u/neolindholm

I've recently returned to playing havoc after about half a year of abstinence, and after giving up on getting anywhere over Havoc 20 since the party finder is ass, and can't decide what to play with: The Purgatus or the Voidblast

I know that the Purgatus is the meta, but having used both extensively in Auric Maelstroms i just find the Voidblast to be better at handling the truly "Oh fuck" situations where 5 Bulwarks, 8 Crushers and 10 Ragers rush your team. Sure the Purgatus can effectively stun entire hordes of poxwalkers, and can stagger rushing ragers and other specials as well, but they're also easily handled by the Voidblast with the added bonus of producing enough stagger to move a mountain (or to just invalidate the aforementioned Bulwarks and Crushers).

Is there something i'm missing/don't know, likely about high havoc since i haven't gotten there, or is this just a case of the Purgatus being an easier weapon to use and therefore being more popular/meta?

So most people know that the majority of weapons have Mobility (on ranged weapons), Mobility/Defence (on melee weapons) or Warp Resistance (on Psyker weapons) as a dump stat. But what are the outliers and why?

TL;DR: Psykers are typically kept in black cells or equivalent on the world they are found on until a black ship picks them up, so why are we on the Tancred Bastion and how were we contained? And why were we held in a transfer cell across from Wolfer?

According to lore, as fallible and changeable as it can be at times, unsanctioned psykers who have been captured without a case of Head-be-Gone™ are typically put into black cells, or if the planet is underdeveloped/poor a reinforced cell with sedation or whatever anti-psychic tech they have available, while waiting for a black ship to arrive to pick them up.

But what about the Tancred Bastion? If you play as a psyker you are just placed in what seems like a totally normal cell as if you're a totally normal prisoner.

I would imagine that, as a ship ultimately controlled by the Adeptus Arbites, it would have access to some form of containment option for psykers, even if only for emergency. Perhaps the collars we wear, even though they look identical to ones worn by the other human classes, could have some form of psychic dampening effect which could also explain why we can't use psyker powers (i.e Brain Burst) during the prologue.

Another point for speculation is why we are even on the ship the first place. As i've highlighted, psykers that don't get a bullet to the brain are typically kept contained on the world they are found on, so what could make our circumstances different?

I would ultimately imagine that, pertaining to containment on the Tancred Bastion, theres some equivalent to black cells that they keep psykers in during transit and that the cell we find ourselves in during the prologue is just for transfer seeing how Wolfer, who was to be moved for interrogation, is right across from us. But that leaves the question of why we specifically were placed there seeing how the other rejects seem to be taken en masse to be processed if the constant stream of them in the background of the beginning cutscene is anything to go by.

What do you all think about all this?