[9] You are recently in charge of the Adeptus Mechanicus resources on the fringe of Imperium controlled space on the very edges of the galaxy. This place is scary as hell and no one you would want to see comes here.
[5] You are a newly christened Explorator. It happened surprisingly quickly, and you didn't have time to take much with you. Is this an honor or did you piss someone off?
[3] You were arrested for heretekal actions and barely escaped. You have what few scraps you were able to gather from your undestroyed stashes and are on the run. Are you actually a Heretek? Does it matter? Where to now, and how do you get there without capture and destruction?
[2] Your world is lost. Command is destroyed, military forces obliterated. You gathered what data and resources you could and fled.
Voting will remain open for 24 hours, at which I will close the vote and do the final tally.
Votes have been interesting. No one for the blown up workshop or amnesia starts, which, I'll be honest, fair. I'm a little surprised to see AdMech Admin on the hellish fringes currently in the lead, but that will be a good bit of fun if it maintains its lead. Honestly, I liked all of the starts, so whichever way this swings, I'll have fun with it.
[X] You were arrested for heretekal actions and barely escaped. You have what few scraps you were able to gather from your undestroyed stashes and are on the run. Are you actually a Heretek? Does it matter? Where to now, and how do you get there without capture and destruction?
[9] You are recently in charge of the Adeptus Mechanicus resources on the fringe of Imperium controlled space on the very edges of the galaxy. This place is scary as hell and no one you would want to see comes here.
[5] You are a newly christened Explorator. It happened surprisingly quickly, and you didn't have time to take much with you. Is this an honor or did you piss someone off?
[4] You were arrested for heretekal actions and barely escaped. You have what few scraps you were able to gather from your undestroyed stashes and are on the run. Are you actually a Heretek? Does it matter? Where to now, and how do you get there without capture and destruction?
[2] Your world is lost. Command is destroyed, military forces obliterated. You gathered what data and resources you could and fled.
Quest - "AdMech Admin on the hellish fringes" it is.
Let's goooo!
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As the vessel you are on travels through the screaming hellscape of the warp, protected only by the thin bubble of reality held in place by the Gellar Field of the ship, you review the data slate containing the records of the planet whose Adeptus Mechanicus resources you have been placed in charge of.
[ ] Klybioc's Hope
[ ] Outraal Mundi
[ ] Zhorast Seven
[ ] Gytherrah XIII
[ ] Kommathad Minoris
[ ] Medrilus XII
[ ] Necrast Minor
[ ] Write In -
[ ] Segmentum Ultima, near to the Eastern Fringe
[ ] Segmentum Ultima, near to the Ghoul Stars
[ ] Segmentum Obscurous, near to the Halo Stars
[ ] Segmentum Tempestous, near to the Veiled Region
[ ] Write In - somewhere else that's spooky and super terrifying
[ ] Dead World
-[ ] Details Write In -
[ ] Death World (and what makes it a Death World?)
-[ ] Lava
-[ ] Ice
-[ ] Jungle nonsense like Catachan
-[ ] Poisonous atmosphere
-[ ] Technobarbarian Remnants
-[ ] All animals are giant
-[ ] Write In -
[ ] Desert World
-[ ] Details Write In -
[ ] Ice World
-[ ] Details Write In -
[ ] Jungle World
-[ ] Details Write In -
[ ] Ocean World
-[ ] Details Write In -
[ ] FORGE WORLD - This is a low level Forge World in decline. It cannot even begin to compare to the sheer output of Mars or Ryza, it nonetheless was intended to provide munitions, vehicles, voidships, and other technologies to nearby worlds. That was a more optimistic time. There is one remaining forge city in disrepair. A region that was expected to be home to many colonies of man is home to a scant handful and travel is perilous. The vast quantities of resources that would have fed the ever ravenous maw of a forgeworld are but a trickle. This world supports its neighbors, but those neighbors can only provide so many resources. It is self-sufficient, able to support itself, but so much machinery lies quiet and decaying, with the remaining tech priests only able to do so much to repair and maintain. They hope that your knowledge and skills will bolster their own failing knowledge, as much as it pains them to admit. If enough can be repaired, this world has the potential to be a seat of great power in the region.
[ ] MAINTENANCE AND MANUFACTURING - This world is self sufficient. Its people, knowing their limits and isolation, have done everything in their power to avoid reliance on anything that doesn't come from their own soil, mines, and industry. It is mostly in good repair, though as ever, the more complex machinery is capable, but in decline. This world is capable of providing support to other worlds in the region, though not easily, and often at the cost of favors and resources. Much bargaining and politics is involved.
[ ] STABLE, BUT... - This world is technically stable, but is stretched to its limits holding itself together and surviving. Resources are scarce, but holding. Attacks, both from on the world and off, are manageable, but difficult. It will need much work to bring it up from the brink to a comfortably running world, as much as comfort means anything out here.
[ ] IN DECLINE - This world is deeply in decline. The remaining tech priests are capable at their jobs, but the Lexmechanics and Enginseers are performing the jobs of an Archmagos. There is only so much they can do. You will need to begin immediately working to slow and hopefully halt the decline, as well as training the existing tech priests as quickly as possible to increase average capability and prevent single points of failure down the road. This world is unable to maintain itself and is losing the war with time in addition to the usual attacks.
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The soft clicks and whirs of your augmetics pass around you as you think. Normally being granted Archmagos position of a world and the responsibilities therein is an honor, something you would have been working towards for decades, possibly centuries. But the request for Adeptus Mechanicus support is itself centuries old. Lost in transit, mixed in with some administrators thousands of other request forms, it's impossible to know. The request held the current status of the world, as well as reasoning for their plea for assistance; no surviving tech priests have the skill to keep their technology running for long. Centuries later, the accuracy of the reports is suspect at best.
Whether a blessing, a curse, or an insult, this is where you come in. Train up your soon to be underlings, keep this world supplied, and search out ruins, relics, and derelicts when you can. With a world this far to the edge of the galaxy, any remnants of the Dark Age of Technology are likely undisturbed. It's a wonderful opportunity. If you can keep this world running, any Archeotech and secrets of Old Night will remain yours, not immediately claimed by your higher ups. You ARE the higher ups. The thought makes your mechadendrites wiggle with glee.
When you arrive, you will seek out a full accounting of PDF and Adeptus Mechanicus forces, current populations, tech priests and their current levels of skill, records of fuel and ammo consumptions, conditions of factories and industry, supply levels and stockpiles, the current political position to avoid stepping on toes or which toes to step on, and everything else you can find that will be useful in dragging this worlds industry out of its current slump. Then you will plan. You will drag this rusted hulk out of the depth and build it greater than it ever was.
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Note - don't worry about balance. Don't worry about fairness or being overpowered. We're here to have fun. If you think it's more fun to scrabble for pieces in a decaying and crumbling world, vote for it. And if you think its more fun to be an inhuman overaugmented Admech priest running a minor forge world, go for that too. We're not really here for balance.
I only care about balance in as much as stuff should feel somewhat earned. You gotta work for stuff. It's 40k. You only get good things by a lot of hard work and probably losing a lot of guys. Or you make friends with someone important.
I'm not gonna give you a free STC, but if you want to start with a forge world protected by a titan legion, fuck it, I'm good with that. I lean a little more towards fun, but not overwhelming amounts of power, so admittedly, probably won't let you start with the titan legion, but-
Okay, so, as I was writing this a/n, I realized I do care about balance. Sort of. I'll let you have most anything you want eventually, but you gotta work for it. Titan Legion? Go for it. That takes time and resources. Want an STC? You and the rest of the Admech. Turn your little corner of hell into a productive forge world? Hell yeah! But that takes time and resources and planning. Expeditions for Archeotech? Gotta find places to loot, and gotta not die looting them. But if you do it and do it well? Fuck yeah. I want to give you all the shiny shit.
Note 2 - trying to figure out galactic map sections is a headache and a half.
Since there's a few things we're voting on here, I think I'd normally want to do this in a "plan" format, ie
Plan LAVA HELL FORGEWORLD
[ ] Outraal Mundi
[ ] Segmentum Ultima, near to the Eastern Fringe
[ ] Death World (and what makes it a Death World?)
-[ ] Lava
-[ ] Regular Meteors
[ ] FORGE WORLD
But I'm also wondering if I should do it as a separate tally for each, since they're all mostly independent.
Thoughts? I'm genuinely curious, and if people feel strongly about it one way or another, I'll probably go that way with it.
Down the road for votes on spending time, ie what to research and how much, how much time spend training ourselves and our underlings, time spend building skitarii, serviters, etc, time spent supplying and manufacturing, time spent building better facilities and workshops, that will probably be in plan format.
Next chapter is actual character creation and determining what your tech priest is like.
Hmm seasonal meteor showers, steady access to new material for the Great Toaster 'cough' did i say Toaster I obviously meant forgeworld.
[X] Toasterplan
-[X] Planet name: TBD
-[X] Segmentum Ultima, near to the Eastern Fringe
-[X] Deathworld
--[X] Seasonal meteor showers (least it's not acid rain)
-[X] Forgeworld
[X] Plan No Business
-[X] Necrast Minor
-[X] Segmentum Tempestous, near to the Veiled Region
-[X] Dead World
--[X] Details Write In - Just Barren…. like goddamn, someone get a cactus or flowers or something to lighten up the place.
-[X] STABLE, BUT... -
[X]Plan: The City Forgeworld must survive.
-[X] Feldrig 3
-[X] Segmentum Tempestous, near to the Veiled Region
-[X] Death World (and what makes it a Death World?)
--[X] Ice
--[X] Technobarbarian Remnants
-[X] FORGE WORLD
[X] The Coolest Toasterplan
-[X] Planet name: Brilliance
-[X] Segmentum Tempestous, near to the Veiled Region
-[X] Desert World in orbit of Type-B (blue) main sequence star
--[X] "Sand" made of crushed diamonds. Good source of diamonds for diamantine, lending to boltshell and other armor penetrating ammunition production, possibly?
--[X] Stereotypical Sandworm expy, lithovoric burrowers with diamond plates on their skin. Tunnels serviceable as mines for metals and minerals.
--[X] Occasional massive sandstorms (diamond storms?) capable of scouring anything caught in it to nothing, leading to a constant wear on buildings and machinery. And people, too, I guess, but who cares about the menials. Also serves as a beautiful light show in the right light. (warning, viewing the sandstorms with non-augmented eyes can cause permanent blindness)
-[X] Forgeworld
[X]Plan: The City Forgeworld must survive.
-[X] Feldrig 3
-[X] Segmentum Tempestous, near to the Veiled Region
-[X] Death World (and what makes it a Death World?)
--[X] Ice
--[X] Technobarbarian Remnants
-[X] FORGE WORLD
[X]Plan: The City Forgeworld must survive.
-[X] Feldrig 3
-[X] Segmentum Tempestous, near to the Veiled Region
-[X] Death World (and what makes it a Death World?)
--[X] Ice
--[X] Technobarbarian Remnants
-[X] FORGE WORLD
[X]Plan: The City Forgeworld must survive.
-[X] Feldrig 3
-[X] Segmentum Tempestous, near to the Veiled Region
-[X] Death World (and what makes it a Death World?)
--[X] Ice
--[X] Technobarbarian Remnants
-[X] FORGE WORLD
[X]Plan: The City Forgeworld must survive.
-[X] Feldrig 3
-[X] Segmentum Tempestous, near to the Veiled Region
-[X] Death World (and what makes it a Death World?)
--[X] Ice
--[X] Technobarbarian Remnants
-[X] FORGE WORLD
[X]Plan: The City Forgeworld must survive.
-[X] Feldrig 3
-[X] Segmentum Tempestous, near to the Veiled Region
-[X] Death World (and what makes it a Death World?)
--[X] Ice
--[X] Technobarbarian Remnants
-[X] FORGE WORLD
-[X] Feldrig 3
-[X] Segmentum Tempestous, near to the Veiled Region
-[X] Death World (and what makes it a Death World?)
--[X] Ice
--[X] Technobarbarian Remnants
-[X] FORGE WORLD
-[X] Planet name: Tostig Three
-[X] Segmentum Obscurus, near to the Halo Stars
-[X] Deathworld
--[X] Orks
-[X] Forgeworld
-[X] Necrast Minor
-[X] Segmentum Tempestous, near to the Veiled Region
-[X] Dead World
--[X] Details Write In - Just Barren…. like goddamn, someone get a cactus or flowers or something to lighten up the place.
-[X] STABLE, BUT... -
Just a post out in the middle of nowhere.
-[X] Planet name: TBD
-[X] Segmentum Ultima, near to the Eastern Fringe
-[X] Deathworld
--[X] Seasonal meteor showers (least it's not acid rain)
-[X] Forgeworld
-[X] Planet name: Brilliance
-[X] Segmentum Tempestous, near to the Veiled Region
-[X] Desert World in orbit of Type-B (blue) main sequence star
--[X] "Sand" made of crushed diamonds. Good source of diamonds for diamantine, lending to boltshell and other armor penetrating ammunition production, possibly?
--[X] Stereotypical Sandworm expy, lithovoric burrowers with diamond plates on their skin. Tunnels serviceable as mines for metals and minerals.
--[X] Occasional massive sandstorms (diamond storms?) capable of scouring anything caught in it to nothing, leading to a constant wear on buildings and machinery. And people, too, I guess, but who cares about the menials. Also serves as a beautiful light show in the right light. (warning, viewing the sandstorms with non-augmented eyes can cause permanent blindness)
-[X] Forgeworld
NSchwerte my dude, you had two choices in your vote so I'm counting it as .5 for each.
These plans are all dope as hell. Orks as reason for deathworld is great, I was terrified at the thought of how the hell to write a world made up of diamond sandblasting but that's also super cool, no idea why any of you want an outpost of nothingness but hey we could give it a go. Super happy to see technobarbarian remnants as a popular vote, I thought that was fun. Forge world is popular, with nothing at all being a distant second. No other choices. Have it all or have none. Why not.
Leading vote is icy technobarbarian forgeworld near the Veiled Region.
Whatever happens, I'm honestly looking forward to it.
Next vote is character creation, who are you, what are you good at, and how much of your original body is left and how much metal have you added on (probably too much flesh and never enough metal)
[X] You are a newly christened Explorator. It happened surprisingly quickly, and you didn't have time to take much with you. Is this an honor or did you piss someone off?
On a side note, I will laugh my head off if the planet actually ends up named "TBD". Totally sounds like something the Administratum would do, intentionally or otherwise.
