#killteam teasers

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

Hold on. How can a "soopa weapon" that looks like two mountain-sized tubes pointed into space "dakka yooz up good" during a ground assault?

Just what IS this "Alpha Asset"?

WHAT IS IT AND WHY DOES IT GIVE ORKS THE MENTAL EQUIVALENT OF A BONER BY JUST LOOKING AT IT?!?

[mr-dan-e-mals]

This weeks @critical_role paint session i worked on objectives and bases! Some gold items, a vial, and a spellbook/scroll that @voiceofobrien 's Caleb can drool over! Worked on my #killteam bases as well while I was at it and tried some new weathering techniques! And lastly a bit of a teaser for what i started prepping for next week! @wizards_magic @geekandsundry @jointeamalpha #Criticalrole #dnd #happylittleminis #magicalteredart #3d #magicthegathering https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnaimg1lW7P/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1s8qu4bbq1r6b

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

Looks like things are getting weird in the recent teasers regarding the "Alpha Asset". From the previous teaser we learned that the imperium would risk several other worlds starving by drawing forces from agri-worlds ("let those it fed subsist on faith") because it is that important.

That did not tell us anything about it really. But today we have been given some information. First of all the planet's name is "Volkus". Going by the amount of "Vokite Weaponry" we got, this is very likely to be a Mechanicus Forgeworld. So whatever that asset is, it is most likely tech.

Tech that can wipe out T'au ships - which is a big deal, as T'au vessels are nothing to sneeze at with all those shields and railguns. Ever looked up the araments and statline of the average Manta? Fearing that a single thing can reliably and without a struggle delete a whole fleet of those is quite an indiciator to how insane this "Alpha Asset" is.

What is curious is how the T'au are talking about it:

This pause before "weapon" somehow reads like while it can function like one, it most likely is something else entirely that has just been weaponized by the imperium because they are literally too stupid and/or technologically inept to use the actual functions of the thing.

"Evade notice of the human superweapon" also is... weird specific? They do not evade notice of "planetary defenses" or "imperial forces", they are evading the "Alpha Asset" itself. So not only is it a machine that handles some insane levels of energy that it can endanger a whole fleet, the weapon ITSELF can also notice things, implying at least sensor capabilities.

Perhaps a DaoT-era space station? Perhaps a thing that was originally used by humanity to terrform the system 20,000 years prior and that has now been reduced to "idk just overload it and point the exhaust at the enemy?". Of course it might also be an imperial-controlled Blackstone fortress, but I do not remember them having fleet-wiping capabilities unless you pull an Abby and use it as a battering ram. Perhaps it is an STC? Those can get pretty insane, especially if it is one focussed on military tech. If it was the STC for making warpships then it would expain why the imperium would let billions die before they risk losing it.

Whatever it is, all we know for sure is that it flies - theme for the killteam release seems to be jetpack-guard vs Vespids if the rumors can be believed.