World War III ends and Earth is left devastated, mostly because of nuclear warfare. Most of the major cities are left in ruins with few remaining governments and the death total reaching 600 million.
It's basically Star Trek for like a millennium or so if I recall. Things didn't always suck so hard in 40k, it took a while for it to become the grimdark hell it is in the 42nd century
With all the endless war the Imperium is so huge most of the humans probably never saw war and space marines are so rare it's almost impossible for you to be killed by them.
Even on "safe" planets, the average person is basically a slave doing endless, arduous labor with no concern for their lives or well-being, all under the merciless thumb of Imperial dogma. It's just a bad place to end up.
You narrowly avoid Warhammer as you see you're on the Enterprise. You're called for a mission. Shortly before you're beamed down you see it. You look down.Your heart starts racing. You're wearing a red shirt.
humans outside of the federation are treated with xenophobia sentiment mostly. one of the overarching themes, is that non-federation races dont like the expansionist nature of the federation, also the assimilation/melting pot of other cultures. one tng episode, where the native americans decided to leave earth 200years before tng, to find a world of thier own, said the federation became too homogenized in thier culture, and lost its unique identities.
originally cardassians and KLINGONs before allying with the humans. romulans, SHeliak, paxans,tholians, and the now defunct marquis. since STD isnt really accepted by most fans to be canon, the federation stopped expanding over that 900 years, i think the influences got stretched way too thin by then.
In other words, about as safe as real life if youre a normal person. We've got a lot of time before crazy shit starts happening, and a golden age coming up as well.
I would give my best Matt Damon in Interstellar ".... that's the best chance I have had in years."
And then smash my face jnto the button as hard as I could.
Which part of the star trek universe, because if it's being on voyager, fuck that, but if I get to hang out on Deep Space nine, then I'm so in, instantly befriending Quark.
Unless the button transports you 40000 years in the future, you'd basically be in modern day but less insane and the Emperor hasn't revealed himself yet. Easily the better option than being dropped into the Bell riots or something. The ST universe Earth is in a bad way compared to the 40k earth at the same time if memory serves.
But what about my internet? Or like other ppl? Am I going to be stranded in the wilderness by myself with no knowledge of what is safe to eat. Cuz let me tell you unless this is literal paradise I'd be lucky to survive for a month, probably a week even
somewhere inside the delta quadrant or gamma quadrant, or the center of the galaxy, probably around cytherian homeworld. it is still largely unexplored even in the modern trek series.
That's a 90% chance I get to see a better future and a 10% I'm still stuck in hell. Yes please deliver button. I do not want to remain here to see what is coming either way. I will take those odds happily. So very very tired of living in America. I hope we are heading for Star Trek still but we have to go through World War 3 to get there. Might be Dune though.
There are fates worse than death in the 40k universe, like being captured by the dark eldar. If I can take a method of suicide with me, then maybe (though even then, my soul is going to end up in the immaterium).
Dark Elder are the dark elves of 40k and anything they do to you will be painful and bad as they craft your still-living flesh into buildings and equipment. I'm pretty sure they don't give their batteries windows so you'd basically just be aware that you're in a engine room in constant excruciating pain. They're not very nice. In fact, I don't know if there's anyone nice in all of 40K. Everyone is at war all the time and everyone is a bastard.
Or you show up on a Ferrengi ship with no gold pressed latinum. My GOD think of everything you'll owe them for just for dropping you off somewhere? Air, water, light, carpeting, gravity, heat, cooling, pressurized cabin, shields, warp travel fee...
Right? 2025 on Earth still existed in Star Trek. There's a non-zero chance you press the button and nothing happens... So you think it didn't work and push it again only to end up with the BDSM elves...
I haven't played in years and I want to sell everything I have, but I have this self modded death guard thingy that I really liked making. Since you know 40k, you might appreciate it. I only did it for a year so my skills are poor but I like the result of this one.
Oh Hell no, I don't push the button!
It said shifting into the Star Trek universe; it didn't say anything about time travel or ending up on a planet other than Earth.
Also thanks to Discovery's writers, in the further away future there's also a few centuries of dogshit living until they restore the Federation
I still do not recognise this shit as being part of star trek.
STD was so bad, kurtzman needs to lay his hands of TREK forever.
Oh no...
Yep, we are on track already to live in the star trek universe. We just have to live through WW3 first and it will be paradise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Star_Trek
Push the button. Only 600 million is a generous offer. This timeline will have many more.
The 40k timeline is basically just normal Earth for a few more centuries at least. The Emperor is just out there, somewhere, fucking with shit.
In fact, there would be a golden age on the horizon
Yeah ironically it would probably be better to be in the 40k universe if it was current day.
It's basically Star Trek for like a millennium or so if I recall. Things didn't always suck so hard in 40k, it took a while for it to become the grimdark hell it is in the 42nd century
There's at least a period where you can be a kick ass cyborg building megastructures without too much body horror at a minimum
Well, everyone dies. Both options seem more interesting than a cult of idiots worshipping an orange idiot.
It says transported. That could definitely mean time travel and/or another planet
Obviously. And it could also mean neither of those
What the LILE
or if its the terran empire
So I get transported to a futuristic utopia with Replicators and Holodecks, or I immediately get killed by a Space Marine or whatever.
Either way I don't have to live in this shithole any more. 🤷♂️ I'm pressing it.
With all the endless war the Imperium is so huge most of the humans probably never saw war and space marines are so rare it's almost impossible for you to be killed by them.
Even on "safe" planets, the average person is basically a slave doing endless, arduous labor with no concern for their lives or well-being, all under the merciless thumb of Imperial dogma. It's just a bad place to end up.
Wait... Are you talking about 40k or current day ?
Yes.
So like... No different than here.
That's literally the point most of it is just hyper reality.
You narrowly avoid Warhammer as you see you're on the Enterprise. You're called for a mission. Shortly before you're beamed down you see it. You look down.Your heart starts racing. You're wearing a red shirt.
Still a more merciful death than Warhammer, I'd guess
Still better than dark eldar
Dude just send me back to the '90s pls.
As Agent Smith said of '90s New South Wales, "the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization".
I wonder how the robots understood that peak civilization is being 12 and riding your bike all day every day with no supervision.
When talking about the Star Trek universe, it's important to designate both what time and which one.
Before first contact in any universe? No.
Prime universe? Sure.
Kelvin? Sure, why not?
Mirror universe? No.
Totally-not-the-mirror-universe-from-Picard? Fuck no.
You get transported to the Trek prime universe. You come out at Wolf-359, and the Borg approach.
I, for one, welcome our new Borg overlords.
Ever heard any of the Borg complain about being Borg?
i mean 7 didn’t think it was great post-de-borging
Well, fuck. Forgot about that one.
T.b.h, Star Trek universe outside of Federation is also mostly dogshit...
Flee to federation space, theres ships going everywhere, maybe you even get to be a a
Kajit or ArgonianCaitan or Gorn.But the button said nothing about transmogrification into other races...
And being a human among Gorn might really suck.
On a completely different note:
Being a (decent) human among Khajit might be fun! :-)
Just paint yourself green and insist you're a fellow
orkgornDAKKA, WEN THE WAGON GO FASTAH
humans outside of the federation are treated with xenophobia sentiment mostly. one of the overarching themes, is that non-federation races dont like the expansionist nature of the federation, also the assimilation/melting pot of other cultures. one tng episode, where the native americans decided to leave earth 200years before tng, to find a world of thier own, said the federation became too homogenized in thier culture, and lost its unique identities.
originally cardassians and KLINGONs before allying with the humans. romulans, SHeliak, paxans,tholians, and the now defunct marquis. since STD isnt really accepted by most fans to be canon, the federation stopped expanding over that 900 years, i think the influences got stretched way too thin by then.
Warhammer 40K universe in 2025 would just be the Event Horizon universe 22 years before Event Horizon. ;)
https://screenrant.com/event-horizon-movie-warhammer-40k-prequel-theory/
In other words, about as safe as real life if youre a normal person. We've got a lot of time before crazy shit starts happening, and a golden age coming up as well.
Pro.... you're transported to the Star Trek Universe. Con... it's still year 2025.
Yay, united Ireland!
So we skip past Picard S2 at least, just in time for the temporally displaced Eugenics Wars.
Pro: You get transported in Star Trek
Con: …. It’s Discovery
Pro: You get transported to the Star Trek universe
Con: It isn't to ship, or a planet
I mean, Deep Space 9 didn't seem like a bad place to set up shop
Checked the comments for this, thanks for not disappointing. Good luck on the 40k universe
You get transported into the Star Trek universe.
But
You will be transported by the Star Trek transporter.
Is that still you?
Either I'm in the star trek universe or I'm dead and some other smhuck has to live with my choices
Yes, unless consciousness is more than the totality of our biology and there really is a soul or something erather.
I would give my best Matt Damon in Interstellar ".... that's the best chance I have had in years." And then smash my face jnto the button as hard as I could.
Which part of the star trek universe, because if it's being on voyager, fuck that, but if I get to hang out on Deep Space nine, then I'm so in, instantly befriending Quark.
You probably get trasported in the middle of the Bell riots or just before the bombs start dropping
So there's still a chance to get to ds9, I just gotta steal Jadzias badge, She will be right, she's resilient.
Aussie detected?
Ahhh fuck, ya got me cunt, fucking spot on there with your assumption.
“Oh look, there’s a red, glowing angel in the sky. I wonder if that’s good or bad.”
So I go to the 40k universe and all of the other beings are the size of my pinkie...
They all attack you at once
Hell yes I'll press. Either place is better than this
And now we wait for the replies... :)
Still better than THIS, so yes.
I don't think you understand 40k
I know enough ;-)
Transported as I currently am? No chance of being some other race like Vulcan Hybrid or maybe a 40k psyker?
Nah, I'm good.
I mean
In the 40k universe I'd probably die very very fast unless I became a target to one of those BDSM Elves?
Fuck. That.
I'd risk it. Either way I likely won't survive unless I spawn somewhere good.
The problem with the 40k universe is that "not surviving" doesn't necessarily mean an end to suffering.
Unless the button transports you 40000 years in the future, you'd basically be in modern day but less insane and the Emperor hasn't revealed himself yet. Easily the better option than being dropped into the Bell riots or something. The ST universe Earth is in a bad way compared to the 40k earth at the same time if memory serves.
Where is good in 40k? The tau?
The Past
A planet that hasn’t yet been discovered.
But what about my internet? Or like other ppl? Am I going to be stranded in the wilderness by myself with no knowledge of what is safe to eat. Cuz let me tell you unless this is literal paradise I'd be lucky to survive for a month, probably a week even
somewhere inside the delta quadrant or gamma quadrant, or the center of the galaxy, probably around cytherian homeworld. it is still largely unexplored even in the modern trek series.
Any Imperium world that has been completely forgotten about for a few hundred years should only be about twice as bad as here
Maybe life as a noble on a paradise world somewhere could be called good.
The vacuum of space.
That's a 90% chance I get to see a better future and a 10% I'm still stuck in hell. Yes please deliver button. I do not want to remain here to see what is coming either way. I will take those odds happily. So very very tired of living in America. I hope we are heading for Star Trek still but we have to go through World War 3 to get there. Might be Dune though.
I'd take it if it was, "but there is a 10% chance you die."
As it is, no deal.
I mean, it's the 40k universe, there's a 100% you gonna die. So, really, it does fit your criteria... just in a roundabout way.
There are fates worse than death in the 40k universe, like being captured by the dark eldar. If I can take a method of suicide with me, then maybe (though even then, my soul is going to end up in the immaterium).
Also if you die in 40k your human soul either gets devoured by demons or drafted by definitely-not-a-new-Chaos-God
Nah, if you work for the empire they'll strip away your flesh and make you work forever.
I want to explore the cosmos.
I fkng want to explore the cosmos.
Let me explore the cosmos.
You start exploring the cosmos as a living battery for the dark Eldar.
Idk about Wh40k lore, would i be aware of the cosmos? Could I see it and see it uniqueness?
Dark Elder are the dark elves of 40k and anything they do to you will be painful and bad as they craft your still-living flesh into buildings and equipment. I'm pretty sure they don't give their batteries windows so you'd basically just be aware that you're in a engine room in constant excruciating pain. They're not very nice. In fact, I don't know if there's anyone nice in all of 40K. Everyone is at war all the time and everyone is a bastard.
Oh they will show you many a great things and pleasures 🙏
Needs more details, but I'm listening.
Oof, I don't think I'd risk it.
I wanna bang on the holodeck. Smash that button.
You have sex on the holodeck of the Eldari ship till you go raw. They don't stop.
Slaanesh approves
Knowing my luck, that means 10% chance of not getting into the Warhammer 40k universe.
But there is a 50% chance that you become an Ork.
Grots and squigs technically being the same species...
Flip it and I'm in.
You are now a sex serviter for the aristocracy. All your holes are permanently pried open.
🤤
way too vague. expect the Star Trek transport to put you in the vacuum of space to die a horrible death
Or you’re a Klingon and your sudden arrival was seen as dishonourable.
Or you show up on a Ferrengi ship with no gold pressed latinum. My GOD think of everything you'll owe them for just for dropping you off somewhere? Air, water, light, carpeting, gravity, heat, cooling, pressurized cabin, shields, warp travel fee...
if it's not in the text I'm not taking chances
Right? 2025 on Earth still existed in Star Trek. There's a non-zero chance you press the button and nothing happens... So you think it didn't work and push it again only to end up with the BDSM elves...
Or just one of the many many worlds in Star Trek that still fucking suck even at the point when earth is a utopia.
If when I pressed it it got rid of any remnants of me having been here, like was never born.. press it in a second.
@ArchmageAzor
Yes, I would. It seems to be worth the risk.
Smashes button
At least in both of them humanity survived to explore the stars.
Is there another button of the inverse?
Fuck no.
Anything better than this.
40K is not.
Let me burn in agony in peace in the necron sun
I haven't played in years and I want to sell everything I have, but I have this self modded death guard thingy that I really liked making. Since you know 40k, you might appreciate it. I only did it for a year so my skills are poor but I like the result of this one.
I'd get to serve slaanesh though right
Through the codpiece of an Emperor's Child
Sounds good sign me up
I mean, there is a chance that I become a chaos God?
Of course.
I need my slaneesh daemonette pet.
Or maybe one of those replicator machines for infinite food.
I dared and....
...yay?