fair enough.
Was rereading the update and I realized I recognized Kher-Ys from browsing Lexicanum's list of Craftworlds.
It is a T1 building. There's more than one, in some cases. But yes, most people either have one/an equivalent already or have an equivalent in their build queue.
On this: keep in mind that canon has a great deal of "just don't think about it" in the early Eldar lore as a result of some writers making them be exactly like 40k Eldar in all time periods, so Asurman both leads the exodus from the Croneworlds and spends a couple hundred years sulking in a temple and eventually sort-of raising a feral child, Aspect Warriors are both not a thing for centuries after the Fall and showing up immediately after the Fall, the Path system is both not adopted in modern form for centuries and so pervasive that even Craftworlds like Myrmera which logically Shouldn't have even heard of it because they spent centuries thinking they were literally the only living people left in the galaxy for some reason until the Shadow Spectres guy shows up, and so on and so on.
which is where yeeting that fucker right out of reality comes into play with the second group of prominent adaptionists.
Ahh. We are about to join there ranks as worlds that end up high on the chaos gods shit life in a century or two.
Their are 3 ways we could go with Iyanden. One is simply dealing with them fairly at the end of day 3 and seeing what comes of it.
I think that's a result of their named characters having the fundamental intelligence and hatred of their gods enemies to unify and combine their efforts despite their Gods not really getting along.
Well that shakes up the timetable a bit. Hopefully with the reveal on the true nature of The Flaw there'll be more Eldar paying attention to the Craftworlds doing stuff like the Spirit Stone fabrication project and they'll get more backup for when Slaanesh comes knocking.
This is something that can wait for the moot proper, when we've announced why those technologies are so incredibly important so anyone who steps forward and offers to proliferate the technology/have their relics studied for reverse-engineering will be immediately lauded as heroes by everyone else present. If we go looking for it right now we're far less likely to have success.
This is something to arrange during the aeldmoot proper where the subject about how to deal with the curses will be discussed post reveal.
Alright this is a pretty solid plan. Canvassing the Independents makes the end of day reception time slot more tolerable. I still think we should be meeting with Iyanden rather than the Asuryani since total neutrality towards us is better than holds a grudge but holds tongue for political reasons, but I can settle for two out of three.
I think we can do two passes, one before, one after. Just making one after has a risk that the craftworld having it would start a bidding war realizing how important that is, and we can easily lose bidding war to major craftworlds. So we can make two attempts instead.
The Sword of Vaul we could've gained in chargen isn't the same one Arach-Qin has, Mechanis confirmed that every one is unique.
It won't be good for true killing, but going by the name it wouldn't surprise me if plascasters (flamer/plasma hybrids) helped in some small way in unlocking flamespears, which would be great at fighting daemons ij general (dur to the flamer part) and Nurgle in particular for the anti-regen.
I guess we're leaving talking with Iyanden to the third day? Because I really, really, really, want to have the rug yanked out from Biel-Tan before the Moot actually starts.
| Craftworld | Faction | Size | Canonical Fate |
| Lanimayesh | Survivalist | Average | Dead (Khorne) |
| Varantha | Survivalist | Average | Survived (Halo Stars) |
| An-Iolsus | Survivalist | Average | Unknown (Not in Lexicanum) |
| Vaer-Kath | Survivalist | Small | Unknown (Not in Lexicanum) |
| Lestellian | Survivalist | Small | Unknown (Not in Lexicanum) |
| Myrtellos | Survivalist | Small | Unknown (Not in Lexicanum) |
| Jain-Il'Tenn | Survivalist | Small | Unknown (Not in Lexicanum) |
| Aon'Tai | Asuryani | Large | Dead (Biel-Tan) |
| Kalth'se | Asuryani | Large | Dead (Unknown, post-Infinity Circuits) |
| Magc'Sithraal | Asuryani | Large | Dead (Great Crusade) |
| Kher-Ys | Adaptionists | Average | Dead (Slaanesh) |
| Di'lky-Tan | Adaptionists | Small/Minor? | Unknown (Not in Lexicanum) |
| Ul-Kaethe | Adaptionists | Small/Minor? | Unknown (Not in Lexicanum) |
| Muirgaythh | Adaptionists | Average | Dead (Slaanesh) |
| Faer-Kairn | Adaptionists | Minor | Unknown (Not in Lexicanum) |
| Il'Tah'yrd | Adaptionists | Minor | Unknown (Not in Lexicanum) |
None of the major craft worlds has completed research on nature of the curses three, single time use of the forge of vaul to produce something spectacular, fatebender psyscopes, or large industrial innovative craftworld AP to leverage. Our limitation is going to be time spent negotiating rather than ability to outbid most worlds. Asuryani for instance will have little to offer and Saim-han and Ulthwe are going to be sufficiently grateful to step aside if we want someone. Iyanden is going to tarnished by association with Beil-Tan to outbid us with our gratitude bonus assuming we haven't laid the groundwork to be negotiating their recruitment to our faction.
Yes, I'm aware, and the thing is however unique Sword of Vaul Class the Serpent of the Stars is, it likely doesn't have heavy guns that can measure up to the exotics based Starcrystal or Fatebender weaponry we can feasibly refit the ship with. Assuming it's the same Melta tech we can uncover with a single bonesinger AP, it's definitely inferior do to the ranged issues alone.
I think he's aiming for a cautious "find reasonable representatives among the group and look into how likely to be accepted a "let's put our differences behind us" meeting day 3 might be. Personally I think we should just go for a direct meeting day 3 with none of this feel them out stuff. It's too close to the Aeldmoot proper for the Asuryani leader to make a scene, meaning at worst he snubs us by refusing to meet, and we've lost nothing, while meeting with Iyanden to get in there good graces somewhat ahead of delivering the bad news would definitely pay off in good relations regardless of how the reveal goes.
That's assuming they want exotics or forgeworks, and not things like major political support, paths instructors, fleets or armies. We are strong in some things but weak in others.
After this we are very much able to provide major political support between the relative approval of two major craft worlds leading factions of their own, uncontested status as the foremost Adaptionist by virtue of success and validation of the factions core political stance.
Knowing that Isha is alive will likely help with this project. Perhaps we could utilize the existing Tears to exchange power with Isha. Worship in exchange for divine energy. I wonder if the Forge would be helpful too, considering that Vaul forged the Tears at Isha's request. At least in terms of ritual symbolism it would match. We could probably plan out a collaboration between their experts, our forge-priests and the Ishari.
Could be a good countermeasure to Fateweaver's psychic wiretapping if they're trying to actually replicate the material science rather than replicating it mystically. Generally a good prospect for Operation: Unwoven Fortune as a whole.
Do we have any early drafts of the Merosian Texts we could share around?
Ex-fucking-scuse me? Our gods are literally murdered and eaten and the first fucking thing these assholes do is reenact the Crippling of Vaul being chained to the Anvil of Khaine? Theological war! Theological war right now!
I'd really like to get a look at their Phoenix Flame for our various theological projects.
Iyandan has a lot of relics and is hanging out around the Gothic Sector so we may be able to weasel some Blackstone lore from them, or else collaborate on studying the Talismans.
