Midas Touched (Warhammer 30k AI Quest)

[Bolo]

[X] Grachis Fal

 

[Fortebraccio]

[X] Grachis Fal

 

[MagnusTheRed]

We shall be the reformers of the future starting with this planet

 

[IronBig21]

[X] Grachis Fal

 

[Viking_Berzerker]

[X] Grachis Fal

Love a rags to riches story.

 

[countdoom]

[X] Grachis Fal

 

[NotCaligula]

Errors are underlined in order of reading:



Most not Much

ship, you not ship you

time, but not time but



sister Vereena not sister, Vereena

alive, she not alive she

attackers, she



facility's not facilities



As such, she mostly prioritized checking out the main computer cores over anything else. Overall that was likely the correct decision as there was a wealth of knowledge to be pillaged from their depths, once she had the androids bring in a portable reactor.

She really didn't understand what most of the documents were talking about, even with the highest level security clearance she had been granted

not

As such, she mostly prioritized checking out the main computer core over anything else. Overall that was likely the correct decision as there was a wealth of knowledge to be pillaged from their depths once she had the android bring in a portable reactor.
She really didn't understand what most of the documents were talking about, even with the highest level security clearance she had been granted

equipment, she not equipment she

at, but not at but



now, he not now he



However through not However, through

work, you not work you

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A single underlined error this time:



you're not you've

Edit: In Spoilers underlined errors in order of reading lurk:

Spoiler: The Life and Times of Marcus Zirco: Youth

lives, while not lives while

Earth not earth

boring, he'd not boring he'd



Earth not earth

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As ever, thanks for the corrections. These should all be fixed now.

 

[Shadowrobot6]

Why is the quest called "Midas Touched (40k Man of Gold Quest)"
If the quest takes place in 30k?

 

[Ultranumb]

[X] Grachis Fal

 

[Dmol8]

A question asked in thread that I want to give an answer to:

I guess, I'm assuming his ilk have and will become the 'nobility' of the galaxy in the current and later eras of the setting. Though I'm not sure why his attitude exists unless he is from some kind of specialized abhuman strain created for administrative duties, shouldn't anyone off the street be able to obtain the necessary education or enhancements considering how advanced DAOT society and tech is?

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It's not that simple. The DAOT is not a Utopia or even an Eutopia, but instead:

Depends on the world for the DAOT. They were very advanced but highly decentralized and were not necessarily always nice and democratic. Given his status as an appointed (by the central earth government) former governor you can probably assume that's at least part of what drives his beliefs here. Even with good access to education there's still plenty of people who will look down on others they think are below them.

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More like the wet dreams and worst nightmares of a libertarian tech bro rolled into one. This of course leads into the in-universe logic of:

Elitism is easy to understand once you have to do a group work with a lazy bum that doesnt pull their weight

So at its core is a belief that: "some people are more skilled and/or more willed/disciplined for certain tasks and that they should be allowed to use their skills without being dragged down"

Any form of respecto for specialization (aka hearing medical advice instead of trusting a random google search) is elitist in nature

The opposite of elitism is populism (the idea that the wider population opinion and feelings should drive decision making),to wich i will remind of covid 19 antivaxx

This idea that experts are better working unimpended by the population does have its merits is far more understandable once this is considered

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Everyone "properly" educated and motivated should be allowed to be "unimpeded by the population" which is how you get both 30k and 40k Nobility. With the difference being that 40k Nobility by and large doesn't believe that the world they live in could be better while 30k Nobility still has a large population of holdouts holding onto the idea of improvement being possible, including the Emperor himself.

Also before I get into the errors again:

We already salvaged the varga. I'd recommend against the dry dock, getting it up and running would let us repair ourselves without crippling us in the medium term.

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We did not in fact Harvest the Vega. But we probably will do something with it next turn.

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Spoiler: Turn 3, Results

This year has been tense, but bountiful in its harvests. While the danger of the lurking traitor remains an ever present threat, Ceriox has done extremely well with his rather basic orders to the point that you're quite sure he did not intend to follow your original orders. A worrying precedent perhaps but the results speak for themselves. The investigations seem to have nailed own the exact location and vectors of the viral infector so your work next year capturing them should be a much easier task, especially with better knowledge of what signs might construe danger on their part.

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perhaps, but not perhaps but

down not own

infector, so not infector so

Sila was getting pretty sick of Vareena IV by her second year of life on the planet. It was altogether a daily nice place if it weren't for the constant aura of unease that some of its inhabitants exuded. As such she mostly kept to the skies when she could, not making much of a presence on the ground except to occasionally scout the more abandoned locales. Overall, the planet was fairly boring. There was quite a bit of interesting flora and fauna to check out for sure, but most of it were just localized species of animals and plants that already existed on earth, the near obvious indicator that this was a terraformed planet in the past.

The people were certainly the most interesting thing about the planet, aside from the base. Despite their supposed criminal origin they seemed to have turned into something like the common medieval societies of ancient earth. They have a number of kingdoms all over the planet, with nobles and knights and the like. Pretty cool to be quite honest, if also disappointingly primitive like the last world. From what she could gather just observing their armies and societies, it seems like the anti-psykers were often warriors, but rarely lived in large settlements. Seemingly they tended to wander quite a lot, and she spent some time following a small collection of families that had a few among them, just watching them live out their little lives with her very good observation capabilities. Painful work for sure, but at least it satisfied her thirst for knowledge and provided plenty of time to practice her new techniques.

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fairly not daily

Earth not earth, twice in a row.

In little more than a few months of this year the war was over, as vast swathes of their fleets simply returned home and an obviously more powerful state loomed on the horizon. From this stage he led a propaganda blitz over the next half the year once their languages had been processed and added to your translations. First he pulled on the fears of the population that supposedly rested in horrendous raiders that seemed to have attacked this planet every few decades and guaranteed that your honorable warriors would come to their aid if ever attacked again, since you were now new to the world. Secondly he invited vast swathes of the city states middle and upper classes to visit both the undiscovered lands of the archipelago that were quickly becoming proper settlements and the Prometheus. While you weren't the most enthusiastic with being paraded on short notice, the near reverential awe you could see on the faces of these people as they observed your various capabilities and the artificial life within you was certainly enjoyable. When Ceriox eventually laid the third half of his plan down with a treaty of trade, modernization and autonomy as member cities of your burgeoning nation they fell into your grasp one by one. Even the cities of Altia and Sarto, the former leaders of the the blocs agreed to integration so long as they were given the same benefits as the other cities.

While all of your new vassals are going to enjoy significant autonomy and provide nearly no taxes for a good five years or unless you commit to mass modernization, the return on income in only a few months of trade has already been substantial. While it costed a fair amount of resources to outfit them initially, even just providing them with global positioning services and preserved food through your orbital assets has let them begin to trade vast quantities of refineable material to your settlements. With nearly a hundred million new citizens, you have quite a bit more work to do on the diplomatic front to integrate and modernize them, but it will be almost certainly worthwhile to do so. You have officially unified your first planet, and with such a milestone reached quite a lot of work in government needs to be done soon. You also have learned what the inhabitants of this planet call it: Cantara, or something similar that translates rather uncreatively to The Great Ocean in their dialects. More creative a name than Earth you suppose.

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half of the year, once not half the year once

states' not states

years, or not years or

cost not costed, it's coasted when the event takes place further back in time than the context of that sentence especially for an AI like PR-01.

refinable not refineable, I was surprised by that one too. I thought you were correct and just using an obscure form of the word, but a check turned out that the spelling was wrong.

Once again the Prometheus returned to this system's asteroid field but rather than the somewhat minimal extraction you prepared previously you gathered perhaps the greatest bounty of material you've ever extracted personally.

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field, but not field but

previously, you not previously you

Effects: Gain 24 capital for next turn. Next action that will provide materials science research stages will provide 2 stages instead of 1.

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Capital not capital

Materials Science not materials science

You should probably put that +2 on next Materials Science gain into an Informational Threadmark somewhere so you don't forget about it.

Maximilian thought the structures of his new ministry to be quite the accomplishment. Sure, the actual infrastructure was what took up most of the costs, but they were rather boring in comparison to the brilliant work he had pulled off elsewhere. While he had to work around the cumbersome system of elected fools that made the work like pulling teeth, his establishment of a wide variety of conglomerated state corporations for the most relevant sectors of the economy quite effectively made the actual work of the ministries clear as regulatory bodies while presenting an effective, scientifically managed and mostly automated base of production that they could command the heights of the economy with, without need of specific legislation's or complicated regulation.

Was it perhaps a little underhanded, yes, but if there was anything he learned as a governor it was that you couldn't very well trust the commons to control the economy or else they'd shoot themselves in the foot, either through corruption or the total misallocation of time and effort. With the primitives being hoisted on the government's dime they needed to make their structure clear, and the basis of administration effective or else they might get their grubby hands in the gears and mess everything all up. That vile eel's hires in the skeleton of the ministry were in the very least effective and knowledgeable in the field of economics and the various hard sciences, so it wasn't nearly as much of a problem as he had expected to work with them. In time he could certainly see them operating in a way that would make him proud, and the vast army of clerks, bureaucrats and archivists he hired in this time should keep the ministry grounded. A success, though the legal limits were quite a pain to balance around.

Effect: 1 free action in the stewardship category gained per turn. Economy has become dominated by vast state corporations as fledgling firms have been combined. 5 capital spent assembling the ministry and its buildings.

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Ministry not ministry, unless this is a way of showing Maximilian's bias

Ministries not ministries, again as with the previous error

legislation or legislations not legislation's, depends on if Maximilian is referring to a handful of laws, then it is legislation, or a large group of laws, then it is legislations.

dime, they not dime they

clear and not clear, and

everything up not everything all up, depends on whether you intended to write "everything all up" because I have an itch in my brain telling me that the phrase is appropriate for snobs and elitists, but I can't remember from where.

Ministry not ministry, same rules as the other errors of this type in there

at not in

Ministry not ministry, now this one I'm sure is an error because it's not inside Maximilian's head

Looking over hundreds of hours of footage and memories, the more you look at the entity that tried to infest you, the more you're sickened by its appearance. It's not as if it's able to truly sicken you, what with you being a machine, but the sheer bizarreness of its appearance simply makes its entire presence feel wrong. As if it were a corruption reality itself. You don't know if this is a normal reaction to seeing warp entities, but you definitely do not like it.

Fully dedicating yourself to the examination of your memories you note that code it constantly released, clearly as some sort of digital corruption, seemed to follow a pattern in just how constantly it was shifting. Seemingly none of the code really held on to a consistent quality of writing and clearly was not made by an intelligent mind. It should frankly not function at all, but as your encounter with the door systems showed it clearly could. Through introductory research into the typing's of known warp creatures you have assumed this creature to be of the Trickster-Schemer strain of warp entities. While you've not had enough time to properly analyze all of the data, the seeming never ending change of its form and capabilities seems to fit well with what you dispatched. More importantly it seems clear to you that these strain type warp entities seem to operate differently in a key regard from the controllers that you've learned much more of. The controllers specifically pulled on the psychic capabilities of those they infected and transformed to grow their own power and capabilities and were stopped by the automated drones used to attack them. This being however clearly was easily capable of infecting inanimate and non-psychic beings and materials. Clearly something about this strain made it different in a very dangerous and important way, but you're not sure exactly how. Perhaps it was a conceptual difference? If beings of the warp operate by function of contrasting ideas a being of change would likely be more able than most to inhabit ever changing bodies, no?

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corruption of reality itself

typings not typing's, typing in this case is a noun referring to a defined standard of a life-/thoughtform

As for physical measure, you figure out a fair amount comparing the data with some of your more anomalous sensor readings. You suspect that this entity works similarly to the described "controllers" of the research base. Being a creature of the warp it does not exist in realspace, and thus just as the controllers took over psykers, this entity took over the remains of your mind. Given the radically different medium it seems warp entities are not limited to organic life, a very important note in your mind. You're unsure if they can infect inactive or non-sapient machinery, as it is possible that you've been long infected by this creature, but only the activation of your systems inside let it reawaken as a proper entity and not a mere few lines of ruinous code. It is also possible that the virus and the entity are separate, as it is clear that in comparison to the scrap code it emitted the original virus was far superior and quite a bit more orderly. Still similar in the nonsensical origin and function you think, and likely warp based regardless.

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measures not measure

emitted, the not emitted the

The conspiracy that PR-01 uncovered was frankly chilling to Leena. She certainly knew that not every member of her flock was a devoted humanitarian or more generally a good person, but what they had done could have killed them all, and was in direct violation of the very reasoning for one might be a Realmer. Their creed was one of universalism and peace, not an excuse for corruption or murder, and the very insinuation that they were going behind the backs of their entire crew and beliefs made her extremely angry. She did not let this anger guide her however, since the information PR-01 provided was exactly what she needed to right this wrong.

Over the year she spent the better part of every week secretly checking each and every member of her congregation for connections to the disappeared terrorist and for thoughts and beliefs that might have been connected to their creed. In the end, she unfortunately found quite a number of her flock who seemed to have adopted his creed, though with the aid of some other colonists and PR-01 themself, they were able to be held in custody once they were verified to be terrorists allies or followers.

Thankfully it didn't seem as if most of them were true believers of him just yet, and most were quite easily dissuaded off of his positions but what caused both her and the AI quite a bit of a fright was the fact that seemingly a fair few of his followers seemed to have completely different understandings of his identity. Very few actually knew him as the minor priest she had known for a few years. Most had instead known a variety of men, women and aliens of different sorts who through analysis seemed to have spoke with a universally gravelly tone, the one she knew to have belonged to him. Even more alarmingly it seems the different identities were being used to proselytize different variations of the Realmer scriptures, not just the somewhat erratic but more understandable sort that he had tried to push on her. While nearly every variation of the beliefs is different, they seem to revolve around four different divine figures that are syncretized to the beliefs of a number of the flocks gods and divine spirits. Seemingly, going back as far as she can with the investigation, they may very well have joined the flock years ago, before she had even led this branch of the movement. For whatever reason, between then and now the number of divine spirits they seem to be syncretizing increased from three to four. Perhaps whatever was summoned was the new spirit?

She had to do a lot of work detaining and trying to deradicalize the various sorts he had gotten into contact with, but she was largely successful. They will be kept under surveillance in case of a repeat of the previous incident but otherwise it seemed that the terrorists beliefs had not spread too far within the Realmers, nor had it been internalized too deeply. They had caught them early, in other words.

Using this as a piece for the investigation she found even more connections that she had previously missed and with some of the AI's sensor footage she was able to track down the last known location one of their seemingly shifting forms might have gone, this year. For now she put the bet on them currently residing in the orbitals above Vareena III, likely plotting some sort of operation, though for the life of her she couldn't figure out how this disguise worked. It may have been psychic, or perhaps some unknown biological technology.

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for why one not for one

his not their, as Leena is still thinking of the Changeling as being the guise she knew, not the being he is

terrorist's not terrorists, as far as PR-01 and Leena are aware there is only one person they are looking for

positions, but not positions but

incident, but not incident but

terrorist's not terrorists

they not it

gone to this not gone, this

him not them, though I'm not sure about this one since this is Leena at the end of the investigation so she might have realized at this point that she doesn't know the identity of this person and is using a neutral them as an adjustment to that fact

Over this year you've spent a very long time interacting with Ceriox, and you've come to rather clearly understand why the man is so beloved by his crew. While he holds about as much physical charisma as a swaggering centipede-eel would to most humans, he seems to hold hundreds of small and big legends with the crew. While the vast riches they earned plying the freight lines was the most proud they were of themselves, much of which was spent either on their old fleet and crew, the greatest story seemed to date back to when he had only been a minor trader a decade or two fresh out of earth.

Years ago, before your infection, the Confederation and the Aeldari Empire had been at each others throats over a human world that had declared independence and who had somehow captured not only the captain, but also the family of one of the Eldars vast trade ships. This very nearly started the Second Human-Aeldari war, if it wasn't for the intervention of one Ceriox Z'azz. Parked in orbit of the planet as it made this ambitious combo of an attack on the Eldar and a secession from the confederation, he had his fleet confiscated from him and his alien crew taken away by the extremely xenophobic military of the planet. While he was hidden away by the human portion of his crew they supplied the planet with much needed resources while the few day deadline before the Eldar likely invaded the system approached rapidly. Their intrepid crew, brave beyond measure then smuggled him and whatever armed forces they could assemble into the planetary capital under the guise of supplying their now dictatorial ruler with luxury goods. Half of the crew would sacrifice themselves in an attack against the planet's dictator while the other half broke the alien crew and the Eldar out of the prison they were in. How exactly they did so varies from story to story but from what you can tell in your damaged archives it did seem to occur.

Ceriox seems to minimize his role in that story when he tells it to you personally, as the various Pro-Confederation forces on the planet had actually done a very significant portion of actual work making the event possible, but it seems he was still the main person that was rewarded for the daring rescue. Both the Eldar which he personally returned home to their Craftworld and the Confederal government, who had used the opportunity to butter up the Confederal trade consortium with glory over the incident had given him a fortune in rewards and opportunities. In his mind, it seems to be a tale of the importance of being in the right place at the right time and with the specific tools you need. Or nearly purely luck, as he jokes.

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he not they

he was of himself not they were of themselves

either on his old fleet and crew, the not either on their old fleet and crew, the, also you are missing the other thing Ceriox spent his trading money on

Earth not earth

Eldars' not Eldars

the Confederation not the confederation

measure, then not measure then

of the actual not of actual

Eldar, which not Eldar which

Craftworld, and not Craftworld and

the Confederal Trade Consortium or a Confederal trade consortium not the Confederal trade consortium

incident, had not incident had

mind it not mind, it

He does seem to have a distinct dislike of religion and general cynicism towards most aspects of life, for whatever reason. You don't seem able to find out exactly why but the guesses the other crew makes seem to point towards his upbringing, before he had exited his larval stage.

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why, but not why but

upbringing before not upbringing, before

AN: I'll be busy with my brothers birthday and some other work this week so I might be kinda slow with getting the event turn and turn 4 up. It should still all be done by next weekend at the very latest but I only have so much free time to write. Event turn will be separate this time and you'll get your first first choice in an event turn this week, as among other things including a dark eldar invasion you'll be selecting which potential Cantaran hero you'll be getting as your newest council member this turn because of that ceriox crit. Ceriox's traits are also being revealed.

Edit: added the capital spent for the ministry in effects. Also hot damn y'all got a lot of capital this turn.

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brother's or brothers' not brothers

latest, but

doubled up word

Dark Eldar not dark eldar

Ceriox not ceriox

Capital not capital

Ministry not ministry

Capital not capital

Spoiler: Turn 3, Events

The following hours were hectic as everything went to hell. You were forced to dance about with what you suspected were some sort of twisted Eldar spacecraft that hit far harder than what a frigate and its accompanying forces normally would. While humanity could often field weapons of comparable quality to the Eldar, the sheer terror of such ambushes and of the powerful miniaturized weaponry they wielded never made wars with the Eldar an enjoyable experience.

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Humanity not humanity, you're talking in a polity/political sort of sense here not a general one

While it went far better than expected given your limited capabilities and the Cantarans are celebrating their first true victory against these Eldar.Thankfully they barely attacked your settlements on the archipelago, seemingly for lack of portals and time to disembark from their space assets.

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expected, given not expected given

capabilities, and not capabilities and

Eldar. Thankfully not Eldar.Thankfully

for a lack not for lack

With the Cantarans now organized in a largely undefined fashion underneath your government it is of critical importance that they be brought into the council. While you don't quite trust most of them, and their ruling class especially is suspect to your political senses, a number of able and proven individuals have been put forward by the city states as potential representatives. You've vetoed a fair number for mostly good reasons and you've come down to roughly four individuals of good reputation, competent ability and political relevance. While their beliefs and origins vary wildly each should prove able as a member of the council and help to imprint their own beliefs on the greater Cantaran population.

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wildly, each not wildly each

From your own interview with him he did present quite the inspiring figure and he certainly believes in a brand of egalitarianism that is arguably wider than what the Confederation once stood for. As a representative of the Cantarans you could guarantee that slavery, serfdom and other forms of forced bondage would be eradicated, but the rest of the Cantaran population may have problems with being led by this revolutionary. He'll leave an impact for sure but his position requires reinforcement or else he may very well fall into obscurity or to the blade of an assassin.

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sure, but not sure but

Lord Virect Sayol meanwhile represents a more conservative spin on this very same character. While he is an unabashed representative of the upper class he is forward thinking and is perhaps the closest this world had to a modern scientist. While his work in alchemy is backwards he has the right mindset and is merely in his early twenties. He could be an excellent representative of modern science for the Cantarans and would likely bring them to accept your programs implicitly.

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class, he not class he, PR-01 is switching between opinions here

backwards, he not backwards he, same as above

The last option meanwhile holds both the most promise and risk. Dero Jelik rules the city of Jelik and is remarkably tyrannical. He is however a master of propaganda, management and subterfuge despite the limited technological means of his people. He could make for a great spymaster and he is incredibly ambitious but he is also a blatant reactionary and an absolutist.

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ambitious, but not ambitious but

AN: I'm trying some new experiments with this events chapter. I'd definitely like to add more decisions to make on these turns more interesting and I'll probably keep doing events like this every so often. I do definitely want to make internal politics interesting with this quest. The battle stuff I'm less sure of, but I haven't really come up with a particularly interesting way to run them differently. Something to figure out for the future I suppose. I'll call the hero vote Sunday around 10 or so EST. The next turn will be up a bit after that.

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make these not make on these

@NotCaligula can you call the Hero vote early? The leading vote is 25 votes ahead of any other vote.

 

[Razios]

I think we should call some factions in the age of strife:

-Ullanor: as we know this hold the biggest and meaniest ork empire that exist and their orks are huge, it should be probably beast level or sightly minor. Also minor ork empire probably exist
-Rangandian: Probably one of the horryfic xenos breed to ever exist, well more a confederation, very lovecrafnian(granted less cthulhu and more if deep ones, Mi go and other become one), they have firepower to stone cold kill 40k imperium and it took the emperor to release their dirty trick in order to win.
-Necrons: some tome world or two are probably awake, not to probable will find one....well except we kinda are in ghoul start so yeah, that check out
-Craftworld/dark eldar: much of the faction as we know it are forming, also since this is fairly after the fall it means they are waaaaay more eldar(relative speaking) exist, I dont know if iyanden already make infinite circuit or vet already took over but if it not, it will happen.
-The cabal: we have to remenber they exist and opose chaos in all form, maybe they will contact us if we prove a good adversary to chaos(I mean, we defeat the virus, it a good start) but they can also manipulate into their trait
-Other xenos threats: from nephilm to kharve those thing exist and we should be worry of it, plus the quest give can make xenos on the fly because why the fuck not
-Former Confederation hold out: Some are good like interext and the diasporex, other....are not, we also have to remenber that any faction who remenber us probably will hate us, until the imperium came along we and the elder are probably the most hated in the galaxy.
-Chaos:chaos is hard to pin down, since we cant destroy then at all it they have quite a few bag of tricks: From demonic incursion that can hurt us, to subversion to manipulation from with in and out, also some faction Xeno, human and machine will probably be possed or corrupted, they can also try to put us against the imperium in order to further the heresy, for now the big four are probably putting their eyes on the Emperor.
-The imperium: the most distant and yet pressing enemy, the emperor hate us for some slight in the past and his time is on the roll, part of this issue is that the imperium tendecy to absorb polis means it actually getting stronger and stronger with a huge base already and moving like a train, it also means it can raise and throw force at a problem until it stop and it have a absurd diferent types of armies, from imperial army to marines, to titans to whatever-he-rise-at-us. Let remenber what he release in Mars against the Rangandian meaning he have plenty of as under his golden sleeve because aside of being a good player, he fucking cheat.

of course they are plenty of minor faction but this is more or less what we face.

 

[Dmol8]

-Craftworld/dark eldar: much of the faction as we know it are forming, also since this is fairly after the fall it means they are waaaaay more eldar(relative speaking) exist, I dont know if iyanden already make infinite circuit or vet already took over but if it not, it will happen.

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Infinity Circuits are invented sometime in the 33rd millennium and Vect has been born already because in his youth he witnessed the Fall of the Aeldari Empire. However he will not found the Kabal of the Black Hearth until the 32nd millennium and only took over Commorragh in the 35th millennium.

 

[Calmlikeabomb]

I think we should call some factions in the age of strife:
-The cabal: we have to remenber they exist and opose chaos in all form, maybe they will contact us if we prove a good adversary to chaos(I mean, we defeat the virus, it a good start) but they can also manipulate into their trait

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Oh god I forgot about them, they are honestly one of my biggest dislikes with the 30k setting with their perpetual who apparently was the assassin of MLK Jr. which was just yikes, and their plan to destroy Chaos by killing all of humanity for some reason, they get rightfully destroyed by big E and Eldrad from what I remember.

 

[Dmol8]

Oh god I forgot about them, they are honestly one of my biggest dislikes with the 30k setting with their perpetual who apparently was the assassin of MLK Jr. which was just yikes, and their plan to destroy Chaos by killing all of humanity for some reason, they get rightfully destroyed by big E and Eldrad from what I remember.

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Can I get a source on that whole a Perpetual killed MLK Jr. thing?

 

[Calmlikeabomb]

Can I get a source on that whole a Perpetual killed MLK Jr. thing?

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I don't remember it off the top of my head but i think i remember he remarks about "killing the good man in Memphis" I'll look for the source and edit it here.

Edit: its not on the wiki but that means next to nothing so ill keep looking even if I have to skim a few sections of the most cringe Warhammer stuff I own

its been a while so take all these claims I make with a grain of salt i think i got it from a second hand source

 

[Dmol8]

I don't remember it off the top of my head but i think i remember he remarks about "killing the good man in Memphis" I'll look for the source and edit it here.

Edit: its not on the wiki but that means next to nothing so ill keep looking even if I have to skim a few sections of the most cringe Warhammer stuff I own

its been a while so take all these claims I make with a grain of salt i think i got it from a second hand source

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Found it:


View: https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/11tdrts/the_aeldari_killed_martin_luther_king_jr/

Check The Unremembered Empire by Dan Abnet, Page 80 according to that reddit post.

 

[Razios]

They are in for a rude awakening when they find out Terra turned into a hellhole only to then become the capital of a fascistic, supermacist and expansionist empire that use brainwashed augmented child soldiers and lobotomized cyborgs ruled by transhumans breeded for war and a psyker warlord at the top.

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Even more when it seen some of the nasty thing the robot did before.

I dont have any proof but I do think the men of gold here probably did some nasty thing before rejecting most of is memories.

and their plan to destroy Chaos by killing all of humanity for some reason

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The idea is chaos invest a lot of power into mankind as their new toys so by horus winning he will let chaos to self destroying, taking humanity with it. So their plan is taking mankind with chaos in it.

You can imagine and eldar got the idea of that plan.

 

[Calmlikeabomb]

The idea is chaos invest a lot of power into mankind as their new toys so by horus winning he will let chaos to self destroying, taking humanity with it. So their plan is taking mankind with chaos in it.

You can imagine and eldar got the idea of that plan.

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Yep I know what the plan was and you nailed it on the head that the organization seemed infested with aldari who cannot seem to recognize their own failures and would even commit to the genocide of another race to avoid admitting the fact that they were and are still the causes for the general state of galactic affairs.

 

[zack omega24]

We already salvaged the varga. I'd recommend against the dry dock, getting it up and running would let us repair ourselves without crippling us in the medium term.

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We didn't salvage the Vega, what we did was examine

 

[blankmask]

We didn't salvage the Vega, what we did was examine

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Ok. I wouldn't mind salvaging it then. But not the dry dock.

 

[Shadowrobot6]

[X] Grachis Fal

I'm having trouble picturing what the alien races look like. Can we get a description of them beyond mammalian? Like are they biped or quadrupeds? How many eyes do they have? What color are they (for example blue, green, tan)? Do they have fur? Things like that.

Also I like the addition of a Laer especially a non-religious one. I thought they were just lamia/medusa like with four arms I didn't know about the arthropod part so looking that up and seeing the fan art was really cool.

 

[Warmachine375]

The idea is chaos invest a lot of power into mankind as their new toys so by horus winning he will let chaos to self destroying, taking humanity with it. So their plan is taking mankind with chaos in it.

You can imagine and eldar got the idea of that plan.

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"That is dumb." - the A-Dorn-able Centurion about that plan.

 

[NotCaligula]

Adhoc vote count started by Dmol8 on Dec 9, 2023 at 9:42 PM, finished with 57 posts and 35 votes.

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  [X] Grachis Fal

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  [X] Remec Aseres

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  [X] Lord Virect Sayol

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  [X] Dero Jelik

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Yeah I'll be calling the hero vote here. Still busy today so I won't be able to get the next update out until during the week, but with that far of a lead I don't think Fal is getting surpassed.

 

[NotCaligula]

Why is the quest called "Midas Touched (40k Man of Gold Quest)"
If the quest takes place in 30k?

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Honestly I didn't realize I could change the actual title until I just checked now, I'ma change that to 30k.

A question asked in thread that I want to give an answer to:



It's not that simple. The DAOT is not a Utopia or even an Eutopia, but instead:



More like the wet dreams and worst nightmares of a libertarian tech bro rolled into one. This of course leads into the in-universe logic of:



Everyone "properly" educated and motivated should be allowed to be "unimpeded by the population" which is how you get both 30k and 40k Nobility. With the difference being that 40k Nobility by and large doesn't believe that the world they live in could be better while 30k Nobility still has a large population of holdouts holding onto the idea of improvement being possible, including the Emperor himself.

Also before I get into the errors again:



We did not in fact Harvest the Vega. But we probably will do something with it next turn.

In spoilers underlined errors are in the order of reading:

Spoiler: Turn 3, Results

perhaps, but not perhaps but

down not own

infector, so not infector so



fairly not daily

Earth not earth, twice in a row.



half of the year, once not half the year once

states' not states

years, or not years or

cost not costed, it's coasted when the event takes place further back in time than the context of that sentence especially for an AI like PR-01.

refinable not refineable, I was surprised by that one too. I thought you were correct and just using an obscure form of the word, but a check turned out that the spelling was wrong.



field, but not field but

previously, you not previously you



Capital not capital

Materials Science not materials science

You should probably put that +2 on next Materials Science gain into an Informational Threadmark somewhere so you don't forget about it.



Ministry not ministry, unless this is a way of showing Maximilian's bias

Ministries not ministries, again as with the previous error

legislation or legislations not legislation's, depends on if Maximilian is referring to a handful of laws, then it is legislation, or a large group of laws, then it is legislations.

dime, they not dime they

clear and not clear, and

everything up not everything all up, depends on whether you intended to write "everything all up" because I have an itch in my brain telling me that the phrase is appropriate for snobs and elitists, but I can't remember from where.

Ministry not ministry, same rules as the other errors of this type in there

at not in

Ministry not ministry, now this one I'm sure is an error because it's not inside Maximilian's head



corruption of reality itself

typings not typing's, typing in this case is a noun referring to a defined standard of a life-/thoughtform



measures not measure

emitted, the not emitted the



for why one not for one

his not their, as Leena is still thinking of the Changeling as being the guise she knew, not the being he is

terrorist's not terrorists, as far as PR-01 and Leena are aware there is only one person they are looking for

positions, but not positions but

incident, but not incident but

terrorist's not terrorists

they not it

gone to this not gone, this

him not them, though I'm not sure about this one since this is Leena at the end of the investigation so she might have realized at this point that she doesn't know the identity of this person and is using a neutral them as an adjustment to that fact



he not they

he was of himself not they were of themselves

either on his old fleet and crew, the not either on their old fleet and crew, the, also you are missing the other thing Ceriox spent his trading money on

Earth not earth

Eldars' not Eldars

the Confederation not the confederation

measure, then not measure then

of the actual not of actual

Eldar, which not Eldar which

Craftworld, and not Craftworld and

the Confederal Trade Consortium or a Confederal trade consortium not the Confederal trade consortium

incident, had not incident had

mind it not mind, it



why, but not why but

upbringing before not upbringing, before



brother's or brothers' not brothers

latest, but

doubled up word

Dark Eldar not dark eldar

Ceriox not ceriox

Capital not capital

Ministry not ministry

Capital not capital

Spoiler: Turn 3, Events

Humanity not humanity, you're talking in a polity/political sort of sense here not a general one



expected, given not expected given

capabilities, and not capabilities and

Eldar. Thankfully not Eldar.Thankfully

for a lack not for lack



wildly, each not wildly each



sure, but not sure but



class, he not class he, PR-01 is switching between opinions here

backwards, he not backwards he, same as above



ambitious, but not ambitious but



make these not make on these

@NotCaligula can you call the Hero vote early? The leading vote is 25 votes ahead of any other vote.

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Have done so, corrections currently underway.

As for a bit of clarification of how the confederation worked without getting into spoilers, I'd say think of it more as an empowered Space UN than as an empire. Very much an uncoordinated entity with thousands of nations within it. Outside of the confederal military and the colonies that it ruled by mandate and appointment it likely did not hold much central capabilities.

Oh god I forgot about them, they are honestly one of my biggest dislikes with the 30k setting with their perpetual who apparently was the assassin of MLK Jr. which was just yikes, and their plan to destroy Chaos by killing all of humanity for some reason, they get rightfully destroyed by big E and Eldrad from what I remember.

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Yeah the Cabal are pretty dumb in my opinion. They're not gonna show up in this quest. Might have some faction pop up later who sorta resemble them, but honestly I kinda prefer the cosmological idea that the modern messed up variation of chaos is kinda young and mostly rose as the Humans and Eldar collapsed, and is not some ancient evil that has puppetmastered the galaxy for millions of years. The main change for the modern 30k setting post-slannesh's birth would be with them finally being the main gods of the galaxy with the eldar gods now devoured or captured and with the human gods not being a thing at the moment.

[X] Grachis Fal

I'm having trouble picturing what the alien races look like. Can we get a description of them beyond mammalian? Like are they biped or quadrupeds? How many eyes do they have? What color are they (for example blue, green, tan)? Do they have fur? Things like that.

Also I like the addition of a Laer especially a non-religious one. I thought they were just lamia/medusa like with four arms I didn't know about the arthropod part so looking that up and seeing the fan art was really cool.

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Fair point, I probably should have given him a better description, I'll try and keep my descriptions a bit clearer from now on.

 

[Razios]

I kinda prefer the cosmological idea that the modern messed up variation of chaos is kinda young and mostly rose as the Humans and Eldar collapsed, and is not some ancient evil that has puppetmastered the galaxy for millions of years. The main change for the modern 30k setting post-slannesh's birth would be with them finally being the main gods of the galaxy with the eldar gods now devoured or captured and with the human gods not being a thing at the moment.

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I kinda get it why but I feel it kinda defeat the purpose of chaos if despict as this kinda young thing instead of thing as ancient as the start that humanity simply didnt graps, it also turn too much into this "everything happen in 30k-40k".