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The Volunteer Creed has been the motto of The University of Tennessee students since the Torchbearer Statue was erected on campus in 1968. At the base of the statue engraved on a plaque, the creed states, "One that beareth a torch, shadoweth oneself to give light to others." No one embodies this motto more than assistant Tennessee swimming coach Joe Hendee.
Hendee has been a tireless supporter and advocate for the UT aquatics program since his arrival as a student assistant coach in 1978. Hired as Tennessee's first full-time paid assistant coach, Hendee has been the heart of Tennessee swimming for more than 30 years. His tenure began under legendary Vols' head man Ray Bussard and has continued into the Trembley era.
Under Hendee's careful eye, the Big Orange have earned a 177-32 (.847) dual-meet record, three SEC crowns and a national title. Tennessee has produced 92 individual SEC champions, 15 individual NCAA champions, three gold medalists and more than 100 All-America selections.
When not coaching the Vols, Hendee has dutifully served the United States as an international coach and mentor. Shortly after joining Bussard's staff, Hendee worked as the facilities coordinator for the 1982 USSR-USA dual-meet held in UT's Student Aquatic Center. He was also assisted Coach Bussard during his stint as a 1984 U.S. Olympic coach. In 1986, Hendee served USA Swimming as a coach at the Elite Training Camp in Chapel Hill, N.C. Hendee also coached at the 1989 and 1993 U.S. Olympic Festivals and worked as a facilities coordinator at UT's Student Aquatic Center prior to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. At the same time, Hendee was preparing UT's Jeremy Linn and Ricky Busquets for the Olympiad.
In addition to coaching, Hendee's responsibilities include working with the dry-land and strength program, coordinating recruiting efforts, managing the scheduling process and team travel, supervising support staff and serving as a liaison for the program and the Timettes organization. Hendee has also worked closely with the Tennessee Swimming Hall of Fame since its founding in 1982.
Hendee's coaching abilities have been called upon before as he has served three times on the staff at the U.S. Junior Nationals. He has also traveled to Athens for the 2000 Short Course World Championships and Barcelona for the 2003 Long Course World Championships.
Because of his dedication and service to The University of Tennessee, Hendee was inducted into the Tennessee Swimming Hall of Fame in 2003. The Hall of Fame's motto, "Honoring those who have served in true Volunteer Tradition," seems to embody Hendee's career perfectly.
Joe and his wife, Shelli, have two daughters, Claire and Caroline. The Hendee family attends Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Knoxville, Tenn.
|The Hendee File
|July 17, 1960 in Chattanooga, Tenn.
| Notre Dame High School
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1983)
|Coaching Career:
|The University of Tennessee
(Undergradute Assistant) 1978-1981
(Graduate Assistant) 1981-1983
(Assistant Coach) 1983-Present
|Shelli Lutker Hendee
|Claire and Caroline


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A 'good' Space Marine novel as I define it, in the Night Lords thread, is one where the Space Marines are not the chief characters. You almost need humans alongisde them for the Space Marines to work off of - their reactions/interactions with humanity in general are what drive any sort of scope or development you can get out of a Space Marine, which is why novels like Helsreach or Rynn's World are the best - Space Marines forced to confront their own natures - or even question it - are perhaps the best. And again this isn't canonical - Space Marines are supposed to be zealous, unthinking, fanatically driven killmachines. But you can't write about those very well.
Which brings us to Grey Knights. There's plenty of Space Marine killing huge numbers, and generally being badasses, but that is almost an afterthought. What we get with the first novel is a Gray Knight who is forced to confront just what it is he is, and what he does, and why. We're presented with a tragic figure in an Inquisitor who is attempting to hunt down and stop the resurrection of a powerful Daemonic entity. And the interactions betwene the two, the lessons learned on both sides, are what realyl drive the novel. Counter really is at his best when he writes about Chaos, and you can see it in this one. And because Gray Knights are all about Chaos, that may be what makes these novels work and not Soul Drinkers.
Anyhow, GK is good, but in a pure 'chaos' theme Hammer of Daemons is better, even though it deals with the HERETICAL concept of a GK perhaps falling to Chaos (which is only true if you don't think about the book.) but we'll get to that in time. I will note that Counter HAS managed to ruin the series for me in a recently published short story, though: we find out that GK bullets are blessed in the blood of sacrificed innocent, good men - by the Ecclesiarchy (hah!) and GK armour is forged in the fires of cremated and tortured psykers aboard Black Ships or something. I wish I was kidding about that, but it seems like the GK concept got elevated to 5th edition standards
Anyhow, on with the GK novel:
Page 9
They had trained since before they could remember in resisting the trickery of Tzeentch himself and the creeping corruption that had brought so many to the fold of Ghargatuloth. They were armed with the best weapons the Ordo Malleus could give them, protected by consecrated power armour hundreds if not thousands of years old, shielded from sorcery by hexagrammic and pentagrammic wards tattooed onto their skin by the sages of the Inquisitorial archives.
- Mention that the Gray Knights are protected by Pentagrammic and hexagrammic wards (Tattooed directly onto their skin) and how they are trained to resist Chaoic influence and sorcery. The wards, as I recall, are reinforced by their own innate psychic ability and the stuff built into their armour.
Note the absence of them practicing such sorcery, wielding dameonic weapons, etc.
Page 10
There were three hundred of them bearing down on Khorion IX to have their say in the confluence of fates.
300 Grey Knights vs Daemon Prince.
Page 10
They were just a handful in number compared to the trillions of citizens making up the Imperium....
"trillions of citizens."
Page 10
The screams from below sounded even through the din of the descent and the pod's lander engines, a million voices raised in praise and anticipation...
A million minions of Chaos await the Grey Knights.
Page 12
And worst of all, the daemon army seethed, hundreds of thousands strong,
Hundreds of thousands of daemons.
Page 13
The impact was immense, like slamming into a wall. The grav-couch restraints jolted back as the pods ploughed through the branches of wood and bone, into the middle of the daemon throng. A great scream rose above the din of the impact as daemons were vaporised by the impact, and the viewport was suddenly covered in their many-coloured blood.
The servitor-pilot controlling the pod's systems responded to the pre-programmed order and the bolts holding the pod's sides together burst with a series of sharp reports. The sides of the pod burst open and Mandulis's restraints fell away.
Servitor controlled drop pods deploy the grey knights and vaporize (pulverise) daemons.
Page 14
Mandulis drew his Nemesis sword from its scabbard on his back. The blade leapt into life, its power field calibrated to disrupt the psychic matter of daemons' flesh,
...he felt three unholy bodies come apart under the blade's edge.
- Nemesis sword (force?) mentioned as having a "power field calibrated to disrupt the psychic matter of daemons flesh". Interesting, since usually magic crystals or something similar is given as the reason for the force sword's effects (it can channel psychic power through the weapon) Maybe the powerfield is a special Grey Knight sonly modification to enhance the weapon further. This would in turn suggest power weapons (or at least a certian kind) can be "adapted" for greater effect against certain kinds of matter (possibly at the expense of their effects against anything else, like some lasers.)
Page 14
Psycannon fire from Chemuel was shrieking past, the modified bolter shells exploding in spectacular starbursts of silver that shredded the attacking daemons.
Psycannon in action, shredding daemons.
Page 16
Mandulis pressed down on the firing stud in his gauntlet and sent a stream of bolter shells ripping into the advancing daemons.
Gauntlet mounted storm bolter.
Page 16
It had taken a century to hunt down Ghargatuloth, the power which, through dozens of avatars and aspects, directed thousands of Chaos cults in acts of depravity and terror.
The time and scope of the daemon princes actions and acitivites - many avatars (outlets to work through, I assume he means bodies possessed) and thousands of minions (per avatar or total, we aren't told.) I'd guess this means hunting the daemon down each time it possessed a new form, undoing whatever it had planned, destroying its allies - but the daemon managing to escape to begin a new each time. This suggests it happened at least once every few years on average/
Page 16
The Ordo Malleus had fought long and hard to find out that it lived on Khorion IX, an uninhabited and largely unexplored world deep into the Halo Zone of the Segmentum Obscurus where the beacon of the Astronomican barely reached.
Out beyond the Calixis and Scarus sectors really.. rather odd that the AStronomican "barely reached" there given its ability to reach the edge of Ultima Segmentum (which is far bigger than Obscurus), unless it's because the Eye of Terror is in the way - that would probably interefere with the signal (which mewans anything behind it would have some difficulties navigating.
This in turn menas many calcs in and around the eye are probably conservative due to that sort of disruption and blocking.
Page 16
Khorion IX was too isolated for a planet-scouring Imperial Navy assault and normal troops would last a matter of seconds on the planet. Even the Exterminatus, the ultimate Inquisitorial sanction, would not be enough - someone had to see Ghargatuloth die and, even with a devastating strike from orbit, the Ordo Malleus could not be sure.
Niot sure what a "planet scouring Imperial Navy asault" means - orbital bombardment? Mass extinction? Extensive bombing? Its contrast to exterminatus would seem to rule out mass extinction at least, but its hard to say. Possibly it means deploying naval troops to purge the planet. Normal troops may mean Imperial guard. "orbital strikes" sugggests planet scouring and/or extermintaus may involve large applications of brute force firepower though
Rather odd they can't just exterminatus the planet or blast the place from orbit, but they "need someone on the ground" - perhpas because the daemon has gotten away so many times they can't risk him getting away agian and have to be sure (so do it the hard way). Hell maybe they tried blasting a place one of the past times and he did get away.
Page 17
The fast strike cruisers Valour Saturnum and Vengeful carried over two hundred and fifty Grey Knights, as large a force as could be moved quickly enough through the vastness of the Segmentum Obscurus.
It was earlier noted there were 300 grey knights, so between 250-300 on two Strike cruisers.
Page 22
But the mind of a Grey Knight was built around a hard core of pure, depthless faith. Where other men had fear, the Grey Knights had resolve. Where others had doubt, Mandulis had faith. An Imperial guardsman, no matter how courageous or pious, still had that unprotected hollow of despair, greed, and terror at the heart of his soul. A Grey Knight did not. Ghargatuloth's mind tricks broke against Mandulis's mind like waves against rocks.
That was why it had to be the Grey Knights assaulting Khorion IX. The Lords Militant could assemble armies hundreds of millions strong, but not
Resilience of Grey Knights against Daemons. Armies of no size could hope to stand up against that (of course, given that Guardsmen do stand up in the end.. makes me wonder.)
Also "Lords militant" amassing hundreds of millions of guards men.. I'm guessing thats Lord General Militants, rrather than the Lord Commander Militant (one of the High Lords). This means "hundreds of millions" per sector or part of a sector (subsector?) which means hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of guardsmen per sector. (with maybe 10x that total in PDF forces.. although its possible that the number represents the upper limit "tithing" capability at any given point or theroetical maximums. Of course we can inteprret it to mean plural armies too..)
Page 25
One thousand years passed. The Imperium endured -men and women died in uncountable numbers to ensure that. Armageddon was lost to the orks. The Damocles Gulf was conquered and strange new species were encountered. The Sabbat Worlds were overrun by Chaos and an immense crusade launched to reclaim them.
Stratix died in screaming plague, Stalinvast in the fiery extremes of the Exterminatus.
the Adeptus Terra tried to unpick laws and declarations from the will of the Emperor. The warp created new hells outside real space. Whole systems were lost in madness and new ones settled in their hundreds.
Over a 1000 period timeframe. Most of these refernece previous novels or other events. Stalinvast is Inquisition War, Damocles gulf crusade, the 2nd and 3rd Armageddon Wars, the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. Stratix was the world mentioned in Bleeding Chalice, the whole Teturact fiasco, which suggests it (and the soul drinkers novels) took place sometime within that 1000 years.
Also "whole systems lost in madness" and "hundreds settled" - implies a mere "hundreds of new worlds settledin a thousand years, although in context it also suggets only a few worlds lost.. maybe it works better as a ratio, which suggests more worlds were gained int hat 1000 year period than were lost.
Page 26
When the first shot had hit, Justicar Alaric had thought of the final days
With the second shot, the one that punched through his leg and tore up into his abdomen, he had realised that he was not dead and that the final days would not come for him yet. He remembered red runes winking maddeningly on the back of his eye, telling him that his blood pressure was falling and both his hearts were beating erratically, that two of his lungs had been punctured by the shot to the chest and his abdomen was filling up with blood. He remembered dragging himself into cover as overcharged las-shots ripped into the stone floor beside him.
..willing his limbs to move so he could loose a last volley of shots against the cultists who had wounded him so badly.
Effects of being hit by a lasgun shot, coming up through his leg and into his abdomen. I'm guessing at an angle. Not cauterized since it cauged bleeding, but it puntured two lungs.
Page 27
Alaric was all but submerged in a vat of clear fluid, a concoction of Titan's apothecaries that helped flesh heal and kept infections at bay. He felt tubes snaking all around him, feeding medicines into his veins and sending information back to the cogitators he could hear thrumming and clicking away around him. He was bathed in light coming from lumoglobes arranged in a circle on the stone ceiling above him.
Alaric turned his head to see the brass-cased cogitators quietly spewing sheet after sheet of paper onto which were scribbled the long, jagged ribbons of his life signs. The medical facility was one he had been to before - it was here that he had received the hexagrammic wards that formed a thin lattice of blessed silver beneath his skin. Medical orderlies were moving quietly between other recovery tanks and auto-surgeon tables, checking on the patients - some were troops or other personnel from the Ordo Malleus. Others were the inhumanly tall and muscular forms of Alaric's fellow Grey Knights.
The lumoglobes casting pools of light around the patients, surrounded by shadow where cogitators and hygiene servitors hummed gently.
- The ORdo Malleus/Gray Knights have bacta like tanks/vats that can help "heal flesh and keep infections at bay." - it also requires medicines being fed intravenously into his body.' Also we see the gneerla status of the Grey Knights infirmary.
- Hexagrammic wards of "blessed silver" inlaid beneath Gray Knight's skin.
Page 28
Alaric recognised Brother Tathelon, one arm blown off at the elbow and his body covered in tiny shrapnel scars. Interrogator Iatonn, who had accompanied Inquisitor Nyxos in the assault, lay with his entrails exposed as the dextrous metallic fingers of the auto-surgeon worked to knit his innards back together.
- auto-surgeon attemting to knit internal organs back together of an Inquisitor.
Page 28
One of the orderlies, one of the blank-faced, mind-scrubbed men and women the Ordo Malleus used for menial work, saw Alaric was awake and came to inspect the life signs streaming from the cogitators.
- the Ordo Malleus make ample use of "mind scrubbed" personnel.
Page 28
The black carapace, a hard layer beneath the skin of his chest and abdomen, had a large ragged hole in it where the first shot had broken through his armour and Alaric could see through the crystallised wound to the surface of the bony breastplate that had grown together from his ribs. There was another hole, larger, in the meat of his thigh, with a tight channel of internal scar leading up into his abdomen. He could feel the wounds inside him but they were almost healed thanks to his internal augmentations and the Chapter apothecarion. He was covered in smaller scars, burns from where his armour had become red-hot from the weight of las-fire slamming into it..
Enough lasfire to turn his Grey Knights chestplate red hot. assuming a 50x50 cm area and ~3-4 cm thickness for the plate and made of iron. call it 60-80 kilos. color wise we might figure its between 770K and 1060K depending on how literal about "red-hot" you want to be. Assuming 300K initial temp we're talking a temp change between 470-760K.. 198-456 kilojoules depending on specific heat used.. just to be broad call it between 10-40 MJ or so, within an order of magnitude. He also has burns on his chest, but that would be rather minor - a few hundred kilojoules compared to heating the chestplate. We dont know exactly how many shots, but no more than "hundreds" of cultists fired on him, not all shots hit, and the cultists apparently are what did him in, and it wasn't more than a few seconds worth of fire, from context, so we're probably talking more more than a few hundred or a few thousand shots.. single to double digit KJ at least, and probably leaning more to double digit at that.
The two shots that caused major injuries were very deep penetrating. That he can peer down the hole suggests its fairly wide - several cm at least, and the other is even bigger. That would correspond with the idea of penetrating deeply into an astartes chest (a good 15-20 cm at least, given the greater bulk) or through the thigh and up into the torso (twice the first hit easily.) for a "blaster" type laser (suggested by the penetration) we'd be talking double digit kj quite easily, givne Astartes durability, bulk, and the need to puncture two lungs with one shot. The shots in question were apparently from high powered, even overcharged lasweapons. These wounds would also tend to confirm the "double digit kj per shot" estimate from above, quite easily, although considering that these shots would have to have also penetrated armor then done the damage..
Page 29
Glavian was ancient, one of the few Grey Knights currently in the Chapter who had reached the extended old age a Space Marine's enhancements could grant him. Glaivan's hands had been replaced long ago with bionic armatures that gave him a surgical touch far finer than human hands, with splayed fingers tipped with scalpels and pincers. Grey Knights usually wore their power armour when outside their cells or at worship, but Glaivan had long since left his battlegear behind. Beneath the long white apothecary's robes his body was braced with steel and brass, and his redundant organs had been removed to leave Glaivan a shell of a Marine.
Glavian was more than four hundred years old, all but the first handful of those having been spent in service to the Grey Knights and the Ordo Malleus.
a 400 year old, heavily augmetic Gray Knight.. had some of his organs removed (although not ones to deal with slowe daging I guess...) implied that 400 years old is long for a Gray Knight, although whether the limit or not is up for debate, given what other sources tell us. Perhaps it is rare for them to live that long, given the nature of their foe.
Page 29
"They were high-powered las-burns, justicar, very deep. I am surprised that you are awake so soon, and very little surprises me."
I guess the las shot inflicted burns as well. Probably roughly equal to the energy to inflict the holes at least. Coupled with the need to penetrate armor as well as causing the burns... might be high double digit/low triple digit kj lasgun shots, which would make sense for "overcharged" shots.
Page 30
Alaric had seen Valinov, just as the storm of las-fire had ripped out of the underground temple from the cultists under Valinov's command.
His cultists - the mission briefing had suggested several hundred of them in the underground temple complex -
Alaric had been one of the first in, leading the squad he had recently come to command.
- mention of several hundred cultists (upper limit on the number firing on Alaric.) Along with Valinov. Putting this into context with what was said above, we can figure that pretty much within the first or second salvos of being fired upon Alaric went down, again confirming it was a short timeframe.
Page 30
"How long?" asked Alaric.
"Three months.' replied Glaivan. 'The Rubicon made good speed back."
We don't know the exact distance involved, but it is mentioned later that Valinov was rampaging across segmentum solar, meaning they can't have (from Terra) gone more than 10-15K LY or so tops (Segmentum solar isnt that much bigger). around 40,000c or so speed, although that assumes a straight-line course.
Alaric took three months to heal form his wounds, including the transit back to the Grey Knights base from the planet they were attacking.
Page 30
The Grey Knights were technically autonomous, but the Ordo Malleus were in practice their masters, and they certainly didn't want the Grey Knights harbouring seditious opinions about the Inquisition. Radicalism was, officially, a non-existent threat, and that was all the Malleus would officially say to the Grey Knights about it.
Like the Deathwatch (as per the RPG) the Gray Knights are technically not under the direct command of the Malleus, but they are so closely allied that they basically are the same. Malleus radicalism seems to be a secret as well.
Page 30-31
Alaric sifted through his last memories of the raid - gunfire streaking through grimy underground tunnels, battle-brothers charging in a storm of explosions. If the Rubicon had indeed made good speed then Alaric had probably been in Glaivan's care for a couple of weeks.
This would suggest maybe a bit less than three months.. 2-1/2 maybe, but not much different 50-60K times the speed of light instead of 40K. Also implies a short timeframe between alaric arriving and going down again.
Page 32
There was a great deal Alaric had to do after any battle, let alone one where he had been both severely wounded and been exposed to potential corruption. He would have to confess, receive purification, have his battlegear repaired and reconsecrated, see his name entered in the immense tomes recording the deeds of the Grey Knights, and be debriefed by Grand Master Tencendur and the inquisitors who had been ultimately responsible for the attack.
The life of a Grey Knight was ritual and purification punctuated by savage combat against the foulest of foes - just a few days of it would break a lesser man, and sometimes Alaric was grateful he could not remember anything else.
After battle rites for a Grey Knight.
Page 33
Barbillus had worn armour covered in gold filigree depicting daemons crushed beneath the Emperor's feet and wielded a power hammer with a head carved from meteoric iron. He had ridden his war pulpit into the deepest pits of daemonic horror.
Barbillus had an extensive staff, mostly of warriors who rode with him into battle, recruited from martial cultures all over the Imperium. But he also needed people to get him to the battlefield. Investigators. Interviewers. Scientists. Some of Barbillus's rear echelon staff went deep undercover for him, infiltrating noble houses suspected of daemonancy or vicious hive-scum gangs sponsored by hidden cultist cells.
A rather high end inquisitor, what with a fancy hammer and a mobile war pulpit...and quite a household. Esienhorn he is not. The scientists bit is intresting.
Page 33
He [Valinov] came form the Segmentum Solar, that was certain, from one of the massively industrialised worlds of the Imperium's heartland where only the sharpest and most ruthless could hope to gain recognition from off-world.
We know Segmentum solar is heavily populated, since its the seat of humanity's birth and the most densely colonized... this suggests it is also the most heavily industrialized and perhaps the most technically advanced part of the Imperium as well.
Page 35
Then came Agnarsson's Hold. If Barbillus did not die fighting the Daemon Prince Malygrymm the Bloodstained on that planet then he certainly died when the Exterminatus was brought to bear. This time it was his personal staff who launcehd the cyclonic torpedoes form Barbillus's fleet to destroy Agnarson's Hold if he didn't return from the daemon-infested surface. Senior Interrogator Valinov had watched from Barbillus's flagship as the verdant agri-world was swallowed up by the magma welling up from its ruptured crust.
Fleet bombardment of cyclonics to Exterminatus an entire world. Crust ruptured, spilling magma ont o the surface. Suggests far more nastier than the usual "billion megaton" or so bombardment..
Page 36
The hive world was drowned in the nightmare dimension of the warp. The storm was impenetrable and no one could be sure what happened to the nineteen billion men, women and children who made up the population of V'Run, but astropaths reported hearing screams emanating from the planet for light years around.
Hive world of 19 billion on Segmentum solar got fucked over... Astropaths could pick up screams "light years" around.. whether this is realtime or not we don't know.
Page 36
Valinov left a trail of atrocity across the Segmentum Solar. He immolated the capital of Port St Indra by overloading the city's heatsinks.
they tracked him to the plague-stricken communities of the Gaolven Belt.
The Conclave approached Grand Master Tencendur, and he agreed to send a force of Grey Knights to spearhead the assault on Valinov's fortress.
The first man out of the boarding torpedoes and into the breach had been justicar Alaric.
Evets preceding Alaric's introduction to us. Valinov's activities seemed to be confined within Segmentum solar, suggesting the aforementioned limits on the Rubicon's 3 month journey.
A heat sink overload destroys a city.. probably a hive city.
Alaric going down just out of the boarding torpedo seems to confirm a rather short barrage of fire taking him down.
Page 38
His wounds still hurt and he could feel the channel of rapidly healing scar tissue where the las-bolt had burned through his abdomen. His skin felt raw from the healing tank.
Las-bolt had "burned through his abdomen" that suggests prehaps it was not an efficient "blaster" style las barrage but more inefificent "burning/vaporizing" type shot.. that would take maybe an order of magnitude more energy than what I estimated. On the other hand if it was that intense it might cauterize... maybe it was not quite fully burning/vaping but not quite totally "blaster".. a hybrid mode perhaps.
Page 39
"Remember it, Alaric. Remember what it means to be broken and laid low. The mark of a leader is not whether you can avoid such misfortune, but whether you can take it and turn it into something that makes you stronger. Your battle-brothers are dead, but you can ensure their lives had meaning. That is what it means to lead."
Chaplain to Alaric. It's sometimes hard to blelieve Ben Counter wrote this, as Alaric is genuinely a sympathetic and likeable character. They're so different from the Soul Drinkers.
Page 40-42
The Ordo Malleus had taken the rings of Saturn shortly after the inception of the Inquisition, and had turned them into its own unofficial domain. The lord inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus ruled Saturn's moons absolutely, because that was the only way they could ensure the security of their facilities.
The immensely complicated geometry of Saturn's rings means it was all but impossible for any enemy force to penetrate the thousands of turbolaser defences that bristled from asteroids captured by Saturn's gravity. The ordo controlled the only reliable way in and out of the rings, the naval fortress on the outermost major moon Iapetus.
Mimas, the closest major moon to the vast swirling mass of Saturn, was disfigured by an immense impact scar covering a quarter of the surface. Built into that crater was the Inquisitorial prison where the worst of the worst were held in complexes of isolated cells with psychic wards woven into the walls, guarded by gun-servitors and a regiment of Ordo Malleus storm troopers.
Encaladus, the next moon out from Mimas, housed the Inquisitorial citadel, a vast and imposing palace where the lord inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus held court and the most senior of the ordo's inquisitors maintained personal estates.
Tethys was the location of the Librarium Daemonicum, the repository of dangerous knowledge gathered over thousands of years of fighting the darkness. The Librarium was completely hidden from the surface - thousands of void-safe cells and galleries of crammed bookshelves filled a sphere hollowed out of the moon's core. Untold millions of tomes, data-slates, scrolls and pict-recordings were refrigerated to preserve delicate pages and unstable datacores. Access to them was given only on the authority of the lord inquisitors themselves, and the more restricted sectors formed some of the most sensitive locations in the galaxy.
Titan, the largest moon, concealed beneath its thick orange atmosphere the immense fortress-monastery of the Grey Knights, covering the surface as if the whole moon had been carved with a pattern of towers and battlements.
The docks of Iapetus, the furthermost major moon, extended kilometres out into space and were always hosts to whole roosts of cruisers, escorts and battleships, including the strike fleet of the Grey Knights and enormous Imperator-class battleships requisitioned from the Battlefleet Solar.
Inquisitorial fortress around Saturn in detail. Note the defenses and security around the planet (thousands of turbolaser equipped asteroids), the facilities for prisoners and illicit data, and the dockyards with a whole fleet of starship (including the Grey Knights.) Also requisitioned battleships from bAttelfleet Solar. I wonder if the Imperator class is an actual class, or if they meant to say "Emperor Class."
Page 42
Spider-like archiver servitors scurried up the walls on thin metal legs, the fleshy once-human parts scanning book spines and labels for the Malleus research staff who spent their lives poring over ancient texts for their Inquisitorial masters. Many higher-ranking Malleus inquisitors had a personal researcher or two on Tethys, whose sole purpose in life was to find obscure and potentially vital information on the enemies of the Emperor.
Archive servitors, as well as personal researchers.
Page 42
A few pale, large-eyed researchers were hunched over crumbling tomes, gun-servitors hovering over their shoulders in case the knowledge they were exposed to overcame their minds. Their breath coiled in the air and they all wore close-fitting thermosuits; the temperature was kept too low for a human to survive more than a few minutes.
the Dangers of Malleus research, and conditions in the libraries.
Page 43
A tiny guide-servitor droned on ahead of her...
Ligeia being guided to Valinov's possessions.
Page 43
The Ordo Malleus were mostly typically bull-headed daemonhunters with weapons and armour to rival the Grey Knights themselves...
A psychic Malleus inquisitor was supposed to hurl bolts of lightning or banish daemons with a word, but Ligeia's powers were geared towards understanding and perception.
- Assessment of typical Malleus Inquisitors, esp to compare to Grey Knights. We also see how Ligeia differs, which in context seems to make her a rarity/exception.
Page 44
Ligeia took a seat and the guide-servitor flitted off again. No gun-servitor approached, because one of the privileges of Ligeia's office was the trust the lord inquisitors placed in her willpower. A suppressor field she carried switched off the defences in her immediate vicinity, so the signature of her psychic abilities would not bring sentry guns out of the walls.
Servitors attuned to psychic abilities (and programmed to attack.) Ligeiea has a suppressor field to shield herself from their detection, however.
Page 44
Ligeia remembered from the briefing that Valinov had been wounded. It was a measure of his strength that he had survived the shock of a bolter round against unarmoured flesh.
Hell its lucky he didnt lose his arm, or have his torso blown apart by proximity. Must have been one of those "reduced yield" bolter rounds
Page 44
Valinov had been armed with a custom hunting las...
The Power Pack was similarily custom-built and was heavily overcharged going by the scorching on the Barrel.
The power pack is probably bordering on hotshot-scale, judging by the barrel scorching. Indicative of the variations in power output, power capacity of las weapons, and how they can be altered to make weapons deadlier. Which amkes sense, as changing the power pack's capabilities (how much energy it releases, how much it stores, etc.) is a good way of controlling the firepower of the weapon.
As we know from Dark Heresy and Rogue trader, overcharge packs basically reduce the number of shots to increase the power of said shots.
Page 44
Valinov had carried a wrackblade, too, a sneaky little weapon that looked like a combat knife but hid a neurowhip processor. The same blade had turned Interrogator Iatonn's entrails to mush.
The Interrogator Alaric saw in the infirmary having his insides sewn back together. I guess the neurowhip thing combines properties of a vibroweapon with neural shock/pain enhancers or something, like the Dark Angel Blades of REason.
Page 45
Ligeia held her hand over the tattered parchment and let her perception bleed out of the inside of her head and down into the paper, weaving around not just the shape of the letters and diagrams but the meaning that infused them.
The meaning on the scrolls was a faint, flitting thing, vague and frustrating. Ligeia suspected it might be some complicated code but the deeper she reached the more she came across a barrier of meaninglessness. The scrolls meant nothing. Their only purpose was to look impressive. True rituals of the Chaos gods would have lit up her psychic perception like fireworks.
Ligeia uses an interesting power to psychically read or divine impressions from the scrolls. Some psykers have demonstrated the ability to "read" via their psychic senses (the inks and such in the paper/parchment/whatever.) which seems similiar.
Page 47
She recognised the name of Angron, the Daemon Primarch who had once been banished from the material realm in the first Battle for Armageddon. She saw Cherubael and Doombreed, N'Kari and hundreds of others, with the dates and predicted durations of their banishments noted beside. Some of those names alone would have corrupted lesser minds.
The Codicium Aeternum. By the Throne, if it was real...
It had last been seen in these very halls decades before. It had been thought simply lost, hidden somewhere in the bowels of Tethys where it had become a victim of the secrecy supposed to keep it secret. Many volumes had slipped through the gaps like that, and the Malleus had specialised knowledge hunter squads who roamed the lower recesses finding vital texts that had previously been forgotten.
The Codicium Aeternum was one of the most valuable reference works the Malleus possessed, listing thousands of daemons banished by the Grey Knights or the Inquisition.
A Malleus book on the names of Daemons. Also, they seem to lose books all the time (how?) and they have specialized squads who go out and find them (the opposite of deletion squads from Bleeding Chalice?) In this case Valinov is suepcted to have stolen it, so a likely source are renegade Inquisitors.
Page 50
Nyxos himself was an old leathery warrior, wearing simple black that served to flaunt the silver-plated brackets and servo mounts that lent his frail old body immense strength and speed
Servo-augemnted/assisted Inquisitor.
Page 51
In time, new recruits would be picked to join Alaric's squad, and eventually they would replace the fallen. But that would not happen soon. Until then Squad Alaric would be two men short....
Grey Knights seem to be in such high demand and hard to produce compared to regular astartes that replacements are not always on hand.
Page 51
She ran her thumb along the gene-lock and the void-safe snapped open..
gene lock on a void safe.
Page 52
As beings of pure energy many of them cannot be permanently destroyed, only sent back to the warp until they can reform; we believe the Codicium was first compiled in an attempt to systematically monitor their returns. Of course, the ways of Chaos are anything but systematic but the authors were thorough, at first. Many of the entries are incomplete or damaged...
The Malleus knows they lack the ability to permanantly destroy Daemons (although god knows why, we know Eisenhorn obliterated Prophanati with his runestaff (which suggested an alpha level could wipe out some fairly powerful daemons.) In any event they try to make a schedule of banishments so they can prepare and banish them again (if they can find them), but like most things of the warp precision is at best a secondary consideration, and the work is incomplete.
Page 53
"Do you know where Ghargatuloth will return? Khorion IX was destroyed by exterminatus."
Implication that exterminatus may prevent the rebirth/return of a daemon.
Page 53
"The Emperor's Tarot consulted at the time along with visions suffered by astropaths in the vicinity of Khorion IX suggested that Ghargatuloth would return somewhere in the Trail of St Evisser."
Predictions and prophecy via Tarot and Astropathic visions.
Page 54
"It took the Ordo Malleus more than a hundred years to find out its name. Not even its truename, just the name it used to create cults all over the Imperium. Then it took decades to track it to Khorion IX and when they finally cornered it, they sent three hundred Grey Knights to banish it. Not one of them came back."
The hunt for Ghargatuloth.
Page 54
" He could still influence the weak-willed from the warp but until they can bring him fully into real space he will be comparatively vulnerable."
Daemon prince can mentally manipulate the "weak willed" (culists?) from the warp.
Page 55
In four months he will have been banished for a full thousand years and he will be able to create new cults and instruct them in drawing him into real space. Valinov will take too long to break. We must go now."
Ghargatuloth will be able to break free in four months.. this sets an upper limit on the timeframe for events.
Page 56
A daemon's banishment was a complicated concept. The strength of the daemon, the method of banishment and sheer luck determined how long the daemon would have to languish in the warp. Mandulis must have dealt Ghargatulofh a fell blow indeed to banish the daemon for a thousand years. The Codicium Aeternum had been written in an attempt to catalogue all those factors and predict accurately when and where daemons would return, but Chaos by its very nature refused to be categorized so neatly and the book had been left half-finished - but not before Ghargatuloth's return had been predicted.
The requirements for banishment, and part of the reason for the daemon catalogue in question, and the way cHaos fucks that up.
Page 57
"All Grey Knights have some psychic capacity. I am strong enough for it to be a part of my conditioning but not to focus it."
In a sense Grey knights are highly psychic but are so highly specialized via training and their wards its something they cnanot actively draw upon like a normal psyker in most respects. Probably helps to make their use of the psychic safer and more reliable.
Page 58
There was a metal collar around his neck packed with explosives that would neatly blow his head off if he left the interrogation cell, attempted to use psychic powers (although Valinov had never shown any measurable psychic capacity) or simply angered the supervising interrogator enough for the collar's detonator to be pushed.
Valinov's pretty new necklace. Penal Legionnaire collection, I believe.
Page 59
The Prison on Mimas was staffed by men and women who had been totally mind-scrubbed and then given an education consisting of nothing but security protocols, interrogation techniques, and utter hatred of the inmates. They were at a reduced risk of corruption because there was less of a mind to corrupt.
More Malleus mind-scrubbed staff. Apparently the process makes them less susceptible to the warp (at the cost of stripping out what? memories? Personality? emotions?) it makes them seem almost like servitors. Sounds alot like the emotional repression surgery we learn the skitarri/tech guard undergo really. And it suggests servitors are less prone to corruption as well.
I wonder if they do this to their storm troopers to some extent as a defensive measure?
In any case, we should be aware "corruption" probably means mental/psychic influence, but it provides no defense against the physically corrupting/mutating nature of the warp.
Page 60
"So." said Valinov in that slick, smooth voice. "You're going to kill me five times?"
Ligeia looked up at him. "That was the plan, yes."
Valinov said nothing.
"You have been away for some time, Valinov. You probably don't know the changes to our procedure. It's complicated, but ultimately, the office of executions has acquired a psyker who can keep you alive, even though you are dead. The Adeptus Astra Telepathica trained him up and they owed the ordo a favour, hence your impending five death sentences. I must confess, I find it difficult to imagine what it will be like for you to remain conscious while your body begins to rot." This time Ligeia smiled faindy. "But then I suppose you have a better imagination than I."
neat trick. I rather liked this line really, but I guess we shouldnt be surprised the Imperium has ways to revive the dead.
Page 61
"They brought you over from the Ordo Hereticus." continued Valinov. "That doesn't happen very often."
Yeah, we learn in other novels that headhunting the other Ordos talent is rare. I suspect once they get their claws into you they don't want to let go.
Page 62-63
"Have you ever killed a world, Ligeia? I mean, killed every single person on a planet, wiped out everything they are and everything they will ever be."
"You did. You killed V'Run."
"V'Run is a free world now. But I have destroyed worlds before. Under Barbillus I did everything except press the button. Whole civilizations, dead in hours. Do you know what he did to Jurn? They had to bring in freighters full of refugees to repopulate it. They're still finding unexploded virus torpedoes in the under-hive to this day."
...I made sure Barbillus couldn't get off Agnarsson's Hold, that was truly right. He burned, just like the billions he had burned. "
More on Exterminatus, including V'Run. mention of killing worlds "dead in hours", which is consistent with the Battlefleet Gothic depiction of exterminatus.
Not all Exterminatus seem.. permamant though (the way Tallarn or St Josemane's hope is, for example) since they mention of bringing in freighters of refugees to repopulate a world after killing a world. Or else killing a world and exterminatus are not neccesarily the same thing, or it depends on the kind (Virus bombing in this case, since they Aaso mention of finding unexploded virus torpedoes.)
Page 65-66
The Trail of St Evisser was a grimy little skein of space towards the galactic west, on the edge of the Segmentum Solar near the Ecclesiarchy heartland around Gathalamor and Chiros. The Trail consisted of a couple of dozen settled worlds forming a long, gruelling journey that twisted around nebulae and asteroid fields to describe the lengthy pilgrimage of St Evisser himself.
It was a shining example of piety, with cathedrals and shrines dotting every settled world, a rich vein of charismatic senior clergy and a brand of lavish exultation that covered cathedral spires in gold. Each world competed in works of devotion until the festivals of the Adeptus Ministorum became week-long celebrations with processions that snaked around continents. It rivalled the relic-trail of Sebastian Thor for ostentatious piety and material celebration of the Emperor.
But that had been some centuries ago. The Imperium was a vast and constantly changing place and cycles of poverty and wealth, fame and obscurity, churned between the stars. The Trail of St Evisser was all but forgotten now, just another band of worlds where billions of Imperial citizens lived out their lives. The population, Alaric saw, had fallen to about a quarter of its high point. The hive world of Volcanis Ultor was half-empty and whole agri-worlds were lying fallow. It seemed that religious fervour had at last waned and allowed warp routes to be forged that bypassed the Trail entirely. Shipping through the Trail was a fraction of what it had once been....
The Grey Knights strike cruiser Rubicon was a fast ship. Even so, it would take weeks to reach the Trail. Ligeia had sent an astropathic message to the Inquisition fortress which had jurisdiction over the Trail...
I have to really wonder if the mapping of the Imperium when this novel was written was at all consistent, or if they just made it up for 5th edition, because according ot that map there are thousands of light years (or more) between "Chiros" and "Gathalamor." The distance could be as little as 4-5K light years (near Gathalamor), to maybe 15-16K light years (approximate) for Chiros. Chirios isn't really even in Segmentum Solar. Being on the "edge" of the Segmentum would be around 10K light years (Armageddon, for example, is 10K light years from Terra and close to the edge.) Given all that I'm inclined to treat the "between Chirios and Galathamor" as jsut very rough, approximate locations suggesting it is close to the south, southwest, and trust more in the edge.
Timeframe wise, 10K in 2-3 weeks is between 170,000 and 260,000c, and it could be half that (if close to Galathamor) or 50% more (if closeer to Chirios). This is slower than some other novels (Dow:A and the Red Fury/Black Tide duology come to mind) but the warp is never precise, and given the 13th black crusade, and the arrival of a daemon prince as well... the warp probably isnt very steady.
We also get some data on the economics and the scope of this world.. several dozen worlds with "billions" of populaton.. this being less than a quarter its true size.. Scaling up from a million worlds, and accounting for its "less important" status we're talking 300 trillion people in the Imperium at least. more probably more than that, givne more worlds, and that 2-8 billion is likely a dramatic under estimate (IF we go closer to the other end of the scale, say 800 billion you get some 33 quadrillion..) On the economic side, we learn that despite the vast distances, the warp storm activity (or perhaps because of it) and other factors, the Imperium does change on the larger scale.. places wax and wane all the time, including shipping.
We also learn once again what a group of money-wasting pompous assholes the Ecclesiarchy is.
Page 67
Ligeia had set out her customary evening meal of exotic delicacies from worlds on the other side of the Imperium, but Alaric as usual ate little.
Indication of cross-Imperium shipping, albeit only for the very wealthy. Time is never a factor, since shipping can be done via stasis tech (CF Inquisition War) but I imagine it takes no more than decades, and probably years (if that) since the person doesn't age waiting.
Page 67
"A Grey Knight must have a core of faith that cannot be broken." Alaric picked at the daemonfish fillets on the silver plate in front of him - truth be told, he was uncomfortable amongst the luxury with which Ligeia surrounded herself."'Like a rock in an ocean. That's the first thing we learn, although none of us remember learning it. You understand, we cannot know what it is like not to have that shield of faith. If we could remember it, that core would be flawed. There would be a way in. There is no room to remember for us."
The source of a GK's incorruptability.
Page 67
"The Ordo Malleus has the most advanced psycho-doctrination in the Imperium. It leaves nothing behind. I could have been a hive ganger or some tribal hunter, or anything else. The Chapter recruits from hundreds of planets of all kinds. Whoever I was, I was taken before adolescence and made into someone else."
- the Grey Knights recruit from "hundreds of worlds of all kinds." yet despite that they still have trouble finding GKs. If we consider that there are amybe 1:100,000 Psykersk, and 1:1000 potential astartes... and that librarians can be rae from chapter to cahpter (1:10 to 1:100 maybe)... we can see why. And they have some intense hypno-shit - so much so it basically overwrites any prior personality.
Page 68
" As a psyker I can discern information in whatever form it is written. The Ordo Malleus... made me an offer, and I accepted. There was some resistance, but the Malleus has its ways."
More about Ligeia's special powers and cross-Ordo headhunting. Seems Malleus can have more pull (in some ways) than Hereticus.
Page 68
"Our politics can be very complicated and you are not a politician, you are a weapon. You don't need to know about our various factions and infighting - they are all mostly matters of pride and dogma, but believe me that men like Valinov are more common than any of us would admit."
I suspect she is referring to radicals rather than actual REengades or chaos-turned Inquisitors, although for some (like, I suspect, Ligeia) the difference is minor.
Page 68
[/quote]Out of politeness he swallowed a slice of the daemonfish - it tasted rich and spicy, a world away from the balanced but tasteless sludge synthesised for the Grey Knights on Titan. He didn't like it. Eating like this was an affectation, a show of pride. Enough Space Marines had fallen to pride for Alaric to find the whole idea distasteful.
An indication, methinks, of the mindset of a Grey Knight where simply enjoying food can be considered a temptation to Chaos. In a way its true, and a GK probably can't take ANY risks, however slight, that may lead them on the path to chaos.
I have to note that from page 67 to here, we get one of those aspects about this novel that makes it so interesting for me. Basically its a discussion between Ligeia and Alaric over various matters, and it really sort of establishes their relationship for this book, as well as highlighting the differences between a Space Marine and a human, and you only get a fraction of that from what I post here. The interactions between Ligeia and Alaric will drive this entire story from start to finish, and is what makes the story really worthwhile.

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Competitive race fields drove total wagering to a record $158,368,308 during Keeneland's 2007 spring race meeting, conducted April 6 -27, in spite of poor weather that resulted in a 11.9% on-track attendance drop from the 2006 record season.
The all-sources handle figure, which includes on-track and off-track wagering as well as whole card simulcasting conducted at Keeneland, represents a more than 10% increase over the previous record of $143,479,802 set last spring. Total wagering averaged a record $10,557,887 per day, breaking last year's record of $9,565,320. The record handle was achieved despite unseasonably cold, inclement weather – which saw accumulating snow on opening weekend – throughout much of the race meet.
On-track attendance totaled 215,030 for the meet, a decrease from last spring's record of 244,145. Average daily attendance was 14,335. A single-day attendance record of 33,821 was set on April 21, which featured the $325,000 Coolmore Lexington Stakes (gr. II), won by Slew's Tizzy. The previous record was 33,621 set on April 16, 2005, for the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I).
"Mother Nature won this one," said Keeneland President Nick Nicholson. "When the weather was good, the fans came out in record numbers. And, through it all – the snow, the rain and the cold – the new Polytrack surface held up well and there were full, competitive fields which resulted in a record all-sources mutuel handle. In many ways, the Polytrack was the star of the meet."
It was the first spring meet conducted over Polytrack, which remained consistent and safe in the face of snow, rain and sub-freezing wind chill temperatures. Field size averaged 9.5 horses this spring versus 8.09 . Polytrack races also averaged 9.5 starters per race, up 21.4% from last spring when racing was conducted over the conventional dirt track.
Keeneland realized substantial increases in interstate commingled wagering, which rose 14% to $125,952,284 compared to last year's record of $110,401,486. Average daily interstate handle of $8,396,819 also topped 2006's record level of $7,360,099.
On-track wagering on Keeneland racing dipped slightly to $20,919,811 from last year's $21,833,015. Total on-track handle, which includes whole card wagering at Keeneland, of $25,859,223 was down 5% from last year's $27,129,925.
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Latest content added for Digital Library Collection: UNT Theses and Dissertationshttps://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/UNTETD/browse/?fq=str_degree_discipline:Philosophy2016-08-31T22:41:47-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing Digital Library Collection: UNT Theses and DissertationsEnvironmental Ethics from the Periphery: José Lutzenberger and the Philosophical Analysis of an Unecological Economics2016-08-31T22:41:47-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862837/

This dissertation provides a philosophical analysis about the influence colonialism had over capitalism's current configuration and how their intricate interplay impacts both the social and the ecological spheres, in both central and peripheral countries. Such analysis draws from the work of José Lutzenberger, a Brazilian environmentalist. The current capitalist economic system tends to disregard the environment, since it would be greatly affected by negative externalities. A negative externality is an economic activity that imposes a negative effect on an unrelated third party. Many negative externalities are related to the environmental consequences of production and consumption. In addition, this dissertation explores the fact that an ecological crisis is also a social crisis. A genealogical and existential thread going from Brazil's early days as one of Portugal's colonies to the present is drawn, showing how colonialism helped to create the foundations and the conditions for the current exploitative capitalist system, in Brazil and elsewhere. To change this situation, the environment should not be entrusted to private interests but to an institution responsible for the good of society as a whole. Genuinely green economies are more prone to appear on the periphery, but only if global economic justice is achieved first.
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Wonder has had a rich and diverse history in the western philosophical tradition. Both Plato and Aristotle claim that philosophy begins in wonder, while Descartes marks it as the first of the passions and Heidegger uses it as a signpost for a new trajectory of philosophy away from idealism and nihilism. Despite such a rich history, wonder is almost always thought to be exhausted by the acquisition of knowledge. That is, wonder is thought of almost exclusively in epistemological terms and is discarded as soon as knowledge has been achieved. In this dissertation, I argue for an ontological reorientation of wonder that values wonder beyond its epistemic uses. To do this, I read the phenomenological and ontological work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty through recent developments in object-oriented ontology and new materialism. Much of Merleau-Ponty's work is directed toward dissolving the distinction between subject and object. His insights regarding the mutual constitution of the world lead to the possibility of an operative wonder that occurs between subject and object. Both object-oriented ontology and new materialism radicalize these insights by articulating them in terms of a vibrant or quasi-agential material world. Objects and assemblages of objects are capable of performing the becoming of the world that includes human activity, but is not reduced to it. As such, the world is capable of both self-organization and practice. Ultimately I use the philosophy-physics of Karen Barad to argue that operative wonder acts like a kind of superposition of relations between objects, and thereby accounts for a concept of wonder that is both ontologically significant and acutely generative.
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Recent decades have marked growing academic and scientific attention to the role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation, mitigation, and detection strategies. However, how indigenous knowledge is incorporated is a point of contention between self-identifying indigenous groups and existing institutions which combat climate change. In this thesis, I argue that the full inclusion of indigenous knowledge is deterred by certain aspects of modernity. In order to overcome the problems of modernity, I argue that a recognition theory of justice is needed as it regards to indigenous knowledge. Recognition justice calls for indigenous groups to retain meaningful control over how and when their indigenous knowledge is shared. To supplement this, I use the Marshall Islands as a case study. The Marshall Islands afford a nice particular case because of their longstanding colonial relationship with the United States and the impending danger they face of rising sea levels. Despite this danger, the Republic of the Marshall Islands calls for increased recognition as leaders in addressing climate change.
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300 Dakota- FiftyDriver and others-
Thanks for the answer. I was considering the 300 Dakota very seriously.
I spoke with another gunsmith to build me a rifle and he had a preference for the 300 Win. Mag.
He said:
I personally have a fairly low opinion of the Dakota cartridges although, on the surface, they seem fairly practical. I feel the cartridges could benefit from having slightly more body taper. I have seen rifles in these chamberings which exhibited extraction problems related to this lack of taper in combination with thehigh pressures necessary to achieve performance in line with claims. Most actions simply lack sufficient primary extraction to allow the case to release. Many will argue this point but there it is.
Would you 'politely' share your thoughts with me on your experience or preference on the 300 Dakota in view of the above comments?
Should you wish you, please PM me confidentially. I want a rifle built on a Model 70 SS action, D'arcy Echols Legends lightweight McMillan Stock or the Hunter's Edge (McM), 25 or 26" SS barrel #2, light flutes- some action milling and accurizing etc.
I like the idea of the 300 Dakota, but want to make an informed decision on building a custom rifle.
Further, is it possible to get a mag that holds 4 down with this cartridge?
Big Thanks!
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For some reason I can not get teh PM to work for you. I will just respond here.
I think the Dakota is a good line of rounds but it does have its downside, I would not say that body taper or lack there of is a big issue.
The 300 Dakota is resigned with roughly 0.014" of body taper(.545" at head, .531" at shoulder) by comparision my Allen Mags have roughly 0.012" of body taper over a longer case body so they have significantly less body taper.
This is not a problem as far as extraction goes really as it actually reduces bolt thrust and case wedging in the chamber.
The biggest problem with an extreme minimum taper case design is simply this, it is MUCH more time consuming to chamber a rifle with a chamber like this. The problem is that if you take to much of a cut out of the chamber without cleaning the reamer off it is very likely that you will score a ring on the inside of the chamber and then you will have serious extraction problem.
IF you use a forced flushign system that pumps high volume and moderate pressure cutting fluid down the bore from the muzzle to the chamber end, this system will keep the chips from building up in the reamer flutes and rubbing on the chamber wall which will open up the diameter of the forward portion of the chamber.
IF you use a conventional reaming proceedure, instead of taking 0.030" per cut before cleaning the reamer off, you will be limited to taking around 0.010" per cut to prevent this chip build up from washing out the forward section of the chamber. If this occurs there will be serious extraction problems.
I know this first hand because the first test barrel I chambered for my 257 Allen Mag had severe extraction problems and this was the what caused it.
Most gunsmiths are used to chambering rifles in rounds that have a substantial amount of body taper, even modern magnum rounds have quite a bit of body taper.
When your reaming a chamber for say a 300 Win Mag, even if you score the chamber slightly about 1/2 the way into the chambering process, the taper of the reamer will clean up this ringed area by the time you finish the chambering job.
There are many more chambers ringed by gunsmiths then most gunsmiths even realize. The reason is because when they start chambering, many smiths take deeper cuts then they will when they get closer to the end of the chamber. I do this as well. While I do not hog out .200" per cut to start out, I will take 0.040" or so until about half way and then I will drop down to a 0.030" or even a 0.020" depth of cut per pass at the end.
That is with a conventional round. When I did this with my first 257 Allen Mag test barrel, I had a section that for about 1" from the shoulder back that was noticably ringed and case extraction was nearly impossible.
I have since learned that a dramatically shallower cut is needed if reaming in the raditional method with cutting oil. Now to be safe I take only 0.020" cuts to start and when I get within 1" of the end I drop to 0.010" per pass.
The problem with these chambers is simply that if you get mionor ringing in the chamber, which is relatively common to some minor point, a conventionally tapered round will have enough taper to clean this up, a miminum taper round simply will not allow this cleanup.
To chamber a barrel to one of these style rounds, you will spend roughly 4 to 5 hours and alot of cutting fluid because the chambering has to go very slow.
You will take just shy of 180 passes to cut these chambers to get a perfect result. With a forced lubricant system it is much quicker as the chips are forced away from the reamer and out the breech end of the barrel before then can build up. This is the best way to chamber for these rounds.
I would say the biggest problem with the Dakota line of rounds is ammo cost, brass cost and availability.
Performance wise your looking at the full equivelent of the 300 WBY Mag or the 300 Jarrett but in a shorter fatter package.
Reading your rifle specs you want, I assume this is mainly for a walking rifle as it will be very light for the caliber you want to use. This is not a problem but I will say that when you get a barrel down to a #2 contour and of 26" in length and then settle the barreled action in a 20 oz stock and lighten up a few other things, you will have rifle torquing issues. This is when the rifle wants to jump or roll from side to side when fired. This is simply a result of there not being enough rifle mass to counter act the torque created by a 30 cal bullet of 150 to 200 gr in weight being forced down a 1-10 twist barrel.
An excellent example of this is a rifle I just finished for a customer in 270 Win. The receiver is a MRC 1999 and the stock is a McMillan Light weight model. I took it out to range test it yesterday and today and found out some very interesting things.
First off, the narrow forend made it difficult to shoot off most front bag designs. Even in a traditional sporter front bag, the narrow forend could easily roll side to side. This is of no concern to teh big game hunter who will be using this rifle as a stalking rifle but for me the rifle builder I need to knwo this rifle will meet my 1/2 moa requirements before I ship so the rifle is shot off a bench with front and rear bags.
Anyway, when testing the rifle, I shot the first groups with a traditional BR style hold, with my left hand supporting the sides of the rear bag.
Groups measured around .3" of vertical variation and on average 1" of horizontal. While this is not terrible, it is not up to my demands for my rifles. It was very consistant and I knew full well the bedding was perfect in this rifle as I had just bedded it.
From teh horizintal stringing I figured it may be the forend rolling in teh front bag so I held the forend solidly with my left hand pulling it straight back into my shoulder and I used a moderate hold with my trigger hand.
Three, three shot groups averaged, just a tick over 1/2" and were all nearly identical in shape. Very nice little triangles, well at least for a sub 7 lb rifle.
Just for curiousity sake, I shot three more nto holding onto the forend, again, about .4" vertical and this group went 1 1/4" horizontal.
So while the rifle is very accurate for what it is(it would not run with a Rem 700 that was fully accurized. I built one last week also in 270 that averged .289" ctc for three, three shot groups at 100 yards.) which is a light weight big game packing rifle, it is not the easiest rifle in the world to shoot accurately.
You will find this to an even higher degree with the 300 Dakota.
I would rather have a fuller forend and gain a few oz then have one of these very narrow forends. Just my personal opinion. Again, for the big game rifle that will be used for stalking, this will mean nothing in the field.
As far as getting 4 rounds in the belly, you will need a dropped belly to get this I believe there are a few out there but I do not know if they are available for the Win M70 receiver or not.
Good Shooting!!
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Do you step drill the chamber first before using the reamer to remove material for faster reaming operations?
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All I can say is WOW!
Thank you soo much for your detailed explanation. This means a lot to me. It certainly appears that you really have a lot of experience in this.
Seems like, when it is done properly, the 300 Dakota or other non-taper cartridge has no feding or extraction problems.
Have you or anyone here verified the .300 Dakota claims of 3225fps out of a 24" barrel using 180gr. bullets? Or the 3100fps using 200gr. out of 24" barrel?
My concern is that like the Weatherby claims, it is often not possible to meet fps without very high pressures or 26" barrels.
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Yes I use a cobalt drill that is 0.030" under sized of the chamber shoulder diameter to clean out the bulk of the barrel steel.
I take 0.300" cuts with the drill and then ream that section out with the chambering reamer, then dripp another 0.300" then ream, then drill then ream, etc...
This way, the live pilot on my chambering reamer which is fitted to within 0.0002" of the bore diameter always has full length baring contact with the bore and the chamber will be cut perfectly true to teh axis of the bore and most of the wear and tear is placed on the drill instead of the expensive reamer.
Others will order in roughing reamers but these are much more expensive then a drill bit and there is no advantage to the finished chamber at all.
I have watched so called smiths take a drill bit and hog out the entire length of the chamber body and then come in with a reamer and finish it up. This is a VERY BAD chambering method and the reamer will follow the drill path instead of being aligned with the axis of the bore. Drills do not cut in a straight line either so the chamber will never be a quality chamber using this method.
Taking short bulking drill cuts followed by cleaning that section up with a live piloted reamer is the best system I have used or studied so far.
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The 300 Dakota will be a ballistic twin to the like of the 300 Wby, 300 STW, 300 Jarrett.
As such from what I have witnessed over actual chronographs with my own eyes!! I would say in a 24" barrel you will be pushing this round pretty hard to get 3225 fps with a 180 gr bullet.
In a 26" barrel as you said, it would be a bit more practical but you would be running pressures pretty high to reach this level in a 24" pipe. I would say 3175 fps would be a comfortable max velocity in the Dakota in a 24" barrel which is around 100 to 125 fps faster then a 300 WIn in the same barrel length.
Perhaps this was what was causing some extraction problems, 70,000 psi of chamber pressure, hell any case design would get sticky at this level of pressure.
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Re: 300 Dakota- FiftyDriver and others-
Cases with low body taper do not hinder extraction as long as pressures are sane. I have used the Gibbs, and my Mystic which are very straight cases. Zippo for extraction problem. Many use the 22/250AI and 243AI so I think the Dakota will work just fine.
Unfortunately, a lot of powder to gain 100fps over a WSM. In a light rifle, recoil would be brutal as well.
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I've been installing beadboard in a bedroom and I've hit a design issue that I'm hoping you all can help me out with.
The issue is what to do with the beadboard as it reaches the sliding closet door.
Here is the beadboard approaching the closet door.
Before installing the beadboard I removed the base board and if you look really close, you can see that the builder coped the bottom of the closet door so it didn't hit the base board.
Now I'm at a bit of a loss with how to handle the beadboard reaching the closet.
One option, is to just continue the beadboard all the way to the back wall at which point I will probably have to beadboard the inside of the closet for consistency.
Instead I thought about ending the beadboarm just before the closet door. I would just take the chair rail and have it turn vertically and run along the edge of the beadboard to give it a finished look.
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Maybe I could miter a 45 degree slant so that it just met the base board or maybe there is a better option that I'm not thinking of.
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Is there trim around the door that can come off?
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Unfortunately there is no trim near the closet doors. Typical big builder type house.
I originally was making two columns of 1x6 (one at each end of the closet doors) which would have given me something to end the beadboard to. I then used a jig saw to cut out the top for the closet door rail but then, after all that cutting, I found out that the other side of the closet is not at all plumb and it is actually convexing so when I lined up my column with a level, the top and bottom of my 1x6 met flush with the drywall but the center area of the drywall bowed out over 1/4" from my 1x6. I even thought about trimming the closet door area to conceal this problem but 1/4" is too much even for that.
Anyway, short answer is no trim near the closet door. I can get more pictures if they would help.
If you run the beadboard through to the back wall, then you would have to contend with coping the door for the chair rail. Even though that would be my first choice for the beadboard (to go all the way through), I think it would look dorky with the chair rail going through the closet door. What about ending the bead board just shy of the closet (so you'd still see an inch or two of the blue paint beyond the chair rail), adding a real nice mitered end to your chair rail, and run a thin vertical trim down the bead board to the baseboard ~ you might have to cope it slightly to form fit to the baseboard, but the trim I am thinking of is only about 3/8" (I think) and therefore would not protrude beyond the thickness of the baseboard. Run the chair rail slightly longer than the beadboard so it creates a little overhang.
That's my best thought for now. Tough question!
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That looks like a sliding closet door? Put a 1x vertical to simulate a door frame- then butt the paneling and rail into it.
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