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Sentinels in DKoK service.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:31 pm 
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Major Stryker wrote:
"...troops don't have names, only numbers..."

Hmmm, sounds a little like that Welsh Reg't in the movie Zulu. ;D


Heh. The stereotype of Welsh troops was that they all had the surname 'Jones.' Hence the numbers. Of course, across the pond U.S. immigration officers and census takers tended to mush any remotely-joneslike Eastern/Northern/Southern/Central European surname into a recognizable British version (Jones, Smith), so the stereotype is sharply attenuated.

(About a decade back, I spent time working through the 1870 census for Lemont, IL. It was remarkable how the census-taker's handwriting degenerated when transcribing names from the Polish Parish. 'Smith,' 'Jones,' or even 'Williamson' were easy reads despite the 19th century script, but there were a lot of 'Kry-squiggle-squiggle-kys' in the Polish neighborhoods.)


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 5:02 pm 
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Major Stryker wrote:
Anyway, on to an different subject. Where does it say the Kriegsmen are grown in vats? I must've missed a memo at some point. ;D

Read page 87 of the first Vraks book. The loyalist Kriegsmen already implemented eugenics and universal conscription during their 500-year civil war on their radioactive hell-hole of a home-world post global nuclear holocaust. The High Lords of Terra decided to use the world to produce billions of soldiers (like Forge Worlds produce machinery) and the Adeptus Biologis were brought in and enforced 'vitae womb' birthing techniques used (which many Adeptus Mechanicus see as dangerous and/or abhorrent). They don't specify more than that and grown in a vat is just a guess, it could equally be birthing servitors, womb implants to speed up gestation or god knows what.

Major Stryker wrote:
"...troops don't have names, only numbers..."

Hmmm, sounds a little like that Welsh Reg't in the movie Zulu. ;D

We have names! Honest. I must get round to watching that one of these days.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 5:16 pm 
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GlynG wrote:
Major Stryker wrote:
Anyway, on to an different subject. Where does it say the Kriegsmen are grown in vats? I must've missed a memo at some point. ;D

Read page 87 of the first Vraks book. The loyalist Kriegsmen already implemented eugenics and universal conscription during their 500-year civil war on their radioactive hell-hole of a home-world post global nuclear holocaust. The High Lords of Terra decided to use the world to produce billions of soldiers (like Forge Worlds produce machinery) and the Adeptus Biologis were brought in and enforced 'vitae womb' birthing techniques used (which many Adeptus Mechanicus see as dangerous and/or abhorrent). They don't specify more than that and grown in a vat is just a guess, it could equally be birthing servitors, womb implants to speed up gestation or god knows what.

Major Stryker wrote:
"...troops don't have names, only numbers..."

Hmmm, sounds a little like that Welsh Reg't in the movie Zulu. ;D

We have names! Honest. I must get round to watching that one of these days.


Sounds like life is pretty grim for the Kriegswomen as well.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:08 pm 
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Man, now I want a Krieg army.

No way I can afford it :(


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