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The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up
- Thread starter Durin
- Start date
- Location
- UK
Hmm, are there any actions for Nurgle? I can't seem to see any. If you're talking about the destructive frequencies, then I think that @Shard is don't doing it because it's pretty dangerous for Tamia to do, and Ridcully doesn't really have the time for it unfortunately.
As for the actual powers being done, I think it's probably a good suggestion to focus more Tzeentch at the very least. Personally, I'd swap out the Dark Prince Grand Banishing and Grand Countering actions in exchange for adding anti-Abomination and anti-Changer of Ways countering, just so we have the full suite of basic powers at least. Tzeentch hasn't invaded yet after all, so he is a candidate for another incursion, although probably second to Nurgle, particularly if we deliberately provoke an incursion to assist with the Eldar rescue of Isha.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
The Frequencies bar destructive primordial chaos already been done. That's why I'm not doing it.
The Chaos Gods are all just about equally likely to give an incursion.
Slaneesh is prioritized since Demogoye is right next to us.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
Department of War
The Department of War is one of the three Departments of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica. It oversees the training and deployment of all Battle Psykers in the Imperial Trust, and has five separate Divisions as well as several Orders. While the Department of War operates throughout the Adeptus...
- Location
- Australia
Can you make one of these looking at our off-Avernus planets? They've barely shown up at all in Embers' fluff compared to the planet itself despite holding a majority of the system's population.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
Sanctionites
The Sanctionites of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica are the backbone of the organisation, fulfilling countless roles essential for its existence and growth. It is Sanctionites who train Psykers, produce the psy-active wargear that Battle Psykers bear to war and discover the powers that make the...
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
Central Department
The Central Department is one of the three Departments of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica. It oversees the centralised segments of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica and has three separate division as well as several orders. Currently the Central Department is run by its First Grandmaster Tamia...
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
Regional Department
The Regional Department is one of the three Departments of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica. It oversees the decentralised segments of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica and has two separate divisions as well as several orders. Currently the Central Department is run by its First Grandmaster Aria. The...
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
Neo-Astropaths
The Neo-Astropaths and their counterparts the Neo-Astropathic Receivers are the elite Psykers who maintain the Imperial Trust's interstellar communication network. These Psykers, generally just referred to as Neo-Astropaths as a group, are selected from among those major Psyker trainees who show...
- Location
- Berkeley
Hmm, wonder if the general psyker power boost from the Chaos ritual is going to boost those distances for the Neo-Astropaths. On the one hand, if it's a matter being able to channel more power to be 'louder' it does seem like it would, but on the other it might also force you to shout even 'louder' to be heard over an increased background.
I'm also a bit curious if our numbers are still going to be sufficient for the expanded polity with enough density for everyone to be on the network with sufficent bandwidth. The number of locations and total distances being covered are both going up massively, and even with expanded recruitment locations we're still very dependent on Avernus for the higher power psykers.
I'm also a bit curious if our numbers are still going to be sufficient for the expanded polity with enough density for everyone to be on the network with sufficent bandwidth. The number of locations and total distances being covered are both going up massively, and even with expanded recruitment locations we're still very dependent on Avernus for the higher power psykers.
- Location
- England
We might be a bit short but since then the trust has trained approx 200 librarians who can do the same sorta thing I think we'll be okay. I assume that the blood dragons have already taken that approach and use their librarians rather than relying on picket ships.
HanEmpire
Delicious
Did we ever go anywhere with the techsorcist thing?
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
We have technomancy and enough wards that they were sorta reinvented in the back ground.
- Location
- western US
hey, uh. did we ever check with the other post-fall, non-chaos policys about if anyone else has any proper navigators or astropaths left?
would be nice if we could have some real ones at least till we have replaced them with a upgrade. cas I was under the impression that we were simply unlucky to not have our own.
would be nice if we could have some real ones at least till we have replaced them with a upgrade. cas I was under the impression that we were simply unlucky to not have our own.
sabreFather
Dr Pepper is the flavour that I savour
- Location
- Land of Bears and Loggers AKA Oregon
- Location
- Huezil
You can leave a comment on the GDoc if you doodle over the name of the person who did it, or edit their forum name over it, it's common etiquette.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Ehhh...well for navigators there's no difference. All navigators save those of house norn are weakened due to the paternova cycle being broken, doesn't matter if they're pre or post imperial, we likely have plenty that are pre imperial fall.
Astropaths...probably a few trapped behind warp storms like us, but frankly we don't really need them...Imperial astropaths burn out real fast man and our new ones cover everything so well that we switched over without a detriment to our comms.
Their only issue is long range communication, which is a pain, but we can manage it.
- Location
- Berkeley
Traditional Astropaths, for all that they were unquestionably superior to our current neo-Astropaths, are a dead end even if there were any more left simply due to the fact that creating more is literally impossible. While we're not going to be able to replicate their full abilities following the neo-Astropath tree for a long time they or leaning on Librarian long distance communication are the only feasible long distance intra-polity instant communication methods available for the foreseeable future.
On Navigators, right now it seems that the old Navigator lines are holding for the major polities we've encountered. As such, while figuring out how to establish new lines and improve their abilities is absolutely a priority, it isn't a desperate one. Plus, while figuring out how to make new lines is within striking distance for us, actually improving them (which is the aspect that is likely to actually have major strategic impact) is going to be gated by a shitload of genetics understanding and incremental improvement. The current navigator lines, as degraded as they are, are still the result of the focused efforts of the geniuses of the DAoT at Mars. Improving on their base work is going to be a bitch.
On Navigators, right now it seems that the old Navigator lines are holding for the major polities we've encountered. As such, while figuring out how to establish new lines and improve their abilities is absolutely a priority, it isn't a desperate one. Plus, while figuring out how to make new lines is within striking distance for us, actually improving them (which is the aspect that is likely to actually have major strategic impact) is going to be gated by a shitload of genetics understanding and incremental improvement. The current navigator lines, as degraded as they are, are still the result of the focused efforts of the geniuses of the DAoT at Mars. Improving on their base work is going to be a bitch.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Not even that, the current lines were the result of a lot of being careful who they boinked.
The reason they were as good as they were was because of the Paternova cycle, which has emp's mitts all over it, but that gone with Terra.
In the current era, the Trust has house Norn who are likely the first navigator house ever, are both highly stable and notably seem to have never been connected to the Paternova cycle. As such while their navigators were worse during the age of the Imperium they're now the best base line navigators in the galaxy.
We're all good for immidiate improvement of the nav's you know. We just need them fish cause even House Norn's still degraded as heck.
- Location
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Pronouns
- He/Him
The title of the second range table has gotten merged into the last entry of the first range table.Neo-Astropaths
The Neo-Astropaths and their counterparts the Neo-Astropathic Receivers are the elite Psykers who maintain the Imperial Trust's interstellar communication network. These Psykers, generally just referred to as Neo-Astropaths as a group, are selected from among those major Psyker trainees who show...embers-in-the-dusk.fandom.com
sabreFather
Dr Pepper is the flavour that I savour
- Location
- Land of Bears and Loggers AKA Oregon
Ok, back. Sorry for freaking out. I have no damn clue what the hell was going on with me. Now, have a proper post, sanitized of stuff that apparently counts as Google Doxxing its own users...
I edited the Orsini's speed to 500 kph, only about 16 kph faster than the Mach 5 
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Inquisition bi-centennial Report: Continued Observation of the changing Avernite genome
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Inquisition bi-centennial Report: Continued Observation of the changing Avernite genome
Lord Inquisitors, at present the changes to the Avernite subset of humanity as undergone by Old One descendent entity alpha continue.
No signs of halting have occurred. Team Eyeball has failed to note any means of predicting the pace of the alterations to the Avernite genome, or predicting what alterations the Entity will make.
All subjects under observation have yielded no insight into what mechanisms the Old One entity is using to achieve these levels of alteration.
At the behest of Lord Inquisitor Ultan, the experiment to see the extent of the Entities artificial augmentation process was carried out.
Several couples from differing worlds around the Dragon's Nest were persuaded to come to Avernus. All children that came from their relationships possessed current level Avernite alterations, indicating that one need merely be human for the Entity to act.
Addendum: Wide-scale analysis of the population, after the introduction of Blood Dragon residents, reveals the inclusion of multiple psyker related genes developed by the wider human population during the Trust's one thousand year period of isolation and are not present within the wider Trust population. These genes have already been integrated on all levels by the Entity.
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Notable alterations
For the most part, the entity continues its trend of focusing upon the reflexes, immune systems and toxin resistance of the general population.
Smaller-scale alterations continue to be noted within other areas, such as physical strength.
The end result is a degree of physical attributes that is slowly but surely rising above the level of the "average" within the Trust.
Securing an accurate understanding is fraught with complications due to the anticipated, but unavoidable avernite death rate.
Mental alterations remain frustrating difficult to gauge. Despite our best efforts, we remain unable to determine how much of the slow changes to Avernite instincts and psyches is due to well-documented psychological struggles, or the Entity taking an active hand. In spite of our failure in this regard, we shall continue to search.
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New Alterations
These alterations have cropped up only recently, and are deviations from previous subtle alterations, albeit still within the realm of possibility for the human genome, albeit not within these circumstances.
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@Durin
Wondering what the World is doing to us?
Lord Inquisitors, at present the changes to the Avernite subset of humanity as undergone by Old One descendent entity alpha continue.
No signs of halting have occurred. Team Eyeball has failed to note any means of predicting the pace of the alterations to the Avernite genome, or predicting what alterations the Entity will make.
All subjects under observation have yielded no insight into what mechanisms the Old One entity is using to achieve these levels of alteration.
At the behest of Lord Inquisitor Ultan, the experiment to see the extent of the Entities artificial augmentation process was carried out.
Several couples from differing worlds around the Dragon's Nest were persuaded to come to Avernus. All children that came from their relationships possessed current level Avernite alterations, indicating that one need merely be human for the Entity to act.
Addendum: Wide-scale analysis of the population, after the introduction of Blood Dragon residents, reveals the inclusion of multiple psyker related genes developed by the wider human population during the Trust's one thousand year period of isolation and are not present within the wider Trust population. These genes have already been integrated on all levels by the Entity.
======================================================================
Notable alterations
For the most part, the entity continues its trend of focusing upon the reflexes, immune systems and toxin resistance of the general population.
Smaller-scale alterations continue to be noted within other areas, such as physical strength.
The end result is a degree of physical attributes that is slowly but surely rising above the level of the "average" within the Trust.
Securing an accurate understanding is fraught with complications due to the anticipated, but unavoidable avernite death rate.
Mental alterations remain frustrating difficult to gauge. Despite our best efforts, we remain unable to determine how much of the slow changes to Avernite instincts and psyches is due to well-documented psychological struggles, or the Entity taking an active hand. In spite of our failure in this regard, we shall continue to search.
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New Alterations
These alterations have cropped up only recently, and are deviations from previous subtle alterations, albeit still within the realm of possibility for the human genome, albeit not within these circumstances.
- Selective Hearing: At present, a minuscule degree of sound can be ignored by Avernites due to minute alterations within their inner ear while increasing their ability to ignore motion sickness, dizziness and improve their balance. At first, this was thought to be a variant of the Lymans Ear. However, the alterations are distinct and would need to be far more extreme to produce the same degree of alterations.
- Increased acceptance to Geneseed: Likely the most important change, at present the degree of genomes indicating successful avernite acceptance of geneseed has increased by approximately 0.01%. According to the Magi Biologis, this is an enormous shift in overall genetic make up. In practice this seems to have had no real effect, aside from a minor increase in avernites who could be accepted into the Vangarian Guard, Blood Dragons or Crimson Crusaders. What reason the entity could have for this is unclear.
- Odd colouration: At present, the most minor in terms of practical alteration, but also the most obvious is the emergence of strange hair and eye colours amongst the Avernite populace that are not naturally occurring amongst the human populace. Our initial indicator was an increase in the number of Avernites sporting the white hair of Vanir, without any Vanir heritage. These have increased in hues to reds, blues and greens. Eye alterations are less obvious, but still striking, with examples like Cyan appearing. Further examination of the Avernite genome, reveals that the potential for these colouration has been seeded within the Avernite population, with some colourations being recessive others dominant. These hair colours only appear after the 18th generation of Avernites. The populace has been assured there is nothing to worry about and has been assured it is merely an odd mutation of Vanir genes, placed in an odd environment.*
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@Durin
Wondering what the World is doing to us?
- Location
- madison
Law of native, if you have distinctive hair your a main character.