Into that Vast and Unrelenting Darkness (40K Xeno Civilization Quest)

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[X] SaucerTek: Study of Destroyer Technology had led to a variety of advances in gravitics manipulation and energy generation, allowing for the development of Beam Guns, Jetpacks, Saucerships, tractorbeams. During the war, this technology had only been able to be fielded in limited amounts: deployed with extreme care because of its cost. Now, however, a number of these advancements were finally becoming available for common use: the sight of flying saucers in the sky a regular occurance all throughout your planets various metropoles.
Aesthetics: Rayguns, flying saucers, jetpacks, and tractor beams to abduct cattle. Think classic pop culture aliens of the 50's and their homages, from Mars Attacks to Destroy All Humans. Smooth, windowless metal, minimal detail. Disc shaped craft with no obvious windows. Thick, rubbery enviro-suits, typically with fishbowl helmets. And everywhere and anywhere, unnecessary fins. Analog consoles and computers covered in diodes and switches.

[X] The Sevenfold Ministry: The Ministry began life as a God-Machine cult, viewing them as holy guardians. Over time, it expanded and evolved into becoming the central governing body of the world, becoming a strange mix of bureaucracy and religion guided both by faith and statistics. Compulsory education, data based policy, and veneration of the machine spirits would become the backbone of this body politic, divided into seven individual ministries, each with their own particular theology and purpose, from the Ministry of Bread which handles the growth of food and feeding of the flock to the Ministry of Steel which trains warrior-monks tasked with protecting the innocent or the Ministry of Scrolls from which teachers and educators graduate.
Social Aesthetic: A lean into the religious aspects, but instead of taking from Space Catholicism and Dune-esque Mystery Cults, you take more from ancient Persia or China, blending theological doctrine with bureaucratic statistics and scholarly pursuit, faith backed not by blind zealotry but through rigorous study of the world and its systems.

[X] TekKnight: During the war, the Destroyers had deployed a handful of automata, none so dreaded as the Annihilator Engines, gigantic war-machines piloted by crippled Destroyers, capable of smashing through even the heaviest fortifications with ease. Your own TekKnights were deeply experimental, but they should serve as a decent countermeasure.
 
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[X] BlokTek
[X] The Directorate
[X] ShieldTek

I've been convinced of ShieldTek over Bionics, so our dudes have more if a chance to change stuff on the fly without getting got.
 
[X] SaucerTek
[X] The Directorate
[X] The Sevenfold Ministry
[X] ShieldTek
 
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[X] BlokTek
[X] The Freespace Accordiate
[X] TekKnight

Really solid options all around, makes it difficult to choose! Love me some spirituality in space, but finally I have decided to go with the Freespace Accordiate, because it's a kind of society that's interesting to see in sci-fi settings, and it would serve as a welcome counterpoint to all the authoritarianism and centralization of power that seems to predominate on the spacefaring civilizations of 40K.

Plus, if you throw some mechs into the mix, the Accordiate starts to give Union from Lancer vibes.
 
[X] BlokTek
[X] The Freespace Accordiate
[X] ShieldTek

After some more thinking, I like Accordiate more.
 
[X] The Sevenfold Ministry
[X] TekKnight
 
[X] BlokTek
[X] The Directorate

Changing my vote to BlokTek. You guys are right, it does sound pretty interesting. Although something described as "Rocket Raccoon" still appeals, so I wouldn't be upset if BoomTek still won.
 
Frankly all the Tech aesthetics are pretty neat and cover something not really seen in Warhammer, granted i personally would prefer less cartoony implications with the BlokTek, but i could just be misreading and it is instead a lot more intimidating looking...with all that color and such.

Anyway i was curious, how do the TEKKET look, so far i've been imagining small ferret people, is that correct.
 
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more seriously its rare to see the salamanders for this kind of thing its usually one of the usual suspects (emperors children, space wolves, iron hands or god forbid the night lords_
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I think it hits a little harder to see a chapter (or at least a successor therof) most of the fans consider to be generally heroic good guys doing standard Imperial things that the Imperium does instead of the usual suspects who do Imperial things.

Helps get across the whole "imperium bad" thing I have in the tags and makes it exceptionally clear how future interactions with them are going to go.

Anyways, vote locked, looks like Blok, Shields, and Directorate wins.
 
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