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

Investigate the Sea?

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So is there anything stopping us from repairing our ship traveling over to some leaderless chaos worlds and dropping some planet killing hammers on them before someone manages to take charge?

We don't want them to have time to join another chaos group and share our tech with them either.
Our tech is mostly on DarkMech worlds, and those still have leaders and forces, too far away and are part of/have defense pacts with other Chaos polities.
 
It just not going to be a thing dude, the limits we have to deal with warp travel is a fundamental part of our tech base/level. Those limits are what define the sizes of the various human powers.
Nah its totally possible.

That's the issue with DAoT tech its so fragmented because people in different areas of the galaxy came up with different stuff, the Admech just interpreted it as being unified.

Regardless given the size that the other human polities have reached I'd say they likely have some trick each to keep themselves together beyond fudalism.
 
We have Runes of Control for Psykers, instead of putting them on various Force Weapons. What would happen if you used Tattooing/scarification/branding to place Runes of Control directly on the Psyker?
 
Turoq's Assault Part Four: A Decisive Blow
Surt unveils a couple of new tricks.
Eldar continue to Eldar.
And Asgard decides to cosplay as the Star Kingdom of Manticor, ECM and massive missile massacrer (Trust torpedo trouncing?) for the win.

...on the downside such a one-sided conflict means most of our heroes never even got close to combat and thus have little to no chance of getting traits.

We lost like 10% of our navy, mostly lighter elements. This is not even close to wrecked.
Many of the survivors will be damaged however. Repairs will take longer than replacements.
 
What do you mean I don't remember that.

If any rune was going to be safe to place on someone it would be the Rune the gives you greater control over the warp, though do we have a rune that is anti-chaos? That might be safe to place directly as well.
Banish literally causes the soul to be ejected from the body and be instantly destroyed, cause it banishes the soul.

All runes acuse horrible horrible things to happen if tattooed into a person.
 
@Durin
1. How is Jacob's health calculated? Doubled from To the Bitter End then tripled by Distillation of Humanity?
2. Has Lulana finished her equivalent treatment for herself to Jacob's knowledge?
3. Out of curiosity, how powerful (in all senses) is Lulana compared to other Queens?
4. What was Chrone's tech speciality?

As an aside can I just say I drastically underestimated the power of the torpedo launchers...like overwhelmingly.

Rokslide did good work.
 
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A Change in Management
A Change in Management
The skies of Atlas were dark with the many jagged hulls of the Amir-kaan navy. The orbital defences were still intact, but even the president, who was not experienced at all with Naval matters knew that she'd take minimal casualties taking them and taking control of the orbitals. The ground defences looked more formidable, towering forge hives with overlapping fields of fire, and powerful anti orbital weapons. She also knew that the majority of Atlas' titans and Skittari were away, and that she had tens of thousands of Astartes and Psykers ready to storm them. Again, Casualties would be minimal. All of this would be unnecessary though. After all, she had only invited the fabricator general to tea, aboard her personal "Yatch"- actually a possessed archeotech light crusier.

The Fabricator General of Atlas had known they had little choice in attending. The world was surrounded, by a president from a hostile party, by a fleet they couldn't match even if theirs wasn't currently burning in the light of the two stars of the Muspellhiem system. The Fabricator General, therefore, took the only option available, and made ready to attend the tea party. They didn't expect to survive.

The door to Marilyn May Rowe's office opened, and the red clad monster of iron and steel, stepped into the room, flanked by two even larger mechanical bodyguards. They froze, in mid step as they passed through the door, like statues. The link between the Fabricator General and his bodyguards being instantly broken automatically flicked his brain into Survival/Combat setting 0221, but while the targeting systems and defensive counter measures activated the weapons failed, the power blade attached to the arm not energising, the shoulder mounted plasma guns reactors cooling and dying and all the mechadendrites sprouting from the Mechanicus leader went limp. The daemons bound to protect them from psychic attack screamed, and fled, under the presidents influence.

They saw the president. She was lounging on a large, overstuffed armchair, legs crossed over one of the arm rests, back against the other. Her golden curls ran down the back of her neck like waterfall, meeting her dress at her back. Made of simple black fabric, imbued with hundreds of thousands of tiny runes, and sourcerous rituals, the dress cost more than the total produce of some Amir-kaan hives. It also gave the already extremely psychically powerful president even greater ability to enforce her will on the world.

"Well, well, well Mr Fabricator, or is it Mrs Fabricator? I never know with you." The Fabricator general grunted, unwilling to attack while their weapons were dead. "Last time I was here, I remember there being more space boats, don't you? I remember lots of them, all floating around here keeping you and your robot buddies nice and safe on the ground." The Fabricator let out a line of Binary that carried more bile than any words. "Oh wait, I forgot it's you lot who don't like Robots, and the other toaster fuckers who do. Well, silly little me". The president had not forgot this bit of information. She'd worked with progressive mechanicus elements for centuries, always in semi-open conflict with Atlas, the greatest forge in Amir-ka.

"Are you going to tell me what happened to your space boats? No? Good thing I know." The Fabricators head begun to spin, as the office turned into the void, his ships burning amongst the Nomad cities, fleeing from the Eldar. An image of a single man appeared, an astarte wearing a helmet shaped like the head of an anteater. "You were working with Turoq, weren't you? Turoq who you know was both my personal enemy, and the enemy of Amir-Ka. Turoq, who was the biggest threat to our freedom this side of Hydraphur!"

The fabricator general took this moment to strike. A status field, hidden deep in his body deactivated. The brain, held inside, was that of a Psi level blank. The sudden scream of the president tore through the room and the warp, the blank field not enough to nullify her power completely, but enough to cause her immense pain. Immediately she lost her control over the weapons, blades, plasma guns and mechandendrites leaping into life, Marilyn barely managing to deflect the plasma bolts. Returning fire with a great torrent of warpflame she started to move. She knew she was on her ship, with her bodyguards. She only needed to survive 10 seconds before they got here. Leaping over the chair, her desperate use of her powers left small warp rifts where her feet and hands had scrabbled over the chair. The Fabricator leapt forward, the blank brain in his body closing the rifts as he chased her. 5 seconds. Marylin concentrated her power into a shield, to keep the prying blades and blasts away, and kept running, leaping from surface to surface in a display of acrobatics unlike any she had performed in a century, always defeating would be assassins with her psychic might.

Her "bodyguards" arrived. Eight copies of the same beautiful young blond woman. Eight beta psykers with terrifying control. Enough to overpower the one Psi blank. Enough to lift the fabricator into air. Enough to crush the blank brain.

"Did you think Turoq came up with this trick himself? No, No, No. I Talked to the children of whisper too. I did not indulge their crazy scheme to go back to helhielm. I sent them on to Turok in merry hope that they'd lead him onto that awful meatgrinder of a planet. They didn't quite do that though. He, instead lead you, into a completely different meat grinder of a planet. Still one that is part of a polity I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE WELL ALONE!"

The sudden shout, from nine beings that could each individually dominate a hive, broke the fabricator, and gave Marilyn the in on the Atlas noosphere she needed to begin her takeover. The Forge world of Atlas was brought under the control of the presidents traditionalist dark mechanicus allies without a fight. The strongest centre of Abomination worship in Amir-ka, and the origin point for so much of the Abomnite terrorism across the sectors had been conquered. The president did this with only 500,000,000 deaths. Less than a percentage of the population of the world.

500,000,000 deaths for five seats in the senate? Bargain.
 
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Well... THAT happened. Get wrecked, Chaos!

@Durin
1. The text says that Atlas's Ark Mechanicus was one of the first casualties of the battle, but it's still listed in their forces. Is it destroyed or not?
2. If it is destroyed, wouldn't their Fabricator-Locum also be dead? Generally speaking you put your best guys on your biggest, most powerful ships since they're usually the least likely to get wrecked. Or was the guy smart enough to put himself on a different ship knowing the Ark would be targeted?
 
They most likely would have it anyway, since Atlas's already part of Amir-Ka and with such losses they would probable sell bucket loads of tech to recoup losses and maintain influence even if it remains under current management.
I thought they were independent?

@Durin

2. If it is destroyed, wouldn't their Fabricator-Locum also be dead? Generally speaking you put your best guys on your biggest, most powerful ships since they're usually the least likely to get wrecked. Or was the guy smart enough to put himself on a different ship knowing the Ark would be targeted?
Or the Locum could have just teleported out.
 
Possible, though coming back in disgrace with nothing to show for it AND the loss of their Ark Mechanicus? Oooh man would he be in trouble.
I meant teleport to another ship, but yeah...chances of survival are rock bottom as is, between the cities, the Eldar and the binary stars making warp out much more dangerous.

If he does survive heads are gonna roll.
 
Oh, right...

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No need to do anything else here. Muspelheim has things in hand and the Eldar are 24 hours from coming to wreck Atlas's fleet and force them to flee, if not totally destroy them.

I meant teleport to another ship, but yeah...chances of survival are rock bottom as is, between the cities, the Eldar and the binary stars making warp out much more dangerous.

If he does survive heads are gonna roll.

Yeah, I know what you meant with the teleportation. I was just saying... he's screwed. Dying may be better compared to whatever fate awaits him - like, say, being turned into a servitor who is trapped in his own body, still consciously aware of what's happening to him but with no control whatsoever, and possibly with constant pain added to the mix. His Fabricator General will be most displeased, after all, and why waste resources?
 
Yeah, I know what you meant with the teleportation. I was just saying... he's screwed. Dying may be better compared to whatever fate awaits him - like, say, being turned into a servitor who is trapped in his own body, still consciously aware of what's happening to him but with no control whatsoever, and possibly with constant pain added to the mix. His Fabricator General will be most displeased, after all, and why waste resources?
Well the Fabricator maybe dead if Piren's omake makes canon :)
 
@Durin will the news of this battle spread amongst the nearby assorted remnants? I think it would be interesting if they looked at the Imperial Trust/Dragon nest as a protector(even if it's difficult for us to actually protect them), it would also make nice supply points for us in case of a faraway campaign too...
 
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