If I was born on a Hive world I'd immediately join the Guard. Dying across the galaxy beats living in a citywide sweat shop where the person next to you will shank you for your lunch money.
A very common thought for a hive citizen. Forced conscription may be the norm but with volunteers from the lower hive levels alone the gard would still count in the billions.
Weeeeell maybe living as rightless livestock for the Imperium sucks but do you know what else sucks? Being disintegrated by painfull sci-fi weapons, being sacraficed to some primordial horror-god, being shot to pieces by your traiterous best friend, being crippled for the rest of your short life by some alien acid, being abducted to some big, creepy city in the Web-Way and there being tortured for amusement, being torn apart by the demons your "comrade" psyker unleashed acccidentally, being tossed out to space as your transport ship gets attacked, having to shoot the young recruit your responsibe for because he showed three minutes late to your officer...do you wish me to continue? Seriously i hardly can imagine a life worse than that of a guardsman.
Those seem like special circumstances compared to the much more common deaths like being shot, dying in an explosion, warp storms etc. Plus those are still quicker deaths than slowly rotting away, toiling in some munitorum factory. At least as a Guardsman there's a sense of adventure, a shot at glory, a chance of freedom. You can climb the ranks, gain respect and become more than a simple cog in the machine. And any loyal imperial citizen will gladly die for our glorious god Emprah! *Smiles at camera* Enlist now kids! :D
SkiniNinja Uhh...good point. How about we just make sure that Judge Dredd does not happen for the next 100 years. First Mega Blocks and then Hive Cities.
Well, for most people, living in warhammer 40k would be like living in a mix of medieval cities and early industrial revolution-type circumstances. Tiny rooms where whole family have to live, no freetime, horrible work conditions that kill you early... humanity already got that bad. The imperium has an enormous scale so that instead of cityblocks, its whole planets in these conditions, but still. it is not as far fetched from reality like it might seem.
Yah know. there is an actual reason that the Administratum actually encourages that kind of living and the attitudes it brings. They actually purposely do it to keep the human mind complacent, beaten down. because large numbers of people with feelings of happiness, euphoria, feeling like they can make it and have pride, all promote some of the more insidious and hard to counter Chaos gods. The preference would be a human population without hope, without pride, and without ambition. A neutral emotional slate that didn't give the Chaos gods any power Unfortunately, as we know, it really only helps Khorne and Nurgle, mostly, and Slaanesh in the higher castes. Pretty much stomps on Tzeentch though, most of the time. But, trying to reach that ultimate goal of placid easy going mindless humans is the point of it all.
Excuse me the emprah has no slaves only workers who don't get paid don't stop working and get killed for fun so my point is valid due to a sister of battle bolter
I don't actually understand why bolters are supposed to be so lethal? They're rocket powered, sure, but they're supposed to be penetrators (rather than explosive), aren't they? The wiki doesn't imply that the ejection mass allows them to move faster than the already supersonic speed of say... a rifle bullet (which is typically well above Mach 2, 700-950 meters per second, typically IRL).
Wouldnt it be epic to make a game about bottom of human hive? Where you have to fight local gangs, mutant and heretics for survival of bottom human class at the bottom of the hive.
GameOfThomas And now WH is a global industry, & id like to see a well crafted cinema movie of the WH 4K epics w/ a little bit more of the ideological bent more so than the vid game violence every nano sec of the movie, but when violence is needed in its truest form w/ out the soft disney land bent that'll literally ruin the WH space opera UC.& have a couple of buds when watchin also.👽👍🍻🌿🌿🍻
When you live in a society where the police come up and arrest you and say how dare you try to commit suicide their your corps will damage the the machinery below their, also preventing us from using said corps as a servitor is a sin.
At best, a single hiveworld has maybe 100 billion to 1 trillion people. There is no way in hell that a single hiveworld would contain several quadrillion, unless it was planetwide like that of Terra's
I'm talking about the total populations of all the Hive worlds in the Imperium put together, not just one Hive world. According to the official lore, there are roughly 32,380 Hive worlds. The average Hive world has a population of 100 billion to 500 billion. Adding that up equals several quadrillion citizens. Over 3 quadrillion to be precise. Now, include all the populations of the other 967,620+ Imperial planets (civilized worlds, Forge worlds, etc) plus all the people living on space stations and starships and you got a shit ton of people.
Dude the numbers of Warhammer are so dense it’s hard to conceptualize. Like the math of how many hive cities are on each of the 33k planets and a billion or more people in each city is so staggering
@@BossHoggBroDog Not to mention that there are 10-100 billion people PER hive world. If we're going on the MINIMUM of 10 billion, the population would be 330,000,000,000,000 JUST for those hive worlds.
I read somewhere that there are at least 10,000 major military actions in the Imperium at any given time. It is also well known that the Imperium contains millions of worlds. The math shows that the average imperial citizen has nothing to fear except the government itself, just as in real life.
Blue nah, if it wasn't for the pretty hard rule of the imperium then humanity would collapse and be most likely destroyed by chaos and stuff like tyranids
Blue on one side you have an organization that is pretty distant for the most part and you'll only have trouble with if our planet is involved in something while on the other you have bugs that eat literally everything organic on a world
I wonder if the planetary governors of Hive Worlds intentionally make life miserable for imperial citizens to make conscription into the Imperial Guard more appealing.
Muglosx Nah. Workers/ slaves mostly don't even get the chance to enter the Imperial army. Recruitment depends on the worlds/ subsectors and the varying demands of the Administration . Mostly take from the middle to high class. Bibliothek or cemetery worlds have quite low to no recruitment. PDFs (Planetary Defense Forces) come often from other planets.
This was probably my favorite OMS 40k video. I've been into 40k for over a decade and still was not aware of much of this information. Please do more if you can. Videos about civilian life of other factions would be cool too; like daemon world's, eldar, tau or any other applicable race.
I imagine that quality of life varies significantly depending on where exactly you are. Like, the average agriworld or civilized world is probably not to bad.
All you really need to know is that unless your rich, life will suck and you would probably rather die than live as an average citizen in the Imperium.
Meh, the tau will have their big fall at some point. Most likely scenario is the drones will turn on them.all science fiction dictates that A.I. always turns on its creators. In fact I hope that the Tau A.I. insurrection is so bad that the whole race gets retconned.. Farsight is cool, they can stay.
Completely fucked might be a slight exaggeration. If you land on a hive world, you are most likely to be a worker in heavy industry. Hundrets of thousands of people worked like that in the past in history and they managed to live through it. If you're on a civilized world, there's a reasonably high chance that live would not be very different from your current reality at all. You go to school, you get a job, you work for the rest of your life until you're old and you get some freetime inbetween. There's always a chance of things going south but given the scale of the imperium, it's really not that likely that you'll ever see some big catastrophy. As said in the video, there are *thousands* of hive worlds and only a handful of them saw big catastrophies in recent history.
EmptyMan000 That might be crap but it is not particularly worse than reality. Especially in the past, from the dawn of civilization to the beginning of modern times, you were most likely to be born poor, it was always possible that your home got wiped out by some desaster you had no control over and you were likely to be born under some pretty rough regime that didn't gave a frak about human lives.
REQUEST: you showed us the civilian life WITHIN the imperium. Is there any known lore about how humans live who joined the Tau? (or the Farsight enclaves for that matter) - Do any humans live under eldar control (this doesnt sound so likely)? The rest of the races dont seem to be too compatible with humans though...
THOSE THAT HAVE RENOUNCED THE GLOREH OF THE IMPERIUM HAVE RENOUNCED THEIR CITIZENSHIP AND THUS THEIR HUMANITY, THEY ARE ALL HERETICS THAT MUST BE PURGED *IN HIS NAME*
At least our technology is evolving instead of degrading. Invention is not heresy and we know how and why it works instead of worshipping it and having to say a litany and 2 hours of prayers before we push the big button that says "on", Honestly it is the imperium that is starting to go back to banging rocks together.
Your channel rocks! It's wonderful to have videos that summarize so much w40k lore, since reading codex's and wikis can sometimes be hard and a little boring after a while (especially for non-native English speakers/readers like me). Earned a sub, keep up the good work!
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Most of the time, they'd be unaware of most of these things. Knowledge about chaos and most xenos is not wide spread among civilians in the imperium. So, you would *know* that there is an emperor somewhere on a planet called terra and you'd know some legends and stories about xenos and dangers that are out there. But it would be pretty surreal, like, for example, in modern days the danger of an asteroid hitting earth. Yes, it could happen, but it is neither likely nor something you'll think about in everyday life. All hive- and civilian worlds also have their own history and politics. So rather than thinking about what the imperium is doing as a whole, you'd be reading news about the newest local gangs, nobles and the new monorail that is supposed to be built in hive-block A. You'd be angry about off-world meat getting more expensive and happy about your better healthcare provided by the new hospital accross the street. Your biggest dream would probably be having some holidays on one of the high spires where you could see the sky Maybe, just maybe, you know someone who knows someone who joined the guard. They then might be telling stories they heard about where that person might be or what they could be fighting. But that would all be very vague too
They gave a pretty good one as well. The only thing I'd add is that each of these hives have pretty much unique cultures and even languages. Their worship of the Emperor is the only real thing that unifies them, but even in that respect they can be wildly different in their beliefs. One hive city may believe that the sun is the "body" of the Emperor or even the very ground they live on. The point is that when these places have populations of the tens of billions, bare in mind our own planets population is still currently less than that and just think of the variety of beliefs and cultures we have here. So that just more so as more people and all bottled up inside a single city.
Many planets are only in medieval or high middle ages tech level as well, with the exception of the Imperial Guard. That's why some imperial worlds have cavalry regiments and use single shot volley fire tech guns and tactics. Also not all citizens live on Hiveworlds. Hiveworlds are certainly the most important just like the big megacities on earth dominate politically and culturally here on earth. Imperium of man consist of over a million planets, only about 33,000 of them are hive cities but hive cities produce the most goods and services and dominate the majority that lives on comparative "rural/mining" worlds.
It is said that the average hiveworlder doesn't even know there is such a thing as the universe. A worker in the lower hive may not even understand that anything at all exists outside the hive, because understanding things besides direct orders is none of their business.
This is dark and awesome. I remember playing Spacemarine and listening to the audio logs about workers and walking around their habitations and lives. Creepy but cool.
Already watched the vid and liked but now I'm commenting for that sick starter pack. Always wanted to start 40k. Been watching you guys a while keep up the great work!
i bet there are civilized worlds where people are so busy climbing corporate ladders, watching tv and partying their life away. and anyone can just fly away and join the IG if they get sick of it
Estimated Number of Imperial Citizens in the 40k Universe - 7.71000000E+15 With over 38,550 catalogued Hive Worlds in the Imperium of Man, Each housing 10 ~ 100 Billion Citizens - with 10 ~ 100 Hive Cities per Hive World. Then again, I may be way off.
Warhammer 40k makes the Joker Galaxy inhabitants look like a paradise. Even though there is a loose "caste" system of Headliners/Fatimas and regular citizens.
Any other citizen in the imperium: You wake up, say your prayers to the emperor, go to work in a factory, work for a shift, get lunch, work for another shift, go home, listen to some vox-radio, sleep. Once or twice you go to an imperial shrine, sometimes you go to a bar and all the time you avoid dark alleyways to not get caught by some criminals. On the bright side: Things in the imperium don't change very often. Job security must be pretty high. If you're lucky, you end up in middle class jobs for the administratum. In that case, you probably work on your own cogitor unit and sort texts and data all day.
Day to day life of a space marine: "FOR THE EMPEROOOOOOOOR! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" *charges into the fray, bolters blazing, chainswords revving*. PS: If Heretic is found, insert *BLAM* to his head. Day to day life of an inquisitor: "HERESY! HERETICS! HERETEKS! THE RUINOUS POWERS!" PS: If Heretic is found, insert EXTERMINATUS on his planet and the 10 subadjacent sub-sectors.
In other words, life in the administratum is the same as life in 21st century western society :P Except of course our God is our government whom we are allowed to criticize but not disobey.
I enjoy these videos a lot. It gives such life to the 40k universe! I've never played the RL version of these games, but I've played one or two PC adaptations of it. This is epicly great information! Thank you!
I have a completely off topic question. Do orks have princepts for their gargants or do they just ork it together with pulleys cable leavers and scrap?
40 facts about space marines out of battle, then do the same for chaos space marines, then do the same for pre heresy space marines (Horus heresy novels are good for this)
Great video! Really good demonstration of the often ignored bleak reality, cog-in-the-wheel existence of the average lives in the Imperium of Mankind, in the 40K galaxy. You'd like to think life was better during The Great Crusade, but it could mostly have been much worse, especially if your world was being brought into compliance.
Check that out @ 8:05, an original Space Marine Terminator variant! Citadel Miniatures only produced one figure of that ages ago but I'm curious to know where that piece of artwork came from.
Is there any chance that you might be able to provide me with a link to the music that you've used within the background? It is marvelous, and I do so love your videos. I watch them daily in fact, but I'm writing a book, and this music is very stimulating to my creative thinking.
This is why I would prefer a pirate life or Rogue Traveler. Pirate life would work due to the xeno encounters, places I can hide out at, and the constant need to stay alive. As for the Rogue Traveler, the experience of traveling to the unknown. Xeno encounter, warfare on strange planets, and living by my wits.
Well, If I had to live in WH40, I would definitely choose Harakoni, I can see my self as painting the pin-up art on the Valkyrie assault carriers. :) And if I get dragged in the Imperial Guard, at least the first few minutes will be fun before the 15 min timer starts for the life expectancy. :)
I know it's super late but great 40k civi vids some of my favorites becuase it doesn't revolve around yet another spacemarine chapter!! Question will you bee doing more 40k civilian topics say Eldar civilians (pure crafters?), Tau, some lesser known factions? Maybe go into more detail about civilian lives in general could even make up some stories (within reason if course) too!!
I'm going to say the Traitor Primarchs. Come on, guys. Anyone who says otherwise forgets how godlike the original Primarchs were, and turned into Daemon Princes they'll be nigh unstoppable in a raw fight with the Custodes (without the Imperial Palace's defenses, that is).
10:30 imperium foreman: "I don't care how many bodies you through at it *mass automation* is preferable to *mass manufacturing* and that only leave more bodies to use elsewhere anyway!!"
Could you also do a 40 facts about death worlds and agri worlds? I'd like to know more about what different kinds of death worlds there are, and the social/administrative/military systems of agri worlds.
"To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable." I reckon that about covers what it is like to live in the Imperium.
Not if your a citizen living in the lower levels, but above the underhive, in that case, voluntarily siding with chaos actually makes a lot of sense. Admittedly they would mostly pefer the khorne world due to chaos corruption, but still! It is in the end quite a subjective matter, BUT!! I have never heard of warriors of khorne preferring life on a hive world.
I've recently been wondering what civilian life is like through the wars in the 40k Milky Way after starting my collection and playing This War Of Mine.
Why is it so interesting to read lore about stuff that originated from someone else mind that complete fiction? I love real world history as well, but fiction really enhances it though i don't understand why. Humans have loved fictional lore for over 3000 years, probably more. From a cynical perspective it is all bullshit.
well, Seccc just coted the rule book ( at least it was in the 4 or 5th edition, so I don't think they change it in the actual edition). So imao Seccc is right.
11:40 seems like the *civilized worlds* are the imperium's "vield" attempts to get in on that developing new technologies and innovation (hipocracy it's a timeless practice) game!! Which I find very interesting a *relatively* "free" exchange of ideas (imperium approved) and encouragement of growth (not mostly devoted to war or colonization) could have a potential major payoffs on the imperium's investment!!
before you mentioned there being more parts, i was going to ask if you classify penal and death worlds as non civilians, which would been weird but a excuses non the less to cover mostly hive worlds.
Death worlds, if populated at all, are usually either feral- or feudal-level. The people there are too busy surviving against all odds to become truely civilized.
RokuroCarisu That isn't truem Death worlds simply have extremely inhospitable environments. Mordia is a combination Hive World and Death World. Catachan is also an example of a Death world whose population isn't feral or feudal.
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If I was born on a Hive world I'd immediately join the Guard. Dying across the galaxy beats living in a citywide sweat shop where the person next to you will shank you for your lunch money.
A very common thought for a hive citizen.
Forced conscription may be the norm but with volunteers from the lower hive levels alone the gard would still count in the billions.
John Howard same
Weeeeell maybe living as rightless livestock for the Imperium sucks but do you know what else sucks?
Being disintegrated by painfull sci-fi weapons, being sacraficed to some primordial horror-god, being shot to pieces by your traiterous best friend, being crippled for the rest of your short life by some alien acid, being abducted to some big, creepy city in the Web-Way and there being tortured for amusement, being torn apart by the demons your "comrade" psyker unleashed acccidentally, being tossed out to space as your transport ship gets attacked, having to shoot the young recruit your responsibe for because he showed three minutes late to your officer...do you wish me to continue?
Seriously i hardly can imagine a life worse than that of a guardsman.
Those seem like special circumstances compared to the much more common deaths like being shot, dying in an explosion, warp storms etc. Plus those are still quicker deaths than slowly rotting away, toiling in some munitorum factory. At least as a Guardsman there's a sense of adventure, a shot at glory, a chance of freedom. You can climb the ranks, gain respect and become more than a simple cog in the machine. And any loyal imperial citizen will gladly die for our glorious god Emprah! *Smiles at camera*
Enlist now kids! :D
Either that or sneak your way onto the closest Rogue Trader that happens to make port.
I can honestly say that living in the Warhammer 40,000...sucks beyond all reason. We must NEVER let humanity get this bad.
Brandon Aughtman let's wait 40k years to see what happens.
SkiniNinja Uhh...good point. How about we just make sure that Judge Dredd does not happen for the next 100 years. First Mega Blocks and then Hive Cities.
Well, for most people, living in warhammer 40k would be like living in a mix of medieval cities and early industrial revolution-type circumstances. Tiny rooms where whole family have to live, no freetime, horrible work conditions that kill you early... humanity already got that bad. The imperium has an enormous scale so that instead of cityblocks, its whole planets in these conditions, but still. it is not as far fetched from reality like it might seem.
Yah know. there is an actual reason that the Administratum actually encourages that kind of living and the attitudes it brings.
They actually purposely do it to keep the human mind complacent, beaten down. because large numbers of people with feelings of happiness, euphoria, feeling like they can make it and have pride, all promote some of the more insidious and hard to counter Chaos gods.
The preference would be a human population without hope, without pride, and without ambition. A neutral emotional slate that didn't give the Chaos gods any power
Unfortunately, as we know, it really only helps Khorne and Nurgle, mostly, and Slaanesh in the higher castes. Pretty much stomps on Tzeentch though, most of the time.
But, trying to reach that ultimate goal of placid easy going mindless humans is the point of it all.
Brandon Aughtman for most not in a hive city life's okay, a colony world or agro world can be very much like our own current world
There is no such thing of civllians in the Imperium. There is only potential conscripts
and later gaurdsmen :D
Zerg King and potential heretics
Excuse me the emprah has no slaves only workers who don't get paid don't stop working and get killed for fun so my point is valid due to a sister of battle bolter
*Horst wessel begins to play.*
I don't actually understand why bolters are supposed to be so lethal? They're rocket powered, sure, but they're supposed to be penetrators (rather than explosive), aren't they? The wiki doesn't imply that the ejection mass allows them to move faster than the already supersonic speed of say... a rifle bullet (which is typically well above Mach 2, 700-950 meters per second, typically IRL).
Also everyone is steampunk cosplay fanatic
Daniel rogers Or has the spikiest and edgiest clothing ever.
lol
Name Surname Its probably in real terms one of the best things about life in 40k everyone can look awesome and it not be weird
Daniel rogers I would love to dress up as an 80's looking cyborg with the wackiest clothes possible.
wouldn't it be cyberpunk?
Wouldnt it be epic to make a game about bottom of human hive? Where you have to fight local gangs, mutant and heretics for survival of bottom human class at the bottom of the hive.
Conquistadoge necromunda
Necromunda:underhive wars is a new videogame
Aye , but had the imperium still had the emperor to follow life would be massively better.
That sounds like Chicago
That would make a kick-ass IP all by itself, the 40k brand would just bring the fans on board and morale it more money. :D
10:15 "no suicide jumping use next bridge" lmfao
Xenovista knowing the inquisition, they'll actually find a way to carry that punishment out.
Servitors!
WH40K started out as a satire of fascism and a parody of dark sci-fi/fantasy :D
GameOfThomas
And now WH is a global industry, & id like to see a well crafted cinema movie of the WH 4K epics w/ a little bit more of the ideological bent more so than the vid game violence every nano sec of the movie, but when violence is needed in its truest form w/ out the soft disney land bent that'll literally ruin the WH space opera UC.& have a couple of buds when watchin also.👽👍🍻🌿🌿🍻
When you live in a society where the police come up and arrest you and say how dare you try to commit suicide their your corps will damage the the machinery below their, also preventing us from using said corps as a servitor is a sin.
Fun Fact: The population of the Imperium numbers in the quadrillions. Combined Hive world populations alone give several quadrillion humans.
billyboyjennings I'm pretty sure hive worlds only have trillions not quadrillion's but I could be wrong
At best, a single hiveworld has maybe 100 billion to 1 trillion people. There is no way in hell that a single hiveworld would contain several quadrillion, unless it was planetwide like that of Terra's
+RedMatter ... "Unless it was planetwide" it's called a hive WORLD, dude. It's not a hive city. The entire planet is a layercake city.
Mistwingz
I thought the term implied that the planet even held hives, rather than that the world was a single hive
I'm talking about the total populations of all the Hive worlds in the Imperium put together, not just one Hive world. According to the official lore, there are roughly 32,380 Hive worlds. The average Hive world has a population of 100 billion to 500 billion. Adding that up equals several quadrillion citizens. Over 3 quadrillion to be precise.
Now, include all the populations of the other 967,620+ Imperial planets (civilized worlds, Forge worlds, etc) plus all the people living on space stations and starships and you got a shit ton of people.
Only 33,000 of the 1,000,000 planets of the Imperium are hive worlds though.
But those planets hold most of the populace of the Imperium.
Earthworm Jim *only*
Dude the numbers of Warhammer are so dense it’s hard to conceptualize. Like the math of how many hive cities are on each of the 33k planets and a billion or more people in each city is so staggering
@@BossHoggBroDog Not to mention that there are 10-100 billion people PER hive world. If we're going on the MINIMUM of 10 billion, the population would be 330,000,000,000,000 JUST for those hive worlds.
@@KosherPorky And add Terra with minimum trillion population
I read somewhere that there are at least 10,000 major military actions in the Imperium at any given time. It is also well known that the Imperium contains millions of worlds. The math shows that the average imperial citizen has nothing to fear except the government itself, just as in real life.
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Just as in real life, yes.
Blue nah, if it wasn't for the pretty hard rule of the imperium then humanity would collapse and be most likely destroyed by chaos and stuff like tyranids
James Stewart
I believe that we may fear the government and tyranids equally.
Blue on one side you have an organization that is pretty distant for the most part and you'll only have trouble with if our planet is involved in something while on the other you have bugs that eat literally everything organic on a world
Or the damned Orks. They're everywhere.
So this is why people join Chaos
Dustwake can u check my channel out
chaos is never the answer #fortheemperor
Chaplain Thor how about no #milkforthekhorneflakes
*Tau
Wouldn't chaos be worse with demons and such?
ok, now do 40k facts about 40k
you are not overthinking this hard enough
So they live in a China/India type world
But times a thousand
Only everybody's a briton
Hongkong basically. Kowloon walled city if you want to be precise.
For how often the narrator pauses, you'd think he'd get the pronunciations right more often.
@@flawlessbinary7449 Koowlon with addtional minimum 100 floors on the entire planet
I wonder if the planetary governors of Hive Worlds intentionally make life miserable for imperial citizens to make conscription into the Imperial Guard more appealing.
Muglosx Nah. Workers/ slaves mostly don't even get the chance to enter the Imperial army. Recruitment depends on the worlds/ subsectors and the varying demands of the Administration . Mostly take from the middle to high class. Bibliothek or cemetery worlds have quite low to no recruitment. PDFs (Planetary Defense Forces) come often from other planets.
Oh yeah that is the Nore in this grim dark universe
They don't really care, but from their point it's win/win. Higher production and higher conscription.
This was probably my favorite OMS 40k video. I've been into 40k for over a decade and still was not aware of much of this information. Please do more if you can. Videos about civilian life of other factions would be cool too; like daemon world's, eldar, tau or any other applicable race.
do life on chaos worlds!
straighter100 ass rape while being whipped to build statues?
Without lube.
That would be pretty insane ...
you forgot insertions
Just read Dante's Inferno
We need a open world 40k game badly
10:25 "For suicide jumping. Use next bridge."
and the Imperial Eagle its a true 40k pic.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Fortress Worlds.
In a Fortress World there are no civilians
part 2 yo
I imagine that quality of life varies significantly depending on where exactly you are. Like, the average agriworld or civilized world is probably not to bad.
You said nothing about civilian life, you just listed the types of planets.
He'll most likely make a part 2.
Yeah your right. and some of these video are more storytelling rather than facts
All you really need to know is that unless your rich, life will suck and you would probably rather die than live as an average citizen in the Imperium.
@@Fredfredbug4 same as irl
wow, Humanity is no better than vermin in this regard.
Well then, would highly technological worlds that aren't forge worlds be allowed to exist?
Yes, but planets like that are usually the result of a nearby forge moon of the admec.
It would be cool to actually see some civilized worlds being more advanced than a typical Tau World.
Meh, the tau will have their big fall at some point. Most likely scenario is the drones will turn on them.all science fiction dictates that A.I. always turns on its creators.
In fact I hope that the Tau A.I. insurrection is so bad that the whole race gets retconned..
Farsight is cool, they can stay.
The TAU should stay, I'm not a fan of them yet they're still unique for 40k. What I want is more human factions that aren't chaos nor Imperium.
yeah, that will never happen.
As much as the Imperium fights chaos... their conditions feeds chaos even more.
thanks for doing this topic, I saved both parts on my watch later to watch them in order.
sooooooooooooooo basically living in this universe you'd be completly fucked even as a citizen.
Completely fucked might be a slight exaggeration. If you land on a hive world, you are most likely to be a worker in heavy industry. Hundrets of thousands of people worked like that in the past in history and they managed to live through it.
If you're on a civilized world, there's a reasonably high chance that live would not be very different from your current reality at all. You go to school, you get a job, you work for the rest of your life until you're old and you get some freetime inbetween.
There's always a chance of things going south but given the scale of the imperium, it's really not that likely that you'll ever see some big catastrophy. As said in the video, there are *thousands* of hive worlds and only a handful of them saw big catastrophies in recent history.
So what, you hope you're born into a world not about to face a cataclysm or a poor hive world? That's crap.
EmptyMan000 That might be crap but it is not particularly worse than reality. Especially in the past, from the dawn of civilization to the beginning of modern times, you were most likely to be born poor, it was always possible that your home got wiped out by some desaster you had no control over and you were likely to be born under some pretty rough regime that didn't gave a frak about human lives.
REQUEST: you showed us the civilian life WITHIN the imperium. Is there any known lore about how humans live who joined the Tau? (or the Farsight enclaves for that matter) - Do any humans live under eldar control (this doesnt sound so likely)? The rest of the races dont seem to be too compatible with humans though...
we will look into that
Yay thanks
THOSE THAT HAVE RENOUNCED THE GLOREH OF THE IMPERIUM HAVE RENOUNCED THEIR CITIZENSHIP AND THUS THEIR HUMANITY, THEY ARE ALL HERETICS THAT MUST BE PURGED *IN HIS NAME*
ahh its the youths of space rearing their heads again are you still banging rocks together? or did you discover fire yet?
At least our technology is evolving instead of degrading. Invention is not heresy and we know how and why it works instead of worshipping it and having to say a litany and 2 hours of prayers before we push the big button that says "on", Honestly it is the imperium that is starting to go back to banging rocks together.
Your channel rocks! It's wonderful to have videos that summarize so much w40k lore, since reading codex's and wikis can sometimes be hard and a little boring after a while (especially for non-native English speakers/readers like me). Earned a sub, keep up the good work!
Would like to see life in the Guard, Astarties, and Navy. From boot to retirement/ death.
There is no such thing as retirement. Once you sign up, you're in for life.
No rest for the holy
+Yeager Bomb Guardsmen don't last that long.
nope, a lot of guard actually survive
zebro If by "a lot" you mean the lucky 1%, then sure, a lot of guardsmen survive. And then die of old age while serving.
he uses destiny art. for Warhammer 40k
HERESY
ghost59able You are aware of the fact that many 40k facts enjoy Destiny right?
Nord Vampire Lord you know its heresy to use other images from other worlds that's not from Warhammer 40k right ?
HERESY! BLAM!
ghost59able The user "NordVampireLord" has been removed from the internet by order of the Inquisition. Repetition of his views on Destiny-Warhammer relations will be henceforth considered heretical and those agreeing with them will be punished. The Emperor expects.
I love how one of the "Hive World" graphics is Coruscaunt from Star Wars.
I always love it when people that are smarter than me can explain to me the interesting facts about franchises I am too lazy to explore myself
It's a bit late for me to realise how depressing 40k is.
I love this man's accent
What I would like to know is, how does a common citizen actually see the stuff that's happening in 40k universe?
Most of the time, they'd be unaware of most of these things. Knowledge about chaos and most xenos is not wide spread among civilians in the imperium. So, you would *know* that there is an emperor somewhere on a planet called terra and you'd know some legends and stories about xenos and dangers that are out there. But it would be pretty surreal, like, for example, in modern days the danger of an asteroid hitting earth. Yes, it could happen, but it is neither likely nor something you'll think about in everyday life.
All hive- and civilian worlds also have their own history and politics. So rather than thinking about what the imperium is doing as a whole, you'd be reading news about the newest local gangs, nobles and the new monorail that is supposed to be built in hive-block A. You'd be angry about off-world meat getting more expensive and happy about your better healthcare provided by the new hospital accross the street.
Your biggest dream would probably be having some holidays on one of the high spires where you could see the sky
Maybe, just maybe, you know someone who knows someone who joined the guard. They then might be telling stories they heard about where that person might be or what they could be fighting. But that would all be very vague too
MrMartechi Thanks for the answer.
They gave a pretty good one as well. The only thing I'd add is that each of these hives have pretty much unique cultures and even languages. Their worship of the Emperor is the only real thing that unifies them, but even in that respect they can be wildly different in their beliefs. One hive city may believe that the sun is the "body" of the Emperor or even the very ground they live on.
The point is that when these places have populations of the tens of billions, bare in mind our own planets population is still currently less than that and just think of the variety of beliefs and cultures we have here. So that just more so as more people and all bottled up inside a single city.
Many planets are only in medieval or high middle ages tech level as well, with the exception of the Imperial Guard. That's why some imperial worlds have cavalry regiments and use single shot volley fire tech guns and tactics.
Also not all citizens live on Hiveworlds. Hiveworlds are certainly the most important just like the big megacities on earth dominate politically and culturally here on earth. Imperium of man consist of over a million planets, only about 33,000 of them are hive cities but hive cities produce the most goods and services and dominate the majority that lives on comparative "rural/mining" worlds.
It is said that the average hiveworlder doesn't even know there is such a thing as the universe. A worker in the lower hive may not even understand that anything at all exists outside the hive, because understanding things besides direct orders is none of their business.
Thanks to you guys, 40k Theories, and the Vaults of Terra, I can consider myself to be well versed in 40k lore. Keep up the good work!
Those hive worlds sound like a wild party
This is dark and awesome. I remember playing Spacemarine and listening to the audio logs about workers and walking around their habitations and lives. Creepy but cool.
6:40 That Destiny Wizard... Nice
Already watched the vid and liked but now I'm commenting for that sick starter pack. Always wanted to start 40k. Been watching you guys a while keep up the great work!
i bet there are civilized worlds where people are so busy climbing corporate ladders, watching tv and partying their life away. and anyone can just fly away and join the IG if they get sick of it
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Great lore guys you need to keep this video series going never stop
Thanks to Emperor we Mongolia live in green natural world. White scars are so lucky
One of the gangmembers was discovered and recruited by Davian Thule from Blood Ravens. His name was Thaddeus, now an Assault Marine in DOW 2.
Aramus, the Force Commander, from one source, was also recruited from Meridian...
The imperium: we waste little.
Also the imperium: HmM yEs BiG cEmEteRy
Estimated
Number of Imperial Citizens in the 40k Universe -
7.71000000E+15
With over 38,550 catalogued Hive Worlds in the Imperium of Man,
Each housing 10 ~ 100 Billion Citizens - with 10 ~ 100 Hive Cities per Hive World.
Then again, I may be way off.
Thank you for the insight, this has to be one of the best.
Ok so the 40k universe just got a little bit less shitty to me knowing that majority of worlds are civilized worlds and not hive worlds.
Uhh arent Hive Worlds just civilized worlds on a large scale ?
Rediscovered the OMS vidyas. I love you guys.
Warhammer 40k makes the Joker Galaxy inhabitants look like a paradise. Even though there is a loose "caste" system of Headliners/Fatimas and regular citizens.
It seems like the Humans have the most shittiest lives in 40K Universe :D
they do. thats why many considdered joining the tau once the tau empire ivites them to join their battle for the greatergood.
Sounds like Heresy to me... wanna rephrase?
I would say greenskins and tyranids both have it a lot worse, but they are physically incapable of really suffering.
zebro Simple truth corpse worshipper.
Yes please more videos like these.Next time maybe the day to day life of a space marine or a inquisitor or any other citizen in the imperium
Any other citizen in the imperium: You wake up, say your prayers to the emperor, go to work in a factory, work for a shift, get lunch, work for another shift, go home, listen to some vox-radio, sleep. Once or twice you go to an imperial shrine, sometimes you go to a bar and all the time you avoid dark alleyways to not get caught by some criminals.
On the bright side: Things in the imperium don't change very often. Job security must be pretty high.
If you're lucky, you end up in middle class jobs for the administratum. In that case, you probably work on your own cogitor unit and sort texts and data all day.
Day to day life of a space marine: "FOR THE EMPEROOOOOOOOR! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" *charges into the fray, bolters blazing, chainswords revving*.
PS: If Heretic is found, insert *BLAM* to his head.
Day to day life of an inquisitor: "HERESY! HERETICS! HERETEKS! THE RUINOUS POWERS!"
PS: If Heretic is found, insert EXTERMINATUS on his planet and the 10 subadjacent sub-sectors.
In other words, life in the administratum is the same as life in 21st century western society :P Except of course our God is our government whom we are allowed to criticize but not disobey.
I enjoy these videos a lot. It gives such life to the 40k universe! I've never played the RL version of these games, but I've played one or two PC adaptations of it. This is epicly great information! Thank you!
10:26 : The sign! >D>D>D>D>D>D>D>D>D>D
there was a sign that said NO SUICIDE JUMPING-----what the fuck
When does it appear?
I have a completely off topic question. Do orks have princepts for their gargants or do they just ork it together with pulleys cable leavers and scrap?
40 facts about space marines out of battle, then do the same for chaos space marines, then do the same for pre heresy space marines (Horus heresy novels are good for this)
Great video! Really good demonstration of the often ignored bleak reality, cog-in-the-wheel existence of the average lives in the Imperium of Mankind, in the 40K galaxy. You'd like to think life was better during The Great Crusade, but it could mostly have been much worse, especially if your world was being brought into compliance.
They simply "defunded the Police" on the lowest levels...
3:03 The image is from Star Wars The Old Republic
nice i was wondering a lot about this thanks
Check that out @ 8:05, an original Space Marine Terminator variant! Citadel Miniatures only produced one figure of that ages ago but I'm curious to know where that piece of artwork came from.
I guess you could say that it is a hive of scum and villainy.
great video. looking forward to the pleasure world video and thing a video on the adeptus arbites would be cool
what is the name of the background music I want it! Please where can I find it?😊
Is there any chance that you might be able to provide me with a link to the music that you've used within the background? It is marvelous, and I do so love your videos. I watch them daily in fact, but I'm writing a book, and this music is very stimulating to my creative thinking.
This is why I would prefer a pirate life or Rogue Traveler. Pirate life would work due to the xeno encounters, places I can hide out at, and the constant need to stay alive.
As for the Rogue Traveler, the experience of traveling to the unknown. Xeno encounter, warfare on strange planets, and living by my wits.
Well, If I had to live in WH40, I would definitely choose Harakoni, I can see my self as painting the pin-up art on the Valkyrie assault carriers. :)
And if I get dragged in the Imperial Guard, at least the first few minutes will be fun before the 15 min timer starts for the life expectancy. :)
Hey OMS did you see the video of a real life chainsword made by that Man at Arms show? They couldn't swing it but it was pretty cool!
Civilian life sounds like heresy to me. HOW DARE YOU NOT USE YOUR BODY AND SOUL TO SUPPORT THE WILL OF THE EMPEROR
I know it's super late but great 40k civi vids some of my favorites becuase it doesn't revolve around yet another spacemarine chapter!! Question will you bee doing more 40k civilian topics say Eldar civilians (pure crafters?), Tau, some lesser known factions? Maybe go into more detail about civilian lives in general could even make up some stories (within reason if course) too!!
Poverty or not, they have a lot of clothing.
Who would win in a battle within the Imperial Palace: All of the Adeptus Custodes vs all of the remaining Traitor Primarchs.
it depends.... greatly depents...
I'm going to say the Traitor Primarchs. Come on, guys. Anyone who says otherwise forgets how godlike the original Primarchs were, and turned into Daemon Princes they'll be nigh unstoppable in a raw fight with the Custodes (without the Imperial Palace's defenses, that is).
dont forget about the strategically placed guardsmen regiments and imperial fists
10:30 imperium foreman: "I don't care how many bodies you through at it *mass automation* is preferable to *mass manufacturing* and that only leave more bodies to use elsewhere anyway!!"
if you want out of your hive destiny you volunteer the imperial navy or imperial guard and it is a popular option
That was pretty cool. Looking forward to more.
Could you also do a 40 facts about death worlds and agri worlds? I'd like to know more about what different kinds of death worlds there are, and the social/administrative/military systems of agri worlds.
I rather live in Starship Troopers(novel version) world.
Full citizenship guarantee.
Would you like to now more?
Great video! For the emprah!
Great video topic!That's why i've liked Necromunda.For me it so much more interesting than space marines and other dull soldiers:D
I wonder what life was like when the Emperor was actively running the Imperium.
"To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable."
I reckon that about covers what it is like to live in the Imperium.
Not if your a citizen living in the lower levels, but above the underhive, in that case, voluntarily siding with chaos actually makes a lot of sense. Admittedly they would mostly pefer the khorne world due to chaos corruption, but still!
It is in the end quite a subjective matter, BUT!!
I have never heard of warriors of khorne preferring life on a hive world.
I've recently been wondering what civilian life is like through the wars in the 40k Milky Way after starting my collection and playing This War Of Mine.
Ultramarines home planet is actually the Best choice if You could choose.
I'd like to start reading the lore, please recommend the very first volume I should to properly introduce myself to the 40k world.
Thanks in advance!
That's a nice picture of Coruscant at 4:07.
Why make hives arcologies though. It'd be far more efficient for them to spread their cities through the wastelands of their planet.
This man sounds like dunkey. This comforts me.
40 facts and lore about the Dornian Heresy!
Is that where all the heretics are coming from!? BLAM! (Just to be on the safe side. Talking about heresy is heresy.)
Why is it so interesting to read lore about stuff that originated from someone else mind that complete fiction? I love real world history as well, but fiction really enhances it though i don't understand why. Humans have loved fictional lore for over 3000 years, probably more. From a cynical perspective it is all bullshit.
those were some dark time my brother
What about the most important type of planet? Agriworlds. Without them the Empire starves.
well, Seccc just coted the rule book ( at least it was in the 4 or 5th edition, so I don't think they change it in the actual edition). So imao Seccc is right.
Pretty sure Agriworlds classifies under Civilised worlds.
Seccc Easy solution: Tyrannid Sandwishes (altough you gotta remove or boil the acid blood first)
At 3:35 is a photo from destiny
I clicked on this video thinking it was gonna be Arch Warhammer.
what a dystopia...
3:11 starwars reference
IM JOINING CHAOS
please talk about the Valhalla Ice Warriors
What is the name of the Background-Song?
11:40 seems like the *civilized worlds* are the imperium's "vield" attempts to get in on that developing new technologies and innovation (hipocracy it's a timeless practice) game!! Which I find very interesting a *relatively* "free" exchange of ideas (imperium approved) and encouragement of growth (not mostly devoted to war or colonization) could have a potential major payoffs on the imperium's investment!!
7:42 "I am the law, bitch!"
before you mentioned there being more parts, i was going to ask if you classify penal and death worlds as non civilians, which would been weird but a excuses non the less to cover mostly hive worlds.
Death worlds, if populated at all, are usually either feral- or feudal-level. The people there are too busy surviving against all odds to become truely civilized.
RokuroCarisu That isn't truem Death worlds simply have extremely inhospitable environments. Mordia is a combination Hive World and Death World. Catachan is also an example of a Death world whose population isn't feral or feudal.