Kryp

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A modern girl in the grimdark world of Warhammer 40.000Olga, a young Russian girl with a hard past. Fidus Kryptman, an Inquisitor plagued by the weight of his father's shadow. Pulled together through time and space into Ballistic Station XVI, an installation overrun by deadly and mysterious interlopers. Can Olga save the wounded Kryp - and can they survive the horrors of 40k, where the consequence of bravery and survival is often an even worse fate?

T.N. THis is translation of the book by Igor Nikolaev. Please support himhere.

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Status: Completed
Year: 2021
Author: Camrad RIP

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Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(3)

worryinglyIntoIsekaiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Writing 40k fanfiction from a Russian perspective is the ideal. The Imperium is in many ways based off of Soviet imagery. Commissars, grunt soldiers being sacrificed by the millions, brutalist architecture, whole populations living as industrial slaves. And so this flavor when taken to 40k fanfiction is just perfect.
This is not the story of an Isekai system or cheat making a transported individual overpowered giving them agency and the ability to shape the universe. This is a grim dark story of a person being ground into the ground beaten and dominated over and over and over again with evil in every direction. and just a little bit of positivity.
If Harald of the Stars felt like too much of a yoyo between Isekai overpowered system and grimdark 40k and 40,000 reasons by Pef seems to detached and narrative driven. I think this is a nice contrast if you still like eating from the 40k universe buffet.
LwizaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
This is quite rare fanfiction WH40k story, which is not about so called "bolter-porno" and heroic space marine / inquisition / mechanicus superiority - it's about characters. Young and almost dead Inquisitor and regular "russian redneck" girl facing grim dark future. They are vivid and look real.
Ans that's why I like this story.
The only probem is that some puns were missed or even mistranslated and are lost for an english-speaking readers.
Logan GreyRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
In this story Olga, a girl from modern day Russia (or at least from USSR Time) is pulled into the universe of 40k where she must save inquisitor kryptman (Jr.) from a mortal wound.
This story is remarkable for pulling off the following feats:
1) The handling of Olga's reception to 40k is done smoothly and inner dialogue is believable
2) The Author has successfully controlled any exposition urges they have. The story flows well and is rarely, if ever, bogged down by superflous comparisons between 40k and Olga's world. Exposition given is appropriately short and limited - as those making it are pressed for time and with very limited understanding of the larger world
3) Although not done perfectly, the descriptions are illustrative enough that a reader well-verse in 40k can still discern what Olga is seeing from her observations of it. That said, there are times when it fails to get the full nuance across. Still, the work is laudable for treading the line well enough.
4) In the end, this story has the bearings of a competent story. The reason being is that although the plot is "Modern Russian Trapped in 40k", the story itself is very character driven. These characters are well fleshed out, and not just some 1 dimensional characters used as vehicles to make funny comparisons between 40k and modern day Russia.
Also note that the original Author wrote it in Russian, and although I am not cleared if the translator is the same person, the translation is very functional and is as good if not better than many other fan translations of Japanese short novels that are common on the internet. The main weakness is that the translation at times translates figures of speech literally, instead of using an english equivalent. Thus reading is at times awkward, though the actual meaning is usually deducible.