Bad Reviews

[Kol Saresk]

Here is the scene for reference.

 

“Bad as the streets were, the real nightmare was the architecture. Lecorb’s growth had been haphazard, its one burst of urban planning happening in M38, when Lord Hosman had ordered the centre of the city razed to make way for the new administrative complexes. Its style of construction, however, had remained unchanged since the Great Crusade. At some point, the tradition of using pilotis and open façades had become linked, in the cultural imagination, with the act of obeisance to the Emperor. Load-bearing walls had become heretical. But the preservation of any particular structure was unimportant. As a result, apartment had been built atop apartment, new growths of pillars sprouting out of decaying roof gardens to support a new building, whose roof would in turn birth another.

 

Some buildings overlapped the roofs of several smaller ones, and the façades, freed of the need to do something as mundane as hold the structures upright, had turned into a crazy quilt of murals, stained glass windows, or sullen, stained rockcrete. The zone was a lunatic collection of boxes on stilts that looked, at first glance, like a forest of spindle-legged Titans and Dreadnoughts in collision. Time, smog and decay had rotted the faces of the buildings, and what might once have looked festive, with strident colour offset by the sober grey of unadorned walls, was now a study in dour mud.”

 

Excerpt From: Annandale, David. “The Death of Antagonis.” Black Library, 2013-02. iBooks.

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Now as I said to Perrin, I didn't want this to be or to become a bashing. And as I also said, this might be a difference of opinion. But after reading about things like a completely insulated hive that is more like a city with a roof, soldiers who wear glass armor and carry copies of Art of War with them as bibles and other various things, I sort of expect different cultures to pop up in different books with different ways of seeing and doing things. Maybe this is just a difference in opinion that some people expect most, if not all, Imperial hives and cities to be carbon copies of Mega-City One.

[Captain Juan Juarez]

Vitrian Dragoons FTW!