>>2576695

>Get the meeting with Inquisitor Valastron over with

>>2576695
>Get the meeting with Inquisitor Valastron over with
Do not tarry with the Inquisition.

>>2576830
This

>>2576993
also, a question,
are the tax reforms underway and our coffers on their way to being filled or do we need some more work on that?

>>2576695
>Get the meeting with Inquisitor Valastron over with

After reading the last thread's meeting with the houses over again, I definitely want to ask him more about the houses. Especially the house that handles data, that's just a fuckhuge vulnerability.

>>2577006
They WERE underway, before all hell broke loose. We'll need to check on them - every service works better once we start funding it, according to the QM.

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>>2577162
>>2576830
>>2576721
>Get the meeting with Inquisitor Valastron over with

No sense it putting this off any longer. You make for your father’s private study, where Valastron’s pet waits. As soon as you cycle the locks, the figure sets up the portable hololith, the ghost-image of the Inquisitor coming into view.

“Governor, your report?” he says without preamble.

You sigh, relaying the entire meeting to him. Never once does he ask a question, nor does his attendant ever flinch. Finally he speaks as you are about to talk about your wedding decision. “Pogron. You said his dockyards are contested?”

“Yes Lord” you nod slowly. Valastron is deep in thought. “It may not be anything, but Inquisitor Reina was there and had gone dark a little before the attack...there may be a connection there. I want you to pledge your support for lord Pogron first. Send your best. Small squad. I don’t want you helping him. Not yet. I want to find out exactly what is happening out there. Once I have what I want you will be free to help secure the dockyards.”

“But my lord, what of the insurrection? The raiders.”

Silence again. “True, that is also an issue. I leave it to your discretion who to aid first. Whoever attacked the fortress was powerful. Very powerful. This rot needs to be found and expunged. The alternative is...” he lets that sentence hang in the air.

> “My lord, if I may…”(ask Inquisitor Valastron something)(3)
> “Inquisitor.” (close conversation)

>>2577842
>> “My lord, if I may…”(ask Inquisitor Valastron something)(3)

Ask if he's opposed to us pressuring Pogron to vote with us in the Senatorum to refortify and reindustrialize the hives by suggesting that our help may be dependent on his support.

Ask about the loyalty of House Kotashi-Kreiber - they offered no suit of marriage, seem largely untouched by the carnage, and would have had opportunities to learn many secrets in their roles as wardens of the system's data-looms.

Ask if there is any awareness of the role of House Nakara in the misfortunes of House Nellon. We kind of need to know who's betraying whom and how heretically. A general question about heretical taint in the Great Houses of the system would be useful.

Ask if he cares about us using xenos and borderline tech-heresy for the benefit of the system's defense. It'll tell us the extent to which we're fucked if we manage to survive the hive fleet. The Imperium can still decide to wipe us off the map for heresy.

>>2577959
This.

>>2577959
This is good I think

>>2578311
I have to agree with This, this is good. Lets go with this.

Tldr: This.

>>2577959
>>2578327
Dis.

>>2578432
>>2578327
>>2578311
>>2578269
Thanks, anons

>>2577959
>Ask if he cares about us using xenos and borderline tech-heresy for the benefit of the system's defense. It'll tell us the extent to which we're fucked if we manage to survive the hive fleet. The Imperium can still decide to wipe us off the map for heresy.

But were not doing heresy... servitor carnifex is an idea that has backfire written all over it.

>>2577959
>>2578269
>>2578311
>Ask if he's opposed to us pressuring Pogron to vote with us in the Senatorum to refortify and re industrialize the hives by suggesting that our help may be dependent on his support.

“I honestly couldn’t care less how you run your system Governor, I’m here to excise the rot that grows in the shadows.

>Ask about the loyalty of House Kotashi-Kreiber - they offered no suit of marriage, seem largely untouched by the carnage, and would have had opportunities to learn many secrets in their roles as wardens of the system's data-looms.

“They are...a problem,” Lord Valastron admits. “They seem completely honest, even participating with investigations into their House. I’ve never met a noble house more willing than they are to prove their innocence. And that in itself is troubling.

>Ask if there is any awareness of the role of House Nakara in the misfortunes of House Nellon. We kind of need to know who's betraying whom and how heretically. A general question about heretical taint in the Great Houses of the system would be useful.

“All houses deal with the raiders and the pirates. We know of that. Even yours did on occasion. It was inter-house politics so we do not care how you nobles play your strange games.”

“Enough questions Governor Arthur, I’m not Bromwell. I have other matters to pursue as do you. I suggest you get on them. Interrogator Vors.”

He turns to the stoic man in the corner of the room. “You will be my eyes and ears Vors.” His face turns back to you. “Use him well Lord Governor. AS an interrogator he may help you with your own investigations, and through that mine as well. Valastron out.”

The hololith blinks twice before the image disappears. Vors packs the bulky hololith away in a stow-bag he had, giving you a mirthless grin. “Looking forward to working with you.”

>Back to your desk (Start governing)
>Start assembling a team(Deal with the nobles’ problems)
>Other (Write in)

>>2580422
>Start assembling a team(Deal with the nobles’ problems)

>>2580422
>>Start assembling a team(Deal with the nobles’ problems)

>>2580422
>Back to your desk (Start governing)

>>2580456
>>2580630
As much as I'd like to fix some things directly, I think we have some top-level problems to manage for the system as a whole first.

We don't even know the condition of the hive after the mop-up.

>>2580422
Back to our desk

>>2580738
Time for a survey?

>>2581555
I mean...

We definitely need to know where things stand with the Mechanicus before we leave, that might have been their head guy the Dark Eldar stole. We should get them working on all our shit for us.

We need to mend fences with the Great Houses in our hive so we can ensure they aren't super mad that we prioritized saving infrastructure and the PDF, AdMech, and arbites when the siege started.

We have a Dark Eldar Kabalite we should hand over to the interrogator we just got on loan from the Inquisitor Lord, but do so by telling the AdMech they need to relinquish custody to the inquisition formally to see how recalcitrant they are in the process of doing so. That'll teach us important aspects of the relationship between these borderline heretek genetors and the ][ presence in-system.

We need to see how fucked the churches are, tighten the leash on the Redemptionist cult before they go for our throats, start unfucking social services and get servitors into the essential repair work on vents and water reservoirs, get the tax money flowing, and start manufacturing civilian hardware for rebuilding the hives.

We need to get our manufactora up to scratch just to maintain safety in our own hive and give the residents an option for how to have economic security other than joining a gang. The only option to secure the hive enough to consider leaving on a fact-finding mission to learn the shipyard problems. I want there to be a hive to come back to, don't you?

And that's just what I can think of off the cuff. There's also totally gutfucked administratum divisions to restaff, salaries to pay, our local version of arbites to beef up, prisons to empty with some kind of useful clemency system, roads to fix and public transit buses to replace by the fleet.

There is a lot of shit to do before we even get to trading with Rogue Traders for new foodstuffs to offer the agriworld house lady as a condition for voting to reindustrialize the hives.

There are new patterns of equipment to send for, whole sub-cults of the Mechanicus we need to trade with to set up a means of servicing naval vessels so they'll be likely to have a fleet presence here when the hive fleet comes and treat us as a strategic asset to protect, just...all sorts of shit to do.

And then there's the matter of checking on Bromwell. And seeing what we have to work with as our functionary in charge while Bromwell's in a tank. Maybe we'll have a flunky, maybe even someone who can hold shit together here for long enough to run the hive while we're off fucking around dealing with a shipyard.

Plus the investigation into how precisely we had an explosive coronation.

So yeah, we should go to our desk. We need to govern.

>>2581655
>Great Houses in our hive
Minor houses.

And make sure we're bros with the Shield of Canton, and formally accept the suit from the Knight World house scion and see if we can get a dowry of Knights sent over, and bargain with criminal elements in our jails that might have connections to the air pirates and planetary syndicates we can exploit for infiltration, and...yeah.

Lots more where that all came from.

>>2581655
>>2581662
+1. We also never got around to fixing the taxes and picking them up before the insurrection.
>>2576695
I wonder how our marital relations are, it wasn't mentioned in the OP.

>>2581692
Yeah, we should really take some time to look into getting those relationships off on the right foot.

And those women we did not choose to marry are still going to be around in the system's political life and potentially for centuries. We should mend fences and give them something in exchange for their help with the hive at the VERY least.

>>2581712
>We should mend fences and give them something in exchange for their help with the hive at the VERY least.
Offer them Bob?
>>2580422
>>Ask about the loyalty of House Kotashi-Kreiber - they offered no suit of marriage, seem largely untouched by the carnage, and would have had opportunities to learn many secrets in their roles as wardens of the system's data-looms.
We haven't offered one of our own yet, aside from ourself.

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>Back to your desk (Start governing)
With a heavy sigh, you trudge back to your office, calling out to a passing servant you need a recaff. You plop yourself in the worn chair of office, the gene lock in your father’s chair recognizes you and the desk hums as data looms spin up and the cogitator begins to display numerous graphs and runes of live data feeds.

A flood of notices flash across the display as a number of bodies are making inquiries to you. You put them aside for now and set to work.

>>What should you do first?
>[Entry]

>>2583151
send blokes to lord pogron.
And answer those damn inquiries.

>>2583151

We were on the process of getting our taxes back in order before the rebellion, we have to check if everything is still in order with that because we will need those funds for the coming projects

>>2583380
The The Officio Tributo is still the same mess as it was in the survey. Currently the treasury as 2 million thrones, a paltry sum compared to what it could be collecting if the backlogs were cleared.

>send blokes to lord pogron.
You will need to assemble a team before sending anyone out.

>And answer those damn inquiries.
One is from the Order of the Balanced Lily, the canonness requesting a private appointment at your earliest convenience.

Another is a representative of House Sejan saying the Navigator House is in the process of replacing its leader with another and requests your presence to redraft the Writ of Navigation. They will be waiting for you aboard the Pride of Aristan, expecting you within the week.

Dozens of condolence letters and well-wishers sending automated messages following the attempt on your life. You contemplate how long ago the original authors of these messages died, their words copied and sent over and over through the generations for every considered tragedy.

The last is from the Shield of Canton, requesting a meeting with you, and full immunities to their commanding officers when they come to the palace.

>>2583470
Fuck it, lets get the Backlogs handled, and the Sheild of Canton with full immunities. They were legit fucking heros.

>>2583470

Ok, with our aide out of action for now we need to hire those administratum asap

call the next in order on our administration so we can instruct him to hire new personnel and get the funds flowing again

next we send a message to the canonness and the shield of canton requesting their visit today so we can solve this quickly

as for the navigator we will see them within the week I suppose, let's see what else we can get done today

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>>2583539
>>2583543
You send out replies, bringing each representative in today, as you send out a call for some of the administratum heads. An hour later, and old man and a woman, juvenant treatments clearly not doing the work they used to, shuffle in, trailing parchement, smelling of old paper and sweat. “Adepts Amalatha, and Cobran, Officio Tributo and Officio Industria. What do you need of us Lord Governor?”

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>>2585663
“I will be brief” you begin. “The system is fraked” you state, illiciting a gasp from the old woman. “The Hive is barely functioning, and the funds to repair it are not coming in. I called all the Administratum in, yet all I get is you two?”

Before they can reply you continue. “Fine, that’s fine. You are the two I primarily want to speak with. I want to know what can be done to fix our hive, and recommendations to do so.”

Amaltha clears her throat. “Well lord. I would recommend reopening the closed divisions of the Officio Tributo to begin processing our backlog. I’m not even sure some accounts are viable anymore at this point and the sooner we can sort it out, the sooner we can start taxing the populace appropriately.”

“I would recommend lord” Adept Cobran says, looking over yet another parchment “That you re open the Industrial Quarter. It is our primary source of goods and material for the construction, repair, and expansion of the Hive. However, that will require a substantial sum of money, and the aid of your forces to evict the squatters currently living in the Industrial quarter. They are quite full of unregistered civilians, and I’m quite confident many are just brothels and dens of gladstone manufacture.”

>Spend from the treasury to start fixing up the hive. It is recommended you not pull to much from your private stock as that is also part of outfitting and paying for your own actions(such as building that team to take the Pogron Dockyards)
>You’re current treasury: 2 milt(million thrones)
>Private funds: 10 milt

>Unemployed:19.44 billion

>Officio Tributo : 3 / 20 divisions active
>>Opening new divisions : 1 milt
>Officio Industria: 1 / 30 Industrial decks functioning
>Deck 1: Currently inactive
>>Clear out deck : 2 milt
>>Build new deck : 10 milt
>>Improve existing deck: 1 milt
>>Activate Deck(specify what production should be): 1 milt / 50k people

>>2585699
>Open 2 new Officio divisions
>Clear out one of the decks

>>2585701
Sounds good

>>2585701
this is good

but let's activate the existing one too,
I would say something basic like food, of a construction industrial site to reduce costs of future renovations
>>Activate Deck(specify what production should be): 1 milt / 50k people

Should we also see to seeing if the squatters can be whipped up (maybe literally) into employment?

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>>2585701
>Officio Tributo: 5 /20 divisions active
With the office spaces reopened, the ancient cogitators thrumming with life again as their machine spirits are coaxed from long slumber, the titanic task of sorting the pent up paperwork of the Tax office is somewhat lightened. One division opened was responsible for inter-Hive tariffs, a sudden surge of capital flowing into the Treasury.

>Gained 4 milt

>Clear out one of the decks
The process of evicting the squatters is underway as old buildings are repaired, cleaned, and years of garbage and excrement are removed. This time is a time consuming process and will take the rest of the month, but Adept Cobran guarantees it will be ready for production by then

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>>2585797
>Should we also see to seeing if the squatters can be whipped up (maybe literally) into employment?
A headcount will need to be made first of those who are qualified to work, those too old/weak for labor, and which are criminals to be judged, and which are mutants to be purged.


>>2585773
>but let's activate the existing one too
The factorums are warmed up, and the most qualified on deck are called in for labor. Please specify what exactly the factorums on that level should be producing.

>Deck 1 Producing - ???

>>2586645
What... do we need to have it produced?

>>2586656
At this point? Everything. I'll leave it to you to decide what takes priority

>>2586660
[Spoiler] Uh... That doesn't fucking help at all. [/spoiler]

>>2586645
I guess start producing ammo for las-guns.


I doubt we can product plasma ammo or the weapons. Better to start stockpiling now.

>>2586671
Yeah I know. But I do mean everything.
Be it raw materials getting processed (Adamantite, flakboard, plasteel, ceramite, promethium, polyboard, ferrite, leather, etc)
Or a finished product to be used for something else(lasguns, autoguns, ration bars, vehicle parts, luxury goods, furniture, penal legion collars, detite packs, lho sticks, recaff canteens)
This is the time to start producing and stockpiling.

What you produce now may decide the path you take with the hive. Either specialize in some goods and let the other hives make what you can't, or produce a bit of everything, and rely on the neighboring hives to produce the same in order to meet the needs of the Imperium and the system as a whole

>>2586671
>>2586821
Also lasguns are imported out-of-system. The primary weapon of choice in Pethus is the autogun, and there's dozens of patterns of ammunition for them

>>2586822
>>2586821
wait, So you're saying we could product plasma ammo... And then weapons for them to use in our forces?

Autoguns don't cut it against nids, and If lasguns are imported we can't relay on them. Might as well do our own good thing. That'll earn us alot of money?

>>2586645
>>Deck 1 Producing - ???

Construction equipment? Or something of that sort.

>>2586833
You could, but you would produce it at an abysmally slow rate as your industry is hamstrung from years of neglect. To produce plasma weapons, you'd need the parts, the ammo, and the core that stabilizes the weapon. All of which are difficult to make until you make specialized improvements and/or secure resources outisde your House and Hive that can help(like mining rare metals that serve as great stabilizing cores for plasma guns). Basically the rarer something is in the Imperium, the harder and longer it takes to produce any of it.

>>2586859
Ah fuck me then, I can't have nice things.

Changing this >>2586833
>>2586671

too >>2586850

>>2586645
Promethium. Energy generation, storage and use is the driving factor for an industrial society.

Maybe we should produce general replacement parts for the decaying hive itself

>>2586973
Tools and construction materials maybe?

idk I don't like writing in.

>>2586645
>>2586850
>>2586981
With these guys

>>2586981

I agree with this, we are very far from producing guns since we need everything else.

let's start with constructions materials and equipment/tools

>>2586981
Supporting.

>>2586859
>>2586863
>>2586929
>>2586973
>>2586981
>>2587102
>>2587181
>>2587193
Back after some time away.

Good that you guys have gotten some industry flowing.

First things first: we're going to build what we need to get the hive working properly. This starts with durable goods like construction equipment and security equipment to keep the construction gear from getting stolen by gangs and consumer goods like fuel for the construction equipment and food for the workers.

There was a post I made a thread or two ago about specific patterns to construct which I'll dig up now.

>>2587715
Found my post.

The basic idea is this: we start by building things that are easily convertible and useful for rebuilding further infrastructure and use the PDF as a kind of National Guard style service to help in reconstruction.

I expect we can manage to construct the Atlas, Cyclops, possibly the Hades breaching drill, Land Crawler, Sentinel powerlifter, Trojan support vehicle, and Goliath truck and mining vehicle patterns.

We can use them to further hive reconstruction, renovate the condemned manufactora to open more factories, and then convert most of them to military use with simple refits afterward.

So - one production line can produce whatever we have of the above patterns so long as they're useful - the breaching drill may be unnecessary, etc - and one production line is devoted to whatever we need to house, feed, etc the crews.

Deck 1 is to produce the gear, deck 2 the consumables when it opens in a month. We'll work from reserves for now, or from incoming supplies.

This also gives us a little time to start getting staff together.

The biggest benefit to all this is that it isn't pure reindustrialization - we're just getting some repair equipment to do touch-up work on the hive, so it shouldn't provoke a huge amount of resistance from the other Great Houses.

Now that we have a reindustrialization plan, we still have a problem with capital. Our tax system is still being rebuilt, so we're going to need to take steps to unfuck our cash flow by working with what we have. We should inform the minor houses and wealthy tradesmen, artisans, and commoners that we are issuing stock in the Hive to raise capital for refurbishment and redevelopment of more of its levels and for missions into the depths of Canton to recover any archaeotech that has fallen out of use. This means real estate, manufacturing, industry, and commercial gains for the investors. That should begin to improve our cash flow problems.

We should also issue a new series of bonds to pay for further work. Tell the administratum workers or a banker or whoever we hire for this kind of shit to make the return reasonable and to build in enough time to redevelop our commercial income before the bonds mature and repayment is due when they're writing the financial instruments.

Finally, we should use venal titles - titles traded for money - and the creation of new forms of ennoblement to raise money. Rich families that have no aristocratic standing will want to pay for this. That way, we gain more Minor Houses and more money, and the older houses have the motivation to get in the game and protect their standing.

If necessary, we can also take loans, but that should be left for later.

The influx of cash this all generates should be helpful in paying new employees, rebuilding the PDF, working on the gang problems, etc.

>>2587745
We should thank the Administratum agents and have them available to speak to further so that we may work with them in Bromwell's absence.

We should ask them to prepare an overview report on the PDF and get the Index to spit out information on the condition of the Hive. The last figures we had on hive conditions were:

>> Government: 22%
>> Spiritual Health: 40%
>> Schola: 34%
>> Transportation: 12%
>> Civil Services: 4%
>> Planetary Defense: 57%
>> Industry: 14%
>> Housing: 62%
>> Offworld Accommodation: 89%

The attack may or may not have altered these figures, and it's been some days since we had to retake the hive.

Other pressing problems we can start to work on now that we have cash flow:
>Weather control station deactivated, lots of acid rain
>Hab residences for workers getting eaten by said acid rain
>Insufficient food, water, air filtration etc to provide for residents and effectively turn them from a life of desperation where only gangs offer them a means to survive
>Insufficient war materiel and security hardware to provide to guard, PDF, Sisters of Battle, schola units, Arbitrators, local police forces (Judicators?), Minor Houses, militant adherents of the Imperial Cult, and whoever else we can hire to keep the peace.

And that's all without cracking the political chestnut that's keeping us from adequately responding to the need to refortify the system from the bottom up.

Initially, we can respond by cranking out the gear to unfuck the production lines. Long term, we need to cut deals with the houses that give them clear reasons to invest in the system's reindustrialization. In addition, we need to use the human resources we have as effectively as possible.

>>2587760
I think the moves we'll need to make are as follows:

Meet with the various factions that want to help or are asking for material support.

Promise the Schola, the Sisters, the Minor Houses that provide people for the House Guard, and even the PDF we'll start providing materiel in exchange for a field-work program to assist with training. They're going to learn trades and campaigning alongside learning how to murder shit, work behind security cordons in reestablishing order, distribute relief, provide aid, and minister to the people as needed.

Give the Great House that runs the agri-worlds reasons to drive up production. We probably have billions of people that need to be clothed, fed, and given energy and commercial products. Promethium can be derived from high-energy plants (like algae), fabrics are grown from textile plants, and plenty of commercial goods are made from plastics that can originate from biofuels. Food they know how to make, especially bushmeat from the renewable resource that is tyranids. We can make Mikata-Nore an offer to start filling their coffers, as one of the things they sought to do was to find new sources of wealth. We can begin to be that new source.

Of course, telling them that these deals would not last long without a continuing market created by the reindustrialization of the Hives would help us politically.

We'll also need more weapons and security and troops, which we can essentially expect to get from houses Bellengrast and Nellon. We're marrying their daughters and helping them help each other with their missing guns and gladiators, so the expansion of their business interests is also likely to be helpful. Again, tell them the new source of wealth won't last unless they vote to re-industrialize the hives. There simply won't be a continued market for it.

This leaves us with the shipbuilding, mineral-extraction, and data houses to contend with. Pogron Damva-Oom can be promised that we'll look into his shipyard problem and invite a highly sophisticated Machine Cult to take up residency in-system and help service specialized control systems on ships from the Imperial Navy. We can best leverage political clout within the Mechanicus to accomplish this, as well as throwing around weight as a system governor. The results of an investment will help both our long term plans to better defend the system and the loyalty of House Damva-Oom, because the Navy will be present to get repairs, defend the system, and send crew on shore leave at our ports. And where the Navy goes for fine repairwork so go Rogue Traders and potentially even Inquisitors.

We can also offer his daughter a role in training assassins in exchange for efforts to aid her people on-world. She comes from a demographic that is probably neglected and impoverished, because everyone is, or exploited or something. We could work on that.

>>2587760
Mariana Nakara, the mining interest, is going to have to be approached carefully. We can leverage the relationship we have with her daughter, offer to invest in the expansion of the mines, that kind of shit. Frankly I wish we had more information on her - all we know right now is that she's a holdout because of a poor relationship with House Nellon. Stepping in and working to repair the breach may be salutary, but the bigger question is what drives the politics of the House.

Lady Manaan is still an unknown quantity. We should probably have her over for tea or something and talk. A discussion of letting her house suggest part of the sites for investment and structure part of the financial instruments and therefore having her house stand to profit enormously would be of help. We should plan others ourselves, so if her ventures fall through suspiciously we can look into the house and see if there's treachery or chaos-worship involved.

Finally, the Church. We're going to need to ask them to work with us, both in organizing memorials and in sending out hospitalliers and sisters dialogous to deal with the needs of hive residents, some of which might speak local languages or variations on gothic that are not mutually intelligible to our own. We can ask Markus to help organize a planetwide effort through sermons and good works and even influence over the church's militant adherents to help in the effort to rebuild and cement the political will to do so. We can definitely trade material support for the church's expansion into the populace for their willingness to work with us.

In the meantime, we still have a Kabalite and we should get on the AdMech about whether they'd be willing to let us hand him over to the Inquisition so we can see how they react.

>>2587812
>>2587798
>>2587715
>>2587760
>>2587745
>>2586859
>>2586863
>>2586929
>>2586973
>>2586981
>>2587102
>>2587181
>>2587193
So those are some thoughts. Anyone have suggestions? Anyone want to second some of that?

>>2587798
>daughters

Fuck off with the harem bullshit

>>2587902
You can keep treating them like pretty faces if you want, but they're scions of aristocratic houses. Using them as skilled contacts, bargaining chips, and the means of securing a future for the system by maintaining friendly relationships just makes sense.

Your rageboner is noted tho. Pretty trollable.

>>2587945
Pick one and quit trying to have everything you faggot.

>>2587957
We picked two. Stop being a fag.

>>2587961
It was not a unanimous vote, what, it was two of you iirc?

>>2587964
If you don't like how its gone, just leave mate and run your own quest or try and be here when its actually going on.

>>2587964
>It was not a unanimous vote, what, it was two of you iirc?
I wasn't in that vote, I was in the last three threads. We talked it to death like four times already.

We're going to marry into two houses for political reasons - Nellon because Ellya is a formidable ally we need to gain control or strong leadership of the aristocracy in the system and Bellendrast because Knight pilot mecha bitch has strong connections to the ruling houses of a Knight world we'll need for later.

The others are still going to be around and we'll still be able to benefit from having good relations with them.

The sooner you start thinking of them as noble house scions instead of harem sluts, the sooner you'll stop raging about this. It's a quest about being part of an Imperial House, there are going to be Pride & Prejudice moments where we have to do aristocrat politicking.

The scion of the agriworld house is going to be a capable administrator and likes us for our merits and attitude as it is, the scion of the mineral house wants to be a captain and has trained as a sky marshal, and the scion of the shipbuilder house is an assassin.

They've all participated in battles and helped save Hive Canton, sometimes in ways that have ingratiated them to powerful groups inside the Hive. We can use that to build relationships with those factions.

We'd be fucking stupid not to use that to our advantage.

>>2587969
Any thoughts on this idea, anon? >>2587745

>>2587814

Well, you sure have some long term plans, for the immediate meeting and vote, I would like to start producing construction equipment and materials like we talked about before,

after this we have the meetings with the shield of Canton and the Sisters, we should see what are their demands and see what we can do.

as for the problem in the shipyards, we are probably forming a team to deal with that after this

as for the other suggestions, I liked some, and some I don't, I don't have the time to break each one down right now but I will keep them in mind for future votes for sure

>>2587745
Supporting.

People should stop whining about harem bullshit. There are more posts complaining about it than there are trying to make it happen. Calm the fuck down.

>>2587969
I did vote, and I didn't vote for no harem faggotry. A few of you voted for that, but the majority vote was not for multiple wives.

>>2587745
>>2587760
>>2587798
>>2587812
Basically this.

>>2587990
The majority were actually for it mate. I don't get your random fucking rage, its not gonna matter as all they are is breeding stock to ensure we have heirs.

>>2587981
I'm phoneposting from work so I ain't reading shit like that till later.

>>2587990
People have wanted to include it since we heard it was available back in the first thread and that one of our ancestors did it for political reasons. You've been a dick about it because you think it'll fuck up the quest or some bullshit. Your fears are not reasonable given the attitude of the players, who have been trying to figure out how to get system politics done in a 40k setting since the beginning of this discussion.

If you can't handle the thought because you lost good men in a waifu war, that's your problem more than anyone else's. Get counseling for your chanPTSD.

I’m still catching up, what’s the situation with the memestealers?

>>2587998
Delta with for now but some got out. So expect more uprisings.

>>2587995
Cool. tl;dr is a list of construction gear from commonly available patterns that can be rolled over into PDF gear by turret swaps and the like on one production line and the fuel and food for crews for the other one when it comes online.

>>2587998
Contained. I'm thinking we approach the genetors and explore genetic testing, tailored viruses, etc as a means of control as well as working with the ][, sisters, and maybe some rogue traders' pet eldar outsider scout on wrecking them with some psyker shit or whatever we can find. The primary problem is how to locate a hive, but with a psychically sensitive individual we should be able to get to work.

>>2588001
So I’m guessing those swords of whateveritscalled are space marines?

>>2588007
Sable Swords? That's a chapter, yeah.

Shield of Canton? Regular humans that were settled here after they got out of the PDF regiments imported to stave off the last Tyranid invasion.

>>2588009
Is it wrong that I feel incredibly suspicious of them?

>>2588015
I apologise for that dumpster fire of a sentence.
“Is it wrong that I am incredibly suspicious of them?”

>>2588020
>>2588015
They're space marines. They're superhumans who may or may not have a chapter rite of eating human flesh in a loving, tender ceremony in remembrance of their primarch or a rough week on campaign in some past crusade.

The Sable Swords are odd but not too bad. Maybe it's time to reach out to some good guy chapters like the Salamanders, though. We have seven years to curry favor and offer goods and services to any chapter we want to get help from, and the Sallies are in the same segmenta as us.

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>>2588036
Oh nonono, I know who the Sable Swords are, I was talking about SoC.
Also.
>Salamanders
>Same segmenta
>Time_For_Friendship.vox

Okay that was a long day, let's get a vote count of
The fuck just happened?

>>2588204

shitstorm as allways, aparently we can't be left unatended for long, but the feeling I get is that we are going to put that deck to work on construction equipment and materials and next month when the other one is ready we have another clusterfuck of a vote

>>2588204
Just hammering out a plan. Some people are trying to go on about how this is a harem quest and they want a waifu war, other people are telling those people to calm the fuck down.

The proposal I made here is the same one I made a while back with the list of tanks and machinery the Guard use for logistics. I think it's relevant to your question of 'what do you want to produce.'

There's a lot of diplomacy we should get on right now, so I threw some thoughts together.

>>2587814
I’ll support it.

Welp, hope we get somewhere with the lower hive.

Would a good for work program work since we don’t have money for minor repairs and cleaning of the hive. We have high unemployment

Would a food for work program work since we don’t have money for minor repairs and cleaning of the hive. We have high unemployment

>>2589547
>>2589549

Our unemployment program massively outstrips our ability to create jobs right now. We can maybe hire fifty thousand people out of the billions of unemployed at a time, the cost of employing anyone still has to be borne by the treasury and ours is empty.

The solution's not gonna come from throwing a few rations to the people. We need to drastically increase our cash reserves, then set up conditions for investment by private and public enterprise, and all that's just gonna scratch the surface.

>>2589552
>unemployment program
unemployment problem.

Okaaaay. Well I'll just go with the Construction materials.

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>>2589828
>Construction materials.
You order the production of materials, flakboard, girders, ferrocrete, and various other materials, the warehouse in Deck 1 cleared out of feral mutants to make space for the finished product. Deals are made with the minor Houses Glemerick and Guild Synolop to fulfill the workorder for raw materials for processing, the cost being covered by tariffs and favors to the respective parties in the Trade Senatorum. At the current rate, the factorum will produce about 5 tonnes (units) by month’s end, and you can decide whether to book another production cycle or switch production roles.

>Further actions?
>>Open new divisions of Tributo : 1 milt
>>Address a problem in another Department : [specify] 2 milt
>>Clear out deck : 2 milt
>>Skip to meeting with representatives

Sorry about spotty updates. Company fucked up big time and they keep calling me in to put out smaller fires. Metaphorical fires, not literal. So if i'm gone for a long ass time, it's because I'm called away to fix something else.

>>2589852
Can we look into seeing where we can put the production into instead of the docks or is it just gonna lower the price of rebuilding/building new docks?

>>2589907
the materials are going to be stockpiled for now, you can decide later what they should go towards. It seems /qst/ can change its mind at the drop of a hat so...

>>2589915
Understandable

Then let's just skip to the meeting, We can't spend all our personal and actual cash here.

>>2589852
>>>Skip to meeting with representatives

>>2589852
I'd like to seek investment, issue bonds, and grant titles of nobility for donations as a means of creating cash flow. It's what governments did for a good long time in situations like this.

We should be able to speak to our tax people or our banker or someone about this.

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>>2590443
You make a footnote to consider possible realms of investment. Knowing your administratum and the introduction of new things, they will need to form a committee just to understand how an investment works.

The next couple of days are spent in a relaxingly slow pace, getting updates from the Departmento on progress of your intended projects, the status of the officio, and listening to the endless complaints of the nobility, nearly all of it having nothing to do with you. By the third day, you almost welcome the change of pace when a young Battle Sister throws open the doors of you office, dressed in scarred and dented power armor., making a very loud ‘click-clack’ with every step she takes. She stands by your desk, not bothering to sit.

“Canoness…?” you ask.

“Canoness Preceptor Berithia was slain during the rebellion, aiding the forces of the Inquisition, may she find peace in His Bosom Bright” she makes the sign of the aquila. “I am her replacement. Sophia.” she then makes a small bow to you, which you return. Formalities aside, she finally deigns to sit, picking out a chair reinforced to take the weight of a human in power armor, or at the very least, a horrendously obese man that requires several slaves to move, as it was built for the late Lord Borgorath, who required a floating palanquin designed to move crates of heavy weapons specially fitted to ferry him. Even so, the chair gave a creak as she relaxed.

“May I ask what exactly you requested this meeting for?”

“The Orders are in tatters Lord Governor. I know your father and Canoness Berithia, honored be her name” she makes the sign of the aquila again “had troubles, and I know that the relation between the Sisterhood and the Houses have been...tenuous of the the past couple of generations…” this is news to you. You never knew there were problems between the Orders and your House. “Nevertheless, I must deign to request you to support the Sisterhood in our reconstruction. I do not just mean the Order of the Balanced Lily, but the Order of the Emperor’s Tear, and the Order of the Holy Script. Training in the schola has been sub-par at best, and recruits we have taken do not have the proper kit to perform as they should. I submit to you a proposal to help rebuild our order, and possibly the friendship the Order and the Houses once held centuries past.”

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>>2593091
She then pulls a dataslate out of a leather pack on her side, and slides it to you. “You can rebuild the long-neglected schola” she says as you start reading the list. “But I hope you have the faith to contribute further to the Order.” On the list are a number of proposals. Expensive proposals. Proposals involving donations of large quantities of money. From your private account. Some would be seen as an egregious waste of public funds by the Departmento and the people. Some would be shot down by the Houses given their constant feudings. You can see Sister-Canoness Sophia wishes you to use your generous fund to help rebuild the Order, as she says. Though will you? Should you?

>Reply?

>>2593095
>I must ask Sister what has caused the orders to lack the funds from the masses? Also, what caused the order and my family to sour as you said?

I mean... I'm not oppsed to helping them somewhat over time but we can't spend ALL our money cause these dudes DO just follow the fucking crazy zealots of faith.

>>2593095
Im for supporting them.
What the fuck else are we going to use our funds for.
Use our personal cash for the squabbling ones and public funds for the rest.

>>2593095

>>2593151
this is good

we could see some of those proposals payd for, but we have to save money to assemble the team to send to lord Pogron

>>2593095

>Ask her what the thinks the falling out between father and the canoness was about.
>Ask why the tension between the orders and the houses in general
>Ask what can be done about this
>Ask if she will commit to a coordinated defense of the system (i.e. a liasion or accepting our requests) if it comes to it
>Ask in what way she will help the hives or us personally

Never accept risk or work without reward. She needs our help... It would behoove her to commit to certain labors or a pact between the orders and us.

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>>2593977
>>Ask her what the thinks the falling out between father and the canoness was about.

Sophia looks unsettled and clears her throat. "Um well...ah...Lord Governor I cannot say for certain, I am not a gossip. However all I know is from hearsay and there were some...allegations regarding the late Canoness, honored may she be" she makes the sign of the aquila AGAIN "and your father, and both were quite upset at the other regarding them. I won't pretend I know what those allegations were, but it drove the existing wedge between the Order and the Houses that much deeper."

>>Ask why the tension between the orders and the houses in general

Sophia looks less flustered about that, bowing solemnly. "Lord Governor, tensions exist between all Imperial bodies. I do not pretend to know them, which may be one reason I was chosen to replace the late Canoness honored may she be" you swear you think her arms are going to fly off if she keeps making the aquila like that. "and that this was a sign from Him on Terra" aquila again "that I might be the one to repair whatever damage your ancestors made?"

"Why mine specifically?" You ask defensively.

"I honestly do not see how my order could be the instigator of this feuding Lord Governor my apologies, but it seems like the only way this could have gone on so long was due to a slight against us by your or the other Houses." she shrugs nonchalantly.

You start to think you don't like this Sophia.

>>Ask what can be done about this

She gestures to the dataslate. "A number of things Lord Governor, they are all listed on the slate I provide."

A quick browsing and you can see these are very expensive projects!

>>2594839
>5 milt to order count 2000 custom tooled suits of power armor, bolters, and flamers from the Out-systerm Shrine World of Kelnitar to refit the entire Order. While their ranks have been depleted, this will ensure the current force of 200 sisters will be outfitted while the expected recruits from the schola should rebuild them to at least 1000, half their strength by year’s end

>7 milt to rebuild the Order of the Balanced Lily's chapel in Mid-22 main street. Most of the expenses will be towards the large amounts of gold getting shipped from offworld. These repairs will allow the Sisterhood to expand their barracks to approximately 3000 Sisters, allowing them to draw upon more potential candidates from the schola.

>An obscenely heavy toll of 42 milt to convert the useless Isle of Donton into the Grand Cathedral-Barracks of the Balanced Lily! The plans are for a city sized place of worship, training, enforcement of Imperial Law, and a bastion to the downtrodden. In the end it is theorized it will allow the Sisterhood to hold nearly 8000 Sisters of Battler alongside a standing militia of 100,000 inductees of the Faith complete with their own dedicated transport.


>>Ask if she will commit to a coordinated defense of the system (i.e. a liasion or accepting our requests) if it comes to it

Sophia tilts her head. "As Canoness, I am obligated to defend this system and guide its spiritual safety by whatever means are at my disposal. However in our depleted state, I fear we can do little beyond patrol or letting you take a handful of sisters on any operation you may need.”

“Operations?”

Sophia nods. “While relations may be sour, the late Governor Orranus and the late Canoness honored may she be” and again she makes the aquila “had an agreement to send some of her select Sisters to aid the Governor in matters that required something more forceful than words…”

>>Ask in what way she will help the hives or us personally

She adjusts her seat, making uncomfortable noises come from the chair. “The Order will aid all hives, but ultimately the decision of command and distribution will be between you and me Governor.”

The Order of the Balanced Lily, depending on how strong they are, and how good relations are, can be hired out to help with military operations at the cost of favors or personal fundings. The more that’s spent, the better relations improve.

>Current relation with the Order : 0
>Offer the Resupply
>Offer to rebuild the chapel
>Offer to build the Cathedral(not enough money)
>Press for more details.

>>2594841
>Offer the Resupply

Did our dad fuck the sister leader? Oof

>>2594841

Offer 1000 suits at 2,5milt and promisse we will arrange for the others in the near future

>>2594888

Seems like it. Or a blushing and holding hands, blah blah.

I'm all for helping these guys rebuild, but I'd treat them like special forces mercenaries. Use them when loyalty to us personally counts (as long as the order, faith, and imperial law, probably in that order, aren't threatened by our actions, although the better the relationship, the more they will probably turn a blind eye).

That said, I think manners, a ready smile, and supportive words are far cheaper than new temples - we should definitely be nice, and publicly supportive of the WONDERFUL work they are doing, but treat the order as a luxury. Power armor might be worth the investment, though.

>>2595895
Power armor is always worth the investment, They can get more manpower and taxes for the church though from the ecsliarty

Anyone else want to weigh in before I make the update? Otherwise, going with

>>2595131

>>2595944
pretty sure this dude >>2595895 voted for my agreement?

Even if he didn't did you roll a dice or something to see which option won cause I don't want to make any future promises. We either do it fully or not at all

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>>2595950
Right, gonna go for that then

“I cannot supply the entire shipment at the moment Canoness” you start, holding up a hand to stop any counters she might make. “But I can pay for half now. A thousand now, and a thousand when your convent is at full strength. Do we have a deal?”

Sophia looks to you, then to the ceiling, contemplating, or more likely, praying to the Emperor for guidance. Finally she looks back to you, sighing. “If that is all you can offer at this time, then I shall agree. I shall make arrangements now. If you wish to aid us further, the offers still stand” she gets up from her seat and makes for the door, betraying no emotion. She turns curtly and gives a slight nod before leaving. She stumbles slightly when she sees an oddly dressed soldier enter into your room. The armor is...baroque is probably the best word for it, more for ceremony than holding practical form or function. Slung on her back is an old looking lasrifle, well maintained despite an age worth of scratches and dings stripping the green paint. She stands to attention, giving a sharp salute. “Commander Niu Bai, Shield of Canton Lord Governor sir!”

>Yes I met Captain Tyran during the insurrection. What is the Shield of Canton about?
>I don’t recognize the uniform. What House are you from?
>Welcome commander, please be seated and let’s discuss why you wanted to see me.
>Commander, I wish to be frank. What will it take to integrate the Shield into the Pethus PDF?
>[other]

>>2596023
So i'm confused as to how that fucking won but okay. Try to show how your deciding shit unless i'm misreading the one dudes post. Cause I sure as fuck didn't want any half assed promises

>Welcome commander, please be seated and let’s discuss why you wanted to see me.
>Commander, I wish to be frank. What will it take to integrate the Shield into the Pethus PDF?

>>2596051
Sorry, I'll be more clear in the future. I'm not really at my best either so I might make dumb decisions without realizing it

>>2596065
all good boss, Its late here myself and I got like 3 hours of sleep. Its a good quest don't mean to sound ungreatful

>>2596023
>>Welcome commander, please be seated and let’s discuss why you wanted to see me.

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>>2596051
>>2596521


>Welcome commander, please be seated and let’s discuss why you wanted to see me.

Niu Bai takes a seat, placing her gun on the floor with a ‘clack’ as she scoots closer to your desk, drag marks leaving an indent on your ancient wooden floor. “Well Governor” she starts. “First off, I’m glad to see you’re pretty well off after that attack on Canton. Real frakked up nunk with all that” you are taken aback by her informality. Now that you get a better look at her, you see just how young she actually is. This is the commander of the Shield of Canton?

“Anyway Guv, I’m here cause word worked its way back that you spoke with Tyran about integrating us with the PDF” she says in a Low Gothic drawl that has at least two different accents in it “while I appreciate the offer, I must refuse. See, the Shield was formed by my grand-da and his mates way back when the arbites, judys, and the House Guard couldn’t do their job proper. No offense to your boys, I’m sure they’re fine. Fact is, Low Hivers and Sumps are a battleground on the best of days and lots of that fightin’ spills into Mid. Arbites an’ the Judy’s are stretched as is dealin with the ‘stealers, mutants and other nasty bits. Most criminals and gang wars they just leave to burn until the fire dies out. Worse off when we try to tip em off about what happens in the Lower Hives, they just tell us not to bother em. So we have to fight for our own homes. Frankly joinin the PDF sounds like a hot mess that’ll get us dragged off to fight things that aren’t an immediate threat to our homes, and there’s plenty of that, even now that the whole revolt’s dyin’ down.”

>Threats such as…?
>What can I do to make you reconsider?
>Surely we can come to some sort of agreement?
>Why are you speaking in Low? You can clearly understand me.
>[other]

>>2599010
>Threats such as…?

Someone ''Down there'' is exactly what I need right now, someone to pacify and make the lower hives a bit safer, the difference would be that your people would also have official authority and backing from our House

>>2599010
>Threats such as…?

>>2599073

Backing this

"We need someone down there to keep the peace - you know that far better than I do. Why SHOULDNT it be you? You KNOW who-is-who down there, who are the ones who are a problem and those who just want to live their frakking lives. Why mess with people doing a good job getting the job done? The difference is, if you join me you'll have MY backing, the backing of law. With time, also training, resources, and intelligence... Imagine being able to call in a couple chimeras and a hellhound if a gang proves to be more trouble than you bargained for. I find a couple hundred liters of burning promethium to take the starch out of TYRANNIDS, much less hive gangers... *Hard grin*

The only thing is that with my resources, I need to be sure your men won't misuse them, and that they'll be there when I need them to be - you look ex-PDF or Guard, you KNOW discipline. You also know without a chain of command,zero you're just the sum of your parts - it would HAVE to come with the package.

Still, I understand why you all signed up - and it wasn't for the chance to be shipped halfway across the system on some governor's whim. I will make a deal with you. I plan to start by cleaning up THIS hive - I have to, you see. Things just won't function otherwise. Join me, and I will commit to keeping your troops doing what they signed up to do - protecting your homes and loved ones. You will not be deployed in another hive, and the fact is you'll be best deployed at home anyway. Become part of the PDF and I will commit to training, a reasonable degree of arming, even military backup, and arbites to liase or embed with your forces to keep everything shipshape and law and order.

If you DON'T - and this isn't a threat, it just happens to be true - if you DONT, I'll have to do the same thing anyway, it'll just be harder because I'll have to work around and over you. It'll take longer, I'll have to commit more resources, which COULD be going to things like maintenance, water supply, or a Temple clinic and there will be inevitable injuries. Instead of a friend who knows their neighbors and can talk sense to them, it'll be a faceless arbiter behind a shock shield, a poor PDF, or Emperor-help-me, even house troops or Sisters of Battle! Neither of us want that, do you? HELP me, Commander, and become part of the solution."

>>2599723

nice speech man, backing right back at you

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>>2599073
>>2599723
>Threats such as…?


"We need someone down there to keep the peace - you know that far better than I do. Why shouldn’t it be you? You know who is who down there, who are the ones who are a problem and those who just want to live their lives. Why should I mess with people that are good at getting the job done? The difference is, if you join me you'll have my backing, the backing of all the resources of the Lord Governor.. With time, training, resources, and intelligence and support. Imagine being able to call in heavy support something down there proves to be more trouble than you bargained for. A couple tanks of burning promethium tends to solve a lot of problems” you say with a slight chuckle. Niu Bai nods slightly in affirmation at this.

“However, with my resources I need to be sure your men won't misuse them; and that they'll be where when I need them to be.”

“That’s the problem Governor.” Niu cuts you off. “Pretty sure half the places you need soldiers to be is a place where we don’t.”

You hold up your hands in response. “You were raised by veterans of the Guard yes” she nodes “then you know discipline. You also know without a chain of command, you're just the sum of your parts. Everything I offer will have to come in a package, no taking what you want.”

Niu Bai straightens her back, and you continue while you still have initiative. “Still, I understand why you all signed up. It wasn't for the chance to be shipped halfway across the system on some governor's whim. I will make a deal with you. I plan to start by cleaning up THIS hive - I have to, you see. Things just won't function otherwise. Join me, and I will commit to keeping your troops doing what they signed up to do: protecting your homes and loved ones. You will not be deployed in another hive, your strengthis best used at home anyway.”

You pause for dramatic effect, then continue. “Become part of the PDF and I will commit to training, arming within reason, provide military backup, and liaison with local Judicator and Arbites forces to maintain law and order within Hive Canton.”

>>2601542
“However, if you refuse; well the same thing will happen, but with whatever survives the coming conflict.”

“Is that a threat?” Niu asks.

“No, a promise of what I need to do to secure Canto. I need to secure it from all threats to the Hive and myself. It will be a tremendous waste of manpower, material, and time, and all you will have succeeded in doing was make Canton worse for resisting” “What is wasted bringing the Shield and any other militia out there, I know there are others even if you say there isn’t, will be resources better spent on repairing utilities and systems in dire need of maintenance. Water, clean air, acid rain buffers, transport, food distribution. I’d prefer conflict be avoided, and not have to send in the Arbites with shock mauls with what could be solved with a neighbor and a friendly word.”

Niu’s face is unreadable. All save her eyes. The youthful casual look is gone, replaced with the taciturn glare of a commander than has seen far more than her fair share of bloodshed already. She’s weighing her options, processing your words and what that would mean for her and the Shield of Canton. Finally, after a moment of eternity, she fixes her gaze on you. “...I will need to speak with the other officers of the Shield. I will deliver our decision to you then.”

“That’s the best I can expect I suppose. I do hope you agree.”

“As do I” she says softly. “Good day Lord Governor.” this time in High Gothic, and turns to leave.

You are left alone in your office, the screens of your desk flashing live updates of your operations across the city, and dozens of data feeds to everything you could possibly think of dredging up.

>Start assembling that team
>Timeskip to meeting with the Navigators
>Check on progress with the Industrial Deck
>[other]

>>2601544

>Start assembling that team

>>2601544
>>Start assembling that team

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>>2601568
>>2601570
>Start assembling that team
You pull a separate function tab in your desk’s cogitator, inserting the Index Populi, and start dredging through a list of individuals you have on file either from the PDF, the House Guard, the Arbites, Judicators, Administratum, Astra Telepathica, and various other branches of the Imperial system available to you either through Governor records, or Inquisitorial files Valastron was so kind to let you access…

>>This is another experiment. This combat phase will be a Skirmish/Kill Team based combat with a squad of up to 10 characters made by you guys. Determine their name, previous job before getting pressed into the Governor’s service, and two skill they have which can give them bonus rolls to specific tasks
>>These skills can be anything you may think are applicable for the character, though you can use 40kRPG material for inspiration.
>>Then roll 6d6 to determine stat points to attach to the baseline stats each character has.
>>Once done, and if we have more than 10, you guys can vote on who should be on the squad.
>>As I said this is also an experiment, and I haven't tested it so this can easily blow up in my face, but try to make a team with a well rounded set of squadmates.

>>Ex:
>>Name: Anon
>>Role: Administratum adept
>>Stats:
>>Toughness: 10 + 2
>>Melee Skill: 10 + 1
>>Ballistic Skill: 10 + 2
>>Willpower: 10 +3
>>Intelligence: 10 + 8
>>Vitality: 10 + 4
>>Skills:
>>Savant: Years of recording data has given Anon a wealth of information to draw from. All rolls when interacting with cogitators +5

>>2604587
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Name:
Role:

Stats
Toughness: 10
Melee Skill: 10
Ballistic Skill: 10
Willpower: 10
Intelligence: 10
Vitality: 10

Skills:

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Rolled 4, 6, 3, 4, 3, 6 = 26 (6d6)

>>2604591
I'm gonna post some and you tell me if I did it right or something is off.

first, rolling

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>>2605211

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Name: Ana
Role: Pirate Boarding team leader

Stats
Toughness: 10+4
Melee Skill: 10+4
Ballistic Skill: 10 +10
Willpower: 10 +3
Intelligence: 10+1
Vitality: 10 +4

Skills:
Void Combat Expert: after year fighting in ships she recieves a bonus of +X(I'll let you decide, don't know how much is too much or too little) when fighting on the void.
Survivor: Ana is....really hard to kill....having survived many near fatal wounds and even and explosion that took her legs and an arm, there are rumors that say that is actually dead and the only thing moving is her cybernetics, her humurless behavior and ruthless attitude in combat doen't do anything to disprove these rumors, grants +X to survive fatal wounds and may continue to act if successful.
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Rolled 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4 = 16 (6d6)

>>2604591
let's try making another

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>>2605221
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Name: Cornelius Savor
Role: Techpriest Hacker

Stats
Toughness: 10+2
Melee Skill: 10+0
Ballistic Skill: 10 +2
Willpower: 10 +3
Intelligence: 10 + 7
Vitality: 10 +2

Skills:
Spirit affinity: Cornelius is attuned to machine spirits he can easely bend them to his will and convince them to do what he wants (+5 when trying to hack)
Utility drones: Cornelius posses 3 small spy drones tra he can use to scout or access systems from a distance.
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If you guys have any advice on skills or stats let me know so we can change it

Rolled 3, 2, 5, 6, 4, 4 = 24 (6d6)

>>2604591

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>>2605240
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Name: Marius
Role: Gladiator Champion

Stats
Toughness: 10+6
Melee Skill: 10+8
Ballistic Skill: 10 +1
Willpower: 10 +2
Intelligence: 10 +1
Vitality: 10 +6


Skills:
It is a me, Marius: Marius was a great champion, his fight broadcast in various hives and even offworld, anyone that reconizes him must pass a will check or recieve -2 penalty, he's reputation is well deserved.
Closing the gap: His fighting style requires him to be close to his enemies, moving erraticly and swiftly his enemies have a -5 penalty to hit him when he is moving in their direction.
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Marius here using his cerimonial tyranid armor.

I'm the same guy as the other two characters, I'm at my work now, hence the different ID.

I just posted a few but you guys are free to ignore them, I just love making characters

>>2604587
two questions QM, vitality is agility too? and if we need to diplomacy with anyone there, will it be based on the write ins or is it intelligence?

>>2605897
>vitality is agility too?
Yes
>and if we need to diplomacy with anyone there, will it be based on the write ins or is it intelligence?
Initial skill is based on intelligence. Skills gives bonus to initial skill roll

Anyone else want to make a character? You can make more than one.

Rolled 4, 5, 4, 4, 3, 4 = 24 (6d6)

>>2604587

>>2610533

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Name: Dilligence Pesterton
Role: Adaptus Arbite

Stats
Toughness: 10 + 5
Melee Skill: 10 + 4
Ballistic Skill: 10 + 4
Willpower: 10 + 4
Intelligence: 10 + 3
Vitality: 10 + 4

Skills:

The Law: Dilligance has a well-worked knowledge of both local and Imperium law and precedent, and is able to back these up with Arbite Authority to subdue opponents verbally. +5 to verbal intimidation (Or legal arguments)
Under Arrest: The Arbites frequently want their foes taken alive to squeeze for information, even this only delays their execution. +? to subduing or capture attempts.

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I think I should have waited until the next chapter to pull this, not many anons looking at this now...

If no one else has anything, I'll wrap this chapter up and try again on Sunday.

>>2611694
I'm not at home right now but I have two dudes in mind, I'll post them when I arrive.

Also, you should probably make a new thread with these guys in a pastebin or something

Rolled 4, 3, 2, 5, 6, 3 = 23 (6d6)

>>2611764

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>>2612257
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Name: Genna
Role: Infiltrator

Stats
Toughness: 10 +2
Melee Skill: 10 +4
Ballistic Skill: 10 +4
Willpower: 10 +2
Intelligence: 10 +4
Vitality: 10 + 7

Skills:
Cloak: Genna has a rudimentary cloaking system on her armor, giving anyone a -5 on a test to spot her while active
Scram: Genna is hardly spotted when on mission, but when she is she also can lose her persuers very easely, gives +5 to escape and lose anyone trying to catch her
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Rolled 5, 4, 2, 4, 4, 1 = 20 (6d6)

>>2612290
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Name: Christian Hemmer
Role: PDF sergeant

Stats
Toughness: 10+4
Melee Skill: 10+4
Ballistic Skill: 10 +6
Willpower: 10 +2
Intelligence: 10+2
Vitality: 10+2

Skills:
Fire in the hole: He is very proficient in the use of grenades and explosives, recieves +5 when using those weapons
Suppressing Fire: the heavy weapon he uses is perfect for pinning enemies down, any foe he is engaged in combat with recieves a -5 to balistic attacks
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>>2612317

Rolled 3, 1, 5, 5, 2, 4 = 20 (6d6)

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>>2612342
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Name:Ilana Centuri
Role: Pilot

Stats
Toughness: 10 +2
Melee Skill: 10+2
Ballistic Skill: 10 +5
Willpower: 10 +2
Intelligence: 10+4
Vitality: 10 +5

Skills:
We can fix it: she is an expert in making improvised field repairs and can mantain equipment working even in the most dire state of repair +5 for field repairs
Exploit weakness: she recieves a +5 to hit a target if she can analyze it and find a weaknes first.
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This part of the quest just doesn't interest me.

I think I prefer strategic decision-making and writeins more than character creation.

>>2604587
>>2611694
>>2615805
I agree, I'm not a fan of character creation. We should've left the character creation for the start of the thread, and done other stuff while we waited for more characters to be created.