The Void Dragon's Headache
- Thread starter Arcanestomper
- Start date
- IC Sci-Fi
- Location
- Europe
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Depending on how my blackstone-Webway-experiment turns out, we might just throw Mars through a Dolmen Gate and then throw it out of the Webway using the pylons, or keep as an emergency getaway plan should the Mechanicus secede from the Empire.
Note that since Dolmen Gates and the Webway are psychic in nature, they are negatively affected by pylons.
Just to note, but purposefully trying to kill the Emperor is more likely to get the Emperor to come over and lock you up tight than just empowering him.
Most of the Mechanicus still uses the Astronomicon. In fact spreading the Dolmen gates is being hampered by your more succesful and widespread efforts to spread Pylons.
It is currently impossible to access the webway from Mars.
Lets attempt to fix that.
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EDITED - I think it sort of works, but not all that well?
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You've actually already made efforts in this direction.
That said if you just want to make the astronomicon unnecessary it would be easier to just discard the need for navigators. Since Void Abacuses are a thing that even the Imperium uses this would be relatively straightforward.
Straightforward in a technical sense anyway. It would set you in direct opposition to all the Navigator Houses, but any kind of non warp FTL would do the same thing anyway. The navigators absolutely can't allow non warp non navigator ftl to happen.
Also I looked into the whole Necron Inertialess Drive thing because that seems like where this line of whispers would eventually end up and it looks like the intertialess drives are still canon, and reasonably effective, but much slower than webway travel. And a little slower than warp travel, but much more reliable.
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Ah. Are we allowed to retract and edit whispers?
Yeah sure. As long as I haven't responded to them yet.
Happerry
Bat out of Hell
- Location
- Kanto
Medium Whisper
Using the routes discovered back when this action was done, open up new access points to the webway on the worlds where the Mechanicus can send relief forces and open supply lines to where they had set up their breaches into the webway.
- Location
- USA
Major Whisper: Start a scan on ourselves to check if the emperor did any reprogramming on us or something similar. This constant helping of our jailer is highly illogical.
- Location
- USA
remember to roll the 1d100
- Location
- USA
Well I think we may be compromise.
Brimstone
Tends To Stay At Rest
And every time I come in here, I'll roll to shitpost at Big E.
Speaking of-
Minor Whisper: Attempt to send the Emperor psychic visions of you blowing up the pancakes of his Custodes with your mind. And then try to do it.
Major Whisper: Send a high ranking cogboy into a state of half-lucidity and guide them into accessing the whole-ass STC database aboard all Ark Mechanicus classes that they somehow FORGOT ABOUT.
EDIT - HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAA
"Ma fuckin' pancakes-"
-Unnamed Custodes
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They don't forget about it. The AI in charge of the STC wipes their minds afterwards. Also pretty sure that's only the Speranza specifically that has one.
Brimstone
Tends To Stay At Rest
The guy who saw the Speranza in all its glory thought otherwise. (And was then made to forgor.)
- Pronouns
- He
Major Whisper: By using techno-acrane sorcery, find Commissar Cain and restore him to life.
Well, let me just throw my own hat in here...
Major Whisper: Refit those long-unused piles of metal called Glorianas docked at the Ring of Iron into vessels truly worthy of leading the legions of Omnissiah against the forces of The Warp. Disruption Pylons and Totally-Not-Necron tech ahoy.
Major Whisper: Refit those long-unused piles of metal called Glorianas docked at the Ring of Iron into vessels truly worthy of leading the legions of Omnissiah against the forces of The Warp. Disruption Pylons and Totally-Not-Necron tech ahoy.
Brimstone
Tends To Stay At Rest
"You've reached the eternal soul of Ciaphas Cain, I'm currently unavailable, so frak off."
No, not even the Void Dragon is sure how he denied a soul grab out of sheer desire to not have to go to battle again.
But he did.
- Location
- United states of america
Major whisper
Inspire the idea of weaponizing gellar fields such as a gellar bomb.
Inspire the idea of weaponizing gellar fields such as a gellar bomb.
Whispers 14
At the very last minute a major civil war on Mars is averted as leaders of the Orthodox Cult and Dragon Adherents meet to discuss their doctrinal differences. The unexpected leader of the movement for moderation is Artisan Nirius Qvund, a somewhat arrogant member of the Clockwork Protocol who insists that all of these theological debates are taking away from the true work of the Quest For Knowledge.
Nirius's words are hubristic and self important, but they ring with Truth and Mars takes a step back from the abyss.
It turns out some Martian magi are really gullible. They repurpose some clone vats abandoned in the genetor purges to produce grox milk and modify flamethrowers to spray it. Several skitarii regiments are outfitted with the new weapons to form the Creamy Bucket Brigade.
Capturing Umbra is a tricky business, but the genetors not on Mars are at least competent in their work. They quickly amass a collection of the xenos which are shipped back to Mars for further study. The enigmatic species proves baffling to the Magi on Mars, especially since all the genetors are gone. But in a somewhat more metaphysical realm the respective shards of Mag'ladroth and Qah give each other the finger after detecting their proximity to each other.
And thus the ancient war between the C'Tan and the Old Ones continues after more than 60 million years.
Despite the warnings and trepidation of literally every tech priest on Mars Fabricator General Gaveum orders the cloning of a new genetor generation in order to replace the hereteks. To everyone's amazement, and possibly due to the cautionary measures taken, this actually goes perfectly. A large order of genetors is successfully cloned and put in charge of various biological efforts needed to support the population on Mars.
More pylons are built. Ever more pylons. Except possibly this was too many pylons. As the final one is brought online their is a lurch as the warp rift snaps shut. Every astropath and navigator in the system screams in pain before falling into a coma. Even the regular population of the system is affected as citizens slump into lethargy and despondence.
As promised the Emperor directly calls the Fabricator General to the Palace to discuss the situation with the rampant use of warp suppressing pylons.
The response to the bands of idols sent out is mixed. Some planets seem confused. One subsector has started a civil war between fans of separate kpop bands. And several ship loads of strange local currencies have been recieved as payments for the tours. One ship is just full of dolls.
When asked they were expecting the Magos in charge of the venture just shrugs and says the Omnissiah told them to do it. Given the Omnissiah's odd recent visions, no doubt in service to some far sighted plan, this is taken as an acceptable explanation.
Prognosticator Rolium-Div completes a grav shear axe. It is a complete weapon built to a relatively standard design. No heresy was involved or arcane energies. It is such a standard thing that everyone in the forge holds a small celebration for Rolium-Div's normalacy. The inscription on the axe is dutifully overlooked.
The flamer modifications do not go according to plan. The user no longer combusts. Instead everyone exactly 60 degrees to the right and behind them does. No one is sure how this happens as there does not appear to be any leakage from the flamers. But it invariably happens. Not even changing the formations to prevent anyone standing in that location helps.
Somehow an unlikely series of coincidences always happens that ends with an unfortunate soul in that position and on fire.
The memetic weapon continues to take its toll on the Skitarii when it is deployed. However casualties have been reduced by nearly 20%. Something that the peripherants of the Ancient Variable take as a major success.
The Mechanicus have actually gotten fairly good at moving large bodies around the Sol system. Several asteroids are selected for their mass and metal richness and carefully lowered onto the surface of Mars. Everyone keeps waiting for the massive explosion, but somehow the operation succeeds with no more than 5% casualties.
Given the recent and only barely repelled daemon assault it is clear that Sol is not in fact as well protected as previously expected. As such Mars and Holy Terra both see the arrival of several siege engineering companies that get to work repairing and enhancing the network of fortifications that already spreads across their surfaces.
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
Minor Whisper:
Construct a gravitational lens for long distance observation.
EDIT: Eyyy… the first step on my road for grav-tech discounts is complete.
Construct a gravitational lens for long distance observation.
EDIT: Eyyy… the first step on my road for grav-tech discounts is complete.
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agarramelo
Uxiuono
Major Whisper
begin making clones of the eldar with their connection to the warp severed and send them to various high ranking nobles in the form of servants and stewards as a symbol of human supremacy and the eldar learned of this
begin making clones of the eldar with their connection to the warp severed and send them to various high ranking nobles in the form of servants and stewards as a symbol of human supremacy and the eldar learned of this
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
@Arcanestomper, how does the similar action discount work? Does it actually raise the threshold or just make failures less bad?
I haven't really been tracking it numerically, but if you've already worked on something a few times, then the action advances the goal further even with a failure.