Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map – Cartographia Imperialis

ale42•about 2 hours ago

The Latin seems quite wrong... e.g. "segmentum pacificus" should actually be "segmentum pacificum" [1] to keep genders correct. Was it the same in the books (which I don't know)?

[1] see Latin dictionary: https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-dictionary-fle... and https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-dictionary-fle...

nope1000•about 2 hours ago

Those words are supposed to be "high gothic" (https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/High_Gothic) which is definitly inspired by latin but not the same.

vermilingua•about 2 hours ago

Fandom (40k's fandom seems less-terrible than most tbf) needs to die a faster death. Lexicanum is a much better resource.

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/High_Gothic

nope1000•about 1 hour ago

Good point, I just used the first hit on kagi to source the claim but you are right.

ajross•about 1 hour ago

Which is to say, the original authors didn't care and were just writing latinesque gibberish that sounded cool.

One of the critically important things to remember about 40k lore is that the game was originally a joke. Their "real" game was Warhammer (the game to be later called "Warhammer Fantasy"). Originally it was just "Let's put space opera tropes onto a game board and have them fight D&D monsters". Then they shoe-horned the chaos stuff in, then had a (presumably drunken) exercise in lore writing where they "invented" "Grimdark" by essentially turning the Despair knob up to 11.

And then it turned out to be popular, and it was time to start trying to write real stories on top of the mess. And... people loved it. Including a lot of people for whom the comically ridiculous Grimdark stuff turned into a kind of authoritarian wish fulfillment, which wasn't great. But you have to remember it was all a joke to begin with.

rye-neat•about 2 hours ago

This is awesome. It would be cool to see what books talk about each world when you click on them. Also to be able to search for books and see what worlds are talked about in them.

big_babol•about 3 hours ago

Love it! References to the books would be awesome, since they basically hold the Warhammer 40k "history"

nocchedure•about 2 hours ago

Something's off with the performance when routes are enabled. Disabling them instantly makes everything super snappy.

nnevatie•about 2 hours ago

Looks cool. Some of the paths get prematuraly clipped when they're still partially on the screen.

sklargh•about 2 hours ago

Simply came here to note that this was fun and that Event Horizon is clearly WH40K deep canon.

tovve•about 1 hour ago

The text overviews for the planets really scream that they're generated by Abominable Intelligence, but I love the map itself.

dash2•about 2 hours ago

Inquisitors have been ordered to find and terminate the machine which generated this slop. For The Emperor!

tapland•about 1 hour ago

The performance is absolutely atrocious with default settings, but it's a nice project.

Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map – Cartographia Imperialis

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