GrimDark BattleStation: Recent Episodes
Dan Wyer
GrimDark BattleStation is the podcast that takes Sci-Fi too seriously, analyzing the politics and conflicts of fictional universes as if they are real and have to make sense.
We cover all things spice, saber, bolter and Bene Gesserit
Why is it that there is so much negative content appearing about Star Wars, the DCU, the MCU etc when we are in the midst of a golden age, at least in terms of volume? Just how much of it is down to grifters, fair critics, and toxic positivity?
Let's unpack the cranky pants mentality surrounding modern Sci-Fi
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This week we're going to look are scifi urban planning gone wrong. The hive cities of Warhammer 40,000 and the Necromunda tabletop game are some of the most densely packed, disturbing and dangerous places in a galaxy full of horrors.
Let's see how the glorious Imperium handles urban planning on Grimdark Battlestation
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Last week we talked about working stiffs in the Galaxy Far Far Away. But what about the richest and most powerful people in Star Wars? What do they get up to? Whatever they want of course, especially at Canto Bight, the Galaxies best Casino.
Let's talk about the Based Billionaires of Star Wars
Just because you're scruffy looking doesn't mean you're not doing a good job. We can't all be Space Wizards and Princesses. What about the average joe in Star Wars, what's the type of far far away dream that we can have? This episode on Grimdark Battlestation
#Jedi #Starwars
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To be a mutant in Warhammer 40k is to be shunned and likely killed. Unless of course you're a useful mutant like an Ogryn. Then you get to be shunned and likely killed but by the enemies of mankind.
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With news that Rey is refounding the Jedi Order, we're super stoked for the emergence of another Sith Empire within 200 years. Dictatorships are inevitable in Star Wars after all.
Let's hop in a find out why.
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We all know that being a Rogue Trader or Planetary Governer is a life of opulence and adventure. We also know that being a factory worker is a life or toil and recycled people for dinner. But what about the middle class of the Imperium?
We picked out the 5 best jobs that you and I could aspire to in the glorious Imperium so let's jump in.
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This weeks topic is one of our favorite star wars characters, the enigmatic Chiss Grand Amdiral Thrawn. A competent commander in a sea of buffoons, he's loved by many and even survived the canon purge.
But why is he so loved and what does he add to the star wars?
Let's jump in.
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This week we look at how SciFi tropes about the apocalypse are still living in the world of 'lone wolf rambo', why subtle apocalypses are the best, and how we should all live on a remote Portuguese island making concrete after the world ends.
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Servitors are ubiquitous throughout Warhammer 40k. They carry out menial and specialized tasks with all the efficiency of nightmarishly lobotomized human beings.
Get ready for forklift hands and the slow decay of your trapped soul.
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Are you a separatist? a neo-republican? human supremacist? Lacking in space wizardry but still want to rule the Galaxy?
Check out our episode on how to win the Galactic Civil War, no Jedis required.
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He might not drive a corvette and miss child support payments but the God Emperor of Mankind is one hell of a bad dad. He also happens to be the only thing stopping us from being eaten by daemons.
Let's unpack Jimmy Space, Sci-Fi's best worst dad.
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If you've watched the 'star wars' you'll notice that most of them are actually star skirmishes instead. We rarely get to see full scale cool stuff even above Coruscant.
So how would the Empire line up to conquer a human planet of 8 billion lacking even basic blaster tech? With ease? Not if us violent cruise missile toting monkeys have anything to say about it
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On an extra holiday episode of GDBS we look frustratedly at another dumb Palpatine plan, hopefully at Skynet, and sadly at the pipedream of Star Trek's United Earth.
Nibbler episode 2 where we look at a few topics in a more casual depth.
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Terrifying, all powerful, batshit by design. The Imperial Inquisition is the most ridiculous faction of the most ridiculous game.
Are they the ultimate secret police? Stoke up the flamer and find out
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They're slimy, they're chonky, and they're irredeemable criminal scum. Today's episode we have a look at the Hutts and marvel and just how powerful, wealthy, and sociopathic they really are.
Let's cover ourselves in slime and wriggle about the Grimdark Battlestation
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The slooberknocker of the millennium today as the USMC takes on Marines of the Space variety for title of baddest jarhead in the Galaxy.
Just how many marines would it take to kill one of the Emperor's finest primaris supersoldiers?
Let's shave our heads, fire up the servo skull and figure it out.
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Running ahead with a look at policing in the galaxy far far away because Andor is amazing. Shockingly enough, rights focused law enforcement is lacking throughout the Galactic Empire...but are there any good guys with guns?
Let's dust off our stolen Mandalorian armor and find out...
In our first Nibbler episode where we take shorter topics and mush them together we take a look at the politics of three iconic sci-fi/fantasy entities and why they make no goddamn sense.
Sit back, relax and overthrow the Galactic Empire for your billionaire vigilante friends on the GrimDark Battlestation
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Heading back to the Galaxy far far away for the first small unit tactics episode from the Star Wars franchise. Droids, Clones, and Stormtroopers are all iconic in their own right, but which one is the best soldier?
Let's hop in the tank and clone some answers
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In our first MCU episode we take a look at the most important event in the entire universe, the snap performed by Thanos and the fallout from 50% of life just disappearing. Would the world have really reacted that way and why did they write concentration camps into a Disney TV Series?
Let's snap our fingers and head up a purple butt.
In our second Small Unit Tactics episode we look at the warfighting prowess of your common/garden greenskin. The Orks are everybody's favorite horrifying fungus but are they really tactically inept savages or is there more to them than meets the eye? Yes.
Let's roast a squig and manifest dakka.
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Part II of our look at the white elephant that was the DS-01 battlestation. What exactly could the Empire have done instead? What should they have done? And could we have gotten more union jobs at the Galactic shipyards to keep our constituents happy?
Let's find out and crush the rebellion.
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They are the untold billions of the Imperium's defenders. Men and women that fight demon and alien with bayonet and laser beam. They are an absolute meme factory and the finest damn soldiers in the Galaxy
Sci-Fi Unit Tactics Episode 1 - [Astra Militarum Warhammer 40k]
In our first Star War episode we talk about the public procurement nightmare that was the DS-01 Death Star Orbital Battlestation. Why did the Empire built it? What was the point? Was it just a cushy gig from intergalactic project managers?
Let's deconstruct Sci-Fi's premier white elephant on the GrimDark Battlestation
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