>>515627
B
HEY NICE QUEST u got there

>>515627

Oooh, hopefully this doesn't die like the old Planetary Governor quest.

>A

We're GENERAL MOTHERFUCKING STUBBS now.

>>515627
>B. You are the second son of a important Imperial noble family, sure you don't get to inherit your fathers highly developed world in Segmentum Solar, but you were getting bored of endless parties and socializing anyways... You are skilled at speaking to people and navigating complex political situations, you start with additional funds and an elite regiment of stormtroopers for personal security.

>>515627
well, we could also be some kind of feudal ruler elevated to planetary governor

>>515627
B. You are the second son of a important Imperial noble family, sure you don't get to inherit your fathers highly developed world in Segmentum Solar, but you were getting bored of endless parties and socializing anyways... You are skilled at speaking to people and navigating complex political situations, you start with additional funds and an elite regiment of stormtroopers for personal security.

>>515627
>A

>>515627
>B. You are the second son of a important Imperial noble family, sure you don't get to inherit your fathers highly developed world in Segmentum Solar, but you were getting bored of endless parties and socializing anyways... You are skilled at speaking to people and navigating complex political situations, you start with additional funds and an elite regiment of stormtroopers for personal security.

>>515627
>B. You are the second son of a important Imperial noble family, sure you don't get to inherit your fathers highly developed world in Segmentum Solar, but you were getting bored of endless parties and socializing anyways... You are skilled at speaking to people and navigating complex political situations, you start with additional funds and an elite regiment of stormtroopers for personal security.

>>515732
>>515715
>>515663
The day has finally come for you to take your rightful position as governor. You eagerly look out from the deck of the transport ship as you exit the warp, a relatively uneventful trip.

You dock at the space station, accompanied by your retinue of followers, and a group of stormtrooper bodyguards. You are greeted by Lieutenant Felix, the highest ranking Imperial officer in the system, since being dropped off almost a decade ago to prepare for a new governor.

He gives you a brief tour of the station, which was gutted during the purge of the previous governors heresy. It is a large station, with void shielding and and several defense systems, that were repaired in the years preceding your arrival.

Unfortunately , the interior has not seen much work, with only basic living quarters and a command center in place, it is fortunate you brought a small transport ship worth of personal belongings and you immediately order your servants to furnish the governor's chambers.

Wanting to know more about the world, and its current state you request a status report.

You find that the Lieutenant has not done much aside from repairing the stations defenses and monitoring the system for threats, as he claims he does not have the men or the authority to claim tithes from the feudal warlords below.

Lieutenant Felix also reports that his men have picked up strange readings from the edge of the system that do not match known imperial signatures, however until your arrival he had no way to investigate, having just a few short range shuttles at his disposal. The heavy freighter you arrived in, while lightly armed, is outfitted to travel long distances and could easily investigate the readings...

You also find out that Tarkons previous tithes came mainly in two forms, through the violent feudal clansmen on the surface, serving as imperial guard and Frenzine, the plant used to make Frenzon, a combat drug, mainly used by penal legions that can modify the users mood and behavior, allowing increased control of the users.

You also find out that the old Governor, before he turned to heresy, of course, used to visit the world below every 10 years, making a great festival where the local lords would meet him at a sacred landing spot, and offer gifts and oaths of loyalty, in addition to their tithes.

What's our next move?

A. Ask more questions(Write-in)
B. Summon the feudal lords below
C. Investigate the strange readings in your ship
D. Other(write-in)

>D

I think we should send a skeleton crew to investigate whatever those strange readings are, just in case their armor has spikes and blood stains. Just in case. We don't want to get fucked up on the first day after all.

>>515874
>B. Summon the feudal lords below
Also
This >>515893

>>515874
>B. Summon the feudal lords below

>>515874
(Warhammer quest. I need to go change pants real quick)

>Summon the feudal lords below

Our shop is not a warship, any real threat will kill us and we have a station with defenses. Any fight will be on the planet, so we need to cement our position as governor.

>>515874
B. Summon the feudal lords below

>>515924
>>515901
>>515896
>>515895
>>515893
You send out a call across the world to gather in the sacred spot to meet their new overlord. The feudal lords are given a month to prepare their offerings and meet you.

In the meantime, you send out the freighter, along with a skeleton crew to investigate the signal, despite several patrols through the system, their only findings being traces of warp energy, likely from warp travel, unfortunately the limited readings make it impossible to tell what caused it or who.

The month passes quickly and relatively uneventfully as you furnish the space station and have supplies and personnel brought on board.

You clutch the armrest of your seat as you are flown to the surface, unsure of what to make of the feudal people below, you see smoke from several small villages, barely visible to the naked eye, as well as a few large scattered stone structures, likely some sort of castle or temple.

You set down in a large field near a massive feudal encampment, your bodyguard has already sent up a perimeter defense, their hightech equipment leaving the natives in a state of awe.

The leaders gather themselves before you, each kneeling in turn and handing you some trinket of their people.

They also offer wagons of Frenzine as well as several thousand warriors, armed with rudimentary iron weapons. It would be worthwhile to try train this rabble to some kind of standard before sending them on to the Imperial Guard... You will also need a few regiments of your own, to serve as a regular pdf and to bolster your stormtrooper bodyguards.


You take the opportunity to speak about loyalty to the Emperor and why they need to pay their tithes. You will have several days to interact with your people.

What would you like to do?

A. Inquire about their customs
B. See about increasing the Frenzine crop this year
C. Look into developing a training regimen for Tarkon's guard regiments
D. Other(write-in)

Well, we should see about their customs and make sure nothings going to get us lynched or get the Inquisition riled up, so A, but I think we should see about developing a training regimen, so C as well.

>>516027
>A. Inquire about their custom

>>516027
>A. Inquire about their customs

>>516027
A. Inquire about their customs

>>516088
>>516081
>>516056
>>516046
You learn several things about the peoples of Tarkon IV, mainly that they follow leaders on the basis of strength, with most hereditary positions started by warriors of great renown. They worship the God Emperor as an ascended warrior king, and believe they earn his favor by slaying his enemies.

It is common them to chew Frenzine leaves before battle, putting their warriors into a frenzied state. They also practice ritualistic duelling and challenges, with individuals fighting to the death for position in their societies. The tribes of the southern jungles also practice headhunting, collecting the heads of fallen enemies, stringing the skulls together and using them as a banner of sorts in battle, showing a warriors victories and inspiring fear in his enemies.

Technology is highly limited, with the northern plains people being the most advanced, building stone castles, having some established agriculture and metallurgy skills allowing them to make crude iron implements.

What else would you like to do?(this is a write-in)

Nothing here seems to be out of the ordinary, but we should definitely keep tabs on the tribes of the southern jungles. Also, maybe we should see about practicing some melee in case one of their leaders tries to duel us or something.

>>516144
Take a look around and check for how well the Imperial cult is being accepted. A bunch of frenzine'd up skull takers are a bit worrying deviation from the faith.

>>516144
any other sites of worth in system?

>>516144
what is our name

>>516249
>>516202
>>516188
On initial inspection all seems in accordance, with what would be expected on a violent primitive world of the Imperium. However it would be advisable to send a party out to inspect and investigate the various tribes more closely.

Due to the previous governors neglect, aside from the Frenzine and the manpower, the only other known export products are exotic woods from the southern jungles, used by artisans throughout the sector and furs from rare beasts on the planet.

Doing a planetary survey is highly advisable to see if there are not any other resources of value.

The rest of the worlds of the Tarkon system consist of 2 gas giants and 2 barren worlds devoid of life.

You guys can submit and vote on names for our nobleman turned governor, preferably come up with a brief blurb of backstory building on what we already have.

>>516402
>Do a planetary survey to find resources

>>516402
After spending several days feasting and speaking to the lords and chieftains of the planet, you embark back on your shuttle returning to the station.

As you ascend into the atmosphere you think upon what you saw and the gifts you have received.

In addition to the trinkets and tithes for the greater Imperium, you were gifted with a number of native women and a brood of Tarkonian War hounds, prized throughout the sector for large size, and loyalty. In addition you were given a Tarkonian battle axe, fashioned of bone and sharpened to a fine killing edge.

You return to the station and set upon forcusing on improving the facitlities of your space station. What should be added.

A. Medical center, capable of treating most injuries and illnesses, including a surgical operations room and a maternity ward
B. Training facility- complete with a small armory(which is empty), shooting range, melee training area and gym
C. Expanded docking areas- build several large docks onto the station, allowing for easier transfer of cargo
D. Ballroom and luxury suites- ideal for entertaining high ranking guests, these high class living arrangements allow people to visit your planet while still being able to enjoy some of the finer things in life
E. Other(write-in)

>>516507
You also order Lieutenant Felix to take a shuttle and do a survey of the world for resources and anything of note

>>516521
>C. Expanded docking areas- build several large docks onto the station, allowing for easier transfer of cargo
we need to start trading more to start rolling in money to use for other goods.

>>516521
> C

Docks will be of huge importance, wood is a relative rarity for the major industrialized and hive worlds in the imperium.

>>516521
>C. Expanded docking areas- build several large docks onto the station, allowing for easier transfer of cargo

>>516685
>>516593
>>516532
You order the expansion of the docking bay to include two full size commercial docks, allowing much easier transfer of goods and cargo.

It will take several weeks to complete the retrofit of the station, but you believe that the increased capacity for trade will be worth it.

Several days of aimless drinking and fornication with your newly acquired Tarkonian women go by as you watch the workmen go about their business working on the docks while you wait for Felix and the survey team to return with their findings.

You are rudely awakened in the middle of the night by one of your servants.

It seems an inquisitorial vessel has entered the system. You don your most regal clothing and join your men in the command center. Once in vox range you learn the ship is under the command of an Inquisitor Corean. He demands to dock immediately at your space station...

What now?

A. Allow them to dock
B. Reject their demand, raise shields, and prepare weapons to fire
C. Other(write-in)

>>516851
>A. Allow them to dock
>whatcouldgowrong.jpg

>>516851
A. Allow them to dock

B is absolutely suicide.

>>516851
>A. Allow them to dock
Implying there's another option

>>516969
there is. heresy

>>516851
>A. Allow them to dock

A, but first we need to set up the Holy Aquilia in every fucking room, exactly every five inches. The blinding light and shininess should blind the Inquisitor and make him wonder how the fuck we got that many aquillias. Oh, also spray-paint it gold, and then spray-paint a few aquillas on ourselves.

>>516851
A. Invite him on board. Also warn him we have been getting odd readings but could not discover anything with our ship. We don't want to appear to be hiding anything.

>>516862
>>516860
>>516969
>>516998
You impatiently wait for an hour as the Inquisitor approaches the station...

The airlock door opens and two Inquisitorial stormtroopers step through followed by a short man in power armor, bearing an inquisitorial seal and impenetrable scowl.

They are followed by several people carrying medical litters carrying several wounded people.

Corean looks around, "What kind of backwater is this? I demand to speak to whoever is in charge!"

You quickly step up and state that you are the leader. Corean immediately demands medical attention for his people and a restock of provisions for his ship. Looking at his ship, you see its clearly taken some kind of weapon damage...

After serving to his peoples immediate needs, with the makeshift medical center on the station, the Inquisitor pulls you aside, and draws his sidearm, some kind of xenos weapon and shoves it in your face. Several tense seconds pass, as both your bodyguards and his stormtroopers pull their guns on each other, waiting on their masters commands to shoot. Only when Corean asks you about the warp taint on the station do you say something...

You have no idea, you've only been on the station for a few months. The inquisitor intently stares you down, spending several seconds looking deep into your eyes before holstering his pistol, his men follow suit. You wave your men to do the same...

You follow him as he makes his way to your quarters, past the naked women, and empty bottles of fine alcohol to a secure case. He immediately demands the key for the lock. You remember placing the trinkets from the chieftains in the box, but you thought nothing of a bunch of crude gifts from primitives.

He rifles through the contents, dozens of carved figurines, crude coins, a human skull among other things before he finally finds it, a mysterious medallion featuring a khornate signet...

He immediately presses you on where you got it, you quickly explain the oathgiving ceremony and how you got the medallion, you can't recall which chieftain gave it to you, there were hundreds...

Unfortunately you don't have a great way to identify him, but now you know one thing for sure, Khorne has a presence on your planet, and whats worse, the Inquisition knows about it....

Alright guys, I gotta go to bed but since I can and /qst/ is so slow, ill probably be intermittently posting through the day at work, with more frequent posts in the evenings, if we are still running come next weekend I will do a more dedicated session.

I can be followed on twitter @TeamShmeh, thanks for playing guys

>>517287
G fucking G guys, prepare for exterminatus up the butthole.

Betting it was the southern jungle tribes.

>>517287
Sweet, and totally called it. We might have a full uprising on our hands. The inquisitor will probably start with and interrogation (ouch) and end with us having to help purge some heresy on the planet, possibly with orbital bombardment. This is why churches are so important when colonizing a planet.

>>517305
I doubt a full uprising, but we have to handle this situation delicately and quickly.

First of all, I doubt our power structure is even close to enough (since all we really have is bodyguards) to forcibly assault any possible heretical tribes or make examples. So that's out of the questions.
Second of all, the Inquisition's already suspicious so we can't take the Khornate Worship path unless we want to get BLAMed out of existence. And I doubt our character has any martial experience judging from his "get drunk and fornicate" policy.
Thirdly I suspect this inquisitor to be somewhat soft on xeno tech, judging from his equipment. Worst case scenario and we have to kill him, we could always tell the Inquisition that he was a tech-heretic that was using xeno tech and it "shot him in the back of the head four times" and was totally not our fault.

>>517409
I think we won't be doing much personally, merely sending our bodyguards with the Inquisitor's retinue. If necessary, there's always shooting the planet with lances from the space station / =I= ship.
I apologize if I implied we should start worshipping the Ruinous Powers.
Stormtroopers are much better than our bodyguards, so I don't think killing the inquisitor is in the cards here.

>>517431
There's always venting the airlocks with the Inquisitor and his retinue conveniently in it. I mean, we're in fucking space after all.
After all, whoever controls doors, controls space.

>>517442
Okay, we might be able to take them, but there is a Chaotic taint on the planet. Like it or not, the Inquisitor is our ally here.

>>517449
Yeah, I know. I'm just suggesting assassinating the Inquistor if there's somesort of PLOT TWIST and he's a fucking demon or cultist or he tries to kill us.
Or turns out to be the daemonette from fucking Khornate Quest a while ago

Anyways if OPs reading this could we get statistics on the planet? Like how many people are on it, etc?

Killing an inquisitor for any reason is a quick way to get killed. The last governor was killed for heresy, we just got caught with a chaos trinket, and our entire military consist of bodyguards, a single freighter and feral tribesmen. We are near the sabbat world's which has a very large guardsmen force that could be called upon to stamp us out.

I'm a chaos player here, but unless anyone discovers an blood pact regiment buried under the surface, killing the inquisitor is not really an option.

How large is out space station actually? Its said it is big but also that it has little capacity to service trade vessals, with two extra berths being a notable improvement in capabilities.

>>517287
interesting run, thanks for the idea.

>>517687
>>517431
>>517487
>>517461
There were around 10 million people living on tarkon IV when the last administratum census was taken 300 years ago.

The space station is a smaller imperial design, and can comfortably habitate 50,000 people. It is currently mostly empty. With a skeleton crew manning the station's most critical functions. Our current defenses make us strong enough to fight off a pirate raids and the like but it would likely fall to a large scale assault. Since the interior was previously gutted(with heavy flamers purging the previous governors slaneeshi cult) there is a lot of space available for development if we want to focus the station on trade, warfare or as a floating city/fortress in space.

For what it's worth our bodyguards are technically stormtroopers trained on a cadian pattern colony but we only only have 1000 of them so they won't go far policing our planet

>>517287

Play the complete ignorant. The Inquisition's now going to be searching the world for Heresy anyway, we might as well officially invite them to and ease compliance. Perhaps ask who had the authority to suppress heresy for the ten years this world was without a governor, and see if there actually is anyone on who the blame might fall.

>>518003
While you don't know for sure which chieftains have been corrupted by chaos, you have a strong feeling that it is likely some of the southern tribesmen.

You are interrupted by another announcement of Felix and his shuttle returning from their planetary survey finding several veins of gold, silver and iron ore as well as a few potential settlement sites.

They also marked major settlements when they mapped the area, which will make it easier to keep tabs on what is going on.

Much to your surprise Corean states that he is actually with the Ordos Xenos and has been tracking dark eldar raiders in the area who have taken advantage of the chaos in the region to attack vulnerable frontier worlds.

He intends to leave in a few days after conducting vital repairs and restocking provisions. He states that he has had his astropath contact the ecclesiarchy and request a representative be sent to our world, and he will be leaving several acolytes with us temporarily to deal with this minor heresy, including a sanctioned psyker named pate to help us sense warp taints and a massive warrior named bolo who apparently is an expert on dealing with primitive human cultures.

He plans to return a few months and expects us to deal with this heresy, otherwise he will deal with it personally and execute us for incompetence.

As the inquisitor prepares to leave, we make plans to deal with this. Unfortunately we are sorely short of manpower, while our troops are fairly elite, we only have 1000 men and no means to replace them.

We also lack heavy equipment and aircraft, which means we will have to fight the heretics on their terms....

We do have a large number of human warriors on the surface that are at least technically pledged to our service and a few old imperial shuttles that could be retrofitted with heavy bolters and flamers...

What's are plan to root out this most vile heresy? (write-in)

Tell Felix to go down with Bolo and Pate to pinpoint the most corrupt tribes.

What
>>518302
Said. We may want to inspect those jungle tribes a bit, as they seemed to have a fondness for collecting skulls which sounds Khornate to me.

Also, if they're not doing anything better than lets have our elite stormtroopers bodyguard start training those men that the tribal kings have us earlier. We're going to need an army at some point

>>518258
Bolo is going to be our most important asset here. We need to build up manpower and industry in order to launch this campaign, and that will involve establishing a ground presence on the planet. My guess will be a prominent northern settlement in the northern continent. Bolo will have to lead and train the villagers into an army. Some stormtroopers will be helpful in accompanying him as well. Otherwise we'll need to retrofit those old shuttles for help in strike missions.

Does the space station have a lance battery? We may be able to attack the planet if so.

>>518302
>>518359
>>518387
You have Felix fly bolo and a company of 100 of your stormtrooper bodyguards to the surface near the encampment holding our tithed warriors, who have mostly been idle since the oath keeper ceremony and our departure, given your time table, you have given bolo and his detachment a month to train these warriors to a minimum standard for the jungle assault.

Meanwhile Felix and Pate perform s flyover of the jungle using the ships sensors and psyker powers to sense for a warp taint.

It takes a few days to find a cluster of several villages in the jungle emitting s very faint amount of warp energy.

Hearing of Bolos arrival the local king named Alduin, of the Serathi people has offered his support. He wishes to join the upcoming campaign along with 2000 of his best warriors to show his strength and power to the god emperor.

A. Accept the offer, we could use more men
B. Decline he would serve the imperium better staying home and collecting tithes

>>518529
>A. Accept the offer, we could use more men
Seems good to me

>>518529
A. Accept the offer, we could use more men

For the Emprah!

>>518529
A. Accept the offer, we could use more men

>>518529
A. Accept the offer, we could use more men

Also call all the most powerful warlords to us so they may witness the power our stormtroopers have. This will make them keener to send their best warriors to be trained. It will also show them what happens to those that turn away from the emperor.

Let's give the southern tribes a chance to surrender. The civilians at least. We could have the interrogators check them for heresy. Unless yall want to go straight zealot and raze the villages to the ground.

>>518529
A. Accept the offer, we could use more men

>>518631
No, we have to be sure. We find a tainted tribe we purge them. It is them or us.

>>518631
>>518555
>>518553
>>518546
You accept alduins offer and inspired by his action, summon the lords of the north and the southern regions not associated with the heresy to bear witness to the destruction of the heretics demonstrating what happens to those that turn from the light of the emperor.

The month of training passes uneventfully with only 200 men dying during training, but by its end our men have mastered rudimentary tactics and dicipline. They also have Laverne's to speak and understand some low gothic .Unfortunately our stocks of weapons and ammunition are quite low with las rifles only being given to the best recruits.

One last choice to make before the battle, we could retrofit the shuttles as gunships, which would be extremely useful in the upcoming fight, modifying them would constitute minor tech heresy and upset the mechanicus, it would be difficult to convert them back into transport shuttles afterwards. However it would help win the battle and impress your people showing a willingness to stand up to the mechanicus and showing that you care about preserving their lives.

A. Convert the shuttles
B. Keep them as they are, and fight without air support

>>518690
>B. Keep them as they are, and fight without air support
Tech heresy worst heresy

>>518690
>A. Convert the shuttles

>>518690
B. We need to suck off the mechanicus if we want to get cool shit. We're already short on freaking las rifles, can't afford to antagonize them. Just have some of our storm troopers shoot out the side and use the shuttles as scouts.

>>518690
B. Keep them as they are, and fight without air support

A harder fight, but it will show our force's mettle.

>>518690
>>518694
Changed my vote to B
B. Keep them as they are, and fight without air support

Also when we get a chance we should send out for more basic infantry equipment like flashlights and cardboard vests. Nothing too fancy, just enough to start a PDF.

Doesn't even have to eat into our tithe, just take some of the shitters and teach them to shoot straight,.

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>>518701
>>518697
>>518703
>>518692
You decide against converting the shuttles, deploying them with the doors open, using them for recon, calling targets and firing out the doors at enemies below, not nearly as effective as flamers or heavy bolters though...

The rest of your troops form up as infantry squares with melee troops forming rough squares, protecting archers and men armed with lasguns in the middle of the formations.

Bolo will lead the main assault, with Alduin leading another group. The heretics are estimated to number around 3000 warriors and another 5000 non-combatants.

We also have positioned the station in orbit, over the southern continent, with lances prepared to unleash orbital bombardments, however they are inaccurate and require people on the ground to target the shots.

Please roll a d100+10, I will take the average of the first 3 rolls.

Rolled 29 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>518733

>>518690
>B

They dont have air support, so it wont be too bad. Dont want them calling us cowards for just using them if they are low tech.

Also we should tell them to be careful about any loot they take, If it's a symbol that hurts to look at, set it in a pile, we will have our psycher tell us what we should do then.

Rolled 54 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>518733

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>518733

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>>518743
eeeyo

>>518739
Not, burn everything. If nothing else it will prove our zeal in frustrating the heretic.

>>518771
This, burn everything.

>>518771
Supporting. It will get us points from the Inquisition.

>>518771
Burn Everything yes

>>518743
>>518741
>>518736
average of 69.3

The emperors light shines down upon us this day. You watch from orbit above as our warriors give battle to the heretic scum. The shuttles fly overhead giving constant updates and engaging ground targets best they can, while the infantry push on the heretics, meeting them with bone, blood and steel.

A few minutes into the battle, a massive khornate champion emerges, challenging Bolo to single combat, to the surprise and against everyone's advice, accepts.

Wearing carapace armor and armed with a chainsword and bolt pistol, his equipment and large size make Bolo an imposing figure on the battlefield.

The khornate champion, wearing armor of bone and wielding a massive warp tainted spear meets him in an open clearing.

Bolo and champion circle the clearing, before Bolo moves in to strike, dodging a lightning fast thrust from the champions spear, slowly closing the gap, as he moves into make a final strike, he leaves open a hole in his stance, the champion, moving faster than any natural man could, sidesteps and thrusts into Bolos side...

All watching, are blinded by a flash of light,as the blow is deflected, momentarily stunned by the light, the champion freezes in awe as Bolo disembowels him with his chainsword, quickly moving to his body and taking his head, raising it high in the air and giving a primal yell.

The defeat of their champion breaks will of the red hand tribe and all that followed them into their heretical ways, sending them fleeing into the jungle.

Our men press the pursuit, meanwhile in light of our victory, stormtroopers deploying in sticks of 5 men, jump from the shuttles and surround Red hand village, they quickly slay any men left guarding it and move into the village almost unopposed they find signs of human sacrifice, a bloody fighting pit and a large shrine to Khorne. They now have the villagers at their mercy and are awaiting to execute your orders...

A. Slaughter the villagers, purge the heretics, burn everything
B. Show mercy to the heretics, burn all signs of heresy
C. Other(Write-in)

>>518807
>A. Slaughter the villagers, purge the heretics, burn everything

>>518807
A. Slaughter the villagers, purge the heretics, burn everything

Burn it all, yes.

>>518807
RIP heretics

Just purge the village, heretics, etc but spare the children or newborns. We'll take them back with us to be interrogated.

>>518807
>A. Slaughter the villagers, purge the heretics, burn everything
They are tainted by heresy

how do i roll

>>518807
cleanse. purge. kill

>>518817
Is there a precedent for this? Sounds like its asking for trouble.

>>518807

>A.

No survivors

>>518820
>>518817
>>518813
>>518812

Your elite stormtrooper bodyguards massacre the villagers, showing no mercy to the heretics, gunning down every last one, including the infant children, and setting their huts to the torch. You consider cutting the feed of the massacre to the command center, but leave it running, deciding to show all of your people what happens to heretics under your rule...

Alduin, after being given 2 stormtrooper bodyguards and a voxcaster reports a slaughter of the heretics in his part of the battle, clearly in awe of Imperial technology.

Now that the battle is over, Bolo reveals a rosarius tied around his waist, calling it his little secret. Alduin requests an audience with you as well aboard your floating castle as he calls it.

A. Grant the audience
B. Deny it, the governor has no need for dealing with his primitve subjects

>>518839
Deny but respectfully.

>>518839
>A. Grant the audience
We need good relations with some of the ground people

>>518839

A. Grant the audience

Don't see why not. Sure.

>A

>>518839
Fine. But alert the garrison and don't keep your eyes off him.

What was lost?

>>518857
>>518854
>>518852
>>518846
Alduin boards a shuttle after you inform him you have granted the audience. He is in awe of the space station as the airlock opens and he steps aboard. He meets you in front of your throne in the command center and bows in a dramatic gesture of loyalty.

He cites ancient tradition of noble warriors guarding great kings and offers one of his sons along with the sons of prominent noble families in the Serathi Kingdom to join you as bodyguards.

The Serathi are generally considered the most civilized and advanced people on Tarkon IV and have developed a high medieval level of technology.

A. Accept his offer (gain Serathi highborn bodyguard, can also lead to them serving as officers in the PDF)
B. Primitive grounders need to stay on the ground.... He is dismissed

>>518900
A. Accept his offer (gain Serathi highborn bodyguard, can also lead to them serving as officers in the PDF)

>>518900
A. Accept his offer (gain Serathi highborn bodyguard, can also lead to them serving as officers in the PDF)

They have shown there loyalty, Why not return it? even if Nurgle is best chaos god.

>>518900
>A. Accept his offer (gain Serathi highborn bodyguard, can also lead to them serving as officers in the PDF)

>>518900
The Serathi will be prime allies if we choose to modernize the planet. We should consider arming them with small arms and tactics to unite the planet.

>>518900
Also, A

>>518922
Well to be fair, they can be great/prime allies but we also need to make sure that the other nations/tribes aren't fucked over 100% as we're still sort on manpower and could lose if the half the planet says fuck us.

Send the psyker out every two weeks to scan for warp taint.

>>518929
Of course, but thy should form the backbone of the PDF like the Sihks formed the backbone of the Raj armies. That way, they won't have any qualms about suppressing the other tribes.

>>518922
>>518921
>>518919
>>518909
Over the next few weeks the sons of the great Serathi families slowly but surely move onto the station, getting acclimated to the advanced technology and the finer things in life.

They took their steel mail and longswords and battleaxes with them and are skilled and savage melee fighters, but totally ignorant of modern battlefield tactics and weapons.

They are also skilled riders, although they didnt take their horses with them.

With the station still under construction there is much to do, and you have Bolo continue training the tithed warriors, which we could potentially hand over to the adminstratum or keep as our own PDF, and tithe them some untrained savages instead.

You are sitting in your throne, aimlessly looking at pictures of your homeworld on your datapad, when the command center goes on high alert. Lieutenant Felix reports a contact at the edge of the system.

The contact slowly approaches, before a human voice comes over the vox "Greetings Governor, I came to congratulate on your new position, and to do business, my name is Alexios Tzavaras, leader of the Tzavaras Rogue trader dynasty, greatest traders in the Segementum!, I come bearing gifts, please allow me to board and join me for dinner"

A. Let the Rogue trader dock here, see what he has to say
B. Tell him to fuck off, we have no need for Rogue trader scum

>>518900
>A. Accept his offer (gain Serathi highborn bodyguard, can also lead to them serving as officers in the PDF)
Ensure that we interview them first. Each candidate must prove their loyalty to us, and the Immortal God-Emperor.

>>518939
That's still iffy though, If anything we could do more then just 1 group as the back-bone unless we had cloning tech which I think only a few? worlds have access to in 40k. Or hell just pit the two sides constantly against each other by routing out hersay or the best/most soliders to export.


A. Let the Rogue trader dock here, see what he has to say

>Inb4 Eldar Waifu of the Rogue trader talks shit to us.

>>518947
>A. Let the Rogue trader dock here, see what he has to say
Of course we are going to regret this...but free gifts!

>>518947
A. Let the Rogue trader dock here, see what he has to say
Doesn't hurt to make friends, at least not so far.

>>518947
Fuck me, didn't link, so heres my post. >>518953

>>518947
>A. Let the Rogue trader dock here, see what he has to say

>>518947
A. Let him in.

Also, we should use these noble sons for more than war. They could make capable administrators as well to manage parts of the planet in the future.

It was common for colonial powers to put outside ethnic groups in charge of other ethnic groups to make sure they did not have any other loyalties. These people seem the most eager to embrace change on our terms and so we should support them.

>>518966
That risks making them too capable however, powsibly leading them to develop silly notions of ruling without us/the Imperium.

I would rather just have them trained as the officer class for the PDF. That way we can develop a tradition amongst the nobility of military service to the Golden Throne.

>>518966
We can do such things later on down the live, after we breed it into them.... or on the other hand, I'm pretty sure a few of the females we've decided to dick will make a hopefully good child.

>>518958
>>518955
>>518954
>>518953
You scramble to find out more about this guy, before he docks on your station, asking the old crew if they know anything about him, Felix speaks up saying that his family were small time before the Sabbat crusade, Alexios making a name for himself, supporting the crusade and almost miracilously seeming to show up to battles with supplies for the Imperial guard(for a generous fee of course), allowing them to keep up the fight, he claims he gets it from friendly Guard officers, selling their extra equipment to him, due to munistorum mistakes, there is a well known problem of equipment being distributed to the wrong units, so this could be a true story, or perhaps he is nothing more than a pirate...

You gather your stormtroopers and Landuin, son of Alduin and a half dozen Serathi highborn warriors as an honor guard as you meet this Rogue trader at the airlock..

The door opens revealing a large man, with a bionic arm, eye and what appears to be life extending technology on his body. He steps forward, beaming a smile and eagerly shakes your hand.

You sit down with him in your quarters, cleaning up as best you could on short notice and have your finest food and wine served, while you doubt a extravagantly rich rogue trader is impressed by the dinner offerings of a governor from a second rate frontier world, he does an admirable job of acting impressed. You make some small talk and he offers you a fine gift, a master crafted bolt pistol, used in some crusade or other over a millenia ago, you don't know much about guns, but it seems like a nice enough piece.

He offers to do business, stating that at this point in his life, he rarely does trading himself anymore, and almost exclusively does meetings with important customers.

He offers to sell you some excess Imperial guard equipment he recently acquired, while he can't deliver today, one of his freighters would be by with the first delivery within a week

Between the money you got from your family and the crop of Frenzon you can trade for up to 4 items

A squadron of 5 baneblade tanks(limit of 1 buy)

A shipment of heavy weapons(missile launchers, autocannons, lascannons)

A shipment of 100,000 lasrifles

A Company sized unit of Leman Russ tanks(20 tanks)

A Valkyrie Squadron(5 aircraft)

You could also save your money for other things, and can ask Alexios to possibly find rare, specialty items for you.

What do we want to here?(Write-in)

>>518947

Let him dock.

Also the Serathi sons would work wonders as anti boarding units in our space station. We should run them through some training session With this in mind.

>>519012
A shipment of 100,000 lasrifles
A Company sized unit of Leman Russ tanks(20 tanks)
A Valkyrie Squadron(5 aircraft)

>>519012
>2 shipments of 100,000 lasrifles
>1 A Valkyrie Squadron(5 aircraft)

If I'm misreading this.

>A Valkyrie Squadron(5 aircraft)
>1 shipments of 100,000 lasrifles
>ask Alexios to possibly find rare, specialty items for you. Something too bring the planet up to snuff maybe? or a few friendly tech-priests?

>>519012
>A shipment of 100,000 lasrifles
>A Valkyrie Squadron(5 aircraft) with capable pilots

And due to the recently completed Geological survey
>heavy excavation equipment
>a component workforce from a nearby mining world

>>519012
Las rifles, Valkyrie's and digging/ ore processing equipment. Save 1 trade for a rare item (I do't know enough about 40k to ask...)

Tanks won't due much good in heavy forests and jungles. Gotta Vietnam that shit.

Also, consider taking the best of the noble sons and having them train at the Schola Progenium as officers and administrators.

>>519053
nah, let's do this only the young ones

>>519055
>>519053
Why the fuck would we send them off to the Schola Progenium as Officers and Administrators? The world isn't in need of that yet.

>>519057
Yeah, I read a bit and it looks like we'll loose them if they enroll. They'll just join the larger Adminstratum or Imperial Guard.

Can we sponsor warriors for storm trooper training or can only Inquisitors do that?

>>519066
That I have no idea about. I believe we can request? more storm-troopers or send troops to train as it but there is no promise we'll actually get the 'trained' storm-troopers back because of the demand the greater imperium has... and you know, The imperium constantly has shit misplaced or arriving 100 years later. The warp is a bitch.

Is there anything interesting in the neighboring systems like a space marine chapter or something?

>>519012

>A shipment of heavy weapons(missile launchers, autocannons, lascannons)
>A shipment of 100,000 lasrifles
>A Company sized unit of Leman Russ tanks(20 tanks)
>A Valkyrie Squadron(5 aircraft)

We need a real army before the dark Eldar show up.

>>519178
but we ARE the Dark Eldar.

>>519178
Tanks won't maneuver too well inna woods and it eliminates our feral allies chief advantage when fighting on the planet: surprise.

We also need to diversify our exports so we need the mining equipment. If no one can think of anything else I say we get the heavy weapons as well.

>>519178
Unless we can remove 90% of the forest, Tanks won't help us in the rain forest. The Valkyries, Flash lights and Heavy weapons I can see help us. Though We do need the mining kit at some point.

>>519178
>>519025
>>519022
>>519046
You decide to buy a shipment of lasrifles, a squadron of new-used Imperial guard valkyries
A shipment of heavy mining equipment and have him recruit you a large mining crew to work the new equipment. Since your a new customer and he's such a nice guy, hes even throwing in a free shipment of cadian pattern flak jackets and helmets for us.

You shake on it, and after a night of drinking and chatting, he boards his ship and leaves, taking on a shipment of Frenzine and most of your cash, with the promise of our first shipment in a week.

With Tzavaras gone, you focus on your next step, there were several locations that would make good settlements on the surface, it seems like a good idea to do some development, what should we build?

A. A massive shrine to the God Emperor, reinforcing the Imperial cult, and pleasing the Ecclesiarchy, if and when they ever show up
B. A military training ground, allowing us to train a real PDF in modern tactics and equipment
C. Mining facilities, to support a future mining operation
D. A town, allowing you to better interact with the local people and develop the surrounding area
E. A plantation, allowing us to apply modern technology and farming techniques to harvesting Frenzine, for greater future exports

>>519217
>C. Mining facilities, to support a future mining operation
E. A plantation, allowing us to apply modern technology and farming techniques to harvesting Frenzine, for greater future exports

>>519217
>E. A plantation, allowing us to apply modern technology and farming techniques to harvesting Frenzine, for greater future exports

Money first, We just purged an entire group of chaos worshipers so nobody should be questioning our faith for atleast a few years.

Flash lights really are't that hard to teach somebody to use, and we have air-craft 'supposedly' coming so no need for the town.

Mining facilities simply need to be wooden houses at the moment as we have the heavy machinary coming soon.

>>519217
>C. Mining facilities, to support a future mining operation

We should prioritize construction in this order:
1. Mine
2. Plantations
3. Shrine
4. Town
5. PDF

We want to recoup the costs of the new equipment and get a nice nest egg going before we seriously start modernizing the world.

We also want to make sure the would-be citizens are thoroughly indoctrinated before trying to actually build a modern Imperial society and army.

>>519217
>C. Mining facilities, to support a future mining operation

>>519231
Actually switch me out in favor of better plantations. I forget we don't have our equipment yet but it should be the next thing on our list.

>>519237
You know what switch >>519233
To plantations

>>519233
>>519231
>>519228
>>519224
You order the construction of mining facilities, building several barracks and living quarters buildings, as well as dining facilities, bathrooms and even a small shrine to the god-emperor

Construction begins on the facilities after a few weeks of planning, true to his word, each week a new shipment arrives, first the lasguns, then the Valkyries and finally the mining equipment. People are starting to complain that the storage bays on the space station are getting a little too full.

The freighter captain mentioned that the mining workers are still being recruited, and that Tzavaras has had to give generous bonuses to get people to move out here.

As you try to figure out what to do while the mining facilites are getting built, you are rudely awoken in the middle of the night once again, by the arrival of Inquisitor Coreas.

You don your best clothes and once again pay your respects. Upon boarding the station and getting a status report both from you and his acolytes he seems pleased that the heresy has been dealt with, he has also brought a guest, a Deacon Abrams, from the Ecclesiarchy to ensure compliance on our world with the Imperial Cult, he is accompanied by a large staff of clerical retainers as well as some more zealous armed retainers, his mere presence aboard the station makes you uncomfortable.

Corean once again asks for provisions but this time he also wants to collect his acolytes.

To both his and your surprise, Bolo and Pate request to stay on with you, having grown close to your staff and the men they were training.

Corean, after a few moments of pondering agrees

Would you like to keep Pate and Bolo on staff, or release them back to the Inquisitors service

A. Keep them on
B. Release them from your service

>>519262
>A. Keep them on

>>519262
A. Keep them on

I don't like the priest though, especially not his retainers. If we can't get rid of him tell him to loose those. Say something about not having enough room on the space station.

>>519262
>A. Keep them on

>>519273
By those I mean the retainers.

>>519262
A. Keep them on

if they want why not?

>>519273
We can't tell the church to shove off. They will brand us a heretic, probably literally brand us

>>519283
We just scorched an entire heretic settlement, which I'm sure we played for the inquisitor. He can come on board but he can't bring his armsmen.

>>519275
>>519273
>>519265
You are glad to welcome Pate and Bolo formally on to your staff, although Deacon Abrams is already giving Pate smouldering look, apparently hes not a big fan of psykers.

Abrams demands living quarters set aside for himself and his retainers as well as a tour of the planet as soon as possible, as well as an introduction to the local chiefs, to ensure they are faithful to the god emperor...

Also the miners have finally shown up and are ready to get to work, mining gold, silver and iron ore for us.

They have signed on to a 10 year contract, but perhaps if we develop the world and treat them well they will agree to stay on and settle here permanently.

You are not pleased with the Deacons presence aboard your station, and tend to stay on the opposite end, staying in your quarters when he is in the command center, and staying in the public areas when he is in his living quarters...

He has gleefully watched the massacre of the heretic village several times but apparently still has doubts of our faith, claiming we only did it because of pressure from the Inquisitor.

What should we do? Introducing the Deacon to the local lords could potentially undo all we have worked for on this world, undermining our authority and destroying our credibility with the locals

>>519296
Introduce him to the lords, the more loyal and religiously imperial, after explaining to them his "foibles."

>>519296
This is a write in

>>519296
Well we have to do as he's asked. But we need to start building a shrine or figure a way to prove how much we love the Emperor.

>>519296
>>519308
Did we get rid of his armed retainers?

Anyways, I think its best to keep him isolated for now. I get the impression we are in the inquisitor's good graces no matter what opinion the lowly deacon has of us.

If we must, we can take him to a general assembly of lords but don't introduce him personally to every lord.

>>519296
Say he can meet them all when we unveil our new glorious shrine to the emperor made from gold mined from our own planet!

>>519326
This. Tell him it would be the best most fitting way to introduce a man of the cloth. He can even preform the first service. Stroke his ego a bit.

>>519306
>>519310
>>519324
>>519334
>>519326
You have the miners focus on ore, smelting massive amounts, as you stall the Deacon, meanwhile you have our builders design, a massive shrine to the Emperor, including a large gold statue. After a few weeks of rushed labor, most of the shrine is done, enough to present to the Deacon anyways.

A summons is sent out to all the local lords, to present the new shrine, and the Deacon is given the honor of the performing the first service.

Fortunately the Deacon runs a very long service, extolling faith in the emperor, long enough that most of the lords conveniently retire for the night before having to speak to him, after some coaching you have Anduin and a few of the more acclimated lords speak to him. Fortunately they seem to satisfy his concerns about the faith of our subjects for now. You out of the kindness of your heart have living quarters and a self sufficient enclave built around the shrine, so that the Deacon and his followers can live there instead of the station, getting them out of your hair for now at least...

Its just another day of drinking and fornicating, when alarms begin to go off all over the station, you throw on some clothes, grab your new bolt pistol and rush to the command center. You find Pate and Landuin already in the command center, apparently Pate sensed a disturbance in the warp, on the far side of Tarkon IV, within a few moments , station sensors picked up multiple contacts, likely small space craft...

You ask for a status report, and as Felix begins to answer, something starts jamming our sensors, Pate begins to start shaking as he senses several small warp presences near the station, a moment later you hear a large crash as the station loses power and the dim lights of the auxiliary systems come on.

Pate seems to suddenly focus and says the dark eldar are here....

Whats our next move?(this is a write-in)

>>519460
>Get power back online
>Have guards form up around the important locations and yourself as they prepare for the dark eldar, including crew members to repair and get the power back on.
>If possible send a message to the Big I fuck about the Dark Eldar showing up.

>>519460
>>519502
>Afterwards arm the men you were training as part of your tithe with the rifles and armor.

>Get a message down to the miners to arm themselves with their equipment.

>Get the Valkyries armed and on standby

>Sounds a general SOS for nearby forces

>>519262
The inquisitor let his retinue just quit service and join us? Sure, okay, your quest.

>>519460
>>519502
Supporting. All communications are probably jammed already.

>>519551
>>519552
I meant send a message if possible via our Pskyer? Its not as good as an astropath but 'BUT OH SHIT NIGGAH, EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE' still gets the point across.

Remember they rely on rapid action and movement, lock them the fuck down.

>>519460

>>519551
>>519502
^this
Try not to get the Valkyries engaged with the D.Eldar Flyers, unless necessary. Get them to land troops and do strafing runs on the Eldars as they try to disembark and invade the planet

>>519502
Supporting

>>519959
Who said they were going to the planet? We just lost power.

And the only thing stopping the Eldar from taking every man, woman, and child from the planet below is this station and its, now, offline defenses.

Get ready for boarding action, mateys.

>>520018
>And the only thing stopping the Eldar from taking every[one from the planet]..is this station and its, now, offline defenses.
exactly, why would they (mostly) bother with an offline defence when they could just shoot us to stardust or simply slipping past us to the undefended.

damnation, we need that power back up. Prepare for boarding action regardless; we have VIPs to safeguard, namely us.

>>519460

In retrospective we should have mentioned the ghost readings we go early on to the inquisitior.

Our priorities should be prepared to repel boarders and restart the station defenses.

>>520286
>>520018
>>520006
>>519959
>>519595
>>519563
>>519552
>>519551
>>519502
You tell Pate to try to contact imperial forces while you gather up men to repel boarders, as you bark orders you are interrupted by pate "they are coming, everyone arm selves and move to the edges of the room" terrified of both the psyker and his warning you reluctantly stand up from your throne and take cover against a bulkhead, you have your bodyguards close around you and the rest, along with the naval ratings take positions on the edge of the room.

You tensely wait a few moments before several dark eldar seem to warp into real space around your command throne, almost as if coming from the shadows of the dimly lit command room....

There is a brief moment of shock and hesitation before your men open up on the dark eldar, the sheer firepower of 30 men armed with shotguns, lasguns and bolt pistols ripping the Xenos apart. After a moment you raise your own pistol adding it's bark to the chorus of death in the command center...

>>520352
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-EOg38t1o

>>520352
That was easy.
...
Too easy...

>>520352
Even with the creatures dead, their black flesh and formless faces are extremely unsettling seemingly giving off an aura of cold emptiness and fear in the room... You gather your wits about you and grab the highest ranking stormtrooper bodyguard, a sergeant and order him to take a dozen men and gather the defenders, having them protect key locations on the station... You order the doors sealed and seat yourself in one of the officer chairs, as your throne was destroyed by gunfire.

Inexplicably the power comes back on, and your men quickly retake their positions in the command center, augur scanners now picking up numerous unknown contacts but several imperial vessels as well, looking to match the profiles of a dauntless class light cruiser and several corvettes.

A moment later a familiar voice comes over the vox... "Tarkon station this is Inquisitor Corean, prepare to receive reinforcements"

The pictofeed shows dark eldar warriors falling back to their boarding craft in a panic as our men repel them with renewed vigor

You watch the dock feed as you see a sleek black corvette, unmarked in covered in strange black paint disgorge inquisition storm troopers who nove to engage the boarders...

It seems the inquisition used us as bait for the Xenos. Angry you call over to Corean asking the meaning of his actions, he quickly corrects you stating his rank is actually lord inquisitor and urges you to calm down, as the operation was a complete success and the entire Kabal was destroyed.

The corvette quickly departs, being replaced by another, carrying the lord inquisitor himself...

You sit down to a surprisingly pleasant dinner where he gloats about guessing the location of a webway gate and massacring the dark eldar as they struck our world with his small fleet of inquisitorial ships lying in wait in low orbit....

You drink quite a bit owing to the events that transpired that day and wake up the next morning with a massive hangover...

You recall a disaster on the station and being rescued by the lord inquisitor, talking to the crew then seem to also be feeling strange, but grateful to be alive after a disaster in space.

You also recall having Pate and Bolo return to his service and agreeing to him setting up a small base on the uninhabited North Pole of the planet.

When you finally make your way up to the command center you recall that your throne was destroyed in the disaster but the details seem to elude you... Although you do feel a strange sense of dread and fear looking at the destroyed chair...

>>520413
To to your surprise the inquisition generously offers to aid in repairing your station despite already rescuing you from the disaster, you accept as you take on several engineers and a tech priest who quickly enact repairs, the tech priest seems intent on checking your console of your augur scanner claiming that it was damaged, seeing no reason to challenge him, you allow it, while engineers take your measurements for the design of a new custom command chair...

The repairs complete in record time, the inquisition workers return to their ship.

You find they also helped finish the additional docking bays as your read through mining reports on your dataslate and summon Lieutenant Felix on the next improvements to be made on the station...

A. A ballroom and luxury suites for entertaining high ranking guests

B. An armory and training center, allowing our men to work out and practice their marksmanship

C. A fully equipped medical bay, allowing the treatment of most injuries and Illnesses

D. A hydroponics bay, allowing us to grow food on the station

>>520425
B. An armory and training center, allowing our men to work out and practice their marksmanship

Since we just got a huge load of lasguns, it seems like now would be a good time to have the men trained in them

>>520425
B. An armory and training center, allowing our men to work out and practice their marksmanship

let's build up our forces so we're more able to defend ourselves in the future

>>520425

B. Armory

Without a planetary nobility I don't see much point in having a ballroom

A. A ballroom and luxury suites for entertaining high ranking guests

with the heretics on the ground dead, the dark eldar in space dead, and the inquisition in the north making sure neither of those things get a second wind, the only immediate threat might just be disgruntled feudal lords. If we can couple our boy's charming charisma with a number of top tier balls in the revered "sky palace" we might just pacify any rebellious thoughts among the lords before they have a chance to become armies.

>>5201518
* "Floating Castle"

>>520425
>C. A fully equipped medical bay, allowing the treatment of most injuries and Illnesses

>>520425
>A. A ballroom and luxury suites for entertaining high ranking guests

We need to secure our control over the planet before we can expand our monetary base. We already have the =][= on the planet, and we have enough troopers, or equipment for troopers, to generally defend the planet and put down rebellions. We should focus on industrializing and bringing the planet up to a higher level of technology. To do that, we'll need to get buddy-buddy with the locals.

>>520425
>B. An armory and training center, allowing our men to work out and practice their marksmanship

>>520425
C. A fully equipped medical bay, allowing the treatment of most injuries and illnesses.

For the time being our planet is secure from threats save for disease and injury.

>>520425
C. A fully equipped medical bay, allowing the treatment of most injuries and Illnesses

>>520425
>A. A ballroom and luxury suites for entertaining high ranking guests

An armory on the station wouldn't do us as much good as building a proper mustering ground on the planet.

>>520493
Can I still change my answer to A?

>>520425

B. An armory and training center, allowing our men to work out and practice their marksmanship

>B
So the next chance we get build the medical stuff. We've been putting it off too long. Then the ballroom because we'll need to entertain

>>520987
>>520924
>>520499
>>520493
Armory just squeaks ahead of with 5 votes compared to 3 for medical center, and 3 for ballroom, guess you guys dont care much about space farming...


We also still need to come up with a name for our noble governor, I will submit Jace Valoran, of the famous Valoran dynasty.

You sit idly in your comfy new throne, as you go over the reports from the workmen installing the new armory, progress is going well and you expect it to be finished in a few weeks.

It will be nice to have a place to properly store and organize some of your weapons on the station, making it possible to operate a small military force in all aspects, of supplying them, training them and being able to rapidly deploy them from the station. You even find a few times a week to push some iron in the gym for the god emperor or doing some range practice with your bolt pistol.

The rest of the military equipment is placed in storage either on the surface under guard, or is still in storage bays on the station.

All is going well, as there is an excellent Frenzine harvest and mining continues to yield significant returns, the mining equipment having almost paid for itself after less than 6 months of operation.

Feeling flush, you request to communicate with Tzavaras, as you would like to spend your newfound wealth on something...

What would you like to ask about?

A. Military equipment, you can never have enough firepower

B. Special equipment(construction, farming, mining), the economy can never be too developed

C. Mercenaries, it might be a good idea to bring in some professionals to form a core for our military

D. A small ship (corvette, freighter), you would like to some trading/exploring of your own

E. Something special(specialists, artifacts, basically the write in option)

>>521042
I prefer Maximilian Archulus Tiberius Valoran

>>521046
I like this more than my idea

>>521046
>>521049
The ch is pronounced k.

Also, should probably get some ships to act as monitors.

>>521042
>E. Something special(specialists, artifacts, basically the write in option)
>People who know how to and can manfanfactor our weapons/armor for our people onboard the station. Wither that be tech-priests or just skilled Humans.

It'd be nice being able to produce our own Lasguns/Cell packs, ect.

>>521042
>B. Special equipment(construction, farming, mining), the economy can never be too developed

Our ultimate goal should be a somewhat technologically advanced planet without going full hive or forge.

>>521042
> D. A small ship (corvette, freighter), you would like to some trading/exploring of your own

Having a few light ships will allow us to project power in the system more effectively and better defend against Dark Eldar raiders or other threats.

We already have the plantations and mines up and running, lets start locking down the system as a whole and perhaps look for resources on the other planets with our new ships.

>>521046
Also I like this name

>>521049
I'm also a fan of this name, especially because it totally shortens to "max valor"

>>521042
>E. Something special(specialists, artifacts, basically the write in option)
>I second the idea to find a tech-priest specialist, especially if they have any experience at raising feral worlds up to the "somewhat technologically advanced" level.

>>521042
>B. Special equipment(construction, farming, mining), the economy can never be too developed
Let's get some hydroponics going on!!

What about "Voge Gandire"?

>>521042
>C. Mercenaries, it might be a good idea to bring in some professionals to form a core for our military

>>521042
E. Something special(specialists, artifacts, basically the write in option)
Techpriest keep an eye peeled for tech heresy. Can also help us keep things running and assist in building our other expansions bigger.

>>521225
>>521128
>>521059
You request that Tzavaras use his connections, to recruit you a techpriest to help our planet develop technology, and avoid any potential tech heresy.

You make sure the freighter captain is properly dined and given a fine room, with one of the Tarkon girls before sending him back to make the request from Tzavaras.

Down on the surface, there is still plenty of land to develop and it looks to be plenty of resources and manpower available for a new project

A. A military training ground, allowing us to train a real PDF in modern tactics and equipment
B. A town, allowing you to better interact with the local people and develop the surrounding area
C. A plantation, allowing us to apply modern technology and farming techniques to harvesting Frenzine, for greater future exports
D. A lumber processing plant, allowing you to stockpile wood resources for export
E. Other(write-in)

>>521245
B. A town, allowing you to better interact with the local people and develop the surrounding area

>>521245
>B. A town, allowing you to better interact with the local people and develop the surrounding area

>>521245
B. A town, allowing you to better interact with the local people and develop the surrounding area
This will also help us watch of potential chaos cults easier. Our next move should be food while space base does military

>>521245
>B. A town, allowing you to better interact with the local people and develop the surrounding area

Keep a close eye, set up a model for us to demonstrate the effectiveness of our rule. I assume the town would be directly ruled by us. I propose the name of "Valorum".

>>521260
>>521254
>>521250
>>521249
>>521260

A settlement is constructed with modern housing, a small market place, some warehouses and a basic wall with some watchtowers, just in case the natives get rowdy.

It doesnt take long before a groups of peasants impressed by the technological wonders of town, build a shanty town outside its walls, providing easy access to laborers and allowing our people to set up simple bartering, paying the peasants in food for doing low level labor, exposing them to machines and modern tech.

While you watch the construction of the town from orbit in your command chair, you are alerted to a contact at the edge of the system...

An imperial freighter it seems, it docks and you briefly chat with the captain before the techpriest, Xeroth disembarks introducing himself and requesting quarters, you quickly have a servant lead him there.

You speak to the captain, who brings the an offer from Tzavaras, for another shipment of Frenzine he is willing to loan you one of his astropaths indefinitely, he also has another offer, seeing the conditions of your world are decent for agriculture, he offers to give you a shipment of Tallasian grape seeds, allowing you to start several large vineyards, in exchange he wants half the wine produced, indefinitely...

The captain also generously has several hundred casks of Tallasian wine brought aboard, for your tasting pleasure...

Should we take the deals?(you may take one, both, or none)

>>521297
Take them both but only 30% of the wine is his. He knows it's still an incredible deal.

>>521301

This

>>521297
Take the casks of wine, but say that we need to mull over the deal.

Indefinite free exports, hell no.

>>521312
good point

Tzavaras is probably testing our bartering skills on this one anyway, just to see if we'll fold.

>>521312
Yeah I agree. Permanent percentage is bullshit. Haggle like fuck

>>521312
^This
bloody, half of the produce. man this guy really goes for it. 25-30% maybe.
barter time?

>>521301
>>521306
>>521324
>>521317
>>521325
Roll 1d100+10(persuasion skill bonus) for the haggle attempt, I will take average of first 3 rolls

Rolled 32 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>521328

Rolled 36 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>521328

Rolled 56 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>521328

dice+1d100+10

>>521349
it goes in the [options] line

>>521349
ya, sorry. i'll get it next time

>>521328
Loving your style OP, I will join in some other day.

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>>521364
or you can join now, brother!

>>521346
>>521341
>>521330
An average of 51, a very average result, the captain, a great nephew of Tzavaras, is initially insulted by your attempt to barter but your charm and a little of that Tallasian wine seem to win him over, agreeing to let you the seeds for a 40% cut for the Rogue trade(we can always change the terms if the balance of power changes in our favor)

Relatively satisfied with the deal, you have the seeds placed into storage until some land can be cleared for a proper vineyard.

Xeroth, your new techpriest wishes to know where he can be of great service to you and the Omnissiah

A. Have him check out the space station, see if any other improvements/repairs can be made
B. Have him look into our mining operations, seeing if efficiency and production cannot be improved
C. Have him look at our fleet of shuttles and valkyries
D. Other(write-in)

>>521364
Thanks! Feel free to join in at any time, I am almost done for tonight, but I have been posting intermittently through the day and plan to continue as long as there is interest.

You guys can always check out my twitter

Shmeh hosting @TeamShmeh to check out my previous work, I ran several very succesful civ threads before giving a warhammer quest a shot

>>521394
A. Have him check out the space station, see if any other improvements/repairs can be made

>>521394
>A. Have him check out the space station, see if any other improvements/repairs can be made

>>521394
D. Other(write-in)
Start slowly introducing simple and primitive technology to the peasants, that can imrpove their daily life and ways to communicate like radio waves or landlines.

>>521394
A. Have him check out the space station, see if any other improvements/repairs can be made

>>521394
>A. Have him check out the space station, see if any other improvements/repairs can be made

Our station sees a lot of action, we should try to make sure it's in good condition.

we'd probably want Xeroth to take a loot at all of these eventually anyway, so we might as well start with
>A. Have him check out the space station, see if any other improvements/repairs can be made

and if there are enough days in the month, look at C and B after, depending on our priority preference

>>521430
>>521417
>>521408
>>521403
>>521448
You have Xeroth focus on the space station first, over the course of his inspection he finds several rushed hull repairs,he also is able to make some improvements to the power sources, increasing the power of our lances and void shields.

Afterwards he pulls you aside and tells you he found signs of possible tampering in the records of the augur scanner....

A few days later you are notified of a freighter entering the system, it comes carrying your astropath you got from Tzavaras, you are not sure how he got his hands on enough astropaths that he can trade them out to people, but you are not asking too many questions...

You greet the blind psyker, and bring him to his astropathic chamber. He stands ready to start sending messages across the Imperium, giving us a link to the greater universe.

What message would you like to send first?

A. Send a message home to your family, House Valoran will be quite pleased to hear from you, and maybe willing to grant support
B. Send a message to the Sectoral commander, hopefully getting your relationship off to the right foot, its never too early to get involved in sectoral politics
C. Send a message to Tzavaras, you have decided you wish to trade for something\

Alright guys thats all I got for tonight. Have a good one!

>>521473
A. Send a message home to your family, House Valoran will be quite pleased to hear from you, and maybe willing to grant support

A world, even a poor one, is not to be thrown away lightly. Our family should be our first concern as they're more likely to give a damn about us than anyone else.

>>521473
>A. Send a message home to your family, House Valoran will be quite pleased to hear from you, and maybe willing to grant support

>>521473
> A. Send a message home to your family, House Valoran will be quite pleased to hear from you, and maybe willing to grant support

Gotta call mummy

contacting family first seems a good idea, but we will need to look into the affairs of the Sectoral Commander eventually.
so just as a string on our collective fingers I vote
>B. Send a message to the Sectoral commander, hopefully getting your relationship off to the right foot, its never too early to get involved in sectoral politics

>>521473
>A. Send a message home to your family, House Valoran will be quite pleased to hear from you, and maybe willing to grant support

We ain't ded yet.

>>521473
>A. Send a message home to your family, House Valoran will be quite pleased to hear from you, and maybe willing to grant support

>>521473
D. All of the above.

How long does it take to send a message?

Also, what is our name?

>>521695
can't argue with that logic actually. maybe its too taxing on the messenger to send a thought literal lightyears?
also, the majority of us seem to be going with Maximilian Archulus Tiberius Valoran

>>521695
...so it doesn't look like astropaths are particularly strained by the process, but they do need to go though a lot of preparation and premeditation in order to make each individual message understandable and unmolestable by warp shenanigans. basically we may want to prepare for him a to-do list for who to contact and roughly what to transmit, but that's pretty much it. (keeping in mind astropaths communicate with each other not through words but through impressions and images)

*aren't strained

>>521473
>A. Send a message home to your family, House Valoran will be quite pleased to hear from you, and maybe willing to grant support

>>521473
A. Send a message home to your family, House Valoran will be quite pleased to hear from you, and maybe willing to grant support

The nerve of the GM, going to sleep and shit.

>>521847
lol, I was actually just thinking "wow, there are actually still people awake enough to way in on who our hypothetical governor should space-call first?"

>>521849
Prank call the inquisition, obviously.

>>521851
not sure we're on thick enough ice (pun intended) with them for that, anon. earlier we had a bit of a crisis with heretics in the jungle, followed by dark eldar in space, both of which the =I= helped/silently judged us with, so now they have a base on our north pole (kinda like Santa Clause, if Santa gave Armageddon instead of coal)

I'm really keen on becoming the go too place for the =][= Love the idea of being their guy as it were, we run their retreat for time off

>>521477
>>521479
>>521538
>>521541
>>521594
>>521662
>>521695
>>521765
>>521799
You first reach out to your family on Laros Secundus the hive world where you grew up, it has been governed by your family for almost 10 millennia, after being granted to your great great great great grandfather for his service in the great crusade

You express feeling of warmth and happiness and optimism for the future. You also have the astropath request aid for your growing colony best be can.

You send a warm greeting to the sectoral commander, expressing happiness and a willingness to help.

Satifisfied with those communications you allow the astropath go about his strange work of sending messages.

You return to your command chair inspecting the days reports...

You see the town is nearing completion and we will be able to start another project on the surface.

A. A plantation, using local labor and modern equipment and techniques to eifficiently harvest frenzine for export
B. A farm and food processing plant, critical for expanding the population
C. A military training ground. Important if we ever want to turn our savages into a real pdf
D. A secure underground bunker, an alternative back up command center buried deep under the surface of tarkon IV

>>521923
>A. A plantation, using local labor and modern equipment and techniques to eifficiently harvest frenzine for export
Wealth before population

>>521923
C. A military training ground. Important if we ever want to turn our savages into a real pdf
More Frenzine might lead to more Korne cultists especially if our pop finds a way to enhance it. We need more control before we start pumping out Frenzine or increasing pop.

>>521923
>A. A plantation, using local labor and modern equipment and techniques to eifficiently harvest frenzine for export

With enough money we can purchase higher population...

>>521923
>A. A plantation, using local labor and modern equipment and techniques to eifficiently harvest frenzine for export

Money may not solve every problem, but for those it can't it'll buy the solution.

>>521948
>>521940
>>521928
Simply equipping the peasant farmers with basic steel farming implements has already helped increase our yields and gradually acclimate them to new technology. Unfortunately we are short on tractors and farm machines and will need to trade for them or manufacture our own if we really want to take our farming to the next level.

You have heard disturbing reports of Deacon Abrams disrupting the local population around the imperial shrine, culminating in the burning of several "heretics" and leading to s local witch hunt, with locals reporting their enemies as heretics....

He has also had his acolytes traveling to nearby villages demanding tithes to most holy imperial ecclesiarchy, undermining our authority and enraging the populace.

He has also insulted several local chieftains that have previously demonstrated loyalty and cooperation towards us.

It seems we may have to choose between our vassals or the ecclesiarchy

A. Chastise deacon Abrams for overstepping his authority and disrupting imperial rule

B. Have the local lords arrested as heretics and traitors and executed

C. Call for s meeting and see if you can't keep the peace roll a d100+10 and take the average of the first 3 rolls

>>521973
>C. Call for s meeting and see if you can't keep the peace roll a d100+10 and take the average of the first 3 rolls

>>521973
>C. Call for s meeting and see if you can't keep the peace roll a d100+10 and take the average of the first 3 rolls

>>521985
>>521978
Go ahead and do the roll

Rolled 65 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>521990
I mean personally I think we should arrange an "accident" for the deacon, as he will just cause a lot of problems until we finally get the whole world to at least know of the god-emperor, but until then lets try to explain to them that this is not going to go on forever.

>>521973

A. Chastise deacon Abrams for overstepping his authority and disrupting imperial rule

Rolled 76 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>521990

Rolled 24 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>521990

Rolled 31 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>521990
>C.

>>521973

I want to replace the deacon with someone from Missionaria Galaxia far more suitable for a primitive world like ours.

>>522143
We had a magic blind guy that can send messages

>>522043
>>522005
>>521999
Average of 65, a solid success

You approach each party separately visiting the deacon first. Accompanied by a very large bodyguard you request that he stop collecting from villagers and that he should be requesting approval from either myself or the inquisition before punishing people for heresy

You approach the lords asking them to make a donation to the local shrine and start attending prayer thrice a week to show their devotion to the god emperor.

Both sides are dissatisfied but ultimately agree to the deal. Keeping the peace for now....

You are sleeping off a major hangover when you are notified that the astropath had received s message from home. You visit the astropathic chamber and record the information on your dataslate

Without asking your permission your father has decided to send you several ships of hivers from the overflowing cities of Laros Secundus as colonists to your planet he also is sending another unit of elite bodyguards and your younger brother Karl Franz, you had not seen him much in your last few years at home, but that was because he was in and out of rehabilitation, a spoiled degenerate even by aristocratic standards. Your father used to say he drank like a heretic and smelled like one too. Apparently your father believes sending him out to the frontier you can help make a man out of him...

He's also sending your cousin Reynaldo Detorio, a few years older than you and from your mothers side of the family, generally considered a good man, he has been honored as a war hero serving with distinction in the second battle of Armageddon as a colonel in a tank regiment, his skill and experience in military matters will be most useful.

Taking in this news you head to the command center, but as you get there you are notified of an incoming message from tzavaras, apparently he has recently acquired several shipments of imperial guard equipment

You have enough items to barter for 5 items

A squadron of baneblades

A squadron of Valkyries

A shipment of lasguns

A shipment of heavy weapons

A company of leman Russ battle tanks

A company of basilisk artillery

A company of chimera apcs

Would you be interested in any of this stuff? What would you like?(write in)

>>522171
A shipment of lasguns

A shipment of heavy weapons

A company of leman Russ battle tanks

A company of basilisk artillery

A company of chimera apcs

>>522171
>Heavy weapons
>Bane Blades
>Leman Russ Tanks
>Chimera APCs
>More Valkyries

We can use this equipment to form a mechanized armored battalion led by Reynaldo and can augment our air support capabilities for places where the tanks can't reach.

Don't know what we're going to do with the Hiver scum. They sound like they'll cause a load of trouble with the natives.

I'm sure we can find Franzy boy somthing to do on the station or in the town. He seems moslty harmless.

>>522176
We already got enough lasguns and Valkyries will be more useful for fire support than basilisk as they can act as transports and are less susceptible to ambushes in the thick forest.

>>522171
Also, we should get into contact with the local forge world/imperial guard garrison and start looking to them for hardware. Relying on Rouge Traders is not good in the long run.

>>522185
I was thinking more of just getting a basic regiment for our use.

>>522192
We got a seasoned armored commander on the way, we should take advantage of that.

Anyways like I said, we have our basic equipment already in the form of lasguns and flak armor.

>>522197
Ok, makes sense. Also, how do we already have baneblades. I thought they where one per regiment

>>522199
Because Rouge Traders.

>>522171
Can we have a count of our current armed forces?

>>522202
I say no for baneblades, mecanicus will be pissed. He shouldn't have baneblades

>>522204
I'd rather have the baneblades and deal with possibly butthurt cogboys down the line. Right now we have the chance to create a not just adequate but entirely formidable garrison led by an experienced commander. We'd be fools not to take it.