{"id":84,"date":"2022-04-25T02:24:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T02:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yesteryearstomorrow.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2023-06-24T02:48:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T02:48:29","slug":"do-not-look-deep-into-the-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yesteryearstomorrow.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Do not look deep into the Vortex…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

…lest it swallow you whole and spit you out a millennia or two later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On page 96 of the original Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader<\/em> rulebook, the Vortex Grenade is described thusly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A vortex shell creates a small disruption in the space\/time fabric, a spinning whirlpool of destruction like a tiny black hole. The disruption is called a vortex field. You cannot see or fire through a vortex field. All buildings, scenery and models caught in the area are destroyed automatically – a vortex destroys all matter and all energy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Needless to say, they’re one of the fun grenades from the wayback times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Games Workshop occasionally puts out ‘in-world’ props from their games. Most of these have been from Warhammer 40K, but the occasional one shows up from their other games. In this case (literally), they made a custom carrying case for figures, and decorated it as a stasis chamber for a single vortex grenade. I love collecting in-world props from various media properties, and 40K has no shortage of these!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of these days, I’ll actually make the interior, and the grenade itself…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, enjoy these images of this piece of Games Workshop Warhammer 40K History. More to come as I unpack!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In ‘case’ of emergency…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is on the BOTTOM of the case. So, yes. If you open it from this side…PERIL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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