Strange Aeons: A 40k Xeno Governor Quest

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Another edit to my most recent calculation: Replaced "Income from 100 Planets" with the correct "Income from 200 Planets" (since 400 Calc Hearts), and updated calcs accordingly. Shifted 300-500 to 400-600 for the target Planets Acquired range.
 
@Leon12431, you've stated that the DAoT Alloy research is worth hundreds of Mechanicus favor. How much is the Gravity Research worth? More, I assume? Probably quite a bit more?

Also, as a side-note, I just said "Moriya" aloud.
Joke: I now fear to go into those mines... the dwarves delved too greedily and too deep... /SarumanVoice
 
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you've stated that the DAoT Alloy research is worth hundreds of Mechanicus favor. How much is the Gravity Research worth? More, I assume? Probably quite a bit more?
DAoT stuff is generally all in a close range of each other in terms of AdMech Favor. The more impactful/useful something is the more favor you get from it.

Alloys would provide the most, the Theorems the second right now.
 
I'd imagine sticking Atraxus on the same action would serve as a more potent crit mitigator, with the caveat of also mitigating crit successes. @Leon12431, is that an accurate assumption?
To a degree. Prodigies have high enough critical modifier to sort of overpower the critical malus that Atraxas would provide. If you assume a normal human has a 1x crit modifier and a Prodigy has a 3x crit modifier then Atraxas would halve that to 0.5x and 1.5x respectively.
 
To a degree. Prodigies have high enough critical modifier to sort of overpower the critical malus that Atraxas would provide. If you assume a normal human has a 1x crit modifier and a Prodigy has a 3x crit modifier then Atraxas would halve that to 0.5x and 1.5x respectively.
And diplo Corp has something like .5x normally and .9x for prodigies since they're not addressing the root supernatural cause?
 
And diplo Corp has something like .5x normally and .9x for prodigies since they're not addressing the root supernatural cause?
They are more a flat reduction rather than a modifier to the actual crit modifier. Atraxas nerfs the critical modifier outright, the Diplo Corps simply reduces the impact of negative crits by a small amount. For normal people it would basically be a reduction to 0.8 but for Akiona it would be a reduction to 2.95x. In short each stage is around 0.2 reduction for a normal person and for a Prodigy a reduction of 0.05.

Atraxas would bump her down to 1.5 and then the Diplo Corps would synergies with Atraxas' presence nerfing the warp to push her down to 1x. Atraxas upscales the effects of the diplo corps while also downscaling the effects of critical events since he nerfs the warp and enforces logic. Therefore getting a final result of Critical Fail: 1x and Critical Success: 1.5x instead of her innate 3x for both failure and success.
 
Ok see this is not having a diplo advisor, this is having a very talented and helpful diplo assistant.

We need to research this and/or see if proper training will have an impact.
 
@Leon12431, the three Attributes (Physicality, Mentality, Personality) influence different things, but Physicality only influences your Combat score. I assume it has other side-effects - such as, perhaps, Atraxas having 14 Wounds?

Can all of the following be progressed with Calc Heart Independent Action: Streamline the Code of Law, Improve legal procedure, Foundational Medical Care, System Overhaul, Planetary Terraforming, System Orbital Alignment, the Turn-Skip DC on Matryoshka Project? If not all, which ones can't?

Again, thanks for this awesome quest!
 
@Leon12431, the three Attributes (Physicality, Mentality, Personality) influence different things, but Physicality only influences your Combat score. I assume it has other side-effects - such as, perhaps, Atraxas having 14 Wounds?

Can all of the following be progressed with Calc Heart Independent Action: Streamline the Code of Law, Improve legal procedure, Foundational Medical Care, System Overhaul, Planetary Terraforming, System Orbital Alignment, the Turn-Skip DC on Matryoshka Project? If not all, which ones can't?
The stats are not absolute. Technically speaking they are only true within the same species to a degree. It's just an abstraction that works to compare generalizations of ability between species.

Custodians have 4/4/4, Primarchs have 6/6/6 in their stats, the Exatari have 3/3/3. However, the Exatari are closer to 4/4/4 in human terms than they are to 3/3/3 in human terms. Atraxas for example is smarter than a custodian and could have an intelligent conversation with Great Crusade Perturabo about technology. But the secondary/narrative effects is what dictate the more subtle factors, in short due to the Exatari having 3/3/3, they are simply less compared to a Custodian even through their actual abilities are basically peer. This basically manifests as higher stats bending the universe/reality around them in a manner that is distinct from the warp which is why it affects the Exatari fully.

The stat baseline dictates alot of soft factors. For example if you had an intelligence of 0/1/2 your DCs would be orders of magnitude higher, resource costs would be unknown and corruption would be a major problem. However, Atraxas due to having a Mentality 3 above humanity, he simply ignores that junk outright since he can brute force things.

Physicality does apply to how many wounds a person has and their wound threshold for combat purposes. It also has soft factors regarding how hard it is for the warp to passively affect them. In short higher Physicality helps vs resisting warp mutations.

Edit: the major thing that baseline stats effect is how high your skills can be.

Of those actions the Two law actions can not be handed off to the Hearts. Legal actions are too complex and too suspicious to be doable with dumb computers.
 
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Is there an action to get smart computers or will Exatari unlock it?
That is difficult to get since you need a sample for it. The Exatari wont natively invent it since it doesn't fit their way of action, they vastly prefer to handle all of those equations and stuff personally. They use computers to play games and to crunch data but they do all the Intensive calculations themselves and always will do so probably.

Smart computers as we would term them are extremely rare in warhammer, the Ad Mech doesn't like them since it starts treading too close to AI. The Exatari wont invent them. The Necrons are the Exatari only worse in this regard since their dumbest person can solve equations that the Exatari would struggle to even envision let even understand the absolute basics of the concept. About the only species that will have that tech is the Tau in a few centuries.
 
@Leon12431 Is it possible to ask Atraxas to take Wound-loss -> extra Action turns occasionally under relatively normal circumstances?

I'm thinking, roughly speaking:
  • Turn 13: 2 Wounds to 1-turn Library: Divinity (that should pay for it exactly)
  • Then a few turns off
  • Turn 16ish: ALL HANDS ON DECK, 1-turn Streamline the code of law and take as many Suspicion-reducers as possible.
  • Then not planning to use the ability again until the next Crisis...
 
@Leon12431 If we pass the Skip DC multiple times over in a turn, and have that multiple of available Resources, can we skip multiple turns per turn in the Matryoshka System project? That is, suppose we had 30k Resources on hand and managed a 4k DC in a turn, for Stage 1, would that advance the Project 3 turns?

Also, I assume
Actions that are funded by Hidden Wealth do not incur suspicion.
can't possibly hide Streamline the code of law or similar Actions? That said, could it maybe hide Reformation of the shadows? And possibly Improve Relations with Rogue Traders?
 
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If we pass the Skip DC multiple times over in a turn, and have that multiple of available Resources, can we skip multiple turns per turn in the Matryoshka System project? That is, suppose we had 30k Resources on hand and managed a 4k DC in a turn, for Stage 1, would that advance the Project 3 turns?
Yes, but do not expect to be able to do that often the Turn Skip DC will scale and scale heavily. It starts at 2k and you can assume that it will probably double per stage up to Stage 4 and then quadruple from stage 5 to stage 7 or 8 and then sextuple for 9 and 10.

can't possibly hide Streamline the code of law or similar Actions?
Yeah it's more that Hidden Wealth doesnt get suspicion for small actions, use common sense on if something can be generally done under the radar, generally anything small scale on world is applicable. No massive cultural changes, buildings, but more mundane/smaller scale things can be affected. Hidden Wealth is also useful when dealing with the less moral/upstanding Rogue Traders.
 
@Leon12431
Can we ask another Mechanicus to expedite Balkavus' work in exchange for a few points of Mechanicus Favor?
(Favor that we'll be getting >100 of, most likely in the same turn...)
I'm ignoring Gravus Favors for purposes of this question. Assume we've magically already spent them all.

Also:
Technically the Tyrant even without Emps would not be as bad as a normal Chaos God since it would still have some level of care for humanity, but in a very overlord style.
Doesn't Nurgle care for all life? I'm not completely convinced that the Tyrant (sans Emps) would be much better in practice...
 
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Doesn't Nurgle care for all life? I'm not completely convinced that the Tyrant (sans Emps) would be much better in practice...
It'd be moderately better. The Tyrant cares less for any individual human than for Humanity as a whole, but Nurgle loves all life equally and Black Death outnumbers you.
@Leon12431, is it possible to burn AM Favor to quell AM Rage?
Also, can we get a description of what each of the High Exotics would do if eaten? Here's what I've currently got:
  • Blackstone/Noctilith: Helps control the soul shred so we can actually do more finesse based warp fuckery. Might also make concentrating the soul shred for greater effect easier.
  • Auramite: Durability+++ Also maybe something to do with Laws?
  • Necrodermis: All Exatari Racial Traits+++
  • Lorelei: ??? Something warpy probably.
 
Doesn't Nurgle care for all life? I'm not completely convinced that the Tyrant (sans Emps) would be much better in practice...
No, Nurgle/Tzeentch/Khorne are the worst of the Chaos Gods. Slaanesh is infinitesimally better with regards to the Aeldari/Eldar due to how she was created. The Tyrant would be closer to Old Testament God with regards to humans, think basically Konrad+Lorgar+Pre Chaos Horus+Warlord Emps as a general concept of what that would look like with regards to humanity.

To everyone else it would be just as bad as the other four, but for Humanity it would be honestly not be an overall massive change from the current Imperium. In fact a good number of worlds would probably be overall improved by the Tyrant.

Nurgle loves Decay, he doesnt love Life, he loves its rot.

Can we ask another Mechanicus to expedite Balkavus' work in exchange for a few points of Mechanicus Favor?
You could yes, but it would be a higher favor cost than the one for Osiris since its a pretty boring action in question.

@Leon12431, is it possible to burn AM Favor to quell AM Rage?
Also, can we get a description of what each of the High Exotics would do if eaten? Here's what I've currently got:
  • Blackstone/Noctilith: Helps control the soul shred so we can actually do more finesse based warp fuckery. Might also make concentrating the soul shred for greater effect easier.
  • Auramite: Durability+++ Also maybe something to do with Laws?
  • Necrodermis: All Exatari Racial Traits+++
  • Lorelei: ??? Something warpy probably.
I am assuming you are referring to the Radiant Nexus with the first part and that is why it costs 1k Favor to even start.

As for the Exotics, I honestly havent mapped out the full array in totality. There is a lot of nuance to the general system and whatnot that needs to be accounted for.

But in short you can roughly assume that there are the following general effects
Blackstone: Balance (Warp/Blank)
Auramite: Control (Warp/Blank)
Necrodermis: Blank Bias, sort of a regression to a earlier evolutionary stage in some ways
Lorelei: Warp Bias, possible spiritual problems
 
No, Nurgle/Tzeentch/Khorne are the worst of the Chaos Gods. Slaanesh is infinitesimally better with regards to the Aeldari/Eldar due to how she was created.
I am not fully sure about that given how inactive they were before Slannesh's birth. After I agree 100%, but I think Slaanesh existences as deity of excess has a lot to do with that. But that might be my incorrect view.
 
Oh, they were corrupt shits before slaanesh, all of their viciousness, cruelty, hipocracy, short sightedness, and general foulness was present, they were just lazier.
 
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