Its debatable at Best, since we dont have the heraldry of the chapter and also we know they arent Codex compliant, since they do not divide themselves in companies per se, More Like squads that respond to threats and engage only high priority targets, i would say hes not the Chapter máster, only a veteran sargeant of the "first" company
@@The0Stroy Even someone as good as Vulcan burned an entire planet to kill Eldar, including the children. The 'good guys' are really only 'good' relative to everyone else in the universe.
One thing I love about 40k, is that there's no objective good. It's all varying scales of grey. I also love some of the dark humour in the novels - Ciaphas Cain, for instance, is basically Black Adder in space
@@The0Stroy lets be real here. None of who you mentioned are good in the bigger scale of things. I imagine the only real good guys are some eldar, guardsman and a select few space marines.
The group of Astartes are now a canon group called the Retributors. they're still relatively new, so they're developing. That's how good this animation is.
I didn't know that. Thats awsome to hear as this is low key the bar my own projects have to reach. I heard the creator got hired by Games Workshop. This is the icing on the cake, well done Syama!
"Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods." ~ Introduction to Warhammer 40,000.
If you want to get into Warhammer 40k lore, everyone will always suggest the videos by Bricky on youtube. Not to indepth but gives just enough information to give you the general overview about what to explore next.
Everyone keeps recommending Bricky as a starting point. I'd say he's the one to go to second. The first stop should be luetin's 'WTF is Warhammer 40k'. It's shorter and has a wider scope. Bricky is the fun one. luetin is the lore master. Baldermort is the story guy, and Majorkill is for shorter content.
@@SarthorS anything less than 4 hours per 1k years of a single faction is to be qualified as a brief recap. Having an hour long video that tries to explain you the whole chronology and factions at once will give you the same idea of the setting like describing a whole Breaking Bad series with "chemistry teacher got in trouble for cooking meth".
Quite the mistake. I rarely see people react to other warwammer stuff after a bricky video. And people who watch him also end up confusing lore with memes. His videos are one the lowest quality 40k stuff in youtube, popular does not mean good quality.
This little series of shorts is a masterclass in visual storytelling and such a great first introduction to WH40k. There is so much here for fans, but one also doesn't really have to know anything to enjoy it and pick up on the basics of what is happening.
Oh, Georgie, WH 40K is a rabbit hole so deep you can't even imagine. I'm falling into it for 15+ years now and that's fantastic experience. Hope you will dive into it more too :) Even if you will just watch animations without going too far into lore - that would be hours of fun. But, as guys already mentioned in this comment section - I definitely recommend couple of Bricky's YT videos just to get basics of WH 40k lore, so you will have more understanding what is hell happening on all those animations.
The Astartes project is based off of the Warhammer: 40,000 (or 40k for short) universe. The Astartes (or Space Marines) are bio-engineered super warriors that serve and protect The Imperium of Man, a vast galaxy spanning human empire 40,000 years in the future. In this video, the astartes of this specific faction were hunting down the leaders of a rebellion against the Imperium. What they found was that the rebels were under the control of an unknown, psychic alien species (the spheres). The guy in the red coat was something called a psyker, a powerful psychic individual who was able to listen in on the telepathic conversations of the spheres. The red coat with the skull in the middle of the capitol "I" meant that he was also a member of the God-Emperor's Holy Inquisition, the most powerful organization within the Imperium. He became possessed when he lost focus to warn the Astartes about what he had heard and said "Withdraw them immediately!" . In case you're wondering what the spheres said to each other, here it is: Sphere 1: "Brother, I have failed." Sphere 2: "We have all failed." Sphere 1: "The Astartes deny our touch." Sphere 2: "You must return, break your seal" Sphere 1: "Impossible! We will never survive" Sphere 2: "You must. Take them!" The Warhammer 40k universe is VAST and deep with practically mountains of lore. It is arguably the greatest sci-fi universe ever created. You guys will not be disappointed in learning more about it. Welcome to the rabbit hole, brothers. Another thing some people also miss, at the end when he's standing on the pillars, in the distance when you see all the giant skeletons, you can see other flashes of lights of the other marines teleport in the same area as the one we saw
So the author actually decided to create his own mysterious story to tell within the universe and he absolutely nailed it with insane attention to details. The spheres is his own idea, so even the most knowledgeable lore-people would find it very interesting without really knowing the context about what's happening, they can watch and enjoy as everyone else.
@@arfbark3924 the creator said that it wasn’t Yu’vath and the similarities are coincidental. Not that unsurprising as the chances of even knowing about the Yu’vath are pretty slim unless you played the Rogue Trader ttrpg.
@@arfbark3924 Rogue Trader the tabletop rpg isn’t the same as Rogue Trader the 1st Edition of 40k from 1987. The ttrpg was produced by Fantasy Flight Games as part of a series of 40K rpgs and was set in its own area of 40K called the Koronos Expanse. Yu’vath were also mentioned in Dark Heresy (another ttrpg from the same lineup focused on the Inquisition) iirc but there were no details about them other than they had been defeated by the Angelus Crusade at the founding of the Calixis sector. Even in Rogue Trader there is very little to go on about the Yu’vath and the sphere connection is pretty tenuous. I think there is only the Halo devices, small spherical devices that turn people into monsters that it is somewhat hinted at may be of Yu’vath origin and a class of Yu’vath autonomous ship that attacks the players in a module. I am going from memory so I could be wrong about some of this but you hopefully get the picture that it’s a pretty tenuous connection in a pretty obscure bit of 40K media. Although the new Rogue Trader crpg in development by Owlcat games is based on that FFG ttrpg and is also set in the Koronos Expanse so maybe will be less obscure in future.
The two spheres were communicating with each other, and the guy in the robes was listening in. Who is there? I have failed, brother. We have all failed. The astartes defy our touch. You must return. Break your seal. Impossible. We'll never survive. You must. Take the alpha. Closest as I can tell at least. 😆
4:01 How the space marine comes out of the shadows is epic. PS. At the very end, you can see flashes on the pillars after the teleportation. That's the other squad members appearing.
The fact the details of what's happening are kept deliberately vague is the best thing about this short movie - even works for hardcore 40k fans. Absolutely the right decision. We know this is about Astartes boarding a ship of heretics, and trying to capture a sphere that clearly acts as a gateway to the warp... but that's about it. Leaves so much open to interpretation and doesn't bog the story down by getting into too much detail. I love the fact he set in in M39... nice and far enough away from the timeline we're used to to allow him to do pretty much what he wanted in terms of visualising the warp and the psykers. This is the best 40k short because it shows how vast the lore and universe of 40k can be.
You are on the edge of a hole right now, the lore is DEEP in this franchise, with 50+ books, god knows how much plastic is used for the tabletop games, the video games, the amount of fan animation (everything from Helsreach to the shorts people make,) the lore videos. It is deep and rich, you are just scratching the surface with this. It's thoroughly enjoyable.
50+ books? There are well over 100 novels in just the Horus Heresy, and that all takes place 10,000 years prior to the current age of the game. Then you have 10 editions worth of books for the actual game, packed with details and lore. But what do you think? Do we have another convert for The God Emperor, beloved by all?
@@HistoritorJimaldus 500? I thought the number is much lower. But still 60 books of Horus Heresy plus 8 Siege of Terra, cca 20 Gaunts Ghosts, several Ravenor, Eisenhorn, at least one books about each of the Primarchs...crap.... and i dont even know where the Siege of Vraks is described, rule book or some novel series....uh oh.... my bookshelves wont be enough...
First Arknights now 40K. This is great. Anyways it hurts me that nothing games workshop has made animation wise is as good as this, like why was the angels of death series the closest thing we got
Has anyone suggested Helsreach yet? No? Well, it's a Warhammer fan animation of an audiobook. 13 parts. Got the animator hired and a crack at his own series. The author of the book likes it so there is that.
It makes me happy a lot content creators are starting to dip into the Warhammer 40K universe. Yes it’s a lot, but after you get your feet wet, it’s the most amazing universe. Cheers
Ahh I'm always so happy when more people are getting into Warhammer 40K! I got into it last year and the lore is quite dark and wild, but also oh boy is it interesting. Would be excited to see you dive into more of this stuff, there's plenty of stuff in there! As many have probably already said, I can recommend Bricky's videos on the factions and the space marine legions (the big soldier guys!). Good amount of information and humor as well!
I wanted to sneer with: the appearance, voice, facial expressions and charisma of this young lady. but, after her reaction to the details + deep analysis - I changed my mind. this chupacabra is an unsurpassed analyst.
15:20 There are no good guys. Im sure I'm not the first to say this in the comments, if I'm wrong, well here goes. The game is set 40k in the future. Humans are spreading like wild fire beyond our galaxy lead by a being, so powerful, he is treated as a god. We meet other creatures,they have interesting stories . We fight all of them. It's massive and much more complex. Ge dates to the 80s and has 300 plus publications. It's grim. Its dark. Beautiful.
another great video you can watch, both from an animation perspective, and story perspective, would be Helsreach, it's basically an entire audiobook animated, 100% would recommend, also made by 1 person if I am not mistaken!
Everything about this series is amazing but the sound design is INSANE. The creator nailed the sound of the Bolters, the feel of the weight when the marines run or even walk, and I love how you never hear anyone talk; the Marines are communicating through their helmets the whole time.
Fun fact: The balls are called Yu'vath, they are creatures who were mentioned once or twice in one of the codexes from decades ago. Quick transcript of what they say: Orb 1: Brother, I have failed. Orb 2: We have all failed. The Astartes deny our touch. You must return. Break your seal. Orb 1: I cannot. We will never survive. Orb 2: You must. Take them. I love how Syama not only created this stunning piece of art, but also went with one of the many available deep lore cuts from GW as the threat as opposed to something more traditional like Chaos or Orks.
Now that you've entered the rabbit hole, you're gunna get non stop requests to react to bricky's 'Warhammer 40k every faction in a nutshell' videos. They're pretty long but definitely worth the watch!
Congratulations! You have now become a Warhammer 40k reaction channel lol I look forward to your chipper and honest reactions over just how overpowered this universe is. Enjoy.
I don't know why but, for as phenomenal as the whole thing is. The very end of part five where we see a different chapter marine taking fire from off screen eldar before the tank just rolls up and fires twice, really sticks with me the most out of the whole thing. I think it's the freedom of imagination to just imagine what kind of forces are beyond the view of the camera lens.
11:40 if your wondering why they turned that guy into tomato sauce or about the 1 armed dudes before, there is a type of human called psykers in 40k (space wizards) that can draw power form the warp (complicated but basically hell) to do magic stuff. The problem is when they lose control, bad stuff can happen. Anywhere from randomly shooting powers off, to blowing themselves up, to in the worst case getting possessed or turning into a portal form which daemons can come through. So when they start acting weird It's wise to kill them and keep killing them until you're sure their dead. Also, the other psykers they were fighting where on the weak side just to show you how scary they are. A lot of telekines can crush a person in power armor like an empty soda can.
Yeah the fact that the Astartes on the ship hesitated so long to waste him meant they really liked him. Most people would've immediately wasted him when he started twitching
Oh boy, this is a whole other rabbit hole you're dipping your toes into! 40k is an amazing setting and it's something that always has more to learn even when you're neck deep into it. Would be fun to see you delve further in. But alongside that is also the Fantasy IPs, which are the original Warhammer setting. I really recommend you checking out the Total War Warhammer trailers since it is a fun mix of cinematic and in-engine animated trailers. And there is a LOT of fun stuff going on there animation wise. Would be more than happy to proviee playists if you ever find yourself in the mood for it. Anywho looking forward to your next video whatever it might be!
5:40 "Transhuman Dread" is a thing in 40k. In some people, they see a Space Marine (or Custodian) and they think "It looks human but it's far too big and moving far too quickly and agilely," and they're overcome by a primal fear so they panic, either freezing up or just turning and running. Like in old fashioned cavalry charges - but instead of a heavily armoured dude on a heavily armoured warhorse, it's a heavily armoured dude the same height of the dude and the horse and probably weighing twice as much. People can be trained for it though.
I never get bored of watching people see these shorts for the first time. The cultists/ball/gold statue are an invention of the creator, no other lore connection (but plenty of parallels). The thing that gets me is the opposition did everything **right**. They tried to stop them in the bay, they set up a barricade, they tried to ambush them with an anti-materiel gun, a guy did a mad attempt to use an anti-tank mine before getting stabbed for it, and finally they brought in a heavy gun to try and stop them. None of it mattered, the space marines battered their way through anyway.
That video was made by one guy alone !! I had no idea about Warhammer 40k till last year... I started with this video and then watched Bricky's videos about every Warhammer 40k faction.. TH-camr Luetin goes deep into detail with the lore.
Oh yea, now this will be good content. Ive been a fan of warhammer for 20+ years. Good luck and enjoy the ride. I highly recommend watching a video called: "TIMELINE of the 40K UNIVERSE by Trazyn the Infinite" Uploaded by a channel called Warrior Tier. Its a good baseline to start before you get into the real hard details. Warhammer is thousands of books and stories over decades of lore.
Everything about Astartes is amazing little fun fact i don't think anybody mentioned: at 13:18 the three metal studs in his forehead means he has been a space marine for over 3 centuries
What is most impressive is that it is 1 person who made this I simply love it only small change I make is texting the space Marines armour is to clean and shiny it need dirt and paint texture
11:41 Possessed Ally Countermeasure Number One. It's an old favourite, seems to work pretty well. If you like these, you'll probably like a couple of vids from Battletech - similar tabletop wargame, but a less ludicrous storyverse (and a LOT less expensive to play!) called "Frihet - A MechWarrior Film" by D.C. Bruins, and "MechWarrior: Bulldogs", also by Bruins and on a channel called Renegade HPG. Their storytelling's a lot like this, very much down to inference and figuring out what's up from what you can see.
im just starting with 40k lore but as far as i know 11:40 this was a mercy kill for the psyker. poor guy warned them and paid with his life. became instantly corrupted
When psykers get possessed, BAD things happen, and they could open a portal to the warp, and things would come through that would smear every space marine on that ship to chunky salsa, if they're lucky. Think the movie Event Horizon, that's a pretty good basis for what could happen. So now you know, if the guy who's sitting there doing warp fuckery has one single slipup, you understand why people are jumpy around them. The fact that the Officers hesitated so long meant they really liked him.
@@ramonpizarro they hesitated? Jesus Christ if this is them hesitating I don't want to know how they are when they mad af Still getting into it all... all I k own until now is that the warp has some bad stuff in it like...really bad stuff
btw the creator got hired by games workshop ( warhammer ip owning company) he is working on astartes 2, now with a real budget. im soooo looking forward to it
I figured I would comment about the moment at 4:20, I saw it in another video and please correct me if I’m wrong someone: That was someone akin to a suicide bomber as that ball he was carrying was an ied/grenade/bomb/whatever to try and take them out.
That ball was an supernatural entity that was captured by humans and was communicating with another entity that was being assaulted by big ones. what it said was to break it's shield and die in process but take tin cans with it. So it took them and was torn to shreds in process and teleported them randomly throught the planet surface. the one that was connected was human psyker that can do some shit like read others minds or just explode their eads with their will. He got caught on listening and was possesed by it. So he got eliminated quite fast without hestiation.
I recommend finding the Warhammer Helsreach movie here on TH-cam. Whereas this is easily the best-animated piece of Warhammer, imo. Helsreach is a work of art. It is also a fan-made film based on a novel. A piece of advice a friend gave me going in was, "The picture becomes clearer as Grimaldus becomes more grounded." The creator of the Helsreach movie, Richard Boylan, has been employed by Games Workshop and worked on (maybe created) the Angles of Death series on Warhammer+. And Syama Pedersen has been hired on as well but for what I don't know yet.
Warhammer has something for everyone don't worry about looking for the good guys cause there aren't any. It's a universe where everyone is a villain but that's it's charm cause bad guys are awesome and They're in any and all flavours you can think of super soldiers who are essentially demi gods, the unyielding tide of orc's, the army's of the chaos gods, Nekrons an advanced Egyptian-esk ancient race of terminator style beings,race of space elves called the Eldar, Tau considered to be the better of all the evils till you read between the lines, the Tyranids a swarm of bugs and beasts of unknown size who invade entire systems converting everything and anything living into biomass and many many more factions and sub factions with their own stories and interesting designs
Astartes/Space Marines are 7 and half feet tall genetically enhanced super soldiers power armor that enhances their already enhanced strength and speed. The Adeptus Astartes where created by the Emperor of mankind and are made to be the defenders of humanity, killing the Alien/Xeno, the Mutant, the witch, and the Heretic/Traitor.
There is no good and no evil in the Warhammer universe, there is only death. Astartes combines so much about Space Marines, even the little details, like the fact they can run, 9 foot dudes the size of a wardrobe running towards you is scary, but he also showed a small detail most completely ignore, when the Psyker stops the bullets, you can see that they are not just huge, but also, rocket propelled. Fun Fact: After the success of Astartes Games Workshop hired the creator, they also made the chapter that he practically made up an official chapter, The Retributors, a sub Chapter of the Imperial Fists.
Oh wow, I've been a W40K fan for 30+ years. I am an anime fan just as long, and love gacha games like Arknights/Genshin/Honkai etc... So seeing this channel react to W40K content is the crossover I didn't know I needed. W40K lore is VAST and DEEP. But don't be scared to jump in. It has incredibly passionate fans, and the universe it's set in is brutal. I'd love to see more, like Bricky's videos of "Every W40K faction explained" videos, and the Templin Institute's "Imperium of Man" video.
I always have the same reaction. It was a rel pain in the ass for the amount of OG years this took. (He really won in the end, got a jpb with GW, yay!)
The orb said "No escape. I have failed. We have all failed. The Astartes defy our touch. You must return! Break your seal! We'll never survive. You must take them!" And then the Inquisitor says "Recall them immediately!" then the Inquisitor gets possessed.
Georgie hearing about Arknights: Oh, that's neat. Few months later, she's a new Doctor playing along~ If she sprouts an Aquilla and starts talking about Heresy here soon, we'll know why. :D
I think others may have already said this but I think we were seeing two timelines. The first with the ball being captured (or at least an attempt) and the second with it kinda reactivating and taking over the guy who was communing with it who then gets fucked up by the chapter master. Separately, I believe the area where the space marine goes at the end may be the Emperor's realm within the warp but that's more speculation. At a minimum the corpses in the chairs are meant to represent him
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I always love watching people's reactions to the psyker getting possessed and being dealt with by the Chapter master and his aid. Always hilarious.
most people are like "slow down that was overkill!" and every 40k fan like "thats all? man i hope he doesnt get back up .-."
Most do not get that killing the inquisitor thoroughly was doing him a big favour while saving the whole ship if not more.
The Laurel Wreath around the helm are the markings of a Company Captain in most Codex Compliant Chapters.
@@CeiStockport-nx2qi And the Terminator cross makes him 1st company. So he's the Chapter master
Its debatable at Best, since we dont have the heraldry of the chapter and also we know they arent Codex compliant, since they do not divide themselves in companies per se, More Like squads that respond to threats and engage only high priority targets, i would say hes not the Chapter máster, only a veteran sargeant of the "first" company
"I'm presuming those like, titan soldier guys are like, the good guys" Well, they are protagonists. Good guys is a foreign concept to 40k.
On a faction scale yeah, but on an individual scale, there are some obviously good guys - like Garviel Loken, Nathaniel Garro, Vulcan, or Rylanor.
@@The0Stroy Even someone as good as Vulcan burned an entire planet to kill Eldar, including the children. The 'good guys' are really only 'good' relative to everyone else in the universe.
Citing Kitty "These are... words"
One thing I love about 40k, is that there's no objective good. It's all varying scales of grey. I also love some of the dark humour in the novels - Ciaphas Cain, for instance, is basically Black Adder in space
@@The0Stroy lets be real here. None of who you mentioned are good in the bigger scale of things. I imagine the only real good guys are some eldar, guardsman and a select few space marines.
Astartes put every major studio to shame, it's a masterpiece.
The group of Astartes are now a canon group called the Retributors. they're still relatively new, so they're developing. That's how good this animation is.
I didn't know that. Thats awsome to hear as this is low key the bar my own projects have to reach. I heard the creator got hired by Games Workshop. This is the icing on the cake, well done Syama!
@@Wandermonk844yeah the guy did get hired and these animations is now on warhammer+
@@Wandermonk844 the are now cannon to Imperial fist chapter.
@@Wandermonk844 goddamn astartes is your bar? impressed bc astartes is like the single best fanimation I have ever seen.
"Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods." ~ Introduction to Warhammer 40,000.
If you want to get into Warhammer 40k lore, everyone will always suggest the videos by Bricky on youtube. Not to indepth but gives just enough information to give you the general overview about what to explore next.
I wanted to say that to ;)
Yup, was just about to comment the exact same thing.
Everyone keeps recommending Bricky as a starting point. I'd say he's the one to go to second. The first stop should be luetin's 'WTF is Warhammer 40k'. It's shorter and has a wider scope. Bricky is the fun one. luetin is the lore master. Baldermort is the story guy, and Majorkill is for shorter content.
@@SarthorS anything less than 4 hours per 1k years of a single faction is to be qualified as a brief recap. Having an hour long video that tries to explain you the whole chronology and factions at once will give you the same idea of the setting like describing a whole Breaking Bad series with "chemistry teacher got in trouble for cooking meth".
Quite the mistake. I rarely see people react to other warwammer stuff after a bricky video. And people who watch him also end up confusing lore with memes. His videos are one the lowest quality 40k stuff in youtube, popular does not mean good quality.
That's why we're excited about the idea of a series starring Henry Cavill!
I have every faith in Henry Cavill, just not in those he would have to battle to keep it faithful.
WHAT?? omg that would be so cool holy shit - he is proper into lore accurate media too so thats awesome!
@@georgieegames And he's a huge 40K nerd.
@@leadpaintchips9461...probably the only one of us who can actually afford it...
@@Kainlarsen Yeah, nah. GW and Amazon fucked it up. Cavill is leaving the project.
It's going woke. Female Custodes. It's a real shit-show.
This little series of shorts is a masterclass in visual storytelling and such a great first introduction to WH40k. There is so much here for fans, but one also doesn't really have to know anything to enjoy it and pick up on the basics of what is happening.
exactly. seeing astartes is what got me into 40k
I've watched Astartes at least 60 times and my reaction is always "WOW!" followed by "I need another 2 hours of this story".
I want the other episodes they hinted at the end 😭
Oh, Georgie, WH 40K is a rabbit hole so deep you can't even imagine. I'm falling into it for 15+ years now and that's fantastic experience. Hope you will dive into it more too :) Even if you will just watch animations without going too far into lore - that would be hours of fun. But, as guys already mentioned in this comment section - I definitely recommend couple of Bricky's YT videos just to get basics of WH 40k lore, so you will have more understanding what is hell happening on all those animations.
The Astartes project is based off of the Warhammer: 40,000 (or 40k for short) universe. The Astartes (or Space Marines) are bio-engineered super warriors that serve and protect The Imperium of Man, a vast galaxy spanning human empire 40,000 years in the future. In this video, the astartes of this specific faction were hunting down the leaders of a rebellion against the Imperium. What they found was that the rebels were under the control of an unknown, psychic alien species (the spheres).
The guy in the red coat was something called a psyker, a powerful psychic individual who was able to listen in on the telepathic conversations of the spheres. The red coat with the skull in the middle of the capitol "I" meant that he was also a member of the God-Emperor's Holy Inquisition, the most powerful organization within the Imperium. He became possessed when he lost focus to warn the Astartes about what he had heard and said "Withdraw them immediately!" . In case you're wondering what the spheres said to each other, here it is:
Sphere 1: "Brother, I have failed."
Sphere 2: "We have all failed."
Sphere 1: "The Astartes deny our touch."
Sphere 2: "You must return, break your seal"
Sphere 1: "Impossible! We will never survive"
Sphere 2: "You must. Take them!"
The Warhammer 40k universe is VAST and deep with practically mountains of lore. It is arguably the greatest sci-fi universe ever created. You guys will not be disappointed in learning more about it. Welcome to the rabbit hole, brothers.
Another thing some people also miss, at the end when he's standing on the pillars, in the distance when you see all the giant skeletons, you can see other flashes of lights of the other marines teleport in the same area as the one we saw
"Recall them immediately"
That note about the other marines teleporting at the end made me realize how even more humongous the scale of that shot is.
@@Sombody123 Its so cool right?
So the author actually decided to create his own mysterious story to tell within the universe and he absolutely nailed it with insane attention to details. The spheres is his own idea, so even the most knowledgeable lore-people would find it very interesting without really knowing the context about what's happening, they can watch and enjoy as everyone else.
Pretty sure they're Yu'vath tech.
@arfbark3924 even if, those guys are super obscure
@@arfbark3924 the creator said that it wasn’t Yu’vath and the similarities are coincidental. Not that unsurprising as the chances of even knowing about the Yu’vath are pretty slim unless you played the Rogue Trader ttrpg.
@@Kaihlik Fair enough, though you wouldn't see me put this kind of effort into a fan animation if I hadn't been there from the beginning.
@@arfbark3924 Rogue Trader the tabletop rpg isn’t the same as Rogue Trader the 1st Edition of 40k from 1987. The ttrpg was produced by Fantasy Flight Games as part of a series of 40K rpgs and was set in its own area of 40K called the Koronos Expanse. Yu’vath were also mentioned in Dark Heresy (another ttrpg from the same lineup focused on the Inquisition) iirc but there were no details about them other than they had been defeated by the Angelus Crusade at the founding of the Calixis sector.
Even in Rogue Trader there is very little to go on about the Yu’vath and the sphere connection is pretty tenuous. I think there is only the Halo devices, small spherical devices that turn people into monsters that it is somewhat hinted at may be of Yu’vath origin and a class of Yu’vath autonomous ship that attacks the players in a module.
I am going from memory so I could be wrong about some of this but you hopefully get the picture that it’s a pretty tenuous connection in a pretty obscure bit of 40K media. Although the new Rogue Trader crpg in development by Owlcat games is based on that FFG ttrpg and is also set in the Koronos Expanse so maybe will be less obscure in future.
The two spheres were communicating with each other, and the guy in the robes was listening in.
Who is there?
I have failed, brother. We have all failed. The astartes defy our touch.
You must return. Break your seal.
Impossible. We'll never survive.
You must. Take the alpha.
Closest as I can tell at least. 😆
It's not 'You must take the alpha.'
It's actually 'You must take them'
I seriously don't understand how people hear 'alpha' in that sentence.
Personally I hear alpha quite clearly. Definitely no "m" sound. 🤷♂️
Isn't the last sentence "break your shield" instead of "take the alpha" ?
@@dcohen1359 If you watch the original again at around 9:53 at 0.5 speed you hear it much clearer.
Yeah I just hear the same thing. I'm not saying that you are wrong. It's just what I perceive.
4:01 How the space marine comes out of the shadows is epic.
PS. At the very end, you can see flashes on the pillars after the teleportation. That's the other squad members appearing.
Imagine major studios pointing fingers at their art department. "Do you see that? He did all this in a cave with a box of scraps!!"
The Tony stark of cinematics
The fact the details of what's happening are kept deliberately vague is the best thing about this short movie - even works for hardcore 40k fans. Absolutely the right decision. We know this is about Astartes boarding a ship of heretics, and trying to capture a sphere that clearly acts as a gateway to the warp... but that's about it. Leaves so much open to interpretation and doesn't bog the story down by getting into too much detail. I love the fact he set in in M39... nice and far enough away from the timeline we're used to to allow him to do pretty much what he wanted in terms of visualising the warp and the psykers. This is the best 40k short because it shows how vast the lore and universe of 40k can be.
Oh girl you are up for an EXPERIENCE
I truly went through it in this reaction ahahha
@@georgieegames The sheer amount of lore on this university is crazy, there's something for everyone
@@giuseppe9653Indeed. I have probably watched dozens of hours of lore videos and I still find new stuff I have never heard of.
Can you imagine being responsible for possibly the greatest short story solo project? Absolutely insane how well this was done.
You are on the edge of a hole right now, the lore is DEEP in this franchise, with 50+ books, god knows how much plastic is used for the tabletop games, the video games, the amount of fan animation (everything from Helsreach to the shorts people make,) the lore videos. It is deep and rich, you are just scratching the surface with this. It's thoroughly enjoyable.
technically you are correct but 50+ books is just the prequel, HH. The real number is... a lot higher xD
50+ books? There are well over 100 novels in just the Horus Heresy, and that all takes place 10,000 years prior to the current age of the game. Then you have 10 editions worth of books for the actual game, packed with details and lore.
But what do you think? Do we have another convert for The God Emperor, beloved by all?
Over 500 books in all now, and that’s just black library, not counting rule books etc
@@HistoritorJimaldus 500? I thought the number is much lower. But still 60 books of Horus Heresy plus 8 Siege of Terra, cca 20 Gaunts Ghosts, several Ravenor, Eisenhorn, at least one books about each of the Primarchs...crap.... and i dont even know where the Siege of Vraks is described, rule book or some novel series....uh oh.... my bookshelves wont be enough...
after watching this literally dozens of time I am unironically still noticing small details. Its ACTUAL art.
15:15 georgieegames: "I think the good guys are-"
Warhammer 40k: "Let me stop you right there..."
First Arknights now 40K. This is great.
Anyways it hurts me that nothing games workshop has made animation wise is as good as this, like why was the angels of death series the closest thing we got
I like to keep the variety UP and oh man this was so worth it
Just in time for Snake body Fulgrim for 30k too
Iron Within and The Exodite are almost on par with this. Pariah Nexus will be just as good
Pariah Nexus is looking very good.
There's lots of quality stuff on warhammer tv. The whole gw is an evil conglomerate and everything they make sucks bs is so old.
This is literally my favorite piece of animated content in any shape or form. It is *so* good, I cannot express.
Has anyone suggested Helsreach yet? No? Well, it's a Warhammer fan animation of an audiobook. 13 parts. Got the animator hired and a crack at his own series. The author of the book likes it so there is that.
It makes me happy a lot content creators are starting to dip into the Warhammer 40K universe. Yes it’s a lot, but after you get your feet wet, it’s the most amazing universe. Cheers
Love seeing people get introduced to 40k. For those of us that have been into it, this is just a Tuesday for a Space Marine
Ahh I'm always so happy when more people are getting into Warhammer 40K! I got into it last year and the lore is quite dark and wild, but also oh boy is it interesting. Would be excited to see you dive into more of this stuff, there's plenty of stuff in there! As many have probably already said, I can recommend Bricky's videos on the factions and the space marine legions (the big soldier guys!). Good amount of information and humor as well!
And to think, every minute of footage here took about a year for him to make. That's dedication to your craft if ever i saw some.
"That's a very bad ball"
Possibly the best line I've seen in reaction to that.
I wanted to sneer with: the appearance, voice, facial expressions and charisma of this young lady. but, after her reaction to the details + deep analysis - I changed my mind. this chupacabra is an unsurpassed analyst.
I first played Warhammer 40K in 1987 and it's been with me ever since XD
The first taste of Warhammer 40k has been had. Now all that is needed is the 2 Lore Explanation videos from Bricky, then she'll be hooked for life
15:20 There are no good guys. Im sure I'm not the first to say this in the comments, if I'm wrong, well here goes.
The game is set 40k in the future. Humans are spreading like wild fire beyond our galaxy lead by a being, so powerful, he is treated as a god.
We meet other creatures,they have interesting stories . We fight all of them.
It's massive and much more complex. Ge dates to the 80s and has 300 plus publications. It's grim. Its dark. Beautiful.
another great video you can watch, both from an animation perspective, and story perspective, would be Helsreach, it's basically an entire audiobook animated, 100% would recommend, also made by 1 person if I am not mistaken!
Everything about this series is amazing but the sound design is INSANE. The creator nailed the sound of the Bolters, the feel of the weight when the marines run or even walk, and I love how you never hear anyone talk; the Marines are communicating through their helmets the whole time.
Fun fact: The balls are called Yu'vath, they are creatures who were mentioned once or twice in one of the codexes from decades ago.
Quick transcript of what they say:
Orb 1: Brother, I have failed.
Orb 2: We have all failed. The Astartes deny our touch. You must return. Break your seal.
Orb 1: I cannot. We will never survive.
Orb 2: You must. Take them.
I love how Syama not only created this stunning piece of art, but also went with one of the many available deep lore cuts from GW as the threat as opposed to something more traditional like Chaos or Orks.
Now that you've entered the rabbit hole, you're gunna get non stop requests to react to bricky's 'Warhammer 40k every faction in a nutshell' videos. They're pretty long but definitely worth the watch!
Congratulations! You have now become a Warhammer 40k reaction channel lol
I look forward to your chipper and honest reactions over just how overpowered this universe is. Enjoy.
I don't know why but, for as phenomenal as the whole thing is. The very end of part five where we see a different chapter marine taking fire from off screen eldar before the tank just rolls up and fires twice, really sticks with me the most out of the whole thing.
I think it's the freedom of imagination to just imagine what kind of forces are beyond the view of the camera lens.
I came for the Limbus content and now there is Warhammer content? That is a win for the God-Emperor if I ever see one.
I do hope you'll get into it.
For the ones who don't know 40k lore, the place with the big statues at the end is at the bottom of the marina's trench on Terra post unification wars
No it's not.
11:40 if your wondering why they turned that guy into tomato sauce or about the 1 armed dudes before, there is a type of human called psykers in 40k (space wizards) that can draw power form the warp (complicated but basically hell) to do magic stuff. The problem is when they lose control, bad stuff can happen. Anywhere from randomly shooting powers off, to blowing themselves up, to in the worst case getting possessed or turning into a portal form which daemons can come through. So when they start acting weird It's wise to kill them and keep killing them until you're sure their dead. Also, the other psykers they were fighting where on the weak side just to show you how scary they are. A lot of telekines can crush a person in power armor like an empty soda can.
Yeah the fact that the Astartes on the ship hesitated so long to waste him meant they really liked him.
Most people would've immediately wasted him when he started twitching
Great reaction, hope your friends had fun sharing 40k lore with you.
3:02 "That is brutal!" Space Marines are the definition of controlled and disciplined brutality.
Oh boy, this is a whole other rabbit hole you're dipping your toes into!
40k is an amazing setting and it's something that always has more to learn even when you're neck deep into it. Would be fun to see you delve further in.
But alongside that is also the Fantasy IPs, which are the original Warhammer setting. I really recommend you checking out the Total War Warhammer trailers since it is a fun mix of cinematic and in-engine animated trailers. And there is a LOT of fun stuff going on there animation wise. Would be more than happy to proviee playists if you ever find yourself in the mood for it.
Anywho looking forward to your next video whatever it might be!
5:40 "Transhuman Dread" is a thing in 40k. In some people, they see a Space Marine (or Custodian) and they think "It looks human but it's far too big and moving far too quickly and agilely," and they're overcome by a primal fear so they panic, either freezing up or just turning and running. Like in old fashioned cavalry charges - but instead of a heavily armoured dude on a heavily armoured warhorse, it's a heavily armoured dude the same height of the dude and the horse and probably weighing twice as much. People can be trained for it though.
I never get bored of watching people see these shorts for the first time. The cultists/ball/gold statue are an invention of the creator, no other lore connection (but plenty of parallels). The thing that gets me is the opposition did everything **right**. They tried to stop them in the bay, they set up a barricade, they tried to ambush them with an anti-materiel gun, a guy did a mad attempt to use an anti-tank mine before getting stabbed for it, and finally they brought in a heavy gun to try and stop them. None of it mattered, the space marines battered their way through anyway.
Welcome aboard, battle sister!
Warhammer is so cool! Literally just got my first sets yesterday!
Good thing to keep in mind watching this, the space marines are communicating with each other through their helmets radios while all this is going on.
That video was made by one guy alone !!
I had no idea about Warhammer 40k till last year...
I started with this video and then watched Bricky's videos about every Warhammer 40k faction..
TH-camr Luetin goes deep into detail with the lore.
There's one with David Atteborough's voice (AI) as well.
Oh yea, now this will be good content. Ive been a fan of warhammer for 20+ years. Good luck and enjoy the ride. I highly recommend watching a video called:
"TIMELINE of the 40K UNIVERSE by Trazyn the Infinite" Uploaded by a channel called Warrior Tier. Its a good baseline to start before you get into the real hard details. Warhammer is thousands of books and stories over decades of lore.
Also there is "Every Single Warhammer 40k Faction" by the guy called Bricky, more light-hearted and with jokes but still a good intro to the series.
I got three words for you…
FOR THE EMPEROR!!!
Everything about Astartes is amazing
little fun fact i don't think anybody mentioned: at 13:18 the three metal studs in his forehead means he has been a space marine for over 3 centuries
What is most impressive is that it is 1 person who made this I simply love it only small change I make is texting the space Marines armour is to clean and shiny it need dirt and paint texture
WE GOT HER BOYS
4:25 - Subscribed. Appreciation for the shanking of the would-be sapper with his shaped charge makes me quite happy!
11:41 Possessed Ally Countermeasure Number One. It's an old favourite, seems to work pretty well. If you like these, you'll probably like a couple of vids from Battletech - similar tabletop wargame, but a less ludicrous storyverse (and a LOT less expensive to play!) called "Frihet - A MechWarrior Film" by D.C. Bruins, and "MechWarrior: Bulldogs", also by Bruins and on a channel called Renegade HPG. Their storytelling's a lot like this, very much down to inference and figuring out what's up from what you can see.
At the end where the camera pans out you can see other pillars that his his squad mates start appearing (look for the little flash)
Arch Warhammer is the best lore channel on 40k simply for the amount of content of supreme quality he produces
its crazy how Syama invested years of his time into this project, that alone takes a lot of balls but obviously he knows hes damn good at what he does
seeing non-40k fans reacting never gets old. Another one now addicted to the Grimdark. Welcome sister
im just starting with 40k lore but as far as i know 11:40 this was a mercy kill for the psyker. poor guy warned them and paid with his life. became instantly corrupted
When psykers get possessed, BAD things happen, and they could open a portal to the warp, and things would come through that would smear every space marine on that ship to chunky salsa, if they're lucky. Think the movie Event Horizon, that's a pretty good basis for what could happen.
So now you know, if the guy who's sitting there doing warp fuckery has one single slipup, you understand why people are jumpy around them. The fact that the Officers hesitated so long meant they really liked him.
@@ramonpizarro they hesitated? Jesus Christ if this is them hesitating I don't want to know how they are when they mad af
Still getting into it all... all I k own until now is that the warp has some bad stuff in it like...really bad stuff
btw the creator got hired by games workshop ( warhammer ip owning company) he is working on astartes 2, now with a real budget. im soooo looking forward to it
"Thats a very bad Ball" made my Day XD
Never tire of watching people react to this and just losing their minds.
I figured I would comment about the moment at 4:20, I saw it in another video and please correct me if I’m wrong someone:
That was someone akin to a suicide bomber as that ball he was carrying was an ied/grenade/bomb/whatever to try and take them out.
An to think only one person did this whole video. It's fun watching theses kinds of reaction videos from people seeing this for the first time
That's one way of getting your homebrew space marine chapter made part of canon: create a seminal piece of 40k media.
This is just another Tuesday in the Warhammer 40k universe 😂. Seriously though, that was really great animation for just one guy.
I'm glad to see SOMEONE notice just how big the marines are relative to the dudes in the corridor.
Warhammer 40K has obtained another one.
The ship in beginning is way too clean.
That ball was an supernatural entity that was captured by humans and was communicating with another entity that was being assaulted by big ones. what it said was to break it's shield and die in process but take tin cans with it. So it took them and was torn to shreds in process and teleported them randomly throught the planet surface. the one that was connected was human psyker that can do some shit like read others minds or just explode their eads with their will. He got caught on listening and was possesed by it. So he got eliminated quite fast without hestiation.
And so it begins. The 40k rabbit hole has opened.
If you had watched this whilst invested in 40K AND being this much into the animation you had just melted x3
"What is thaaaaat??"
That right there is the problem.
Curiosity only leads to heresy.
11:43 they did actually help the poor bastard there... plus you REALLY, REALLY, REALLY not want a warp portal opening up in your ship
What are those blue alien things that had those psychic abilities, they're pretty cool
I recommend finding the Warhammer Helsreach movie here on TH-cam.
Whereas this is easily the best-animated piece of Warhammer, imo. Helsreach is a work of art. It is also a fan-made film based on a novel.
A piece of advice a friend gave me going in was, "The picture becomes clearer as Grimaldus becomes more grounded."
The creator of the Helsreach movie, Richard Boylan, has been employed by Games Workshop and worked on (maybe created) the Angles of Death series on Warhammer+. And Syama Pedersen has been hired on as well but for what I don't know yet.
my favorite part in this is when jedi master gandolf told frodo
"rip and tear for the emperor of man!"
Warhammer has something for everyone don't worry about looking for the good guys cause there aren't any. It's a universe where everyone is a villain but that's it's charm cause bad guys are awesome and They're in any and all flavours you can think of super soldiers who are essentially demi gods, the unyielding tide of orc's, the army's of the chaos gods, Nekrons an advanced Egyptian-esk ancient race of terminator style beings,race of space elves called the Eldar, Tau considered to be the better of all the evils till you read between the lines, the Tyranids a swarm of bugs and beasts of unknown size who invade entire systems converting everything and anything living into biomass and many many more factions and sub factions with their own stories and interesting designs
"oh my god, they are so big"
lovely madam, wait til you see Custodes. they make astartes look like normal humans
Or Primarchs.
Welcome...to the rabbit hole. Wonder how far you'll fall into 40k. It's a wild ride.
Astartes/Space Marines are 7 and half feet tall genetically enhanced super soldiers power armor that enhances their already enhanced strength and speed.
The Adeptus Astartes where created by the Emperor of mankind and are made to be the defenders of humanity, killing the Alien/Xeno, the Mutant, the witch, and the Heretic/Traitor.
11:56 I dont think we still know what this entity is but it appears extremely alien.
I'd recommend Baldermort & Warrior Tier as two channels that really bring the lore to life.
Amber King!
the detail on this video even I have a hard time believing that it was made by one person, must have took a long time with such details 👍
And so it begins
The journey into the deepest rabbit hole possible
There is no good and no evil in the Warhammer universe, there is only death.
Astartes combines so much about Space Marines, even the little details, like the fact they can run, 9 foot dudes the size of a wardrobe running towards you is scary, but he also showed a small detail most completely ignore, when the Psyker stops the bullets, you can see that they are not just huge, but also, rocket propelled.
Fun Fact: After the success of Astartes Games Workshop hired the creator, they also made the chapter that he practically made up an official chapter, The Retributors, a sub Chapter of the Imperial Fists.
Oh wow, I've been a W40K fan for 30+ years. I am an anime fan just as long, and love gacha games like Arknights/Genshin/Honkai etc... So seeing this channel react to W40K content is the crossover I didn't know I needed. W40K lore is VAST and DEEP. But don't be scared to jump in. It has incredibly passionate fans, and the universe it's set in is brutal. I'd love to see more, like Bricky's videos of "Every W40K faction explained" videos, and the Templin Institute's "Imperium of Man" video.
11:38 - This is possession in W40K
11:41 - That is the correct exorcism in W40K
I always have the same reaction. It was a rel pain in the ass for the amount of OG years this took. (He really won in the end, got a jpb with GW, yay!)
The orb said "No escape. I have failed. We have all failed. The Astartes defy our touch. You must return! Break your seal! We'll never survive. You must take them!" And then the Inquisitor says "Recall them immediately!" then the Inquisitor gets possessed.
This Astartes videos really shows what supersolier shall be like
May i recommend the 40k Space Marine Armouring Ritual Cinematic Trailer for you to react as well?
another great fan made 40K animation is The Death of Hope + it's 2 trailers. you won't have a clue what's going on but the animation is stunning
Oh ya, my favorite. It’s a damn shame this guy was insulted and disrespected by a lot of the 40k community. It was so bad he quit this project
Georgie hearing about Arknights: Oh, that's neat.
Few months later, she's a new Doctor playing along~
If she sprouts an Aquilla and starts talking about Heresy here soon, we'll know why. :D
I think others may have already said this but I think we were seeing two timelines. The first with the ball being captured (or at least an attempt) and the second with it kinda reactivating and taking over the guy who was communing with it who then gets fucked up by the chapter master.
Separately, I believe the area where the space marine goes at the end may be the Emperor's realm within the warp but that's more speculation. At a minimum the corpses in the chairs are meant to represent him
Yes!!! Another new reaction!