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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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sabreFather
Dr Pepper is the flavour that I savour
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- Land of Bears and Loggers AKA Oregon
The Technologies of Hera are both Heretical AND Heretekal!
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- Australia
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- Berkeley
...so as to be able to rightly refute the claim that they can be in any way comparable to the righteous non-Chaos traits of the hardworking men and women of the glorious Imperium! Not that I would in any way know anyone who would be willing to suggest such a crazy idea, even in jest.
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- madison
personally, I'm interested to see what kind of traits let him be sane. He's a demon prince so he has to have high P, do that would mean he should be nuts. If we know what traits let him be clever we can make sure to kill up and coming chaos champions with is.
Shard
One and Many
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- Malaysia
Says the Abomite!
We can only hope... having him fall would be an enormous boon to the progressives.
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- madison
man, do not even joke about that. corruption that high up is never good.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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- Dancing on wires!
The civil war that would result from that would not be a boon.
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- England
I mean the inquisition is pretty damn good at headcapping falling trust leaders, even managing to take out a senior member of itself for abomnite sympathies.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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- Dancing on wires!
That's part of the Inquisitions regular duties, they're very good at head capping each other.
It becomes a bit harder when you're talking about someone who controls the core of the admech's military.
@Durin
1. While we don't know the details yet, is the type of progressiveness Callamus supports the kind that also gets our new Prime wanting to purge some hereteks?
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- Berkeley
Honestly, in my mind part of the problem would be the repercussions rather than the act itself. Some fraction of the conservative faction is not going to believe that explanation—we've had two people in that position die in combat against enemies of the Trust and there are already whispers about political assassination. The truth is far from an airtight defense in the court of public opinion.
Plus, given his piety/trait combination, the dude is near the bottom of the list of people likely to fall. At most he will foster an environment where people under his command are more vulnerable to falling to the Abomination than the other gods—exactly the original reason that reformation of the admech was needed.
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- Germany
Unlikely.
If it comes out, and it will at some point, most of his forces will turn against him.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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- Dancing on wires!
He's got the strong core of the mech's military and a lot of them have seen the "writing on the wall" as it were and are convinced that the admech is descending into the depths of tech heresy and corruption, no I do not trust them to remain loyal I expect them to drink the cool aid they've been slurping.
The Battle congregations maybe not, but the Skittari and Myrmidons will absolutely follow him.
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- Germany
Pretty sure those have protocols in case of a corrupted leader.
It's only a question of how much damage he would do before becoming obvious about the corruption.
And once the fighting starts Chaos almost always becomes more and more obvious.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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- Dancing on wires!
Oh they have protocols.
Thing is protocols only matter when you give a **** about them.
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- Africa
Will Scott's military reforms allow her to gain influence in the addmech military and start swaying them to her side?
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- Australia
Yeah, but also because Paladis was really pretty moderate all things considered. Dude approved of progress, it was just unnecessary progress that he disliked. It's plausible that he made the military more progressive by convincing hardline conservatives to his way of thinking. I don't think it was coincidence that his heir shared the same opinions as him.Because this one is an even better target?
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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- Dancing on wires!
As I understand it her plan is to reduce the number of "military" personnel and add more battle congregations which are drawn from more normal tech priests who are sliding more and more towards the progressives.
The fact that many battle congregations will be drawn from Avernus also likely forms part of the decision.
Its not even a bad one, since the congregations contain many of the most potent and unique weapons available to the admech.
So shifting topics what do people think about the looming conference? I'm pretty sure Frederick's going attend if only because of his martial lending to better explain the tech we've got well that and he's the view point character.
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- Australia
Martial has nothing to do with explaining tech. That's Learning, or Diplomacy if you want to stretch it. Frederick might be the POV character, but he as a planetary governor who's good at war has no reason to be there. It's a tech trade, so the relevant parties are the Mechanicus or the Inquisition. It's not in Frederick's ballpark.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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- Dancing on wires!
Can Rotbart explain how X piece of tech works.
No.
Can he explain its military applications, cost benefit analysis, how best to implement them and effectiveness in real combat.
Absolutely he kinda helped pioneer a lot of it.