I still say the next class is going to be the Scribe and it will be great!
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Amen!
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I think everyone knows us because we are meant to be trusted, its just that there is no real narrative or in-world response for before that happens. Like it doesnt feel otherwise, because we have always been allowed in to the hub.
But also afaict we are one of many, certainly more than 50. The mourningstar is large, hold about 25k crew and is setup for cargo.
- Dimensions: Approximately 1.8 kilometres long, 0.3 kilometres abeam at fin
- Mass: Approximately 6 megatonnes
- Crew: Approximately 25,000 crew
There might be 50 top level operatives but we come from the ranks of innumerable convicts most of whom die on their first mission and I think the narrative is meant to assume we are special because we are the one playing, and that everyone else isnt. Auric class operatives are rare and its my thoughts that we have come from thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of convicts, thrown as fodder in to the war.
It was Explicator Zola’s idea to start “recruiting” convicts en masse as add a significant number of expendable troops to the warband’s disposal.
Eventually, as the rejects build up levels of trust with the Inquisition. Recruits are elevated from expendable fodder sent on suicide missions, to useful Operatives, and eventually some of the best Auric Operatives on the Mourningstar.
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Great points!
Totally agree that we’re special and that given the scale of everything in 40k it just wouldn’t make sense for there not to be loads of people running around taking care of the Mourningstar and whatnot.
But I don’t think there are supposed to be 5,000 very special boys and girls running around on the Mourningstar’s deck at all hours of the day. I think it’s really just supposed to be a handful of folks. And in handfuls, I would expect plenty of narrative leeway for freaky xenos.
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The thing is that in the new campaign we find out that each mission happens every few months. I do not have the will to go through all the debriefings to find it so you’ll just have to take my word for it. But in canon, we are not sent into missions daily. Most of the time we just hang around on the Mourningstar doing whatever. That is also why sometimes rejects talk about the people, who stay on the Mourningstar (Hadron, Brunt, Sire Melk etc.), as if they’ve been around them for months on time.
I’m not crystal clear on the timeline, and I know some months have passed over the course of the current story, but I don’t get the impression that it’s months between each mission. That’d mean we’ve been part of the warband for years, and I just don’t think that’s the case.
On this topic, I did enjoy Jo’s recap of the updates from the campaign:
That’s actually where I got that info from. xD Thanks for clearing that up. Yeah, I meant that the missions happened over an amount of months, my point still stands.
True, I think by the late game, i.e. Auric operative stage, there are only meant to be a bunch of actual trusted operatives running around, idk, it could be 50, maybe 500, or even 5k! but most arent on duty,
Sadly one thing the Darktides story doesnt make clear is the scale of our part, of who we are and how many of us there are. Its a problem in most games where each person is meant to be special but doesnt explain who all these other players are running around. Reminds me when I played ESO and I was on a mission to infiltrate the mansion and steal something but there was a line of people ahead of me also going to steal the same thing. It really destroyed the immersion of being “the chosen one”.
If you consider the start we are just one more piece of meat for the grinder, we could be one convict among millions even! I just get the feeling that we are numerous and expendable.
Either way, I eagerly anticipate the new class whatever it is and yes, even if its a filthy xenos scum, then emprah (and @Khorne_Dawg) forgive me, I will be buying and playing it 
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