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I was reading over this ancient thread:
Space Slann...where are they now?
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4872
And it made me wonder a few things...
First, Diesel Monkey's observation that the RT Slaan concept came about due to developers "just transposing fantasy races into the future with no real direction or plan" struck me as surely being correct. That was certainly the core initiating concept of 40K.
This means that at some point the artists & designers must have been throwing out ideas from the list of WFB races just to see what could be fleshed out into substantial "space-version" concepts that had some degree of potential. Many of these would have been rejected, and so somewhere someone might have some drawings or at least some info on the rejects (such as a race of black Space Pygmies for example, or perhaps Space Skaven or Gnomes).
Also, I have to think at some point one of their brilliant artists must have directed their imagination outside of the box of transposition from fantasy and tried to come up with some ideas (or perhaps even designs) for more original SF style races.
In the RT rulebook in the scenarios section, there are hints about this that have always made me wonder. One is a reference to "a green slimy thing with a big gun crawling into the bushes"... This is admittedly most likely something just tossed out for the sake of cultivating atmosphere in a scenario about being trapped on an alien world, but when I was younger, in my naivete I used to wonder what race it was supposed to be or perhaps a race GW had planned that would be released sometime. (I know, I know; keep in mind I was 13 in 1987!
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What inside info do we have on what might have been but wasn't as far as conceived though ultimately unrealized 40K SF races?
Space Slann...where are they now?
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4872
And it made me wonder a few things...
First, Diesel Monkey's observation that the RT Slaan concept came about due to developers "just transposing fantasy races into the future with no real direction or plan" struck me as surely being correct. That was certainly the core initiating concept of 40K.
This means that at some point the artists & designers must have been throwing out ideas from the list of WFB races just to see what could be fleshed out into substantial "space-version" concepts that had some degree of potential. Many of these would have been rejected, and so somewhere someone might have some drawings or at least some info on the rejects (such as a race of black Space Pygmies for example, or perhaps Space Skaven or Gnomes).
Also, I have to think at some point one of their brilliant artists must have directed their imagination outside of the box of transposition from fantasy and tried to come up with some ideas (or perhaps even designs) for more original SF style races.
In the RT rulebook in the scenarios section, there are hints about this that have always made me wonder. One is a reference to "a green slimy thing with a big gun crawling into the bushes"... This is admittedly most likely something just tossed out for the sake of cultivating atmosphere in a scenario about being trapped on an alien world, but when I was younger, in my naivete I used to wonder what race it was supposed to be or perhaps a race GW had planned that would be released sometime. (I know, I know; keep in mind I was 13 in 1987!
)What inside info do we have on what might have been but wasn't as far as conceived though ultimately unrealized 40K SF races?
