Yeah.
most likely the webway was closed behind it. rather than the path of least resistance it's more likely than not a dead end entirely. the good news is the battle seems to have happened a long long time ago, expended a good deal of the creatures strength, and left it stranded and starving for countless millennia to follow.
nah. whatever this thing was killed and devoured anything else in this fortress a long, long time ago, and has been slowly starving since while the webway being closed left it trap. we sent at least 1 combat brig along with our fleets, which should let us get plenty of manpower through to scavenge.
Because some fates are worse then death.
This chamber is a prison/container the size of at least a planetary system and something broke open all of the doors leading into it in a progressively thorough manner and now whatever was in here is lose.
Don't worry.
Sounds completely in-character for Harlequins.
The Lord of Honks is very pleased with us.
So the wording here implies that we won but I can't stop wondering what the butcher's bill from this is going to be.
Indeed. There is specifically a C'Tan known as nightbringer who was turned into a C'Tan Shard and weaponized as an option of last resort before the full defeat of the old ones. Nightbringer was the worst of the C'Tan.
No. We are facing something that consumes. Psyker energy of living things, light, who knows what else, but, I'm willing to be it has vulnerable points, and it can't quite eat massive naval grade spikes of wraith bone targeting these vulnerable points, and once a few of these vulnerable points are exposed, a Megalance to one of them is probably more than the creature can consume without significant damage. Things should go fine.
I don't think so now that we have more details. I think it was an typical Old Ones fortress protecting something of great importance to their grand plan for the galaxy. A C'Tan was unleashed into the webway corridor those gates were blocking and then by some manner of Necron device that corridor was collapsed behind it leaving it nowhere to go but forward. It spent billions of years breaking them down, waning and waxing in power, until it got to the last one. It then fought an even longer battle against some manner of truly daunting Old Ones machine defender, being greatly weakened in the process, before reaching the star system beyond.
Probably mostly not paid by us. If Nacretinei and the Harlequins haven't all been lost yet, we're probably coming in as the cavalry - and 4x Starcaster Mega-Lances make one hell of a final argument.
Exotics. Don't forget the exotics. The amazing thing about having guns that automatically target vulnerable points is it doesn't really matter that you don't quite remember how your supposed to kill this abomination the galaxy hasn't seen in forever.
We're space Legolas slaying a Space Nazgul, obviously.
Not too high. We brought Fatetwister cannons and megalances. When the latter exposes the C'Tan 's weak point the former can be adjusted to concentrate fire on those spots and do damage that overwhelms it.
Killing a C'tan isn't that easy.
We're definitely rocking their aesthetic too what with all our combat gear being hastily cobbled together patch jobs.
Aside from our own ships we've got nearly 300 ships from Zahr-Tann split between 45 capital ships and 244 escorts plus the one Warhost we have which has been fully outfitted with actual body armor.
I didn't say it would be easy, but when a contender for one of the 5 most powerful weapons in the galaxy title is hitting multiple identified weak points from far range while their allies seed the space between you with torpedoes and add their own weapons into the mix, your ability to retaliate and deal damage back isn't that great.
@Mechanis if your having too much trouble with a particular part of the poetry you could always show someone passing down the information in not poetry form down the Naval chain of command as orders.
