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

Investigate the Sea?

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Or for a Negaverse omake.
I kinda like the idea that this is a mass RP thread as a Negaverse, and everyone is massively confused about the Trusts build.
"Hang on, we bought 179 Sectors and all that Astartes stuff, Callamus got over 114 plus some ridiculously strong forge worlds. But the trust doesn't have a whole sector and they had to lose nine centuries of actions as a drawback? What the hell did they spend their points on? Twelve (eleven?) centuries was worth four primarchs!"
 
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The Psychic Cannon
The Eldar have provided the designed for the Psychic Cannon, an Nova Cannon sized weapon designed for use against Warp Entities, that is capable of massed banishment of deamons and significantly disrupting most targets. This weapon is impossibly complex and uses unknown and exotic interactions to work but the Eldar have provided enough schemtics to replicate it.
And now I dearly hope this thing can be used on the planet. Preferably in one of our cities.
After all, there is an ever growing number of chaotic Alpha psyker emergences on Avernus. And growing chance of a chaotic Alpha+
This danger haunts my dreams at this point. Here's hoping we can get teched up before this happpens.
 
And now I dearly hope this thing can be used on the planet. Preferably in one of our cities.
After all, there is an ever growing number of chaotic Alpha psyker emergences on Avernus. And growing chance of a chaotic Alpha+
This danger haunts my dreams at this point. Here's hoping we can get teched up before this happpens.
Yes if we have something to clear the atmosphere out of the way first.
 
I kinda like the idea that this is a mass RP thread as a Negaverse, and everyone is massively confused about the Trusts build.
"Hang on, we bought 179 Sectors and all that Astartes stuff, Callamus got over 114 plus some ridiculously strong forge worlds. But the trust doesn't have a whole sector and they had to lose a century of actions as a drawback? What the hell did they spend their points on? Two centuries was worth four primarchs!"

One thousand years actually. Those thousand years were just around a 100 years to us.
 
I kinda like the idea that this is a mass RP thread as a Negaverse, and everyone is massively confused about the Trusts build.
"Hang on, we bought 179 Sectors and all that Astartes stuff, Callamus got over 114 plus some ridiculously strong forge worlds. But the trust doesn't have a whole sector and they had to lose a century of actions as a drawback? What the hell did they spend their points on? Two centuries was worth four primarchs!"
dark age tech and hero's obviously
 
Been wondering this for a while @Durin How did various Magos' respond to the revelation thst post cognition cheating for reverse engineering tech is something that works?
 
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@Durin
1a. In what size/types does Disintegration Guns Come in?
1b. Enthalpic Weapons?
2. Are Disintegration Guns in higher or lower cost/effectiveness tier than Grav-Shear Weapons? Or same tier with different focuses (sheer damage vs. AP and stealth)?
3. Could we actually put Jacob in Psy-Knight?
3a. If so, how large of a Combat penalty he would initially get?
4. Do our heavier ground-based Grav-Accelerators have the same vacuum-tunnel tech Super-Exituses have?
4b. If not, how difficult would it be to upscale?
 
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@Durin
1. In this context what did he mean when Vulkan said the BCS is an avatar of DEATH!
2. Was he able to determine anything about the other pieces (save the obvious highly advanced probably more advanced than he can replicate.)
3. Does anyone present know what Drachnyen is in embers? It is supposed to be one of the most powerful artefacts in setting?
4. At our current level of knowledge do we think that an Order of Psi Knights would gain any benefits from getting similarities to the traditional Questoris Familia?

You've not tagged him.
 
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Been wondering this for a while @ Durin How did various Magos' respond to the revelation thst post cognition cheating for reverse engineering tech is something that works?
You don't need the space between @ and the name.

On a similar note, @Durin:
1) are the other polities capable of using our Post-Cognition technique for reverse-engineering?
2) does post-cognition work for Tau tech?
3) is anyone planning on studying archeotech again with post-cognition?
3a) if so, what important archeotech do our allies have? Aside from the Black Ships I mean.
 
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They might purchase some from Fabius Bile though. And Tjapa's whole thing is that he's a fake Emperor. Creating fake Primarch's using Fabius Bile's help would be just the sort of hypocritical thing he'd try.
That's really not in Bile's character.

He hates the Primarchs and the Emperor as well as, what they represent and what they do to people to the point that even when he knows intellectually that releasing one of his clones is the morally right thing to do he'd never do it.

He'd be more likely to create some, then install mines in their heads to go off once he was a safe distance and Tjapa's stagnation is probably the biggest insult to him that he could think of.
 
The Imperial Trust spent all its points on a megadeathworld, and then purchased a crapload of mystery box options. Avernus generates ridiculous troops and heroes, and they get a lot better over time, at a risk of losing them.

A bit of a rules hack is that an expensive enough Oracle can mitigate that risk, and level up while doing so. That's why they are almost ready to claim the Blind Seer Archetype Card, even though they are only on their third turn.

They are also why the GM had to change the rules for heroic stat growth.

Probably why it's so hard to transcend as well.
 
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Been wondering this for a while @Durin How did various Magos' respond to the revelation thst post cognition cheating for reverse engineering tech is something that works?

Probably a combination of annoyed and jelous since that kind of thing is only practical for high level divine when something goes back far enough. Considering that they Dark Age Tech is over 20, 000 yeards old odds are most divinters can't take advantage of post cognition for reverse engineering.
 
A galaxy aflame quest.
A galaxy aflame quest.

malal said:
It should have been a great victory. The core of abaddon's personal fleet, a vast force of demonships striking at the hated Quartus, those fools who dared deny the power of the gods. The timing was asupsicous, auguries and seers of a dozen strips agreed this would be the best opportunity to strike at Quartus for decades at least. At first it seemed to go so well, colonies burning and entire worlds offered up to the gods in thanks for their gifts, even when their damned xeno witchery summoned up a fleet, the heathens where outnumbered by the blessed 2 to 1. Yet still they charged, seemingly intent on spilling their own blood across the stars, an offering Antarax the unceasing greedily accepted. The fool! Abadon himself watched helplessly as the pride of his fleet died under ancient techno arcana. Ships that struck as if their shots were guided by demons,a weapon to dwarf the might of nova cannons obliterating vast swaths of the fleet in every ruinous blast, strange lances and light fast projectiles tearing through his battleships and worst of all, a blasphemous weapon that rejected the gifts of the gods. With cold inhuman science it rent apart the holy merging of the infernal and the mortal, each foul blast sending the demons of his vessels screaming back to the warp. The pride of his fleet, his handpicked heralds, died ingloriously. The seer who dared show him this humiliation died with a simpering apology on its lips. It would not be the last seer to die for this treachery!

Results
Elite demonship fleet lost.
Hero- antarax the unceasing slain in disgrace
-30 prestage, -15 favor with all gods.
Majority of senior seers executed for failure, major penalty to scrying until replaced.
Gain intel on new quartus weapons, banishment cannon, unknown explosive spinal mount, unknown kinetic weapons. Across the board increase in naval might of unknown amount and source.


random_mook said:
what the fuck. We rolled a 94 on the will of the gods to interpret the signs ! And a 40 on the raid! What the hell


Lucifer said:
Well shit. This is a bad time to take a hit like that, though I don't think there is really a good time.


Droping_bear said:
random_mook said:
what the fuck. We rolled a 94 on the will of the gods to interpret the signs ! And a 40 on the raid! What the hell


Will of the gods rolls are either roll high or roll low, we don't find out until we act on it. So that 94 ment we either got it dead on, or really really wrong. Looks like that was a roll low one.


spawn said:
goddammit, I knew we left Quartus alone to long.


random_mook said:
Droping_bear said:
Will of the gods rolls are either roll high or roll low, we don't find out until we act on it. So that 94 ment we either got it dead on, or really really wrong. Looks like that was a roll low one.

That is BULLSHIT! It means we can never really trust what the gods are telling us!


Droping_bear said:
Random_mook said:
That is BULLSHIT! It means we can never really trust what the gods are telling us!
Welcom to playing chaos.


Brass_devil said:
malal said:
a blasphemous weapon that rejected the gifts of the gods. With cold inhuman science it rent apart the holy merging of the infernal and the mortal, each foul blast sending the demons of his vessels screaming back to the warp.

Oh shit, anyone else thinking necrons? Cause fucking with the warp like that screams necrons to me.


room101 said:
Malal said:
Hero- antarax the unceasing slain in disgrace

Damit! I liked antarax, he was a bro. Also one of the very few good naval commanders, and he was crazy in a mostly manageable way.


Scrap said:
I guess it was to much to hope that only our guys and the eldar who where getting swole. Hopefully this means there not going to have anything else up their sleeves



Lucifer said:
Brass_devil said:
Oh shit, anyone else thinking necrons? Cause fucking with the warp like that screams necrons to me.

That makes sense. We did get a tip that deceiver was doing something. Did we just facecheck his scheme? We need to look into what quartas is doing asap

Malal said:
Majority of senior seers executed for failure, major penalty to scrying until replaced.

Oh right, fuck. Well last time something like that happened it took us what, 3 turns to fully recover? Not entirely cool waiting that long, hopefully we can bully one of our subordinates into using their seers.



Droping_bear said:
room101 said:
Damit! I liked antarax, he was a bro. Also one of the very few good naval commanders, and he was crazy in a mostly manageable way.

Yeah, we have major hero churn, but its going to be a long time before we see another hero at the same intersection of loyal, skilled and relative sanity. Hell, it might be worth eating the extra cost for bringing back someone who died in disgrace.


Brass_devil said:
Oh, Malal you SOB, I figured out the twist.

Malal said:
The might of Quartus is at the lowest it will be for centuries.

That was the exact wording he gave us when we were trying to figure out if the 94 was a good roll or a bad one. Its true, because there rolling out a tech upgrade. They are not having a moment of weakness, they are about to hulk the fuck out.

@Malal is that the twist?


Random_mook said:
Oh come on, he's not that evil.


room101 said:
Droping_bear said:
Yeah, we have major hero churn, but its going to be a long time before we see another hero at the same intersection of loyal, skilled and relative sanity. Hell, it might be worth eating the extra cost for bringing back someone who died in disgrace.

Maybe? That favor hit hurt. Maybe if we get a giant pile from helping nurgle deal with the peopl who touched his waifu.


Malal said:
Brass_devil said:
@Malal is that the twist?

Yes. I was waiting for one of you to put it together.


Random_mook said:
Well I was wrong. @Malal could we launch a black crusade before they finish the rollout?


Malal said:
Random_mook said:
Well I was wrong. @Malal could we launch a black crusade before they finish the rollout?

You don't know, but between the WAAAAGH and the prestige hit you just took you won't be able to put together a major force for at least a decade.


Brass_devil said:
Also, i'm guessing it would be politically problematic to use our vassals to do what our personal forces just spectacularly failed at.

@MalalI don't suppose we could put the word out about the coming tech up and hope someone does something useful?


Malal said:
Brass_devil said:
Also, i'm guessing it would be politically problematic to use our vassals to do what our personal forces just spectacularly failed at.

That to.

Brass_devil said:
@MalalI don't suppose we could put the word out about the coming tech up and hope someone does something useful?

No. it looks too much like trying to save face, most lords refuse to believe it's something getting rolled out en masse. The most common theory is either it's arcnotech recently found, or vulcan built a taskforce of artifact ships.


Scrap said:
Malal said:
No. it looks too much like trying to save face, most lords refuse to believe it's something getting rolled out en masse. The most common theory is either it's arcnotech recently found, or vulcan built a taskforce of artifact ships.

Well that's just great. Backstabbing fuckwits.

@malal
1. Can we expect anything to them thinking there are shines to steal at least?
2. Will we get some prestige back for being right about this being a tech up?
3. Will it be easier to put together a crusade against Quartus once it becomes clear they are power leveling?


spawn said:
Arrgh! This is so frustrating! A threat is about to balloon, and we can't spare the forces to kill it before it does!


Lucifer said:
@malal some questions.

1Do we have any leads or hints about where the tech came from?
2Do we know if its naval only?
3Does it look xeno?


Malal said:
Scrap said:
1. Can we expect anything to them thinking there are shines to steal at least?
2. Will we get some prestige back for being right about this being a tech up?
3. Will it be easier to put together a crusade against Quartus once it becomes clear they are power leveling?

1 Most likely not. The border lords will be making moves planned around having to deal with a small fleet of super ships, not a general upgrade. They are unlikely to meet with much success.
2 No
3 Somewhat. The greater desire to end a threat is mostly contuerblanced by a increased hesitance to risk their own forces.

Lucifer said:
@malal some questions.

1Do we have any leads or hints about where the tech came from?
2Do we know if its naval only?
3Does it look xeno?

1 Your seers may have had something, but as of now no
2 You do not.
3 Possibly. DAoT tech at the high end and xeno tech can look similar.

I can assure you that you will have actions to look into both what the tech is, and where it came from in the next set of turn options.


GEoM said:
spawn said:
Arrgh! This is so frustrating! A threat is about to balloon, and we can't spare the forces to kill it before it does!

Oh I can't possibly imagine what that must be like. Truly my heart bleeds.


@Durin, I did a thing.
 
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