He didn't know at the time, that those objects were landing craft, that will easily deflect and evade orbital defences and just a few hours later huge armoured figure will break into Cathedral, slaughter his superiors, destroy the equipment and crush his head in the iron grip. But even if he would habe known it, 2579-23AdMe wouldn't care. After all, there's no protocol for this.

Four days later, light years away from Prothera, in a small cell where a superhuman warrior woke up with as his cogitator started typing message straight from the Astropath:

DISTRESS SIGNAL INTERCEPTED

SOURCE: PROTHERA
STATE OF EMERGENCY: INVASION
SITUATION: CRITICAL
ENEMY: [...]
[...]
[...]
CHAOS SPACE MARINES

>>21535415
Shit just got real. Guess we got work to do.

>>21535415
Warm up the god damn titans. We're gonna fuck these bastards.

Starting off, what's going on otherwise?
How is our planet restoring and whatnot?

>>21535415
We need to know the strength of the enemy force, how many CSM, what war machines, what space craft? Is it a raiding party or an invasion fleet?

Also contact those SoB who arrived here to help Mormark and inform them of the situation on Prothera.

>DISTRESS SIGNAL INTERCEPTED

>SOURCE: PROTHERA
>STATE OF EMERGENCY: INVASION
>SITUATION: CRITICAL
>ENEMY: [...]
>[...]
>[...]
>TRAITOR ASTARTES
fify

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>>21535471
>Titans are ready and willing, milord!
Brethorius smirks.
>We should have returned them to Nestorius... But I guess if we will command them to follow us, they won't object.
>>21535472
+You still haven't solved the problem with impending famine on Mormark.
+AdMech is cleaning up scorched earth leftovers.
+You have a problem with AdMech thieving various bits of tech, not resolved properly.
+Varda, your colony, is stagnating as you switched your focus from it, but Merchant League is expecting to start getting minerals from you very soon.
>>21535556
As expected of them, CSM managed to quiet planetary communications as soon as they landed, it's a miracle that this distress signal reached us.

Sisters of Battle are quite shocked by the news and their Canoness, Amelia Engel, decides:
>We are going to re-send this distress signal to our Covenant, our mission here is not armed heavily enough to take on unknown Chaos Space Marine Force. We should be there within a month, if warp winds favour us by the Emperors' will, then maybe even in a couple of weeks. However from a strategical point of view, your force is a lot better suited for rapid response situations... What are you going to do about it, brother..?

>>21536089
Alright first off, we're going ultra-slow-real time here.
No skipping forward a few years.
First of all check up on SEED's progress, second talk to the admec about the Titans, third visit the Vindicare about what he knows about Chaos, fourth check for alternate ways to solve Famine.

>impending famine on Mormark
Conscript the hell outta this place.

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>>21536074
Thanks!
>>21536128
>No skipping forward a few years
;(
>First of all check up on SEED's progress,
Batshit insane and dangerous
> second talk to the admec about the Titans,
They want them home. Titans were sent to you only because you were claiming that you were about to be wiped out.
> third visit the Vindicare about what he knows about Chaos,
Standart training, he never fought astartes(or at least he claims so), bus has theoretical knowledge how to kill them.
>fourth check for alternate ways to solve famine.
Getting food to planet/making food on the planet/making population independent from food. Can't think of any other options. Practical ways are for you yourself to find - you have sector map, whole wiki to help you and I am not putting any tracks for you.

>>21536378
>Batshit insane and dangerous
What, no progress at ALL?
Hasn't it been like, ten years since we started with it?

>>21536333
Please elaborate. You have plenty of weapons and ammunition left from the Iron War and you could actually mobilise the whole population, but...

Quarantine.

No one is allowed to leave your planet for 50 years. That was the deal with High Lords.
>>21536388
Nope, we are starting where we ended last session, maybe a few months to the future. It's still 326.M41. Do you want to timeskip?

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>>21536551
> Do you want to timeskip?

>>21536551
Dispatch the 'Kentauros', along with Lieutenant Kronos and 50 marines to ensure Varda's safety, also try and stimulate Varda's development with money.

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>>21536566
Doesn't future interst you at all? Just a few decades would be enough to completely change the situation in the Sector... Maybe even for the better.

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>>21536657
Nope.

>DISTRESS SIGNAL INTERCEPTED

>SOURCE: PROTHERA
>STATE OF EMERGENCY: INVASION
>SITUATION: CRITICAL
>ENEMY: [...]
>[...]
>[...]
>STEHL RAIN

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>>21536642
Please roll d100 for Kronos' mission.
>I will do my best, Chapter Master, we wil make sure our mortals are safe from any harm that can come their way. Also, I must ask - what funds do you allocate us and what should we do with them? What should be our focus?

>Defence
>Population
>Resource extraction
>Improving facilities
>Local economy
>Terraforming
>Other?

Rolled 92

>>21536782
What I meant was the Space Marines focus on defense of the planet whilst the CSM are in the system, and we commit some wealth towards ensuring Varda is ready to deliver what we promised to the Merchant League.

Rolling

>>21536821
Re-rolling in the hope that it's better.

Rolled 78

>>21536870
Oops

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>>21536821
"Kentauros" leaves Mormarkian system same evening. As soon as it makes the warp jump, Synius, your Lord Navigator, makes a remark:
>Warp is rising, milord... Something evil is afoot.

Time since Prothera was attacked: 120 hours

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>>21536892
http://chapterquest.wikia.com/wiki/Prothera
World: Prothera
Location: Core Worlds
Type: Agri World
Tithe: [Alumentum] Food, bio-fuel, some resources, like wood or rubber.
Population: 1.2 billion[1 200 000 000]
Government: Theocratic Democracy. Ruled by the elected Grand Harvest Council, who also are the High Priests of the local Ecclesiarchy, Prothera is one of the more liberal worlds in the Imperium.
Description: A huge planet, dedicated to growing food for the Core Worlds of the Sector Deus, Prothera enjoys a stable and relatively pleasant way of life. One Protheran year is roughly equal to 3.42 Terran years. This, combined with mild, terraformed and constantly controlled climate allows local to take from 12 to 14 harvests per year. Each harvest has symbolic meaning in local folklore and is heavily celebrated.

>>21536892
Okay, tell the AdMech on Mormark that as soon as we secure Prothera and a source of food for Mormark, we're lifting the quarantine using our favour with the HLoT and henceforth all admech activity, along with the remaining MoI hardware, will be relegated to a small space in an uninhabited area of Mormark

We and the remainder of our Chapter set course for Prothera, returning control of the Titan legions to the AdMech, who can act as defence for Mormark whilst we're gone, as well as the SoB.

Also we send a message to Tachion Primaris and Sector command about what's happening in Prothera.

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>>21537256
Technology: [IV: Imperial] Prothera isn't special among other planets in technological regard, probably the most arcane mechanisms on the planet are the Weather Cathedrals, climate control outposts manned by Adeptus Mechanicus.
Military: Protected by local Protheran PDF.
Strategic importance: [Maxima] Prothera is of extreme importance to the Sector, because it supplies over a dozen worlds with food. Losing it would mean that those worlds would suffer severe famine and destabilise Imperium in this region of space.
Loyalty: [Imperium 85%] Prothera is a devout Imperial world, but despite that from time to time there are rumours of heretical underground movements that are born because of weak state control on the population.

Your council is divided on the matter whether you should try to save Prothera. Some, like Arcon, argue that we have lost too much blood already and charging headlong into another battle, which might as well be an ambush, is both unwise and not supported by the Codex. Meawhile Brethorius claims that Codex demands chapters to defend vital Imperial worlds, and Prothera is one of those, so not saving it is equal to treason. Finally Extatius, your Chaplain, is worried about the fate of Captain Kronos - after all "Kentauros" and five squads of our brothers have jumped straight into a brewing warp storm...

What do you do?

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>>21537275
>Okay, tell the AdMech on Mormark that as soon as we secure Prothera and a source of food for Mormark, we're lifting the quarantine using our favour with the HLoT and henceforth all admech activity, along with the remaining MoI hardware, will be relegated to a small space in an uninhabited area of Mormark
Archeomedes, leader of the Nestorian expedition thanks you for the information and promises that they will cooperate as much as possible with you on these matters.

>We and the remainder of our Chapter set course for Prothera, returning control of the Titan legions to the AdMech, who can act as defence for Mormark whilst we're gone, as well as the SoB.
Please roll d100 for you warp journey. Because of warp storm rolling a 9 in d100 on either of the dices means bad things. If you roll 99...

>Also we send a message to Tachion Primaris and Sector command about what's happening in Prothera.
Please roll d100, Nerial will try to send the message through active warp storm, so you are rolling with(+0) modifier, under 67.

Rolled 47

>>21537429
>Please roll d100 for you warp journey. Because of warp storm rolling a 9 in d100 on either of the dices means bad things. If you roll 99...

>>21537429
rolling for MESSAGE

Rolled 91

>>21537457
oh god imma moron.....

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>>21537465
>The storm is too strong milord, I can't get through... But I haven't seen such strange warp waves in my life, I think I can learn something from this.
Nerial advances his Astropathy skill to 68.
>>21537443
Despite the daemonic spirits and whirlpool of horrors twisting and dancing beyond your illuminators, your journey through the storm is safe and sound. Brethorius remarks with a smug smile:
>I knew I was right, Emeperor WANTS us to save that world!

Please roll d7 for number of days you spent on the journey.

Rolled 5

>>21537517

Rolled 2

>>21537517
We did tell you we brought Proteus along right?

Not playing yet, no time, but just a quick guideline for "Chaos" in imperial lingo.

Chaos are always refered to as "The Ruinous Powers" by imperials, calling them Chaos or by their actual names gives them power or something. You already got a correction from the other guy :>

Also remember, Chaos Space marines think that that the EMPEROR was the traitor, (False Emperor and all that).

I cannot wait to see how this plays out ' v'

Rolled 2

>>21537571
We roll in, smash them, do some cool individual mission, get fucked over by the GM that feeds on suffering, but not too badly, eventually overcome problem, rinse and repeat.

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>>21537536

+234.326.M41+
+Protheran System+
+243 hours since the invasion started+

[...This is three-eight-two reporting in, initial recon shows no threats in the planetary orbit, I repeat - no ships or other spacecraft detected, orbital battle, if there was one, is long since over and AO guns on the ground are silent. Infra-red reader shows massive heat concentrations in Auctumnus and Virilis, two major population centres, former one is also the capital of Prothera. Attempts to contact Imperial resistance, if there is one, have failed, however we almost intercepted some non-Imperial long range vox chatter, but it's encrypted. We've made a recording if you wish to try to decipher it...]

[Fighter-scout 382 to Aspera Dominus]

>>21537642
Proceed to scan the area more thoroughly, contact our other colonized planets and see the situation.

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>>21537537
Noted.
>>21537571
Thanks for the tip, but I guess I got careless. Will try to keep it in mind. Always nice to get some constructive criticism.
>>21537582
Am I that bad?

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>>21537703
>Am I that bad?

>>21537703
>Am I that bad?
My friend, it is the not the end or the start that makes a journey worth while.
It is the part in the middle.
And that's what I've seen you do best at, aside from all the intentional suffering

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>>21537655
Roll d5 for hours that will take to scan the cities properly(or 5d5 if you want to scan the whole planet) and d100 for success.

Rolled 30

>>21537733

Rolled 1

>>21537733
And for hours.

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>>21537761
Mediocre-Poor. Location?

>>21537642
Also I am not sure whether you hired anybody with Logic or other relevant skill to decipher codes, but you may try - difficulty (-10).

Rolled 51

>>21537814
We're trying for the high-density parts of the city.
As well as the massive heat signatures.

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>>21537814
>>21537788
[Data feed... Analysed.]
[Results 01: City - Virilis]
+Status: Under enemy control
+Registered enemy activities: Plunder, slaughter, destruction, fortification
+Enemy force: 20-60 Traitors, 1200 - 4000 lesser followers[1], 7 - 20 vehicles[2]

[Results: City - Auctumnus]
+Status: Active conflict
+Registered enemy activities: Siege of the Adeptus Arbites fortress, desecration of plaza of the Immortal Gof Emeperor[3]
+Enemy force: 50-110 Traitors, 3500 - 8900 lesser followers[1], 13 - 22 vehicles.

[Notes]
[1] = Some of the troops are non-humanoid, expect mutants/aliens.
[2] = At least 2 orbital photos show corrupted dreadnought, impossible tosay whether is it the same or two of them.
[3] = Possible ritual, clear massive marks of blood on the ground, prisoners are being gathered just a few hundred meter at an abandoned forum.

Rolled 59

>>21538017
I cast a spell of ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT

>>21538032
Then again, hold on that.

Rolled 5, 4, 4, 1, 2 = 16

Scanning the rest of the planet, here we go!

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>>21538162
roll d100 please

>>21538017
We drop in with 30 of our Veterans, in drop pods, to the area next to where the prisoners are being held in Auctumnus, and Chapter Master used his Tracker Occulus to call down deadly accurate lance strikes into the traitors. Whilst we secure the prisoners and hold them off, our drop ships come down to dis-pour more marines and evacuate the prisoners.

Meanwhile, Captain Arcon, his 3rd company, along with our 3 predators and retribution pattern baneblade (commanded by Actium), drop into the Arbites fortress and break the siege.

>>21538197
*uses his tracker occulus

Rolled 11

>>21538196

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>>21538197
Regarding lance strikes - these are powerful energy beams that can destroy whole sections of city, it's impossible to use them as air support unless you are sitting on the rooftop somewhere and you want to see the other side of the city wiped out from the face of the earth. Are you sure you want to do that?


>Meanwhile, Captain Arcon, his 3rd company, along with our 3 predators and retribution pattern baneblade (commanded by Actium), drop into the Arbites fortress and break the siege.
If enemy has any AO or AA capability, your troops will be in danger, if you will try descending right on top of their heads with anything else than drop-pods. Are you sure?

Please roll 2d100 for each attack.

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Rolled 21

>>21538162
16 hours pass while you are scanning the planet. I will roll d100, on 30+ fortress will fall.
>>21538208
Extensive scanning noticed two more warbands in the countryside, each around 20 warriors in strength, one of them is in process of desecrating a local shrine where a relic from a Protheran saint Mathew the Blessed was kept and the other one has taken up positions in Weather Cathedral in Northern Mountain range.

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Rolled 100

>>21538431
>Fuck 'em, men and hold fast for the Emperor! Where are those damn ammunition boys!?

Arbitres are holding their ground.

>>21538374
Just prior to the main drop around the fortress, Sergeant Kay and his assault marines swoop down an destroy any AA installations seen, and as soon as they're taken care off, retreat to join the rest of the force.

Also, regarding the orbital bombardments, can we not do something akin to the orbital bombardments in DOW2?

>>21538507
*taken care of

dammit.......

>>21538507
no. DOW games are horrible with any semblance of how things actually work.

when you do orbital bombardment in 40k, you literally end the existence of most everything nearby. Not even space marines survive orbital bombardment hits

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Rolled 19

>>21538507
Speaking from a practical perspective those DOW2 'orbital bombardments' in their scale and effect are the same as airstrikes, just sound cooler. I guess it's possible to install special anti-ground weaponry into your ships, but in general your ships are meant to fight other ships and lances are way more powerful than anything what you can use for air support. If a lance would strike 1 km away from a space marine, he would probably still fall down from the airwave + there would be a gorge in the ground some km deep. These things are meant to punch through protective energy shields and then rip apart fuckhuge ships, this is not something to use against infantry.

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>>21538507
please roll for that and for your mission to save the prisoners from the stadium. 2d100

Rolled 63

>>21538643
No orbital bombardment for the prisoner rescue then I guess.

Rolling for the prisoner defence and extraction.

Rolled 55

>>21538643
>>21538668
Both at once this time.

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>>21538197
All as one, three drop-pods emerged with fire and fury from the ejection ports of the "Aspera Dominus" and fell down into the planet. Multiple G forces would have ripped apart bodies of lesser men, but these warriors just laughed and joked among themselves.
>I wonder, Titus, if you shat yourself now, would your waste travel all the way to the helmet? Hey, Titus? Oh, guys, look, his eye-slits are brown somewhy...
>Fuck you, Mercurion!
Suddenly siren blared and a bright green lit up:
ATTENTION! LANDING IN 32.2 SECONDS! PRAY!
Still chuckling, Sergeant Mercurion and his men said a short Prayer of Safe Landing just moment before drop pod crashed into the ground as if it was the fist of God. Harnesses automatically unlocked and gatesfell down, releasing you and the Mercurions' squad from your iron shell.
>No grave shall take us! For the Emperor!
Screaming and firing, your brothers emerged from the 3-meter deep crater that your drop pod left in the ground. Still disoriented, you stumbled through the clouds of dust, debris still falling around you from the sky, when you found yourself in the middle of a squad of heretic infantry. With four swift strikes you kil five of them and two last ones with a bolt pistol. Fucking chaos scum. Not worth the bolts, but you can't go running around now, you'll need energy later. You hear Mercurion in your vox:
>Sir, I think we have a problem, we have misjudged coordinations a little bit and landed INSIDE the stadium... I think the prisoners we were about to save are beneath the rubble we are walking on. Erm... At least we denied them for the enemy, right? Oh, and we have cut down two traitors and caught one half-alive, boys are playing with him right now. Also some dozens of their infantry, but I don't count them. No casualties on our side. Should we greenlight deployment of heavier forces or scout the area first? Any other orders?

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>>21538691
Arcon reports, that heavy AA forced them to land about 12 km away from their objective, but they are making rapid progress towards the Arbitres Fortress... No casualties so far, but no gains either.

>>21539028
Probably best to scout the area first. Might have caught them off guard and they'll be more prepared to deal with anything else deploying.

>>21539028
>Secure the area Mercurion, watch the entrances and see if you can spot any nearby traitors. *sigh* at least these citizen's suffering is finally over....

Walk over to the captured traitor and kick him hard in the face:

>Tell me the strength of your surrounding allies, scum, and I shall make your death relatively swift!

>>21539099
>Good work Arcon, keep moving towards the fortress, the rest of use will endeavour to join you as soon as we can.

Seeing as they're in a safe area anyway, deploy the rest of our forces to join Arcon's force moving towards the fortress.

>>21539152
*rest of us

jesus christ why can't I make ONE post without a mistake......

>>21539152
To elaborate on the now significantly larger force converging on the fortress, I want landspeeders and bikes scouting the flanks, Rhinos the first 130 marines in the front, accompanied by the predators, baneblade and assault marines, with the rest of the marines (around 300 by my count) following closely.

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Rolled 57

>>21539152
You approach the traitor, when Mercurion said that he was 'half-alive', it seems he was making a pun - heretic has lost his legs and lower torso to a grenade. Titus and Kaiphon were betting who will draw out a longer of intestine without ripping it. So far, Kaiphon was winning with about 3 meters of filthy stuff in his hand. Naturally, when you spoke to traitor, he just spit and whispered in defiant tone:
>Eat shit, dogface. False Emperor will lose this planet and eternal paradise awaits me! Do what you wish, weakling!

(you may roll intimidate/persuade with corresponding argument)

Arcon sends you an operational question:
>Lord, should I send tanks in first or brothers, when advancing..? Tanks are our valuable relics, but marines are our brothers... Also, I have suspicion, that enemy is preparing to greet us...

Rolling for Traitors.

>>21539321
>Lose this planet?!? HAH. You moronic traitors actually believe you can withstand the wrath of his Astartes? What pathetic plans do you think will stop us?

Contact the Arbites inside the fortress:
>This is Chapter Master [Redacted] of the Ghosts of Retribtuion, we are approaching fast, please hold out as long as you can.

Also call for drop ships to recover Chapter Master and his veterans, as well as the drop pods, and start to rejoin the rest of the force, which should now feature Brethorius, Arcon, Dreidor, Renard and Geron with the Revenants (in the shadows of course, where only we know they are).

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Rolled 66

>>21539464
Reply from Arbitres suprises you:
>Heretics! You aren't going to fool us! We will not surrender! Not even if you come dressed as Emperor himself!

As your drop-ship lifts off the ground, you receive a short message from Arcon:
>They engaged us! Damn, I didn't expect that, they have...

Next session - either this Wednesday or Sunday. See you then!

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>>21539649
Thanks Skargan!

>>21539649
See you then Skargan.

when's next game?