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Solar Auxilia Officer Quest. A 30k Early Great Crusade quest.

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[X] Just confused
[X] Plan: Desert Storm

Like, I want to go to gytus because ledding frenchment into egypt is the most goddamn frenc thing to do, the only way would be more if albian would be there.
 
There's plenty more frenc things to do, jungles of central america is one, canada has an entire province dedicated to frenchness because beavers.
 
argenten said:
Which we can do without limiting our training or missing out on a chance to get a head start on some much needed training either.
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Problem.

Other plans with Mechanized Infantry aren't winning. So if people want Mechanized Infantry they have to vote for Desert Storm to make sure it Wins.

If this wasn't plan vote I feel things would be... easier(?), but it's the plan vote, so we have no choice.
 
triumph8w said:
I definitely think you've succeeded there. Everything really does just give off the vibes that a warlord is throwing everything he has at the solar system because he wants it, and he wants it now. And that without a doubt he'll be repeating the process when he's captured the ruined wealth of the old empire, to hurl it out at the rest of Humanity's old core.

Really sells how vital the Astartes were to the early expansion, too.
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Definitely what I intend.

A big focus of the early Crusade, for instance why Medusa was sought out so early, was the Imperium seeking out caches of old ships and technology to fuel the crusade and keep it going.

The Imperium would not have become as big as it did, without a decent few of the worlds of Segmentum Solar throwing their support behind the Emperor for the promises of human reunification (and galactic xenocide)
 
[x] Very relieved
[x] Plan: Desert Storm
- [x] A genewrought limb
- [x] For a moment, pour out your heart to your parents
- [x] Gyptus
- [x] A completely Mechanized ground force
 
Adhoc vote count started by grimely on Aug 7, 2024 at 12:01 PM, finished with 107 posts and 42 votes.
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Mayto said:
Definitely what I intend.

A big focus of the early Crusade, for instance why Medusa was sought out so early, was the Imperium seeking out caches of old ships and technology to fuel the crusade and keep it going.

The Imperium would not have become as big as it did, without a decent few of the worlds of Segmentum Solar throwing their support behind the Emperor for the promises of human reunification (and galactic xenocide)
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It's primal and raw in ways I love about the HH books that detail the early decades. More archaic, less glorious, more dangerous, more potent.
 
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Personal memoir and historical account.
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    • The New Terra:

    When I was a young man, I grew up in a city I was told was the last bastion of civilization.* The last republican government on the continent which was ruled through a democratic mandate.**

    The Imperium's conquest of Terra was a slow process, with the conquest of Eurasia, Ind, and Afrik taking the better part of two centuries. Even the allegiances of warlords from Patagon, Hayt, and Merica allowing the Imperium to operate from their territory, did not speed up this war. Especially once the size of the Imperium spurred emergency consolidations and alliances between Techno-Barbarian warlords who quickly grew their realms and forces to face the Emperor.

    In the year 665M30, My nation was the last major Europan one to surrender, our terms negotiated under the threat of denying the Emperor that which he hoped to gain from our conquest. I personally slew a wounded Custodes with my bayonet. Although as I keep telling those whom ask me to regale it, the Custodes was mortally wounded, and I do not see pride in the act.

    I have since fought in the conquests of Albion, the Thulean Basin, and the decades long grinding wars to bring Ursh and the Pan-Pacific Empire to heel. I have fought generals one day, only to shake hands with them the next after their people accepted Unity and devoted their weapons to the Emperor's service.

    In the end, Terra found itself turned into a three-way conflict between the Pan-Pacific Empire, Ursh, and the Imperium. I lost a son in the thirty year war to break the Eeyowa Citadel in the Pearl Bastion. Fought running battles in the ruins of Kyot against the pseudo-Astartes. I saw the flesh-citadels of Basilio Fo fall. I fought battles whose names may not be repeated by Imperial Decree, and of which I am glad, for it means the nightmares are my own.

    Now, Terra's nations, except for a few enclaves of opposition, are united under the Emperor. The Astronomicon Project continues apace, the largest labour project in three millenia. The genetic stabilisation programs are bearing fruit. Public works are restoring Terra's industry and power. And the replenishment of Terra's biosphere is underway.

    Millions of soldiers, led by the veterans of the final bloody days of the Unification Wars, are training across Terra, preparing for the ships that will take them to the stars to be constructed. The Rejuvenation Treatments pioneered by the Emperor are an enticing offer for service in the crusade, and I know many regiments of Unification have taken the offer. Soldiers with decades of experience ready and eager to take the war to the stars.

    I have lived a long life, and I worry that my children will not know peace.

    *(Barring the Balt city-states, the Alpyn League, or the Anatoli, but I digress.)
    **(When the aristocrats weren't in control after their incessant coups.)

    -Personal memoir of Legate Marshal Mardon Lentierre, compiled 790M30


    The Solar Reclamation.
    To describe the reclamation of the Solar System as a rushed and haphazard affair, would be a gross understatement of the endeavour.

    The Imperium, before the Treaty of Olympus, was perpetually bottle-necked by its access to space-capable vessels. The few orbital transports that were available, could scarcely go beyond Luna, and were too cumbersome or fragile to be used for military deployments. Terra's starship graveyards had long ago been stripped bare, and the Orbital Plates and Habitats relied on chemical shuttles and mass-accelerators to transport cargo pods.

    Terra's fleet for taking Luna would need to be constructed anew.

    During the Age of Strife, a class of 'Rogue Trader' had emerged aboard Dark Age era merchant ships which retained their capacity for interstellar travel. It was from these traders that the Imperium would acquire the skilled shipbuilding crews they needed to produce the first Imperial warships, and the Navigators he would need.

    Our Emperor spoke to each trader that visited, and borrowed, bartered, appealed to, and threatened them into supporting his endeavours, bringing several into his inner circle as naval advisors.

    So it was that the Armada Imperialis began. A haphazard collection of newly constructed void-craft, Dark Age trade ships, converted Jovian merchantmen, and even Xenos craft from the fleets of the Rogue Traders. With the pacification of Luna in 702, the hundreds of Astartes became thousands. When the Martians recognizing the Emperor as their "Omnissiah" in 749, the fleet was sharpened to a speartip, and the full-scale reclamation of the Solar System could begin.

    For the last fifty years, the Imperium has been waging the War of Solar Reclamation. A short conflict compared to the three hundred years of the Unification Wars, the Ursh-Europan wars of M28 or the Khrave wars of M27

    It has not been an easy war. Sol was rife with Xenos Pirates, pirate lords, rampant machines, and other horrors from Old Night. Even with the allegiance of the Saturnyne Ordos, and the still-independent Jovian Clans, we are beset from all sides.

    For each two moons reclaimed, one would fall during a counter-attack. For each raiding fleet driven out of the system, the precursors of another would make its foray into the Solar System. Even now, Venus's War Witches control half their planet, and Xenos outposts dot the moons of Neptune and Jupiter.

    It was only in the later years of the 770's, that slow gains began to accumulate exponentially, and our enemies were driven to their most hardened bastions, each shielded by the science of the Ancients, for even the Xenos covet the knowledge of the Golden Age.

    The Solar System is ours, but it remains to be seen if we have the power to keep it. For as human might is restored, so too do the ancient foes stir. The Traders speak of the Orks mustering near Betelgeuse, the Fra'al close in on Delta Pavonis, and the Rykogene's first scout ships have been spotted in Proxima Centauri.

    -Speech given to the Pars Military Academy by Legate Marshal Mardon Lentierre, 790M30
     
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    • RandomTechPriest said:
    I think the Emperor himself would be insulted if he did not. "You killed one of my best creations in melee combat and are not screaming it to everyone who will listen?"
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    Not sure it counts as melee combat. I wouldn't be surprised if it was more the Custodes laying there, missing several pieces, weapons missing or broken. I struggle to see how he'd even past the armor otherwise, and he did say the Custodes was already mortally wounded—those guys can outright slowly regenerate, so…
     
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    EVA-Saiyajin said:
    Not sure it counts as melee combat. I wouldn't be surprised if it was more the Custodes laying there, missing several pieces, weapons missing or broken. I struggle to see how he'd even past the armor otherwise.
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    Auramite armour for Custodes took a while before it was universally rolled out.

    This was when the Custodes used suits of forged steel with rudimentary powered functions.
     
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