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2022-06-21T16:24:44Z

2001:8003:1C20:8C00:A597:66C1:B00B:848F: /* What is Awesome */

[[Image:Awesome.png|300px|thumb|right|Standard awesome image. If you don't know what it means, gb2/gaia/.]]
{{awesome}}
An image with a long, murky history with [[4chan]] and Something Awful. Popular with probably every board, including /tg/. In its primordial roots, it was created on a now-defunct [[Pokemon]] fansite (Pokemopolis) of all places, where it was known as the :cheesy: smiley. The creator also posted in on Something Awful, where the Goons made it into what it is now.

If someone replies to your post with this image attached, he is essentially saying something along the lines of "fuck you" or "you're a fucking retard". This person is probably correct, since the purpose of /tg/ is /to generate/ [[RAGE]].

Often blends with [[METAL]], which is similarly employed in irony against shit that's just too ''much''.

== What is Awesome ==
awe·some
/ˈôsəm/

'' adjective ''

causing or inducing awe; inspiring an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear:
an awesome sight.

exhibiting or marked by awe; showing reverence, admiration, or fear.

'' Slang ''

very impressive.

Things that ARE awesome include:
* [[Vecna]] is the primary example of awesome in [[D&D]], since he's the [[Batman]] [[wizard]] who broke the game so hard in 2nd edition, that he caused the edition change to 3rd. He avoids [[Mary Sue]]dom primarily by being awesome, and by ultimately losing, though he had a partial success since he ultimately went from demigod to lesser god.
* Some (not all) [[Old School Roleplaying|Old School]] modules in D&D - the ones which established the tropes. ''[[Scourge of the Slavelords|In the Dungeons of the Slavelords]]'', ''[[Tomb of Horrors]]'', and (as late as 1996) ''[[Gates of Firestorm Peak]]''. ''[[Rappan Athuk]]'' for that First Edition Feel.
** A subset are old modules which are still playable, brought some interesting ideas, and are regarded with nostalgia; but are dated, to modern audiences. That would be a majority of 1e: ''e.g.'', ''[[Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth]]'' and ''[[White Plume Mountain]]''.
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'': a universe guided solely by Rule of Cool and [[GRIMDARK]], with the Imperium being the essence of [[Humanity Fuck Yeah]]. In eternal war against Extradimensional Cosmic Horrors straight out of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s worst nightmares.
** In the lore itself, the biggest examples of awesome are the [[Adeptus Astartes]], all of the [[Imperial Guard]], [[Sanguinius]], [[Dante]], [[Kharn|Kharn the Betrayer]], the [[Lamenters]], [[Commissar Yarrick|Commissar Yarrick]], Scout Trooper MkVenner, [[Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt]], and [[Sly Marbo]]!
* In [[WFB|fantasy]], the second biggest example of awesome is FUCKING [[Norsca|NORSCA]]. BECAUSE VIKINGS. TEN FOOT TALL VIKINGS ON CRACK CLAD IN BLACK ARMOUR FORGED IN THE FIRES OF HELL.
* If you play ''older editions'' of 40K, draw this face on your blast templates for lulz.
* In [[battletech]] there is a mech named the Awesome, it is indeed pretty awesome.
* But by far the most amazing and awesome of all is the king of all kings, [[Settra the Imperishable]] the most arrogant biggest egotistical lovable skeleton in all of warhammer. Imagine being an undead pharaoh, imagine putting up a valiant fight against a God of undeath, imagine being brought before him and offered immense power, minor godhood, a body of solid gold - just as long as you pledge to serve him... and he will destroy you down to your head and leave you in the sand if you refuse. Settra, undead pharaoh, replies thusly: "SETTRA DOES NOT SERVE! SETTRA RULES!!" Settra is a Chad, nuff said.
* A close second to the king above is a slightly more... robotic version. And another. [[Silent King|Szarekh]] and his hyper-pimp throne, complete with rape-beam-carrying walls of doom orbiting it, is the guy who led his people against their C'tan overlords. It is because of this lad that there are [[Cheese|C'tan shards]] on the tabletop. The other guy is [[Imotekh the Stormlord]]- this guy has a hyper pimp staff and is incredibly smart, to the point where logical attacks on his forces just [[FAIL|don't fucking work.]]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8LNTCLQs0M/ BRIAN BLESSED!!!!]- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGZbU7tFr44/"GOTREK'S (Gordon) ALIVE!!!!"]
* You. You're awesome. Unless you're [[That Guy]].
* [[Old Man Henderson]], the mentally-ill ''fake'' Vietnam vet who blew up an evil god and ''won'' [[Call of Cthulhu]].
* The glorious return of [[Makari]], the luckiest Git to ever live.
* [[Imperial Guard]]
** [[Armageddon Steel Legion]]
* [[JRR Tolkien]] telling the [[Nazis]] off during World War II for perverting northern European culture, and calling out their racist Aryan ideology for the crock it was.
* [[The End Times: Vermintide]] and [[Vermintide 2]].

==External Links==
*[https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Awesome ED's awesome article, featuring XBAWKS HEUG gallery of Awesome mutations]

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Awesomecat.jpg|Awesome is back, IN CAT FORM!
Image:Red_spy.jpg|SPY SAPPIN MAH AWESOME
File:40k v starwars.jpg|AWESOME
File:Awesome guardsmen.jpg
File:Awesome Chaos.jpg | <s>Even Chaos can be a little awesome.</s> {{BLAM|HERESY!}}
File:Awesome Beholder.png
</gallery>

[[Category:Meme]]

Vostroyan Firstborn

2022-06-21T16:09:48Z

2001:8003:1C20:8C00:A597:66C1:B00B:848F: /* Vostroya */ Yeah, Space Peter the Great wouldn't go too well for the Vostroyans, look up what he did to the Streltsy.

[[File:Vostroyan Firstborn.jpeg|300px|thumb|right|FEEL THE GLORY OF SPACE MOTHER-RUSSIA, BITCHES!]]
{{Topquote|Soldier, let's go, let's go, let's go! And for you my dear, I have sent you mail from here. Farewell, the trumpet calls, Soldiers - on the march.|V Put (Lets go), Soviet/Russian Drill Song}}
{{Topquote|I Officially declare this FUCKING Party started!|Vostroyan Commander at the beginning of the Battle}} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh43VUqrv8&t]

The '''Vostroyan Firstborn''' are Russian [[Wikipedia:Streltsy|Streltsy]]/Cossacks/Russian White Army IN SPESS. They use old weaponry they consider valuable - this being 40k, older is better anyway. They wear richly coloured coats and large fur hats. If you remove the coat and look at some art for them, they actually look extremely similar to the pre-Heresy Imperial Army's soldiers, which sort of make sense considering their origins in the Heresy.

Vostroyans are renowned for marksmanship, given they are using weapons that are quite devastating when used with precision, this results in the predictable outcome of the enemy being butchered (see Cities of Death cover art). Vostroyans have some of the finest training in the galaxy when it comes to firing drills and urban warfare, rivalling the Mordian Iron Guard (and surpassing it in some opinions). They're the nobbiest of the nobs.

== History and Culture==
[[File:B7fbea5adf2d9de019860a8a4ba826f4.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Fuck your [[Sisters of Battle|boob-plate]], this gal's a warrior and won't succumb to your... [[Promotions|Needs]].]]
As the [[Traitor Legions]] made their beeline for [[Terra]], the Loyalists sent out a call for anyone who could bear arms in defence of the [[Imperium]]. The Vostroyan officials declined, explaining that as an Industrial World, Vostroya would be more useful making weaponry for the Imperium than firing them. True or not, after the Traitors were routed, Vostroya was called to account for its actions. The planet was ultimately spared, and as a sign of repentance the Vostroyans swore to pledge their firstborn children to the Imperial Guard from then on.

Different regiments are kept with a steady flow of recruits due to the nature of the regiment's recruiting methods, thus their regiments have a tendency not to be completely destroyed and have enough veterans kicking around to show newbies the ropes before they are used as a toothpick by a [[Carnifex]] or something. It's also a tradition to serve in your family's particular regiment, i.e. you're likely to wind up in the same squad with your uncle, cousin, great-uncle or whoever. This serves multiple goals: first, you'll become part of the team faster; second - one is more likely to fight bravely and/or hold the line knowing not only his honor, but his family's would be screwed forever otherwise; third - most Vostroyan weapons are relics passed from one Guardsman to another, some of them since the time of Great Crusade, and being able to simply [[Grimdark|pick it up from your relative's cold hands]] simplifies the inheritance procedure greatly.

They like their moustaches. Their coming of age is sprouting a four foot long moustache and goatee combo, if male; if female, on your 16th birthday you take a deep breath and pop out breasts like a squeeze toy. Such is their affinity for the moustache that anyone with an aversion to body hair is treated as [[Extra heresy|the most traitorous of scum.]] Vostroyans will always squat rather than sit to keep the snow out of their britches (leading to some tech-priests suggesting that they can just leave seats out of Vostroyan vehicles to save on material). In their downtime, they drink a lot Kvass made from the piss of Vostroyan urban potato bears. They are known to dance into battle to the beat of an obscure techno-music that the Mechanicus dubs “hard-bass” like this: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiakVUKYCSQ]

Typically they all look like so: [https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/408/602/5d6.jpg]

Sadly GW no longer produce the minis but Wargames Atlantic's Les Grognards set is a cheap alternative if you're not scared of a little kitbashing, for more on them look here[[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Wargames_Atlantic#External_Links|Wargames_Atlantic]]

== Vostroya ==
[[File:Vostroya.jpg|left|200px]]
Their home world, Vostroya, lies in the [[Segmentum#Segmentum_Obscurus|Segmentum Obscurus]] and is quite cold. Vostroya isn't a [[Forge World]] nor is it an Imperial [[Hive World]], so it falls in between and gets the award of being an Industrial world. The Mechanicum still gets a fair bit of sway there though, being represented in their government and all, as they were found by Martians during their early exploration efforts, before the [[Great Crusade]], and as such produce almost all war gear for their regiments, including Baneblade variants and some unique patterns, on-planet.

Vostroya isn't exactly a friendly place to live in, as its landscape is bleak and overpopulated, with plant and animal life almost extinct outside of human control. Because of this, the population of 9.3 billion is in a state of constant change over. This also means there is a plethora of firstborn children to fuel the Vostroyan Firstborns' ranks.

They should be on the look out for the birth of Space Taras Bulba, whom the Imperium is in desperate need of.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Vostroyan-trooper.jpg|Bow before the might of the Vostroyan Las-bardiche!
File:WH Faces (6).jpg
</gallery>

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