It was very interesting.

Oh yeah, I didn’t go that far with it!

When I find contradictions like this, which are inevitable, given the setting's huge scope and the number of creators, it's my impulse to make BOTH true, which led to the Cawl series, and Cawl being a gestalt of merged personalities.

As an aside, GW aren't overly dictatorial about what we write. It was actually my idea, having been introduced to Cawl while writing Dark Imperium, to feature him the distant past as a young man. Interestingly, someone else, simultaneously, wrote about him being old in that period of 40k's setting.

I often try to use science to do this, but a lot of the time my research isn't profound, I do a bit of reading or simply apply logic to the situation. Logic led me to the Ultramaran quarantine protocols, so that's a win for me!

I also find it fascinating to speculate how this stuff would actually work in real life, and enjoy exploring it without breaking the rules of the universe.

Hey, thanks for that. That's really cool to hear that I got it right. It's very important for me as a writer that all the magic space stuff has a firm, believable background, because then it makes it easier to buy into.

This one is me, talking about plague narratives in 40K, and how much they make sense from an epidemiological perspective.

TLDR: If it's @guyhaley.bsky.social odds are it's pretty good!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZG1...

Ha! It’s your hobby!

You can do it!

If you’re certain you’re going to cut that much, do the edit first. An edit that big will change the shape of the project. You’ll get more focussed feedback from your beta readers. It’s better than having them fight through stuff you’re going to lose anyway.

I see! Yeah, apologies if I seemed curt. It’s always the way with 40k. People can take any statement, no matter how it is contextualised or who is saying it, as being the truth. I’m always keen to avoid that!