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A Different Breed (Warhammer 29K)

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IronFist said:
Since everyone alive remembers the pre fall Dominion: "Buttplug Broadcast would not have been a suitable news platform if we had gone to war with these guys"
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If a polity can't successfully prosecute a war using Buttplug-comms against a polity advanced enough to blow up stars, that just shows a shameful lack of development of interstellar Buttplug networking technologies.

That pre-fall Aeldari would not have been able to do this is yet another indication of how the Dominion fell to arrogance and thus, technological stagnation.
Candesce said:
Ectosa has the malfunctioning terraforming system. This is Kronite; we only knew it had "wreckage in orbit."

This is a bit more than just wreckage. I'm tempted to build the Grand Academy just to study all the pieces better.
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I though it was a big bunch of ships with varying degrees of damage, and was hoping to ferry them (after we took samples of their tech) to that nearby human polity that's fighting the orks for repair and use.
 
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These are the sorts of wars and events that give PTSD to entire galactic species.

Wish canon had more info on this period of humanity, to show exactly how high we reached and how hard we fell.
 
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Interesting that it is a mega-structure. I also thought it was ships. I was hoping we would find nova cannons we could reverse engineer so we would have naval special weapons that didn't require starcrystals. This is fine too though.
 
BeepSmile said:
If a polity can't successfully prosecute a war using Buttplug-comms against a polity advanced enough to blow up stars, that just shows a shameful lack of development of Buttplug networking technologies.

That pre-fall Aeldari would not have been able to do this is yet another indication of how the Dominion fell to arrogance and thus, technological stagnation.
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The pre fall Dominion was pretty pathetic compared to its height. A war with a rising power would have been a real wake up call for a lot more people. At least for those that could get their head out of their ass long enough to notice.
 
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RookDeSuit said:
Eldar spooked by a War they did not witness. I wonder what they'll make of the MoI Rebellion when they have all the pieces?
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Actually the Eldar DID witness the MoI rebellion, as did every other advanced species in the galaxy when the MoI rebelled.

It was bad enough that a bunch of races including humanity had to band together to beat back the AI.

Though they probably didn't witness whatever happened here, neat to see them get spooked and not be uptight pricks for once and go "LMAO skill issue for the monkeigh".
 
This is another reason to fix the engines. Moving our oversized tradeship to that system would allow for using our defence fleet for towing fragments. We could also put battleship sized fragments into unused shipyards for our explorers to easily check them out. Not to mention all the manpower of a craftworld.
While having the Grand Academy would be nice to check out what is brought in, being on site for the exploration and salvage would be better.
 
Hawkmoon said:
This is another reason to fix the engines. Moving our oversized tradeship to that system would allow for using our defence fleet for towing fragments. We could also put battleship sized fragments into unused shipyards for our explorers to easily check them out. Not to mention all the manpower of a craftworld.
While having the Grand Academy would be nice to check out what is brought in, being on site for the exploration and salvage would be better.
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Lol imagine what the feudal humans would think if Vau Vulkesh just showed up in orbit.

while it has its advantages, i doubt that's going to be popular. Kronite is pretty close to the Ork empire's borders. I don't think moving our there will be very popular.
 
We shouldn't over-focus on the latest shiny

We have a vast amount of other priorities and some human ruins are probably way down the list while we scarcely have an army, our navy are all glass cannons, and our military-industrial complex is basically non-existent.
 
Alratan said:
We shouldn't over-focus on the latest shiny

We have a vast amount of other priorities and some human ruins are probably way down the list while we scarcely have an army, our navy are all glass cannons, and our military-industrial complex is basically non-existent.
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Nice argument.

Counter-argument: My inner Blood Raven and everyone else's says otherwise, plus think of how much it'll make the Tech Priests seethe down the line.
 
IronBig21 said:
Nice argument.

Counter-argument: My inner Blood Raven and everyone else's says otherwise, plus think of how much it'll make the Tech Priests seethe down the line.
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If we want to indulge our inner Blood Raven, then the True Stars are also sitting there, full of technology and artifacts that are probably much easier for us to use and reverse engineer.

And the Mechanicus should just be politely ignored by Vaul worshippers as the cargo-cultists they are.
 
IronFist said:
Lol imagine what the feudal humans would think if Vau Vulkesh just showed up in orbit.

while it has its advantages, i doubt that's going to be popular. Kronite is pretty close to the Ork empire's borders. I don't think moving our there will be very popular.
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Being close to the Orks isn't a bug, it's a feature. During the character/faction creation we choose "exterminate the Ork" stance when it comes to xenos.
And with working engines I would be less worried about Orks.
I would be more worried about Orks getting their hands on all that scrap.
 
Hawkmoon said:
Being close to the Orks isn't a bug, it's a feature. During the character/faction creation we choose "exterminate the Ork" stance when it comes to xenos.
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It's a "feature" if we could fight them and win.

Right now, we don't have a functioning military.

Eventually, that ork empire will need to be glassed. We're not there yet.

Edit: meme moment. Some people are talking about joining Saim hann's wyld hunt on the other side of the galaxy.
Me: we have orks at home.
 
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IronFist said:
It's a "feature" if we could fight them and win.

Right now, we don't have a functioning military.

Eventually, that ork empire will need to be glassed. We're not there yet.

Edit: meme moment. Some people are talking about joining Saim hann's wyld hunt on the other side of the galaxy.
Me: we have orks at home.
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To be fair, if we send forces to join the Wild Hunt who make enough of an impression, whether that's in terms of providing a unique capability or whatever, we may be able to lobby for the Wild Hunt to visit our sector at some point, which would make crushing the local orks much easier.

I think that the concept of the Wild Hunt is to produce an enormous concentration of Eldar strength that can serially defeat multiple ork empires in detail while taking very few casualties as they outnumber each individual pocket empire so vastly.
 
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991.M29 | Turn 5 | The Pearl Without Price: Prologue [The Vision]
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    • The Webway is not what it once was. We have grown used to this new reality in which we find ourselves, that even this we held unshakable would be shaken. The servants of the Enemy stalk, yes, but they are few. We estimate now that the total area of the maze our great highway has become exceeds that of the actual galaxy - but vast sections are unreachable, for all intents and purposes, with no stable pathways known. Even the largest arteries, which might carry a Craftworld, shift and flow with the passing of years—or hours—now.

    Worse, however, is this: The Webway was not by Aeldari hand built. By our Teachers it was made, and in its oldest depths and blackest reaches were sealed away many things of the Ancient War, things deemed too useful or too difficult or too dangerous to destroy. When the Keys we held in hand, this seemed a reasonable solution, yet now we find it hubris, for in those sealed halls has festered darkness fit for our deepest nightmares—some of it our own. Whatever treasures we might have saved, whatever artifacts and wisdom of the Teachers we might have preserved, that our ancestors allowed that darkness to root itself so deeply was folly, and this we learned at most bitter cost.

    —Journal entry, Telissa Lightbinder of Nacretinei


    The Pearl Without Price​


    Prologue: The Vision​

    991.M29
    The Webway
    Approximately coterminous with the Feral World of Kimmeria​
    Four parties meet, in a corridor of the Webway. They are seeking a fifth, and here is the last known place where that missing friend tread. Where they went after...

    Well.​

    That is why two dozen Seers now stand in link-armed circle, is it not?​

    At opposite ends of the ritual circle, Highseer Yeren Ereteth of Stel'Rann and Ranna Yedral of Meros, Third Apprentice of the Seerlord, take simultaneous breaths, and the Seeing Circle rises(falls) into the Warp as a mandala of gem-star-souls. They-together See so plainly now the cracks and dullness that mar them, their maiming and reduction, yet if their light is duller than it once was, it still burns bright-strong-clear; if their gem-souls are cracked and tarnished they are yet razor-glitter diamond; if diminished they are, than still among the greatest races to stride the stars they are yet.

    A great storm of cloudstone and flickering thunderflash ten million miles wide(flock of ten thousand azure raven-feathers and mocking caws of false-truths in ten thousand scripts) bars their way, but this enemy the will-gestalt knows well now, and together their mandala becomes a spear of blazing sunfire ten million miles long(Blade with ten thousand edges) and pierces dark stormstone(shreds mocking feathers) with an ease that belies their effort.
    Distantly they hear a twin-part scream of rage anew​
    And-
    -then-​
    -they-​

    -S


    E​


    E-​






    The Lady searched, frantic, for any path from prison dread;
    The Fool searched, for any path at all;
    The Shadow spread, for it cared not which path it took;
    To no avail. Pale and with fearful tread, the Lady entered those darkened halls;
    To no avail. Concerned, the Fool made camp;
    The Shadow smiled as it found more light, laughing as it gorged;

    Through empty halls the Lady crept, footfall silent, sword drawn;
    In makeshift camp the Fool slept lightly, unease unusual in their dreams that night;
    For a star the Shadow reached, so sweet so sweet it crooned as the Star drained away;
    Empty was the prison, its shattering a tunnel, yet each step down that path caused the Lady's dread to grow;
    The Fool woke with a start, to find the path restored anew;
    The Shadow laughed,
    and fed,​
    and waited.​


    Stand By…​

    A/N: You made some good guesses about the kind of mess they've gotten into.
    Wrong ones, but good.

    Probably last story bit for today; there may be some ships though.
     
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    • Hawkmoon said:
    Being close to the Orks isn't a bug, it's a feature. During the character/faction creation we choose "exterminate the Ork" stance when it comes to xenos.
    And with working engines I would be less worried about Orks.
    I would be more worried about Orks getting their hands on all that scrap.
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    We could turn aside a Legion (minus Primarch) even at our weakest. I am not worried about the Orks finding us, we will have plenty of time to skip town before they can actually muster their fleets and threaten us in a way we care about.
     
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