The Hidden Truth: Techno-Barbarians and the Making of the Imperium
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Dive deep into the untold story of the Techno-Barbarians, the enigmatic warlords whose advanced technologies and ruthless strategies laid the groundwork for the Imperium of Man. Explore how their hidden contributions and cultural complexities were woven into the fabric of the Emperor's grand vision. From the brutal Unification Wars to the rise of the Space Marines, discover the secrets buried beneath the Imperial Palace and the true legacy of these forgotten titans. Uncover the forbidden powers of psykers, the transformation of Terra, and the scientific breakthroughs that shaped the galaxy. "The Hidden Truth" sheds light on the silent warriors who were pivotal in humanity's darkest and most transformative era.
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The next video will be more focused on the Techno-Barbarian states, diving into their cultures, leaders and known histories: th-cam.com/video/DPRGIdNidDc/w-d-xo.html
Dang, you're actually doing a deep dive on this after one fan asked you to? Admirable.
@@johnd2058 yessir! Haha
Awesome! The horus heresy and 40k proper obviously get most of the lorechannel attention on yt,but the unification wars and pre-imperium but post old night terra could use some fleshing out by gw,,,
great job as always!👍👏
The Emperor Protects!
I'm in. Subbed.
@@thecavalrygeneral3453 it's up! th-cam.com/video/DPRGIdNidDc/w-d-xo.html
Also: when 40,000 was conceived in the late 80’s, techno-barbarian just sounded rad.
Yeah that accounts for about 90% of the lore at least.
still does 👍
😂. For sure
We need more lore on the Unification Wars.
th-cam.com/video/DPRGIdNidDc/w-d-xo.html
For a sense of the intensity of the Unification Wars, I always come back to one line from Dreams of Unity: "Even when the oligarchs of Kievan Rus had rained atomics from their black citadel and bathed the Sibir ice plain in radioactive fire, Kabe had advanced." They were freaking saturation bombing the Emperor's forces with nuclear weapons, and lost.
One of the key purposes of power armour is that - in all but its very earliest iterations - it isn't just armour, it's a fully-sealed enviro-suit. Kievan Rus' dirty bombs would almost certainly have been enough to annihilate a maniple of Thunder Warriors if they scored a clean hit, but their fallout would not have been enough to prevent power-armoured troops from advancing (although it *would* have stopped any more lightly-armoured auxiliaries in their tracks, obliging the Emperor's best troops to go in unsupported).
@@stephenwood6663 The Mark 1 "Thunder" armor wasn't fully sealed. That was a new feature for the Mark 2 "Crusade" pattern armor which the Astartes got after the Unification Wars.
But to be completely fair, that of course doesn't mean that the Mark 1 armor couldn't be sealed if necessary, it just hasn't been depicted in lore or art.
@@Dimetropteryx There *is* some inconsistency in depictions of Thunder armour. We're told that the legs of this armour design are typically not power-armoured at all, but are enclosed in tough padded breeches. However, more recent depictions of Thunder Warriors usually show them with fully-enclosed leg protection.
To my mind, it makes the most sense to look at this as having been a process: 800 years is, after all, a long time to wage a war.
@@stephenwood6663 Official art has them consistently with exposed faces and occasionally with the arms exposed as well, not counting the actual armor plates. Only in Valdor: Birth of the Imperium have I found a mention of face covering, and that was just an iron grille. There are also two famous drawings, one of a captain with a mask, and IIRC an Astartes in Mk1 armor with what seems like a much later pattern helmet, but I believe that was concept art more than anything.
edit: after a bit of investigation, the latter piece of concept art is a drawing by John Blanche and features, according to the caption that is for some reason always cropped out, a "Space Marine elite guard typical of the veteran warriors of the Great Crusade."
Actual history: Took 800 years..
Imperium history: 'Took five minutes. Completed it mate'
I'd love a spin off game set in the unification wars
There is a HoI mod set during the unification wars
I feel like the Unification Wars might lend themselves well to a Skirmish game along the lines of Warcry: there are plenty of cultures on whom there's enough material to make an interesting skirmish warband, but *not* to make a fully-fledged 40K-style army.
It could be cool, but you just KNOW everyone and their mum'll be playing Thunder Warriors or Custodes, sadly :P
And I get it, because TW are a very very cool concept :D
@@Daleksaresupreme1 it would actually make for a good MMOFPS. Factions like Pan-pacific, HyBrazil, Yndonesic Bloc, Old Albia, etc. Big Bad is the Emperor, thunder warriors are enemies, not player characters.
Interesting that the Unification Wars took so much longer than the Great Crusade. If we think about thought, the emperor didnt have Knights or Titans to call upon, also no fleet to crack open defensive hive structures, all he had was some proto space marines so I think time wise that makes sense.
We are also assuming the Emperor's power level is always the same, but what if he needed tech of some kind from the Techno-barbs to eventually become as strong as we think he is.
In Valdor only at the very end of Unification did they start the Golden Throne project, which could have empowered the Emperor and/or given him directions for obtaining even more power from Age of Strife planets... ones that were far easier to conquer as an Imperium rather than just a Super Dude and His Supermen.
Cool vid
I wonder if the Custodes were more refined versions of the Tunder Warriors crafted more carefully and with longer process so thery can be more stable both physically and mentally while the the Thunder Warriors were the hastily made mass production model
it did always strike me as strange that the custodes were invented before the space marines, this could be an explanation
This is the lore, the emperor with the custodes and first batch of astartes legion wiped out the thunder warriors and a quick string of battles
Seems to me that the TW were a stripped down version of the Custodes. Everything unnecessary left out, and plenty of compromises to increase the number of facilities across Terra that could make them. What's strange to me is the idea that the TWs supposedly were proto-Astartes, since they had nothing in common as far as their creation goes. TWs don't seem to have any of their special abilities, and none of their extra organs.
Custodes are essentially Humanity 2.0, whereas Thunder Warriors and Astartes are essentially living weapons without a wider social life or purpose. Custodes are also much better warriors than the Thunder Warriors, though there may be some overlap in the techniques TW also lack long-term stability
@@DimetropteryxTW are basically ‘how far can we push humans to the ideas we need’
Then seeing they fell short and were not reliable…
‘Well we found a work around to make the TW but better.’
Basically the TW were to find dead ends and blocks that could not be passed. The mechanicus in the ‘gods of mars’ trilogy are basically the TW but they know what to not pass or to trade for it.
Space marines are suppose to be humanity and its spirit represented. Mechanicus is humanity and its machines.
So the emperor was the actual techno barbarian
He was just the strongest one, and the most good looking apparently…
@@PROJECTAUTOGUN If I remember, that first one is basically the point the priest makes in The Last Church - just another warlord and despot, difference being he managed to conquer the planet.
But did he listen to techno music?
You make it sound shocking
@@Tyler.Owe can only hope
Excellent video about a conflict with little lore. Good artwork too. I had no idea it took so long to unify terra
The Unification Wars are one of 40ks most underutilized eras
Humanity fell from a K3 civilization down to barely above K1.
I've just gotten into the 40k lore within the last couple years, I've only just begun listening to the Horus Heresy series within the last month or two. These episodes have really enhanced my love for the unification wars, it's such a fascinating point within the lore with so few videos covering it, I love your work!
Thank you!
Hi @40k Nexus. just to let you know, at 2:53 and 3:28 you repeat the same sentence
Darn I thought something sounded funny when I listened to it before I posted it. Thanks
Disintegration rays - bad
Vortex grenades - A-okay
The Emperor basically used the pre-unification states as a template for the Imperium. A sort of proto Imperium.
Nice vid. Subbed.
Would like more unification war content 😊
Yep same.
@@Chrisconditioning thanks fellas, the next video will be more focused on the Techno-Barbarian states and their cultures/rulers.
@@Chrisconditioningit's up! https: //th-cam.com/video/DPRGIdNidDc/w-d-xo.html
30k meets Game of Thrones
fascinating video. i was trying to find more lore on this era and the techno-barbarians specifically. it reminds me of Kenshi lore. scattered but formidable remnants of humanity in a wasteland.
I found a lot of good stuff on reditt that I didn't know about this time period. To me the unification and pre unification era is the most interesting
I love this. a 40k lore dump that takes less than 2 hours. Subscribed. lol
I love that you emphasised that the word "techno barbarian" didn't mean that they were akin to mad max or fallout factions. Sure, there were raider factions and tribes that may have resembled the above mentioned factions, but terra at the time of the end of the age of strife was already completely rebuilt. The major nuclear event that destroyed the remaining age of tech factions happened in late m25 early m26. So in that time period when the populations of terra were recovering from the apocalyptic level destruction of their society, im sure there would of been fallout like tribes of technologically advanced barbarians that fought small scale conflicts over territory and resources. But by the time the emperor starts the unification process, nearly 3000 years have passed. Terra was repopulated, with numbers in the 10s of billions, and was now being governed by multiple super powers, that weren't too dissimilar to our real world powers. Real world countries of today like russia, china, the us, and the western european powers would be classed as less advanced techno barbarians if they existed in the same time period.
The nation states of terra at this time also traded with rogue trader factions that ran goods to and from the many other nations and super powers in the sol system. Some had somewhat limited relations with mars, saturn, and jupiter, while other terran factions fought minor conflicts against them. The selenar of Luna were a major super power at the time, and traded gene tech with the terran powers.
it took emps so long to acrue enough millitary and economic power to bring the techno barbarians to heel because of just how divided and complicated the situation on terra was. He also had to do it without some trigger happy nut job simply unleashing a weapon that would all but destroy terra, and thus delay his plans further.
Im really enjoying these videos on a deep dive on Terra and the techno barbarians. I always wonder why it took so long for Emps to unite earth.
2:18 Merica, fuck yeah! Also, a series based on the unfiction wars would be epic! It would be like Mad max meets Alexander the great!
I put up a new video diving more deeply into this topic check it out! Thanks for watching!
While I still think it’s silly that the great crusade was much faster than Unification, lore wise it shows how much faster the Space Marines and later Primarchs allowed the Imperium to expand.
Great video btw. Subbed. Looking forward to more.
This would make amazing video game
There is a timeline were a more wise, technologically competent faction defeated the emperor and unified Terra as a single planet rather than a simple foothold to launch a galactic crusade. Interesting to consider a 40k with humanity about the size and influence as the Tau against the Randaga empire.
If the technologies and cultures of the techno-barbarians where integrated into the Imperium and geneseeds where a technology from that time. of the 18 (surviving) primarchs what cultures of old earth do they each represent? -ie; Corvax= Merica but what about Fulgrim, Lorgar etc?
(and yes I know that the primarchs where scattered to different worlds but their design, their essence would have represented the techno-barbarian states at least to some degree)
Gorilaman is Rome or europa
As a member of Albyon, i shall die for my king
man, now i want a book series on the unification wars XD
Very cool. I enjoyed this video. Expand on this era please.
Great collection of artwork, mate. I hope we get more tentative, tantalizing Age of Strife era stories from BL some day.
Yo, at around the 3:00 and 3:30 mark you basically repeat yourself
We can say, that the Imperium IS the Techno-Barbarians.
The Techno-Chad if you will 😂
TH-cam recommended this to me and was like why not give this channel a try.
Thanks! 🙏
Great work 💪
Niiiice! I have been looking them up recently 😊
great content! good luck with your channel :)
@@naranlidzhiev8957 thank you!
thanks, it was unusual and interesting!
Maybe the real Techno Barbarians were the friends we made along the way
WTB a 4x Grand Strategy game covering the Unification Wars
Terra should have been the very worst Death world to have held the Emperor’s armies for 800 years
@@ioa_vas7194 I was just thinking about this, I wonder if that's a nod to how useful the primarchs were. Because it should've taken a lot longer to conquer the human worlds in the galaxy if Terra took that long I mean there should have been just as much DAOT tech laying around on the colonized worlds just as on Terra. The Absence of primarchs is the only thing that really jumps out at me. Although it sounds like those who survived the age of strife on Terra are just built different 😂
There weren't that many Thunder Warriors, Astartes and Equipment during the Unification Wars
Many of the other nations had equipment and troops that can kill Thunder Warriors
The instability and weakness against the Warp of the Thunder Warriors didn't help
@@christiandauz3742 good point
@@christiandauz3742 20 legions of Thunder Warriors, together roughly equal to some of the smaller Astartes legions in their entirety in fighting strength, plus tons of assorted infantry, both gene modified and unmodified, plus a steadily increasing number of Custodes and later on Astartes. Both armor and weapon quality went up during the Unification Wars. DAOT tech did end up in the hands of both Custodes and Thunder Warriors, but a lot of it on Terra was destroyed in the process of taking the planet.
Wouldn't call the TWs' reaction to the Warp weakness. It appears more like extreme resistance, but I guess that depends on your interpretation. They've been shown to be able to resist psykers trying to influence them to the point of almost disabling the psyker, they've functioned just fine around daemon-possessed Astartes, and if the reaction to being attacked by people using Warp powers is to start murdering even harder, like during the Battle of Maulland Sen, that's probably the exact opposite to what the Warp user had in mind. Normal people lose their minds and become useless, or worse.
1:44 bruh sign me up
M E R I C A! :'D
What do you get, when you take british 80s nerds, and tell them to take america, russia, and Germany during ww2, give them between ww2 and space age tech, whipe listebing to 80s hair metal while stoned after a game of dnd, 40k.
Is that map official?
It's probably fan made but if you read official lore about earth it's pretty accurate to what is described
MERICA f@ck Yeah!!! 😆🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
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4:25 MERICA!!
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4:38 if find it funny that the Americans became so lazy that they call their land only merica😂😂.
Or that Germany became Jermani.
It seams that Russia and Ukrainian United to Kievan Rus.
And I think Egypt was bored of there thousands of thousands years old name so they tried Cyptus.
And India became Ind 😂😂😂😂
Himakazia is also good
Yndonesic Bloc
And UR Atlan has taken there name from Atlantis. There was some and said yes now can this mystic ancient city become real
Idk why but these video sound a lot like A.I generated TTS vids.
Love the map showing how the “Kieran Rus” (aka Ukrainians) have held onto their territory and even expanded into Russia. It’s like the opposite of today in a great way.
Cringe
I don’t wanna get political but historically the “kievan rus” or the Rus people of Kiev is the predecessor of the Russia.
Kraina is simply a Slavic word for Border-region.
@RogueBlood343 the russians claim them as their predecessors, but muscovy and keiv were two very very different powers, not at all the same.
@@Zoki266 Well actually, the etymology is highly disputed, and considering the age of the name, it would have been the border region from the perspective of the Constantinople during the early Middle Ages, as orthodox Christianity spread north through the Slavic regions. Russia was at the time a sparsely populated religious and political backwater inhabited by heathen tribes, Muscovy wasn't a thing at all, and Novgorod, which preceded it as the center of power, wouldn't be a political power for quite some time. Even assuming that "border region" is an accurate translation, it's not in relation to Russia. Russia would have laid beyond the border region.
Nice video but you said the same things so many times just in different ways
chatgpt babble
The newer videos aren't. I licensed a better voice and the scripts are much better. Thanks for the feedback!
heresy.
@@bobchmi3855 I've got 13 missed calls from the ecclesiarchy 😆
Imperial propagandist