[X] Plan: Stepping up the Research
-[X] [General] Expand the Castellum
--[X] Research Domes (0/3) x3
-[X] [Military] Recoupe Losses and Train to New Standards
-[X] [Research] Develop New Warp-Related Technologies
--[X] Psy-Tools and Psy-Machinery (Primitive)
I know this is heavy in building, but I think this will pay off better in the long run.
how happy are the Explorators faction in the knowledge on how to land anywhere and set up a workshop/forge-world without disrupting the ecosystem/terrain of a planet too much and destroying a planets natural state and the knowledge that can be found or being able to turn a random rock in space into a viable pitstop/resupply station for their journeys?
whelp, the explorators are going to enjoy everything, if this doesnt get our faction's template slapped down as "Send these guys to deal with warp shit and give them what they ask for" then i dont know what else we can do.
[X] Plan: They got MUCH harder then Tactical Dreadnought Armour (Terminator Armor) -[X] [General] Forge Alliances (Who?)
--[X] Explorator
-[X] [Military] Recoupe Losses and Train to New Standars
-[X] [Research] The Question of the Machine Soul
-- [X] Rites of Empathy
-[X] [Research] Develop New Warp-Related Technologies
-- [X] Integrate Wards into Voidships
-- [X] Psy-Tools and Psy-Machinery (Primitive)
hmm . . . extra protection for their exploratory void ships? they're gonna get real hard
[X] Plan: I Spy with my little eye, Warded Voidships and an Need-to-be-Explored Sea of Stars
-[X] [General] Expand the Castellum
--[X] Starlit Observationis
-[X] [Military] Recoupe Losses and Train to New Standars
-[X] [Research] The Question of the Machine Soul
--[X] Rites of Empathy
-[X] [Research] Develop New Warp-Related Technologies
--[X] Integrate Wards into Voidships
--[X] Psy-Tools and Psy-Machinery (Primitive)
Archmagos Arthek Valen stood at the vanguard, his crimson robes edged with silver hexagramic symbols glowing faintly under the dim lighting of the forward base. The Warp Geiger pulsed steadily in his hand, its needle twitching toward the vault's interior. A heavy vibration shuddered through the ground beneath their feet—the first sign that the daemon-machines knew they were coming.
"We shall purge this darkness," Valen declared. "In the name of the Machine God."
Behind him stood a phalanx of Battle-Automata and Siege-Automata from the Legio Cybernetica, their metallic frames covered in meticulously inscribed hexagramic wards. These sacred wards glowed faintly with a cold, blue light, whispering litanies to repel the chaotic influence festering in the depths. The siege-automata carried enormous graviton cannons, while battle-automata wielded plasma annihilators and flame projectors, ready to incinerate anything corrupted beyond salvation. Their steps reverberated through the tunnels as the force descended into the darkness below.
With each victory, the engineers reclaimed lost manufactories, bringing power back online and reactivating dormant forges. Infrastructure remained majorly intact, just as the Magi had hoped.
After nearly two years of relentless campaigning, the forces of the Empyric Engineers reached the inner crust vault, where the heart of the corruption awaited—a Daemon-possessed AI, an Abominable Intelligence that had fused mechanical intellect with Warp malice.
The AI's lair was a cathedral of blasphemy, filled with tangled cabling, profane sigils, and countless possessed machines. Legio Cybernetica Siege-Automata advanced with relentless precision, laying down suppressive fire. They were greeted with a storm of daemonic automata that fought with reckless fury—clawed limbs and corrupted las-beams tearing at the invaders. Yet the Hexagramic Wards held, deflecting the AI's psychic intrusions, blocking esoteric strikes that would have crippled lesser machines.
Inside the AI's sanctum, Archmagos Arthek Valen led the final assault. He and his fellow Magi deployed Hexagramic containment nodes—large, warded pylons driven into the floor, creating a powerful field to trap the AI's influence. The AI's mocking voice rang through every vox-channel, speaking in tongues that dripped with malice and ancient heresy.
The Siege-Automata pushed forward, their cannons tearing into the heart of the AI's systems, disabling vital nodes one by one. When the Daemon AI tried to lash out with a final psychic burst, the Hexagramic containment nodes flared, trapping it within the field like a beast in a cage. Stripped of its control, the corrupted machines fell silent, their daemonic spirits evaporating, denied by the Wards.
With clinical precision, the Magi Ætheric began disassembling the AI's core, isolating its key components for study. The machine had not been destroyed—it had been contained, its foul knowledge preserved for future analysis, a dark treasure now locked within the sanctum vaults of the Castellum.
In the end, the depths of Mars had been conquered, the taint of Chaos driven from the Machine God's domain. The Empyric Engineers had not only achieved victory—they had proven that knowledge, precision, and the will of the Machine God could triumph over the darkness of the Warp.
And in the cold, humming silence of the Castellum, the Hexagramic Wards stood as unyielding sentinels, protecting Mars from future incursions, ensuring that no daemon—machine or otherwise—would ever rise again beneath the red sands.
An almost complete Standard Template Construct (STC).
The STC unit gleamed beneath a layer of dust, still functional, its glyph interface untouched by millennia. Iomene-35's mind whirred with calculations and hypotheses, but the true wonder came when she activated the device. A holo-display bloomed into life, projecting a series of diagrams, blueprints, and schematics—comprehensive, detailed, and thorough.
Massive factories powered by geothermal and solar sources, capable of self-maintenance and modular expansion.
Residential habitats, integrated within the production facilities, providing automated amenities and security, allowing for complete societal self-sufficiency.
Advanced waste recycling systems, designed to repurpose every resource, minimizing waste.
A unique local weather regulation system, theoretically capable of making harsh environments—such as Mars—habitable over time.
Detailed theory on machine intelligence, allowing for semi-sentient industrial systems, governed by strict protocols but capable of adaptive management.
Iomene-35's mechadendrites hovered over the console, tracing the data streams as if in reverence. An unblemished relic from the Dark Age of Technology—complete with theory, design principles, and adaptive constructs—it was beyond price.
She carefully dislodged from the console, and ran back for Archmagos Arthek Valen.
It's really hard to overstate here just how much WIN our faction has stumbled onto.
Massive Factories: utilizing clean energy sources on such a vast scale means every future Forgeworld founded with this tech will be much less polluted and such. Forgeworlds will also grow faster with increased modularity.
Residential Habitats means AdMech worlds will have much higher standards of living than Imperial ones. People will immigrate en masse to AdMech worlds for a better life, meaning the horrific treatment of organics won't ever occur.
Waste Recycling: No Forgeworld will ever be filthy, polluted, or gross. Worlds with these systems implemented will not have a mutant problem, at least from pollution.
Weather Regulation Systems: Not only can we potentially terraform Mars...we can restore Terra as well. This alone is a huge lever to wield over the Emperor when he arrives.
Semi-Sentient Systems: Holy crap, all the benefits of Men of Stone without crossing any lines. You won't NEED countless billions of lives forced into being ground into hamburger in the cogs of the machines anymore, populations orders If magnitude smaller can do the same work much more efficiently.
I like how they call the Machine Spirits fools as it implies our Machines are willing to throw down against Chaos instead of submission. Our Lads resist the Demiurge Psychic Cancers. Also, anyone got the translation of the Binary?
so asking for clarification here, the STC was brought back to the head honcho Arthek Valen, are they the leader of the Magi Ætheric? if so i'm assuming that Arthek then spread that info to the rest of Mars or is the STC still under the Magi Ætheric, because if it's the latter, 4 of the 5 schematics are made to be to set up new Martian bases, so having the D&D adventurers of the cargo cult, plopping down new forge-worlds before they hop to another planet would be funny, just make a deal with them saying "here, go start exploring, just build an Ephemeralis Astra Castellum for each planet once our member get over there"
how happy are the Explorators faction in the knowledge on how to land anywhere and set up a workshop/forge-world without disrupting the ecosystem/terrain of a planet too much and destroying a planets natural state and the knowledge that can be found or being able to turn a random rock in space into a viable pitstop/resupply station for their journeys?
It's also possible the treaty doesn't happen, or happens on very different terms. Note that in the OTL the way the Emperor "proved" himself to be the Omnissiah was via:
Psychic Mindfuckery
Repairing an issue (a limp) that seemed to lie within a Knight-Titan's Machine Spirit rather than its physical construction.
It seems possible that our Wards and Warp-Geiger counters could block or detect the first method (if widely disseminated), and preempt the second by figuring out how to repair it ourselves.
He'll probably figure something out still, but the terms might be better if he has a hard time pretending to be a god.
Edit: That said, some psychic research was definitely happening before the Martian Civil War happened, like the Akashic Reader.
If we ever get access to the Vaults of Moravec, we'll have to see how much of it is just the results of daemonic pacts and how much is actually useful.
Since we are popular and have time, i think we should make allies with either Logis or Cordantor. Mathematicians and philosophers may be a great boon to further research.
[X] Plan: They got MUCH harder then Tactical Dreadnought Armour (Terminator Armor)
-[X] [General] Forge Alliances (Who?)
--[X] Explorator
-[X] [Military] Recoupe Losses and Train to New Standars
-[X] [Research] The Question of the Machine Soul
-- [X] Rites of Empathy
-[X] [Research] Develop New Warp-Related Technologies
-- [X] Integrate Wards into Voidships
-- [X] Psy-Tools and Psy-Machinery (Primitive)
[X] Plan: Castellum and Research
-[X] [General] Expand the Castellum
--[X] Research Domes (0/3)x2
-[X] [Military] Recoupe Losses and Train to New Standars
-[X] [Research] Develop New Warp-Related Technologies
--[X] Integrate Wards into Voidships
--[X] Psy-Tools and Psy-Machinery (Primitive)
I would like to up the research on psytech I believe it's the weakest of our tech tree but at the same time space to do these researches are important.
