"Who animated this?" One guy. Just one guy.

"Are Space Marines humans?" Once... Once they were.

"Don't get me into 40K." ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

"This looks like something you want to watch in 4k" How about in 40k?

"If there was an army of them guys that could do the telekinesis thing they would be unstoppable, they really would" *laughs in Grey Knights*

The entire Warhammer 40k community: One of us. One of us. One of us.

"There was a bunch of books made" *looks over at my wall of over 200 books thats no where near complete* "Yeah theres a few"

"Are space marines human or are they robots?" *inquisitorial heavy breathing*

"They're off to fight this Rebellion" No. The Astartes do not FIGHT rebellion. The Astartes END Rebellion.

Astartes is animated by one person and that’s what makes this even more amazing!

"If there was like an army of them that could do the telekinesis thing? They would be unstoppable..." Well well well, let me introduce you to the Thousand Sons...

"Don't get me obsessed with 40k" Brothers, our mission is clear

"I wanna know what's in this ball thing" My Heresy sense is tingling

The best thing is that Astartes 1 - 5 is made by one man.

"I wonder how many book there are?" *laughs in Black Library*

"If there was an army of telequinesis soldiers, they would be unstopable" NOT IN 40K

"Are space marines human?" Well yes, but actually no. They are transhuman. Genetically and physically modified and trained throughout their adolescence to be mighty warriors, capable of far more than any ordinary human. Able to survive wounds that would kill a man in seconds and incredible feats of strength and endurance.

*He's not even bothered with his arm being torn apart. Space Marines: Only in death does duty end

They were human, once. these dudes have 2 hearts, 3 lungs and literal iron stomachs. Its crazy, man...

"Is he a human! He is... looks mutated in some way" -Understatement of the 41st millennium.

I love watching reactions to this series right when they get to the "standard exorcism protocol"

"if there was an army of them teleknesis guys ... They'd be unstoppable" *laughs in culexus assassin

this fan film doesnt show astartes fight, it shows them eating their meals

As a non-40K fan, here’s what I know about this: - The projectile firearms used are bolters. They use .75 caliber rounds, which are rocket propelled with quad solid fuel boosters, and have explosive charges. That they straight-up turn targets to mist is entirely normal. - The space marines are heavily augmented humans, like halo’s spartans, but taken to an extreme (this progression is pretty standard for W40K). Multiple redundant organs, extensive mechanical implants, etc. - After you see the space marines absorbed by the sparkly light ball, what you’re seeing is them traveling through the Warp. The warp is W40K’s version of FTL travel, except that it also happens to be a dimension of eternal eldritch horror and torment. Like if Star Trek’s subspace was the home of everything Cthulhu would consider a fear-worthy cosmic horror, and the Federation chose to use it for a highway anyways. Stats are mostly vague, but word is that W40K Warp travel CAN have up to a 10% lethality rate.

Ah yes, I remember googling something about warhammer 40k once. It was 2 years ago, and I'm still googling.

Him:"This looks like something you want to" watch in 4k Me:"more like 40k"

Show this to your dad if you painted models together back then, see how he reacts

Have watched Astartes a dozen times. Watched as many reactions. Only now did I notice that the two gold psyker guys were 'unfinished' constructs. One of them only had a single arm, though it had two eyes, and the other had both arms, but only ONE eye. They weren't even finished constructs. Probably the Sphere rushed them into action, maybe when the Astartes breached the ship.

"Astartes! what is your duty?!!" "To serve the emperor's will" "What is the emperor's will?!" "That we fight and die" "What is death?!" "It is our duty" What is your duty?! "To serve the emperor's will" "What is the emperor's will?!" "That we fight and die" "What is death?" "It is our duty" "What is your duty?!" .....

“I would love to learn more about it...” Famous last words. Good luck.

The best thing about the Astartes series is that the Space Marines do genuinely come across as these giant, unstoppable badasses that the lore tells us they are. The figures just don't reflect that these are a super-mega elite force of beings so genetically modified that they're barely human. Same with their weapons; an ordinary person would not be able to handle them. And it captures that dark, gritty and brutal atmosphere that is exactly how I've always imagined 40k to be.

you don't need to get into the models, the lore itself is so vast you can spend months just reading stuff about the lore Edit: I know you could probably take longer, I just didn't want to scare the newbies XD

An explanation for the ending, Markiplier is a big warhammer fan. When the astarties channel got hacked, he jumped in to help. So that's why he was thanked there

One person, doing it all, puts the whole of Hollywood to shame Talent, effort, persistence and grit. This person has them all. Hope to see more from him in the future.

17:56 "He looks mutated in some way." Oh boy you have no idea. These guys go through a series of surgeries to implant at least 19 new organs over the course of 6 years. The 3 earliest are a second heart, an implant to increase bone development (which includes fusing the rib cage into a solid plate of bone), and another implant that causes the same growth to happen to the muscles. And that is ideally in the first two years of your process from human to transhuman.

"Dudes with green guns." That'd be Necrons for ya. SPACE TERMINATORS!

"Do not get me hyped!" Me: I have a feeling he wants to get hype. Lol

Hey, update time. The Astartes project was originally made by one dude as a fan project, last week he was officially hired by Games Workshop, and the project was endorsed. So now he has greater resources and access to other professionals, I can't wait to see what he releases next.

This guy: I wanna know what’s in this ball thing The rest of us: HERESY!

Astartes are to humans what a knife is to a piece of metal.

If this is what a fan can do, imagine what an air conditioner could

"Of there was an army of those guys with the telekenisis thing they would be unstopable"... *laughter noises in gasmasks intensifies*

''If there was an army of them...'' Me : Actually they are 1 million or something like that, they ARE unstoppable.

He's getting into SCP and getting back into Warhammer, hell yeah

I was a US Marine as a CQB instructor in Virginia when a unit of Royal Marines came over to train with us. One night we all went out to the bar and one of these crazy fks yelled, "NAKED BAR!" at the top of his lungs. Needless to say US Marines or the Royal Marines are not allowed back.

This video made me realize how fucking effective the storytelling in astartes is. No words spoken and yet someone who only vaguely knows 40k understood really well what was going on. Thats amazing. Even the dune influence, the connections between the orbs the size and might of the space Marines. You understood A LOT of whats going on in your first watch through great Job man.

"I would legit watch a full movie like this." Well you're in luck because this dude is making like 6 more of these fucking things. :D

"thick guy running" yeah that's basically sums up the space marine quite well

Oh man, wait until he discovers the Death Korps.

1. "It's about putting down a rebellion" 2. Start speculating what alien races they could be fighting against 3. Be surprised it's just humans Lol.

As someone who had to wait for each part to come out it was painfull but worth waiting for each one. Watching other people now get to experience this masterpiece is so great and knowing it was all done by one guy is the mind blowing part.

"If there were an army of those guys they'd be like, unstoppable." Hahahaha-no. Sorry, those guys were actually on the incredibly weak end of the power-scale for their kind. (Known as Psykers.) This helps to explain why the Beakie and Mr.Capeman (a decorated veteran of this Chapter of Space Marines, Possibly 1st Sergeant) were so quick to put down the Acolyte/Agent (the guy in the cloak who was 'praying' to the orb.) was because he was signifcantly more capable in base ability and training than the ones in the masks with mechanical spines (a Psychic Hood). Said agent wasn't some form of traitor- well, not in the way you meant. In 40k, to be capable of Sorcery is to be in some way able to manipulate the warp, which is a seperate but connected plane of existence formed entirely out of the emotions and beliefs of living things, and inhabited by primordial creatures with primordial urges and corruptive capabilities. The agent lost control of his defences either by loss of personal attention/control or by force and IMMEDIATELY had his soul eaten and his body possessed by a Daemon. A highly capable Psyker is fully capable of wreaking havoc on the scale of planets and -possibly- solar systems if they don't have to worry about getting their soul eaten. Space Marines themselves, actually have Psykers in the form of Librarians. To get an adequate understanding of the scale of Warhammer, you need to understand that Space Marines, for all their bullshit by our understanding, are the bog standard of this universe. they are the base level requirement an individual has to be in order to stand up to most enemy factions in the setting. The imperial Guard die in the hundreds of thousands to the millions in a single day of battle for the sole purpose of holding the line, and win more often than not through attrition rather than a strategic victory. Full planets are rendered lifeless or outright destroyed because in many cases, that is simply a better outcome than ceding it to the enemy, be they Orks, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Tyranids, or worst of all, Chaos. (or the dirty space communist weebs.)

"He looks mutated in some way." Well yes, you could say that.

"If there was an army of them they'd be unstoppable" *laughs in Tyranid*

If you watch the last scene carefully you can see his squad members flashing in on some of the pillars in the background..the level of detail is exquisite.

Absolute minimalist description of every 40K tabletop army: Imperial Dudes - Worship the god emperor Space marines/astartes - The sort of genetic supersoldier that captain america wishes he was. Come in many flavours. Imperial Guard/astra militarum - Basic human soldiers who can be anything from a stone age tribal with an axe to a highly trained specops paratrooper with high end body armour and a laser gun. Stormtroopers/Tempestus Scions - Like the guard boys but better in every conceivable way. Sisters of Battle/Soritas - Crazy killer nuns in power armour. Imperial knights - You dig giant robots, I dig giant robots, fair maidens dig giant robots forsooth. Adeptus Mechanicus - Imagine an engineer who is convinced machines are an extension of god. Who has alzheimers and thus has forgotten half of what he used to know. Adeptus Custodes - The sort of genetic supersoldier that space marines wish they were. Also come with their own posse of anti-magic hot bitches who have a thing for topknots. Chaos Dudes - Worship a bunch of gods from another dimension who are really into mutating people and causing chaos. Chaos Space marines - Basically space marines but with added mutations and more infighting. Also come in numerous flavours. Rebel guard and such are present in lore but don't get any tabletop funtimes except as meatshields for chaos marines. Chaos knights - Basically imperial knights but with more whacky stuff and infighting. Daemons - Demons. Alien dudes - Do alien stuff Tau - Space weeb communists Eldar/Aeldari - Space elves of the high fantasy sort Dark Eldar/Drukhari - Space elves who need to torture people to continue living. Fortunately for them they also derive an erotic thrill from it. Orkz - ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ ORKZ! A collection of memes and 80s football hooligans Necrons - Space egyptians who basically went to war with the galaxy in the distant past, sort of won then took a nap to dodge the consequences. Sold their souls to preserve their minds in robot bodies, this was a bad idea. Tyranids - Bugs. Eat everything. Genestealer cults - What happens when bugs send bugs to infect your populations genepool. Harlequins - Space elf clowns. Bazinga. Theres a few others but they're basically irrelevant. Many more in lore who are even more irrelevant. ~EDIT~ Ok so few things to answer other questions. One: Space marines are human. Just augmented through a lengthy, dangerous and difficult process of genetic and surgical augmentation. Multiple organs are grown and implanted alongside a program of genetic modification. By the end the basic astartes is about 8 foot tall, has an extra heart, a predigestive stomach, can go without sleep for months at a time among many other things. Two: Robe boy. He was part of a group called the inquisition, who basically handle all sorts of shit. Probably an inquisitor. Generally space marines are not on friendly terms with them but some chapters are the opposite. He was also pretty obviously what is called a "psyker" basically a guy who can crazy psychic bullshit powers that are powered by another dimension called "the warp" which is also where the chaos gods live. Using psyker powers is very dangerous and requires considerable training, conditioning and proper equipment to do so with any degree of safety. That being said the Empire is heavily reliant on psykers for various purposes. What happened to him by the look of it is that he lost focus when he signalled something to the space marine next to him and that loss of focus let the big orb alien thing hijack his mind (or try to). The space marines response of basically punching his head to paste and shooting him repeatedly was a very reasonable and subdued response as psyker stuff going wrong is a great way to find yourself dealing with a rift into the warp that shits out copious quantities of demons. Three: Real world military tactics don't work too well in 40K. Its a setting where melee combat is common and the empire mainly uses WW2 era tactics for its basic human forces. If you're lucky they're using German or British tactics. If you're unlucky its Russian. Space marines meanwhile do their own thing. Typically surgical strikes on key elements of the enemy force in a warzone. Lot of them prefer melee combat where a space marines advantages can often overwhelm other forces. Different groups (challed "chapters") of space marines have their own specialities and preferences. Also fun fact: The gun they use is called a bolter. It fires a .75 two stage armour piercing explosive round. In basic terms take a tiny rocket, give it an armour piercing tip and an explosive charge. Then you put it in a conventional bullet. The normal gunpowder charge gets it out of your gun (dodging the gyrojets low initial velocity) at a reasonable clip, then the rocket motor ignites and keeps it on a straight trajectory while upping its armour penetration qualities. Once it hits something the explosive fuse is set off which give it a fraction of a second to penetrate then explodes.

Well now he has opened the pandoras box that is 40k fandom aahhhem: For the EMPERAHH!!

"Who animated this!?!".....A absolute genius.

_40K Theories_ and _Leutin_ are great channels for easily digestible 40K lore. They cover a lot of specific detail in relatively short documentary format and both have a "40k Lore for Beginners" playlist on their channels.

If you wanna know more about 40k I HIGHLY recommend you check out Bricky he has a two part lore series that explains every faction while also being entertaining. The first video is focused on humans and the second is focused on alien races but be warned the videos are about an hour long each Part 1: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rql3frODzrDUaGg.html Part 2:kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j5yaodaJnJ24c4k.html

What always amazes me about this short film is the movement of the marines. Every single move they make has a purpose and its cariied out with absolute focus.

It fun watching people see this for the first time. I only got into 40k in 2018 and this cemented my love for it, truly badass and created by a single person... like WTF? I've seen major studios who don't get close to this level of quality.

You gotta realize that Space marines and psychers have internal headsets to communicate think of how loud that psycher is chanting

This astartes videos got me into 40k. Only lore though, can't afford all the stuff

Me: takes a laon to buy more 40k stuff Also me:" Even in debt I still serve "

"The atmosphere makes it feel dark and gritty." That's why it's called Grimdark.

“They are ABSOLUTE units!” Why thank you 🙏

5:13 - "The atmosphere that they're making with this, makes it feel so dark & gritty" Main tag line for the games/books etc... "In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war!"

Glad To See Some 40K Reactions You Should Check Out Death Of Hope

"How are they gonna carryin' that out there ?" *[ unpack the remote explosives ]* "w e w o n ' t."

4:48 Here's a fun fact: That's the Space Marine equivalent of "suppressing fire". Also I just want to clarify some things: The guys in the mask are Psykers, and the spinal cord-thing is part of their battle gear most likely. The guy in red is also a Psyker, who works for the Inquisition. Specifically the Ordo-Hereticus, based on the symbol on his cloak. Ordo-Hereticus primarily handles human affairs. The "valves" on the huge ball are most likely Melta-Charges, basically huge bombs intended to totally destroy the sphere in case it does anything...odd. Inquisition doesn't mess around, much less Space Marines, with anything out of the ordinary, so even a faint glow could result in the sphere getting blasted out of existence. Space Marines are humans who have first undergone extensive physical and mental training, then (don't quote me because I'm not up to date on this) have had something called a Gene-Seed implanted into them than further transforms them into the massive hulking monsters that they are. Unfortunately, even an entire army of Psykers is useless against the Tyranid race (See: Shadow in the Warp) The two spheres are not the same at different points in time. Everything that we see on the Space Marine ship and the (assumed) rebel ship are happening with two different spheres at the same time. But it's easy to get confused. The trippy conversation was happening between the two spheres, and the Inquisitor was listening in. Apparently the sphere on the Space Marine ship noticed and didn't take kindly to it, so it possessed the Inquisitor's (which can happen, very often with Psykers) and either fried his brain after subjecting him to (what I only assume) were the sphere's own thoughts. Or he tried to turn the poor bastard into a demon to attack the Space Marines. Fortunately this particular Chapter knows exactly how many bolter rounds it takes to kill a demon-in-progress: All of them. Because if the Psyker had actually become a demon, it would probably take all of the aforementioned Melta-Charges just to weaken it enough for a couple squads of Space Marines to collectively finish it off-then blow up that entire section of the ship. Demons in Warhammer aren't just horrifying to look at it, they're damn-near unkillable. And they can leave behind traces of corruption that really do require the entire area be "cleansed in flame". The place the squad appeared in after getting sucked in was probably the Warp. I can't possibly explain the Warp in detail without writing a book, so let's just say the Warp is Hell. The shadow that attacked it in the Warp is very mysterious. Not sure what happened there, it could've been another demon but personally I think it was a psychic attack; either by a Psyker among the Space Marines or some kind of backlash from the other sphere getting rekt while possessing the Inquisitor's body. Don't worry about his arm. That's like getting a papercut to them.

Fun fact: The standard issue "rifle" for the Astarte's, The Bolter, is chambered in a .75 calibre. It basically looks like a massive M433 grenade and is a fraction of the explosive force. That's how you see all those soldiers getting ripped apart by the guns with a mere shot. (I originally said a quarter, but looking through everyone's comment on this one, I changed it to a fraction, because in the lore of the Bolter, it was stated that it did have some explosive within the bolter rounds.)

I wish i was as talented as the guy who made this

"I had a bunch as a kid" oh cool :D "they had wolves with them" oh no D:

"if there was an army of them guy that could do telekinesis, they'd be unstoppable" *Blanks would like to have a word with you

"They were mostly space marines that had wolves with them?" You mean the Space Wolves? 😏

Are space marines human or robots?? **Grabs the giant ass Lexicon and slaps it to the table, along with the lexicon to explain terms** *Three hours later* ''And that was Tl,dr.''

There are two orbs in part 5, one has been previously captured, and the other is on the ship that the space marines boarded in parts 1 to 4.

it's such a pleasure watching you react to this. the pure joy and awe is great to see.

That feeling of "dark and gritty" is this wonderful little thing we call grimdark.

If I could recommend a book series for someone military minded like yourself. Gaunts Ghosts by Dan Abnet.

These videos are even more impressive when you slow it to a crawl and see the amount of attention to detail that was put into it. One of the enemy soldiers were shot in the head during the initial breach, and you can see the glowing cracks before the head is disintegrated. In normal speed that soldiers death doesn’t even take a second of screen time.

One singular person animated , and wrote this little segment . Clearly the omnissiah had favoured him and blessed him with the technical knowledge to make this work

18:39 Luke: “Are we going to get anymore?” Syama Pedersen: I’m glad you asked!

Yes brother become one of us!

18:18 "The guy who imagined THIS?!" Look up the art of Zdzisław Beksiński. These otherworldly vignettes are directly inspired by his unique art, same as the recent Medium game's other world was.

Conversation between xenos is: Who's there? We have failed, brother. The Astartes deny our touch. We must return. Break your seal! Impossible! We will not survive! You must! Take the alfa. Then the inquisitor listening to the conversation breaks his concentration to warn the commander 15:30 - "Recall them immediately!"

"Looks mutated in some way" You have no idea.

"They would be unstoppable" Laughs in Exterminatus

Now show us a video of Space Marines reacting to footage of Royal Marines

Astartes are all 10 feet tall, have 2 hearts and 3 lungs, they wield weapons know as bolters that fire explosive shells that drill into a target on impact then explode.

Psycher gets possessed? Shoot first ask questions later, no exceptions.

" They had wolves with them. " The Space Wolves, or as the Emperor renamed them; Space Corgis.

I FORGOT HOW GOOD THIS SHIT IS. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

The cancelled Death of Hope is also a good fan film by Mark Louis Spark if you haven't seen it yet.

17:29 When you pause it at the moment it becomes bright enough to see, you can also see other entity of the Warp in the bottom right corner. That creature that took the Space Marines told the other one that it wouldn't survive when it breaks it seal. You saw how bright it was with its blue glow, probably psy-energy and beings of the warp are drawn to it like moths to the light.

Astartes killed my wallet. Now I'm sitting at my table with my nurgle boys.

100% willing to educate on 40K as I myself spent the last year and a half getting into it. Once I started examining the real story and lore elements, I couldn't comprehend why I never got into 40k until now! Love your videos man, as one soldier to another, cheers!

One guy. One guy did it all. animations, sound, etc. Amazing.

An absolute must read shoggy's "All Guardsmen Party" its just a wonder story set in 40k