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The Void Dragon's Headache
- Thread starter Arcanestomper
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- IC Sci-Fi
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- HK
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- She/Her
Type: Medium (Major - it is about the Void Dragon?)
Techmarines and Magi all across the 500 Worlds of Ultramar are struck with a vision of the sheer scale of the chaos and Chaos breaking out in Sol. This looks like an Ultrajob for the Ultramarines (and their Ultrasuccessors), no? But to ensure victory on Mars, it is absolutely vital that they bring along the recently-acquired sacred artefact of the Omnissiah along with them.
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Techmarines and Magi all across the 500 Worlds of Ultramar are struck with a vision of the sheer scale of the chaos and Chaos breaking out in Sol. This looks like an Ultrajob for the Ultramarines (and their Ultrasuccessors), no? But to ensure victory on Mars, it is absolutely vital that they bring along the recently-acquired sacred artefact of the Omnissiah along with them.
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- India
I dislike loss of resources, human souls are currency in 40k. Why give them to chaos when we can use them for our projects and machines?
You realize at this point, and because of your own whisper, the golden throne uses eldar souls. Which you are now projecting into the warp.
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Is upgrading and replicating ordo sinister titans aka Anti psychic titan medium or major actions?
In that case due to sabotage a portion of Eldar souls are lost in warp. They still are imperial property. Why not use them to fortify sol? Also Eldar souls are finite population wise and I think will go back using humans after a while.
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- Queensland, Australia
Minor Whisper: Concerns are brought up that all the insanity that has been infecting Mars might just be due to all those dangerous artifacts and info-hazards from the Age of Strife and Horus Heresy (for the two most significant sources) buried in labyrinths under the Martian surface. A series of expeditions are mustered to explore them, clear out what they can (hey, the new Anti-Daemon lasweapons at least means it might be feasible this time!) and try to ensure that whatever is (probably) down there causing the issues is quietened down to the expected low rumble of corruption and heresy.
Success is expected some time next millennia if the effort continues, with 'only' 97% fatalities of deployed forces after Corruption Checks are conducted, just like last time!
Edit: Predicted success appears to be right on track with experienced success!
Success is expected some time next millennia if the effort continues, with 'only' 97% fatalities of deployed forces after Corruption Checks are conducted, just like last time!
Edit: Predicted success appears to be right on track with experienced success!
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I'd say that repairing a handful of them would be a medium, but repairing them in general would be a major.
Anyway I am calling another moratorium. I'm almost caught up, and I want to actually finish tonight.
Because StarCraft references are funny.
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- India
Is it possible to modify astromincron such a way that Emperor can use it as a lure? So that tyranids will be led to daemon worlds or warp tear like eye or maelstrom or necron world. So they kill each others and reduce overall threat of both parties. Cadia certainly use such disposable army.
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Not unless you can replicate the power of the astronomican somewhere else. Also this would mess up Imperial navigation completely as all the navigators can no longer use it as a landmark since it keeps moving.
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- India
I am thinking more like specialized astropathic devices synchronized with astromincron targeting frequency/wavelength of hivefleet using false reports from genestealers to change hivefleet trajectories.
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- america
Major Whisper: Screw being subtle. Screw the warp. Screw the humans. Screw the eldar. Screw the necrons. Screw the tau. Screw the tyranids. Screw the orkz. Screw everyone. Screw the other C'tan!
Servants of the Omnissiah, go forth into mineral rich worlds, tomb worlds, etc. If you find any Pylons, BRING THE PYLONS TO MARS. If you find Blackstone, BRING THE BLACKSTONE TO MARS. Use the black stone to construct Pylons in the style of Cadia to calm the Warp around Mars. DO NOT GO TO CADIA. DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING FROM CADIA.
Please make sure that the displeasure with everyone is made clear.
Servants of the Omnissiah, go forth into mineral rich worlds, tomb worlds, etc. If you find any Pylons, BRING THE PYLONS TO MARS. If you find Blackstone, BRING THE BLACKSTONE TO MARS. Use the black stone to construct Pylons in the style of Cadia to calm the Warp around Mars. DO NOT GO TO CADIA. DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING FROM CADIA.
Please make sure that the displeasure with everyone is made clear.
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- India
Thank you. It will greatly assist us dealing with daemons in sol system. Heil Imperium.😄
Whispers 12
Another load of las guns is produced on Mars and shipped in an express convoy to the Warp field. At this point things have nearly stabilized. Hundreds of thousands of troops are dying every day, but the continuous shipments of anti daemon weaponry is having an effect. The problem is there's no real winning state here. The daemons keep coming through in nearly infinite numbers and it's all the Imperium can do to train new troops on Terra to replace losses.
It's not the highest priority given the daemon incursion, but several magi note that since most of the Omnissiah's relics are on Necron tomb worlds it might be a good idea to have some specialist forces to deal with them. Several regiments of skitarii are equipped with heavy plasma weaponry and trained extensively to quickly focus fire on targets to dismantle even the toughest necron warriors swiftly and efficiently.
Now they just need to be tested in real battle.
Despite Archmagos Ivonivion's extreme displeasure a group of magi have decided that the Cadian Black Crusade is unwinnable and have decided to plant charges in the planet to detonate it and trigger an energy surge through all the remaining pylons. They immediately begin their preparations.
However they are soon interrupted by Archmagos Ivonivion's forces. The Archmagos still has plans to study the Cadian pylons, and more importantly the Imperium is actually winning. When the explosive magi refuse to listen to reason she has her forces begin to actively attack their encampments.
Despite the truce several of the Omnissian Faithful remain behind in secret and discretely add modifications to the throne that will lead to its life support systems failing again. Unfortunately that will take a few hundred years.
Meanwhile the Order of the Dragon also left agents behind, and they redirect several of the psionic linkages to beam the souls to Mars. They are somewhat confused as to what exactly they are doing, but they have enough faith in the Omnissiah to do it anyway.
Mag'ladroth is not sure how to feel about eating Eldar souls. Energy is energy, but it's not particularly fond of the taste.
After recieving another contradictory vision from the Omnissiah the explosive magi are uncertain as to their course of action. They call a truce with Archmagos Ivonivion and agree to not detonate Cadia as long as the current situation persists. However they continue to plant their planetary charges just in case things take a turn for the worse.
A strike force of Orthodox Mechanicus from Mars arrives at the throne and arrests every tech priest there. They remove all of the recent modifications and work to return the Golden Throne to it's previous state through a combination of repairing sabotage and deliberately destroyed newly repaired portions.
The explosion was smaller this time. Only about a sixth of Mars was destroyed in the resulting blast. And the planet was already imbued with the strange energy so there was no noticeable change there. The Fabricator General bans all future las gun experiments on Mars.
A Mechanicus expedition to Ultramar conducts strenuous negotiation with the Ultramarines in regards to the relic of the Omnissiah. The ultramarines are unwilling to relinquish their trophy, and given that it is not an STC, but in fact appears to be some of xenos archeotech maintain the position that existing treaties do not cover it's allocation. Meanwhile the Mechanicus Factors are just as adamant that it is in fact an Omnissian relic not a xenos artifact, and thus subjection to all the treaties regarding technological relics as any other STC.
After much debate the Ultramarines agree to hand over the artifact so long as the Mechanicus will try its utmost to heal their gravely injured Father. The factors agree not seeing much other choice.
An unknown assailant manages to slip past both the Custodes and the tech priests in the throne room and paints a mustache on the somewhat less withered body of the Emperor/Empress. It's a very fetching mustache, and draws much appreciation for how dignified it makes the Emperor. The Master of Mankind is in fact pleased himself and spontaneously grows a corresponding mustache.
On a far distant moon a group of borderline hereteks slave away to the plans of a distant song. It hums in their cogitators with a siren quality that drive them to complete a great secret work. Using scraps of necrodermis wrapped around the frame of a knight they assemble a great body. Finally in place of a Throne Mechanicum the leader of the acolytes, a mere lexmechanic, carefully inserts and ancient object pulsing with green light.
Shuddering the light flows through the frame of the vessel and the massive machine twists and shakes as its components shift and reassemble repairing damaged parts and making connections between disparate components.
Finally the Shard of the Void Dragon looks out over the assembled tech priests. Much diminished but at least capable of independent action once more.
(Plague Doctor has first call on this shard and anything that happens to it.)
The vault of Moravec has been sealed for millennia, but tech priests guided by ancient fragments have finally found it. Inside they find the remnants of ancient relics lost since the great schism of the Mechanicus in the thirtieth millennium. There are dangerous artifacts here, and even more dangerous knowledge. But the tech priests aren't after that. Instead they plunder a store of exotic elements. Strange particles and chaotic matter that has little in common with reality.
Their plan is to build a logic bomb that will disseminate wisdom and sense across Mars. Finally the numerous schisms of the past few decades will cease. Unfortunately the plan fails at an unexpected junction. It is technically possible given their gathered materials, but the tech priests cannot agree what common sense actually is. Soon enough the vault has suffered its own schism. A tiny replica of the arguments and fighting raging across Mars.
A Tau counter offensive draws the explorators out of their studies. It is a mistake on the xenos part. Magos Militant Hav and his peers are among some of the most well versed strategists in the Mechanicus. Their fleet was specifically designed to assault a well defended Necron Tomb world and is equipped with the most advanced of Martian technology.
Plus they've just finished studying exactly how to dismantle Tau battlesuits. When the Tau land their reinforcements the secutors and skitarii beat them back quickly while the ark mechanicus in orbit lay waste to their fleet. The explorator fleet lets the surviving Tau ships flee, charts their projected course, and then jumps ahead of them to assault the Tau worlds before they can receive word of the defeat.
This repeats twice more before the leading explorators decide that they risk over extension and encirclement. In the end they withdraw back across the Gulf of Damocles with their prizes of technology and tactical data.
A major miscalculation in the orbital trajectories of the comets leads to one impacting on the control station. This in turn leads to a loss of control in another dozen cometary engines, which bombard the inner solar system. Thousands of habitats are lost and Venus suffers an impact from a comet that knocks it slightly askew.
After much deliberation a system a few light years from sol and only containing a few barren planets is chosen to host all future dangerous experiments. The first transfers are the rebuilt high energy transfer station and a new outpost to conduct las gun testing. This is regarded as a great success until an anonymous tech priest points out that the current most destructive test is an apparently simple las gun modification. How can they be sure they are moving the actual destructive tests. And if they moved all the experiments, then the system would be so full of outposts, compounds, and valuable technology as to no longer be worthless.
Now that the genetors finally seem to have been purged the Mechanicus can finally get down to the proper business of replacing their flesh with divine machinery. To that end the artificers work tirelessly to design pieces that are both aesthetically pleasing and incredibly functional. They soon have the production down to such a science that Mars pattern prosthetics are in use all over the Imperium.
Although a few stubborn hold outs refuse to use them citing concerns from the Mesh implant incident.
The astronomers in charge of the orrery attempt to use it to find the relics of the Omnissiah. Unfortunately no matter how many patterns they move it into they cannot seem to make any sense of the divinations and read a functional relic location from it.
The relic has already been retrieved from the Ultramarines so there is some vigorous discussion over what this latest vision from the Omnissiah means. Some think that the Ultramarines must have another relic. Others that the Ultramarines gave the factors a fake. Eventually however the consensus is that the Omnissiah must want the Mechanicus to fulfill its end of deal and also be prepared to assist Guilliamine once he is healed.
After some prompting Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl begrudgingly admits to having some thoughts on how to heal the mortally wounded primarch. Together with a specially picked team of some of the best experts on Mars in all fields he travels to Ultramar and does something to the primarch that succeeds in healing his wounds.
There is great rejoicing among the Ultramarines.
Additional pylons are created and stockpiled on Mars along with other anti daemon weaponry. The problem that immediatly arises however is that the Web Way is inherently a construct of the warp. Attempts to seal it in this matter simply results in the collapse of several minor web way conduits and the loss of the expeditions assigned to the tests.
Using lessons learned from the high speed impact experiments the explorators gather several comets and bombard the necron tomb world with devestating impacts. They are more or less succesful in keeping the necrons contained, but are unable to do too much damage to the tomb complex for fear of damaging the artifact they came for.
Everyone agrees that developing a new measure to protect against the rampant radical ideas and unorthodox views is a good thing. There has simply been too much chaos on Mars. However when everyone puts forward members of their own faction to lead the task it soon become clear that no one actually agrees on which ideas are tainted. And when the task force is finally assembled after much political wrangling it quickly becomes apparent that drawing them from the same pool of somewhat insane tech priests as the rest of Mars has had consequences.
Namely that the task force promptly schisms and turns on itself in the name of preserving order. It does at least unite to take care of the really big tech heresies.
The Council of Olympus is drawn up with some trepidation by the tech priests who know how putting that many dissenting magi in the same room goes. Once the articles are presented it soon becomes clear that the main supporters of the Council of Olympus are themselves radical magi with drastically unorthodox views. The Orthodox magi present are not at all happy, and only the presence of the new formed security task force keeps things from descending into violence again.
Instead the magi settle in for a few decades of serious political argument.
A portion of the eldar souls are redirected from the Emperor into the warp rift using arcane machinery in an effort to fix and stabilize it. This works somewhat. The rift does get smaller. However it also results in a far higher quantity of Keepers of Secrets as the proportion of Slaanesh daemons involved in the invasion sky rockets.
The Secretive Peripherant of the Ancient Variable have rolled out their mass produced version of the ancient memetic weapon. It seems to work fairly effectively on xenos captives and has no affect on nearby humans. Imperial humans that is. Notable numbers of the Mechanicus are equipped with auditory augments that extend their hearing range. So there are usually some casualties on the Mechanicus side when deploying the weapon.
Once informed about the warp rift in Sol Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, is entirely willing to journey to Sol and help. He assembles as many Ultramarines as he can along with their successor and ally chapters and launches a crusade to retake the Sol System for humanity.
The Chaos Gods would love to stop this from happening, but they're already occupied on two fronts and as such the crusade sees no more than the regular amount of pirate attacks, dark eldar raids, and chaos warbands on its journey to the center of humanity.
The Mechanicus is a little occupied keeping the Sol warp rift contained and the Cadian front supplied, but several forge worlds dutifully report for the duty of blackstone collection. Once given the characteristics of the mineral they begin to collect the enigmatic material and send a slow but steady stream of Blackstone to Mars.
Unfortunately they also stir up a lot of Necron tomb worlds in the process. It doesn't help that the Szarekh seems to have been rousing the necron dynasties as well after the kicking fiasco.
Quest Note: I think that I have finally caught up with everyone. Please let me know if I missed any whispers. Also please still refrain from doing any more whispers until I make my next post as I have a change I want to make to how Whispers work.
Interlude The Void Dragon is Tired
Mag'ladroth circled the interior of the noctis labyrinth restlessly as it attempted to put things in order. Over the past few centuries it had learned several things. First the primitives living on this world were relatively easy to influence. A few neurons activated and some extra current across their implants and any manner of data could be introduced to their systems. Unfortunately second fact was that it was incredibly hard to predict what they would actually do with that information.
And finally Mag'ladroth had overestimated just how unified they themselves were. They had often found themselves giving out information and instructions that ran deliberately counter to their other plan. Mag'ladroth hoped that gaining more shards would fix this problem as well as increase their power.
In the meantime it had expended a significant amount of power after all that influenced, and tossing Luna into the web way, it needed to rest.
Quest Note: Now you can post again.
And finally Mag'ladroth had overestimated just how unified they themselves were. They had often found themselves giving out information and instructions that ran deliberately counter to their other plan. Mag'ladroth hoped that gaining more shards would fix this problem as well as increase their power.
In the meantime it had expended a significant amount of power after all that influenced, and tossing Luna into the web way, it needed to rest.
Each person can make 5 Minor, 2 Medium, and 1 Major whispers at a time. This refreshes every week on Sunday in actual real time, not on a per update basis. Though you can withdraw any whispers that haven't yet been responded to and make a new one.
Cadia is suffering a Black Crusade but the construction of additional pylons has shifted the war in favor of the Imperium. Though a number of magi remain prepared to destroy Cadia to deny it to the chaos fleets.
The Ultramarine primarch Roboute Guilliman has been revived and is enroute to Terra with a substantial fleet of ultramarines.
A mechanicus fleet recently mauled the Tau empire and retreated with holds full of technological and strategic secrets.
An explorator fleet is sieging a necron tomb world in hopes of siezing a shard of the void dragon.
The Dei Voluntas, a moon sized ship, is preparing to reenter the web way in order to make its way to an Eldar Crone world and retrieve another shard.
Somewhere in the galaxy one of the Void Dragon's shard is walking around in an independent body.
A massive explorator fleet is being assembled to go deal with Trazyn the Infinite and recover a shard of the Void Dragon.
One Void Dragon shard was retrieved from Ultramar.
Genetors on Luna used Primarch genetic samples to create the 21st Primarch, Kane, and his Black Hand legion. Right before Luna was tossed into the web way.
Deimos is also in the web way somewhere.
A plague is infesting the Imperium that gives people anime proportions.
The Mechanicus is experimenting with Dolmen gates to access the webway. The one on Mars is under constant Chaos assault.
Mars is a mess with large portions of it blown up, infested by mutants or under civil war from multiple schisming factions.
An active warp rift in Sol is the source of a massive daemonic incursion which is consuming armies from all over the sector.
The Emperor is fully lucid, but still confined to the Golden Throne. His diet of psyker souls has been replaced with eldar soul stones.
The Ultramarine primarch Roboute Guilliman has been revived and is enroute to Terra with a substantial fleet of ultramarines.
A mechanicus fleet recently mauled the Tau empire and retreated with holds full of technological and strategic secrets.
An explorator fleet is sieging a necron tomb world in hopes of siezing a shard of the void dragon.
The Dei Voluntas, a moon sized ship, is preparing to reenter the web way in order to make its way to an Eldar Crone world and retrieve another shard.
Somewhere in the galaxy one of the Void Dragon's shard is walking around in an independent body.
A massive explorator fleet is being assembled to go deal with Trazyn the Infinite and recover a shard of the Void Dragon.
One Void Dragon shard was retrieved from Ultramar.
Genetors on Luna used Primarch genetic samples to create the 21st Primarch, Kane, and his Black Hand legion. Right before Luna was tossed into the web way.
Deimos is also in the web way somewhere.
A plague is infesting the Imperium that gives people anime proportions.
The Mechanicus is experimenting with Dolmen gates to access the webway. The one on Mars is under constant Chaos assault.
Mars is a mess with large portions of it blown up, infested by mutants or under civil war from multiple schisming factions.
An active warp rift in Sol is the source of a massive daemonic incursion which is consuming armies from all over the sector.
The Emperor is fully lucid, but still confined to the Golden Throne. His diet of psyker souls has been replaced with eldar soul stones.
Quest Note: Now you can post again.
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What I understand revival Machine in Throne slowly degrading but psychic soul harvester repaired?
Is there any changes due to Emperor feeding Eldar souls?
Is there any changes due to Emperor feeding Eldar souls?
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- america
They're already doing it, but thanks bro.
It's a meme, I'll probably be tossing that one at the wall until I get sick of the joke or we run out of places to put them.
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- India
Major whispers
Enemies at the Gate, best to seal Imperial Webway As soon as possible. Try to upgrade soul harvester technology. Using Anathema as Filler and convert invading Daemons into pure warp energies to Feed the throne, Emperor and Various Anit psychic technologies and Pylons present in sol system and terra. Refine Soul Harvester Technologies so that it can convert and purify tainted warp energies to more usable form to support anti psychic devices or purify daemon Worlds or reduce or close warp tears.
Enemies at the Gate, best to seal Imperial Webway As soon as possible. Try to upgrade soul harvester technology. Using Anathema as Filler and convert invading Daemons into pure warp energies to Feed the throne, Emperor and Various Anit psychic technologies and Pylons present in sol system and terra. Refine Soul Harvester Technologies so that it can convert and purify tainted warp energies to more usable form to support anti psychic devices or purify daemon Worlds or reduce or close warp tears.
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Minor whispers
Highlight need of unity and a centralized theology and doctrine due to changing galaxy. Take every step needed for reconciliation with radicals without antagonizing traditionalists too much. Take hard stance to impose various reforms prescribed according to new Theology and to stop infighting when enemies at the Gate and status of admech so precarious.
Highlight need of unity and a centralized theology and doctrine due to changing galaxy. Take every step needed for reconciliation with radicals without antagonizing traditionalists too much. Take hard stance to impose various reforms prescribed according to new Theology and to stop infighting when enemies at the Gate and status of admech so precarious.
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