Saharduin

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Not a pretty sight

One of the most enduring, lasting and popular races in Warhammer 40,000, /tg/ loves the Sarhaduin.

...All right, not really.

In truth they're a hold-over from the Rogue Trader days, when the Imperium of Man was less racist, Eldar could interbreed with humans, and Orks were.... Exactly the same as they are now, but with cooler hats. Squats were around, and the Saharduin date back to these long-since-forgotten glory days. Whether this is good or bad largely depends on your viewpoint; they're the subject of a massive level of love and hate - simultaneously no less - on /tg/. As is the case with My Little Pony and Touhou, it's something that /tg/ both loves and hates, all at once.

On one hand, they are SHARKS WITH GUNS! They are also a type of Merfolk and Furry, and if threads on /tg/ are any indication, a widely-believed-to-be-smexy-by-deviants one. They're also a reference to Warhammer 40K from the days where it was less grimdark and more hair metal. Fuck yeah.

On the other hand, they're a favored means of trolling /tg/, since /tg/ hates furries with an abiding passion. In dozens of threads, a small but vocal minority has flooded threads with shark-girls until either the mods unleashed an orbital strike or until hilarity occured when /tg/ did its time-honored practice of getting shit done.

Nowadays, any discussion of Saharduin inevitably leads to a Sharkgirl thread within half-a-dozen posts.

TL;DR: A great example of /tg/ being /tg/.

From Rogue Trader

The Saharduin (sometimes known as "Piscean Warriors") are a race of shark-like aliens. They should not be confused with the Space Marine chapter the Space Sharks, though they appear to share the same war cry of "SUUUUCK MY DIIIIICK, I'M A SHAAAARK"

Sarharduins possess a sinuous body, with a long, finned tail. They have two legs and two arms, and a mouthful of sharp teeth. They stand approximately seven and a half feet tall in their typical stance. They are water-dwelling organisms by nature, but solve this by using tanks of water for the purposes of breathing whilst off-world. Their weapons and armor are largely considered to be close to the Imperium's, but much more limited, as they haven't spread as far or made as many advances. They do boast some unique kit, including bolt weapons which are designed to work above and below water, for example. The Imperium fought a long war against the Sarharduin back in the 80s, but were unable to eradicate them - most of them were located in deep, sub-ocean dwellings, which made the conventional forms of devastating their worlds largely nonviable (excluding cyclonic torpedoes and orbital bombardment. Actually, it wouldn't be that difficult.) - so the Imperium was content to simply contain their worlds, set up defensive fleets, and use the sharkies for target practice every time they try to get off-world. Every so often, though, a vessel or two slips through. The details of their worlds, largely oceanic and unexplored, are currently unknown and unlikely to become known without aid from the Ordo Xenos.

From Citadel Miniatures

Like all Miniatures from this time-period, their models are pretty hideous.

The Saharduin control several worlds in the Ultima Segmentum. They are both hostile and powerful, and have technology roughly equivalent to that of the Imperium. A typical Piscean Warrior is armed with a boltgun-analogue and a power sword. The Imperium fought a long war against the Sarharduin, but were unable to eradicate them. The menace could only be contained. To this day, no known human has ever set foot upon one of the planets of Saharduin; they remain dark and unexplored.

-Codex Imperialis, Citadel Miniatures March 1987 mail order flyer

Gallery

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Here's a bunch of fucking pictures of Shark Girls. It's got fuck all to do with 40K, but we know what you came here for.

Note-Aesphestus and turret covered levels of Science ahead if you choose to read the rest of this. May spoil your cake. For Science! Herein is the argument pertaining to reasons for and against breasted sharks. Sharks. Are. Descendants. Of. Fish. Not. Mammals. Or. Reptiles. They. Lay. Eggs. They. Do. Not. Have Breasts. That’s like saying female Unngoy (Halo Grunts) and dragons (as compared to half-dragons or dragonborn) have breasts. Just no. However, if reptiles evolved after mammals on the Saharduin world, and are thus an alternative to monotremes, such as platypuses. Platypuses are one of the four only known mammal species, called monotremes, that lay eggs, like our common rodent ancestors more than 65million years ago, and unlike them, platypuses also have teats. Working with the theory that instead of giant reptiles dying out and being replaced by smaller mammals, the Saharduin world used to be home to giant, terrifying mammals, and were replaced by reptiles. This still leaves the fact that babies getting milk while in the water seems rather difficult, and since, well, they are swimming in liquid. This also only works if the babies’ teeth aren’t fully developed or are retractable. This leaves one other possibility for justifying sentient, bi-pedal sharks also having breasts, and is, frankly, the one that makes the most sense. Such mammary glands upon sharks, in any given situation, are thus the result of sentient meddling. Breaking the Fourth Wall aside, this would mean somebody in 40k has a really, really unique fetish or evolutionary test they sought to impose on a species, so either a Slaaneshi cultist, an Inquisitor of the Ordo Biologis, the Old Ones, or it’s Murphy’s Law. That, or they aren’t actually breasts and what the artists are depicting that look like breasts actually are for a different evolutionary purpose altogether.

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  Sharks have makeup, apparently.

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  Yes, it's a shark with a surf board...

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  Delivers a blow job only Slaanesh followers or the Dark Eldar could love

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  Boi-oi-oi-oi-oi-ng]

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  A rare photo depicting the females of the species.There are only pictures of females in all of this gallery you twat!

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  Giggity!

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  FINISH HIM!!! (in bed)

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  Two female Saharduin on the hunt.

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