To think that it started with worrying about a battle against a Chaos horde, only for it to progress to, well, this resolution.

Taylor Hebert is not the only one who knows how to escalate.
 
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[X] (Unique) Awakened Machine Spirits (As the Worldsoul is partly a machine spirit, any tech made on the world or in orbit, will automatically be given an awakened Machine Spirit)
[X] (Unique) Anti-Chaos Wards (Any attempt to attack the planet and/or the Worldsoul is hit with -5 dice)
[X] (Unique) Terraforming integration (Integrates the Terraforming machine into the Worldsoul, giving the spirits greater power to affect the physical world)
[X] (Starting Bonus) Tech Spread (Brings your tech level from Average Imperium [New forge World] to Above Imperium [Mars])
 
Amidst the chaos, another figure emerged, glowing with life and vigor. Settra, restored to the peak of his physical health, stood tall and proud. Alongside him were his followers, also brought back to life, their faces reflecting a mixture of astonishment and joy.

Settra looked at Lorgar and Dharok, his eyes filled with emotions. "You have done the impossible," he admitted, his voice ringing with authority.
Edit: He took it with him.
wait, whats the flaw with Ankhaten again? could have lorgar and dharok fixed them with the world restoration or was Fan the only one who could?
 
Can I ask that since kairos is dead won't the WARP literally shutter because of it he literally did make his mark in the warp and the warp is where names and territory are power
 
wait, whats the flaw with Ankhaten again? could have lorgar and dharok fixed them with the world restoration or was Fan the only one who could?

The flaw was that he was dead, killed by Dharok and the Chaos Gods were being sore losers and preventing the Liche Priests from raising him. Fan was the only being with the metaphorical weight to tell them to but out in that place at that time. Now that this circumstance has passed I imagine he's fixable.
 
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The flaw was that he was dead, killed by Dharok and the Chaos Gods were being sore losers and preventing the Liche Priests from raising him. Fan was the only being with the metaphorical weight to tell them to but out in that place at that time Fan was the only one who could slap them aside. Now that this circumstance has passed I imagine he's fixable.
QM comfirmed settra took him with him
 
Hm, one presumes that Archmagos Zabius will be more keen than before about that alliance with Colchis. If the rest of Milhand had been unenthusiastic about the prospect, they will hopefully change their tune in the very near future.
 
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I'm not so sure about that. To be clear I don't doubt you that someone said it in some 40K book, but for the world-building to make the least amount of sense Mars alone cannot be that powerful because it would have crushed the Emperor like a bug. Mars and Tera are called out as near equals at the end of the Unification Wars with Tera being able to eke out a win at ruinous cost and Emperor or no Tera was still mostly radioactive deserts at that point. And this isn't just one statement in canon vs another statement in canon that parity makes IC sense given the concessions the Red Priests got. One of the foundational pillars of the setting is based on post Unification Wars Tera being about in the same ball park as Mars.
Mars did not have Navigators, it had basically zero FTL capabilities save for blind firing ships into the warp, and hoping they made it. And it did so in enough numbers that the Admech as a whole had a substantial presence thou-out the galaxy by the end of the Unification Wars. And Mars being able to nearly tie against the Emperor, and his forces which include Space Marines legions which we know predate the end of the Unification Wars say more about them then it does the Emperor forces.

Reminder this is before the Surface of Mars was turned into the hostile hellscape by the Dark-Admech. Realistically any planet could easily build millions of ships with quadrillions more possible, The problem is that once the easily mine able surface resources run out 0-20 miles down is gone, getting more is incredibly difficult. You need Borehole mines, or some way to tap the Mantle.
 
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The flaw was that he was dead, killed by Dharok and the Chaos Gods were being sore losers and preventing the Liche Priests from raising him. Fan was the only being with the metaphorical weight to tell them to but out in that place at that time Fan was the only one who could slap them aside. Now that this circumstance has passed I imagine he's fixable.
QM comfirmed settra took him with him
so Settra hit SoW (who bullied Kairos and his 81 Lord of Changes attendants in a fight) So Hard that the Chaos Gods decided to stop interfering due to the fact Settra can hit you through illusions, etc. (does chaos corruption count for Settra to hit them through?) and allowed his lich preists to do their jobs so they don't annoy him any more?
 
Mars did not have Navigators, it had basically zero FTL capabilities save for blind firing ships into the warp, and hoping they made it. And it did so in enough numbers that the Admech as a whole had a substantial presence thou-out the galaxy by the end of the Unification Wars. And Mars being able to nearly tie against the Emperor, and his forces which include Space Marines legions which we know predate the end of the Unification Wars say more about them then it does the Emperor forces.

Reminder this is before the Surface of Mars was turned into the hostile hellscape by the Dark-Admech. Realistically any planet could easily build millions of ships with quadrillions more possible, The problem is that once the easily mine able surface resources run out anything only 0-50 miles down is gone, getting more is incredibly difficult. You need Borehole mines, or some way to tap the Mantle.

There were navigators in the remaining habs of the outer planets (Jupiter or Saturn I'd have to look), if Mars had the ship-building capacity to conquer the galaxy on its own it could have grabbed them. Space marines are also entirely worthless against orbital supremacy, you cannot punch a fleet doing an Exterminatus on you, Horus proved that rather definitively at Istvan. Tera just come out of the Unification wars had to have the ships to at least contest Mars enough for those marines to matter.
 
[X] (Unique) Awakened Machine Spirits (As the Worldsoul is partly a machine spirit, any tech made on the world or in orbit, will automatically be given an awakened Machine Spirit)
[X] (Unique) Anti-Chaos Wards (Any attempt to attack the planet and/or the Worldsoul is hit with -5 dice)
[X] (Unique) Wyldshaping (The Planet counts as your Worldbody for the purpose of Wyldshaping)
[X] (Starting Bonus) Tech Spread (Brings your tech level from Average Imperium [New forge World] to Above Imperium [Mars])
 
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so Settra hit SoW (who bullied Kairos and his 81 Lord of Changes attendants in a fight) So Hard that the Chaos Gods decided to stop interfering due to the fact Settra can hit you through illusions, etc. (does chaos corruption count for Settra to hit them through?) and allowed his lich preists to do their jobs so they don't annoy him any more?

I think Setra had some kind of weird pseudo-Charm power that allowed him to convert social combat successes into physical harm, 'if you can hear me I can punch you by the power of Kingship' sort of thing. I do not think that would work on the Chaos Gods on account of them being too insane to affect with social attacks like that.
 
There were navigators in the remaining habs of the outer planets (Jupiter or Saturn I'd have to look), if Mars had the ship-building capacity to conquer the galaxy on its own it could have grabbed them. Space marines are also entirely worthless against orbital supremacy, you cannot punch a fleet doing an Exterminatus on you, Horus proved that rather definitively at Istvan. Tera just come out of the Unification wars had to have the ships to at least contest Mars enough for those marines to matter.
Mars very much did not have Navigator access, to the point the Treaty between the IOM and the Admech has the IOM being required to supply Navigators to the Admech, in the same manner as the Admech is required to supply technology to the IOM. Also in the same system with the Emperor, the guy that can teleport armies, on top any teleportation technology scattered around Terra. The theater of battle when such powerful players are on the field is smaller then it seems.
 
Mars very much did not have Navigator access, to the point the Treaty between the IOM and the Admech has the IOM being required to supply Navigators to the Admech, in the same manner as the Admech is required to supply technology to the IOM. Also in the same system with the Emperor, the guy that can teleport armies, on top any teleportation technology scattered around Terra. The theater of battle when such powerful players are on the field is smaller then it seems.

I do not doubt that they would have liked access to Tera's navigators. Even allowing all of the above about teleporting armies if they had the material means to conquer the galaxy in say I.Y. 1, the time of the Treaty of Mars, then they would have had the power to conquer most of the galaxy in I.Y. -100 before there was any hint of the 'Lord of Lightning' ever showed up, missing only the Navigators they could have grabbed from the outer system. That they did not indicates that Navigoators were not their main bottleneck even if they played a part in curtailing Martian expansion.
 
So @Alratan do you have any idea how we are going to explain all of this to the Imperials? On the one had it fits with the story we already made up before DAoT survivors, we can pretend Fan is one of them, on the other hand... how the heck do we explain the mass resurrection? That was not all Lorgar, it was an interaction between Lorgar rolling like mad and all those people already being undead. Do we talk about the Shard?

Random accident from warptech weaponry being thrown around at the end of the DAoT trapping people in a bubble in the warp, who we found a way to rescue. Any memories of being undead or dying are just a fiction induced by daemons warp xenos to torment them during that.

Lorgar can lower case g gaslight them into believing that.

I do not doubt that they would have liked access to Tera's navigators. Even allowing all of the above about teleporting armies if they had the material means to conquer the galaxy in say I.Y. 1, the time of the Treaty of Mars, then they would have had the power to conquer most of the galaxy in I.Y. -100 before there was any hint of the 'Lord of Lightning' ever showed up, missing only the Navigators they could have grabbed from the outer system. That they did not indicates that Navigoators were not their main bottleneck even if they played a part in curtailing Martian expansion.

Mars had Navigators, they just didn't have enough Navigators, I think.

That's how the Forge Worlds could each establish their own pocket empires of Knight Worlds.
 
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[X] (Unique) Awakened Machine Spirits (As the Worldsoul is partly a machine spirit, any tech made on the world or in orbit, will automatically be given an awakened Machine Spirit)

[X] (Unique) Anti-Chaos Wards (Any attempt to attack the planet and/or the Worldsoul is hit with -5 dice)

[X] (Unique) Terraforming integration (Integrates the Terraforming machine into the Worldsoul, giving the spirits greater power to affect the physical world)

[X] (Starting Bonus) Tech Spread (Brings your tech level from Average Imperium [New forge World] to Above Imperium [Mars])
 
Random accident from warptech weaponry being thrown around at the end of the DAoT trapping people in a bubble in the warp, who we found a way to rescue. Any memories of being undead or dying are just a fiction induced by daemons warp xenos to torment them during that.

Thing is they are not all ancients, some of them are present day Colcisians who got killed by evil ghosts/zombies, raised and resurrected. We cannot hide all of them, there are going to be hundreds of thousands.
 
From a pitiful Feudal to Average Imperium, soon to be Above Imperium. Leapfrogging 9 tiers, soon to be 11 tiers. All the way from the pathetic Feudal, only one step above Feral, the lowest of the low.

Even so, there remains much work to be done, for there are 7 more tiers left to reach, including the apex of High Dark Age Technology.

Even afterwards, it will not be the end. That highest tier remains nothing more than a pitiful shadow compared to the glory of the cosmic mastery of the true ancients, the Necrontyr of eld.
 
Thing is they are not all ancients, some of them are present day Colcisians who got killed by evil ghosts/zombies, raised and resurrected. We cannot hide all of them, there are going to be hundreds of thousands.

Hmm. Their memories of their deaths was actually a telepathic attack from a powerful warp xeno psyker trying to do to them what he'd done to the DAoT survivors and Lorgar released them from what was actually an induced coma
 
Hmm. Their memories of their deaths was actually a telepathic attack from a powerful warp xeno psyker trying to do to them what he'd done to the DAoT survivors and Lorgar released them from what was actually an induced coma

That does sound like the kind of shit a Greater Daemon would pull... and we do have a dead Kairos to show for it. Sounds workable.
 
Well, not the Hekatonkhire corpses, but those of sufficient power and mastery have probably sensed something about the void in the Immaterium left by Kairos' final death.

Good enough. The Imperium, the vaunted Emperor, must not be allowed to learn about these details.
 
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