Editing Skaven (section)

==Warhammer 40k==
While no direct space Skaven exist, there are ratlike mutants described in the fluff, rat-worshiping cultists in [[Necromunda]], a [[mutant]] race called [[Ratlings]] which despite being more [[halfling]] than rat could be argued as a successor.

<strike>The many aspects of the Imperium society is an analogue to the Skaven's society. Its people are uneducated and amoral xenophobes who are mass-bred and treated as currency and is also the most numerous in the setting. Further more, many of its people lived in a poor yet mass crowded city environment called the [[hive city]] where they practice [[cannibalism#Specific /tg/ examples|cannibalism (corpse starch)]] due to the shortage of food. Imperium's major institutions also mirrored to the Skaven's four major clans in many ways:</br>-[[Clan Moulder| creating super soldiers (space marines) using fleshcraft and brutal training in the most immoral way possible]].</br>-[[Clan Eshin|super assassins (Officio Assassinorum) that can silent anyone, be it foes, misbehaving bureaucrats, commander, or traitors]]</br>-[[Clan Skryre|technology specialist (Adeptus Mechanicus) who has no idea on how their technology works with most of their inventions being: made out of two old inventions combine, dug from ancient blueprints (STC), or from stealing xeno technologies.]]</br>-[[Clan Pestilens|fanatically loyal religious zealots (Ecclesiarchy) who had almost doomed the Imperium with a massive civil war (Age of Apostasy).]]</br>On top of it all, [[Horned Rat|their figure head, The Emperor of Mankind was a man with near god like power]], [[Verminlord|who had demi-god like sons/commander in the form of Primarch working for him]]. Interestingly, [[Roboute Guilliman]] is the only active Primarch in the Imperium and he is the THIRTEEN'S son of the Emperor. Coincidence? I think not!</strike>[[Blam|'''*BLAM*''' HERESY!]], and lastly there are the Tyranids who are 40k's version of ungodly numbers faction crossed with the [[Ogre Kingdoms]] motivation to eat everything in sight (though for different reasons). The [[Hrud]] used to be the Space Skaven, as in giant dieselpunk rat people, but that was pretty much retconned. They look different now (on the rare occasion they are mentioned in the fluff), so the only actual space Skaven are the Veer-Myn from [[Warpath]] by [[Mantic Games]]. Their models aren't the greatest things ever, but offer great potential for conversions into stuff for Clan Skryre and Warlock Engineer stuff for Fantasy. It looks like the recent Skitarii model releases may have taken inspiration from the Skaven aesthetic (though not gameplay) with their many steampunk-styled weapons, most notably the Transuranic Arquebus and Radium Jezzail. Alternatively, the Genestealer Cults are a particularly close match gameplay-wise, with lots of ambushing troops and monsters backed up by armor and artillery.

Also, the Skaven once accidentally called the Eldar on their Farsqueaker. The Skaven were scared shitless when they heard a voice like an Elf's coming from the other end. Presumably the Skaven don't have enough numbers or high enough technology at the time of Age of Sigmar to attempt to travel through a Gnawhole to the 40K galaxy and utilize their usual antics without fear of being wiped out... yet.

More recently in Darktide, the symbol of the Great horned rat can occasionally be seen painted on the walls of the nurgle cultist overrun Tertium hive.