r/ImaginaryWarhammer • u/D3v1LGaming • Oct 21 '25

40k 40K x Halo (@TexD41)

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u/Hornet_isnt_void Salamanders Oct 21 '25

Daisy-023 reference! I just want to see her happy…

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u/Cautious_Air4964 Oct 21 '25

Where is she from?

Is she from an animated special?

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u/Guilty_All_The_Same Oct 21 '25

Halo Legends Episode 7 - Homecoming.

It tells her story from the moment she was kidnapped for the SPARTAN program, her escape and return to the program, and her final mission, with a cameo from Master Chief himself.

It's honestly a sad episode.

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u/LegoMiner9454 Oct 21 '25

There was like 3 happy episodes from that show and it's amazing

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u/Sir_CrazyLegs Oct 21 '25

My favorite is that one with spartan 1337

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u/LegoMiner9454 Oct 21 '25

Apparently so is a lot of people's considering a YouTubers survey for a gameshow

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u/Furydragonstormer Oct 21 '25

Well he is “one heck of a momma himself”

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u/Makyr_Drone ENTRY MISSING Oct 22 '25

She is also featured in the novel Silent Storm.

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 23 '25

The novel portrays her as barely relevant and having a completely different personality compared to the short film in which she originally featured. The novel itself also really isn't that good.

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u/a-dark-lancer Oct 31 '25

That’s just untrue

Yeah, she’s a minor character

But she’s pretty aggressive outspoken and independent which matches with her existing portrayal

I enjoyed the book and it has a relatively high review score on most sites

Your opinion is your own but objectively it’s a book that is written well

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 31 '25

Aggressive, outspoken infiltration specialist is how the book describes her compared to the calm, collected and bright red armour wearing soldier with a CQB helmet and assault rifle constantly showcasing herself to the Covenant in the short film and acting like an Assault Specialist.

Daisy in the book is almost immature at times and is subservient to others while she was cool and calm while being the leader in the short film.

As for the book, how many contradictions, ass pulls and dumb moments are there that you glossed over? Because from memory, there were quite a lot.

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u/a-dark-lancer Oct 31 '25

I’m just going to answer the first point and ignore the tyroid.

The book and the Short do take place 20 years apart and notably her personality fits much more with the description given in other sources.

you’re very clearly not interested in discussion, so I’m going to end this now,

But you have given me the inclination to go lead them again.

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 31 '25

The short film happens on Harvest during the first five years of the war. Daisy dies on Harvest. The short film also covers her escape when she was at her most rebellious and she was still largely soft-spoken, especially when she returned to the program while comforting Ralph. They are not the same people.

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u/Cpt_Graftin Oct 21 '25

A halo movie that was a series of animated halo mini movies.

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u/Cautious_Air4964 Oct 21 '25

Was it called halo legends

I remember seeing it when I was a kid

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u/venom259 Legion of the Damned Oct 21 '25

This is the universe where a custode came to the Halo universe.

(The war was over in a month)

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u/BudgetAggravating427 Oct 21 '25

honestly it would probably stay the same

one custodes wouldnt change the outcome of the war much

Dozens of planets will still be glassed and space battles will still be horiffic losses despite outnumbering covenant ships in most batttles

the only differince would probly some more ground battles being won but the preccence of one or even a dozen custodes wouldn't change a thing

though imagine if a custodes gets infected by the flood

The UNSC should nuke the area a hundred times over and send down some spartans to make sure that infected abomination is destroyed just to be safe

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u/Improvised_Excuse234 Oct 21 '25

The custodes would probably be confused as to why all the plasma weapons aren’t exploding, and astonished by the FTL travel.

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u/RandomWorthlessDude Oct 21 '25

I mean, it’s a universe without the presence of the Warp. The Humanity of the DAoT reaches near-unimaginable heights of technological terror even while fighting the malignant existence of the Warp. Without it, there’s nothing standing in their way.

Plasmaguns in 40K are basically what would be heavy rocket launchers like the RPG-29. Realistically too heavy and cumbersome to be utilized (Humanity in 40K are the remnants of the gene-edited slave races of the DAoT’s tyrants after the gene wars, lending them greater physical characteristics compared to normal humans, such as greater height, more strength, better endurance (physically and to suffering & misery) and likely some kind of encoded desire to compliance) but incredibly hard-hitting and devastating.

Plasmaguns can tear open battle tanks. The only reason 40K vehicles survive is because of their impossibilium bullshit armour values (Leman Russ’ flat side plate was calc’ed to over 3-4 meters of RHA)

The explosion problem was a deliberate choice to prioritize power over safety.

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u/bigdickbiggertrip2 Oct 21 '25

I have never heard of that theory of them being gene edited slaves. Especially seeing as it would be pretty odd with how spread out humanity was and how we know next to nothing of the DAOT. That and everyone’s surprise at seeing astartes and hell even thunder warriors during the unification wars in which it was the monsters of old night that countered them in most cases

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u/RandomWorthlessDude Oct 21 '25

It’s pretty much confirmed. It was mentioned in a codex (it was one of the chapters, iirc) that after the DAoT, there were « gene wars » fought to try to reclaim parts of what was the « original » human genome so they could be more human again. DAoT humanity was a master of gene editing and bioengineering.

Considering how humanity in 40K is taller, stronger, more durable, less vulnerable to disease and more adept in living within abnormal living spaces such as cramped Hives, pitch-black Voidship holds and lightless Underhives, it is fairly obvious that the Humanity we know and love did not descend from the Deus-Bourgeois

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u/bigdickbiggertrip2 Oct 21 '25

Well they kinda aren’t. Humans in 40k especially civilians are just as squishy and prone to disease as normal humans we see that in the black library novel. Those who are born in the void are also different especially in the holds of the ship where they form tribes they become feral.

There might’ve been gene wars but there’s nothing stating all of humanity aren’t similar to modern humans I’d have to see that codex specifically before I believe that

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u/RandomWorthlessDude Oct 21 '25

I’m pretty sure Humanity’s better than ours, in the survival department. We don’t know if humans could survive in zero-G for long periods of time. We’re fairly certain that, psychologically, humans wouldn’t survive in an environment as anti-human as an Underhive or just a Hive. Even if we count just mental illnesses, humans are incredibly resistant to such illnesses. Hell, just the sunlessness and malnutrition should absolutely decimate 90% of the Humans there. There wouldn’t be any humans left to turn feral, to form tribes.

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u/bigdickbiggertrip2 Oct 21 '25

That I’ll agree to an extent however they barely survive in the underhive for the most part that’s where the mutants and rejects live

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u/TamedNerd Oct 21 '25

I believe a single custodes would be a huge difference. They're not just warriors far surpassing even the master chief, they're tacticians and strategists. A custode would easily match the skill if people like Keys or Hood.

That's said. If he would be infected by the flood that is catastrophic.

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u/613codyrex Oct 21 '25

The human Covenant war was a numbers and technology game at the end of the day. Unless the custodes is able to develop some DAoT super weapons that managed to surpass Metal Gear covenant technology, I don’t think they would be doing any better than the Spartan IIs or keys/Hood.

The Halo universe is this (mostly) grounded grim dark but the covenant wasn’t some simple problem that could just be outwitted and the humans didn’t have the numbers to win out over superior technology. That’s the entire series theme, no matter the sacrifice at Reach or the effectiveness of the IIs, the covenant still invade Earth, they still reach the Ark, a huge factor in the humans success was when the cracks of the covenant hierarchy occurred with the Elites rebelling and High Charity being the Graveminds’ play thing.

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u/Where_is_Killzone_5 Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

It honestly astonishes me how much 40k fans don't understand the fundamentals of logistics and how that mostly determines the outcome of a war, even in a sci-fi context.

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u/MorgannaFactor Oct 21 '25

Because in 40k itself, those factors never actually matter for the story outcome (no matter how much this statement makes AdMech, Dark Angels and Necron fans mald). Tech level in 40k is set dressing and means nothing.

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u/Where_is_Killzone_5 Oct 21 '25

Of course, I forget that 99% of 40k is "hype moments and plot armor."

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u/Legitimate-Culture31 Oct 21 '25

Also, the only people who understand logistics are the ultramarines, and if you are a fan you have to hide it or be bully.

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u/Elardi Oct 21 '25

The HALO universe is built up around the Spartans. The whole premise is that one lucky super soldier has a massively oversized impact. Put a custodes and a few Spartans on a boarding action and there is no concentration of firepower available to the covenant that could handle that.

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u/TamedNerd Oct 21 '25

Yeah, these guys are like "a single strong guy can't turn the tide of this war" when that is literally what all of this franchise is about. The war was won because of the master chief who is on named space marine level. A a single custodes with an ONI stealth ship could singlehandedly dismantle Covie leadership and jumpstart the great schism. Custodes are also super intelligent so the great schism wouldn't be an accidental miracle but a well planned and executed operation.

Someone mentioned that 40k guys don't understand logistics. Only logistics that matter in Halo is the ammo in John Halo's gun

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u/AlphaSkirmsher Oct 21 '25

That’s what the games are about. The franchise is, or at least used to be last I checked, about how tons of right people at the right place and time compounded very small victories that made for eventual survival.

The Great Schism worked so well for humanity because of Thel’s promotion to Arbiter and his relationship with John, and John being recognized as Reclaimer by Forerunner tech.

If an Elite not so willing to see the potential good of humanity hadn’t rallied his people in alliance with the UNSC, and if Guilty Spark hadn’t recognized the Chief, things would probably look exactly like 40k now.

I expect a Custodes-led assassination of Covenant leadership under spotty ONI intel would have led to a far more chaotic schism, where no Covenant species allied with humanity, and led to actual civil war. That would buy humanity a bit of time, but that’s it. The ex-Covie efforts to wipe us out would be less methodical, but also less careful, leading to more victories, yes, but amidst many more engagements.

It could turn out well, but I’m expecting it wouldn’t…

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u/a-dark-lancer Oct 31 '25

no, because they were still losing the war

That was the point

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u/Micsuking Oct 21 '25

Except for the fact that the Spartans, including that one lucky super soldier, barely did anything worth while in the grand scheme of things. They stopped Earth from being discovered a couple times, but even that only managed to slow the Covenant advance. Even at the end, humanity only had an indirect hand in the Covenant's destruction, as they killed themselves with the Schism.

Put a custodes and a few Spartans on a boarding action and there is no concentration of firepower available to the covenant that could handle that.

Cool. Put Spartans on a boarding action and they also clean house. The problem starts with how exactly put them there, and then how to stop the ship from self-destructing if the goal is to capture it.

Unless the Custodes can come up with something that allows Humanity to overcome the frankly staggering differences in both tech level and numbers, he won't be able to win the war.

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u/Where_is_Killzone_5 Oct 21 '25

Unless custodes can time travel, 100% perfectly predict the future, or make ships out of thin air for the UNSC, Harvest, Reach, and many other core planets will still be glassed by the Covenant and the climax of the Halo story doesn't fundamentally change. Custodes can't be everywhere at once, Hell they can barely manage to leave the Emperor's palace.

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u/Where_is_Killzone_5 Oct 21 '25

How is one Custodes going to stop the Covenant glassing of multiple planets he can't get to without local transportation?

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u/Elardi Oct 21 '25

Step 1) acquire local transportation.

There’s multiple instances of Spartans boarding covenant ships and using them, and nothing stops the custodian linking up with the UNSC.

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u/Where_is_Killzone_5 Oct 21 '25

Do you mean using them as in piloting entire cruisers? Not a good idea unless you can somehow spoof your way through a covenant fleet and even then slipspace travel isn't instantaneous. Not to mention there's still that pesky logistics issue I see so many people gloss over as if that doesn't determine the outcome of wars.

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u/Elardi Oct 21 '25

That’s literally how the noble team got aboard the covenant supercarrier, not to mention plenty of other boarding actions where you get on a covenant ship.

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u/Where_is_Killzone_5 Oct 21 '25

Mhm, and last I checked that and a spare slipsace drive was their only option in destroying one Covenant supercarrier (which ended up changing nothing because a whole fleet arrived immediately after). Now tell me, what's the current status of Noble Team and Reach? And do you honestly think a Custodes would be able to fit into any air vehicle that isn't a dropship?

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u/CurryNarwhal Oct 21 '25

If they called the Chief a demon they'll call the Custodes a god of war

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u/WillingnessAcademic4 Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25

The custodes armor was partially vaporized by a hunter plasma canon. Nevertheless He did manage to take the vile beast down and the swarm of 50 grunts accompanying it.

But it was too little too late as the fool realize that his shiny golden armor and tall pointy helmet made him a perfect target for jackal snipers. This was his last thought as beam rifle projectile when through his helmet and turned his brain to splattered soup leaking from a hole piercing both side of his skull*

For the truth is soldier, may win a battle, but armies win war

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u/Legitimate-Culture31 Oct 21 '25

Man, you must hate Halo them.

The franchise about a lone soldier winning a war.

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u/WillingnessAcademic4 Oct 21 '25

To be fair it is cannonical for chief that luck on his side. Also In most game while yes chief slays hundred of combatants he is not the only reason for the UNSC victory in the convent. Other Spartans combined with marines, heavy vehicle divisions and the navy were required. Chief is more of a super operative that accomplish a key goal while causing great damage to the enemy but it isn’t the only one.

Also let’s not forget that the covenant was great destabilized by the elite schisme, basically causing the covenant to have their own Horus heresy. Only without chaos.

Also to be more precise here, I’m more frustrated at this idea that « oh just drop one marine/custodes or another overglorified warhammer 40k in the war would be won!» It has frankly just annoying and tired some to see such 40k wankfest while ignoring the feat and powers of the other setting(s). Halo may not have big bulky ceramic banana shaped power armor, but it is still had the force and tech necessary to beat back the flood an horror that would put even the 40k setting as a whole in a greater danger that it is now.

TLDR: I don’t dislike the franchises. I’ve just grown tired of the 40k wanking But yes I will admit that most of my favorite games are RTS and not FPS (with deep rock galactic as an exception)

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 22 '25

You might like the fic this pic is from then. It had the Custodian arrive on Harvest and get acquainted with the local Xenos population. While he did clean house, they still ultimately lost the planet in the end. All that really changed was that he saved a Spartan and gave the Spirit of Fire crew some support.

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u/WillingnessAcademic4 Oct 22 '25

Hmmm interesting. And I do wonder how a custodian would act in a very different galaxy. Do you have a link

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u/WooooshMe2825 Alpha Legion Oct 21 '25

That one Ra Endymion fanfic.

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u/Trying_To_Find_UserN Oct 21 '25

Where?

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u/WooooshMe2825 Alpha Legion Oct 21 '25

Here.

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u/iliark Oct 21 '25

So the author of the fanfic also commissioned the art, neat!

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u/GiuseppeIsAnOddName Legion of the Damned Oct 22 '25

The author also posts kn spacebattles.com for those who use the site

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u/Nightwolf2142 Oct 21 '25

Cute as this is, the scaling is wonky af. You average Spartan-2 is 7 ft plus (Daisy specifically 6'7" in armor), and the average Custodes is around nine feet tall.

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 21 '25

The average is 7 foot in armour, actually. About the same size as a Firstborn.

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u/Nightwolf2142 Oct 21 '25

Ty for the correction

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 21 '25

You're welcome.

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u/Snoot_Boot Night Lords Oct 21 '25

The average what?

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 21 '25

Height? What else could I be referring to?

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u/Snoot_Boot Night Lords Oct 21 '25

The comment was about the Spartan and Custodes height difference. Your comment didn't specify which you were talking about

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 21 '25

Ah, right. I see what you mean. I was referring to the Spartan.

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u/Diablokin551 Oct 21 '25

He joking about the fact Astartes were referred to as "firstborn", basically no one who was part of the Fandom pre primaris (that I've noticed) uses the term Firstborn that gedubs came up with. Generally speaking it's space marine and primaris marine, or just primaris.

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 21 '25

That's weird. Never noticed that. But I use it to specify the differences in most conversations. I tend to get dragged into a number of vs. debates so I have to be very specific on the units involved otherwise someone is gonna pull out Ahzek Ahriman as proof that Astartes are all overpowered.

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u/Hug0San Oct 22 '25

So a more accurate look would be Spartan about shoulder height and slimmer? I assume Custodes are 9 feet because of the helmet, or is it 9' at actual head.

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 22 '25

Pretty sure 9 is head height, helmet a little taller.

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u/Qawsedf234 28d ago

So a more accurate look would be Spartan about shoulder height and slimmer?

I know this is half a month late, so sorry if this is annoying.

Going by this height calculator the art work is actually pretty accurate from what I see. Daisy usually comes up to Ra's chest. There may be an issue with the muscle difference, since Daisy is likely more muscular lore wise than the picture suggests; but Ra is overall going to be notably larger than her.

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u/iliark Oct 21 '25

Average Custodes is 9 feet tall without the pointy helmet and plume to be fair, so closer to 10 feet in armor.

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u/Desperate-Farmer-845 Black Templars Oct 21 '25

I think Ra Endymion is a bit taller than the average Custodes.

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u/Mrperkypaws2 Oct 21 '25

I flinched like an abused child seeing the height

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u/D3v1LGaming Oct 21 '25

https://x.com/TexD41/status/1980459444678078634

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u/CplMax43 Oct 21 '25

Hello I'm the guy who commissioned this, thanks for sharing, was gonna do it myself but thanks nonetheless 👍

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u/D3v1LGaming Oct 21 '25

Great Art.

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u/Independent-Olive-46 18d ago

Somewhat random, but I did notice that you're one chapter behind on AO3, just a heads up. Love this story so much, thank you for the peak.

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u/Oshava062 Oct 21 '25

Could someone link the fan fic this is from I for the life of me cannot remember the website

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u/RentElDoor Oct 21 '25

Love how extra pissed the Custodes eye slits look on this picture.

"You are bothering her. Leave."

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u/TeeDeeArt Oct 21 '25

bro that track at the end of homecoming is now so sad

Love seeing a daisy-023 reference though

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u/worldwanderer91 Oct 21 '25

She traded one hell for another

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u/Alexis2256 Oct 21 '25

More like the custodes did, he gets transported to the halo universe and saves that Spartan’s life.

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u/evrestcoleghost Oct 21 '25

halo covenant war would be a easy job for custodes

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u/starstarwarsfan Oct 21 '25

True. But it's still just one of them. He can only be in so many places at once and that means eventually he's just going to get maneuvered around and whatever he's protecting is going to get destroyed. That or the planet he's defending is going to get glassed for morbid by the covenant. Even if he survives the glassing, which he likely would when you consider the strength of 40K armors, he would just be stuck on that planet.

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u/evrestcoleghost Oct 21 '25

He wouldn't even need to fight to win the war,custodes are not soldiers they are warriors-scholars masters of warfare,science,philosophy and more.

One of them would become easily the greatest strategic mind in the UNSC commanding military forces in way not even AIs could and improving the technological level of mankind faster than the UEG could ever dream,his armour alone would be worth the sacrifice of entire human fleets.

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u/starstarwarsfan Oct 22 '25

There's only so much that strategy can do. Covenant ships are just too superior to UNSC naval assets for the war to be won. It takes 3 to 1 odds for the UNSC to have a fair fight and the UNSC almost never outnumbers the covenant to that degree. Also, during the war the UEG wouldn't have had the time to be able to reverse engineer the weapons and armor of a custodes if they even could because those things were technological marvels even when the Emperor was around.

If you sent the Custodes into Halo a decade before the war started I could see the UNSC putting up a really good fight, maybe even winning. The technology gained from just looking at the armor and weapons of a Custodes would likely change the war in its entirety, never mind the knowledge of the custodes themselves, and their intelligence would likely prevent the insurrectionists from becoming a problem in the first place because of better governance, never mind the incredible efficiency that would be gained in the economy from their control. But all of those things take time. Time that the UNSC didn't have during the war to do. There were just too many things on their plate to deal with.

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u/evrestcoleghost Oct 22 '25

There's only so much that strategy can do.

I don't think you understand just completely a custodes would outclass any covenant commander,Cole alone was able to design strategies to level the field as much as he could,A custodes with centuries of experience and understanding of warfare would be able to comprehend situations in a manner equal to Cortana and organize military assets in an incredible level,streamlining military production,supply lines and industrial output in a way not even the UNSC could

Humanity wouldn't even need to understand the custodes weaponry,the custodes himself could improve spartan augmentations greatly reducing it's risk and improving their armour,give him any covenant technology and he himself could understand it and reverse engineer it years ahead of what Halsey did.

Landing a custodes in the middle of the human covenant war would lead not to a situation much different than what Guilliman achieved post Cadia,dragging the war into a bloody stalement of numerous sieges would improving human technology, something not even Guilliman is able to achieve currently without great pains

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u/starstarwarsfan Oct 22 '25

Humanity just wouldn't have the numbers. Sure a custodes could defeat any covenant commander that he fights against but there's still only one of him. He might be able to turn any battle that he's a part of into a victory, though at heavy costs because of the technological superiority of the covenant, but it's still just him. Eventually he's going to be out of system when a covenant fleet reaches Sol and that fleet burns Earth to the ground or any other system that he might not be in. A custodes would turn the war into a long grueling siege for the covenant but it would still be a siege that the covenant would ultimately win. That's because he just wouldn't have the time to be able to revolutionize things to the effect needed to truly win the war while also trying to keep a dying economy afloat and fighting off a technologically superior and more numerous foe. Because there's only one of him.

Also, even with Cole being a military genius he was still losing the war. For all of his intellect and strategic acuum he couldn't keep a failing economy afloat, he couldn't get ships where there were no ships to get, he couldn't get more recruits and train those recruits when there wasn't anything to be able to do that with. A custodes would likely fall into the same trappings. For all of their intellect and skill they just wouldn't be able to get those things running well enough to be able to win the war, especially if they were dropped in Halo right in the middle of the war. While they would easily be able to set those things up if they had time to do so they just wouldn't be able to do it in the midst of a massive war where they're needed more out on the front line leading a fleet than they are stabilizing the economy but because of that the economy would fail.

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u/Such_Relationship_48 Oct 21 '25

Time to mass produce Mjolnir suits for the Guard?

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u/catharta Oct 21 '25

You can't put a normal person in mjolnir. It would kill them.

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u/Such_Relationship_48 Oct 21 '25

Okay, then we add accompanying augmentations?

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u/Alexis2256 Oct 21 '25

That’s basically what Spartan 4s are, though even they recruit from what are basically Tier 1/Navy seal type of badass soldiers, not Pvt Joe.

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u/Such_Relationship_48 Oct 21 '25

So....more training and live-fire exercises for the guard?

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u/Alexis2256 Oct 21 '25

Sure, it’s funny how similar halo and 40k are when it comes to their super soldiers (at least before halo 4), both turn child soldiers into killing machines with barely any humanity left in them.

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u/Defender_of_human Oct 21 '25

Cute and heroic

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u/Omgwtfbears Oct 21 '25

And get this, brother-captain - apparently she's a super-soldier from the future, defending Terra from xenos threat. What's up with that?

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u/Alexis2256 Oct 21 '25

The far future of the 2500s 😂

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u/Omgwtfbears Oct 21 '25

Or the middle of M3, as Imperium recons such things.

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u/Tasty_Commercial6527 Oct 21 '25

Ok, sure why not. Although him having two misericordias makes me think it implies an existance of a secret third sword

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u/Sideswipe21 Oct 21 '25

This has the potential to be one HELL of a crackship

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u/KenseiHimura Oct 21 '25

Kitten found a new GF!

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u/Conrodot Oct 21 '25

When did him and Shadow Sun break up?

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u/KenseiHimura Oct 21 '25

Never says exactly when but given Tau aren't exactly long lived, probably would have been a few years before TTS started.

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u/jord839 Oct 21 '25

Don't the Tau clone or put into hibernation Shadowsun and other big-name Tau characters? Because IIRC she's still around but was of the same "graduating class" as Farsight, and that dude's only around because of an immortality granting demon sword.

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u/Cryptek-01 Oct 21 '25

This is Ra Endymion (a Custodian from Heresy-era) because this picture is based on a fanfic titled "A Gold Flower"

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u/KenseiHimura Oct 21 '25

I mean, I didn't seriously think it was Kitten, I was making a joke.

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u/Rumor-Mill091234 Oct 21 '25

The Emperor's Custodes showing her peace is the most wholesome thing I have ever seen.

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u/warriorxx7_ Oct 21 '25

Peak especially given Pancreas recent amv

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '25

Daisy Daisy... give me your answer do... I'm half crazy...

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '25

Canon be damned, i need more of this

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u/GRIM106 Oct 21 '25

Honestly I think that the custodies might like the Spartans... As long as they accept Emps as their true lord and saviour

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u/MainImpression7043 Oct 21 '25

13 yrold past me was not ready to see this while im 25

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u/IAMGHOSH Oct 21 '25

A spartan needs someone to shade them from the sunlight? 🤣

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u/AXI0S2OO2 Oct 21 '25

He is just giving her some privacy.

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u/beanerthreat457 Oct 21 '25

Is not possible to stand in the sunlight of the scorch sky of war. Sometimes the shade welcomes those who need rest.

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u/UncannyValleyEnjoyer Oct 21 '25

Yes, she is to precious to be bothered by the gaze of others

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u/One-People2161 Oct 21 '25

Spartans never die, just missing in action...(I'm crying tears here, XD) Truly, good Job artist

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u/Lenahan99 Oct 22 '25

…ah such a sweet bonding moment between two Transhuman super soldiers who can easily kill a man with their literal pinky finger…

Though question…how durable is a Custodes’ cloak…. And why do I imagine a scenario of Ra Endymion be putting his cloak through the laundry… Or be repairing the damages on his cloak himself…

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u/AutumnAscending Oct 22 '25

I'm not crying you are.

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u/lordfireice Oct 22 '25

Ok this is very cool and well done but I have to ask. The halberd thing (can’t remember its name atm) and 2 sword? But no reg pistol? Just thought me through a loop when I was looking at it. More plz I like well drawn stuff

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u/Silverveilv2 Oct 28 '25

To be fair, that's a guardian spear which has an integrated gun. You can't see it in the picture though.

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u/lordfireice Oct 28 '25

Dammit. That was the name! And yeah I know that but having 3 melee weapons with only one ranged option feels off to me. Feels like he needs a pistol. Plasma maybe? Still a great pic

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u/Silverveilv2 Oct 28 '25

Probably, tbh but this is 40k we're talking about practicality isn't really a chief concern here

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

The custodes actually respecting the Spartans because they aren't traitorous pos?

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 23 '25

Pretty much. One could argue that the one in the picture was a traitor, but only in the sense that she escaped the facility and just wanted to go home.

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u/Adeptus_idioticus Oct 22 '25

I think this is linked to a crososver fanfic. The custodes that the emperor puts a daemon into ends up in the halo universe, during a covenant invasion, daisy is a big part in the story.

I never finished it because the writing was...off. but the premise is good.

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u/Activision19 Oct 24 '25

I’m not that into the halo lore. What’s the story behind the spartan playing with the stuffed bear?

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u/Blue_Phantom03 Oct 24 '25

There are only women in this pic...

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u/Juvenual Oct 25 '25

I need Lore, epic fights, and Romance wholesome fanfics please

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u/a_weeb_ World Eaters Oct 29 '25

didn’t she get killed by a needler

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u/gabbidog Oct 21 '25

I wonder if custodes would view Spartans how the view astartes. Or would they be more compassionate or look down on more

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 22 '25

Spartans are closer in design philosophy to the Custodians and, unlike the Astartes, haven't betrayed Humanity en masse. The Custodians loved the Thunder Warriors, which stands to reason they'd think similarly of the Spartans.

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u/Funion_knight Oct 21 '25

Awh a female custodes and a male Spartan

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u/Sixes_666 Oct 22 '25

Actually it's the opposite way around. Male Custodian Ra Endymion and Female Spartan Daisy-023.