Brother Darkover Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I am potentially thinking about a DIY chapter based on the Time Lords of the Dr Who series. I would use the Doctor as sort of a Vulcan Hestan character without the searching bit, the Master as the Head Chaplain or something similar and Rassilon figure. Potentially a Dark Angels or Ultramarines successor, not sure of the details yet. The whole regeneration thing can be done by a mutation in the prognoids which stores memories of the original and the successors within it and they assume the name. More to come hopefully and thankfully there is a lovely descrition of Gallifrey so that bit is simple! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Debonair Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I am potentially thinking about a DIY chapter based on the Time Lords of the Dr Who series. I would use the Doctor as sort of a Vulcan Hestan character without the searching bit, the Master as the Head Chaplain or something similar and Rassilon figure. Potentially a Dark Angels or Ultramarines successor, not sure of the details yet. The whole regeneration thing can be done by a mutation in the prognoids which stores memories of the original and the successors within it and they assume the name. More to come hopefully and thankfully there is a lovely descrition of Gallifrey so that bit is simple! Please tell me you're not going to have battle barges that are bigger on the inside than the outside, or marines armed with screwdrivers. ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2989624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Grilled Bacon Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Time-travelling marines would solve a lot of the Imperium's problems... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2989662 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Debonair Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Time-travelling marines would solve a lot of the Imperium's problems... ...And basically collapse the 40k setting, since the Imperium would then have the ability to kill everything else way before it was ever a threat, making the game a thumb-twiddling contest between the Astartes of different legions. :D On balance, I also hope there's no time-travel involved. :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2989827 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Grilled Bacon Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Time-travelling marines would solve a lot of the Imperium's problems... ...And basically collapse the 40k setting, since the Imperium would then have the ability to kill everything else way before it was ever a threat, making the game a thumb-twiddling contest between the Astartes of different legions. :o On balance, I also hope there's no time-travel involved. :lol: Exactly what I meant, you don't want to see superhuman death machines sitting around, taking apart and putting back their bolters, sharpening their swords and growing flowers for the emperor ^_^ Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2989861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gree Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I’m sorry, but you have to realize that time travel is absurdly overpoweredand pretty much an instant win button for the Imperium. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2989869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epistolary Exander Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I am potentially thinking about a DIY chapter based on the Time Lords of the Dr Who series. I would use the Doctor as sort of a Vulcan Hestan character without the searching bit, the Master as the Head Chaplain or something similar and Rassilon figure. Potentially a Dark Angels or Ultramarines successor, not sure of the details yet. The whole regeneration thing can be done by a mutation in the prognoids which stores memories of the original and the successors within it and they assume the name. More to come hopefully and thankfully there is a lovely descrition of Gallifrey so that bit is simple! I love the regeneration idea as it would be interesting to see how the individual marines experience of living through the slow decay of the Imperium would affect the chapter over time to craft it into what we see now. Time travel is easy for the Imperium, you'd just go through a warp flare or use your warp engines :o. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2989884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
soddinnutter Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I’m sorry, but you have to realize that time travel is absurdly overpoweredand pretty much an instant win button for the Imperium. And yet it is an official part of the 40k cannon. In the book Path of the Seer it is hinted that a Farseer can alter events that have already happened. It is just extremely dangerous for the individual involved and extremely unhealthy for the universe in general. The orks managed it by accident at least once. Current Ork Codex. Warboss set out to go stomp something. Stays in more or less the same place and comes out of the warp some time in the recent past. the warboss then kills his other self to take his favorite gun, so he can have a spare. the resulting confusion by the rest of the orks puts the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!! on hold. In the Ravenour books there was a magical/deamonic free standing wooden time traveling door that opened in 3 different directions. It could take you anywhere anywhen but possessed a willful nature of its own and would take you to places that matched your thoughts but not your desire. And were often dangerous, and was hinted at to be a rare but not unique artifact. The Saruthi and their weird artificial environments in the Eisenhorn Trilogy. Time moved in odd directions and they got radio echos of conversations some hours into the future. Travel around the Hadex anomaly in the galactic south distorted the passage of time to quite an impressive degree to the point where ships were arriving before they were sent out. The Ordo Chronus of the Holy Inquisition was set up to deal with this phenomenon because the people who knew about it were worried that it might end the universe, which would be embarrassing to say the least. They were eventually put in charge of all temporal shenanigans in the entire Imperium. Then they all, the galaxy over, disappeared in a manner reminiscent of the Dwemer of the Elder Scrolls series. But that is pretty old fluff now. These are just the examples that spring to the top of my head. there may or may not be more. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2990066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gree Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Let me put it like this. The High Lords can’t just decree. ‘’You chapter of Space Marines, go back and prevent the Horus Heresy.’’ And the Imperium can’t just push a button and send some assassins back to kill Horus. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2990074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
soddinnutter Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Let me put it like this. The High Lords can’t just decree. ‘’You chapter of Space Marines, go back and prevent the Horus Heresy.’’ And the Imperium can’t just push a button and send some assassins back to kill Horus. Yes they can. They can decree the :) out of it. It just won't work. How do we know it won't work? Because the history book tells us it didn't. But it didn't say how often they tried. But who switched the shield generator off on Horus' battle barge? And what was Doombreed doing when all this was going on? And who erased the 2nd an and 11th Legions from the timeline? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2990083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Grilled Bacon Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 There's a timetravel conspiracy now? O_o Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2990182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Darkover Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 Yeah I honestly wasn't going to go for time travel. Although the navigators they have could potentially be quite skilled at navigating the warp, but that would be it. The only reference is that the ships are all referred to as TARDIS's and the Doctor's personal ship has his drop pod which he lovingly refers to as his big blue box :lol: If I'm going the Dark Angels route I would be using them as a sort of watch dog for the Fallen which have popped out of time from the HH Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2992184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Debonair Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 The only reference is that the ships are all referred to as TARDIS's and the Doctor's personal ship has his drop pod which he lovingly refers to as his big blue box B) Surely the drop pods, rather than the ships, should resemble the famous blue box? It's a design from some wacky STC that some forgeworld got clearance to try out. Honest. :P I have the sudden, horrible feeling this enterprising idea will also include an inquisitor/necron/something else which repeatedly vox-casts "EXTERMINATUS! EXTERMINATUS!" Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2992574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Grilled Bacon Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Maybe they will fight a Necron army that is trying to turn the population of the planet into new Necrons? (could become a backstory maybe?) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2992803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Darkover Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 I was actually thinking of a xenophobic Tau force that exterminates the planets they conquer. My friend plays a Tau army and he hates the look of the allies so it is pure fire warrior and battle suits. The Necrons are a good idea though.... They're more of a minor concern then the Tau though. They are waging a Time War against those Tau at the moment though :) Although the big battle at the end of the universe could always be the Last Great Time War... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2994211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Grilled Bacon Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Slightly ironic if the Time Lords were exterminating planets hmm? <_< Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2995713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Saturnus Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Let me put it like this. The High Lords can’t just decree. ‘’You chapter of Space Marines, go back and prevent the Horus Heresy.’’ And the Imperium can’t just push a button and send some assassins back to kill Horus. Yes they can. They can decree the :D out of it. It just won't work. This evokes an amazing image in my head Lololololololololololololol! As for time travel, i would say that due to the paradoxical nature of time travel theory and the cannon time travel as Soddinator shared, maybe they have a a device that may or may not work that can "bend" time, but its archeotech and could destroy the universe, so the protect it from being used. Maybe they have "apothecarys" (chronomancer? Idk) in thier squads, who bend time to give FNP instead using combat drugs or healing like medics. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2996169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machine God Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Well they can always have a go at my Chapter! Over to you Iron-Father Da'Vros.... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2996206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqui Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 "EXTERMINATUS! EXTERMINATUS!" /Coffee meets Keyboard :D I think it could work in a sense. If you had a Chapter Master taking the "Role" of the Doctor, and another taking that of the Master, either in a Dark Angel-esque Loyalist and Fallen type way, or you could have the Chapter split with one side being the Antagonists of the other. Eg. the Chapter turns Renegade, but one (or a Few) Marines stay Loyal to the IoM but can't prove their Loyalty due to the heresy the Main force has shown already. Not sure if the above ideas are any good but make sense to me ^_^ Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2996221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqui Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Well they can always have a go at my Chapter! Over to you Iron-Father Da'Vros.... /coffee meets keyboard II :D Maybe they will fight a Necron army that is trying to turn the population of the planet into new Necrons? (could become a backstory maybe?) That is a cool idea! ^_^ Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2996222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavement Artist Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 This is simply one of the most stupid and outrageous ideas i've ever read on the Liber Astartes forum. I demand it happens. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2996248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Darkover Posted February 20, 2012 Author Share Posted February 20, 2012 Well The Doctor would certainly troll the heck out of Iron Father Da'Vros.... with much hilarity ensuing. And this would be more like the Time War Time Lords, so exterminating a planet for the greater good of the Imperium works... ;) Yeah the defense of a time bending device works well... The Eye of Harmony which is said to be a captured moment of singularity from a Black Hole. They could also interrupt a battle between the Tau and the Necrons right as the Tau are telling the Necrons that the only way they are superior is that they are better at dying. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2996324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Scrap the Marine chapter that time travels, suddenly I have the overwhelming desire to make a warband of these Ordo Chronus Inquisitors with the ability to micro hop through time, preventing them from killing Horus, et cetera, et cetera. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2996340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freman Bloodglaive Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Don't forget Rose Tyler. :-) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2997423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqui Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Don't forget Rose Tyler. :-) Who might be an SoB who joined forces to be rid of Heretics.... :blush: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/246950-time-lords/#findComment-2997425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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