In 2018, Syama Pedersen began importing Astartes, a five-part Warhammer 40,000 fan movie that was so good Games Workshop employed him to work on their very own animations. Not solely that, they made the Retributor chapter of area marines he’d invented a part of the official canon. Since then Pedersen’s title has proven up in locations just like the credit of the 40K episode of Amazon’s Secret Level, however what we have actually been ready for is a sequel to Astartes.
And right here it’s. The trailer for Astartes 2 is 80 seconds of hardcore marine-on-alien motion, and it guidelines. Like the unique Astartes, it makes the marines appear weighty with out trying awkward or cumbersome, agile sufficient to cross a barricade like a Nineteen Seventies TV cop sliding throughout the hood of a automotive, or hurtle down a tunnel with a jetpack at full pace.
As defined in an accompanying Warhammer Community put up, this teaser is a type of prequel to introduce the 5 marines who’ll be the protagonists of Astartes 2. We see each’s helmet up shut interspersed with scenes of their chapters doing ultraviolence on aliens and heretics, and apparently they’re all members of secondary “successor” chapters reasonably than the favored ones. Where most official animations and videogames are about chapters just like the Ultramarines and Blood Angels, right here we see what I’m fairly positive are Retributors, Angels Vermillion, Sons of Medusa, Mortifactors, and Scythes of the Emperor (they’re those with the wonderful capes).
At the top, the ultimate helmet belongs to a terminator marine and bears an Inquisition seal, suggesting that the 5 marines could have joined the Deathwatch, similar to Titus initially of Space Marine 2, and be working collectively to battle xenos. “Suffer not the alien to dwell,” because the teaser’s remaining quote has it, earlier than a launch date of “2026”. We’ll be ready some time then, although there’s different Warhammer reveals to tide us over. I simply watched the three episodes of The Tithes, an anthology concerning the value the Imperium asks of its residents, and that is completely first rate too.
