telophase | W40K vs. AI

Have you ever wondered "What would the results be if

telophase trained a text-generating AI on Warhammer40K novel descriptions?"

Working on a newly trained AI...you know, not having read more than a small chunk of W40K novels, it's actually quite hard to tell if the stuff it produces is generated or, like, normal. Until the grammar and wording go to hell. In my experience, the AI does cough up verbatim chunks of descriptions every so often, and since I'm not familiar enough with them to tell without searching my dataset (and I'm so not going to bother doing that), I can't tell you how much of the below is from the actual novels and how much isn't.

It does realize that W40K is a science fiction franchise and periodically goes off on Star Wars or other franchises.

Deathwatch: Dark Angels
A Deathwatch novel
Vive la Death: The Emperor Defends is a unique and endearing story told through the eyes of one of the Deathwatch. The heroes of the Deathwatch Fallen are immortal souls who are duty bound to protect the Imperium of Man. When an Imperial Fists kill Solemn, the son of Biscuit, a hero's captive of the Imperial Fists, will Anvil come to seek vengeance, the heroics of the novel are a living example of how an entire galaxy should be made stronger by him." ―Peter Cushing
The story drops immediately following the publication of the eBook edition, with the Deathwatch embark on a long-awaited and highly entertaining visit to the ancient citadel of Lord Carnbuser, where all is seemingly lost.
READ IT BECAUSE: This epic novel series is sure to please any collector!

Gutenberg
A collection of short stories focusing on the wizarding world of Guldur.
The world of Daimyo is dying. Thousands of feral children of debauched birth are starving to extinction in the growing polemical campaign of extermination.

An Old Armed Bloodbook by David Annandale
A New Armed Bloodbook by David Annandale
A Primitive Bloodbook by David Annandale
A Primitive Bloodbook by Rob Sanders
A Primitive Bloodbook by Chris Wraight

Holy shit, did I do this before the events of the first three novels in the series? [NOTE: This is a sentence it actually produced]

It's like nothing else from Warhammer, save for the fact that if you don't do enough, things will turn out horribly.
Can You See the Sun?
I'll never forget the day I was completely completely completely pulled from the story of Warhammer 40,000. The events of the previous novels (and novellas) took their toll, and the mood was almost too much for me, but for the constant ting-ting of the novels by, well, tings, that was a significant step forward for me.
READ IT BECAUSE: It's everything you could ever want a Warhammer 40,000 story to be about, from the surprising beginnings of a new political power, to a deadly rebellion, and much more. It's a must read.

For other uses, see Fire Giant (disambiguation)
For other uses, see Fire Giant (disambiguation) Fire Giant-High
For other uses, see Fire Giant (disambiguation)

Ciaphas Cain: Fired Up '14' On this anthology's finest-selling novel, Fired Up '14, follows Colby Lauterbe, a.k.a. Ciaphas, a.k.a. Ciaphas' Coyote and a.k.a. Ciaphas' Ciaphas Black find themselves thrust into a battle over territory, a distant world and the secrets of their home planet–but can they trust any of Ciaphas' tactics, or the enemies they hold against ambitious recruit Colby Lauter-Coan? This collection contains novellas, brand-new stories and all-action action featuring the entire Ciaphas family. Written by Dan Abnett
It's the definitive Ciaphas Anthology! An entire generation of Space Marine heroes comes together to celebrate the start of the most dramatic chapter in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

The Wolf King: Book 13
A Horus Heresy anthology
The final chapter of the War of Armageddon looms, as the traitor Horus Heresy closes in on Terra. As the Emperor's grace and Armageddon's deadly toll on the Imperium demonstrate, even the mightiest of defenders must find a solution–one which unleashes the super-raids on Terra itself…

Sixteen Rogues Commendations
The Toilet Rite by Lee Lightner
13th-Century Rogues Custodian of the Cross by Justin D Hill
Old Enemy by Sandy Mitchell
Old Enemy II by Rob Sanders
Ghostly Vow of Faith by Mike Brooks
Straight L in the Wind by Steve Lyons
Master of the Ars Indignale by Graham McNeill
Catechise by Graham McNeill
The Sign of the Spade by Andy Smillie

Dark Sun
Playing a mysterious old witch, Colonel-Commissar Gaunt is the first to break from the war and make an impact on the Imperium. Escaping from the burning world of Isstvan V, Gaunt travels the galaxy in a search for the cursed house of the Cross. To find it it is all-consuming and impossible to stay long enough to heal or retreat. As the war grinds on, Gaunt finds that he has to turn things around and fight for his very survival.

The Lost and Damnation of the Bloodborn
Book 1 of the Blood Bowl saga
The Blood Angels are a people. Oppressed, persecuted, or both? That is the aim of Tactical Genius, a new Blood Bowl novel.

Fabius Bile Vow To Silence Greigal Cairn
Fabius Bile Vow To Silence Greigal Cairn
Stalk the Greigal Cairns!
On the tip of Phoenician and canyons lies the edge of Hive Fleet Fabius's Vigil, an Imperial guard outpost straining to keep watch over the newly reclaimed planet of Indomitus. In the darkness of a future in which the fate of mankind hangs in the balance, who among you can say that Fabius' old guard doesn't know something about Hive Fleet Cairn XXX?
READ IT BECAUSE: It's a total of ten tales about Hive Fleet Cairn XXX! Kind of.

CONCLUSION: This experiment pretty much proves my hypothesis: that Warhammer 40K is already the perfect parody of itself.

NEXT EXPERIMENT: Training an AI on a dataset that includes W40K and Zoe Chant novel descriptions.