>I've decided to make the most of a bad situation and convert the upper decks of the crashed It's Just Business into an offshore resort featuring gambling, deckchairs and pools
>Now the Port has reopened, boats can come and go between the IJB and dock and rail terminus
>I guess this is the leisure environment Imperial citizens enjoy, since it's popular, though it is obviously the off season for the outdoor stuff
>Meanwhile I'm using the profits to contract the local Daniels&Donnelly Engineering to slowly fix things lower down while the crew are on extended shore leave
>My Legitimate and Esteemed Groxbridge Intercity Trading company has also provided cash
>No Mr. Imperial, there's no xenotrade or smuggling here, no sirree!
>Oh, and Orko's old hat has proven itself to look very good on me too

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Map update since last thread. Scale has been boosted again a lot, the mountain range has been beefed up (I'm imagining Teton Range Lite) and spot heights have been added.

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>>68113323
And map key update to match

>>68113323
nice, map is coming along well

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>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Wake up in my luxurious bed in the master bedroom of the mansion that my company has been using as an HQ
>Start off day with hot tub, massage, then shower. Serving in a regiment made up of former resort workers has its perks
>Skim through this morning's briefings on my dataslate while sitting on a balcony, sipping tea, enjoying gusts of warm air billowing from the open door to my room where the radiators are running full blast
>Below me, some troopers patrol the spacious mansion grounds, dodging around peacocks, capybaras, and irrigation sprinklers
>Check my schedule, got no appointments for another three hours
>Order my assistant to go fetch some amasec from the wine cellar
>Fuck yeah I love being in the Guard! (except the fighting part)

>>68115189
>Brief excerpt from the Groxbridge Front Daily Dispatch, annotated by an unidentified individual
This Week's Featured Regiment: 1st Happy Ending Regiment
Hailing from the remote paradise world of Happy Ending, the 1st Happy Ending Regiment is the first regiment ever to be tithed from their homeworld, and Damnatum Lutum is their first ever campaign in what will likely be a long and glorious history. [1]
Homeworld: Happy Ending is a remote outpost on the edge of the Sector, traditionally dominated by Rogue Trader Dynasties that used it as a jumping point for exploration. Over time, its long beaches and shallow warm seas attracted members of the Imperial Upper Class from all over the Sector, who went there to find a warm relaxing environment where they could rest and recover their energy after years of hard work running the Sector. [2]
History: Traditionally Happy Ending has been exempt from the Imperial Tithe due to its small native population. However, due to temporary unrest [3] on parts of the planet, loyalist citizens were evacuated until further notice. One of the vessels involved in the evacuation was the Griffon's Spirit, a Departmento Munitorum transport en route to Damnatum Lutum. Upon discovering their destination, 100% of able bodied passengers picked up at Happy Ending instantaneously volunteered for military service [4], and thus the 1st Happy Ending Regiment was born. Since arriving on Damnatum Lutum, the 1st Happy Ending Regiment has won several battles in the tunnels and streets of Groxbridge, and have developed close connections with the elite of Groxbridge. Although several senior officers have since left military service [5], they have been replaced by capable officers from the middle ranks, many of them experienced Guard officers from other regiments who were sent to Happy Ending during the outbreak.
(continued)

>>68115407
Uniform: Due to the spontaneous nature of the regiment's creation, members of the 1st Happy Ending Regiment use gear and equipment originally meant for the 34th Slate Ridge Highlanders. [6] Uniforms consist of drab green fatigues with a red beret, though some members are also known to wear the red kilt associated with the Highland regiment. As Damnatum Lutum is in the middle of its cold season, it is common to see members wear fashionable accessories donated [7] by patriotic upper class citizens such as fur trimmed jackets, parkas, mittens, scarfs, ear muffs, and toques.
[1] assuming we don't all die in the next few months
[2] translation: the planet was a dumping ground for distant cousins of important people who had caused minor scandals, and were therefore exiled to the edge of the sector where they could OD at an orgy without bringing shame to their family
[3] major daemonic excursion
[4] WTF!?! NOT WHAT HAPPENED!!!
[5] big daddy nobles made some phone calls
[6] who don't need it anymore since their transport crashed into an asteroid
[7] AKA bribes

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>Be Tolria, self-(hic)-appointed Exarch of Alaitoc
>Most of the force has gone home, but a couple thousand from a few Craftworlds are still here in Groxbridge
>Supposedly on orders from some big-shot (hic) Farseer for a Plan
>I hope it's not from Eldorath or that Ulthwé woman or her father
>Those idiots have gotten people killed (or worse, trolled) following their plans
>Some of the younger ones here had no concept of a seasons or weather, so I had to explain to them why it's getting cold and why ice crystals were falling from the sky last week
>There's been some (hic) grumbling from the ranks about how I'm not qualified to be an Exarch and especially not an Autarch and ESPECIALLY not regarding Alaitoc's stance on such things
>Fuck you, I'm the de facto boss now and I don't care for trivial formalities like that
>We've been running search-and-destroy on tombs around the world (how these idiot mon'keigh didn't get exterminated millennia ago is beyond me), trading under the (hic) noses of the Imperials and nicking bits of the archaeotech the toaster molesters seem to love so much
>It was a lot of work to translate their incomprehensible redneck dialect, but we've managed to get in touch with the local Swamp Exodites
>They mostly keep to themselves, but we've manage to arrange a proper Battle of the Bands contest soon
>Those wraithbanjo-strumming hillbillies are going (hic) DOWN, cold weather be damned
>We've extended an open invite to the Imperials as well if they feel like they have a chance with their grunting noises and screeching instruments
>Some passing Noise Marines wanted in, and seemed quite angry when we told them that's not what it was about and to buzz off
>But mostly we've been sitting on our (hic) asses in Brannet waiting around to see why that Farseer wants us here while trying not to piss off the locals
>As for me? I'm at the Emperor's Head in town
>I'm just a liiiiittle bit tipsy.
>Some of this human alcohol is admittedly (hic) pretty good
(cont.)

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>>68116617
>Not to mention it's one of the few places that actually lets us in
>The townsfolk and Imperial rank and file are still very leery of our presence as humans are wont to do around "xenos", but don't attack on sight at least
>Look around the bar with its eclectic mix of patrons
>A pair of Imperial Fists are drinking gallons of the (hic) strongest stuff the place has to try and get hammered
>In the corner the Tank Appreciation Society (chaired by Belrith, of course) is having its biweekly meeting
>That reminds me, I need to figure out where and to who Eleria has been sneaking off to when off-duty
>I could swear Fs. Kerala is in on it too, given how El (hic) always seems to know of my plans to catch her in advance
>A handful of Kriegers are drinking through straws in their masks' emergency induction ports
>Strange folk
>Some dishevelled high-class-looking (hic) people look to be drinking to forget
>There's a commotion from the other end of the bar
>Looks like someone turned off the Blood Bowl match to watch a news report about the Inquisitorial trial of some Praetorian (hic) officer charged with major heresy during the last battle, and someone else is very unhappy about it
>"SQL Harris, after a lengthy trial spanning two months and collecting over fourty thousand pieces of evidence and sixty witnesses over five hundred hours of court hearings, was today found--"
>Beer is splashed, a punch is (hic) thrown, a glass meets a face with significant force and people pile in
>Before I know it, the entire place is rapidly descending into a huge bar brawl
>As fists and furniture fly, a bar stool sails through the air, hits one of the Astartes square in the face and spills his liquor
>YouDoneFuckedUpNow.schaden(hic)freude
>Stand up to use my superior height to watch the fireworks
>It seems I maaaaay be more intoxicated that I (hic) realised
>The rooooommm iisss spiiiiiiiinnnniiiinng quiiiii--
>BONK

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Query: Designation
>#ERROR#
Reiterate. Query: Designation
>Compiling, data-core reset
Mechanicus Labour-unit 302024h, Forge World Ryza. Guardmaster-Designate.
>#ERROR#, clearance not compatible
>Compiling...
CENSURE: Experimental munitions usage, WAAAGH! Grax /XREF-VERILIAD252/
>Compiling...
Penace-Secondment, Ordo Reductor. Skitarii unit 5298f. Active campaigns: Notous, Konor, Cyclotrathe Sector.
>Compiling...
Skitarii Alpha 5298, Hadex Fleet Action - Transferred to experimental armoured corps
>Compiling...
Crux Mechanicus in Konor campaign, Primus-designate 32c, Sigma Fleet
>#ERROR#, Designation no longer in use, data-segment corrupted

Request/Noosphere: Redesignate
>Transmitting mission files
>Reassigning
>Prime Cortex reinitialized

>Be Me, Sigma-32d, Alpha Primus and Master of Skitarii, Damnatum Lutum campaign.

>Damnatus Lutin
Oh, FML. And my typing.

>>68116837

Suppose we could New Thread and copy our current posts over if most of the old crew can't find us, but we seem to have at least a few of the regulars.

>>68116925
I think they'll recognize the thread by Stannimposters characteristic image editing creativity, it kinda stands out

>>68116925
I think we'll be fine, it's Close Enough (tm)

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>>68115189
>Be Trooper Monica Jernwick, 78th Risian Light Infantry
>Wake up on my "bed" which is just a pile of scavenged rags
>A combination of perpetually sore ribs, massive headache, and freaky nightmares prevented me from getting any meaningful amount of sleep last night
>Every part of my body is damp with sweat, despite the fact that the temperature is barely above freezing
>To make things worse, everyone knows the furnace is broken, what little heat this building has is literally generated by all the rotting meat trapped in the sluices and drain pipes, plus several hundred people sleeping in close proximity
>Some companies from other regiments apparently got to billet in mansions and upper class townhouses and such, but us lucky bastards in J Company of the 78th are stuck with "Jimbo's Abbatoir", an abandoned meat processing plant that still reeks of rotting flesh despite being hosed down on several occasions
>Would it really kill them to give us a slum hab or a machine shop or something? There is plenty of empty ones in the city
>It looks like the line for the single working shower is already 20 people long, no way I will make it to the front of the line before it is time to muster out
>Pull on my filthy unwashed uniform instead, maybe we will find a working shower when we are doing hab block clearances later today
>Tear open one of the packaged snacks I found yesterday, it is some sort of pickled fruit, tastes like it has probably gone bad, but still better than corpse-starch
>Munch away in silence while my squadmate halfheartedly checks my scalp for lice and fleas
>Today is going be another fun filled day of clearing slum habs of booby traps, lurking xenos, and half decayed bodies
>Normally this sort of thing would fill me with anxiety, but I am way too tired to care at this point

Sammosposter here, I completely forgot what day it was, many apologies.

>Be me
>Corporal Naddeus Killigan, Mordant Acid Dog
>We've sent to this fuckass cold planet to deal with clearing out the underground
>The gang's been broken into smaller and smaller groups then sent around as needed
>My platoon got sent on fuckin' walkabout to some town by the name of Groxbridge
>Currently leading a small fireteam through a mix of underhive and siege tunnels
>Seems like a waste, only gettin' into a tossup with the odd straggler or two
>Most common thing down here is these little mudcrabs an' rats like you wouldn't believe
>Just bloody fuckin' huge
>Decide to have some fun while we're on this little vacation of ours
>Whoever bags the biggest squeaker by the end of the day wins
>"Wins what?" they ask
>"A case of brew, what else could you twats want, ay?"
>Craigg raises his hand
>"Piss off, Craigg, you smart-ass."
>Naturally, we all pitch in enough to afford a case
>We're still doing our job patrolling mind you, just havin' a better time at it than usual
>I've already killed one the size of my thigh, but the boyos aren't far behind
>Where do rats this big even come from?

>>68116644
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Meet up with some local industrialist regarding sabotage to his factory
>He claims it is heretics or xenos, but probably just some looters scavenging parts
>Probably wants me to assign some troops to watch his factory, waste of time, but maybe worthwhile if he makes some "donations" to the right people
>For some reason he wants to meet in a shady tavern called the Emperor's Head, which is strangely popular with several regiments, the Imperial Fists, and even the Eldar
>Way too many people getting wasted this early in the morning, no wonder nothing ever gets done around here
>Barely have time to get through the boring formalities with the industrialist when suddenly the entire place erupts into a massive bar fight
>Ugh.....
>The industrialist makes a run for the door and gets tangled up in the melee, but I stay put and try to ride things out
>The corner booth I am in is fairly secluded, just need to avoid drawing attention to myself
>Notice the leader of the planet's Eldar get knocked out by a flying ball stool
>Hmmm, I can probably score some points with all sorts of bigwigs if I pull her ass out of the fire
>Push my way through the crowd to where she went down
>Start lifting her off the ground
>BONK

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>Be me, Imperial fists 5th company Lieutenant
>Entire company has been deployed on planet, we have managed to mostly secure Groxbridge
>Sections of the city, Metro and underground tunnels however are still infested with heretics and Tau
>We have to send in Assault marines in groups of 4 with storm shields on the regular to clear out sections of the underground
>We're making steady progress, but the tunnels beneath the city are quite expansive and the Metro is treacherous
>Captain Maluan ordered that we send out land speeders to scout out Liveria
>He ordered me to travel 3 kilometers from Liamhelm and establish a forward defensive base that we could use to rapport any possible troop movements of the Tau, be it a retreat or an incoming attack
>Told me to take two squadrons of tactical marines, one squadron of assault marines, two rhinos, two predators, two razorbacks, a rapier laser destroyer and two companies of steel legionaries
>Ominously watching the tau-controlled wreck of a city when I receive a rapport from the land speeder squadron we sent out to Liveria that's supposed to be transmitted back to Maluan
>Seems a day late, no matter
>The rapport is as follows:
Cont…

>>68118307
+++ BEGINNING OF TRANSCRIPT +++
++ TITLE: Scouting rapport ++
Written by: Imperial fists 5th company Land Speeder Typhon pilot-Brother Falger
Addressed to: Imperial fists 5th company Brother-Captain Maluan
Topic: Liverius Basin and City of Liveria scouting mission
Date sent: 21/11/113 M42 terran standard

The Liverius Basin consists largely of barren farmland, the rivers Irass and Valder seem to be below average in water contents and the river Galder shows obvious signs of artificial drainage. The earth in the basin is slightly softer than that of the earth in the groxvalley region, however only marginally (see addendum 001-B).
The settlements around the basin (excluding Liveria) are largely abandoned. Several villages show signs of fighting, of note is the village of Johannsdorf which has sustained heavy structural damage and is riddled with Human and T'au corpses
We have spotted several Tau transport aircraft flying toward north-west, likely toward the artificially created van Kijek island 19 kilometres off the coast of North Point
The city of Liveria appears to no longer be under imperial control, several banners displaying the sigil of the sept of T'au have been raised from two hive spires and 27 turrets have been spotted on the outskirts of the city. The range of these turrets does not exceed one square kilometre terran standard.
We have intercepted several communication signals from the city of Liveria, we know that the city’s "Shas'el" is a human traitor noble formerly called Arker Vicker. We have been unable to fully translate all of the messages and will thereby attach the intercepted communications from the city (see addendum 001-A).
We have been unable to gauge how many of the cities 789 567 citizens remain.
Small bands of Orks have been spotted in the region, though no groups above 500 orks have been spotted as of yet.
We will continue our scouting until we receive further orders.

++ END OF TRANSCRIPT ++
+++ AVE IMPERATOR +++

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>>68117880
>Be uuugggggghhhh
>.....
>Ahem
>Be Tolria, self-declared Exarch of Alaitoc
>I remember bits and pieces
>I remember being hit by a stool, losing my balance and falling off my seat onto my head
>I remember the Astartes barrelling past into the mob and people flying everywhere
>And I remember being picked up by some human woman
>Now I'm outside in the cold, the world is upside down and everything is bouncing
>My head hurts something awful from the smack and the alcohol
>Mentally kick my drunk brain
>Wait a minute
>I'm being carried over that woman's shoulder
>Try to ask "Who are you? Where am I? Where are we going? Am I being kidnapped?"
>All that comes out is "guuuhhhhhhaaaablebleheh"
>I'm going to vomit unless she puts me the right way up immediately
>Isha damn it, I'll have to cut down on the drinking when I get out of this

>>68118358
Looks like the map is about to get a whole lot bigger.

>>68117390
>>68117686
>Be Trooper Monica Jernwick, 78th Risian Light Infantry
>My squad is one of the ones chosen to investigate the tunnels beneath Groxbridge
>The same ones that were flooded with nurgle tainted sludge a few months back
>oh joy
>Are they trying to get us tainted?
>Get assigned a bulky gas mask that doesn't seal properly to my face and has a huge crack in the lens
>Also the mouth bit tastes like blood, presumably because the previous owner died while wearing it, and some departmento drone couldn't be bothered to wash it off properly
>About two hours of patrolling the sewers can be summarized as follows:
8:15 - We found some sort of partially caved in Slaaneshi lair, some of the occupants had clearly died while doing their thing, no one in the squad had the balls to look inside, so we called it in and left, feel like I got 12 STD's just by looking at the place though
8:45 - Jale got bitten by a rat, he probably has rabies now or something
8:50 - Ness tripped and knocked both of us into a sewage puddle, 100% submergence, sewage leaked through the crack in my lens, but I wasn't allowed to take the mask off, fuck you Ness
8:55 - I hit my head on a pipe because I can't see
9:30 - We encounter some of those Mordant Acid Dog new guys, like most veterans they barely acknowledge our existence aside from a few sneers
9:35 - Hit my head again
10:05 - We encounter a frail old man in rags, he escapes as the squad argues among ourselves whether he is a homeless guy or a tau sympathizer
10:20 - We realize we are lost
>Today is not going to be a good day

>>68116803
>Be Sigma-32d, Master of Skitarii
>Last memory segment fragmented, reconstructing from the data gathered by my troops.
>Lost most of my spinal control systems and a few organs to the Necron stabbing me right under the ribs, feedback blew out half the command and control systems in my armour.
>The Biologis took most of the deadweight heavy plating out while they were putting my spine back together, replaced it with some decent subdermal armour mesh and an integrated conversion field. Most fleshy I've been in years, and I'm still in half-armour under my robes.
>Review the planetary situation while they faff about putting human-looking skin back on me. The Mechanicus fleet has declared the planet largely secure and left system, leaving behind three Macrotek clades and their Skitarii escorts to establish a permanent base on Lutum.
>Clade One is fortifying the Groxbridge spaceport and gearing up the few transports and gunships we have available for search-and-destroy missions, Clade Two is establishing small outposts and checkpoints across the Groxbridge region to start patrolling and sweeping the area and the third has requisitioned a district of northwest Groxbridge, torn down most of the buildings and established a fairly extensive base of operations.

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>Be me, Armageddon Tank Commander Hans Heinrich Hochberg
>Almost got executed by a commissar for cooperating with the Eldar, however footage taken from the memory banks of Sigma-32 and the word of a particular Sydonian dragoon managed to bail me out
>Got a high-five from the Colonel for managing to survive my lady going fucking apeshit
>Now just sitting around the city, waiting for orders
>Get allowed to do whatever I want on the weekends, Colonel is cool like that
>We got a little tank-discussion group organized consisting of the members of my squadron, Volgatov and his squadron, Kirchenbach and his squadron and a couple Eldar I met a while back
>Diederich managed to get out of the medical ward early with a couple new bionics, apparently, he got off scot-free despite killing several ultramarines
>He was really apologetic over getting my tank destroyed, got me a fancy plasma pistol he bought from the Rogue trader we have here on planet
>Since today is the day we all head down to the bar, he offered to buy the entire group drinks for the night
>wellwhenyouputitlikethat.debtpayed
>Now sitting around in the bar discussing the pros and cons of treaded tanks and hover tanks, when suddenly, I hear something in the distance
>"Baneblades aren't even that effective..."
>Diederich violently turns and stands up but I rein him in
>Slowly stand up myself and ask out loud, "who said that?"
>It's this aeronautica ace
>Now, I've never had a problem with pilots, believe me, aircraft are cool too, just not as cool as tanks and that's a fact
>Ask him to explain what he means, says they're for boneheaded footsloggers who can't get their heads around how to steer a fury
>I can't hold back Diederich now, the man is fucking livid
>He tells him to eat shit in his Krieg accent
>Guy laughs and asks him if he can properly speak Gothic
>Diederich proceeds to throw his full mug of rotgutt at the man, but he manages to duck and the mug slams into the back of a guardsman’s head
>Uh oh
cont...

>>68119335
>A giant fight starts, two Astartes eventually get involved and start trying to break it up
>While beating the shit out of the one ace with Diederich, suddenly I feel something hit my helmet
>BONK
>Get knocked back, fall and knock into someone
>Ow, my head
>Seems like I knocked over a happy ender captain
>Looks like she's trying to carry out a very familiar looking Eldaress
>Decide to help her up and point her to the backdoor exit before she gets busted
>Suddenly, I'm above the ground and being held up by an imperial fist, Diederich is constrained in his other hand
>"Partaking in fights off-duty is unbecoming of you, tanker."
>"Well it was self-defe-"
>mfw pretty sure I just saw Anshelm exiting the bathroom with a female Eldar hanging off him and then slowly walking back inside

>>68119397
>Be me
>Brother-Sergeant Sammos of the Imperial Fists
>Took my one day off this month with a few brothers to a local establishment
>Down refreshments as quick as we can in a vein attempt at overwhelming our metabolism
>Naturally, a fight brakes out
>somethingabouttanks.supersenses
>A chair explodes against the back of my helmet
>Fun time is officially over
>Pick up a couple of tankers to berate them
>"Partaking in fights off-duty is unbecoming of you, tanker."
>Escort them out and set them on the sidewalk
>"Now if you'll excuse me. I am going to have a talk with that pilot regarding his choice of language in regards to the worl of his fellow troopers."

>>68119594
*work

Woo typos!

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>>68119321
>Get the all-clear from the Biologis in charge, am decoupling from the medical apparatus when I notice a note from the Armageddon Baneblade commander on one of the side benches. Nice of him, telemetry from my few remaining tanks shows his squadron performing excellently against the Necrons before my previous incarnation was violently discontinued. Really want to have the enginseers poke that Baneblade.
>TOE data says the Armageddon regiments are still in town, transmit order to provide their armour a staging area in the Mech district. We need all the Dunecrawlers we have to form an anti-air net for Groxbridge and the Ironstriders are out patrolling, if we can get Guard armoured support for our Skitarii on clearing operations we'll have some big guns to call on to drive those bloody Tau out of their holes.
>Attach request for Hochberg, the infantry regiments and Imperial Fists ranking officers and the Eldar Exarch to detail any long-term basing plans and materiel requests within 48 hours, preferably in person.
>Start making my way towards the Official Guard HQ near the G. South railway station, following the beacon on the nearest Fist's power armour.

>Takes me about thirty minutes after I started walking through town to realize that for about the first time since I made planetfall here I'm not being shot at, nobody needs ordering around and the most dangerous Xenos around is some Eldar grunt.
>The Cavalier Alpha had assumed effective command of the Skitarii patrols pending my recovery.
>Feels odd to not have a job for once, barely a noncombat noosphere here to browse.
>Vaguely remember older methods for unoccupied personnel to preoccupy themselves.
>Attempt to locate stimulant requisition area
>Arrive outside the guard-designated recreational facility just in time to see the Eldar Exarch get dragged retching out of the rear door, followed soon by Hochberg and a second Krieger looking less than amused.

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>>68119397
>>68118910
>>68119827
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Get knocked over by an Armageddon Tanker and hit my head on the bar counter
>How rude
>He leans over to help us up
>Tempted to sucker punch him in the groin to even the score, but just as the thought pops into my mind, an Imperial Fist shows up and restrains him
>Don't want to get caught up in some disciplinary action, try to avoid eye contact and continue leading the Eldar leader to the back door
>Manage to get her outside without further incident
>She starts mumbling something
>I try to sit her down on a bench while I think of what to do next
>mfw she manages to projectile vomit down my dress as I try to prop her up
>That was my favorite dress you slut
>I better get a medal out of this

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>Be Rogue Trader Stannim Lherzon
>Managing the IJB Resort, the LEGIT Co. and general wheeler dealing is a tiring job
>Head down to the local watering hole, the Emperor's Head
>It's a short walk from Brannet towards the river
>Wrass Street has been mostly swept of debris by this point, and some people are returning
>Still, it's cold and I want a beer
>Round the corner onto Gin Lane and see the pub in a state of chaos
>There is a huge fight going on inside with all types of people
>Someone is slung outside, crashing through the window glass
>letsdoa180turn.nope
>Get a short distance before I realised I saw a couple of very familiar faces in there
>Turn straight back around and walk back to see what the hell is going on

By the way, I was more than a little worried when we reached page ten with no replies after two hours, and I thought it was dead.

>>68120118
it takes time for everyone to realize the thread is up, just keep bumping it until people start replying

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>>68119928
>Be Tolria, absolutely plastered self-proclaimed Exarch of Alaitoc
>Woman tries to put me down on a bench outside
>Too late
>Vomit alcohol and bar nut slurry all over her dress
>Heeeeeey, that wash shum impresssshive dishtance
>Oh dear, oh dear, this is so undignified
>Any Eldar would be highly embarrassed at being in such a state, let along one of authority
>I've got to get out of here before more witnesses see me
>Stand up successfully and try to stagger away
>Get about three metres before I lose my balance and fall over backwards again
>Narrowly avoid falling in my own vomit puddle
>Looks like I'm not going anywhere unless one of these mon'keigh decide to get me home
>Speaking of that, why are there so many? Who are these people?
>I get deja vu with several, but my alcohol-addled brain can't draw the connections
>Sigh

>>68120186
That was my plan, but the last two threads kicked off within an hour of starting so I thought it was taking worryingly long.

>>68120542
I think they were both started Friday evening though, a lot of people are out doing stuff on a Saturday afternoon

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>>68119827
>>68119928
>>68120430
>Be me, Tank Commander Hans Heinrich Hochberg
>Me and Diederich just standing out on the sidewalk, it's snowing now
>We just got thrown out of a bar by a SPACE MARINE
>Well, I guess that's off my bucket list
>Diederich begins going on about how he's pretty sure that was one of the space marines that crashed a fucking drop pod into the Maus
>I would be angry beyond belief but, since that thing got corrupted by a daemon, it's understandable
>Just sort of stand there and talk, tell Diederich about what went down in the Necron tomb since I forgot to do that earlier
>As we're standing there talking and Friederich stumbls out the back exit, I spot him
>The Alpha Primus from before
>Takes me a second or two before I recognize him because he's gotten a bit fleshier
>"By the emperor... I don't believe it!"
>Approach and greet him
>ourfaceswhen
>"After all that damage, you got fleshier!"
>Get chatting with him and introduce him to Diederich as the rest of my squadron gets out of the bar
>Turns out he got a promoted to what is the mechanicus equivelant of a Major
>Congratulate him as Volgatov combat rolls out
>Get informed that he got us a staging area in the newly established admech district of the city
>areyoufuckingserious.debt
>Tells me he'd like for us to help the Mechanicus with driving out the remaining Tau
>Enthusiastically agree, finally a chance to repay my debt
>Ask me for any long term basing plans, redirect him to talk to Colonel Vylk about it since he's ultimately my boss
>"Oh, I almost forgot, are there any material requests you have?"
>Ah fuck it, might as well since I can repay my debt later
>"Do you think you could get me a Cuirass? Like the one Diederich has."
>Sigma says he'll look into it before asking if I have any idea where that one Eldar who pried a necron off my wrists is located
>Suddenly hear someone falling over
>Turn around and recognize the Eldar on the ground as the one from earlier
>How did we all end up here?

>>68120655
#2 was started Saturday morning (for you americans, at least). I debated starting Fri, but decided to give sammosposter another day because I felt it was "their" thread in a way.

>>68120701
Sammosposter here

I'm not the OG OP for Damnatum Lutum
As far as I care it's a group thing

Besides that, I tend to forget these things, like I did today

>>68120118
>>68120430
>>68120663
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>The Eldar starts stumbling around aimlessly as I try to scoop some vomit out of my decolletage
>Also, it looks like we got ourselves a bit of an audience
>Screw this, I am not walking around town covered in vomit
>Call my adjutant to come pick us up in the staff car
>Look over at the crowd of several tankers, a cogboy, and a...shit is that Lherzon?
Hey guys, wanna help me corral our valued ally back to her base before she starts a diplomatic incident?

>Be Brother-Sergeant Sammos
>Wading back into the brawl
>The rabble at least has the mind to avoid hitting me
>Spot the aviator in the brawl
>Walk up to him
>The fight around him stops in my looming shadow
>He looks up at me
>The red lenses of my helmet glare back with a faint glow
>"Your commentary regarding the armored ground forces was uncalled for, and it triggered this fight."
>The area of quieted bar-goers grows larger as people begin to stare at me and the aviator
>"The tankers are your brothers, and the draw as much of the enemies ire as your aircraft."
>Lean in so my helmet is inches from his face
>"Cause such a disturbance with your unthoughtfulness again, and our conversation will no be so pleasant. Do I make myself clear?"
>He gives me a slow, shaky nod of his head
>Straighten back up and exit the bar
>My one day of leave has come to this
>Babysitting guardsmen

>>68113304
jesus christ how can make such an exciting setting sound so boring?

its like if you started every sentence with, "MEANWHILE!"

>>68120701
>>68120851
Tankposter here, anyone got any idea where the original OP went? It's like he just disappeared to watch how the rest of these threads played out without him. It's a bit bizarre to think that we've been here for three threads now and he hasn't made an appearance since the second thread (second DM thread Sammosanon posted was technically the third, because the second thread posted about it died, and I know that was by the OG poster). It's like he's just out there... watching.

>>68113304
First off, if you want to run some sort of banana republic, play tropico, don't ruin rogue trader.

>>68121079
This is not Rogue Trader. This is part of a shitposting series that happens to feature an RT.

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>>68120957
>>68120663

>Be Sigma-32d
>Have secured tank support for my sweep teams, quickly patch into Noosphere and tell the Macrotek Prime to contact Vylk to sort the rest of the Guard facilities out.
>Surprisingly productive first day back, and it's kind of nice to have a face capable of grinning properly again.
>Skitarii don't usually have much time to make friends on the job, I should try this freelance thing more often
>Somehow about three-quarters of the planet's leadership has found itself standing in one shabby Groxbridge backstreet looking at a drunk Eldar, beats most coincidences from my memory banks
>Could try a stimm, but I have no idea if that even works on Eldar. Didn't even know they could get drunk until an hour ago.
>Probably do still owe the Exarch one for helping Previous Sigma though. Can't remember it, but my squad testimony assures me she shot a Necron I was fighting. Somehow.
>"Preferable outcome, Exarch designation:Tolria remains Eldar leader."
>"Nonhostile relations established, other Eldar factions may be less favourable."
>The Happy Ending Baroness-Officer appears to have called a transport, although apparently none of us know where the Eldar HQ actually is
>Could they be less sneaky, please
>"Suggestion - Guard Main HQ contains accomodation, short transport time"
>Grab largely incapacitated Eldar, load into rear seat of groundcar, interface and load coordinates for Officer Rooms as the Rogue Trader and the two Guardsmen pile in after us
>Trust the aristocrat to have the actually spacious transports
>Adjutant startles as car begins moving without input, jams on brakes in time for the Baroness to climb, grumbling, into the front seat
>Start sorting through noosphere briefings and casualty reports while the Rogue Trader attempts communication with the Eldar and the Guardsmen start discussing a designation:Anshelm.
>Feel the odd deja vu that occurs when memories I no longer have stored become relevant
>Something from my menial days, probably

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>>68120957
>>68121628
>Be Trooper Chastity Sinclair, Priscilla's adjutant
>Be super excited to finally do something useful aside from bringing the Captain her tea and dataslate occasionally
>I am sometimes worried that she resents having an untrained young woman following her around everywhere taking up space, but tonight I will finally prove myself to my role model!!!
>Hop in staff car, drive to the Captain's location
>Only hit three objects on the way there, a new record low!
>Realize I went to the wrong bar
>Darn it! Honest mistake
>Put staff car back into drive, head off to where I think she said she wanted to be picked up
>Find her standing outside covered in vomit with a bunch strangers and an Eldar
>If only circumstances were better, we wouldn't have to ally with such....Xenos
>Various people climb into the staff car, somehow it starts by itself just as the Captain is getting into the front passenger set
>Manage to hit the brakes just in time to avoid dragging her, but still get a death stare, give her confused look to indicate I am not controlling the car
>Vehicle starts driving itself again once the Captain is inside
>How odd, must be the Machine Priest controlling it somehow
>You can always count on them to be mean and rude

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>>68121628
>Be Rogue Trader Stannim Lherzon
>Of course it would be Tolria
>What have you gotten yourself into this time, you silly girl?
>Tsk, tsk. I expected better than you being so drunk.
>Anyway, apparently we're supposed to all get into the car
>A nice fancy car, must be from a very old STC, back when they still cared about vehicle looks beyond making them driving cathedrals
>The noble's billet is on the other side of the city to Brannet, but could they please make a detour?
>I can carry this drunkard home with me if they drop us off there
>I'm not sure whether to ask the chauffeur or the techpriest
>Good thing Eldar are light and they don't wear their kit off-duty, though her arms and legs are a bit dangly
>I'm not sure the Guard would appreciate us driving into their base with an Eldar, even if they completely incapacitated
>i could swear this car has a mind of its own, or maybe the driver is just that bad.

>>68121056
No sign of them since. Maybe they are content to lurk and watch what they started keep on going, or they could have posted under a new character and not said anything. I do remember that second thread attempt, it's why we give it a few weeks to "recharge" in between now.

>>68121882
>>68122041
Darn, I didn't notice the driver was a woman. Hope they don't mind having the face of Aloysius Parker.

Sammosposter
Bumping one last time before I go sleep
Hope to see you dudes soon

>>68122073
Made me laugh, A+ for effort
Maybe it is some sort of metaphysical representation of the fact that Sigma is the one actually driving the car

>>68122041
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Be less than pleased with fact that I am meeting one of the richest men in the city for the first time with a dress full of vomit
>Graciously tell Lherzon that we would be pleased to drop them off at a location of their choosing
>Chastity gives me a hopeless look to remind me that she isn't controlling the vehicle
>Turn head to look at the techpriest, who is hopefully the one actually driving
Valued Warrior of Mars, Lord Lherzon's suggestion seems most agreeable, don't you think?

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>Be Imperial scientist
>A rare breed I know, but we exist
>The Imperium still needs to know some new things
>So long as we don't actually invent anything or poke the Warp, that is
>Been looking into the local seismic activity
>It's concentrated in the south-east side of town at a very shallow depth
>A VERY shallow depth, just below the surface
>Set up some geophones to listen in
>"VRRRRRRRRRRRR"
>That sounds like a tunnelling machine
>A fucking gigantic mole machine in the caves under the city
>Just what the hell is going on down there?
>Looks like we have some Astartes and Admech in town though
>Get them on the vox, I think some of them might be up for a nice tunnel raid
>They can shoot whatever is hiding down in those caves while they're at it
>I think some of them might relish the action given the recent peace and quiet

>Be Sigma-32d, most literal backseat driver
>Apparently the Rogue Trader does already know the Exarch
>Altering course for the Eldar district
>Somehow this car is less easy to maneuver than most of the battle tanks I've commanded, and a few of them had legs.
>Doesn't have front camera pickups either, having to dodge the scattered inhabitants of Groxbridge via what I can see between the front seats.
>Pull roughly into Eldar Quarter, start disembarking when vox crackles and starts chattering about hostile tunnellers
>Iron Warriors again, maybe? Thought we dealt with those via Imperial Cultist horde.
>Put Skitarii garrison on high alert, activate auspex and conversion field just in time for the Exarch to fall out of the car into me hard enough to trigger it and blind anyone looking vaguely in our direction
>Knew there was a reason we discontinued those things as standard issue
>Auspex picks up tremors moving roughly towards our location in the southwest quarter of town.
>Thank the Imperial knock-off Techpriest for his efforts
>"Unknown contact approaching. Prepare for possible combat"
>Stim probably worth a try at this point, sorry if this has some bizzaire physiological side effect
>Ready ampule-mechadendrite, jab the Eldar in the forearm with a small dose

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>>68122041
>>68122617
>>68125306
>Be me, Tank Commander Hans Heinrich Hochberg
>Sigma sugests we head down to the HQ with the Eldaress, yeah sure I can do that
>Most of the tank discussion group say they'd like to check out the staging area
>I say most because, strangely enough, Anshelm is missing
>Oswald says he'll go look for him and walks back into the bar
>Diederich, who technically isn't even really supposed to be here anymore, says he'll tag along with me when the happy ender captain's ride pulls up
>We pile into the ride
>It's surprisingly spacious in here
>Have to lay the Eldar over our knees though as the Rogue trader tries talking to her
>Oh yeah, there's a rogue trader here
>Huh
>Buckle up as the car starts driving on its own
>Must have some sort of in-built cogitator, meaning that it's pretty valuable
>That or Sigma has started controlling it
>As we're driving toward the HQ, see two familiar figures in a dark back alley
>The first is Anshelm, who looks slightly intoxicated and the second is a rosy cheeked Eldar, likely also intoxicated
>A very clearly female Eldar
>Two of them appear to be... hugging
>Fucking Anshelm has been porking a Xeno this entire time
>God emperor fucking damnit Anshelm
>I really hope no one finds them there or else I'm getting executed
>I'm just going to pretend I never saw that
>Oh god I think Diederich saw it too
>See him reaching for the bolt pistol on his hip, put my hand on his and shake my head
>Whisper "No one else has to know."
>He slowly moves back his arm, nodding
>Rogue trader looking at us a little bit disturbed
>All I wanted was a nice afternoon with the lads chatting about Tanks
>Instead, I've gotten into a barfight, thrown out of a bar by a space marine, and am now sitting in a highly valuable vehicle with a rogue trader, a high ranking mechanicus officer and a very drunk Xeno woman
>Come to think of it, this turned out way more exciting than expected
Cont…

>>68125467
>Car continues down the road, techpriest is being a bit fucky with his driving (if he's driving)
>Eventually stop in the Eldar quarters of the city
>Man, the inquisition would have a field day with this entire area
>IreallyhopeIdontgetshotforthis.png
>We get out of the car, Diederich gets temporarily blinded but after a little bit he's fine
>Sigma suddenly turns and says, "Unknown contact approaching. Prepare for possible combat"
>The ground is rumbling like all hell, seems like Iron Warriors are moving to our general direction
>Give myself pat down, try and see if I remembered to bring anything to defend myself with
>Realise I only brought my Chainsword originally, but since Diederich was nice enough to give me a plasma pistol I now have at least TWO weapons
>Diederich unsheaths his power sword
>Vibrations get stronger and stronger
>Rev up chainsword and unholster plasma pistol
>"Bring it on!"

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>>68125469
>Be Rogue Trader Stannim Lherzon
>The Alley Thing shall never be mentioned again
>The ground starts to shake as buildings rattle
>Dismiss it as just another tremor
>That is, until it keeps going and getting stronger
>Cogboy jabs Tolria in the arm with a stim, we'll see if it works
>Suddenly, a massive boring machine bursts from the middle of the road and disgorges Iron Warriors onto the streets of Brannet
>Heads stick out of windows as the local residents, human and Eldar alike, stare in shock and go for their weapons
>Unfortunately, we're first in the traitors' line of fire
>I never go anywhere without my Hellpistol, but I may as well be firing spitballs at these guys
>The car provides us with a bit of cover and the others are firing back, but we're pinned and the Traitor Astartes are advancing fast
>Someone has probably called the Guard by now
>We just have to hold on for a bit longer
>If one of you has a trick up one of your sleeves, now would be a very good time

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>>68125306
>>68125758
>Be Tolria, self-proclaimed Exarch of Alaitoc
>What happened?
>I'm awake now, and suspiciously buzzed
>I seem to recognise this area as Brannet
>What I don't recognise is the mess down the street and the enemies in MY town
>I don't have my weapon or armour, but I do have my communicator
>"Keralaaaaaaa! Get down here now, and bring my rifle too! And drag in anyone else you can find."
>I will not have this!
>Hide inside a large litter bin while I wait for her to arrive
>By now a few scattered shots are coming out of nearby buildings as well as the firefight picks up
>I feel safe in here, actually, despite the smell and pinging shots
>This is my bin now
>I like my bin

>>68125469
>>68125758

>Be Sigma-32d
>Pinned down
>No melee weapon save my injector/dataspike, no power armour tough enough to reliably tank bolt shells, surprisingly good cover
>Photon gauntlet perfectly capable of spearing a Marine clean through, between that, the plasma pistol and the hotshot the enemy is wary but still encircling us
>Mass-reactive slams into the metal about an inch from my head, shrapnel pings off my conversion field and tears gashes in my robe
>Battle Cogitator: Enemy Analysis
>Iron Warriors Space Marines, up to twelve, and Termite transport, heavy flamer armament
>Force insufficient to take or establish a beachhead in Groxbridge
>No noted relics in this sector, HQ is some distance away
>Enemy obstacles for Damnatum Lutum guerrilla campaign - Eldar tracking teams, Marine/Mechanicus hunter squads, Guard armour
>Mixed force effectiveness dependent on command relations
>Conclusion: Decapitation strike. They are here for us.
>Might just manage it as well. Bastards

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>>68118358
Map expansion as a bump while we wait for everyone else to get back from wherever they went

>>68125469
>>68125758
>>68126273
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Some sort of tunneling machine bursts from the ground in front of us and disgorges a squad of Iron Warriors
>Everyone gets behind the staff car so they can use it as cover
>FUUUUCK!!! Why didn't we just get back in the car and drive away?
>Getting gibbed by mass-reactive bolts wasn't on my to-do list today
>Grab that little idiot Chastity and pull her behind the car too before she does something stupid
>Me and Chastity only have shitty laspistols, and Lherzon only has a hellpistol, but the tankers somehow have a plasma pistol, a power sword, and a chainsword between them, and who knows what the cogboy is carrying but it seems to pack a punch
>Put on my vox-bead and start requesting reinforcements on every frequency I can think of
>I am sure that word is already spreading about the attack, but this gives me an excuse not to poke my pretty little head out from cover

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>Be me, Tank Commander Hans Heinrich Hochberg
>Instead of being flooded by traitor guardsmen and astartes, we got flooded by JUST chaos astartes
>I don't know which is worse honestly
>They're focusing a considerable amount of fire on Sigma, maybe they had some spies on planet who managed to get info on his promotion?
>Come to think of it, I did see some shady looking guy exiting the bar after the barfight completely unbruised
>I guess he must have heard my conversation with Sigma?
>Perhaps this was all part of some greater plan, the beer was a bit stronger than I remember it usually being
>However they knew doesn't matter right now though
>Diederich's bitchin' bionic implants probably still don't make him a match for space marines in melee combat
>So for now we're just taking cover and landing pot-shots on the space marines wrecking shit around us
>Diederich looks around for a moment, then reaches down and pulls out a plasma grenade
>"Diederich, where'd you get a grenade?"
>"I am unsure but I found it in the pocket of my coat after I left the hospital."
>I have a feeling he would have used that during the barfight if it hadn't gotten broken up
>Watch him pull the pin and cook the grenade for dangerously long, then throw it at the Iron warriors
>Most of them manage to roll away, however one of them doesn't move in time and ends up getting his entire body turned into molten slag
>They're a bit more disorganized now, I've got a chance to call for some backup
>"Stay here, I'll be back!"
>Rush down the street as fast as I physically can, bolter rounds flying past me
>mfw
>Eventually spot an imperial fist with a red helmet walking down the street with one of his brothers, I think it's the same one who threw me out of a bar
>Run up to them waving my arms and screaming like a madman, "HEY! HEEEEEEEEEEEEY! WE'RE BEING ATTACKED BY IRON WARRIORS! CALL IN SOME OF THOSE SPACE MARINES WITH CHAINSWORDS AS FAST AS YOU CAN! THEY'VE GOT THE MECHANICUS COMMANDER PINNED!"

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>>68125977
>>68128785
>>68129123
>Be Rogue Trader Stannim Lherzon
>The Hellpistol is good and the tankers have a suspiciously advanced armoury, but it still doesn't do an awful lot against a fully armoured Traitor Astartes
>We're still trapped here and under fire
>To make matters worse, the stim the cogboy gave to Tolria seems to have had quite an adverse effect on her
>She is now hiding in a trashcan completely oblivious to the battle, talking to herself like a gibbering idiot
>One of the tankers lobs a plasma grenade (where the hell did he get that from?) at the Warriors
>One of them explodes and the rest have to reorganise in the face of increasing fire from the buildings
>The other tanker legs it off somewhere
>I'd call him a coward but I have rather the same idea
>An auburn-haired Eldar in a Farseer uniform carrying a staff and Long Rifle comes running over through the bolt hail
>She introduces herself as Farseer Kerala of Ulthwé and asks where Tolria is
>Point to the bin
>If you've come to give her a weapon, it may be better for you to, uhhh, not do that right now
>She looks and listens to what's in the bin and creases her face up into a scowl
>"PLEASE don't tell me she was injected with livisanusium while drunk again?"
>Check the back of the empty stim bottle
>Unfortunately, it would appear so - this is why some medicines are not supposed to be mixed with alcohol
>"Idiot mon'keigh! She'll be in the clouds for at least a couple of hours"
>Charming woman
>It would appear that this has happened before, though
>Get an idea
>While the Warriors are reorganising, reach into the car and release the handbrake
>Moving cover time!
>We can grab the loon on the way past
>On the count of three, everyone push!

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>Be Imperial pilot Antonius of the aeronautica imperialis
>Two days have passed since we first called for help in the governor spire
> The inquisitor went back to the governor office doing Inquisition things
>I am now trying to take out of the wreckage of my Thunderbird the radio with the help of the tech-priest and the valkyrie copilot
>Each three hours we receive news from scions who saw their forces being reduced to their half
>Last ones are really bad
>Pic related
>Apparently daemons have been summoned by cultists
>Up here in the last storey it's quite stressfull mostly due to the inquisitor presence
>We push what was resting of the valkyrie off the landing pad
>I am learning binary really fast thanks to the tech-priest
>Hoping that more cantics will help the machine-spirit to get the long range radio

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>>68130337
Anontonius well I'm an idiot and saw all this happened after several month after posting well let's just that the precedent post was way before that
well continuing...

>Be Imperial pilot Antonius of the aeronautica imperialis
>Well not really anymore
>After taking out the radio of the thunderbolt and pushing it off the landing pad like the valkyrie which created even more destruction, the inquisitor decided to "invite" the governor to "take back his position"
>The Inquisitor put everyone of us scions, psker, pilots in line when the governor's shuttle arrived
>MFW when I learn the Inquisitor's name is in fact Lupanarium
>Lupanarium then blow the governor head off then turn to us
>"Well I guess we all earned some sleep eh? Before that I will ask all of you to join me as my retinue"
>Because we couldn't say no we all thank him to join His Most Holly Inquisition
>He then took us in a hotel down in groxbridge
>I think I saw eldar bit I was too tired to be sure
>Get to the hotel room
>Find the bed and fall on it fully clothed and sleep
>Wake two days later after hearing noise from the street
>Rest of the squad is gearing up and talk about rogue trader, eldar and traitor astartes
>Lupanarium then storm in telling us that we are all going to fight those space marine once and for all
>But I never received any kind of imperial guard training!

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>>68129690
>>68129123

>Be Sigma-32d
>The Guard officers are slowly rolling the car towards the nearby bin the Eldar is hiding in
>Killed one of the Iron Warriors attempting to work around our right flank, although it cost me a few decilitres of blood and a little mobility moving backwards
>Conversion Field getting somewhat stressed from bolter shrapnel, car is holding up rather well
>Ranger is muttering to herself in the bin. Stim evidently not the best of ideas
>Link up with groundcar cogitator again, start it moving forwards and turning to shift us out of the centre of the Traitor encirclement
>"Continue firing, I will move the ablative armour"
>"Telemetry:Report"
>Five Iron Warriors still attempting to envelop to the right, three dead ahead taking cover in the borehole and behind their Termite and blasting suppressing fire at any head that pops out
>Two possible Traitor contacts unaccounted for, presumably either in the Termite or in the alleys to the left
>Pull car up in V against the bin, taking cover in the gap between
>Bin won't hold up against mass-reactives, but at least it's concealment
>Other Eldar pops the release hatch on the side and drags Tolria out by a leg
>Point Gauntlet through the side window and start blazing away at the flankers, hitting precisely nothing but hopefully keeping their heads down
>Heatsink is just starting to screech when datafeeds from Astartes helmets pop into my noospheric vision
>The Imperial Fists open up all guns blazing from the side, catching two of the Iron Warriors in a bracket of exploding bolt shells and staggering another which the Rogue Trader manages to execute with a visor shot. Hear Hochberg yelling.
>Duck down, eject heatsink from sidearm mounting and vent coolant. Grab Tolria, throw the unarmoured Ranger over my shoulder under what protection the Conversion Field supplies
>"Imperative: Command Staff must Survive. Prepare for retreat"
>Genuinely surprised they haven't closed to melee yet, what's keeping them?

>>68129123
>>68129690
>>68132211
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Rolling my staff car with some others in order to provide mobile cover
>One of the tankers has booked it, tempted to join him, but figure sticking close to the cogboy is my best option
>The cogboy remotely starts the car with his mind again, great why didn't he do that right away?
>A bolt shatters one of the few remaining panes of glass in the staff car, showering my head with broken glass
>Try to decide whether this sucks more than those times daemonettes tried to eat my soul
>Maybe not quite that bad but still high on the list of bad things that have happened to me
>Imperial Fists finally show up, we might actually survive this!
>Not sure whether to cry with joy, or cheer wildly, eventually decide to do neither since both would be beneath my dignity of course

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>>68132211
>>68133122
>Be Tolria, slightly insane self-proclaimed Exarch of Alaitoc
>The sounds of battle filter through the metal sheeting
>I don't care, since I'm in my bin
>Bin shakes as something large bumps into it
>Get off my bin, you... you...
>Hatch in the side opens and Kerala's face appears
>Hey, you came!
>Come in, come in, it's comfy in here!
>She looks unamused, and drags me out instead
>No! My bin! Let me back in!
>She pricks me with another injector
>Whawazzat, nurse?
>Red-robed mecha man picks me up and slings me over his shoulder
>I'm being carried again. This is nii~iice
>Nice man
>Everything's just a little bit bounceee.
>There are a few big, bad people with grey armour shooting other people who probably aren't bad in yellow
>Now everything's fading, and I feel really tired
>Must be my bedtime
>Zzzzzzzzzz.....

>Be me, Imperial fists 5th company Lieutenant Gereon Paulicus
>Forwarded the scouting rapport to Captain Maluan, saved a copy of it on the portable cogitator I brought with me in case the file sent gets corrupted
>Going through and partially translating some of the messages sent from Liveria, listening in on the vox in case something suspicious happens
>From the sound of it, a large bar fight broke out and two imperial fists had to break it up
>I recall Sammos mentioning trying out some of the Guardsmen’s alcohol to see how well he on terra had crafted the adeptus astartes
>Hear mention of a group of Iron warriors attacking the newly appointed Master of Skitarii on planet
>Seems to be an assassination attempt that has, so far, failed
>Hopefully the astartes in the area can pitch in and help
>While they're fighting, I receive a second message also meant to be forwarded to Captain Maluan
>It details the cities and villages in the Liverius Basin and northern Groxvalley region
>The message reads as follows:
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>>68134445
+++ BEGINNING OF TRANSCRIPT +++
++ TITLE: Scouting rapport addendum ++

Written by: Imperial fists 5th company Land Speeder pilot-Brother Igner Wihl
Addressed to: Imperial fists 5th company Brother-Captain Maluan
Topic: Liverius Basin and City of Liveria scouting mission
Date sent: 21/11/113 M42 terran standard

The following is a list of population centers exceeding 50 000 citizens pre-war. This list is based off of a partially destroyed administratum book Brother Renauldt found while investigating Johannsdorf dating five years back. We have added information to update their status when it comes to their loyalty to the imperium, if the pre-war population is known it has been writen down. We have been unable to gauge the total population of the cities and so have detailed rough estimates

LIVERA
- [POPULATION] 787 958* [STATUS] Tau occupied [MAYOR] Arker Vicker

GRIMHEDGE
- [POPULATION] 335 509* [STATUS] Tau occupied [MAYOR] Josef Pfaller*

STEMTON
- [POPULATION] 75 390* [STATUS] Tau occupied [MAYOR] Bartholemäus Bradson*

ST. JAN
- [POPULATION] 40 000+ (145 327 pre-war) [STATUS] Loyal[MAYOR] Vermer Qarazim

GREENFIELDS
- [POPULATION] 60 000-70 000 (99 794 pre-war) [STATUS] Loyal [MAYOR] Ioann Malker

REDRIVER
- [POPULATION] Unknown, likely >10 000 (76 801 pre-war) [STATUS] Largely destroyed, unclaimed [MAYOR] Rikaar van der Wald*

GREGORIANA
- [POPULATION] 25 000+ (54 873 pre-war) [STATUS] Loyal [MAYOR] Walter Karnack

* The population has been left unaltered from the pre-war estimates due to up to date information not being available

++ END OF TRANSCRIPT ++
+++ AVE IMPERATOR +++

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>>68134481
Done. I added my own spin to Redriver/Stemton/St. Jan if you don't mind.

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>>68119162
>>68130337
>Be Trooper Monica Jernwick, 78th Risian Light Infantry
>We have been lost for several hours now
>Starting to get pretty tired of wandering around half frozen sewage
>We come to a wide tunnel that is decorated with gold plate, ornamental green neon skulls, and flags depicting the Governor's Crest
>Aw shit, only one place would have this much decoration in a sewer
>We are under the Governor's Spire
>A nexus of evil so terrifying that everyone pretends it doesn't exist despite being five times taller than any other building in the city
>Only members of the Inquisitorial task force are even allowed anywhere near it
Guys, we are soooo screwed...
>Eventually everyone clues in to what I am talking about, and collectively we decide to run for our lives
>I have the sinking feeling something is following us though

>>68129123
>Be Imperial Fists Brother-Sergeant Sammos
>Walking down the street
>Hear someone running up behind me loudly
>It appears to be one of the tankers I removed from the brawl earlier
>A possible Iron Warrior incursion has the local Ad Mech commanders pinned
>As far as I am aware, Lieutenant Paulicus and the majority of the company are stationed farther to the front
>Me and Brother Saegon Are the only two readily available Imperial Fists I can quickly locate
>The rest of my squad is likely nearby
>Relay the situation over the squad's comm frequency
>Let's hope they have their helmets on to hear it
>Good thing we pack our boltguns
>A Good astartes always comes prepared
>Now just to get on site as soon as possible
>Spot an inbound cargo truck
>The suspension isn't compressed, it's empty
>Step into the street
>The truck screeches to a halt only a couple feet from me
>"Many apologies, but we need rapid transportation. Please allow the use of this truck so I will not be burdened to take it forcefully."
>The driver's mouth hangs wide open as I approach the cab
>I open the driver side door, and the citizen scoots to the far side
>I point to the tanker
>"Can you operate this vehicle?"
>Back to the owner
>" Worry not, no harm should come to this vehicle and it will be returned."
>Brother Saegon and I climb into back
>The suspension sagging somewhat under our combined weight

>Be Elena Tywick
>Enjoying a nice stroll along the quays of Liveria
>Just another young Gue'vesa, lured into the service of the Tau Empire by the promises of new technology, rapid advancement through a society that reward talent over birthright, and hope for a better future for mankind than the stagnant archaic mess that is the Imperium
>It is hard to argue with the Tau's methods, what was once a decaying slumtown, in decline thanks to the success of its rival Groxbridge, is now a gleaming utopia
>Drones now do much of the menial work, freeing up the population to volunteer for military service, be trained as drone controllers, or even join the new bureaucracy
>Sure, many citizens have fled the area, or been sent to re-education camps, but that is what happens when you stand in the way of progress
>Just think of what could have been accomplished if the Tau had been able to deliver supplies directly to the planet as intended, instead of having to sneak them in shipments through sympathetic space merchants
>Nod my greetings to my supervisor at work, Haverick, and his supervisor Por'vre Kaes
>Haverick, a noted philosopher even before the Tau Occupation, is fond of showing his Tau colleagues around the city while engaging in debates on ethics, economics, sociology, and justice
>Too bad they forgot to bring an escort
>Four expert slashes later with my concealed knife, and both are dead from wounds to the neck and gut
>I hastily arrange their intestines in the holy symbol, taking careful note of the slight pink glow as the symbol becomes attuned to its sisters across the city by the power of the warp
>Now that is true power
>Why play with little toys when you can harness the powers of reality itself
>If all goes well tonight, 6 more symbols will have been added to the existing 24 in the pattern
>Just six more to go

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>>68132211
>>68133997
>Be Rogue Trader Stannim Lherzon
>At last, the final Iron Warrior keels over in the face of the Fists' withering fire and bullets, beams and shurikens from everywhere
>Seems their arch-enemies (namely, the local Imperial Fists) have put paid to their plans
>The street and buildings are full of smoking holes, the car is wrecked and there's a boring machine sticking out of a huge crater in the road
>Eh, it can be cleaned up later, and I can pull some strings with Dan&Don to get the lady a cheap repair on the car
>The Imperial Fists or some Guard can investigate the tunnel and flush out the heretics in their own time
>For now though, I have to carry Sleeping Beauty here back home
>Her friend jabbed her with some sedative, so now she's out for the count
>She'll have a brutal hangover later and probably not remember a thing
>Kerala tells me where her place is, and I take her from the cogboy and start carrying her back
>It's a large, fancy townhouse that looks normal on the outside, but one fingerprint scan later and it's revealed to have had quite the Eldary makeover inside
>To be expected, I guess
>Leave Tolria on the couch with a note explaining everything that has transpired and this is why she shouldn't drink so much
>For now though, I have some business to attend to
>I'm establishing a promethium extraction operation to exploit the newly discovered reserves near Muddy Bottom through LEGIT Co., and it requires my presence
>The metro to the train station has been cleared, fixed and reopened at least by now
>A break from the big city will do me good, assuming chaos doesn't follow me everywhere

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>Be Marc Tyysen, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Scouting the Thule Tunnels with the rest of my company in preparation for a possible offense against Grimhedge
>Who would have thought that a railway tunnel could be so spooky?
>Unfortunately, much of the railway runs through natural limestone caves, some of which stretch hundreds of meters high, not to mention the kilometers of side tunnels going in all directions
>We lost connect with Nykka's squad about half an hour ago, probably nothing
>Yeah, keep telling yourself that
>Notice a couple objects that are seemingly floating in mid air
>Unpleasant dripping noises
>Shine lamp-pack in that direction, but don't really want to
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SSSSSSHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTT
>Hear screams and vomiting behind me
>Notice strange glowing green lines crackle to existence
>Oh no, its.......

>>68137772
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Drop off Lherzon, the Eldar, the cogboy, and the tankers at various locations of their choosing
>Normally would have tried to suck up to someone like Lherzon a bit more, but way to jittery after almost getting killed by those Iron Warriors
>At least he got my contact info in order to get my staff car fixed
>Time to go back to the company HQ, get Chastity to pick the broken glass out of my hair, then take a shower to get the vomit off my chest
>Chastity is super pumped up on adrenaline and won't shut up about how awesome and amazing the Imperial Fists were and how they truly are the Emperor's Angels
>Even ordering her to be quiet doesn't work, so in the end I tell her to stop the staff car so I can walk the rest of the way home
>There better be a promotion with my name on it for putting up with this

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>>68136009
>>68138557
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Didn't realize my walk would take me this close to the Governor's Spire
>Someone really ought to do something about that place
>Pretty sure most of the Chaos forces left in the city use that as their HQ
>But for some reason the Inquisition hasn't let anyone go near it despite how long we have been in possession of the city for
>Speaking of which, shouldn't there be someone guarding the place so no one can get in or out?
>Notice some of the entrances to the building are glowing red, melting the supposedly warp proof chains right off the handles
>nope-nope-nopeity-nope
>Good thing there is about 300 meters of plaza between me and the building
>Notice the entrances to several other buildings nearby are also glowing red, including the one right next to me
>Thatisjustnotfair.vox
>Start running to safety as fast as I can
>All the glowing doors burst outwards simultaneously, releasing daemons and warpspawn of every shape and size imaginable
>Naturally the ones closest to me are all daemonettes
>Flip vox-bead to command frequency and start yelling "ALERT!! MAJOR DAEMON EXCURSION AT THE GOVERNOR'S PLAZA!!" over and over again
>The small part of my brain that isn't overwhelmed with terror questions how it is fair that I have been chased by daemonettes at least a dozen different times on four different planets
>Do I have a please try and bone me sign stuck to my back or something?

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>>68140175
>>68138557
>Be Ex-Imperial pilot Antonius now retinue of the inquisitor Lupanarium
>I am given a lesson about survival on the field by the scions
>I think that now I have a chance to pass the fifteen hours
>Well It was fine until our vox-officer recived distress signal from the governor spire
>Sudden common feel of weariness
>Even the inquisitor is sighting
>See an old car used by two guardswomen one seems an officer from the aristocracy
>Maybe we can politly ask them to handicap us the car
>We don't have time for this!
>"BY THE ORDER OF THE INQUISITION DRIVE US TO THE GOVERNOR SPIRE NOW ! IT'S A ORDER TROOPER! "
>I'm getting good at this !

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>GOOOOOOOD MORNING, GROXBRIDGE!
>Hello again ladies, gentlemen, and any xenos who happen to be listening!
>It's yer favourite radio host Jackson here, again with the NEWS and WEATHER
>We start with reports that are trickin' in of a failed assassination attempt on several leaders
>Dunno what these fools were thinkin', those leaders got where they were by being tough as nails
>Anyhow, we also have some breaking reports of an alleged daemonic incursion in the town centre
>We've been assured the local Imperial forces have it well in hand
>The SkyEye is on its way, and we should have visual in a few minutes so stay tuned
>Now, the weather!
>Temperatures continue to fall as that sou'easter we've been trackin' for a few days gets closer
>It's almost on us people, so I hope yer prepared for it
>The experts over at MeteoImp reckon it'll drop up to a foot of snow over the next few hours
>The temperature is predictin' highs of up to two degrees and as low as minus four for the rest of the day
>And to all of our new residents, remember it's just the start of the storm season now
>This bad boy will look like a tiddler compared to what we'll get in the comin' months, one after another
>Make sure yer all stocked up on canned stuff and warm clothes and have plenty of credit on that heatin' bill
>Sandbags also come recommended for when all that snow melts in the spring
>This is J of GRN, now it's time for some MUZAK
>I dug up this ancient record in a pile of old Terran music on sale, dunno what it is but I hope it's a good one
>[Clicks and thumps as rummaging is heard in the background]
>[California Dreaming starts to play]

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>>68136898
>>68140175
>Be me, Tank Commander Hans Heinrich Hochberg
>I managed to get the imperial fists with me to go get those Iron warriors off of the command staff's back
>"Can you operate this vehicle?"
>God damn right I can
>Don't know if this truck will work though
>Ah fuck it, might as well try
>Hit the pavement, drive down the street at max speed
>Make a couple tight turns, but eventually reach the Eldar quarters
>Managed to regain my breath, have to stop the truck though since it was low on gas
>"That's as far as we can go, lets move!"
>Astartes disembark, give the truck owner some throne gelt and combat roll out myself
>Rush over to Master of Skitarii as the Boltguns of the Imperial fists roar to life, more joining in as I move
>Can see Sigmas refractor shield on its way to get overloaded, one of the Iron warriors armed with an Autocannon seemingly intent on blowing his mechanicus-brain out
>As the Iron warrior opens fire, leap through the air and slam into Sigma with the entire weight of my body pushing him down
>Fucking ow that hurt
>Manage to take him out of the Autcannons line of fire, can see the Autocannon tearing through the cover Sigma was just at
>I'm fairly certain that would have overloaded his refractor shield and tore him a new asshole, making their assassination attempt a success
>I don't think I've broken anything, but fuck did that hurt
>Iron warriors realise their mistake and start trying to retreat down the tunnel they came from, a good thing too since I'm pretty sure that we would've been giblets if they stayed any longer
>Get off of Sigma and help him to his feet
>By Jarricks baneblade, Sigma is heavy
>I guess that's why Oswald's so strong since he has to carry techy around sometimes
>itsnotgayifitsyourcrewmate.nohomo
>Pile into a new vehicle, get back to what we were doing
>Suddenly hear mention of a chaos incursion near the one spire we just don't talk about
>Diederichsfacewhen
>"Guess we're blowing up daemons again then huh?"

>>68135730
Gotta say, the map is coming around pretty nicely. We should make sure there's plenty of space for farmland though, since this is supposed to be an Agri world after all, though we can assume from the name that "Rannoch Garden" is where a fair amount of the farming takes place.

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>>68137772
>>68140175
>>68142605
>Be Rogue Trader Stannim Lherzon
>The metro line to Groxbridge South is still out, so I have to go to Groxbridge North
>It's currently the westwards terminus of the line for Tau-related reasons
>Can't we just run them over?
>They fall over with a poke to the face, much less a train
>Much of the line through Groxbridge is elevated
>The train is busy, so I have to settle down in a carriage full of Sororitas going to Quario via Shannox
>At least they stay relatively quiet and don't jabber on their hand-voxes all the way
>As the bridge crosses onto Wapper Island, the Governor's tower comes into view
>There's gunfire coming from the plaza next to the line and what can only be a rainbow of daemons running around
>The Sororitas take one look and yank the emergency stop so hard it snaps off
>WhatAreYouDoingYouFools.zealotry
>They smash out of windows and force doors open, jumping onto rooftops and charging towards the enemy, yelling and brandishing their meltaguns
>Soon I'm the only one in the now freezing, windowless car
>So much for the dry season, it's started to snow heavily, and this time it's actually settling on the ground
>Realise we're stopped in an elevated position in full sight of the daemons
>Slowly back away from the window and hope they don't see us through the snow
>I hate trains

>>68143799
Yeah, I was a bit afraid of overurbanisation (if it was just me designating the places, I would have left the Liverius side with just Grimhedge, Liveria and St.Jan. I could just imagine the area around Lake Liverius area to be especially densely populated, and Carnak being a port at least 20km off the top of the current map with nothing in between but fields.

I imagine the world as more of an agriculture-leaning Imperial World rather than a dedicated agri-world, since if it was the latter then it would dispense with urban centres entirely and be just fields and fields and fields with a total planetary population probably less than the sum of what's on the map. Given it has (at least, in theory) especially rich soils, it could just be that it can afford to allocate a bit more land to other uses than normal.

The place names don't really mean much, I just named them as the first things that came into my head, being a mix of naming in honour of existing fictional locations (if you squint, you might be able to tell what the places are referencing), altered IRL places and just random plausible-sounding words. How many can you tell? I could list them if you want to be spoilered.

And it reminds me, I need to get to work on the city map. I'll make it as small-scale as is practical (I'm thinking 1px=2m, filesize permitting).

>>68144056
The area north of Liveria and Grimhelm might be nothing but farmland for maybe, I dunno, 25kms, after which Carnak acts as a little way station up towards North Point. I imagine Lake Liverius has a tendancy to overflow during the rainy season, so it'd make sense why a fair amount of the Farmland in the region streatches up north. Liveria might have massive flood walls or something since it sits directly on the banks of the lake, same thing goes for greater St. Jan (except on the outskirts of the area).
North point might be a military installation to make the possible ace combat refrence complete, either that or a resort for the planetary nobles who like the cold better than the never-ending summer rain.

Hopefully we've got most of the major population centers down so that we don't need to insert more. Some geographical features can of course be added in by other anons but honestly, I think we've got enough on the map for the time being. I want to see that city map and the prow of a god damn battleship rammed into the plaza. Shit's gonna be great, man.

>>68144056
Oh, by the way same drill as last time. I have some idea about where a few things will be, but suggestions on things you want to see marked round the city are very welcome.

I had to drop the scale to 1px = 2.5m to get it within the 8MB(?) limit, and it might get bigger as the detail increases the filesize.

>>68144056
>>68144613
Judging by the disbursed distribution of the population, I imagine that this is region has been settled for a while. It started out with lots of small farming communities packed relatively close together, suggesting that wide spread access to motor/rail transportation wasn't available at the time. Then as the region became wealthier and more industrialized Groxbridge and Liveria became major industrial and commercial centers for the surrounding regions, while the nearby communities took on specialized roles like being quiet havens for the elite, quarantine areas for particularly polluting industries, residential areas for medium sized mines, quarries, or labour intensive agriculture, etc.

But yeah, if you zoom out enough, you should find that the region is surrounded by massive tracts of farmland, possibly mixed in with mines, oil fields, or other primary resource gathering infrastructure. Farms will always take up far more space then the industrial spaces that support it.

>>68144613
Possible ideas for city map:
- Governor's Plaza / Spire
- Routes of the metro line
-Neighborhood names
- Regimental/Company HQs (Happy Enders and Praetorians are mostly located in the nice parts of town, Risians tend to get the worst parts of town, not sure about the Cadians, Armageddons, Kriegers, Tallarn, Mordant, and others that may or may not still be in the area)
- AdMech and Imperial Fist HQs

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For the graphics, I'm aiming for an Ordnance Survey-like aesthetic, which I have the privilege of having full access to so I can see how it "should" be done, and it should resemble pic related (less cluttered ofc, I can't manage THAT much detail)

>>68145197
Sounds good to me

>>68145482
All definitely going on. For most of the year the winds blow to the SSE, so the heavy industry and bad neighbourhoods are on that side of town and the posh stuff is on the other side with everything in between.

By the way., I'm hoping the reason for the dearth of shitposting is because our amerifriends are at work.

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>>68140175
>>68140671
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Spot a car in the distance
>I am saved!!!
>Wait, its my own staff car, Chastity must have not driven it back to HQ as ordered, and instead parked it out in the middle of no where to get her emotions together after surviving her first combat experience
>Hop in car, order her to drive as far away as possible
>Get about two blocks before a couple of Inquisitorial Storm Troopers show up, commandeer our vehicle, and order us to take them back to the the Governor's Spire
>Fuck my life
>Barely manage to keep my shit together and order Chastity to comply with their request
>Inside my emotions are like pic related

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>>68145197
>>68145767
Considering that the planet was first colonized by the necrontyr, possibly saw action during the war in heaven and ended up as an Eldar Exodite world, it's possible that it was first settled by Humans during the dark age of technology. Though, if that's the case, it's surprising that it isn't a mostly post-apocalyptic hellscape.
If it wasn't first settled during the Dark age of Tech it was likely built on the ruins of Eldar/Necrontyr cities, though the structural integrity of these civilised areas had likely largely degraded by the time Humans came to colonize the planet.
It is possible, however, that if the planet was colonized by Eldar exodites, then taken over by the Imperium, that the architecture might reflect some of its Eldar heritage. Think classic imperial Gothic architecture with more obellisks, standing stones and stone buildings in general.

If there was a tomb complex near Groxbridge, we can almost certainly assume that the Exodites would have some form of fortress there, or somewhere else nearby. This fortress likely got fuckin' merc'd by either the Imperium or the Necrons on the planet partially awaking and then going back to sleep (likely the latter), and soon after (we can assume) the Imperium began colonizing the planet. It's possible that Groxbridge was a founding city while other cities were built later on and expanded upon (like Liveria and Greater St. Jan).

I've got to wonder though, how many exodites are there actually on Lutum?

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>>68140671
>>68142605
>>68145929
>Be Ex-Imperial pilot Antonius now retinue of the inquisitor Lupanarium
>As we are driven closer to the governor spire we stumble across the inquisitor and the rest of the retinue
>Aka the inquisitor, the tech-priest,that psyker, and the four last scions tempestor included
>"Stop right here you have new passenger"
>They both look at me as we get off the car, salutr our lord and tell him out intention
>Good, they were heading the same way
>The inquisitor, psyker and tempestor take the back sit and one of the scions with the copilot are now in the back of the car while the rest of us hold on thé brocken windows outside the car like pic related
>Lupanarium is a bad mood due to the fact that the local radio transmitted about the daemon invasion
>Let'snottalktooloudidontwanttopisshimoffforgood.survive
>The vox-officer whisper that the officer next the driver had the same voice with the woman who screamed wolf about the daemons few hours earlier
>I don't know what to do and I am scared about it

>>68147555
Last thread when I was writing my histories of a few of the towns I invented (archived in thread #3 on suptg), I stated that it was initially colonised in the DAoT with Liamhelm, and then recolonised during the Great Crusade with the other towns being settled at varying points in the millennia since. I think Bellisario's Maxim applies, though.

I reckon the local swamp has a few hundred Exodites (it's over 60sqkm and that's just what's on the screen in a tiny corner of the world), and across the planet there might be millions living in fragments like the swamp or uninhabited (by humans) regions on a live-and-let-live basis

>>68148427
Oh, I think I may have forgotten that. In that case we might see some definite architectural similarities in the ruins of Liamhelm to exodites cities on other worlds. Just like the war criminals we are, we blew a precious piece of unique architecture to bits with fire and brimstone in order to exterminate Xenos. That's the most imperial guard thing ever and brings a tear to my eye with its sheer beauty.

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>>68113304

>be me heretek of the bone collectors
>as the eldar have been leaving their wraithbone around,i had a chance to poke it with my tools
>is surprising how can you bend it with the help of psy-crystals even if you arent a psyker
>maybe the trader will like to buy my blueprints?,this material is strong as hell

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>>68143804
>Be Sister Bios of the Order of the Martyred Lady
>Our Palatine is still away at Harris' trial, so we've not had any missions for a while
>We're being sent west to Quario for Emperor knows what
>Hopefully the weather is nicer there
>And we might even get some combat, we're all bored stiff of this "peace" thing
>Reassignment journeys on transport are excellent places for meditation and prayer
>Look up out the window as the train rattles past the rooftops through the snow
>Next to the line is a plaza that is...full...of...DAEMONS!
>These foul creatures must be removed from existence THIS INSTANT!
>Yank the red handle like Canoness Valka grabs heretical propaganda
>Me and some three dozen other Sisters crash out of the carriage and charge towards the fighting
>It's a good day to burn some Chaos filth!
>Our flamers will make short work of this snow as well
>Why do we travel in full armour and armed, anyway?
>Ah well. A Sister's work is never done.
>To battle!

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>Be Sigma-32d, Master of Skitarii
>Ow my third plastrum plate
>Thanks for the save Hochberg, that was a bit tight
>Stopped off at the armoury in the Admech district for new heat sinks and picked up my power axe, since apparently I cannot go one night awake without getting attacked by fucking Astartes.
>Got the Kriegers some shinier armour plate and refractor fields, partly as a thank you, partly because Hochberg did ask and partly because we appear to all be prime targets.
>Leaving for the main "Command Building", which is mostly built into the side of the old battleship prow to take advantage of all the armour
>Town tannoy starts blaring
>"Incursion, Incursion". "Incursion, Incursion".
>"Warp Phenomena in Sector 4A, Gamma Grade".
>There was not this wide a variety of nonsense attacking us back on fucking Konor, and there were two Primarchs there. What the hell is wrong with this planet?
>OK, fuck frontlining this one, I am done taking punches to the face
>"Hochberg, do you have enough room in your tank for me to stash away somewhere? Could use the armour and the comms power"
>Activate Tactical Cogitator, start gathering the scattered Skitarii patrols in and around the town into full clades and plotting intercept routes with the Guard armour beginning to roll out of the main compound
>Several datafeeds from the area around the central spire have gone dark already or started spewing scrapcode and were isolated
>Iron Warriors did us a favour there, if they hadn't attacked there's no way the tanks would have been crewed and rolling this quickly.

>>68149068
Exodites only started to crop up in M30, so if it was settled during the DAoT, it would have been settled by humans. It's not inconceivable the Exodites could have taken over for a while before being turfed out, but they didn't build it. Since it was reclaimed during the GC, the Exodites wouldn't have had much time to establish themselves before being relegated to the dark corners of the world.

>>68145767

Really looking forward to this map, anon. Those and the excellent little photoshops make this thread like the third thing I check every time I get up or leave work, even if we are a bit slow this time around.

>>68149551
Oh, and an addendum. Liamhelm hasn't been destroyed, but it's been in a long and drawn-out but inexorable decline for several millennia (basically Spess Detroit) as Groxbridge stole its thunder and its reasons for existing winked out. It's poor, the population is but a fraction of what is once was and large sections of the city are abandoned or returned to farmland.

>>68149594
Thanks, I enjoy making them and I'm glad other people enjoy them too,

>>68149551
Ah shit you're right, so timeline is as follows:

Indestructible bident dumping ground --> Necrontyr colony --> War in heaven --> Necron tomb --> DAoT human colony --> Exodite world --> Imperial world with Exodites --> Giant chaotic battlefield

>>68150579
Yup, sounds about right to me. Probably a very minor Necrontyr colony, since it wasn't completely fucked over and there's not a bajillion of them swarming everything.

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>>68149503
>Be me, Tank Commander Hans Heinrich Hochberg
>Lady's properly fired up, crew's already in and I've gotten myself a cuirass coupled with a refractor shield
>More than I asked for, but appreciated none the less
>Diederich got one too, he'll be commandeering Anshelms vehicle though
>Because Anshelm isn't here for reasons that are completely normal and won't get me executed if I ever mention them
>As I'm climbing into my command hatch, get a question from Sigma
>Asks me if my lady has any extra space for him to stash away in
>lean in and whisper "She can hear you y'know"
>Get a confused look from Sigma before he hears the sound of my baneblade revving up her engine a bit flustered
>"I think that's a yes, get comfortable in the command suite"
>Sigma seems a bit uncomfortable but gets in with me anyway, roll down the street with Diederich technically under my command and squad in toe
>Volgatov still has his vehicle in repair, Kirchenbach will be joining us from the other side of the plaza with his squadron though
>Diederich on my left flank, Johannes on my right, keep the formation a bit spacious so that we can all fire and so that we aren't running over any civilians
>Baneblade's blasting its horn at any civvies in the way to get the fuck out of it, completely on her own too
>Can hear Sigma becoming audibly concerned, Techy turns and gives him an empathic look
>Eventually reach the Plaza
>Stand up out of Command hatch
>Holy fuck that is a lot of Daemons
>Raise chainsword and rev it up
>"Time. To. Rampage!"
>Spread out a bit wider so that everyone can, at least, fire their main guns
>Can hear Sigma contacting other Skitarii units in the area
>Point at one of the larger Daemons with chainsword
>"Fire! FIRE! OPEN UP WITH EVERYTHING WE'VE GOT!"
>mfw sisters of battle run out of the metro system and open fire at the Daemons

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>>68151129
>Be Sigma-32d
>What on Mars and Terra is up with the Machine Spirit of this tank
>Had thought maybe some Reductor Cognis-Engine concept, but the strategium seems to only be equipped with the normal Baneblade equipment
>Onboard techpriest does not seem inclined to explain
>No matter, it will suffice
>Engage cogitator linkage, couple dataspike to onboard communications equipment. Disengage motive functions.
>Body goes slack in data-harness, occasional flicker of green in optical implants and data-blurt aside

>Skitarii escort formations, closing on Category Gamma-Tau-Six Empyric Dysjunction
>Enemy forms observed up to Heretek Majoris levels
>Infantry battle maniples at 73% optimal containment strength, forming firing lines
>Designate-objective: Hold the Plaza
>Designate-secondary: Safeguard the Omnissiah's Armoured Squadrons

>~~~# Noospheric Connection Established #
>~~~# Doctrina Imperatives Loaded #
>~~~# Ave Omnissiah - Sing Praise to the God of All Machines #

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBEUwkvNbks

>Welcome to a more terrestrial hell, warpspawn.
>Open Fire.

>be former pig shit farmer, now Archbishop of The Church of The Emperor's Holy Gifts
>a lot has changed in the past few months
>first is that my church has finally been recognized as a official sect of the imperial cult
>second, I no longer smell like pig shit and turnips
>third is that I'm no longer some pleb. I have a decent hair cut, good hygiene and a spire all form my self now.
>fourth is that since the governor has been arrested for heresy, I am now the 'acting governor' of this world
>be currently in my archbishop's spire
>currently looking over important documents: number of converts this month, donations this month and the progress on the construction of my church's Grand Cathedral and etc
>also be looking over reports on the cities occupied by the Tau, be also planing how my militia will assist in the recapture and conversion of its populace
>my aide knocks on my door
>its a little annoying to be interrupted but I summon him in anyways
>there has been an incursion of traitor astartes and daemons have suddenly appeared in the plaza
>notinmycity.vox
>go on the city intercom and call my holy militia to arms
>order the PDF to open the armories of them
>tell my aide to get my crusader armor, my power axe, and my storm shield

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>>68152331
//By the way, this is on the elevated main surface line running through the city, not in the metro
>Be Rogue Trader Stannim Lherzon
>It's freezing in this stopped car
>Snow is blowing in the broken windows and settling in the brim of my hat
>Damn those Sisters and their rabid willingness to break things
>Get a textvox message marked as "trade" from an unknown number, I'll deal with you later
>Noises of battle drift up from the plaza
>Sounds like some very heavy armour down there
>Risk a peek above the windowsill to have a look
>A number of heavy AdMech units and Imperial armour are firing, including a Baneblade
>Those Sisters better not run right into the barrage, as I imagine they would be very willing to do
>Hm, that tank seems to be aiming a little high
>What does it think it is, a Basilisk?
>Basilisks aren't frontline tanks
>In fact, I could swear it's pointed straight.....at.....
>Duck down
>BOOOOOOOM
>With a thunderous roar, every remaining window in the carriage is blown in
>The entire train is lifted up and shunted off the side of the elevated track by the blast of a shell impacting the structure
>Have flashbacks to the shuttle crash, except this time there's no Ogryn to hold on to
>Carriages rain down onto the street several metres below
>I'm bruised, but mostly unhurt, don't know about the rest of the passengers
>Through a gaping hole in the roof, a Bloodletter appears in a shop window across the street
>Ah, fuck
>Give me a break, universe
>Raise the old hellpistol again

>>68152331
>Skitarii firing lines mark targets, sight and fire the first volley of galvanic rounds within millisecond tolerances, sending warpforms staggering and flickering back from the charging front line.
>Second and third volleys follow in quick succession, although their effect is limited compared to the thunder of the Guard tanks opening great rents in the enemy line and sending shrapnel and dirt clattering from Skitarii battle plate as one of the rounds goes high and smashes a a railway car clean from the tracks
>Body of Sigma jerks and stiffens in harness as input from half a thousand data-feeds, target analyses and combat unit performance analyses course through cognis-shunts and scrapcode buffers, filtering and refining into percentages, kill tallies, recalibrations.
>Warpfire flickers and courses over the Imperial line at each of the square entrances as the gibbering, hissing forms screech their displeasure, swallowing the front rank of Martians in a blaze of reflected light and melting and crackling at the armour on the frontmost tanks
>A second blurt of binharic feeds target priority to heavy weapons teams scattered on roofs, in windows and tucked behind hulked vehicles, light show cutting off as transuranic rounds blast through warpspawn false-flesh and the howling groan of Eradication Beamers turn 30ft cones of cobblestone and dirt to molten or red-hot hell.
>Firestorm blinds nearly every sensor pointed at the conflagration momentarily, heavy bolter rounds cooking off midflight as the front rank of Martians drop to one knee and reload.
>Daemon advance wavers and fractures as the Baneblade blasts a second main gun shell into the enemy centre, then slows and reforms as larger, coruscating forms tear themselves from the tower doors behind them, warpfire crackling off translucent staffs and blades and wings taller than a battle tank.
>Mechanicus readings fluctuate, unsure
>Battle Sisters are less exacting.
>"Daemon Princes!"
>"Burn! Purge! Cleanse!"

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>>68153256
>Be Sister Bios
>The battle to cleanse the city of the Warp's foul creatures is going well
>I myself am carrying a Heavy Flamer to incinerate the Emperor's enemies with
>I could almost say it's fun to coat inhuman enemies in burning promethium
>Especially the Slaaneshi ones, they're really creepy and EXTRA heretical
>Funnily enough, given what just happened behind us, charging into battle may have increased our chances of survival
>Though, as a Sororitas, such trivial things don't really concern me
>A few of the cogboys have seen the value of thermal based weapons as well, it seems
>With armour support, the tide of warpspawn is slowly being turned back (or, rather, boiled off)
>Inching over the plaza towards the tower at the centre of this mess
>Burning daemons all the way with the beautiful weapon
>Sister Peasu is swinging away with a chainsword while Sister Dapter hammers away gleefully with a bolter
>posterchildren.fuckyeah
>What can only be not one, but two Daemon Princes begin to emerge at the back of the Chaos horde
>Sister Superior Kaybord starts yelling about how they deserve to die like the rest, and if it's got a body, we can kill it with fire
>I can get behind that - I am already, in fact
>The cogboys have stopped
>What are you waiting for, indolent Martian fools? Keep going!
>Flick snow out of my hair and refill the flamer as I get ready to charge again
>In the name of the Emperor, you shall be burned back to the hell whence you came!

>>68147583
>>68151129
>>68153256
>>68154463
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Drop off the Inquisitorial Warband close to the Daemonic Incursion
>Get told to stay nearby in case they need a quick escape route
>Well that is just great
>Tempted to leave Chastity in the car while I commandeer another vehicle and head back to Company HQ to rally my company, but that seems a bit selfish, even for me
>Also, when dealing with the Inquisition, following their orders as literally as possible is generally the safest option
>Luckily none of the rampaging daemons approach the car, and eventually Admech, Sisters, and Armageddon forces show up to help stem the incursion
>Surprised that the Inquisition is finally letting regular guardsmen near the Spire, check if my own regiment has been mobilized
>It has, sucks to be them, fighting daemons is not on the top of any experienced Guardsmen's list of favorite opponents to fight
>Lucky for me though
>Get in touch with my company and order them to fortify my position
>Figure the Inquisition will be happier knowing that a whole company of men and women is guarding their escape vehicle
>Sure there are lots of other vehicles at the scene now that would make much better escape routes, but who knows what goes through the minds of the Inquisition
>Feeling a bit more confident about my situation now
>Though it is merely an upgrade from "emotional wreck" to "extremely anxious"

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>>68147583
>>68151129
>>68153032
>>68153149
>>68154463
>>68155960
>Be Ex-Imperial pilot Antonius now retinue of the inquisitor Lupanarium
>As soon as we are dropped Lupanarium start giving order
>He wants a command team and a "searching team" to find who declared thé daemons invasion and who summoned them
>Thank Emperor for I am in the search team with the vox-officer and the psyker
>District all around thé governor spire is a mess
>Sister of battle, Baneblades, skitariis and a militia made of regular citizen
>And we didn't talk about the destruction of the district
>Asks every leader that we can find to capture a cultist ALIVE
>The local bishop look at us weirdly but agree
>I think he will do a fine replacement for the dead governor
>Where is now this captain who drive us here
>Weirdly at this thought we all take a more serious face

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I'd make a terrible DJ, I forgot to actually put the song on last time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZULM69DIw

>HEEEELLLLOOOO AGAIN GROXBRIDGE!
>And welcome back ladies, gentlemen and xenos!
>I hope you enjoyed that old classic, I certainly did
>Now, we go to SkyEye for a live report on the battle in the centre of town!
>SkyEye is normally our traffic copter, but it works just as well for battle reporting
>How's it looking down there, Frank?
>"Well, Jackson, I can see INTENSE fighting in Governor Square"
>"Forces from the Adeptus Mechanicus, Astra Militarum armoured division and a squad of Battle Sisters have TURNED UP to contain the creatures"
>"They appear to be holding their own vs the enemy, and have even made some pushback"
>Thanks Frank, how does the area look now with all the battle going on?
>"The square and surroundings have taken a BATTERING, people"
>"There's not a SINGLE intact window for a large radius, and the buildings around the square are fulla holes"
>"A stray round clobbered the railway as well, hope none of y'all were planning on using it anytime soon"
>"Oh, and-and-and two HUGE CREATURES just appeared!"
>"I don't know what they are, but they're massive and look dangerous!"
>Right, keep us updated, Frank!
>For now though, it's time for the other side of that record. I hope it's apropros.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HkJHApgKqw]

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>>68159887
>be Tolria, self-proclaimed Exarch of Alaitoc
>....where am I?
>Ah yes, this is my house
>I last remember being in the pub with a glass of amasec
>How did I get here and what happened?
>My head feels like a Banshee is screeching at me, and it's a damn good thing the curtains are closed
>There's a note here, from Stannim it seems
>Apparently I got blind drunk, involved in a bar fight and tripped out from a bad drug reaction while some Iron Warriors were attempting to assassinate me
>Pity I can't remember any of that happening, sounds like it was quite the adventure
>Flick on the radio
>News guy is reporting on a battle with daemons going on in the town centre
>I need some fresh air, going to watch it will be a nice step outside
>I'll need to bring my warm coat, and bring my weaponry and armour in case it goes hot
>Can't intervene though, else the Sororitas will turn me into a xeno-candle
>Dammit, I left my jetbike at the pub, I hope it's still there
>Eleria isn't picking up, so I ask Kerala to borrow hers
>She agrees, but insists on coming along to make sure I don't damage the paint
>You and your fancy paint jobs
>That's something immature 110-year-olds are supposed to do, not Farseers
>I need some painkillers

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>>68154463
>>68153256
>>68157786
>Be me, Armageddon Tank Commander Hans Heinrich Hochberg
>Skitarii have pulled up guns blazing, fire pouring into the Daemons
>Suddenly, Daemon princes!
>Well fuck
>Despite Daemons laying into the front ranks and attempting to fuck up the skitarii I can't focus my fire away from those two things
>Secondary gun lays into the enemy while Karsten focus' fire at the front-most Daemon prince
>Tell Hermann to shoot at the daemons coming at the Skitarii in front of and around us
>Diederich is moving Anshelm’s Leman Russ up
>Oh no
>Pop out of Command hatch, yell at Diederich to for the love of the god emperor not ram Anshelms tank into the Daemon Prince
>"You're going to compromise the firing line!"
>Diederich suddenly stops his tank
>Despite wanting to sacrifice himself for the God Emperor, I think he too understands the tactical mistake it would be to ram through the firing line
>Instead, watch him LEAP OUT OF ANSHELMS TANK AND RUSH AT THE DAEMONS
>See Anshelms tactical officer pops his head out of the tank
>He yells "DIEDERICH NO!"
>Diederich yells back "DIEDERICH YES"
>ohshitwaffenbruderwhatareyoudoing.stop
>Diederich is a surprisingly good swordfighter, those Bionics and that refractor shield seems to have made him pretty effective
>Then again, he's also a nobleman so it's safe to say that he picked up a couple duelling tricks some years back
>Surprisingly enough he acts absolutely nothing like a nobleman, but that's kriegers for you
>I'm not gonna abandon my lady though, love her far too much to do that while we're in combat
>She's also very, VERY starved of combat and I don't want her to destroy this entire plaza on a rampage
>As I'm ordering Josef to fire his Macharius into the front-most Daemon prince, see Anshelm rushing down a nearby alleyway
>His shirt is open, his belt is halfway undone and he's got red lipstick kissmarks all over his cheeks, mouth and neck
>For fucks sake man do you WANT us to get executed!?
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>>68163663
>Ah well, at least nobody suspects they're from a xeno... yet
>"By the throne what is-"
>"GET IN YOUR GOD-EMPEROR-DAMNED LEMAN RUSS NOW ANSHELM!"
>Watch him buckle up his belt and rush to his tank, climbing inside as quickly as possible
>Diederich is holding his own surprisingly well, fighting by the side of the sororitas
>Space marines also joined in a while ago, one squad blasting the daemons from the other side of the Plaza which Kirchenbach arrived to some moments ago
>Suddenly, see a rhino pull up and disgorge what I think is an imperial fist space marine command squad
>One standrad bearer, two veteran space marines, one apothecary with a big chainsword, a veteran sergeant with a power sword and plasma pistol, and what I think is a company champion
>Leading them is a pretty big space marine clad in what I think is called "artificer armour" and holding a thunder hammer with both hands
>That must be the "Captain Maluan" Lieutenant Paulicus mentioned a while back
>Their chaplain rushes up next to him soon after their arrival followed by a group of space marines with jump packs and melee weaponry landing next to them
>Maluan and his space marines immediately begin laying into the enemy horde, Daemons flying around in bits and pieces as they advance
>Champion rushes up toward the front most Daemon prince, order everyone firing on it to instead shoot the one further away
>Captain slowly hews his way toward the middle of the horde
>See him crushing one of the daemons and then turning toward my squad and the Mechanicus units around us
>"The emperor of mankind wills that you obliterate the enemy this day, stand firm or take the path of heresy."
>Watch him continue his advance through the Daemons, Chaplin and command squad in toe
>I'm still not sure that we can stem the tide of Daemons
>Maybe the spire itself is what's acting as the portal?
>I'd ask Sigma to direct fire at it but he appears to be busy

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By the way, work on the map is still going on in the background, though I'll be a while since it's a huge task. Complicated highway junctions take time to create and detail up to OS standard, but I should be moving onto the streets proper soon.

Pic related is an example of the sort of level of detail the map will have (WIP, streets and buildings yet to be added). That image is ~800m across and comprises about a third of a percent of the map.

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>>68165608
This is probably gonna be looking pretty good if that's any indication of what's to come.

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I've been out for some time, when did this cancer begin?

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>>68165608
Incredible Anon !

Bumperino

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>>68153032
>>68153149
>Be Rogue Trader Stannim Lherzon
>I'm in a bit of a bind again
>There's daemons fucking everywhere
>I've capped a few, but they're really slippery and there's always more of them
>Now the Bloodletters are closing in on the wreckage
>Could be worse, could be daemonettes
>Gunfire comes sporadically from other carriages too
>The battle in the main square is hotting up from the sounds of it
>Suddenly, the sound of a lot of feet and shouting comes from a nearby side street
>The daemons turn round, and are promptly ripped apart in a hail of autogun fire
>Hundreds of civilians brandishing weapons of all kinds, led by some shouting priest, storm past on their way to the plaza
>The cavalry is here, and it is in the nick of time
>Am I glad to see you lot
>Still, I need to get out of here
>I know just the fastest way to escape and how to get to Muddy Bottom now the train is out
>Call up Danarius, who is somewhere back in Brannet
>Can you pick me up in the shuttle, mate?

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>>68165815
The first highly popular greentext thread started back in March 2018
They have become gradually less popular since then but a fairly small group of hardcore writefags do their best to keep the tradition alive
Damnatum Lutum threads started a few months ago and are somewhat unique since they blend greentext story posts with world building

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>>68154463
>>68163704
>Be Sister Bios
>Daemon Princes are large, aren't they?
>Still, their large size puts them at a disadvantage when facing ME
>There's a reason I was selected to carry a heavy flamer, and that's because I can MOVE with it.
>And thanks to that, I can run rings around this abomination while hosing it down with nice, cleansing promethium
>Shells hit it occasionally, and it's slowly being cooked semi-alive
>Sister Haydidi gets a bit cocky, and the abomination punts her across the plaza
>We didn't bring a Hospitaller, so she'll have to tough it out
>As the beast burns and roars gloriously, thrashing around, Peasu takes the advantage
>Leaping onto its back, she quickly scales its armour and grabs onto its horns
>Her chainsword bites into the eye of the abomination, and it roars again
>As the beast staggers and slowly slumps over, as a last act its claw smashes into Peasu, still clinging to its horn
>No! Not Peasu!
>Not so stoic now
>Before the foul creature has even finished crashing to the ground, I'm at Peasu's side
>She's in a bad way, with severe blunt force trauma to the legs and chest
>You better not die on me now, I've known you since even before the Progenium
>As the fire focuses on the remaining Prince, I'm running off to find an Apothecary in the Guard ranks
>They're no Hospitallers, but I'll be damned if I let her die

Also poke poke, people. We haven't seen Sammos or our Risian friend for a couple of days now either.

>be former pig shit farmer, now Archbishop of The Church of The Emperor's Holy Gifts
>me and my flock have engaged in HOLY combat against the foul daemons
>fuckinghatedaemons.disgust
>has we charge into battle we save a beleaguered rogue trader
>he asks me if I can summon a shuttle
>I raise an eye brow at this
>but he is a rogue trader and has special privileges so I do too
>make sure to get his Vox number and astropath info
>I could use him as source of weapons for my militia, that and I can buy materials for my grad cathedral from him

>>68170776
Side note for clarification - Danarius is Stannim's pilot from prev threads, and his shuttle (now without a ship to shuttle to) is hangared at the spaceport.

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>Be Ruprecht Eckhart, Scout Bike Captain
>The Armies of the Infernal Warp itself flood the streets of Groxbridge
>Although my tanker comrades destroy thousands, and mobs of PDF and Guard infantry plug many of the main streets leading from the Plaza, hundreds more of the abominations slip through the cracks to spread death and destruction through the streets
>Another officer voxs in that several dozen daemons are using the elevated metro lines to escape further into the city
>THISWILLNOTSTAND.vox
>Rally the other members of my bike squad and order them to form a wedge formation in order to run down the pacts of daemons roaming the streets
>Unfortunately, I must leave them, only a biker of exceptional skill can perform the maneuver I have planned
>Use an elevated parking garage to jump bike onto metro tracks
>Drive on one side of tracks, crushing daemons or knocking off the side of the tracks
>Use chainsword to hack down any daemons that try to bypass me by staying on the other side of the tracks
FOR THE EMPEROR!!!

>>68136009
>>68170502
>Be Trooper Monica Jernwick, 78th Risian Light Infantry
>Come to a sewage overflow outlet leading to the River Grox
>Yah! Safe at last!
>Squeeze through bars of the grate, then drop down into the frigid, but clean(ish) water
>It is only about two feet deep, so lie down in it and let the water wash several hours of accumulated dried sewage from my hair, clothes, and skin
>"Accidently" knock the broken gas mask from my face, and enjoy the sweet smell of rotting fish and spilled fuel I usually associate with the river
>Grudgingly help remove the grate so that my more thickly built squadmates can also escape the sewers
>After much stumbling around in the river, we eventually find a ladder leading back up to street level
>About 5 minutes later we scare off some refugees hanging around a trashcan fire in a ruined building and claim it as our own in order to dry off
>Realize I haven't been this happy for days, if not weeks
>Jessibel's vox-caster crackles to life
>Apparently all available Guard units are being called to the Governor's Plaza in order to help contain a daemonic incursion
>fuck

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>>68161829
>>68172457
>Be Tolria, self-declared Exarch of Alaitoc
>Me and Kerala have parked up on the rail flyover to watch the battle at the trackside
>The advantage of a jetbike is that it's not beholden to a good road surface
>Either trains are all cancelled, or it's service as usual
>The existence of a shell-hole in the track and a train wreck suggests the former
>Eh, you can never tell with Imperial Railways anyway
>The so-called "God-Emperor" could unite his race and conquer most of the galaxy, but nowadays he can't even make the trains run on time
>Says a lot about the state of the Imperium, really, but I digress
>There's a lot of fireworks going off in the square and daemons are being slain all over, but more keep pouring out
>There's a few stray daemons wandering around on the track, but they don't see us
>I'm itching to snipe something but we would be swarmed by daemons and burned by Sisters if I tried
>Probably at the same time
>Wrap my coat around myself and settle down in a folding wraithbone chair with some superior Eldar hot coffee
>.....Why the smirk, Kerala? Was what I said amusing in your mind?
>Anyway, it's much better than that recaff muck the Imperials drink
>A droning noise rises off to the side, dismiss it as nothing
>Suddenly, my comfy spectating is very rudely interrupted by Kerala tackling me to the ground, saying something about a lunatic on a bike with a sword about to come
>I swear, Farseers are jumpier than a caffeinated cricket in rocketboots sometimes
>You scared the soul out of me, spilled my coffee and knocked my chair over, so this better not be a false alarm

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Oh, and before I go to bed way too late again, I'll post the map progress so far. Obviously still heavily WIP with a long todo list.

>>68174497
>Be Ruprecht Eckhart, Scout Bike Captain
>My scourge of the metro line continues
>Spot a pair of figures ahead
>PURGE.vox
>No wait, they are some of our Eldar "allies"
>Pop a wheelie and ride on my back tire along the very edge of the track in order to avoid hitting them
Watch where you are standing!
>Tempting just to run down the silly frau, but don't want another diplomatic incident on my disciplinary record

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>>68155960
>>68157786
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Haven't heard from the Inquisition for a while, but still assuming they may need my car at some point
>Got my whole company in position around the car, won't want daemons wrecking the Inquisition's potentially preferred escape route (particularly with me still in it)
>Luckily the daemons aren't interested in this area aside from a few stragglers
>Cliveton gets a few mortars up and firing just to give the troops something to do
>All and all the car is about as secure as it is going to get
>Unfortunately, myself and pretty much everyone in my regiment knows first hand how bad daemonic incursions can get

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>Be Ex-Imperial pilot Antonius now retinue of the inquisitor Lupanarium
>Managed to find a map of the governor spire
>Best way to get inside without dying to fast is to pass by the sewer and tunnel system under the building
>Well it can't turn worse for us right ?
>Space Marines are on their way here
>After searching for a sewer entrance between all the forces converging here we gently ask a tankist to move the sewer plate with his Leman Russ
>Give the order to a regiment to move in the sewer
>It was a good idea because there's a lot of daemons
>Unholster my radium pistol
>Have mud to the knee remnants of what was the planet few month back
>I should probably have a appointement with the local doctors after this
>We finally reach a red door in the middle of a black wall
>Set explosive charges all around
>BOOM
>Nice and not clean everything except me and my companions is covered in mud and everyone outside must have felt that
>As soon as the dust started to settle down small blue and yellow monstrosities rushed out of the passage
>Shoot with my radium pistol
>The blue ones explose into yellow ones
>Thanks the Emperor they are easy to take down we almost got overrun
>Gillian can you vox the inquisitor about our entrance here?
>Better hit them where they don't expect us right? Is that not a Inquisition moto?
>There's still a lot of green glowing sign on the walls...
>Find myself at the top bottom of a service staircase
>Ann our psyker start muttering about a headache
>THISWAY.troopersfirst

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>Be somewhat disembodied consciousness of Sigma-32d, Master of Skitarii
>Battle is proceeding surprisingly well
>Forward two maniples of Skitarii have taken 34% casualties, enemy has been effectively corralled into Guard firing lines
>Losses acceptable
>Sisters of Battle and Space Marine armour-signums give me a reliable location for the important Imperial units in the main square
>Primary Objective: Destroy tower
>Transmit coordinates to Macrotek Clade-One forces, designate high-concentration targets
>Exload doctrina imperatives, engage Technomartyr Concords
>Skitarii fire slackens, arc bayonets flare to life under the barrels of Galvanic Rifles and the glittering line of spears charges
>Moments before contact the first flight of Baskilion Astra Avenger fighters twists in midair, locks onto noospheric markers and lays three lines of Avenger Bolt Cannon rounds through the incoming horde
>Fragments of stone, rubble, flesh and rapidly decorporealising Daemon shower the square again, enemy horde loses cohesion just as the charge hits home and half a dozen Kraken missiles slam into the spire
>Allied losses:52 +/- 12 Imperial Cultist infantry, one Sister of Battle, four Skitarii
>Acceptable
>Distant sound of BRRRT greeted with some cheering from a few of the Guardsmen
>Who has the better Ironfire protocols now, heretek scum?
>First Daemon Prince is occupied with the Imperial Fists, second one takes a battle cannon round to the torso and reels
>Smoke around the tower clears enough to see barely any damage was inflicted
>Primary weapon status: Beta-six grade anti-armour munitions
>Expected protection granted by civilian masonry: in significant
>Conclusion: Warp Phenomena extends to summoning location
>Skitarii formations cannot effectively focus fire in close confines
>Request Space Marine and Sister of Battle infiltration of spire

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>>68167470
>>68170776
>be Rogue Trader Stannim Lherzon
>Priest guy stops and recognises me as a Trader
>The clothing give it away?
>His priest regalia is pretty bling-bling too
>At least someone else has some fashion sense around here
>He seems interested in buying arms and stone through LEGIT
>Give him my details so we can thrash out some contracts later
>That reminds me, I remember seeing reports of a large deposit of high-quality marble near Muddy Bottom
>That stuff would be perfect for a huge, gleaming cathedral
>I can initiate the quarrying operation while I'm there for the promethium too
>Hear the familiar roar of the approaching thrusters
>That must be Danarius in the shuttle
>The Blizzard-Class Transport Shuttle (appropriate, considering the weather conditions) is designed for ground-to-orbit transport, but it works as an atmospheric flier too
>As the shuttle lands at the crossroads, I bid the priest and his horde farewell and get in
>Set course for Muddy Bottom!
>We'll be there in no time with this machine
>I just hope there's somewhere to land it in that podunk town

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>>68170502
>>68181082
>Be Sister Bios
>An Apothecary from the Guard is looking over Peasu
>Hopefully she'll be all right, we're a bit more than just cannon fodder you know
>Request comes in from the Skitarii forces to assault the tower
>Come to think of it, I'm surprised there hasn't been more jurisdiction friction with all these independent branches here
>The others have the Princes and lesser daemons well in hand, so we are technically available
>With the Astartes in the back, the fight enters the tower lobby
>Flamers are extremely effective in close quarters, and the Astartes deal with the heavier enemies as we fight our way up, floor by floor
>After a few floors it becomes clear that the foul stench that is the taint of Chaos completely infests this entire place
>We'l have to bring the tower down, it's the only way to be sure
>We've got a handful of meltabombs between us that, affixed to key columns identified by the Admech, should result in a controlled demolition
>Promethium can't melt steel beams, but meltabombs can
>Soon there are blinking red lights scattered around on structural components that look important
>Say a quick prayer to the Emperor
>Set the timer to ten minutes
>Leg it!

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>Be me, Tank Commander Hans Heinrich Hochberg
>Mechanicus Avenger nearly gave me a fucking haircut while he was taking out the Daemon horde and part of the spire
>we're doing great over all though
>We've lost a couple troops, but the casualties aren't comparable to the amount of kills we've gotten
>Hear Sigma half consciously send out a request for the space marines and sisters of battle to begin clearing out the tower via vox
>Though there are still Daemons spilling out of the tower, it seems to be significantly more contained
>There's a handful of them still outside though, namely 7 bloodletters, a herald of khorne and the twin Daemon princes
>Order squad to stop firing
>The first Daemon prince seems like he's on his last legs, the second seems as fresh as someone who just took several main tank gun blasts can be
>Imperial fists company champion engages the first Prince, captain orders several of the marines into the building to help out the Sisters running inside while he engages the second Daemon Prince
>The rest of his command squad is busy dealing with the Bloodletters while the chaplain aids a couple skitarii fighting the Herald
>Suddenly, Diederich, now covered in blood, rushes to help them out
>I can see him fucking leap through the air to help the standard guy tag team a bloodletter
>Diederch then does a 180 degree turn and rushes over toward the second prince
>Watch him body block a strike coming toward the Captain with his shield, then slash off one of the Daemons fingers
>The Captain and Diederich continue fighting the Daemon Prince with more and more astartes joining as they get freed up
>Sisters and space marines appear to be making some success, I wonder if they'll come to the same conclusion I did?
>If they do, I pray to the god emperor they don't start by blowing up the upper levels
>Man, that'd probably result in a massive friendly fire incident
>Heh, yeah, c'mon Hans you're talking about the sisters of battle here, we'll be fine!
>...Right?

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>>68183951
>>68179090
>Be Ex-Imperial pilot Antonius now retinue of the inquisitor Lupanarium
>Manage to capture a heretic on the first floor
>I think we can say that we can go back right Gillian ? Daemons around here carry really big swords
>Yeah sure the sewers seems to be the best exit because we don't want to lose our prisoner right now by going out on thé front door
>Gillian tell me that the sororitas planted charges in the building and that the timer is ten minutes
>Well ladies and gentlemen we better intorrogate this man let's say at the hotel
>RUUUUNNN.FLYFORLIFE
>Manage to run out of the sewers divers minutes before explosion
>Oh look it's our personal driver and daemon invasion alarm with full regiment waiting for us!
>We taking her with us for full detail about this whole mess
>I really hope that they are willing to talk I don't want to do torture

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>>68187518
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Still waiting in my car in case the Inquisition comes back
>See a bunch of heavily armed figures running towards me
>No way, it is the Inquisitorial warband!
>See Cliveton mutter something in disbelief, like many members of my company he probably figured I was using a very literal interpretation of the Inquisition's orders in order to sit out the battle
>Step out of the car and graciously open the passenger doors to allow them in
Where to gentlemen?

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>>68183951
>>68185762
>>68187518
>Be Sister Bios
>Check my watch
>Five minutes
>Imperial forces are pulling back from the base of the tower as the timer ticks down
>We should probably have given them more warning
>Such trivial things as avoidable casualties are secondary to carrying out the Emperor's divine will
>Still join them, I don't want to be crushed (today, at least)
>The snow melted by the flamers has started to refreeze into a very slippery layer of ice that makes it hard to run
>The daemons know something is up, but they don't know what
>They're unsure of whether to pursue or flee
>One minute
>Stand at the other end of the plaza to watch the explosion
>I wish I had a dynamite plunger, it would make destroying this nest of filth even more satisfying
>Thirty seconds
>Say a prayer for the operation to succeed
>Zero
>BeepBeepBeepBeepBeep.timer
>A bright flash and fireball blossoms from the tower as the bombs go off with a roar and shards of glass fly like flechettes
>However, the 410m-tall Governor Spire does not immediately collapse vertically into a nice pile of rubble as it should have
>Crunching and cracking sounds along with the bass groan of bending metal give away that it is moving, though
>It's going to fall, but WHERE?

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Nightly cartography diary. Street drawing for the central island is nearly complete. It's not difficult but very repetitive and the biggest time drain is copyediting the results the PDN plugin I use to outline the streets so it doesn't cut things off, put lines in the wrong places and make weird junctions. Still, I'm getting faster now and make less silly mistakes that made it feel like two steps forward, one back. I've incorporated the prow crash site as the concentric rings of rebuilt streets (damage extended further, but the streets were not destroyed), with the primary wreckage still in the centre, now converted into a park. I'm taking the headcanon that it partially broke up during atmospheric entry from the battle damage it received, so watch out for more crater rings round the city from fragments.

>>68192314
Time for a little bit of worldbuilding about the governor spire now that it's almost destroyed.
Buily during the DAoT by the master of the planet at that time and made to give the same feeling of a necron tomb It was the most bizarre and original building of the capital even after the exodites/Imperial architecture began to spread on Damnatum Lutum [and their most famous construction the bridge of Grox]
From M30 to M42 all the interior of the spire was remade to give "human" feelings
It was also during that time that one of governor decided to build a passage to the sewers as an escape route

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>>68195688
It's established (see last thread) that Groxbridge is a newer settlement - I proposed mid-M37s. Liamhelm is where all the DAoT stuff is at.

>>68197303
Oh damn sorry I forgot about that let's keep the fact that it's made to look like à necron structure ?

>>68197659
Yeah, it fits its "evil tower" shtick. Perhaps it got remodelled every time a new governor came in. The first one did it in Eldar style thanks to all the Exodites around, the next couple did it in variations of Gothic architecture, one did it Art Deco, then it was back to Gothic again for a few, then one did glass-and-steel Postmodernism, then more iterations of Gothic and now Necron style.

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>>68197777
Alright but the Bridge of Groxbridge wich one should we say it is?
Was it built by Eldar and humans as a sign of friendship ? Or just by the IoM
How big is it? Like a regular bridge or a more "London bridge"size?
Was it damaged by the battle, preserved or destroyed ?
Does people live on it like pic related ?

Sorry for this but i was bored and i wanted to do worldbuilding

>>68198003
I'd say probably by the imperium, while the Exodites may have had a fortress or something near the Necron Tomb that got wiped by either the 'crons or the guard it's unlikely that they'd build a bridge over the river, because clearly these exodites prefear to live in swamps.
I'd say it might streatch over the lenght of the entire city, the actual bridge parts making passage over the river possible while the rest is connected by roads/streets/highways.

>>68197777
Also holy fuck those digits

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>>68198003
I designed the dual carriageway running from the stack interchange in the upper right to the T-bone junction in the lower left as the old road through town predating the city, and so its two bridges over the branches of the Grox would form Greater Grox Bridge and Lesser Grox Bridge. They're both equal sized with a total span of 450m each, since it's a big river. I don't think the local Exodites had a hand, since them being swamp hillbillies and all and this is still the Imperium we are talking about - wary avoidance is the best the Eldar are going to get.

I like the design of a hybrid through-arch-truss bridge for the north bridge like pic related, since the Imperium has no time for aesthetics and to carry it high enough for the river traffic that once sailed the waterway and to resist the combination of spring/summer floods and winter (we're still in late autumn/early winter) ice that is the bane of bridges the region over. The southern bridge could be a more mundane concrete box-girder. Being strategic keypoints, the bridges both suffered battle damage during the Tau incursion and Chaos war, but the southern bridge came much worse off, and repairs to it are still ongoing.

Also don't apologise for trying to worldbuild, that's kinda the dual point of all of this.

>tfw captcha asks you to select images of bridges

>>68198747
Seven is lucky, right? I should buy a lottery ticket.

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>>68181082
>>68187518
>>68191727
>>68192314
>Be me, Tank Command Hans Heinrich Hochberg
>Ok, yeah the sisters have definitely done what I think they did
>Ordered my entire squadron back, I'm not gonna risk getting crushed by that spire considering that we're right in front of it
>SoB have rushed to the far-left side of the plaza and the Skitarii are moving back, but the space marines are still fighting the Daemons
>The captain and his men (now sort-of including Diederich) have however slowly moved the fight further and further out of the way of the spire
>They must have put a timer on the bombs, enough that all of them could get out safely
>15 minutes at most, 10 minutes at least
>If we've got the least amount of time possible that means the spire will blow in about 2 minutes
>They can't have gotten too far up that thing though the space marines with them had to jump out of the spire windows
>Order squadron to aim at roughly the halfway point of the building
>Count the time in my head as Diederich gets his shield overloaded and punted into one of the sisters of battle
>Finally reach zero, big fucking explosions from the building, rubble flies all over the place, wrecks the buildings next to the spire as it comes tumbling down
>Well, at least the base of it
>The rest begins careening down... towards us
>Specifically us
>The path of the 300 meters worth of spire falling down to earth is directly in our way, the space marines are out of the way and the Skitarii are mostly not here, though there are still some left
>No ship is gonna crash into that spire to save us now
>There's only one option
>"FIRE AT THE 300 METER MARK!"
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>>68201713
>We've got to guess, should be about halfway up the rubble that's still sort of on the spire
>As the spire begins tipping over, the guns of my squadrons' vehicle roar to life
>Watch them slam into about the halfway point of the falling part and begin forcing it back
>"RELOAD AND FIRE AGAIN DAMNIT, FIRE AGAIN!"
>As the spire begins careening toward the opposite direction we fire at about the same spots again, making it split mid-air and crash into the mostly open area around the main road
>Mid-section sunders and showers the plaza and surrounding areas with smaller bits of debris and a shitload of dust
>Top section smashes into the river grox and causes part of it to overflow
>All is quiet for a moment, snow falling faster
>Slowly climb out of command hatch and look at the devastation around me
>Catch the exact moment the captain smashes in the head of the daemon prince
>Can see a couple sisters helping Diederich stand up, looks like he got fucked up pretty bad
>He seems to be moving though, so he's not dead yet
>deniedredemption.kriegmotivations
>Would have been one hell of a way to go too, a damn shame for the poor krieger
>Back to the hospital he goes
>Remove rebreather and slide a lho-stick into my mouth
>Hear metallic footsteps behind me, a slightly groggy Sigma looks to be surveying the damage
>Light up lho-stick and stand there with him for a while, just smoking as the snow falls around us
>Finally ask, "So... what now?"
>We gotta get out of here before someone tries to have me executed again

(Sammosposter please come home)

Bump again. Sigma will be back later tonight, am just on especially long shift right now

>>68203064
That's fine anon, so long as we keep the thread alive until friday we should be good

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>>68191727
>>68201713
>Be Ex-Imperial pilot Antonius now retinue of the inquisitor Lupanarium
>To look of this regiment to their boss they apparently didn't fight
>Lady you are going to give us answers for one or two things...
>But now is not the moment for this Drive us to the Golden Throne great palace hotel
>Yeah I was sure that you knew were it was located: on the nothern part of the western bank with a view on the bridge
>Ann's on the dead man seat and our heretics that we decided to nickname Timmy on the middle seat between me and Gillian
>After passing the Grox we hear a huge noise coming from the governor spire
>Oh hell it's falling on the Plaza !
>Then fall back in the Grox!
>Truly the Emperor is watching over us
>You hear that Timmy you're the last one of your kind !
>The return trip is on a happy tone
>As the baroness of Bluven stops to drop us down the stairs of the palace Ann handcuffs her and tell her that she is now under Inquisition control
>The lady is crying
>I totally forgot about that
>I feel bad
>Like really bad
>Don't worry if you cooperate you may have a chance to get out like nothing happened
>As we exit the car Lupanarium come to greet us
>Oh no we have to explain everything to him
>MFW

>>68203877
Anontonius here i dont want to kill Priscilla i am going to let her go after the interrogation without hurting her would be great

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>>68201750
>>68203877
>HEEEELLLLOOOO AGAIN GROXBRIDGE!
>And welcome back ladies, gentlemen and xenos!
>It's yer favourite radio host Jackson here!
>Y'all seemed to like the Ancient Terran Hour, so we're extending it to Ancient Terran Day and a permanent fixture!
>Every Friday, we'll be playing the best hits we've dug up from the Age a' Terra
>Some of 'em are so old they still call it Earth, fancy that!
>And here's one now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo!
>Now, we return to the NEWS, and SkyEye for an update on the battle in the square!
>Frank, what you got for us?
>Thanks, J. The battle in the plaza is shifting INDOORS, and some Sisters and Marines fought their way into the tower about ten minutes ago"
>"The Imperial forces are WITHDRAWING from the vicinity of the tower, quite why we don't know"
>Interesting. What else can ya see?
>"In the roads arou--WHOAWHOAWHOA!"
>"Something just blew up BIG in the Spire!"
>"It....it's falling! It's falling on the plaza, right on top of the Imperial forces"
>Oh, shit! Dont get caught by it!
>"Wait a minute....the Imperil armour is FIRING! It's pushing the massive building BACK!"
>"It's now falling towards the river....it's breaking up mid-fall"
>"BANG! There goes the Nankai Elevated Highway and about half a dozen city blocks!"
>"It just made a huge splash in the river as well"
>Incredible, folks. Incredible.
>You can watch our helicam footage of this later at our voxnet site, idtp://musi/damnatumlutum/grn-radio.grox
>In an hour, we hand over to our special guest Admiral Gregorius of the Imperial Navy on how his fleet crippled the Tau invasion, and why he things they'll freeze their asses off next month
>Here's our next track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnTZa4FY_7I
>This is J, of GRN.

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>Be Sigma-32d
>Rubble and dust still settling in the square
>Noospheric overview shows Skitarii forces are pulling back
>Infantry maniple casualties: 43%. Weapons teams casualties: 5%. Aircraft strike casualties: 0%.
>Lost units - 239 Gamma-four through Gamma-six grade combatants. 72% of Groxvalley Region Mechanicus forces combat-capable
>Daemonic incursion contained, warp-tainted wreckage scattered over a large section of northeastern Groxbridge
>Prepare Decontaminator squads, use of rad-cleansers, Volkites, Eradication weaponry recommended
>Security protocol codex 205//aZ engaged
>Engagment Primus terminated
>Primary and Secundus objectives complete
>Losses within acceptable parameters. The Omnissiah will commend the fallen.

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>>68207394
>>68201713

>Disengage manifold connection, restore motive function.
>~~~# Noospheric Connection Disengaged, In Aeternem Ferra Mortis #
>Clamber out of tank
>Most of my tactical implants are cooling down, data-purging and resetting
>Cortex quality temporarily near human-normal
>Unseal mask and lock it to my armour under my robe
>Flesh underneath is unused to contact, dust in air and Iho-stick smoke feels strange
>Hochberg is just ahead, watching his fellow Krieger get stretched into a medicae halftrack
>Stand alongside, spot glint of crushed Skitarii armour in the wreckage. Emotional cores flare and are poorly suppressed.
>Cavaliers commander is chattering mission statistics in my vox-bead ear, can't seem to process it terribly well.
>"So... what now?"
>Map signatures of friendly units nearby. Sisters of Battle, Space Marines, Guard, the remnants of the Skitarii maniples present when the tower fell, Rogue Trader's signum. Noosphere still bears data-traces from Titan Legion presence.
>Old guard-car from last night is under an Inquisitorial data-seal
>Inquisition-IFF-designate - Possible hostile intent - Eldar temporary alliance, Ordo Reductor presence - experimental wargear. No known Inquisitorial presence in Sigma Fleet or attached Guard elements, existence unannounced
>Known hostile forces - Traitor Astartes, Tau, seemingly unprovoked Daemonic incursion, Necrons, Ork Waagh!
>Significant Eldar units present for unknown reasons
>"Redesignate home base, Imperial Guard tank squadrons - refit to Mechanicus internal tolerances, remove from easy Inquisitorial access"
>"Contact Ordo Reductor, report experimental tank data, report anomalies, further the Quest for Knowledge"
>"Request Reinforcements"
>"Dig in, prepare forge quarter"
>"Secure Liamhelm settlement, cleanse the Groxvalley Region and fortify"
>Imperial Tactical objectives obvious
>Currently seem... non-urgent
>Unit 32d objectives: Secure reliable allies. Investigate anomalous armoured unit.
>Rest.

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>>68174497
>Be Tolria, self-declared Exarch of Alaitoc
>Isha damn it, I'm out of here
>I'm covered in dust, Kerala is covered in dust, the jetbike is covered in dust and everything is grey-white
>The collapsing building produced a huge, billowing cloud of dust that has mixed with the snow to form a freezing grey mush that cakes everything
>Who knows how many toxic chemicals there are in this muck
>I don't want to be narrowly missed by the next building to fall down either, or clobbered by the next biker to come by
>Kerala enthusiastically agrees
>First though, we need to take a detour to pick up my own jetbike
>The ride back across town is fast, but exposed and cold
>The looks on the citizenry's faces is worth it, though
>Arrive back at the Emperor's Head
>The broken window has acquired a board, and the bar is still open
>No, I'm swearing off alcohol after what happened earlier
>Gingerly tiptoe around the side
>There it is, in the corner
>.....wait a minute
>Those are bricks underneath it
>On closer inspection, someone has carefully removed the gravitic motor
>And I know exactly who the main suspect is
>MECHANICUUUUUUUUUUUUS!!!!!
>You thieving mecha-mon'keigh [untranslateable]s!
>Now I'm very angry.

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>>68203877
>>68204059
>Be Captain Priscilla Von Hansburg, 4th Baroness of Bluven, 1st Happy Ending Regiment
>Order Chastity to drive us to the Golden Throne Hotel
>Not particularly happy to be giving a ride to an Inquisitorial warband, but it at least gets me away from the daemonic incursion
>Hear loud noise behind me, turn around in time to see the Governor's Spire collapse in a dramatic fashion
>Not sure if that is a good thing or not, but hopefully the daemonic incursion is coming to an end
>Drop off the Inquisitorial warband at the hotel as requested, get out and open passenger doors for them as sign of respect
>Unfortunately this just gives them the opportunity to place me under arrest with less effort
>Feel deep sense of dread as I try to think of what I did wrong
>Shit, they probably figured out I was the one who called in the daemonic incursion
>Hopefully they just want some eye witness accounts of how the incursion started, why they didn't have their own people monitoring the scene 24/7 is beyond me
>Well this is just a perfectly shitty way to end a day that included being vomited on, shot at by traitor Space Marines, covered in broken glass, chased by daemonettes, and being forced to guard a car right next to a major daemon incursion
>Feel overwhelmed by emotional roller coaster
>Try not to cry
>Cry a bit

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Nightly cartography diary. Street drawing is inching along, and I'll have a repetitive strain injury by the end of this. I took some time out to name a few things, and most of them are nods to something in some way or another.

Oh and by the way if the thread gets archived prematurely at any point because someone forgets to keep it bumped, I'll make a new thread on the evening of Fri the 27th (BST because britfag). In the possible event of that happening, would it be better to pick up where we left off or to do another timeskip?

>>68210812
Sammosposter here
A timeskip seems doable in that the battle seems relatively closed up
Either way the town is gonna need to be at least partially rebuilt for the 3rd or 4th time

Also: Sorry I spaced out and neglected the thread. I am in the process of moving into a new place with a couple roommates.
Hopefully I can do more in the next one

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>>68181793
>Be Rogue Trader Stannim Lherzon
>My ship was bigger than this place!
>Muddy Bottom of somewhat of a misnomer, since the swamp it was named after is on the other side of the hill
>The town is as dull as rocks unless that's the sort of thing you like
>Fortunately, rocks is what I came for
>If the AdMech hear about all the minerals here that they need for their forges, they'll be all over it
>The first test bore has struck oil, and a lot of it
>What do you mean, I have to keep my cigars in my pocket around here?
>Anyway, I can make a killing of selling this stuff as heating oil in the upcoming winter deep freeze
>Especially with the likely upcoming power rationing
>Meanwhile, the marble is even better than I thought
>Ring up the Archbishop and tell him I have the perfect stuff for his cathedral, complete with bulk discount
>Pretty sure I can also sell this stuff to help rebuild the city (again)
>If I keep this up, I might even be able to get my ship fixed properly eventually
>An alarm goes off on the foreman's desk
>He presses the button to silence the buzzer and ignores it
>I feel like I should return to Groxbridge before this town turns into a fireball at this rate
>The shuttle is parked in a field outside of town
>This mudball can produce more than crops after all

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>Be Ex-Imperial pilot Antonius now retinue of the inquisitor Lupanarium
>Because all this interrogation thing isn't for me I decide to go back outside after taking off most of my carapace armor except the gaiter and the kneepads reveling my rosette on my pilot jacket
>Exiting the hotel the first happy ending car with the adjutant waiting inside is still here
>Hey Chastity right? Get in the back seats I am taking you and your captain to your regiment
>While waiting for the baroness her adjutant start to talk with me
>Few minutes later Hiems our tempestor come with our eyewitness who seems fine
>Hiems opens the door for her, take the front seat and then proced to tell me about the regiment who was guarding the spire
>Apparently etheir they were heretics in disguise or they were wiped out
>Makes you wonder how much are left in this city
>Maybe that archbishop can keep everyone in the Emperor's light
>Now my Ladies what our destination ?

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>Be me, Imperial fists 5th company Lieutenant Gereon Paulicus
>Talking to Marshal Hans over a long-range vox caster, his crusade against the thousands of Orks spread throughout the Groxvalley region seems to be going well
>He knows of the Eldar presence in Groxbridge, only captain Maluan managed to convince him and his men to direct their anger toward the other Xenos in the region
>Maluan is a rather prestigious individual, after having been lost in the warp for at least half a standard terran century he remerged ready to continue the crusade he swore to complete
>How he also managed to survive for so long with a ship full of Daemons I don't know
>Right after the death of Captain Dravastis at the hands of a Champion of Nurgle too
>The Marshal begrudgingly agreed to not assault the non-hostile xenos after conversing with Maluan, though it grieves me to say that xenos were allowed to live, it does not grieve me to say that we do not currently possess more enemies
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>Get rapports of a large Daemon incursion over the vox and the Governors spire crumbling, end communications with Hans so that he may continue his work
>Request to know Maluan's status, most of the Daemons are already wiped out, excluding one Daemon prince
>Considering this and the Iron Warriors spotted earlier, it is unwise for us to continue resting
>Though the offensive against the Orks in the south is going well, some of the translated Tau communications we have received are worrying, to say the least
>It appears the Tau are using Liamhelm as a forward base of operations, occasionally sending troops to spy on Groxbridge, however each time one of their infiltration units gets within 13kms of the city they mysteriously lose contact
>I suspect there is a vindicare deployed near Groxbridge, likely in order to remove any commanders leading from the front
>The Tau say they plan on abandoning the city but that's likely a trap
>It would not surprise me if they know we are listening in on them
>Librarian Baltazar and the Techmarine Alderick are stationed in Stanley to oversee the further fortification of the city
>I cannot draw men away from them to assault the city, and requesting troops from Hans would be counter productive
>Already requested a Thunderhawk, 2 fire raptors, 4 Avengers of the Basilikon Astra, 4 Vulture gunships and the Techmarine Rubicon sent to my location
>Asked the Captain to give the green light on my plan after detailing it, got sent back an affirmative
>There's a communications tower in the centre of the run-down ghost town, if a Techmarine was able to place a jamming device on it we may be able to overload Tau communications in the area
>The area is no doubt heavily defended, but the Tau won't expect an assault on the city while rapports are still coming in of a battle in Groxbridge
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>First we will begin by strafing to area around the communications tower, then I and a squad of Assault marines armed with Melta bombs will jump from the thunderhawk in order to secure the tower perimeter
>While this is happening, the Thunderhawk will land and allow the remaining marines to disembark, who will in turn allow Rubicon to attach the jammer to the tower
>It won't be as sophisticated as the jamming beacon on a land speeder storm, in truth just a device to overload the tower and thus making the Tau in the area disconnected
>Once its activated, the remaining assault vehicles and the two companies of mechanized steel legionaries will flood into the city and wipe out the Tau there with help from the air support
>If the Tau have planted any bombs around the city to destroy our forces once they've entered, the communications jammer will likely make them all but useless
>The Tau prefer not to waste soldiers and battlesuits when necessary, so it can be assumed that they are remotely activated bombs
>Lay out my plan for the Major in charge of the Armageddon units, he agrees to it and begins preparing his men
>Most of the communication has been done in person or over encrypted channels, if the Tau have intercepted any of it they're too late to send any reinforcements
>Get the jump pack I require mounted to my armour by some chapter serfs with us, tell my brothers to gather their weapons and equipment
>After approximately 25 minutes I see the small fleet of aircraft approaching, Thunderhawk touching down first and opening up its front hold for my men
>Turn towards my brothers
>"Mount up."
>Astartes enter the thunderhawk, steel legionaries climbing into their Chimeras and Chimedons
>Send a message through the Vox to the steel legionaries with us as the Thunderhawk closes the front hold
>"Take heed guardsmen: even if we are outnumbered this day, we have an advantage the xeno does not. Firepower designed by our human ancestors."
>Lift off toward the city

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>be former pig shit farmer, now archbishop of The Church Of The Emperor's Holy gifts
>be with my flock
>be carving through heretics and daemons
>aveimperitor.prayer

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