Astral Knights EXPLAINED - the ULTIMATE SACRIFICE

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The Gaming Storyteller

10 ай бұрын

Marine Chapter from an unknown Founding that was a Successor Chapter of the Imperial Fists in the Warhammer 40k setting

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@Dutch40KGuy 10 ай бұрын

I also wanted to note I used a LOT of work from the AMAZING John Stone Art in this video, please check out his artwork, his Patreon is an absolutely amazing place to be!

@KellPerEX 10 ай бұрын

You forgot one last, yet most awesome detail. Battle barge hulk became monument in space, in honour of Astral Knights chapter. And each chapter, that participated in that operation, now sends their marines on honorary guard duty at that monument.

@khayramsyar554 13 сағат бұрын

What is the song used btw 🥺

@DubiousDutchGuy 10 ай бұрын

The lad, just yeeting his entire battle barge into a world sized ship

@synergy8879 9 ай бұрын

“captain, are you sure this i-“ “FUCK IT WE BALL!”

@sakuyaizayoi8946 8 ай бұрын

the barge was pre-dating the imperium and was sentient, it willingly sacrificed itself to ensure as my knights landed as well

@pihermoso11 8 ай бұрын

Dry land is not just our destination, it's our destiny

@derekboble7850 Ай бұрын

Star wars death star battle but better

@spookyghostwriter3110 7 ай бұрын

Fun fact: In the most recent Cain novel, Amberly Vail says (in a footnote) that the 30 remaining Astral Knights were actually integrated into the Sable Swords and served as a cadre of mentors to the new marines.

@user-wt2gk5wv9t 3 ай бұрын

Those are huuuge boots to fill for the Swords😮

@g.e.barringer7563 3 ай бұрын

I actually was going to ask where those remaining marines went

@coldsteel2546 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info I was railing where they went

@DarrenDior 27 күн бұрын

Why not just rebuild with more primaris marines?

@spookyghostwriter3110 27 күн бұрын

Time difference. The Astral Knights were destroyed in 926 M41. Primaris marines were introduced in 999 M41. That's a 73 year gap where planets who would have otherwise relied on the Astral Knights... well, couldn't. As for the option of natural rebuilding? Couldn't be done- They got back only a single body from the World Engine. No gene seed.

@18videowatcher41 10 ай бұрын

Truly the Emperor smiles upon these noble souls.

@7ElevenTruther 10 ай бұрын

Oh, about that. Not discounting their badass sacrifice but apparently, their weird quirk was that their chapter fostered a culture where senior officers would sometime maintain alligence to their noble lineage and leverage their exploits as astartes to engage in politicking with rival noble houses, such as the former chapter master who tricked the inquisition into believing his family's aristocratic rivals were infiltrated by genestealers so that they would assist in their extermination. 'Noble souls' indeed. 😂

@18videowatcher41 10 ай бұрын

Meh, they served the Emperor well and with bravery, I could care less if they had some shady operations on the side. 🤣 Thanks for the information, though, I was unaware of that.

@razgriz9714 8 ай бұрын

they were a secret Space marine chapter that Emps made and didn't tell anyone and somehow forgotten about them until Kitten reminded Emps on what they did

@whiterose8601 7 ай бұрын

A corpse of a false emperor and smile how laughable Join chaos we have snacks

@SilasKeon 3 ай бұрын

@@7ElevenTrutherSaying that is like saying The Marines Malevolent kill children. It's really not surprising but a good reveal.

@Khartas568 10 ай бұрын

Best bit, that remaining 30 ish marines and the Dreadnought, are still out there somewhere.

@akshatmandody5484 10 ай бұрын

Likely they joind the new chapter that replaced them in Likely higher positions

@richardtaillon1616 10 ай бұрын

@@akshatmandody5484read World Engine. The remaining 30 leave on a crusade, basically expected to die with honor. But as mentioned, we don't know what happened to them yet

@wholesome_masochist4113 Ай бұрын

Actually Amberly Veil mentioned that they're with the Sable swords as a group of instructors to help out the new Marines. @@richardtaillon1616

@skipa4638 20 күн бұрын

In the new Cain book Inquisitor Vail says they got rolled into the new chapter as mentors

@patrickpromen3605 10 ай бұрын

Why? Everyone knows you aim for the small vent from a single fighter

@Dutch40KGuy 10 ай бұрын

HA!

@thejuiceking2219 10 ай бұрын

the necrons put a grate over theirs

@wilsontheknight 10 ай бұрын

That’s only for moon sized battle stations tho

@Boringspy 10 ай бұрын

@@thejuiceking2219The clever fiends!!! 😂

@thomasparkin259 10 ай бұрын

Also you do NOT want to try cramming a psyker into a fighter craft. It will not end well.

@aveomnissiah2896 7 ай бұрын

"Bother how do we penetrate it shield??" "Use your head brother!!" "Say no more" *Ram a ship head into a world engine*

@JWP-56 5 ай бұрын

“Fuck it, we ball.”

@beastmotoz 2 ай бұрын

"For The Imperial"

@Katrina_Korolev Ай бұрын

@@beastmotoz Just the one ehh? 😂

@doomslayer9077 5 ай бұрын

The emperor: well slap me on the kneecap and call me a fucking skeleton that is actually amazing

@Katrina_Korolev Ай бұрын

Heh I see what you did there 😂😜

@gardevoir7137 Күн бұрын

TTS Emperor will always be my favorite lol

@dyslegein 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for being the sole reason we won that battle, here is your eviction notice.

@edgieststalker8141 10 ай бұрын

Badab War moment

@aguywithalotofopinions412 10 ай бұрын

I imagine they were probably integrated into the Sable Swords

@RecklessFables 10 ай бұрын

Since starting a new chapter usually involves (or at least used to require) a group of veterans and leadership from the same geneseed, that core of those vets might have outnumbered the Astral Knights that were remaining. That would make sense then to start a new legacy and retire the old name.

@Paladin314 8 ай бұрын

The other thing is those other 30 astral knights were probably not present at the battle, and Space Marines are All About Honor. Their brothers all died in that battle - how could they possibly take credit for such a sacrifice when they were spared by being elsewhere?

@slidemguy 7 ай бұрын

@@edgieststalker8141why does that translate to good news moment XD

@Schyzofrenic87 6 ай бұрын

"one of the most tragic chapter" ...*screams in Lamenters *

@mrziiz6893 8 ай бұрын

Ah yes, one of the many planet and solar system killing superweapons the Necrons have in their closets

@SavageHenry777 10 ай бұрын

Hope the battle barge was named the Astral Rammer or the Astral Buster or something. I think we as a community can retcon that into being the case if we work together.

@declanlee6894 10 ай бұрын

The Asstral Nutcannon

@kyrasazrael1248 10 ай бұрын

Astral Throngler

@gavinziozios1431 10 ай бұрын

@@kyrasazrael1248Oh God no

@DTS214 6 ай бұрын

Cringer 3000

@coldhands2802 3 ай бұрын

Nah. I'm good.

@DzinkyDzink 10 ай бұрын

Ironicly the World Engine was awoken to fight the Tyrannids...

@codymaier-wenetta9553 2 ай бұрын

Yeah but didn't it wipe a few imperium plantes first.

@vincentcrow6075 Ай бұрын

Well it should go and fight Tyranids then

@payneman Ай бұрын

It wasn't, when the Astral Knights were on it's surface they saw a holo projection (or it's necron equivalent) with the course of the World Engine, it was going to Mars

@mrschizo2837 Күн бұрын

@payneman Oh shit. Really? Clearly, the knights made the best call, then. Obvious issues of a necron world engine in the Sol system aside, the Void dragon was clearly the real goal. I don't even want to think what would have happened had it gotten there.

@truffelnootje 10 ай бұрын

The fact that the astral knight woudn’t get a €&@“- load of new geneseed& recruits and a battle barge, is a huge mistake… they replaced them with another chapter as reward…

@RC-br1ps 10 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly.

@coldsteel2546 2 ай бұрын

Pretty crappy hih

@dolomaticus1180 2 ай бұрын

The 30 was integrated into the new chapter and now is the trainers for new Battle Brothers.

@geerat1205 10 ай бұрын

I love my Astral Knights, I painted an entire army of Black Templars to look like them and even kitbashed Artor Ahmrad out of a Fafnir Rahn model.

@GrandiaKnight 10 ай бұрын

New Ciaphus Cain book references this guys and the world engine

@giovannibruno9481 7 ай бұрын

"Well i guess we are rammimg this bad boi"

@fmhydracorp3642 6 ай бұрын

Man i cant imagine such heroic sacrifices, the dreadnought too 😭😭

@sniperplays6616 10 ай бұрын

Kind of like the dark throne in battle fleet Gothic 2 except it was raven guard that landed on the station instead of Astral knights and the imperial fleet above was constantly dropping reinforcements to points designated by the Raven guard, before detonating a vortex bomb crippling it

@khinzaw77 10 ай бұрын

That was a direct copy of the World Engine story.

@parkertest6943 9 ай бұрын

@@khinzaw77oh wow, I legit thought that the game was just letting you play out this story. Hahaha I had no idea that they were copy and pasting shit

@JohnSmith-bz9be 10 ай бұрын

The Space Marine Battles book of this was superb to read. So the Sable Swords took over the Astral Knights fortress. But can somebody tell me what happened to the 30 surviving Astral Knights and sole Dreadnought? Did they merge with the Sable Swords?

@7stormy334 10 ай бұрын

Most likely if they both share the same founding chapter. Being part of a new chapter is sometimes seen as a fast way for a promotion.

@JohnSmith-bz9be 10 ай бұрын

@@7stormy334 Cheers!

@albe8479 10 ай бұрын

they probably merged with the first company become company captains inducted to the deathwatch entered the retinue of some lord inquisitor

@JohnSmith-bz9be 10 ай бұрын

@@albe8479that also sounds plausible. Cheers

@OutspokenSeeker 10 ай бұрын

The Sable Swords did not in fact join with the remaining Astrals. Instead the 30, led by their dreadnought went off to die in some battle. They had no homeworld anymore. No way to properly rebuild, for all their sacrifices they really were left with only one choice.

@envergursoy 10 ай бұрын

I've always loved these guys!

@supershotgun5300 7 ай бұрын

"Leroy Jenkins"

@curtisthornsberry4236 10 ай бұрын

I swear the chapter was the void hunters or something like that. Still one of my favorite Space Marine stories. Heroic sacrifice against a seemingly unbeatable foe is always a good trope in 40k.

@OgpBosnia 6 ай бұрын

Man 40k just never stops does it.

@Dutch40KGuy 6 ай бұрын

And it will easily go for another 35 years

@thefuulio1382 10 ай бұрын

When you have numbers, just deploy ork tektiks

@junainoakuma 10 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure they've raised again furing Ultima Founding

@Reformed322 10 ай бұрын

Seriously wish I picked this book up before they stopped selling it

@Patrioticpawn 20 күн бұрын

The last thirty really got hit with the Steward of Gondor ‘go now and die in what way suits you best’

@lhcdrivernephi2837 Ай бұрын

The best possible ending for a Space Marine.

@vladimirserpov6773 7 күн бұрын

Necrons every time: *find one of a kind weapon* GW: Aaand it's gone.

@lukejohnston4666 22 күн бұрын

Dorn cries, but also will be proud...

@encinoman903 10 ай бұрын

What is it with Imperials and ramming their nigh-irreplaceable ships into different things?

@genericname4739 29 күн бұрын

The Scary thing is that the Necrons have more. One appears in Gothic Armada 2 and is known as the Dark Throne. But if we look at the Necron ending their combat purpose was likely to fight Warp entities as it closed the Eye of Terror and probably be a mobile bastion. Saddening that the Dark Throne didn't get the close the Eye of Terror before being destroyed.

@sanguiniusonvacation1803 4 күн бұрын

The core of the world engine housed a shard of the Molder of Worlds, who may have helped destroy its prison before fucking off into intergalactic space.

@arralartathi 2 күн бұрын

The Astral Knights were betrayed by the Administratum.

@boxy2k8 10 ай бұрын

Astral Chads

@javousdeck6084 2 ай бұрын

Weakest Necron weapon

@Ogrynbig656 26 күн бұрын

They stole their sanctuary

@doggydude2668 3 ай бұрын

lmfao it's like when someone crushes an ant hill so the ants just climb into his balls and cause absolute chaos

@notusneo 10 ай бұрын

41st or 42nd?

@coldsteel2546 2 ай бұрын

What book is this? I wanna read this story

@ilyac3185 10 ай бұрын

That Tom world would sure come in handy against the Tyranids

@slayer6498 10 ай бұрын

These Dudes Are Respected So Much Throught The Imperium That On The World Of SafeHold There Is A Shrine That Consists Of 772 Statures, One For Each Battle Brother That Fell Stopping The World Engine, Multiple Chapters Most Notable The Blood Angels Always Have Marines From Their Chapter To Watch Over The Shrine And Safeguard It.

@RTF8RH 10 ай бұрын

This story is the kind of thing we need in warhammer games. Imagine a coop mission in which you are sent to destroy this and you see a whole chapter ram it and swarm it with hundred of marines

@22espec Ай бұрын

Incredible heroic is something that basically describe all the space marines, it sounds redundant already

@Hellheart 3 ай бұрын

Nothing tragic about that. That's how any chapter would want to go out. Pure heroism, baby!!

@ElJorro 10 ай бұрын

They went out with a bang!

@Jumbuck1151 Ай бұрын

I guess the necrons lost some of their intelligence when they let some random space vermin destroy one of their super weapons 😂

@steeds52 10 ай бұрын

Chad choice

@schattenfaust 10 ай бұрын

Emperor Protects!

@ExplainedGoodly 10 ай бұрын

Very nice

@LoFi_Sinner95 6 ай бұрын

Necron Supremacy!

@mattrodriguez6130 10 ай бұрын

For the Emperor

@All41135 4 ай бұрын

Chiiilllllll I’m still in the Horus Hearsay arc 😭😭😭

@ATable4You 8 ай бұрын

You know what's a funny thought. The fact that Space Marines live for a few thousandish years, Custodes (if they're in close proximity to the Emperor) are near immortal, Primarchs are almost immortal (especially Vulkan being the first perpetual Primarch). And all these people probably experience time on the scale of years, compared to the average Guardsman or regular non altered human who experiences time in minutes and days.

@WarpstormChronicles 10 ай бұрын

So what happened to the surviving 30?

@user-vm7bx1bq4s 7 күн бұрын

DANNNNNG

@neptunauto40 10 ай бұрын

I wouldn´t know exactly how the tombworld´s quantum shields collapsed upon themselves when a single barge rammed the thing. they are literally made to be more effective the stronger the impact is.

@codycurtin2295 8 ай бұрын

Just abother book that NEEDS an audio version. Especially cause the regular book itself is out of print. Its titled World Engine btw

@Jiggyb00 2 ай бұрын

What a pro-gamer move.

@ULTIMATZEKROM Ай бұрын

More like Astral Chads

@SuperPresidentBeefbroth 10 ай бұрын

im a straight guy but dutch accents are hot

@Dutch40KGuy 10 ай бұрын

Oh youuu🤭

@angtaonggala 6 ай бұрын

Would it be nice if they will be integrated to deathwatch

@ricku9487 6 ай бұрын

Why are Necrons always portrayed as so insanely powerful that they can annihilate whole worlds in seconds and yet on the tabletop, their weapons barely have any teeth.

@Guo1234bob 2 ай бұрын

Balance lol, but also necron weapons on tabletop is not weak by any means.

@sublis939 6 ай бұрын

When you say replaced, do you mean rebranded themselves and started increasing their numbers or a new chapter completely replaced them added the 30 knights and dreadnoughts to their own ranks?

@Profmorphious123 10 ай бұрын

Are they rebuilding their chapter???

@johnp3747 10 ай бұрын

Bet they'll come back

@HBon111 Ай бұрын

I thought the Chapter died to a man overloading the last reactor core or whatever. Knowing there were survivors is...well, it's meh.

@ayethe4603 10 ай бұрын

Is this in a book?

@kelakogreenaddict1888 3 ай бұрын

Was the necron not able to shoot the battle barge to smithereens before it reached them? Honestly I don’t know how necrons don’t just steamroll most things in the setting- apart from writers shitting on them

@theanathema3062 2 ай бұрын

Well, one thing is that the Necrons weren’t supposed to wake up the time they did. They were set to wake up much earlier, but something went wrong with their stasis. Right now, the Necrons and the tech they have that is waking up is very much damaged and corroded, only really functioning at like ten to 50 percent mostly, so they could be something.

@Wolfrage76 7 ай бұрын

Did the remaining Astral Knights and Dreadnoughts got absorbed into The Sabre Swords Chapter?

@CidVeldoril 6 ай бұрын

Nope, the Sable Swords were huge assholes towards the dready who in turn also did not respect them in any way. The remaining Knights see the Swords as usurpers of their planet and despise them.

@Wolfrage76 6 ай бұрын

@@CidVeldoril So where's the rest of The Astral Knights?

@CidVeldoril 6 ай бұрын

@@Wolfrage76 Basically kicked off their own planet and sent off to find an honourable death. Because apparently the reward for your chapter's heroism is getting sent on basically a penitent crusade with your homeworld being given to some strangers.