I would like to take this opportunity before the video goes live to proudly announce I fell off.

I can't believe they've brought capitalism to space. Now, where is Tim Curry supposed to escape to?

“What inspired you to go out and bring planets into the Imperium’s fold?” “Money!”

"For God, for Spain, and to get rich." Well, when a formula works, it works I guess.

I once heard a joke about Rouge Traders that said "Never ask a Rouge Trader the species of his girlfriend"

"Abelard, introduce me"

My favorite moment from the actual tabletop game is when our party was attempting to speak to a planetary governor, but he kept refusing and flaking on us. One player was a rogue trader that was essentially a galactic Baroness and the wealthiest of our group, but also the least applicable for combat. So we finally corner this guy to talk to him and he attempts to use the excuse of needing to run the planet full of workers and soldiers he's on, and our girl says; "Oh, you won't need to be doing that. I've already paid them. *All of them.* Out of my own pocket, for the hour that we will be conversing." " *Sit.* " This woman paid off the wages of *an entire planet* purely to speak to a particular person for one hour. She was nuts lmao

Im expecting at least one reference to spaceballs

Rogue Traders have so much freedom it's kinda insane. Basically the only two things they absolutely can't do are: 1) Work with Chaos or use Chaos 2) Rebel against the Imperium or subvert it for outside powers Other then those two, everything else is a matter of connections, personal power, and how much trouble it would be for the Inquisitiont to actually go after you

You know what just might be the weirdest part of 40k? It's that with rogue traders around - Generals, Admirals, Nobles, Merchant Lords and more all in one - the Galaxy hasn't actually turned into one big ass oligarchy despite the golden man being gone for 10000 years.

Rogue Trader: “It was a pleasure working with you commander, as well as your men. Tell you what, let’s all go to a Pleasure World for a celebration! My treat!” Yeah, a Rogue Trader is rich enough to do that.

Grimdark Mass Effect my beloved

I've played ttrpg in Rogue Trader. After one session, the captain was so orderly that Craftworld Eldar would get nausea, and the rest of the team went heretical in five seconds. It was awesome half a year of playing.

In regards to Owlcat's Rogue Trader RPG, I was very disappointed by the lack of xeno companions and how the only two xenos you can recruit are both fucking Elder. The only two aliens they added are the ones that look like weird humans with pointy ears. I wanted an Ork Bloodaxe mercenary, a Jokaero, a Sslyth, a Kroot and a Tau. That would have been awesome.

8:00 Panc spreading the rat agenda I see.

19:32 I was really not expecting a RWBY reference of all things in a video about rogue traders

This is a spoiler for the Of Mars trilogy, but there is also some canon precedent for *counterfeit Rogue Traders*, with forged Warrants of Trade. They can go undetected for decades, even centuries, before a particularly insightful administrator takes notice.

19:32 using Jaune as a stand-in for a whiny wimp who is descended from heroes was not what I expected, but definitely appreciated. 🤣

I know that this is a war game setting and all, but I still wish rogue traders were the main focus. They have a lot more storytelling potential and can still be dystopian without constantly being depressingly grimdark or obsessed with events more than ten thousand years ago.

I absolutely love that the exemption that the Trade Warrant gives Rouge Traders suggests that the Emperor is completely fine with working with xenos for the benefit of the imperium. The fact it _specifically_ mentions it, however, implies that he also thought that it was better to only let _some_ people work with xenos, probably to prevent dumb***s dealing with Drukari, like that one story with the Tau.

Incendia Chorda would be a good example of a "Pious Missionary" Rogue Trader, especially as she was more or less raised by the ecclesiarchy.

In a game of rogue trader our rogue trader house was specialized in cleaning up, repairing, and purifying lost and captured ships into usable ones to put them back in the hands off the navy. So this means we're basically used car salesmen except we have go into those cars and remove the chaos/ork/genestealer/rak'gul infestations before we can sell them, also ripping stuff off of space hulks... now that i think about it we really were just playing space hulk but as super rich people

YOU HEAR ME! NAME THE TRADER THE GREAT NAME LUTHOR HARKON! DO IT!

17:45 Fun fact: The guy on the very bottom left of this Habsburg family tree who is the heir apparent to headship of the house is also a professional race car driver, and a very good one at that.

I just want to add to what the Imperium can create for habitation. If it's a lifeless rock, they can still drill underneath and create vast cities underground. Even something like a gas giant can and will be used for orbital stations, some the size of small moons with their own ecosystem in glass domes. Humans are very stubborn about making all their resources useful.

I’ve been watching older videos, and I gotta say, the Pelinal Whitestrake video is by far my favorite.

Rogue traders the freest people in the imperium.

another important note is since space is so fucking huge there could genuinely be millions of worlds already in imperial borders that are not yet discovered because of various reasons. the realistic ones: could be that a dim star makes detection of planets nigh impossible so what looks like singular stars could be home to many planets. worlds without suns that could be habitable with imperium tech could be lurking out there. there's the good old imperial incompetence leaving discovered worlds before and after the great crusade to become lost completely. systems once considered no go zones due to natural phenomenon or filled with death worlds could naturally lose their dangerous flair over time and become explorable again. the unrealistic but plausible in 40k ones: warp travel from what ive heard acts through transit ways that are lit up by the emperor like a galaxy wide spider's web so it could be that large chunks of the galaxy are simply disconnected from the warp. the cicatrix maledictum could be an in lore explanation for them opening up. warp storms that last many years could simply stop occuring. worlds shrouded away by xenos could malfunction and unveil a system of paradise worlds that the eldar do not want touched. ork empires could cannibalise themselves into extinction leaving habitable but damaged worlds ready for exploration and colonisation. in short even if the imperium's borders were never to expand again, rogue traders could spend thousands of years discovering new and incredible planets only a few hundred light years away.

god damn it, I really don't want things to appear in my feed two whole days before im able to watch it

And the Conquistador has found work again 40,000 years into the future.

Rogue Traders have, since I joined the 40k Fandom, represented to me an absolutely astounding storytelling tool which I have used in multiple RPGs in order to play around with the conventions of Warhammer and justify the absolute zaniness I know my players want to get up to.

the proper krumpin series of stories is a great rogue traders daily routine example def worth checking out vox in the voids vids narrating them it’s absolute gold

I think it’d be interesting if the imperium dissolved into this collection of thousands of Rogue Trader empires all with different interpretations of the imperial truth and imperial beliefs.

Honestly the idea of rogue traders who used to be rival terran warlords gives me an idea for a traitor auxilia army led by a rogue trader who is salty about Big E getting rid of his fiefdom, so his plan is to invade terra to get it back.

Having Jaune be the representation of the 40x great-grandchild who sucks is so accurate. Goddamn.

Some of the most tolerant people in the Imperium.

Since you're talking about space pirates, Id really like if you covered eldar corsairs (ynnari too)... There's not that many good KZfaq videos about them... Take responsability, you're the one who made me an eldar player and fan of their lore.

“And then every planet in the Rouge Trader’s possession is glassed” Not if you’ve got a C’than son they don’t!

Love it that you use FTL music. Brings back good memories, sleepless nights and Giant Alien Spiders

One thing I love about Rogue Traders is how varied and diverse they are in terms of goals and attitudes. You have some who are conquisitidors,bringing the "light of The God-Emperor" to long forgotten human worlds,some who are merchant princes that esentially own entire star systems,some who are explorers that want to discover and settle new worlds for the Imperium and then some who are basically just government sanctioned pirates.

Absolutely love rogue traders, the tabletop was a big part of my early introduction to the setting.

There. That one. The space marine 30-something seconds in. He's the one why me and my sister like Space Wolves. I hope he redeemed them(or will, if you haven't played the CRPG yet) for you too.

Ah! 19:31 Jaune jumpscare

We goon for Cassia in this household

Can't wait for Owlcat to make Rogue Trader 2: The Search For More Money

A rouge trader movie series would go hard

Makes me want to go back and give the Rouge Trader game another go.

You can Rogue my Trader… any day 👍 Easily my favorite quote

I hate these premiers. Now I am just going to have this video in my subscription feed for the next 2 days and not be able to watch it.

Hell yeah, I found you a year or so ago and I can't stop loving your content. Your humor is right up my alley, these things make me forgive you for liking the elder

One of the other ways Rogue Traders get away with trading in Xeno stuff without getting blammed by the Inquisition is the fact that one of their best customers for that stuff IS the Inquisition.

Was not expecting a Jeanne Cameo from RWBY but hey I'm all for it.

You timed this perfectly for the Steam sale lmao

Being a Rogue Trader would be sooo amazing

Amazing video, can’t wait for the Cawl episode

"... is an opposite in every way" *Shows Jaune*. Dude chill, cut my man some slack, he is trying.

Mandatory comment to boost the algorithm, so Pancreas doesn't have to switch to an even cheaper brand of wine.

Every time you mentioned how much money they have I thought of drowning a planet in assault mechs

I was having a rough day today, saw this came out last night but was too tired. Needed this humor to help the day.

That Sunless Sea music made me wish the Rogue Trader video game could have been a 40k version of Sunless Sea or Sunless Sky. That would have been so cool.

Really love your videos. If there’s any chance you’re reading this, please make more. I will binge all of them like a man dying of thirst.

Great video, very interesting and less-covered subject!

That joke at the end has to be one of the worst attempts at humor I have ever heard and I like it

Amazing video as always!!

Ey, nice to see Jaune from RWBY in one of these. He's the best. Also, entertaining video as always

4:59 shut it, i like your funny writing

That end card sounded like what slaanesh whispered to the guy that became a harp

Oh, Colin. You really are the 5th choas god

Keep up the good work Pancreas! Reading that aloud made me think youve never said that yourself.

Rogue traders are the best!

"What would you want to be in the 40k universe? Space Marine? What Chapter? Maybe a planetary governor? The mechanicus?" Me: Rogue Trader sounds fun.

Abelard, introduce me to this video

Rogue Traders are the East India Company of 40K.

I guess I'll satisfy my need to hear your voice by playing RogueTech again.

13:52 What’s even more fascinating is that the Tau have likely used turned Rogue Traders to spread the Greater Good across the Galaxy. There was a short story about a Tau aligned pirate fleet that operated on the Western half of the Imperium, far from Tau space and when the Tau were using warp skipping FTL. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were hundreds, if not thousands, more groups like that waiting for the Tau Empire to arrive.

A fun video to see would be the direct comparison of the Imperium’s agents like the Rogue Traders, Inquisitors and similar in what each’s tug and pull are with their typically Emperor-granted authority.

Rogue Traders are basically Starsector player characters

Funny and informative video as usual, but I'm surprised you never discussed the threat of Rogue Traders falling to Chaos. I'm curious about that.

At some point I want to try and make some custom rogue trader models to ally into my space marine army for friendly games. My chapter is hyper-focused on resurrecting/restoring the wreckage of lost knights with totally not warp touched tech and I love the idea of a rogue trader dynasty recognizing a cash cow when they see it and glomming onto their fleet like a remora for easy profit.

LOL the Habsburg lineage!!

I am once again asking for the flesh eater courts

Abelard like this video, I found it educational

19:34 Did you just put an image of Jaune Arc from RWBY in your video? Great, now I'm imagining him as a rogue trader in the 40k universe trying to live up to his legendary ancestor's example. His friends from Team JNPR and Team RWBY are now part of his retinue.

I know what that greatest line is. If memory serves, it is, "Seneschal, please get me away with this treachery."

Truthfully, Rogue Traders seem to have the coolest job. I would easily take that if it was offered just so I can build my own vassal empire.

I'm downloading the game right now, couldn't have come at a better time!

My favorite thing above all else is they can sanction xenos. Date an eldar? Ork bodygaurd? Whats the inquisitor gunna do tell the emperor hes wrong?

Every time I watch I can't help but think about the game FTL

Que “Mister Krabs *money* meme”

"Why did you become a rogue trader?" For the reputation For the money and for the fun but mostly for the money.

If I've learned anything about 40k it is that come hell high water or xenos you WILL be paying your taxes. Rowboat Girlieman will have his beans

Meanwhile dogs of war: that’s why I contracted that chaos warrior and zombie as my bodyguard Empire State troops : 💀

Power and the money, money and the power, minute after minute, hour after hour.

I wonder if there were any perpetuals that were given warrants of trade?

"because, mon ami: _foie gras."_

At 12:40 mark you could have spoken about the Severan Dominate, who are essentially smaller Ultramar in the most basic form.

Yippee more 40K content. (I won’t go to the Old World you can’t make me YOU CANT MAKE ME USE THE SQUARE BASES)

woe to the chaos attackers when the starship they board is crewed by 90% orks

You make my life better.

Waiting for my nakai video...