@DudeMcBro

1 year ago

I really like the sparsely littered lore about the Dark Age of Technology. It's a bit of a snare though, you have to resist the perpetual temptation to just reveal it all in one big lore dump. Otherwise, you can't do it justice. This is the stuff you really gotta deliver piecemeal so as to not ruin the whole allure of its mysterious presentation. But yeah, totally on board with getting some well written insight into the old golden age. Your thought process seems on point about the Squats being a vector to hitting us with some Dark/Golden Age lore, as the Squats would logically possess some impressive records, or at least any records, concerning the events of their home near the galactic core. A window into the Dark Age of Technology or the Age of Strife lore in the upcoming codex for the Squats would appear likely, well at least a window from the Squat's semi-heretical perspective of how things transpired, of course. Speaking of heresy, the Squat's intro vid had them hack a ship with what looked like a more advanced version of the scrapcode used by the Dark Mechanicum, yeah? It kind of makes sense then why the Imperium would refuse to acknowledge anything about their existence for this long. Everything about them just breathes non-compliance. Contemplating the virtual autonomy, independence, and perhaps even rampant technological innovation of the Squats is way too much for an ecclesiarch or inquisitor to handle mentally. Like the mere act of thinking about the Squats is enough to make their heads explode, perhaps literally, lol. The Squats don't have to be a joke themselves, but their effect on the wider imperium can be comical, and thats probably a good way to reflavor them. So yeah, probably the best solution GW, or anyone really, could come up with for explaining the Squat's absence for so long. And build us a grade-separated junction for tossing us fish pellets of lore about the Age of Strife through a codex finally. Good stuff. Edit: Didn't intend for this comment to be this long. Or for it to even be this much about the Squats. But thanks for the upload!

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