What is the 'Average' home like in the Imperium?

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[mdforbes]

Joe has a window... his wife is crazy for leaving him

[Mister-Sinner]

Look at Mr Fancy Pants with his nutrient sticks and window

[PhthaloGreenskin]

A dark Eldar Hamonculus was on Terra to try to fix the golden Throne. He was OVERWHELMED by the amount of suffering on terra. The Dark Eldar mad Scientist was overwhelmed by the suffering on terra. That's like when Charlie Sheen comes up to you and says "listen, you're doing to many drugs".

[bluedotdinosaur]

IIRC, as 40k's fiction has grown over time, the hive cities have been framed like this: originally they were very different during the golden age of humanity. The hives were supported by technology that has long since failed and been removed, replaced with far cruder machinery to keep them barely livable.

Originally, the hives were arcologies that were clean and healthy. The purpose was to avoid humanity paving over entire worlds and destroying their ecologies, by keeping most humans living in central locations. Advanced technology and engineering was used to make the cities pleasant. One might imagine even if the average person had a small apartment it was mainly a sleeping room, and most time was spent out and around the mega city. In vast parks, libraries, arcades, and universities. Remember at the height, most labor and manufacturing was performed by "men of iron" or AI servitors.

The problem is after the fall, the megacities began to fail. When the Men of Iron were destroyed, humans were forced to labor under conditions originally meant for machines. Dark, hidden underground, unsafe, without adequate atmospheric circulation. Most of the healthy public facilities would have vanished, with a minority being preserved for the noble families who seized control at the topmost levels.

Since the hive city paradigm seems to have been one of the standard practices for humanity colonizing the galaxy - back when such a city provided a good life - it explains why most of humanity lives in squalor now. They are being forced to inhabit environments that have not only fallen apart, but were never actually intended for human beings to live and work in.

[kolsfug]

My favorite description of being an Imperial Citizen was something along the lines of "Not having any sort of badge of office, gang-symbol or other sign of ownership on your person is a death-sentence. Everyone NEEEDS to belong to something or someone, because being alone means people can do whatever they want with you without fear of retaliation or even investigation."

Great personal narrative, and makes it easy to see why a lot of people would sell their souls just for the chance of escaping to something better or just 'different'!

[xili]

Me watching this video in my studio apartment after a dinner of fried spam: "Warhammer 40K is so dystopian!"

[gigachadgaming]

All he needs is some galvanized square steel, eco-friendly wood veneers, and screws borrowed from his aunt

[alexalexander]

His hobbies. I’d like to think he’s painting miniature social workers and counselors for some crazy table top social engineering game.

[KrautGoesWild]

Ciaphas Cain and a pre-Heresy Horus are the only people I ever saw smile in WH40K artwork.

[MGrey-qbxz]

can't imagine this is what emperor ever wanted for humanity

[forthrightgambitia]

It's worth remembering that when GW were designing 40k in the late 80s, Kowloon Walled City was somewhat well know in the UK (Hong Kong still being under British control). Along with other sources of inspiration I do think that this was one of the big things that fed into Necromunda - even down to how the Hong Kong of the time and especially Kowloon were under triad control when game that we now know as proto-Necromunda, Confrontation, was being developed (released in 1990).

[jonathanchow]

I can imagine it to be like living in a massive prison block especially on the worker levels where people there have no hope of ascending their position

[teeheeteeheeish]

I feel like having a door and some privacy is almost too luxurious. I'd expect crude bunks in an open bay lol.

[WarpsmithDoviculus]

After years of lurking in the 40k lore side of YouTube, I have never seen a better video about the average life of a regular citizen. The production is good, the music soothing but yet captivating. Your voice kept me concentrated on both your dialogue and my miniatures. I absolutely love your content. I will watch your career with great interests.

A personal recommendation of mine would be a video on traitor guardsmen. Their fall, their life, notable group in the lore, etc.

[JHattsy]

"we're gonna describe a hab unit!" describes a 1 bedroom apartment in California / New York.
40k ain't so far away...

[Knights_Oath]

There is a reason people will stand in a que for most of their lives so that one of their great grand children can become a menial scribe in the Administratum. The Guard is a privilege to most in the Imperium, they feed you at least. Even if the average life span of a Guardsmen in combat is 15 hours.

[rottingcorpse]

In Darktide, you can see the living conditions of the general populace in the mission Hab Dreyko. They live inside hab blocks that are made of lots of apartments that contain shared living space with bunk beds. Also at the beginning of the mission Power Matrix HL-17-36, the characters comment about the horrible conditions of the workers in the manufactorum which are even worse than in hab blocks. You can see stuff like blankets, pillows, clothes and sleeping bags randomly spread in areas that look like small locker rooms, right next to enormous factory rooms that contain massive machinery and scorching heat of Metalfab 36.

[haggleman]

I'm glad the model hive city was based off the ancient forgotten metropolis known as Los Angeles.

[Derekthetau]

Wow, I just assumed this was a bigger channel. Nicely done. I look forward to more of your work!

[lazylazymule]

Lives of the average citizen is something we really don't get enough of in 40K!!!