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Praise the Dark Gods!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8qp992Dssk
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=Chapter=
+Heresy: 38%
+Numbers: 540 battle brothers
+Wealth: 107 million thrones
=Primary quests=
+Securing food supply for our homeworld
+Killing Ashkenor the Wrathbringer, Chaos Sorcerer
+Creating more Space Marines
=Recent events=
Chaos warband known as Red Giants managed to activate ancient weather control mechanisms so that they would lay waste to Agri-World of Prothera, bringing it into a new ice age. Fall of primary source of food in the Subsector created food riots in a dozen worlds and at least on of them is already in a state of civil war. Chapter is currently in Protheran orbit, regrouping after the inconclusive battle.

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>>21964911
Not yet, dear anon, but if you wish - this Chapter shall fall.
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Brethorius, your First Captain sits on a meditation bench on the bridge of Aspera Dominus while looking at the terrible mega-hurricanes that are slowly engulfing Prothera. As you approach him, he asks:
>Is that how a world dies, milord?

>>21965038
"No. If it must die, it will die on our terms. Not theirs.

Tell our brothers we will descend once more."

>>21965038
World die in many ways.
In this case, it is just like wiping a slate clean.
However, this slate holds millions of Imperial lives, ones we must save.

>>21965038
Now there, don't be so pesimistic, we still have a chance to save this world. With a faith in emperor's servants and our own might.

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>>21965070
>You still think that we are going to find the bastards, Master? In this weather no scanners can work. We may have superior numbers, but they can hide anywhere on the planet, after all they had enough time to escape. And weather control mechanisms are destroyed. I doubt there is person able to repair them in light years, even if he had the components. What shall we do when we'll descend? Walk around in the rain?
Brethorius' voice is coarse from the frustration. The door opens and Arcon, Third Company Captain comes in.
>I am afraid he has a point.
You notice that Arcon didn't use your title to address you. Ambitious arrogant son of a bitch. But he gets the job done.
>We have more pressing concerns. Nerial, our Astropath, informed me that Lord Sector Governor Larion Ursus demands official report of our failure here... Well, at least he acknowledges our existence now. Also, there are reports that Hive-World of Inaria is having serious problems, food riots there broke out into a full scale rebellion. Furthermore, our own homeworld is dying of hunger. In the last month nearly 800 000 civilians died. Not that I would care about them much, but if the world dies out, we'll rule over a chunk of icy rock. We must move on.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIeKIxna0EE
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>>21964834
1. Find abandoned agri world from imperial records, throw the guard in its the general direction.
2. send message to our projinter chapeter about the stealth armor schematics.
3. Get results from our helping of the Navy.
4. Find out why the Impirium apparently runs on a just in time delivery system with regards to food. Especially given the whole unreliability of warp travel.
5. Get ready for a timeskip

>>21965196
So be it. Seran will stay here with a squad. He will help and do everything he can to help Nestorians.

We will go take care of the food supplies.

>>21965196
Arcon, do you have any advise as to what we should do then?

>>21965196
If the Emperor demands that we walk in the rain, WE WILL WALK IN THE RAIN! Do you understand me, Captain?

The Lord Governor can mewl. The Hive can burn. But we will be victorious here, because...there will be nothing left in defeat. We stand, and fight.

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>>21965196
http://chapterquest.wikia.com/wiki/Unfinished_business

Some of the things Arcon is speaking about.

http://chapterquest.wikia.com/wiki/Current_Chapter_status

Current Chapter status

http://chapterquest.wikia.com/wiki/Defence_of_Prothera

Defence of Prothera

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>>21965233
>1. Find abandoned agri world from imperial records, throw the guard in its the general direction.
Finding such an agri-world would require extensive research in the Imperial records or buying this info from Rogue Traders. Subjugating it would also take time, but it is possible. At the time you control only a few thousand Chapter serfs, no real force and you have no ties with Imperial Guard. Mormarkian Regiments are loyal to you, but because of the famine they are useless.
>2. send message to our projinter chapeter about the stealth armor schematics.
I'll need a confirmation on this. Please remember that this info is really sensitive as the armour is not exactly Mars approved.
>3. Get results from our helping of the Navy.
Elaborate.
>4. Find out why the Impirium apparently runs on a just in time delivery system with regards to food. Especially given the whole unreliability of warp travel.
A few weeks have passed and prices rise before the stocks run out, merchants are quick to catch the scent of misery and profit. Also, actual famine hasn't started anywhere yet, only general food shortages.

>>21965256
You mean Nestorian Techpriests? To fix machines that control weather?
>>21965264
>I'd prefer leaving this all mess behind and strengthening our Chapter. Mormark is a nice place, but we can abandon it if circumstances dictate so. We need to train more marines and to start bringing fight to our enemies, I am sick of fighting on the defensive.
>>21965284
>Your orders, lord? Where should we deploy and what is our mission?

+Planetary dossier: http://chapterquest.wikia.com/wiki/Prothera

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7C61xrCq0
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>>21965441
Arcon, not that I disagree with you with that.
However, our duty to the Emperor comes first, you will have your blood, once we have done the Emperor's will.

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We wanna modify one of our Quake bombs to detonate within the eye of the mega-hurricane.

>>21965576
Wait, slow it up there Luigi.
Can we talk to someone about this to make sure it might actually work first?

>>21965441

Send a message out to Rogue traders in range. There is a sector with food prices rising en mass. They'll come with foodstuffs and buy a little time.
The more pressing matter is the Chaos Warband. Even if the weather machine is fixed, or another option presents itself, there is no guarantee that they won't strike again.

>>21965605
We've been talking about it in the chat.

And theoretically detonating a bomb within the eye of a hurricane to stop it is relatively sound.

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>>21965576
ok.jpg

Now please not these things:
a) It will kill current mega-hurricane for about a week. Planetary weather control machinery would create a new one quite soon.
b) who's skill will you use to modify the bomb? (natural tech-use or demolitions + 30)
c) roll 2 d100, first for modification, second for dropping the bomb.

>>21965617
This anon has a bright head, directing more merchants, Rogue Traders and chartists captains to this sector would win you about d6 months. But for this you need to work with Merchants League... to whom you owe A LOT.

>>21965679
How much is a lot?
And isn't the Planetary Weather control machinery fucked up?
And why isn't the mega hurricane fucking it up?

>>21965441
>>21965441
Send two squads to secure what resources they can from the planetary stocks.We will save our own people, regardless of what happens here.

Remaining battle brothers...What word from the planet? Have the bastard whoresons fled the planet, or are they still there? They were eager enough to desecrate...any word from the cathedrals?

Have our tech-adepts perform stragetic analyses. Is there no way to reverse this storm? What of orbital fire? Could that clear up this...interference? These storms? Is there NOTHING we can do to reverse these effects?

Rolled 20

>>21965679
Seran modifies the bomb, with Tech-use +30 I believe we need less than 94 to be successful.

>>21965700
>How much is a lot?
You promised them that your colony, Varda, will start producing valuable gases in 330.M41. That is barely 3 years from now on and you haven't invested a throne in the mining infrastructure there. They are aware of that and are getting angry. To buy yourself out of this obligation would cost around 200 thrones +- 50 depending on your diplo skills.
>And isn't the Planetary Weather control machinery fucked up?
Only controls, the most important part. Machinery works on the last regime it was set on.
>And why isn't the mega hurricane fucking it up?
It's mostly located in the mountains/poles and is built to last.
>>21965703
>Send two squads to secure what resources they can from the planetary stocks.We will save our own people, regardless of what happens here.
Are you suggesting... Looting Prothera?
>Have the bastard whoresons fled the planet, or are they still there?
No ships left the planet. They should still be there unless they used some fell sorcery.
>Have our tech-adepts perform stragetic analyses. Is there no way to reverse this storm? What of orbital fire? Could that clear up this...interference? These storms? Is there NOTHING we can do to reverse these effects?
reversing planetary changes is the work of gods usually, but as there already are mechanisms to do that, you would need to fix the controls, that's your best bet. Nestorium, closest Forge World, knows nothing about this tech or at least so they claim. Traveling to Mars back and forth would take from a few years to a decade(you can do that). You might also go to neighbouring Calixis Sector or to one of Sector Deus subsectors, looking for the right components, but it will be hard.

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>>21965744
Quake bomb is made ready, reconstructing it into an Airburst Charge.

What do you do next?

>>21965822
Can't we destroy the weather control system?

>You promised them that your colony, Varda, will start producing valuable gases in 330.M41. That is barely 3 years from now on and you haven't invested a throne in the mining infrastructure there. They are aware of that and are getting angry. To buy yourself out of this obligation would cost around 200 thrones +- 50 depending on your diplo skills.

200thrones is worth the time the rogue traders can buy us.If a full scale rebellion does start and we haven't rooted out the CSM warband by then, it will be impossible to properly concentrate on the CSM.

>>21965968
Consults Seran about modifying ships in the fleet to stop new hurricanes from starting.
Mainly about how far the modifying will need to be.

>>21965822
>Are you suggesting... Looting Prothera?
Yes. You yourself said that we must look to our own. We will not abandon this world, but our own people must survive. This way...we will not lose all, regardless of what happens.

What of our ships? Can we send brothers to Calixis or Deus?

We will drop this armament. We will find these bastard traitor astartes, and we will end them.

Failing all else, we will finish what they started with holy orbital fire, take what we can salvage, and do what we can elsewhere. If the Imperium cannot have this world, and it is dead...

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>>21965973
200 Wealth. Also, remember that you can split your forces and delegate some marines to go elsewhere. Keeping all chapter in one place is sometimes impractical.
>>21965993
>I am afraid such modifications, even if we had the blueprints, would take months in the shipyards... Furthermore it would cost a lot of money as for creating that kind of temperature change we would need to burn up millions of tons of fuel weekly.
>>21966037
>Yes. You yourself said that we must look to our own.
Give orders. Who should loot what and how? What if people resist? Some of the organisations are still trying to relieve the situation and assume central control over evacuation and disaster management tasks...
Possible targets:
>Planetary bank(cash)
>Shrines, cathedrals, temples(precious metals, art)
>Mechanicus temples(precious tech)

>What of our ships? Can we send brothers to Calixis or Deus?
Yes. Ship list is here, under 'Fleet':
http://chapterquest.wikia.com/wiki/Current_Chapter_status

Rolled 8

>>21966182
woah woah woah don't loot Prothera, at least not until we've evacuated the citizens first!

Rolling for bomb success......

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>>21966224
YEEEEAAAAHHHHHH

>>21966182
>Give orders. Who should loot what and how?
Food. Nothing else matters, especially not these petty mortals. The Mechanicus...offer evacuation if they desire it.

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Do I even need to ask?

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>>21966224
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBTZ5wrxE3o
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In silence you brothers watch as a single chunk of metal, loaded with most terrible destructive power known to Mankind is released from the underbelly of Aspera Dominus. Soon its small frame becomes almost invisible amongst the clouds. A few seconds more and all you can see is the massive mega-hurricane's blanket, covering the ground below. Brothers start to murmur among themselves, asking each other whether it has worked. Then, a small sun was born. Detonation ripped open the storm, air masses visibly rippling as if a stone was thrown into a pond. wave after wave of burning ozone expanded, driving clouds for hundreds of miles into all directions. Seran turns from his consoles to the hall full of your marines and announces:
>Emperor guides our machines today! he have achieved 92.7% efficiency and mega-hurricane has been broken. We estimate that we have 11 days before it reforms. Let us use this time well, brothers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2I66dHbSRA

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>>21966379
>mfw my idea worked

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>>21966370
>>21966338
Leutenant Kronos offers himself as a volunteer for the 'food retrieval' mission. He asks you to let him take a company worth of marines and a hundred Chapter serfs per marine. He is planning to loot all the major warehouses that weren't destroyed in and around biggest production centres of Prothera. However you know that Kronus is not exaclty the softest of marines, a devout Deathwisher he will not care much for civilian lives if that's what it takes to complete his mission. However turning down his voluntary offer would anger all of the Deathwishers. What do you do?

Kronos:
http://chapterquest.wikia.com/wiki/Kronos

>>21966338
no looting.

>>21966507
Also please roll d100 for looting and d100 for scanning the planet for traces of Red Giants(if you wish to do so).

There is a report from Mormark that their population decreased by a million.

There is a report from Inaria that rebels took one of the four major hives.

>>21966534
Dispatch Arcon with however many Space Marines he think he needs to deal with the Rebels in Inaria.
And send our Vindicare Assassin to assist him, although his main mission is to spy on and observe Arcon.

>>21966534
There is a clear consensus against looting. Dispatch a company to reinforce Inaria. Try to quiet down the immediate problems then timeskip to replenish our strength.

>>21966572
What the shit do you think you're doing?
Why would we waste the time we gained from the Quake bomb?
Are you retarded?

>>21966597
No. I was the one who wanted to timeskip immediatly after the invasion of our homeworld so we could accomplish some of our long term goals instead of bumbling around from crises to crises. The sooner we can stop draining ourselves dry dealing with these flair ups and get back to work on actually building a half decent infrastructure to support our operations the happier I will be.

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>>21966566
>>21966572
Ceiron, your Vindicare Assassin isn't that loyal to you so that could just ask him to spy on your brothers. Would you like something else instead? Arcon asks for his Company and Cruiser 'Morbid' to transport them.

Directly state what is his mission.

Do you have any specific instructions on how he should act on his mission? If you have none, he will act as he sees fit.

Well, Mr. Black here has a point. We are getting overstratched.

>>21966686
>Ceiron, your Vindicare Assassin isn't that loyal to you so that could just ask him to spy on your brothers.
What, are you kidding me?
These niggers don't have emotions, or if they do they have hardly any.
If we have one he's going to do whatever the fuck we say regardless of what it is, unless it's Assassination of a Terran representative without evidence of HERESY.

>>21966686
>Directly state what is his mission.
Would "Suppress the Rebellion, if the use of deadly weapons on their side is employed, you may return in kind" be suitable enough?

>>21966686

Arcon, i trust you in this. Stop the rebels and try to do it as much peacefuly as you can. Also stop any black market that would deal in food, and redistribute it to the people.

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>>21966746
Yes, you are right, he will follow your orders.

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>>21966781
That was easier than I thought.

>>21966800
too easy.....

>>21966769
>>21966766
>I'll do my best. I hope for the sake of those rebels that they'll surrender without problems.

Roll for Arcon's warp travel
Roll for his mission

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>>21966800
...as long as it suits his agenda.

>>21966705
Yeah, reasons we need to stop fighting and start dealing with our own needs:
1. We have negative upkeep. We were planning on fixing this, but then the invasion happened.
2. We have never actually inducted new marines. Our Numbers have simply decreased this entire quest.
3. Our armory and fleet are pathetic.
4. We have Zero terminators
5.The disappearing factory ship. (Seriously, what the hell happened to that)
Basically, we have never really gotten ourselves established because we have never managed to stop dealing with the crises of the week.

>>21966843
Why did he join us anyway?

Rolled 19

>>21966823

Rolled 66

>>21966823
Travel

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>>21966868
Ceiron serves with you because you convinced him that this way he serves the Imperium best and he had no different orders from his Temple. Or at least that's what he claims. For all you know he could have just beensent to spy on you. Afterall he came to you with Terran Representative. He promised that he will stay with you until the end of decade, at least. I guess I should add that to expected events.

http://chapterquest.wikia.com/wiki/Expected_events
done.

>>21966933
Okay, Now send some marines to take the Climate control center. Send a techpriest to try to stop it from forming hurricanes. If necessary simply pull the plug. The climate will fail gradually, giving us enough time to get help from some admech people.

>>21967011
Weather Cathedral is destroyed. There is nothing to play with/pull the plug. Machinery now operates on it's own on the last given orders, drawing power from geothermal reactors. The only way to fix it is to bring machinery from a forge world that has samples of this pattern weather control machines.

>>21966913
>>21966931
Arcon will contact you in 6 months. What do you do?

Do you do anything during 11 days of peace?

>>21967066
Can we scan the planet?
>drawing power from geothermal reactors
Then pull the plug.

>>21967066
Well it's pretty obvious what to do then, shut down the Geothermal generators.

>>21967110
Shut down?
The point to shut them down.
Just disconnect.

Rolled 99

>>21967066
We send a warp message to the Mars, asking for help with the Cathedral, telling them that this world is crucial in stabilizing the sector.

And during the 11 day we help evacuate techpriests, try to scan the planet for the Giants.

Roll for the scan

>>21967099
Yes, you can scan the planet. You can do it in two ways:
>Manual scouting with landspeeders/light aircraft
>Orbital photo scanning

You can do one or both. Roll with separate dices.
>Then pull the plug.
Naturally it was controlled from the Weather Cathedral. You can either try to rewire them one by one(it would take a few years) or destroy them(that would seriously fuck up the planet).

>>21967066
Take whatever cable is connecting the reactor to the whether machine and disconnect it.

Rolled 15

>>21967165
Orbital Photo Scanning.

>>21967165
Okay, thats great. Its still powered from a single reactor, that reactor has to transmit power to the machine through a mechanism. Find that mechanism and make it stop working. The PC has crashed, so instead of futility pushing the off button we are pulling the power cable from the wall socket.

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Rolled 59, 17 = 76

>>21967163
>>21967185
As only one of these rolls specified how exactly is scanning being done, I randomized and:
99 - orbital photo scan
15 - manual scan

>>21967163
>We send a warp message to the Mars, asking for help with the Cathedral, telling them that this world is crucial in stabilizing the sector.
That's all you say, right? Please roll 3d5 for message arrival time.

>>21967177
There are 36 geothermal reactors across the planet. While sabotaging(there is no option to just disconnect) each one of them, there is 2% chance of failure resulting in detonation. Process will take 5 days per reactor. Please roll 36d100. Also please bear in mind, that this will fuck up weather control system in this planet beyond repair.

-rolling for Red Giants-

Rolled 4, 4, 2 = 10

>>21967379
roll

>>21967379
...That's a horrible design. Okay, plan B. How many more quake bombs do we have? And how many can we get others to give us?

>>21967423
It will take 10 months to communicate with Mars.
>>21967379
Scouting and scans were indecisive, however on the 8th day after detonation one of your scouts reported that he had found an encampment that was recently used by the Red Giants. They stayed here for a few days, then left using civilian heavy trucks, judging from the tracks. A little more exploration found nearby some ground that was recently dug. When you started digging, you uncovered a huge metalic cargo container as those used in the ships. There are 20 suits of power armour inside, clearly marked by Red Giants insignia. They seem to have been left here as if for storage. What do you do?

>>21967538
6 quake bombs. Imperial Guard most likely have a hundred or so more in their fleets, but they are now finally starting to take cre of evacuation, rescuing important civilians, precious tech, etc.

>>21967581
Tainted Power Armour, dispose of it.

Get scout Master Geron to follow the tracks with as many or as few of his Ghost Company he deems necessary, they are only to engage if absolutely required.

Okay so we can get 100 new Scouts and 20 new Tactical Marines for the cost of 18 wealth and 120 geneseed (we have 155 geneseed atm).

It's so cheap wealth-wise seince we have 100 suits of carapace armour and 11 suits of power armour left over.

Everyone agree with doing this?

>>21967714
Yes

>>21967646

No disposing. We will store it away and ask someone competent in power armor schemes what can we do with them.

>>21967581
Secure the suits and inform our allies that the traitor marines Are attempting to hide among the population.

The suits can be purified and cleansed of taint, then put back into the emperor's holy service or sent off as offerings to some group.

>>21967607
Well clearly If the Atmosphere machine is set on auto, it will be generating storms along predictable vectors and in predictable locations. So we have time to plan and rehearse each individual shot instead of doing it by the seat of our pants. Allowing us to buy time for mars to respond.

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>>21967646
>21967581
>Tainted Power Armour, dispose of it.
>Get scout Master Geron to follow the tracks with as many or as few of his Ghost Company he deems necessary, they are only to engage if absolutely required.
Geron reports that he managed to follow the tracks straight to back to Virilis, second biggest city of the Prothera, however once they reach proper roads, tracks are lost. What could Traitors want in the city? it's 9th day after detonation.
>>21967737
>>21967646
Destroy or hoard?
>>21967736
>>21967714
Should Klementhos begin the process of Geneseed planting? He claims that he would find it easier to work back in Tombstone but in emergency he can work on Aspera Dominus too. It will take 5 years for initiates to become part of our fighting force.

>>21967807
Hoard.

And send Klementhos back to Tombstone, we dont want any trouble in his work.

Rolled 76

>>21967855
>>21967807
Hoard.
BUT keep it under proper protection and allow no one near if possible.

>>21967866
That roll was for nothing.

Ok, as I have a big journey tommorow, gotta end the session tonight, we'll continue some other time, follow updates here:
http://chapterquest.wikia.com/wiki/Next_Session

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>>21968028
Thanks for the session Skargan.