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Strange Aeons: A 40k Xeno Governor Quest

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Plan Fortress And Finance
Assault
Void Forest
Atraxas
Private Army
(will use combat system, rolls will be done either on Rolz or Discord due to this site's rolls sucking for that kind of use case)

Improve The Private Army
Super Heavy Tanks, Armored Vehicles, Powered Armor, Aerospace Fighters, Orbital Insertion Pods, Bolters, Plasma, Power
Favor: 15 AdMech Favor

Comprehensive Subterranean and Void Fortifications
Harkar (Araahal)
Atraxas
Atraxas
Atraxas
Urma
Nameria
Private Army
Private Army
Private Army
Private Army
Private Army
DC: 1300 (Yes its only 1299, but I highly doubt you are not going to have wasted progress)
Suspicion: 0
2200 R -> 1100 R (As long as Harkar+Araahal remains assigned this action costs half resources)
Roll: 3+3+1+1+5 = 13d100+107
Result: 626+107 = 733/1300
Critical Result: +15 to Extraction/Production when completed

Create Diplomatic Corps
Akiona
10 R
Suspicion:0
DC: 100
Roll: 1d100+20
Result: 20+20 = 45/100

Contact the Pathfinders
Atraxas
40 R
DC: 100->80 (reduced due to investigating corruption scandal)
Suspicion: -20
Roll: 1d100+22
Result: 58/80

Contact Cadia directly
Atraxas
50 R
DC: 50
Suspicion: -15
Roll: 1d100+22
Result: 57+22 = 77

Meet With Shezu
Atraxas
No rolls for this

Establish Subsector Spies
Atraxas
Nalka
100 R
DC: 250
Suspicion: 15
Roll: 2d100+19+18
Result: 65+19+18 = 102/250

Militant Citadel
Atraxas
Urma
500 R
Suspicion: -10
Suspicion Reduction: 5
DC: 268
Roll: 2d100+18+14
Result: 193/268

Dig into planetary education system
Balkavus
Suspicion: 0
DC: 50
25 R
Roll: 1d100+11
Result: 25+11 = 36/50

The Calculation Heart
Atraxas
1000 R -> 100 Alloys
Use Exatari Alloys instead of R if enough are acquired to spare for this
Autosucces

Practice your race's religion
Atraxas
100 R
Suspicion: -5
Conditional Bonus: rolled positive, rolled high effect, result +91
Second Conditional Bonus: result will have an Orderly aspect
Library Detection: ORDER 1/3 Detected
Roll: 1d100+16+91
(The dice hate my sanity, is all I can say for this action. Seriously rolling a 55 on the suspicion roll to get the orderly aspect and then above 85 to detect the particles.)
Result: 169

Homeworld Mission: Data Retrieval (Void)
1st Level
Atraxas
DC: 20
Roll: 1d100+45
Result: 72+45 = 117

Homeworld Mission: Data retrieval (Noosphere)
2nd level
Suspicion: 20
Favor Cost: 50, auto pass

Design augments of Advisors (Kara Nameria)
Atraxas
100 R
DC: 80 for passable cybernetics, breakpoints every 20
Roll: 1d100+40+45
Result: 22+40+45 = 107 (due to over abundance of Exatari Alloys this is upgraded)

Build a Personal Vessel
Atraxas
Atraxas
25 R
Suspicion: 25
Roll: 2d100+50
Result: 228 (seriously? well this ship is a near perfect fusion of Imperial/Exatari design philosophies. Modular construction incorporated into it, such that it can be expanded without losing quality up to beyond Battleship scale)

Build an Awakening Core
Void Forest
Atraxas
Exatari Alloys

Trade Exatari Favor For Alloys
10 R
(This has a DC of 5, but frankly I am just going to have this action autosucced instead of having a chance of failure due to various reasons)
Assuming you are spending all your favor on Alloys, that would be 80 Favor on Alloys. Gain 1560 Exatari Alloys

Total Resource Costs: 2060
Total Suspicion Change: +10
Total Admech Favor used: 65/100 = 35 left over
Total Exatari Favor used: 80 for 1560 Exatari Alloys, 100 units of Attuned Invoked Repulsion and 100 units of Attuned Abyssal Severance
 
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Time to see how far the Fortifications can go. Let's go!
Nicholas Brooks threw 12 100-faced dice. Reason: Fortifications Total: 611
38 38 19 19 49 49 60 60 98 98 69 69 49 49 5 5 17 17 99 99 64 64 44 44
Nicholas Brooks threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Fortifications (Again) Total: 15
15 15
 
Well Harkar hates my sanity even more than I thought since she rolled a nat 100 on a roll to confirm if one of her hidden traits proc'd on the Fortification action. Which means that she provides extra value to the thing in excess of her 3 dice.

Well, I have zero clue how to handle this event. Oh, I know how to handle this. The final outcome is going to be significantly boosted, the Extraction/Production aspects increased by 15 so they now provide 40 per satellite (2680 extraction/production)

Also Harkar upgrades her already bullshit naval engineering trait.
Void Engineer - uses Naval Martial to build space born machines and infrastructure, allows Deep Space construction. Effectiveness scales with scale of design, designs skewed towards military usage -> Celestial Engineer - uses Naval Martial to build space born machines and infrastructure, allows Extreme Space construction. Effectiveness scales with scale of design, designs prioritize military usage, applies her martial bonus per dice on a given action

Revealed another one of her traits as well
Naval Polymath: critical range for naval rolls set to 1-5 and 85-100, effects of critical rolls vastly increased, successes more impactful than failures, training more effective, gains +20 to training naval forces
 
Thule said:
So do those work to make our race ships as good or better then the empire and do we gain the 20 favor?
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Exatari ships are still below par with the Imperium, but it's more even now. Instead of an escort being able to solo the entire Exatari fleet, it's more around a 4:1 in the Imperium's favor in terms of tonnage required.

Your personal ship is a fusion of Imperial/Exatari designs, to the point where it's somewhere off in lalala land in terms of quality. So yes it does give Favor, which was spent on Alloys.
 
Ok, I think I have figured out what the monstrosity you have made of a personal ship actually is.

Base Quality: Average Astartes Ship (Technically this is lower than GC, but it's the best you can build at the moment. Technology is just too broken for actual Great Crusade era stuff. Sorry, about that description, it was one of those that fell through the cracks during my balancing attempts.)
Innate Traits:
Modular Scale - can be upscaled without losing Quality, scale maxes out at Gloriana scale.
Imperial Exatari - Shields regain a wound every other round, armor has 4 buffer wounds, hull can only be damaged after shield and armor are both broken this aspect does not apply vs disintegration effects
Inversion Arrays - acts as if it was Low Primarch vs IMPORTANT vessels/targets in duels
Warded by Contempt and Reality - shreds non beneficial warp assaults by 10 to 25%
 
Leon12431 said:
Well, I have zero clue how to handle this event. Oh, I know how to handle this. The final outcome is going to be significantly boosted, the Extraction/Production aspects increased by 15 so they now provide 40 per satellite (2680 extraction/production)
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I worry that crits are to powerful in this quest as this will provide enough extra income to afford a Calculation Heart per turn and enough that we can afford the upkeep for Improve the SDF (Major) without issues.
all of the actions with upkeep below 100R per turn we can afford without problems and that is almost all of the non mega project actions
 
sunrise said:
I worry that crits are to powerful in this quest as this will provide enough extra income to afford a Calculation Heart per turn and enough that we can afford the upkeep for Improve the SDF (Major) without issues.
all of the actions with upkeep below 100R per turn we can afford without problems and that is almost all of the non mega project actions
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The reason is because you have insane advisors. Harkar and Akiona are extremely rare for how powerful their crits are. They have traits related to that aspect. Normal crits are simple affairs of +5 to 10 to a given action, or might save 10 resources. You are currently enjoying a far higher critical modifier than normal.

Edit: Remember that Akiona for example applies that same modifier to her critical Fails as well. If she rolls poorly she can wipe away centuries of progress with a single bad roll. As for Atraxas, he is smart, by nature he is smarter than an Astartes and due to his biology is even more mentally agile and able than that would imply. In short, critical results seem to have higher effects, because the people rolling them just cause them to be higher for various reasons.

For instance Atraxas can do in a decade what a normal human would take centuries to do. If the first vote had gone with a more reasonable level of intelligence, then almost all actions would have DCs at least triple what they are with Atraxas.
 
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This turn threw a major curve ball my way with a chain of I am not making this up 10 rolls that aligned perfectly to send any semblance of sanity out the window. Its so insane I am half tempted to just retcon it all from happening due to the sheer silliness inherent to it.
 
You're going to need to be more specific because chaos dice already come with facets that divide by zero to get umlaut.
 
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Leon12431 said:
This turn threw a major curve ball my way with a chain of I am not making this up 10 rolls that aligned perfectly to send any semblance of sanity out the window. Its so insane I am half tempted to just retcon it all from happening due to the sheer silliness inherent to it.
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I would suggest to tone done the results just enough so it is sane once more but only that far.
 
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You're going to need to be more specific because chaos dice already come with facets that divide by zero to get umlaut.
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The prophecy was originally supposed to be a fairly medium threat. Then Chaos rolled nat 100 on main strength and several 100+ values for support strength. Stupid rolls got us into this situation and by the Crone's Runes stupid rolls will get us out of it!
 
maybe expand the target list of the attack so more targets get attacked but fewer attackers at each place as high level demons and chaos leaders do not cooperate well and often try to make sure its their rivals that take the losses against the defenses while they take all of the loot afterwards.

@Leon12431 Harmonize Style
What kind of action can we use for this, it is just personal or also other types of actions?
 
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Leon12431 said:
Exatari ships are still below par with the Imperium, but it's more even now. Instead of an escort being able to solo the entire Exatari fleet, it's more around a 4:1 in the Imperium's favor in terms of tonnage required.
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So if we do some of the other tech option and learn options, we can get on par and even in our favor?
 
So we can go for a style to help us with the invasion, still got 35 ad mech favor for upgrading our army and Comprehensive Subterranean and Void Fortifications will be up and running proving the funding for major upgrades to our PDF and SDF as well.

Blood Angels: Reduces suspicion by 5% from all sources, increases the effects of other styles by 20% (caps at 100%)
(Can get a variant form from the Heralds of Conquest. Theirs would provide higher suspicion reduction, but provide diplomatic and combat bonuses instead of upping the other styles)
The Heralds of Conquest version is the main goal of trying to complete a style by turn 11 but i like to include a few more as we can put 10 actions on it on the turns we take wounds.
This also require us to meet them first and that is a diplomacy action: Heralds of Conquest (Resources: 120, DC: 180)

Exatari: Exotic Production increased by 10%, Research of Particle/Physics/Sensors/Energy subjects reduced by 200, Resource bonus reduced by 50% for DAoT research, Deep Infrastructure suspicion reduced by half and output increased by 20%
A stack of this to help with the geller shields(we have a lot of alloys so can afford multiple computers to help complete this)

If we get lucky while meeting her add a stack of:
Necron: +4 Education (does not stack), education effects upscaled by 20%, All machines work 20% better (all effects cap at 10 stacks)
(Can be gained from Shezu, on a hard DC of 90 if Atraxas speaks with her)


Ultramarines: +1 action to advisors/governor, -50 to Infrastructure DC (applies to Megaproject at 5x), reduces the suspicion of Legal Actions by 10
(can be gained via the Pathfinders or the Ultramarines when they come to Erimyst in turn 7/8. Pathfinders will provide a lower infrastructure DC reduction and legal action suspicion reduction)
More actions to get ready in time

As that is 4 styles would that be a DC 200 action that can only be done via personal actions?
If we take more then one stack of a style would that add 50 to the DC per stack?
Does taking multiple Ultramarines stacks give +1 action to advisors/governor per stack or once for the style?

Leon12431 said:
Donate to the Orphanages
Atraxas
50 R
Suspicion: -20
DC: 50
Bonus: 16+10
Roll: 68+26 = 94
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We did this in turn 4 what new options did it unlock?

My plan for the next turn:
A lot of locked in actions combined with placing a few more dice on Comprehensive Subterranean and Void Fortifications(one extra army one, one Exatari Supercomputer and one extra Urma)
leaves only 3 other dice, one faith, one personal and one learning.

Comprehensive Subterranean and Void Fortifications(Locked) 733/1300:
Harkar (Araahal + Exatari Supercomputer)
Atraxas (martial)
Atraxas (personal)
Atraxas (personal)
Urma
Urma
Nameria
Private Army
Private Army
Private Army
Private Army
Private Army
Private Army


Create Diplomatic Corps (Locked)45/100 Akiona
Contact the Pathfinders (Locked)58/80 Atraxas diplo

Establish Subsector Spies(Locked) 102/250 Atraxas (intrigue), Nalka
Militant Citadel(Locked) 193/268 Atraxas stewardship
Dig into planetary education system(Locked) 36/50 Balkavus

Atraxas learning: The Calculation Heart
Atraxas Faith: Donate to the Orphanages

Atraxas (personal): The Calculation Heart
 
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