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Gathering Storm book. Read 3 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Gathering Storm. Author: Parry Jess. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the permission to share this book. So, whatever else is to follow this, the book was a genuinely solid effort to explore some much discussed ideas. While I am going to heavily criticise many points from here on, the book does still have a few gems to offer, and its failings shouldn't be allowed to completely overshadow that fact.
It's just a damn shame it has so many failings that we need to cover here. The Bad The one thing you will find arising time and time again throughout this book, is that whoever was behind it didn't want to ever go into any massive amount of detail. On anything. Often making the mistake of trying to turn events into a novel over an ongoing conflict between armies, for every genuinely great moment of fantastic characterisation there seemed to be one missed opportunity.
For every time it did remember the likes of the Ultramar Auxilia existed, it would reduce them to the role of mere cannon fodder or shove them aside for most of the book. There was a constant sense of Rise of the Primarch wanting to briefly deal with certain concepts, but never cared enough to actually commit to them at any point.
The issue of actually focusing upon a story and sticking to it is made all the clearer when you see just how quickly previous story ideas are abandoned. The distrust and hatred between Celestine and Greyfax is dealt with in little more than a paragraph - a secondary one of the skippable type at that- meaning that it amounted to nothing in the long run. Rather than tying into the conflict of a cynical Imperium reacting to prophecies or a primarch's return, or even the elements which would need to be culled, it is all but forgotten about save for a few brief comments.
The same goes for much of the Archmagos' own actions, as he spontaneously seems to pull a new suit of power armour and a primarch fixer-upper out of his riveted arsehole, with little done to really question where in the hell this stuff came from.
Oh, we get a few small comments, but it's so rapidly hand-waved aside that you'd be forgiven for missing it first time around. That's just the Imperial stuff as well. The eldar have it even worse, as they are all but irrelevant here. Rather than actually being the second part of a larger narrative arc, apparently everything in Fracture of Biel-Tan was merely a side-story, and with it over and done with we're back to the Imperium.
They exist purely as an excuse for certain characters to pull off certain things, and to lazily avoid plot holes via the easiest means.
As the book opens, their presence and involvement is downsized rapidly, with Eldrad promptly disappearing from the story along with everyone else, until only Yvaine and Viscarch remain.
So, for those wondering, yes the entirety of the last book was little more than an unnecessary diversion to the big story. The issue of the story just going for the most direct means possible, flaunting logic and canon alike, is evident over and over again. If something needs to happen, then it just happens no matter the lack of any explanation or logical flaws. If something contradicts the path the book is set on, well, screw it we're just going right ahead with it.
If you want to see this at its finest, just track the Black Templars during the opening act of this story. The book features them tolerating alien uber-psykers with little more than basic dislike with the Marshall even dueling one of them in a friendly practice bout , but promptly gets major storytelling traditions wrong by having someone abruptly becoming an Emperor's Champion for having survived a major battle.
Please, facepalming is permitted upon reading that, and actively encouraged. It's something I personally like to call the Steven Moffat effect, where things happen just because they can and the story needs them to. Personally, I wouldn't harp on this so much, were these not basic things which should have been easily ironed out of the book but arise so many times that it reads like an early draft which has yet to be run past an editor.
There is also a very, very obvious effort not to actually fully deal with the consequences behind certain actions or even the big issues which should be taking center stage here. Guilliman is back, right? Okay, so everyone bows before him. What then? Does he comment upon their ultra-narrow adherence to the Codex? Does he ask after incursions like the Tyranids? Does he even question the various conflicts now raging across the stars? Five years ago, the National Academies prepared Rising Above the Gathering Storm , a book that cautioned: 'Without a renewed effort to bolster the foundations of our competitiveness, we can expect to lose our privileged position.
So where does America stand relative to its position of five years ago when the Gathering Storm book was prepared? The unanimous view of the authors is that our nation's outlook has worsened. Addressing America's competitiveness challenge will require many years if not decades; however, the requisite federal funding of much of that effort is about to terminate.
Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited provides a snapshot of the work of the government and the private sector in the past five years, analyzing how the original recommendations have or have not been acted upon, what consequences this may have on future competitiveness, and priorities going forward.
In addition, readers will find a series of thought- and discussion-provoking factoids--many of them alarming--about the state of science and innovation in America. Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited is a wake-up call. Sometimes not even then, as Cypher's activities and conflicts from his personal book aren't even mentioned here. They might introduce some, as you say, but given how many of them were linked into the idea that nothing would advance past M41, it seems most likely that the writing team is attempting some kind of fresh start of sorts.
To be fair Chaos spreading through the galaxy is a running theme with the book and it is mentioned multiple times, even if it's not entirely focused upon. We do see multiple parts where Traitors are given free reign thanks to the fact that Cadia's gone and the part where the Chaos gods are reacting to Guilliman returning mentions how their forces are still burning the galaxy and running rampant.
Even after they get to Terra they discover Chaos craft debris in orbit around the planet, showing that the Chaos forces have somehow made it all the way there. Admittedly the book makes it very clear that the Chaos forces were annihilated and it's one of the buildups to Guilliman speeding up the Imperial war machine, but still.
Granted I also would have liked if they could focus on it, the time in the Maelstorm killed the pacing for a while in my opinion, and there was more than enough time for Kairos to send the Imperial ships no communications but distress calls to further weaken their resolve and show them the damage that Chaos was doing to the galaxy.
As for losing it being a wrist slap in the end, I feel like it was ultimately going to feel that way as soon as they entertained the thought that Abaddon didn't actually need the world and that the first book only happens 'but for hubris'. Once you entertain that concept it's a little hard to go back to what it was before, that of being a vital defence against Chaos. As for the Primarchs being depicted in the books, I was honestly surprised that they both Magnus and Guilliman weren't portrayed as infallible unstopable badasses the entire time.
Guilliman's shown to have human weakness, and this causes him to lose in the fight against Kairos, while he very nearly gets killed against Skarbrand the same way Amalrich did and for most of that fight Skarbrand was giving him a very hard time, even though Skarbrand's not the strongest of the Bloodthirsters. As for Magnus, before the Sisters of Silence show up he was dominating that fight against Guilliman which surprised me, as I'd figured it would have probably placed them both on equal footing.
Both of these make me think that while they're going to present the Primarchs as being far above Marines, they're going to avoid going the route of making them invincible, as most of Guilliman's scenes show that he has a number of flaws and is far from perfect.
Personally I think the enemies the Imperium fight are going to come up with some way of countering or neutralizing Guilliman in the field and begin to plan around that. One weakness Guilliman never really lost was how he made his command structure, which made it so that the removal of commanders would hit the troops all the harder because they had less initiative due to the way they were trained and used, and I hope that'll come into play in future fights.
Having opponents who temporarily remove Guilliman from the picture would mean that other commanders would have to step up and get their time in the spotlight, also avoiding the issue of making everyone except him superfluous. Now for the soft reboot, I think that there's too many major threats and differences to treat it as another Great Crusade event.
Rather than dealing with the odd xenos and rare daemonic incursion, reality is still being ripped apart and the warp is till spewing through. On another thought, what would happen if a massive warp rift opened near Tau space and kept growing? They wouldn't have the ability to stop it and would have to move, leaving their Sept Worlds en masse for the first time in their history, needing to brave the firewall still one of the dumbest things in the setting and basically enacting the 40k version of Banner Saga.
There's a lot more ideas that can come into play, and I think it's the other factions being far more active than in 30k that will prevent this from seeming like any sort of reboot to the Great Crusade at the end of the day.
You know one thing I do find really odd though? It's when people complain that certain factions aren't the most 'influential' because I have a hard time understanding how you'd define that word in this setting. Is influential how the Imperium and Chaos reacts to them? If so then that's rather underselling every faction except Chaos and the Imperium in my opinion, as it's another way of saying that no other faction matters.
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