Hey everyone, this is a Zero episode of an upcoming project David Heath and DB Spitzer are working on. It is an exploration of the sources of Warhammer 40,000, and their sources.
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Season 23 bonus episodes 1-25
1
The Imperium of Man
Dune, Foundation, Roman Empire in space, religious dystopias
Edward Gibbon, imperial decline literature, medieval Christendom, future-history fiction
2
Space Marines
Starship Troopers, action-movie super soldiers, power armor, comic-book warriors
Heinlein military SF, crusading orders, Spartan myth, warrior monks, fascist hero imagery
3
Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard
World War movies, Starship Troopers, British war comics, doomed infantry stories
H. G. Wells future-war fiction, Kipling, trench literature, boys’ military papers, pulp battlefield fiction
4
Adeptus Mechanicus
Metropolis, cyberpunk machine cults, mad scientists, techno-priests
Gernsback invention fiction, H. G. Wells, Frankenstein, lost-technology stories, mad-science pulp
5
Adepta Sororitas / Ecclesiarchy
Hammer horror, warrior nuns, Joan of Arc cinema, witchfinder movies
Gothic novels, martyr stories, saint legends, witch-trial pamphlets, religious melodrama
6
The Inquisition
The X-Files, witchfinder films, secret-police thrillers, occult detectives
M. R. James-style scholars, Blackwood, Machen, witch-hunter tracts, secret-society fiction
7
Rogue Traders
Star Trek, Flash Gordon, space pirates, merchant princes
Planetary romance, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, colonial adventure fiction
8
Adeptus Custodes
Golden demigod bodyguards, imperial palace guards, mythic super-soldiers
Achilles, Gilgamesh, sacred kingship, Praetorian Guards, immortal companions of god-kings
9
Adeptus Titanicus
Pacific Rim, Gundam, giant robot anime, kaiju movies, walking battleships, cathedral mecha
Wells’ Martian tripods, “The Land Ironclads,” dreadnoughts, siege engines, bronze giants, golems, sacred statues, war-gods
10
The Horus Heresy
Star Wars, fallen Jedi, dark lords, civil-war space opera, tragic chosen ones
Milton’s Paradise Lost, Lucifer’s rebellion, Cain and Abel, Arthur and Mordred, Roman civil wars, succession crises
11
Chaos Space Marines
Fallen angels, heavy metal villains, corrupted super-soldiers, black knights, rebel legions
Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moorcock’s Chaos, Byronic rebels, cursed champions, Satanic romance, Gothic villains, revenge tragedy
12
Chaos Daemons
Hellraiser, Event Horizon, occult horror, possession films, nightmare dimensions
Medieval demonology, grimoires, witch-trial literature, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, occult pulp, weird menace fiction
13
World Eaters / Khorne
Conan, gladiator films, berserker metal, chainsaw action horror, grindhouse revenge
Robert E. Howard, sword-and-sorcery pulp, berserker sagas, blood cults, Homeric rage, arena spectacle, revenge tragedy
14
Death Guard / Nurgle
Zombie plague films, body horror, gross-out comedy, infection horror, fungal rot, swamp monsters
Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” plague literature, danse macabre, memento mori, corpse folklore, leper saints
15
Thousand Sons / Tzeentch
Wizard cults, cursed books, Egyptian sorcerers, cosmic chessmasters, forbidden libraries
H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, E. R. Eddison, mummy fiction, forbidden-book stories, Decadent occultism, Renaissance magic
16
Emperor’s Children / Slaanesh
Glam rock horror, decadent villains, body modification nightmares, cursed artists, aristocratic monsters
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Huysmans, fin-de-siècle decadence, Gothic aristocrats, cursed art, aestheticism
17
Chaos / Imperial Knights
Haunted mecha, cursed noble machines, demonic war engines, Gundam, BattleTech, Pacific Rim
Gothic castles, cursed armor, haunted inheritance, family-doom melodrama, chivalric romance, sins of the fathers
18
Orks
Mad Max, fantasy orcs, biker gangs, football hooligans, British comic violence, slapstick war movies
William Hope Hodgson’s “The Voice in the Night,” fungus horror, Matango, invasive-species stories, goblins, comic grotesques
19
Tyranids
Alien, Aliens, The Thing, bug-war movies, swarm horror, hive minds, biological weapons
John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?”, H. G. Wells’ Martians, insect-hive fiction, invasion literature, cosmic naturalism
20
Genestealer Cults
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alien, cult horror, red-scare paranoia films, sleeper cells
Hidden-bloodline stories, secret cult pulp, infiltration fiction, changeling folklore, cuckoo-child fears, apocalyptic sects
21
Necrons
The Terminator, killer robots, metal skeletons, space undead, immortal android kings
Karel Čapek’s R.U.R., robot rebellion, automaton fiction, artificial labor nightmares, mummy pulp, Egyptomania, tomb curses
22
Aeldari / Drukhari
Tolkien elves, dying space aristocrats, psychic aliens, dark elves, vampire cities, cruel fairy courts
Lord Dunsany, Jack Vance’s Dying Earth, fairy otherworlds, decadent elder-race fiction, Atlantis, Gothic aristocrats
23
Night Lords
Batman turned inside out, The Crow, slasher films, serial-killer thrillers, torture horror, vigilante movies
Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Gothic villains, penny dreadfuls, Jack the Ripper panic, Grand Guignol, Dracula, public punishment
24
T’au Empire / Leagues of Votann
Clean anime mecha empire, sleek battlesuits, utopian coalitions, space dwarves, hard-SF miners
Utopian SF, technocracy fiction, Cold War futures, missionary empire, company towns, mining-company frontier stories, labor colonies
25
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Spy thrillers, Mission: Impossible, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Manchurian Candidate, The Prisoner, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
John Buchan, Joseph Conrad, G. K. Chesterton, Erskine Childers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Norbert Jacques, invasion-scare fiction, fifth-column paranoia
