Hey everyone, this is a Zero episode of an upcoming project David Heath and DB Spitzer are working on. It is an exploration of the sources of Warhammer 40,000, and their sources.Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]Season 23 bonus episodes 1-251The Imperium of ManDune, Foundation, Roman Empire in space, religious dystopiasEdward Gibbon, imperial decline literature, medieval Christendom, future-history fiction2Space MarinesStarship Troopers, action-movie super soldiers, power armor, comic-book warriorsHeinlein military SF, crusading orders, Spartan myth, warrior monks, fascist hero imagery3Astra Militarum / Imperial GuardWorld War movies, Starship Troopers, British war comics, doomed infantry storiesH. G. Wells future-war fiction, Kipling, trench literature, boys’ military papers, pulp battlefield fiction4Adeptus MechanicusMetropolis, cyberpunk machine cults, mad scientists, techno-priestsGernsback invention fiction, H. G. Wells, Frankenstein, lost-technology stories, mad-science pulp5Adepta Sororitas / EcclesiarchyHammer horror, warrior nuns, Joan of Arc cinema, witchfinder moviesGothic novels, martyr stories, saint legends, witch-trial pamphlets, religious melodrama6The InquisitionThe X-Files, witchfinder films, secret-police thrillers, occult detectivesM. R. James-style scholars, Blackwood, Machen, witch-hunter tracts, secret-society fiction7Rogue TradersStar Trek, Flash Gordon, space pirates, merchant princesPlanetary romance, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, colonial adventure fiction8Adeptus CustodesGolden demigod bodyguards, imperial palace guards, mythic super-soldiersAchilles, Gilgamesh, sacred kingship, Praetorian Guards, immortal companions of god-kings9Adeptus TitanicusPacific Rim, Gundam, giant robot anime, kaiju movies, walking battleships, cathedral mechaWells’ Martian tripods, “The Land Ironclads,” dreadnoughts, siege engines, bronze giants, golems, sacred statues, war-gods10The Horus HeresyStar Wars, fallen Jedi, dark lords, civil-war space opera, tragic chosen onesMilton’s Paradise Lost, Lucifer’s rebellion, Cain and Abel, Arthur and Mordred, Roman civil wars, succession crises11Chaos Space MarinesFallen angels, heavy metal villains, corrupted super-soldiers, black knights, rebel legionsMilton’s Paradise Lost, Moorcock’s Chaos, Byronic rebels, cursed champions, Satanic romance, Gothic villains, revenge tragedy12Chaos DaemonsHellraiser, Event Horizon, occult horror, possession films, nightmare dimensionsMedieval demonology, grimoires, witch-trial literature, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, occult pulp, weird menace fiction13World Eaters / KhorneConan, gladiator films, berserker metal, chainsaw action horror, grindhouse revengeRobert E. Howard, sword-and-sorcery pulp, berserker sagas, blood cults, Homeric rage, arena spectacle, revenge tragedy14Death Guard / NurgleZombie plague films, body horror, gross-out comedy, infection horror, fungal rot, swamp monstersPoe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” plague literature, danse macabre, memento mori, corpse folklore, leper saints15Thousand Sons / TzeentchWizard cults, cursed books, Egyptian sorcerers, cosmic chessmasters, forbidden librariesH. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, E. R. Eddison, mummy fiction, forbidden-book stories, Decadent occultism, Renaissance magic16Emperor’s Children / SlaaneshGlam rock horror, decadent villains, body modification nightmares, cursed artists, aristocratic monstersOscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Huysmans, fin-de-siècle decadence, Gothic aristocrats, cursed art, aestheticism17Chaos / Imperial KnightsHaunted mecha, cursed noble machines, demonic war engines, Gundam, BattleTech, Pacific RimGothic castles, cursed armor, haunted inheritance, family-doom melodrama, chivalric romance, sins of the fathers18OrksMad Max, f