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calancid - you're perfectly entitled not to buy. Superficially there are similarities. Hell - it's common grunts with lasguns facing up against the horrors of the universe. (And both series written by bald men....)
The reason for this — and the following includes light spoilers from 2017’s Fall of Cadia — is that the author avoids all plotlines of consequence. Saint Celestine rises to defend Cadians, Phalanx warps in from Terra, and Belisarius Cawl shows up with an Ark Mechanicus attempting to stop the Cicatrix Maledictum. This is epic stuff. Yet absolutely none of this shows up in the novel. Cadia Stands is a collection of B-Plots that are, by definition, of no consequence. Guardsmen die in their thousands fighting irrelevant battles while the fate of the galaxy is being decided, and the author chooses the former to follow. Because of its short length, the book also abandons many of the descriptive strengths which can further help work toward the strengths of Warhammer as a setting. There are few descriptions of barren wastes, hives or gothic architecture, or elements which fully convey age. It starts promisingly enough with a moment featuring a star fortress being towed into orbit, but it never manages to successfully repeat that moment. This leaves it very reliant upon its characters to keep the story engaging. While it certainly gets that right, it doesn't get it completely on point. Oh, the core cast is fine, but it drops the ball with the villains. JH: Minka Lesk is the Cadian who starts Cadia Stands (‘She is four. It is time to learn….’) now grown up, and still reeling from the fall of the Cadian Gate. She’s the pivotal character, and the face of the book – one of the best BL covers I’ve seen – which is awesome! Cadian society was so martial that camouflage patterns made their way into the everyday fashion of even the wealthy and successful. It was always very easy to determine who was an outsider or local on Cadia simply by what they wore.
The one thing all investigators agreed upon was that the pylons were responsible for the stable Warp-corridor known as the Cadian Gate. Adepts conjectured that they emitted a becalming signal, taming the roiling energies of the Immaterium around the Cadian System. This story has fantastic potential. The BEF after Dunkirk, the allies evacuating Gallipoli or the march of the 10000 men are great examples of defeated armies making themselves into heroic legends. How these groups were viewed at the time I’m sure is completely different to how we see their heroism today and almost certainly very different to how they saw their own defeats. From the air, Kasr Derth looked like an intricate angular puzzle. Given the Cadians' mettle and their skills at urban warfare, a kasr could be held street by street, metre by metre, for solar months if not standard years. Together, these Imperials -- the so-called Celestinian Crusade -- would forge an uneasy alliance with the enigmatic xenos that would offer a new hope for the servants of the Emperor in their fight against the waxing power of the Archenemy -- the resurrection of the Primarch Roboute Guilliman. Settled before the onset of the Age of Strife by a branch of Humanity that eventually fell to the worship of the Chaos Gods and played a major role in the ultimate corruption of the Space Marine Legions, Cadia was re-settled sometime in the early 32nd Millennium by Loyalist Humans of the Imperium.
Who wouldn’t want to be an Attilan Rough Rider? Tearing across the battlefield, skewering tanks with melta-tipped hunting lances, sporting some of the finest headwear in the Astra Militarum… life in the Imperium’s premier cavalry regiment is nothing but good times. This set contains five Rough Riders with a wide variety of head options. Cadian Upgrades Read my review of Ghost Warrior or my Rapid Fire interviews with Gav about Ghost Warrior and Wild Rider. What else? Despite millennia of study, the Adeptus Mechanicus failed to discover the purpose of the pylons. Servitors sent within invariably ceased to function or suffered circuit overload; all attempts to breach the structures' gleaming surfaces met with failure. Any recovered data was fragmentary at best, and contradictory at worst. Even the identity of the pylons' creators was shrouded in mystery.The narrators accent was jarring at first but I got use to it and by the end it sort of grew on me. I wasn't keen on the way she portrayed shouting as a gruff whisper but its probably better than a high pitched howl.
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