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[Kot]

Unrelated: what's the Imperium's views on cloning? I know its possible, given that Fabius Bile does it and most servitors are vat-grown. With enough materials, on say a Forge World, they could field an entire regiment of cloned conscripts. (Or at least use cloning to get understrength regiments back up.)

Death Korps. They supply over fifty million guardsmen per year. There are estimates that US can have ~70 million people to fight, so it doesn't seem that big number, but consider that Krieg is basically grimdark Fallout world and that they just keep churning out more regiments without any signs of stopping, hell, they might even be getting faster, for all we know.
While it's never really clarified what "Vitae Wombs" are... well, there are theories. The most fucked up is that they're basically using women as cloning vats just like the damn Daemonculaba, or that they're just speeding the aging process in regular born children, or maybe it's truly just cloning... or they, due to some less-sick-fuckery cut the actual wombs out of women, throw a lot of metal on it and then the women go through training and into meat-grinder just like males, since it would be actually hard to distinguish between gender on the battlefield, because, well, gas masks.

[Cheesecake]

^^ Sweet, thanks guys!

I'm thinking of a making a big bad: a genestealer (the more human-looking ones) infiltrates the Tech-Priest clergy on a forge world, and through tech-heresy makes a continent-wide facility to mass-clone his kin and ship them all across the Imperium.

[miauw62]

I'd recommend Jeroen Tel's theme for Tin Tin on the Moon, or robocop.mp3

Might not be exactly what you're looking for, but I've played so much 2d spacemans that that is my first thought for thought for spacey music

[Delta Foxtrot]

So I'm taking the plunge on trying to run Rogue Trader for my friends.

I've got a problem though. I have zero good sci-fi space music. I've got, like, probably 70% of the 40k video game music ever made but most of that is suited for Space Marines. If anyone has some suggestions for good atmospheric space music I'd appreciate it. Anything from heroic and adventureous to weird and discordant would work for me.

80's movie soundtrack style synth heavy music? Blade Runner, some Terminator, Robocop etc. I'd probably dig up some of Vangelis' older stuff and go from there. At least that's what I'd go for "atmospheric sci-fi sans space marines".

[Kot]

This is a good list, albeit it's not what you want. Could have use when the Imperial Guard arrives to mop up the mess you guys made.

[nenjin]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I happened upon an ambient space music channel last night, and after about 6 hours of listening while writing I've got 40 or so tracks for general space background music. Still searching for more. Despite not really playing much of the game, I've found the Mass Effect soundtracks close to what I want. 80s action movie music is good but for two problems: one anything that sets a quick beat pretty much gets parsed as combat music by players and two a couple of my friends are big into synthwave as I am, so it tends to stick out like a sore thumb in the wrong setting. I've got a little bit of that for Space Combat as well.

Still need a better selection of warp travel music. While not hard to find appropriate tracks, ones that don't end up annoying the shit out of you with feedback, high pitched whines or bizarre and poorly inserted sound effects are not. I've tried Halloween spooky tracks for other gaming and eventually I tend to find them too cheesy or overt in what they do.

I'm also trying to stay away from movie soundtracks. Primarily because movie themes and songs tend to be a) really short b) quickly recognizable by some c) follow the same music format (gotta have that rising, swelling epic bit 3/4 of the way through) d) aren't so much as about ambiance as they are trying to evoke a mood. That's why I usually use video game music for table top background music. Like video games table top games need something that flavorful and thematic without being obtrusive. Video game tracks tend, though not always, to run longer and have less Hollywood like movements within the song itself. (Not strictly true, your AAA blockbuster games write their main themes and such exactly like movies do.)

Anyways, the search continues. I won't be running for a minimum of a 3 weeks or so. But do keep game and music suggestions coming. I think I'll go see what the EVE soundtrack is like.

[Egan_BW]

Could try Doom. Pretty 40K-ish, and some pretty good ambient-type stuff, despite the game's reputation for being mostly about shooting things.
I also like the geoscape theme from the original X-Com: UFO Defence.

[Kot]

I know you mentioned you got almost all of the Wh40k game soundtracks, but I would still suggest the Final Liberation, since, well, apparently only two people in the world played it. Commissar Holt would certainly approve. And as always, Galaxy Aflame. They vary a lot in atmosphere, but I guess some of the obviously Chaos-named ones could serve as Warp music, even if the vocals may throw people off a lot as those are not really soundtracks.

Also the bloody Ordo Malleus. I wish I had better bass in my headphones so I could finally lose my hearing.

[nenjin]

Sorry, just can't do vocals. It's too distracting. I've become fairly picky over the years with music in gaming. Especially as the rise of operatic styles has just seemed to become more common, or the vaguely Muslim-esqe wailing (don't get me wrong, I like a lot of that it just takes people out of gaming in an instant.) But I'll give a listen to those and see if I can pick something out.

[sprinkled chariot]

Emperor is constantly mentioned as source of cool quotes to carve on bolter rounds, but there are just like 4 quotations of him

[Cheesecake]

Emperor is constantly mentioned as source of cool quotes to carve on bolter rounds, but there are just like 4 quotations of him

You could quote actual Latin quotes and change it to be 40k. Like Imperator Vult (The Emperor Wills It), or you could go with black comedy and carve Causa Mortis, which means Cause of Death, onto the weapon. ((I don't speak Latin, so for all I know those could be inaccurate.))

((Also, why bother carving onto the bolt round when they explode?))

[Kot]

It's kind of like how people say they have your name on a bullet. Though, in Wh40k, due to warp shenanigans, some cool Emperor quotes or other religious bullshit can actually cause the weapon to be more useful against deamons and whatnot. Also, purity seals. Purity seals everywhere.

EDIT:
And there is much more quotes from the Emperor, you just need to check some of the books where he appears.

[Cheesecake]

^^ True. Just got a great idea for a pet-project too: toilet paper purity seals! Just need to get it the right color and manage to write on it without tearing it....

[Akura]

To be fair, High Gothic probably isn't always correct Latin.

[Cheesecake]

To be fair, High Gothic probably isn't always correct Latin.

To be doubly fair, it isn't even real Latin (Gothic is such a fitting name for a 40K language, too...)

EDIT: Causa mortis isn't actually cause of death, I think. Causa mortis is actually a legal term for a deathbed gift.