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- Alice Springs, Australia
The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up
- Thread starter Durin
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- UK
@Durin Ah, that's unfortunate. Just to clarify the costs for some potential future actions:
1.Do we have any estimate for how long it should be until favour costs return to "normal"?
2. What would it now cost to have permanent counterintelligence assistance?
3. What would it now cost to have permanent Telepathica assistance?
4. What would it now cost to have permanent assistance for exploring Avernus?
5. What would it now cost to get better warp travel tech?
6. What would the cost now be for eliminating all Chaos polities within 500 LY of us?
6.a) Can you give an estimate for what it would cost to do this 80-100 years from now?
7. What would the cost now be for eliminating all Chaos polities within 1000 LY of us?
7.a) Can you give an estimate for what it would cost to do this 80-100 years from now?
8. Would providing enough resources to upgrade all our hives to level 8 defences still be 1 Honourbound favour now, and 1 honourbound favour per century to maintain?
9. What would it cost to have the Eldar prevent Abaddon from conquering us, by causing enough problems that he can't spare the forces to attack us? e.g. Steering Ork waaaghs into the Black Imperium, sabotage, assassination of key figures, launching raids and incursions to destroy key worlds and sever supply lines etc.
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- Omniverse #1345
Not sure that would satisfy Abs desire for revenge.
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- Elsewhere
Not satisfy, underestimate he would send a smaller fleet just to clean us up.
He has his own diviners and for that matter his own Nurglities. He can just ask the daemons how the incursion went.
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- Elsewhere
Chaos isn't exactly consistent, and he didn't know about us before and the daemons did.
While Daemons may not normally be the most reliable sources of information, Nurgle hates us with a fiery passion. He will make damn sure the Black Imperium's sorcerers get accurate intel to keep us from pulling any tricks on them.
Shattered Aegis
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- madison
Shattered Aegis
Something is wrong.
Zahhak looks up from the map covered table before her, her fellow gods staring, but she pays no heed. She can't understand. Something fundamental to reality has shifted in an alien and unwelcome way, but it's so fundamental she can't put her claw on it.
Faust is staring, her expression full of second-hand grief.
Emotions are put on pause, as Zahhak checks and rechecks her minds, empathy is still connected by its complex mesh to the rest of her emotions, guilt and shame are present and the mental process to slowly fade them is working well enough for so recent an addition, her primary drives remain stable, with the urge to devour kept in check by her desire for affirmation, the three threads of her cognition still pull towards the same goals. Yet, she knows that so fundamental a shift must be internal, what has gone wrong?
Yharim puts a hand on her shoulder, radiating, sympathy? What?
Zahhak has not found any flaws or wounds in her mind, which means it must be affecting her self perception. This is troubling, but workable. She reaches for her shield-
Zahhak blinks in confusion. Someone is saying something, she ignores it.
Zahhak reaches for her love again, nothing. Not the resistance of a blocked connection, nothing. Emotional suppression breaks down and fear begins to trickle in, it is within tolerances and ignored.
Her form begins to run as her will waivers, the muck that makes up her true self exposed, but the part of her that would care is not responding, so it is disregarded.
Perception tests are performed a dozen times a second, call and response tests return inconclusive results because she's not there internal test return clean. Fear begins rising rapidly, attempts to deprioritize emotion in decision making are failing.
No
Thread two has ceased functioning, caught up in some sort of loop. This is worrying, but less so than present concerns. Thread three and one are in conflict. Fear is beginning to overwhelm decision-making capacity.
Not her, please anyone but her.
Thread one is notably less emotion-based then thread three, so is given primacy.
Please, let this be a dream.
Contact tests are performed with all surviving family members, results are normal. Contact attempts are attempted with deceased family, and the results compared with attempts to contact the shieldmaiden. Memories of the sensation of the death of family members are recalled and compa-
Thread three has overruled thread one and asserted primacy.
An illusion, that is the only possible cause, some kind of mental trap, nothing else makes sen-
Thread one and two have overruled thread three.
Tamiko is dead.
oh
…..
…
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The room is a blur as Zahhak charges into the warp, spending power like water for speed, all other concerns disregarded
Food is briefly present, then it is not.
Nothing. There is no body, no trace, no hint of her fate, no shattered fragment that could maybe be used to bring her back.
Lesser food talks about a stand, about the golden legion attacking an evacuation fleet. Further information is provided, it is irrelevant. The lesser food is ignored.
There is no threat to attack. There is no immediate danger to address. There is no possible path to pursue for the slightest chance of resurrection. There is no hope, there is no point. The veil tears and then there is nothing but pain and doubt.
How could I let this happen?
What am I even fighting for?
Is this what I sinned for? Is this the precious thing I did so much evil to achieve?
I owe it to her to survive.
I owe it to her to survive.
And yet..
I"m sorry, Tamiko, I, I can't. I can't do this anymore, not without you.
But I can't waste the life she spent so much to protect.
But I can't waste the life she spent so much to protect.
She died protecting the innocent from the tyrant.
She died with her work undone.
Tjapa trumpets its intent to rule the Veil itself.
Yet, even now I can taste defiance on the warp.
To confront the Tyrant it in the center of its power would be suicide.
Yet, it could accomplish so much.
To stand between the dark and the innocent.
Like the shieldmaiden wished me to.
Like the shieldmaiden died doing.
A miracle, turning back the fall of dawn.
At the cost of my life
What
aBargain.
@Durin a somewhat dark omake.
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- Australia
@Durin, GW recently invented a new ship called a forge-barque.
Additionally, the Mechanicus has some kind of millennia-old skitarius (kept in a cryo-stasis sarcophagus) whose radiation aura is so massive that it can pollute the noosphere with cancerous information and kill planets, tainting them with radiation for hundreds of thousands of years.
Additionally, the Mechanicus has some kind of millennia-old skitarius (kept in a cryo-stasis sarcophagus) whose radiation aura is so massive that it can pollute the noosphere with cancerous information and kill planets, tainting them with radiation for hundreds of thousands of years.
Is Radiant Wrath canon in Embers?
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ArchAIngel
Sorcerer Supreme.
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- Right behind you.
Forge-Barques sound like a very 40k way to say "It's a Freighter, but FANCY".
Absent other evidence, I'll stick to that.
Absent other evidence, I'll stick to that.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
So some analysis on Abaddon's options from his PoV:
1. FULL BLACK CRUSADE. KILL EVERYONE.
Result: The Trust calls in Honorbound(s) which Abby knows they have.
The EoA slaughter the Black Crusade, but get rek't in turn. The Black Imperium falls apart, along with the EoA.
Void Dragon breaks free. At this point only SK, Vect and maybe the Krork could do something. The Krork are distracted, so there's a pretty good chance of a galactic bad end. Either way, Abaddon is likely finished. Oh, and the Ork Waaghs are going to spamming around the galaxy, so there's also that minor bit of disaster.
Gods for: Nurgle (duh), Malal (KILL EVERYONE)
Gods ???: Khorne (Slaughter vs Getting Avatar of Khorne summoned), Slaneesh (Self preservation vs Slaughtering the EoA)
Gods against: Tzeentch (He actually wants to live), Tjapa (He hates the Void Dragon)
2. Punitive Task Force.
Result: Trust calls in Major(s?), which Abby knows we have.
The EoA slaughter the Task Force, which Abby will absolutely not put anything he actually values in. Abaddon reorganizes and focuses over the next century, wary of Avernus. It's possible we get other Punitive Task Forces whenever Abby wants to fuck with the EoA.
The Void Dragon breaks free. Obviously, Abaddon has to summon the Avatar of Khorne, or use PK and Blackstone Fortresses and hope for the best. Galactic kind-of-status-quo.
Gods for: Tzeentch, Tjapa, Khorne
Gods ???: Slaneesh
Gods against: Malal, Nurgle
3. Something else
Abaddon has more options than 1. Who knows what they are?
1. FULL BLACK CRUSADE. KILL EVERYONE.
Result: The Trust calls in Honorbound(s) which Abby knows they have.
The EoA slaughter the Black Crusade, but get rek't in turn. The Black Imperium falls apart, along with the EoA.
Void Dragon breaks free. At this point only SK, Vect and maybe the Krork could do something. The Krork are distracted, so there's a pretty good chance of a galactic bad end. Either way, Abaddon is likely finished. Oh, and the Ork Waaghs are going to spamming around the galaxy, so there's also that minor bit of disaster.
Gods for: Nurgle (duh), Malal (KILL EVERYONE)
Gods ???: Khorne (Slaughter vs Getting Avatar of Khorne summoned), Slaneesh (Self preservation vs Slaughtering the EoA)
Gods against: Tzeentch (He actually wants to live), Tjapa (He hates the Void Dragon)
2. Punitive Task Force.
Result: Trust calls in Major(s?), which Abby knows we have.
The EoA slaughter the Task Force, which Abby will absolutely not put anything he actually values in. Abaddon reorganizes and focuses over the next century, wary of Avernus. It's possible we get other Punitive Task Forces whenever Abby wants to fuck with the EoA.
The Void Dragon breaks free. Obviously, Abaddon has to summon the Avatar of Khorne, or use PK and Blackstone Fortresses and hope for the best. Galactic kind-of-status-quo.
Gods for: Tzeentch, Tjapa, Khorne
Gods ???: Slaneesh
Gods against: Malal, Nurgle
3. Something else
Abaddon has more options than 1. Who knows what they are?
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- western US
hmm... this does seem to be the case.
I would suggest that we think up what kinds of "cut the rope" kind of things abbadon could potentially do....but I'm not sure if it would be smart to give durin ideas for our enemys
Ok so list of desperate stuff we can do if worst case
1 Get the eldar to start a T3 waagh. While they can not predict to well what will happen will distract chaos and help relieve some of the attacking forces. May also attack us.
2 contact the Necrons. No idea what they will do and we would the Honor codes for a major boost to it. Might help, might kill the trust no d
Idea here.
3 Have Rotbart deal with the Fae Sidhe. They are evil, cruel, vicious and powerful. They are one of the things in the warp that demon incursions have to run through to get to Avernus. Waiting to hear back on this.
1 Get the eldar to start a T3 waagh. While they can not predict to well what will happen will distract chaos and help relieve some of the attacking forces. May also attack us.
2 contact the Necrons. No idea what they will do and we would the Honor codes for a major boost to it. Might help, might kill the trust no d
Idea here.
3 Have Rotbart deal with the Fae Sidhe. They are evil, cruel, vicious and powerful. They are one of the things in the warp that demon incursions have to run through to get to Avernus. Waiting to hear back on this.
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- Brazil, Minas gerais
Hey, would give the deceiver location to the necrons help? If they don't know if that the c'tan is still alive I mean.
for the incoming dark empire
One idea that can be horrible or not is clean all local chaos and just direct the orc in their direction.
Another less horrible one that we had in the past is become a protectorate of the kroks. I am sure that someone ask this in the past. Those guys can eat attrition better than us.
(joking) if everything else we should allow a jokaero in Avernus. Let chaos try invade with everything has a laser gun^^.
for the incoming dark empire
One idea that can be horrible or not is clean all local chaos and just direct the orc in their direction.
Another less horrible one that we had in the past is become a protectorate of the kroks. I am sure that someone ask this in the past. Those guys can eat attrition better than us.
(joking) if everything else we should allow a jokaero in Avernus. Let chaos try invade with everything has a laser gun^^.
Kork took 50 percent casualties and at best would need a century at least to conquer the local orks.
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- Alice Springs, Australia
dont worry, I have already decided what he is doing
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- Earth
Sigh, so much for writing omakes to tip the odds. Please just be a punitive fleet...
You think it will only be one month aww sweet summer child.
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- Earth
I said FIVE
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- madison
Well, that is for some reason, the opposite of comforting.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
Is this supposed to reduce our worry or increase it? >.<