Solar Auxilia Officer Quest. A 30k Early Great Crusade quest.
- Thread starter Mayto
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- Sci-Fi
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
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- At Home
[X] The Revenge of the French
-[X] [ORIGIN] Terran Nation
--[X] Pari (Paris, France)
-[X] Chemical Warfare
-[X] [LEGION] The Purgation of the Neptunian Deeps
-[X] [NAME] 7th Verdun Chemical Engineer Detachment
The Helldivers are tempting, but I feel like they'd be a bit lacking their usual je ne sais quoi if they don't get to shout corny catchphrases about democracy in between maniacal laughter and panicked screaming. And that's just not really the Solar Auxilia's energy.
Here's my contribution, however late to the race I am.
[X] From The Depths
-[X][ORIGIN] Terran Tribe:
--[X] Marians
-[X] Specialty: Siege Warfare
-[X] [LEGION] The Antarctic Campaign:
-[X] [NAME] 10th Marian Depthstalkers
Terra's oceans vanished in the Age of Strife, this is known. The exact chain of events and causes is still an enigma debated centuries after, yet its occurrence was undeniable all the same, turning the once pale blue dot into a ball of dust, rust and blood. As atomics and a thousand more terrible horrors scoured the surface of Terra, some scattered refugees found themselves before a gaping, colossal canyon. They had fled from what would later come to be known as the Yndonesic Bloc, the Pan-Pacific Empire, and the uncounted neighbours to those burgeoning empires whose names have since been lost to time. Some of their descendants even claimed to have marched for a year and a day across desolate salt flats from the territories of Merica. Faced with this unimaginable scar upon the land, and with no alternative save to turn back the way they came, they descended.
For weeks, they climbed ever further down, navigating the cliffs of what seemed like a mountain range turned inside out, until finally they arrived upon the very lowest levels of what has come to be known as the Marian Scar. There, they found pressure-sealed habitats and abandoned laboratories, foundries meant to process nodules of precious earth left to lie cold and silent. There, they huddled and wept for the fates of their homes and the lives they had known, for every soul who had lain down and perished on the trail, their strength spent, for all their kin who had made but one slip and tumbled to oblivion on the climb down.
There, they became the Marians. There, they eked out an existence amid ever-crumbling machinery purifying the last drops of Terra's seawater to potability. There, they fought among one another for spare components and intact ore harvesters. There, they forgot the harsh glare of the sun, and the gnawing bite of the wind. There, they learned well how to funnel each other into killzones and break through the same. How to kill in blindness, and kill well, for to not was to die.
There, the Imperium found them, and reached down a hand to lift them back up from the sunless depths, and turn their madness outward.
@Mayto how's this for a backstory?
-[X] [ORIGIN] Terran Nation
--[X] Pari (Paris, France)
-[X] Chemical Warfare
-[X] [LEGION] The Purgation of the Neptunian Deeps
-[X] [NAME] 7th Verdun Chemical Engineer Detachment
The Helldivers are tempting, but I feel like they'd be a bit lacking their usual je ne sais quoi if they don't get to shout corny catchphrases about democracy in between maniacal laughter and panicked screaming. And that's just not really the Solar Auxilia's energy.
Here's my contribution, however late to the race I am.
[X] From The Depths
-[X][ORIGIN] Terran Tribe:
--[X] Marians
-[X] Specialty: Siege Warfare
-[X] [LEGION] The Antarctic Campaign:
-[X] [NAME] 10th Marian Depthstalkers
Terra's oceans vanished in the Age of Strife, this is known. The exact chain of events and causes is still an enigma debated centuries after, yet its occurrence was undeniable all the same, turning the once pale blue dot into a ball of dust, rust and blood. As atomics and a thousand more terrible horrors scoured the surface of Terra, some scattered refugees found themselves before a gaping, colossal canyon. They had fled from what would later come to be known as the Yndonesic Bloc, the Pan-Pacific Empire, and the uncounted neighbours to those burgeoning empires whose names have since been lost to time. Some of their descendants even claimed to have marched for a year and a day across desolate salt flats from the territories of Merica. Faced with this unimaginable scar upon the land, and with no alternative save to turn back the way they came, they descended.
For weeks, they climbed ever further down, navigating the cliffs of what seemed like a mountain range turned inside out, until finally they arrived upon the very lowest levels of what has come to be known as the Marian Scar. There, they found pressure-sealed habitats and abandoned laboratories, foundries meant to process nodules of precious earth left to lie cold and silent. There, they huddled and wept for the fates of their homes and the lives they had known, for every soul who had lain down and perished on the trail, their strength spent, for all their kin who had made but one slip and tumbled to oblivion on the climb down.
There, they became the Marians. There, they eked out an existence amid ever-crumbling machinery purifying the last drops of Terra's seawater to potability. There, they fought among one another for spare components and intact ore harvesters. There, they forgot the harsh glare of the sun, and the gnawing bite of the wind. There, they learned well how to funnel each other into killzones and break through the same. How to kill in blindness, and kill well, for to not was to die.
There, the Imperium found them, and reached down a hand to lift them back up from the sunless depths, and turn their madness outward.
@Mayto how's this for a backstory?
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@Mayto
Good to see you back. This is a fascinatingly original quest, and it's always awesome to see those who recognize the perils the Great Crusade faced, and explores the horrors and monsters faced by it until you realize the Legiones Astartes were made not merely to conquer the galaxy, but because there was no way the Imperium as an possible idea could survive without them.
It is so cool to see you expanding on Sedna the False Moon as a concept, considering it took so many Legions to conquer, and it's strangeness as related to psychic ephemera per the book it was introduced in.
Man, I see all this lore you're using of the xenos and monsters infesting the Solar System and it makes me want to see it all!! Do you accept questions on your headcanon of various enemies and polities in the Solar System, or would that take up too much time on things our Cohort will not touch?
Now.
I am, a little torn. I am very interested in seeing Destroyer weaponry as written by Mayto, but I am unsure if I have the fortitude to keep through the losses and savagery we as a unit would take. I get attached to those in quests under our direct control.
On the other hand...I do like Ogyrns, and I'd love the potential to make the most out of them and develop them as a tool. Seeing them rip apart armored Astartes and pull derelict tanks around... And the Revenant Legion...not nice guys, but by far the most fascinating of the pre-Primarch Legions.
For now...
[X] The Blessed Defiant
Good to see you back. This is a fascinatingly original quest, and it's always awesome to see those who recognize the perils the Great Crusade faced, and explores the horrors and monsters faced by it until you realize the Legiones Astartes were made not merely to conquer the galaxy, but because there was no way the Imperium as an possible idea could survive without them.
It is so cool to see you expanding on Sedna the False Moon as a concept, considering it took so many Legions to conquer, and it's strangeness as related to psychic ephemera per the book it was introduced in.
Man, I see all this lore you're using of the xenos and monsters infesting the Solar System and it makes me want to see it all!! Do you accept questions on your headcanon of various enemies and polities in the Solar System, or would that take up too much time on things our Cohort will not touch?
Now.
I am, a little torn. I am very interested in seeing Destroyer weaponry as written by Mayto, but I am unsure if I have the fortitude to keep through the losses and savagery we as a unit would take. I get attached to those in quests under our direct control.
On the other hand...I do like Ogyrns, and I'd love the potential to make the most out of them and develop them as a tool. Seeing them rip apart armored Astartes and pull derelict tanks around... And the Revenant Legion...not nice guys, but by far the most fascinating of the pre-Primarch Legions.
For now...
[X] The Blessed Defiant
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They are best bois and girls and we shall protecc.
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That is also true. And the best way to do that is making them better at killing the enemy (without going so far as to remove their humanity, their personhood. Then the promise of an end to the nightmare becomes a lie).
- Location
- Netherlands
Please ask me as many questions as you like!
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Okokokok! Please tell me about the War Witches, I don't need a history lesson if that's too onerous, but what are they as a faction and people, what are their terrible armies of Litho-Golems and Osseo-Titans?
Nicholas Brooks
Redeemer and Destroyer
- Location
- United States
[X] The Blessed Defiant
- Location
- Netherlands
The War Witches are cabals of Psykers who once were used against the Men of Iron, using their abilities to fight the machines and copying the designs of the Eldar. Although lacking wraithbone or soulstones, rhey used lesser warp entities.
They basically rule Venus as squabbling Psyker aristocracies, each War Witch binding a large group of lesser psykers into their thrall and ruling over a hive city like a king.
Osseo-Titans, are massive warmachines constructed from bones bound with the soul echoes of the dead, which a War Witch commands from within, effectively turning it into a large psychic titan. With their designs serving as the 'inspiration' for the Emperor's Psi-Titans.
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Can you say anything about the cultures of the various Terran groups?
Also glad to have you back I found your elf blacksmith quest a few months ago and was very upset when I got to end and it was on a hiatus. So your return gives me hope that it will continue alongside this quest.
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Well that's appropriately monstrous. And the "Litho-Golems"? Psy-constructs of some sort I assume?
And wow...that's a lot of bones. A whole heaping heck of a lot of bones.
So it looks like the concept is they "learned" from the old wars of the Federation (or whatever polity humanity had before the Age of Strife) when the armies of the Men of Iron went against the Eldar and were, if not annihilated, certainly not capable of defeating their xenos foes.
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- Netherlands
Litho-Golems are constructs of two-dimensional warpmatter created by stamping them into existence using corrupted STC printers. Think of them as imprints on the skein between realspace and the immaterium that move like living inkblotches, with their real forms only visibly from above or if they move on a wall.
Terran Society is insanely fragmented and divided to say the least.
You have anything from nomadic tribes, to city states that still endure in full.
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And wow...that's a lot of bones. A whole heaping heck of a lot of bones.
So it looks like the concept is they "learned" from the old wars of the Federation (or whatever polity humanity had before the Age of Strife) when the armies of the Men of Iron went against the Eldar and were, if not annihilated, certainly not capable of defeating their xenos foes.
Oh wow that is so much cooler and scarier than anything I could have thought of. I had some sort fleshy-warp construct befitting the obsession with genetics, not that.
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I can see you were inspired by the constant symbolism and parallelism in 40k. I'm well aware of the what the Revenants were and see the parallels.
So how monstrous in mind were they if they were still able to use and maintain warships of all things from the DAOT? Were the ships largely autonomous or did they maintain sapience? Is it the psykers allowing them to utilize such technology?
And considering the xenos infestations of Sol, did they only seek human flesh?
I'm getting a strong feeling it's intentionally a one way trip for those ships...
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- Netherlands
For eating? Anything.
For Psi-craft? Humans preferred.
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Wait...this implies the psyker caste and their power was outright sustained by the consumption of sapient life.
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Alrighty.
Here's the big one.
Sedna.
A paragraph in a HH Black Book focused on Warp phenomena.
You have expanded beyond that, Sedna feels like this distant overlord making Sol it's playground, where all live at its mercy or because it is too alien in mindset to focus on destroying them.
What, is, Sedna?
Here's the big one.
Sedna.
A paragraph in a HH Black Book focused on Warp phenomena.
But the implications are huge. It is mighty. It is artificial, xenos, and undeniably psychic in some way.
You have expanded beyond that, Sedna feels like this distant overlord making Sol it's playground, where all live at its mercy or because it is too alien in mindset to focus on destroying them.
What, is, Sedna?
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- AxeLand
[X] The Blessed Defiant
Good stuff I am excited to face horrors of the galaxy!
Good stuff I am excited to face horrors of the galaxy!
- Location
- Puerto Rico
[X] Plan: Born in the Void
Like for example, in the far future; maybe while traveling in the Warp, we end up in Angron's planet by accident and unlike Emps; we actually end up helping Angron.
Is there a chance we can somehow get involved in certain events by accident?
Like for example, in the far future; maybe while traveling in the Warp, we end up in Angron's planet by accident and unlike Emps; we actually end up helping Angron.
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Yeaaaah, no. Besides the fact that will go beyond the scope of the quest, early Great Crusade? It's too big a thing. Helping Angron is a big thing we are explicitly not going to be doing.
- Location
- Netherlands
The hints are there...
Just keep in mind the last sentence of the Dark Angels legion option.
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The Kuiper Belt...and it's only after the Solar System has been reclaimed...gonna need to think about it.
