The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up

Investigate the Sea?

  • Yes

    Votes: 593 80.4%
  • No

    Votes: 145 19.6%

  • Total voters
    738
"Let me see if I understand your request correctly. You want to investigate the possibility of directed reincarnation of human souls...as a means to keep the training times down for the people of Avernus?"
"Yes! We lose a good number of our assault-janitors to neon mold just in the nursuries alone. If we can get toddlers that already know how to handle small arms-"
*Inquisitor takes a deep drink from something potent*
Hah, knowing Avernus, our janitors cleaning up after school probably more resembles "high intensity urban warfare" than any sort of regular cleaning.
 
At the moment they still have an unknown but large number of slave soldiers as well as more regular troops. That is reason enough for me to further thin their numbers.

@durin
1. How long is the inner wall of the city?
2. I am unnerved about the fact that the DE inner city defence is still 150. While bombarding the outer city its defence value as well as its homeground advantage shrunk. Did we not do enough damage to reduce the inner city defence or did we just not 'notice' it or was that just forgoten?
3. Will we get the option to kill/thin out through artillery fire slaves manning the walls beside the breaches to further reduce the casulities we will get while storming the breaches?
1. 100 Km
2. you have not caused enough damage to reduce the defence yet
3. Yes
 
[X] Spend more time bombarding inner city and walls. - Further weaken the inner walls at the expense of at least half of your remaining artillery shells. - Best taken with request resupply

[X] Request Resupply – Get access to more artillery shells but will have to either dispatch a powerful force to escort it though the badlands or lose a portion of your resupply, and cargo shuttles to AA fire.
 
Chapter Five Canon Omakes: Letter from an exchange student
Omake: Letter from an exchange student

Dear mother

I hope you are doing well. I know grandmother was in poor health when I left. How are the girls treating you?
Anyway, I know you probably want to know about how I'm doing at school. I'm doing fine. The dorms are nice if a bit spartan, and the water is crystal clear, apparently it has been filtered over a dozen times for impurities so all that's left is the pure stuff. It's so much nicer than back home.
The teachers are all wonderful and highly educated. I was debating mathematical theory with my professor just the other day and loads of other people joined in.

Funny thing though is that I'm getting used to the deathworlder lifestyle even without experiencing the dangers due to living on the space station. The culture is so fascinating. It is apparently mandatory that everyone carry a weapon with them at all times including when they eat, sleep, and use the loo. I myself at the moment have the student issue laspistol on my belt.

Just the other day, my girlfriend Glynda, i know, shocking, went shopping the other day but the funny thing was, when we went shopping, she didn't go shopping for clothes or those eldritch things that girls other places like shopping for. We actually went to a gun store to pick up accessories for her lascarbine and she forced me to pick out a lasrifle of my own. Then we went to eat at the food court, and then we spent the rest of the day at the range and obstacle course. I managed to run the troopship course on my own and Glynda told me I was a natural at it though I think she was just patronizing me.

Also, the transition time between classes is a bit long, 45 minutes. Apparently it's so that students have plenty of time to get to class. It's only maybe ten minutes walk, but it's a holdover from planetside schooling where the students need to fight through whatever may have gotten into the hallways at the time.

Also, there's about four of us per room in the dorms and we always sleep in shifts. It's not really necessary, but it's a habit that my friends ask me to indulge them and I don't have the heart to say no. I'm getting too attached to this place, but I like it, you know? My grades are great. Smith, my shiftmate, always tutors me whenever I get stuck. I've never met nicer people than Avernites. I think I might stay here, though I'm probably not going to go planetside. I wouldn't last a week I suspect.

Tomorrow I have another date. They're changing up the obstacle course. Glynda hasn't run the Safari yet and she wants me there when she goes through it. I'll probably go shopping with her first though and pick up a red dot and forward grip. The iron sights on the lasrifle are terrible and the barrel shroud are so un-ergonomic that it's not even funny.

Hugs and Kisses
Jacob
 
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I love how the usual stereotype for Deathworlders is completely upside down for Avernites. Rather than the gruff, overly macho "you soft worlders don't know how good you've got it", it's "Hey, fellow human beings! Hello there, comrades!"
 
What's even funnier is that little clerk that works in the corner cubicle, the one who has trouble even talking to women, most likely knows 50 different ways to kill a man with his bare hands.
 
I want to see more wilderness survival types and rural settlements. I doubt those living in the climate controlled Hive Cities get the full Avernus experience.

The biggest problem they have to deal with on a regular basis are Blink Spiders.
 
I want to see more wilderness survival types and rural settlements. I doubt those living in the climate controlled Hive Cities get the full Avernus experience.

The biggest problem they have to deal with on a regular basis are Blink Spiders.
Given the massive spike in deaths every time the city defenses get compromised, I don't think those would work at all.
Plus Blink Spiders are no joke, I personally find them to be the most terrifying thing about this planet.
 
Given the massive spike in deaths every time the city defenses get compromised, I don't think those would work at all.
Plus Blink Spiders are no joke, I personally find them to be the most terrifying thing about this planet.
so do the locals
a decent percentage of Chaos Cultists worship Nurgle cause he promise to make them immune to Blink Spider bites
 
durin I missed it till I went back and looked at the rolls but you forgot +10 from here
+10 against Dark Eldar harassment when you are on the attack
and was going to add +20 on the next set of roll here.
yes there should have been, I will add +20 to the next results to compensate
However I didn't see a +20 to the assassins turn or the bombardment and had forgot to check. Was it used or just forgotten again?
 
durin I missed it till I went back and looked at the rolls but you forgot +10 from here

and was going to add +20 on the next set of roll here.

However I didn't see a +20 to the assassins turn or the bombardment and had forgot to check. Was it used or just forgotten again?
That is the next rolls against Dark Eldar harassment which will not occur until you get into the inner city.
 
I don't think the primarch reincarnate.
well every primarch foretold to return during end of time to fight last battle. maybe it is possible for emperor to help them reincarnate same he did in case of living saints.

"Listen but closely Brothers, for my life's breath is all but spent. There shall come a time far from now when our Chapter itself is dying, even as I am now dying, and our foes shall gather to destroy us. Then my children, I shall listen for your call in whatever realm of death holds me, and come I shall, no matter what the laws of life and death forbid. At the end I will be there. For the final battle. For the Wolftime."
— Last words of Leman Russ, Primarch of the Space Wolves Chapter, taken from the Codicium Imperialis, Vol. VI, Part I of the Liber Honorus
 
It can be safely assumed that Chaos ruined the Primarchs' plans to somehow return during the End Times. They're dicks like that.
 
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It can be safely assumed that Chaos ruined he Primarchs' plans to somehow return during the End Times. They're dicks like that.
if emperor can reincarnate so can they because emperor safeguards their souls. is it too far-fetched that before death he send one of primarch soul to Avernus? maybe he reincarnated as governor's next child. rogal rotbart? or Ferrus rotbart? or Sanguinius rotbart? or Corvus rotbart?
 
if emperor can reincarnate so can they because emperor safeguards their souls. is it too far-fetched that before death he send one of primarch soul to Avernus?
The Emperor can reincarnate because he's the most powerful psyker in the galaxy - powerful enough to defeat any single Chaos God (besides the Abomination) - and has experience with reincarnation due to the shamans. Despite these two factors, it'll take millennia for him to reincarnate due to being so weakened and the active presence of five Chaos Gods.

Considering his immensely weakened state and the strain that simply reincarnating would bring, I'd say he wouldn't spare any energy to reincarnate any of his sons. Doing so would delay his own resurrection by centuries or millennia (if not outright prevent it by not concentrating solely on himself) and mankind cannot be delayed their Emperor, even for a Primarch.
 
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I want to see more wilderness survival types and rural settlements. I doubt those living in the climate controlled Hive Cities get the full Avernus experience.
We don't actually have any rural settlements. And while we do have people who deliberately go out to harvest the few useful things found in the wilderness, and capture live specimens for whatever reason*, they either die young or retire early.


* Why do we have zoos? Who thought this was a good idea?
 
I want to see more wilderness survival types and rural settlements. I doubt those living in the climate controlled Hive Cities get the full Avernus experience.

I don't think there is anyone who lives like that on Avernus, the wildlife is simply too deadly, and too good at demolition work for anything short of a full on military compound to survive. Honestly living on Avernus is probably closer to a constant war or fluctuating intensity than a typical deathworld.
 
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