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Hey everyone, this is a Zero episode of an upcoming project David Heath and DB Spitzer are working on. It is an exploration of the sources of Warhammer 40,000, and their sources.
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Season 23 bonus episodes 1-25
| 1 | The Imperium of Man | Dune, Foundation, Roman Empire in space, religious dystopias | Edward Gibbon, imperial decline literature, medieval Christendom, future-history fiction |
| 2 | Space Marines | Starship Troopers, action-movie super soldiers, power armor, comic-book warriors | Heinlein military SF, crusading orders, Spartan myth, warrior monks, fascist hero imagery |
| 3 | Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard | World War movies, Starship Troopers, British war comics, doomed infantry stories | H. G. Wells future-war fiction, Kipling, trench literature, boys’ military papers, pulp battlefield fiction |
| 4 | Adeptus Mechanicus | Metropolis, cyberpunk machine cults, mad scientists, techno-priests | Gernsback invention fiction, H. G. Wells, Frankenstein, lost-technology stories, mad-science pulp |
| 5 | Adepta Sororitas / Ecclesiarchy | Hammer horror, warrior nuns, Joan of Arc cinema, witchfinder movies | Gothic novels, martyr stories, saint legends, witch-trial pamphlets, religious melodrama |
| 6 | The Inquisition | The X-Files, witchfinder films, secret-police thrillers, occult detectives | M. R. James-style scholars, Blackwood, Machen, witch-hunter tracts, secret-society fiction |
| 7 | Rogue Traders | Star Trek, Flash Gordon, space pirates, merchant princes | Planetary romance, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, colonial adventure fiction |
| 8 | Adeptus Custodes | Golden demigod bodyguards, imperial palace guards, mythic super-soldiers | Achilles, Gilgamesh, sacred kingship, Praetorian Guards, immortal companions of god-kings |
| 9 | Adeptus Titanicus | Pacific Rim, Gundam, giant robot anime, kaiju movies, walking battleships, cathedral mecha | Wells’ Martian tripods, “The Land Ironclads,” dreadnoughts, siege engines, bronze giants, golems, sacred statues, war-gods |
| 10 | The Horus Heresy | Star Wars, fallen Jedi, dark lords, civil-war space opera, tragic chosen ones | Milton’s Paradise Lost, Lucifer’s rebellion, Cain and Abel, Arthur and Mordred, Roman civil wars, succession crises |
| 11 | Chaos Space Marines | Fallen angels, heavy metal villains, corrupted super-soldiers, black knights, rebel legions | Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moorcock’s Chaos, Byronic rebels, cursed champions, Satanic romance, Gothic villains, revenge tragedy |
| 12 | Chaos Daemons | Hellraiser, Event Horizon, occult horror, possession films, nightmare dimensions | Medieval demonology, grimoires, witch-trial literature, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, occult pulp, weird menace fiction |
| 13 | World Eaters / Khorne | Conan, gladiator films, berserker metal, chainsaw action horror, grindhouse revenge | Robert E. Howard, sword-and-sorcery pulp, berserker sagas, blood cults, Homeric rage, arena spectacle, revenge tragedy |
| 14 | Death Guard / Nurgle | Zombie plague films, body horror, gross-out comedy, infection horror, fungal rot, swamp monsters | Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” plague literature, danse macabre, memento mori, corpse folklore, leper saints |
| 15 | Thousand Sons / Tzeentch | Wizard cults, cursed books, Egyptian sorcerers, cosmic chessmasters, forbidden libraries | H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, E. R. Eddison, mummy fiction, forbidden-book stories, Decadent occultism, Renaissance magic |
| 16 | Emperor’s Children / Slaanesh | Glam rock horror, decadent villains, body modification nightmares, cursed artists, aristocratic monsters | Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Huysmans, fin-de-siècle decadence, Gothic aristocrats, cursed art, aestheticism |
| 17 | Chaos / Imperial Knights | Haunted mecha, cursed noble machines, demonic war engines, Gundam, BattleTech, Pacific Rim | Gothic castles, cursed armor, haunted inheritance, family-doom melodrama, chivalric romance, sins of the fathers |
| 18 | Orks | Mad Max, fantasy orcs, biker gangs, football hooligans, British comic violence, slapstick war movies | William Hope Hodgson’s “The Voice in the Night,” fungus horror, Matango, invasive-species stories, goblins, comic grotesques |
| 19 | Tyranids | Alien, Aliens, The Thing, bug-war movies, swarm horror, hive minds, biological weapons | John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?”, H. G. Wells’ Martians, insect-hive fiction, invasion literature, cosmic naturalism |
| 20 | Genestealer Cults | Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alien, cult horror, red-scare paranoia films, sleeper cells | Hidden-bloodline stories, secret cult pulp, infiltration fiction, changeling folklore, cuckoo-child fears, apocalyptic sects |
| 21 | Necrons | The Terminator, killer robots, metal skeletons, space undead, immortal android kings | Karel Čapek’s R.U.R., robot rebellion, automaton fiction, artificial labor nightmares, mummy pulp, Egyptomania, tomb curses |
| 22 | Aeldari / Drukhari | Tolkien elves, dying space aristocrats, psychic aliens, dark elves, vampire cities, cruel fairy courts | Lord Dunsany, Jack Vance’s Dying Earth, fairy otherworlds, decadent elder-race fiction, Atlantis, Gothic aristocrats |
| 23 | Night Lords | Batman turned inside out, The Crow, slasher films, serial-killer thrillers, torture horror, vigilante movies | Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Gothic villains, penny dreadfuls, Jack the Ripper panic, Grand Guignol, Dracula, public punishment |
| 24 | T’au Empire / Leagues of Votann | Clean anime mecha empire, sleek battlesuits, utopian coalitions, space dwarves, hard-SF miners | Utopian SF, technocracy fiction, Cold War futures, missionary empire, company towns, mining-company frontier stories, labor colonies |
| 25 | REDACTED | Spy thrillers, Mission: Impossible, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Manchurian Candidate, The Prisoner, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | John Buchan, Joseph Conrad, G. K. Chesterton, Erskine Childers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Norbert Jacques, invasion-scare fiction, fifth-column paranoia |
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