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2025In personPanel 13Saturday 27th September 2025Fulgrim vs Ferrus Manus (c) Games Workshop

The not-quite-so-dark future: colour coding in Warhammer 40K

Warhammer manifests in various forms, such as tabletop wargames, books, and video games. At its core, however, Warhammer is a range of miniatures. Miniatures are Games Workshop’s primary source of income, and all other manifestations of Warhammer stem from these miniatures. The essence of Warhammer is thus fundamentally visual. In this visual universe, colours play …

2025In personPanel 13Saturday 27th September 2025Fulgrim vs Ferrus Manus (c) Games Workshop

Konrad Curze and the obstacles of crime prevention

“There is no glory in prevention” – but Konrad Curze and his Night Lords beg to differ. Their ruthless understanding of justice and judgement embodies all of the principles of the negative general prevention: hard, cruel and swift punishment, even for small crimes, to ensure the obedience of his subjects and to prevent further criminal …

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Rule Consequentialism and the Edict of Nikaea

In the Horus Heresy series, the Edict of Nikaea looms large as one of the setting’s most pivotal narrative events. With the Edict, the Emperor proscribed the use of Warp-derived psyker powers by the Legiones Astartes and nominally disbanded the psychically-gifted Librarius orders—at great cost both to the individual Astartes of the Librarius and to …

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In the Name of the Emperor? Authority and Pluralism in the Grim Darkness of the Far Future

Superficially, the Imperium of Man within Games Workshop’s ‘Warhammer 40,000’ fictional universe is presented as a pastiche theocratic autocracy. Its sprawling territory is ruled by the Lord Commander of the Imperium and the Council of the High Lords of Terra on behalf of the God Emperor of Mankind. At a mundane level, Imperial authority is …

2024Panel 13Saturday 28th September 2024Warhammer 40k

Imperial Records: The Paradox of Preservation and Peril in Documenting Humanity’s Galactic Legacy

The Imperial Records, an extensive compendium documenting over 40,000 years of human history across the galaxy, embody a complex narrative of knowledge preservation amidst censorship and loss. This study delves into the multifaceted nature of these records, which oscillate between being apocryphal, incomplete, censored, or heretical, yet stand as the primary source of historical knowledge …