A few notes, though; I'm pretty familiar with all the wh40k lore but I'll be honest, I've barely read or played any of the books or games. My 'big picture' knowledge is much better then my 'small picture', in other words. So I might be learning on the job a little lmao
Name: Elijah Woods
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Appearance: Elijah Woods is a fairly tall and well-built individual, just reaching six feet and an inch tall (1.85 meters~) and 200 pounds (90 kg~). He's fairly tanned, and his simple, efficient mannerisms show a history of hard work. In the simplest terms, he's a fairly standard, if somewhat heavy-set, agri-worlder.
More uniquely, Elijah's frame shows a history of short, intense bursts of combat; a few wounds and bruises still healing here and there, a scar on his left cheek and another across his right eye are almost obviously from different engagements, befitting someone who's served some time in the Imperial Guard. Still, he's in quite good condition, considering the realities of such duties.
His most interesting, but not often seen feature is a series of marks on his backside, odd tattoos complimenting wounds that, on close inspection, could be explained by a round or two of flogging, however, with the 'accuracy' of the marks, it's hard to tell if it was self-flagellation or from a different person.
Elijah keeps fairly decent care of items afforded to him; his equipment, ranging from his lasgun to his shoes, is cleaned regularly to a quite reasonable standard. Actual clothes wise, he wears a fairly standard IG jumpsuit under whatever else he's wearing, which, when allowed, can range from carapace armor to standard civilian fare. On the latter, he does his damnedest to 'blend in', but his knowledge on dressing himself is lacking.
Former Occupation: In his earliest years, Elijah was a common agri-world worker, toiling in the fields to feed the Imperium. When the planet's tithe to the Imperial Guard came knocking when he was a young man, he ran off to join the Imperial Guard, which he served dutifully for almost a decade before a certain inquisitor found him.
Equipment: Woods equips; 1 Merovech Pattern Assault Lasgun, a close-combat model that features a bayonet and the ability to load two power packs. 4 Lasgun Power Packs 1 Set of Flak Armor 1 Combat Knife 2 Krak Grenades 2 Frag Grenades
Notable Events: Woods served in the Imperial Guard for nine years, but, relatively recently his utility as an Acolyte was shown. While reinforcing the PDF of a civilized world, Aalpii I, against an Ork WAAAGH!, he was cut off from allies when a chaos cult on the planet sought to make their move in the confusion. Forced to take residence in an apartment complex where refugees and survivors were holding up, Elijah guarded a group of fifty against both the Orks and Heretics, managing to kill an Ork Nob who was personally insulted by the fact that one 'umie' could stay alive so long.
Time With Inquisitor: Elijah is a very new addition to Karthis' retinue, and is unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the Imperium's secret police.
You missed the 'why are they bothering with the universe when they could just play hyper-realistic video games with a matrioshka or jupiter brain, or in other words, a planet-sized or greater hypercomputer that, able to operate extremely fast and handle unimaginably large amounts of data, is able to simulate entire, hyper-realistic or even more complex universes for its creators to goof around in like a horribly advanced Second Life' question?
@Ophidian I'm horrible at math too, but a basic understanding of Physics (at least my levels of it) doesn't really need math, you just need a specific mindset and the fact you're a huge fucking nerd who loves reading real and fictional technical documents.
You know that whole energy can't be created or destroyed rule?
Forget that rule.
REEEEEEEE
Listen here you lil' shits. 'Vacuum Energy' is the concept of generating energy from the fact that the 'lower you go' (E.G. quantum particles), the more random shit happens. Basically, modern science sees that if you go low enough, you (probably) get particles that spontaneously appear in pairs and collide with eachother, exploding. If you can stop them from exploding and get the particles, that's effectively free energy. The thing is, those spontaneously appearing particles never stop spawning, as far as we know.
So if you can harness that shit from a vacuum, that's literally free energy. No ifs ands or buts, As we understand. Of course, they also thought nuclear reactions would totally destroy the earth, but y'know.
Edit: Alternatively, 'vacuum energy' has also meant 'sucking up alternate universes' and 'literally magic lol'
Oh, and another point. If they have A.I.'s (which are presumably crazy-powerful, much like the rest of their culture), they should probably have computers.. which are likely extremely powerful, and if they can make star-sized vessels, they can make star-sized computers, theoretically. If they can make energy out of nothing, they can probably make a star sized or even greater mega-computer and upload their entire society's consciousness(es?) into the thing. Or multiple ones. Or one for each of their citizens. Hell, since they have unlimited vacuum energy, they can probably make a galaxy sized computer and calculate PI to the last digit.
I mean, once you get to a galaxy-sized culture that can screw around with multiple galaxies, nothing else matters.