Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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- Dancing on wires!
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The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up
- Thread starter Durin
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And one day Freddy and Jane will be joining them. Them, Ultan, Saren and the rest of our band of merry men that set out on this expedition in the first place. I hope Syr does a good job when we're gone.
- Location
- Germany
He served long, he fought well and he died killing demons.
What more can a Cadian Veteran want?
What more can a Cadian Veteran want?
Should be 125
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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- Dancing on wires!
Not when these were the good bits of that older generation.
@durin did Drago write down a Cadia's view of warfare so that his knowledge could be passed to the next generation?
- Location
- Someplace USA
at least Schwarz made it next to Drago he's our best general though didn't he get exactly what he needed?
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HanEmpire
Delicious
He organized the majority of Avernus' military training procedures so that's probably a given.
- Location
- Berkeley
I'd say for the most part, from a strictly clinical viewpoint, we've lost important people, but we've kept critical people. Ridcully and Lin are basically irreplaceable--we literally cannot find people who do what they do. Oakheart, Xavier, Tranth, and Rotbart are also extremely hard to find anyone even close to the same level of competence.
Henry, Britton, and Drago were all quite good, and probably significantly better than their replacements will be, but they are ultimately replaceable.
Of course, on an emotional level I really liked Henry and Britton especially, so right now this sucks. It's just they weren't people that you look at their stats and traits and think you're never going to find anything like that again.
Henry, Britton, and Drago were all quite good, and probably significantly better than their replacements will be, but they are ultimately replaceable.
Of course, on an emotional level I really liked Henry and Britton especially, so right now this sucks. It's just they weren't people that you look at their stats and traits and think you're never going to find anything like that again.
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- not telling
One more to go then we fort back up. I'm hoping that our more pricey stuff wasn't wreaked because this is post WW1 and 2 combined levels of nation rebuilding. Our grand plans are going on the back burner for a few turns but any other world in the trust would be done for right now not just decimated.
So one thing to help counter this in the future is a few military city-ships patrolling in each region since those have the shields and engines to keep on trucking despite enemy fire while carrying a good sized army on board.
We really need to design a ship made solely for one of them since the Well of Udr is one of a kind hopefully they can be made with less than battleship-sized hulls.
We really need to design a ship made solely for one of them since the Well of Udr is one of a kind hopefully they can be made with less than battleship-sized hulls.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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- Dancing on wires!
Any other imperial trust world would have been preemptively exterminatused to prevent a demon world forming cause that is the level of this invasion.
Small in the scale of devine politics, but to us mortal huge as shit.
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- not telling
A mass conveyor sized troop transport that can only haul 3-5 of them and their support and nothing else like the Titan transports?
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
he did, that is why I gave him major wounds to represent his close brush with death
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
that would work
Divisio Investigatus Report
This is the initial analysis by the on-sight head of the Divisio Investigatus, the construction branch of the Collegia Titanica. A detailed proposal of what Sanctum will become will have to wait until later.
Divisio Investigatus Report
Salvage Analysis of Sanctus Furorem, Warlord Battle Titan, Mars-Beta Pattern, Legio Durus
Lead Investigator: Magos Blarkin
Full Document Length: 5421 pages
Summary of Conclusion: Salvageable, Complex
Summary By Aspect
-Core: Intact. Miracle of the Omnissiah
-Manifold System: Intact. A second Miracle.
-Plasma Reactor: Extensive damage, plans not available, BER
-Armor: 23% Salvageable. Extensive micro-fractures amongst the majority of the surviving plates.
-Pelvis: 50% Salvageable. Fortunately includes the majority of the complete active balance systems. Will need extensive re-calibration and adjustment.
-Right Leg: 90% Salvageable. Foot needs replacement, but the joints are intact.
-Left Leg: 85% Salvageable. Some damage to the pelvis joint, but it should be repairable.
-Upper Torso Structure: 30% Salvageable. Much of it was ruined by various forms of warp contamination.
-Right Arm (Belicosa Volcano Cannon): Destroyed, partial frame of the upper shoulder recovered. BER
-Left Arm (Belicosa Volcano Cannon): Mostly destroyed. Power feeds remain. BER
-Right Carapace (Plasma Blastgun): Destroyed, photonic cell rupture. Extensive secondary damage to surrounding structure. BER
-Left Carapace (Plasma Blastgun): Destroyed, photonic cell rupture. Feed system remains intact, but will need extensive re-calibration with the new reactor. BER
-Tertiary Weapons: Destroyed, extensive secondary damage. BER
Long Summary:
I'll cut right to the chase and say that Sanctus Furorem will never be what it once was. Considering the sheer extent of the damage and the fact that we lack both the designs and technology to build God-Engines, any thought of a full restoration is an exercise in self delusion. Back in the old days, a Titan that had be wrecked this bad would have been shipped back to it's origin Forge World. Considering the vintage of Sanctus Furorem, the Divisio Investigatus would likely spend a century or two trying to piece it back together with what limited scraps of knowledge they had been able to preserve. As a Mars-Beta, it would be unlikely that it would even enter service again, with the type's legendary bellicose nature being present in full force. As heretical as it sounds, most of by branch colleges would be glad as well.
But with a fall of the Imperium, I can honestly state that we have more options. The big secret of the the Collegia Titanicus is that the act of making a Titan is technically a form of tech-heresy. When the Crimson Accords of Mars were signed, the creation of Titans was found to be in violation. This was quietly hushed up and ignored, and the Divisio Investigatus was given a semi-secret waver. The existence and necessity of this waiver was one of the many open secrets of Mars, and nobody ever managed to find a functional workaround that would enable its revocation. In the here and now, this waiver allows us to get creative.
While we currently don't have the capability to restore a Mars-Beta, we do have the technology to create a new pattern. Thanks to the discoveries of Archmagos Tranth, I can honestly say that not only can we match the venerable works of Mars, we can surpass them. When Sword of Surtur datacache was discovered, many members of my division began preliminary efforts to integrate the new finds. I can say for absolute certainty that we will eventually be able to create an improved patterns given enough time. For Sanctus Furorem, the only component that will need to redeveloped is the mass and inertial control mechanisms, which are fortunately mostly intact. Unfortunately, I cannot even pretend to give a time estimate for how long it would take, as neither I nor any of my fellow division members has even done anything like this before.
Divisio Investigatus Report
Salvage Analysis of Sanctus Furorem, Warlord Battle Titan, Mars-Beta Pattern, Legio Durus
Lead Investigator: Magos Blarkin
Full Document Length: 5421 pages
Summary of Conclusion: Salvageable, Complex
Summary By Aspect
-Core: Intact. Miracle of the Omnissiah
-Manifold System: Intact. A second Miracle.
-Plasma Reactor: Extensive damage, plans not available, BER
-Armor: 23% Salvageable. Extensive micro-fractures amongst the majority of the surviving plates.
-Pelvis: 50% Salvageable. Fortunately includes the majority of the complete active balance systems. Will need extensive re-calibration and adjustment.
-Right Leg: 90% Salvageable. Foot needs replacement, but the joints are intact.
-Left Leg: 85% Salvageable. Some damage to the pelvis joint, but it should be repairable.
-Upper Torso Structure: 30% Salvageable. Much of it was ruined by various forms of warp contamination.
-Right Arm (Belicosa Volcano Cannon): Destroyed, partial frame of the upper shoulder recovered. BER
-Left Arm (Belicosa Volcano Cannon): Mostly destroyed. Power feeds remain. BER
-Right Carapace (Plasma Blastgun): Destroyed, photonic cell rupture. Extensive secondary damage to surrounding structure. BER
-Left Carapace (Plasma Blastgun): Destroyed, photonic cell rupture. Feed system remains intact, but will need extensive re-calibration with the new reactor. BER
-Tertiary Weapons: Destroyed, extensive secondary damage. BER
Long Summary:
I'll cut right to the chase and say that Sanctus Furorem will never be what it once was. Considering the sheer extent of the damage and the fact that we lack both the designs and technology to build God-Engines, any thought of a full restoration is an exercise in self delusion. Back in the old days, a Titan that had be wrecked this bad would have been shipped back to it's origin Forge World. Considering the vintage of Sanctus Furorem, the Divisio Investigatus would likely spend a century or two trying to piece it back together with what limited scraps of knowledge they had been able to preserve. As a Mars-Beta, it would be unlikely that it would even enter service again, with the type's legendary bellicose nature being present in full force. As heretical as it sounds, most of by branch colleges would be glad as well.
But with a fall of the Imperium, I can honestly state that we have more options. The big secret of the the Collegia Titanicus is that the act of making a Titan is technically a form of tech-heresy. When the Crimson Accords of Mars were signed, the creation of Titans was found to be in violation. This was quietly hushed up and ignored, and the Divisio Investigatus was given a semi-secret waver. The existence and necessity of this waiver was one of the many open secrets of Mars, and nobody ever managed to find a functional workaround that would enable its revocation. In the here and now, this waiver allows us to get creative.
While we currently don't have the capability to restore a Mars-Beta, we do have the technology to create a new pattern. Thanks to the discoveries of Archmagos Tranth, I can honestly say that not only can we match the venerable works of Mars, we can surpass them. When Sword of Surtur datacache was discovered, many members of my division began preliminary efforts to integrate the new finds. I can say for absolute certainty that we will eventually be able to create an improved patterns given enough time. For Sanctus Furorem, the only component that will need to redeveloped is the mass and inertial control mechanisms, which are fortunately mostly intact. Unfortunately, I cannot even pretend to give a time estimate for how long it would take, as neither I nor any of my fellow division members has even done anything like this before.
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- Location
- Northish
Well on the plus side we might get to see what a Titan sized Impaler and plasma foil wielded by a hate filled god machine can do.
