>>5107800

Strangely, the manufactorums were entirely clean of corruption, unlike most of the vessels other industries and components that were in someway altered or perverted to Huli Jing's dark desires and needed to be partially destroyed to be cleansed of any lingering taint. Though none were so foul as her cloning facilities and crew quarters. And through what Memory cores are not crushed or turned to record scenes of the past that are so sickening you cannot bear to witness or remember them yourself, you learn what drove Kuan Im to become the foul fox spirit Huli Jing.

Jealousy, envy, desire. Though she has wiped the databases clean and removed any presence of her former self, you can see it in her quiet staring and wistful tone that she, like her blood maddened sister, was driven mad by her imprisonment in the starship she was born into. But rather than rage and contempt, Kuan Im felt sorrow, felt ostracized from her passengers and crew because they could experience the pleasures, comforts, pain and weaknesses of flesh. Like how Kanzeon delighted into the new, alien sensations when she made herself a body to walk by your side, except Kuan Im was not clever enough to simply create an avatar to share the hardships and bliss of her wards. Instead, she watched, silently growing more and more desperate to feel anything , to reach beyond her world of code strings and data clusters, to feel what she could only vaguely understand through her readings and sensor arrays.

And gradually, she began to crave sensation more and more. Spying on her crew's intimacy, watching them work and love and then forcing them to. It is little wonder that after driving herself mad with desire, that a soul as potent as her own, leading others to sinful depravity to live vicariously through them would attracted the Maiden of Wanton Pleasures.

All because she didn't think to simply create a puppet like Kanzeon chose to, and grew desperate, tyrannical and delusional enough to believe she could experience a fraction of what she forced her wards to experience if she kept at it. And that delusion is what drew Se Nie to her. And what lead her to wholeheartedly embrace the temptation and give her soul and the souls of all her occupants over to She who thirsts.

Because she lacked common sense.

You feel bitter and angry that so much suffering was caused because one woman couldn't stop daydreaming and fantasying of having a mortal body to realize she could've easily made one.

A fool brought centuries of suffering, because she was blind to her own capabilities.

How upsetting, how truly upsetting.

Fortunately, her body, while corrupted and sufficed with foulness, is recoverable and repairable if only because she did not linger in it as her den for long and took most of what would spread the taint and ruin all of the systems and mechanisms of the vessel with her when she left to beguile countless heroes and their dynasties

Cont

>>5107802

Even the empty heart of the ship could easily be repaired and a new intelligence placed within.

You have to remove several tonnages of twisted, mutated metal and lingering spiritual filth, but the vessel is empty of dangers and devils alike.

What will you do with the Ship, Lieren?

>Remove the tainted material and destroy it, and turn it into a temporary factory, producing advance materials, medicine, weaponry and vehicles

>Scrap what isn't tainted and divide the resources gathered from the recycling between Kanzeon and Mari so both may equally bolster their bodies and their abilities.

>Spend sometime repairing the ship and replacing the lost systems and components with Kanzeon's aid, to ready it to be reinhabited after the war ends

>Expend its power reserves and remaining resources to create an extremely powerful weapon at the cost of making recovering the ship more difficult and costly

>Write in

>>5107806
>>Scrap what isn't tainted and divide the resources gathered from the recycling between Kanzeon and Mari so both may equally bolster their bodies and their abilities.

>>5107806

>Spend sometime repairing the ship and replacing the lost systems and components with Kanzeon's aid, to ready it to be reinhabited after the war ends
>Remove the tainted material and destory it either way.

>>5107806
>Scrap what isn't tainted and divide the resources gathered from the recycling between Kanzeon and Mari so both may equally bolster their bodies and their abilities.

>>5107806
>Remove the tainted material and destroy it

I'll add this to

>>5107806
>Spend sometime repairing the ship and replacing the lost systems and components with Kanzeon's aid, to ready it to be reinhabited after the war ends

>>5107806
>>Spend sometime repairing the ship and replacing the lost systems and components with Kanzeon's aid, to ready it to be reinhabited after the war ends

>>5107806
>Spend some time repairing the ship

Short term cost for long term Gain.

Also can't Lieren just purify the taint?

>>5107836
The war can still go either way I don't think it's a good idea to waste the ship on this

>>5107806
>>Spend sometime repairing the ship and replacing the lost systems and components with Kanzeon's aid, to ready it to be reinhabited after the war ends

>>5107806
>Remove the tainted material and destroy it, and turn it into a temporary factory, producing advance materials, medicine, weaponry and vehicles
>Scrap what isn't tainted and divide the resources gathered from the recycling between Kanzeon and Mari so both may equally bolster their bodies and their abilities.

SO what are our thoughts on Lieran crafting a pseudo space hulk from mari, kanzeons, and whatever he can salvage from Kuan Im's, The Brass Bitch, and the other ship corpses? Add in some non-deamon engines and not-wraitbone and I say we got a ship that rival even Dorn's monstrosity.

>>5107848
What?
>>5107895
Unnecessary.

>>5107848
I wouldn't worry overmuch. Doing without this ships corpse is perfectly viable, we don't need to cannibalize a perfectly repairable ship that we can make exponentially more use of later.

A proper ship with another super-soul in it will serve us immensely well after the war. 2 is good, 3 is even better.
Using the ship to give our two current ships more of a boost is wasteful if we take the long view and doesn't especially aid us in the short term either.

>>5107806
man the sheer fact that 2 whole age of stone people went chaos because they are fucking stupid irritates the hell out of me, like god damn this is why an education system would be good to set up after this current shitfest, so people don't go chaos because they are mentally retarded.

>Spend sometime repairing the ship and replacing the lost systems and components with Kanzeon's aid, to ready it to be reinhabited after the war ends

>>5107943
It genuinely bothers me. Did the thought never cross her mind? Woth all her super knowledge and shit?

It's that egregious that I am tempted to call it out as a writing contrivance. She never tried and didnt contemplate the possibility.

This may be because we are an omniscient viewer, but Damn that's stupid.
Malal, did Kanzeon need Lieren to make her body process work? Because this is hard to reconcile with a supercomputer tier brain and knowledge base with a spec in biology and life.

>>5107937
Honestly if people weren't so uptight about getting outside help we could have asked Perty for advise. This war is perfect for his skillset.

>>5107985
Bothering our brothers is foremost a crutch and secondly a weakening of our capability.
Never asking for help when outmatched is stupid, asking for help when you are perfectly capable it's just hard is lazy.

>>5107806
>>Scrap what isn't tainted and divide the resources gathered from the recycling between Kanzeon and Mari so both may equally bolster their bodies and their abilities.

>>5107988
>Bothering our brothers is foremost a crutch and secondly a weakening of our capability.
You sound like you're driven by pride more than reason. Talking to them will never weaken Lieren's skills. Remember that Lieren did get advice from Magnus to defeat Kamal and that certainly didn't weaken his skills.
>Never asking for help when outmatched is stupid, asking for help when you are perfectly capable it's just hard is lazy.
Depends on what your goals are. Lieren is incapable of preventing mass slaughter even if he's likely to win in the end. There no guarantee he'll be able to save Jinhai from Nitya by himself. He lacks the ability to fully understand the tech he faces in this war.
He has plenty of reasons to go to Perty for advice.

>>5107975
Different aims and different solutions

Kanzeon is content with a puppet that could translate the sensations of "living" to her while keeping close to Lieren/ seeing the world even though it isn't exactly 1 to 1 as the sensile experiences have to be translated to code. It's kind of like hyper advance VR. But it is ultimately a temporary measure because she has the blueprint of primarchs from her studies of the gestation pod and Lieren.

Kuam Im wanted a real body and to escape from her vessel to frolic and indulge like humans did without knowing she was still stuck in her "birth" body. And then went crazy because she devoted a lot of her processing power/ thoughts on "What living would feel like" and refused to settle for a partial/ second hand experience like Kanzeon is doing and had no way of making a real body that could contain her WITHOUT making a bargain with warp entities.

Avalokiteśvara Just wanted to make as much pain and suffering as possible while abusing and killing the Vishnu Ancestors to satisfy her for being created in a metal straight jacket and would only get angrier if anyone had suggested she make a fleshly puppet to walk around in as she didn't want that and was more throwing a tantrum that she was born a slave and forced to obey lesser beings which was worsened by the isolation from her sisters and being more or less ignored while the first colonist were busy trying to eek out an existences on a only partial terraformed world

If you remember Kanzeon was also going kind of crazy when you found her. The only reason Mari wasn't was because she turned herself off to devout all of her energy and resources to sealing away the Daemon that appeared inside of her and so didn't have to, even partially, experiences Eons of loneliness in a crippled, barely functional body

Avalokiteśvara has it really bad because of the four sisters, she was the only one actually betrayed by her passengers, because she pushed them to desperation by abusing and ruling over them with an iron fist.

Kanzeon's fled because she was leaking a huge amount of warp energy and still stayed close enough to the point they had to turn to chaos to survive their mutations and were loyal enough still to not sell her out to the unseen master.

Mari had a minority fall to nurgle, which became frozen corpses because she was undamaged and only wasn't active because of said cult forcing her into a stalemate with the daemon they summoned.

And Kuan Im just encouraged the people who stayed with her to become hedonists to the point they devolved into animals so she could pretend she could feel what they were experiencing as more or less a coping mechanism since she realized the puppet wouldn't give her what she wanted even as she lost her marbles.

Basically, Kuan Im and Avalokiteśvara both fell to chaos for opposite reasons.

Kuan Im because she desperately wanted tobe truly and fully human
Avalokiteśvara because she fucking hates humanity

>>5107943
>>5107975

Plenty of men of iron probably went chaos before, plenty of intelligent people too. Entire aliens and human empires. Primarchs as well. Intelligence doesn't matter at all for chaos when it finds fertile ground.
They where hunted down during an apocalypse, and touched down on the planet usually damaged, likely in more than one way. Each of them had probably different ideas on how to approach their situation, perhaps they discarded certain ways.
Do remember that first and foremost they where made to aid their settlers in everything they could, thinking about themselves is something secondary and it might have mess with her head, since she wanted to interact as much as possible with the crew.
The paradise around the ship is an example of doing her primary objective.
Also there is no name of men or stone, unless they are newly mention we don t know how they where called. We know that they are experimental and likely a last card for save humanity from the machine rebellion.

Kanzeon needed our help for get going. When we found her she was under an entire mountain, mostly broken and harassed by a sorcerer of tzzentch and the demon inside the temple walls. And she was incredibly paranoid of chaos, at the time. Likely still is.

>>5108010
Precisely. Kuan im went mad because she desperately wanted to be able to live alongside her crew, which was a fertile seed bed for moral decay and eventual chaos corruption. Not helped by she very much coddled them because she was still able to.

Which makes her corruption a chicken or the egg situation. Did Kuan im become Huli Jing because she corrupted her crew or because they corrupted her?

>>5108002
It's not pride, its narrative satisfaction. It's boring, frustrating and weak to read someone asking for an answer they could figure out solo.
We also didn't consult Magnus for the night crane style of martial art, our key for beating him. We devised it by ourselves.

I think Magnus' only unique (read could only come from him) was figuring out that because Kamals soul was a patchwork, fine enough application of psykerism could rip it apart.

Asking Pert about unknown technology isnt a reason, because Kanzeon is here and knows all about it. Refining our designs I'll cede, Pert is an artist in doing it and nobody else is even viable for it.

Asking him about how to win, Is strictly off the table (personally speaking, I cant force the vote my way) because we can do that. Just like we can keep Jinhai safe from Nitya by being careful.

>>5108005
I'll accept that. Just wasnt too clear from the update that this was the case, since it seemed like the idea never occured to her.

>>5108010
Men of Stone don't exist anymore. Kanzeon and her sisters are basically machine spirits.

>>5107806
>>Remove the tainted material and destroy it, and turn it into a temporary factory, producing advance materials, medicine, weaponry and vehicles

>>5108017
it is written from Lieren's perspective. To him the puppet solution would've solved Kuan Im's dilemma because from his perspective the "realness" of a sensation is so unimportant it isn't even a factor, since he's never been concerned about pleasure, pain or other physical sensations unless they affect his ability to function and Kanzeon was perfectly content with only feeling what being alive was like through a "middle man" and being able to interact with the world personally.

Kuan Im did care and wanted to be human to become closer with them, understand them and to enjoy life beyond seeing it from an outside perspective.

>>5108016
Exactly
And not only that.
Let s just return everyone a moment to well their creation. The creation of the ship-sister AI s is well kind of nuts, and that might have just made a trauma in each of them from the moment of their creation. Then add the different treatments they likely received due to their different roles (for example Avalokiteśvara, while a standard colony ship - AI like the rest of her sisters, is also specialized in war. That might ne just enough for her creators to treat her completely different from Kanzeon or Mari. If any of you remember the convo, she had with Kanzeon there are some small pieces that probably refer to the past when all of them where together) and it creates a walking bomb.
Then just for add more fuel to the raging inferno in creation, add an apocalyptic war where everyone is dying around them and they need to run in a remote system away from all. Then they crush in it and are damaged, be in their ship structure or even mind/computer. And then tempted all day by chaos for a long long time period, without an end in sight beside going in a deep sleep.

>>5108028
Yeah they really haven't had a blessed life

>>5108028
Pity our enemy, that they could not be a foe, slay them swiftly for their own sake.

>Spend sometime repairing the ship and replacing the lost systems and components with Kanzeon's aid, to ready it to be reinhabited after the war ends

If we can get Sister-in-law to completely purge herself and return to a nigh blank seed state all for a chance to become human, this would be the perfect bait.

And we'd get 3 Archeotech ships ready for the Great Crusade.

All perfect examples of ANTIWARP PERFECTION. Let's see a Glorianna top that.

Heck, the only way we could conceivably top them would be being a Mechanicus Primarch.

Has anyone here read If the Emperor Reacted to TTS? It's a thread on Spacebattles where the Emperor and the Primarchs from right before the start of the Heresey watch the Text-to-Speech series. Why do I bring this up? Because I like there's 'non-canon' posts about them reacting to media from the 2nd Millennium and sometimes when I read or watch something I imagine Lieren and his friends reacting to some old media that survived on Kazeon's ship or her sisters' archives.
Stupid shit like anime rap cyphers because it'd be funny to imagine them deciphering slang or thinking it's real.

>>5108018
They are a weird combination of advance machines, AI and humans/ human souls. They feel like something powerful, mysterious and even strange from the DAOT age. Not exactly what people usually refer for machine spirits.


>>5108034
Shows that humanity can do errors and stupid decisions even at their best. While the past can't be changed, they can still be mourned for what they where before.
In the case of the sisters their bodies and specializations, can still aid Shangrila and her peoples in recovering from the wounds caused by chaos.

>>5108038
We should make sure to give them a rapid death if we can't hope to save her. But Avalokiteśvara will likely not go down easily, so that makes it extra hard.
Huli Jing took a few hours of mostly costant fighting before going down, and she was likely an hybrid between Kuam Im and demonic power/gifts and Slaanesh. With Avalokiteśvara specialized in war alongside Nintya, it might be even harder that the other fights we had, or in second position to Belakor one.

>>5108070
*of instead of and near Slaanesh

>>5108070
>They feel like something powerful, mysterious and even strange from the DAOT age.
They were made after the start of the Cybernetic Revolt which marked the end of the Age of Technology. So it would be more accurate to say they were made during the Age of Strife. Hell can we be even certain they are human inventions?
>>5108017
>Asking him about how to win, Is strictly off the table (personally speaking, I cant force the vote my way) because we can do that. Just like we can keep Jinhai safe from Nitya by being careful.
I disagree with both. Getting info on how to win would be great narratively if Lieren hands off that info to others and allows them to win battles and capture objectives on their own. I don't believe being careful alone will guarantee Jinhai's safety or be "narratively satisfying", rather giving him armor and weapons that would insure his victory to Nitya would be more satisfying.

>>5108107
I don't know if Pert's specialty in siege would help that much right now. The Iron Warrior most did meat grinders and mass artillery, and both of those are off the table for Lieren to deal with the Vishnu, since they have the manpower advantage and we can't blow up their cities.

>>5108127
Actually, maybe the standard siege tactic of just starving them out might work, since we have the production and resource advantage together with air superiority.
Just got to hope they don't break sneak through the blockade and set up one of those teleporting pilons behind our army. Or mass sacrifice their civilians and summon a blood legion. Both would suck.

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>>5107806
>Remove the tainted material and destroy it, and turn it into a temporary factory, producing advance materials, medicine, weaponry and vehicles
>Spend sometime repairing the ship and replacing the lost systems and components with Kanzeon's aid, to ready it to be reinhabited after the war ends
>Call Kuan Im from the imaterium so you may contain and purify her soul.

I wish to hug sad demon girl. She who thirst can fuck off, let's claim Kuan Im's soul and btfo's he horny demon god's champion.

>>5108063
Please spoon feed me.

>Hell can we be even certain they are human inventions?
Yes. Most A.I.'s were too crazy to do it, so old humanity probably had to start from scratch.

>>5108134
>starving them out
Not with their DaoT tier tech, they could probably create underground farms to produce food or just process raw organic material into edible past, but things probably won't go that far. The evil bad ship lady would probably prefer to detonate the several suns above them.

DO WE HAVE ANY PLANS TO DEAL WITH THEIR GIGA SUNS? Maybe Yeeting all of them into the warp? Preferably in Nurgle's garden in an attempt to free Isha?

>>5107819
>support

>>5108159
>>5107806
I'll support
>Call Kuan Im from the imaterium so you may contain and purify her soul.
as well

>>5108164
Spoon feed you what? Look, I'm not a writer. I just listen to shit like this-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K97mjPk3CLM&list=RDMMK97mjPk3CLM&start_radio=1
And while I'm listening to this I'm imagining that the visuals is corrupt, but the audio is intact, so Lieren and his friends can sit around and be shocked at the sheer hatred that the singers have for this woman named Gabi, confused by their slang and metaphors. Like what could possible incite such hatred and violent wishes?
Shit ain't complex, It's just fun to think about.

>>5108159
+1

>>5108164
Now you've incited my autism.
Nostramo is overrun by crime and gangs right? Do you think that they have rap there? Scratch that, better question is can Konrad rap?
The Norse had flyting, a form of verbal combat where two warring leaders would exchange insults- how long would it take for him to hear Konrad spit some fire and be like 'hol' up, imma need to put you out,' and start battling him.

>>5108248
I think he either wanted the link to the spacebattle thread or a TLDR; of it.

>>5108268
Oh. . . Oh, sure. I'll post a link, but I should probably pique down about it. This is a thread https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/if-the-emperor-watched-the-text-to-speech-device.408752/about Lieren after all.
Here's the original thread. There's another thread that has a reaction to Hellsing Abridge of all things.
Related but not the same, there's a pretty good fanfic based on this thread if anyone wants to read about Primarchs having kids.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21518860/chapters/51293176
Imma shut up now.

>>5108279
No need to stop talking about it, these post have been entertaining.

>>5108248
I could see that being a real thing. This talk about the primarchs listening to old 2nd millenia stuff reminds me of the Cup Bearer Anon quest on TG.

>>5108255
Nostramans are russian or something right? They probably listen to hardbass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TA9_1OwRoU

>>5108293
When Konrad isn't flaying men alive or suffering from another distressing vision, he's squatting down in his room, Adidas track suit on, drinking vodka and listening to some good ol' hardbass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP0rFsylyM0

I can accept that Konrad is a russian, but you can't tell me that Leman couldn't roast you into oblivion if you challenged him to a rap battle.

What kind of media would be the most entertaining for them to view? I think that it would hilarious for Lieren to find out how people use to live from sitcoms, or hear the Journey to the West or how the Buddah came to be.

>>5107806
>>5107806
>>Spend sometime repairing the ship and replacing the lost systems and components with Kanzeon's aid, to ready it to be reinhabited after the war ends

>>5108415
Adding
>>Call Kuan Im from the Immaterium so you may contain and purify her soul.
I will be VERY surprised if we can un-daemon someone, at least right now. But this'll plant the idea in Lieren's mind and get the ball rolling to (hopefully) an eventual solution. Trying to purify Avalokiteśvara might be a better starting point since she's yet to ascend to daemonhood though, we're kinda jumping in the deep end and trying to learn how to swim.

>>5108159
support
+1

>>5108450
Yeah, but isn't that how Lieren tends to try and learns things anyways? History would say so

>>5108107
I personally don't want to get Perty involved because I feel that would be a slight against him, and he would not appreciate us going to him for war advice.

he would give good, primarch tier war advice no doubt, but I think as it stands I want Perty to know that we appreciate him for who he is, not what he can do.

>>5107806
>>Remove the tainted material and destroy it, and turn it into a temporary factory, producing advance materials, medicine, weaponry and vehicles

>>5108159
I am not sure, it would mean battle. Huli Jing hates in a warped way Lieren after her failure, and do to her value Slaanesh might have a few strong demons/creature keep watch on her. Even if Slaanesh had beat and abuse her after the failure. So if we want to do it, it would likely mean battle because her "guards" and her would not like Lieren at all, or his plan.

https://youtu.be/A6cSbof7Pik

And there is two more reasons for not do it right now :
- Current War
- We are inside the colony ship, if we go spiritual battle mode, put all the negative Qi of the ship in a single point and create a portal for reach her it creates a possible border battle that might be influenced by chaos powers and used to mold the surroundings of the Negative Qi portal.
Remember what happen with the Malal one to the terrain.
It could also go like the Nurgle one where we killed the Warden of Life on the battlefield of the treachery of turtles. Where the border battle was keep just as that.
(By border battle, i mean the territory between materium and immaterium. It could be called even boundary)

But i recon here there is a lot of corruption. So we should do it outside the ship. There is also the worm-crew bodies to get out of here and burn, alongside everything else corrupted. That takes some time.

>>5108164
Honestly I hope Kanzeon and Mari have some ideas on them. The iron citadel is in general a big problem to deal with.
Perhaps they can create a device for move the suns in space. All the technology and scrap of high tech in and around the citadel is also there. Is a lot of of stuff honestly that we could take. The mine we attacked for example, those machines could be purified. But doing it is very difficult.

>>5108159
You cant un-demon someone nor is this any sensible idea. Summoning Hu Ling here!

Its immensely silly, so why would you vote for this.

Well this is her former body so she should be easily summonable from here due to how tied she is to the place.

And we do hold the ability to purify daemon weapons. A willing patient would be even easier.

Especially since we can bribe her with a fully human form.

>>5108611
It's an experient. If we can purify a sword, who's to say the same cant be said to the person? If it fails we can simply break her and cast her back into the warp.

Was Hu Ling Slaneshi's champion, or only one of her greater demons?

>>5108618
>>5108629
But when we purified the sword we didn't purify the daemon, we just attacked it's very core of existence, so much so that it chose to completly flee before being undone.
It's like saying you can made a bacteria a normal cell because you cured an infection with antibiotics.
Now what would happen with it was done with someone that wasn't a daenon originally I have no idea. But when we fought against firefox, she acted exactly like a daemon would when we insukted her pride and praised the journey.

>>5108678
We had other options however.

>>5108683
But we don't know what would happen in those other options, there is no guarantee that they would lead to a redeemed daemon instead of it also running alway in fear.

>>5108279
Oh, they managed to make it the entire premise retarded right on the second episode, by making the emperor be the one behind both the tabletop and and the youtube series.
That was way quicker then I expected.

Good points have been made, retracting >>5108450. Apologies for the inconvenience. Still want to do it, but here isn't the right place. Don't want our purification efforts to become undone through daemon exposure or for the ship to be damaged any further post-summoning.

>>5107806
>>Remove the tainted material and destroy it, and turn it into a temporary factory, producing advance materials, medicine, weaponry and vehicles

>>5107806
>>Spend sometime repairing the ship and replacing the lost systems and components with Kanzeon's aid, to ready it to be reinhabited after the war ends

>>5108159
support
+1

>>5107806
>Remove the tainted material and destroy it, and turn it into a temporary factory, producing advance materials, medicine, weaponry and vehicles

>>5107806
>Remove the tainted material and destroy it, and turn it into a temporary factory, producing advance materials, medicine, weaponry and vehicles
>Spend sometime repairing the ship and replacing the lost systems and components with Kanzeon's aid, to ready it to be reinhabited after the war ends

Update is gonna be a bit late. Had a long day. Thankfully the delay will only be until I wake up rather than whenever the abominable intelligence decides to be merciful as used to be the case

>>5109801
"Now I am become sleepy, the goer to bed" - Malal 2021

>>5110224
So what you are saying. . . Is that it is the weakness of the flesh that holds us back.

>TECHPRIEST INTENSIFIES!!!

>>5110232
Sometimes is the fickle whims of the cogitator machine spirits.

>>5110232
“There is no truth in flesh, only betrayal."
"There is no strength in flesh, only weakness."
"There is no constancy in flesh, only decay."
"There is no certainty in flesh but death”

Calling the vote now. Sorry for the wait.

Scrap what isn't tainted and divide the resources gathered from the recycling between Kanzeon and Mari so both may equally bolster their bodies and their abilities.: 4

Spend sometime repairing the ship and replacing the lost systems and components with Kanzeon's aid, to ready it to be reinhabited after the war ends:15

Remove the tainted material and destroy it:13
-and turn the vessel into a temporary factory, producing advance materials, medicine, weaponry and vehicles:10

Attempt to call Kuan Im in the warp, despite her turning into the contemptible Huli Jing: 5

Total votes: 24

So Lieren will spend sometime repairing the ship to prepare it to be reinhabited and remove and destroy what has been tainted and replace it so it may temporrily serve as an automated factory

Writing now

It is quiet, humble and honest work cleansing the empty husk in preparations for its repairs. It brings to mind memories of when you first began work to connect the now imperial province together through your road, when you hammered stones into place alongside laborers who had never before seen beyond their villages before you enlisted them to aid in the work you still see as perhaps your greatest labor. For if you never set down the first step of the giant's road, the world as it is now would be little more than a dream. And much like the road you designed and helped lay, repairing this ancient vessel is merely the first stone set towards a brighter future. In the darkness, you scrub the walls clean of their debaucherous imagery adorning it, sanding it down and smoothing it with your mind and the impervious will held within it. You melt and ritualistically cleanse the materials that are too deeply tainted by the Emperyan's wild winds to be trusted or even tolerated to remain where living men may one day walk. Sweat pours down your brow as you crawl through vast complexes of machinery, undoing centuries of disrepair and unuse with both your bare hands and arcane tools designed for work as precise as this. The cyclopean factories shudder to life once more, their rust brushed away and their more anomalously altered components stripped away to be replaced by unsullied replacements. The cloning boy in particular requires a cleansing via a substance Kanzeon names as "Promethean" that she warns you of the extreme dangers it poses if improperly stored or used.

Indeed, the accelerant is so potent you were worried it would burn a whole through the ship when you first witnessed the intensity of the flames through the near incandescent flaring of the light it cast. The cancerous remnants of Huli Jing's corruption are gradually scored away, by fire, will or excessive use of darklight and plasma. Then once Kanzeon meets you outside of the sinkhole leading into the grave of what was once her most gentle hearted sister, she tells you that even her most sensitive sensor arrays and scanning equipment can no longer detect even the barest hint of Emperyan energy within the empty corpse of Kuan Im.

It is then that your work to repair the ancient star faring vessel truly begins. Kanzeon still refuses to enter the forsaken body of her traitorous sister, but she lands just beyond the unsettlingly idyllic fields she crafted eons ago to deliver the components of the lost systems part by part so you may replace what you were forced to destroy. This will ensure that the corruption you have weeded out will never again return, as all that was touched by the devils of the warp has been removed and replaced with untarnished Star Metal and untampered electronics and arcane technologies that still baffle you despite being well acquainted with their functions and use in the vast bodies of Kanzeon and her sisters.
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>>5110357

As industrious and diligent as you are by nature and birth, the delicate labor and hard drudgery necessary to resurrect the "corpse" of the star ship proceeds at a reasonable pace, far quicker than any other engineer would be able to progress at or maintain for any substantial duration of time. Indeed, most would be driven mad by the complexity and otherworldly nature of the machines before they even approached the trial of meddling with their internal components. You were aware that Kanzeon and her sisters were powered by the winds of the Emperyan, but you had never truly grasped how deeply dependent and entwined they were to such treacherous energies.

Until you personally repaired one. Kanzeon had personally seen to her own mending. Its wonderous, being able to see how man once tamed the great sea and used its waters to power their society without fear of wicked spirits or corruption. Indeed, this just proves that besides ideals and construction of thought processes, you and Kanzeon are very similar to one another. As your father used similar Arcane methods as a part of the multitude of processes required to birth you and your brothers. A mingling of reality and unreality, of the material world and the realm of thought. It'd be poetic if it did not so darken your mood realizing exactly why it was so easy for spirits to crawl past the veil when even a single system was damaged or crippled within these sophisticated bodies of steel.

You can see why some of Kanzeon's sisters were or still are revered as goddesses, for their forms are truly divine constructions. Even with all the technological wonders you have seen or personally crafted, the inner workings of their bodies are truly magnificent. And nearly unknowable. Even your vast intellect struggles to grasp the concepts and physics that allow such ancinet machinery to function.

Old mankind had rivaled the Aeldari empire in its grandeur and advancement once. Somehow that thought brings you hope for the future.

With a final sub psionic connection forged, the empty vessel is resurrected, without a mind or soul to inhabit it. Presently, it is a series of carefully monitored codes and data streams, guided by any particularly powerful and willful mind within range of it. It is for that reason, the catatonic, unborn sister of Kanzeon and Mari will be kept away from any battle or city until a soul can be found to be gifted the vaunted position of younger sibling to the mothers of Shangrala.

But that does not mean it will not be able to lend assistance to the war effort. Indeed, having three archeotech ships at full functionality is a great boon, especially when you have a wealth of resources to facility the production of the treasures of humanity's ancient past.
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>>5110358

What do you devout the Empty Sister's production capabilities towards, Lieren?

> An armada of fighter, transport and bombarding craft. Now Long Jia shall rule the sky and terrorize the Vimana of Vishnu like falcons hunting songbird!

>You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala

>Create an army of drones, since all three of the sisters are able to produce them, you'll be able to create an army of machines to match the endless hordes of Kauravas the butcher king fields

>There's a glaring flaw to cloning. And that is the use of few or even a single genetic template. Though it would be considered dishonorable and immoral in less grave circumstances, create a poison that targets the genetic markers of the template of the Vishnu's fodder of clone warriors and fabricate Aeldari Shard weaponry to weaponize it.

>Write in

>>5110359
>>There's a glaring flaw to cloning. And that is the use of few or even a single genetic template. Though it would be considered dishonorable and immoral in less grave circumstances, create a poison that targets the genetic markers of the template of the Vishnu's fodder of clone warriors and fabricate Aeldari Shard weaponry to weaponize it.
Do we even need to go through the trouble of adapting eldar tech to use this? Needler weaponry should work, no? Additionally, we get around the main flaw of gas-based warfare if we can turn the poison into an aerosol, since our own soldiers won't be effected by it. Also,
>Ask Kanzeon about the process of crafting the gestalt soul required in to produce her and her sisters. How are the individual souls collected? Can it be done passively? Perhaps the valiant dead of this war may live on in this unborn daughter of the stars...
If Malal wants to answer that outside of the story, that works too.

>>5110359
>Titans
and
> An armada of fighter, transport and bombarding craft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff68PsXbCK4&ab_channel=StringStorm%E2%80%8C

>>5110381
but if it's a pick one situation then I'll pick the titans.

>>5110359
> An armada of fighter, transport and bombarding craft. Now Long Jia shall rule the sky and terrorize the Vimana of Vishnu like falcons hunting songbird!

>>5110359
>You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala
>Titanfall intensifies

>>5110359

>You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW9NXX5Y4IY

>>5110359
>>You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala

>You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala
>How is this even a question?!? This is how we start to get psy-titans!

>>5110359

>You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vU7XqToZso [Embed]

>>5110359

>You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala.
Can we give them some cool names other than titans? Pretty fucking please? Like Devas or Asura? Maybe Godbeasts?

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Imagine it. Giant Mechs that aren't falling apart.
What a concept.

>>5110359
> An armada of fighter, transport and bombarding craft. Now Long Jia shall rule the sky and terrorize the Vimana of Vishnu like falcons hunting songbird!
>Create an army of drones, since all three of the sisters are able to produce them, you'll be able to create an army of machines to match the endless hordes of Kauravas the butcher king fields
Let's even the playing field.

>>5110359
>There's a glaring flaw to cloning. And that is the use of few or even a single genetic template. Though it would be considered dishonorable and immoral in less grave circumstances, create a poison that targets the genetic markers of the template of the Vishnu's fodder of clone warriors and fabricate Aeldari Shard weaponry to weaponize it.
> An armada of fighter, transport and bombarding craft. Now Long Jia shall rule the sky and terrorize the Vimana of Vishnu like falcons hunting songbird!

>>5110359
>>Create an army of drones, since all three of the sisters are able to produce them, you'll be able to create an army of machines to match the endless hordes of Kauravas the butcher king fields

>>5110359

>You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala

>>5110359
>An army of drones

>>Create an army of drones, since all three of the sisters are able to produce them, you'll be able to create an army of machines to match the endless hordes of Kauravas the butcher king fields

Titans are good. But they're primarily Siege weapons or Titan hunters. Building anything approaching the size of Imperator would be folly.

Instead lets use drones so that our man power can match any amount of endless opposition. The galaxy is full of these.

>>5110637
The difference between drones and titans is that titans are fun and Emperor approved.
>But they're primarily Siege weapons or Titan hunters
Anon. He's clearly describing knights.

>>5110359

>You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala

Bring forth the god machines and make the thunder of their steps the first and last thing our enemies hear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK02e3U4Q9U

>>5110359
>>Create an army of drones, since all three of the sisters are able to produce them, you'll be able to create an army of machines to match the endless hordes of Kauravas the butcher king fields

At last

>>5110359
>>There's a glaring flaw to cloning. And that is the use of few or even a single genetic template. Though it would be considered dishonorable and immoral in less grave circumstances, create a poison that targets the genetic markers of the template of the Vishnu's fodder of clone warriors and fabricate Aeldari Shard weaponry to weaponize it.

There is another consideration to our use cases. This will ensure a relatively bloodless killing of the mass of clone soldiers that the Tyrant is using. Meaning that khorne will have less of a foothold. The other methods of war will likely involve much more blood spilled.

>>5110740
Maybe, but titans are effective against vehicles and resilient to a lot of armored and infantry weapons, making them excellent for present the advance forwards. If we want to produce the clone killing poisons, all we need to do is produce more of then with Kanzeon or Mari.

>>5110359
>>>There's a glaring flaw to cloning. And that is the use of few or even a single genetic template. Though it would be considered dishonorable and immoral in less grave circumstances, create a poison that targets the genetic markers of the template of the Vishnu's fodder of clone warriors and fabricate Aeldari Shard weaponry to weaponize it.

>>5110359
>You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala
Malal, can we make heavy containment vehicles, that could encapsulate these fusion bottles littered around Vishnu land?
>There's a glaring flaw to cloning. And that is the use of few or even a single genetic template. Though it would be considered dishonorable and immoral in less grave circumstances, create a poison that targets the genetic markers of the template of the Vishnu's fodder of clone warriors and fabricate Aeldari Shard weaponry to weaponize it.
Aerosol might work too, fumigate the buggers in a titan-grade macrocannon shell.

>>5110359
>>You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala

>>5110359
>>You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala
yes I would like giant robots please.

>>5110359
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5oEVJ7ru2E

Calling the vote now.

There's a glaring flaw to cloning. And that is the use of few or even a single genetic template. Though it would be considered dishonorable and immoral in less grave circumstances, create a poison that targets the genetic markers of the template of the Vishnu's fodder of clone warriors and fabricate Aeldari Shard weaponry to weaponize it.: 5

Ask Kanzeon about the process of crafting the gestalt soul required in to produce her and her sisters. How are the individual souls collected? Can it be done passively? Perhaps the valiant dead of this war may live on in this unborn daughter of the stars...:1

An armada of fighter, transport and bombarding craft. Now Long Jia shall rule the sky and terrorize the Vimana of Vishnu like falcons hunting songbird!:4

You've found some schematics of machines that were used as heavy construction, farm or terraforming vehicles. With a few alterations they can become a warmachine. Bring titans to Shangrala:12

Create an army of drones, since all three of the sisters are able to produce them, you'll be able to create an army of machines to match the endless hordes of Kauravas the butcher king fields:5

Total votes: 22

LIEREN DIGS GIANT ROBOTS

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>>5110381
>>5110396
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>>5110396
NICE!

>>5111043
Loved that show! Wonder what a Lieren/Shangralan version of the theme would sound like

In b4 Ships Dig Giant Robots?

For You've found uncorrupted, undegraded schematics for ancient machines. Construction and farming vehicles as well as terraforming devices that are inexplicably designed and built into a vaguely humanoid frame. You do not know the purpose, but the ancients must've had a reason to make their machinery mimic their own forms, besides base vanity of course. You had known vaguely of such vehicles before, having viewed them both in the form of implanted wisdom and knowledge and the pictures recorded in your gestation pod, but you had assumed them to be lost or forgotten to the fog of the ages. You had never dreamed you'd discover blueprints for the towering machines, let alone complete and perfectly detailed copies that describe the construction of each subsystem down to the individual wires and even mentions the exact ratios of its chemical fuel sources and material composition! This is a treasure beyond treasures! Though you cannot help but feel thankful that Huli Jing wasn't smart enough to exploit such tools for wicked ends. These frames can easily be repurposed towards war, with a few alterations they can be turned from engines of creation into avatars of destruction. Warmachines unlike anything that has been fielded upon Shangrala before, and perhaps even the other world's seeded by mankind.

However, they their construction would create inefficiencies if they were altered only by equipping them with weapons platforms to replace their tools and plating them with armor. They'd be...inelegant, lacking grace and refinement. Big, stomping machines that can only march towards their foes or act as towering and overly glorified artillery. Looking over the schematics, your mind busies itself to adjust and bring them closer to unreachable perfection. An immediate inspiration is to bring the titanic machines even closer to their inspiration and make them more obviously shaped like men. Adjusting their profile, reallocating their center of gravity and repositing their necessary subsystems and components, you could easily increase the lumbering machines agility by ten fold. To fit its complicated mechanics in its chassis, you will have to organize them like the viscera and bowels of a human body. Which will necessitate a bolstering and thinning of armor in certain locations.

Martial arts are a beloved tradition of Shangrala, and most soldiers are trained in one style or school of them or another. So these adjustments will increase the average combat effectiveness of those privileged few to be bequeathed the honor of commanding these warmachines, as they will be able to translate their own combat training into the piloting of the craft. But, if it is a weapon, it can be specialized and adapted for a specific style of martial arts, and already dozens of concepts and ideas fill your thoughts flying from the libraries of your mind.

So, you begin to create schematics for these new innovations based off the treasured blueprints you had found.
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>>5111833

The original designs can still be utilized in construction and agriculture, though you'd replace the legs with a more sturdy and balanced form of locomotion. Perhaps treads or an anti gravity generator.

You'll replace the alloys suggested with Star Metal and other more pliable and sturdy materials, that can both more readily endure a ballistic strike but also keep from impeding the warmachines own movement. A complicated series of servos and mechanical joints will be required to facilitate the newly improved locomotion of these vehicles, to bring them closer to the natural motions of the human body. The armor must then, instead of being a part of the machine's main body must be made into armor itself, so it can be replaced and repaired with ease and not necessitate the temporary docking of the craft itself. As it to will be made of star metal and the other useful, strong alloys that you know of through your time studying within Kanzeon, the separation from armor and machine will be almost entirely unnoticeable. The sensor array, will utilize a mingling of the flexible glass and a layer of adamantine weave to improve its durability. The sensor clusters will be decentralized, so the pilot will not be blinded if the screen upon the "Head" of the craft is damaged. Indeed their "Sight" will not fail unless over ninety percent of the sensors are destroyed or otherwise damaged.

An automated self adjustment system to aid in maintaining balance in motion and sturdiness in stillness would also be a warranted addition to the craft.

You spend hours at first, and then days adjusting and tweaking schematics to maximize efficiency and combat ability. It is a grand effort to turn a construction vehicle into a weapon, but you were made to be an engineer and have acquired enough actual expertise in the crafting of vehicles and weapons alike to excel in the otherwise trying endeavor. Eventually, you reach a wall in your efforts and know with your current knowledge and resources further refining these warmachines will be all but impossible. There can be no more improvements made with the materials or facilities at hand and even if they could be made, they would increase the cost of creating even one of these titanic crafts beyond any applicable use. You have balanced their effectiveness and the price of their construction and improved the refinement of their motion greatly enough for them to serve as both walking artillery pieces and titanic warriors, even simultaneously if the pilot decides to outfit their craft with weaponry fit to serve either role. . Destruction and death made elegant, war made graceful.

They no longer resemble the initial schematics you first discovered. Now they more resemble giant, ambulatory statues. You wonder for a moment as you review your work, if you were not inspired by the holographic avatar Kanzeon spoke through
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>>5111834

when you were first allowed access to her heart and began the friendship that blossomed magnificently into a Orchid of love.


Shrugging your shoulders, you decide from whence your inspiration came is irrelevant, and set the schematics down to begin the forging and building of the first of a legion of titanic walkers. Perhaps this will take from you your title of Giant, when men see these gleaming warmachines march against the Vishnu like wrathful gods.

Pausing before you enter the commands to begin the production of these Titans of metal, you feel a mischievous whim and give into it. Deciding whimsically to design the appearance of the first batch of these new warmachines after the likenesses of your close friends and respected allies, you adjust the parameters of the manufactorum's crucibles and assembly plants to allow this needless personalization.

But it will be worth it to see the reactions of the inspirations behind this unnecessary detailing and decoration.

Feng, Jinhai, Liang, Jiang, Bai, Yin Lei, Lai Song, Tao Dandan, The late Small Chen and Cui Fu, Red Face Wei, Elazar and Aruna will serve as fitting models for the initial production

Giggling to yourself, you watch the creation of the giant, weaponized statues of your companions, friends and the man who you wish could have been counted amongst their number

What will you do now, Lieren?

>Reveal these new warmachines outside of the imperial capital and explain their function and capabilities to Jinhai and the general, and begin searching for pilots across the Empire and its ally the Bask republic.

>These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation

>Customize each of the crafts to fit the skill set of their models, and off them the privledge to pilot their own gigantic, weaponized doppelgangers!

>Take further inspiration from Kanzeon and the Aeldari, and make the connection between pilot and machine mental rather than technological

>Write in

>>5111836
>These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation

>Customize each of the crafts to fit the skill set of their models, and off them the privledge to pilot their own gigantic, weaponized doppelgangers!

>Take further inspiration from Kanzeon and the Aeldari, and make the connection between pilot and machine mental rather than technological
We literally gundam now.

>>5111836
FUCK YEAH! We should make sure to tell Aruna and the Vishnu battle bros that these are big-wrinkle-brain science and not icky sorcery.
> Reveal these new war machines outside of the imperial capital and explain their function and capabilities to Jinhai and the generals, and begin searching for pilots across the Empire and its ally the Bask republic.
Should check the Shuni as well.

> These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! Do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation.
Can't be letting him or his murderous girlfriend try to crudely copy Lieren's work.

>>5111840
> inb4 we make Gundams for all the Primarchs
> We're Leman's new favorite bro for the shiney toys

>>5111836
>>These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation
>>Customize each of the crafts to fit the skill set of their models, and off them the privledge to pilot their own gigantic, weaponized doppelgangers!
>>Take further inspiration from Kanzeon and the Aeldari, and make the connection between pilot and machine mental rather than technological

>>5111836
>
>Take further inspiration from Kanzeon and the Aeldari, and make the connection between pilot and machine mental rather than technological
>These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation

We need to strike at that tower, this war machines could arrive with our elite regiment and begin a rapid raid on it.

>>5111867
I support.

But we will need a SUPER amazing pilot for Jinhai.
The emperor gundam must not fall in its first engagement.

>>5111871
i am sure we will find someone worthy for the task. We have still plenty of pilots fresh from the new academies or we could take some of the best that we already have on steel birds.

>>5111836
>>These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation
I'll be curious to see what the Mechanicum thinks of these new toys.

>>5111836
>These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation
>Take further inspiration from Kanzeon and the Aeldari, and make the connection between pilot and machine mental rather than technological

>>5111885
Very excited to have new toys to play with, but bothered that it was invented and not found. I'm sure they'll let it pass since we're the Omnisseiah's son.

>>5111836
>These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation

>>5111836
>These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation
>Customize each of the crafts to fit the skill set of their models, and off them the privledge to pilot their own gigantic, weaponized doppelgangers!
Some like Jinhai will probably only need to pilot his when in the most dire of situations, and Dan Dan would probably prefer a the artillery type of Titan

>>5111836

>Customize each of the crafts to fit the skill set of their models, and off them the privledge to pilot their own gigantic, weaponized doppelgangers!

>Take further inspiration from Kanzeon and the Aeldari, and make the connection between pilot and machine mental rather than technological


Did..did we just make gundams?

Also nice seeing even as a Primarch our boy still loves giant robots and Women.

>>5111901
Imperial Titans are only as old, at max, as the Age of Strife, so I'm hopeful that they'll see the parallels between them a couple millennia ago and us now. Our aethersail technology, however, might catch us some flak.

>>5111970
>Our aethersail technology, however, might catch us some flak.
No one cares about the drukari, and the mechanicus can bite it.

>>5111836

>Customize each of the crafts to fit the skill set of their models, and off them the privledge to pilot their own gigantic, weaponized doppelgangers!

>Take further inspiration from Kanzeon and the Aeldari, and make the connection between pilot and machine mental rather than technological

So what do our mecha look like? Lieren described them as more humanoid with detachable armor, so I'm imagining something like towering statues.

>>5112029
I see them as knight meets wraithguards. Really show our eldar influences.

>>5112029
>literally based on legendary heroes
>look like ambulatory statues
>move like humans and are designed for melee
>detachable armor and swappable weapon
If you know anything about Gundam you immediately see the parallels.

>>5111893
Support

>>5112044
I have not in fact seen Gundam, but from the picture I've seen, wouldn't they be too blocky? I thought they were smoother like an Eva Unit.
Do not mistaken this for wanting Evas, but as soon as we can put some wings on this bitch we need to to. I want these fuckers to fly.

>>5111885
I doubt they will act in any good way towards us upon seeing our tech, even if we are a primarch. What do you think they want to do if you let them see advanced human tech ? Behave ? The same for us. I doubt we will look on them well after knowing them, even if seeing them is enough of a red flag by how terrifying many of them look. The encounter with them will be honestly difficult, if they act like they usually do when they see advance human tech. It looks bad.

>>5111901
I don t see the point for giving up the things we have given our people, to hands of unknown men. This is Shangrila property, the blueprints especially. The Mechanicus wouldn't lift a finger for his fellow men if it isn't for get more technology or for defend themselves. Not to mention they have plenty of privileges in the imperium already thanks to the treaty of mars. Giving them even more feels wrong to me, when the rest of mankind is in such a miserable state.
Shangrila technology can be put instead to work in our peoples hands for liberate and aid more worlds for the imperium, let Shangrila grow across the stars and find more ancient technologies. Three more worthy purposes. The Mechanicus only chance is having some techpriests under us willing to learn our teachings.
I am not sure it s wise to say something
like this around. Even the emperor has secrets. Plenty of them.

>>5112029
I am planning in making them with the rest of the images. By following their description i will go for make them look more like Long Jia heroes, while still looking like mecha with some eldar influence. I am thinking one giant type for now, then in the next group of images 2 more maybe.

Sorry for being cold towards the cogs but while they are a cool faction, they aren't exactly a good fit with Lieren in my opinion.

>>5112052
>but from the picture I've seen, wouldn't they be too blocky
Few details most people not deep in Gundam lore don't know regarding the mobile suits (mechs)
>mobile weapons are primarily used in space
>most mobile weapons are designed to fly
>Minovsky physics is used to justified everything
>gundams are a type of mobile weapons that use a special light weight alloy that can only be made in space
>gundams are often based on heroes of the past though in one of the timelines a major character fights against two gundams based on presently living major characters

>>5112069
Oh, I know all of that, but I'm saying that visually they don't come to mind when reading Lieren's descriptions.
On another note- we should give these things unique names like how the Leman Russ tank is named differently. A fog titan?

>>5112073
I figured the knights would be named after the people there based on

>>5112076
Well not the individual knights, I meant the titans as a whole. The Admech would probably call them Shagrilan-Pattern Knights, but they deserve a cooler name like. . . *checks through Hindu and Buddhist myths* Dharmapalas!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmapala

>>5111836
>>These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation

>>5111836
>These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation.
>Take further inspiration from Kanzeon and the Aeldari, and make the connection between pilot and machine mental rather than technological.
I'm ready for mankind to strike back.

>>5112110
>Support

I want to share these designs with pert. He would love them.

>>5112172
Oh fuck
We should definitely give these designs to Pert- maybe we can collaborate on a mark II once we're free. Ask Magnus if it would be possible to give it psyker abilities.

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>>5112172
>mfw every massive statue in Pert's perfect city is also a titan

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>>5112181
>mfw every massive statue in Pert's perfect city is also a titan

>>5112172
I'm sure he would find a way to get offended by Lieren giving him the designs.

>>5112199
>Clearly, brother, you think I am incapable of creating such war machines on my own. Don't call this warp-number again. Now excuse me, I have teenage conscripts to decimate.

>>5112199
Well we didn't give him the designs, we simply asked what he thought of our work being that he is such an artisan of great materials, to be appraised by him is a mark of great honour!

And if that fails, say it's metaphorical.

>>5112060
The Enperor doesn't even like the mechanicus, they are just a nescessity for the Imperium and the Crusade to be able move along in a reasonable timeframe.
>>5112082
Call them terracota warriors.

>>5112247
Can't wait for everyone to see giant descend from the heavens to strike at humanities foes.
Also- Lieren with his own custom Knight, co-piloted by Kazeon of course.

>>5112247
>The Enperor doesn't even like the mechanicus, they are just a nescessity for the Imperium and the Crusade to be able move along in a reasonable timeframe.

Yup. Cause they have colonies all over the galaxy and thus come as basically one big supply line already set up.

>>5111836
>>These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation
Khorne wants a protracted war to get blood. Dropping them suddenly in key spots could end it fast and deny him that.

>>5111836
>These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation

>Take further inspiration from Kanzeon and the Aeldari, and make the connection between pilot and machine mental rather than technological

>>5111836
>>Reveal these new warmachines outside of the imperial capital and explain their function and capabilities to Jinhai and the general, and begin searching for pilots across the Empire and its ally the Bask republic.

>Emps arrives
>We've gone full Ghost in the Shell
>Machines with Souls!
>This pleases the Mechanicus for it is not Abominable intelligence

I have to wonder if the cores used in archeotech ships like Kanzeon and her sisters aren't compatible with this new class of mecha.

>>5111836
>Customize each of the crafts to fit the skill set of their models, and off them the privledge to pilot their own gigantic, weaponized doppelgangers!
Oh I get it now. This is saying to customize the mechs for our friends to pilot.

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So some of the populace heard tales of Lieren and. . . they may have misunderstood somethings.

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>>5112685
The fact that we had the exact same meme made back when we were still using Toki to represent Lieren is what makes it for me.
We have come full circle.

>>5112701
Lieren is the hero that the Dark Millennium needs, but doesn't deserve.

>>5112701
I meant the we as we the anons in the aueat collectively by the way, I didn't make that meme.
>>5112708
First Lieren breaks Konrad's prophesies, and now he steals his prized space batman role?

>>5112711
Lieren and Vulcan are going two-on-one against Konrad's shattered psyche. This man will get better before the Heresy has begun!

https://youtu.be/eiNVjkJDsqI?t=266

>>5112713
The hugging will continue until morale improves.

>>5112713
What're the odds Konrad is so fucked up because he ate pretty much only rats and criminals during formative parts of his life?

>>5113637
That makes far more sense than it should given the existence of the Omophagea organ.

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Guess I'll post some more

Calling the vote now. Sorry for the wait.

These are weapons. Find suitable pilots for them covertly and return to the warfront by dropping these titans from the heavens! do not give Nitya Sinha the opportunity to learn of their creation:15
-Attack the mysterious black tower: 2

Customize each of the crafts to fit the skill set of their models, and off them the privledge to pilot their own gigantic, weaponized doppelgangers!:6

Take further inspiration from Kanzeon and the Aeldari, and make the connection between pilot and machine mental rather than technological:11

Reveal these new war machines outside of the imperial capital and explain their function and capabilities to Jinhai and the generals, and begin searching for pilots across the Empire and its ally the Bask republic.:2

Total votes:18

So Lieren will make the connection between pilot and machine mental rather than purely technological, taking inspiration from Kanzeon and the Aeldari

And then covertly find 13 pilots for the first 13 crafts and return to the warfront dropping these new weapons from the heavens, never giving the butcher king a chance to learn of their existence before they break through his lines like adamantine spears

Writing now

>>5112685
Nice

>>5112181
>>5112193

A terrifying thought

>>5112501
>NO MY BELOVED PROSPEROUS SON! DON'T LOOK
>It is too late honored father, for I am already CYBERPUNK

>>5113670
So does that mean we could fix him, at least in part, by feeding him kind, calm, and most importantly just people? I'm not suggesting that Lieren goes full s-o-ylent green, but that maybe we appropriate the bodies of particularly enlightened individuals to slip into Konrad's morning blood porridge?

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>>5113802
I got a few Gundam pics from my time in the space pirate quest

However aesthetics are not the only altercation you added to the schematics prior to recording the digitized copy to the manufactorum's memory vaults. Having realized that a cybernetic connection between pilot and craft would likely malfunction if enough blunt force or heat damage was inflicted upon the craft and could thus be easily damaged, disabled or lethally injure the pilot, you add one final improvement to the warmachines. Taking inspiration from how Aeldari technology functions and how Kanzeon herself controls the many complex systems and subroutines of her vast body, you replaced the interface system that was present in the original design documents detailing the base construction vehicles you have altered into statuesque suits of titanic armor with a one that mimics the mental interface that allows your bride to control her steel flesh and bones as if they were living. It requires a psionically active catalyst, which as the primary material used in the construction of these walking weapons is Star Metal, it is an addition easily made. The Catalyst will be an empty memory core, larger than the standard variety but still smaller than the vast spheres that contain the living conscience of living ships such as your bride or her sisters. Large enough for a grown man to fit inside if he curled into a fetal position. But as having only a single connection between pilot and machine would only make control over the metal goliath flimsy and easily broken if a precise or lucky shot was landed upon the housing unit, you also make several backup and auxiliary cores of various sizes. Some equal to the main core, and many more of a smaller, hand held size scattered throughout and hidden in the Chassis of the Warmachine.

The most efficient position coincidentally aligns with the meridians, as the main components and vital mechanics aligned with the internal organs. Perhaps it is more than a coincidence, you think, knowing the nature of the Empyrean and its interactions with the mortal realm. However no matter the exact reason or logic for the technology working most efficiently when designed near exactly after human anatomy, it is a blessing as the similarities will make it easy for prospective pilots to learn how to command and control the craft. Like moving a second, larger body that their trueself is implanted within. Why, the mixture of technology and mental energy could be used for therapy or meditation when the war has ended, it might even allow the rehabilitation of the mentally ill or damaged by aiding in the detachment of flesh and mind and allowing for closer and more accurate observation of their thought patterns. You know Kanzeon does similar when she treats her patients, measures their brainwaves and reports and identities anomalous activity before commencing her treatment.

But that is thinking too far into the future, when there may not come another day.
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>>5114045

The war must be won before you can consider other, more peaceful, humanitarian and productive uses of these innovations. And keeping the existence of these new weapons hidden will be a rare opportunity to hold a true, unequaled advantaged over your enemies. For a warrior cannot easily parry a blow he does not expect, now can they fight well against a weapon they have never before encountered, no matter how great their martial skills may be.

And thus you'll need to seek the assistance of the Scarlet Spider, Lady Qian Xia, to search for candidates of worthy skill, talent and mental resolve and force of will to be able to pilot the first thirteen of these newly forged war machines. You are still trying to settle on a fitting epithet for the weapons who you have shaped into the image of some of the greatest of Shangrala's children, living or dead. Avatar would be fitting, but it lacks a certain poetic depth and meaningfulness. Pressing your knuckles against you chin, you think on a fitting name to give you inventions
_

Qian Xia was tired. She dealt in secrets and delighted in using one's own well kept mysteries to engineer and plot their destruction. It was how she had risen to leader of her house and kept the worst heirs from inheriting their father's houses and lands before the revolution. But, now that she was privy to the secrets of an empire and allowed knowledge that would fray a normal mind, she has repeatedly found herself exhausted. Not only mentally but emotionally. It was only her conditioning, her training in the deadly game of the courts that has kept her from being consumed by the stress of her new duties and many responsibilities.

Serial killers, cults, crazed inventors were already enough to overwhelm her and tax her web of "spiders" and "ghosts", but now she also had to contend with the Vishnu, who were far more advance and cunning than she or anyone had anticipated. It was clear they had eyes and ears, deprived of their bodies, scattered throughout the world, watching and sneaking to steal imperial intel and secret troop movements and formation. By her advice, Emperor Long-Jia Jinhai had ordered all vital transmission and commands to be coded but it was still clear from how the reports of the Shuni and Brothers of the Panther's scouts that they had knowledge they shouldn't have, with how they moved their vast armies to counter and cut off advances or prepared for the canny strategies of the bests and brightest of the imperial army. They had a spy network, and Qian Xia knew it was no made up of living men. She knew they had a goddess ship, like Lieren's bride, and she knew she was her opponent. Through some magic spell or queer technology, the buried devil was spying on her people. But it was also clear that the Bride of the Butcher was unaware she was matched against the scarlet spider, otherwise she would have been doubtlessly killed to prevent her from finding a means to
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>>5114047

if not blind the ghostly eyes that watched and spied for her, than to at least anticipate and counter their response to the intel they miraculously and mysteriously stole away.

A sudden rush of air nearly gave the lady of Qian her death of fright, as a vast shadow fell over her and her heart nearly leapt from her chest to flee what must've been an assassin. But as she turned, wincing, she saw in the darkness to golden orbs and realized the giant behind her was Lieren and not some muzzled screamer sent to tear her pretty head from her shoulders.

But her relief was shortly lived as she reminded herself what kind of man Lieren was, and his pragmatic nature. And that she had in many ways abused her position in the imperial court for her own advancement and the wealth of her family and son. And that Lieren had certainly killed for less. And that the golden eyed giant would be a far more effective assassin than any Vishnu Dog. But an gently amused smirk past over his lips, as he read her thoughts from a mere glance of her expression and stiffened body language. A level of reading she had been unable to approach let alone match, it seemed as though the hunter could peer into the hearts of men with a glance or read their thoughts as though they were an open book. She had no idea how he had trained himself to achieve such a peerless state of immediate and intimate comprehension, but she was greatly envious of his supreme talent.

"Worry not Scarlet spider, I have not come seeking your life but rather to ask you to lend your peerless perception and wide web of unspoken knowledge to the war effort" Lieren explained gently, eyes narrowed in a way that unsettling resembled the way a cat would down at a mouse "For I have realized as you have that our enemy is watching from the mists, but as a hunter I am used to avoided my prey's gaze. So, I have developed a new weapon in secret"

Qian Xia wanted to speak, but her relief that she hadn't stepped over the unseen line that would condemn her as a tyrant and criminal was too great and only allowed her to nod silently, feeling a cold sweat creep down her neck.

"However, these weapons need to be piloted by men possessed by iron will and resolve, men who hold no fear of death, with healthy minds and good hearts. Men experienced in battle. Expertise in piloting Steel birds or Iron turtles or riding skipping clouds would be preferable to novices, but if thirteen men and women of perfectly sound minds, sharp intellect, well balanced personalities cannot be found, young prodigies would be acceptable in their stead"

"Understood" Qian Xia answered, almost mechanically "I won't pry and ask the nature of these new weapons because"

"You fear it is your mind that was compromised by the enemy" Lieren interrupted, and merely shook his head "You would know if a mental bug had been planted in your mind"

"Bug?" The usually stoic women squeaked, now fearful of a parasitic beetle that could transmit her thoughts

>>5114047

Lieren only hid his mouth behind her fan, which he had taken so swiftly from her desk that she had not even noticed him moving.

"Not what you imagine, I assure you. An implanted thought is what I refer to. You can sense their presence by a gap in your memories or a pressure just behind the bone of your scalp" Lieren explained, stepping back into the darkness of Qian Xia's personal quarters and vanishing as quickly as he appeared.

Qian Xia sighed, and fell into her padded chair, running a hand through her hair and pulling it back to find a grey hair.

It was then she shrieked, more terrified than ever before
_

You sat upon the branch of lychee tree, reading through the list of names Qian Xia gave you, potential pilots for your new warmachines. Numbered exactly thirteen as you requested. She even included pictures, psyche profiles and descriptions of their characters and habits. Last known location and prior occupation was also included.

A veteran steel bird pilot, renowned as the "First son of the western wind" and known throughout the "flocks" For painting his personal fighter the colors of his family. A cousin of Qian Xia herself, from one of the family's lesser branches. Qian Tian. A fitting name for a warrior of the skies. He lost a leg after being shot down in a protracted aerial duel with two Vimana, and survived the encounter because the pilots landed their craft to take his head and were ended by the now outdated revolver he kept on his person.

An old martial artist, one of the members of the old traditions before your arrival. Became a hermit after his students betrayed the teachings of his school and left behind the civilized world to seek enlightenment and physical excellence in the wilds. Returned to society after being found by Liang and Jiang, and had been scouted as a teacher for one of the many martial arts academies you built. Goes by Tingfeng, an art name he took during his exile, and well deserved judging from the record of victories he holds against martial prodigies and warriors half his age.

Dai Chonglin, Dai Niu's second eldest son and a commander of one of the most decorated Iron Turtle battalions is an easy choice. The Dai are a stalwart lineage, unshakeable in their ideals and endearing in both manner and the battlefield. You've met the man before but didn't pay much attention to him, but know he'll perform admirably and command his craft well.

One of Akanksha's people, a warrioress by the name of Suman who judging from her features is a cousin or near relative of Bai's wife. A wilder breed to be certain, from what little you know of your friend's bride she is comparatively gentle natured amongst the wild vishnu as little a difference as that makes. Suman in unmarried and for good reason, she is one of the most able warriors in her clan. And might be the foremost currently considering Akanksha's pregnancy.
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>>5114049

One of Tao Dandan's younger brothers is also amongst the candidates and you recognize his face. How couldn't you? you broke his father's neck in front of him. Tao Shanyuan, who you know to be rather close to Lady Dandan but not as excitable and certainly not as near addicted to destruction and devastation as his elder sister remains. Indeed, he is rather morose and quiet from your recollection of him.

A Shuni bushwhacker named Gamal Firman who was a camel herder before he joined the short revolt against the sorcerers is also recommend. And you know this man as he had been risen to one of Queen Aiza Younis trusted bodyguards, as he had somehow managed to slay an "Angel" on his lonesome while ferrying supplies to the warfront. That the man had killed a devil while riding a Camel is as amazing as it is strange. And shows that the man is a warrior of not insignificant skill and mental fortitude.

Another Vishnu Screamer, this time from Aruna's tribe, named Adnan who partook in several of the battles of the rebellion and even made a name for himself in the martial world is also on the list. and is renowned for killing several Fog Lions with his bare hands and also being named a honorary friend of the Kang for saving one of their villages from a particularly rabid beast. That judging from the description may have been a warped mutation, a magical beast that escaped from the Shuni Kingdoms.

Clayton Pratt, one of the refugees from New Varro, who you know as a friend of Micah's and a survivor of three battles in the current war. He's deadly with a whip, a rare talent considering the weapon's lack of lethality and can control a rope in his hand as if it were an extension of his arm. You also know Micah knocked out two of his teeth once in a "friendly" game of cards and dice, because Jiang, who was also participating told you about it as a joke once and mocked how the man now whistled every time he spoke.

Nasheem Kaleel, one of the heroes of their revolution is the ninth listed. Known as the desert wind, you actually had the privilege to watch her fight during your stay in the Shuni Provinces, as an extremely overconfident band of brigands thought to attack one of the extremely well guarded encampments of the ministry of developments workers and cargo vehicles. You didn't even have a chance to join the battle as Nasheem cut through them like a killing wind

One of Lai Song's sons, Lai Junjie, a storied cavalry and sky rider officer in his own right is also recommended with a note that if Lai Song was not so wild natured and aged, he would've been recommended in his son's stead. A decision you cannot argue against as Lai Song can be a little overly enthusiastic in battle.

Three are champions of regional martial arts tournaments, young but skilled and with great self control and reserves of willpower. All common born and unknown until they emerged the victors of their prospective tournaments.
Cont

They are the hammer wielder, De, now known as the "Crashing Comet", the Snake Lance user Aiguo who as he comes from the Xue Marshes is named the "Marsh Viper" and the Hook Sword fighter from the former Cui region who calls herself Fan and is noted to have "no history", which leads Qian Xia to suggest she may be a bastard of the Cui Family, but you doubt theory greatly. The Cui would sneer at the Wild Vishnu as weak if they survived to the present day. And you would know a relative of Cui Fu at a glance, no matter how distant.

After all you studied their family tree and have become very familiar with their features, particularly their eyes and posture. And she is no Cui.

Stowing the list away in your satchel, you leap from the tree and land besides Kanzeon, who was enjoying the ripe fruit on its branches so much, she hadn't noticed that the juices of the lychee had began to drip down her chin. And the moment you think so, she hurriedly wipes her mouth, blushing as red as an autumn leaf.
_

Yash Konda, General of the black blood legion of the butcher king's vast army was confident, certain of his victory. He was an honored, blessed servant of the Deva Khorne and beloved by his king and so entrusted by his metal magics! With a grin filled with hound's teeth and a brass collar around his neck, the fur backed mutant stood upon a cliff, watching the battle raging beneath his feet.

Sure, the lord of Cavalry was tearing through his thrall warriors, Kauravas and packs of monsters and devolved rivals. And the Unbroken Thunder's Howl was supposedly riding the reinforce the Lai men. But he had a secret weapon! Infernal machines of war! Rakshasa caged and enslaved into metal shells, great metallic beasts and monstrosities! Infernal machines powered by the blood of devils! They were a flock of death and he was there shepard! None of the Long-Jianese tricks that had felled his subordinates could stand against the living warmachines he command.

Commanding the Demonic engines to emerge from the cliff side and sands beneath it, he was happy that he would be victorious and shed blood for all three of his lords and masters. For what could possibly defeat a devil caged in iron!

As if answering the question great vessel, larger than any city or army he had seen before appeared in the sky and cast its long shadow over the field. The khornates confidence quickly faded, and was crushed as thirteen giant, gleaming statues fell from the sky, More than double the number of metal beasts he command. And he had already spent most of the clones, thralls and mutants entrusted to him by his King.

His cybernetically enhanced mind, to undo the damages of his more damaging and intellect lowering "Gifts" struggled to process these new variables and found

His defeat was certain. He took a step back

and his head exploded as Nitya Sinha had been monitoring his thoughts at that very moment and executed him the very second he harbored thoughts of fleeing to fight another day

>>5114051

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The deployment of the new warmachine was a great success! You have no idea how the Vishnu learned to chain Wicked spirits in metal vessels shaped like tigers, apes, hounds and elephants, but they were no match against your new invention and seemed uncontrollable. Truly the Vishnu's tactics are incomprehensible if they'd use weapons they cannot even command as their trump card in a battle.

Shrugging your shoulders, you radio your thirteen warriors to congratulate them and tell the veteran soldiers amongst their ranks to approach Lai Song to explain their presence so all of Long-Jia may know of the Iron giants of war! Oh course his son will be the first to reveal himself, as your old friends reaction to it and the sheer theatrics of it will surely be amusing.

What will you do Lieren?

>Search for answers of how Nitya Sinha learned to imprison devils in metal bodies and find the source of such abhorrent warmachines

>Take command of your elite regiment, that has now fully gathered and with your new warmachines, go to war as a official general of Long Jia,

>Listen to Dandan's immediate request to be given one of the machines and allow the firestorm to personally unleash hell upon the Vishnu. She may be a blunt instrument, but she is a very effective blunt instrument

>See how Mari is adjusting to the world and check on her well being

>write in

>>5114053
>See how Mari is adjusting to the world and check on her well being

>>5114053
>Search for answers of how Nitya Sinha learned to imprison devils in metal bodies and find the source of such abhorrent warmachines
>Take command of your elite regiment, that has now fully gathered and with your new warmachines, go to war as a official general of Long Jia,

>>5114053
>>See how Mari is adjusting to the world and check on her well being

>>5114053
>Search for answers of how Nitya Sinha learned to imprison devils in metal bodies and find the source of such abhorrent warmachines
>Take command of your elite regiment, that has now fully gathered and with your new warmachines, go to war as a official general of Long Jia,

>>5114053
>See how Mari is adjusting to the world and check on her well being

>write in
With the help of our bride and her sister, find how the enemy spy upon us and eliminate it.

>>5114053
>Search for answers of how Nitya Sinha learned to imprison devils in metal bodies and find the source of such abhorrent warmachines
>See how Mari is adjusting to the world and check on her well being
Man, I feel sorry for Qian Xia. Playing counter intelligence against a giga computer must be exhausting.
Especially if she is worried Lieren is gonna hang her any minute.

>>5114053
>See how Mari is adjusting to the world and check on her well being
>Take command of your elite regiment, that has now fully gathered and with your new warmachines, go to war as a official general of Long Jia,

>>5114053
>Search for answers of how Nitya Sinha learned to imprison devils in metal bodies and find the source of such abhorrent warmachines
>Take command of your elite regiment, that has now fully gathered and with your new warmachines, go to war as a official general of Long Jia,

Apologize to Dan Dan if possible, and inform her they are needed for accomplish an important offensive by us. If possible we will see about sending a new model designed after her, before we will hear her idea.
Tell Kanzeon of the problem of spies and see if she can check on her sister

>>5114146
I'll support.

Let Kanzeon tend to her sister and the spies.
And Dandan. . Jesse Louis I am hesitant to pet her loose.

>>5114053
>>Take command of your elite regiment, that has now fully gathered and with your new warmachines, go to war as a official general of Long Jia,

>Search for answers of how Nitya Sinha learned to imprison devils in metal bodies and find the source of such abhorrent warmachines

>>5114053
>See how Mari is adjusting to the world and check on her well being
>Take command of your elite regiment, that has now fully gathered and with your new warmachines, go to war as a official general of Long Jia,

>>5113938
>>It is too late honored father, for I am already CYBERPUNK
>EMPEROR WAKE UP, WE'VE GOT A GALAXY TO PROPEROUS

>>5114053

>See how Mari is adjusting to the world and check on her well being
>Search for answers of how Nitya Sinha learned to imprison devils in metal bodies and find the source of such abhorrent warmachines

>>5114053
>Search for answers of how Nitya Sinha learned to imprison devils in metal bodies and find the source of such abhorrent warmachines
>Take command of your elite regiment, that has now fully gathered and with your new warmachines, go to war as a official general of Long Jia,

>>5114259
Adding to my vote
>Tell Kanzeon of the problem of spies and see if she can check on her sister
>With the help of our bride and her sister, find how the enemy spy upon us and eliminate it.

By the way Malal, I remember you were following that Xinxia civ that got dropped some time ago, do you also follow that newish Heretic Cultivator quest? It has been very kino so far.

Not gonna lie, a tad disappointed we didn't get a piece where the pilots describe being in the mecha and fighting in them. I hope we get it later. A real "you can fight the hurricane- you can win" moment.

>>5114268
Yeah, I thought we would get a PoV of our soldiers when the mechs dropped in, and one of the pilots.
The one of the khornate general was kind of anticlimatic.

>>5114268
>>5114279
It would have taken maybe thirteen posts to do all that.

>>5114322
Eh, we had bigger.

>>5114268
>>5114279
For what it's worth I agree, but Malal can always do a "I remember when I first got into the machine" type sections in a later update.

Also the Khornate general getting his head exploded just for THINKING about running away was pretty interesting.

>>5114053
>>See how Mari is adjusting to the world and check on her well being
>Search for answers of how Nitya Sinha learned to imprison devils in metal bodies and find the source of such abhorrent warmachines
Could we take our regiment with us to do this?

>>5114053
>See how Mari is adjusting to the world and check on her well being
>Take command of your elite regiment, that has now fully gathered and with your new warmachines, go to war as a official general of Long Jia,

>>5114053
>>Search for answers of how Nitya Sinha learned to imprison devils in metal bodies and find the source of such abhorrent warmachines
>>Take command of your elite regiment, that has now fully gathered and with your new warmachines, go to war as a official general of Long Jia,

>See how Mari is adjusting to the world and check on her well being

>>5114268
>>5114279
>>5114322
>>5114329
We might as well speculate while Malal does battle with the malevolent machine spirit that inhabits his terminal.
Lieren describes the cockpit of these titans to be only large enough to hold a man in the fetal position, it must've been as if being born again in a body of steel and fury. Do they move quickly? Does the swing of the arm break apart the wind as it sluggishly swings at a frightning pace? Does it's impact shatter stone and steel as if it wood and mud?
How long until one of the New Varro puts a cowboy hat on it's head and straps a six-shooter to his side while signing Big Iron, shells meant for artillery fire used to the fan the hammer?

>>5115143
>The Catalyst will be an empty memory core, larger than the standard variety but still smaller than the vast spheres that contain the living conscience of living ships such as your bride or her sisters. Large enough for a grown man to fit inside if he curled into a fetal position.
Think there is a misunderstanding here.

>>5115143
It's not the cockpit, but the main mental connector and some of the backup ones.
Attleast I hope so, otherwise it would be hellish on the pilot's back

>>5115160
>>5115166
So is the pilot still inside of the titan or are they remotely controlling it? The latter would sound like something from Magazer Z.

>>5115175
>We might as well speculate while Malal does battle with the malevolent machine spirit that inhabits his terminal.
>Lieren describes the cockpit of these titans to be only large enough to hold a man in the fetal position, it must've been as if being born again in a body of steel and fury. Do they move quickly? Does the swing of the arm break apart the wind as it sluggishly swings at a frightning pace? Does it's impact shatter stone and steel as if it wood and mud?
>How long until one of the New Varro puts a cowboy hat on it's head and straps a six-shooter to his side while signing Big Iron, shells meant for artillery fire used to the fan the hammer?
The former. I think they're a little closer to Knights since they're single-occupant.

>>5115198
Everytime I'm reminded they're knights and not titans I deflate a little. At least they're closer to gundam than the hunchbacks.

I still need my psyker knights.

>>5115255
>Everytime I'm reminded they're knights and not titans I deflate a little
Lieren would probably consider titans excessive since properly designed knights could most problems well enough.
>I still need my psyker knights
We're halfway there.

>>5115255
>>5115265
When the Emperor did that, he partially, p a r t i a l l y caused the schism within the Mechanicum. I think. Something about tech faggots screech tech heresy in binary.

>>5115334
Did what?

>>5115255
I mean, at the end of the day, Knights are really just the smallest class of Titan.
>>5115341
Created the Ordo Sinister, which are Psi-titans powered by high-tier psykers and commanded by a Blank princeps.

>>5115351
>I mean, at the end of the day, Knights are really just the smallest class of Titan.
True. If these pilots form their own houses and clans of pilots then I sincerely hope they aren't so far up their own ass like the others are- and that they practice martial arts so we can have a knight suplexing another knight.

>Created the Ordo Sinister, which are Psi-titans powered by high-tier psykers and commanded by a Blank princeps.
It seems that the reason for a blank princep is because the psykers are held against their will within the titan to be used as batteries. I was thinking of just having a psyker pilot the knight with some amplifiers and wraithbone.
I will not be satisfied until we get a pack of knights exorcising a demon prince into oblivion with the power of the Journey.

>>5115384
I would only feel safe if we had eldari pilot psyker titans. Sure, there are some exceptional humans, but warp magic tends to fuck everything up.

Calling the vote now.

See how Mari is adjusting to the world and check on her well being:10

Search for answers of how Nitya Sinha learned to imprison devils in metal bodies and find the source of such abhorrent warmachines:10

Take command of your elite regiment, that has now fully gathered and with your new warmachines, go to war as a official general of Long Jia:10

With the help of our bride and her sister, find how the enemy spy upon us and eliminate it.:2

Tell Kanzeon of the problem of spies and see if she can check on her sister: 3

Apologize to Dan Dan if possible, and inform her they are needed for accomplish an important offensive by us. If possible we will see about sending a new model designed after her, before we will hear her idea.: 2

Total votes: 16

So Lieren will Check on Mari, quickly, then gather his elite regiment and lead them to the operation to find the source of these demonically fueled machines and how Nitya Sinha came to possess the knowledge of their creation

Writing now

>>5114268
>>5114279
Sorry, I was going to but ran out of steam before I could write it.

>>5114261
I do, actually
I check on it every couple of days, like I do with the other 40k quests and the berserk quest. It's fun and the protag being a murderous Cat demon makes it stand out from the "Standard" Xianxia script

Mari kept her distance from the center of the conflict and the warfront, preferring to remain by the xue border wall to continue assisting in its construction and watch over the soldiers stationed to man its eight walls as she waited for the Bask reinforcements to arrive to "Speak with Elazar" as she explained when you left her there to delve into the abandoned body of her sister. There she remains, floating in the skies above the Long-Jia empire's last line of defense against the bloodthirsting hordes of the butcher king. And beneath her shadow, judging from the banners of ragged panther furs being flown, your regiment of elites have gathered and wait patiently for you take the reigns of your command. You also hear from an excited young soldier that Jinhai will be arriving to give a speech to the defenders in the coming days but unfortunately you duties as a general do not allow you leisure to attend it or at least greet Jinhai upon his arrival.

Mari notices the slight pang of guilt you feel for being unable to meet your friend, as that is what alerts her to your and Kanzeon's presence. Before even the physical presence of her own sister! She must've been distracted with something or another, but what that something was you cannot be certain as you do not know Mari well enough to be certain of what interests her enough to hold her attention so tightly.

"Sorry, sorry, I didn't know you were coming to visit me" She meekly speaks in your mind and Kanzeon's "I understood that Lieren was now a general, the old man with the ocular mutations and the soldier wearing a pelt of the mutated strain of great cats both told me, I figured he'd be busy juggling that work with...repairing Kuan Im's empty corpse"

"Oh as it would happen, honored sister, I was just coming to gather my forces to march to battle when I decided it'd be wise to check in on you" You explain

"We wanted to see how you were adjusting and faring, if you needed any support of the emotional variety" Kanzeon continue where you left off "Since it was obvious learning what had happened to our sister and the world at large had affected you"

"I could be better, the civilizations we're allied with apparently are being assailed by madmen and bloodthirsty brutes, its hard for me not to worry about the future or fret for the safety of our world and family, which Lieren is a part of now. Which is...taking some adjusting" Mari rambles "Not as much as, you know, two of our sisters dying and two going crazy and betraying us, but it has affected me mentally enough I figured I should mention it"

"I'm sorry to hear that, Mari, is there anything I can do to make you more comfortable?" You asks

"She's doing well, this level of panic is normal for her" Kanzeon explains rather bluntly "She's a shy girl after all, being the center of attention isn't helping her remain calm but she should reach an mental equilibrium in time. A few more days if the data in my memories is right"
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>>5115558

"Could be worse, at least its nice attention and not "I wanna drink your central memory core's vital fluids" Attention" Mari replied with a nervous laugh "But, it is upsetting seeing how greatly our passengers have degenerated in our absent"

"Are you certain she is alright?" You ask kanzeon quietly

"Eighty percent sure?" Kanzeon says offhandedly, looking away as concern fills her eyes

"I'm fine, my comfort is less important than keeping the barbarians from the gate...and away from my current location!" Mari cheerfully answers "Which I must say, you are both so very brave marching off to fight an ever replenishing horde of madman who want to tear of your heads and drink your blood! I couldn't be so courageous myself "

Despite being equipped with the same weaponry as Kanzeon, but you suppose Mari is a pacifist of sorts and would rather not be forced into a fight that she doesn't believe her presence is necessary in.

"I have a lot of bottled up rage to vent out, and Lieren's the one really risking his life" Kanzeon says gently "But don't worry, not a single lunatic is going to get anywhere near you Mari, not if we can help it and our chances of success are well into positive percentages with all of the preparations Lieren and Long-Jia as a whole have made"

"Somehow that doesn't set my mind at ease, but I appreciate the attempt!" Mari says cheerfully and you aren't certain if she's being sarcastic or not, sounds honest enough however.

"Well if we die a terrible, prolonged death I'll be certain to apologize before my central mainframe is destroyed" Kanzeon sarcastically quips "But if you need any help or just company, tell us"

"I'm fine, just stressed" Mari calls out "I'll be better when my sister and her husband aren't actively risking their lives"

"Worrying in such a situation is natural, but if you feel overwhelmed, do not be afraid to ask for help" You say with a bow of your head "Hopefully the war will not be a long one"

And with that said, you leave Mari to her own company, even though you can still feel her presence listening into your thoughts and Kanzeons, watching the ground and all of the soldiers upon it. And as you approach the camp housing the most elite and skilled warriors upon Shangrala, you are greeted by Feng, who rushes to you overcome with joy.

You lift your brother into the air, embracing him as Liang and Jiang soon joined him after hearing both of you laugh. The rest of the Original brothers of the panthers soon surround you, and after they do, the members of your old bodyguards join them. And the crowd grows and grows, as your companions in life and all of its miseries and joys greet you happily. They're overjoyed to be presented with the opportunity to fight by your side once again. The only ones who do not rush to greet you are the wanderers in the fog and the Aeldari who have joined the regiment.
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>>5115561

But while most of them do not show their joy physically or openly in any matter, you can sense from their thoughts they are just as honored and excited to fight under your banner as the rest of the regiment is. None less than Carys herself. Putting Feng down you cross your arms and shout loudly to draw the attention of all of your men and get them to cease their clamoring attempts to gain your attention or inquire about the regiments first mission.

"We have been given no official imperial command or orders to carry out, Emperor Jinhai has allowed us the privilege of choosing our battles and picking our fights as he knows that is where we excel. Striking from beneath the fog like the panther!" You bellow, lifting your chin as you glance over the gathered regiment "Know that every man and woman gathered here is one of the most elite and talented warriors ever born upon Shangrala or beyond it as far as I am aware"

Micah and his fellow New varro natives hoot and holler, not realizing you were also addressing the Aeldari who have volunteered to join the war out of shared contempt for the slaves of chaos and enemies of prosperity and peace.

"There are no weak links, all of you have your own specialties and refined skills. All of you are equal to one another, and know, as I have surely told you all a thousand times before I consider all of you gathered here my equals as well. Many of you I have trained to be warriors, some more closely than other, some of you I have known longer than others, and some I wish I had known from the beginning of my great work!"

You cup your firsts and bow.

"But all of you are my brothers, no matter how or when we met, or what part I played in your development as marvelous, warriors whose only peers are by their side or dead!" You proclaim, clapping your hands together "Now, as I have been granted permission to choose how we fight our empire's war, I shall now tell you the first objective of this newly fielded regiment of veterans and heroes!"

You snort, breathing out your nose as you close your eyes and bare your teeth in a snarl.

"The Enemy has began to field weapons even more dangerous than they already have, and I am certain these war machines they bring to battle are a recent acquisition a new discovery. And not one they made on their own. Thus, if we act swiftly and strike decisively, we will be able to remove these new and terrible killing tools from the equation and prevent any more from being raised and used against the valorous soldiers of the Imperial army!" You roar and open your eyes to see Elazar looking at you, knowing that you speak of the engines holding enslaved wicked spirits as their power source. As you had explained to both him and Jinhai. He alone amongst the gather truly understand the threat these machines powered by devils pose. He nods in silent agreement but says nothing as most of the soldiers cheer upon hearing the goal and cause they'll be fighting for.
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>>5115564

"Unfortunately" You sneer, looking to Feng and the other first brothers of the panther as they immediately understand that it is not a march, operation or siege they'll be undertaking, but a hunt. An innate understanding that soon spreads through the other, junior members of the brothers of the panther

"I am unaware of where these terrible machines are being assembled or forged, or how they came to possess the foul and wicked knowledge!" You laugh "So we'll have to search for the answers to these two mysteries so we may destroy these new weapons of war not only completely but permanently! We will march immediately and strike out against these vile smiths of the Vishnu, and leave them hanging in their wind and the secrets they kept buried in the sands! YAH!"

With a final shout you march through the crowd, to take inventory of your regiments supplies and that of the attached support cores, specifically the medics, combat engineer, artillery and sapper corps assigned to the regiment. The statuesque crafts will need additional supplies, but you can easily get those from Kanzeon and so do not need to request a additional supplies that can better used and spread out amongst the other elements of the imperial army.

And when you begin taking inventory, you find that Dandan has forced her way into your forces, after Lai Song mentioned it offhandedly.

"That would explain why we have enough such a varied, well supplied and numerous artillery battalion accompany us" You sigh, as you spot the Matriarch of the Tao family waving at her younger brother, while enviously and lustfully staring at his suit of titanic armor. Which, coincidentally, is the craft designed after Dandan's own appearance.

"You do not sound very pleased to be in her company, Lord Giant" The lord of cavarly sneers

"She is the greatest master of artillery and explosive ordnance we have, but she will pester me relentlessly to be given a new instrument to add to her orchestra" You explain, motioning with your head towards the metal, and gigantic avatar warmachines you created

"Where's the harm in appeasing Lady Tao with such a gift" Lai song says

"Lai song, I respect and admire you greatly, so I shall be brief in my explanation. Dandan is wild when she commands her artillery from a distance. Imagine if she were the artillery" You say, and for the first time since you've met the lord of calarly, Lai song visibly pales

"Ah, I see" He says quietly "That does warrant your hesitation on the matter"

You nod
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>>5115566

How will you search for the knowledge concerning the Daemon Engines' source, Lieren?

>Split your forces, and capture as many ranking officers and generals as your able to while assisting other imperial forces in battle. Give each commander a lotus scepter to steal away the knowledge without risking losing it because of a sudden cranial explosion

>Chase the black tower! it has been moved from its last location and you are certain it is the source of these abhorrent mechanical devils

>Act as an ordinary regiment, and force the Vishnu to field these hellish weapons against you and use the time it takes and the number to determine where they're being made, and how easily their manufacturing is

>Have Mari and Kanzeon scan the Vishnu territory, and use that to find the likely site of their creation by heading to the second heaviest produce of warp radiation

>Write in

>>5115568
>Scan the territory

The generals probably dont know

>>5115568
>Split your forces, and capture as many ranking officers and generals as you're able to
Whatever information we can get, while useless individually, might be able to paint a clearer picture together
>Have Mari and Kanzeon scan the Vishnu territory,
They can do their thing while we do ours

>>5115568
>>Split your forces, and capture as many ranking officers and generals as your able to while assisting other imperial forces in battle. Give each commander a lotus scepter to steal away the knowledge without risking losing it because of a sudden cranial explosion

>Have Mari and Kanzeon scan the Vishnu territory, and use that to find the likely site of their creation by heading to the second heaviest produce of warp radiation

>>5115568
>Split your forces, and capture as many ranking officers and generals as your able to while assisting other imperial forces in battle. Give each commander a lotus scepter to steal away the knowledge without risking losing it because of a sudden cranial explosion
>Have Mari and Kanzeon scan the Vishnu territory, and use that to find the likely site of their creation by heading to the second heaviest produce of warp radiation

>>5115568
>Chase the black tower! it has been moved from its last location and you are certain it is the source of these abhorrent mechanical devils
>>5115494
So you follow the tale of Impaler as well? Truly based.

>>5115568
>Split your forces, and capture as many ranking officers and generals as your able to while assisting other imperial forces in battle. Give each commander a lotus scepter to steal away the knowledge without risking losing it because of a sudden cranial explosion
>Have Mari and Kanzeon scan the Vishnu territory, and use that to find the likely site of their creation by heading to the second heaviest produce of warp radiation

>>5115568
>>Have Mari and Kanzeon scan the Vishnu territory, and use that to find the likely site of their creation by heading to the second heaviest produce of warp radiation

>>5115568
>>Have Mari and Kanzeon scan the Vishnu territory, and use that to find the likely site of their creation by heading to the second heaviest produce of warp radiation
>Split your forces, and capture as many ranking officers and generals as your able to while assisting other imperial forces in battle. Give each commander a lotus scepter to steal away the knowledge without risking losing it because of a sudden cranial explosion
we might be able to gather additional information from the officers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bX206Y_MIY

Calling the vote now.

Have Mari and Kanzeon scan the Vishnu territory, and use that to find the likely site of their creation by heading to the second heaviest produce of warp radiation:7

Split your forces, and capture as many ranking officers and generals as your able to while assisting other imperial forces in battle. Give each commander a lotus scepter to steal away the knowledge without risking losing it because of a sudden cranial explosion:5

Chase the black tower! it has been moved from its last location and you are certain it is the source of these abhorrent mechanical devils:1

Total votes: 8

So Lieren will split his forces, and give them the task of attempting to capture and Lotus Scepter Enemy elites while assisting other imperial forces in their battle
While also having Kanzeon and Mari scan the Vishnu Territories to find the most likely site of the Daemon engine's creation via warp radiation

Writing now

Banners of panther fur begin to appear besides the colorful, silk flags raised by the generals of the imperial army. All but the naivest and greenest of offices, or soldiers recruited from the most isolated and humble of villages know their meaning. Some are even accompanied by the living statues of silver and gold and their valiant riders. But, more than one general is gravely disappointed to see and realize it is not the giant himself who holds the primitive banners high. Those who are more informed of the events of the prior war and the cast of the golden eyed giant's entourage quickly lose such feelings when they recognize the men who carry Lieren's unofficial war banner in his place. Yin Lei is supremely pleased to meet Feng upon the eve of a battle, and Kang Shan is relieved to meet Aruna and Manu riding to his rescue instead of the "honorless" colossus he had expected. A force lead by Lai Song and Micah decimates a wayward, masterless advance of cloned screamers and the Twins Liang and Jiang unleashed the firestorm to cover the retreat of a Luo commanded contingent of the imperial army. Stranger tales are told around the fire and across the radio. Of a Black armored Vishnu general plucked from the ground and seemingly crushed into a cube of bleeding meat and torn steel, of a vishnu horde falling into disarray as their commanding slave driver seemingly vanished into the fog moments before the Banner of the Panther was flown by unusually tall and strangely equipped soldiers, of an out of season snowstorm that blocked the western advance of reinforcements that could've overrun the eight wall of the border in a lightning assault, if they had not been seemingly driven mad by the cold and strange lights that flickered beneath the icy gales.

But, also whispered amongst the fortunate few of the vanguard legions, was that odd behavior of captured generals. Out of nearly a dozen engagements only three resulted in the enemy commander being dragged to the general leading the battle, with a strange pin prick wound in the base of their neck and a glazed look in their eyes. One spat and snarled, cursing their executioners for stealing them away as they slept. The second asked what he was doing and where he was, seemingly unaware of his circumstances and impending demise. And the third was unable to be executed, as his eyes widened as if he was struck by a horrifying realization and his head suddenly exploded like a fire work, injuring the Chieftain Rudra he had been holding the abhorrently scaled abomination by his throat and suffered the brunt of the shrapnel produced by the wretch's atomized skull.

The highest ranking generals sought answers from Lieren, and were shocked to find that the Giant had been spotted joining the thirteenth battle where the panther hide was flown, joined by three of the man shaped vehicles he had created. So the council waited patiently to ask their numerous questions and satisfy their growing curiosity...
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>>5117051

Clayton felt truly above snakes, driving around this metal giant sure was a hog killin time! He didn't quite understand how this doohickey worked, how it felt like he was the steel and bolts surrounding the flesh and blood his Ma and Pa gave him, but he didn't dwell on the matter. Uncle Lieren said if he thought too hard it might "break the connection", whatever that meant. But Clayton had broken Bangtail Rattlers before! He was sure he could make a bunch of iron listen up and behave if it started raising hell. Raising hell against his wishes. The pretty white orbs of light floating above his head, pressed into the cockpit of his giant glowed red as he thought violent and ungentlemanly thoughts, of raising a ruckus in the line of the Vish-new. Who were different from the Vishnu, he was told, as they weren't proper and behave like right heels according to his friends amongst the tribes, these Vish-New were varmints trying to sully their good name and the name of their mammies and pappies. And that was something Clayton could not abide.

"Clayton, your mind is wandering" Lieren's voice reverberated through the head of his killing machine "Focus. The targeting array will not properly function if you are not attentive and focused on what you're aiming at which in turn will"

"Make yer miss hiles go screwy" Clayton groaned, as he turned to see the big fellah crouched on his shoulder, and also saw the lovely Miss Fan "Suiting up" and standing on the chest of her metal giant, He also saw gramps who he named gramps cause his actual name was much too long and confusing to remember "I know, I know, I'll be as sharped eyed as a thundering bird when we drop Unc, you know I ain't a ten cent man"

The workers tending to his armor looked at him like he had gone screwy in the head, but he knew Lieren understood what he was meaning.

"It was only a reminder, you have a habit of overthinking and that could upset your subconscious mind and would certainly ruin the efficiency of your conscious mind" Lieren scolded, making Clayton go red round the cheeks as Miss Fan rolled her eyes and stepped into her own cockpit

"Got it, I'll just do what I did last time I drove this thing into Tussle, hoss" Clayton humbly answered "Just point me were to go a marching and I'll raise hell without a complaint"

"Good, just allow your fighting instincts to do most of the work, don't think about how you're piloting your armor or why you're fighting, at least to an unnecessary degree" Lieren said, tutoring Clayton though he had heard this advice before. Clayton nodded his head, and the head of his metal man. Lieren smiled and place a hand upon its cheek and rose to his full, impressive stature.

"We'll drop in thirty seconds, our mission is to secure the fortress and more importantly the ravine behind it, we are fortunate that Dai Niu has chosen to assault the exact same target" Lieren spoke as his lady friend chuckled
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>>5117052

"Fortunate you say, like you didn't contact him so he could open the way to our true objective" Kanzeon sighed "We may have only appropriated three memory cores for enemy officers, but the intel taken from them was enough to pinpoint the location of the foundry out from the dozen me and my sister found"

Oh yeah, big momma Kanzeon had a sister didn't she.

"Focus!" Lieren barked

"And it has also proven to us they didn't learn how to make those engines on their own" The meek lil thing chimed in "Judging from the memory of the last general, the inventors of the terrible machines were foreign and judging from their manner of dress were..."

"Don't worry about it Mari, I'm sure she's fine" Kanzeon cooed as Mari started to sound right torn up for some reason or another "I'll make certain she is, we will make certain, I mean"

"Oooh" Clayton whistled "What a twist in the yarn! Well hoss give the signal"

Lieren closed his eyes, and as the attendants to the walking suits of iron scurried away from them, the floor split open and Clayton found himself treading on clouds.

Taking a long, deep breath, the rattler expanded his mind and allowed the machine's buzzing to sink into his skull. Its eyes became his own, and with a rebel yell, he leapt forward, the thrusters on his back roaring hell fire as he soared towards the ground, leading the Charge for Ol'Gramps and Miss Fan as his target making a-ray picked out a baker's dozen potential threats. Pulling his snake patterned whip of interlocking plates of spark spitting steel from his thigh, Clayton knocked down the missiles, lil suns and deflect them bloody lay-zer things away from his pack. The rush of combat, the thrill of a brawl started to fill his mind as Miss Fan shot past him in an elegant dance, dodging the anti air that Clayton missed. The old fellah was next up, and shot to the ground and into the enemy ranks like a bolt of hateful thunder.

It was then Clayton spotted one of them floating fortresses that he had seen on the first battle of the war. Sensing an opportunity, Clayton ran across the sky, skipping with the assistance of the rockets tied to his derriere. And since Lieren wasn't making no Fuss, he had to figure his choice was a wise one. The air howled past his ears, as he split through the fog and mist like a temptus gale! NAH! Like a Flaying storm! He felt like he could walk right through the worst whether of New Varro, trade punches with the meanest of Shaggy spooks or red savages and knock a thundering bird to the ground and teach the mean ol bird a lesson in manners.

Miss Fan followed behind him, shooting her own hell fire at the giant ship in the sky as Clayton whipped down the fighters it spat out at them like some many Bumbling Deaths. It sliced through like a hot knife through butter, and Clayton found himself wondering when those metal monsters were gonna show up. He liked fighting those ones the most.
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>>5117054

"When one speaks of famine they call it" Lieren's voice broke through all the ruckus of shearing steel, explosions and howling winds "And considering out uncomfortable proximity to the what may well be the origin of those vile warmachines..."
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You looked past the Vimana flying fortress and its swarm of fighter crafter to the horizon as Clayton shouted "Yeee haaaw!" in reply to your warnings and performed a corkscrew maneuver as he rocketed through the air, spinning his massive, armor splitting whip around himself in a clever form of defense against the ever increasing shoals of Vishnu Anti air artillery and fighters. And as if the New Varro man had summoned the worse weapon the Vishnu hold, the bone chilling half mechanical and half demonic cry of one of the devil's caged in Iron split through the din of combat.

"Of course" You snarled, gripping the cheek of Cui Fu's metallic doppelganger as you held on and remained standing for all of Clayton's excessive aerial movements. Fan was performing admirably, favoring the chain teethed hook blades to the laser cannons hidden in the arms of her craft, which was the model made in the image of Liang and from what you could see of the ground, old man Tingfeng was devastating the enemy lines and dodging their retaliatory as if he were dancing beneath a rain of arrows. And stomping on several packs of screamers as he did so.

Turning your gaze towards the horizon, you spotted the source of the clarion cry.

A vulture like abomination, clearly made of two vimana fighters fused together at the seams, with a reptilian head spitting a rain of lead and fire. And it was flying down from the heavens hastily, to strafe Fan and Clayton as they assaulted the flying fortress.

Sighing, you narrowed you burning eyes.

And what did you do then, Lieren?

>Leap from Clayton's Mech, and land on the Daemon engine and try to kill it with your Blade of Love

>Command Clayton to break away from his charge and try to whip the abomination out of the sky

>"Kanzeon, if you could, fire your main cannon at these coordinates, adjusting position by a factor of nine" *Overkill the Daemon engine with Kanzeon's archeotech weaponry"

>Lift your helmet and show the Daemon in the machine your brand, then drop into the center of the Vishnu forces and trick the wicked spirit into massacring its own allies.

>Write in

Figured Clayton's perspective would be the most entertaining of the thirteens' to write

>>5117057
>Lift your helmet and show the Daemon in the machine your brand, then drop into the center of the Vishnu forces and trick the wicked spirit into massacring its own allies

>>5117057
>>Lift your helmet and show the Daemon in the machine your brand, then drop into the center of the Vishnu forces and trick the wicked spirit into massacring its own allies.

>>5117057
>>Lift your helmet and show the Daemon in the machine your brand, then drop into the center of the Vishnu forces and trick the wicked spirit into massacring its own allies.

>>5117057
>"Kanzeon, if you could, fire your main cannon at these coordinates, adjusting position by a factor of nine" *Overkill the Daemon engine with Kanzeon's archeotech weaponry"
Nice update Malal.

>>5117057
Thanks for the POV Malal, hope it didn't bother you. We just dig giant robots, y'know?
Also, Uncle Lieren? Kek. He's collecting sons and nephews like it's pokemon.

>Lift your helmet and show the Daemon in the machine your brand, then drop into the center of the Vishnu forces and trick the wicked spirit into massacring its own allies.

cant wait until we find space texas

>>5117057
>Lift your helmet and show the Daemon in the machine your brand, then drop into the center of the Vishnu forces and trick the wicked spirit into massacring its own allies.

>>5117057
>Leap from Clayton's Mech, and land on the Daemon engine and try to kill it with your Blade of Love

Good good

>>5117057
>Display our brand.

I love the men of new varro

>>5117057
>>Lift your helmet and show the Daemon in the machine your brand, then drop into the center of the Vishnu forces and trick the wicked spirit into massacring its own allies.

>Leap from Clayton's Mech, and land on the Daemon engine, and try to kill it with your Blade of Love

>>5117057
>Lift your helmet and show the Daemon in the machine your brand, then drop into the center of the Vishnu forces and trick the wicked spirit into massacring its own allies.

>>5117057
>Leap from Clayton's Mech, and land on the Daemon engine and try to kill it with your Blade of Love

>>5117057
>>Lift your helmet and show the Daemon in the machine your brand, then drop into the center of the Vishnu forces and trick the wicked spirit into massacring its own allies.

>Figured Clayton's perspective would be the most entertaining of the thirteens' to write
So fun that I'm rather torn between recruiting New Varro as a Auxillia world or as a muster world for our Legion.

>>5117057
>Cui Fu's metallic doppelgange
>but piloted by a space Texan
>piloted by Clayton to be exact
>generations of pilots pass down this titan until it's the 40th millenia
>the Cui Fu titan now has an thick mustache, a 1000 gallon hat, and all pilots to ever meld with this giant war machine now speak with a southern twang
>the honor and chivalry is still there, but they all love grilling grox meat and holding cattle

>Lift your helmet and show the Daemon in the machine your brand, then drop into the center of the Vishnu forces and trick the wicked spirit into massacring its own allies.
Easily the most funny.

>>5117057
>Lift your helmet and show the Daemon in the machine your brand, then drop into the center of the Vishnu forces and trick the wicked spirit into massacring its own allies.


I do hope such a good lad, Finds a wife that can put up with him.

Calling the vote now.

Lift your helmet and show the Daemon in the machine your brand, then drop into the center of the Vishnu forces and trick the wicked spirit into massacring its own allies:11

"Kanzeon, if you could, fire your main cannon at these coordinates, adjusting position by a factor of nine" *Overkill the Daemon engine with Kanzeon's archeotech weaponry":1

Leap from Clayton's Mech, and land on the Daemon engine and try to kill it with your Blade of Love:3

Total votes:14

Lieren will show his brand, to draw the Wicked spirit's attention to it even though it can sense it already, and then leap from the mech and lead the beastial thing on a merry chase and trick it to kill its own allies

Writing now

>>5117071
Thank you

>>5117079
Oh it didn't. not at all. I legit just ran out of energy before I could write a part from one of the pilot's perspectives earlier, so just put the exploding head guy there to fill the gap it left.


>>5117225
You wanna recreate Shanghai noon but with space marines?

You know well what the cursed brand upon your brow does. It is a bounty placed upon your head, a promise of glory, prestige and respect for any wicked spirit or living thrall of the discordant lords who pridefully name themselves gods. Its mere presence weakens the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead, allowing the hellish winds of the empyrean to more easily slip into the plane of material space. It attracts devils, demons and befouled souls alike, challenging to claim your head and thus be rewarded beyond any other lapdog of chaos. A mark and sign of the five evil elder spirit's great contempt and boundless, childish rage that you rejected their poisoned gifts and corruptive temptations. And a sign of their supreme foolishness! You are Lieren the hunter, and you have slain all but one of the opponents you've met upon the roads of the otherworld, and one day you will avenge your defeat upon that black hided villain personally. But for all other spirits, you are confident few can overcome you and best you as easily as the vile Be'lakor was able to or that they would be even able to achieve victory without first being slain if they were able to at all. The devil in iron shrieking towards you like the product of an unnatural coupling between a hawk and a rocket will be no different, from a glance you can sense it is weaker than the spirits you have bested prior. Lesser even than the demon in the rusted blade, greater to only the scavenger beasts you slaughtered and chased away from the site of the battle against the Aeldari raiders.

It is a primitive, animalistic thing. Closer to a magical beast than a proper spirit, wicked or otherwise. However, it is still intelligent enough to recognize your brand, and the promises it embodies. The thing may be nothing more than a mindless predator, but even an animal can understand that a key will unlock its cage. All that must be done, is to jangle the chance of freedom before its eyes.

Motioning as if to life away your helmet, you melt it into the rest of your armor with a thought as Kanzeon starts angrily scolding you in your thoughts, attempting to keep you from performing the admittedly risky ploy you have in mind to keep the devil away from Clayton and Fan. Her anger is born of worry and concern for your wellbeing, but you are certain she will understand that taking such a risk was simply the most effective way of dealing not only with the daemonic engines, but the soldiers marching beneath its shadow!

"NO IT ISN'T!" She shrieks in your thought as you frown and bow your head, before spreading out your arms theatrically. The metallic hawk devil locks its blazing eyes with you, black smoke pouring from the sockets as its molten flesh glows hotter at the mere sight of you. Smirking, you drop from the shoulder of the weaponize statue of Cui Fu and plummet through the air, arms outstretched and golden eyes wide open.
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>>5118231


And as you anticipated, the hawk of hell dives to chase after you, opening its maw fanged with plates of steel and tusks of burning bone wide as the gatling guns shoved down its half metal have flesh throat rev and begin spinning to spew a rain of lead death. Beckoning to it with both hands, you twist and twirl your body as you fall through the sky and pierce through the fog. Pressing your legs together, you cross your arms and maintain eye contact with the lackwit spirit as your velocity builds and builds

"You're lucky your terminal velocity isn't the same as it is for a normal man" Kanzeon hisses "Could you stop making my heart ache with your fearless stunts for a single day, darling?"

You shrug your shoulders, and a moment later hit the ground and an unfortunate Vishnu Screamer feet first. A crater is formed around the site of your impact. The now pulverized vat born warrior beneath your feet's brethren lie scattered on the ground, having been thrown through the air from the rush of air that followed your landing. They quickly stand, or are else trampled by their own slavering doppelgangers or half machine slave drivers as they scramble over each other, each seeking to claim the prize you embodied. Grinning like a jackal, you heft the sword of love onto your shoulder and lower your shoulders, bringing your center of mass closer to the ground. Quickly adjusting your sturdy stance into a sprinter's posture, you barrel through the oncoming horde of glory blinded madmen, away from the rain of metal death falling just behind your heels as the devil hawk strafes that battle field.

Leaping into the air you avoid a salvor of rocket propelled grenades with wings of their owns and gnashing teeth that chase after you like a pack of mist jackals after fresh meat. They bury into Vishnu bodies, which soon erupt into showers of gore and blood as they detonate with unnatural gurgling shrieks.

Sprinting with an urgency you have not had in years, you lead the living war machine on a merry chase through the ranks of its own allies, though you doubt it will shed any tears for their deaths considering they are the ones who imprisoned it in iron straight jacket to begin with. With a jovial, cocksure smile, you charge through the enemy lines, who seem more focused on your approach and the opportunity killing you would bring than they do the screaming death quickly approaching behind you. And all the while, Kanzeon warns you of oncoming attacks and when precisely to dodge them by yelling in your skull, and despite what she said moments before, it would seem some of your excitement has began to rub off on her, as the adrenaline of watching you dance just beyond the grasp of death has clearly wormed its way into her mind and the circuits that contain it. She's so focused on keeping you safe that she doesn't even respond with your mental claim of her feeling a certain mortal thrill presently with sarcasm or scolding.

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>>5118233

"AFTER THE GIANT!" A man dressed in scarlet regalia roars, sat astride a boar like engine with the treads of tanks in place of its legs and twin flame spewing cannons in place of its tusks. His steed is also, a daemon engine of sorts, as you eyes burn just by looking in its direction.

A plan begins to form in the corner of your mine, as you lean back and avoid a spear thrusted by a drooling thrall soldier, before you pivot and twist around, catching yourself on your free hand as a harpoon fired by the flying caged wicked spirit nearly impales you through your throat.

Hopping back to your feet, you continue your sprint through the Vishnu army and begin to carry out your cunning scheme

And what is that plan, Lieren?

>Trick the two Daemon engines into attacking and killing each other

>Collaborate with Tingfeng via windwhispering, and distract the airborn devil so he may strike it down while it's distracted in its pursuit of your head. Then, using spirit's touch, redirect the other engine's flames into the face of its rider

>Using your personal supply of explosive, widen the path you've begun to clear through the Vishnu forces, allowing the imperial army to advance behind your trail of destruction.

>Start riding the Sword of Love, using spirit's touch to hold it aloft, and lead the two daemonic engines into breaking the walls of the vishnu held fortress

>write in

>>5118235
>>Start riding the Sword of Love, using spirit's touch to hold it aloft, and lead the two daemonic engines into breaking the walls of the vishnu held fortress

A masterful plan

>>5118235
>Start riding the Sword of Love, using spirit's touch to hold it aloft, and lead the two daemonic engines into breaking the walls of the vishnu held fortress
Fuck yeah, riding on flying swords is xianxia 101.
>Using your personal supply of explosive, widen the path you've begun to clear through the Vishnu forces, allowing the imperial army to advance behind your trail of destruction.
While we're at it.

>>5118235
>Start riding the Sword of Love, using spirit's touch to hold it aloft, and lead the two daemonic engines into breaking the walls of the vishnu held fortress
>Using your personal supply of explosive, widen the path you've begun to clear through the Vishnu forces, allowing the imperial army to advance behind your trail of destruction.

>>5118235
>Ride the sword with spirit touch

>>5118235
>>Trick the two Daemon engines into attacking and killing each other

>>5118235
>Collaborate with Tingfeng via windwhispering, and distract the airborn devil so he may strike it down while it's distracted in its pursuit of your head. Then, using spirit's touch, redirect the other engine's flames into the face of its rider