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SCP Foundation

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2601:203:480:4C60:B4A8:D888:3272:AC0D: /* Famous SCPs */

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[[Image:SCP_Foundation_emblem.png|300px|thumb|right|Secure. Contain. Protect.]]
The SCP Foundation''' is a writing site '''focusing on scientific descriptions of terrifying, confusing, or just plain weird monsters, events, [[Warp|locations]], etc. Expect plenty of REDACTED all across the website. The community prioritizes quality writing over pretty much everything else, and as such it is THE place to go if you like top-tier horror fiction writing. The fucking huge critical community within will RIP'N'TEAR bad articles to pieces. (On the flip side, if you want to read some hilariously bad writing, go to the lowest-rated articles page. You will know the true meaning of [[Derp|stupid]].) The SCP Foundation mainly consists of extremely horrific [[grimdark|GRIMDARK]], but also has its light-hearted moments, and at points, absurd and ironic humor.

While the descriptions on the SCP Foundation website and the hinted-at setting loosely binding the different articles together are not directly related to any specific traditional games; the whole thing is a goldmine of ideas for your horror games from [[Delta Green]] to [[World of Darkness]] to [[Call of Cthulhu]] and everything in between; or even if you simply want to throw something weird at your players to deal with for a change.

==Origins==
The SCP Foundation started when the Creepypasta archive of 4chan eventually was inspected by [[/x/|a bunch of people]], who imagined a worldwide conspiracy to suppress said creepypastas. In this universe, Creepypasta Events like: "If you visit the ninth floor of a certain apartment at midnight, a spirit will assrape you and split your head open" are very much real, and the Foundation finds them and uses a black cheque to isolate them for the good of the world at large. Said fictional organization would send agents to survey the existence of supernatural phenomena, contain it if possible for safety purposes (and experimentation later), or destroy if deemed too dangerous using any means necessary, up to (but not limited) teleporting the item to an alternate universe.

It eventually shaped into a fictional wiki where thousands of these "SCP"s (items, phenomena, or persons) are contained, by ludicrous force if necessary. Extensive descriptions and containment procedures are the most favored parts of the writings, as well as [[Grimdark|UTTERLY FUCKING TERRIBLE REALIZATIONS]] that your world is a clusterfuck of horror which out-edges Warhammer 40K on several levels. For example: SCP-682 is a compleyely invincible reptilian creature that is extremely hostile to humanity, and can barely be kept at bay via complete immersion in corrosive acid. There are also writings about the personnel within the Foundation, logs of fictional excursions to capture SCPs, and experiment logs to comb through; as well as weapons and personnel that surpass "legit" human authorities' power by magnitudes: [[Mage: The Ascension|Extrasolar bases across the universe]] are the only a fraction of it. We are talking about bases in alternate dimensions for inventory and endless resources dug from a plain of white rock.

And that's just the very tip of the iceberg. One SCP is a genetic phenomena that makes the dreaming person's dreams real. That's right. Everything in reality, from World Wars to history of empires *and* new SCP's (there is a rumor that this phenomena was the start of everything) is rewritten in one night's sleep. The Foundation's obvious response is to capture, detain, drug them into complete and total amnesia, use them as disposable Keter-grade SCP destroyers and quietly kill them afterwards. Obviously this genetic trait is so intense that the organization will ''authorize the [[Exterminatus|'''genocide''']] of'' "every population that may exhibit the phenomena above average." Another is Nikolai Tesla's Reverse Entropy Tesla Gun that will DESTROY EXISTENCE in a few centuries, with NO WAY OF STOPPING IT. There's also a rock eating fish that eats California's seabed, slowly destroying one-half of United States, and the foundation failed to kill them.

And there are thousands more yet to be discovered.

==Classification==
Every SCP has a classification. It's basically a handy way of labeling them as to whether they have the power to totally assfuck you or not. Some of them may even have circumstantial benefits for you interacting with them, goodies like healing or granting you (usually abominable) powers. These classes are:

===Primary Class===
The initial labels given to any anomaly by the Foundation.

*Safe: There is a good understanding about the object/entity, or it's easy to contain. Can still be dangerous if someone isn't careful with it. Think of it like a loaded gun: it's "safe" if you know what you're doing. Generally speaking, if you stick it in a box, it'll be fine.

*Euclid: The object/entity is unpredictable and the Foundation has very little understanding of it. Euclid doesn't necessarily mean 'Mortally Dangerous' but a great deal of them are. Euclid entities might also be sentient, in part or whole, so they are generally locked behind many doors and very thick walls.

*Keter: The good shit. Almost all are an extremely dangerous tier entity/object. At the very least they're <s>contained</s> heavily guarded, protected by specially trained MTF's (Mobile Task Forces). These things, if they ever manage to breach containment, will inevitably destroy the world in one of innumerable horrible ways. Fortunately the Foundation has ways of mitigating these risks.

===Secondary Class===
Replacement labels for things re-classified from the Primary Class. Given to SCP's that the staff of the Foundation have a comprehensive understanding of. True safety.

*Neutralized: SCP entities/objects that are dead, destroyed, disabled, or otherwise no longer a threat. Often-times these were former Keter-class SCP's that the Foundation managed to dispose of. Their only remains are what can be gleaned from the heavily-edited documentation and records that the Foundation keeps. No one really wants to keep a doomsday device around, right?

*Explained: SCP entities/objects that are no longer considered to be abnormal, which may be due to the Foundation mistaking something for an anomaly before closer examination, or due to advances in science allowing it to be understood, or due to an anomaly becoming so widespread that it has become the new normal.

*Irrelevant: Like the former Apollyon, it means simply. "Fuck it." It's gonna happen one way or another.

===Esoteric Classes===
The following Object Classes fall outside of the purview of standard classification.

*Thaumiel: Anomalous material or entities that can be used by the Foundation to [[Ordo Xenos|contain or counteract the effects of other highly dangerous anomalies.]] Sometimes the best thing to do is fight fire with fire. Since its introduction, it's become an unofficial primary class, and is the fourth most-used containment class on the site.

*Apollyon: First used by SCP-2317 (iteration 6, Destroyer of Worlds which cannot be stopped and will destroy the world in the next 30 years) Apollyon is often derisively referred to as "Super-Keter." This class is only used for anomalies that present an apocalyptic threat that the Foundation has no way of stopping or slowing down. For example: in one alternate timeline the sun became an Apollyon SCP when something caused the sun to start turning any living thing exposed to sunlight into blob monsters. This included trees, keters, ANYTHING.

*Archon: One of the more popular esoteric classes, Archon denotes items that would do more damage contained than uncontained.

*Hiemal: Also growing in popularity, Hiemal-class objects are anomalous systems composed of separate anomalous parts, usually with one containing the other. One example was an anomaly that caused carnivores to stop hunting and survive entirely by eating themselves and regenerating, but when the Foundation contained it, a new anomaly was unleased that caused plant life and herbivores to start growing out of control and become extremely aggressive, because the Foundation didn't listen to the warnings given by the humans infected by the first anomaly.

==Famous SCPs==
*SCP-055: An unknown object that erases any memories about itself. The Foundation doesn't even remember when or how they obtained it, or even who wrote the object's containment procedures and why they work, but it is possible to remember what the object isn't, and so the Foundation is figuring it out by elimination. This spawned a long-running series about the "[http://www.scp-wiki.net/antimemetics-division-hub Antimemetics Division]", which deals with SCPs which make you forget about them or are literally impossible to think certain thoughts about. Like a building, SCP-2602, which used to be a library, which has the effect of making all its properties seem totally normal for a building which used to be a library. Including the advanced book-sorting machines (which were damaged by being stored in a former library) and the restraints which libraries used to restrain patrons with large overdue book fines (likewise), and the hazardous waste pit and thaumically-active shrines, both normal things for a former library to have, probably to aid study groups who met in the library.
*SCP-087: A seemingly endless stairwell with a voice crying out for help that never gets closer no matter how far down you go. If you go down it too long a floating face will suddenly appear and scare you to death.
*SCP-093: A disc that turns mirrors into portals to an alternate version of earth where humanity was taken over and then wiped out by a being claiming to be God, who granted the world advanced technology and also his tears, which could be used to cure people of sinful behavior but eventually turned users into faceless monsters called The Unclean that grow larger by absorbing other people.
*SCP-096: A humanoid with abnormally long arms and a very large mouth. Normally it is docile, but if anyone sees its face, it goes berserk and hunts down those who have seen it until they are all dead. How exactly it kills its victims is censored so it must be something horrible. And once you have seen it's face there is nothing that can stop it. Even getting its organs blasted out by a tank round won't slow it down. And you don't even have to see its face directly. Even looking too closely at a photo containing just a few pixels of its face will set it off.
*SCP-106: A old man who can walk through walls, corrodes everything he touches, and can teleport victims to a pocket dimension where he tortures them.
*SCP-173: The Statue (AKA the Original) - A killer statue that can move extremely fast when not being watched and causes a mixture of blood and feces to mysteriously appear on the floor of the room it is kept in. This means people regularly have to enter the room it is stored in to clean it and have to be extremely careful not to blink so it doesn't kill them. Started the whole thing, and yes, Whofags, it came before the Weeping Angels. Was inspired by a creepy photo of a sculpture by a Japanese artist.
*SCP-213-7: The last surviving member of seven young women who were kidnapped and impregnated by a satanic cult. If she ever gives birth it will cause the apocalypse. The only way to stop her from giving birth is to regularly submit her to something called Procedure 110-Montauk. It isn't revealed what Procedure 110-Montauk specifically is, but it is something absolutely horrifying, probably some form of disgusting sexual torture. And the Foundation regularly erases her memory to make sure she doesn't get used to it because the trauma of the procedure is required for it to work. The horror doesn't come from the threat to the world she represents, but how far the Foundation is willing to go to keep the world safe. If you had to torture an innocent person to keep other people safe, would you be able to do it?
*SCP-294: A coffee machine that can dispense anything you request from it as long it can exist in liquid form, as well as several things that normally can't.
*SCP-354: [[Lizardmen|A bloody red lake that spawns many terrifying monster 24/7]]. It spawn many varity of monster that can only be seen in movies and fictions like killer robots, lizard people, elemental monsters and a frigging krakens. The foundation put up a good fight but decided to [[exterminatus|abandoned the fuck out and nuke the site]] because they can't [[Lizardmen|kept up the pace]] and fighting [[Skaven|endless]] [[Warriors of Chaos|wave]] [[Chaos Daemons|of monsters]] [[Nagash|to a stalemate]]. The pool also sentient and will psychically attack you if you try to drain the pool.
*SCP-682: The Hard-to-Kill Lizard - A FUCKHUEG lizard that hates all organic life (except SCP-053, an immortal child who drives humans insane, for some reason) and cannot be killed. There is a LONG list of attempts, none of them successful. It will either become immune to what you tried to use to kill it with, or will copy the effects and turn them on you. The Foundation has even tried killing or controlling it using dozens of other SCPs, which normally is forbidden, and none of them have worked, and many have backfired.
*SCP-895: An empty coffin which causes any camera recording taken too close to it to be filled with horrifying images that can drive you insane.
*SCP-914: The Clockworks - A massive clockwork machine that has 5 settings: Rough, Coarse, 1:1, Fine, and Very Fine. Put something in the box, choose your setting, and pray the result isn't too radioactive. The two lowest settings take objects apart. The middle setting transforms the input into something similar, like maybe turning an apple into an orange. The second highest setting turns the input into a better version of itself. The last setting is similar to the previous one but is extremely unpredictable. The output will usually have a similar function the input but taken to an extreme, and often be anomalous.
*SCP-999: A harmless [[Slime]] that eats candy and sweats [[Noblebright|antidepressants]] and loves to tickle people.
*SCP-2521: A weird tentacle monsters that can walk though walls and can only be described with pictures because it steals any document written about it and kidnaps anybody who talks about'''AAAAAAAAHHHHHH! ITS GOT ME!'''
*SCP-3008: An infinitely large IKEA store in another dimension staffed by monsters who attack anybody in the store at night that people can get trapped in by walking into an ordinary IKEA store. The people trapped inside the super IKEA are said to came from other dimensions even and they are forced to play [[Dwarf Fortress]] (or [[Minecraft]] for the current gen reader) where they craft weapons and fortress using IKEA product to defend against monster's attack at night.
===SCPs with minimal tabletop relevance===
*SCP-1230: A book containing only the text, "A hero is born". Opening the book causes the reader to have a dream where they have [[Fun|entertaining]] adventures in a fantasy world, essentially placing them in a very immersive [[Quest]], the next time they go to sleep. The entity who serves as the QM appears in the dreams on occasion, taking the form of an old cloaked man. This one's pretty harmless, but at least one researcher committed suicide after having spent over 2 centuries (by his point of view) in a single dream, after which the QM was inconsolable for a time.
*SCP-3973: An [[Ultramarines]] miniature that is sentient and has the ability to control which side dice in its vicinity land on.
*SCP-1974-EX: A d20 dice that gives players hallucination. Sadly judging by the -EX ending, meaning it isn't much of a exciting SCP meaning it is probably a fake or dud. Turns out the dice is covered in some kind of hallucination chemical. Never the less the article itself contain many references to /tg/ memes and related games, which is why it is listed here.

==Other Factions==
The SCP Foundation is not the only organization that protects the world from the supernatural or uses the supernatural for their own goals. Here is a partial list of notable rivals, allies, and enemies of the Foundation.
* Chaos Insurgency: Originally this faction was part of the Foundation, a covert deniable ops team simply named the "Insurgency." Operating under the fictitious pretense of being a group of rogue agents who assassinated and kidnapped on behalf of said organization, without their actions leading back to the foundation. They answered directly to the O5 Council, with little oversight from any other part of the Foundation. That changed when they really did go rogue, releasing various euclid and keter-class SCPs. What their goal still remains a mystery, as is the reason for their defection. It's suggested that rather than contain SCPs, they want to proactively control and weaponize them. Whatever the case, they're a threat to everything the Foundation works for.
* Global Occult Coalition: The GOC is an organization funded by the United Nations whose mission is to protect humanity from anomalous threats. Unlike the SCP Foundation, they are far more willing to use anomalies to fight against anomalies, but mainly focus on destroying any anomalies that they consider a threat instead of containing and studying them. The Foundation and the GOC have at times allied with each other, although their methodologies are diametrically opposite. Many of the other factions strongly dislike the GOC and see them as [[Nazi]]s due to their heavy-handed approach.
* Horizon Initiative: A religious organization formed from the three Abrahamic faiths and several other religions that work together to protect the world from the supernatural. They are particularly hostile to cults like the Church of the Broken God and the Fifthist Church.
* Serpent's Hand: The Serpent's Hand is a loose confederation of humans and other beings that fights for the rights of intelligent anomalies and the pursuit of knowledge. Their base of operations is a magical library between universes. They especially hate the GOC and call them "bookburners", they refer to the Foundation as the "Jailers". Occasional allies of the Foundation, though the Foundation usually comes to regret it later.
* Church of the Broken God: Basically the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] mixed with Gnosticism and a little bit of Greek and Chinese mythology. The CotBG is a religion of machine worshipers that wants to find and reassemble the lost fragments of their god. Although they aren't evil per say, if they were to succeed in their goals it probably would cause the apocalypse; or at the very least turn everything into living clockwork metal, and according to some sources, fixing the god of machines would actually cause the god of flesh to be released which is the opposite of what they want. They are mainly broken into three distinct denominations: the Broken Church (the oldest branch), the Cogworth Orthodox (obsessed with standardization and clockwork body modification, and prefer [[Industrial Revolution]] level technology) and the Church of Maxwellism (unlike the other two branches, they embrace the use of electronics and believe that the broken god a digital being they can connect to through the internet).
* Sarkic Cults: Sarkicism or Nälkä (Finnish for hunger), as its followers call it, is the antithesis of the CotBG. The religion is mostly based on Gnosticism (but in an opposite way than the CotBG) with some elements of Hinduism and Alchemy. They revere [[Nurgle|disease]] and mutation and seek to achieve godhood by consuming the gods and perfecting themselves through horrifying [[Fleshcrafting]] sorcery. If you've ever seen the movie "The Thing", that'll give you the right idea. Most Sarkites are horrifically depraved monsters who should be killed with fire. The CotBG and Sarkites have a very long ongoing historical conflict. Sarkic cults are divided into Proto-Sarkic Cults, which mostly consist of isolated and technophobic communities and primarily worship the founder of the religion who achieved godhood, and Neo-Sarkic Cults, which are hidden in modern society as secret societies and organized crime organizations and worship the god of flesh.
* The Fifth Church: Well... they worship stars and have an obsession with the number 5. It seems to be based partially on Scientology and New Age and other new religious movements and parody religions, but little is actually known about their beliefs, and what is known is mostly incomprehensible. Most of the other factions consider them to be a joke, although they once nearly destroyed reality by selling a book that gave readers reality warping powers at the cost of causing insanity. It has been theorized that the whole religion is actually is an interplanetary scam started by aliens.
* Doctor Wondertainment: Seem to be a company that produces supernatural toys for children, which usually are dangerous if they are not used properly. They often send their products to the Foundation as gifts. For some reason they also created a line of anomalous humanoids called the Little Misters that they challenge the Foundation to collect.
* Are We Cool Yet?: A organization of artists/terrorists with a twisted sense of humor that produces dangerous pieces of anomalous artwork for laughs or for making political statements. Things like paintings that drive people that look at them insane.
* Gamers Against Weed (GAW): Anomalous Internet Memes & the like. Love taking the piss out of the other GoIs; split off from AWCY? at least partly because they found the idea of murder problematic, and believing your own bullshit stupid. Usually used as comic relief.
* Marshal, Carter, and Dark Ltd.: An occult business that collects anomalies to sell to anyone for the right price.
* Manna Charitable Foundation: An organization that tries to exploit anomalies for humanitarian purposes, often with disastrous results. The road to hell...
* Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting: A circus that travels between dimensions to put on their shows and recruit more freaks. The Circus tends to be a refuge for the truly strange. Herman was overthrown and it's now lead by a pair of lesbian clown monsters.
* Shark Punching Center: Began as a joke for mocking people who misspelled SCP as SPC. The SPC is a completely insane version of the Foundation from another universe that is dedicated entirely to protecting the world from selachian (shark) entities by punching them. They do a pretty good job.
* SAPPHIRE: An organization of militant atheists who seek to destroy all religions by anomalous means even while being in total denial of the existence of the anomalous. All the other factions think they are insane.
* ☽☽☽: In an alternate timeline, the earth was saved from destruction by being teleported into an afterlife known as Corbenic and became a third moon. From there, the people of that earth work to try to save other versions of earth from going down the same path that to their destruction.

And those are just some of the major ones that appear on the English version of the SCP website. Writers on other language versions of the website have come up with tons more.

== Drama ==
When you get a group of people to do something together, drama is inevitable. The SCP community has a number of big-names calling the shots, and what they say goes. They set the tone for what's allowed and what's not, and if you piss off the wrong person for a trivial thing or hurt someone's massive over-inflated ego, you can expect your stay on the website to be short. They are no stranger to massive internal strife either; fights between the big boys resulted in a lot of content being discarded at one point. It kind of mirrors [[TVTropes]]: the front end has a lot of nice reading but the community side is a dumpster fire of misery, egos and dicks. We do not prefer to give examples, but utterly retarded articles written by a newcomer cute girl may stay a lot while longer than they should (and any criticism thereof will result in a ban until someone with clout does something).

Early forms of alleged [[SJW]]ism have also started to surface, with articles spotting unusual genders without them being played for horror, or commented upon at all for that matter. Given a lot of SCPs are frequently not of this Earth/dimension/etc., there's at least SOME reasoning for it.

Furthermore, as the community around the SCP Wiki has evolved over time, the tone of the works has shifted. In the first few years of the wiki, there was more of an inclusion of levity and humor, especially in regards to test logs and the antics of senior staffers. Over time the wiki has included less and less of this, as the community broadened and namefags or otherwise notable contributors left, taking their influences and in-universe characters with them. Circa 2018, the wiki is redoubling its efforts to be purely clinical horror, with fewer jokes (for better or worse).

(That being said, there's still room for somewhat "silly" SCPs, you just have to make them the product of an appropriate silly person or group, and make sure to (A) write it up clinically and (B) have something interesting besides the joke. See, for reference, the products of the group "Gamers Against Weed".)

==See also==

* [[Delta Green]] - The closest thing to a SCP game made.
* Roblox - Where many 12 years coalesce to build edgy SCP communities

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SCP Foundation

2020-06-17T04:59:50Z

2601:203:480:4C60:B4A8:D888:3272:AC0D: /* Famous SCPs */

{{delete|This has no real /tg/ relevance, or any sort of relevance to this wiki.}}

[[Image:SCP_Foundation_emblem.png|300px|thumb|right|Secure. Contain. Protect.]]
The SCP Foundation''' is a writing site '''focusing on scientific descriptions of terrifying, confusing, or just plain weird monsters, events, [[Warp|locations]], etc. Expect plenty of REDACTED all across the website. The community prioritizes quality writing over pretty much everything else, and as such it is THE place to go if you like top-tier horror fiction writing. The fucking huge critical community within will RIP'N'TEAR bad articles to pieces. (On the flip side, if you want to read some hilariously bad writing, go to the lowest-rated articles page. You will know the true meaning of [[Derp|stupid]].) The SCP Foundation mainly consists of extremely horrific [[grimdark|GRIMDARK]], but also has its light-hearted moments, and at points, absurd and ironic humor.

While the descriptions on the SCP Foundation website and the hinted-at setting loosely binding the different articles together are not directly related to any specific traditional games; the whole thing is a goldmine of ideas for your horror games from [[Delta Green]] to [[World of Darkness]] to [[Call of Cthulhu]] and everything in between; or even if you simply want to throw something weird at your players to deal with for a change.

==Origins==
The SCP Foundation started when the Creepypasta archive of 4chan eventually was inspected by [[/x/|a bunch of people]], who imagined a worldwide conspiracy to suppress said creepypastas. In this universe, Creepypasta Events like: "If you visit the ninth floor of a certain apartment at midnight, a spirit will assrape you and split your head open" are very much real, and the Foundation finds them and uses a black cheque to isolate them for the good of the world at large. Said fictional organization would send agents to survey the existence of supernatural phenomena, contain it if possible for safety purposes (and experimentation later), or destroy if deemed too dangerous using any means necessary, up to (but not limited) teleporting the item to an alternate universe.

It eventually shaped into a fictional wiki where thousands of these "SCP"s (items, phenomena, or persons) are contained, by ludicrous force if necessary. Extensive descriptions and containment procedures are the most favored parts of the writings, as well as [[Grimdark|UTTERLY FUCKING TERRIBLE REALIZATIONS]] that your world is a clusterfuck of horror which out-edges Warhammer 40K on several levels. For example: SCP-682 is a compleyely invincible reptilian creature that is extremely hostile to humanity, and can barely be kept at bay via complete immersion in corrosive acid. There are also writings about the personnel within the Foundation, logs of fictional excursions to capture SCPs, and experiment logs to comb through; as well as weapons and personnel that surpass "legit" human authorities' power by magnitudes: [[Mage: The Ascension|Extrasolar bases across the universe]] are the only a fraction of it. We are talking about bases in alternate dimensions for inventory and endless resources dug from a plain of white rock.

And that's just the very tip of the iceberg. One SCP is a genetic phenomena that makes the dreaming person's dreams real. That's right. Everything in reality, from World Wars to history of empires *and* new SCP's (there is a rumor that this phenomena was the start of everything) is rewritten in one night's sleep. The Foundation's obvious response is to capture, detain, drug them into complete and total amnesia, use them as disposable Keter-grade SCP destroyers and quietly kill them afterwards. Obviously this genetic trait is so intense that the organization will ''authorize the [[Exterminatus|'''genocide''']] of'' "every population that may exhibit the phenomena above average." Another is Nikolai Tesla's Reverse Entropy Tesla Gun that will DESTROY EXISTENCE in a few centuries, with NO WAY OF STOPPING IT. There's also a rock eating fish that eats California's seabed, slowly destroying one-half of United States, and the foundation failed to kill them.

And there are thousands more yet to be discovered.

==Classification==
Every SCP has a classification. It's basically a handy way of labeling them as to whether they have the power to totally assfuck you or not. Some of them may even have circumstantial benefits for you interacting with them, goodies like healing or granting you (usually abominable) powers. These classes are:

===Primary Class===
The initial labels given to any anomaly by the Foundation.

*Safe: There is a good understanding about the object/entity, or it's easy to contain. Can still be dangerous if someone isn't careful with it. Think of it like a loaded gun: it's "safe" if you know what you're doing. Generally speaking, if you stick it in a box, it'll be fine.

*Euclid: The object/entity is unpredictable and the Foundation has very little understanding of it. Euclid doesn't necessarily mean 'Mortally Dangerous' but a great deal of them are. Euclid entities might also be sentient, in part or whole, so they are generally locked behind many doors and very thick walls.

*Keter: The good shit. Almost all are an extremely dangerous tier entity/object. At the very least they're <s>contained</s> heavily guarded, protected by specially trained MTF's (Mobile Task Forces). These things, if they ever manage to breach containment, will inevitably destroy the world in one of innumerable horrible ways. Fortunately the Foundation has ways of mitigating these risks.

===Secondary Class===
Replacement labels for things re-classified from the Primary Class. Given to SCP's that the staff of the Foundation have a comprehensive understanding of. True safety.

*Neutralized: SCP entities/objects that are dead, destroyed, disabled, or otherwise no longer a threat. Often-times these were former Keter-class SCP's that the Foundation managed to dispose of. Their only remains are what can be gleaned from the heavily-edited documentation and records that the Foundation keeps. No one really wants to keep a doomsday device around, right?

*Explained: SCP entities/objects that are no longer considered to be abnormal, which may be due to the Foundation mistaking something for an anomaly before closer examination, or due to advances in science allowing it to be understood, or due to an anomaly becoming so widespread that it has become the new normal.

*Irrelevant: Like the former Apollyon, it means simply. "Fuck it." It's gonna happen one way or another.

===Esoteric Classes===
The following Object Classes fall outside of the purview of standard classification.

*Thaumiel: Anomalous material or entities that can be used by the Foundation to [[Ordo Xenos|contain or counteract the effects of other highly dangerous anomalies.]] Sometimes the best thing to do is fight fire with fire. Since its introduction, it's become an unofficial primary class, and is the fourth most-used containment class on the site.

*Apollyon: First used by SCP-2317 (iteration 6, Destroyer of Worlds which cannot be stopped and will destroy the world in the next 30 years) Apollyon is often derisively referred to as "Super-Keter." This class is only used for anomalies that present an apocalyptic threat that the Foundation has no way of stopping or slowing down. For example: in one alternate timeline the sun became an Apollyon SCP when something caused the sun to start turning any living thing exposed to sunlight into blob monsters. This included trees, keters, ANYTHING.

*Archon: One of the more popular esoteric classes, Archon denotes items that would do more damage contained than uncontained.

*Hiemal: Also growing in popularity, Hiemal-class objects are anomalous systems composed of separate anomalous parts, usually with one containing the other. One example was an anomaly that caused carnivores to stop hunting and survive entirely by eating themselves and regenerating, but when the Foundation contained it, a new anomaly was unleased that caused plant life and herbivores to start growing out of control and become extremely aggressive, because the Foundation didn't listen to the warnings given by the humans infected by the first anomaly.

==Famous SCPs==
*SCP-055: An unknown object that erases any memories about itself. The Foundation doesn't even remember when or how they obtained it, or even who wrote the object's containment procedures and why they work, but it is possible to remember what the object isn't, and so the Foundation is figuring it out by elimination. This spawned a long-running series about the "[http://www.scp-wiki.net/antimemetics-division-hub Antimemetics Division]", which deals with SCPs which make you forget about them or are literally impossible to think certain thoughts about. Like a building, SCP-2602, which used to be a library, which has the effect of making all its properties seem totally normal for a building which used to be a library. Including the advanced book-sorting machines (which were damaged by being stored in a former library) and the restraints which libraries used to restrain patrons with large overdue book fines (likewise), and the hazardous waste pit and thaumically-active shrines, both normal things for a former library to have, probably to aid study groups who met in the library.
*SCP-087: A seemingly endless stairwell with a voice crying out for help that never gets closer no matter how far down you go. If you go down it too long a floating face will suddenly appear and scare you to death.
*SCP-093: A disc that turns mirrors into portals to an alternate version of earth where humanity was taken over and then wiped out by a being claiming to be God, who granted the world advanced technology and also his tears, which could be used to cure people of sinful behavior but eventually turned users into faceless monsters called The Unclean that grow larger by absorbing other people.
*SCP-096: A humanoid with abnormally long arms and a very large mouth. Normally it is docile, but if anyone sees its face, it goes berserk and hunts down those who have seen it until they are all dead. How exactly it kills its victims is censored so it must be something horrible. And once you have seen it's face there is nothing that can stop it. Even getting its organs blasted out by a tank round won't slow it down. And you don't even have to see its face directly. Even looking too closely at a photo containing just a few pixels of its face will set it off.
*SCP-106: A old man who can walk through walls, corrodes everything he touches, and can teleport victims to a pocket dimension where he tortures them.
*SCP-173: The Statue (AKA the Original) - A killer statue that can move extremely fast when not being watched and causes a mixture of blood and feces to mysteriously appear on the floor of the room it is kept in. This means people regularly have to enter the room it is stored in to clean it and have to be extremely careful not to blink so it doesn't kill them. Started the whole thing, and yes, Whofags, it came before the Weeping Angels. Was inspired by a creepy photo of a sculpture by a Japanese artist.
*SCP-213-7: The last surviving member of seven young women who were kidnapped and impregnated by a satanic cult. If she ever gives birth it will cause the apocalypse. The only way to stop her from giving birth is to regularly submit her to something called Procedure 110-Montauk. It isn't revealed what Procedure 110-Montauk specifically is, but it is something absolutely horrifying, probably some form of disgusting sexual torture. And the Foundation regularly erases her memory to make sure she doesn't get used to it because the trauma of the procedure is required for it to work. The horror doesn't come from the threat to the world she represents, but how far the Foundation is willing to go to keep the world safe. If you had to torture an innocent person to keep other people safe, would you be able to do it?
*SCP-294: A coffee machine that can dispense anything you request from it as long it can exist in liquid form, as well as several things that normally can't.
*SCP-354: [[Lizardmen|A bloody red lake that spawns many terrifying monster 24/7]]. It spawn many varity of monster that can only be seen in movies and fictions like killer robots, lizard people, elemental monsters and a frigging krakens. The foundation put up a good fight but decided to [[exterminatus|abandoned the fuck out and nuke the site]] because they can't [[Lizardmen|kept up the pace]] and fighting [[Skaven|endless]] [[Warriors of Chaos|wave]] [[Chaos Daemons|of monsters]] [[Nagash|to a stalemate]]. The pool also sentient and will psychically attack you if you try to drain the pool.
*SCP-682: The Hard-to-Kill Lizard - A FUCKHUEG lizard that hates all organic life (except SCP-053, an immortal child who drives humans insane, for some reason) and cannot be killed. There is a LONG list of attempts, none of them successful. It will either become immune to what you tried to use to kill it with, or will copy the effects and turn them on you. The Foundation has even tried killing, or finding a way to control it, it using dozens of other SCPs, which normally is forbidden, and none of them have worked, and many have backfired.
*SCP-895: An empty coffin which causes any camera recording taken too close to it to be filled with horrifying images that can drive you insane.
*SCP-914: The Clockworks - A massive clockwork machine that has 5 settings: Rough, Coarse, 1:1, Fine, and Very Fine. Put something in the box, choose your setting, and pray the result isn't too radioactive. The two lowest settings take objects apart. The middle setting transforms the input into something similar, like maybe turning an apple into an orange. The second highest setting turns the input into a better version of itself. The last setting is similar to the previous one but is extremely unpredictable. The output will usually have a similar function the input but taken to an extreme, and often be anomalous.
*SCP-999: A harmless [[Slime]] that eats candy and sweats [[Noblebright|antidepressants]] and loves to tickle people.
*SCP-2521: A weird tentacle monsters that can walk though walls and can only be described with pictures because it steals any document written about it and kidnaps anybody who talks about'''AAAAAAAAHHHHHH! ITS GOT ME!'''
*SCP-3008: An infinitely large IKEA store in another dimension staffed by monsters who attack anybody in the store at night that people can get trapped in by walking into an ordinary IKEA store. The people trapped inside the super IKEA are said to came from other dimensions even and they are forced to play [[Dwarf Fortress]] (or [[Minecraft]] for the current gen reader) where they craft weapons and fortress using IKEA product to defend against monster's attack at night.
===SCPs with minimal tabletop relevance===
*SCP-1230: A book containing only the text, "A hero is born". Opening the book causes the reader to have a dream where they have [[Fun|entertaining]] adventures in a fantasy world, essentially placing them in a very immersive [[Quest]], the next time they go to sleep. The entity who serves as the QM appears in the dreams on occasion, taking the form of an old cloaked man. This one's pretty harmless, but at least one researcher committed suicide after having spent over 2 centuries (by his point of view) in a single dream, after which the QM was inconsolable for a time.
*SCP-3973: An [[Ultramarines]] miniature that is sentient and has the ability to control which side dice in its vicinity land on.
*SCP-1974-EX: A d20 dice that gives players hallucination. Sadly judging by the -EX ending, meaning it isn't much of a exciting SCP meaning it is probably a fake or dud. Turns out the dice is covered in some kind of hallucination chemical. Never the less the article itself contain many references to /tg/ memes and related games, which is why it is listed here.

==Other Factions==
The SCP Foundation is not the only organization that protects the world from the supernatural or uses the supernatural for their own goals. Here is a partial list of notable rivals, allies, and enemies of the Foundation.
* Chaos Insurgency: Originally this faction was part of the Foundation, a covert deniable ops team simply named the "Insurgency." Operating under the fictitious pretense of being a group of rogue agents who assassinated and kidnapped on behalf of said organization, without their actions leading back to the foundation. They answered directly to the O5 Council, with little oversight from any other part of the Foundation. That changed when they really did go rogue, releasing various euclid and keter-class SCPs. What their goal still remains a mystery, as is the reason for their defection. It's suggested that rather than contain SCPs, they want to proactively control and weaponize them. Whatever the case, they're a threat to everything the Foundation works for.
* Global Occult Coalition: The GOC is an organization funded by the United Nations whose mission is to protect humanity from anomalous threats. Unlike the SCP Foundation, they are far more willing to use anomalies to fight against anomalies, but mainly focus on destroying any anomalies that they consider a threat instead of containing and studying them. The Foundation and the GOC have at times allied with each other, although their methodologies are diametrically opposite. Many of the other factions strongly dislike the GOC and see them as [[Nazi]]s due to their heavy-handed approach.
* Horizon Initiative: A religious organization formed from the three Abrahamic faiths and several other religions that work together to protect the world from the supernatural. They are particularly hostile to cults like the Church of the Broken God and the Fifthist Church.
* Serpent's Hand: The Serpent's Hand is a loose confederation of humans and other beings that fights for the rights of intelligent anomalies and the pursuit of knowledge. Their base of operations is a magical library between universes. They especially hate the GOC and call them "bookburners", they refer to the Foundation as the "Jailers". Occasional allies of the Foundation, though the Foundation usually comes to regret it later.
* Church of the Broken God: Basically the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] mixed with Gnosticism and a little bit of Greek and Chinese mythology. The CotBG is a religion of machine worshipers that wants to find and reassemble the lost fragments of their god. Although they aren't evil per say, if they were to succeed in their goals it probably would cause the apocalypse; or at the very least turn everything into living clockwork metal, and according to some sources, fixing the god of machines would actually cause the god of flesh to be released which is the opposite of what they want. They are mainly broken into three distinct denominations: the Broken Church (the oldest branch), the Cogworth Orthodox (obsessed with standardization and clockwork body modification, and prefer [[Industrial Revolution]] level technology) and the Church of Maxwellism (unlike the other two branches, they embrace the use of electronics and believe that the broken god a digital being they can connect to through the internet).
* Sarkic Cults: Sarkicism or Nälkä (Finnish for hunger), as its followers call it, is the antithesis of the CotBG. The religion is mostly based on Gnosticism (but in an opposite way than the CotBG) with some elements of Hinduism and Alchemy. They revere [[Nurgle|disease]] and mutation and seek to achieve godhood by consuming the gods and perfecting themselves through horrifying [[Fleshcrafting]] sorcery. If you've ever seen the movie "The Thing", that'll give you the right idea. Most Sarkites are horrifically depraved monsters who should be killed with fire. The CotBG and Sarkites have a very long ongoing historical conflict. Sarkic cults are divided into Proto-Sarkic Cults, which mostly consist of isolated and technophobic communities and primarily worship the founder of the religion who achieved godhood, and Neo-Sarkic Cults, which are hidden in modern society as secret societies and organized crime organizations and worship the god of flesh.
* The Fifth Church: Well... they worship stars and have an obsession with the number 5. It seems to be based partially on Scientology and New Age and other new religious movements and parody religions, but little is actually known about their beliefs, and what is known is mostly incomprehensible. Most of the other factions consider them to be a joke, although they once nearly destroyed reality by selling a book that gave readers reality warping powers at the cost of causing insanity. It has been theorized that the whole religion is actually is an interplanetary scam started by aliens.
* Doctor Wondertainment: Seem to be a company that produces supernatural toys for children, which usually are dangerous if they are not used properly. They often send their products to the Foundation as gifts. For some reason they also created a line of anomalous humanoids called the Little Misters that they challenge the Foundation to collect.
* Are We Cool Yet?: A organization of artists/terrorists with a twisted sense of humor that produces dangerous pieces of anomalous artwork for laughs or for making political statements. Things like paintings that drive people that look at them insane.
* Gamers Against Weed (GAW): Anomalous Internet Memes & the like. Love taking the piss out of the other GoIs; split off from AWCY? at least partly because they found the idea of murder problematic, and believing your own bullshit stupid. Usually used as comic relief.
* Marshal, Carter, and Dark Ltd.: An occult business that collects anomalies to sell to anyone for the right price.
* Manna Charitable Foundation: An organization that tries to exploit anomalies for humanitarian purposes, often with disastrous results. The road to hell...
* Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting: A circus that travels between dimensions to put on their shows and recruit more freaks. The Circus tends to be a refuge for the truly strange. Herman was overthrown and it's now lead by a pair of lesbian clown monsters.
* Shark Punching Center: Began as a joke for mocking people who misspelled SCP as SPC. The SPC is a completely insane version of the Foundation from another universe that is dedicated entirely to protecting the world from selachian (shark) entities by punching them. They do a pretty good job.
* SAPPHIRE: An organization of militant atheists who seek to destroy all religions by anomalous means even while being in total denial of the existence of the anomalous. All the other factions think they are insane.
* ☽☽☽: In an alternate timeline, the earth was saved from destruction by being teleported into an afterlife known as Corbenic and became a third moon. From there, the people of that earth work to try to save other versions of earth from going down the same path that to their destruction.

And those are just some of the major ones that appear on the English version of the SCP website. Writers on other language versions of the website have come up with tons more.

== Drama ==
When you get a group of people to do something together, drama is inevitable. The SCP community has a number of big-names calling the shots, and what they say goes. They set the tone for what's allowed and what's not, and if you piss off the wrong person for a trivial thing or hurt someone's massive over-inflated ego, you can expect your stay on the website to be short. They are no stranger to massive internal strife either; fights between the big boys resulted in a lot of content being discarded at one point. It kind of mirrors [[TVTropes]]: the front end has a lot of nice reading but the community side is a dumpster fire of misery, egos and dicks. We do not prefer to give examples, but utterly retarded articles written by a newcomer cute girl may stay a lot while longer than they should (and any criticism thereof will result in a ban until someone with clout does something).

Early forms of alleged [[SJW]]ism have also started to surface, with articles spotting unusual genders without them being played for horror, or commented upon at all for that matter. Given a lot of SCPs are frequently not of this Earth/dimension/etc., there's at least SOME reasoning for it.

Furthermore, as the community around the SCP Wiki has evolved over time, the tone of the works has shifted. In the first few years of the wiki, there was more of an inclusion of levity and humor, especially in regards to test logs and the antics of senior staffers. Over time the wiki has included less and less of this, as the community broadened and namefags or otherwise notable contributors left, taking their influences and in-universe characters with them. Circa 2018, the wiki is redoubling its efforts to be purely clinical horror, with fewer jokes (for better or worse).

(That being said, there's still room for somewhat "silly" SCPs, you just have to make them the product of an appropriate silly person or group, and make sure to (A) write it up clinically and (B) have something interesting besides the joke. See, for reference, the products of the group "Gamers Against Weed".)

==See also==

* [[Delta Green]] - The closest thing to a SCP game made.
* Roblox - Where many 12 years coalesce to build edgy SCP communities

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SCP Foundation

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[[Image:SCP_Foundation_emblem.png|300px|thumb|right|Secure. Contain. Protect.]]
The SCP Foundation''' is a writing site '''focusing on scientific descriptions of terrifying, confusing, or just plain weird monsters, events, [[Warp|locations]], etc. Expect plenty of REDACTED all across the website. The community prioritizes quality writing over pretty much everything else, and as such it is THE place to go if you like top-tier horror fiction writing. The fucking huge critical community within will RIP'N'TEAR bad articles to pieces. (On the flip side, if you want to read some hilariously bad writing, go to the lowest-rated articles page. You will know the true meaning of [[Derp|stupid]].) The SCP Foundation mainly consists of extremely horrific [[grimdark|GRIMDARK]], but also has its light-hearted moments, and at points, absurd and ironic humor.

While the descriptions on the SCP Foundation website and the hinted-at setting loosely binding the different articles together are not directly related to any specific traditional games; the whole thing is a goldmine of ideas for your horror games from [[Delta Green]] to [[World of Darkness]] to [[Call of Cthulhu]] and everything in between; or even if you simply want to throw something weird at your players to deal with for a change.

==Origins==
The SCP Foundation started when the Creepypasta archive of 4chan eventually was inspected by [[/x/|a bunch of people]], who imagined a worldwide conspiracy to suppress said creepypastas. In this universe, Creepypasta Events like: "If you visit the ninth floor of a certain apartment at midnight, a spirit will assrape you and split your head open" are very much real, and the Foundation finds them and uses a black cheque to isolate them for the good of the world at large. Said fictional organization would send agents to survey the existence of supernatural phenomena, contain it if possible for safety purposes (and experimentation later), or destroy if deemed too dangerous using any means necessary, up to (but not limited) teleporting the item to an alternate universe.

It eventually shaped into a fictional wiki where thousands of these "SCP"s (items, phenomena, or persons) are contained, by ludicrous force if necessary. Extensive descriptions and containment procedures are the most favored parts of the writings, as well as [[Grimdark|UTTERLY FUCKING TERRIBLE REALIZATIONS]] that your world is a clusterfuck of horror which out-edges Warhammer 40K on several levels. For example: SCP-682 is a compleyely invincible reptilian creature that is extremely hostile to humanity, and can barely be kept at bay via complete immersion in corrosive acid. There are also writings about the personnel within the Foundation, logs of fictional excursions to capture SCPs, and experiment logs to comb through; as well as weapons and personnel that surpass "legit" human authorities' power by magnitudes: [[Mage: The Ascension|Extrasolar bases across the universe]] are the only a fraction of it. We are talking about bases in alternate dimensions for inventory and endless resources dug from a plain of white rock.

And that's just the very tip of the iceberg. One SCP is a genetic phenomena that makes the dreaming person's dreams real. That's right. Everything in reality, from World Wars to history of empires *and* new SCP's (there is a rumor that this phenomena was the start of everything) is rewritten in one night's sleep. The Foundation's obvious response is to capture, detain, drug them into complete and total amnesia, use them as disposable Keter-grade SCP destroyers and quietly kill them afterwards. Obviously this genetic trait is so intense that the organization will ''authorize the [[Exterminatus|'''genocide''']] of'' "every population that may exhibit the phenomena above average." Another is Nikolai Tesla's Reverse Entropy Tesla Gun that will DESTROY EXISTENCE in a few centuries, with NO WAY OF STOPPING IT. There's also a rock eating fish that eats California's seabed, slowly destroying one-half of United States, and the foundation failed to kill them.

And there are thousands more yet to be discovered.

==Classification==
Every SCP has a classification. It's basically a handy way of labeling them as to whether they have the power to totally assfuck you or not. Some of them may even have circumstantial benefits for you interacting with them, goodies like healing or granting you (usually abominable) powers. These classes are:

===Primary Class===
The initial labels given to any anomaly by the Foundation.

*Safe: There is a good understanding about the object/entity, or it's easy to contain. Can still be dangerous if someone isn't careful with it. Think of it like a loaded gun: it's "safe" if you know what you're doing. Generally speaking, if you stick it in a box, it'll be fine.

*Euclid: The object/entity is unpredictable and the Foundation has very little understanding of it. Euclid doesn't necessarily mean 'Mortally Dangerous' but a great deal of them are. Euclid entities might also be sentient, in part or whole, so they are generally locked behind many doors and very thick walls.

*Keter: The good shit. Almost all are an extremely dangerous tier entity/object. At the very least they're <s>contained</s> heavily guarded, protected by specially trained MTF's (Mobile Task Forces). These things, if they ever manage to breach containment, will inevitably destroy the world in one of innumerable horrible ways. Fortunately the Foundation has ways of mitigating these risks.

===Secondary Class===
Replacement labels for things re-classified from the Primary Class. Given to SCP's that the staff of the Foundation have a comprehensive understanding of. True safety.

*Neutralized: SCP entities/objects that are dead, destroyed, disabled, or otherwise no longer a threat. Often-times these were former Keter-class SCP's that the Foundation managed to dispose of. Their only remains are what can be gleaned from the heavily-edited documentation and records that the Foundation keeps. No one really wants to keep a doomsday device around, right?

*Explained: SCP entities/objects that are no longer considered to be abnormal, which may be due to the Foundation mistaking something for an anomaly before closer examination, or due to advances in science allowing it to be understood, or due to an anomaly becoming so widespread that it has become the new normal.

*Irrelevant: Like the former Apollyon, it means simply. "Fuck it." It's gonna happen one way or another.

===Esoteric Classes===
The following Object Classes fall outside of the purview of standard classification.

*Thaumiel: Anomalous material or entities that can be used by the Foundation to [[Ordo Xenos|contain or counteract the effects of other highly dangerous anomalies.]] Sometimes the best thing to do is fight fire with fire. Since its introduction, it's become an unofficial primary class, and is the fourth most-used containment class on the site.

*Apollyon: First used by SCP-2317 (iteration 6, Destroyer of Worlds which cannot be stopped and will destroy the world in the next 30 years) Apollyon is often derisively referred to as "Super-Keter." This class is only used for anomalies that present an apocalyptic threat that the Foundation has no way of stopping or slowing down. For example: in one alternate timeline the sun became an Apollyon SCP when something caused the sun to start turning any living thing exposed to sunlight into blob monsters. This included trees, keters, ANYTHING.

*Archon: One of the more popular esoteric classes, Archon denotes items that would do more damage contained than uncontained.

*Hiemal: Also growing in popularity, Hiemal-class objects are anomalous systems composed of separate anomalous parts, usually with one containing the other. One example was an anomaly that caused carnivores to stop hunting and survive entirely by eating themselves and regenerating, but when the Foundation contained it, a new anomaly was unleased that caused plant life and herbivores to start growing out of control and become extremely aggressive, because the Foundation didn't listen to the warnings given by the humans infected by the first anomaly.

==Famous SCPs==
*SCP-055: An unknown object that erases any memories about itself. The Foundation doesn't even remember when or how they obtained it, or even who wrote the object's containment procedures and why they work, but it is possible to remember what the object isn't, and so the Foundation is figuring it out by elimination. This spawned a long-running series about the "[http://www.scp-wiki.net/antimemetics-division-hub Antimemetics Division]", which deals with SCPs which make you forget about them or are literally impossible to think certain thoughts about. Like a building, SCP-2602, which used to be a library, which has the effect of making all its properties seem totally normal for a building which used to be a library. Including the advanced book-sorting machines (which were damaged by being stored in a former library) and the restraints which libraries used to restrain patrons with large overdue book fines (likewise), and the hazardous waste pit and thaumically-active shrines, both normal things for a former library to have, probably to aid study groups who met in the library.
*SCP-087: A seemingly endless stairwell with a voice crying out for help that never gets closer no matter how far down you go. If you go down it too long a floating face will suddenly appear and scare you to death.
*SCP-093: A disc that turns mirrors into portals to an alternate version of earth where humanity was taken over and then wiped out by a being claiming to be God, who granted the world advanced technology and also his tears, which could be used to cure people of sinful behavior but eventually turned users into faceless monsters called The Unclean that grow larger by absorbing other people.
*SCP-096: A humanoid with abnormally long arms and a very large mouth. Normally it is docile, but if anyone sees its face, it goes berserk and hunts down those who have seen it until they are all dead. How exactly it kills its victims is censored so it must be something horrible. And once you have seen it's face there is nothing that can stop it. Even getting its organs blasted out by a tank round won't slow it down. And you don't even have to see its face directly. Even looking too closely at a photo containing just a few pixels of its face will set it off.
*SCP-106: A old man who can walk through walls, corrodes everything he touches, and can teleport victims to a pocket dimension where he tortures them.
*SCP-173: The Statue (AKA the Original) - A killer statue that can move extremely fast when not being watched and causes a mixture of blood and feces to mysteriously appear on the floor of the room it is kept in. This means people regularly have to enter the room it is stored in to clean it and have to be extremely careful not to blink so it doesn't kill them. Started the whole thing, and yes, Whofags, it came before the Weeping Angels. Was inspired by a creepy photo of a sculpture by a Japanese artist.
*SCP-213-7: The last surviving member of seven young women who were kidnapped and impregnated by a satanic cult. If she ever gives birth it will cause the apocalypse. The only way to stop her from giving birth is to regularly submit her to something called Procedure 110-Montauk. It isn't revealed what Procedure 110-Montauk specifically is, but it is something absolutely horrifying, probably some form of disgusting sexual torture. And the Foundation regularly erases her memory to make sure she doesn't get used to it because the trauma of the procedure is required for it to work. The horror doesn't come from the threat to the world she represents, but how far the Foundation is willing to go to keep the world safe. If you had to torture an innocent person to keep other people safe, would you be able to do it?
*SCP-294: A coffee machine that can dispense anything you request from it as long it can exist in liquid form, as well as several things that normally can't.
*SCP-354: [[Lizardmen|A bloody red lake that spawns many terrifying monster 24/7]]. It spawn many varity of monster that can only be seen in movies and fictions like killer robots, lizard people, elemental monsters and a frigging krakens. The foundation put up a good fight but decided to [[exterminatus|abandoned the fuck out and nuke the site]] because they can't [[Lizardmen|kept up the pace]] and fighting [[Skaven|endless]] [[Warriors of Chaos|wave]] [[Chaos Daemons|of monsters]] [[Nagash|to a stalemate]]. The pool also sentient and will psychically attack you if you try to drain the pool.
*SCP-682: The Hard-to-Kill Lizard - A FUCKHUEG lizard that hates all organic life (except SCP-053, an immortal child who drives humans insane, for some reason) and cannot be killed. There is a LONG list of attempts, none of them successful. It will either become immune to what you tried to use to kill it with, or will copy the effects and turn them on you.
*SCP-895: An empty coffin which causes any camera recording taken too close to it to be filled with horrifying images that can drive you insane.
*SCP-914: The Clockworks - A massive clockwork machine that has 5 settings: Rough, Coarse, 1:1, Fine, and Very Fine. Put something in the box, choose your setting, and pray the result isn't too radioactive. The two lowest settings take objects apart. The middle setting transforms the input into something similar, like maybe turning an apple into an orange. The second highest setting turns the input into a better version of itself. The last setting is similar to the previous one but is extremely unpredictable. The output will usually have a similar function the input but taken to an extreme, and often be anomalous.
*SCP-999: A harmless [[Slime]] that eats candy and sweats [[Noblebright|antidepressants]] and loves to tickle people.
*SCP-2521: A weird tentacle monsters that can walk though walls and can only be described with pictures because it steals any document written about it and kidnaps anybody who talks about'''AAAAAAAAHHHHHH! ITS GOT ME!'''
*SCP-3008: An infinitely large IKEA store in another dimension staffed by monsters who attack anybody in the store at night that people can get trapped in by walking into an ordinary IKEA store. The people trapped inside the super IKEA are said to came from other dimensions even and they are forced to play [[Dwarf Fortress]] (or [[Minecraft]] for the current gen reader) where they craft weapons and fortress using IKEA product to defend against monster's attack at night.
===SCPs with minimal tabletop relevance===
*SCP-1230: A book containing only the text, "A hero is born". Opening the book causes the reader to have a dream where they have [[Fun|entertaining]] adventures in a fantasy world, essentially placing them in a very immersive [[Quest]], the next time they go to sleep. The entity who serves as the QM appears in the dreams on occasion, taking the form of an old cloaked man. This one's pretty harmless, but at least one researcher committed suicide after having spent over 2 centuries (by his point of view) in a single dream, after which the QM was inconsolable for a time.
*SCP-3973: An [[Ultramarines]] miniature that is sentient and has the ability to control which side dice in its vicinity land on.
*SCP-1974-EX: A d20 dice that gives players hallucination. Sadly judging by the -EX ending, meaning it isn't much of a exciting SCP meaning it is probably a fake or dud. Turns out the dice is covered in some kind of hallucination chemical. Never the less the article itself contain many references to /tg/ memes and related games, which is why it is listed here.

==Other Factions==
The SCP Foundation is not the only organization that protects the world from the supernatural or uses the supernatural for their own goals. Here is a partial list of notable rivals, allies, and enemies of the Foundation.
* Chaos Insurgency: Originally this faction was part of the Foundation, a covert deniable ops team simply named the "Insurgency." Operating under the fictitious pretense of being a group of rogue agents who assassinated and kidnapped on behalf of said organization, without their actions leading back to the foundation. They answered directly to the O5 Council, with little oversight from any other part of the Foundation. That changed when they really did go rogue, releasing various euclid and keter-class SCPs. What their goal still remains a mystery, as is the reason for their defection. It's suggested that rather than contain SCPs, they want to proactively control and weaponize them. Whatever the case, they're a threat to everything the Foundation works for.
* Global Occult Coalition: The GOC is an organization funded by the United Nations whose mission is to protect humanity from anomalous threats. Unlike the SCP Foundation, they are far more willing to use anomalies to fight against anomalies, but mainly focus on destroying any anomalies that they consider a threat instead of containing and studying them. The Foundation and the GOC have at times allied with each other, although their methodologies are diametrically opposite. Many of the other factions strongly dislike the GOC and see them as [[Nazi]]s due to their heavy-handed approach.
* Horizon Initiative: A religious organization formed from the three Abrahamic faiths and several other religions that work together to protect the world from the supernatural. They are particularly hostile to cults like the Church of the Broken God and the Fifthist Church.
* Serpent's Hand: The Serpent's Hand is a loose confederation of humans and other beings that fights for the rights of intelligent anomalies and the pursuit of knowledge. Their base of operations is a magical library between universes. They especially hate the GOC and call them "bookburners", they refer to the Foundation as the "Jailers". Occasional allies of the Foundation, though the Foundation usually comes to regret it later.
* Church of the Broken God: Basically the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] mixed with Gnosticism and a little bit of Greek and Chinese mythology. The CotBG is a religion of machine worshipers that wants to find and reassemble the lost fragments of their god. Although they aren't evil per say, if they were to succeed in their goals it probably would cause the apocalypse; or at the very least turn everything into living clockwork metal, and according to some sources, fixing the god of machines would actually cause the god of flesh to be released which is the opposite of what they want. They are mainly broken into three distinct denominations: the Broken Church (the oldest branch), the Cogworth Orthodox (obsessed with standardization and clockwork body modification, and prefer [[Industrial Revolution]] level technology) and the Church of Maxwellism (unlike the other two branches, they embrace the use of electronics and believe that the broken god a digital being they can connect to through the internet).
* Sarkic Cults: Sarkicism or Nälkä (Finnish for hunger), as its followers call it, is the antithesis of the CotBG. The religion is mostly based on Gnosticism (but in an opposite way than the CotBG) with some elements of Hinduism and Alchemy. They revere [[Nurgle|disease]] and mutation and seek to achieve godhood by consuming the gods and perfecting themselves through horrifying [[Fleshcrafting]] sorcery. If you've ever seen the movie "The Thing", that'll give you the right idea. Most Sarkites are horrifically depraved monsters who should be killed with fire. The CotBG and Sarkites have a very long ongoing historical conflict. Sarkic cults are divided into Proto-Sarkic Cults, which mostly consist of isolated and technophobic communities and primarily worship the founder of the religion who achieved godhood, and Neo-Sarkic Cults, which are hidden in modern society as secret societies and organized crime organizations and worship the god of flesh.
* The Fifth Church: Well... they worship stars and have an obsession with the number 5. It seems to be based partially on Scientology and New Age and other new religious movements and parody religions, but little is actually known about their beliefs, and what is known is mostly incomprehensible. Most of the other factions consider them to be a joke, although they once nearly destroyed reality by selling a book that gave readers reality warping powers at the cost of causing insanity. It has been theorized that the whole religion is actually is an interplanetary scam started by aliens.
* Doctor Wondertainment: Seem to be a company that produces supernatural toys for children, which usually are dangerous if they are not used properly. They often send their products to the Foundation as gifts. For some reason they also created a line of anomalous humanoids called the Little Misters that they challenge the Foundation to collect.
* Are We Cool Yet?: A organization of artists/terrorists with a twisted sense of humor that produces dangerous pieces of anomalous artwork for laughs or for making political statements. Things like paintings that drive people that look at them insane.
* Gamers Against Weed (GAW): Anomalous Internet Memes & the like. Love taking the piss out of the other GoIs; split off from AWCY? at least partly because they found the idea of murder problematic, and believing your own bullshit stupid. Usually used as comic relief.
* Marshal, Carter, and Dark Ltd.: An occult business that collects anomalies to sell to anyone for the right price.
* Manna Charitable Foundation: An organization that tries to exploit anomalies for humanitarian purposes, often with disastrous results. The road to hell...
* Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting: A circus that travels between dimensions to put on their shows and recruit more freaks. The Circus tends to be a refuge for the truly strange. Herman was overthrown and it's now lead by a pair of lesbian clown monsters.
* Shark Punching Center: Began as a joke for mocking people who misspelled SCP as SPC. The SPC is a completely insane version of the Foundation from another universe that is dedicated entirely to protecting the world from selachian (shark) entities by punching them. They do a pretty good job.
* SAPPHIRE: An organization of militant atheists who seek to destroy all religions by anomalous means even while being in total denial of the existence of the anomalous. All the other factions think they are insane.
* ☽☽☽: In an alternate timeline, the earth was saved from destruction by being teleported into an afterlife known as Corbenic and became a third moon. From there, the people of that earth work to try to save other versions of earth from going down the same path that to their destruction.

And those are just some of the major ones that appear on the English version of the SCP website. Writers on other language versions of the website have come up with tons more.

== Drama ==
When you get a group of people to do something together, drama is inevitable. The SCP community has a number of big-names calling the shots, and what they say goes. They set the tone for what's allowed and what's not, and if you piss off the wrong person for a trivial thing or hurt someone's massive over-inflated ego, you can expect your stay on the website to be short. They are no stranger to massive internal strife either; fights between the big boys resulted in a lot of content being discarded at one point. It kind of mirrors [[TVTropes]]: the front end has a lot of nice reading but the community side is a dumpster fire of misery, egos and dicks. We do not prefer to give examples, but utterly retarded articles written by a newcomer cute girl may stay a lot while longer than they should (and any criticism thereof will result in a ban until someone with clout does something).

Early forms of alleged [[SJW]]ism have also started to surface, with articles spotting unusual genders without them being played for horror, or commented upon at all for that matter. Given a lot of SCPs are frequently not of this Earth/dimension/etc., there's at least SOME reasoning for it.

Furthermore, as the community around the SCP Wiki has evolved over time, the tone of the works has shifted. In the first few years of the wiki, there was more of an inclusion of levity and humor, especially in regards to test logs and the antics of senior staffers. Over time the wiki has included less and less of this, as the community broadened and namefags or otherwise notable contributors left, taking their influences and in-universe characters with them. Circa 2018, the wiki is redoubling its efforts to be purely clinical horror, with fewer jokes (for better or worse).

(That being said, there's still room for somewhat "silly" SCPs, you just have to make them the product of an appropriate silly person or group, and make sure to (A) write it up clinically and (B) have something interesting besides the joke. See, for reference, the products of the group "Gamers Against Weed".)

==See also==

* [[Delta Green]] - The closest thing to a SCP game made.
* Roblox - Where many 12 years coalesce to build edgy SCP communities

[[Category:Not related]]

Webcomics

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'''Webcomics''' are comics on the Internet.

Well, that was easy. Why does /tg/ care, then?

Because a whole host of webcomics are inspired by, written for, or are loved by the vast majority of /tg/. Below is a list of /tg/-related and -approved webcomics.

==Directly Related==

*'''[http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/ Bok the Neutral]:''' A webcomic about a True Neutral half-orc bard adventuring with a man who thinks that he is a fallen paladin and a dryad in a fantasy world created by one of our own drawfags, Mr.Culexus.

*'''[http://mozai.com/BooneQuest/ Boone Quest]:''' an illustrated quest thread that plays like a [[Dark Heresy]] solo adventure starring [[Boone|Alice Boone]]. Mr.Culexus again.

*'''[http://www.btbcomic.com/ By The Book]:''' D&D starter monsters decide to become Adventurers. The premise is similar to [http://www.goblinscomic.com Goblins] but BTB has a much lighter tone. The latest updates also include stats to use the characters in your campaign.

*'''[http://cardboard-crack.com Cardboard Crack]:''' A [[Magic: The Gathering]] webcomic.

*'''[http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/ Cases of the Hives]:''', [[drawfag|fukken Coolexus]]. A noir-like webcomic where an Arbites and a Magos investigate murders in a hive city.

*'''[http://chrysalis.thecomicseries.com/ Chrysalis]:''' A short-lived [[Changeling: The Dreaming]] webcomic. Dead.

*'''[http://darealwurld40k.deviantart.com/gallery/ Da Real Wurld 40k]:''' Da Real Wurld 40k was a webcomic that mixed a variety of sitcoms and reality TV shows with Warhammer 40,000. Hasn't updated in a long time.

*'''[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/ Darths And Droids]:''' In this webcomic, Star Wars doesn't exist as a movie franchise but is an RPG. Each comic is a series of screen caps from the DVDs, starting first with the prequels then moving on to the original trilogy, with a variety of tips and tricks for beginning GMs . Beware, legions of /tg/: hilarity will ensue.

*'''[http://thisis.delvecomic.com/NewWP/comic/in-too-deep/ Delve]''' One Elf, One Dungeon, Even Odds. NSFW but nice plot twists and likeable characters.

*'''[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 DM of the Rings]:''' The inspiration for Darths and Droids, this webcomic depicts the Fellowship of the Ring as a D&D party, using stills from the movie adaptations of the three films as a backdrop for the story. The ending was resolved some years ago, though it is very much worth the read regardless.

*'''[[Eagle Ordinary]]:''' A webcomic about a ragtag squad of guardsmen and their squeamish (junior) commissar as they battle Tau, heretical tech-priests, and the nefarious plans of a Rogue Trader. Uses an [[Only War]] campaign the creators once played as the script.

*'''[http://eatatau.smackjeeves.com/ EATATAU!]:''' Popular on the [[Advanced Tau Tactica]] forums, EATATAU is a finished webcomic about the [[Tau Empire]], although the dialogue is frequently incomprehensible, due to a poor translation from Spanish to English. Depending on your thoughts on the Tau, it's either awesome or terrible, but in either case, it's very [[weeaboo]].

*'''[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2003-09-29/comic/meet-the-crew/dirty-harry/ Exterminatus Now]:''' Combines Warhammer 40K with [[Furries]] in the art style of Sonic the Hedgehog. Way better than it sounds. Concluded.

*'''[http://www.goblinscomic.com Goblins]:''' A D&D setting but where the main party is a bunch of genre-savvy goblins instead of the typical humans-and-similar. Has a lotta people being dramatically sad. Though the comic has some enjoyable parts it also has some serious problems. It is still worth giving a try but be warned that it is major [[Skub]].

*'''[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/ Irregular Webcomic]''': Whether this is worth recommending is an open question; but there's no question but that the "Fantasy" and "Science Fiction" storylines are both joke tabletop RPG campaigns, making this fairly "directly related". On the more positive side, this aspect led into the author, with his friends, starting up "Darths and Droids".

*'''[[Love Can Bloom]]:''' Not a full webcomic but rather the one-off product of a [[drawfag]], the single strip Love Can Bloom spawned one of the most well-known pieces of writefaggotry on /tg/.

*'''[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/monsters-can-be-heroes-too/list?title_no=281278 Monsters Can Be Heroes Too!]:''' The misadventures of a party of adorable monsters, lead by Coal, the world's cutest [[Kobold]]. Currently on hiatus due to the artist having financial difficulty.

*'''[http://morphe.thewebcomic.com/ morphE]:''' An interactive [[Mage: The Awakening]] webcomic. Concluded.

*'''[[Order of the Stick]]:''' started as a gag-a-day D&D satire, its turned into something epic. The artwork is deceptively simple vectored stick-figures. It's also one of the most popular webcomics of any genre, so mentioning it on /tg/ might [[skub|get a reaction]].

*'''[http://www.princeofsartar.com/ Prince of Sartar]:''' A graphic adaption of [[Glorantha|King of Sartar]].

*'''[http://www.flashgitz.net/?latestcomic Regular Marine]:''' - Brought to you by the guys who gave you [[Kaldor Draigo]]'s warp dust addiction and the [[Space Hulk]] trainwrecks. Focuses on the last two marines from one of the missing [[Primarchs]]' chapters as they try to stay alive in a messed-up universe. They also manage to drag an under-appreciated [[Night Lords|Night Lord]] with a Tyranid fetish along for the ride as well. Currently on hold.

*'''[https://www.warhammer-community.com/roll-models/ Roll Models]:''' An [[Age of Sigmar]] webcomic on Warhammer Community site about two hopelessly inept [[Stormcast Eternals|Sigmarines]], their random humie friend...and the things that happen behind the scenes (read: on the tabletop). Pretty much like Turn Signals on a Land Raider (see below) but without the blatantly meta nature to the parodic elements.

*'''[[Servants of the Imperium]]:''' A relative newcomer, SotI is basically Order of the Stick in the Warhammer 40,000 universe (specifically [[Dark Heresy]]). It is finished.

*'''[[Slut Patrol]]:''' A short-lived but nonetheless well-loved webcomic, Slut Patrol was (yet another) Warhammer 40k comic (albeit with a notably more realistic art style).

*'''[http://tyrantwache.deviantart.com/gallery/673428 A Space Marine Life]:''' A webcomic about a Warhammer 40,000 [[Mary Sue|fan-girl]] suddenly finding herself in the Warhammer 40k universe.

*'''[http://starcrossed.webcomic.ws/comics/ Starcrossed]:''' A webcomic set in [[Ravenloft]]. Follows the adventures of a souragnien cleric of Ezra who is forced escape to Dementlieu. Dead.

*'''[http://tabletitans.com/ Table Titans]:''' Webcomic by the creator of PVP (that also originated as a spinoff of it) about the titular party of gamers and their game. It's [[Wizards of the Coast|Wizards]]-endorsed, though, so be forewarned.

*'''[http://tsoalr.com/ Turn Signals on a Land Raider] [https://www.warhammer-community.com/tsoalr/ (the new version)]:''' Considered by many to be the definitive [[Warhammer 40,000]] webcomic, TSoaLR is a series of vignettes related to the game. Fortunately, after a long hiatus, the comic appears to be back on track...and then it ended. And now it's coming back ''again''! This time with the support of GW itself and a place on the Warhammer Community website.

*'''[http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/ Verloren Hoop]:''' chronicling a Dark Hersey game where survivors from a Valkyrie crash go on to investigate a mysterious drug in a hive for the inquisition. Coolexus again.

*'''[[Witch Girls Adventures]]:''' an [[RPG]] system and accompanying webcomic that's basically a ripoff of Harry Potter.

*'''[http://www.wobblymodelsyndrome.com/ Wobbly Model Syndrome]:''' cheap ways to poke fun at the universe of 40K, from the [[Tyranids]]' lack of allies to how much irony the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] set himself up with. Concluded.

*'''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160225013911/http://space-wolves-grey.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/wolf-sister.html?m=1/ Wolf And Sister]:''' Space Corgi and SoB adventures. Concluded. Webarch is a but finicky, if something doesn't work, run from index. Everything IS there and operational.

*'''[http://yafgc.net/ Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]:''' b/w uninked, where most of the main characters are the monsters in a dungeon-romp dungeon. It updates quite regularly and has been around for years, so its pretty long. It is clearly based off dungeons and dragons. Contains some nudity.

*'''[https://www.warhammer-community.com/vhane-glorious/ Vhane Glorious: Heroism Gone Rogue]''': A webcomic by the people of the Warhammer Community website, written by the authors of the Regimental Standard and illustrated by the same artist behind Eagle Ordinary. Follows the adventures of Buck Vhane, the dashing yet useless brother/cousin/nephew (nobody's entirely certain) of [[Rogue Trader]] Elucia Vhane.

*'''[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/1hp-club/list?title_no=220318/ 1HP CLUB]''': Daily life of dungeon boys. A webcomic based on a real dnd campaign. Beware the anime.

==Approved==
*'''[http://drmcninja.com/ The Adventure of Doctor McNinja]''': A ninja that is also a doctor who fights various bizarre threats. (Concluded)

*'''[[Axe-Cop]]''': A webcomic written by a kid, drawn by a pro. Exceptionally awesome!

*'''[http://doublek.thewebcomic.com/ Double K]:''' What [[Anime|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] would be like if it were a buddy cop show. Hell yes. Only here because /tg/ loves TTGL more than they let on.

*'''[http://www.egscomics.com/ El Goonish Shive]:''' You want to run an [[Urban Fantasy]] campaign using high-schoolers? Here's a pretty good model, if you can ignore the low quality of the art for the first few years and the tendency to meander in such a way that a party happening over a single night can take a year worth of strips to get through. On the plus side, a later arc is about a I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Magic-The-Gathering Tournament, making it more directly relevant.

*'''[http://www.mspaintadventures.com MS Paint Adventures]:''' Specifically [[Homestuck]]. Reads like an illustrated quest thread but raises the bar to the stratosphere. It has been a runaway popular success, so expect [[skub|strong opinions about it]].

*'''[[Oglaf]]''': A comical NSFW fantasy comic. High-larious. Updates Sundays. Unlike other successful webcomics, this one won't start a fight because sometimes it has hardcore fucking and nobody doesn't like fucking.

*'''[http://pbfcomics.com/ Perry Bible Fellowship]:''' A surrealist webcomic of one-off strips, PBF is mostly famous on /tg/ for inventing the words [[weeaboo]] and [[skub]].

*'''[[Poppy O'Possum]]:''' Originally started as a plot to a beat-em-up game, before eventually becoming a webcomic. Follows the life of an [[Furry|anthropomorphic possum]] starting a new life in a new land.

*'''[http://www.prequeladventure.com Prequel Adventure]:''' Mainly known as ''Making a Cat Cry: The Webcomic'', Prequel focuses on a Khajiit girl in the [[The Elder Scrolls|Elder Scrolls universe]]. It is a forum-driven adventure in the MSPA style, but incorporates a lot from Oblivion, and genre-savvy roleplayers keep the comic more /tg/-related than [[/v/|Obli/v/ion]] related.

*'''[http://www.sssscomic.com/ Stand Still. Stay Silent.]:''' [[Stand Still Stay Silent: The RPG|We tried to make an RPG based on it.]]

*'''[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/ Unsounded]:''' 19th century-like fantasy setting, top-tier art, grim, but not grimderp story and sticks to a regular update schedule.

*'''[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-11-29 Schlock Mercenary]:''' Schlock Mercenary can be be called "Xeelee Sequence but [[noblebright]]". Notable Schlock had a VERY rough art style at first, hence the link to the middle of the comic's run the creator him self recommends.

==Mentioned==
*'''[http://flyingdevastator.deviantart.com/ Rogue Trader - Rites of Flight]:'''(currently being edited).

*'''[http://olivil.imgur.com/ Tails Gets Trolled]:''' so [[Fail|horrible]] it wraps around back to amusing. Source of [[meme]]s.

==Shunned (if not outright hated)==
*'''[[Drowtales]]:''' Skub. Read the page for more info.

*'''[[Goblin#Goblins (The Webcomic)|Goblins]]:''' Same as above.

*'''[[Chris-Chan|Sonichu]]''' (''did you expect less???'')

[[Category:Not related]] [[Category:Approved Media]][[Category:Webcomics]]

Webcomics

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'''Webcomics''' are comics on the Internet.

Well, that was easy. Why does /tg/ care, then?

Because a whole host of webcomics are inspired by, written for, or are loved by the vast majority of /tg/. Below is a list of /tg/-related and -approved webcomics.

==Directly Related==

*'''[http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/ Bok the Neutral]:''' A webcomic about a True Neutral half-orc bard adventuring with a man who thinks that he is a fallen paladin and a dryad in a fantasy world created by one of our own drawfags, Mr.Culexus.

*'''[http://mozai.com/BooneQuest/ Boone Quest]:''' an illustrated quest thread that plays like a [[Dark Heresy]] solo adventure starring [[Boone|Alice Boone]]. Mr.Culexus again.

*'''[http://www.btbcomic.com/ By The Book]:''' D&D starter monsters decide to become Adventurers. The premise is similar to [http://www.goblinscomic.com Goblins] but BTB has a much lighter tone. The latest updates also include stats to use the characters in your campaign.

*'''[http://cardboard-crack.com Cardboard Crack]:''' A [[Magic: The Gathering]] webcomic.

*'''[http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/ Cases of the Hives]:''', [[drawfag|fukken Coolexus]]. A noir-like webcomic where an Arbites and a Magos investigate murders in a hive city.

*'''[http://chrysalis.thecomicseries.com/ Chrysalis]:''' A short-lived [[Changeling: The Dreaming]] webcomic. Dead.

*'''[http://darealwurld40k.deviantart.com/gallery/ Da Real Wurld 40k]:''' Da Real Wurld 40k was a webcomic that mixed a variety of sitcoms and reality TV shows with Warhammer 40,000. Hasn't updated in a long time.

*'''[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/ Darths And Droids]:''' In this webcomic, Star Wars doesn't exist as a movie franchise but is an RPG. Each comic is a series of screen caps from the DVDs, starting first with the prequels then moving on to the original trilogy, with a variety of tips and tricks for beginning GMs . Beware, legions of /tg/: hilarity will ensue.

*'''[http://thisis.delvecomic.com/NewWP/comic/in-too-deep/ Delve]''' One Elf, One Dungeon, Even Odds. NSFW but nice plot twists and likeable characters.

*'''[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 DM of the Rings]:''' The inspiration for Darths and Droids, this webcomic depicts the Fellowship of the Ring as a D&D party, using stills from the movie adaptations of the three films as a backdrop for the story. The ending was resolved some years ago, though it is very much worth the read regardless.

*'''[[Eagle Ordinary]]:''' A webcomic about a ragtag squad of guardsmen and their squeamish (junior) commissar as they battle Tau, heretical tech-priests, and the nefarious plans of a Rogue Trader. Uses an [[Only War]] campaign the creators once played as the script.

*'''[http://eatatau.smackjeeves.com/ EATATAU!]:''' Popular on the [[Advanced Tau Tactica]] forums, EATATAU is a finished webcomic about the [[Tau Empire]], although the dialogue is frequently incomprehensible, due to a poor translation from Spanish to English. Depending on your thoughts on the Tau, it's either awesome or terrible, but in either case, it's very [[weeaboo]].

*'''[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2003-09-29/comic/meet-the-crew/dirty-harry/ Exterminatus Now]:''' Combines Warhammer 40K with [[Furries]] in the art style of Sonic the Hedgehog. Way better than it sounds. Concluded.

*'''[http://www.goblinscomic.com Goblins]:''' A D&D setting but where the main party is a bunch of genre-savvy goblins instead of the typical humans-and-similar. Has a lotta people being dramatically sad. Though the comic has some enjoyable parts it also has some serious problems. It is still worth giving a try but be warned that it is major [[Skub]].

*'''[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/ Irregular Webcomic]''': Whether this is worth recommending is an open question; but there's no question but that the "Fantasy" and "Science Fiction" storylines are both joke tabletop RPG campaigns, making this fairly "directly related". On the more positive side, this aspect led into the author, with his friends, starting up "Darths and Droids".

*'''[[Love Can Bloom]]:''' Not a full webcomic but rather the one-off product of a [[drawfag]], the single strip Love Can Bloom spawned one of the most well-known pieces of writefaggotry on /tg/.

*'''[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/monsters-can-be-heroes-too/list?title_no=281278 Monsters Can Be Heroes Too]:''' The misadventures of a party of adorable monsters, lead by Coal, the world's cutest [[Kobold]]. Currently on hiatus due to the artist having financial difficulty.

*'''[http://morphe.thewebcomic.com/ morphE]:''' An interactive [[Mage: The Awakening]] webcomic. Concluded.

*'''[[Order of the Stick]]:''' started as a gag-a-day D&D satire, its turned into something epic. The artwork is deceptively simple vectored stick-figures. It's also one of the most popular webcomics of any genre, so mentioning it on /tg/ might [[skub|get a reaction]].

*'''[http://www.princeofsartar.com/ Prince of Sartar]:''' A graphic adaption of [[Glorantha|King of Sartar]].

*'''[http://www.flashgitz.net/?latestcomic Regular Marine]:''' - Brought to you by the guys who gave you [[Kaldor Draigo]]'s warp dust addiction and the [[Space Hulk]] trainwrecks. Focuses on the last two marines from one of the missing [[Primarchs]]' chapters as they try to stay alive in a messed-up universe. They also manage to drag an under-appreciated [[Night Lords|Night Lord]] with a Tyranid fetish along for the ride as well. Currently on hold.

*'''[https://www.warhammer-community.com/roll-models/ Roll Models]:''' An [[Age of Sigmar]] webcomic on Warhammer Community site about two hopelessly inept [[Stormcast Eternals|Sigmarines]], their random humie friend...and the things that happen behind the scenes (read: on the tabletop). Pretty much like Turn Signals on a Land Raider (see below) but without the blatantly meta nature to the parodic elements.

*'''[[Servants of the Imperium]]:''' A relative newcomer, SotI is basically Order of the Stick in the Warhammer 40,000 universe (specifically [[Dark Heresy]]). It is finished.

*'''[[Slut Patrol]]:''' A short-lived but nonetheless well-loved webcomic, Slut Patrol was (yet another) Warhammer 40k comic (albeit with a notably more realistic art style).

*'''[http://tyrantwache.deviantart.com/gallery/673428 A Space Marine Life]:''' A webcomic about a Warhammer 40,000 [[Mary Sue|fan-girl]] suddenly finding herself in the Warhammer 40k universe.

*'''[http://starcrossed.webcomic.ws/comics/ Starcrossed]:''' A webcomic set in [[Ravenloft]]. Follows the adventures of a souragnien cleric of Ezra who is forced escape to Dementlieu. Dead.

*'''[http://tabletitans.com/ Table Titans]:''' Webcomic by the creator of PVP (that also originated as a spinoff of it) about the titular party of gamers and their game. It's [[Wizards of the Coast|Wizards]]-endorsed, though, so be forewarned.

*'''[http://tsoalr.com/ Turn Signals on a Land Raider] [https://www.warhammer-community.com/tsoalr/ (the new version)]:''' Considered by many to be the definitive [[Warhammer 40,000]] webcomic, TSoaLR is a series of vignettes related to the game. Fortunately, after a long hiatus, the comic appears to be back on track...and then it ended. And now it's coming back ''again''! This time with the support of GW itself and a place on the Warhammer Community website.

*'''[http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/ Verloren Hoop]:''' chronicling a Dark Hersey game where survivors from a Valkyrie crash go on to investigate a mysterious drug in a hive for the inquisition. Coolexus again.

*'''[[Witch Girls Adventures]]:''' an [[RPG]] system and accompanying webcomic that's basically a ripoff of Harry Potter.

*'''[http://www.wobblymodelsyndrome.com/ Wobbly Model Syndrome]:''' cheap ways to poke fun at the universe of 40K, from the [[Tyranids]]' lack of allies to how much irony the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] set himself up with. Concluded.

*'''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160225013911/http://space-wolves-grey.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/wolf-sister.html?m=1/ Wolf And Sister]:''' Space Corgi and SoB adventures. Concluded. Webarch is a but finicky, if something doesn't work, run from index. Everything IS there and operational.

*'''[http://yafgc.net/ Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]:''' b/w uninked, where most of the main characters are the monsters in a dungeon-romp dungeon. It updates quite regularly and has been around for years, so its pretty long. It is clearly based off dungeons and dragons. Contains some nudity.

*'''[https://www.warhammer-community.com/vhane-glorious/ Vhane Glorious: Heroism Gone Rogue]''': A webcomic by the people of the Warhammer Community website, written by the authors of the Regimental Standard and illustrated by the same artist behind Eagle Ordinary. Follows the adventures of Buck Vhane, the dashing yet useless brother/cousin/nephew (nobody's entirely certain) of [[Rogue Trader]] Elucia Vhane.

*'''[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/1hp-club/list?title_no=220318/ 1HP CLUB]''': Daily life of dungeon boys. A webcomic based on a real dnd campaign. Beware the anime.

==Approved==
*'''[http://drmcninja.com/ The Adventure of Doctor McNinja]''': A ninja that is also a doctor who fights various bizarre threats. (Concluded)

*'''[[Axe-Cop]]''': A webcomic written by a kid, drawn by a pro. Exceptionally awesome!

*'''[http://doublek.thewebcomic.com/ Double K]:''' What [[Anime|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] would be like if it were a buddy cop show. Hell yes. Only here because /tg/ loves TTGL more than they let on.

*'''[http://www.egscomics.com/ El Goonish Shive]:''' You want to run an [[Urban Fantasy]] campaign using high-schoolers? Here's a pretty good model, if you can ignore the low quality of the art for the first few years and the tendency to meander in such a way that a party happening over a single night can take a year worth of strips to get through. On the plus side, a later arc is about a I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Magic-The-Gathering Tournament, making it more directly relevant.

*'''[http://www.mspaintadventures.com MS Paint Adventures]:''' Specifically [[Homestuck]]. Reads like an illustrated quest thread but raises the bar to the stratosphere. It has been a runaway popular success, so expect [[skub|strong opinions about it]].

*'''[[Oglaf]]''': A comical NSFW fantasy comic. High-larious. Updates Sundays. Unlike other successful webcomics, this one won't start a fight because sometimes it has hardcore fucking and nobody doesn't like fucking.

*'''[http://pbfcomics.com/ Perry Bible Fellowship]:''' A surrealist webcomic of one-off strips, PBF is mostly famous on /tg/ for inventing the words [[weeaboo]] and [[skub]].

*'''[[Poppy O'Possum]]:''' Originally started as a plot to a beat-em-up game, before eventually becoming a webcomic. Follows the life of an [[Furry|anthropomorphic possum]] starting a new life in a new land.

*'''[http://www.prequeladventure.com Prequel Adventure]:''' Mainly known as ''Making a Cat Cry: The Webcomic'', Prequel focuses on a Khajiit girl in the [[The Elder Scrolls|Elder Scrolls universe]]. It is a forum-driven adventure in the MSPA style, but incorporates a lot from Oblivion, and genre-savvy roleplayers keep the comic more /tg/-related than [[/v/|Obli/v/ion]] related.

*'''[http://www.sssscomic.com/ Stand Still. Stay Silent.]:''' [[Stand Still Stay Silent: The RPG|We tried to make an RPG based on it.]]

*'''[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/ Unsounded]:''' 19th century-like fantasy setting, top-tier art, grim, but not grimderp story and sticks to a regular update schedule.

*'''[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-11-29 Schlock Mercenary]:''' Schlock Mercenary can be be called "Xeelee Sequence but [[noblebright]]". Notable Schlock had a VERY rough art style at first, hence the link to the middle of the comic's run the creator him self recommends.

==Mentioned==
*'''[http://flyingdevastator.deviantart.com/ Rogue Trader - Rites of Flight]:'''(currently being edited).

*'''[http://olivil.imgur.com/ Tails Gets Trolled]:''' so [[Fail|horrible]] it wraps around back to amusing. Source of [[meme]]s.

==Shunned (if not outright hated)==
*'''[[Drowtales]]:''' Skub. Read the page for more info.

*'''[[Goblin#Goblins (The Webcomic)|Goblins]]:''' Same as above.

*'''[[Chris-Chan|Sonichu]]''' (''did you expect less???'')

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Webcomics

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'''Webcomics''' are comics on the Internet.

Well, that was easy. Why does /tg/ care, then?

Because a whole host of webcomics are inspired by, written for, or are loved by the vast majority of /tg/. Below is a list of /tg/-related and -approved webcomics.

==Directly Related==

*'''[http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/ Bok the Neutral]:''' A webcomic about a True Neutral half-orc bard adventuring with a man who thinks that he is a fallen paladin and a dryad in a fantasy world created by one of our own drawfags, Mr.Culexus.

*'''[http://mozai.com/BooneQuest/ Boone Quest]:''' an illustrated quest thread that plays like a [[Dark Heresy]] solo adventure starring [[Boone|Alice Boone]]. Mr.Culexus again.

*'''[http://www.btbcomic.com/ By The Book]:''' D&D starter monsters decide to become Adventurers. The premise is similar to [http://www.goblinscomic.com Goblins] but BTB has a much lighter tone. The latest updates also include stats to use the characters in your campaign.

*'''[http://cardboard-crack.com Cardboard Crack]:''' A [[Magic: The Gathering]] webcomic.

*'''[http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/ Cases of the Hives]:''', [[drawfag|fukken Coolexus]]. A noir-like webcomic where an Arbites and a Magos investigate murders in a hive city.

*'''[http://chrysalis.thecomicseries.com/ Chrysalis]:''' A short-lived [[Changeling: The Dreaming]] webcomic. Dead.

*'''[http://darealwurld40k.deviantart.com/gallery/ Da Real Wurld 40k]:''' Da Real Wurld 40k was a webcomic that mixed a variety of sitcoms and reality TV shows with Warhammer 40,000. Hasn't updated in a long time.

*'''[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/ Darths And Droids]:''' In this webcomic, Star Wars doesn't exist as a movie franchise but is an RPG. Each comic is a series of screen caps from the DVDs, starting first with the prequels then moving on to the original trilogy, with a variety of tips and tricks for beginning GMs . Beware, legions of /tg/: hilarity will ensue.

*'''[http://thisis.delvecomic.com/NewWP/comic/in-too-deep/ Delve]''' One Elf, One Dungeon, Even Odds. NSFW but nice plot twists and likeable characters.

*'''[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 DM of the Rings]:''' The inspiration for Darths and Droids, this webcomic depicts the Fellowship of the Ring as a D&D party, using stills from the movie adaptations of the three films as a backdrop for the story. The ending was resolved some years ago, though it is very much worth the read regardless.

*'''[[Eagle Ordinary]]:''' A webcomic about a ragtag squad of guardsmen and their squeamish (junior) commissar as they battle Tau, heretical tech-priests, and the nefarious plans of a Rogue Trader. Uses an [[Only War]] campaign the creators once played as the script.

*'''[http://eatatau.smackjeeves.com/ EATATAU!]:''' Popular on the [[Advanced Tau Tactica]] forums, EATATAU is a finished webcomic about the [[Tau Empire]], although the dialogue is frequently incomprehensible, due to a poor translation from Spanish to English. Depending on your thoughts on the Tau, it's either awesome or terrible, but in either case, it's very [[weeaboo]].

*'''[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2003-09-29/comic/meet-the-crew/dirty-harry/ Exterminatus Now]:''' Combines Warhammer 40K with [[Furries]] in the art style of Sonic the Hedgehog. Way better than it sounds. Concluded.

*'''[http://www.goblinscomic.com Goblins]:''' A D&D setting but where the main party is a bunch of genre-savvy goblins instead of the typical humans-and-similar. Has a lotta people being dramatically sad. Though the comic has some enjoyable parts it also has some serious problems. It is still worth giving a try but be warned that it is major [[Skub]].

*'''[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/ Irregular Webcomic]''': Whether this is worth recommending is an open question; but there's no question but that the "Fantasy" and "Science Fiction" storylines are both joke tabletop RPG campaigns, making this fairly "directly related". On the more positive side, this aspect led into the author, with his friends, starting up "Darths and Droids".

*'''[[Love Can Bloom]]:''' Not a full webcomic but rather the one-off product of a [[drawfag]], the single strip Love Can Bloom spawned one of the most well-known pieces of writefaggotry on /tg/.

*'''[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/monsters-can-be-heroes-too/list?title_no=281278 Monsters Can Be Heroes Too]:''' The misadventures of a party of adorable monsters, lead by Coal, the worlds cutest [[Kobold]]. Currently on hiatus due to the artist having financial difficulty.

*'''[http://morphe.thewebcomic.com/ morphE]:''' An interactive [[Mage: The Awakening]] webcomic. Concluded.

*'''[[Order of the Stick]]:''' started as a gag-a-day D&D satire, its turned into something epic. The artwork is deceptively simple vectored stick-figures. It's also one of the most popular webcomics of any genre, so mentioning it on /tg/ might [[skub|get a reaction]].

*'''[http://www.princeofsartar.com/ Prince of Sartar]:''' A graphic adaption of [[Glorantha|King of Sartar]].

*'''[http://www.flashgitz.net/?latestcomic Regular Marine]:''' - Brought to you by the guys who gave you [[Kaldor Draigo]]'s warp dust addiction and the [[Space Hulk]] trainwrecks. Focuses on the last two marines from one of the missing [[Primarchs]]' chapters as they try to stay alive in a messed-up universe. They also manage to drag an under-appreciated [[Night Lords|Night Lord]] with a Tyranid fetish along for the ride as well. Currently on hold.

*'''[https://www.warhammer-community.com/roll-models/ Roll Models]:''' An [[Age of Sigmar]] webcomic on Warhammer Community site about two hopelessly inept [[Stormcast Eternals|Sigmarines]], their random humie friend...and the things that happen behind the scenes (read: on the tabletop). Pretty much like Turn Signals on a Land Raider (see below) but without the blatantly meta nature to the parodic elements.

*'''[[Servants of the Imperium]]:''' A relative newcomer, SotI is basically Order of the Stick in the Warhammer 40,000 universe (specifically [[Dark Heresy]]). It is finished.

*'''[[Slut Patrol]]:''' A short-lived but nonetheless well-loved webcomic, Slut Patrol was (yet another) Warhammer 40k comic (albeit with a notably more realistic art style).

*'''[http://tyrantwache.deviantart.com/gallery/673428 A Space Marine Life]:''' A webcomic about a Warhammer 40,000 [[Mary Sue|fan-girl]] suddenly finding herself in the Warhammer 40k universe.

*'''[http://starcrossed.webcomic.ws/comics/ Starcrossed]:''' A webcomic set in [[Ravenloft]]. Follows the adventures of a souragnien cleric of Ezra who is forced escape to Dementlieu. Dead.

*'''[http://tabletitans.com/ Table Titans]:''' Webcomic by the creator of PVP (that also originated as a spinoff of it) about the titular party of gamers and their game. It's [[Wizards of the Coast|Wizards]]-endorsed, though, so be forewarned.

*'''[http://tsoalr.com/ Turn Signals on a Land Raider] [https://www.warhammer-community.com/tsoalr/ (the new version)]:''' Considered by many to be the definitive [[Warhammer 40,000]] webcomic, TSoaLR is a series of vignettes related to the game. Fortunately, after a long hiatus, the comic appears to be back on track...and then it ended. And now it's coming back ''again''! This time with the support of GW itself and a place on the Warhammer Community website.

*'''[http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/ Verloren Hoop]:''' chronicling a Dark Hersey game where survivors from a Valkyrie crash go on to investigate a mysterious drug in a hive for the inquisition. Coolexus again.

*'''[[Witch Girls Adventures]]:''' an [[RPG]] system and accompanying webcomic that's basically a ripoff of Harry Potter.

*'''[http://www.wobblymodelsyndrome.com/ Wobbly Model Syndrome]:''' cheap ways to poke fun at the universe of 40K, from the [[Tyranids]]' lack of allies to how much irony the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] set himself up with. Concluded.

*'''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160225013911/http://space-wolves-grey.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/wolf-sister.html?m=1/ Wolf And Sister]:''' Space Corgi and SoB adventures. Concluded. Webarch is a but finicky, if something doesn't work, run from index. Everything IS there and operational.

*'''[http://yafgc.net/ Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]:''' b/w uninked, where most of the main characters are the monsters in a dungeon-romp dungeon. It updates quite regularly and has been around for years, so its pretty long. It is clearly based off dungeons and dragons. Contains some nudity.

*'''[https://www.warhammer-community.com/vhane-glorious/ Vhane Glorious: Heroism Gone Rogue]''': A webcomic by the people of the Warhammer Community website, written by the authors of the Regimental Standard and illustrated by the same artist behind Eagle Ordinary. Follows the adventures of Buck Vhane, the dashing yet useless brother/cousin/nephew (nobody's entirely certain) of [[Rogue Trader]] Elucia Vhane.

*'''[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/1hp-club/list?title_no=220318/ 1HP CLUB]''': Daily life of dungeon boys. A webcomic based on a real dnd campaign. Beware the anime.

==Approved==
*'''[http://drmcninja.com/ The Adventure of Doctor McNinja]''': A ninja that is also a doctor who fights various bizarre threats. (Concluded)

*'''[[Axe-Cop]]''': A webcomic written by a kid, drawn by a pro. Exceptionally awesome!

*'''[http://doublek.thewebcomic.com/ Double K]:''' What [[Anime|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] would be like if it were a buddy cop show. Hell yes. Only here because /tg/ loves TTGL more than they let on.

*'''[http://www.egscomics.com/ El Goonish Shive]:''' You want to run an [[Urban Fantasy]] campaign using high-schoolers? Here's a pretty good model, if you can ignore the low quality of the art for the first few years and the tendency to meander in such a way that a party happening over a single night can take a year worth of strips to get through. On the plus side, a later arc is about a I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Magic-The-Gathering Tournament, making it more directly relevant.

*'''[http://www.mspaintadventures.com MS Paint Adventures]:''' Specifically [[Homestuck]]. Reads like an illustrated quest thread but raises the bar to the stratosphere. It has been a runaway popular success, so expect [[skub|strong opinions about it]].

*'''[[Oglaf]]''': A comical NSFW fantasy comic. High-larious. Updates Sundays. Unlike other successful webcomics, this one won't start a fight because sometimes it has hardcore fucking and nobody doesn't like fucking.

*'''[http://pbfcomics.com/ Perry Bible Fellowship]:''' A surrealist webcomic of one-off strips, PBF is mostly famous on /tg/ for inventing the words [[weeaboo]] and [[skub]].

*'''[[Poppy O'Possum]]:''' Originally started as a plot to a beat-em-up game, before eventually becoming a webcomic. Follows the life of an [[Furry|anthropomorphic possum]] starting a new life in a new land.

*'''[http://www.prequeladventure.com Prequel Adventure]:''' Mainly known as ''Making a Cat Cry: The Webcomic'', Prequel focuses on a Khajiit girl in the [[The Elder Scrolls|Elder Scrolls universe]]. It is a forum-driven adventure in the MSPA style, but incorporates a lot from Oblivion, and genre-savvy roleplayers keep the comic more /tg/-related than [[/v/|Obli/v/ion]] related.

*'''[http://www.sssscomic.com/ Stand Still. Stay Silent.]:''' [[Stand Still Stay Silent: The RPG|We tried to make an RPG based on it.]]

*'''[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/ Unsounded]:''' 19th century-like fantasy setting, top-tier art, grim, but not grimderp story and sticks to a regular update schedule.

*'''[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-11-29 Schlock Mercenary]:''' Schlock Mercenary can be be called "Xeelee Sequence but [[noblebright]]". Notable Schlock had a VERY rough art style at first, hence the link to the middle of the comic's run the creator him self recommends.

==Mentioned==
*'''[http://flyingdevastator.deviantart.com/ Rogue Trader - Rites of Flight]:'''(currently being edited).

*'''[http://olivil.imgur.com/ Tails Gets Trolled]:''' so [[Fail|horrible]] it wraps around back to amusing. Source of [[meme]]s.

==Shunned (if not outright hated)==
*'''[[Drowtales]]:''' Skub. Read the page for more info.

*'''[[Goblin#Goblins (The Webcomic)|Goblins]]:''' Same as above.

*'''[[Chris-Chan|Sonichu]]''' (''did you expect less???'')

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The Imperium of Man

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{{Infobox 40k Nations
|name=Imperium of Man
|image=[[Image:Imperium_Flag.jpg ‎|300px|center]]
|Capital=[[Holy Terra]]
|Official Languages= High Gothic (aka Latin), Low Gothic (aka English/French/German/Italian/Russian/Chinese/Literally Every Language) and its countless dialects, Binary and billions of minor and local languages
|Power=Galactic Superpower
|Size=Galactic but stretched thin More than 1 million to 10 million planets
|Head of State=[[Emperor of Mankind]]
|Head of Government=[[Roboute Guilliman|Lord Commander of the Imperium Roboute Guilliman]], [[High Lords of Terra]], [[Dante|Lord Regent of Imperium Nihilus Dante]]
|Governmental Structure=Unitary Atheistic Authoritarian Absolute Monarchy (''Great Crusade'') Feudal Totalitarian Theocratic Dictatorship (''Age of Apostasy'') Feudal Theocratic Authoritarian Confederated Oligarchy (''41st Millennium'') Unitary Authoritarian Semi-Theocratic Confederation (''42nd Millennium'')
|State Religion/Ideology=[[Imperial Truth|State Atheism]] (''Great Crusade'') [[Imperial Cult]] (''32nd Millennium onward'')
|Demographic=[[Humans]], [[Abhuman|Abhumans]], minor [[Xenos]] races, assorted Transhumans
|Military Force=[[Imperial Guard]], [[Space Marines]], [[Militarum Tempestus]], [[Sisters of Battle]], [[Inquisition]], [[Planetary Defense Force]]
}}
{{Topquote|What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?|Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2}}
{{Topquote|Great empires are not maintained by timidity.|Tacitus}}
{{Topquote|This bloated, rotten carcass of an empire is driven not by reason and hope, but by fear, hate and ignorance.|[[Roboute Guilliman]], who is [[Butthurt|not pleased]] by the [[Grimdark|actual state]] of the Imperium}}
[[File:Imperial Aquila.jpg|thumb|300px|left|The Aquila, the symbol of the Imperium and personal heraldry of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]]. Failing to show proper reverence to the Aquila is [[heresy]] punishable by *BLAM*ing. The two heads represent looking towards the future while being [[Imperial Truth|blind towards the mistakes of the past]], while the two heads and differing feet represent the Terra-Mars alliance.]]
The '''Imperium of Man''' (Lat.: '''IMPERIVM HVMANVM''' or '''IMPERIVM HOMINIS''') is a gigantic, galaxy-spanning Civilization (to give you an idea of how truly massive this empire is, the most conservative estimates place its population at four quadrillion. Estimates that take into account the huge number of what are essentially [[Hive|cramped apartment-building planets]]? Now we're talking upwards of FORTY quadrillion. Oh, and this is not counting planets they have lost track of due to various heresies and other catastrophies, not to mention the general incompetence of those [[Administratum|blasted pencil-push]]{{BLAM}}) that contains the vast majority of humanity in the tabletop game ''[[Warhammer 40K]]''. It is often stereotyped in popular media as a xenophobic, amoral, gargantuan, militaristic, merciless, stratified, theocratic, [[Paranoia|paranoid, dystopian, totalitarian]], semi-police state and hellishly oligarchical bureaucracy. Why this is called 'stereotypical' to begin with is questionable though since it's absolutely fucking true{{BLAM}} Think of a hideous amalgamation of the [[Roman Empire]] including Byzantine Era with its sheer amount of scheming and administrative stupidity, pre-Reformation Catholic Church, [[Nazi|Nazi Germany]], Imperial Japan, Soviet Russia and George Orwell's ''[[1984]]'' spread out across the stars, under constant attack by aliens and subject to countless [[Chaos|disasters]] everyday. Add in the fanatical worship of a [[Emperor|dead dictator]] and it's basically North Korea IN SPEHSS (but somehow fucking works).

However, this is what [[GW]] ''wants you to think''; in all retrospective outside of the popular perspective, the Imperium of Man can actually be a pretty nice place to live depending on where you actually live... although GW description does apply to Death Worlds, some Hive Worlds and the Imperium as a whole. Sure, there are shit-holes like Catachan, but because of its size and extreme variety, you also have a higher chance of being born in places that shits all over any modern developed country and may even be led by people better than Gandhi. While it's plausible that atrocities happen all the time in the Imperium, given its size, that doesn't mean that everyone is always doomed. Unfortunately Games Workshop decided to ignore this aspect since it is not [[Derp|metal and grimderp]] enough...and thus does not help with [[Profit|sales]].

Almost everything 40K related and homebrewed on this website is a sterling example of /tg/ taking creative liberties with what the Imperium stands for. These include, but are not limited to, the [[Angry Marines]], [[Commissar Raege]], [[Commissar Fuklaw]], [[Pretty Marines]], [[Reasonable Marines]]... Truly, anonymous delivers!

==Synopsis==
[[File:Iron Men 40k.jpg|300px|right|thumb|The [[Iron Men]] are credited with fucking humanity right over, just like the [[Old Ones]] did with the rest of the galaxy's inhabitants.]]
The Imperium consists of over a million habitable worlds and is of such size that the loss of a few dozen planets (along with billions of citizens) is not even worth the paperwork it would take to declare said worlds Perdatus. Under constant threat and attack by a myriad of powerful alien races and traitorous forces, the Imperium is engulfed in a constant galaxy-spanning war. The everyday rule of the Imperium is left to the [[High Lords of Terra]], who basically don't give a fuck about anybody and have no clue what the hell they're doing half of the time.

The figurehead and subject of compulsory religious veneration, the immortal [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] forged the Imperium out of the [[Age of Strife]]. Being physically fucked for the past 10,000 years, he sits immobile and connected to the Golden Throne far from the sight of his subjects, witnessed his formerly [[Star Trek|glorious utopia of science and reason]] drop 99.9% of its IQ points against his will, and requires the sacrifice of many psykers a day to keep him alive, though this hasn't prevented his body from decomposing (he still has some fleshy bits left) and now looks like a mummy without the wrappings. [[Heresy]] is the greatest crime one can commit in the Imperium, the punishment for which is a painful death or torture followed by a painful death. Technology is barely understood and basically mythological, and even the Techpriests are afraid of their machines (this aspect of the Techpriests has been lessened over the years, now they're more like spiritualistic and very dogmatic scientists rather than technowizards.)

[[Image:Forbidden_Love.jpg|thumb|right|This would never happen. Ever. At least, not where anyone could see it.]]
The Imperium is also one of the biggest entities in the 40k universe, like a fatguy that hogs half the couch for himself and forces the others to sit on the arm rests. Some fa/tg/uys theorize that if the Imperium falls it may take the rest of the galaxy with it, as it holds so much territory that it staves off the Tyranids and the Orks before they can nom/loot everyone else's shit. (e.g. Dawn of War II, Spess Mahreens nuke the Tyranid fleet before they can nom an Eldar Craftworld.)

It's now a complete shithole and is not even remotely close to the Emperor's vision for humanity. Reasons for this include the Imperium's leaders being heartless fuckwads and the necessity of such an uncaring organization for the survival of humanity in a galaxy that wants to kill them in a million painful ways.

That's fucking grimdark, but at least there's Slaanesh to lighten everything u-{{BLAM}}

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Well, honestly, Nurgle is at least a pretty nice gu-{{BLAM}}

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Well, at least we have Tzee-{{BLAM}}

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===Roboute Guilliman in M42===
With the events of Gathering Storm and the Dark Imperium, the awakening of [[Roboute Guilliman|Big Blue Wonder]] ushered sweeping changes within the governmental ruling of the Imperium. Roboute's self coronation as Lord Commander (His old job) and political reforms that meant the firing of some High Lords of Terra meant that the IoM is becoming more centralized like it was during the Great Crusade.

Of course, centralization means a more authoritarian Imperium. Nevertheless, Guilliman is the best living person to be given the responsibility in fixing the bureaucratic nightmare of the Imperium, so there is little reason to panic. One of the biggest reasons the vast majority of the Imperial Guard spends entire careers fighting rebelling worlds instead of humanity’s enemies is because each planet is highly autonomous and their governments simply blame the Imperium for the hardships caused by the greed of those worlds’ nobles and governors. So, an Imperium with greater authority and control over its worlds would increase efficiency and effectiveness of planetary governments in the Imperium’s usual inefficient methods; then the eighty percent of Imperial Guard forces fighting rebels can go banhammer aliens and daemons instead. Some (including the High Lords themselves, to the surprise of nobody) consider Roboute's rule as a dictatorship (not like they can honestly stop him since he has a blood claim to the throne and effectively controls all Space Marines and Custodes), but the reality is that whilst the Imperium is centralizing in a manner akin to how it was in the Great Crusade, certain political entities such as the Ecclesiarchy and the Inquisition still holds significant clout and influence over the Imperium. With Guilliman currently updating his new Codex Imperialis for good governance and ruling, it is safe to say that the quality of life for the Imperium would be slowly improving. Of course, the vastness and sheer diversity of the IoM combined with the unwillingness of the above-mentioned political entities to accept reform means that the actual results are ''far'' more complicated than this. Nonetheless, the very fact that Guilliman's rule is actively trying to improve the Imperium with mixed results shows that the Imperium unlike traditional oppressive regimes, still have a chance for the better. It would still be the Imperium we know and love, but it would be far more efficient and competent, since efficiency and competency was the biggest crutch on why the Imperium is in such a dire situation. Resistance to Guilliman’s reforms would most likely be met by a visit from loyal Inquisitors and the Inquisitor’s who plot against his reforms would probably be vanished by Raven Guard sent by Guilliman. Anyone in the way of his plans would simply...disappear or end up mysteriously dead. Primarchs are not known for taking shit. Or for accepting “no” as an answer to their orders.

Furthermore, it seems that the jingoistic foreign policy of the Imperium towards xenos for 10,000 years has relaxed slightly in favor of pragmatism on Robby's part, most exemplified by the current alliance of convenience between the Imperium and the Ynnari (It's hard to say exactly how sincere the relationship ''is''; Guilliman himself noted that the Ynnari could be respected but not necessarily trusted, and the [[Visarch]] has voiced criticism of [[Yvraine]] acting as a "lapdog of the Imperium", so while they're not fighting each other they can hardly be called the best of friends). However, it has been suggested that Big Bobby G and Yvraine are totally hot for each other and want to have crazy butt-s...OH NOT AGAIN! {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|HERESY!}} It could also be due to [[Great Rift|the giant Warp scar]] spawned from Abaddon's 13th Black Crusade and how Chaos is now a bigger threat to the Imperium than ever. G-man also appointed [[Dante]] as warden to administer the other half of the Imperium across the Great Rift.

==Forces Of The Imperium==
* [[Adeptus Custodes]] - The Emperor's personal bodyguards who make ''Space Marines'' look like ordinary men. Their armour has so much bling it makes even the most pimptastic Space Marine's Artificer Armour look cheap. Their modification and training, not to mention the loss of the Emperor, robbed most of them of empathy and the ability to form connections with other people (even each other), as the only being they trusted absolutely is now stuck between life and death. Others are quite reasonable guys, and after 10,000 years on the bench, and a minor deamon invasion of Holy Terra, they're back in the game in a big way. Anyway, they go to insane lengths and cross any moral line to ensure His safety, and are now going forth on Crusade to help guard humanity as a whole from unending terror. Grimdark.
* [[Space Marines]] - The enhanced, power armored supersoldiers who form the elite warriors of the Imperium. All they do is train, sleep, pray, fight, and die; and they love every second of it (being the loyal warrior monks they are). There are only a million of them, but since the Imperium only has about a million planets it kind of evens out. They are no longer human, and remember nothing but an endless service of bloodshed culminating in their own violent deaths. Grimdark.
[[Image:Guardsmen_fighting.jpg|thumb|right|Die horribly or Join the Guard and THEN die horribly. At least that way you'll get a sweet-looking [[Lasgun|flashlight]].]]
* [[Imperial Guard]] - The countless quadrillions of regular humans who form the vast majority of the Imperium's armed forces. Very similar to a conventional modern military, they are a bunch of manly farmers and factory workers fighting off [[Necrons|unstoppable robots with guns that completely rip their skin off]], [[Tyranids|huge monstrous aliens who want to OM NOM NOM everything]], [[Chaos Space Marines|batshit insane super humans who want to kill everyone in painful ways and sacrifice their victims' souls while doing it]], [[Orks|barbaric aliens who are made for FIGHTAN AND WINNIN']], [[Eldar|mysterious spehss pansies who don't give a shit about anyone else]], [[Dark Eldar|spehss elves who wants to torture and rape them with the worst forms of BDSM]], [[Tau|Orwellian weeaboo space communists]], or [[Rak'gol|obscure but brutal spider Cthulhu reptiles that like to rip your intestines out before stealing all your stuff]], with little more than a [[Lasgun|flashlight]], [[Tallarn Desert Raiders|reinforced cardboard]], [[Catachan Jungle Fighters|standard-issue chest-hair]] and [[Cadia|BALLS O' STEEL]]. Or that's what you might be led to believe: a big part of the Imperium's wars are fought against fellow humans (or [[Lost and the Damned|things that once were human]]) but decided they had enough of being crapped upon by greedy superiors and uncaring leaders. Selfishly ignoring the fact the Imperium has no problem with them overthrowing said greedy superiors and uncaring leaders so long as Imperial law, taxes, and tithes are obeyed. But no, that would mean admitting their own cowardice was their own fault, so they rebel against "the man" instead and "the man" curbstomps them in the face for it. Most Imperial Guardsmen are conscripted every now and then from the best Planetary Defence Force troopers on a given world. Some planets supplement this supply with prisoners, while others give over their entire population to the Imperium as their tithe, the birth rate equaling the recruitment rate. Most die or muster out and they will never again see home, unless they're fighting on it. [[Grimdark]].
[[Image:Magos_Explorator_Delphan_Gruss.jpg|thumb|right|Combat Dentists, the Mechanicum's leading specialists on tooth heresy.]]
* [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] - An organization of Tech-priests. They have a monopoly over all Imperial technology from giant mecha to cybernetics, and almost everyone else in the Imperium is afraid of their machines. As a result, the Admech has to loan their techpriests to other organizations in the form of Enginseers, though for Space Marines it's more a work study program as they'll send one of their own troops to become a Techmarine. Independent scientists also exist, but only as long as they don't get killed for [[heresy]] or stay below the Mechanicus radar. Once these independents get powerful or competent enough to make a difference, they get wiped out or absorbed into Cult Mechanicus. Includes [[Adeptus Titanicus]]‎, [[Legio Cybernetica]] (Insidious Death Robotics, Inc), Centurio [[Ordinatus]] (look at name, figure it out), [[Skitarii]] (basically Imperial Guard of the Mechanicus), Auxilia [[Myrmidon]] (tech-priest war savants, stuff of nightmares), and the Ordo Reductor (siege specialists, infamous for ripping off the Space Marines by making the [[Thallax]]). Grimdark.
* [[Imperial Navy]] - Job is pretty self-explanatory, they split with the Guard after the Horus Heresy. They are a very large organization, as you would expect from a navy tasked with protecting a million worlds. Their ships range in size from meters-long fighters to kilometers-long battleships which are quite capable of [[Exterminatus|blowing up planets]], mostly Imperial ones, which they do at the command of the Inquisition on a regular basis in the fight against '''HERESY'''. Because Humanity was ass-raped by AI 15,000 years ago, the Imperial Navy uses huge human crews, most of which are "recruited" (i.e. Shanghaied) to die in space as one of billions of expendable men. Grimderp, considering not even some hydraulic lifters are employed when reloading even though the rest of the ship is high tech.
* [[Adeptus Arbites]] - These guys police every world in the Imperium. They're like [[Judge Dredd]] but more Grimdark. Arbites are usually one of the first institutions to be set up on a world and are equipped to fight a small war, with equipment ranging from power mauls and suppression shields to lasguns and even the [[Leman Russ Battle Tank]]. On the ground the Arbites have four units: Patrol Groups, whose job it is to make sure no wrongdoing occurs in the settlement; Shock Troops who are sent in when there are riots, street wars and other generalized disturbances (they usually shoot on sight if you are anywhere near the problem center); Execution Teams who pursue specific guilty individuals or groups; and Snatch Squads who are charged with capturing a specific individual or group for questioning. The criminals caught by the Arbites usually wind up dead [[Blam|one way]] [[Penal legion|or another]]. The Inquisition often uses the Arbites to apprehend certain individuals if they do not wish to be directly involved. Grimdark.
* [[Inquisition]] - The KGB of the Imperium. Their job is to keep said Imperium secure and loyal. With jurisdiction over nearly anyone and anything, the Inquisitors and their agents have very few impediments on their endless quest to contain heresy. The Inquisition consists of three main branches: the Ordo Hereticus, who's duty is to eliminate or contain threats such as '''HERESY''', mutants, and traitors; the Ordo Xenos, who specialize in destruction of alien threats, and the Ordo Malleus who are called on to stop Daemonic incursions. If they do their job poorly, entire worlds get destroyed based on the barest rumors. Alternatively, if they do their jobs well, those worlds still get destroyed because there are no other alternatives to stop the many genocidal threats the Imperium faces. Also, nobody expects them. Grimdark.
[[Image:Pimpin_Imperium.png|thumb|right|The Inquisition: not as easy as it looks.]]
* [[Sisters of Battle]] - The [[Ecclesiarchy|Ecclesiarchy's]] army, the nuns-with-guns or bolter bitches. Originally, they were an isolated all-female cult on a backwater world, and subsequently became the personal army of [[Goge Vandire]] during his fab [[Age of Apostasy|Age of Apostasy]]. After that blew over, they came into their current role through some top-notch [[rules lawyers|rules lawyering]]- after the Age of Apostasy, the Ecclesiarchy was only barred from having ''men'' under arms, so the Sisters weren't disbanded. They are trained from early age (because they are picked up as orphans) and in the end they become one of the best fighting troops of the Imperium, second only to the Astartes themselves. Their faith is so great that even Grey Knights are jealous of it. [[/tg/]] likes to see Sisters in different heretical fantasies, often involving [[Slaanesh|Slaanesh]], [[Shlicktau|female Tau]] and [[The wet dream of selena agna|Eldar Farseers]]. But what the poor bastards don't know is that the Sisters are all into [[FAIL|celibacy]] (though some lore says otherwise), love only the Emperor (sometimes it's a damn shame), and are so zealous and fanatical that they would turn off just about any human man anyway. Armed with their trusty Bolters, Meltaguns and Flamers (The Holy Trinity of weaponry as far as they're concerned), they go around the galaxy and kick Chaos/Renegades/Xenos ass as much as they can. Grimdark.
* [[Deathwatch]] - If you're an especially skilled Space Marine, or if your chapter just wants to get rid of you, the Deathwatch is always looking for new recruits to train into even more hyper-efficient xenos-killing machines. Acting on behalf of the Ordo Xenos, recruits get hypno-indoctrinated with endless videos of battle brothers getting slaughtered by all manner of xenos until they become frothing angry and need to be physically restrained. Instead of organizing into large task forces, the Deathwatch fights in small special-forces killteams to complete specific objectives and kick ass. Some of its members deliberately obscure or renounce their past ties and become [[Blackshield]]s, permanently joining the Deathwatch until death claims them. Grimdark.
* [[Grey Knights]] - You thought Space Marines were bad dudes? Well loyal citizen, Grey Knights are SUPER-Space Marines who are VERY interested in your heretical Google image searches. They function as the military arm of the Ordo Malleus. In a galaxy and time where literal demons from space hell can punch through reality and turbo-slaughter whole sectors, the Grey Knights are THE final word in supernatural defense. This was especially important since for over 10,000 years, there WERE no good Primarches around to fight the blasphemous ascended being of the week. Every bit of armor, weapon, training and gear they have is top of the line, and nigh irreplaceable. When they fight, a psychic shroud inhibits the psychic powers of whoever they are fighting, and they have psychic Nemesis Force Wea<strike>'''OH CHRIST, I CAN'T GO ON, THIS SHIT IS BANANAS!'''</strike> {{BLAM|Ignore Matt Ward's bullshit, stop making shitty references to Zero Punctuation, and finish the damn article! Psychic Psychic Bendy Spoons.}} Aside from their anti-anti-anti Chaos gear, Grey Knights aren't typically who you send to stop a cult. They're the guys you send to clean up a Chaos defiled planet with boiling oceans, poisonous air, psychedelic skies, and more bones than living people on them. Grimdark. And yet, no Grey Knight has EVER fallen to Chaos. Which is [[awesome]].
* [[Officio Assassinorum]] - The coolest (and scariest) men and women in the Imperium. Whose job it is to kill people. While one would think this would overlap with the duties of every other Imperial organization, it is different because the Assassinorum trains spies and assassins to be more subtle, such as [[Tzeentch|manipulating people to do your dirty work while totally not aware you are behind it]]. Except when they train batshit insane [[Eversor]] Assassins. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a paradox. Leaving no survivors to tell the tale is [[Oinkbane|a subtlety all in itself]]. Grimdark.
* [[Sisters of Silence]] - The militant arm of the Astra Telepathica, they are all Blanks and refuse to speak but are deadly enough to take down any psyker threat and to travel with the likes of [[Leman Russ]] and the Custodes. As you can imagine they feature in some pretty badass artwork but sadly have very little work dedicated to them. It is unknown if they survived the end of the Great Crusade but there have been no indications to the contrary. Given that the Inquisition and Culexus Temple exist their role is partly redundant, but may be justified in that by being under the direct authority of the branch that deals with Psykers it allows a faster and more standardized way of handling Psykers, plus neither zealous assault forces or assassins would exactly fit the job description. Grimdark (?). With the return of Guilliman to the Imperium we now know that the sisters did indeed survive, although they were officially disbanded as a fighting force. Nothing like getting fired the day after your dad dies. Understandably upset, many simply wandered off into the sunset, but a large number stayed to crew the [[Black Ships]] that go around collecting psykers to feed to the Emperor. With Rawbutt Girlyman's return, the Emo Sisters have started to fight on the frontlines again, serving as anti-psyker defense and notably fighting alongside their best bros the Custodes for the first time in 10,000 years (maybe). Considering how bad [[grimdark|the state of the galaxy is]] due to the [[Great Rift]], their job has become wayyyyy busier than ever before.

===Other organizations===
* [[Administratum]] - The pencil pushers of the Imperium, complete with bureaucrats so devoted to their trade that they treat it like a religion, and massive inefficiency. They regulate the [[Imperial Guard]] and the [[Imperial Navy]], dictate and assess the Tithes all worlds in the Imperium are required to pay to Holy Terra, and administer how those things get used. Their archives are so big and so full that if you search anything in them, you'll die wrapped in endless layers of red tape, if you're not accompanied by an Adept. Grimdark.
* [[Ecclesiarchy]] - The Imperial Church which works with the Inquisition to regulate the worship of the Emperor and define what counts as '''HERESY'''. Basically priests with flamethrowers and mega-chainsaws. It also oversees the Sisters of Battle and the [[Schola Progenium]], and works closely with the [[Ordo Hereticus]]. Often has a complicated relationship with the other members branches of the Imperium (Space Marines insisting that the Emperor was a human, the Administratum for overall control of the Imperium, the Adeptus Mechanicus worshiping a deity that ''should'' be the Emprah or not, etc.). Grimdark.
* [[Adeptus Astra Telepathica]] - The organization charged with maintaining the Imperium's vast network of [[psyker|psykers]], who are necessary for faster than light travel and keeping the Emperor alive on the Golden Throne. Their members are oftentimes forcibly conscripted children who have just barely survived being lynched on their homeworld, and were lucky enough not to be mulched into Emperor Food or Astronomicon fuel. Even so, the process to become a sanctioned psyker is physically and emotionally scaring, and can still lead to a grizzly death via headsplosion, possession, or just losing complete control of your sanity. Grimdark.
* [[Astronomican|Adeptus Astronomican]] - The organization charged with maintaining the light of the Astronomican, the psychic beacon for traveling through the [[Warp]]. Sacrifices assloads of psykers every day to keep the Astronomican running and literally the only thing keeping the entire Imperium from winking out like a candle. Grimdark.
* [[Imperial Knight]]s - The Imperial Knights are the lords of feudalistic worlds where the rulers and the military forces are one and the same, piloting massive combat mecha into battle to defend their worlds or to aid the Imperium. Usually have strong ties to the Adeptus Mechanicus. Grimdark.
* [[Squat]]s - A [[Dwarf|dwarfish]] race of technologically advanced [[abhuman]]s descended from mining colonists on high gravity planets, their worlds were the only other independent Imperial worlds besides Admech's forge worlds prior to integration into the Imperium from the Tyranids war. Their forces complemented that of the Adeptus Mechanicus' and the [[Imperial Guard]], with a tendency towards [[Colossus War Machine|giant-sized]] [[Land Train|war]] [[Goliath Mega-Cannon|machines]]. Their populations are now greatly diminished due to various reasons. Grimdark.

==Reasons it sucks to live in the Imperium==
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{{Topquote|Call no man happy until he is dead.|Thought for the day. Also Aeschylus}}
[[File:Lord General.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Imperial Guard generals are some of the sexiest men alive, <s>and the worst part is that almost all of them are celibate</s> Lies, all lies!...On an unrelated note, this is one of [[Dawn of War 2#Imperial Guard|General Castors]] earlier designs.]]
* The High Lords of Terra are brutal and manipulative.
* The Adeptus Arbites make Judge Dredd seem reasonable.
* Thinking about nothing is the only way to survive. Unless you think about the steely musculature and long, shimmering hair of the Emperor.
* The Hive World you almost certainly live on is an overcrowded shithole where being able to breathe non-recycled air is a luxury.
* Thinking about nothing implies you're thinking, and thinking is '''HERESY'''.
* You are constantly under attack by Orks, Eldar, Tyranids, Dark Eldar, the forces of Chaos, Space Communists, etc.
* If you mutate, you will be at best shunned, but most likely killed, and even death is not the worst case scenario.
* Voices in your sleep keep telling you that Chaos is great, at which point an Inquisitor kills you whether you resist the temptations or not.
* Priests keep telling you the Imperium is great and then report you for not attending the entirety of your third mass service of the designated planetary worship day, at which point you are executed by local law enforcement.
* If you aren't in the Navy you are in the Imperial Guard, which means you will either die painfully on the battlefield or be executed by a Commissar for not being loyal enough to die on the battlefield. Seriously, many worlds hold your funeral the day before departure, people mourn your passing while you are standing next to them, and you are considered to be already dead.
* Your planetary governor is incompetent, ruthless, heretical or just very greedy (if you're lucky). Any that aren't are rarer than an Ork that doesn't WAAAAGH!, and either dead or about to be killed by one or more of the Imperium's enemies (or someone else from the Imperium).
* Even if you DO win the war via sheer hard-work, chances are that you are sterilized and shipped to a labor camp because you MIGHT have the taint of Chaos. And killed.
* Your whole life consists of working your ass off with no hope of social advancement. Unless you're a noble, in which case nothing in this list applies to you anyway.
* You can be executed for taking incorrect care of your gun and angering the Machine Spirit. And that assumes the Machine Spirit doesn't kill you first.
* Loyalist Space Marines never get laid, eve-{{BLAM}}

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* If you happen to be an Inquisitor, you are expected to watch whatever you order. Vomiting is '''HERESY'''.
* Technology scares you. Not much of a change, though is it?
* You are poor and uneducated. Isn't a change, either.
*If and when you die, the chances that anyone will ever give a shit about your death are nearly nonexistent. Again, nor much of a change there either.
* The Orks might eventually (re)unite and destroy the Imperium.
* The Necrons will eventually awaken and might destroy the Imperium.
* Chaos cannot be defeated and will probably destroy the Imperium sooner or later.
* Tyranids are pouring in from nearly all sides of the galaxy and will probably destroy the Imperium through the power of OMNOM.
* If you're not dead in the Guard, dead in the Navy, very dead in the PDF, or dead as a civilian, you're a heretic and alien-sympathizer. Therefore executed, and therefore dead.
* The Imperium routinely cleanses Xeno species. So if you're a wandering Eldar Craftworld or even a minor xenos race on a conquered planet expect no sympathy or even a quick death.
* Independence is nonexistent, and the Imperium has even destroyed two perfectly healthy, anti-chaos empires called Adrantis Five and Interex, granted the second one they destroyed thanks to Chaos bullshit, [[derp|whoops!]]
** The first was due to a mis-identification by over-eager Imperial Psychotic Killers, and given that the second was a civilization that had a race who created Chaos artifacts, including the big one that led to Horus' corruption, that's arguably a good thing since they might as well have been a ticking time bomb.
* Incompetence is also nonexistent, and if you show competence, you are imbued by the Chaos Gods and therefore executed for Heresy.
* Thinking ANY model is sexy is obvious heresy.
* And let's not even get started on what it's like if you're on the wrong side of the [[Great Rift]].
* Either you work, or you die. It's that simple. SO BACK TO THE MANUFACTORUMS AND STOP READING NOW!!!
**If by some shred of luck you don't get executed for dereliction of duty, then the lasgun you didn't make while slacking off meant that a Guard Regiment got equipped too late to be deployed to save your world.

==However, is the Imperium really ''that'' bad?==
[[File:8eb60203712e469761aeba78ec3c78ec-d7904b7.jpg|350px|thumb|left|Because the only way to keep a [[Roman Empire|stagnating empire]] alive is with excessive force (Ah, but where's the Roman Empire now?) Also, note the [[Imperator Titan|walking cathedral]] several miles in the background that's still bigger than the [[baneblade]] at the front.]]

{{Topquote|[[Noblebright|A line must be drawn between what is good and what is evil]], for if the [[Chaos|Great Enemy]] comes with offers of power to a wretch, what reason does he have to refuse hell if he dwells in it already?|[[Roboute Guilliman|Robu]] telling [[Dante|Luis]] the most obvious thing yet apparently missed for ten millennia of imperial history.}}

However, as said before, if you excuse GW's initial promotion that life in the Imperium must be "Tough and Dark", then average life in the Imperium for the common Joe is for all intents and purposes, uncomfortable and highly unpleasant, but ultimately tolerable for its people (as opposed to those of us in M3 who would likely lack the temperament or the constitution to do well in such a life). This can be further explained below....

===The Reality of the Imperium===
Throughout WH40K, nearly every-single grimdark example in the fluff is shown through the narrative perspective of either Space Marines and Inquisitors whose primary job is to fight against [[Chaos|WTF-Horror Eldritch Abominations]] and [[Orks|genocidal aliens]] for every single day of their lives, or of criminals, crooks and scum such as those living within the darkest pits in Hive Worlds like [[Necromunda]]. Of which, there are only about thirty-two thousand and something hundreds in ratio to the several hundreds of thousands of Civilized Worlds which are the planetary majority in the Imperium - the odds of being born in a desolated dump is actually quite low, and if you are born there, the only thing you need to be wary of are Gang fights and Mutants, and that's only if you are dumb enough to venture in the Underhive or unlucky enough to be born <s>poor</s> there (the poor can still get labor jobs in manufactoria or wherever else or enlist in the PDF and such; worlds are never lacking for jobs needing filling or soldiers to hold the fort). Life as a Middle-Class Imperial (which are the majority in Hive Worlds) is often plain and simple (if boring and repetitive) with your average wage, average working job and with your average necessities in life such as TV (level of propaganda vary) or food (might be artificially processed), and since there is always a demand for workers at some level, unemployment ratios would actually be quite small (unlike real-life, you don't have to fear automation and new technologies taking your job and the Imperium always needs more menial laborers). If you're in the Imperial Guard, the chances of being sent into an eternal meat grinder is actually quite slim, if the Imperium's size and speed is taken into perspective. Although some policies within the Imperium would be regarded as immoral or "Crimes Against Humanity" in today's world, take note that what the Imperium does is a necessary evil. They know what they're doing is morally questionable, but they have to do it since they have no other choice and in the grim setting of WH40K, this is the only solution to be dealt with for the betterment of Humanity as a whole. Unlike every single other being in the entire setting, the Imperium actually knows its necessary evils ''are'' evil and bemoans this fact but grits its teeth and does it anyway, determined to make sure what was done has meaning and was never in vain. This is why, outside of mainstream Sci-Fi where we see Aliens or some entities destroying a planet full of people for no other reason but for the [[Lulz|evulz]], in the Imperium, you see none of that, as in their point of view, to destroy a planet without a justified cause is seen as incredibly wasteful and sinful as you are technically "Wasting the Emperor's resources" (which, ironically enough, can lead to you getting executed,so its something most people try to avoid). There is even a small Ordo of the Inquisition whose job is to investigate exterminatus (planet boom) events and determine whether or not it was justified. About eighty percent of the Inquisitors who order exterminatus are executed by this Ordo for not having sufficient justification. Keep in mind that it is almost (''almost'') unheard of for exterminatus being declared unless really anyone even in the modern day could agree the planet totally needed to die.

The Imperium is also remarkably egalitarian. For the most part, regardless of the circumstances of your birth, you can reach unimaginable heights if you have the right combination of smarts, strength, faith and luck. Space Marine chapter masters were once feral tribesmen or underhive scum, great heroes of the Imperial Guard have come from death worlds, prisons or dead end jobs in hives. Inquisitors come from almost any background imaginable, and are some of the most powerful individuals in the Imperium, and can even sit as one of the High Lords of Terra. The only thing that actually blocks social mobility is the difficulty of standing out against countless trillion other humans on a million worlds. This is implied to be partially intentional as a way to get the very best of humanity in positions of power. By and large, it works. Incompetence is actually extremely rare in the Imperium (which is why it stands out so dramatically). Unfortunately, due to the scale of everything, an incompetent in the wrong place can cause a lot of disastrous effects.

===Foreign Policy on Xenos===
For those that complain of the Imperium's genocidal stance against Aliens (especially prior to the Emperor getting stuck on the golden throne), remember that during Humanitiy's earlier years, virtually every xeno they encountered were either genocidal dickheads or sadistic assholes, so can you really blame them? Take for example, the Craftworld Eldar. On the surface, they may seem benign and offer their hand in friendship, just so you are the ones who walk into a Necron Tomb-World and lose millions where they could have done the same and possibly only lost a few hundred. Regardless, this is easier said than done and they prioritize hostile races over occasional allies. Add to that, Big.E wanted an atheistic empire starving the Chaos gods out with science (although given that the Chaos gods thrive on ''emotion itself'' just as much as worship, Big E was probably doomed from the start) all without falling into '[[Men of Iron]] II: Revenge of the Machines', and those xenos that weren't deeply religious and/or psykers tended to go the A.I. way. So in order to avoid any [[Mortarion|unnecessary questions]] and [[Magnus the Red|unhealthy curiosity]], he basically got a standing order to purge everything on sight in place. Said order was duly followed during the Great Crusade proper, but now that the expansion is over, it is applied much less zealously.

Overall, the tolerance of xenos vary on their threat to Humanity in the first place, mostly since the Imperium does have not enough resources to even deal with those that possess an actual threat (hence why Ork Charadon and Sautekh Necron empires flourish, and no new crusades are sent to bring down the Tau, despite all three being almost next door to Ultramar). If the Imperium encounters another alien civilization that's only interested in trade and does not pose an obvious threat, then the Imperium (although still strictly supervised by the Inquisition) will trade to a certain extent, via [[Diplomacy]]. Put in the fact of the Imperium's "I don't disturb you and you don't disturb me" policy to outsiders, with the fact that there are actually '''A LOT''' of Xenos living within multiple Imperium Worlds contrary of popular opinion, and the fact that the majority of the wars that Humanity has fought was on the defense then the offense (of course this depends wholeheartedly on the Imperium's mood in the first place); you would then realize that on a whole, the Imperium is actually tolerant insofar as it doesn't destroy xenos races right away if they aren't an immediate threat.

An excellent way to understand the Imperium's policies toward aliens is seen in the [[The War of The Beast]] novel series, as it portrays some xenos-sympathizers and populations subjected to them. Ultimately, with threats like Chaos, genestealers, and countless other malevolent forces at large in the galaxy, the Imperium's intolerance is born of crucial necessity, with the xenophobia growing out of it as a by-product. The Imperium cannot afford to be accepting of alien influence and ideas, because you just never know what might be sneaking in with it, and they learned that through painful experience. What might be dismissed as innocent and inconsequential can (and often does) lead to the downfall of entire worlds. The only reason the Tau can act like they can openly befriend the whole galaxy is because they are naively unaware of all of what's out there and what they're potentially inviting in and run the risk of learning the same lessons the Imperium did the hard way. That much has been pointed out by both [[Farsight]] and [[Ciaphas Cain]]. Even with all the above, the Imperium is focused on survival above all else, and if that means working with xenos they may very well do so. [[Roboute Guilliman]] can testify to that, given that said xenos played a major role in his revival.

Besides all of this, the Imperium isn't going around just blamming every species even when it can for a simple reason: the Imperium is not evil. The Imperium is not a murderer, it is not insane, and it tries to be honorable as much as is feasible. Killing a species when it is unnecessary is murder and is definitely dishonorable. The Imperium is a civilization, and is as “civilized” as it can be in the reality it finds itself in. They hate all aliens, even those whom they have accepted as protectorates, allies, neutral, or simply "we live on the same planet, don't mess with us and we won't kill you". However, the Imperium understands the difference between understandable hatred and actually acting on that hatred against beings whose extermination is not necessary. Heck, there are plenty of people whoever is reading this might hate, but you don't go around kill them, do you? Exactly.

===Governmental & Ideological Structure of the Imperium===
Additionally, while the Imperium, as referenced above, looks like a merciless and oppressive empire, it is in fact a confederation of several powerful organizations and a million planets. It occupies a strange place in between libertarian paradise (as planets have a fair bit of autonomy, more than GW would like to admit) and oppressive theocracy, (as shown all over this page) as the Imperium's main policy for what a world does under their control is "Pay the tithe, send your psykers over when the Black Ships show up, and don't make me come over there." Each 'normal' planet in the Imperium (besides specially classified planets like Forge Worlds, Fortress Worlds, Death Worlds...) has its own laws, Government, culture and social order that can [[Attilan Rough Riders|differ]] [[Tallarn Desert Raiders|from]] [[Salamanders|one]] [[Ultramarines|another]] [[Catachan Jungle Fighters|by]] [[Vostroyan Firstborn|A]] [[Space Wolves|LOT.]] Just like today's countries some have merciless dictators (North Korea) and some have democracy to an extent where citizens can choose their own head of government (UK). Furthermore, each planet itself is actually quite independent to the extent where they can have their own armed forces and even wage their own civil wars. Due to this, the Imperium only cares when some serious shit happens (like xenos invasion, [[Chaos|corruption by Oh-God-What-The-Fuck eldritch horrors from beyond space and time]], or when a Planetary Governor decided to declare himself independent of the Imperium), and given that this is the Imperium, these kinds of things vary from "happening by on a regular basis" to "Not seeing an actual war for multiple millennia".

[[File:Tumblr nnrqjzAyKm1si96eio4 400.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A sprawling Imperial city. That ship's around two miles long, by the way. In Rogue Trader, anyway. In the novels more like ten to twenty.]]
Of course, in a few cases where a Planetary Governor or planet does declare independence, it is usually listed as [[HERESY]], however most Governors don't do this kind of thing because [[Chaos|they]] [[Necrons|know]] [[Orks|what's]] [[Dark Eldar|out]] [[Tyranids|there]] and that the Imperium is the only thing that [[Imperial Guard|can]] [[Space Marines|protect]] [[Imperial Navy|them]], because the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] and the system of the [[Adeptus Astra Telepathica]] provides a cheap system of FTL and communication through the horrors of the [[Warp]], and because the Merchant Fleet enables intergalatic commerce. There is also the reason that they have so much autonomy already that there isn't really a reason to leave the Imperium other than sheer greed. It isn't like tithes are high anyway, so just greed and egomania. If a Planet declares independence, he loses the right to FTL and trade with the Imperium, and that's bad for Hive Worlds that need Agri-Worlds in order to survive, meaning the Imperium doesn't even ''need'' to send in their military since ''they'' know that the young usurper would most likely peacefully surrender in that prospect. The reason why the loyalty of some planets differ in question varied over the Imperium's history. During the Great Crusade, most worlds were extremely loyal to both the Imperium and the Emperor because it rescued them from all sorts of indescribable horrors that had plagued them for the thousands of years of the Long Night (Age of Strife). After the Great Crusade, the Imperium remained (mostly) cohesive as a whole due to both a remaining sense of loyalty to their savior and for mutual survival in the face of a severely fucked up galaxy. After a few thousand years of that, the Imperial Cult had gained sufficient strength that the reasons for remaining loyal to the Imperium and the Emperor expanded from just mutual survival to a shared religion where loyalty between each planet must be routinely checked to prevent separatism or [[Horus Heresy|another civil war that essentially kicked the Imperium in the galactic nuts.]] [[Derp|However, even then,]] [[Age of Apostasy|some religious asshat decides to do it all over again]] [[lulz|for the lulz,]] the aftermath of which persuaded some Planetary Rulers to question the legitimacy and thus loyalty to the Imperium. This is why you see that although most planets would never dare to even break away from the Imperium, a certain few that do break away is either due to the above questioning, your typical [[Just as Planned|Chaos hijinks]], xenos manipulation (as is frequently the case when the Tau or Genestealer Cults are involved), or just a Planetary Governor who's either arrogant enough to think he can get away with it or desperate enough to believe his world has nothing to lose from rebellion.

Therefore, the loyalty of most to the Imperium is not out of an ideological obsession to stamp out HERESY, but of pragmatism and necessity in order to survive in the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium as Protectorates. This real-life perspective again, is then supported in WH40K where the Imperium, being a decentralized but powerful semi-autonomous group of Corporate entities, have different ways of pledging allegiance to the Emperor himself rather than the State: the Inquisition stamps out anyone caught separating from or perverting the Emperor's rule of conduct as Heresy, the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] worships the Emperor as an aspect of another pagan Machine-god called the Omnissiah and benefits from an ancient pact of alliance dating to the Great Crusade, and the [[Adeptus Astartes]] are altered transhumans who merely view the Emperor as an exemplar of humanity, but were created by the Emperor himself and so can claim a closer connection to him than the other above-mentioned organizations via their genetic descent from the Primarchs. They all might just as well declare each other's ideologies as HERESY but each of them are personal Protectorate vassals to the Emperor himself, and both know that they need to work together lest Humanity as a whole goes extinct. Thus, as said multiple times before, the Imperium is not a centralized superstate, and more akin to a Coalition of Confederated Mini-Empires that's disguised as a Galactic Superpower (though the Imperium has its independent military and technological might with which to enforce its laws); or in real-life examples, the Imperium is more of a mixture between the "Protectorate" system like the Roman Empire, which allowed local governments to exist as Protectorates as long as they pay taxes and say that the Emperor is all "Good and Dandy", and today's UN which allows member nations to join while still keeping their national/cultural dignity, along with the Veto Powers between the founding members of China, US, Russia, France and Britain so they can keep each others powers in balance (Similar to the equal powers between the High-Lords of Terra).

Additionally, while chastity and prudence are technically heralded as virtues by [[Sisters of Battle|some]] organizations and planets within the Imperium, the Imperium as a whole is decidedly pro-sex. The reason is more utilitarian than [[Slaanesh|hedonistic]]; more babies means more soldiers. Even in the smallest sectors, there are always more planets to colonize (even if it's on the ruins of some other civilization) so space is seldom a concern. Imperial citizens are encouraged, by most local customs, to be fruitful so that the tithes may be paid. If you'd ask "why not just clone more soldiers?", the reason the Imperium doesn't do that (atleast excluding their black projects like the [[Afriel Strain]] soldiers) is because it's considered a perversion of the holy human form, hence it's labeled as heresy. Plus, attempting to clone regiments of soldiers on a rapid basis is likely to come with a variety of genetic problems that would hinder the Imperium rather than help it. Then there's the problem that the technology to clone a full human with a functioning mind (as opposed to a brain-dead clone fit for making into a servitor) is extremely difficult, to say nothing of how the clones' souls seem to be inherently abnormal for reasons nobody can explain.

And if anyone still complains that the Imperium is still 'dark and miserable,' just shove Stephen Baxter's [[Xeelee Sequence]] down their throats, portraying a human empire that is so downright evil and malicious that you will actually applaud their [[rape|cosmic butt-whipping]] by the nigh god-like Xeelee. Seriously, the Interim Coalition of Governance is what happens when the [[Marines Malevolent]] becomes a pan-galactic empire that has no qualms in sending over [[Grimdark|200 trillion child soldiers to die in a rather hopeless and pointless war;]] they make the policies of the Imperium [[Noblebright|look like the]] [[Star Trek|United Federation of Planets]] [[BrightHammer40k|in comparison.]]

===IoM in contrast to True Totalitarian Regimes===
Whilst it ''is'' true that the IoM combines many elements from all of the dictatorships on Earth, the key word you are looking for is elements. All of the dystopian tropes in the IoM are nitpicks from great dystopian classics. They aren't a true mixture of various authoritarian tropes, but are mere themes to set up the atmosphere of the Imperium. The presence of authoritarianism is there all right. However, it is not outright enforced; the Imperium doesn't care how your planet is run as long as the tithes come in on time and there's no outright heresy to be found. Imperial law focuses on best practices, security against subtle enemy attack methods, and anti-Chaos related manners of thinking (like a distinct lack of questioning the unknown because it could enter you and play havoc with your world). Basically, as long as you have laws that don't leave you wide open for the horrors in space, the Imperium is fine with you. And as mentioned before, the dystopian elements varies between planets to planets with the fact that you could actually ''leave'' the planet if given money and time. The reason why places like Oceania from [[1984]], North Korea, and the aforementioned Interim Coalition of Governance are terrifying is because they are actually true totalitarian governments with extremely nihilistic attitudes. These are totalitarian regimes done horrifyingly right. These are governments which pride themselves on their malevolence and power; in which an ordinary person has little to no chance of leaving the hell hole they are born into. Their governmental and ideological structure is done in such a way that the mere act of pragmatism will be condemned for [[Heresy|HERESY]]. Places like these are concentrated and true dystopias in which control is so absolute that you live in a personal prison for all eternity. These governments make the raging incompetence of the Imperium look like Fantasia. Furthermore, the Imperium has one thing these governments do not have: a sense of humanity and heroism. Throughout all the GW works on the Imperium, we have characters who show remarkable amounts of [[Sanguinius|selfless]] [[Ollanius Pius|heroism,]] [[Ciaphas Cain|courage,]] [[Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt|and]] [[Saint Celestine|intense]] [[Vulkan|humanity]]. The protagonists (and general "good guys") in these stories consistently try to move heaven and earth to [[Logan Grimnar|protect the weak]] against all odds. We almost never see that kind of optimistic effort in the aforementioned dystopian works. This is why [[1984]] and the [[Xeelee Sequence]] are so horrifying: there is no hope, no epic struggle, no grandeur... just a collapsing social reality where the very concept of humanity is treated like a nonexistent joke.

Essentially, what we are trying to say here is that the worst thing the Imperium can do is not out of malice, but out of desperation, incompetence and necessity. For example:

''"We are forced to commit exterminatus on a billion souls because we have no choice and the [[Chaos|alternative]] [[Xeno|outcome]] would be much worse. I pray that these innocent souls would meet peace with the Emperor.''

In contrast this with Oceania which go along the lines of:

''"We torture you not because of some politically motivated means or a necessary evil. We do so because we want to exercise our power. We do so because we can."''

Or the Interim Coalition of Governance:

''"We are ready to send over a untold number of kids to die against the Xeelee. Why you ask? Because it is more economically viable to protect our sweet, sweet moolah and we need something to cover up our deep insecurities and spite."''

The bottom line: the IoM embodies not perpetual evil and suffering for its own sake, but desperate measures taken in desperate times, exacerbated further by inefficiency and human error. It may be shit by our standards, but considering all the other alternatives that would actually stand a chance in the grim darkness of the far future, it's pretty clear the Imperium is the ''least horrible'' alternative for humanity.

In a way, this makes it worse than the full dystopias as those guys have no one but themselves to blame. The Imperium simply cannot afford anything better.

===Character development at meta level===

From a meta point of view the evolution of the Imperium reflects that of the franchise and the company's interest and capabilities, back in the 80s during the Rogue Trader GW writers didn't bother too much about the possible ramifications of their character profiles, they were after all doing things for kids which wanted something cool and funny; morality, rationale and introspection didn't really have that much of a priority, at best there was a lot of parody with a pinch of political commentary inherent in british pop culture.

As editions moved the Imperium went from a glam-coloured 80s feudal cyberpunk place for adventures, fun and profit to the stage were the "Grimdark" entered in full effect, think of it a bit like a child turning into a teenager who wants to sound cool a deep, edginess was the order of the day for the Third Edition, this is from where a lot of the dystopian stuff we all know and love came from, Battlefleet Gothic with their slave-powered ships is a great example, the original portrayal of the necrons as eldritch horrors directed by the C'tan are born from this edition too, it was the lowest point of characterization for the Imperium in terms of dark induced apathy.

Gradually, thanks in great part to the efforts of Black Library writers and the simple fact many fans were already adults who wanted something more "elaborate" the Imperium started to gain their humane elements, the Gaunt Ghosts and Ciaphas Cain put in evidence that no, not everyone in the Imperial Guard were zealots and jerkasses, Uriel Ventris and other SM portrayals allowed the Adeptus Astartes to win back their heroic aspect and while Matt Ward broke a lot of the old fluff he allowed for factions such as the Necrons to become something more than a horde of metallic zombies.

The case of commissar Cain is special, some people didn't like to consider him canon as he broke with the overall idea of grimdarkness, he starts as an anomaly, a secretly epicurean, self-loathing character capable of decent and even heroic acts as well as abject fear who visits worlds which suddenly are not hells on earth, through his eyes we see both military and civilians who are, despite the obvious and obligatory cultural dissonances, humans with their loves, hatreds, good intentions and limitations, enjoying life whenever they can and showing commodities and services which shouldn't exist in the grim darkness of the far future, this sudden injection of humanity shakes a great deal of the fanbase perception of the Imperium, they suddenly discover this galactic warring monster is quite more than a stage for endless dystopian war, suddenly imperials have a great deal more to fight for than debased ideology, they are fighting for survival, and that survival can allow for something more than slave-work at factories alternated with unending sermons, behind the facade of the fanatic and the mad you find reality ensues, ruthlessness with your own is a ticket for friendly fire incidents, even the staunchest sororitas has a pension to think of and the administratum is not totally filled of incompetent people.

Gaunt's Ghost work in tandem with Ciaphas Cain to add more humanity to the Imperium, the Tanith First and Only are people, they remember their world of forest and stone cities destroyed, they clearly see their memory as something worth fighting for, and while they are loyal to the Imperium they will notice when there is something unfair and, if possible, deal with it, even at terminal strength, while Colonel-Commissar may be in the minority of competent commanders he and other characters in HQ put in evidence you can't run a military force purely with lash and bolt-pistol, at least not totally, like many real-life regimes you still need a sandwich as well as a shotgun to deal with people, remove the sandwich, use the shotgun too much and you will eventually find the dog bitting back.

The Horus Heresy series helped too, as the origins of the Imperium were vastly expanded and explained, allowing for a better understanding of the choices taken by both loyalists and traitors, the Emperor in particular lost their portrayal of a perfect being and finally was revealed to be a more human character, with great inentions but ultimately flawed and capable of failure. This also allowed for a better understanding of how the Imperium became so religious, repressive and authoritian despite, or perhaps, because Big E original plans to fight the Chaos Gods by starving them, the primarchs background was further explored and the tragedy behind their fall became now a known narrative, all these aspects adding a "depth of field".

With the return of Guilliman in the last editions we finally come to a point where the Imperium as an entity recovers, or more exactly gains, its capability for self-criticism, and with it a gut-punching self-awareness, we see through Guilliman's eyes the vast gears of traditionalist government, the monumental historic inertia pushing things to the brink, the continuous and terrible technological, economic and social degradation mankind has been subjected for centuries fueled by terrible wars of extinction.

From such capability to see these flaws is that the desire to break with this unending cycle of darkness is born, for the first time we see the chance of reform not born from Tzeentchian influence or Xenos infiltration, stable (so far) technological advancement finally happens, the character of Belisarius Cawl comes to mind, he is certainly a maverick, his relation with Guilliman and his subordinates is interesting, he knows his own value and dares others on the Imperium's side in a way which reminds a bit of the oldest editions where Rogue Traders went to strange and extravagant adventures, but we also see his backstory, what eventually shaped in his current self, his manias and hopes, no longer just "the tech support guy who knows how to fix the server", but a person, someone who can go talk face to face with Guilliman.

And hence in the Imperium of this modern age ancient traditional powers find themselves checked, not to say this brave new messiah in blue is not without his limits and contradictions, more than once Guilliman has to recognize his own mistakes, and he is still blind to others, and some things he attempts don't end well, and while the situation has become more critical than ever since, perhaps, the Horus Heresy, the Imperium and characters such as his "Uncrowned King" as narrative entities finally recover their potential for the humane. The Imperium is still a place of unending war and misery, en epic saga with many elements of cosmic horror history, but with a glimpse of a path to, in words of Black Library "Salvation".

===In Summation===
To put it simply, the Imperium is more or less a Feudal society rather than an "Empire" in the modern sense like is seen in Star Wars or a thousand other Science Fiction/Space Fantasy stories. You have a central authority in the Adeptus Terra and a unifying religion in the Imperial Creed, but the assorted fiefdoms of the Imperium generally are left to rule themselves without that much oversight from the central authority as long as the taxes come in on time and no open rebellion is occurring. Given that the Imperium is 40k's counterpart to the Empire in Warhammer Fantasy which is more or less the medieval/renaissance era Holy Roman Empire but bigger and more technologically advanced, this isn't all that surprising. And much like those feudal era societies you have some parts which are much better off than others, in agriculturally rich land with ample access to trade and developed cities feudal societies could rival anything that the earlier societies of antiquity could make in terms of sophistication. But poor provinces mostly made out of useless swampland and rocks are of course going to be poor hicktowns (somehow their ancestors thought settling in said swamp and rocks was a brilliant idea). Furthering the parallels to feudal Europe is that the Imperium is built atop of the corpse of an older and more urbane society; Rome for Medieval Europe and Dark Age humanity for the Imperium, and emerged out of a prolonged dark age following the collapse of that old empire. And the most important thing to note is that Feudal governments did not exercise absolute control, for a feudal peasant your local Baron had far more influence over your life than the King or Emperor would, and how harsh or kind your life was depended largely on the nature of your local overlord. Similarly, some places would have elected heads of local government like mayors in many cities, some would be ruled directly by the church, and even the laws and customs could vary dramatically between the domains of the various nobles. In essence, the Imperium is a space medieval society that due to the original generation of games workshop writers being history nerds with degrees and shit, actually resembles a medieval society much better than stories supposedly set in faux-medieval times. The Imperium has much more in common with the Empire of Charlemagne (during the Great Crusade) or the Holy Roman Empire than it does with any of the expansionist and/or authoritarian regimes that arose from the 1700s and onwards.

You could also hand the whiners the Ciaphas Cain books, which repeatedly showcases Imperial worlds that are actually fairly decent places to live, with planetary governments that actually give a shit about their people, and are perfectly capable of surviving an invasion or two (or several, in the case of ork threats) and still returning to a state of normalcy after the organizations whose purpose is to deal with these threats does their jobs (who, by the way, eight times out of ten are usually able to do so without leaving the planet in question a smoking ruin).

Space feudalism is even implied in the way the people in the lore speak of the Imperium. For instance, a politician might tell his fellow "watch what you say or the Imperium will come" or something. The Imperium is an outsider to most of the worlds it is made of, not an immediate presence. This is, like real life, out of necessity. Real life feudalism was due to social breakdown following Rome's collapse, and technology limited just how much one group could control. The Imperium is much the same, this time due to sheer scale involved and the collapse of order following the Iron War and the Age of Strife.

===Tl;dr===
[[Tl;dr]] the Imperium of Man has [[Lulz|more in common with the]] [[Star Trek|United Federation of Planets]] [[Derp|in terms of government structure than it does with the]] [[Star Wars|Galactic Empire.]] They're allowed to rule with relative independence, as long as they pay their tithes and obey the [[Imperial Cult]]. This does, of course, lead to many worlds being shitholes ruled by greedy homicidal tyrants, but there are plenty of examples of peaceful and even prosperous worlds. It really depends on galactic location and just chance. As long as you're not a xenos race or attempt to [[Badab War|cut ties]] [[Macharian Crusade|with the Imperium]], you have a chance of living a comfortable life. And with millions of worlds with ''trillions'' of people inhabiting them, those chances might actually be decent. The vast majority of worlds are Civilized Worlds (also known as "Imperial Worlds", but that is a stupid and confusing name so fuck that) and the vast majority of Civilized Worlds are quite pleasant places to be and are still pretty much what the Great Crusade created barring the addition of the Imperial Creed over the Imperial Truth. Most of the grimdark happens on a handful of worlds in the Imperium and even then only specific spots (like the Underhive of a particularly harsh Hive World). For all but a minuscule number of humans, life in the Imperium really is pretty great. You have a guaranteed job (that is not going to hurt you, unlike working on a Forge World), a higher standard of living than a modern first world country (civilian technology is quite advanced still since nearly every world produces it so it can't really be lost, unlike advanced military tech), easy access to extremely cheap transportation, etc. So, as long as you can dodge the draft into the Guard, you'll be totally good (until the Commissar or local priest comes looking for you for dodging). Although, there aren't drafts for the Guard (depending on world, but it's rare). Conscription is performed on rare occassions to provide manpower to nearby warzones temporarily and once that battle is over they are returned home. This might seem oddly generous, but remember: '''the Imperium genuinely cares about its citizens.''' This humanity at its core is why most fans view it as "the good guy" of Warhammer 40,000.

==Anthems of the Imperium of Man==
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duYoKxb0IeI - The anthem of the Imperium of the 41st Millennium.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM_c_avPlx4 - Battle anthem of the Adeptus Astartes

==See Also==
* [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)]], for their slightly less grimdark and '''much''' smaller scale alleged Warhammer Fantasy counterpart.
* [[Skaven|The Underempire]] for their ''actual'' Warhammer Fantasy counterpart.
* [[Azyr]] for their [[noblebright]] [[Warhammer: Age of Sigmar]] counterpart.

==Summary==
[[grimdark|In the grim dark future of the 41st Millennium, there is only bleak, grim, black, hopeless, dismal, barren, gloomy, gray, joyless, dour, dreary, dark, cheerless, glum, oppressive, somber, grim darkness. And the sugar beet/cane is extinct.]]
[[File:DAoT.jpg|580px|center|thumb|What the Imperium would likely look like if the Mechanicus ever decided to get their head out of their collective ass. Except there would be skulls and gothic architecture everywhere (which is automatically superior in every way to stupid shiny smooth shit).]]
[[File:1342123121.jpg|580px|center|thumb|Ah, much better...]]

==External Link==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MeVxKZBOfM The history of the Imperium in about a minute and a half.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUrSQNSN6_c The Story of the Imperium in a musical piece] - [[Great Crusade|Slow start that]] [[Horus Heresy|soon erupts into allout badassery]] [[Time of Ending|and is quenched in a desperate last stand against the mighiest threats,]] [[Grimdark|before it flickers and dies...]]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHSvSZ-UEFc An (arguably) more optimistic but no less brutal take on the eternal Imperium and its history. Times of majesty, times of destruction, times of glory, times of despair, they all alternate and repeat with the one endless constant of war.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csu6vbWA-YQ A new song to herald the trying time of the Imperium] - [[Black Crusade|A slow, malevolent start]] [[Great Rift|to capture the spread of evil]] [[Cadia|over the closest thing to good in the universe]] [[Belisarius Cawl|followed by]] [[Saint Celestine|faint whispers of]] [[Roboute Guilliman| hope]] [[Indomitus Crusade|that erupts in an enormous cresendo,]] [[grimdark|before fading with a quiet whine.]]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1CQ7Vwz8Eo the Imperium of man's theme song, less serious, more accurate perhaps.]

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