What If? Pandora was found by the IoM.
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Arlos
Sad Monarchist
Pandoran lose, terribly.
If the Planet mind get in the way, the IoM probably kill it too.
Even if they, by some miracle, win, and are then forgotten by the administratum in a rounding error in a stroke of luck, it’s only a matter of time until one of the others terrible things find them.
In a way, the IoM give the cleanest death in the galaxy.
If the Planet mind get in the way, the IoM probably kill it too.
Even if they, by some miracle, win, and are then forgotten by the administratum in a rounding error in a stroke of luck, it’s only a matter of time until one of the others terrible things find them.
In a way, the IoM give the cleanest death in the galaxy.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
The planet gets infected to speak Catachan?
The Pandorans thought the jungle was their ally but the Catachans were molded by it. First the jungles would speak Pandoran but the Catachans who live in a more hostile jungle would multiply and speak Catachan drowing out the local dialect the Pandoran language is snuffed out.
The Pandorans thought the jungle was their ally but the Catachans were molded by it. First the jungles would speak Pandoran but the Catachans who live in a more hostile jungle would multiply and speak Catachan drowing out the local dialect the Pandoran language is snuffed out.
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
I think there are problems involving lighter gravity and oxygen and maybe actually eating the local stuff
That said, yeah they wipe out the Eywa when they try that massive tribal attack
If any Psykers are around, they notice a bunch of stuff, tell what's going on and it becomes decided that the psychic entity which is in every single living organism from it can't be allowed to continue to exist or possibly spread
That said, yeah they wipe out the Eywa when they try that massive tribal attack
If any Psykers are around, they notice a bunch of stuff, tell what's going on and it becomes decided that the psychic entity which is in every single living organism from it can't be allowed to continue to exist or possibly spread
Realistically i doubt the catachan would even be deployed. It would probably go something like. "xenos discovered on planet45678 in star system 766556, xenos exterminatus was performed, anomalous mineral recovered and sent to local mechanicus forgeworld for examination. ALERT local forgeworld now suffering from demonic incursion''
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
You know, I don’t think even if they could use that stuff for FTL, it would be considered “worth it” financially and logistically speaking
I mean in-universe it took less than a decade to get from Earth to Pandora, the place where the stuff for said FTL is
A non warp based means of ftl would be pretty valuable i think, hence the demons
ShieldWife
Marchioness
Virus bomb Pandora and set up an Unobtanium mining operation on the newly desolate surface.
Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
What for? What's their objective? Time table? Logistical concerns?
>What would happen if the Imperium landed an army on a planet
>The navy would virus bomb it's own army, despite them not encountering significant resistance
I dont know if you intended this to be a "IOM is retarded" joke, but it definitely is one.
Thats kind of meaninglessly open ended though, it's like saying "it doesnt matter if the IOM kills them, they're still dead when their sun explodes".
You can go millions of years without encountering anything interesting in W40k. The Galaxy is real big.
They are there for the same reason the humans were in the movie.
They have the same time frame the humans in the movie did.
They have only on regiment and won't get more people but will get resupply on a yearly time, warp current bearing of course
The OP states the Catachans already landed but I do recall years ago some Games Workshop talking head stating the apparently some what controversial opinion that much of Imperium (and general galactic space I suppose) was filled with lots of random tiny alien civilizations that the Imperium ignored or didn't get around to exterminating yet etc. Thusly Imperial space wasn't as densely populated or colonized or whatever.
Wish I could find the quote because while off base from the OP. It seems like an interesting factoid to bring up. Maybe they could exist. In blissful general isolation or some such.
Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
So their objective is "cheaply mine unobtanium" and their timetable is "many years".
Well I cant imagine the Catachans would be all that important to things, this is actually more about how effective the imperium's small scale mining operations are.
Without things purely coincidentally playing out exactly like in the movie, the Humans just conduct their operations and only bother shooting at the natives when it's necessary. I really doubt any sort of extended campaign would take place, because that's costly and inefficient, especially with such a razor-thin logistics margin.
There are canonically Eldar Embassies on several loyal imperial worlds. The infinitely xenophobic imperium has always been a meme, like most of what people "think" 40k is like.
I made it so the natives are more wiling to go to war compared to in the movie
They often work with Tau and have Tau ambassadors
Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
Then it becomes, more or less, a proxy conflict with the Tau, ultimately determined only by how far each side is willing to escalate.
Even united, the Navi have little ability to actually expel a fortified imperial position protected by thousands of troops, so all they can do is make things more difficult, not actually stop them. Eywa is unlikely to become involved, as she diddnt even meaningfully respond to having one of her all important brain-trees ground into mulch.
Would catachan not go on a mass burning spree to find deposits?
Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
I can't imagine that's the standard IOM procedure to locate minerals, just wandering around in a Forest shooting trees until you find a rock.
To create a place to mine, as well as to make paths for your vehicles to pass through.
Probably compromise.IoM would take minerals from planet,kill some tribes but not all.They never conqered most of other Death Worlds or killed all their inhabitants, so why act in Pandora case other way ?
Unless natives would fall to Chaos,or Tyranids get there.Then we could have Exterminatus.
Doomsought
Well-known member
At some point a rogue trader will arrive and buy several of the natives for his Xenos Zoo that he rents out the Ordo Xenos for training purposes.
Guncannon
Pessimistic Pilot
Wouldn't being separated from the planet affect the Na'vi given their connection? They'd probably die.