With the release of Warhammer 40,000 10th Edition, the galaxy has been plunged into it’s FOURTH Tyrannic War . The Hive Fleets of the Tyranids were thought stalled above Baal at the start of the Indomitus Crusade, but it turns out they were only the beginning…
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Heres some tips on making better sci-fi planet names:
Shorten them: Standior or Lastior would have been a better names.
Break it up, remove letters and make it sound a little like another human language: La Tstandior, La'andior, Andior, Laststa, Lassandior, Sttandior…
Run it through Google translates once: Last Stand into Welsh and squashed together with the "ior" on the end: Stondinolafior. In Basque: Azkenstandaior. In Latin: Novissimestoior. Then chop these down too: Stondafior, Azkandaior, Novimestior…. Or something like that. Works better if you just use one word, tbh.
Suddenly you have weird planet names that sound like they have come from something human, but butchered over thousands of years.
Words and names tend to get shortened and chopped up to become easier to say over time. So even adding "ior" to the end would be chopped down over time, especially in something like Laststandior, it's such a mouthful!
You can see it happening right now. Look at what is happening to country names over time. The United Kingdom or Great Britain are rarely used, instead people say UK or Britain. The same has happened with the United States of America, its more common for people to say US now, not even including the A, or the States. Those eventually start appearing in writing and a generation starts assuming that is the norm. And a few generations and it is the norm. Eventually, given enough time, the original meaning is forgotten or only known by historians.
The same would happen with planets over time. Earth wouldn't likely change as its hard to shorten it, but if a regularly used name has more than one syllable, chances are it'll get abbreviated. So, maybe when we start regularly traveling to Venus the s might get dropped over time and a thousand years from now it'll just be pronounced Venu or just Ven or maybe Vens. GW need to think about that if they want to make their universe feel old. Because names like Lasstandior feels about as old as the brain fart it wafted in on.
What are the tendrils ?
Oh i did not knew that trazin and orikan would have patecipate the 4th tirannic war!
Apologies for waylaying you at the board games expo @arbiterian – thank you so much for stopping to chat, it made my husband's day. We took your advice too and ended up with a bunch of underworlds stuff with that extra 5% discount!
Tendril 1 came from below the galactic plane, tendril 2 comes from above it. That sounds like the hive mind is close to, if not already, surrounding the 40k galaxy.
Man, now I have to go back and watch judge dredd
Id love to see the Phalanx attacked by the Tyranids, Tor Garrodon dies as the mighty ship is destroyed.
It would show that not everything survives.
What about octarius? Tyranids practically won the war there
As someone who has said there is no satire left in Warhammer, I couldn’t be more pleased to be at least a little bit wrong.
Ti-ran-ids not TYE-ranids Ian you barmy bastard!
Ian: Mentions the Custodes Captain-General.
Me: LITTLE KITTEN!
Excellent video, and also excellent lore – well played GW. I'm glad that despite their newfound focus on more binary good vs evil narratives they're still very much hammering in that unthinking demagogy and bureaucratic inneptitude are the true enemy
Sweet update … ✌️💚
The issue with much of 40k authors describing large conflicts is that they have no idea about what big numbers should look like. They will write something like "5 million guardsmen deployed on this planet, it was a massive force".
By comparison, in WW2 there were 2.8 million Russions vs 2 million Germans – on the East Front alone… Essentially the scale should be about 5-10% of a population for it to make sense. However, often it will be something like 0.5% or less of a planets people in the many 40k books.
I love how Ian changes how he pronounces Tyranid multiple times during the same video 😅
Defensotron!!!!
Christ on a bike.
They couldn't even attempt a vaguely pig latin version such as "Defentrix"
Absolutely love this channel! Thank you for the great content Ian!
Another awesome video as always!
Everyone: There's no way Ian can mispronounce Tyranid any further after the last video.
Ian: Hold my Bugman's…
Robohorse…. Is he Bravestarr??
nah, Leviathan is just returning because they ran out of monster names for a new Hive Fleet
Slowly every faction in the 40k universe is getting their own Death Star expys.
I was wrong, there is satire left in 40K 😂😂
What do you think of the Tyranids as the Elder Ones' most recent attempt to take the galaxy back from the Necrons, their previous bio-weapons, and the species that popped up in their absence?
I like how the previous 3 vids were pretty straight forward but this one has more sassy interjections. Very amusing.