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2025In personPanel 14Saturday 27th September 2025Fulgrim vs Ferrus Manus (c) Games Workshop

Missile-Launcher vs Holo-Werfer: The Problem of the German Translation of Space Crusade

In 1990, the board game Space Crusade was published by MB in collaboration with Games Workshop. It is the science fiction spin-off of the much more popular game HeroQuest (1989). Although still significantly underdeveloped, the game’s narrative borrowings from Warhammer 40,000 are clearly recognizable. For example, there are already Marines, Chaos (Marines), Orks, and Genestealers. …

2025In personPanel 14Saturday 27th September 2025Fulgrim vs Ferrus Manus (c) Games Workshop

Faith alone can overturn the universe: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of the Horus Heresy as Warhammer 40,000’s Discursive Justification

This paper explores the Horus Heresy (HH) series – comprising 64 novels and over 10 million words – as a foundational myth within the Warhammer 40,000 universe, using tools from corpus linguistics and the historical approach of Critical Discourse Analysis, particularly following Ruth Wodak’s framework.While the Warhammer 40,000 setting (W40K) presents a vast and diverse …

2025In personPanel 14Saturday 27th September 2025Fulgrim vs Ferrus Manus (c) Games Workshop

The linguistic landscape in the early Imperium of Man – Low Gothic at the time of the Great Crusade and theoretical accounts of language change

The pre-imperial human settlers who colonized the galaxy during the Dark Age of Technology initially spoke a variety of Low Gothic. During the Age of Strife, however, their colonies were cut off from Old Earth for millennia. As a result, the standard version of Low Gothic spoken on Old Earth/Holy Terra and the many local …

2024Panel 14Saturday 28th September 2024Warhammer 40k

Purpose between Humanity and Artificiality – Perspectives on the Life of a Space Marine the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium

The paper explores the complex existential situation of an Astartes Space Marine between humanity and artificiality and the implications of the peculiar type of purpose they follow from an existentialist and technical-philosophical perspective. Astartes are superhuman soldiers, trialed, enhanced, and trained to defend the Imperium of Man from the xenos, the heretic, the daemon. Unlike …

2024Panel 14Saturday 28th September 2024Warhammer 40k

Avatars of Grimdark: the Imperium of Man and the T’au Empire in the Warhammer 40’000 setting

The Warhammer 40´000 setting is characterised by its proverbial “grim darkness”. Its take on the far future is a highly dystopian one. The most important polity in the setting, the galaxy-spanning Imperium of Man, is described as the worst possible regime. It is a militaristic, xenophobic, highly repressive dictatorship. By contrast, the T’au Empire is …