I mostly like your plan @LysanderArgent , but why aren't you picking Psykana and firearms? That is the kind of information we want for yesterday, epecially since we will start buying those guns the next turn, and much more urgent than something like Find historical justification that only increased our rep INSIDE the school...
That is not how it works, Mayto confirmed that we need both the Lord Preceptor and Astrid help, we cannot choose one or the other
I'm hoping that the historical justification will fulfil the "By proving that Psychic Shock Troops have potential" condition of the Divination and Telepathic Psyker Prefects so we can get their help to train our Wyrdvanes. It also may give us favour and influence we can then spend on other things.
Isn't that a Bolter with extra fancy ammo?
And that is all well and good, but since the next turn we will need to establish connections with weapon suppliers I still find that Psykana and firearms is a much more urgent action... Next turn we can pick Find historical justification.
I think we could wait another turn to get in contact with the gunsmiths. But I'm also fine if your plan wins.
No, because it is
Here is the thing, to properly train our stock troppers we want to have their equipment ready when they arrive because Ideally they will train WITH their equipment
Also I don't understand the urgency of this action, the QM has confirmed it is a mostly aestethic action, which would help us significantly with first impressions when we get deployed, BUT at this point we haven't even started the training program and we won't get deployed for several turns
That sounds an awful lot like something someone in-universe, who,for whatever reason, really, Really, REALLY wants his fancy gun to be Legaly Not-A-Bolter would say.
My thinking is that a good number of our Psyker students are very likely going to come from backgrounds much like Occam's own (who looks fifty at twenty-five, even after all the work that went into him already to make sure he wasn't dead by age twenty), and are likely going to be pretty severely shaken by suddenly being, according to their education up to that point, a revolting mutant who has bartered away the sanctity of their soul for unholy power.
No, because boltshells do house the initial propellant in a casing (they operate on a tandem charge; the initial explosion launches the boltshell out of the gun at muzzle velocity, and then the rocket motor maintains that muzzle velocity all the way to the target), even the extra fancy ones. A rifle that fires self-propelled rockets is just a gyrojet.
