Let the fires of industry BURN! a WH40K manufactorum administrator quest

How to use perk point

  • 1) Use that spare perk point on your Planet generation

    Votes: 12 85.7%
  • 2) Use that point to pick a new perk from the perk list

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 3) Use the point to evolve one of your current perks (Pos. or Neg.)

    Votes: 2 14.3%

  • Total voters
    14
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As for your roll @avatar11792 you get a Full STC for Utility Exoskeletons
That is actually a fantastic discovery! Utility exoskeletons for human scale builds can easily provide a number of logistical improvements in construction industry mining, and that's just off the top of my head. Literally any human occupation that requires lifting and moving weights heavier than a human being for anything resembling long distances would benefit from such a device as this, this would literally revolutionize everything in an advanced industrial economy, if we provided the funds to make these suits available on a mass produce scale. Obviously in 40K that might be a bit hard, but it sounds like it would be well worth the throne expenditure, considering how much of an economic Force multiplier it would be.

Edit: would the EXO suits also allow uses such as in the movie elysium? Because then a form of armored exosuit done like that would be a pretty decent upgrade for non power armored soldiers. Might make an excellent utility package to sell to Imperial Guard plant recruitment planets or regiments, perhaps even wealthier planetary Defense forces on wealthy industrialized worlds.

Also, I'm not sure if this is even a thing in 40k, but would it be possible to essentially rent out a license for other worlds to manufacture our product, like they do nowadays? Or is that just not done in 40K because everything is weird space feudalism? I don't really know how that works.
 
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No, termi armor was for reactor maintenance. You have something between the big exosuit in Aliens and Spartan Armor
I realize the threads moving rather quickly, so I do want to restate my question. Is it similar to the exosuits in the movie elysium, where they're kind of bolted on to the body and weapons and other systems can be integrated into them. Because then there could be a viability for maybe a combat exosuit if we wanted to retrofit them with weapons. I thought it might make a good upgrade package to sell to Imperial Guard regiments or recruitment planets, or even wealthier planetary defense forces on wealthier industrialized worlds.
 
I realize the threads moving rather quickly, so I do want to restate my question. Is it similar to the exosuits in the movie elysium, where they're kind of bolted on to the body and weapons and other systems can be integrated into them. Because then there could be a viability for maybe a combat exosuit if we wanted to retrofit them with weapons. I thought it might make a good upgrade package to sell to Imperial Guard regiments or recruitment planets, or even wealthier planetary defense forces on wealthier industrialized worlds.
I'm going to say it's closer to the mech suits in the Matrix (but les jank walking) where they can be given guns but they have no inbuilt weapons
 
I'm going to say it's closer to the mech suits in the Matrix (but les jank walking) where they can be given guns but they have no inbuilt weapons

View: https://youtu.be/YPMk-EEyOpE

Okay, guess I'll get started on my Ellen Ripley omake character, lol.

In the alien versus predator video games, they had a weaponized version of this utility mech Walker from the aliens movie, which had some amazing weapons on it and was so much fun to just obliterate everything in front of you with! Some picturing more this mech instead of the mech from The matrix revolutions movie, mainly out of aesthetic preference lol.
 
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Well damm with this Utility Exoskeletons STC we can do a bit of *cough heretek*cough i mean Insight from the Omnissiah and make a new armor for our guards and later every guard, and now that i think we can have a surprising lot of Insight from our glorious Machine Lord without being afraid of been accused of Heterek, man it must be because of this that the dark mechanicus are here they are coping that just because they try creating new tech they are branded traitor but now we can do it and the wider mechanicus give us a pat in the shoulder for it
 
Well damm with this Utility Exoskeletons STC we can do a bit of *cough heretek*cough i mean Insight from the Omnissiah and make a new armor for our guards and later every guard, and now that i think we can have a surprising lot of Insight from our glorious Machine Lord without being afraid of been accused of Heterek, man it must be because of this that the dark mechanicus are here they are coping that just because they try creating new tech they are branded traitor but now we can do it and the wider mechanicus give us a pat in the shoulder for it
Granted, apparently since sometime in the near future we will be declared a Mechanicus saint according to GM dice rolls, what you're saying is not completely implausible.

Honestly there should be a schism in the Dark Mechanicum probably supporting us, because we are everything that they wanted the Mechanicum to be before it became a religious indoctrinated hyper conservative Group that took over all the main infrastructure and they all the true innovators were forced to leave and we're literally driven into the eye of terror and they've just been sitting around on their butts for 10,000 years doing nothing interesting cuz they don't have anything to work with aside from demon butt flesh.

So theoretically there should be groups in the Mechanicum that outright want to support us because if we could work with the Mechanicus from the inside and change them into something more like the mechanical men like a long-term subversion kind of way, that would get the mechanic of what they wanted. It doesn't get rid of the fact they're still a group stuck in the eye of terror political exiles, but I think they would appreciate the idea of a more liberal progressive movement toward technological advancement.
 
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I'm going to say it's closer to the mech suits in the Matrix (but les jank walking) where they can be given guns but they have no inbuilt weapons

View: https://youtu.be/YPMk-EEyOpE

Okay, guess I'll get started on my Ellen Ripley omake character, lol.

In the alien versus predator video games, they had a weaponized version of this utility mech Walker from the aliens movie, which had some amazing weapons on it and was so much fun to just obliterate everything in front of you with! Some picturing more this mech instead of the mech from The matrix revolutions movie, mainly out of aesthetic preference lol.

Well damm with this Utility Exoskeletons STC we can do a bit of *cough heretek*cough i mean Insight from the Omnissiah and make a new armor for our guards and later every guard, and now that i think we can have a surprising lot of Insight from our glorious Machine Lord without being afraid of been accused of Heterek, man it must be because of this that the dark mechanicus are here they are coping that just because they try creating new tech they are branded traitor but now we can do it and the wider mechanicus give us a pat in the shoulder for it
So...like a better version of Avatars AMP Suits?

That would be nice to have. Just need to up armour it, give it guns and give it an armored cockpit with a mixture of cameras and transparent metal for viewing outside.
 
For construction? That actually sounds useful compared to our other STCs.

Utility means wide and multiporpuse,usually in day to day civilian stuff

A pocket knife is a utility tool for example
Cut apples,ropes,clothes,do emergency surgery,open stuff etc

Utility power armor means we have power armor that is cheap yet good enough to be used from carrying stuff on cargos to building industry

Emergency responders (fire figther now can lift a burning building for example)

@Lord Necromancer

The imperium is highly fractured with factions with opposite motivations and great deañ of corruption
As we cause major change and ripples on the imperium,will we roll on "stability" over the chances of civil war?
 
The Thirteen Acts
The Thirteen Acts

The first act was the corruption of the veil, so that they God could go away.

The second act was the search for a new place, for they would need news warrens for all of their kin.

The third act was the consolidation of will, for they were traitorous even to their kings.

The fourth act was the gathering of wealth, for they would need it and it was a better deterrent of blades.

The fifth act was the building of the path, for the way was treacherous even at the best of times.

The sixth act was the fall of the land, for defeats and shame were not to be left to die.

The seventh act was the rebuilding of the well, for the seers would need clearer waters to sway.

The eight act was on the side of their God, for the trash and residue in then pile was greater than he thought.

The ninth act was also by Him, for he dropped the choicest recipes where they would be the best.

The tenth act was the by most the best, for the way was cleared of debris, the path was built without fear and He welcome them with darkness and chill.

The eleventh act was the most mundane, for the kin needed a place to work, sleep and eat.

The twelfth act was a most joyous day, for the sacrifices were slayed: A massive beast, a terrible plague, an ingenious artifact, a silent fiend, but this were just the start because the rest just would stand by, a great number of souls both man and not in chains marching to sacred doom, the plans for a vessel to navigate in the void, a hill of a stone so precious and wrong, two champions of war though different in face for one belonged at the front an the other throughout the earth, a million of kin pushed to the from and the grey form of a wizard wishing for the end.

For this act was to be for their God and he gifted a most sacred whore, who instead of Kin poured forth Sacred Stone

With all this complete and the plans hashed out, they all moved to begin the final and thirteen act.

But something was wrong with the glorious plan for a man from the skies had come to the dark and pillaged the knowledge that was clan by right.

And so, they moved to change, the armies and slaves, for the might of the skaven shall not be denied and they will crush this interloper under a Vermintide.

Author note: this is my attempt to explain this story, basically the Horned rat saw that the other chaos boys were not paying that much attention the real anymore and went to ruin the fun by finding the 40K universe and bringing his boys to cause more chaos and gifted them a modified breeder that instead of more skaven gave warpstone, only this time in his name, and left then under our hive city with all the STCs that he could find in a short period of time for them to discover, and then we show up to take them, they did not like that.

Author note 2: the 12 clans mentioned were Skryre (engineers obsessed with lighting), Pestilens (chemists that like war crimes), Moulder (biologists that admire Frankenstein), Eshin (assassins/mercenary's), Gritus (slave masters), Krizzor (beast masters), Skurvy (marines and ship builders now void marines and spaceship builders), Grutnif (alchemists that [at least in my version] can make warpstone better and stronger), Skab (frontline warrior clan), Gangrous (tunnel warrior clan), Mors (mostly brought there by the others for population) and finally Vechiare (a clan mostly made out of grey seers).
 
You will now. Thanks for the suggestion

Thanks

I would reccomend the DC for civil war being equivalent to

1) how game changing is our discovery (minor indistry upgrades,means little chance of rocking the boat,inmortality means shiton of local governor going rebel)
2) how fast and wide is spread (if it stays in a single sector it bothers no one,if is soread across the galaxy,it means every life will be changed)

if the civil war passes,then roll how bad is it in galactic stage

1 being "minor assasinations between high ranking figures,but everything else buisness as usual"

100 being "welcome to balkanization space edition,everyone and their grandma has secceded,not even the horus heresy got this bad"

Then roll a final one on how bad is at our secgor scale

1 being our sector keeps unified with some minor seccesionists

100 being every planet fucking implodes
 
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its gonna take a very long time before any of the effects of the STC are made on the Imperium as new things are spread very slow, the only place the effects are gonna be felt now is where we sell them
 
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I would reccomend the DC for civil war being equivalent to

1) how game changing is our discovery (minor indistry upgrades,means little chance of rocking the boat,inmortality means shiton of local governor going rebel)
2) how fast and wide is spread (if it stays in a single sector it bothers no one,if is soread across the galaxy,it means every life will be changed)

if the civil war passes,then roll how bad is it in galactic stage

1 being "minor assasinations between high ranking figures,but everything else buisness as usual"

100 being "welcome to balkanization space edition,everyone and their grandma has secceded,not even the horus heresy got this bad"

Then roll a final one on how bad is at our secgor scale

1 being our sector keeps unified with some minor seccesionists

100 being every planet fucking implodes
There really should be a limit dude, most world's populations are loyal as a whole with the nobility being less so, but a lot of them are still religious so that can help.

With how long this will take to spread with the Mechanicus and us being the main source (and you know, loyal) things are unlikely to go that out of control for a LONG time. Like centuries at least if not thousands of years. Especially with the fact the Inquisition and Astartes Will the smacking done those who get too upity.

Although if we get the FTL comms and the Warp travel STCs I expect a lot will stabilize since that would help bind the areas together.
 
There really should be a limit dude, most world's populations are loyal as a whole with the nobility being less so, but a lot of them are still religious so that can help.

*shrug* i would welcome some difficulty rather than a walk in the park as its been up to now

With rolls for stcs being given for short omakes,is pretty much given we will snowball hard

And i never seen any civil war on any 40k quest so i suggested it
 
Now we only need the Orks to be here and make ''da biggest and bettest WAAAAGH!!'' here in this sector because they will encounter a very difficult planet to conquer and they will love it, seeing as the hummies have big and betta dakka than before
 
its gonna take a very long time before any of the effects of the STC are made on the Imperium as new things are spread very slow, the only place the effects are gonna be felt now is where we sell them

And i never seen any civil war on any 40k quest so i suggested it

Given the Administratum can take centuries to respond to something, I would give it 400-600 Turns before it becomes a problem. It is likely that any issues are going to be planetary for a long time since we don't even have the production to suit up planets.

At the beginning of the Quest, we had 150 PDF soldiers (Which somehow translated to 5 units, I think). Which technically means we have 600 regular soldiers and 330 Skitarii if they have the same number per unit. The number of which is absolutely nothing given the population of any Hive Worlds. It would likely take over a thousand for the Admechs to gear the entire Imperium with our Power Armor and Impailers alone. And that is when they are not distracted by other stuff internal and external.

The Imperial Guard has trillions of men and women dying all over the place. Many factories would need to be built, tech-priests and skilled workers trained, and setting up logistical networks to support such development of revolutionary weaponry. This will be expensive and take a long time to build. This is an unrealistically optimistic opinion without any major threats trying to mess with the Imperium, which happens all the time and in growing numbers.

So an outright civil war is extremely unlikely given communication and travel problems, corruption, various xeno and chaos threats, and the Imperium itself. An outright civil war through the galaxy would only happen if the Imperium was more unified, and that is extremely unlikely to happen for a long time. The Imperium seems like it has over forty thousand problems to take care of at the same time. We would be lucky to solve even a few hundred in our new sector. I doubt we will solve even one until we are off this hive.
 
(and you know, loyal)
Unless you want to go independent in the future

Although if we get the FTL comms and the Warp travel STCs I expect a lot will stabilize since that would help bind the areas together.
No, this will absolutely nuke a wide variety of current relationships, since the puritans in the imperium will without a doubt start killing off the Navigators as soon as they hear that they're no longer "nessecery", which will shatter FTL transit as every navigator will flee the imperium. And it will get even worse because so many places will both be cut off because setting up the Gateway network takes a lot of time, and so many planets nobility are shorting the Administration so much that the ability for better book keeping will see them executed, which means they will rebel instead
 
There is also the issue of imperial culture being rather authoritarian

A more centralized imperium means a lot of cultures and planets on a tighter leash

The planet kill anthology has a short story about what happens to planet when it stops being useful

Its natiral resources depleted,its ecosystem destroyed

The plsnet is declared to have paid its debts and tithes,so the imperium declares it no longer has to protect it and leaves it

Big chancw you will a see a big amount of planets on a stronger chole for tithes

Overall the imperium hates itself just as much it hates other races,kept united out of a delicate political balance and mutual necesity

One small change and someone is gonna get purged,and the purged group will drag as many people as possible with them

Civil war in the imperium os constant,so is more of a question of when and how big

Personally i wouldnt go independent,but rather keep the claim to being sucessor state to the imperium and declaring those that oppose reforms.to be the traitors
 
The Imperium of Man is a fundamentally fragile entity, for all it's planet-shattering firepower and such. It's a decentralized bastardized "feudalism in space vibe, with elements of fascism and totalitarianism squeezed in whenever possible to emphasize a fanatical conforming to unity, order, and conformity. There are power blocs large and small that has carved out their political niches in this corrupt rotting ecosystem, and they will fight and kill to maintain their dominance.

The second a new technology comes along, that entire system comes into question. While Utility Exosuits may be damn useful as a massive industrial and economic modifier, if such an STC threatened to spread past say a single subsector, power groups diverse and NASTY would be out to stomp it out. Such a simple thing as a force multiplier for a worker implies that worker as an individual has value, when the fundamental axiom of the Imperium is that no individual matters, only the greater Imperium (unless you're a divinely appointed "divine right" ubermensch with the right "essence of the Emperor" or some other bs). So even hinting that workers have value can trigger destabilizing elements across the Imperium that the Inquisition, Ordos Hereticus, etc al are specifically there to purge with fire, stopping the spread of liberal philosophies and ideologies before they shatter the fragile Unity the Imperium has.

Ironically, even elements that would aid centralization of state power, like faster more accurate Warp FTL, would doom the Imperium just as much in a different way. As Imperial organizations began to reform to exploit technologies too value to "misplace", the very governors that enjoy their relatively lax political oversight would soon see the Administratum's grip grow into what for them would be an intolerable choke hold. The Imperium would fission as countless sectors would fight to keep the privileges of THEIR elite intact, to not be overseen by distant alien (haha 40k joke) overseers from Terra. Even the unifying elements of religion wouldn't perfectly counteract this, as religious divisions have split the Imperium before in the worst historical episodes.

So...yeah. What we've already uncovered has earned us, once word gets out, inevitable execution. Only being fully absorbed by the Mechanicus would save us due to the unique strength of the Treaty of Olympus, but then wex lose all autonomy and basically be a bird locked in a golden cage for the rest of our days.

So...yeah. Revolution is inevitable under the current regime. Fight the man, let's break out the lasguns and Impalers! Well found our own galactic empire, with STCs and non-Slaneeshi hookers!
 
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