You are former Imperial Navy captain Elyssa von Braun, the Planetary Governor of the planet Daysimir, appointed following the previous corrupt, incompetent, and, as it turned out, Tau-Sympathizing Governor Rodoris Caliphate the Sixths removal from office for failure to pay the Imperial Tithes.The world itself is somewhat larger than Terra and has gravity roughly 10% higher, along being notably richer in mineral resources, it also has deposits of several useful substances not found on Ancient Terra. It's population of 3 billion 42 million souls (The old Governor was fastidious about keeping up population census, if nothing else of practical value. Your staff has carried on the tradition) is spread more or less evenly across the single inhabitable mega-continent of Daysimir, stretching from pole to pole and containing a wide variety of environments. The planet is dotted with smaller island chains and landmasses, but due to harsh climates they are populated only by research and weather-observation outposts, along with the occasional goat herd that remains only because they have no means of leaving. You have recently begun using the worst of these isles as harsh-environment training camps for your PDF.Aside from divergent continents the planet is practically the twin of Ancient Terra, having been terraformed and seeded with Terran life forms during the Dark Age of Technology, the planet has both a massive moon similar to Luna and a range of trace minerals nearly identical to Old Earth, meaning that the population of Daysimir, unlike most other planets in the Imperium, does not require regular supplementary pills to make up for trace minerals that the planet is deficient in.
So glad the quest is back!
OH GOD OP, PLEASE DON'T POST DOZEN OF POSTS WITH THE INTRODUCTIONJUST USE PASTEBIN
Just posting to welcome back the GM and tell people to exercise some patience.Instead of shit like this >>19169242we players could pitch in some time and make a 1d4chan page as an easy reference or something similar that the GM could link to.
>>19169264That would be even better. Pastebin looks weird to be honest.But honestly, devoting 10 initial posts to the same introduction each time? Sheeesh.
The idea was that it would make it easier for new players to jump in if there was a basic summery right up front, and allows me to make changes as the game goes on (Population difference, etc).You're right, though. This takes way too long and Pastebin just looks weird. Will adding this to 1d4chan be accepted or just deleted?
I should also add that I keep planning to put half of this shit in info pics, but I'm a chronic procrastinator and I'm still struggling with GMP.
>>19169339>Will adding this to 1d4chan be accepted or just deleted?I know of several quests that have their pages there. Doubt it would be deleted.
>>19169350>>19169339>Will adding this to 1d4chan be accepted or just deleted?If RubyQuest and other less awesome shit wasn't deleted, why would this be? If it DOES get deleted, we can host shit on the tgchan wiki and just link to there, or use some other medium.>I should also add that I keep planning to put half of this shit in info pics, but I'm a chronic procrastinator and I'm still struggling with GMP.Meh, a grainy, halfway-readable textdump in pic form is a pain in the ass half the time anyway. We can use multimedia in a wiki to include visuals if you want, but regardless of all that you should do your opening crawl if you want tonight and let's sort out a way to get in contact and hack together a serviceable wiki page between now and next session.
This may be a most noobish thing I have ever said, but I can't figure out how to make a new page.I promise it'll just take a second to copy/paste all my shit. I can't thank you guys enough for still being here after FOUR FUCKING HOURS of Real Life getting in the way.
>>19169430Eh, I had RL shit myself. Let's just focus on having a good session tonight. You bring the questan, I'll do whatever crazy shit I do.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Planetary_Governor_Quest btw. May have to create an account to edit it.
>>19169461Sorry to distract you with my outburst. It's better to start quest threads with a new update, continuing where they have left.
>>19169500Just made an account a few minutes ago to create a page just like that. Give me a moment...
>>19169516Outbursts are fine, but productive ones are the best kind is all. Not that yours wasn't useful, it confirmed that there was a long-standing problem that needed a better solution.Now let's get this quest started again.
>http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Planetary_Governor_QuestAwesome. I was planning on doing something like this anyway, it lets me expand the basic knowledge and eventually divide it into sections (Daysimir History, Known Factions, Fucking everything I've written about the Iron Dragons, etc) without worrying about keeping it short enough to use as a series of intro posts.Actual quest in the nest post.
You are currently in negotiations with an Ultramarines Captain who has been sent to try and secure the incredibly fertile Astartes recruiting grounds of your world for the Holy Dominion of Ultramar. Unfortunately the Captain that was sent is a massive dick who is pushing the other two comparatively reasonable Ultramarine Captains listening in a little further towards falling to Khorne with every word.His latest tactic has been to accuse your sources of information concerning Rodoris' (The previous Governors) plan to defect to the Tau Empire of being Xenos-Sympathizers themselves, which is technically true, although you believe that if they had any proof of that all of your shiny new Spec Ops Corps would be in Inquisitorial holding cells right now.There also remains the fact that you said that the Inquisition could back you up regarding his ties with the Tau Empire before realizing that you didn't really know that the Inquisition was aware of Rodoris' treason or not. Surely you would have heard something if he had been arrested or was wanted by the Imperium...>Action, Governor?
Re: sympathies with xenos:"My Lord, I am grateful to you for enlightening a humble servant like myself of this potential problem regarding sympathies for the lure of the alien. You have pointed out to me that more need be done in executing my duties as governor, and unlike my predecessor I will be glad to see to the task in question. I assure you as well as the Administratum that the matter will be investigated as quickly as the servants of the Emperor are able; I will contact the Adeptus Arbites forthwith and see as to their taking-in of contraband, and should they have any input regarding a suspected illegal cold-trade, which would provide the foremost hard evidence of xenos interaction with the citizenry, action will be taken. You have my utmost gratitude for your vigilance in helping to keep this world from the grip of the enemy."Set aside (where it is unlikely to be the center of attention) the comment from Rodoris' personal log about the resistance and eldar. Show the copy of Rodoris' tau-sympathizing comment to the Captain and everyone else there."I cannot but put this before you, my Lord. Perhaps this fool thought he could embroil Ultramar in some reenactment of the events in the Damocles Gulf, and bring shame upon them. I am glad to expose him for the cheat and saboteur he was, and will caution against any machination that may lie in wait here, whatever trap he sought to spring against the Ultramarines. It is plain enough he was not meaningful in his claims of fealty to you and the Realm you represent; it is more clear that conflict over territory and duty would only serve his purpose. As such, I am motivated to place a moratorium on the fealty of this world changing hands at all, lest the new vassal finds himself so beset upon and embroiled that he is unable to make this world to serve our master on Terra entirely."
>>19169750Cont'd."As we must spring the trap before any such claim might be processed, I will see to it that a campaign of eradication will be waged in the sector to run any such threats to the ground. Perhaps afterward, we might discuss the matter again, but until the last traces of risk to so many important servants of the Emperor are brought to light I cannot act. To do so would not be in good conscience to the expectations of my office.""I will gladly offer you a modest gift, my Lord, to make up for your troubles and the troubles of this negotiation - would an industrial quantity of Adamantium and a number of Ragnarok-pattern tanks be of any use to your chapter or the Auxilia of Ultramar or in reinforcing other worlds you watch over?"
AWW YEAHPlanetary Governor Quest is back
And make sure you're still keeping the statue of Malcador in full view. Anyway, if people could second or offer alterations to my comments, that'd be good.
>>19169750The Captain appears to be formulating a reply before he stops and listens to a message coming over his earpiece comm. He nods almost reluctantly."Governor, you have stated your case in a satisfactory manner. One would never have guessed that Imperial Navy captains had to time to train themselves in diplomacy, I would have thought that such a large amount of time would be dedicated to keeping the skills of such a valuable commander sharp instead of learning a skill of questionable usefulness, but standards are sadly not universal in the Imperium. With your leave, Governor, I would like to discuss the matter with my fellow Astartes here along with the other two Ultramarine Captains in private."
whoah, did anyone else just see the thread collapse on itself?
Is the thread going all weird for anyone else? It isn't showing anything except for the reply box and the normal post number and checkbox you see above every post, except there is nothing else there. I would have no idea if anyone replied to this.If this doesn't go away in the next five minutes I'll just have to make a new thread, because this is fucked.
>>19169856"I am grateful for your praise, though it was only an effort to do justice to the situation and my duty to Him on Terra - granted, however, that wrangling with harbor-masters for repairs trains one well enough. We'll give you the room, seal the entrances until you need them, and remove our personnel, your Lordship."Immediately get the fuck out. Leave the statue of Malcador, take all your shit and your recording devices and get out. Running the risk of insulting Ultramar by infringing on their privacy is unacceptable.In the meantime, get some priests and psykers or whatever in here and ward the exits and entrances with protective sigils and runes against chaos designed to flush chaos taint out of anyone who enters or exits the room and ward those within. If the Ultras ask, just say that you're not about to let the seat of government become vulnerable to chaos taint, and that this is another step in better securing the capital that you finally got to.Unless they mean that they're leaving the planet, in which case bid them farewell with all due politeness.
>>19169953nah, you're not the only insane one here
So apparently replying with Noko is the cure. Good to know.
>>19169966Try a different browser? Working fine for me in Chrome and Firefox atm, though it was slow an hour ago when I was pulling down heavy torrent traffic.
goddamn, fuck these Ultras. Rudest motherfuckers I have ever heard.
>>19169995What we should do is, we should send our recording of their entire stay on our world to Calgar and possibly a number of other influential parties in the Segmentum or Imperium that they've snubbed, and see if this fucking captain gets raked over the coals and we get a bit of elbow room around them.Maybe Captain Fuckhead here will get a demotion when daddy learns he's besmirching Rowboat's legacy and generally dishonoring the chapter.
>>19169985I'm running Firefox. It's happened before too, in a thread earlier today.I'm thinking of starting a thread pointing out the problem and telling people how to get rid of it (Replying to collapsed thread with Noko). I'm submitting an Error Report too.Anyway, Quest back on track in the next post.
>>19170038Eh, I'd rather not play politics against the Ultramarines. They'll always back their own against some new-blood governess.Just send them on their way and get back to being the most awesome world in the subsector.
>>19170081Point taken, though it's something to keep in our back pocket I suppose.
>>19169970Captain Culus nods and orders his attendants to start setting up holo-projector equipment so that the other two Ultramarine Captains to take part in the negotiations without leaving the safety of their ships and descending to a possibly hostile planet.The discussion goes on for several hours, during which time totally normal Departmento Munitorum Representative Arkhan Mirak displays an impressive and apparently very well controlled amount of psychic power and an intimate knowledge of holy runes and wards of the Priesthood of Terra.Eventually both parties exit the room looking irritated, although the Iron Dragons betray an aura of Triumph. Raltus walks over to you:"We've come to an agreement. They never really had a leg to stand on as far as political leverage goes, and we ripped away what little legitimacy they had. One small problem was that the Inquisition did not, in fact, know of Rodoris the Sixths treachery, but I was able to pin that on a simple oversight on your part ad alerted proper authorities."He laughs: "It was somewhat easier for them to believe considering their low opinion of non-Astartes"The Terms are as follows:The Ultramarines will relinquish any and all claim to Daysimir as a territory and will depart the system immediately. Communication channels are to be kept open between the Planetary Government, the Iron Dragons, and Ultramar to better coordinate against threats to the Imperium. A gift of 100,000 Ragnarok Tanks (You have a lot) and 60 tons of Admantium will be presented to the Ultramarines as a gift given and accepted as a token of future good will and friendship.Do you agree?
>>19170197Agree to the settlement.Take the Iron Dragons High Command members present aside and ask that this settlement be announced to the populace as something the Iron Dragons and Governorship crafted together if they're alright with that, and that NO announcement of this is to be made before the Ultramarines leave.Talk to your military advisors and tell them this is a small price to pay for not being forcibly inducted into the Realm of Ultramar and that we'll mine or buy more adamantium and make plenty of tanks to replace our losses, and to quietly make the arrangements for the transfer of the vehicles and ore, and to have the relevant engineers remove any optional markings indicating where the Ragnaroks were manufactured and install whatever they can in the way of standard Adeptus Mechanicus decorations and components in the limited time allotted them for final maintenance and transfer.If the Ultramarines chafe at the delay, increase the number of tanks by up to 100% (this will still be less than a tenth of our total tank reserve) and offer to send them these gifts with your own courier fleet.At your earliest opportunity, contact the head of the local Sororitas presence and request to meet with that individual personally.
>>19170296>Meant 6 tons (Admantium is rare and expensive as fuck)The Chapter agrees.You should also know that the Ultramarines and the Imperium will view this as a gift of goodwill in an attempt to patch relations instead of tribute, simply because you had enough political clout (And that they had so little at the moment) to simply tell them to GTFO.The Sororitas Commander agrees to meet you soon.(Any final things you want done before said meeting?)
>>19170344For my own part, when the Ultras leave we should give a speech to the people in a joint press event with a member of the Iron Dragons high command which will say that for the moment the Realm of Ultramar has no claim on Daysimir and that the Iron Dragons and Governorship have convinced the Ultramarines not to press further claims for the immediate future, which will require us to secure our own space and our own world.Aside from that, setting up a meeting with whoever's in charge of the local Adeptus Arbites would be wise. Did we already set up the sale of all those now-decommissioned Ragnaroks, or are they still awaiting a final decision? If they're just sitting, we should contact Arkhan Mirak and see if he can put them to good use and get us better prices on a number of them than we could through private dealings, as well as send them to places that have the most need and use for them so as to give various front-line IG commanders and Administratum types throughout the Sector and Segmentium more reason to look favorably on our world. Wouldn't hurt to send a few thousand as a gift to the Lord Sector or something, unless that would violate separation of powers.
>>19170409In addition to this, we need to make our promised local appearance in Raider's Grief as per last speech. We should take our fifty-man well-trained bodyguard and personal valkyrie and a cadre of trusted advisers over there as soon as our military guys say they have a safe zone and get some media appearances of us personally visiting the wounded and future memorial site (preferably doing something that isn't useless bullshit, like lending our personal guard to securing troubling locations and handing out administrative dispensations and rewards to the survivors, as promised when we said their government wouldn't abandon them), as well as spending a good deal of time actually visiting veterans and the displaced survivors of the assault.Since the Sororitas commander's likely to be quartered with the community there, it'll make visiting her easier to boot. We should also tour some good sites for the new Schola's location and meet that veteran who took out multiple obliterators when he went hunting for them.
Oh, and the Schola'd be fittingly named the Schola Sigilium or the Schola Ollanius, whatever polls better. Three square a day and choice training for the orphans, to make them into some of Daysimir's finest.
>>19170409Done.Meeting arranged with the local Arbites Judge.A final decision has not been made concerning the Ragnaroks. Many are still in use in the "Home Guard" division of the Militia, but most have simply been put in storage.Sell for 30 C? (1C=1 Billion $)
>>19170453This is certainly a step down from the 300-some C from before, but I'm going with selling the things if we can gain advantage by selling all but a reserve of a quarter-million through our local Munitorum rep. If no sale through him is possible, sure, sell the things.
I'm sorry, but I'm just out of mental energy tonight, an it looks like you're the only one still here. I'm gonna go ahead and call it quits. As a general rule, when I notice myself struggling to write detailed posts and actual NPC interaction and just making sparse, two or three line posts, it's time to turn off.I'm going to start running this on Fridays instead of Saturdays, because every time I try to run it on Saturday I wind up getting delayed or having to postpone it entirely because of RL stuff, and it looks like that will only increase. Seriously, 2/3 times I've run this thread I've been hours late because of other shit. Hopefully Fridays will be less disrupting.I'll also try and have a Sector and Sub-Sector map and a few info images replacing the "Items of Interest" (Recent events summery and progress on various projects) and "Notes to Self" (Plans and notes), along with some new mechanics, ready next time.I'll g=finish up any last-minute stuff, Archive this, and hopefully run it earlier and more neatly next time.
>>19170505And just as I got here... God damnit...
>>19170505Right on. It was a good start tonight, and we'll see you fridays.
Replying to get rid of fucking collapsing /tg/.
>>19170535>>19170475I'm trying to alter the currency system in this Quest to make it make more sense.I'll also post a thread sometime tomorrow answering some questions from the discussion thread I found on Foolz (I'm extremely flattered that my Quest got a fairly large thread entirely devoted to discussing it, by the way) and explaining some of the new things I'll try next time. Hopefully I'll attract some new players and re-connect with some of the old ones that have dropped off.See you Friday.
>>19170505damn I just woke up! gahhh!
>>19170505I love the quest but I mostly lurk. Editor has a good hand on things, especially when it comes to dialogue, so I just sit back and watch.
I mostly lurk as well, and I like how thegameroom lets us make big consequence full choices yet still not ba able to do everything.
bump for when the OP returns.
well, i hope we can get something more reasonable and diplomatic with the Sisters.I was expecting the Ultrasmurfs to stop the incessant childishness, but what can you expect.Hopefully the sisters will have a famulous or a more level-headed commander considering their recent experience in the sector and recognize they need powerful backing to bring back the light of the empire in these forsaken stars, no matter were it comes from, as long as it is loyal to the imperium.At the moment and in the imediate future the sisters need us far more than we need them. So some reigning in and babysitting of the more zealous sisters by the more diplomatic and intelligent should be the expected default behaviour of the Ordo. - Considering the Sister Superior in Cain's Last Stand, i do expect the Ordo Militant to be more diplomatic then a Ultrasmurf LT, especialy if they intend to get a Schola Progenium, a covenant or a recruitment facility up and running here with us. A thing they do kind of need.
rolled 44 = 44>>19172546I request that the SoB remove themselves from the planet, except for the Sister in charge of the execution. She will be executed for the murder of several Imperial citizens. We must show that Governor von Braun does NOT take the murder of her citizens lightly!
>>19172564after we invited them over? are you daft?We need a proper incarceration period. no execution and a station are of the sister in a remote area of the planet or on a moon, so that the more crazy elements dont get to run without supervision roughshod on our people.other than that we will need allies once we eventaully burst out of our star system, and grooming them from now is a good start.While a Chapter is nice, but due to the unique situation of the Ordo Militant in this sector we can actually guarantee their affection towards us, Von Braun and the Daysimir, and even influence them to become more tolerant to daysimiran sensibilities.Your rash suggestion is in the same category of extreme reaction the sister in question had.this is a game of politics we must play, and we must build bridges, favours owed and favours due as well as loyalties if we want to ascend in the imperial order and save this emperor forsaken sector
well, if we keep them somewhat contained, and influence them to be more reasonable, they will be a definite asset if and when we try to take out the Chaos world.Marines alone just wont cut it. That and we get a in with some factions of the Ecclesiarchy and Inquisition. We do need some pull to get some shit done. and if we dont have multiple backers or friendly people that owe us favours inside the systems that would be cockblocking us to run interference then we wont accomplish much.
bump
Bumpan again because fuck yeah, PGQ.
>>19170563>Editor has a good hand on things, especially when it comes to dialogueThanks, anon, means a lot to me tbh. Jump in with suggestions or ideas if you have them, though, I have no problems integrating any good thing that comes my way into my own ideas and upvoting the good ideas of others.>>19172546Don't know that these are Ordo Hereticus sisters rather than Ecclesiarchy ones, they're an ordo minoris or a lesser-known ordo in the chambers militant either way IIRC.>>19172564We're going to try to keep them at arm's length by putting them on the moon, learning all they have to teach, and making our own non-SOB crusader house trained in all that shit in exchange for giving them a few recruits. That far enough off-planet for you?As for the sister that fucked up, we can perhaps negotiate her getting put on Repentia. However, killing her ourselves won't do us any good when we try to contact Castus Grendel (of http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Cried_Grendel and I recommend everyone ever reads that shit, it's pretty great).>>19172864>after we invited them over? are you daft?Inviting them when we did was a touch premature, tbh. But I more or less agree with >>19173510 - we can make use of them later if we limit how much they can damage us and we can damage them for now.
well we will need some backing from =I= and some extra, perhaps AdMech and Navy to get the Rogue trader drop off mall.It would be a huge revenue boost as well as a sector revitaliser and exotic gear up spot, but needs to be vetted or backed by interested parties.
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