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

[DeusFerreus]

Another thing we could trade/offer during the conference is the reverse engineering itself - I wouldn't be surprised if other polities have some advanced archeotech that they can't undestand and replicate, but team of Tranth and Ridcully could.

 

[godofsmallthings]

Another thing we could trade/offer during the conference is the reverse engineering itself - I wouldn't be surprised if other polities have some advanced archeotech that they can't undestand and replicate, but team of Tranth and Ridcully can.

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Yeah, it would be similar to how we sell the divination services of Ridcully to the Eldar.

 

[DragonParadox]

You know, if Xavier and Aria figure out why their souls are pure and others not, could psykers learn a ritual where they (perhaps with assistance) could selectively purge the impure parts of their own soul, perhaps with daemonology or pyromancy (oh hey, both their specialties)?

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I believe it's been discussed before when people talked about curing corruption that we can do soul surgery. Unfortunately our most precise instrument is a chainsaw.

 

[Durin]

Turn One Hundred and Twenty
Three Hundred and Twenty years since the Founding of Avernus
Five years Turn

As the war with Turoq remains calm attention in the Imperial Trust turns to more political matters. Over the last few years there have been several major shifts in the political landscape, with the new Lord-Marshal giving the conservatives in the High Council more support even as the news from Callamus emboldens the progressives within the Adeptus Mechanicus. Given the impact that the coming High Council Meeting and the decisions it makes will have not just on the Imperial Trust but on the galaxy as a whole this politics is even more important then usual, and you should work to make your vice heard.

Currently General Richards is rather busy with several long term projects, which when completed will greatly expand Avernus' defensive capacity, boost your economy by a significant amount and bring your forces back up to full strength.

General Richards gains trait Rounded Officer (+2I)- General Richards believes that all generals should be skilled at commanding all types of operations. As such she has worked to cover up her weakness in commanding covert operations.
Marshal Stumpf combines traits Military Brat (+3M, +2A, +1L, +5C, +10 morale to all forces under her command), Experienced (+1M, +2A, +3L, +2C) and Avernus Officers Academy Graduate (+3M, +3A, +2L, +2P, +3C) into trait Soldier to the Bone (+9M, +8A, +6L, +3P, +11C, +1 to all other stats, +20 morale to all forces under her command)- Marshal Stumpf was born, raised and trained to be a soldier and has since spent centuries in every position within the Avernite military. This has ingrained her nature as a soldier so deep that she is a soldier in the same way that she is human.

Spoiler: Departmento Munitorum

Three Locked Choose None

Helguard Tithe: First Stage- General Richards tells you that she will now be able to begin increasing the tithe for the Avernite Helguard. The first stage of this is to bring the tithe up to the same level that the Helltroopers are currently tithed at: a hundred and five percent. This will take a few decades but will provide both a powerful force to the Imperial Trust Guard and a major boost to your economy.

Time: 25 years

Cost: 4,000,000,000 Thrones, 330,000,000 Material, 14,000,000 Promethium, 100,000,000 Advanced Material, 1,600,000 Exotic Material .
Upkeep per year: -140,000,000 Thrones, -3,200,000 Material, -1,200,000 Promethium, -5,400,000 Advanced Material, -46,000 Exotic Material.
Reward: Recruit 3,423 Helguard Regiments to tithe to Imperial Trust Guard

Locked- Fifteen out of Twenty-Five years completed

Recruit- Your forces suffered extremely heavy losses during the recent daemonic incursion, losses that will take the better part of two decades to replace. General Richards would like to begin work on rebuilding her forces as soon as possible. She tells you that with the ever present threat of Turoq having the Avernite military as damaged as it is severely weakens the defences of the Imperial Trust.

Time: 16 years

Cost: 3,500,000,000 Thrones, 450,000,000 Material, 15,000,000 Promethium, 81,000,000 Advanced Material, 230,000 Exotic Material .
Reward: Recruit forces to replace losses in Second Daemonic Incursion

Locked- Eleven out of Sixteen years completed

Power Armoured Militia- Currently a large number of Avernites have managed to acquire their own suits of power armour, either by personal wealth or as part of a group. General Richards believes that by providing tax cuts to the owners of these suits as long as they reach a certain required skill level, she will be able to recruit a massive powered armoured militia force. This will both be time consuming and very expensive but the reward is estimated to be over a hundred and twenty million power armoured militiamen - an incredible force. It should be noted that despite their armour this force will not be nearly as effective as your regulars due to the differences in training.

Time: 20 years

Cost: 39,000,000,000 Thrones, 3,900,000,000 Material, 390,000,000 Metal, 309,000,000 Promethium, 7,900,000 Advanced Material.
Upkeep: Estimated 8.5 billion Thrones a year
Reward: Recruit 1 power armoured militia regiment per 10 militia siege infantry brigades, currently 20,000. Power Armoured Militia Regiments have +20 combat skill from superior training.

Locked- Six out of Twenty years completed

Implement (Technology): Planning- General Schwarz has already implemented the most important technologies found in the datacores but there are still many types that remain unused. He could spend a few years deciding how to best use a selected technology.

Time: 2 years

Cost: 39,000,000 Thrones, 7,800,000 Material, 790,000 Promethium, 85,000 Advanced Material, 95 Exotic Material.
Reward: Plan on how to implement chosen technology


Readiness Training- General Drago suggests putting his troops though combat readiness training in order to ensure that they are fully prepared if another invasion occurs. While effective this training will not have any long term effects and will need to be redone every decade. General Drago does not consider this to be urgent.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 60% (each success reduces chance of success by 5%, this recovers at a rate of one per two years)

Cost: 12,200,000 Thrones, 1,220,000 Material, 122,000 Promethium, 167 Advanced Material
Reward: +5 to all combat rolls for regular forces the next decade, can be taken multiple times


Militia Readiness Training- General Schwarz suggests putting the militia though combat readiness training in order to ensure that they are fully prepared for the incoming invasion. This would potentially provide a massive boost to your total combat power but given that you want to avoid using the militia in combat as much as possible how much effect thi will actually have is unknown.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 60% (each success reduces chance of success by 5%, this recovers at a rate of one per two years)

Cost: 880,000,000 Thrones, 88,000,000 Material, 8,800,000 Promethium, 8,500 Advanced Material
Reward: +5 to all combat rolls for militia the next decade, can be taken multiple times, -1% city productivity per attempt (for the turn)


Specialist Grenadiers (Write In): Planning- Now that you have the Elite Training Facilities General Drago would like to create elite, specialist units that take advantage of the unique skills that each region of Avernus instils in its soldiers. General Drago does not consider this to be urgent.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: Variable

Cost: 7,200,000 Thrones, 14,400 Material, 1,440 Promethium, 860 Advanced Material.
Reward: Get Composition of Chosen Elite Unit. Put forward a write-in of a unit type and I will tell you if it it viable and how easy it will be (good omake will make it easier).

Admiral Sarnow tells you that the forces of Turoq have begun to launch a series of faints against many of the worlds in the Imperial Trust, almost all of which have withdrawn without any shots being fired. He tells you that this is most likely Turoq probing your responses in preparation for a major battle.

Spoiler: Helheim Void Command

Two Locked Choose One
One One year

Deploy Fleet- Admiral Sarnow tells you that Avernus' defences are more then strong enough to deal with any raids from Turoq. As such he is comfortable deploying the entire Warp capable fleet to more vulnerable worlds in order to better protect them.

Time: unknown

Cost per year: 1,000,000,000 Thrones, 200,000,000 Material, 40,000,000 Promethium, 200,000 Advanced Material, 1,000 Exotic Material .
Reward: Have Avernite Fleet assist in the defence of the colonies.

Locked- Eighteen out of ?? years completed

Attack Craft- Currently you do not have nearly enough attack craft to fill all of your attack craft bays. Admiral Sarnow has put forward a proposal to train up enough attack craft pilots to change this, though not by enough to fully fill them. While expensive this would allow you to partially man your Advanced Defence Stations hangars, making any assault on Avernus far more challenging.

Time: 17 years.

Cost: 9,800,000,000 Thrones, 530,000,000 Material, 540,000,000 Promethium, 105,000,000 Advanced Material, 1,400,000 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 390,000,000 Thrones, 21,000,000 Material, 220,000,000 Promethium, 4,200,000 Advanced Material, 23,000 Exotic Material.
Reward: Recruit 18,000 Guardian Fighter Wings, 18,000 Dragon Bomber Wings, 2,000 Wraith Interceptor Wings, 3,000 Assassin Bomber Wings and 4,500 Aggressor Attack Boat Wings

Locked- Thirteen out of Seventeen years completed

Construct: External Torpedo Launchers- On Roskilde Archmagos Tranth found designs for external torpedoes launchers which can be added to warships to give them one shot torpedoes. While individually minor if you upgrade your entire fleet this will give you a powerful opening volley. It will take a good deal of shipyard time to add these to your ships but not be hugely expensive.

Time: 11 years

Cost: 7,700,000,000 Thrones, 1,500,000,000 Material, 120,000,000 Promethium, 2,800,000 Advanced Material, 160,000 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 120,000,000 Thrones, 25,000,000 Material, 12,000,000 Promethium, 28,000 Advanced Material, 790 Exotic Material.
Reward: Add External Torpedo Launchers to all warships, add 7,531 Escort Torpedo Launchers, 4,082 Cruiser Torpedo Launchers and 768 Battleship Torpedo Launchers.

Locked- Five out of Eleven years completed

Ship Design Investigation (Ship)- While you gained many ancient ship designs from the Sword of Sutur datacores there are still many holes in the line of battle for the Imperial Trust. Admiral Sarnow could spend a year determining if a particular design would work. If it is determined that a design is possible it will then have to be passed on to the Adeptus Mechanicus to actually make the design.

Time: varies (1 yr for escorts, 2 years for cruisers, 3 years for battleships, 4 years for Command Battleships, 5 years for Dreadnoughts)
Chance of Success: 60% (uses learning)

Cost: 38,000,000 Thrones per year
Reward: information on whether design is possible and useful.

Upgrade Defences (Avernus or Deiphobe)- Orbital defences have proven to be one of the main advantages that your fleets have against invaders. Admrial Sarnow would like to further strengthen your orbital defences both at Deiphobe and Avernus to make attacks even more challenging.

Time: 10 years

Cost: 9,500,000,000 Thrones, 3,000,000,000 Material, 860,000,000 Metal, 200,000,000 Promethium, 1,500,000 Advanced Material, 35,000 Exotic Material .
Upkeep per year: 210,000,000 Thrones, 66,000,000 Material, 19,000,000 Metal, 4,500,000 Promethium, 14,000 Advanced Material, 150 Exotic Material.
Reward: Build 21 Advanced Defence Stations, 90 Advanced Heavy Orbital Weapons Platforms and 450 Advanced Orbital Weapons Platforms around selected planet

Further Thicken Minefield: Deiphobe- One option to expand the defences of Deiphobe is to quadruple the density of the minefield. This would quadruple the damage that the mines inflict, making the minefield likely to destroy most cruisers that try to advance though it and inflict major damage on even Battleships. This would be a time consuming and expensive option, but would make attacking though the minefield near impossible for most fleets.

Time: 12 years.

Cost: 350,00,000,000 Thrones, 72,000,000,000 Material, 3,500,000,000 Promethium, 52,000,000 Advanced Material
Upkeep per year: 8,800,000,000 Thrones, 2,200,000,000 Material, 110,000,000 Promethium, 680,000 Advanced Material
Reward: Thicken Minefield to very heavy

Expand Shipyards: Small- Now that you have a huge shipyard it is possible to build five small shipyards at a time. This would allow you to more quickly increase the total number of shipyards that you own though it would not help with building capital ships or maintaining anything above cruiser. Admiral Parnell would prefer to finish all of your planned large shipyards before building up your small shipyards.

Time: 11 years. (can be taken twice)

Cost: 740,000,000 Thrones, 111,000,000 Material, 55,500,000 Metal, 111,000,000 Promethium, 10,200 Advanced Material, 475 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 148,000,000 Thrones, 22,200,000 Material, 11,100,000 Metal, 11,100,000 Promethium
Reward: 5 new small shipyards


Expand Shipyards: Large- Now that you have a huge shipyard it is possible to build large shipyards whole. This would increase the rate at which you can build capital ships and maintain anything short of battleships more easily. Admiral Parnell advices you to focus on this until you have all four large shipyards that you plan on constructing.

Time: 11 years. (can be taken twice)

Cost: 740,000,000 Thrones, 111,000,000 Material, 55,500,000 Metal, 111,000,000 Promethium, 10,200 Advanced Material, 475 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 148,000,000 Thrones, 22,200,000 Material, 11,100,000 Metal, 11,100,000 Promethium
Reward: 1 new large shipyard


Readiness Training: Fleet- With Garkill and his forces being expected to arrive within two years Admiral Parnell would like to conduct some last minute training and exercises with his fleet to better prepare them. This could provide a needed edge to your fleet which could have a major impact on the course of the campaign.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 60% (each success reduces chance of success by 5%, this recovers at a rate of one per two years)

Cost: 44,000,000 Thrones, 4,400,000 Material, 440,000 Promethium, 8,500 Advanced Material
Reward: +5 to all combat rolls for fleet the next decade, can be taken multiple times


Readiness Training: Defences- With Garkill and his forces being expected to arrive within two years Admiral Parnell would like to conduct some last minute training and exercises with his orbital defences in order to better prepare them. This could provide a key advantage to your orbital defences, which represent the majority of your firepower.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 60% (each success reduces chance of success by 5%, this recovers at a rate of one per two years)

Cost: 44,000,000 Thrones, 4,400,000 Material, 440,000 Promethium, 8,500 Advanced Material
Reward: +5 to all combat rolls for defences the next decade, can be taken multiple times

Signe tells you that your recent trade with Midgard removes your only real short term resource issue. However she does suggest that you start expanding your stockpile of Material to prepare for the expansion of your Large Forge-Hives, which will require almost double your current reserves.

Spoiler: Adeptus Administratum

Two Locked Choose One
One Five years

Expand Mine: Belisama- Belisama has grown large enough hat you could build an even bigger mine in it. This massive mine would bring in around forty billion metal a year, enough to make Avernus the largest single producer of metal in the Imperial Trust. This would be a massive economic and industrial windfall for Avernus and Signe suggests that you begin work immediately.

Time: 14 years. (can only begin in year 5)

Cost: 25,000,000,000 Thrones, 5,000,000,000 Material, 5,000,000,000 Metal, 990,000,000 Promethium, 15,000 Advanced Material, 96 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 2,500,000,000 Thrones, 500,000,000 Material, 500,000,000 Metal, 99,000,000 Promethium, 770 Advanced Material, 2 Exotic Material.
Reward: Expand Mine in Belisama to Titanic, +458 million base metal (+38 billion after modifiers), base metal increases from +700% to +800% (+2 billion after modifiers)

Locked-Eight out of Fourteen years completed

Build Hive (The Azure Islands)- There are several of your regions that have good locations to build a new Hive in, allowing your population and economy to grow further without expanding into a new region. As things stand you could build 1 Hive in Avernus' Spine, 3 in The Fair isles, 1 in Lindon, 2 in The Fens, 12 in Elysium and 2 in Aridia.

Time: 15 years.

Cost: 4,900,000,000 Thrones, 4,000,000,000 Material, 3,700,000,000 Metal, 6,700,000,000 Promethium, 3,500,000 Advanced Material, 40,000 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 277,000,000 Thrones, 234,000,000 Material, 217,000,000 Metal, 39,500,000 Promethium, 19,500 Advanced Material, 234 Exotic Material.
Reward: Build new Small Hive in selected region

Locked- Three out of Fifteen years completed

Personal Attention: Build Hive (Terascon, Lonely Mountain)- There are several of your regions that have good locations to build a new Hive in, allowing your population and economy to grow further without expanding into a new region. As things stand you could build 1 Hive in Avernus' Spine, 3 in The Fair isles, 1 in Lindon, 2 in The Fens, 12 in Elysium and 2 in Aridia.

Time: 15 years.

Cost: 4,900,000,000 Thrones, 4,000,000,000 Material, 3,700,000,000 Metal, 6,700,000,000 Promethium, 3,500,000 Advanced Material, 40,000 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 277,000,000 Thrones, 234,000,000 Material, 217,000,000 Metal, 39,500,000 Promethium, 19,500 Advanced Material, 234 Exotic Material.
Reward: Build new Small Hive in selected region

Locked- Seven out of Twenty-Two years completed

Carniflower Investigation- Signe wishes to spend a few years looking into using Carniflowers as an additional defence for your cities. Current proposals include either parks of Carniflowers that can be woken on top of attackers, plantations outside of your cities that can ambush besieging armies or Carniflowers in the lobby of building to deal with people who breach the doors.

Time: 7 years
Chance of Success: 40%

Cost: 380,000,000 Thrones
Reward: Information on how to use Carniflowers to strengthen the defences of your cities.

Alkahestry Reagents- Before you can begin producing your own Alkahestrial products you will need to begin gathering reagents. This is mostly an expansion of the existing gathering that you do as part of your trade agreement with Lulana and her hive.

Time: 4 years

Cost: 38,000,000 Thrones, 3,800,000 Material, 3,800,000 Promethium, 79,000 Advanced Material, 890 Exotic Materials
Upkeep per year: 3,800,000 Thrones, 380,000 Material, 380,000 Promethium, 7,900 Advanced Material, 89 Exotic Material.
Reward: allows you to produce Alkahestrial products

Illusory Pines: Total- Signe has put forward two main ideas for using illusory pines to strengthen the defences of your cities. The first idea is to take it to its full extent, covering the entire city with layered illusions making gathering good information from it challenging at all levels. However this would take decades and be a rather expensive project.

Time: 35 years.

Cost: 260,000,000,000 Thrones, 26,000,000,000 Material, 260,000,000 Promethium, 5,300,000 Advanced Material.
Upkeep per year: 2,600,000,000 Thrones, 260,000,000 Material, 2,600,000 Promethium, 54,000 Advanced Material.
Reward: Fill all cities with illusory pines to full extent, defensive bonus to all stages of siege warfare

Illusory Pines: Inner- Signe has put forward two main ideas for using illusory pines to strengthen the defences of your cities. The second idea is to use illusory pines to make the cities internal defences more confusing and harder to navigate. This would be significantly cheaper and quicker then going for the entire city, but would still be a major project.

Time: 25 years.

Cost: 200,000,000,000 Thrones, 20,000,000,000 Material, 200,000,000 Promethium, 4,200,000 Advanced Material.
Upkeep per year: 2,000,000,000 Thrones, 200,000,000 Material, 2,000,000 Promethium, 42,000 Advanced Material.
Reward: Fill cities with illusory pines to strengthen internal defences, defensive bonus to internal defences

Build Hive (Region)- There are several of your regions that have good locations to build a new Hive in, allowing your population and economy to grow further without expanding into a new region. As things stand you could build 1 Hive in Avernus' Spine, 3 in The Fair isles, 1 in Lindon, 2 in The Fens, 12 in Elysium and 2 in Aridia.

Time: 15 years.

Cost: 4,900,000,000 Thrones, 4,000,000,000 Material, 3,700,000,000 Metal, 6,700,000,000 Promethium, 3,500,000 Advanced Material, 40,000 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 277,000,000 Thrones, 234,000,000 Material, 217,000,000 Metal, 39,500,000 Promethium, 19,500 Advanced Material, 234 Exotic Material.
Reward: Build new Small Hive in selected region

Administrative Shake up- In the centuries since the Avernite Administratum was founded much has changed, about both Avernus and the galaxy as a whole. Signe is sure that this had led to several administrative inefficiencies forming within it. She thinks that with a few years work she will be able to find these and patch them up.

Time: 2 years.
Chance of Success: 20%(goes down by 5% per success)

Cost: 370,000,000 Thrones
Reward: +0.5% administrative efficiency (currently 62.5%)


Munition Stores- Edvin has recently proposed building a series of massive munition stores in each of your cities, which will contain massive amounts of fuel and munitions allowing your cities to withstand extended sieges. These stores would be heavily armoured to prevent them becoming liabilities and would be able to allow your cities for fire all of their defensive weapons and those of their militia for an entire month without pause, so they could prove useful. However building and filling them will be both time consuming and very expensive.

Time: 10 years.

Cost: 72,000,000,000 Thrones, 36,000,000,000 Material, 12,000,000 Metal, 3,600,000,000 Promethium, 19,000,000 Advanced Material, 170,000 Exotic Material. (note that cost includes filling munition stores)
Upkeep per year: 360,000,000 Thrones, 190,000,000 Material, 12,000,000 Metal, 19,000,000 Promethium, 210,000 Advanced Material, 9,100 Exotic Material.
Reward: Build Munitions Stores in every city, each containing enough supplies for cities defences and militia to operator at max intensity for a month


Administration Assistance- As a result of the recent reforms in the Adeptus Mechanicus it is now possible for secular authorities to oversee the expansion of a Forge-City or the upgrading of its defences at the request of the local leader of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Fabricator-General Scott has requested that the Avernite Administratum oversee the upgrading of the defences of all of the Forge-Cities in the system, and the expansion of Belagost, Annwn and Mag Mell.

Time: As Project

Cost: As Project +10%
Reward: Does one Upgrade Defences, Expand or Expand and Upgrade from Fabricator-General


Expand (City) to Small Hive- Now that the cities of Duat have all been built, or are in the final stages of construction it would be a good idea to expand one of them into a Small Hive. This would provide a centre for the administration and defence of the region and allow for a greater population to build up. It would also be possible to build more small hives in other regions, though not nearly as important.

Time: 10 years.

Cost: 3,290,000,000 Thrones, 2,680,000,000 Material, 2,480,000,000 Metal, 4,460,000,000 Promethium, 2,370,000 Advanced Material, 27,100 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 277,000,000 Thrones, 234,000,000 Material, 217,000,000 Metal, 39,500,000 Promethium, 19,500 Advanced Material, 234 Exotic Material.
Reward: Expand city to Small Hive


Educational Review- Edvin has suggested devoting some time to improving the Avernite education system, which while incredible by Imperial standards still has room to improve. It will be challenging to make even small improvements but given that each improvement will increase the productivity of your people for the foreseeable future it is a worthwhile endeavour.

Time: 1 year. (can be taken as many times as you want)
Chance of Success: 10% (uses average of administration and learning)

Cost: 44,000,000 Thrones.
Reward: increase education modifier by +1% (currently +300%)


Economic Focus (Thrones, Production, Metal, Promethium or Food) -Caroline is capable of notably increasing the efficiency of a portion of your economy by focusing a large portion of her attention, and resources, on it. This will have little long term effects but is a good way of overcoming a resource shortage in the short term.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 50%

Cost: 44,000,000 Thrones.
Reward: total production of chosen resource this year by 5% per success, can be taken multiple times, critical success has a chance of providing permanent boost.

Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan tells you that the debate about the coming meeting is heating up, and that you should probably get involved before the High Council Meeting. Otherwise he mentions that ties between the Imperial Trust and Dragon's Nest have been getting stronger, and that he suspects that soon they will be ready to admit to the Red Thirst.

Spoiler: Diplomacy

Choose One
One Five years

External Torpedo Launchers: Fólkvangr- Currently your shipyards are not large enough to refit the Fólkvangr with External Torpedo Launchers, so you will have to commission the shipyards of Vanaheim to carry out the refit. This refit will take around five years due to the size of the Fólkvangr and cost around twenty-thousand credits.

Time: 1 year

Cost: 20, 290 Credits to Vanaheim
Reward: Fólkvangr refit with 256 Dreadnought External Torpedo Launchers.

Diplomatic Debrief: (Ultramar)- You have recently sent diplomats though the Eldar Webway to the major Imperial Remnants. They have learned a great deal about both those they were sent to and the Eldar, and Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan has volunteered to send some time gathering a better overview of these polities.

Time: 2 years

Cost: Free
Reward: More information on selected polity.

Make a Request- Areatha the Ancient Wanderer, one of the most powerful beings of Avernus barring the Great Ones has recently started living among the humans of Avenrus. While you can not command her you could request her assistance in a matter, or for her to share some of the knowledge that she has gained over the twenty thousand years she has spent on Avernus.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: Varies

Cost: Free
Reward: Assistance or knowledge from Areatha

Nynye Trade (Write in)- There are several bit of knowledge that the Nynye that have that could be of great use to the humans of Avernus. There are limits to how much of what they ask for in return that you would be willing to offer but what you can get will be another weapon in the hands of the heroes of Avernus.

Time: 1 year.

Cost: 490,000 Thrones.
Reward: buy Alkahestry from Lulana of the Nynye.

Sphinx Decoding- The Sphinx of Duat offered to help you decide any pules of any form that you encounter, purely for their own entertainment. Due to how their minds work they would be a major asset to any decoding attempts, and should be called upon for any difficult codes.

Time: 1 year

Cost: 4,000 Thrones
Reward: +2d20 to decoding roll of action started this turn

Investigate Relationship (Group One, Group Two)- Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan is willing to spend some time investigating the relationships of organisations, planets, or peoples within the Imperial Trust. This could provide important military, political, and economic information.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: 50%

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones
Reward: information on relationship between two groups

Investigate (Aspect of selected planet, including Avernus)- Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan is willing to spend some time investigating aspects of the Imperial Trust that you are interested in. These aspects could be organisational, cultural, political or fall into several other areas.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: 50%

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones
Reward: information on selected topic


Persons of Interest- Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan is willing to spend some time investigating some of the more interesting Avernites. Given the sheer number of Avernite heroes it would be a good idea to learn a bit about the more prominent ones.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: 50%

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones
Reward: information on random interesting Avernite (OOC, please no more then two a turn)


Re-Investigate (Planet)- It has been many decades since the Imperial Trust was founded and Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan suggests investigating the other worlds to determine how they have changed in this time. Given how much Avernus has changed over the last century it is likely that several other worlds have also changed a lot.

Time: 2 years
Chance of Success: 70%

Cost: 3,900,000 Thrones
Reward: Information on how selected world has changed since the Imperial Trust was founded.


Re-examine (Person)- It has been many decades since Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan has gathered information on the notables of the Imperial Trust and so the information that he gathered is now well out of date. Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan has suggested that he spend a few years conducting new investigations on people of interest in order to determine how they have changed.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: 70%

Cost: 3,900,000 Thrones
Reward: Selected Character sheet is updated, (please do not do more then 2 or 3 of these actions per turn)


Sirens Trade (Write In)- There are several bits of knowledge that the Sirens have that could be of great use to the humans of Avernus. While at the moment they will only trade it for human souls there is a chance that you could find something else that they would consider valuable enough to bargain for.

Time: 1 year.

Cost: 490,000 Thrones.
Reward: Determine whether write in is valuable enough to the Sirens to conduct trade negotiations


Diplomatic Relations (Planet)- A major reason why diplomatic offices exist is to keep relations strong between allies. Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan suggests spending some time and effort trying to improve Avernus' standing with the other leaders of the Nine Worlds.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: 30% (-2 for every point of opinion, each success reduces chance of success by 5%, this recovers at a rate of one per two years)

Cost: 6,100,000 Thrones.
Reward: +1 opinion with chosen planet.


Ear to the ground- Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan has offered to attempt to determine if any other High Councillors are planning to put forward any proposal at the next High Council Meeting. This would give you a greater amount of warning and allow you to sound out others about their proposals ahead of time.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 80%

Cost: 144,000 Thrones.
Reward: determine if one other High Councillor is planning to put forward a proposal per 10% you pass by.


Investigate Quartok (Area)- Now that the Quartok are formally a protectorate it would be a good idea to gain a better understanding of them. Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan wishes to begin conducting investigations of their military, system of government, ect. immediately.

Time: 1 year.

Cost: 5,500,000 Thrones.
Reward: Gain information on the selected area of the Quartok such as the military, government, technology or any other.


Trade Talks (Planet)- Now that you have the datacores you can begin to sell the large amounts of warships in the ship graveyard. Currently Vanaheim would be the best customer though Midgard and Asgard may also be interested.

Time: 1 year

Cost: 550,000 Thrones.
Reward: Trade with chosen planet.


Sound Out (Write In Proposal)- Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan has suggested that you sound out the other Governors about any proposal that you make before the next High Council meeting. While it is rather early to start now it would give you time to attempt to convince people to change their minds before the next High Council meeting.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 80%

Cost: 144,000 Thrones.
Reward: Gain level of support for proposal and reasons for this for one planet per 10% you succeed by.


Request Information (Write In)- Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan has suggested that you try requesting information from one of the other planets before conducting an in-depth investigation that they may take offence to. He is more then willing to try to convince a planet to to give you specific information such as the exact organisation of Muspelheim's education system or Asgard's mines, which seem to be able to function with surprisingly little trained labour.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: Varied

Cost: 144,000 Thrones.

Currently your Psyker hunting forces are being pushed to their limits by the Alpha Psykers that are being found every couple of years, and killing hundreds of millions of your citizens. Jane has put into place measures that should help bring this under control over time but for the short term will have to personally hunt down and kill and many of the powerful psykers as she can.

Spoiler: Adeptus Arbites

One Locked Choose One
One Three years

Blank Training Assistance: Jane Oakheart- Currently Niflheim is working on training its stronger Blanks to act as an elite force with assistance from the Fire Giants of Muspelheim and the Inquisition. They have quietly requested that you provide assistance for this by having Jane get involved in the training of their best.

Time: 15 years

Cost: Free
Reward: Increased quality of Nilfheim's Blank Forces

Locked- Ten out of Fifteen years completed

Expend Psyker Hunter Academies- In recent decades the number and power of rogue Psykers has been slowly overwhelming the Psyker hunters. Part of Jane's solution to this problem is to greatly expand the Psyker Hunter Academies, allowing them to train four times as many Psyker Hunters at a time.

Time: 8 years

Cost: 890,000,000 Thrones, 36,000,000 Material, 3,600,000 Metal, 360,000 Promethium, 14,000 Advanced Material, 1,600 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 89,000,000 Thrones, 3,600,000 Material, 360,000 Metal, 36,000 Promethium, 700 Advanced Material, 32 Exotic Material.
Reward: increase number of Psyker hunters trained per year fourfold to 15,200.

Locked- Six out of Eight years completed

Counter-Intelligence- Jane tells you that the number of spies attempting to infiltrate Avernus has only gone up over the years. While she thinks that most of them have been caught she is not certain of this, and would like to spend the odd year double checking her subordinates work.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: 30%

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones
Reward: double check counter-intelligence efforts, +5 t chances of spotting infiltrators this turn.


Focused Psyker Hunting- Jane is incredibly skilled at hunting down and killing powerful psykers. If she focuses her hunt on the more powerful psykers she will be able to kill many of the more powerful psykers without much issue, though this is more risky for her than normal psyker hunting.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 30%

Cost: 6,100,000 Thrones.
Reward: +8 to rolls to deal with Chaos Psykers of at least Delta-level for each success, can be taken multiple times


Greater Psyker Hunting- Jane is incredibly skilled at hunting down and killing powerful psykers. If she focuses her hunt on the most powerful psykers she will be able to kill many of the more powerful psykers without much issue, though this is significantly more risky for her than normal psyker hunting.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 10%

Cost: 6,100,000 Thrones.
Reward: +16 to rolls to deal with Chaos Psykers of at least beta-level for each success, can be taken multiple times


Propaganda about Quartok: (Planet)- Jane has suggested that she use the intelligence network that she commands to push a positive view of the Quartok on the average citizens. This is a type of operation that the Adeptus Arbites are well trained in and she is certain that she could convince almost any population in the Imperial Trust to have a slightly better opinion of the Quartok.

Time: 6 years.
Chance of Success: 20% (fail by more then twenty leads to issues, add spy network bonus to roll)

Cost: 110,000,000 Thrones, 1,100,000 Material, 11,000 Promethium, 34 Advanced Material
Reward: Better attitude towards Quartok in chosen population.


Dedicated Spy Network (Planet, Focus)- While you have a decent spy network on many planets it is a rather general thing not focused on getting any information in particular. Jane has proposed that she build dedicated networks designed to gather information about a particular facet of the target world. Proposed focuses include military, naval, economic, cult activity, and government.

Time: 4 years.
Chance of Success: 40% (major issues if you fail by more then 15, size of diplomatic issue varies with chosen focus)

Cost: 13,750,000 Thrones, 137,500 Material, 13,750 Promethium, 212 Advanced Material
Upkeep per year: 2,750,000 Thrones, 27,500 Material, 2,750 Promethium, 42 Advanced Material,
Reward: Basic Spy network on chosen planet upgraded to Dedicated Spy Network, +60 to all investigate actions on planet chosen field, can discover secret information.


Psyker Hunting- Jane is willing to personally oversee the activities of the Psyker Hunters for a few years. This would greatly increase their effect and reduce the amount of damage that Chaos Psykers inflict. On the downside it would have few long term effects and would take up some of Jane's valuable time.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 50%

Cost: 6,100,000 Thrones.
Reward: +4 to rolls to deal with Chaos Psykers for each success, can be taken multiple times

After much debate Fabricator-General Scott has managed to get the Mechancius of the Imperial Trust to support trading away all basic to advanced technology and to be willing to offer exotic and relic technologies if they are matched. She tells you that one of the major reasons that she had so little opposition in this was that news of Callamus' makeup and history has caused a major swing towards the progressives within the Adeptus Mechanicus. The Adeptus Mechanicus of Vanaheim are now the only force within the Adeptus Mechanicus in the Imperial Trust which is primarily conservative, and even they have a good third of their numbers on the progressive side of the fence.

-1 Mechanicus Unrest
Fabricator-General Scott has upgraded Hidden Archotech Wargear (+2C, less likely to die) into Archeotech Armoury (+4C, less likely to die)- Fabricator-General Scott as an incredible array of weapons, shields and other forms of wargear hidden within her metallic body, making her a hard target for any assassin or wild beast that goes after her. Given how much time she spends on Avernus the wild beasts are more dangerous.

Spoiler: Adeptus Mechanicus

One Locked Choose Three
One Four years, One Three years, One Two years

Spoiler: Explorator

Titan Design: Avernus-Warlord Titan- Archmagos Tranth is now ready to begin the final stage of designing the Avernus-Pattern Warlord Titan. This step consists of putting together all of his previous work and using it to design the Titan. He expects it to take over a decade due to the size of a Titan and the extreme level of quality required.

Time: 10 years
Chance of Success: -120% (1% after bonuses)

Cost: 150,000,000 Thrones, 1,500,000 Material, 310,000 Promethium, 630,000 Advanced Material, 70,000 Exotic Material, 20 Relic Material.
Reward: Create schematic of Avernus-Pattern Warlord Titan, +1 Mechanicus morale, -1 Mechanicus Unrest.

Locked- Nine out of Ten years completed

Gravitic Array: Programing- Now that he knows what the Gravatic Array can be used for it is time for Archmagos Tranth to figure out how to create programs that will allow him to use it. He tells you that this will be a complex task that will require much experimentation, and very deep surveys of the Helheim systems gravity.

Time: 5 years
Chance of Success: -150% (14% after bonuses)

Cost: 240,000,000 Thrones, 12,000,000 Material, 4,800,000 Promethium, 160,000 Advanced Material, 18,000 Exotic Material
Reward: lean how to create programs that allow you to use the gravatic array

Gravitic Engines Part Three: Replicate- Archmagos Tranth has recently determined how to repair the Gravitic Engines of The Well of Urd. Now he would like to take the time to work out how to duplicate them, so that more ships using this most interesting form of stealth engine can be built.

Time: 5 years
Chance of Success: -150% (19% after bonuses)

Cost: 1,600,000,000 Thrones, 4,000,000 Advanced Material, 45,000 Exotic Material
Reward: Learn how to replicate the Gravity Engines of The Well of Urd, allowing you to produce more.

Grav-Shear Weapons- Archmagos Tranth found a set of Prototype Grav-Shear weapons in the ruins of Deiphobe and a set of notes on creating them. Between this information, the Dark Age knowledge on Gravitics that he also found and his own talents, Tranth believes that he will be able to figure out how to create more, and possibly even improve on the design which is still a work in progress.

Time: 2 years
Chance of Success: -160% (19% after bonuses)

Cost: 32,000,000 Thrones, 79,000 Advanced Material, 8,900 Exotic Material, 5 Exotic Material
Reward: Gain Blueprints of Grav-Shear Prototypes.


Vortex Shells-Now that he has completed the design for Vortex Torpedoes, Archamgos Tranth thinks that he will be able to create Vortex Shells for Macrocannons. While expensive and probably volatile these weapons would be incredibly deadly and allow even escorts to seriously threaten all but the toughest warships, at least while ammunition supplies last. These weapons could also be used on the ground, though the sheer amount of damage they could do if something goes wrong makes that a last resort. However this will be very challenging work and Tranth expects that it would end up taking decades.

Time: 5 years
Chance of Success: -125% (34% after bonuses)

Cost: 800,000,000 Thrones, 40,000,000 Material, 4,000,000 Metal, 2,000,000 Promethium, 7,900,000 Advanced Material, 89,000 Exotic Material.
Reward: learn how to make Vortex Shells for Macrocannons


Adapt Stealth Technology: Vehicles- Archmagos Tranth has recently gained a good level of understanding of the stealth technology used by Recon Armour. He believes that with a few years work he will be able to figure out how to adapt it for use by vehicles, opening up several new avenues of military combat.

Time: 3 years
Chance of Success: -75% (84% after bonuses)

Cost: 80,000,000 Thrones, 4,000,000 Material, 400,000 Promethium, 790,000 Advanced Material, 8,900 Exotic Material.
Reward: adapt Recon Armour Stealth Technology for use by vehicles, +0.5 Mechanicus Unrest

Very Advanced Reactors: Stable- Archmagos Veneratus Tranth believes that he could redesign the stable reactor designs found in the datacores using the knowledge he gained from reverse engineering The Well of Urd's reactors. While this would allow you to get half again as much output while maintaining the stability it is also an act that is right on the edge of heretical. While Archmagos Explorator Tranth is willing to carry it out and Fabricator-General Britton is willing to allow it, carrying out this project will give ammunition to their opponents within the Mechanicus.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: -20% (77% after bonuses)

Cost: 11,000,000 Thrones, 1,100,000 Material, 550,000 Promethium, 79,000 Advanced Material, 8,900 Exotic Material, -1 Mechanicus Morale, +2 Mechanicus instability.
Reward: Gain Very Advanced Stable Plasma Reactor, which is an Stable Plasma Reactor with half against the output.


Very Advanced Reactors: Overcharged- Archmagos Veneratus Tranth believes that he could redesign the overcharged reactor designs found in the datacores using the knowledge he gained from reverse engineering The Well of Urd's reactors. While this would allow you to get half again as much output, a truly massive amount, it is also an act that is right on the edge of heretical. While Archmagos Explorator Tranth is willing to carry it out and Fabricator-General Britton is willing to allow it, carrying out this project will give ammunition to their opponents within the Mechanicus.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: -20% (77% after bonuses)

Cost: 11,000,000 Thrones, 1,100,000 Material, 550,000 Promethium, 79,000 Advanced Material, 8,900 Exotic Material, -1 Mechanicus Morale, +2 Mechanicus instability.
Reward: Gain Very Advanced Overcharged Plasma Reactor, which is an Overcharged Plasma Reactor with half against the output.

Spoiler: Biologis

Complete Examination (Dragonfruit) - There are many different unusual species on Avernus and Magos Biologis Saren wishes to examine all of them. However, he is willing to let you choose what he examines next. In general Magos Biologis Saren has spent half a dozen or more years in a row studying each species.

Time: 6 years.
Chance of Success: unknown.

Cost: 1,221,000 Thrones, 61,000 Material, 61,000 Metal, 30,500 Promethium.
Reward: Discover large amounts about selected species

Locked- Four out of Six years completed

Regional Survey (Region) – Magos Biologis Saren wishes to give each region a thorough survey to discover if there is any interesting flora or fauna that is so far undiscovered. He is willing to let you choose which region to begin with.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 60%

Cost: 40,500 Thrones, 2,025 Material, 405 Metal, 810 Promethium.
Reward: Find out more about wildlife in selected region, possibly discover new interesting species.


Complete Examination (Species) - There are many different unusual species on Avernus and Magos Biologis Saren wishes to examine all of them. However, he is willing to let you choose what he examines next. In general Magos Biologis Saren has spent half a dozen or more years in a row studying each species.

Time: 6 years.
Chance of Success: unknown.

Cost: 1,221,000 Thrones, 61,000 Material, 61,000 Metal, 30,500 Promethium.
Reward: Discover large amounts about selected species

Spoiler: Fabricator-General

Cathedral of the Omnissiah: Mag Mell- Mag Mell is now large enough to build a Cathedral of the Omnissiah. This would increase your production of Advanced material by almost a quarter, helping fill the largest hole in your budget.

Time: 15 years

Cost: 38,000,000,000 Thrones, 9,400,000,000 Material, 3,800,000,000 Metal, 190,000,000 Promethium, 880,000 Advanced Material, 110,000 Exotic Material, 12 Relic Material.
Upkeep per year: 3,800,000,000 Thrones, 940,000,000 Material, 380,000,000 Metal, 19,000,000 Promethium, 88,000 Advanced Material, 11,000 Exotic Material, 1.2 Relic Material.
Reward: Increase base AM production by 100% (currently +100%), increase AM production by 68,000 (2.8 million), can have either Cathedral of the Omnissiah or a Cathedral of the Machine God,

Locked- Seven out of Fifteen years completed

Forge-Cathedral: Aegaeon- Now that the first Hive Forges have been built Fabricator-General Scott can begin work on a Forge-Cathedral. This would massively increase the amount of Advanced Material you can produce allowing for your advanced weapons to be deployed in greater numbers. Aegaeon can build either a Cathedral-Forge or a Forge-Cathedral.

Time: 8 years.

Cost: 1,183,000,000 Thrones, 295,700,000 Material, 118,300,000 Metal, 5,914,000 Promethium, 24,480 Advanced Material, 2,736 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 118,272,000 Thrones, 29,568,000 Material, 11,827,200 Metal, 591,360 Promethium, 2,448 Advanced Material, 274 Exotic Material.
Reward: Increase base AM production by 50%, increase AM production by 6,300 (250k), can have either Cathedral-Forge or Forge-Cathedral

Locked- Four out of Seven years completed: Expedited

Build Vault (City)- Now that you have designed an Ultra-Secure Vault it is time to build one, or more. The sheer complexity of the technology required for the vault makes building one an expensive project that will take at least a decade. The final decision to be made is where to build a vault, with Mag Mell, Dorthonion, Dis and the Unseen University being obvious candidates.

Time: 10 years
Chance of Success: -50% (48% after bonuses, can retake at half time and cost on fail)

Cost: 380,000,000 Thrones, 380,000 Material, 38,000 Promethium, 7,400,000 Advanced Material, 840,000 Exotic Material, 94 Relic Material.
Upkeep per year: 19,000,000 Thrones, 19,000 Material, 1,900 Promethium, 150,000 Advanced Material, 8,400 Exotic Material, 0.5 Relic Material.
Reward: Build Ultra-Secure Vault

Cathedral of the Machine-God: Annwn- Annwn is now large enough to build a Cathedral of the Machine-God. This would increase your production of Relic Material by almost half and your production of Exotic Material by a tenth, together a major boost to your economy.

Time: 15 years

Cost: 38,000,000,000 Thrones, 9,400,000,000 Material, 3,800,000,000 Metal, 190,000,000 Promethium, 880,000 Advanced Material, 110,000 Exotic Material, 12 Relic Material.
Upkeep per year: 3,800,000,000 Thrones, 940,000,000 Material, 380,000,000 Metal, 19,000,000 Promethium, 88,000 Advanced Material, 11,000 Exotic Material, 1.2 Relic Material.
Reward:+10 to all Adeptus Mechanicus rolls, increase base EM production by 100% (currently +100%), increase AM production by 6,800 (280k), increase EM production by 1,375 (7.8k), provides 5 Relic Material per year, can have either Cathedral of the Omnissiah or a Cathedral of the Machine God,

Luna Forge-Hive (Moon)- Now that the last of the Lunar Forge-Hives has began to be expanded Fabricator-General Scott is willing to begin work on making more. She tells you that she could fit a dozen Forge-Hives on each of the moons with time, though every Forge-Hive constructed will take population away from the current Forge-hives and slow their growth into Huge Forge-Hives.

Time: 12 years.

Cost: 11,000,000,000 Thrones, 12,000,000,000 Material, 14,000,000,000 Metal, 3,400,000,000 Promethium, 6,700,000 Advanced Material, 55,000 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 350,000,000 Thrones, 100,000,000 Material, 100,000,000 Metal, 26,000,000 Promethium, 59,000 Advanced Material, 520 Exotic Material.
Reward: Selected Small Forge Hive upgraded into Large Forge Hive

Terminator Armour- Now that you have a design for Terminator Armour usable by humans Fabricator-General Scott is wiling to make twenty suits for Avernus. This will be time consuming and use up a lot of Relic Material but the defensive bonus for your leaders and heroes makes it worthwhile.

Time: 8 years

Cost: 380,000 Thrones, 180 Exotic Material, 40 Relic Material
Upkeep per year: 38,000 Thrones, 3.6 Exotic Material, 0.4 Relic Material.
Reward: 20 suits of Terminator Armour


Expand Military Forces: Mechanicus- Fabricator-General Scott believes that it is time to expand the military power of the Avernite Mechanicus in order to properly defend the Forge-Hives. She proposes training an entire army of Tech-Guard, two corps of Skitarii and two hundred Battle Congregations. This force would be highly expensive but allow the deployment of a massive number of devastating troops. It represents the shift in force composition of the Mechanicus military that Fabricator-General Scott plans over time, with the emphasis being moved from massive armies of cybernetically enhanced soldiers to smaller elite forces making use of highly advanced technology and cybernetics. In particular the vast increase in the number of Battle Congregations fielded should prove to be devastating.

Time: 18 years

Cost: 5,500,000,000 Thrones, 440,000,000 Material, 27,000,000 Promethium, 140,000,000 Advanced Material, 940,000 Exotic Material .
Upkeep per year: 730,000,000 Thrones, 56,000,000 Material, 14,000,000 Promethium, 9,400,000 Advanced Material, 45,000 Exotic Material.
Reward: increase the size of your Mechanicus military forces by recruiting 2,848 Tech-Guard Regiments, 1,920 Skitarii regiments and 200 Battle Congregations.


Adjudicator- One of the STCs found in the datacore was for the Helheim Pattern Adjudicator Mobile Assault Platform - a massive command vehicle similar to a Capitol Imperialis, but far better in all respects. Fabricator-General Britton suggests that he build one to act as your command vehicle.

Time: 1 year.

Cost: 1,100,000 Thrones, 110,000 Material, 17,600 Promethium, 21,250 Advanced Material, 190 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 110,000 Thrones, 11,000 Material, 8,800 Promethium, 2,125 Advanced Material, 10 Exotic Material.
Reward: 1 Helheim Pattern Adjudicator Mobile Assault Platform


Oversee the Forge (Advanced Material, Exotic Material or Relic Material) -Fabricator-General Britton is capable of notably increasing the efficiency of Avernus' Forges by personally overseeing them. This would provide a notable increase in production while he is overseeing them but have little long term effect.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 50%

Cost: 61,000,000 Thrones.
Reward: Total production of chosen resource for the year increased by 5% per success, can be taken multiple times, critical success has a chance of providing permanent boost.


Another – One of the most useful tools for exploration that you have access to is the Helheim-pattern Large Mobile Research Facility. While useful the fact that you only have one means that exploring a region with it alone would be too time consuming. Fabricator-General Britton has offered to over the the construction of some more, which would greatly increase their use in exploration.

Time: 1 year.

Cost: 38,500,000 Thrones, 539,000 Material, 192,500 Metal, 84,700 Promethium, 1,720 Advanced Material, 96 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 3,850,000 Thrones, 53,900 Material, 19,250 Metal, 17,400 Promethium, 172 Advanced Material, 4.8 Exotic Material.
Reward: 1 Large Mobile Research Facility: Helheim patten, can be taken multiple times

Spoiler: Fabricator-General or Explorator

Black Ship Protection: Mechanicus- Between the Siren Runes of Warding and the powerful Gellar Field Generators that were part of the design for the Deus Superdreadnought you may now be able to build a version of the Black Ships. To begin with the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Adeptus Astra Telepathica will need to work together on combining these technologies and testing whether their effect is strong enough. Both Fabricator-General Scott and Archmagos Tranth have a good enough understanding of Gellar Fields to lead the Adeptus Mechanicus half of this research project.

Time: 12 years (must be taken with Black Ship Protection: Telepathica)
Chance of Success: -80% (both parts must succeed)

Cost: 75,000,000 Thrones, 750,000 Material, 150,000 Promethium, 310,000 Advanced Material, 35,000 Exotic Material, 10 Relic Material.
Reward: Create set of protections allowing the design of Black Ships

Decode: Data-Jewel- A dozen heavily encoded Data-Jewels were located in the Ruins of Deiphobe and nine more at Roskilde, with unknown contents. While their encryptions are far too strong for your current technology to pierce, with sustained effort from Ridcully, Fabricator-General Scott believes that she could break them.

Time: 3 years
Chance of Success: -300% (-61% after bonuses, failing reduces success chance by 15% of margin of failure)

Cost: 320,000,000 Thrones, 790,000 Advanced Material, 89,000 Exotic Material
Reward: Decode a Data-Jewel.


Hyper Battle Cruiser Design: Ragnarok Cannon- Archmagos Tranth has recently worked out how to fit Hyper-Plasma reactors into smaller warships. This will allow the creation of Battlecruisers armed with more powerful weapons, such as the Ragnarok Cannon. A Battlecruiser equipped with a Hyper-Plasma reactor and a Ragnarok Cannon would be capable of inflicting massive damage at high range, though the size of a Ragnarok Cannon would make it a bit less manoeuvrable and the Hyper-Plasma Reactor would make it far more fragile then a normal Battlecruiser.

Time: 3 years.
Chance of Success: 00% (99% after bonuses)

Cost: 150,000,000 Thrones, 29,800,000 Material, 1,540,000 Promethium, 350,000 Advanced Material, 8,900 Exotic Material.
Reward: Designs for Hyper Battlecruiser with Ragnarok Cannon

Hyper Heavy Cruiser Design: Graviton- Archmagos Tranth has recently worked out how to fit Hyper-Plasma reactors into smaller warships. This will allow the creation of Heavy Cruisers armed with more powerful weapons, such as Graviton Weapons. A Heavy Cruiser equipped with a Hyper-Plasma reactor and Graviton Weapons would be capable of massive amounts of damage to targets within short range, though the Hyper-Plasma Reactor would make it more vulnerable than you would like on a brawler.

Time: 3 years.
Chance of Success: 00% (99% after bonuses)

Cost: 150,000,000 Thrones, 29,800,000 Material, 1,540,000 Promethium, 350,000 Advanced Material, 8,900 Exotic Material.
Reward: Designs for Hyper Heavy Cruisers with Graviton Weapons


Advanced Ramilies Design: Type- Archmagos Tranth has recently finished reverse engineering the Ramilies Starfort and has sketched out a few different ways that it could be improved with current technology. Both Fabricator-General Scott and he are able to turn these simple ideas into complete plans, though given the size of a Ramilies it will take some time. The current suggestions for a design are pure fortress, orbital defence station, forward operating base variant, and orbital artillery, though there maybe other possible purposes.

Time: 5 years.
Chance of Success: 10% (99% after bonuses)

Cost: 150,000,000 Thrones, 29,800,000 Material, 1,540,000 Promethium, 350,000 Advanced Material, 8,900 Exotic Material.
Reward: Designs for selected type of Advanced Ramilies Starfort

Saint Lin has now done studies on the nature of three of the five Great Gods of Chaos. He only has to study the Plague God and the Abomination as well as Chaos as a whole before he can turn his attention towards other matters.

Spoiler: Adeptus Ministorum

Choose Two
One Five years, One Four years

Expand Witch Hunter Seminaries- In recent decades the number and power of rogue Psykers has been slowly overwhelming the Psyker hunters. Part of Jane's solution to this problem is to greatly expand the Witch Hunter Seminaries, allowing them to train four times as many Witch Hunters at a time.

Time: 7 years

Cost: 1,700,000,000 Thrones, 360,000,000 Material, 18,000,000 Metal, 1,800,000 Promethium, 14,000 Advanced Material, 1,600 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 170,000,000 Thrones, 36,000,000 Material, 1,800,000 Metal, 180,000 Promethium, 700 Advanced Material, 32 Exotic Material.
Reward: increase number of Witch Hunters trained per year fourfold to 7,600.

Locked- Five out of Six years completed: Expedited

Cleanse World (Light, Moderate or Heavy)- There are thirteen tainted worlds recently captured from Valinor. Of these worlds six are lightly tainted, six are moderately tainted and one is heavily tainted. Saint Lin believes that with a few decades work he could totally cleanse the worlds, or at least reduce the level of taint.

Time: 2 years
Chance of Success: 10% (76% after bonuses)

Cost: 40,000,000 Thrones, 7,900 Advanced Material, 890 Exotic Material, 1 Relic Materials
Reward: Reduce the taint of selected world by 1 level, 2 on a crit.

The Nature of (God or Pantheon)- Saint Lin is willing to spend some time gathering more knowledge about a particular god or pantheon. As well as furthering your knowledge this may help you deal with agents of that particular god, though how much Lin can not say.

Time: 5 years
Chance of Success: -30 (uses average of learning and piety)

Cost: 40,000,000 Thrones
Reward: information on the nature of selected God or Pantheon, ??.

On Created Gods - Saint Lin is willing top spend a few more years investigating whether there is such a thing as Created Gods. While there is no proof of their existence, there are a few hints that may lead to something interesting.

Time: 5 years
Chance of Success: -60 (uses average of learning and piety)

Cost: 40,000,000 Thrones
Reward: information on Created Gods, ??.

Oversee Missionaries- Saint Lin has recently received permission to send missionaries into Dragon's Nest, though the missionaries will be closely watched. While it may not be a good idea for Saint Lin to personally lead them his oversight would increase the chance that they are successful in their efforts.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: 40%

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones
Reward: +1% chance of success for conversion, can be taken multiple times

Keeping the Faith- Saint Lin has offered to spend some time on the other worlds in the Imperial Trust in order to help raise morale and strengthen their faith. He would prefer to focus on those worlds having troubles such as Vanaheim first and would like to begin sooner rather than later.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: 10%

Cost: 61,000 Thrones.
Reward: +1 morale and -5% cultist numbers for selected world, will not raise morale above 10


Those in the Shadows- With the collapse of the Astronomican the psykers have by far the hardest time maintaining their faith. They are constantly tempted by countless daemons with only their own will and training to keep them at bay. Saint Lin has offered to spend time with those Psykers approaching the trials in order to fortify their will and prepare them for the challenges to come.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: 30%

Cost: Free.
Reward: +5% to the success chance of all psykers who take the trials this year, can be taken multiple times

The Adeptus Astra Telepathica is now approaching the point where you will be able to begin producing your own Alkahestrial products, which when combined with the runes weapons that your Helguard have access to will give your elites a level of Psychic equipment that only the forces of Chaos and the Eldar have ever been able to field. This seems to be the next step on the path to creating an Avernite army that can stand against the worst of the horrors of the galaxy and come out victorious. On another note the Eldar have recently contacted Ridcully about a ultra-high risk divination where he would be working with some of their greatest seers to peek into the throne of the Plague God. If he agrees to assist them in this matter it will count as all of the divinations that he owes them, if any of the seers are successful the Empire of Ashes will owe him a small or major favor depending on what they see and if he is successful the Empire of Ashes will owe a major or honorbound favor. Given how valuable even a minor favor from a galactic power can be it may be worth the risk. Finally another Alpha-level is set to take the trails soon, and it would be a good idea for some of your Grandmaster's to help teach him.

Elite Primaris Ophelia Jameson gains trait Expert Telepath (+1D, +1 Control, +10 to Telepathy Rolls) -Ophelia has reached an expert level of skill with telepathy, making her one of the better human telepaths on Avernus after taking into account her sheer power.

Spoiler: Adeptus Astra Telepathica

One Locked Choose Three
One Five years, One Three years, One Two years

Spoiler: Divination

Greater Divination: The Throne of the Plague God- The Eldar have recently contacted High Grandmaster Ridcully about a ultra-high risk divination where he would be working with some of their greatest seers to peek into the throne of the Plague God. If he agrees to assist them in this matter it will count as all of the divinations that he owes them, if any of the seers are successful the Empire of Ashes will owe him a small or major favor depending on what they see and if he is successful the Empire of Ashes will owe a major or honorbound favor. Even working with the Black Crystal Jewelry and the greatest Eldar Seers alive and dead this is an incredibly risky proposal and has a good chance of being the end of Ridcully, or another step towards his apotheosis.

Time: 2 years.
Chance of Success: Interlude, low

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones
Reward: Pay off debt to Eldar, favor from Empire of Ashes, information on the Plague God, ???

Cheating- Recently Archmagos Explorator Tranth and Headmaster Ridcully have come up with the idea to use Headmaster Ridcully's postcognition to discover more about The Well of Urd and the technologies that make it up. This should be very effective and will hopefully be enough to allow Archmagos Explorator Tranth to learn how to use technologies otherwise incomprehensible.

Time: 1 year. (must be taken by Headmaster Ridcully, Archmagos Explorator Tranth must have taken an Examine or decoding action this year)
Chance of Success: 30%

Cost: 71,000 Thrones, 710 Material, 7 Promethium, 86 Advanced Material, 9.6 Exotic Material.
Reward: permanently reduce the difficulty of the Examine or decoding action by one percent per five the action is passed


Contact Eldrad Ulthran (Reason)- Now that High Grandmaster Ridcully has made contact with Eldrad Ulthran and formed an agreement with him it is possible for him to make contact once more. This could be either to share the result of a vision that Ridcully has had or to make a request of the Eldar, which Eldrad Ulthran will require some sort of compensation for and will require High Council backing.

Time: 1 years
Chance of Success: 30% (uses control)

Cost: 3,900,000 Thrones
Reward: Make contact with Eldrad Ulthran.


Fanning the Flames- In the recent emergency meeting it was decided that High Grandmaster Ridcully should devote a major portion of his time to intensifying the civil war in Tugozak's Domain. This should hopefully increase the number of casualties that the Orks take in the coming years and will soften them up for later strikes.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: 20%

Cost: 3,800,000 Thrones
Reward: civil war in Tugozak's Domain prolonged and intensified


Greater Divination (Focus)- High Grandmaster Ridcully is more skilled at seeing the present than he is at predicting the future. This allows him to gather a good deal of information about the galaxy using his powers. Possible focuses are the condition of races or organisations, the balance of power in Segmentums or even the activity and compositions of pantheons of gods.

Time: 1 year. (can only be taken three times per turn, including free action)
Chance of Success: 10%

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones
Reward: Information on focus. The narrower the target the more information.

Divination: Attacks- Headmaster Ridcully could spend some time attempting to predict any incoming attacks on the Imperial Trust. While he tells you that it will be easy for him to spot that an attack is coming, finding more information such as the size, composition, location, and exact timing will take more time and effort.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: 50%

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones
Reward: Information on incoming attacks for the next five years, each success provides more information.


Divination (Target)- Headmaster Ridcully is more skilled at seeing the present than he is at predicting the future. This allows him to gather a good deal of information about the neighbouring sectors without putting any scouts at risk. Valinor, Dragons Nest, and the Orkish domains seem to be the best options to investigate this way.

Time: 2 years.
Chance of Success: 30%

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones
Reward: Information on selected polity, location, ect. The narrower the target the more information.

Focused Divination (Target, Area)- High Grandmaster Ridcully is more skilled at seeing the present than he is at predicting the future. This allows him to investigate specific aspects of one of the neighbouring nations, such as their military composition, leaders, or even the best times to attack them.

Time: 2 years.
Chance of Success: 30%

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones
Reward: Gain selected information on selected polity, location, ect. The narrower the target the more information.

Spoiler: Research

Anti-Ork Powers: Techbane- Tamia thinks that with a few years of effort and a lot of luck she will be able to create a Psychic Power designed to make Ork technology malfunction. This is due to the fact that most Ork technology relies of the probability manipulating aspects of the Waaagh to avoid malfunction, and that disrupting this should cause malfunctions. It will be highly challenging for Tamia to create even a personal scale version of this power, and take at least a decade. Creating a more powerful version would be even harder and more time consuming, though its effects would be absolutely devastating.

Time: 3 years
Chance of Success: -20% (uses learning)

Cost: 130,000,000 Thrones, 1,300,000 Material, 3,000 Advanced Material, 350 Exotic Material.
Reward: Create personal scale power able to cause Ork technology to malfunction

Locked- One out of Three years completed

Research: Power of Belief- High Grandmaster Ridcully has recently discovered that peoples beliefs about certain patterns can cause them to have an impact on the Immaterium, if enough people believe it for long enough. He is highly interested in investigating this in greater detail, and wonders if it crosses over into how gods gain power from worship. Again this is a complex project that only Ridcully is able to carry out.

Time: 8 years (must be taken by Ridcully)
Chance of Success: 25% (uses learning)

Cost: 39,000,000 Thrones, 390,000 Material, 850 Advanced Material, 95 Exotic Material.
Reward: Information on how some things in the Materium have an echo the Immaterium

Locked- Three out of Eight years completed

Psyrodactyl Interest- Xavier believes that it should be possible for humans to use the power that Psyrodactyl's use to detect interest in them. He tells you that it should be usable for even minor psykers, and will be an invaluable tool for covert actions of all forms. Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan has indicated that the Inquisition is interested.

Time: 5 years
Chance of Success: 25% (uses average of learning and control, uses average of telepathy and divination bonuses)

Cost: 39,000,000 Thrones, 390,000 Material, 850 Advanced Material, 95 Exotic Material.
Reward: Learn how to use the power Psyrodactyls use to detect interest in them

Apprentice Alkahestry- The Nynye are now willing to share the secrets of Alkahestry with the Adeptus Astra Telepathica. While Alkahestry is a highly complex art that takes decades to learn, your psykers now have the absolute basics and can work on slightly more advanced levels.

Time: 6 years
Chance of Success: 60% (uses learning)

Cost: Free
Reward: Adeptus Astra Telepathica learns basics of Alkahestry, unlocks Alkahestry training and Journeyman Alkahestry

Black Ship Protection: Telepathica- Between the Siren Runes of Warding and the powerful Gellar Field Generators that were part of the design for the Deus Superdreadnought you may now be able to build a version of the Black Ships. To begin with the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Adeptus Astra Telepathica will need to work together on combining these technologies and testing whether their effect is strong enough. Only Tamia has a good enough understanding of Siren Runes to lead the Adeptus Telepathica half of this research project.

Time: 12 years (must be taken with Black Ship Protection: Mechanicus)
Chance of Success: 20% (uses learning, both parts must succeed)

Cost: 400,000,000 Thrones, 10,000,000 Advanced Material, 100,000 Exotic Material, 25 Relic Material
Reward: Create set of protections allowing the design of Black Ships

Warp Echo: (material or item)- Some materials or items have a strong echo in the Warp, providing them with proprieties that they otherwise would not have. With a bit of work Ridcully will be able to determine if any given material or item has an echo, and what it is tied to.

Time: 1 year (must be taken by Ridcully)
Chance of Success: 30% (uses learning)

Cost: 3,800,000 Thrones, 38,000 Material, 85 Advanced Material, 9 Exotic Material.
Reward: Information on selected items Warp echo

Warp Echo: (Search)- Some materials or items have a strong echo in the Warp, providing them with proprieties that they otherwise would not have. With a bit of work Ridcully will be able to find items or materials that have Warp Echoes.

Time: 3 years (must be taken by Ridcully)
Chance of Success: -10% (uses learning)

Cost: 18,000,000 Thrones, 180,000 Material, 420 Advanced Material, 48 Exotic Material.
Reward: find one Warp Echo

Research: Conceptional Bonding: First Stage- Recently it has been found that Truesteel works by somehow permanently bonding the concept of steel to metal. Given that conceptional bonding is considered to be highly unstable and requires constant attention from a skilled Psyker to maintain, the fact that a stable form of it exists is highly interesting, among other reasons because it was believed to be impossible. Tamia thinks that if she spends a decade or so studying Truesteel she will learn more about how it works; not nearly enough to replicate the feat but still enough to be of great use. She mentions that among other uses any more information on this subject may be useful in working out how to copy the power that Island Turtles use, which would be invaluable.

Time: 12 years
Chance of Success: 25% (uses learning)

Cost: 39,000,000 Thrones, 390,000 Material, 850 Advanced Material, 95 Exotic Material.
Reward: Information on Conceptional Bonding

Examine: (Siren Rune)- The Sirens have recently traded knowledge of how to make several forms of Runes in exchange for the souls of chaos cultists. Tamia would like to spend a few years examining each in order to both determine what it does and to ensure that it is safe. This will also determine exactly how you can use the rune, including whether you can form wards of it or inscribe it on weapons.

Time: 3 years (must be taken by Tamia)
Chance of Success: 80% (uses learning)

Cost: 39,000,000 Thrones, 390,000 Material, 850 Advanced Material, 95 Exotic Material.
Reward: Determine the effects of the selected Rune and if it is safe

Anti-Ork Powers: Techbane- Tamia thinks that with a few years of effort and a lot of luck she will be able to create a Psychic Power designed to make Ork technology malfunction. This is due to the fact that most Ork technology relies of the probability manipulating aspects of the Waaagh to avoid malfunction, and that disrupting this should cause malfunctions. It will be highly challenging for Tamia to create even a personal scale version of this power, and take at least a decade. Creating a more powerful version would be even harder and more time consuming, though its effects would be absolutely devastating.

Time: 3 years
Chance of Success: -20% (uses learning)

Cost: 130,000,000 Thrones, 1,300,000 Material, 3,000 Advanced Material, 350 Exotic Material.
Reward: Create personal scale power able to cause Ork technology to malfunction

Psychic Materials: Wildlife- There are some materials that channel psychic energies better than others, or in certain ways. Given the sheer variety of psychic wildlife of differing sorts on Avernus, Grandmaster Jameson believes that at least some of them will be useful in this manner. She will only be able to examine a single type of creature at a time, so it will take quite some time to examine everything that Avernus has to offer.

Time: 1 year

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones, 400,000 Material, 4,250 Advanced Materials.
Reward: Determine if any part of selected species is useful as a psychic conductor.

Research: Black Crystal Items (Item)- Last year Headmaster Ridcully determined that each of the items of Black Crystal has its own unique property, though he was not able to determine what they are. He tells you it would most likely take a couple of years of study to determine exactly what the unique properties are but it would most likely be worth the time expended.

Time: 2 year
Chance of Success: Unknown (uses learning)

Cost: 355,000 thrones, 17,750 Material, 43 Advanced Material.
Reward: More information on Black Crystal Item selected


Research (Species that has completed Biologis research) – Many of the more interesting creatures of Avernus use psychic powers in some manner and while Magos Biologis Saren has discovered as much about them as he can, there is still more to learn. Headmaster Ridcully would like to lead a team of Sanctionites to try to discover more about these species, hopefully including how to mimic their innate powers in some manner.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: Unknown (uses learning)

Cost: 81,000 thrones, 8,100 Material, 8.6 Advanced Material.
Reward: More information on chosen species, chance of learning new psychic power.

Spoiler: Other

Siren Rune of Fire: Helguard- One suggested use for the Siren Rune of Fire is to provide the entire Helguard with weapons marked with the rune. This would give your elites a major boost in damage output, at the expense of tying up a large number of artisans. It is only thanks to the sheer number of Pykers that Avernus can field that this project is even possible.

Time: 9 years

Cost: 330,000,000 Thrones, 5,100,000 Advanced Material, 130,000 Exotic Material.
Upkeep per year: 63,000,000 Thrones, 990,000 Advanced Material, 24,000 Exotic Material
Reward: Provide Siren Rune of Fire Inscribed Weapons to the Helguard. +30% damage by all thermal weapons, +20% damage by all energy weapons, +10% damage by all non-energy melee weapons

Locked- Six out of Nine years completed

Ward Vault (City)- An essential part of your Ultra-Secure Vault design are some powerful Wards that Tamia has designed. When combined with the vaults Null-Technology these wards should make it near impossible for Psykers to bypass the vaults defences.

Time: 10 years
Chance of Success: 10% (uses average of learning and control)

Cost: 38,000,000 Thrones, 740,000 Advanced Material, 84,000 Exotic Material, 20 Relic Material.
Upkeep per year: 1,900,000 Thrones, 37,000 Advanced Material, 4,200 Exotic Material, 1 Relic Material.
Reward: Ward Ultra-Secure Vault

Psychic Cleansing- Saint Lin has volunteered to undertake the cleansing of the recently captured worlds in Valinor. While your normal psykers could not pull this feat off by themselves, both pyromancers and daemonologists would be able to assist him in his efforts, reducing the amount of time he must spend on this project.

Time: 2 years (must start at same time as Cleanse World, can't be taken by Ridcully)
Chance of Success: 20% (uses average of power and control with Pyromancy and Demonology Bonus)

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones, 400,000 Material, 4,250 Advanced Materials
Reward: +15 to success chance of Cleanse World

Mentoring: Alpha- Given the high rate of failure for the more powerful psykers High Grandmaster Ridcully would like to have some of his best psykers mentor the second Alpha-level in the years leading up to her trials. This will hopefully be enough to increase her chance of passing by a significant degree.

Time: 1 year. (can be taken per hero)
Chance of Success: 50%

Cost: Free
Reward: each point of success increases chance of the Alpha-level psyker passing the trails by 1% (max pass chance 65%, current pass chance 10%.


Create Psyker Order (Purpose or Speciality, Department if Any)- It is possible for you to create an Order of Psykers within the Adeptus Astra Telepathica. This Order will either have a purpose and develop as needed to fulfil this purpose or it will have a speciality and develop that speciality. For example an Order of Healers would have the speciality of Healing and focus on devolving your knowledge of Physic Healing and teaching your Healers while an Order of Daemon Hunters would have the purpose of combating Daemons and would recruit those with the will and talent to combat Daemons.

Time: 6 years

Cost: 200,000,000 Thrones, 2,000,000 Material, 4,150 Advanced Material, 415 Exotic Material.
Reward: Allows the formation of an Order of Psykers with selected purpose or speciality within the selected department, more options.

Battle Preparations- It is highly likely that you will find yourself in a war as soon as the Warp Storm ends and Primaris Xavier has suggested putting the Battle Psykers through last minute training in preparation. While this will have no long term effect, in the short term it will hone the edge of their psychic abilities.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: 40% (uses Martial, each success reduces chance of success by 5%, this recovers at a rate of one per two years)

Cost: 22,000,000 Thrones, 11,000 Material, 1,100 Promethium, 10,625 Advanced Material, 116 Exotic Material.
Reward: +5 to all Battle Psyker Rolls for the next decade


Honing an Edge- It is highly likely that you will find yourself in a war as soon as the Warpstorm so it might be a good idea for the heroic Psykers of Avernus to focus on preparing themselves. While normally the time just before a war is not a good time for a military force's leadership to spend a year meditating and training themselves, when the leader is as powerful a weapon as a heroic psyker it becomes a good option.

Time: 1 year
Chance of Success: 40% (uses Control, each success reduces chance of success by 5%, this recovers at a rate of one per two years)

Cost: Free
Reward: +10 to all battle rolls by Heroic Psyker who takes the action for the next decade

Mentoring: Beta- Given the high rate of failure for the more powerful psykers Headmaster Ridcully would like to have one of his best psykers mentor the next Beta-level in the year leading up to his trials. This will hopefully be enough to increase his chance of passing by a significant degree.

Time: 1 year. (can be taken once)
Chance of Success: 50%

Cost: Free
Reward: each point of success inc chance of the Beta-level psyker passing the trails by

A bit over a year ago Syr was almost killed by a lucky assassin, almost certainly a sleeper agent placed by Turoq. While she recovered from her wounds in a month or so hearing about it was still a rather scary experience, one that her particular branch of the military gives you less practice at then most Avernite parents. While in a bout of paranoia, you considered dispatching some of Xavier's best psykers and another company of the Governor's Own to guard her. Luckily, good sense soon prevailed

Professor Korvac gains trait Public Servant (+2D)- In his time as your assistant Professor Korvac has been forced to work with all of the branches of the Avernite Government, a task which has improved his diplomatic skills significantly.

Spoiler: Personal

Two Locked Choose Two
Two Five years
Personal Attention: Build Hive: (Lonely Mountain)– You are highly capable of military command, administration, diplomacy and intrigue and are capable of managing a project in any of those fields. Can be taken twice.

Time: as project.

Cost: free.
Reward: get one extra Adeptus Munitorum, Adeptus Administratum, Diplomacy or Adeptus Arbites action with your characteristic bonus.

Locked- Seven out of Twenty-Two years completed

System Review: (Medicine)- Your Personal Assistant, Professor Antoni Kovac, is one of the Imperial Trust' greatest experts on educational and healthcare systems. He has requested that you allow him to conduct major reviews of your entire healthcare and educational systems in order to determine what improvements are possible.

Time: 10 year
Chance of Success: 30% (uses learning)

Cost: 300,000,000 Thrones
Reward: new options improving selected area

Locked- Two out of Ten years completed

Personal Attention: Any– You are highly capable of military command, administration, diplomacy and intrigue and are capable of managing a project in any of those fields. Can be taken twice.

Time: as project.

Cost: free.
Reward: get one extra Adeptus Munitorum, Adeptus Administratum, Diplomacy or Adeptus Arbites action with your characteristic bonus.

Deployment- You are the best general in the Imperial Trust, by far. As such you could significantly strengthen the defences of one of the colonies by personally taking command of its defences for a period. This would greatly reduce what you could do on Avernus for this period though.

Time: Write in (uses 2 actions, reduces number of personal attention slots by 1, removes palace bonus)

Cost: Free
Reward: Personally take command of the defences of one of the colonies, possibly fight off a raid.


Knowing Avernus (Write in or QM's Choice)-In the years since founding Avernus has developed in many ways, some of which you have not been able to pay attention to. It may be a good idea to spend some time learning about the smaller organisations that make Avernus so unique and about Avernite culture.

Time: 1 year. (no more then twice per turn please, also try and explain what you want, one word topics can be unclear)
Reward: Get information about selected aspect of Avernite culture or organisation


Spend Time With (Person)- One of the ways that you can spend what little free time that you have is by spending some time with your friends and advisers. This would be a good way for you to relax and improve your relationship with your co-workers, as well as possibly learn or teach something.

Time: 1 year.
Chance of Success: Unknown

Cost: Free (can be taken multiple times)
Reward: Spend time with selected character, chance of improving your relationship, chance of boosting your own or selected characters


Whispers of Change (Suggestion)- Fabricator-General Britton has mentioned that he is trying to slowly change the Mechanicus to remove its more problematic laws and traditions. He is willing to listen to any proposals that you make on what should change and how to change it and promises not to get offended.

Time: 1 year
Reward: Fabricator-General Britton listen to your suggestion and may follow though.


Speak to the People – Much to the surprise of both you and your advisors, you are a highly popular figure on Avernus. You can use this popularity to run a series of Tel-casts to raise the morale of both the civilians and the military.

Time: 1 Year.
Chance of Success: 50%

Cost: 3,600 Thrones

                 

	Thrones	Material	Metal	Promethium	Advanced Material	Exotic Material	Food	Relic Material
Gross Income	122,080,261,217	128,566,023,350	478,482,485	18,598,054,505	94,168,625	2,337,924	2,805	68
Current Reserves	301,903,678,145	308,897,230,974	1,234,009,044,370	435,129,154,747	235,034,815	8,832,638	464,466	69

 

[DeusFerreus]

Marshal Stumpf combines traits Military Brat (+3M, +2A, +1L, +5C, +10 morale to all forces under her command), Experienced (+1M, +2A, +3L, +2C) and Avernus Officers Academy Graduate (+3M, +3A, +2L, +2P, +3C) into trait Soldier to the Bone (+9M, +8A, +6L, +11C, +1 to all other stats, +20 morale to all forces under her command)- Marshal Stumpf was born, raised and trained to be a soldier and has since spent centuries in every position within the Avernite military. This has ingrained her nature as a soldier so deep that she is a soldier in the same way that she is human.

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@Durin this resulted in her loosing 1 Piety, I don't think that's intended.

 

[Durin]

@Durin this resulted in her loosing 1 Piety, I don't think that's intended.

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thank you, corrected

 

[random_npc]

Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan tells you that the debate about the coming meeting is heating up, and that you should probably get involved before the High Council Meeting. Otherwise he mentions that ties between the Imperial Trust and Dragon's Nest have been getting stronger, and that he suspects that soon they will be ready to admit to the Red Thirst.

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"so be sure to act suitably surprised, ok?"

 

[DragonParadox]

Getting a major favor from the empire of ashes would be one way to get rid of Turoq. Everything he can do the Eldar can do better.

 

[dragon]

Oh boy, we need to reserve a divination for looking for attacks so turoq doesn't surprise us.

Edit: help the eldar too..but still, keep an eye out for raids.

 

[notanautomaton]

@Durin
1. What year would the 'Throne of the Plague God' action take place?
2. Would taking 'Honing an Edge' actions improve Ridcully's odds of coming out of things sane/alive?
3. Would Arethea have anything to contribute to the action, were she convinced to go offworld for the ultimate 'fuck Chaos' option available that doesn't involve Slaanesh?
4. Would Lin be able to make a meaningful contribution?

 

[Shard]

Huh, Ridcully didn't outright veto his own involvement? The Eldar must be in even worse condition than I thought for them to risk their seers like this.

 

[Andres]

@Durin

1. Could we get Double on The Throne of the Plague God by taking that action with both a normal action and the free Greater Divination?
2. Would the action have a greater chance of success if Lin successfully completes The Nature of (Nurgle) before Ridcully does the action?
3. Would the action have a greater chance of success if Lin begins The Nature of (Nurgle) on the same turn that Ridcully begins The Throne of the Plague God?
4. Would The Throne of the Plague God have a yet greater chance of success if Lin successfully completes The Nature of (Nurgle) then begins The Nature of (Nurgle) again on the same turn that Ridcully begins The Throne of the Plague God?

 

[random_npc]

Huh, Ridcully didn't outright veto his own involvement? The Eldar must be in even worse condition than I thought for them to risk their seers like this.

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bet you a dollar they are angling for isha.

 

[notanautomaton]

Huh, Ridcully didn't outright veto his own involvement? The Eldar must be in even worse condition than I thought for them to risk their seers like this.

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This is almost certainly a prelude to an attempt to save Isha. Even getting a bunch of Avatars of the Eldar Goddess of Life would almost certainly help with their population issues, and getting another friendly Greater God active in the galaxy is worth almost any risk. Especially since Isha might be able to heal the other Eldar Gods.

 

[Durin]

@Durin
1. What year would the 'Throne of the Plague God' action take place?
2. Would taking 'Honing an Edge' actions improve Ridcully's odds of coming out of things sane/alive?
3. Would Arethea have anything to contribute to the action, were she convinced to go offworld for the ultimate 'fuck Chaos' option available that doesn't involve Slaanesh?
4. Would Lin be able to make a meaningful contribution?

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1. anytime in the next decade
2. no
3. no, while she is a very good seer she i not on the league of those involved in this (she is merely a grandamster seer)
4. no

@Durin

1. Could we get Double on The Throne of the Plague God by taking that action with both a normal action and the free Greater Divination?
2. Would the action have a greater chance of success if Lin successfully completes The Nature of (Nurgle) before Ridcully does the action?
3. Would the action have a greater chance of success if Lin begins The Nature of (Nurgle) on the same turn that Ridcully begins The Throne of the Plague God?
4. Would The Throne of the Plague God have a yet greater chance of success if Lin successfully completes The Nature of (Nurgle) then begins The Nature of (Nurgle) again on the same turn that Ridcully begins The Throne of the Plague God?

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1. no
2. yes
3. no
4. no more then if he completed the nature of nurgle

 

[Andres]

3. no, while she is a very good seer she i not on the league of those involved in this (she is merely a grandamster seer)

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@Durin, while Areatha can't help herself, does she know of someone or something (a divination-boosting relic, for example) on Avernus that can help?

 

[Shard]

Don't forget the +1 bonus for having Nurgle post the Greater Divination (Nurgle) plan.

 

[Durin]

@Durin, while Areatha can't help herself, does she know of someone or something (a divination-boosting relic, for example) on Avernus that can help?

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not that is likely to be willing to.

 

[Andres]

@Durin, how come Areatha can't help herself? She's only a grandmaster seer, but Ridcully was a mere Master when he observed Ynnead's birth and saw Slaanesh in her throne room, and upon completion of that feat merely achieved Grandmaster of Divination, not Paragon.

 

[dragon]

With antoni restructiring the education system to fit avernus, is he doing that in the background or is ot supposed to be a project?.

 

[inverted_helix]

@Durin 1. I thought we were supposed to get an action from Kovac to do the first stage of education improvement this turn?

Greater Divination: The Throne of the Plague God- The Eldar have recently contacted High Grandmaster Ridcully about a ultra-high risk divination where he would be working with some of their greatest seers to peek into the throne of the Plague God. If he agrees to assist them in this matter it will count as all of the divinations that he owes them, if any of the seers are successful the Empire of Ashes will owe him a small or major favor depending on what they see and if he is successful the Empire of Ashes will owe a major or honorbound favor. Even working with the Black Crystal Jewelry and the greatest Eldar Seers alive and dead this is an incredibly risky proposal and has a good chance of being the end of Ridcully, or another step towards his apotheosis.

Time: 2 years.
Chance of Success: Interlude, low

Cost: 4,000,000 Thrones
Reward: Pay off debt to Eldar, favor from Empire of Ashes, information on the Plague God, ???

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The reward is fantastic and all, but people were wary of the risk of divination going after Turoq, a mere daemon prince. I'm super hesitant to try to divine Nurgle himself.

This is almost certainly a prelude to an attempt to save Isha. Even getting a bunch of Avatars of the Eldar Goddess of Life would almost certainly help with their population issues, and getting another friendly Greater God active in the galaxy is worth almost any risk. Especially since Isha might be able to heal the other Eldar Gods.

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Indeed, I can see why the Eldar would take the risk. Though the risk is also somewhat less severe to them because they have more than one epic seer, so losing one wouldn't be quite so devastating. The reward for them is also potentially far greater. Though I'm not sure how they expect even a successful divination to translate into saving Isha.

4. no

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Bah kind of hoped that Lin could help prevent risk of corruption, but I guess even his power is of no real help if Ridicully is detected.

2. yes

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Definitely worth doing that first then.

Don't forget the +1 bonus for having Nurgle post the Greater Divination (Nurgle) plan.

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Yeah, if we do an action this incredibly risky even that +1 will be absolutely critical.

 

[Andres]

Yeah, if we do an action this incredibly risky even that +1 will be absolutely critical.

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He was joking, hence the smiley. We're not gonna get a +1 that easily.

 

[notanautomaton]

Indeed, I can see why the Eldar would take the risk. Though the risk is also somewhat less severe to them because they have more than one epic seer, so losing one wouldn't be quite so devastating. The reward for them is also potentially far greater. Though I'm not sure how they expect even a successful divination to translate into saving Isha.

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I think it's likely to be seeking out weaknesses in Nurgle's Realm that Giggles and Ynnead can exploit. That, or the divination itself is a distraction for Giggles to grab Isha while Nurgle is distracted.

 

[Durin]

@Durin, how come Areatha can't help herself? She's only a grandmaster seer, but Ridcully was a mere Master when he observed Ynnead's birth and saw Slaanesh in her throne room, and upon completion of that feat merely achieved Grandmaster of Divination, not Paragon.

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because there is a major difference between being swept into a throne room by the power of a newborn god and sneaking in yourself

@Durin 1. I thought we were supposed to get an action from Kovac to do the first stage of education improvement this turn?

The reward is fantastic and all, but people were wary of the risk of divination going after Turoq, a mere daemon prince. I'm super hesitant to try to divine Nurgle himself.

Indeed, I can see why the Eldar would take the risk. Though the risk is also somewhat less severe to them because they have more than one epic seer, so losing one wouldn't be quite so devastating. The reward for them is also potentially far greater. Though I'm not sure how they expect even a successful divination to translate into saving Isha.

Bah kind of hoped that Lin could help prevent risk of corruption, but I guess even his power is of no real help if Ridicully is detected.


Definitely worth doing that first then.

Yeah, if we do an action this incredibly risky even that +1 will be absolutely critical.

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1. that will be available next turn as his action is currently locked
also dont joke about +1, Ridcully past a test in the green awakening by 0, so a lack of a +1 would have caused major problems

 

[Red Bovine]

The reward is fantastic and all, but people were wary of the risk of divination going after Turoq, a mere daemon prince. I'm super hesitant to try to divine Nurgle himself.

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To be fair it was less taking the risk and more people like me thinking that the risk vastly outweighed the reward. Here this is actually one of the rewards that I believe is worth the risk.