>>12331592

Fap.

>only prolist

To professional pornography.

rolled 9063 = 9063

>>12331592

Vox the heads of staff. Today is an good day. Full dress uniforms.

>>12331592
go find the seneschal, explain the situation. ask oabout how the search for the blank is coming.

>>12331592

I missed Capt. Deadlift sleeping with aforementioned female.

You should seek out the Deathshadow, or the Arcadia.

>>12331656
Guess you had best get up. You know, normally getting laid puts you in a good mood. Guess sleeping with one of the creepiest women you’ve ever met does that to you. Admittedly, it was nice while it lasted. In hindsight though, it probably wasn’t your smartest move. For now you had best put it out of mind. You’ve got a mission ahead of you, and that can be dealt with.

You stealthily exit the lounge to keep it a secret and make your way to the bridge. Along the way you are found by your seneschal. Obviously, he still disapproves given his stern face. That could be his normal stern face you acknowledge, but given how you previously parted its more than likely. Thankfully, he doesn’t seem the guy who would let that get in the way of business. Before he can comment on your ‘misdeeds,’ you cut him off by elling his to have the senior staff wear their best decorative gear for the event. The seneschal quickly closes his mouth and disappears into the shadows.

What next?

>>12331701
read the last thread, towards the ending

>>12331751
Let's take stock of who all is coming to the surface with us.

Also is our command tank up and running we should roll out with style.

>>12331807
This and evaluate my own combat and negotiation abilities, as well as equipment

>>12331807

You arrive on the bridge, and not long after the Seneschal does as well. As per usual, he is dressed in his masterfully tailored suit, and thus had no need for the occasion. You, on the other hand are wearing your most decadent clothing, with your carapace armor hidden underneath. In its scabbard your powersword waits at your side, while you plasma pistol is set to safety in its holster. Once you take your seat on the bridge, you place your dashing hat upon your head and inquire as to the state of things. The scanning probes are prepared for deployment the second the Igneus drops out of warp. Gabriel has the orbital shuttles and accompanying fighter squadrons primed for launch, though he’s still a bit upset about not being allowed to napalm the planet to the warp.

As for the ground forces, three two hundred and fifty men units are prepared for ground action at your command, while Ripley and his four hundred man unit will be personally accompanying you to whatever capitol it is this planet has. H1256-J47 will also be accompanying you with a small retinue of tech priests, and a small unit will be attached to each ground unit. Jet has also announced that he will accompany you once he sobers up, as Imperial mandates states that the official missionaries must be present whenever possible a planet makes contact with the Imperium for the first time. He will have similar squads consisting of clergy attached to the ground forces as well. So far, that seems to be the extent of it.

What next

>>12331881
The overcharged rhino has been fully inspected for any possibilities of tampering. Barring its “unique” construction, it seems to be in perfect condition and ready for use.

>>12331953
whats the status on the command tank and how are the chimera transports going to be handled?

Have our probes finished mapping the planet?

>>12332048
The Igneus has pull out of warp and arrive in the matterium outside the planet, so not yet. As you check the condition of the probes, you note that Jet and Gabriel has arrived. Or rather, Gabriel has arrived, and is holding up Jet who can not seem to stand or walk by himself.

Sober this man up! As the representative of the Emperor's light to this planet, we cannot have him be presented in this state!

>>12332159
Obviously, you haven't met Jet, our womanizing, drunk missionary.

>>12332127
Time skip to arrival

>>12332194
oh I'm quite familiar with the man that slept with my Brother's fiance. But he still has to put on his preaching face for our first encounter.

You know...I'm not quite sure anyone realizes how creepy psykers look in 40k

>>12332235
In pairs and singles, gradually the rest of the senior staff makes their way to the bridge. To you left stands the seneschal, and to your right Ripley, your silent guardian. Assembled around you are the rest of your upper staff in various forms of dress. In light of your orders to wear the best they’ve got, Ripley appears to be in his military dress uniform which is covered in medals. One of them, you notice, depicts a bear carrying an artillery shell leaving you to wonder at the story behind it. Gabriel has a fancier flight mask on, while Jet has his priestly vestments on topped off with what he calls a holy pimp hat. H1256-J47 is wearing a red robe as usual, but this one seems to lack any oil stains. Of course, it could just be he turned his normal robe inside out, but you don’t ask. The Navigator obviously is absent, due to piloting the ship, while your astropath is curiously absent. Where could she be.

The Igneus Aequitas is set to drop out in the next five minutes. Gathered around you are you best and brightest, which honestly might not be saying a lot. The bridge operators are working at full force, doing their best to impress you. Around the room you spy several crew members with video recorders, obviously there to record this momentous occasion. Well, guess you best give them a speech or some orders.

>What do you say?

>>12332346
Emaciated pale no eyeballs so yeah adoreable

>>12332127
I say offer allowing H1256-J47 to pass the plans for the overcharged motor to the Mechanicum in return for future consideration. (I think a Leman Russ Punisher would be grand against greenskins and a truely fitting personal vehicle).

>>12332359
I was under the impression that they were mutated a tad like in the Shira Calpurina novels?

>>12332352
Thank you all for arriving. We stand at the verge of returning the emperor' light to another lost planet. May his beneficence shine upon our endeavor.

>>12332412
There are murmors of approval as you begin your speech.

My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours!

>>12332460
have the missionary give a speech

>>12332359
indeed

>>12332352
"Fellow officers, crew of this grand vessel, gaze upon this previously unknown world! It falls to us to act as ambassadors of the Imperium. To that end we shall carry ourselves with the dignity and grace such a lofty position carries with it. I fully expect that each and every member of this ship's crew will act with the greatest of decency. This is not some heretical world, or some Xeno hellhole, it is a planet lost to Man! It is our duty, as citizens of the Imperium, and as official representatives to give this planet every opportunity to prove its loyalty.

Do not mistake my tolerance for weakness. Should it be necessary, this mighty vessel shall bring down the very heavens themselves upon these people! For even out here, so far from Holy Terra itself, the Emperor is overlooking our operation. Keep that in mind as you go about your duties this day."

So tablet does she indeed look normal besides what everyone else mentioned? And no odd mutations like three fingers one too many joints and what not?

>>12332541
Thank you kindly for unfucking my shit. That is great.

>>12332531
Eh, I'd still hit it.

>>12332541
Also it technically could be heretical...

>>12332460
"Now you know me as a practical man and I will waste no more of your time. I just ask that you remember, you represent the imperium of man, but the safety of this fleet, and yourselves, is too be your priority."

>>12332603
Positive thinking damnit!
Defeatism is punishable by being shoved out the air-lock.

>>12332541
The senior staff and members of the crew clap their hands in approval as Jet steps up to make the customary speech about the benevolence of mankind and how those who oppose the Imperium would surely be crushed. Stereotypical fire and brimstone deal, really. However, it’s not the content of his speech, but the way he presents it. In an instant he’s sobered up and launched into his tirade with a fiery passion few could mimic. No doubt this is what allowed him to rise so high in the ranks of the priesthood given his passions. He stands up as if high upon a podium, and reaches out to those present with the skill of a master orator. You’ve heard of entire worlds rebelling against heretical governor at the behest of the Ecclesiarchy before, but this is the first time you’ve seen such a thing in action. Good thing he’s on your side.

After ten minutes or so of his passionate speech on the divine benevolence of the God Emperor and the fury that shall be unleashed upon those who transgress against his will, he steps back down. Right in time too, as the ship begins to shake with turbulence as it exits the warp.

>>12332638

Astropath is hopefully in her room preparing to perform auguries over the planetary data our probes will be providing as we instructed.

Wonder if your brother would have gotten you exiled if he really knew what the job would have been like.

>>12332638
I want that man at my side when we make first peaceful contact.

>>12332638
Through the holo screen on the bridge, you gaze upon this untouched world. The planet is beautiful to gaze upon, though you know from plenty of experience that appearances can be deceiving. White clouds dot the sky, and below it large pools of blue cover the planet. A strip of verdant green goes around the equator, serving as the only land mass distinctly visible save for a few dots you assume to be islands. The world seems so pure compared to the hive worlds you’ve seen before from above, or even your home planet of Domus. The probes are released immediately, and with the next hour or so should have a basic overland map ready.

>What do you do?

>>12332638
Tablet those our astropath have any odd mutations like one too many joints or three fingers and things like that?

>>12332779
I suppose try to find out where our astropath is? Whether we really like her or not the fact that she hasn't shown up during the initial meeting when she expressed a desire to actually go to the planet is a bit of a concern.

>>12332790
No mutations were found during your...extensive search. She did seem unnaturally flexable though, and thank the Emperor she didn't open her eyes during it at all. There are many things you have fear in this galaxy, and looking into her eyes is one of them.

>>12332779

Wait for data from the probes, ask H1256-J47 to make a point of listening for any radio or other comm traffic.

"Pronounced equatorial bulge, I wonder what the day length is like on the planet, or if it was formed by some other process."

>>12332779
Request auguries from our astropath. Gives us a chance to make sure things are ship-shape prior to landing. Also scan for planetary and intrasystem transmissions. Get someone listening in on any that are present.

>>12332819
Oh...so beyond the whole pale and eyes that could suck out your soul/blind she's physically normal?

Well fuck it, I retract all my previous objections to astropath waifu.

Seems like we need to make sure the initial squads are squared away and the dropships are all being fueled. I suppose we talk to whoever is in charge of our military squads to make sure they have everything they need.

>>12332862

We don't have to do anything. We watch, we wait, and we do our best to project an air of quiet command. We don't know how we do that but the hat probably helps.

>>12332821
H1256-J47 contemplates your comment for a moment, before saying, “Equatorial bulge likely indicates heavy tectonic activity towards the equator. Considering the lack of most other defining land masses, distinct possibility of few, if only two continental plates, though unlikely to be that limited. Look down towards the poles, there are almost no glaciers or large portions of ice buildup. Indicates warm to tropical climate year round in most of the planet. The main land mass must be very rocky and mountainous, while the shores are likely swampland. Not a very pleasant place for low tech machinery. From basic appearances, the world does not have any artificial satellites, or major sources of pollution, indicating pre steam power technological status. Could be that the humans have regressed to such a state that no technology as we know it in use. Most likely places of technological caches are in the mountains in bunkers, or down on the poles underground.”

Well that was certainly verbose.

>>12332835
You have yet to find any mutations other than what you have already described, plus her emaciated appearence.

>>12332943
Well, I guess that will have to do until the probes come operational. How about intrasystem communication? I recall something about a Tau world in the system. Did they see us?

>>12332943
Fucking read it in Mordin's voice

Prepare Chimeras and ROLL UP ON A MUTHA

>>12332943
>>12332968

Thank you for the clarification.

So I suppose that means we should be able to stomp any resistance out quickly if they go ape shit on us.

How long will it take for the probes to acquire the amount of information necessary to set out?

>>12332968
I'm not sure I like the sound of that yet

>>12333021
Emaciated is normal for astropaths. Most of them burn out early.

>>12332943

"Sounds like it has the makings of a decent agri-world. The fisheries must be quite productive, with all that tropical coast swampland."

>>12332998
Hm, those Tau the Navigator mentioned could be a problem if they found out the Imperium were poking around in their back yard. Even worse if they find there are humans present they could convert to their foul, “Greater Good.” You shutter with revulsion, remembering one of your old missions in Ordo Xenos when you went undercover on a Tau world. Not something you desire to experience again, that’s for sure. You look to one of the bridge member’s operating the sensors and inquire if any alarms have somehow been alerted, specifically any of xeno design. The bridge member, a woman in her late twenties, freezes from holding your attention, and manages to sputter out that there seem to be no xeno alarms that were detected.

>>12333044
not the emaciated, but the fact we haven't found anything "yet"

>>12333093

How much time do we have to kill until the probes are done?

>>12333106
Well we found she's flexible.

>>12333093
Note to self, make hats even more impressive. A Rogue Trader needs to exude power, hence we need a hat the likes of which have not been seen since the Great Crusade.

I suppose check up with the rest of our command staff nearby to see how things are and potential worries?

I'm still interested in figuring out where Astropath is and what's she doing since she expressed interest in coming.

>>12333159
It isn't the size of the hat, its the garnishes that make it.

>>12333194
Of course. I'm thinking a solid gold full-sized two-headed eagle, with some filigree covered skulls skulls at each point.
Maybe miniature chainswords?

>>12333229

See it's easy to turn it into a gothic Carmen Miranda look if you're not careful. Which just looks like we're compensating for something.

>>12333229
Miniature THUNDERHAMMERS

>>12333159
You’re hat, it just isn’t…fancy enough. Of sure, it’s dashing. A little simplistic, with a feather and all, but you thought it would you well enough as a Rogue Trader. Yet, as you gaze upon Ripley’s extraordinary hat of command, how does it really stack up? You lean over to the seneschal and say, “Listen, after this we need to talk about something very important.” Oddly enough he seems rather pleased to hear this. Huh

>>12333242
Oh, no. It'll be tastefully done. It will require grav-suspensors, though.

>>12333187

We should wait patiently for the probe data and try not to fidget or look worried in front of the crew.

>>12333127
Hey, how long till the probes get a basic map?" you inquire to your seneschal.

"One hour was the estimated time until preliminary scanning is completed," he replies, proffesional as always

>>12333248
And the Aquila will be stamped with our seal.
Maybe void shield emitters?

>>12333267
Good point, we are in command.

>>12333249
"Seneschal, please bring us a bottle of Amasec and several glasses whilst we wait, and then locate the Astropath and bring her to me prior to landing."

Offer the remaining senior staff a drink as we wait.

Yes, after all, we are a Rogue Trader. This is the way the Imperium works. If we cannot have pauldrons, we shall have a hat.
That reminds me, do we have any tubes in our head?

>>12333286
>>12333273
This calls for a drink as an aperitif to the coming feast of conquest! Order the 41st millennium equivalent of a dry martini.

This, cranked up to 11.

>>12333311

Yeah, drinking on the job would not be a good idea.

We should check that the data is going to the Astropath as we previously instructed though.

>>12333348
Unless you are a nance a single drink is not going to impair your ability to subjugate a planet. And as a rogue trader, we are certainly no nance. A single drink in celebration.

>>12333311
He swiftly departs, only to return in a minute or so later with a bottle and several glasses. It’s really amazing how he just has these things ready whenever. Guess that must be that secret training he said was confidential. With your little speech over, most of the crew members there for the speech as departed, and only the bridge members concentrating solely at work and the senior staff remain. Once more you fall into your luxuries chair, crafted in a manner befitting a Rogue Trader such as yourself. The senior staff takes their own seats and begins to relax, though Gabriel and H1256-J47 soon depart. As the seneschal begins to pour drinks, Jet interrupts him, claiming to be the only with an actual bartender license on the bridge. Soon enough he’s dispensing drinks like the pro he is, and a good mood finds itself on the bridge.

>>12333374
This. I feel Dolemite chilling with a finger of the strongest, finest liquor in his hands - as well as being generous enough to share said liquor with his top officers - whilst everyone fidget's nervously is very Rogue Trader-ish.

>>12333404
Do we have any headtubes? This is important.

>>12333404
Make idle small chat I suppose?

Also ask someone if they could locate our astropath so we could see the data she pulled up once more lest we forgot something?

>>12333404

Sip your drink, and watch the data come in.

"So, Jet, how does a missionary come by a bartending license?"

>>12333430
We are lords now. Idle chit-chat is not appropriate on the eve of conquest for us.

>>12333465
Well we could at least ask what experience they have in this type of operation and hypothesis what we'll encounter. Make an idle game of it instead of seeing it as this huge thing. It is beneath us.

>>12333430
>>12333429

Thankfully, during your long career in the inquisition and indeed your entire life you have managed to go without any bodily modification or mechanical augmentation. You have very few principles in life, and not getting maimed happens to be one of them.

You begin some small talk amongst the group, and learn some odd bits of information, like Jet’s record for sleeping with women reaches into the teens, and he has been looking to improve upon that. Not long into the conversation, a bridge member announces the probes have finished their basic scan. As exciting as that news is, you continue to grow slightly frustrated no one has turned up any information on your creepy little astropath.

>>12333493

Ask directly "Is the datafeed to the astropath working? She's supposed to be running augeries in case there is hidden chaos taint on this world." let a slight note of annoyance creep into your voice.

>>12333493
>frustrated astropath
Damn straight we are... It's ominous. We'd go looking for her ourselves if we didn't have a planet to exploit.

Once everyone's finished their drink (or in Jet's case, his hair of the dog.) send them to their departments to prepare for the landing action, and then stare moodily out into the void awaiting the scans completion (and then timeskip to said event plox)

>>12333493
But how can we be grimdark without a headtube?
Not even a nostriltube? Can we get a nostriltube?

>>12333528
“We seem to be getting limited reports sir. I suppose she’s just taking her time with each of them. Nothing dangerous seems to be indicated in any of them yet,” a minor functionary reports.

>>12333582
1) find a carbo-silicate amorph
2) hire it
3) give it a plasma cannon
4) ????
5) profit

>>12333582

Well, she's in her room doing like we asked. So that's good. "Keep me informed"

Timeskip to next event?

>>12333611

HAND A HOLY PLASMA WEAPON TO A DEGENERATE XENOS?

>>12333623
Plasma weapons for everybody!

This has been my favourite quest thread since that one where the Tau loli became a Necron Lord.

Well, this has been an interesting day. You’ve slept with a creepy as hell and likely insane astropath who’s your only connection to the galaxy at large, formally (re)discovered a planet, and made all kinds of speeches. Things can only get better, right?

End Day 4

End Session 4

>>12333694
Already?! D=

>>12333694
Alright, I;ve got a Biology lab in the morning, so I'm ending this one a little early as I warned yesterday. I'll make a longer one tomorrow, but until then this will have to do.

Any Questions before I go to bed?

>>12333694
>>12333700

He mentioned last night this was going to be a short session.

Fair enough really. Real life takes precedence.

>>12333709

You mentioned in the other thread about our captain being intimate with a Genestealer when he was in the inquisition. What other unusual things/people has he slept with?

It seems like our character has a real taste for strange and crazy.

>>12333736
He did not actualy, but he was just saying weird shit happens in this galaxy. Funny story actually, I'll write about it next quest.

Any others?

>>12333753
What time tomorrow?

>>12333773
Probably 9 eastern, or 8 central, depending on if I have something going on.

Anyway, somebody put the quest up on suptg, so please go vote for it.