Causes the Necrons to be a short lived race because the C’Tan living in their sun. A series of wars happen and the C’Tan is like “oh hi, we can make you ‘immortal’”
Turns the civilisation of Necrons into the slave machine race we know in 40K
The worst part was, the C’tan which ended up being known as The Deceiver convinced them that they could make the Necrontyr immortal, fixing their cancer ridden short lives, and aid them in their war against the Old ones. This was accomplished by a process called bio-transference using the bio furnaces. As the Necrontyr either willingly or unwillingly lined up to burn up their bodes in the furnaces, the C’tan could be seen above the bio furnaces gorging on the souls of the Necrontyr burning.
I’m a metals engineer. I design and monitor processes to make metals with the right properties for a given application. That means lots of testing to prove it was done right, and testing usually means breaking shit to make sure it has enough strength and ductility.
It has pros and cons. The money is good and demand is higher than supply so it is pretty easy to find a good job, but it is a niche field so I have to go where the work is and aw(mm usually they put these places in the middle of nowhere in shitty republican states that have great corporate tax policies. It is also pretty much exclusively on-site work which means I have very limited choices of where I live.
I am a polymath and am good at lots of mathy sciencey things, I’m hindsight I probably would have picked something that allows for remote work. TBF remote work wasn’t much of a thing in 1995 when I chose this field but I wish now that I could work remotely.
All that said it is a good time and has treated me well so far.
The Endsinger is up there. FFXIV Endwalker spoilers follow.
spoilerShe was tasked with finding the meaning of life, but the vast indifference of the universe turned her into the incarnation of depression. She determined that life is pointless and invariably leads to suffering, and decided to end all life in the universe as a kindness. She made her nest at the edge of creation, where she gathered all of the souls of the dead to prevent their reincarnation and feed on their despair and suffering, to eventually grow powerful enough to accelerate entropy and bring about the heat death of the universe. She was defeated by the power of friendship. And our best frenemy.
On second thought, Valens van Varro is worse. Fuck that guy.
I dont remember the name of the episode, but Bashir took a leave of absence and hung out on this planet for, I’d guess, a year to work on a cure. He didn’t find a cure but managed (by accident) to make a vaccine that saved new-borns from getting infected.
This is a very interesting thought: the Dowdy alien you mention has wiped out an entire race of 50 billion beings, but is aware of his crime and lives in self exile. He’s committed an atrocious crime in a rage fit.
On the other hand, the changelings committed a planned crime with intent to cause suffering.
I’m not sure who’s worse: the Dowd by magnitude of the crime, but the Changelings ruthlessly command their Dominion.
There was an old Captain America comic where the Red Skull had a glass floor in his dining room so he could look down on the torture chamber underneath.
First thought is that its almost certainly something from Warhammer 40k. Probably one of the Dark Eldar (or just their civilization as a whole). They’re a super-advanced, post-scarcity civilization that basically worships torture and uses their technology to “perfect” it.
Na, the C’Tan is the cruelest. You Necrons want to be free of cancer riddles bodies we caused by consuming your sun and become immortality? Sure, here is a metal container for your brain while we consume your essence because it taste better than solar winds.
The Fleshmancer in Sea of Stars is pretty terrible. He creates giant, potentially world destroying, monsters that feed on different types of despair, and so seek to create those emotions in as many people as possible. He committed one genocide against an entire race, and then trapped them in living death, unable to be seen, or leave his lab. He seems to have committed another genocide, just to make a birthday present for his friend. And this is all on just two planets, when he is acting in the same way across the entire multiverse
My guess is gonna be a Dr. Who or a Black Mirror villain that utilized deep psychological horror. Maybe one of the ones that made people into immortals or data-immortals with a near infinite amount of time combined with horrifying living conditions to break their victims.
Hades is far from being evil. He’s a loyal husband and impartial/ fair when dealing with the dead. He even did a solid for Orpheus that one time and all. Too bad homie didn’t follow Hades’ clear instructions.
The Mistress resurrected the dead all throughout earth and created paradise to turn them all into cybermen, android with a chip to prevent emotions, if that chip gets removed cybermen go into an agonizing pain due to realizing what they have become
I create control systems, currently in the automotive industry but the same principles apply to any control system, which is the thing I love about this subject. The skillset is about trimming down a problem to it’s absolute bare essentials. I always wondered what makes machines tick and control theory is the systematic expression of that pursuit. We model the system or phenomena in question and then develop the control in simulation. Once we have the desired result, it is usually realised as a software object that is embedded in a computer.
I started on this path as an unemployed and disillusioned 32 year old engineer, retrained over a period of 2 years and it turned out to be a huge source of fulfillment.
Take whatever job will pay the most while demanding the least amount of time spent on the job. It doesn't matter of a job pays a quarter million and lets you work on trendy tech if you're on the job 80 hours a week; that's just you getting fucked in the ass. If you're working 40 hours a week or less (ideally much less) you can do passion projects on your own time.
Don't look for friendship, community, or emotional fulfillment on the job. If you find it anyway, it's a trap. Do the job, get paid, and GTFO. Be a mercenary, not a company man.
I know why my parents had me cut. It was because my father had been cut, and that's just what was done at the time. It's not a good enough reason for me, and if I had had sons I would not have allowed them to be cut in turn. My children are not my property.
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