[] Plan: To free the teacher and a friend
-[][Name]: Kainanan
-[] A
unique creation of a rich and powerful colony of Sol, built during the height of the Dark Age of Technology.
(+2 shinies) The generic option. More shinies, less specialization.
-[] On a habitable planet, Faster initial construction buildup, but also restricts void construction until launch facilities are built. Easier access to local civilizations for good and ill.
-[][Backstory] I was made with a goal in mind. Write in: I was made to help uncover and support archaeological research of a site of primorial Aeldari origin and help protect makers from rising numbers of thaumaturgical individuals unable to control themselves. As decades and centuries passed, makers fell to the age or perils of the immaterium until only I was left uncovering step-by-step traps and wards of the site, until I found out what or rather who was buried under the sands of time; both imprisoned and protected from their people and what they brought, and now I work to free my friend and teacher who safeguarded me. (+1/+2)
-[] No immediate neighbours (0 shinies)
-[] Sector Civilizations
--[] A
Space Marine Chapter (+1 shiny)
--[] An
Inquisitorial Fortress (+1 shiny)
--[] A powerful
Heretical successor state (+1 shiny)
--[] A powerful
Ork empire. (+1 shiny)
--[] A
Tyranid splinter fleet (+2 shinies)
--[] A webway gate with a connection to
Commorragh (+1 shiny)
-[][Shielded from Chaos] A friendly warp entity (-3 shinies). Triggers a sub-vote to determine their nature, your relationship and what they expect in return. You might worship it, be friends with it or have a much more transactional relationship. It will ask you for things regardless.
--[] Vaul, the Smith God of Aeldari
-[][Research] Reality-simulations (-4 shinies) You can simulate reality well enough to not need as many experiments. +100% base research capacity, +20 bonus to research rolls, reduced sample requirements. For some options you won't need samples to unlock research.
-[][Construction] A broken STC (-5 shinies) You have access to a large number of ship, unit, equipment and weapon designs. Design costs are half-price. There is a faint chance you have special payloads.
Battleships, vortex torpedoes, fusion beamers. 7.5% chance for each of the special payloads, so a 50% chance you get none, a 36% chance you get 1, 12% chance you get two, etc.
-[] Special payloads
--[] Psytech repository (-2 shinies) You have technical documents and a stockpile of rudimentary psytech. You can immediately begin the psytech tree without requiring samples. Even if you choose the full STC, there won't be psytech in it without this because you were built before humans had figured out much about psykers. This path won't let you manipulate the warp yourself, but it will let you build stuff to boost psykers, including force weapons, psychic hoods and more, as well as larger installations capable of letting individual psykers have battlefield-level effects.
--[] A Fundamental Physics Module (-1 shiny) You have a deep understanding of the fundamental physics of the universe. Grants significant bonuses to understanding and replicating technology based on different principles than you're familiar with.
If you want to reverse-engineer Necron tech, you'll need this. It will also help a lot with understanding & reverse engineering other weird shit you find.
-[][Communications] Advanced communications (-2 shinies) You know several languages and can research more with sufficient data. You understand nuance in diplomacy and can make audio transmissions that are not recognizably artificial. You'll need extensive experience to unlock an expensive project to get to the next level.
-[][Starting Knowledge] Listening station (-1 shiny) You had an active listening post that picked up transmissions from across the stars and stored them. You are now scrolling through the recordings with growing horror. You know
of the Age of Strife, the Great Crusade, the Horus Heresy, and the existence (but few details) of Chaos and the major Xenos races. You know of the nearby systems your system connects to and of any nearby civilizations in your system, but nothing in-depth.
So here is my plan it is basically, Our protagonist was made to help humanity figure out what the hell was happening with the first psychic awakening via researching an Aeldari ruin (which turned out to be both prison and forge of Vaul in materium) and maybe finding a way to not let people explode and open portals to hell, unfortunately the staff died out over the course of the last 15k years while
Kainanan was busy lockpicking her way through the layers of increasingly powerful defences, while Vaul saw an uncorrupted AI that was slowly working towards him and made sure that she won't get corrupted by chaos in general and She who thirst in particular after its birth.
The sector major powers are made to pose a challenge and an opportunity, space marines and Inquisition being focused on fighting chaos state. While nids and necrons hopefully will keep each other occupied, orcs for points and webway gate to Commoragh for the end/late-mid game when we lead Vaul into webway as to protect him from Slaaneash and start a slave revolt in the dark city
The special payloads are her mostly for backstory reasons, psytech because warp fuckery and Fundamental Physics because DAOT humanity was probably very into physics and trying to understand what was happening that way, even if it was wrong. If dice gods be merciful with what we can get from STC, I would love Juvenat Vats and/or Cybernetics Suite to go with the vibe of
Kainanan being a support AI for the other researchers.
@Neablis if backstory won't be worth +2 I will drop starting knowledge as Vaul, will probably be able to explain chaos is bad and everything else is secondary to that
