First_Among_Brothers Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 So, I was listening to the audiobook version of Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s _The Master of Mankind,_ and I swear I heard the reader say “choooooooooom” when describing volkite weaponry—I am pretty sure it says “choom” right there in the book. I had always thought of this as a term coming from the online community, so it’s surprising to see it in the novel (though Dembski-Bowden most likely picked it up online and is playing with it—this is a relatively recent Heresy novel, after all). Anybody have a handle on where the term originated? Searching it gets you a variety of things not connected to 30k, from antiquated slang to a Hawaiian legal cannabis company. roryokane 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 It spawned from here, actually! From the Martian Death Ray club if I remember right and ADB liked it so much he made it cannon. Or at least this is how I know the term came to be. SyNidus, Brofist, Imren and 1 other 4 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5458386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotsmasha Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 IIRC, A D-B did indeed here the term here, and ran with it. Brofist and Imren 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5458387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dosjetka Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 It spawned from here, actually! From the Martian Death Ray club if I remember right and ADB liked it so much he made it cannon. Or at least this is how I know the term came to be. Well, that's the first two rules broken... :P * ahem * @Olis is the one who coined the "term", if I remember that correctly, which was then popularised here on the B&C before going on to take over the Warhammer community at large by storm. roryokane, Brother Pheidias, RolandTHTG and 5 others 8 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5458432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Cambrius Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Yes indeed, 'Choom! Glorious Choom!' was an Olis original waaaaay back when the HH first appeared. (Although I'm more saddened nobody in the MDRC used 'Choom Choominey, Choom Choominey, Choom Choom Cheree!'...) I'm pretty sure Forgeworld have him on a list of Volkite Addicts as he really does love em so much. Cambrius Indefragable and roryokane 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5458447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Aye, I am the originator of "choom" (I came up with it and others ran with it, though I will confess to milking it for all it was worth). I kinda wanted some kind of sci-fi onomatopoeia that wasn't simply just "pew-pew-pew". That was for lasers. Volkites are death rays, not lasers. ;) Also, to address the when of it - I believe it was 2015 when I first posted it up - possibly in a rumours thread? I'll see if I can dig up the actual post when I get home from work. (I am still stoked at the idea that A D-B canonized it!) Kastor Krieg, MrZakalwe, Captain_Krash and 16 others 19 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5458459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Cambrius Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 pew-pew-pew! That was for lasers. Volkites are death rays, not lasers. ;) Objection! Lascannons, as is well established go "FREEM!" :P I think the origin of Choom is much older than that. Poasibly 2012-3 ish if my internal mental chronometer is right. Cambrius SteveAntilles and SyNidus 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5458544 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinsanity Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 pew-pew-pew! That was for lasers. Volkites are death rays, not lasers. ;) Objection! Lascannons, as is well established go "FREEM!" :P I think the origin of Choom is much older than that. It has to be, yeah; the MDRC thread was created in 2015-06, the sound had to have been out for a while already by then Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5458559 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indefragable Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Ballistic weapons (especially of the automatic variety) : Dakka dakka dakka! (Small caliber/wattage/whatever) lasers: Pew-pew! Lascannons/“heavy” lasers: Freem! Volkite weaponry: Choom! Tau energy projectiles: Pew-pew...for the Greater Good! Gauss: Mathematik ist die Königin der Wissenschaften. What sound do plasma weapons make? Sarvis 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5458581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gederas Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 (edited) What sound do plasma weapons make? I believe Plasma goes " you, the guy standing next to you, the six guys BEHIND you, and [plasma weapon overloads] me!", followed by a detonation of plasma cores. In all seriousness, I think Plasma weapons sound like how they do in either Fallout or in the Space Marine video game. Kind of a high-speed "fwoosh" noise. Edited January 9, 2020 by Gederas Mechanicus Tech-Support, Pearson73, Indefragable and 1 other 4 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5458584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
helterskelter Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 All over 'VOIP!' in the context of Hudson in Aliens: 'Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. VOIP! Fry half a city with this puppy.' We never heard it fire it could have went choom I need to put choom into my next Heresy novel. I had freem in the Night Lords Series, so it's only fair. Gorgoff and Aias 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5459319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 The Holy Choom was duly canonized in Master of Mankind. And there was much rejoicing. Brother Pheidias, Dosjetka, jeremy1391 and 1 other 4 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5459790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roryokane Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 Aye, I am the originator of "choom" (I came up with it and others ran with it, though I will confess to milking it for all it was worth). I kinda wanted some kind of sci-fi onomatopoeia that wasn't simply just "pew-pew-pew". That was for lasers. Volkites are death rays, not lasers. Also, to address the when of it - I believe it was 2015 when I first posted it up - possibly in a rumours thread? I'll see if I can dig up the actual post when I get home from work. (I am still stoked at the idea that A D-B canonized it!) Is... Is this how it feels for Ultramarines and their successors to meet Guilliman in M42...? How does it feel to have achieved immortality without having had to sell your soul to the Dark Gods (suck it, traitor scum!)...? MrZakalwe 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5834366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific81 Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 Pretty sure 'choom' is used as an onomatopoea in 2000AD/Judge Dredd with some of the guns. Know there was obviously the big crossover back in the day with 40k and the early writers were fans (although not sure if ADB is?) roryokane 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5834453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkimaskMohawk Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 Lol I remember I had killed every FOC option with volkite to get my MDRC badge, but I just....never wrote the last story to lock it in lol. I think it was something hilariously sad too, like a bike praetor being shot at by 5 terrors and my buddy failed 3/5 saves. I was hoping for 1 wound or something. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/361109-the-origin-of-%E2%80%9Cchoom%E2%80%9D/#findComment-5834463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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