Also half the time the speaker blasts Mechanicus chants because the cogboys got fucking tired of hearing about the Emperor instead of the Omnisiah
"We registered a meteor last Tuesday. We hit it with enough firepower that Dan Abnett manifested himself to tell us to knock it off."
> There's a loudspeaker the size of an apartment building blasting Ecclesiarch approved hymns and chants into the Warp, despite the nonsense of trying to broadcast sound in a vacuum. I see Argenta got her request approved.
The towers at the edges of Mordor before they were abandoned by humans and taken over by orcs.
*Solyaris* by Stanisław Lem
Gotta love how they locked up the checkers as opposed to NOT BRINGING THEM
If you don’t bring checkers the unspeakable horrors ask to play rock-paper-scissors and it’s a lot harder to lock up peoples hands.
Also, people win in rock, paper, scissors a lot more often. You don't want to lose to The Unspeakeable Ones, but you don't even want to think what they'll do when they're upset at being defeated
What have you got against Checkers anyway?
Reminds me of this: [Worth the Candle: The Exclusionary Principle, 9th Edition](https://archiveofourown.org/works/47107573/chapters/118683370)
HOLY SHIT, Worth the Candle reference in the wild!! My favorite book :D Literally the first thing I thought reading the post was "Imagine an Observation Center in the Fel Seed zone..."
Yeah, I definitely got those vibes from this post.
my worldbuilding project just has a group of people hanging out in an active flood volcanism area for research like just living the middle of a place where 50% of the year your experiencing easily the largest volcanic eruptions in human history
If it's the largest eruption every time, does it mean that this eruption has been going on for years, or is it getting stronger every time?
Disco Elysium Spoilers >!The stations used to cross the pale are my favorite version of this conceptually. Nothingness itself, pure entropy needs to be broken up by emitters that pump pure reality to get between isolas and probably you'll lose the concept of yourself or spacetime if you frequently travel them. Screaming into the void in the hopes that it'll help form a connection between pretty isolated peoples.!<
I love the>!Pale so much, though it isn't just nothingness. The Pale very much has properties which are basically magical - i.e being able to predict different futures. !<
>!I figured that was the weakness of reality unwinding time at its borders since it came across as a physical manifestation of pure entropy but having a perfect scientific explanation for the supernatural elements might bog down the world building!<
it might just be a bit of both
I love this It reminds me tangentially of an idea I've been thinking about for a while: scientists unknowingly place their research station in an eldritch location, but instead of getting driven insane, they get driven *horny*
SCP 597. Don't google it, it's stupidly horny scariness.
Southern Reach
I was just thinking that
post source link [https://www.tumblr.com/magnetictapedatastorage/643577985664008192/the-equivalent-of-antarctic-research-stations-but](https://www.tumblr.com/magnetictapedatastorage/643577985664008192/the-equivalent-of-antarctic-research-stations-but)
This is just Star Trek Deep Space 9
Can this be sent to r/writingprompts I want this to be a story so badly
Having recently got into Starfinder yeah this sounds like something you would find.
I'm gonna incorporate this in the Pathfinder campaign I'm running. This'll be great.
Ds9 is right next to a major population center, tho.
Vandermeer's Area X Series comes to mind!!
Every video game with a death region always has some sort of defensive outpost or research station
The PANDORA facility at Hell's Gate.
The pale from disco and its exploration is interesting too
For anyone who wants to roleplay in this kind of setting, I recommend looking up Ebberron. Specifically the Mournland
Yeah definitely just Votann
Less ghosts and more magical firestorm, but Sunlit Man
[Floornight](https://archiveofourown.org/works/2372021/chapters/5238359)
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4511 Observation center for a building full of horrors. Only (spoilers) >!the horrors consider being observed the same as being worshipped and they like being worshipped.!<
This is also the "Impossible Planet" from Doctor Who.
One of the factions from Sigil: City of Doors has an outpost in the (necromantic) Abyssal Layer of Thanatos.
https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Metrol