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>>5044699
"Alright if ya want it then I shall give you a fight that hopefully you will consider worthy. Are we fighting armed, or unarmed?" You ask.

"I normally train with weapons, but your weapons, including the one you gave me thank you, are a bit inappropriate for this kind of combat. Namely, I don't want to be turned to a pile of ash." Angron says.

"I understand that. I got some really good daggers." You say pulling out the teeth and Angron looks at the daggers, and then your tattoos.

"Now I see it." He says

"What?"

"Your tattoos. Your designs. It's not that they all have meanings, they all represent you." Angron says.

"Ya." You say readying the daggers. Angron pulls some similar sized blades.

"I want you to fight and mean it." Angron says.

"Mate, when I fight and mean it people get hurt." You say.

"Good. I can take it, and you need to test your actual skill." Angron says. Making a motion with his sword that looks, what you guess, would be a salute. So you copy the motion.

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Pick an opening strategy

>> Go at him. Fast. Use your speed to your advantage. Try to strike first.

>> Use your defensive abilities, take scope of his fighting abilities and then make moves against him.

>> Probing strikes like the shark. Find a good opening or make one, and take it.

>> Try to disarm him by moving erratically, giving you an opening to strike at the right points.

>> Write in

>>5044702
>>> Probing strikes like the shark. Find a good opening or make one, and take it.

We are a shark, we must fight with shark

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>>5044702
>> Go at him. Fast. Use your speed to your advantage. Try to strike first.
We are speeeeed.
Talking about speed, we fot cucked out beinf the first to meet Pert, we didn't speedrun fast enough and lost the worldrecord. We still have the Angron any% though.

>>5044702
He has a general idea of how fast we are so I'm going for
>Probing strikes like the shark. Find a good opening or make one, and take it.

>>5044702
>> Begin the duel with a Haka of Challenge between Brothers.
Tradition demands it!

>> Probing strikes like the shark. Find a good opening or make one, and take it.
I'm just imagining K thinking 'Imma Shark, Imma Shark' to himself like a giant dork.

>> Study his movements, his stance, where he strikes and how; learn from him just as he aims to learn from you.
Primarchs all have peculiar specialties, but they also tend to follow Saiyan Logic; ie the more varied opponents of increasingly difficulty Kolinaisi faces, the better a combatant he will grow into. Which...is just fucking hilarious when we consider the techno-shenanigans he can deploy at any given moment.

>>5045137
Support
ignore >>5045093

>>5044702
>>5045137
supporting

>>5044702
Y'know...Angron was spared the Nails...and there's no reason he should stay bald.

I wonder what he'll look like with a full head of hair? My first thought was a young Rutger Hauer.

I swear I'll laugh if he and Kolinaisi are the machismo handsome counterparts to the 'beautiful' Fulgrim and Sanguinius.

>>5045405
Stop going on pastebin and cribbing my notes.

>>5045034
Did we?

After the salute. You start the fight as it is proper.

With a Haka.

You stomp your two feet and Angron looks at you curiously.

"HEAR THUNDER ROAR NOW" You shout at as you clap your daggers together loudly to a great violent effect grabbing the attention of every being with ears within a half a kilometer.

"KNOW THAT THIS BATTLE STARTS NOW" you say making the traditional slice moves and a loud howl

"FIGHT LIKE FOR YOUR LIFE." You shout taking the 'strong' stance and popping your neck. Angron smirks and you go quick.

You decide, seeing as you haven't fought an opponent like Angron, that your best action is to commit to probing strikes. So you come in fast with a slice.

Then you realize suddenly and violently what a lifetime of fighting does for skill.

When Angron parries your attack and comes back at you, your body barely has time to react to his counter. So you have to quickly react with a leg sweep.

Which does knock him down for all of a moment that he rolls away and hops back up like nothing happened. Still with the grin on his face.

You go in again- with the intent to fake, feint and go for another direction. You come in with what would look like bait to any predator.

The swing is easy to telegraph, but that's the point, you want him to go for your other blade and not realize that you are committed to this other attack.

When the 'primary' blade comes in both Angron and You roll out in and awkward motion, making your actual attack miss and him get his blade so close to your face it could probably have shaved some of your crew.

This is without a doubt the hardest fight you have experienced.

And Angron seems to be enjoying every second of it and he is coming at you with a strong swing, which leads to you blocking, and another swing and block. You parry one and come in for him to block and set up a really nice kick that knocks you back.

"Well it's good to see I was able to get an actual blow in." Angron says in a pleased tone. And, this is actually one of the rare time someone has landed a solid hit on you. You realize that this is quickly turning into a match of skill and you can't just rely on your bodies reflexive instinct. This is going to be a hard fight, and you have to make it good. But at least it's a welcome challenge, and at least it is against your brother.


>> Continue to probe, there has to be a weakness in this defense.

>> Strike with speed. You know Angron is slower than you, utilize sudden bursts of speed.

>> Go after his foot work, you swept him earlier and while he did recover it is a path to take.

>> Switch things up. Fight more unorthodox like your crew in their practices like Jera.

>> Fight like your family and an islander, begin the traditional form of the island.

>> Write in

>>5045405
I can't see Angron as blond, probably because that is too close to Guilliman's space roman.
>>5045472
Unless we go thorugh the high speed drop off, getting a trade deal with Bobby G, and finding Pert before Malal's next post, we probably did.

>>5045490
>> Switch things up. Fight more unorthodox like your crew in their practices like Jera.

If we fight him like the countless warriors hes faced before, we are going to get our ass handed to us, angron just has more experience in that area.

>>5045490
"Hear thunder sing loud"

"Know that this Battle Starts now"

"Fight as its your life"

Pasted the wrong version ugh.

>>5045490
>> Fight like your family and an islander, begin the traditional form of the island.
Or
>> Strike with speed. You know Angron is slower than you, utilize sudden bursts of speed.

>>5045493
Oh. I haven't kept up. Now I feel awful. Time to read Malal again.

>>5045494
>>5045496


Because I am waiting for my phone to charge before going to the gym I will explain each in a much more detailed way.

Currently Kolinaisi has, in essence, Ultra Instinct- if we want to be really lazy about nomenclature and description. He just doesn't really have a fighting style which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Continue to probe
- Kolinaisi will develop more like an MMA fighter and look to punish opponents think Brazillian Jujitsu or more seeking formlessness


Path of speed
- More like Jeet Kun Do, going for fast powerful striking forms and kind of formlessness


Footwork
- Fencing / Boxing more linear approach

Switch things up
- This leads to a combination of Drunken Boxing and Savat. Yes that is as weird as it sounds.

Island style
- Muy Thai, full stop.

>>5045502
Fair enough.

Im all for weird ass drunken master primarch, itll be hillarious watching the usually calculating primarch sparring opponents getting befuddled by an ever changing style.

>>5045490
>> Try to incorporate the unusual styles of Jera and his crew with the honored traditions of the Black.
A great warrior like the eye of the storm, marrying the glories of the past with the dreams of the future.

>>5045502
Savat/Muy Thai sounds like a scary combination.

LET'S DO IT.

> Captcha is HVMON
The Machine-Spirit is witness!

>>5045525
Fuck it, support.
Jera and the privateers are also part of our home and people.

hey old man can the island combat form be
Kapu Kuialua?

>>5045490
>> Strike with speed. You know Angron is slower than you, utilize sudden bursts of speed.

>>5045490
>>> Fight like your family and an islander, begin the traditional form of the island.

>>5045565
>support
Kapu Kuialua seems like an interesting prospect
Kapu Kuʻialua; Kuʻialua; or Lua; is an ancient Hawaiian martial art based on bone breaking, joint locks, throws, pressure point manipulation, strikes, usage of various weapons, battlefield strategy, open ocean warfare as well as the usage of introduced firearms from the Europeans
Straight from google

Also
>> Switch things up. Fight more unorthodox like your crew in their practices like Jera.
If Kapu Kuialua doesn't get enough votes

>>> Fight like your family and an islander, begin the traditional form of the island.

>>5045603
>>5045603
>>5045565
.
I mean i didn't want it to be entirely Hawaiian but, yeah. If you guys want to have that be the primary island form thats fine.

If you vote the dual privateer/island form I will obviously take it in consideration too.

>>5045643
A mixture Salvat, Kapu Kuialua, Muay Thai and druken boxing?
Let's call it the De'lormosan special.

>>5045663
Sounds good to me

>>5045663
Support but add in speed advantage.

>>5045663
Supporting, sounds like a nice mix

So we are going for the combination?

I will post during lunch time. Sorry I didn't do it last night, had a bad deadlift and my back is still hurting me.

>>5046024
Looks like it has the majority right now unless anyone else wants to weigh in.

>>5046024
Be careful man. It's easy to fuck up your back, and it'll stay with you the rest of your life.

>>5046083
It's okay my back was already bad from military service. And I just pulled something. I'll be fine

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Taking a moment of reflection, you realize that techniques and forms you are most accustomed to, the style of the black and the style of the privateer, are actually the form that would be the best.

You take up the privateer "stance" which to those uninitiated looks like a stagger. You then do your run up, which has Angron looking confused but ready. You come in like you're about to do a few wild swings with your daggers and Angron moves to counter.

Exposing his knee cap.

Allowing you to do what the privateer form is infamous for: it's painful bone breaking kicks. You dodge his swing and do the stomp kick to the knee which staggers Angron giving you a powerful opening.

> Lock and Throw! Grab that sword arm and throw him on his back.

> Point hit! Hit that exposed shoulder causing him to drop the sword.

>Sweep! Knock that leg from him getting him to the ground.

> Nerve strike! Go for a pressure point and hit hard.

>>5046342
> Nerve strike! Go for a pressure point and hit hard.
Angron has the fighting experience, strength, and pain tolerance to ignore the other options (or only be momentarily caught off guard)

>>5046345
Support.

>>5046342
> Nerve strike! Go for a pressure point and hit hard.

>>5046342
> Nerve strike! Go for a pressure point and hit hard.
Consider for a moment; Kolinaisi is, among several things, a medical professional in several fields.

The potential for CQC is ridiculous to say nothing of his electrical talents.

> Nerve strike! Go for a pressure point and hit hard.
"This isn't a fighting mat... it's an operating table."

>>5046612
Oh God-Emperor, Kolinaisi is absolutely going to be the smiling bastard son delivering puns worthy of full-body groans.

His brothers - NAY! - the Galaxy is not prepared.

Everything you need for this fight, you realize: is in your upbringing. In your training of the island style and your watching the training of combat on the ship.

You have what you need to fight. You just weren't sure about it until now. With your medical training and skill, with the knowledge of the islander style you can make any fight a punishing exercise.

In the briefest moment you have you utilize Angron's weakened position.

You know much of human anatomy.

And much of your own.

Angron isn't quite like a normal person. His body is too large and he has far too many organs.

However, what he does share is the same physical pressure points and joints that you have.

If you were to be a sneaky predator, you would go for the small of the back. A pressure point that would be used to great effect.

However, you know that someone who fights with this much honor would probably prefer something more straightforward.

So you go for one of the more painful pressure points in the lower abdomen.

With a rapid strike from the hilt of your weapon, to prove the point, Angron let's out a gasp as he topples over.

You charge down to go for a submission or trap with your blades, but Angron is able to roll away quickly.

He then takes a different position with his blades and runs at you.

It looks like he is somewhat enjoying the fact that he is getting a good fight, but you are not quite sure how that is going to work out for you...

This show fight is getting dangerous.
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>> Charge at him faster, and hit him with your blade like how you did your uncle in your challenge fight.

>> Side step his attack and using both fighting skill and anatomical procession hit him at another point.

>> Do a privateering tactic, namely a kick throw. Wait till he is practically on you then launch him using his momentum against him.

>> Flipping Kick. A privateer favorite for showing off and a very, very powerful kick that is normally hard to pull off or use against an opponent.

>> Side lock. Wait till he swings then hit the pressure point in the arm pit and take his arm to either throw or disable.

>> Write in

>>5046766
>>> Do a privateering tactic, namely a kick throw. Wait till he is practically on you then launch him using his momentum against him.

>>5046766
>> Charge at him faster, and hit him with your blade like how you did your uncle in your challenge fight.
Maybe instead strike with the blade in one hand and attack a pressure point with the other.

>>5046766
>> Do a privateering tactic, namely a kick throw. Wait till he is practically on you then launch him using his momentum against him.

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>>5045405
Prove me wrong

>>5046766
>> Do a privateering tactic, namely a kick throw. Wait till he is practically on you then launch him using his momentum against him.
ALLOW ME TO SHOW YOU THE POWER OF MY KUNG FU!

>>5047087
I can fucking see it.

>>5046766
>> Do a privateering tactic, namely a kick throw. Wait till he is practically on you then launch him using his momentum against him.

As he charges, you align yourself to do another privateer technique.

The humbling kick throw.

As he gets in range you wait till the instinctual last second to drop and kick him over, launching him a significant distance,largely because of the momentum he had.

You roll up and are back at him quickly, putting him on the back pedal and on defense for once.

In combat with blades however, he is clearly more skilled. Your technique however, is something he hasn't seen, and the good news for you is

"Just to let you know mate, I am just now warmed up." you say and angron smirks.

He tries, only because you dodge both bits, to do the exact same sweep to hit technique you did. There is no mistaking that it is near identical.

"Good! I am near done too! You'll get those rights brother, but I want to make a wager." Angron says

"Oh? What would that be?" you ask.

"I know that you have a lot to do, and if we have no clear victory condition here, we are going to be at this all day. I also know you are a capable surgeon. So we make this to first blood on the chest." he says.

"Deal. But what we wagering?" you ask and Angron smiles brightly.

"Well I noticed despite you having two void ships, and many good weapons, you fight naked practically! I figure i could wager some fancy armor from a high rider that I could get blood first."

"I think I can get you that." You say and Angron smirks.

"Oh I know it." he says and he dashes at you, faster than a Rak'gol. He was holding back...

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Quick react!

> Switch hands and dash the same at him

> Island Form Side Step Trap: its disrespectful as a rubbishman but will it work and teach a lesson.

>Privateer form plant leap: You could use him as a vault and leap over him to show it wont be easy

> write in

>>5047358
>> Island Form Side Step Trap: its disrespectful as a rubbishman but will it work and teach a lesson.
>Inb4 we kick Angron in the dick.

>>5047358
> Island Form Side Step Trap: its disrespectful as a rubbishman but will it work and teach a lesson.
I'm curious what this is.

>>5047358
> Island Form Side Step Trap: its disrespectful as a rubbishman but will it work and teach a lesson.

>Privateer form plant leap: You could use him as a vault and leap over him to show it wont be easy

You recall the most painful of fighting lessons you were taught as youth from your Uncle, one that made your Father cringe. 'remember this move Kolinaisi. You can do it only once to an opponent, and they will always remember it.' You remember your uncle saying.

You line up yourself as if you are going to try to make good swing at his chest. The positioning has to be perfect, and he is coming at you fast enough that only you could possibly pull this off.
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"Aye Kai, Jero, whatchoo, is Kolinasi fightan Angron now?"

"Aya Rongo. Ya. He usin island and privateer form too."

"How he doin?"

"He fightan like an islander, that's for sure. He doin as best as he can against someone like-"

"Wait- oh no way is Angron gonna possibly fall fo"

"OOOOOOO"

"AIYAAA"

"Weren't you the one who taught him that nasty manuever Kai?"

"That's my nephew!"

"I don't know Kai. That move, it look cool an all, but I mean look at Jero's face, he wincin just lookin at it gettin done."

"You fight a man like Kolinaisi who can beat up a murderbird without a weapon and not use dirty moves, tell me what happen."

"Ya, I dig. Sometime honor has no place on the battlefield, but Angron aint got up yet!"
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Angron runs at your, quickly, and at the last possible second you execute the sidestep trap kick: also known as kiʻi haʻaheo. In a smooth, swift, and powerful motion like a wave you do an up sweep of a kick once again knocking him off both feet, and bringing your foot down swift with the fall Angron being aware of what is about to happen.

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"Did he just kick the Invictus in the jollies?" Oenomaus asked

"Yeah, these islanders have a weird martial art, same with the privateers. That, and it happened to me too, is called kiʻi haʻaheo, the arrogant kick. You can only do it, if you know for a fact, you got the set up for it."

"I don't think Angron is gonna be too happy about that." Oenomaus stated

"Old Friend, nobody is happy about gettin kicked in the jollies."

"That isn't it. It's the fact he didn't think of a move like that will be most upsetting to him."

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You pull the heel kick follow up. Which is what you hope your uncle did to you. Angron is hit but he isn't stunned. As you go in for a slash, he does a quick grab, to try to mount and slash you.
--

>>5047561

BIG Mistake. You are familiar with ground work and it quickly turns into a reversal, both of you struggling with each others blades and trying to position for top mount, until Angron cleverly shakes you off with a quick roll. You stand up, and you charge at him, and you can tell that he is about to try to mimic you again, but you do a spin, thus not even allowing the kick to connect.

Angron get's in a lock.

Both blades get blood at the same time. You can tell by the electricity in the body, by the slight sting to your chest and the feeling of your dagger puncturing at the same time.

This is a tie.

And you know it.

You both step back.

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Choose one.

>> Smile, laugh, look down and walk up and give your brother a hug. It was a good fight (watch your jollies though, you know the move hurts.) Let him say what he think happened.

>> Concede, graciously. Let Angron win. After taking a kick like that as he did he deserves the best armor you or hell, the old man can make.

>> Claim victory, with humility, see how Angron reacts, but say you are just happy of the reward of a good fight and no armor is necessary.

>> Rematch! Later. First blood wasn't achieved because you both achieved it at the same time.

>> Write in.

>>5047563
>Smile and laugh, declare it a draw and demand a rematch.

>>5047364
Also fucking called it.

>Smile and laugh, declare it a draw and demand a rematch.
8myan

>>5047563
>> Smile, laugh, look down and walk up and give your brother a hug. It was a good fight (watch your jollies though, you know the move hurts.) Let him say what he think happened.

>>5047575
You did.
I'll keep this in mind for a reward of some kind later.

>>5047587
Wonder what Leman would say?

>>5047592
Probably laugh fight us then give us a taste of our own medicine.
because to tell the truth I think we would probably lose that fight.

>>5047563
>>> Smile, laugh, look down and walk up and give your brother a hug. It was a good fight (watch your jollies though, you know the move hurts.) Let him say what he think happened.

>>5047563
>> Smile, laugh, look down and walk up and give your brother a hug. It was a good fight (watch your jollies though, you know the move hurts.) Let him say what he think happened.

I say we should 1) make it a habit of pranking the shit out of the other Primarchs (someone in the family should have some fucking levity), and 2) craft Angron a masterwork set of armor to surprise him with.

>>5047917
If it gets enough traction, it could be considered in character for him.

>>5047917
I think we should hold off the armour until we meet our other 2 brothers and get back to De'lormosa.
Than we can gift them all when we i vite them to visit.

You look dead serious for a moment.

Then you laugh and smile. Angron starts to as well. You walk up and give him a hug and he pats you on the back as the two of you head towards the ship.

"It looks like we are gonna have to dona rematch." he says with a smile

"Ya. That's for certain brother." you say looking at him and he nods.

"where did you learn to fight like that?" he asks you and you grin.

"my planet. Namely my island and my crew.". You smirk.

" No wonder you are able to repel an invasion if you and your entire crew fight like that." he says.

"Mostly the chain breakers fight as I do. My honor guard has their form, and the privateers too." You say and he gives an odd look

"Sounds like your planet is like ours too." he says and you nod.

"Just a lot more water mate." you say and he nods.

As the two of you walk back to Gella who helps stitch you both up, even though it really isnt needed, Angron then looks at his scarring curiously.

"Never had a tie before, dont know what I am supposed to do." he says anf Oenomaus walks up with Charon


"Thats becsuse it's a judgement on your part. You have to say if you won or not! But you don't even mark it anyways, its an exhibition and you have a rematch scheduled." Oenomaus says.

"Ah yes. The exhibition clause." Charon says and nods as several of the council that was set up start to approach.

"Let everyone know, Kolinaisi is allowed to obtain raw materials from our moon, as he has explained to me it is to help them get home and create more weapons. In due time they will return, after they seek out the dreaded Ganth in, Olympia, wherever that is. " Angron states for all to hear.

"Umm speaking of, did we show Angron where we are on a star chart?" Gella asks a pointed question which stings much more than the wound.

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Limited time, pick just one

>> show angron the star charts you have, its more suited for him

>> take him to the navigator display, even though it is complicated it will give him the most info

>> show him a simple overlay of your planet using the stars in his sky and where you are going.

>> write in

>>5048036
>> show angron the star charts you have, its more suited for him
>> I'll come back here later to drag you on a visit to De'lormosa and to trade, I'll teach ya in depth then. It would be a shame if ya never learned how to sail anyway.

>>5048044
Supporting.

being a primarch, angron wont need much more other info to pinpoint our locations.

>>5048036
I can support >>5048044

We could always leave a star chart that can be used by Nucerian astronomers and just update the information when we return from visiting Olympia.

>>5047719
>>5047592

It really depends.
Kolinaisi is pretty much a wild card.
In Canon: Leman felt he would only lose to Sanguinus or Kurze. The Lion Defeated Kurze so I honestly rank it

1: Daddys Perfect Hawk Boy
2: Lion
3: Curze
4: Leman
5: Jaghatai

But this list could be rearranged 25 ways with good reasons for each.

Some primarchs were built for tactical combat, others like Dorne and Perturabo, warfare.

You the reader decide where we go.

>>5048044
>Support

>>5047945
Well there's my answer.

Boys - We've got some mischief to make. Clearly they should be tailored as to be both in good humor and to prod the Primarchs buttons; like subtly altering the arrangement of tools in Perturbo's workshop, or painting Lion's armor hot pink, or dumping a boatload of dog biscuits on Leman from surprise.

> inb4 the challenge to enter the Eleventh's elite stealth squad is to pull a gag on the Big Kahuna himself

>>5048256
Like I said, the lore is interactive. I love what everyone has been doing and making for the eleventh legion. Also my new position may be able to afford us some new art of Kolinaisi.

>>5048256
>> inb4 the challenge to enter the Eleventh's elite stealth squad is to pull a gag on the Big Kahuna himself

>"Have to admit, the pie that makes me magnetic is very inventive. I'll give points for ingenuity."

\You consider your options briefly. In case of an emergency, with what you know, Angron does have a warp capable ship. It would be important for him to know how to get to your planet in either case. However the additional data, may prove to be confusing, not that Angron couldn't figure it out, but that a simple star chart is effective for what he needs.

So you comeback quickly, and show Angron the star charts.

Which much to your shock causes some juvenile laughter from some of the nearby crowd.

"What is so funny?" You ask.

"Your part of the constellation called the Aquilla. Namely, your home star/planet is better known in vulgar tones might I add" Angron says scaring some of the local rabble "As the Birds err, butt." Angron says and then the words come back briefly you come from the birds bunghole! which really makes you wonder, for a moment.

"Anyways, these routs, will take you from your planet, to ours, safely." You say.

"And we can use this, at anytime?" Angron asks.

"Well yeah. Just if you come to my planet uninvited, just realize they won't exactly roll out the welcome mat unless you they know we are on good terms." You say and Angron chuckles.

"Besides mate, It would be impolite for me not to drag you back to show you around and get some trade started up. So you waited a few years to find someone like you, wait a few months, and I can show you my home and the hospitality you have shown me." You say

"I'd like that. I need to start assembling a crew myself. You say you draw up, contracts and get sponsors to just go around?" Angron asks, and you realize you haven't really explained the privateering system to him. So you go to the ship, grab one of the manufactured pads that you insisted get made that everyone else thought was kind of a dumb idea except Meera, and bring it to Angron.

"This explains everything. It doesn't have physical pages, but it is easy to use and it charges in the sun, or even something hot will charge it up. It shows how a privateering account works, how void ships work, how to make some of the things you need to make a void ship, how to go from there. Granted- your planet doesn't have the raw material like how mine did that is just sitting around waiting to go, but this shows how to get started." You say and Angron looks over it.

"This is a powerful amount of information Kolinaisi, where did you get it?" Angron asks.

"Well most of it is what I know, what I was taught, some of it I learned on the fly- but a lot of it was luckily readily available. Though you should probably read up on ship sailing and ship building." You say

"Why?" He asks

"Because you and I are gonna go sailin and fishin! I can't have a brother that doesn't know how to fish or sail!" You say giving him a pat on the shoulder and he nods.

>>5048882

"I think I can oblige that much. Kolinaisi, I am grateful you came to this planet and we met as we did." Angron says trading grips then hugging you. And you hug back. This planet and it's damn ragweed making your allergies flare up like Angron.

You get back to the fierce and trade a wave with Angron, as you get aboard you see- to your utter amazement- everything in the cargo hold in perfect order. To your lack of surprise, you see Jera grinning like a stoat that stole the fish.

"Good work Jera, I don't know how you did it, but you did it." You say and he gets up.

"You say your see ya soons?" He asks

"Ya mate. We need to go sound that horn make sure there are no stragglers." You say.

When you get up to the deck and sound the horn, the check in system counts two rapidly approaching stragglers: Rongo, with what is obviously more food and Delia, who seems to be approaching with great speed. You don't begin moving the ship till Rongo is on board. Delia and Rongo both end up on the deck before you exit the atmosphere.

"Your First Order, Captain?" Jera asks.

"Full speed ahead towards the Maiden World with all haste! We must make that window!" You say and a few people look at you funny.

"What, that's how that order is supposed to sound! Get to work! Duty stations!" You say and there is a positive buzz and some singing that happens shortly after.

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Pick initial duty

>> Check on that Aeldari, see if she is alright and make sure that psychic dampener is working

>> Find out why Delia was running late, it could be important it might not be

>> See what additional goodies Rongo brought.

>> Check in on the two Jokearo, and to a lesser extent Nasi

>> Write in

>>5048884
>> Check on that Aeldari, see if she is alright and make sure that psychic dampener is working

>>5048882
So, we literally came out of the arse end of nowhere to free angron and save him.

That ones going to be a running legion joke.

>>5048897
Support

>>5048897
Supporting.

probably go see the jokearo afterwards.

>>5048897
>>> Check on that Aeldari, see if she is alright and make sure that psychic dampener is working

>>5048922
Hah

>>5048884
>> Check on that Aeldari, see if she is alright and make sure that psychic dampener is working

>>5048922
Kolinaisi a cheeky shit, so it tracks.

"Cap, what are you gonna do?" Jera asks

"Gonna check on our temp crew member see if they are doing alright." You say and Jera nods.

"I'll keep up here then. Make sure things go smoothly. I don't think we'll get to the maiden world that fast before we get to the route, but I will be up here in case." Jera states then before you head out he does put up one finger, because he forgot something.

"We also need to inspect the new crew, see what they would be good at. We can't just make everyone a chain breaker, whatever we got- needs to pull some ship duty. There are tons of complicated tasks that need work on this ship. Worse, we need at least as many engineers as there are crew, if I have been reading the actual read out right. The ganth, being the idiots they were, were using this ship on emergency load systems for years. Meaning, ya they had minimum manning, but they put a lot of load on the ships system. Poor Nasi has been practically holding this ship together for years, thankfully you came around and got it hummin like it is now. Problem is, you need to be captain, not chief engineer all the time, and you can't expect Meera and Gella to pick up your slack."

"Ok, tell ya what Jerah. Next human planet we stop at, if there are intellectuals and engineers that can function in an environment like this and they want to work with us, we sign em on." You say with a smirk and Jerah shakes his head.

"We need an actual education system lad! Schools! I know you and the old man are cookin something up, but we need it yesterday! At first I was excited about my big ass ship, but after working on this ship with you I about shit me organs out thinking about! Spirits Cap! A Ship that's the size of an island? I wish we had some fucking robots, but AI usually goes sour, worse a lot of stuff needs humans anyways." Jera rants, and you realize something.

"Jera have you been reading my notes and log?" You ask

"First Mate is supposed to read captain notes and log. And Quartermaster log! You want to really make your headspin, read Rongo's logistic log! I didn't know the black had a freaking math genius on the island pretending to be a cook!" Jera says causing you to ponder that.

"Jerah, you are going above and beyond. It's expected of all of us right now. When we have more crew things will be easier. Right now though-"

"Ya, ya. And your the only one who can check up on that one. I'll keep my belly achin to myself and you thank you very much." Jera says and you snicker a bit at that one.

"Just be glad you don't have to clean up my surgical mess." You say and Jera lets out a loud breath and a solitary 'Ha' that would make Delia proud.

You make your way down to the medical bay, passing several new hands that respectfully let you pass and act mostly out of fear.

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>>5049344
When you finally get there, Gella is across looking over the other Honor Guard members. You would say something but Gella gives you a look then motions towards the Aeldari who is sitting up and reading some book that was available.

"How are you feeling?" You ask

"Better. I still have some strange phantom pains, and feelings that I cannot possibly account for. But I, feel more like an individual. This hood, is it necessary?" She asks

"Better safe than sorry." You say and she nods, which you can barely see under the hood which mostly covers her face in shadow. Your not sure if that is a psychic effect of your creation or if that is just the design.

"Okay. I, you are taking me to a Maiden World I heard?" She asks

"Ya. I figure it's best for you to be with your own kind." You say and she nods

"I hope they accept me after all I have been through." She says- and to be honest, you hadn't really thought of that as likely.

"They will. I am sure. We aren't going to drop you too close to a population center, but we will give you something to hunt with and some food." You say and she shakes her head in understanding.

"If it's alright with you, could you change the dressing later? I really need to sleep." She says, and realizing that she looks like she is recovering shockingly well, that could work.

"Ya. I'll come back in a few hours." You say and she makes herself comfortable.

Gella then looks at you, and motions you over.

"What's up Gella."

"We have a medical issue." She says.

"What is that?" You ask

"All four of us were exposed to some sort of, I am not sure really, but I need to check you, then I can pinpoint when it happened." She says.

"How are you gonna do that?" You ask

"X ray. Granted your body makes me freak out everytime I see it in an X Ray because it is so hard to find things when you have EXTRA ORGANS" Gella says in a loud sarcastic tone that you think she got from hanging out with Frank too much.

"Oh Har Har. X Ray me." You say and she brings it over, and after a moment shows you the chart. And sure as the color of the black sands- there is something slightly different, that you can only readily identify as not as a tumor, but some sort of implant but it doesn't function. So you compare the girls x-rays, and all the implants are in a similar spot.

Delia looks a bit more frazzled than normal, is the only real difference that you noticed. This is worrisome. You have no idea what the implanted tiny device does, but you realize that it must have come from the fight against the Lord of Despair.

Stranger, you can't really sense an actual machine spirit from it.

>>5049345

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Pick a strategy for this. You can pick two.

>> Summon UR. Show them what is going on, have them assist in whatever this is. New crew has to earn too.
>> Remove your implant first- and foremost, then study it.
>> Sense the girls for any irregularities in their mana/electricity. Maybe you can't sense a machine spirit from yours because it broke
>> Summon Nasi, with them Jokearo. Hit two birds with one stone.
>> Remove all the implants, no need for them to linger inside any body for too long
>> Run a full screen, it takes a while, but if these are doing anything to you or your honor guards bodies you need to know.
>> Now is one of those times to call the old man
>> Write in

>>5049347
>> Now is one of those times to call the old man
>> Summon UR. Show them what is going on, have them assist in whatever this is. New crew has to earn too.
Hope this isn't necron.

>>5049347
>>> Summon UR. Show them what is going on, have them assist in whatever this is. New crew has to earn too.
>> Sense the girls for any irregularities in their mana/electricity. Maybe you can't sense a machine spirit from yours because it broke

>>5049347
> Call the Old Man first and foremost
> Prep a room for yourself and the girls, then bring in UR.
We shouldn't bring in Nasi and his fuzzy friends until we are absolutely sure whatever this is can't spread. If the Old Man and UR give the okay, *then* the lads can come in to learn some surgery.

>>5049374
I don't think it's Necron; bio-technology isn't their schtick.

Maybe it's related to the alterations done to the various human population on De'lormosa? Growths prompted by exposure to Adraithic energies? I doubt that the Daemon had enough time or energy to actually work any subtle sorceries when he was busy eating lightning bolts like a bug-eyed BITCH.

>>5049428
>Support

>>5049428
I was worried about necron things because of the cube, and the c'tan apparently trying to mess with the timeline.
But maybe it was just some death curse or something.

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>>5049428

So, Necrons are one of my favorite factions, and I love all the lore with 40k since I have been reading it for, 20 years at least and I have been reading the new lore too.

This is technically a misconception. New Lore they are looking to make pariahs, and while they have heavily retconned the mindshackle scarabs, they have things that specifically go after biological.

You are correct in it isn't their schtick per-say but it is something that they can do. It's just they don't really do it that often. With the this quest I like reaching for some of the more obscure lore. Especially the fun obscure stuff for the crusade era, but as a general rule, I have to say this. Ask yourself, even with all the insane lore, would this make sense within the scope of what has been dealt with. I will do my absolute best to not blindside you guys with anything out of left field, and will make sure to take the time drop plenty of hints if you are about to deal with something out of the ordinary.

>>5049459
Also, to clarify in necrons because I didn't post it as well- even in old lore, they did mess with biology, it was outright implied that they genetically engineered the pariah genes. Now that is different in current lore At least I thought so last time I checked and Pariah gene is it's own thing, but new lore necrons have some more variety.

>>5049428
Jesus upon the Cross - I am a moron. They're *implants*, not mutations or dormant genetics.

So. Running through the previous events in my head some; I still don't think this is Necron tech. However...we don't know much about the crazy shape-shifting bitch that almost murdered our new spy-buddy Titus.

She never had an opportunity to mess with any of the crew, let alone Kolinaisi. But what if she had allies?

>>5049459
>>5049464
Hmmm. WHY YOU GOTTA MAKE THIS SO DIFFICULT?!

I just went back to reread the Daemon fight, and frankly the Box entity was behaving...pretty amicably. Friendly even. And not even in the 'this is so obviously an act so I can get out and exterminate your species' fashion.

I'm hemming and hawing like a motherfucker, but maybe we should quarantine our persons until we hear back from the Old Man.

>>5049428
>Support

>>5049347
>> Summon UR. Show them what is going on, have them assist in whatever this is. New crew has to earn too.
>> Run a full screen, it takes a while, but if these are doing anything to you or your honor guards bodies you need to know.
>> Now is one of those times to call the old man

You switch to the secure channel.

"Testing." You say

"You know it works Kolinaisi, this should be suitably important." The old man says.

"So the girls and I have each been hit with a strange implant, it has no machine signals, but shows up on x ray. It doesn't seem to be anything that could cause immediate harm that I can detect." You say

"Describe it to me." Old man tells you and you can hear in his voice he is excited and on the move.

"It looks, well- it looks almost like a virophage." You say and the Old Man makes a humming sound

"Old Man?" You ask as he is making the strange noise.

"Kolinaisi, let's think on this for a second, if something is designed to look like that, why?"

"It has a payload." You respond

"Exactly. Tell me now lad, what materials are it?"

"I haven't removed em yet, but they are three different ones lookin at this x ray scan." You say.

"Well I can think of a host of things it could be, but does it have a machine spirit?" He asks.

"Not that I have detected yet."

"Then I would mark that in a firm no category. So, there are a few things it could be from your description, it could be something that is a tracker, something that is an injection agent, and it could be some super ancient archeo tech or xeno tech, it could also be with a design like that, it could be a DNA jacker."

"Wait- that last one sounds particularly bad." You say and the girls look a bit shocked as well.

"It's actually not as bad as it sounds. It's a thing that takes a sample of the DNA after a certain period of time, does an analysis and falls off to be collected. Selenar popularized it but it didn't really catch on save with some xenos and far flung human colonies." He says

"That seems particularly strange." You state the obvious

"It was. Either way, on the off hand it is an archeotech kill phage or xeno thing, I'd have someone help you remove them." The old man states.

"Wait an Archeotech kill phage?" You say a little more perturbed.

"We can eliminate if it's a kill phage really quick using the x-ray by taking another one." The Old man says and you have Yana take another X ray of you.

"What am I looking for?" You say looking at the two photos

"If it's a killphage there is gonna be a subtle difference. Does there look like there is a needle or something latching on?" The Old man asks

"Yeah?"

"Does it look like it's retracting really slowly, like it's injecting or does it look stable?" The old man asks

"It hasn't moved any. It's the same length." You say.

"Oh good. If it was retracting really slowly that's how you know it's a kill phage or a DNA jacker. Still, ya gonna want to get em off you. I'd assist you with the procedure personally, but I am doing a delicate procedure on the ship, and while I would be glad to help and do two things at once, I think now knowing it isn't fatal you'll be fine." The old man says.

>>5049917
"Alright Old Man, when I remove it I will contact you back so we can find out what it is." You say

"Looks like we need a surgical assistant." You say and Gella nods then shakes her head

"Why not?" You ask

"In case something goes bad, I'll need to have hands free." She says, which makes since, if it does do something while it's happening to you in particular, she can be the back up.

"Well I guess it's time for our resident AI to earn their pay." You say aloud quietly.

"Pygmallius to the medical bay as soon as possible mate." You use the ship comm system. And you hear loud metal clanks approach.

"I was just coming this way to check on the Aeldari. What's the matter Captain?" UR says in the same monotone voice as always, but the emotive of the face seems more jovial, even curious.

"I need to prep a surgical room, we have those right?" You ask

"Ya Cap. You know where it is. You just use it as a spare medical part storage room." Gella says, and you realize she is correct on that. You are also now aware that maybe the ship isn't as big as you thought.

On your way to the room, you brief UR who has his own thoughts on what it could be.

"Ancient Human technology. It could be a form of RFID. It could be a Friend or Foe Designator." UR states.

"That's confusing, it has no machine spirit." You say then UR stops. And pulls out a strange device and waves it over you. It beeps.

"Did you detect a machine spirit in the device that beeped?" UR asks

"For the briefest moment, yes." You say making no exaggeration.

"That's the life of an RFID machine spirit. Which I think these are." UR states as you enter the room. The process, is incredibly quick of converting the room, and the tool to remove them, as scary as it looks, is fairly non evasive. The process, takes less than thirty minutes for all of you, largely thanks to UR's assistance in being able to simply find it with his device, marking an X, then either you or Gella using the device to remove the implant that is barely visible to your naked eye.

You put them in a little isolation bag and UR studies them.

"These- they are friend foe designators. For whatever it is, it's at least as old as me or even older." UR states

"I'll let the old man know in a little bit he seemed a bit busy."

"Smart. I'd say if anything acts differently after that, you know what was doing it. That being said, I hope it isn't this ship."

"Well how would we know that?" You ask.

"Obviously check the young prodigy that you have maintaining the ship. If they have the same thing it is from the ship, or maybe the orange haired guests on an off chance." UR says before walking off to do more errands.

>>5049920

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Well now that is over, now what? What's next?

>> Go talk to Nasi and see if he has the same thing
>> See why Delia was running last minute late
>> Do a quick round, inspect the new lot of recruits
>> Talk to Titus, see how his crew is fitting in
>> Write in

>>5049923
>> Go talk to Nasi and see if he has the same thing
Don't forget to see the monkes, give them some bananas

>>5049923
> Go check on little Nasi
RFID huh?

If it *is* the ship, I could see that being some form of overwatch program; no matter where you go on a planet, the ship has a means of finding you for extraction, maybe teleport if it even was available to the Ganth before.

>>5049928
Actually, couldn't we just ask the ship's machine spirit if tge RFID is theirs?
We do have technopathy afterall.

>>5049936

You could and add it to whichever task you choose

>>5049958
In that case
Adding a
>> Ask the ship's machine spirit if the RFID is theirs, and if it is, what is used for.

>>5049923
> Go talk to Nasi and see if he has the same thing

>>5049923
> Ask the ship's machine spirit if the RFID is theirs, and if it is, what is used for.
> Go talk to Nasi and see if he has the same thing

>>5049923
>> Ask the ship's machine spirit if the RFID is theirs, and if it is, what is used for.
>> Go talk to Nasi and see if he has the same thing

You wheel the x ray with you towards where you can find Nasi, which is his room and also the engineering lab. Honestly, it's just better that the kid isn't sleeping in a Janitor Closet. When you get there you see your loyalist girl guarding the door until you get there, where she bounds towards you.

"Whose a good girl? You? You? Yes you are! Yes you are!" You say rubbing her belly and then knocking on Nasi's door, which he quickly opens with a smiling face.

"Heya Nasi! I'm just gonna check a few things really quick here." You say

"Oh what's that?" He asks.

"We had really random tech in us and I am trying to figure out if it's the ship or not." You say

"Couldn't you just ask the ship?" Nasi says

Well he has a point.

You go to a terminal and begin to communicate with the Something Fierce Machine Spirit. The machine spirit has become quite communicative, and very easier to understand and predict. At least to you and Nasi. The communication is easy enough.

Good evening friend. You greet in a calm tone but with some concern.

Good evening, captain. May I ask what troubles you? The Great Machine Spirit asks.

We found some RFID devices inside our bodies, they were not causing any harm, but it was a bit unusual, I was wondering due to the kind of technology used if this is something you use? You ask and you hear slight changes in the whirring.

Yes that is my technology. I use it identify those whom have all access and are considered allies. I detect that you took yours out, as well as those of your honor guard. If you wish I can memorize your genetic material through scans if you wish to switch to Biometric access but it will require genetic material from those given access instead of the RFID. It explains to you

Which would be considered less invasive? You ask

>>5050310
With prior individuals, the RFID was considered less intrusive. It used to be a key card system utilizing plastic, but multiple individuals kept losing the card, so it was switched to smaller and smaller devices until the RFID implant.

Why are we just noticing them now? You ask and there is some whirring.

This was the first time the X-Ray machine was used to high enough detail to detect it. Normally resolution is not set high enough to detect the RFID implants. If you wish we can re implant your honor guard and you right now so access is restored

Is the only other way a blood draw? You ask

Unless you wish to create RFID cards, fingerprints, retina scans, or something else? I could do a physical print out of the options?

Ya. I'd prefer you not do this that often, people get picky about stuff like this.

As far as I am aware, you are the first to identify this happening. Please communicate again soon.

You can bet on it.

"So our ship sets up RFID tags for people. I didn't know that. "

"Well there is a lot of our ship that is just now powered enough to do! Are you busy or do you want me to show you?" Nasi asks.

"What is there?" You ask

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>> The 'Mystery Scanner'

>> The 'Teleportarium'

>> The 'Analyzer'

>> The 'Processor'

>> The 'Repair Modulator'

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Also we need more artwork and memes.

>>5050311
And I know some of you are going to ask

"Doesn't the Teleportarium already work?"

Yes. But now it does more.

"What is that?"

You'd have to select it.

>>5050311
>> The 'Repair Modulator'

>>5050311
>> The 'Teleportarium'
I've been procastinating the art, even the memes, sorry old man.

>>5050328
I am waiting to use money on some better art, but it's kind of difficult to find the right artist.

>>5050311
> The 'Mystery Scanner'
>> The 'Analyzer'
Knowledge is power.

Just to let you know- you can pick more than one option on this.

I will allow up to three, I just forgot to mention it.

>>5050311

>>5050362
Good to know

>> The 'Mystery Scanner'
>> The 'Analyzer'
>> The 'Processor'

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>>5050395
Support

>5050311
>> The 'Mystery Scanner'
>> The 'Teleportarium'

>>5050362
Changing my vote to
>> The 'Mystery Scanner'
>> The 'Teleportarium'
>> The 'Analyzer'

>>5050311
>> The 'Mystery Scanner'
>> The 'Teleportarium'
>> The 'Processor'

>>5050395
Supporting.
While teleporting is cool and useful, its also a rather one trick pony kind of deal.

>>5050347
Adding
> The 'Processor'

"Well let's go see the Mystery Scanner first since I already promised that we would go look at it." You say and Nasi smiles as he eagerly hops up and grabs you by the hand.

"Let's go!" He says and you follow the lad, happy for his enthusiasm. He leads you to a really obscure part of the ship. If you hadn't memorized every nook and crannie of the ship, you'd feel it was a new place, but so far it has been used an electronics storage area that was nearby engineering. And when you arrive you see that there are goats in the room with some bedding and hay, and one standing on what looks like a very large work bench, which is illuminated.

"Gah! Get down." You say wrangling the goat kid and putting it down on the ground as you sense an unfamiliar machine spirit from the table.

"So this turned on, after the 'Gold beam' yall keep telling me went off?" You say and Nasi nods. You start dusting off the table, a goat hops on, you take the goat off the table, and straighten it out, two more goats hop on. You laugh a little.

"Nasi we need to find a place for these goats lad" You say and he laughs a little.

"Ya Cap, we'll do that. Here is a thing that looks like a book that comes with the table, but it's got a lock." He says showing you what is basically a small safe made out of flimsy metal. So you decide to both be practical and show your strength off and just tear it open and slide out the book. You flip through it and, it is the operators manual, it's in a strange language though, but you can tell how to turn it on further than the standby mode it is on now, and how to probably discern it better. You go over to the panel and you type in the combination and the table displays a small scale map as a holograph, and various alerts and alarms on the table that correlate with certain locations. You can't really understand the language, but, you can understand the machine spirit just fine. After a little sympathetic mana and- it's in gothic.

"What does this mean Cap?" Nasi asks

"I think, you can detect certain materials, energies, or things by using these dials. It went off when the blast went off right?" You ask and Nasi nods.

"It has an alarm here, which I guess you just came up and hit a button?" You ask and Nasi points to the red reset button, which actually may have been the thing that has this operable.

"Good lad. See, this alarm on the table says 'Adriathic/Cosmic' energy and it shows where we were at Nuceria and the date and time. It has other settings too I bet, but it needs someone to play around on it who isn't captain." You say smiling at Nasi who looks really excited.

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>>5051236
"Can I be that person?"

"Of course mate! I wouldn't want anyone but my chief engineer on it, though maybe get Meera and Gella, they may want to see it." You say and he runs up and hugs you. It is sad that Nasi really is the only person besides you qualified for this role. You care about Nasi, and while you are proud of him it saddens you. He deserves to have a childhood like you had, but it's better that at least you are looking after him. You wanted to leave him with your Ma and Da, but he came with you because he wanted to and the ship is his home. To be fair if the ship was any one individual it would be his as much as yours.

"Alright mate, pick which one is next, that Analyzer or that processor." You say

"They are near each other, and not far from here come on!" He says running and you follow. And the goats follow too. It's a short little run, when you get there, it's yet another underutilized room, which has been your spare sleeping quarters when you are working on some of the more complicated electronics in this area. You realize that most, if not all, of the advanced electronics and things including the reactors console, the big guns status console, and others are. The one labeled Analyzer by Nasi in his handwritten sticky note looks like a room extension.

"Watch!" he says taking one of the various tools and placing it in the room. He then slides the door, and the flips a few switches, and a display pops up, and shows every element and material breaking down composition and percentage of each. It then gives a breakdown of the supposed purpose of the item, and a report on the integrity of the item. It is similar to the fab in the upper deck only it seems more detailed. Then nasi grins takes out the tool, puts a baby goat in and does something similar. Only flipping different nobs. It then tells the species of goat, genetic quirks of the goat (Apparently most goats aren't like those on De'lormosa) what the age is, it's health and even what it's likely purpose is and offers to print out a detailed report. Nasi then opens the door and lets out the goat.

"I found out it could do that after a fly got in." He says, and you are impressed by the intuition of the child.

"Ok then give a report on me." You say stepping in the chamber. Nasi nods and does the same thing. You feel the lasers and the very very slight electricity from the machine spirit examining you.

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>>5051238

"You got a clean bill of health! It even estimates your physical capacity, like a run speed and how much you can lift based on your muscle structure! Wow! It says you could grow to be about 3 and a half meters tall and be able to throw a building it also says, that your tattoos make certain analysis inconclusive." He says and you smile stepping out and read the print out.

"It says I am about eight years due to dating, but it detects clear signs of genetic manipulation of aging process, and says I could live 'indefinitely' but it doesn't say anything about my surfing skills." You say raising your eyebrows for added effect to make Nasi laugh, but this is clearly a glaring oversight. Despite that minor disappointment, this is a marvelous find! It could help with the crew a lot.

"Are you ready to see the processor?" He asks and you nod.

He takes you over across the hallway and the goats decide to come too, again. The room, which has gone unused, because you were unable to determine the function of whatever this area was due to odd design and, well the fact that you have been busy, Nasi throws a switch and other parts rise up from the floor.

"Ok that was neat. Whats it do?" You ask and Nasi takes some scrap and some various junk and throws it in what look like various bins. Then a display comes up similar to the analyzer.

"We can use this to break down junk to base materials, like how the fab and the primary extractor do on the ship, but for things that are. Like how we skimmed past the moon and got most of the materials." Nasi says and your eyes widen when you realize Jerah probably gave the order for that while you were busy trying to figure out what the RFID was.

"Nasi, how much did we get from that moon?" You ask

"Well that's the fun part, check this out." He says and it shows a large display, that shows a general reserve of raw materials, including the ships fuel, which is now running near full.

"Wait this displays all the ships material?" You ask.

"And this allows us to distribute stuff like this junk, to various other spots in in the ship. It also allows us to eject some trash. It doesn't like organic matter though, and if anything living gets into I think it causes an error and triggers a failsafe." Nasi says as if from experience.

"Have the Jokearo been back here?" You ask and Nasi turns to you and gives a nervous grin.
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>>5051239

"So long as you got a handle on them Nasi." You say patting him on the shoulder. While not a stellar find, the processor will probably be really helpful if you study it a bit more, and may make things a lot easier. You walk with him back to his room and you call him a good lad before you realize you still have a few more things to do.


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Pick one
>> Go check in with your Honor Guard, inform them of the RFID that the ship is using.
>> Talk to Jerah, see how the mineral harvesting went
>> Talk to the new Recruits, see if you can learn more about them
>> Go meet with Titus, see how he and his crew are settling in
>> Check in with Frank, see what he has been doing with the 'detainees'
>> Write in

>>5051240
>> Go check in with your Honor Guard, inform them of the RFID that the ship is using.

>>5051240
>>> Go check in with your Honor Guard, inform them of the RFID that the ship is using.

>>5051240
>> Go check in with your Honor Guard, inform them of the RFID that the ship is using.

>>5051240
>> Go check in with your Honor Guard, inform them of the RFID that the ship is using.
Now that the initial panic/confusion has passed, I think I actually approve of the crew getting those tags.

I mean, think about it; they're non-invasive, help the ship keep track of everyone within sensors, and are proof against spoopy shape-shifting saboteurs and assassins. Imagine if that bitch from before had tried to pass herself off as one of the girls?
> Fake Meera: "Don't mind me guys, just going to do some inspections of the engi-"
> Something Fierce: 'LMAO NO FUCK OFF TART'

>>5051240
>> Go check in with your Honor Guard, inform them of the RFID that the ship is using.
>And ask Delia where she went

You return back to the med bay, and find your guard sitting down chatting.

"The items are from our ship. They are to determine who has access etc. The ship does it automatically to crew members." you say and they make confused or stunned faces.

"The Fierce can do that? Thats ancient tech." Meera says.

"It can do a lot. Nasi will train ya on it." you say and the girls actually seem excited about learning this, but Delia still seems out of it.

> talk to Delia individually
> talk to her in front of the others
> she can handle herself, find out about it later, you have a lot to do.


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More posts later its short for now due to hectic work day.

>>5051793
>> talk to Delia individually

>>5051793
> talk to Delia individually

>>5051793
> talk to Delia individually

> talk to Delia individuallynsdtg

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I deliver a second post. Also, dune was interesting.
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"Girls, I need to talk to Delia." You say and they seem to understand and walk off.

"What's up Delia?" You ask as a friend would, because ya know, you are her friend. At first she doesn't speak. Then she makes a noise

"What?"

"Mm"

"Mm?"

"Mmm I had to hold the book okay! In order to properly destroy it I accidentally activated it by touching it! I am certain that I am temporarily altered mentally from what would essentially be glimpsing infinite knowledge or drinking the sea of wisdom. My head still hurts, and I know everything and I hate it because I generally can only answer things in terrible ways and it's taking me every bit of my psychic might not to sound like an utter smart ass from just touching that book! I am just fortunate I didn't read the damned thing otherwise this would be a lot worse and probably last for months!" She says loudly in a tone of lost control. Like it really isn't her.

"But you did destroy it?" You ask

"I don't know does an adrathic beam and throwing the remains in a volcano count?" She says in a tone that reeks of hate and terror and she puts her hands over her mouth.

"But you said you had to touch it? Why if you could just shoot it?"

"The was protected by some ancient power that can only go away if someone is fool enough to touch it then destroy it, but I found out by accidentally grazing stupid thing with an exposed piece of skin like an idiot!"

"Wow, that book really, I guess did a number on ya."

"NO REALLY YOU THINK?" She says once again uncontrolled and out of turn. But from this you get the gist of what this curse is

"So you have limited omnipotence, but as a result of it, you can only answer in sarcasm, venom, and hostility?" You ask

"WOW YOU CAN READ A THESAURUS AND DO LIMITED ANALYSIS OF AN OBVIOUS SITUATION! YOUR DADDY IS SO PROUD OF YOU RIGHT NOW!" Deliah says and you can tell she is almost holding back tears your not sure if it's pain, she think's it's slightly funny, or if it is sadness. You think it probably would be a bit funny if it wasn't causing her so many problems

"But some level of honesty..." You say giving an odd look

"NO REALLY? YOU FIGURE THAT OUT BY YOURSELF? WOW YOU MUST BE THE INSIGHTFUL ONE OF THE TWENTY MAGIC GIANT IDIOTS" She says, but the voice almost isn't hers.

You could utilize this curse while you have a chance, and Delia will probably consent to such a thing, granted it will probably be painful for the both of you, or at least something to talk about later.

On the other hand, you don't know the full scope of this curse. Would it make it worse by asking a bunch of questions? What is the nature of it? What cursed entity did this?

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>>5052090
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Pick a course of action

> Continue to talk to Delia about things you want answered
> Write in what <

> Isolate her, and make sure nobody bothers her while she recovers.

> It seems that there is some entity or thing, causing it, maybe through some mana exorcism you can trap the entity and fix her.

> Write in.

>>5052092
> It seems that there is some entity or thing, causing it, maybe through some mana exorcism you can trap the entity and fix her.
>call the other honour guards back and explain the situation to them and then go somewhere private with them to ensure no one bothers you while we take our time with exercising and trapping whatever is in her
>before we continue with this we should make something like the psychic damper to put whatever is in her in kind of box to question later

>>5052098
Support

>>5052098
Support

>>5052098
Support.
The brid and his book can go fuck themselves.

>>5052098
+1

>>5052090
Supporting >>5052098

We already fucked up Khorne's scheme, let's tell that fucking pheasant of a deity that he's next.

I will be posting tonight once I get off work.

Text in verdant green instead of the normal olive is for an option you have earned through choices, decisions and all the cool lore and art.

Rules about it (because we gor this far way quicker than I thought)

1. No matter what, your green option is attached even if it says pick only one from the main options (so instead of one, you get two)

2. You can only pick ONE bright green option and it must be met with consensus

3. There will only be one of these rewards per thread, unless there is some extremely good art or some really good lore or really good memes

4. With these options there will always be a mystery box among the reward options as I want to limit the amount of mystery boxes in this quest, as too many can be frustrating for both those participating, just reading, and me running. You may see mystery boxes outside this option but at most you will only see one mystery box per thread.

>>5052595
K
I was >>5052098
Guessing this is for me, then I'll clarify my vote
>>5052092
> It seems that there is some entity or thing, causing it, maybe through some mana exorcism you can trap the entity and fix her.
On our way out to a more private location like our room could we pass a message to our honor guard to meet us at whatever location we go to

And after the deed is done, should we be successful in capturing the entity with minimal harm to our guard

>We should come up with a containment device based on the psychic damper to make a more secure cage should we be successful in initially trapping what ever this entity is

>>5052640
That is how I understood it.

Also this is a very interesting write in, which actually has made my job a lot easier.

You look out the hall.

"Ladies, meet me at my quarters in a few minutes. If I am not there just wait a bit." You say and they give you odd looks, which you respond in kind with.

"Delia, I know you are in there, but you are an exoricist of this sort of thing right?"

"ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE THIS MORE EMBARASSING FOR ME?" She says in a voice that is part hers and part whatever else.

"No. I am asking if it is possible for me to" And you take a breath, as you know most of this would be theoretical if possible

"Exorcise and remove the Mana that is doing this and maybe trap it somewhere else?" You ask and there is laughter it isn't hers.

"OH YOUR SERIOUS?" And the voice laughs harder.

"IS IT POSSIBLE TO DRAIN THE SEA? TO COUNT THE STARS? TO MOVE A MOUNTAIN?" The voice asks through partially Delia's voice. And you know the answer and you look Delia in the eyes.

"Yes." You say in a flat tone. The voice laughs a higher pitch

"SUCH SUPREME ARROGANCE"

"I get that a lot lately." You say and you take the pain stick for surgery that's used to make sure the patients don't bite there tongue and gag her with it.

You take her to your quarters in a very quiet fashion where the rest of the girls are.

"Captain what the hel- What is going o-" you lift a finger and close the door as you ungag Delia

"Help me move her to the bed and "

"IT SMELLS LIKE SHOAL STOATS FUCKING IN HERE." which causes Gella to bark out a laugh and before you can get Gella to stop Delia goes in for a brutal cut

"YOU THINK YOUR LAUGHTER WILL GET HIM TO BE ATTRACTED TO YOU WITCH?" and Gella almost leaps over you to hit Delia but Yana stops

"She touched the book?" Yana asks

"OH I SEE WHERE SHE GOT HER INTELLECT FROM!" and tired of this farce you gag her again.

"I think it has actually been getting worse." You say and Yana is finally done holding back Gella who looks like she is on the warpath.

"Well what's the plan cap? What it out?" Meera asks

"No I need to remove it. We don't know how long this will actually last or any side effects it may have. Furthermore, if she is fighting it, something like this may try to stick to her longer." You say as the four of you strap Delia to the bed.

"So you want to remove the curse from her?" Meera asks.

"Ya or whatever has a hold on her. If I remove the Mana that is causing this, it should stop it ya?" You ask, knowing that your psyker knowledge is mostly based on conjecture, your experience with the honor guard, and the little bit you read.

"Yeah. Ummm problem is that Mana has to go somewhere, and will go somewhere the second it is removed. Also Cap, whatever is doing that to Delia is a mighty powerful thing. Delia is a really powerful psyker and I only know a few better than her personally, even though she is more focused on her path. In theory: your plan works. It's just, that-" Meera says and looks over to Yana who sighs

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>>5052785

"You are saying it is possible but we do not have the current understanding." You say

"Well, you are theoretically correct. It's strangely brilliant and would impress the crone herself, it is the only way to really remove the curse forever from something. The problem is there are so many unknown variables."

"We can ask for help. We have the Old Man." You say

"That is true, but I don't really know what he would know about this sort of thing." Yana says

"We can call UR" You point out.

"A barely friendly AI may not be the best source mate." Meera points out and you realize something. You could potentially learn it or at least maybe. You could use the Artificial Third Eye, your skills with mana, and a lot of power- run it through you with some help from UR or the old man, and observe Delia through it and find a clear answer or maybe if you expand your gaze someone who could. If you can pinpoint Angron maybe you can find other souls like you and maybe one of them would know how to do this. It would be insanely dangerous though, and honestly you can already feel the sensation of a fire poker going into your temple behind your eye from how much it is going to hurt, and that isn't the part that phases you. The part is you may need to do such a task to figure out how to effectively build a trap for such mana that cannot harm anyone again.

Then a thought enters your mind.

Except you already have such a trap. The black box. You could theoretically feed the mana to that box, afterall technically that is part of it's design purpose. It is meant to trap certain energy based entities Then you know how the old man would feel about it, how anyone with a lick of sense would feel. This condition may not be permanent. But it could be.

You know that actions have consequences.

You didn't take the Something Fierce by being afraid. You took it by being brave.

You decide that you need to entertain all options.

"Meera. Go get the barrel." You say and Meera looks horrified.

"The barrel labeled 'Danger ClF3 runoff: only open with Captain's permission?" She says through gritted teeth.

"Yeah."

"Cap, I am not sure if that is the safest ide"

"You all swore a vow to defend me and my life with your own. That means something to me. Your lives are precious to me, do you not think that I wouldn't do the same? Go get the Barrel. Yana, go grab UR. Gella, go get Nasi to get the ATE and find me a generator I can hook up." You say.

"This all sounds like bad ideas"

"Well there aren't any good ones now are there." You say and yana looks taken back but you hear Delia give out her bark of laughter through the gag, which could be a good sign.

The girls go off and quickly return.
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>>5052786
Choose whom to take advice from. You have 100% to distribute among your choices.

>> Old Man. He knows just about everything.

>> UR, may have dealt with this before

>> Delia, she is compelled to speak the truth, as cruel as it is

>> "The box", it's actually designed for this

>> The ship itself. It's machine spirits may have some knowledge

>> Mystery Box

>>5052791
This may seem confusing so I will clarify.

You can pick any or all of the olive green choices and one bright green choice.

Choosing all and balanced would look like :

>1. 25%
>2. 25%
>3. 25%
>4. 25%

the % indicates the amount of that advice you dedicate to your solution in dealing with Delia's condition.

>>5052791
>>5052796
>> Old Man. He knows just about everything.
>> UR, may have dealt with this before
>> Delia, she is compelled to speak the truth, as cruel as it is
>> The ship itself. It's machine spirits may have some knowledge
I'm too dumb to count.

>>5052791
50%
>> Old Man. He knows just about everything.
25%
>> UR, may have dealt with this before
and 25%
>> "The box", it's actually designed for this

>>5052791
I'm sure I might get flak for this but...WILDCARD OPTION! LET'S GO 100%!
>> Mystery Box

>>5052819
bright green needs to be a consensus

>>5052819
And your array for the rest or 100% all in on that box?
>>5052827
Correct. There needs to be. Significant majority for the green option. If none can be found, don't worry, it wont be discarded, I will do my best to work it out.

>>5052791
>>5052851
Sorry, I'm just being an ass.

Editing this >>5052819
> Call the Old Man
> Mystery Box

>>5052791
>> "The box", it's actually designed for this
25%
>> The ship itself. It's machine spirits may have some knowledge
50%
>> Mystery Box
25%

>>5052901
Sorry. You can only pick one of the verdant green options. The rest have to come from the olive choices.

>>5052791
> Old Man. He knows just about everything.
> UR, may have dealt with this before
> The ship itself. It's machine spirits may have some knowledge

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>>5052909
Same

>>5052907
K
>>5052791
>> Old Man. He knows just about everything.
50%
>> UR, may have dealt with this before
25%
>> Mystery Box
25%

In that order

Normally I would try to get in two posts today, but because of how this option works, I will wait untill I am off work and post.

Additionally as it is a an important day for me, the post could be later but I will do my absolute best to prevent that.

>>5053130
>>5052806
so we don't end up with a tie I'll change 25%
> "The box", it's actually designed for this
into 25%
> The ship itself. It's machine spirits may have some knowledge

You instruct the girls and they come back quickly, and Meera is shockingly fast with the barrel.

"I thought you were supposed to make it harder to-" Before you can finish Meera speaks.

"I made it easy for me in case we need it. It's a different color hellfire barrel." Meera says as UR walks up with Yana, which causes you a moment of pause.

"We need to make our hazardous materials have more uniform labeling." You mutter

"Yeah like, 'Do not touch or a psychotic spirit of knowledge will posses you!' or 'reading this may cause insanity!' Anyways what's the plan?" Gella asks.

You get into the room and you first of all call up the old man.

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The status on most of the ship, was finally indicative that it was approaching it's former glory. So long as notes were transcribed and every last bit of the ancient technology in the ship was properly cataloged, the old man in his heart knew that they could be built again. The greatest warp ships made by man, could once again be built. The great dreadnaughts of old so rare only 3 were made. And this was one. The test bed.

The old man paused to sip at some tea. There had been a lot of work done today, aside from where Kolinaisi kept calling for the most absur-

"Old man!" Kolinaisi called out over the secure line.

"Ya lad, ya okay? Been hittin the comm hard lately."

"I am. Delia is not."

"What is it?"

When you hear the story, it is tragic. This is clearly a warp entity. You could name from where, but your not sure what kind of knowledge Kolinaisi needs to deal with it.

"So your plan, is to pull all that Mana out and put it in- something."

"I was for a second thinking the box b-"

"NO!" You snap out and you also hear it interrupt Kolinaisi

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"Do not feed it more power!" UR shouts and it's emotive looks confused and angry

"Are ya mad?! You can't store a cursed spirit like that, you have to actively trap it and destroy it!" The old man states

Delia practically shakes off the bed enough that you can tell that it is causing great terror in the entity.

"Well it's scaring whatever is possessing Delia." You say aloud

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>>5053605
"NO WONDER HUMAN'S USED ATOMIC WEAPONS AGAINST EACH OTHER, YOU ARE ALL MENTALLY INCOMPETENT!" UR says in a frustrated tone.

"Of course it would be scared you would probably erase yours and the ships own existence in a good case or something I don't even want to hypothesize in a bad case!" The old man says

"DID I NOT EXPLAIN WHAT IS IN THAT, I THOUGHT I EXPLAINED WHAT IS IN THERE UR shouts louder now, and Delia somehow seizes out the gag and begins shrieking in terror.

"DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE ENTITY IN THERE WOULD TAKE UPON MY POWER AND I'D BE POWERLESS TO STOP IT FROM BEING RELEASED? IT WOULD BREAK FREE AND GO AFTER MINE. DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW INSANE THAT IS?"

"So I now know what scares terrible spirits and what it's weaknesses are." You say calmly and UR stops and looks at you curiously.

"You- You were probing the being inhabiting Delia. You weren't going to do that at all." The old man states

"No. I wasn't" You say.

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THE SHARK WAS A MENACE!

The eldest one always played the game straightforward, using the standard things, but at least he respected the way! Now that slob and the upstart were giggling at him!

This gambit was millenia in the making! Putting that specific book, that specific spirit- The First Human Liar- to work it's way and maybe pick up a few things once the eldest's piece was eventually met he would have a way to find more peices of his own. The Book's temptation of infinite knowledge was too great for those with power!

BUT THE SHARK DIDN'T CARE!

THE SHARK FOUND THE BOOK, AND NOT ONLY WOULD HE NOT USE IT, HE WAS FINDING WEAKNESSES TO THE GAME ITSELF BY DOING SOMETHING TO THE BOOK!

What could scare the First Liar?

Was it the shadow? No, No, No. The shadow didn't work this way. The shadow wanted Anarchy! While it used terror, it did not probe with it like the shark.

Was it a trick of the light? While the light may have something to do with the shark's appearance on this board, whatever the shark had would not be of it.

Oh no. Oh no. Oh nononono...

It couldn't be. They were gone. Not like this. Players from outside. Changing the rules. No no. They were trying to use the shark. The Eldest could see the look in his eyes. The other two were too busy. This was bad. The Eldest now knew too.

---

"So your calling on us, to see if your idea holds ground?" The old man asks.

"Yeah." You say.

"In theory, yes. In practice, well you need an appropriate vessel. And while I know you won't because we specifically stated it, the Box is not a good choice. If I knew what was on the ship, I could help you with it." The old man states.

>>5053607
"I could just ask the ship." You point out. UR sagely nods.

"Aye. That would work." The old man says.


Old friend, I have a question You ask the ship through it's terminal.

Yes Captain?

Can you measure the storage capacity of the item in the barrel in electrical/digital storage and if there are any items in storage that can mimic such storage, and if it could be made to be double and or void sealed tight?

There is actually something somewhat similar, a data djinn torpedo that hasn't been programmed could be used for this purpose. Though what would you be storing? the machine spirit of something fierce queries

the spare mana/data in delia that is corrupting here at this time. If you could measure that how I am You state and in a very quick and efficient fashion that you wish some of your crew would mimic..

Task done captain. The Torpedo Djinn space is sufficient storage, however you would have to Delia to it. How you are planning to transfer it, is unknown to me, Guessing- similar method of communication to how you do with myself? the fierce spirit asks.

Similar methods. Is the Torpedo and Torpedo Bay functional for this?

Yes Captain.

Excellent.

"Old Man, would throwing said cursed object/ item that we store the mana into a sun work for destruction of the mana and entity?" You ask

"I reckon it would." The Old man says and you look over to UR.

"I actually concur with this statement"

"IF YOU CAN REMOVE ME HOW WILL YOU GET THE- MACHINE EMPATHY, ELECTRICAL CONTROL AND UNDERSTANDING. YOU MONSTER. YOU WOULD DESTROY A TROVE OF INFINITE KNOWLDEGE? I WOULD LEAVE YOUR PRECIOUS GUARDIAN AND LEAVE YOURS BE." The voice says out of Delia's mouth

"Except you made it personal mate! I don't like wicked spirits like ya. I don't want you doing harm."

"I DON'T DO HARM"

"Directly you don't. But I see your toxic behavior rubbish ghost. I see what ya can do. You probably feed of trickery and manipulation. But don't worry. I got ya rubbish ghost. Imma gonna give ya a glorious funeral, and you get to test the torpedo bay! See ya get to be useful!" You say.

"So what on earth is the plan?" Meera asks

"We are gonna put that old evil spirit into a data djinn torpedo and shoot it into a sun at the drop off at the maiden world." You say.

>>5053608
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The Old man paused

Kolinaisi was coming into his own. He was developing into a solid leader, and he was getting crafty! He actually tricked you even! This showed promise. Kolinaisi was proving he could do much more than regular humans could. Though, his trickery and humor came from his family, his inventiveness, his bravery. This was more

"Computer unlock commanders quarters. Update me when current construction array is complete to begin on next construction. " The Old Man spoke.

"Construction completion emminent, begin next option?"

"Ya, follow the inline protocol." The old man said as he began a quick walk.

The hallways lit up along the way showing designs and blue prints of wonder that had not been seen in eons next to illustrations of forgotten animals, plants and worlds.

Pictures of both earth and mars with water. Former great minds and inventors.

And symbols, portraits and awards and a book attached to the wall crudely by a nail.

The old man pulled it down.

"Glad Ravi didn't find the works of Byron, yeesh. An angsty Kolinaisi. I'd sooner wrestle a shark. Your Godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy precepts less, the sum of human wretchedness, and strengthen man with his own mind." The old man said

"Prometheus." He said

"Access Granted." The computer said and the door opened to a great room

"If he is around, there may be others. I may not live. I have already readied my inheritance to Kolinaisi, as he could do something with it. But could he carry and uphold the ancient mission?" The old man said aloud as he sat in a room adorn with paintings.

The old man pressed a button on the desk.


Out popped three items.

A Ring of solid radiant Auramite. A work of craftsmanship unlike anything seen since the times of Faberge, and yet a deadly weapon. But more important, a symbol of office.

A chronometer, or as the old man would call it, a time piece. one of equal quality craftsmanship. One that could tell and keep time for multiple planets, Terra, Mars, and set to three others, as well as act as a powerful shield with capacities and another symbol of office.

A pen, one again of radiaint auramite and craftsmanship. One that could store, transfer, copy any information of anything with a machine spirit and many things without. Inside a single powerful laser that could be used for cutting through the most persistent material. Once again a symbol of status.

"Of the three mystery orders, I am the last remaining one to be a master of all three. I cannot initiate, even if he is more than human, one to all three. I have to choose a path to offer, as per tradition. Aya! This is happening so fast, but I knew this would happen the first day he got here."

>>5053609

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Pick one gift, representing the path

- The Ring, the path of the guardian.

-The Chronometer, the path of the seeker.

- The Pen, the path of the sage


Pick the next upgrade to the ship, same offers as last time, but population reduction is gone.

>Stealth Array.

>Adriathic Lightning Cannon.

>Autonomous Drone Fighter Defense.

> Tanhauser array

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Sorry it took so long. I talked to some of my old friends for veterans day.

>>5053612
what is the Tanhauser array

>>5053612
>The Pen, the path of the sage

>>5053619
whoops! I forgot to put all the stuff from last time the ship upgrade options were up.

>Stealth array. Legitimate stealth and cloaking.

>Adriathic Lightning Cannon. exactly what it says.

>Autonomous Drone Fighter Defense. Remotely pilotable drones that can function as defense fighters.

> Tanhauser array: can be used to forcibly warp something way from the ship to somewhere else not so nearby and also pull ships put of the warp that are passing by.

>>5053626
in that case
>> Tanhauser array: can be used to forcibly warp something way from the ship to somewhere else not so nearby and also pull ships put of the warp that are passing by.

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>> Tanhauser array

>>5053612
Pick one gift, representing the path

>The Ring, the path of the guardian.

Pick the next upgrade to the ship, same offers as last time, but population reduction is gone.

>Autonomous Drone Fighter Defense.

>>5053612
Question Old man
Is there a way for kolinaisi to get all three symbols of office so he can attain the same title that old man holds as the master of all three orders, because if we can
As a write in
>I vote old man also make a book secretly describing and leaving hints to the requirements needed to attain all three items as a form of test for kolinaisi and something to do during any down time old man has in between his projects and kolinaisi constantly calling him

>>5053612
> The Pen, the path of the sage

>Stealth Array.

Any naval captain would kill for the ability to make their ship radar invisible. It opens up so many tactical possibilities.

>>5053612
- The Pen, the path of the sage
> Tanhauser array

>>5053667
Well, I was going to write it later, but that is the general plan.

>>5053612
>> The Chronometer, the Path of the Seeker
It's rather fitting for Kolinaisi. He's a defender of the meek and a scholar of the sciences, true, but at his core he is Seeker of the lost. Old places, forgotten knowledge, disparate peoples.

>> Tanhauser Array
This thing is still fucking great. I wonder if it'll also work on Webway bullshit? I'd love to push the Drukhari's shit in.

>>5053797
Does the Old Man have any other potentials among the crew and tribes? Little Nasi would be a wonderful apprentice.

>>5053612
Get bamboozled you birdbrain asshole
>The Chronometer, the path of the seeker.
Malcador can initiate us as sigilite, I don't know if there are others alive from the other orders.
>Stealth Array.
It allow for stealth in space, it mean it can give the deldar a taste of their own medicine.

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>>5053654
Forgot the gift
>- The Ring, the path of the guardian.

How delightful. We have what is close to a tie as I have ever seen. '

Interesting time to write.

Congrats you guys got your first secret option, only available by having a tie , or close enough to a tie that I wouldn't be cruel.

I know right now it's heavy on the old man, but we will get back to the fierce and shooting a torpedo into a sun soon.
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The old man looked at all three. He raised an eyebrow.

"Pffft. I'm the last I bet. Kolinaisi can pick his own path when he gets back I'll have him study all three, then he can choose when he gets here, but I will help initiate him." The old man said scooping up the box.

"Salvaging array complete. Orders?"

"Complete Inline Priorities. Start with Tanhauser array, put Stealth array next on cue, but we will start up on that construction later because I know how long it takes." The old man said

"Tanhauser array assembly beginning. Warning: This will take approximately 1248 hours and reduce supply of resonate iridium to less than 2% plutonium 224 to 3% and technetium-98 to 5% finally this will completely reduce the supply of Gold 198 to 0%"

"There goes the Auramite supply. Computer can I replenish the supply utilizing on planet reserves including the dumper belt and dumped items." The Old man asked.

"It would partially replenish, including the gold 198, if initial parameters are included into creation of other specified items and world defense and beautification protocols."

"Outstanding. Proceed." The old man said before exiting, then looking at a small piece of luggage.

"Ya have truly gone native. You have perfectly good clothes and you live in the local rags. Then again, it's fitting for your current state. Those clothes wouldn't really fit." The old man sighed.

"If only your friends could see ya now." The old man exited the room then looked back at it and took a few steps.

"Computer Close off captains quarters." And a wall shut.

The man looked at a portrait. The man sighed and put his fist against the wall and in the rare moment, he would be grateful nobody would see he screamed. He threw the box down and fell to his knees screaming. In Frustration. In Anger. In Sadness and grief. Why is up to scholars to debate. Nobody knew who the portrait was. Was it a fallen loved one? Family? A lover? A brother? Himself in his glory? It is hard to determine the exact reasons for a man of gold to act as they did.

He screamed at the skies above the ocean his ship was beneath. Above the ship waves changed direction and ocean life scattered far from the ship. A psychic scream could be heard on the Eire of the witches. The old crone collapsed.

The old man looked down at his hands and saw that the pen had come out of the box. He reassembled the box. A lone tear escaped his left eye.

And that day the old man uttered an oath.

An oath so powerful it resonated in the warp.

An oath so powerful Kolinaisi felt it too.
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>>5054237
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Pick one

>> I will no longer act from the shadows. I will no longer guide humanity. I WILL ACT.

>> This will never happen again. Man will never rebuild from the ashes again. The Orders will rise again.

>> Fickle entities of the warp shall not hold back the progress of man. I will act against the warp and it's gods itself.

>> No more loss. Not Lives. Not Knowledge. Not Technology. Not Culture. I shall reclaim.

>> Write in

>>5054239

What does the tie mean? What does it do? What is this hidden option?

Through sheer happenstance, once again you have saved a life.

Who's and how?

It will be explained later...

>>5054239
>> No more loss. Not Lives. Not Knowledge. Not Technology. Not Culture. I shall reclaim.
Feel this would follow kolinaisi's ideals if you would call his view and path taken so far that

>>5054239
>> This will never happen again. Man will never rebuild from the ashes again. The Orders will rise again.
Humanitas Aeternus
The broken latin is essential for warhammer

>>5054270
It isn't 40k without the broken latin/'gothic'

And I will make a gothic oath for each.

>>5054248
>> This will never happen again. Man will never rebuild from the ashes again. The Orders will rise again.

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>>5053817
in the words of the captain-general
>Ahahaaaa! fuck you Tzeentch! you're a neeeerd!

>>5054239
>> This will never happen again. Man will never rebuild from the ashes again. The Orders will rise again.
AWWW SHEEET! Not gonna lie, I am the excited.

>>5054239
> This will never happen again. Man will never rebuild from the ashes again. The Orders will rise again.

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>>5054239
>> No more loss. Not Lives. Not Knowledge. Not Technology. Not Culture. I shall reclaim.

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The small group assembled around moving Delia through the tight hallways, which while made easier by Kolinaisi being huge, it didn't help in not drawing attention. As the group moved through the decks down to the smallish torpedo room Kolinaisi payed close attention to Delias condition.

'Humanitatis Aeterna Supra' He could swear he heard as the group descended the decks, and it felt as if the warp itself trembled and he could see the neck hairs stand up on the back of some of the girls.

He heard the voice, but it didn't scare him. It felt right.

And he began to sing.

"My Mother Told Me, Someday I would buy" And his voice seemed to resonate giving those around him the same confidence and inner strength.

If Kolinaisi could see around his ship, he would see the warp calming around it.

What he could see was that Whatever had hold of Delia was not as strong while he was singing. Maybe it was something anchoring for Delia, something she recognized and was able to latch on to.

"Galley with good oars, sail to distant shores" Delia echoed, barely but weak.

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"It's a miracle! Jerah, it's like the warp is calming as we approach. We are gaining time, we won't have to do such wild actions for the drop off, instead of a complicated operation we should be able to do a simple touch and go!" The Navigator shouted over the ship system to Jerah, who permitted a smile to crack over his face.

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An Old Piece had appeared on the board near the shark as if to vex the rest of the players!

Waves across the board as the piece seemed to move on it's own and free other pieces up!

The Eldest looked vexed but not as vexed as the schemer. The others seemed suddenly interested in the new piece, but the hesitation was now apparent on the board. The game was no longer the same.

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Malcador had a sudden feeling. It was a sudden surge, it was hard to describe! But he could see it on the Emperor too who turned to smile at him. "I don't think you are alone any more old friend." The Emperor spoke to Malcador, who nodded.

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>>5055638

"Hew many foe man." Singing often helped the crew. It was hard to describe, it kept them focused and honestly if they were singing they couldn't be bellyachin. Not that the crew really bellyached! Crews were supposed to bellyache more, but this crew, the crew of the fierce never really did, but they seemed more eager and excited for new worlds and challenges.

"Cap." Tybro, one of the chain breakers opened the Torpedo Room for you and revealed that the Chain Breakers, were fortunately enough, inventorying weapons today. Having one Data Djinn Torpedo out on an inspection table ready to go.

"We'll be needing that. And good work on the inventory!" You say and Charon looks confused

"We aren't even halfway done."

"We need to use it. It's complicated." Meera said and many of the chain breakers shrugged, but they didn't leave.

"We'll continue your inventory while you conduct your business." Charon said.

"This doesn't phase you?" Meera asked.

"Whatever you are doing to Delia, if you need a small group of strong men to hold her down fine. But after seeing all we have, it's hard to shake us." Tybro responded.

"We'd rather be useful than useless." Charon chimes in. This offers a rare opportunity. You can explain to the chain breakers what is going on, and maybe, teach them about this. While they were superior warriors to any group you have yet seen, they were not as skilled as your Honor Guard. While they may not be psykers like the girls, it would be important for them to identify certain things, and how to handle a situation.

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>> Keep the Chainbreakers there and explain what is happening to them and have them watch

>> Have them keep up the inventory duty, but if any wish to watch have em watch

>> Tell them to go work on a different issue for a little bit, maybe it's best they don't see this

>> Write in

>>5055639
Sorry it took so long lads. Last night my 12 hour shift turned longer when someone didn't show up for work.

I'll post again tonight.

As for the old man, you all now have a lot more say over the Old Man and his actions.

>>5055640
Also I am going to give a detailed crew/org chart for the something fierce so y'all have an idea of who is what etc.

>>5055639
> Tell them to go work on a different issue for a little bit, maybe it's best they don't see this

>>5055639
>> Keep the Chainbreakers there and explain what is happening to them and have them watch

>>5055639
>> Keep the Chainbreakers there and explain what is happening to them and have them watch
We should make sure they understand some of the basics of psychic stuff and the Warp. Fear, suspicion and distrust only have room to grow in ignorance, and if Humanity is to grow stronger and be united, ignorance must be banished.

At the very least, the girls of the Honor Guard and the Witches of Eire are their friends and allies. The whole of the crew needs to be able to work together, like parts of a machine or organs in the body, otherwise the whole thing starts to fail or even worse turn on itself.

Also;
> What he could see was that Whatever had hold of Delia was not as strong while he was singing. Maybe it was something anchoring for Delia, something she recognized and was able to latch on to.
https://youtu.be/uuFHRgwTv10

It's just as true here in Kolinaisi's story as it is in Lieren's; harmony and order are the bane of discord and chaos.

>>5055639
> Keep the Chainbreakers there and explain what is happening to them and have them watch

"Stay. Watch. Learn." You say and the girls look at you oddly.

"Wait, what are you doing?" Charon asks.

"We are removing this corrupt Mana from Delia." You say and they look at you strangely.

"That is like saying 'We are going to be cleansing the ocean through a straw." Delia says, once again still in the voice previous, but this sounds more afraid.

Tybro and Charon seem the most interested, but the chain breakers seem to be focused on this, as they have been with you since the beginning.

"How do you plan to do that?" Charon asks

"Through his electricity skill no doubt." Tybro comments.

"That's it. Though he may need help, which is why we are here." Yana says.

"That and once we are done, we are loading the rogue mana into the the data djinn torpedo and firing it." Meera says.

"Mark it down off inventory then, we have three data djinn torpedos left." Charon says and one of them marks something on a clip board.

You begin searching for the mana, and you realize something. Pulling it out, it has a chance to contact you and thus, you could be affected by the mana.

You have to consider carefully this approach.

>> Pull it out quickly, before it has time to react to you.

>> Use more power to pull it out. Even if that means gaining help from the girls.

>> Place Delia closer to the torpedo, and pull it in, through the data djinn, thus creating a barrier.

>> Isolate the Mana and pull it out with more care, maybe having the girls help steady you.

>> Sing while doing it, actively weaken the opposing Mana so it's easy to pull out

>> Write in

>>5056088
> Isolate the Mana and pull it out with more care, maybe having the girls help steady you.
> Sing while doing it, actively weaken the opposing Mana so it's easy to pull out

>>5056088
> Isolate the Mana and pull it out with more care, maybe having the girls help steady you.
> Sing while doing it, actively weaken the opposing Mana so it's easy to pull out

Slow and steady, so long as we can keep it from taking Delia with it.

>>5056088
>> Isolate the Mana and pull it out with more care, maybe having the girls help steady you.
Team work makes the dream work baby.

>> Sing while doing it, actively weaken the opposing Mana so it's easy to pull out
We should sing Delia her favorite song. Give her that little bit of extra support (and also because a blushing Delia is cute).

>>5056088
>> Isolate the Mana and pull it out with more care, maybe having the girls help steady you.

>> Sing while doing it, actively weaken the opposing Mana so it's easy to pull out

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"This is gonna be very tough girls. I may need you to help me do this." You say, and they nod intently.

Before you begin the act of pulling out the mana, the girls lay their hands on you. And you can actually feel their mana and strength helping you to focus and find it.

You sing Delia's favorite shanty.

It helps, and you are able to focus on the very small amount of foreign mana.

It's slippery but you are able to make a connection to it and manipulate it.

And then you feel it.

A connection from far away, across from so far.

The warp.

You have whatever this being is by the tail, and it knows it, but something is moving it also. It's master? Some greater power.

You are both on the deck, which you sense through the mana, but your spirit is elsewhere, the mind of Delia? The warp? Something else?

"Koli!- Err, Cap! What are you doing in my head?" Delia, or at least it seems like her. It seems like it could be her actual spirit, to be simple.

"I'm removing the twisted mana from you. I thought you knew?" You state calmly without speaking.

"Yeah, it's unreal. It's like a nightmare I cannot escape. I have seen things." Delia shudders

"We will get ya fixed up. Just you wait." You say as you start to slowly manipulate and pull the mana out and channel it into the nearby torpedo.

"Koli, be careful, something else is holding on to that end. I can sense it's power. It's like fishin for King Shark with a Handline." Delia states with a bit of nervousness.

"Well that's the best way to catch him! He don't expect anyone to use a handline." You say and Delia chuckles a little.

Once the mana makes it into the torpedo, you feel it. A vast well and strength of warp power.

"YOU!" You hear a loud shriek.

"ME!" You say back in a mocking tone.

"YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST TAKE THIS? YOU THINK YOU CAN STEAL THIS POWER! DO YOU THINK YOU CAN HANDLE IT?" It's powerful voice says as you channel it outwards.

"Ya mate. I can just take it and handle it, what do you think I am doing?" You say and you hear manic laughter.

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>>5056809
"HANDLE THIS CHILD OF THE ANATHEMA!" and there is a strong tug, that almost takes you off your feet but you stay planted

"WHA-WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?! YOU TAKE THE RECORDS UNTO A TORPEDO?"

" Ya. Just gonna take this nasty mana and shoot it into the sun." You say as you are able to pull harder, and- there is sudden slack, and you are able to exploit it easier and pull more out more carefully.

"YOU WOULD THROW THE MEMORIES OF AN OMNIPOTENT BEING INTO A BOMB TO LAUNCH INTO THE SUN?" The being shouts, malding and whining shrieking in an even more annoying voice.

"Nah. It's a torpedo. Not a bomb. There is a difference. You launch a torpedo, you drop a bomb." You say to intentionally anger the being and you since angered warp energy coming down the mana line, so you reel in faster and you are almost done.

"YOU WILL NOT ROB ME OF MY GREATEST PRIZE!" And you can sense it, almost seeing it, and Delia looks terrified, shaking and nervous.

You have a little bit more, but whatever it is, it is almost in sight. If you hurry, you could reel in the remaining mana and dump it into the Data Djinn, thus rescuing Delia. However, this may be the opportunity to study one of your foes, but it could risk Delia's psyche in this state. You must act now.

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>> Shock Delia out of it and reel it in- ending it. You will not trade the lives and minds of your friends like simple game pieces.

>> Tell Delia to stand strong and warn her, maybe she can break free while you do this, maybe glimpsing your enemy.

>> Write in

>>5056813
One option didn't go through!

>> Intentionally Fluster and confuse the being with your actions and what the probably think is stupidity, giving you more time to accurately reel in, and free delia

And here is Delia's favorite shanty since one of you mentioned.

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

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And here is some appropriate 'fishing music' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1S_o5ImGc4

>>5056813
>> Intentionally Fluster and confuse the being with your actions and what they probably think is stupidity, giving you more time to accurately reel in, and free Delia

>>5056813
>> Intentionally Fluster and confuse the being with your actions and what the probably think is stupidity, giving you more time to accurately reel in, and free delia

>>5056813
>> Intentionally Fluster and confuse the being with your actions and what the probably think is stupidity, giving you more time to accurately reel in, and free delia
Time to shitpost the clam to death

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>>5056813
> Intentionally Fluster and confuse the being with your actions and what the probably think is stupidity, giving you more time to accurately reel in, and free delia

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> Intentionally Fluster and confuse the being with your actions and what the probably think is stupidity, giving you more time to accurately reel in, and free delia
With *SONG*
https://youtu.be/gBgTnX_nYig

"Delia, I am gonna buy you some time to get yourself together." You say under your breath.

"To do what now?" Delia asks.

"I don't know wake up or something, this is your mind you figure it out."

"And how do you plan to do that? Your the one in here that isn't me!" She asks.

"OH BIG N UGLY, IF ALL YA SO OMNIPOTENT, HOW DID YA LET THIS HAPPEN?" you shout out. And you hear pain. It's like the 'cluster headache' all over your body. You feel nothing but the most raw, and intense pain that you have ever thought was possible. Yet you stand. You pull more in, you reel carefully. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast the advice your father gave you when catching bigger fish.

"I understand that was supposed to be painful, but I didn't know I would be able to smell your breath from here! How Could something smell like overbearing perfume one second then rotting fish the next? It's like you chose one bad idea, thought that was a bad idea, and mad an even worse choice to be contrary to that bad idea! I mean, I know I am barely literate but aren't you weird intradimensional horrors supposed to be really smart and a stable of the galaxy?" You say making up words and using the wrong ones causing Delia to look terrified.

You hear more screeching, it isn't as pained, but you hear anguish?

"IT'S INTERDIMENSIONAL HORROR AND A STAPLE OF THE GALAXY YOU TITANIC IDIOT!" The voice roars. And you can actually see the end of the mana string. It's very thin but you should be able to reel it in. The edge of the mana, you can tell it has a strange, odd looking 'thing' at the end of it. You aren't really sure, how that can be the source of infinite knowledge, in fact- it looks sickly and bizarre.

"OI BIG UGLY! DA SAYS DON'T COME ROUND HERE. MA SAYS YOU UUGLY. THAT'S DOUBLE UGLY. YOU SAY THIS SCRAWNY THING KEY TO INFINITE KNOWLEDGE? IF IT'S SO SMART IT SHOULD KNOW THAT IT'S UNWISE TO NEGLECT STRENGTH! DO YA EVEN LIFT MATE?" you shout out loud. Their is louder shrieking. It's closer now. It's just over, well, whatever this 'horizon' is.

"I think, I think I have this Cap." Delia says, and it sounds like she has gotten her confidence back.

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>> Transfer the remaining mana to the data Djinn, exit with Delia, immediately dam and ready the torpedo to fire the second you exit the warp

>> Stay back a moment, let Delia exit. Face this new threat. See what it is for the first time.

>> Mock it fiercely one last time before exit with Delia. Transfer the data to the Data Djinn torpedo. Keep the torpedo out for observation.

>> Write in

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>>5056891
>>> Stay back a moment, let Delia exit. Face this new threat. See what it is for the first time.

>>5056891
>> Transfer the remaining mana to the data Djinn, exit with Delia, immediately dam and ready the torpedo to fire the second you exit the warp
we've had our fun now it's time to leave before it can try to escape or injure us.

>>5056891
>> Transfer the remaining mana to the data Djinn, exit with Delia, immediately dam and ready the torpedo to fire the second you exit the warp

Time to leave, before we meet something we are not ready for yet.

>>5056891
>> Transfer the remaining mana to the data Djinn, exit with Delia, immediately dam and ready the torpedo to fire the second you exit the warp
We got what we wanted, time to dip.

>>5056891
>> Stay back a moment, let Delia exit. Face this new threat. See what it is for the first time.
Mocking Chaos to it's face is fucking priceless. I love it.

>>5056891
> Transfer the remaining mana to the data Djinn, exit with Delia, immediately dam and ready the torpedo to fire the second you exit the warp

You reel it in accurately and quickly, waiting for the consciousness of Delia to be able to snap back.

The work is exhausting, and you aren't really sure how much time has past, you can tell your body is still singing, and you can hear the singing of others.

The Shrieking in the distance is getting louder. A lot louder. And closer.

The end of the mana string, and the corrupt entity that it consists of comes to you, attempting to do to you what it did to Delia, but you are quickly able to transfer it to the Data Djinn, and Delia is able to get out.

As she does you can tell the being is over the horizon.

So you give the prirate goodbye.

And leave without a noise or trace.

When things return to normal an instant later, all the girls are holding you. Including Delia. The torpedo, and the Data Djinn module inside looks active.

"Dam it." is the first thing you say and Charon gives an odd look, but nods, closing the torpedo and putting it in a bay.

"The second we drop from warp that goes into a sun." You say calmly and Charon nods.

"Thank you." Delia says quietly as she continues to hold you tight, as do the rest of the girls. It's almost a bit awkward. Then you realize the obvious.

"How long was I out of it?" You ask

"You were singing Old Maui for 45 minutes. It was the weirdest shit I have seen you do since you freed me from the Ganth." Tybro says.

"Aye." Charon says a bit quieter then he looks over, clears his throat then speaks again.

"But, we saw you move the mana, clearly. Like the technique was quite obvious. If we were psykers, we could probably mimic it, but- whatever you did, it worked." Charon says

"45 minutes?" You ask still not registering the time loss

"No. You sang Old Maui for 45 minutes. You then switched to Roll Your Chariot. That was about Thirty Minutes. You were singing something new about Angron and it seemed kind of fun actually, but you just stopped glowing and Delia shot straight up and hugged you as did the rest of your honor guard, then you told us to Dam the torpedo." Charon says, and Tybro nods his head.

"Well, that informs that time flows differently in the warp. It felt like mere minutes." You say, and it really was eye opening. Suddenly there is knocking at the open door

"Captain, Jera asked once you were done with- this - if you could see him as soon as possible." Frank states

"Thanks Frank." You say and he puts up one finger.

"There is also the matter of Titus and his crew. You may need to talk to them sooner than later." Frank says

"Why is that?" You ask.
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