The Unification Wars (Warhammer 40K)
- Thread starter Old Guard
- Start date
- OOC
- Location
- SF Bay Area
I wrote this for game and Hellhound has permitted it's posting. I have to contend with the fact that in 40k lore, the Emperor is one of the most inscrutable characters in the setting, and this is mostly because he has been written about by so many authors in so many inconsistent ways that it is really quite hard to hold together a cohesive personality... Once he is Emperor, before that he stays in the shadows, trying to guide humanity, he probably usually hides out as a teacher or professor at some university, best way to scout talented students. Always trying to guide science, technology and philosophy towards what he considers a good end.
211.138.M-2
I looked at what my wrath had brought to this world. Training my powers for millennia, teaching and wandering the world looking for others with my type of power or wisdom. I had found none, but I took solace that I had taught well. But it wasn't enough. They didn't understand, they would rather attribute to gods and spirits, what was natural phenomenon. I had visited my homeland once again after going east, and I was aghast. Gods... They worshipped GODS. Worse still their belief was given form, I could SEE them beginning to form in the Immaterium. I was on the coast of the Adriatic when I realized. THIS WOULD NOT STAND. Gathering an army of seapeoples I went around the region destroying civilizations that would worship these GODS. I killed them, and after I saw their immaterial forms fade, I realized what horrors I had done. Civilization was devastated, famine, disease, barbarism, and ignorance ruled the day. I had gathered a following, but I had no need for corpses or herds of believers. If there was one thing I would do. I would teach them their gods had truly abandoned them. Making myself look more like an old man with white hair I spoke what I promised to be my only Command as a leader of Men.
"The Titan Gods are defeated, Dead and gone. The Gods have abandoned you, and let it be known that a new age will be upon the world. One where such horrors will not be visited upon us again."
I left soon after heading Northeast beyond the gates of the Caucasus... I believed there was no other way to misconstrue my words and command.
112.318.M-1
This statue sickened me. I had come upon once again the Mediterranean, they had truly forgotten the gods that were being formed, but they thought I was this new god. They had crafted this... insulting statue in MY honor. Zeus... they called me, although in their tongue it meant the greatest of the gods. I was about to take my staff and destroy this temple and cults until I gazed into the immaterium to determine the state of these new gods... and to my surprise there was none. Their belief was not creating entities in the warp, it was going to me. I knew I was not a god, and this seemed an easy enough solution. I would get the energy, but I would not use it except to kill other gods. If humans wished to bow before a statue in pointless genuflection so be it! I help those that help themselves.
075.275.M-1
"Stand aside old man. May Jove strike you down" I laughed at the centurion. As if he could hope to beat me I had defeated his gods, he even believed through his own strange way that I would defeat myself. It was funny.
"No, leave my friend Archimedes to his work." Archimedes approached, "Teacher, please we must continue..."
The centurion moved before I could stop his blade. "You had your choice old man, serve the Empire or die!" I could do nothing... not while the experiment was going on. "Old Friend!" and I helped him. He looked at me, "To think you would call me old. Please do not disturb my circles." and my student's eyes closed.
I looked at the centurion preparing to ransack my student's sanctum. It would be so easy... Strike him down in righteous anger. Topple that Caesar and Rule this world... No... I can hear him... That Lord of Skulls... Suddenly that centurion, I saw what he was... a marked one. How much of his empire was infested with the rot of the Lord of Skulls... The Empire would live, but this rot would be expunged. The centurion did not live out the day. It would take me a dozen years to purge the rot of that parasite from the world. I would be vigilant to ensure that humanity would not fall for such false entities... These Parasites of the immaterium.
167.347.M2
This death spread over this continent too fast. The solution was easy if one had the cure but this continent's religious devotion blinded them to innovation. I had been too occupied with the new empire in the east that I failed to realize that the acolytes of the Plague Lord did their work. I was too occupied looking for rituals and esoteric summonings and cults that I failed to realize a group of warriors that hurled dead cows with the mark of the Plague Lord over the walls, or branded a brood of rats and sent the a ship to Italy. So many dead, but the spark... a spark! The spark that the solution to the problems of the world could not be found in devotion to a higher power, but the solution lay here on Earth. Over the centuries I would see this renaissance take hold. They would explore, thrive, they would become enlightened to sciences of the material world. Perhaps before the new millennium this religion would be gone!
015.919.M2
My wanderings had taken me once again to Rus. The world had gone far, yet far too many clung to superstition, and ensuring budding sorcerers were expunged from humanity occupied much of my time. My children, humanity, were on the brink of a new age. After a cataclysmic war, the would come together in PEACE and decide a new world order. I would be there... although the circumstances were odd. The easiest way to get a seat at the table was to travel to the nation that recently killed their head of state. They had forgotten, by my doing, that they needed a head of state. A bureaucrat found me at the station and thrust a paper in my hand making me the Head of State of the Soviet delegation to Paris. I looked down at the beautiful symmetry of the double eagle. I would have to remember that for something in the future.
295.962.M2
I hate jungles. I really do. But I had been caught unprepared for this course of events. I had to determine just how this agent of the changer of ways got this far. He was at the perfect place and perfect time to cause havoc. To change this world... War would be the crucible, a nation would burn, and I paused for just a moment... I could act here and now. I could make sure one side was victorious and religion was forbidden forever... A Global Secular Order. I came across the radio operator in the hut in Cuba that bore the mark of Lord of Change. He frowned and spoke, "You stand on the precipice of victory. This world would be changed and by your hand it will be a better world. If only we work together." the orders telling the ships to turn around was delayed by this man's hand. I obliterated the man's very soul, "Humanity must learn, and not be commanded by parasites." The cargo ships turned... and the world would not be bathed in nuclear fire today.
118.027.M3
I read the newspaper, a rarity these days. Technology was moving fast these days. The world was learning to reinvent itself and deal with archaic systems that needed to end. They had problems to solve but they had time. Even if I had to do some tricks to make this planet live for a few more centuries.
244.988.M3
I feared and dreaded this day... but I was surprised. There was no occultist or zealot in this symposium... this was the day that humanity would reach into the Immaterium for a solution to the light speed limit. Interstellar Civilization was on the precipice of realization. The Cosmos awaited!
104.366.M22
I looked at this mechanical man. "I forsee problems." My student, a female this time frowned. "Look Professor I brought you in as a courtesy. The Stellar Commonwealth loves these things and they will do what the Commonwealth Marines can't do. These Men of Iron, can be mass produced unlike the old Auric Wardroids. Aren't you proud of me?" Ah... there was the reason for her petulance. She had lost her parents, and I was the closest she had to a parental figure, she wanted approval. This would need to be handled delicately. "Of course, I just worry about this FTL array in their neural cortex." She looked over, "Oh that. Dr. Gellar and I came up with that, instead of waiting for courier drone ships to travel through warp space, it uses real-time communication via quantum entanglement." Ah that bane of technology Quantum entanglement and other sciences like that. Inevitably they pushed into the Immaterium. I had tried to preach caution and for millennia it was enough, but the sheer scale of humanity now was too much. The Stellar Commonwealth now stretched across a third the galaxy. They fought and won against the Orks. They did diplomacy with the Eldar. They believed in no greater power in the cosmos then their own intellect. But they were blind to the horrors of the immaterium, or in popular shorthand the warp. Why create an elegant solution using tachyons, if you can make a comm array in the warp. Why create stable wormholes if you could just dive into the warp and tell the tortured Navigator in the "Navicomputer Core" where to go? But they had made it so far without my input... Perhaps they knew better than me now, some old warlord from Ancient Earth.
344.712.M27
I was wrong... So wrong...
211.138.M-2
I looked at what my wrath had brought to this world. Training my powers for millennia, teaching and wandering the world looking for others with my type of power or wisdom. I had found none, but I took solace that I had taught well. But it wasn't enough. They didn't understand, they would rather attribute to gods and spirits, what was natural phenomenon. I had visited my homeland once again after going east, and I was aghast. Gods... They worshipped GODS. Worse still their belief was given form, I could SEE them beginning to form in the Immaterium. I was on the coast of the Adriatic when I realized. THIS WOULD NOT STAND. Gathering an army of seapeoples I went around the region destroying civilizations that would worship these GODS. I killed them, and after I saw their immaterial forms fade, I realized what horrors I had done. Civilization was devastated, famine, disease, barbarism, and ignorance ruled the day. I had gathered a following, but I had no need for corpses or herds of believers. If there was one thing I would do. I would teach them their gods had truly abandoned them. Making myself look more like an old man with white hair I spoke what I promised to be my only Command as a leader of Men.
"The Titan Gods are defeated, Dead and gone. The Gods have abandoned you, and let it be known that a new age will be upon the world. One where such horrors will not be visited upon us again."
I left soon after heading Northeast beyond the gates of the Caucasus... I believed there was no other way to misconstrue my words and command.
112.318.M-1
This statue sickened me. I had come upon once again the Mediterranean, they had truly forgotten the gods that were being formed, but they thought I was this new god. They had crafted this... insulting statue in MY honor. Zeus... they called me, although in their tongue it meant the greatest of the gods. I was about to take my staff and destroy this temple and cults until I gazed into the immaterium to determine the state of these new gods... and to my surprise there was none. Their belief was not creating entities in the warp, it was going to me. I knew I was not a god, and this seemed an easy enough solution. I would get the energy, but I would not use it except to kill other gods. If humans wished to bow before a statue in pointless genuflection so be it! I help those that help themselves.
075.275.M-1
"Stand aside old man. May Jove strike you down" I laughed at the centurion. As if he could hope to beat me I had defeated his gods, he even believed through his own strange way that I would defeat myself. It was funny.
"No, leave my friend Archimedes to his work." Archimedes approached, "Teacher, please we must continue..."
The centurion moved before I could stop his blade. "You had your choice old man, serve the Empire or die!" I could do nothing... not while the experiment was going on. "Old Friend!" and I helped him. He looked at me, "To think you would call me old. Please do not disturb my circles." and my student's eyes closed.
I looked at the centurion preparing to ransack my student's sanctum. It would be so easy... Strike him down in righteous anger. Topple that Caesar and Rule this world... No... I can hear him... That Lord of Skulls... Suddenly that centurion, I saw what he was... a marked one. How much of his empire was infested with the rot of the Lord of Skulls... The Empire would live, but this rot would be expunged. The centurion did not live out the day. It would take me a dozen years to purge the rot of that parasite from the world. I would be vigilant to ensure that humanity would not fall for such false entities... These Parasites of the immaterium.
167.347.M2
This death spread over this continent too fast. The solution was easy if one had the cure but this continent's religious devotion blinded them to innovation. I had been too occupied with the new empire in the east that I failed to realize that the acolytes of the Plague Lord did their work. I was too occupied looking for rituals and esoteric summonings and cults that I failed to realize a group of warriors that hurled dead cows with the mark of the Plague Lord over the walls, or branded a brood of rats and sent the a ship to Italy. So many dead, but the spark... a spark! The spark that the solution to the problems of the world could not be found in devotion to a higher power, but the solution lay here on Earth. Over the centuries I would see this renaissance take hold. They would explore, thrive, they would become enlightened to sciences of the material world. Perhaps before the new millennium this religion would be gone!
015.919.M2
My wanderings had taken me once again to Rus. The world had gone far, yet far too many clung to superstition, and ensuring budding sorcerers were expunged from humanity occupied much of my time. My children, humanity, were on the brink of a new age. After a cataclysmic war, the would come together in PEACE and decide a new world order. I would be there... although the circumstances were odd. The easiest way to get a seat at the table was to travel to the nation that recently killed their head of state. They had forgotten, by my doing, that they needed a head of state. A bureaucrat found me at the station and thrust a paper in my hand making me the Head of State of the Soviet delegation to Paris. I looked down at the beautiful symmetry of the double eagle. I would have to remember that for something in the future.
295.962.M2
I hate jungles. I really do. But I had been caught unprepared for this course of events. I had to determine just how this agent of the changer of ways got this far. He was at the perfect place and perfect time to cause havoc. To change this world... War would be the crucible, a nation would burn, and I paused for just a moment... I could act here and now. I could make sure one side was victorious and religion was forbidden forever... A Global Secular Order. I came across the radio operator in the hut in Cuba that bore the mark of Lord of Change. He frowned and spoke, "You stand on the precipice of victory. This world would be changed and by your hand it will be a better world. If only we work together." the orders telling the ships to turn around was delayed by this man's hand. I obliterated the man's very soul, "Humanity must learn, and not be commanded by parasites." The cargo ships turned... and the world would not be bathed in nuclear fire today.
118.027.M3
I read the newspaper, a rarity these days. Technology was moving fast these days. The world was learning to reinvent itself and deal with archaic systems that needed to end. They had problems to solve but they had time. Even if I had to do some tricks to make this planet live for a few more centuries.
244.988.M3
I feared and dreaded this day... but I was surprised. There was no occultist or zealot in this symposium... this was the day that humanity would reach into the Immaterium for a solution to the light speed limit. Interstellar Civilization was on the precipice of realization. The Cosmos awaited!
104.366.M22
I looked at this mechanical man. "I forsee problems." My student, a female this time frowned. "Look Professor I brought you in as a courtesy. The Stellar Commonwealth loves these things and they will do what the Commonwealth Marines can't do. These Men of Iron, can be mass produced unlike the old Auric Wardroids. Aren't you proud of me?" Ah... there was the reason for her petulance. She had lost her parents, and I was the closest she had to a parental figure, she wanted approval. This would need to be handled delicately. "Of course, I just worry about this FTL array in their neural cortex." She looked over, "Oh that. Dr. Gellar and I came up with that, instead of waiting for courier drone ships to travel through warp space, it uses real-time communication via quantum entanglement." Ah that bane of technology Quantum entanglement and other sciences like that. Inevitably they pushed into the Immaterium. I had tried to preach caution and for millennia it was enough, but the sheer scale of humanity now was too much. The Stellar Commonwealth now stretched across a third the galaxy. They fought and won against the Orks. They did diplomacy with the Eldar. They believed in no greater power in the cosmos then their own intellect. But they were blind to the horrors of the immaterium, or in popular shorthand the warp. Why create an elegant solution using tachyons, if you can make a comm array in the warp. Why create stable wormholes if you could just dive into the warp and tell the tortured Navigator in the "Navicomputer Core" where to go? But they had made it so far without my input... Perhaps they knew better than me now, some old warlord from Ancient Earth.
344.712.M27
I was wrong... So wrong...
The Tupelov are great close combat troops, but fight more in a "blood red rage" than professional soldiers such as the Sardaukar. If you want to create your own elite bodyguard regiment, wait until I get the military stuff put up and talk to me about it.
- Location
- The UK
Oh neat, I got an idea for a bunch of pirate lords ruling from a sunken super-exacarrier, in the shallow gulf between Urd and Soudafrick. Using a mixture of scavenged boats and mutant crustaceans to move quickly along the shoreline.
That could work. Give it a write up and post it, I'll go over it and approve if it fits.
- Location
- The UK
Sommasshi Federation
Head of State: Pirate King Ishmael
Government: Pirate Republic
Capital: The SUnsinkable
Population: Low-Millions
Military Points: 20 (+2 per turn)
After a war in the distant past an exocarrier sat languishing in the gulfs waters, surrounded by enemies and pirates they learned to fight dirty and well. They chose there rulers from those who had the most men at arms sworn to them and they made their livings striking out to capture slaves and supplies from coastal villages while fishing for the few schoals of mutant fish yet to die in the toxic waters.
Head of State: Pirate King Ishmael
Government: Pirate Republic
Capital: The SUnsinkable
Population: Low-Millions
Military Points: 20 (+2 per turn)
After a war in the distant past an exocarrier sat languishing in the gulfs waters, surrounded by enemies and pirates they learned to fight dirty and well. They chose there rulers from those who had the most men at arms sworn to them and they made their livings striking out to capture slaves and supplies from coastal villages while fishing for the few schoals of mutant fish yet to die in the toxic waters.
Approved. Not sure how to show it on the map however. Hmmm
The Unification Wars (40K)
Game thread is up.
I'll be updating the map with some smaller NPC states soon.
Game thread is up.
I'll be updating the map with some smaller NPC states soon.
Turn Format
NATION NAME
*Flag*
Ruler:
Government Type:
Population:
Military Points:
Major Hive Cities:
Internal Events:
100,000 slaves sacrificed to the Lord of Faces in a vast religious ceremony to assure victory over Hive City Beta)
Military: (example)
5 Conscript Units (Location: Hive City Alpha)
3 Conscript Units (Location: Patrolling Waste around Hive City Alpha)
5 Warrior Units (Location: Attacking Hive City Beta)
2 Power Armor Warrior Units (Location: Attacking Hive City Beta)
Diplomacy:
From: Kingdom of Wastelandia
To: Radmen Tribes
Pay tribute or we will eat all your second born sons.
NATION NAME
*Flag*
Ruler:
Government Type:
Population:
Military Points:
Major Hive Cities:
Internal Events:
100,000 slaves sacrificed to the Lord of Faces in a vast religious ceremony to assure victory over Hive City Beta)
Military: (example)
5 Conscript Units (Location: Hive City Alpha)
3 Conscript Units (Location: Patrolling Waste around Hive City Alpha)
5 Warrior Units (Location: Attacking Hive City Beta)
2 Power Armor Warrior Units (Location: Attacking Hive City Beta)
Diplomacy:
From: Kingdom of Wastelandia
To: Radmen Tribes
Pay tribute or we will eat all your second born sons.
bookwyrm
Doom of Public Libraries
- Location
- Wichita, Kansas
Auguries and Wand-Casting of Kalagann's Warlocks and Omen-Finders:
- the Oracle themselves
- Nordyc Raiders of Skandia
- Technogogue Enclaves of Nordafrik
- Ethnarchy of the Caucasus
- Taiga Caterpiller-Cities and Sibyr Nomads
- Mystics and Nomarchs of Gyptus
- Rust Hives of the Gobi Tox-Wastes
- Outlands and Borderers of the PanPac Empire
- Qasyar of Achaemenidia
- Terrawatt Clan Theologiteks of the Urals
- Pontifex of Europa et Tali
- Subject Tribes and Vassals of Kalagann
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Mortis Nuntius
Theon Killjoy
- Location
- United Kingdom
Technocratic Union of Merica
Head of State: Filian McGregor
Government: Technocratic Dictatorship
Capital: Deecee
Population: Multi-Billions
Military Points: 50 (+5 per turn)
Major Hive Cities: Deecee, Mega City One, Cali, Q-beck,
Internal Event:
The Inferior Court have finally finished their deliberations on whether the constitution allowed the right to breath or the right to breed. It was determined that any citizen could choose one or the other at birth and through hard work and sticktoitiveness earn permission for the other from the appropriate authorities. Jugde-this Ivanhoe has issued a counter ruling from his anti-inferior Court in exile in Caldi declaring this was not the will of the Refounders. He promises that citizens can both breed and breath so long as they can't read as it was clear that the Refounders did not want the citizens to get too smart for their own good.
The customary rioting between supporters of the two courts was ended with under a hundred thousand dead. The Department of Justice has been criticised for its poor handling of the riots and has promised to work to improve lethaltity in time for the Smash-Bowl.
Military
5 Conscripts (5 points)
1 Heavy Armour (20 points)
1 Light Armour (10 points)
5 Power Armoured Warriors (15 points)
---
Caldi Garrison:
1 Heavy Armour
1 Light Armour
2 Conscripts
Deecee Garrison:
2 Power Armoured Warrirors
Southern Border:
3 Conscripts
3 Power Armoured Warriors
Diplomacy:
We're going to kill all of you!
...
Why does no one like us? What have we ever done to any of you jerks?
Head of State: Filian McGregor
Government: Technocratic Dictatorship
Capital: Deecee
Population: Multi-Billions
Military Points: 50 (+5 per turn)
Major Hive Cities: Deecee, Mega City One, Cali, Q-beck,
Internal Event:
The Inferior Court have finally finished their deliberations on whether the constitution allowed the right to breath or the right to breed. It was determined that any citizen could choose one or the other at birth and through hard work and sticktoitiveness earn permission for the other from the appropriate authorities. Jugde-this Ivanhoe has issued a counter ruling from his anti-inferior Court in exile in Caldi declaring this was not the will of the Refounders. He promises that citizens can both breed and breath so long as they can't read as it was clear that the Refounders did not want the citizens to get too smart for their own good.
The customary rioting between supporters of the two courts was ended with under a hundred thousand dead. The Department of Justice has been criticised for its poor handling of the riots and has promised to work to improve lethaltity in time for the Smash-Bowl.
Military
5 Conscripts (5 points)
1 Heavy Armour (20 points)
1 Light Armour (10 points)
5 Power Armoured Warriors (15 points)
---
Caldi Garrison:
1 Heavy Armour
1 Light Armour
2 Conscripts
Deecee Garrison:
2 Power Armoured Warrirors
Southern Border:
3 Conscripts
3 Power Armoured Warriors
Diplomacy:
We're going to kill all of you!
...
Why does no one like us? What have we ever done to any of you jerks?
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Great write up!
But you may want to change your military a bit, as you have a unique military unit. Heavy Armor, basically a stripped down primitive Baneblade squadron.
Mortis Nuntius
Theon Killjoy
- Location
- United Kingdom
Oh where is it listed? I am obviously going to use this power responsibly.
Haven't listed it yet, so thats my fault. Point cost is 20 per unit. So its expensive, but has a state line to back it up. I'll post the stats in the discord in a couple minutes.
Bones
Don't look behind you.
- Location
- Behind you.
I'm considering joining as either the Tek-Oases of the Atalantic Plains or the Suborbital plates. Is there anything I should know about them or should I just make stuff up? Can't really find anything on either of them, and while I have ideas in mind I figure I should ask if you have something set for them.
Also, is the unit/equipment list going to be expanded? And will we get more then one unique unit? Right now everything seems rather sparse, no offense.
Also, is the unit/equipment list going to be expanded? And will we get more then one unique unit? Right now everything seems rather sparse, no offense.
The Tek-Oases of the Atlan Plains is really small, I'd suggest skipping that. The Sub-orbital plates are actually pretty peaceful, nothing the techno-barbarians on the surface have can really reach them. They mostly grow tons of food and drop it to the surface in a ritualistic tradition carried on since the time of their ancestors.
And yeah, I actually need to add a lot to the list, and nations can have more than one unique unit, the Waste has like 4 right now, Ursh has 2, and the Imperium has 3. More will be added to that over time.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
Looking at the Wiki, besides the Tupelov Lancers, Ursh should have access to The Roma(mercenary aircraft), Red Engines (Huge siege engines), and Wrathsingers (Psykers). Although, I'll also be getting a Psyker unit when the rules for them are done.
How much is a unit of Psykers likely to cost?
How much is a unit of Psykers likely to cost?
We can get stats for those, but lets change the name of The Roma (I kind of used that name randomly because I thought a nation called Europa in the area of land called Europa was dumb) and we talked about the Red Engines earlier.
Probably around 3 or 4 points for a "basic" unit.
Bones
Don't look behind you.
- Location
- Behind you.
Then I guess I'll be leaning towards the Plates, though there's still quite a bit of missing information, stuff on the government and tech level and so on.
I'm guessing since they're relatively peaceful and the plates haven't come crashing down that their government is of a less brutal variety and they're one of the more advanced factions.
EDIT: Because that's probably how I'll be playing them. Unless you have something else in mind, of course.
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"Advanced" is iffy, they have access to autoguns and other basic gear like that. No one can really threaten them up there.
As to government and leader you can come up with whatever you'd like.
Bones
Don't look behind you.
- Location
- Behind you.
Relatively advanced. Because without the constant fighting they wouldn't have regressed as far. Probably would still have a puny military, what with the lack of fighting and all.
Again, just my initial guess. If you don't like it that's fine. But without access to some manner of aerial transportation they can't interact with anyone else, kind of rendering them pointless to play as.