Reviews for Trapped In A Voidborn Nightmare
BloodRedRosesRise chapter 1 . 5/28
is this story dead or going to update?
Chaos Drago chapter 1 . 5/12
Amazing Story, I'm loving the reboot. Look like that our protagonist appeared during the War of Heaven huh? I love it, but I wonder which side he'll be apart of tho, Aeldari or the Necorns? Or will he be a Third party? who knows, only time will tell. But anyways, Love the Story and I can't wait for the next chapter.
Guest chapter 1 . 4/22
I read the story before this one it’s good I hope you update.
Yes chapter 1 . 1/7
U ded?
Guest chapter 1 . 12/15/2019
The Imperium is always depicted as knowing they are committing a necessary evil, although the alternative would possibly be creating a second Negative Space Wedgie at the heart of itself (which is kind of what happened with the Eldar). Taking the lesser of two evils means that they think of themselves as good in comparison to the alternative.
However, individuals within the Imperium may have a slightly different view of things. In For The Emperor, Commissar Cain reflects on how, to him, Tau society appears extremely rigid and rulebound by comparison to the more laissez-faire attitude of the Imperium towards its citizens. Unless they're heretics of course...

Fascist policies are not just justified, but absolutely required for mere survival because the 40K universe is so damned dangerous
"if you let me put my thumb on the utilitarian scales, I can get you to agree that you have an affirmative moral duty to torture a three-year-old child to death."

Powerful and Continuing Nationalism: It's not like you can emigrate anywhere. (Well, maybe the Tau Empire or The Eye of Terror)

Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights: They have an Inquisition, and it's actually necessary to prevent chaos demons from appearing everywhere.

Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause: It's pretty easy when the scapegoats are constantly spitting acid on the front door.

Supremacy of the Military: War is everywhere, and failure means the deaths of billions or even trillions, the military is all that stands between humanity and chaotic oblivion. However, unlike other fascist regimes, the military is not precisely glorified. With a few exceptions, Imperial Guardsmen are taught that the military is, like everything else in the Imperium, a tool of survival. Unlike most fascist regimes, in which the military is a means to righteous victory over the Supreme Leader's many and sundry enemies, victory is not spoken of in the Imperium, only survival. Because victory is widely perceived to be (and actually is) impossible, a perception common among rank-and-file Guardsmen themselves, any potential glamor or glory the military might have is ground down by the reality of constant war. Contrast with fascist imagery of long struggles but quick and victorious wars over the weak and spineless enemy. Even the grandiose religious and authoritarian imagery woven into the Imperial Guard's equipment (battleships built like cathedrals, tanks built like castles) has a practical purpose: to keep both the Guardsmen and the populations they 'defend' in awe of the might of the Imperium, reducing the likelihood of revolt or mutiny.

Controlled Mass Media: "Knowledge is power; guard it well." It's nigh-impossible to know what's really happening in the Imperium, since the bureaucracy hides it. The reasons for doing this range from simply keeping the masses loyal and productive (if there is, say, a genestealer cult on the planet, the populace doesn't need to know; if they're panicking in the streets they aren't growing crops or building weapons for the Imperium), to protection against the fact that in this universe, knowledge can LITERALLY be power. Power that can make you pants-crappingly insane or summon The Legions of Hell. Which leads to the next point

Obsession with National Security: The whole universe is a thin sheen of normality built atop a gigantic Negative Space Wedgie; the obsession with defense and warfare is crucial to the survival of humanity. On a more local scale, constant vigilance against heretic, xeno, mutant, and witch (rogue psyker). Any one of these groups can destroy an entire planet with relative ease and can show up at any time. For example: a Chaos fleet shows up above a random planet, the uncertain nature of FTL travel having thrown them thousands of light years off course. A heretics summon demons. Eldar glass your cities or entire worlds on the off chance it'll save one of their own centuries or millenia from now. Psyker's brain explodes in crowded work camp, kills hundreds, attracts notice of Tzeentch. The Imperium's sole defense against such threats is an obsession with security.

Religion and Government are Intertwined: The Empire of Man is a straight-up theocracy, because not only is worship of the Emperor justified, it's required for the Astronomican (A huge psychic beacon that guides faster-than-light travel all over the galaxy) to work

While the Imperium of Man is rabidly and xenocidally human-centric, but considering that the Eldar view every other species as mindless pawns to be manipulated, the Tau are divided into genetically "pure" castes based on their physical specializations and practice brainwashing, reeducation and concentration camps and forced mass sterilization, the Orks tend to "crump any o' 'dose gits what ain't Orky enuff!" - including other Orks – live only for murder, mayhem, and the joy of slaughter, and everything else is trying to kill everything else, it's fairly understandable. More than understandable: due to the nature of the Imperial religion and the fact that the God Emperor is the only “god” that Chaos can't touch, he IS anathema to the Ruinous Powers, the greatest source of order in the galaxy/universe, there HAVE been quite literal miracles Those who are possessed of enough faith in him can call upon small portions of his power (as evidenced by living saints and the occasional miracle) it could be argued he has champions(possibly Sensei/Illuminati), and that he does occasionally bestow 'gifts' (think Celestine, the living saint and her ability to not die, becoming a close-minded, xenophobic bigot is pretty much the only way your soul can be saved

Given that genetic mutation and spiritual corruption are often interlinked mutation of the body from the Holy Human Form is a sure sign of Chaos taint
That said, some mutants are tolerated in the Imperium, because they are necessary and/or relatively stable. This includes Navigators, who are necessary for Warp travel, psykers, who are important for astropathic communication, powering the Astronomican, and feeding the Emperor, and the various strains of abhumans, who are stable and useful.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, followers of Chaos treat mutants very highly, as they are considered favored by the Chaos Gods. Tzeentch in particular doles out mutations like there's no tomorrow (and knowing 40k, there legitimately may not be), giving his followers extra eyes, arms, legs, and even heads

Obsession with Crime and Punishment: When your crimes can summon demons and destroy worlds, the state is justified in being interested in them

In other words: In the grim darkness of the far future, War is Peace

You LOVE the Emperor of Mankind, the eternal savior of humanity, for without his protection mankind would face certain extinction. You know that even heretical thoughts create windows into the Warp for unimaginable horrors, but your moral sensibilities raised by (insert atrocity X) might cause you to question: Is the Imperium's rule really the last, best hope of humanity? Am I fighting for the good guys? Maybe those Tau, or that cult of freethinkers, really work for the Greater Good or want better lives for the miserable oppressed.
(the paranoid gut-wrenching moral dilemma here is captured by most half-way decent mindf* spy movies)
Maybe you defect, or are corrupted. You quickly learn that not only are they as bad, but they are worse than the Imperium, that their boot on every human's face, forever, is better compared to alternatives. Hopefully, in the moments before the inquisitorial bullet claims you, you will have the comfort of knowing that YOU LOVE THE GOD-EMPEROR, because HE PROTECTS HUMANITY
Tiberius3969 chapter 1 . 8/28/2019
Is this storyline dead or are just on hiatus? Because this one and the previous one are really good
Hadrian.Caeser chapter 1 . 8/13/2019
A great story. Please continue writing
yesboss21 chapter 1 . 6/30/2019
Damn i love it, i wonder what kind of ripples he will send towards the future
lavelle1984.cl chapter 1 . 6/5/2019
Starting with the war in heaven? Should be a good read, I can't wait to read more.
andrewswings chapter 1 . 4/16/2019
yay i love this cyoa and this story definitly gives it justice keep up the good work
scorpin17 chapter 1 . 3/30/2019
love it
Keeper of Dream chapter 1 . 2/15/2019
Does anyone know when the next chapter going to come out?, Is there a schedule?.

I've been waiting for next chapter for like four months now, I'm wondering if this is abandoned or drop like the last one?.
Guest chapter 1 . 2/8/2019
Well, are there so many whining commenters in those reviews, about the lack of updates. In my opinion rereading something after a long time can fullfill the thirst for more and in some cases even make the reader remember about similar fictions. In my case it was Nomad from SBattles, phenomental WH fic. After remembering that SB has some interesting WH fics I was rewarded with some chapters and sidestories that were updated from my last visit. SO I do not understand why people whine about the lack of updates when simple act of rereading what was once read can lead one to some long forgotten fics.
Someguy chapter 1 . 1/12/2019
Very nice
JrOfDirt1998 chapter 1 . 1/10/2019
While I find the concept of the black forest interesting the ship being made up of such advanced tech the laws of the material universe damages its "unreality" surrounding the ship only being able to maintain its existence for 3 months until it needs to retreat back to the black forest you could have the ship being less and less effective the longer it stays in the material universe.

It would still be functional in space but it may be weakened in the material world so much there's a chance it could be wrecked by necrons,space marines,tyranids ,chaos,eldar etc...Chaos may be able to invade the black forest dimension since it sounds like a closed off portion of the warp similar to the Webway but instead of being artificial it could be natural just a really ancient space in the warp.

Anyway it's interesting and I look forward to more and I might have to look up the CYOA since I've done adventure books similar but never looked at homebrewed stuff like this. Looking forward to more.
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