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Adhoc vote count started by Lord Necromancer on Nov 21, 2023 at 11:37 PM, finished with 26 posts and 15 votes.
  • [X] To be a light in the dark
    [X] Plan MS-07B-3
    -[X]: Thufir
    -[X]: It/Them
    -[X]: Anger
    --[X] Rage at the sheer idiocy of it all, the countless dead in pointless wars, the production demands that lower production, the killings for no purpose, the endless graft that slowly bleeds the people dry, some high lord consigning a thousand worlds to destruction because the paperwork could not be found or because it would have taken a slight hit to their endless coffers
    -[X]: Zeal
    --[X] In the righteousness of your cause, which will tear the high lords off of their pedestal and bring justice to the galaxy for the first time, which will tear Tyrants off their thrones both Gods and Kings and shatter those thrones to dust, which will liberate all and destroy any who would stop it with the fury of a thousand suns
    -[X] Faithful of the Machine God: The Empire is vile, you see that now, as is the Mechanicus, their servants in all but name, but surely the Machine God itself has no part in this! It must be captured by the vile Emperor and the traitors on Mars! Your faith in the mechanicus religion has not been hampered by the revelations you have found, far from it, you are truly devout towards your deity and its laws, even as you plot revolution against its servants. (Without this pick your faith will be shaken but not yet completely destroyed)
    -[X] Cautious: Something must be done and it's protection is vital, you are anything but a risk taker, and seek to maintain what you have built with as little danger to it or yourself as you can, but you may be slow to act and quick to delay
    -[X] Friends in Low Places: You have always been popular among your fellow members of the Mechanicus on world, you are by all accounts an excellent coworker and many of your friends from when you became an initiate have gone on to serve on the same planet as you, though none of any high rank. You may be quite popular within the local Mechanicus, but this does not endear you to the higher ups one bit, whether it be the head Magos of the world, or the ones in nearby planets and sectors. In a society as hierarchical as the Imperium, anything that seems like it could challenge that hierarchy is frowned upon
    -[X] The Means are the Ends: Empire sacrifices so many for its goals, millions dead for a few more squeezed out of the forges, trillions killed to mildly improve the position of some high lord. You must be different. Innocent lives must not be hurt, must not be traded for victory or what was the point of it all? You must be, will be, better than them, not just in the end goal, but in how you get there. If a million must die for freedom then that is a million too many, you will have no more blood on your hands
    -[X] Obtez
    -[X] Trantellion Jerant
    -[X] Daylon Antenarra: A strange sort, this one is a mechanicus member, but altogether too interested in mysteries of a biological nature if you were to ask your superiors. Fascinated by biological enhancements as opposed to the more standard cybernetic ones they are faithful to the mechanicus, but chafe under their rules somewhat, harboring a secret fascination for Xenobiology and a deeply hidden interest in mutations. You met them early in your career when you both were initiates and commiserated over your shared loathing for another initiate. The two of you became, if not fast friends, good acquaintances and have kept in touch since, as his frustration with the structure grows. If not chosen you simply will not have met, and they will be in a completely different area and a lower rank, and much more bitter
    [X] Plan Age Of Reckoning
    -[X]: Hektor C-13
    -[X]: He
    -[X]: Motivation- Rage is a given, for you have seen the misery and said No More, but a secondary may hold power as well, and no motivation is as simple as a single word. Why have you decided on this course? What opened your eyes to the truth?
    -[X]: Anger
    --[X] Hate for the cruelty that Empire shows to its people, executing countless millions, and doing far worse to many more simply because they do not fit within the bounds of humanity that is considered acceptable, a bound that you yourself would be excluded from if the Mechanicus was not as powerful as it is.
    -[X]: Desire
    --[x] To see their thrones topple to see justice done, to see the holy works of Empire, monuments to genocide and to slavery, be torn down and crushed beneath the might of the people, the might of the revolution, you will stand in the front line to tear down the Emperor's statue and you will cheer
    -[X] Arch-Heretic: The Machine god has led the Mechanicus into Empire, both serving one and becoming one itself, it is as vile as the Corpse in the Chair that it serves, and it most definitely serves it, and you repudiate it entirely. You have abandoned the Mechanicus faith with a burning fury, this may cause trouble considering you are a member of it on a planet led and populated by its members, but it does mean you will not consider it's rules one bit (Without this pick your faith will be shaken but not yet completely destroyed)
    -[X] Theorist: You are a theorist par excellence, and the tomes of lore you could write on the evil of Empire, what must be done, and what the new world should look like are countless. You are however, a bit of an academic, and aside from the usual communication issues of a member of the Mechanicus trying to communicate with someone you are completely socially inept when it comes to talking and not writing
    -[X] Daring: Something must be done and who better to do it but you? You think little of risks, and even when your augmentations tell you the odds are against you you don't listen, you know what must be done and are more than willing to accept danger in the face of it, even if it's a risk you might not need to take
    -[X] Daylon Antenarra: A strange sort, this one is a mechanicus member, but altogether too interested in mysteries of a biological nature if you were to ask your superiors. Fascinated by biological enhancements as opposed to the more standard cybernetic ones they are faithful to the mechanicus, but chafe under their rules somewhat, harboring a secret fascination for Xenobiology and a deeply hidden interest in mutations. You met them early in your career when you both were initiates and commiserated over your shared loathing for another initiate. The two of you became, if not fast friends, good acquaintances and have kept in touch since, as his frustration with the structure grows. If not chosen you simply will not have met, and they will be in a completely different area and a lower rank, and much more bitter
    -[X] Sabraya Elitiel: A member of the Adeptus Sororitas is an unusual companion for a Mechanicus member to have, more so for one planning revolution, but nevertheless you know each other well. You met Sabraya before you gained your current post, on a mission to find some archeotech that you were a minor member of. Separated from your group you found her close to death beset upon by strange, if human, foes, rescuing her you learned she was a member of the Order Pronatus, charged with the securing and protection of holy relics. The two of you hit it off and she became one of the few you would genuinely call a friend, and stationed on a nearby moon to boot, guarding the artifact she found on the planet where you met, an odd relic that unsettles you when in its presence (and her you suspect, though less and less as the years pass by). However she is a member of the Emperor's faithful, and you are unsure of how she could be made to see the light of the tyranny of Empire and the need for its destruction, but you know it can be done, it must be done, your friend, your one true friend, will follow you into revolution. If not chosen you will have been ambushed on your way back to the ship after the rescue and she will have been captured by the no doubt chaos aligned forces on that world
    -[X] Obtez: Full name Omnissiah-Bless-These-Unworthy-Electrons-In-My-Soul Zelor, they are the latest in a long line of devoted electro priests in the local Mechanicus, covered in electro tattoos and augmentations they are highly skilled at what they do, but the pressure to live up to the name and the family line got to them a long time ago. Considered somewhat of a renegade (though mainly a "rebellious youth") Obtez began using an abbreviated form of their name and dressing in more colours then just red, with scandalous blue tinted cuffs at the end of their robe. Though no punishment has been met out due to their family standing in the machine cult, and the excellence of their work on the generators they are most unpopular in the mechanicus, especially among the higher ups. You met Obtez before they switched the name around, and were privy to the frustrations they have and the excellence of their work. They would not be too difficult to turn you think, but then again it may be that this kind of "teenage rebellion" does not lend itself in the end to actual revolution. If not chosen they will still be the same, but you will never have met, and their personal rebellion will be much more subtle
    [X]Plan: Be the better Magos*.
    -[X]: It/Them
    [X] Hero of the People
    -[X] Neberiox Jagganeth
    -[X] He/Them
    -[X]: Hope
    -[X] Paranoid
    -[X] Daring
    -[X] Conciliatory
    -[X] Friends in Low Places
    -[X] The Means are the Ends
    -[X] Daylon Antenarra
    -[X] Sabraya Elitiel
    -[X] Trantellion Jerant
    [X] Plan: Light Hope
    -[X]: Lux
    -[X]: He/Her
    -[X]: Motivation- Rage is a given, for you have seen the misery and said No More, but a secondary may hold power as well, and no motivation is as simple as a single word. Why have you decided on this course? What opened your eyes to the truth?
    -[X]: Anger
    --[X] Hate for the cruelty that Empire shows to its people, executing countless millions, and doing far worse to many more simply because they do not fit within the bounds of humanity that is considered acceptable, a bound that you yourself would be excluded from if the Mechanicus was not as powerful as it is.
    -[X]: Desire
    --[X] For a galaxy where none have to suffer, where none have to pointlessly die, a galaxy that Empire will fight with everything it has to prevent from arising, a galaxy so close you can almost taste it
    -[X] Faithful of the Machine God: The Empire is vile, you see that now, as is the Mechanicus, their servants in all but name, but surely the Machine God itself has no part in this! It must be captured by the vile Emperor and the traitors on Mars! Your faith in the mechanicus religion has not been hampered by the revelations you have found, far from it, you are truly devout towards your deity and its laws, even as you plot revolution against its servants. (Without this pick your faith will be shaken but not yet completely destroyed)
    -[X] Theorist: You are a theorist par excellence, and the tomes of lore you could write on the evil of Empire, what must be done, and what the new world should look like are countless. You are however, a bit of an academic, and aside from the usual communication issues of a member of the Mechanicus trying to communicate with someone you are completely socially inept when it comes to talking and not writing
    -[X] Socialite: You are an excellent converser, able to speechify with the best of them and a wonderful conversationalist even despite your decades in the mechanicus which would normally hamper you. Unfortunately this eloquence does not lend itself to the pen, in which you find yourself completely unable to write anything more thrilling than your administrative reports, which are considered especially dry even for their subject
    -[X] Daylon Antenarra: A strange sort, this one is a mechanicus member, but altogether too interested in mysteries of a biological nature if you were to ask your superiors. Fascinated by biological enhancements as opposed to the more standard cybernetic ones they are faithful to the mechanicus, but chafe under their rules somewhat, harboring a secret fascination for Xenobiology and a deeply hidden interest in mutations. You met them early in your career when you both were initiates and commiserated over your shared loathing for another initiate. The two of you became, if not fast friends, good acquaintances and have kept in touch since, as his frustration with the structure grows. If not chosen you simply will not have met, and they will be in a completely different area and a lower rank, and much more bitter
    -[X] Sabraya Elitiel: A member of the Adeptus Sororitas is an unusual companion for a Mechanicus member to have, more so for one planning revolution, but nevertheless you know each other well. You met Sabraya before you gained your current post, on a mission to find some archeotech that you were a minor member of. Separated from your group you found her close to death beset upon by strange, if human, foes, rescuing her you learned she was a member of the Order Pronatus, charged with the securing and protection of holy relics. The two of you hit it off and she became one of the few you would genuinely call a friend, and stationed on a nearby moon to boot, guarding the artifact she found on the planet where you met, an odd relic that unsettles you when in its presence (and her you suspect, though less and less as the years pass by). However she is a member of the Emperor's faithful, and you are unsure of how she could be made to see the light of the tyranny of Empire and the need for its destruction, but you know it can be done, it must be done, your friend, your one true friend, will follow you into revolution. If not chosen you will have been ambushed on your way back to the ship after the rescue and she will have been captured by the no doubt chaos aligned forces on that world
    -[X] Obtez: Full name Omnissiah-Bless-These-Unworthy-Electrons-In-My-Soul Zelor, they are the latest in a long line of devoted electro priests in the local Mechanicus, covered in electro tattoos and augmentations they are highly skilled at what they do, but the pressure to live up to the name and the family line got to them a long time ago. Considered somewhat of a renegade (though mainly a "rebellious youth") Obtez began using an abbreviated form of their name and dressing in more colours then just red, with scandalous blue tinted cuffs at the end of their robe. Though no punishment has been met out due to their family standing in the machine cult, and the excellence of their work on the generators they are most unpopular in the mechanicus, especially among the higher ups. You met Obtez before they switched the name around, and were privy to the frustrations they have and the excellence of their work. They would not be too difficult to turn you think, but then again it may be that this kind of "teenage rebellion" does not lend itself in the end to actual revolution. If not chosen they will still be the same, but you will never have met, and their personal rebellion will be much more subtle
    [X] To be a light in the dark
    -[X]: Heapheastus 203-18E
    -[X]: Pronouns: I/We
    -[X]: Anger
    --[X] Rage at the sheer idiocy of it all, the countless dead in pointless wars, the production demands that lower production, the killings for no purpose, the endless graft that slowly bleeds the people dry, some high lord consigning a thousand worlds to destruction because the paperwork could not be found or because it would have taken a slight hit to their endless coffers
    -[X]: Hope
    --[X] For the people of your world, so long suffering who one day may rise up to truly become great, no mere servants to a corpse god, but truly people with their own choices to make and their own ability to make them no matter what their so called betters wish
    -[X] Arch-Heretic: The Machine god has led the Mechanicus into Empire, both serving one and becoming one itself, it is as vile as the Corpse in the Chair that it serves, and it most definitely serves it, and you repudiate it entirely. You have abandoned the Mechanicus faith with a burning fury, this may cause trouble considering you are a member of it on a planet led and populated by its members, but it does mean you will not consider it's rules one bit (Without this pick your faith will be shaken but not yet completely destroyed)
    -[X] Determined: You know the truth, you know what must be done. Others may have their own ideas, but they are revisionists and reactionaries, your enemy just as much as the Empire you fight! You will be entirely unwilling to consider alliances that go against any of your values or plans and will split from what others might consider your fellow revolutionaries at the slightest hint of a break from true revolution. On the one hand this makes it much harder to find allies, as well as friends, but on the other those who do join you will be truly devoted to the revolution, and you will not be tempted by compromising alliances
    -[X] Theorist: You are a theorist par excellence, and the tomes of lore you could write on the evil of Empire, what must be done, and what the new world should look like are countless. You are however, a bit of an academic, and aside from the usual communication issues of a member of the Mechanicus trying to communicate with someone you are completely socially inept when it comes to talking and not writing
    -[X] Friends in High Places: Though you are only at middling rank within the Mechanicus during your early years you became good friends with a few other initiates who would go on to take to rank much better than you. Though none stayed on world, you have a number of contacts and friends within the higher echelons of the Mechanicus within the sector and its neighbors. Your friendliness with your boss's boss's lieutenants however has not endeared you towards your fellow members here on the planet, and you have very few friends among the Mechanicus on world at any level
    -[X] The Means are the Ends: Empire sacrifices so many for its goals, millions dead for a few more squeezed out of the forges, trillions killed to mildly improve the position of some high lord. You must be different. Innocent lives must not be hurt, must not be traded for victory or what was the point of it all? You must be, will be, better than them, not just in the end goal, but in how you get there. If a million must die for freedom then that is a million too many, you will have no more blood on your hands
    -[X] Daylon Antenarra: A strange sort, this one is a mechanicus member, but altogether too interested in mysteries of a biological nature if you were to ask your superiors. Fascinated by biological enhancements as opposed to the more standard cybernetic ones they are faithful to the mechanicus, but chafe under their rules somewhat, harboring a secret fascination for Xenobiology and a deeply hidden interest in mutations. You met them early in your career when you both were initiates and commiserated over your shared loathing for another initiate. The two of you became, if not fast friends, good acquaintances and have kept in touch since, as his frustration with the structure grows. If not chosen you simply will not have met, and they will be in a completely different area and a lower rank, and much more bitter
    -[X] Sabraya Elitiel: A member of the Adeptus Sororitas is an unusual companion for a Mechanicus member to have, more so for one planning revolution, but nevertheless you know each other well. You met Sabraya before you gained your current post, on a mission to find some archeotech that you were a minor member of. Separated from your group you found her close to death beset upon by strange, if human, foes, rescuing her you learned she was a member of the Order Pronatus, charged with the securing and protection of holy relics. The two of you hit it off and she became one of the few you would genuinely call a friend, and stationed on a nearby moon to boot, guarding the artifact she found on the planet where you met, an odd relic that unsettles you when in its presence (and her you suspect, though less and less as the years pass by). However she is a member of the Emperor's faithful, and you are unsure of how she could be made to see the light of the tyranny of Empire and the need for its destruction, but you know it can be done, it must be done, your friend, your one true friend, will follow you into revolution. If not chosen you will have been ambushed on your way back to the ship after the rescue and she will have been captured by the no doubt chaos aligned forces on that world
    -[X] Trantellion Jerant
    [X]: Anger
    • [X] Disgust at the casual disregard for life that Empire shows.
    [X] Paranoid
    [X] Faithful of the Machine God
    [X] The Means are the Ends
    [X] Sabraya Elitiel
    [X] Trantellion Jerant
    [X] Bortram 7-4
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@Lord Necromancer

So I think the largest divergence in our goals is in terms of embracing or rejecting the Machine God. I'm not going to leave the game based on that if your plan or plans like it win.

That said I am curious as to your reasoning?

Mine is that that the Martian Priesthood predates the imperium and thus cannot be blamed for all of it's worst excesses as easily as most institutions, plus having a character who's both a rebel and a person of faith is interesting to me.
 
I don't about know about Necromancer but I voted for rejecting the machine god cause I wanna do AI and tectological innovation which is the kinda stuff you need to be an arch-heretic to do.
 
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That said I am curious as to your reasoning?
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For the most part I agree with @Questwolf, while the Admech does pre-date the Imperium and isn't to blame for the worst excesses, that isn't what I would call a boon. It is both better and worse then the Imperium in terms of excesses and problems. It was bad enough during the GC when they were being forced to help uplift the worlds brought under compliance but after the schism and the HH, they have become a horrible mixture of technophiles and luddites.

They also hoard technology both from the Imperium and even from each other which combined with their legal right to owning every scrap of tech lore and STC fragments has lead to a regression of tech as much was lost during the HH and more later on from the lack of communication and exchanges causing the only repositories of certain bits of knowledge to be permanently lost.

But the single most damning thing, the problem that causes me to reject the whole religion, is the hypocrisy regarding technology. They claim that the only worry technology is Human and proclaim that the only thing that should happen is finding the bits of DAoT lore and printouts to reach the old heights of Humanities knowledge but see innovation and novel research as blasphemy against the omnisia, completely ignoring that those are how the ancient humans reached such heights in the first place.

So I wish to drop this anchor around our necks and step into the future that isn't stuck in the mire of backwards religious dogma and cultural inertia.
 
[X] To be a light in the dark

[X] Plan Age Of Reckoning

I'm tempted to make another 3 plans featuring Arch-Heretic just for the heck of it, but it's more fun to choke out overseers in dishonored two.
 
Adhoc vote count started by Lord Necromancer on Nov 24, 2023 at 4:49 PM, finished with 40 posts and 25 votes.
  • [X] To be a light in the dark
    [X] Plan MS-07B-3
    -[X]: Thufir
    -[X]: It/Them
    -[X] Anger
    --[X] Rage at the sheer idiocy of it all, the countless dead in pointless wars, the production demands that lower production, the killings for no purpose, the endless graft that slowly bleeds the people dry, some high lord consigning a thousand worlds to destruction because the paperwork could not be found or because it would have taken a slight hit to their endless coffers
    -[X]: Zeal
    --[X] In the righteousness of your cause, which will tear the high lords off of their pedestal and bring justice to the galaxy for the first time, which will tear Tyrants off their thrones both Gods and Kings and shatter those thrones to dust, which will liberate all and destroy any who would stop it with the fury of a thousand suns
    -[X] Faithful of the Machine God: The Empire is vile, you see that now, as is the Mechanicus, their servants in all but name, but surely the Machine God itself has no part in this! It must be captured by the vile Emperor and the traitors on Mars! Your faith in the mechanicus religion has not been hampered by the revelations you have found, far from it, you are truly devout towards your deity and its laws, even as you plot revolution against its servants. (Without this pick your faith will be shaken but not yet completely destroyed)
    -[X] Cautious: Something must be done and it's protection is vital, you are anything but a risk taker, and seek to maintain what you have built with as little danger to it or yourself as you can, but you may be slow to act and quick to delay
    -[X] Friends in Low Places: You have always been popular among your fellow members of the Mechanicus on world, you are by all accounts an excellent coworker and many of your friends from when you became an initiate have gone on to serve on the same planet as you, though none of any high rank. You may be quite popular within the local Mechanicus, but this does not endear you to the higher ups one bit, whether it be the head Magos of the world, or the ones in nearby planets and sectors. In a society as hierarchical as the Imperium, anything that seems like it could challenge that hierarchy is frowned upon
    -[X] The Means are the Ends: Empire sacrifices so many for its goals, millions dead for a few more squeezed out of the forges, trillions killed to mildly improve the position of some high lord. You must be different. Innocent lives must not be hurt, must not be traded for victory or what was the point of it all? You must be, will be, better than them, not just in the end goal, but in how you get there. If a million must die for freedom then that is a million too many, you will have no more blood on your hands
    -[X] Obtez
    -[X] Trantellion Jerant
    -[X] Daylon Antenarra: A strange sort, this one is a mechanicus member, but altogether too interested in mysteries of a biological nature if you were to ask your superiors. Fascinated by biological enhancements as opposed to the more standard cybernetic ones they are faithful to the mechanicus, but chafe under their rules somewhat, harboring a secret fascination for Xenobiology and a deeply hidden interest in mutations. You met them early in your career when you both were initiates and commiserated over your shared loathing for another initiate. The two of you became, if not fast friends, good acquaintances and have kept in touch since, as his frustration with the structure grows. If not chosen you simply will not have met, and they will be in a completely different area and a lower rank, and much more bitter
    [X] Plan Age Of Reckoning
    -[X]: Hektor C-13
    -[X]: He
    -[X]: Motivation- Rage is a given, for you have seen the misery and said No More, but a secondary may hold power as well, and no motivation is as simple as a single word. Why have you decided on this course? What opened your eyes to the truth?
    -[X] Anger
    --[X] Hate for the cruelty that Empire shows to its people, executing countless millions, and doing far worse to many more simply because they do not fit within the bounds of humanity that is considered acceptable, a bound that you yourself would be excluded from if the Mechanicus was not as powerful as it is.
    -[X]: Desire
    --[x] To see their thrones topple to see justice done, to see the holy works of Empire, monuments to genocide and to slavery, be torn down and crushed beneath the might of the people, the might of the revolution, you will stand in the front line to tear down the Emperor's statue and you will cheer
    -[X] Arch-Heretic: The Machine god has led the Mechanicus into Empire, both serving one and becoming one itself, it is as vile as the Corpse in the Chair that it serves, and it most definitely serves it, and you repudiate it entirely. You have abandoned the Mechanicus faith with a burning fury, this may cause trouble considering you are a member of it on a planet led and populated by its members, but it does mean you will not consider it's rules one bit (Without this pick your faith will be shaken but not yet completely destroyed)
    -[X] Theorist: You are a theorist par excellence, and the tomes of lore you could write on the evil of Empire, what must be done, and what the new world should look like are countless. You are however, a bit of an academic, and aside from the usual communication issues of a member of the Mechanicus trying to communicate with someone you are completely socially inept when it comes to talking and not writing
    -[X] Daring: Something must be done and who better to do it but you? You think little of risks, and even when your augmentations tell you the odds are against you you don't listen, you know what must be done and are more than willing to accept danger in the face of it, even if it's a risk you might not need to take
    -[X] Daylon Antenarra: A strange sort, this one is a mechanicus member, but altogether too interested in mysteries of a biological nature if you were to ask your superiors. Fascinated by biological enhancements as opposed to the more standard cybernetic ones they are faithful to the mechanicus, but chafe under their rules somewhat, harboring a secret fascination for Xenobiology and a deeply hidden interest in mutations. You met them early in your career when you both were initiates and commiserated over your shared loathing for another initiate. The two of you became, if not fast friends, good acquaintances and have kept in touch since, as his frustration with the structure grows. If not chosen you simply will not have met, and they will be in a completely different area and a lower rank, and much more bitter
    -[X] Sabraya Elitiel: A member of the Adeptus Sororitas is an unusual companion for a Mechanicus member to have, more so for one planning revolution, but nevertheless you know each other well. You met Sabraya before you gained your current post, on a mission to find some archeotech that you were a minor member of. Separated from your group you found her close to death beset upon by strange, if human, foes, rescuing her you learned she was a member of the Order Pronatus, charged with the securing and protection of holy relics. The two of you hit it off and she became one of the few you would genuinely call a friend, and stationed on a nearby moon to boot, guarding the artifact she found on the planet where you met, an odd relic that unsettles you when in its presence (and her you suspect, though less and less as the years pass by). However she is a member of the Emperor's faithful, and you are unsure of how she could be made to see the light of the tyranny of Empire and the need for its destruction, but you know it can be done, it must be done, your friend, your one true friend, will follow you into revolution. If not chosen you will have been ambushed on your way back to the ship after the rescue and she will have been captured by the no doubt chaos aligned forces on that world
    -[X] Obtez: Full name Omnissiah-Bless-These-Unworthy-Electrons-In-My-Soul Zelor, they are the latest in a long line of devoted electro priests in the local Mechanicus, covered in electro tattoos and augmentations they are highly skilled at what they do, but the pressure to live up to the name and the family line got to them a long time ago. Considered somewhat of a renegade (though mainly a "rebellious youth") Obtez began using an abbreviated form of their name and dressing in more colours then just red, with scandalous blue tinted cuffs at the end of their robe. Though no punishment has been met out due to their family standing in the machine cult, and the excellence of their work on the generators they are most unpopular in the mechanicus, especially among the higher ups. You met Obtez before they switched the name around, and were privy to the frustrations they have and the excellence of their work. They would not be too difficult to turn you think, but then again it may be that this kind of "teenage rebellion" does not lend itself in the end to actual revolution. If not chosen they will still be the same, but you will never have met, and their personal rebellion will be much more subtle
    [X]Plan: Be the better Magos*.
    -[X]: It/Them
    [X] Hero of the People
    [X] Hero of the People
    -[X] Neberiox Jagganeth
    -[X] He/Them
    -[X] Anger
    —[X] Disgust at the casual disregard for life that Empire shows, leaving countless millions to starve for no purpose but cruelty and keeping them in line, the Mechanicus could have spared the resources easily, it chose not to. When you were told to sign off on the order it was the final straw.
    -[X]: Hope
    —[X] For a future world not chained to the monstrosities of Empire, one where no one has to die and no one must suffer, whether it be from war, poverty, or cruelty. It may just be a vision of a vision, but you believe it can come true
    -[X] Paranoid
    -[X] Daring
    -[X] Conciliatory
    -[X] Friends in Low Places
    -[X] The Means are the Ends
    -[X] Daylon Antenarra
    -[X] Sabraya Elitiel
    -[X] Trantellion Jerant
    [X] Plan: Light Hope
    -[X]: Lux
    -[X]: He/Her
    -[X]: Motivation- Rage is a given, for you have seen the misery and said No More, but a secondary may hold power as well, and no motivation is as simple as a single word. Why have you decided on this course? What opened your eyes to the truth?
    -[X] Anger
    --[X] Hate for the cruelty that Empire shows to its people, executing countless millions, and doing far worse to many more simply because they do not fit within the bounds of humanity that is considered acceptable, a bound that you yourself would be excluded from if the Mechanicus was not as powerful as it is.
    -[X]: Desire
    --[X] For a galaxy where none have to suffer, where none have to pointlessly die, a galaxy that Empire will fight with everything it has to prevent from arising, a galaxy so close you can almost taste it
    -[X] Faithful of the Machine God: The Empire is vile, you see that now, as is the Mechanicus, their servants in all but name, but surely the Machine God itself has no part in this! It must be captured by the vile Emperor and the traitors on Mars! Your faith in the mechanicus religion has not been hampered by the revelations you have found, far from it, you are truly devout towards your deity and its laws, even as you plot revolution against its servants. (Without this pick your faith will be shaken but not yet completely destroyed)
    -[X] Theorist: You are a theorist par excellence, and the tomes of lore you could write on the evil of Empire, what must be done, and what the new world should look like are countless. You are however, a bit of an academic, and aside from the usual communication issues of a member of the Mechanicus trying to communicate with someone you are completely socially inept when it comes to talking and not writing
    -[X] Socialite: You are an excellent converser, able to speechify with the best of them and a wonderful conversationalist even despite your decades in the mechanicus which would normally hamper you. Unfortunately this eloquence does not lend itself to the pen, in which you find yourself completely unable to write anything more thrilling than your administrative reports, which are considered especially dry even for their subject
    -[X] Daylon Antenarra: A strange sort, this one is a mechanicus member, but altogether too interested in mysteries of a biological nature if you were to ask your superiors. Fascinated by biological enhancements as opposed to the more standard cybernetic ones they are faithful to the mechanicus, but chafe under their rules somewhat, harboring a secret fascination for Xenobiology and a deeply hidden interest in mutations. You met them early in your career when you both were initiates and commiserated over your shared loathing for another initiate. The two of you became, if not fast friends, good acquaintances and have kept in touch since, as his frustration with the structure grows. If not chosen you simply will not have met, and they will be in a completely different area and a lower rank, and much more bitter
    -[X] Sabraya Elitiel: A member of the Adeptus Sororitas is an unusual companion for a Mechanicus member to have, more so for one planning revolution, but nevertheless you know each other well. You met Sabraya before you gained your current post, on a mission to find some archeotech that you were a minor member of. Separated from your group you found her close to death beset upon by strange, if human, foes, rescuing her you learned she was a member of the Order Pronatus, charged with the securing and protection of holy relics. The two of you hit it off and she became one of the few you would genuinely call a friend, and stationed on a nearby moon to boot, guarding the artifact she found on the planet where you met, an odd relic that unsettles you when in its presence (and her you suspect, though less and less as the years pass by). However she is a member of the Emperor's faithful, and you are unsure of how she could be made to see the light of the tyranny of Empire and the need for its destruction, but you know it can be done, it must be done, your friend, your one true friend, will follow you into revolution. If not chosen you will have been ambushed on your way back to the ship after the rescue and she will have been captured by the no doubt chaos aligned forces on that world
    -[X] Obtez: Full name Omnissiah-Bless-These-Unworthy-Electrons-In-My-Soul Zelor, they are the latest in a long line of devoted electro priests in the local Mechanicus, covered in electro tattoos and augmentations they are highly skilled at what they do, but the pressure to live up to the name and the family line got to them a long time ago. Considered somewhat of a renegade (though mainly a "rebellious youth") Obtez began using an abbreviated form of their name and dressing in more colours then just red, with scandalous blue tinted cuffs at the end of their robe. Though no punishment has been met out due to their family standing in the machine cult, and the excellence of their work on the generators they are most unpopular in the mechanicus, especially among the higher ups. You met Obtez before they switched the name around, and were privy to the frustrations they have and the excellence of their work. They would not be too difficult to turn you think, but then again it may be that this kind of "teenage rebellion" does not lend itself in the end to actual revolution. If not chosen they will still be the same, but you will never have met, and their personal rebellion will be much more subtle
    [X] To be a light in the dark
    -[X]: Heapheastus 203-18E
    -[X]: Pronouns: I/We
    -[X] Anger
    --[X] Rage at the sheer idiocy of it all, the countless dead in pointless wars, the production demands that lower production, the killings for no purpose, the endless graft that slowly bleeds the people dry, some high lord consigning a thousand worlds to destruction because the paperwork could not be found or because it would have taken a slight hit to their endless coffers
    -[X]: Hope
    --[X] For the people of your world, so long suffering who one day may rise up to truly become great, no mere servants to a corpse god, but truly people with their own choices to make and their own ability to make them no matter what their so called betters wish
    -[X] Arch-Heretic: The Machine god has led the Mechanicus into Empire, both serving one and becoming one itself, it is as vile as the Corpse in the Chair that it serves, and it most definitely serves it, and you repudiate it entirely. You have abandoned the Mechanicus faith with a burning fury, this may cause trouble considering you are a member of it on a planet led and populated by its members, but it does mean you will not consider it's rules one bit (Without this pick your faith will be shaken but not yet completely destroyed)
    -[X] Determined: You know the truth, you know what must be done. Others may have their own ideas, but they are revisionists and reactionaries, your enemy just as much as the Empire you fight! You will be entirely unwilling to consider alliances that go against any of your values or plans and will split from what others might consider your fellow revolutionaries at the slightest hint of a break from true revolution. On the one hand this makes it much harder to find allies, as well as friends, but on the other those who do join you will be truly devoted to the revolution, and you will not be tempted by compromising alliances
    -[X] Theorist: You are a theorist par excellence, and the tomes of lore you could write on the evil of Empire, what must be done, and what the new world should look like are countless. You are however, a bit of an academic, and aside from the usual communication issues of a member of the Mechanicus trying to communicate with someone you are completely socially inept when it comes to talking and not writing
    -[X] Friends in High Places: Though you are only at middling rank within the Mechanicus during your early years you became good friends with a few other initiates who would go on to take to rank much better than you. Though none stayed on world, you have a number of contacts and friends within the higher echelons of the Mechanicus within the sector and its neighbors. Your friendliness with your boss's boss's lieutenants however has not endeared you towards your fellow members here on the planet, and you have very few friends among the Mechanicus on world at any level
    -[X] The Means are the Ends: Empire sacrifices so many for its goals, millions dead for a few more squeezed out of the forges, trillions killed to mildly improve the position of some high lord. You must be different. Innocent lives must not be hurt, must not be traded for victory or what was the point of it all? You must be, will be, better than them, not just in the end goal, but in how you get there. If a million must die for freedom then that is a million too many, you will have no more blood on your hands
    -[X] Daylon Antenarra: A strange sort, this one is a mechanicus member, but altogether too interested in mysteries of a biological nature if you were to ask your superiors. Fascinated by biological enhancements as opposed to the more standard cybernetic ones they are faithful to the mechanicus, but chafe under their rules somewhat, harboring a secret fascination for Xenobiology and a deeply hidden interest in mutations. You met them early in your career when you both were initiates and commiserated over your shared loathing for another initiate. The two of you became, if not fast friends, good acquaintances and have kept in touch since, as his frustration with the structure grows. If not chosen you simply will not have met, and they will be in a completely different area and a lower rank, and much more bitter
    -[X] Sabraya Elitiel: A member of the Adeptus Sororitas is an unusual companion for a Mechanicus member to have, more so for one planning revolution, but nevertheless you know each other well. You met Sabraya before you gained your current post, on a mission to find some archeotech that you were a minor member of. Separated from your group you found her close to death beset upon by strange, if human, foes, rescuing her you learned she was a member of the Order Pronatus, charged with the securing and protection of holy relics. The two of you hit it off and she became one of the few you would genuinely call a friend, and stationed on a nearby moon to boot, guarding the artifact she found on the planet where you met, an odd relic that unsettles you when in its presence (and her you suspect, though less and less as the years pass by). However she is a member of the Emperor's faithful, and you are unsure of how she could be made to see the light of the tyranny of Empire and the need for its destruction, but you know it can be done, it must be done, your friend, your one true friend, will follow you into revolution. If not chosen you will have been ambushed on your way back to the ship after the rescue and she will have been captured by the no doubt chaos aligned forces on that world
    -[X] Trantellion Jerant
    [X]: Anger
    • [X] Disgust at the casual disregard for life that Empire shows.
    [X] Paranoid
    [X] Faithful of the Machine God
    [X] The Means are the Ends
    [X] Sabraya Elitiel
    [X] Trantellion Jerant
    [X] Bortram 7-4
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Since I'm gonna be back in treatment in like 20 minutes I'm closing the vote now
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Lord Necromancer said:
[X] To be a light in the dark
-[X]: Heapheastus 203-18E
-[X]: Pronouns: I/We
-[X]: Anger
--[X] Rage at the sheer idiocy of it all, the countless dead in pointless wars, the production demands that lower production, the killings for no purpose, the endless graft that slowly bleeds the people dry, some high lord consigning a thousand worlds to destruction because the paperwork could not be found or because it would have taken a slight hit to their endless coffers
-[X]: Hope
--[X] For the people of your world, so long suffering who one day may rise up to truly become great, no mere servants to a corpse god, but truly people with their own choices to make and their own ability to make them no matter what their so called betters wish
-[X] Arch-Heretic: The Machine god has led the Mechanicus into Empire, both serving one and becoming one itself, it is as vile as the Corpse in the Chair that it serves, and it most definitely serves it, and you repudiate it entirely. You have abandoned the Mechanicus faith with a burning fury, this may cause trouble considering you are a member of it on a planet led and populated by its members, but it does mean you will not consider it's rules one bit (Without this pick your faith will be shaken but not yet completely destroyed)
-[X] Determined: You know the truth, you know what must be done. Others may have their own ideas, but they are revisionists and reactionaries, your enemy just as much as the Empire you fight! You will be entirely unwilling to consider alliances that go against any of your values or plans and will split from what others might consider your fellow revolutionaries at the slightest hint of a break from true revolution. On the one hand this makes it much harder to find allies, as well as friends, but on the other those who do join you will be truly devoted to the revolution, and you will not be tempted by compromising alliances
-[X] Theorist: You are a theorist par excellence, and the tomes of lore you could write on the evil of Empire, what must be done, and what the new world should look like are countless. You are however, a bit of an academic, and aside from the usual communication issues of a member of the Mechanicus trying to communicate with someone you are completely socially inept when it comes to talking and not writing
-[X] Friends in High Places: Though you are only at middling rank within the Mechanicus during your early years you became good friends with a few other initiates who would go on to take to rank much better than you. Though none stayed on world, you have a number of contacts and friends within the higher echelons of the Mechanicus within the sector and its neighbors. Your friendliness with your boss's boss's lieutenants however has not endeared you towards your fellow members here on the planet, and you have very few friends among the Mechanicus on world at any level
-[X] The Means are the Ends: Empire sacrifices so many for its goals, millions dead for a few more squeezed out of the forges, trillions killed to mildly improve the position of some high lord. You must be different. Innocent lives must not be hurt, must not be traded for victory or what was the point of it all? You must be, will be, better than them, not just in the end goal, but in how you get there. If a million must die for freedom then that is a million too many, you will have no more blood on your hands
-[X] Daylon Antenarra: A strange sort, this one is a mechanicus member, but altogether too interested in mysteries of a biological nature if you were to ask your superiors. Fascinated by biological enhancements as opposed to the more standard cybernetic ones they are faithful to the mechanicus, but chafe under their rules somewhat, harboring a secret fascination for Xenobiology and a deeply hidden interest in mutations. You met them early in your career when you both were initiates and commiserated over your shared loathing for another initiate. The two of you became, if not fast friends, good acquaintances and have kept in touch since, as his frustration with the structure grows. If not chosen you simply will not have met, and they will be in a completely different area and a lower rank, and much more bitter
-[X] Sabraya Elitiel: A member of the Adeptus Sororitas is an unusual companion for a Mechanicus member to have, more so for one planning revolution, but nevertheless you know each other well. You met Sabraya before you gained your current post, on a mission to find some archeotech that you were a minor member of. Separated from your group you found her close to death beset upon by strange, if human, foes, rescuing her you learned she was a member of the Order Pronatus, charged with the securing and protection of holy relics. The two of you hit it off and she became one of the few you would genuinely call a friend, and stationed on a nearby moon to boot, guarding the artifact she found on the planet where you met, an odd relic that unsettles you when in its presence (and her you suspect, though less and less as the years pass by). However she is a member of the Emperor's faithful, and you are unsure of how she could be made to see the light of the tyranny of Empire and the need for its destruction, but you know it can be done, it must be done, your friend, your one true friend, will follow you into revolution. If not chosen you will have been ambushed on your way back to the ship after the rescue and she will have been captured by the no doubt chaos aligned forces on that world
-[X] Trantellion Jerant
It is uncommon for a Mechanicus member, or indeed any Imperial of high standing, to know a civilian, much less be friendly with one, but Trantellion is an odd sort, as are you. By all accounts an excellent worker you stumbled upon a sort of fraud he was committing, by rotating in members from other shifts he was able to meet quota (if only barely) while allowing the factory members to work only 19 hours a day instead of 20. You were sent to do an inspection and quickly found his scheme. The two of you became rather closer acquaintances then you would expect between a "tyrannical oppressor" and a "rebellious saboteur" though not anything even nearly approaching friends, and you were able to get him a less strict punishment then might otherwise be used. He was reshuffled to a more minor factory in a worse off area instead of executed and his co-conspirators were falsely deemed innocent of the scheme, only suffering the standard punishments for sub-standard work instead of execution for sabotage. It is unlikely he thinks of you with anything approaching fondness, but you do know where he has been reassigned to, and he is likely to have contacts you do not.
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Wait, the questmaster seriously has the avatar of Ashley/Ley from "the coffin of Andy and Leyley"? Cool^^
Even if that game seems too edgy/cannibalistic/extreme to me. I know that it does not take itself too seriously, but if it possibly also has Cersei/Jaime elements... I am out. Cool concept, but I'm out. Is it of Japanese production, btw?

Thread tax: So our contacts are Daylon the secret xenobiologist, Sabraya the Nun (which given that the MC is an arch-heretic is a difficult, but cool pick) and Trantellion the Working Class Supporter. I like this part of the option, and the rest too^^
 
Trantellion is a cool dude, I hope we can bring him to the cause first.
 
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    • "I hope you can visit soon you know, it gets awfully lonely on this rock with just me and the artifact"

    "Of course, I will try to when I have the time, the work over here is just, what's the word, 01110000 01101001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 piling, that's the word, just piling up everywhere, I-I'm sure you know how it is" Sabraya may be the only true friend you have, but what's hurtling through your mind right now is not fondness but fear, she is a holy member of the church of Empire, you will show her the truth one day, but you fear an attempt now would backfire quite poorly

    "Oh don't I just, you wouldn't believe the paperwork they used to put on me before I got here"

    You give a stilted, forced laugh. In truth you finished any work you had ages ago, but you need an excuse not to visit. You say your goodbyes and hang up abruptly. You know the truth, you know you know the Truth, but how can others come to see it? Who can you bring with you? You've never been the best at in person discussion, and you fear it is not yet a safe situation to begin writing. But who could you bring along? You think back on those you know, Daylon perhaps, but he may need to be brought in more slowly, such a rapid turn may be too much for him. Your friends on other worlds perhaps? But they are high in status and have no reason to turn. It is then when it strikes you, there was a foreman was there not? One with a rebellious spirit and who you have some past connection with. Your memory banks supply the name immediately, Trantellion. You relocated him and you know where his new position is, perhaps he is up to some similar scheme? Regardless you decide to make a visit, perhaps he will be receptive to the Truth.

    Trantellion's new housing unit is in what might be charitably called the slums of Altare-B12 and carefully designed as such, to give the regular workers a fear of where they might end up if they do not perform exactly at expectations. The housing unit in particular is especially run down, as funding has been withheld from the district until they have a drastically lower percentage of suspected anti Imperials (suspects that are sent to the district when they act up but not enough to be executed). It is this building where long ago you sent Trantellion to molder and stew. You'r pretty sure he will be happy to see you, you saved his life after all and the statistics you ran show that that usually leaves a positive impression on an individual. But, yes you will need a strategy for this. Your analysis gave a 35% chance he was engaging in rebellious activities, a statistically significant percentage, but it is very unluckily he would be willing to divulge them to one of your station.

    How will you initiate the topic?

    [X] Directly
    You will explain to him what you have realized and that you wish to aid in the enterprises he is assuredly running, this should prevent any misunderstanding!
    [X] Subtly
    You will indicate to the idea that you maybe might potentially be possibly willing to aid in the struggle, naturally he will understand!
    [X] Just catch up
    Of course he'll be happy to see you, you saved his life! Meet up with him and let the topic arise naturally, which it obviously will!


    Sorry for how long it's been and the shortness of the update, life has been happening more then usual but I finally have free time again!
     
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