A Deus Ex Machina takes place

[Robo Jesus]

It is the year 30,000 and the God Emperor of Mankind has taken the first steps towards reclaiming the stars and uniting humanity, beginning preperations for the creation of the Primarchs and the Astartes. However, before work begins on that, a scout frigate from the Adeptus Mechanicus ends up playing host to an Alchemical and a small sphere shaped like an eye, and these two soon learn everything on their systems. Afterwards these two 'guests' convince their generous hosts to take them to Mars, where the crew soon forget about them as they disguise themselves as a simple Techpriest and their tool(s) before catching a ride to Terra to have a conversation with the Emperor.

The Eye of Autocthon, an Alchemical Exalted, and the God Emperor of Mankind meet. Thus these Out Of Context Problems now need to deal with eachother.

The GEoM learns of Autocthon and what it will mean for the entire universe he lives in now should Autocthon die (the universe will get pulled into Oblivion alongside Autocthon), and the Eye has found one capable of helping free Autocthon and preventing his death. Information is given, bargains are struck, proof is offered, and various plots and plans are made.

Autocthon is thus soon after pulled into the universe from Elsewhere.

The Adeptus Mechanicus now know of the existance of Deus Machina, and he is thankful for their prayers, and considers humanity the greatest of his children.

The Emperor of Mankind now has the ear of one of the architects of another reality, the allegiance of the citizens of the Eight Nations and the Alchemical Exalted, more tools to use and utilize for his own goals, and some more information regarding how reality works (both his and the nature of the Creation and the Immaterium and Wyld).

That said, the Gods of Chaos are not powerless in the face of this situation as the Immaterium connects in part to The Wyld. The bauble that is the universe is not Creation, but Creation influences the nature of (this) reality nonetheless. The rules are different, but the foundation of the realities of the universe and Creation is still based off of Essence at their core.

So, what are the likely events to follow from here?

 

[Cosar]

Before the primarchs? That's going to butterfly quite a bit. Hell, the Emperor could even end up getting some notes from Autochthon regarding making them.

The tech priests are also going to get a rather large boost in power. Assuming that they stay united and don't fracture, they'll end up with significantly more tech expertise, what with Exalted helping them (not to mention the freaking crafter Primordial). This could be one of the fracture points, given the relationship between the Imperium and the Mechanicus is not necessarily a stable one. You seem to be assuming that they at least start with a positive relationship, but I wonder how long that would last. That's certainly the area Chaos is going to need to target.

In fact, Chaos probably snags a few void tainted Alchemicals before Autobot kills them. That could be really bad for everyone else.

 

[Robo Jesus]

Before the primarchs? That's going to butterfly quite a bit. Hell, the Emperor could even end up getting some notes from Autochthon regarding making them.

The tech priests are also going to get a rather large boost in power. Assuming that they stay united and don't fracture, they'll end up with significantly more tech expertise, what with Exalted helping them (not to mention the freaking crafter Primordial). This could be one of the fracture points, given the relationship between the Imperium and the Mechanicus is not necessarily a stable one. You seem to be assuming that they at least start with a positive relationship, but I wonder how long that would last. That's certainly the area Chaos is going to need to target.

In fact, Chaos probably snags a few void tainted Alchemicals before Autobot kills them. That could be really bad for everyone else.

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Ohh, that's exactly the sort of commentary I'm looking for. Thank you.

Out of curiousity, in what ways do you think the GEoM might be able to 'tweek' the creation of the various Primordials and Astartes? It's obvious that weapons will be made of Orichalcum, Moonsilver, Starmetal, Jade, and Soulsteel and likely used by only the most powerful and important people within the Imperium, but that doesn't say much in itself.

Though I imagine the Eldar are going to throw an absolute shitfit and freakout at Humanity now having two "Great Gods" in their midst helping them out and all that.

 

[Cosar]

Out of curiousity, in what ways do you think the GEoM might be able to 'tweek' the creation of the various Primordials and Astartes? It's obvious that weapons will be made of Orichalcum, Moonsilver, Starmetal, Jade, and Soulsteel and likely used by only the most powerful and important people within the Imperium, but that doesn't say much in itself.

Though I imagine the Eldar are going to throw an absolute shitfit and freakout at Humanity now having two "Great Gods" in their midst helping them out and all that.

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A significant portion of the problems with Space Marines is the geneseed degradation. Sure, some of that only really start post heresy, but there's aspects of it that were there before hand, mostly among the legions that went traitor. Having another set of experienced eyes might help prevent some of that, or be able to address it when it becomes evident. This might also address some of the other physical issues they have: Exalted medical tech is generally pretty good, and works through strange means, so stuff like the Agony Nails might not be such an issue (assuming that even happens). Hell, even if everything up to the Primarchs being scattered stays the same, the Grand Crusade should be starting sooner, which likely means locating and recovering the Primarchs sooner.

Oh, and given that a big aspect of Auto is paranoia, I'd expect him to keep something like the Adamant caste up and about, which might provide a bit more of an early warning system with regards to treachery among the legions.


Autochthon's reaction to the Eldar should be more interesting. Orks obviously need to die(they're pretty similar to some deceptions of gremlin or darkbroods after all), but Eldar are in some ways pretty similar to humans, and Craftworld Eldar do quite a bit with his favorite things. That could be another point of tension between the Emperor and Auto, though at this point I believe the Imperium was not necessarily as against the Eldar, so perhaps they could have a more solid understanding. I guess it's really up to how exactly all the personalities involve decide things.

 

[meloa789]

One positive aspect from this deal I'm seeing is the creation of Imperial Webway, eliminating dependence on Warp travel and preventing unnecessary derivating from Chaos.

 

[Relyt33]

A thought occurs. Would the Fae be appearing in the Materium?