40K - HIVE CITIES - Structure, Economy, Currency, Daily Life | WARHAMMER 40,000 Lore/History

Return today with an overview the Hive Cities of the Imperium - from here we will be able to look more closely at specific details and elements of Hive Cities and those who live within them, including specific gangs activities and so on. As per usual this was meant to be a 30 min video lol - but things often spiral out of control. Thanks for the support as always guys - there will be more coming up very soon - I also apologise for any vocal inconsistency, my voice is still not 100% healed and recording is sometimes just tough.

Hive citizen TK421 giving his state mandated positive comment and thumbs up. Praise be to the Emperor on his throne.

In the grim darkness if the future, there is only bureaucracy

"respirators are mandatory, if they are available" is a great way to describe a hive city in one sentence.

Man, the concept of lost colonies is maybe the most intriguing thing about the 40k galaxy for me. There could be entire human civilizations out there that have never even heard of the Emperor, Tau, Tyranids and everything else.

"wait... it's ALL industrial poverty?" "Always has been."

Damn. I didn't know Charles Dickens wrote 40k lore back in the day.

Agriworld Civilian: "I wonder what it's like living in a hive ci--" Luetin: "NOTHING GOOD. LET ME EXPLAIN."

The Charles dickens quote is kinda eerie when you realize it was written to describe an actual time in human history albeit in a much smaller scale than the hives of 40k but it still fits perfectly

"No Kids, dad can't play now. Lutin Just posted a 2 hour Long video. Go play with mommy"

Quoting Dickens at the start threw me for a loop. Very nice touch.

That Charles Dickens quote could have been mistaken for the start of a 40K novel. Very nice touch!

Hive citizen WQ989, Role: Designated Tech priest of engine block component number 143/155 manufacturing plant 3/4, positive thumb given, video was good and a productive expenditure of time gifted to me by both manufacturing plant's many kind spirits, positive comment given, critique: no praise given to the machine spirits of the hive cities that allow life. Praise be the emperor who allows a fraction of his holy knowledge refuge within me, forever indebted I am honored to be.

Currency? Citizen, YOU are the currency.

They’re like giant metal Christmas trees made out of factories and human misery ☺️

When Mega City One looks like a paradise.

Hive world factory worker: life is nothing but a crushing grind until death. 19th factory worker: First time?

I’m having a really rough couple weeks, 1 hour and 45 minutes of Luetin talking about Hive cities somehow makes things that much better.

Luetin: Near 2 hours of Hive City expose. Me: Whoa that will be the most in-depth video for Hive Cities. Luetin: We are not going in-depth for now - this is just the first video of many. Me: 😵

I figure a lot of Hive cities were built/designed in the Golden age, but they were built with idea of resources the Imperium no longer has. Stuff like robotic slave labor which could work in such horrible conditions 24/7 without fatigue, illness or death. They wouldn't need to be fed, housed or anything. I wouldn't be surprised if before the fall hive worlds would only hold a fraction of the population they do now as they would need far less man power as they relied more heavily on machines to do the work for them. More the populations would be in the upper hive levels in what now is taken up by the nobility would likely be the scientist and explorers of ages past. With a smaller population it would have less demands and possibly be able to meet it's own requirements. After all if you think of a Hive that now supports Billions or Trillions of people might of only housed a few million in the past you can imagine the difference that makes.