Our conquest of garkills are gonna free up a million serf, billion guard and 1k space marines that they can throw against either valinor or the other two ork realms for dragons nest so that should be a pretty good opening for relations.
I guess the hope is that dragons nest has a lesser forge world or something like that and that they have access thanks to that to highest level forges cause otherwise only source of the last upgrades are gonna be in atlas and thats only if they didnt go insane and 500ly wont be fun to do with current travel tech. And durin only commented on the "general" tech level and maybe their mech world just doesnt want to share and thats to blame abit on that or they didnt have great stc library to maintain a whole sector without help for example?
And to make clear my thought for stc giveways would be basic tech ones and very very few of weapon ones even if we wont besties it will help if they are better equipped and abit more productive. Maybe a variant or two of the impaler if things go well for the most part for a firepower upgrade here or if they lack a basic imperial stc for firepower wise then maybe those aswell or a rarer variant of a russ or something or a generic baneblade and stuff like that?
We can explain that we have this extensive of stc library cause we robbed atlas blind thanks to a very valuable stc find to explain away the reason why we have this good of a tech base for example and straight out stc-s just before the collapse wich is actually the truth for the most part aswell if they have questions?
And if we wanna impress we can just throw some land raiders as a gift + say we can sell u as many as u want if ur rich enough if u want for example is a pretty cool strategy to impress the space marine part of things. (we have found several hundred of them in ships we found btw so it is basicly a on "paper" gift) .
Random thought , we could afford to give our space marines a land raider per squad if they wanted it pretty easily especially if they are willing to pay the upkeep rofl.
And if they are interested and can afford it we may sell them power armor for chapter serfs maybe if things go very well relations wise is a another thing to consider what we would have available and give their elites extra punch(and just sell not give the stc for them)
and a general question to everyone and @Durin
1) Whats our escort and capital ship numbers for both overall and for avernus and maybe the deployable ones only so a generic idea thanks to the region estimates to know in the future?
