Deus Pater (Exalted/40k)

[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.
 
[X] Return to the Capital.

Yeah given the navy's willingness to shoot us, that we would be on their home turf, our lack of armor, and general squishniess I am not going to back taking a shuttle. I think first attempting to deal with this through bureaucratic channels where we can use our position and social fu to best effect is a much better option. And if that fails, I am sure the Sisters have shuttles and would be more than willing to help us deal with navy forces that attempted to raid a shrine for recruits.
 
[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.

Return to the capital? While servants of the Emperor spread blood amongst each other in defiance of His holy word? When innocent men and women die as cattle in defiance of His holy will? No. Will the shepherd return to his house too when the wolves are eating at his flock? No. He must go to the wolves and steel his nerves, he must take sword to them and fire to them. He must lead his congregation and chase off the wolves and banish them from his sight. There are no seconds to waste. The only thing we are wasting is lives.
 
part of me likes the idea of taking the initiative and just flying up to see what the problem is...

but I doubt the Navy is going to be solved by just showing up with a battle squad, unless someone can convince me.
 
[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.

This may not be the smart option, but it's definitely the more interesting one.

[All it would take is one overly faithful reactor tech priest hearing that the bridge has been taken by heretics to end this.
I'm sure the tech priests already think the bridge is held by heretics. The AdMech doesn't really see eye to eye with the Ecclesiarchy...

More seriously, are 40k reactors even that explosive? Don't they just use some kind of fusion reactors, and fusion reactors don't really explode even when they fail catastrophically.
 
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[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.
 
More seriously, are 40k reactors even that explosive? Don't they just use some kind of fusion reactors, and fusion reactors don't really explode even when they fail catastrophically.
Depending on the writer as usual.
Plasma Reactors, or whatever they use for energy, blowing up usually doesn't destroy the entire ship completly.

And nobody is fanatical enough to blow up the Warp Reactors over something like an occupied bridge.
 
[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.

*bass boosted dies irae as the cardinal zooms for orbit*

Nah nah I think this is definitely way more in character, I mean either of the options is in character by definition, but this gels a lot more with Ignatius's instinctive, reflexive, "no fuck you". Which I'm a huge huge fan of as I've said I think. Plus there's just a viscerally pleasing element to a gunship docking with the flagship and an angry glowing Cardinal kicking down the door so hard it flies across the room and dents a bulkhead. Surrounded by heavily armed Sisters of Battle and saying he needs to speak to your manager.

It's worth it for the reactions of Navy personnel if nothing else.

Edit: Oh lol there were a lot of replies while I was working on this post, one sec

but I doubt the Navy is going to be solved by just showing up with a battle squad, unless someone can convince me.

It's worth noting, I think, that the Navy, for all it's independence from the Ecclesiarchy, is still made up of fighting men and women and they're naturally pretty prone to faith. Faith is what keeps you alive in the Void, Faith is what keeps you alive in the Immaterium, and Faith is what warms you in the cold, dark, endless hallways of the Imperium's capital ships. A Cardinal annointed by the Emperor bursting onto the scene is going to...well it's gonna cause a fucking scene.

Which is the real meat of the vote I think, since this is basically us choosing how we're going to confront our first major external obstacle (even the Inquisitor was here with Church backing and was a Malleus) and how low-key we're going to play the Solar thing.

I think it's important to remember too, circling back to an earlier point, that quite a few of the enlisted men are also conscripts or otherwise pressganged into the ships. They've just accepted it, internalized it, because there was no hope of salvation and no real hope for an alternative. It was just the way the world works (or worked, I should say) and so they adapted to it to survive.

Iiiiiiit's pretty possible we could trigger massive internal unrest among the lunar base just by making a sufficiently impressive Entrance.
 
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[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.
 
[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.
 
[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.
 
It's worth noting, I think, that the Navy, for all it's independence from the Ecclesiarchy, is still made up of fighting men and women and they're naturally pretty prone to faith. Faith is what keeps you alive in the Void, Faith is what keeps you alive in the Immaterium, and Faith is what warms you in the cold, dark, endless hallways of the Imperium's capital ships. A Cardinal annointed by the Emperor bursting onto the scene is going to...well it's gonna cause a fucking scene.
God, can you imagine it? Literally bleeding as he walks on board, WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY ABOUT THE EMPEROR YOU LITTLE...
 
[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.


They gave us free shuttles, how nice of them!

Also, no sane person would expect this, and doing what enemy does not expect is generally a decent idea.
 
Ten successes is much better, for six net on the hit. As before the Armsmen have a modified soak of five, so this time Ignatius inflicts five levels of damage.

Okay I can follow most of the math but this bit confuses me - from other examples I got the impression that damage is computed as net successes (6) plus raw strength (2) minus final modified soak (5) but here that would give 6+2-5 = 3 rather than 5. Someone mind filling me in on what I'm missing?
 
[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.
 
[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.
 
[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.
 
[X] Return to the Capital.

Seems to me we can do more with the combined force of the sisters and planet behind us than just jumping into things, even as wounded as we are.

For all we know, this is the first in a series of attempts upon our authority, if we get stuck on a ship, it might even be so bold as to take to the warp
 
[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.
 
[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.
 
[x] Return to the Capital. It will take time to return, and likely the operation will be over by then, but this course will allow you to gather the most information and act with the full weight of your office and accumulated resources behind you.

These people just pissed off the most powerful man in the sub-sector. It's time to use our most powerful weapon: The word of a living saint. The only way that will work however is if we are speaking from a position of authority.
 
[X] Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.


KOOL AID MAN??? KOOL AID MAN!!!!!
 
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