Random silly lore question
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The Explanation about the Mechanicus have taken the STC long ago and Van Saar, threatening huge amounts of violence in a densely populated area, have gotten the license is the best i heard so far. It would have been a bad deal for the mechanicus to take it out violently, damaging production capacities and stirring up Imperial Fist recruiting areas.
Still i don't feel well about this new addition of Weapons and Gear, and the Style it comes in. If the Mechanicus has the STC, why is the IG still armed with conventional Shotguns rather than the more reliable las variant? Sure thing we can find explanations for everything, since its a sci-fi backround, but i do not like the fluff-holes this release adds, nor do i like the far too futuristic weapon and gear styles, that for me do not fit into grimdark 40k
Still i don't feel well about this new addition of Weapons and Gear, and the Style it comes in. If the Mechanicus has the STC, why is the IG still armed with conventional Shotguns rather than the more reliable las variant? Sure thing we can find explanations for everything, since its a sci-fi backround, but i do not like the fluff-holes this release adds, nor do i like the far too futuristic weapon and gear styles, that for me do not fit into grimdark 40k
It could simply be a case of supply capacity. There are thousands of factories churning out standard pattern lasguns by the million. Thousands making convetional shotguns. The technology level required to make a lasgun is going to be more advanced than to make a shotgun. Shotguns could even be getting constructed on relatively primitive worlds. Do you reduce lasgun manufacturing to start churning out las-shotguns? Try to drag shotgun factories up to spec to make them? Either way you are - at least temporarily - disrupting supply of one or the other. That might simply not be tolerable.
There was a GW designer video last year where they talked about the new game, and one guy mentioned that the cracked lips on Goliaths is due to their stimm use.
About plasma v. bolter ammo, in Survival Instinct, Mad Donna is always checking her plasma pistol’s charge. When the charge runs out, she has to plug it in to a power source for a while to juice it back up. That explains the Scarce effect quite nicely in my mind.
About plasma v. bolter ammo, in Survival Instinct, Mad Donna is always checking her plasma pistol’s charge. When the charge runs out, she has to plug it in to a power source for a while to juice it back up. That explains the Scarce effect quite nicely in my mind.
The mechanicum doesn't confiscate the STC because they don't know about it. They don't know about it despite seeing Van Saars tech because it is still inferior to the mechanicums. All the STC does is provide Van Saar easy access to the sort of tech not widely available outside the mechanicum, with the unfortunate side effect of rad exposure.
So on the topic of houses intermarrying, as has already been said above, it does happen with the noble houses, but there is also a mention (in the lexicanum article for escher) that part of the reason escher is okay with orlock is that orlock is known for political marriages, which would suggest outside the house.
For the shotgun, consider that van saar, the group that makes them and thus probably is getting a discount price, still pays more per suppression laser than the trading post charges for a shotgun, which would suggest that for outsiders it would be more expensive (potentially than even the combat shotgun).
In terms of the stc, I read the section in gang war 3 as more suggesting that Van Saar was in good standing with the mechanicum, so it might be more to the point to say that the mechanicum don't particularly care for the stc for whatever reason, they view van saar owning it as close enough to them owning it, or (as stated above) they plain just don't know about it.
For the shotgun, consider that van saar, the group that makes them and thus probably is getting a discount price, still pays more per suppression laser than the trading post charges for a shotgun, which would suggest that for outsiders it would be more expensive (potentially than even the combat shotgun).
In terms of the stc, I read the section in gang war 3 as more suggesting that Van Saar was in good standing with the mechanicum, so it might be more to the point to say that the mechanicum don't particularly care for the stc for whatever reason, they view van saar owning it as close enough to them owning it, or (as stated above) they plain just don't know about it.
Avatar style snoo-snoo tentacles.
Too much tentacle snoo-snoo with grubby Van-Saar girls.
You don't marry a grubby Van-Saar girl. They're just for fun times.
Any armourer worth his salt can make a miniature rocket-propelled explosive round but a tiny fusion reactor, not so much.
Specialist Games are sh*t at writing fluff. See also: Ambot.
