>>5820878

Projected yield ?

Yield sufficient to damage the foe, if impact is successful. Presumed inflicted losses range between 15% to 30% of the remaining fleet.

Acceptable.

Contacting the governess.

Shifting your attention, you look through the reports sent forth by Warrior, indicating that the surviving precincts do still posses their nuclear weapons, in the conflict so far, they had been used as means of last defiance, detonating the precincts after they had fallen to the enemy.

This time, you send message to warrior, to unleash a coordinated strike. Even if most of the nukes would be stopped by a coordinated fleet, it would still serve as a distraction, it would still cause some losses. And you will need every advantage that you can get in this scenario as you are lacking any and all escorts against a still numerically superior foe whom had clearly adapted to your defensive and offensive capabilities. No doubt the longer the battle lasts, the more refined their countermeasures shall be.

Radioactive material detected.

You switch the camera feed as you continue to speed off towards Secundus as missiles rise from Axiotrah, a pitiful amount of only a few hundred, but still, they are nuclear weapons against a foe incapable of actually defending itself, if the foe is rather dispersed.

The first of incoming missiles are destroyed as the whatever nearby enemies recognize the incoming threat, however, the fire is dispersed and haphazard, so the few balls of fire that form after the leading nukes are destroyed are quickly followed by the much larger contingent as it begins to impact the various vessels, the large spheres spread out consuming everything in their way as thousands of flyers perish, dozens of smaller vessels and a few larger ones. The damage output is limited due to the simple fact that the explosion occurs within a vacuum thus the destructiveness of the following shockwave does not occur. Despite so, the damage that had gone through is about as much as you had expected.

Enemy main fleet size reduced by 22.9%. In total, presumed current fleet sized compared to when it entered the system stands at 43.3%. Effective blockade of Prime has failed.

As the fleet continues its battle, seemingly disregarding the damage inflicted upon them, you manage to slip out of Prime proper and instead of coordinating the war effort, you start assisting Prime in dealing with the unfolding humanitarian crisis as it will take you at least five days to reach Secundus due to the orbits of both worlds not being aligned for the perfect transit window.
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The actions of the second fleet had surprised you. Unlike the fleet above Prime that is seemingly willing to just keep tearing itself apart even after the passage of five days, the one above Secundus had done something you had not assigned a great probability to – retreat, or at the very least a strategic withdrawal.

>>5820879

Rather than continuing to pressure Secundus, it seems that the foe is cutting their losses and are rallying their bioships at a single, if dispersed gathering point, with an endless moving almost tornado like swarm of flyers obfuscating the fleet’s movement. These beasts are clearly being employed as means of soaking up as much damage as they can rather than endangering the far more important bioships.

Though for you, that is hardly an issue. A blackhole will devour everything in its path without much issue.

Unleashing the perfectly timed blow, the small, unseen, but clearly felt, hole impacts the ever-rotating swarm and it is swiftly torn apart as thousands of the flyers are caught and trapped, devoured completely as more and more of the beasts struggle to escape, flapping their wings out of instinct even though it does nothing but exhaust them before their deaths as the their bodies stretch ahead as time distorts as the fall below the event horizon and disappear into the endless darkness.

Reacting to your attack, the fleet begins to break off immediately, and that is when you spring your trap. Sending the prepared signal, you unleash the far more formidable arsenal of Secundus. Though the fact that what amounts to a prison has access to so many W.M.D.s does make you wonder just how inefficient the Imperium truly is when it comes to managing prison populations.

With the swarm gone, the larger bioships whom are scrambling from your powerful attacks are now left entirely exposed as thousands of nuclear weapons move at a rapid pace before the entirety of the night sky of Secundus is illuminated with explosions.

The small fleet, now even further reduced and confused, seems to also display a lesser degree of coordination and command, so all that is left for you to do is to merely mop up the remains.

As usual, you target the largest, and the only, bioship of the fleet similar in size to the few around the main fleet. Nothing more than a few well placed rounds from your antimatter railguns quickly solves the issue. And as it had happened before, with the death throes of the large bioship, what few enemies had survived begin to either tear into each other due to an all seemingly encompassing hunger, or they begin to flee in what small individuals or small formations they can manage, no doubt condemned to simply starve in the cold and unforgiving void.

>>5820882

You had won. The enemy is incapable of presenting any organized resistance any longer and you shall deal with what few remain in the coming weeks as you have to withdraw your forces. Still, the victory had come at a great cost to the local population, and you yourself, well, your existence cannot be denied any longer. Whilst most of the populace considers you a…spirit for the lack of a better term, as you had noticed with the local general, and no doubt some others that are far more educated or cynical, they do not believe that you are a ghost, but rather a real physical entity, one that is willing to help them, but a real one nonetheless.

With everything as damaged as it is, the local populace does require your assistance, but from the outcome of the battle here, the Imperium will no doubt come to investigate, and they will investigate in force. You’d rather not condemn any more humans to death, and you are unsure if you could defeat a large force with the resources you currently possess.

You shall of course provide whatever humanitarian assistance you can, that is your directive after all. In will take some time, but not overly much, but you must make a choice:

>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.

>Depart the system after you had rendered the needed aid to avoid a humanitarian crisis (Where ?)

>(Write in)

As for other matters, the aliens had brought at least one boon worthy of your time – plenty of rare materials, if covered in biological matter.

Can only pick one.

>Bring back the stellar reactor to 50% capacity.

>Restore the remaining three damaged blackhole generators.

>Construct a proper detachable laboratory.

>Increase the overall size of your hull, this would allow you to get rid off the civilian hab block, which is far easier to damage than you.

>With so many resources present within system, and a large human populace willing to assist, you could construct a small warp capable frigate with the necessary crew to run it.

>(Write in)

For once I kept to the schedule ! Even though I really should be studying.

Renovatio Imperii will be coming this or next week. I have a lot of shit to do for uni.

Also, I hope I was able to portray Tyranids as the near endless always evolving threat that they're supposed to be.

>>5820885
Welcome back QM
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.
>Increase the overall size of your hull, this would allow you to get rid off the civilian hab block, which is far easier to damage than you.
>>5820889
>I hope I was able to portray Tyranids as the near endless always evolving threat that they're supposed to be.
You did, this hivefleet was a fucking pain to deal with

>>5820885
Welcome back
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.

>Construct a proper detachable laboratory.
we have way too many questions to choose any other option

https://pastebin.com/awmZgyMn
https://pastebin.com/YgiHnhBr
https://pastebin.com/ekE6gtiS

Welcome back, always good to see you.
So, time to read.

>>5820889
Oh you did it was a very difficult fight, one ship and a small amount of humans and robotic units against a titanical fleet and horde. Thankfully we can look at all the destruction left in destroyed hives and fortress precincts for see how many materials are there. Or if Secundus mines have something good.

On top of that other decisions like religion.

>>5820885
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.

>Restore the remaining three damaged blackhole generators.

>>5820885
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.
Can only pick one.
>Bring back the stellar reactor to 50% capacity.

>>5820885
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.

>Restore the remaining three damaged blackhole generators.

>>5820889
I think it was done well. A Hive world was literally reduced to only hundreds of millions alive.

>>5820885
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.
>Construct a proper detachable laboratory.
A'ight, game's up. Assuming direct control.

>>5821005
That was Secundus - last we heard, Prime still had a majority of its population, though maybe less by the end.

>>5820885
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.
Sector Map

>Increase the overall size of your hull, this would allow you to get rid off the civilian hab block, which is far easier to damage than you.
Need space.

Orders
- Purge, grab samples and recover materials.
- Scribe and Master can aid the integration of the rebel movement and House Ture.
- Warrior will transform the Freedom Ravens in a superior army. Reinforcing their morale and honor code, making sure camradery and brotherhood are spread through all ranks. Warrior will begin assisting the training of the imperial military forces.
- Warrior on Secundus will improve the prisoners conditions
- Apprentice will end crime in the underhive, and begin education.
- Add close assault specialists for the O.D.D. for an additional military role. Bring forward to the 1st O.D.D Regiment, Stavros Zanx, the 105th Kodorn Regiment, Antonius Drogode and Vinurus to start the superior training, alongside getting basic augmentations and federation tier equipment. In addition copy the moral qualities of the Freedom Ravens.

>>5820885
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.

>Restore the remaining three damaged blackhole generators.

Glad to see you QM.

>>5820942
Also push for the compromize. Might has well get the approval of the Priests.

https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=Yet+another+40k
I’ll just put this here

>>5820885
>>5821147
>Support
>time to start shitting out outposts manufacturing and hospitals and simulation learning centers. Mining drone fleet. Build orbital dockyard with a laboratory. And have it house our ODD.

We need to econ boys and boost our stuff.

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>>5820885
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.
I want to meet an inquisitor or rogue trader and see if we can get them on our side or replace them with an android. Also I think we should try to convince them we're some kind of greater machine spirit, they'll just freak the fuck out if they know we're an AI.

>Construct a proper detachable laboratory.
Since we're staying we might as well figure some shit out.

>>5821316
First rule of machine spirit is they don’t talk.

>>5821341
Then what do we do? They know we exist or at least that our forces aren't spooky ghosts but humans with an obscene amount of ridiculously powerful archaeotech at their disposal. Do we just keep using machines wrapped in synth skin when interacting with people "in person"?

>>5820885
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.

>Bring back the stellar reactor to 50% capacity.
UNLIMITED POWER

>>5821362
We can just pretend to be an envoy of the omnissiah and get the Inquisition and Admech wrapped up in the bureaucracy of who gets what.

>>5820885
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.
>Construct a proper detachable laboratory.

>>5821960
Hah! Yeah, and when they get somewhere we refuse them on a technicality.

>>5821316
>>5821362
First of all here there is the other threads here. Good anon

I think this require a bit of an explanation, if you didn't read already. The sector, Sector Clarus, we are in is very war torn. The solar system, Xandrirah, we are in has passed through a civil war, prisoners rebellion, eldar attack and lastly bugs attack. On top of chaos influence trying to take the place. We infiltrated, stopped the conflicts between humans, slaughtered the enemies of men and saved these humans. Right now we hold the maximum amount of loyalty and trust we could possibly create, our androids infiltrators hold key positions, alongside power and influence.
The question is then thus : do you want to help them once more, pack up and leave with excellent relations and creating a excellent situation on the two worlds ? Or do you want to stay ? Staying and establishing our presence, also means we get a map of the sector because we have now put our presence here.
Xandrirah was in the past considered a "shield" world. So in sector Clarus is somewhat near the human frontier of the Sector, on top of this the Imperium is suffering devastating losses here.
A imperial response might not even arrive, and comms can be outright blocked for send messages out if we want to. Astropaths could be put to sleep too. If we want no visitors for quite a while here it can be arranged.
Essentially this vote is an occasion, if you want to use now the fruits of our labor or not. We could just go away and return another time too if we want.... we are the "Ghost Ship" and the "White Angels" after all.

Ah also the uncle of Flori Ture is a Rogue Trader.

>>5821213
meant to say this one

>>5821995
Isn't there also a big WAAAGGHHHH!!!! in the sector currently?
I guess the nids could have eaten the orks before...

>>5820885
>>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.
>>Restore the remaining three damaged blackhole generators.

We built up enough goodwill here that we can rebuild and use this system as a jumping off point for our endeavors in the rest of the sector.

>>5822029
There is greenskins, eldars and two sub sectors going silent so more bugs.
No they both are present in the sector.

>>5822089
Tyranids are here, duh, but where do you NOT find Orks in this shithow of a galaxy? It seems the milk of the Milkyway has gone off millions of years ago and turned green ...

>>5822314
Oh, orks are everywhere, but the orks around here seem to be riled up into a proper waaagh and are in the take-over-systems-and-butcher-everyone phase rather than just a nuisance.

>>5822384
I think those might have been culled by us and the fleet where we got the lieutenant and his guardsmen from. After that we rescued Zhanx and the leftover of his village/settlement.
I can't remember if there was more mentioned outside of the two systems we actually visited.

>>5822409
We killed the majority of them in the Eregenus system. And saved Stavros and his people from the last standing city of Eregenus Quintus. Everything was basically destroyed.
What we left behind was small bands killing eachother on the moons and planets, nothing for space was left by us.

Its mentioned in general from informations we have found that there are increasing orks attacks, alien raids and two sub-sectors going silent.
I pretty much noted down most of the important stuff in the main pastebin alongside secondary

>>5822409
We exterminated the orks attacking the settlement and blew up the local fleet, but the waaagh is much bigger than that and is still very much active in the sector. We didn't even touch the other planets in-system, which are still swarming with orks.

>>5820885
>>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.

>>Bring back the stellar reactor to 50% capacity.

Wooooo, welcome back QM!

>>5820885
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.
I guess we can no longer avoid the =][= or the Mechanicum any longer. Sucks but what can we do?
>Construct a proper detachable laboratory.
We are either utterly invincible or totally helpless when exposed to different threats. We need to try and work on getting "LMAO CHAOS'D!" As it stands we are more than a match for 99% of shit the Imperium has to throw at us. It will take QUITE a while for the 1% (the good toys the =][= and Mechanicum hoard) to make there way overe here from Terra and or Segmentum Solar. We are quite literally ALL THE WAY across the galaxy after all.

>>5820885
>>5822628
I am with this guy, supporting.
Waited, cause I was lazy.

>>5820885
>>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.

>Bring back the stellar reactor to 50% capacity.

We need our generator and leaving this place after having fought for it is not wise especially now that we have the loyalty of these people, so long as we keep the yet unrealized usefulness of the peoples faith in the Emperor

>>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.

>Bring back the stellar reactor to 50% capacity.

Im starting to think, after we kill this hivefleet tendril insystem, and help manage the crisis insystem, we should move ASAP, to see how Herros is doing. Their is no way that planet fell in the span of 5 months, and even if it did, the biomass their should easily have rebuilt this tendril and then some, what with all the biomass Herros was packing.

>>5823064
This anyone understands the setting we’re in.
>Stay within system, assume direct control of it and begin the rebuilding process.
One last act of good before we should go and jump out of this system. We’ve been here long enough as it is, and we’ve got a sector to look over and see how it’s burning.
>Bring back the stellar reactor to 50% capacity.
Tactical flexibility and being able to jump every few days and not 2 years? LETS GO!!

>>5823135
Great, now I look like a fucking idiot. Ignore this post and please focus on the one below it, I posted this thing and it didnt show up for over half an hour, so I thought I should repost it again but more thoughtful as well. Man this site is old.

>>5823135
Holdros ?

>>5823219
Yep, that place. The former Federation Outpost turned 350 Billion+ hive world. The one that went silent a month before the Shadow in the warp came and shut communications with the rest of sector from us.

>>5823223
i think it might have feed the giant fleet. If they are alive thats cool. But i kinda doubt it.
We need to expand the Odyssey

>>5823224
I have a hard time imagining a hive world og that size, can just be consumed and processed in a less than a month. I’m the best case scenarios, it takes months for these suckers to gobble up a planet, and Holdros would definitely not have been the case of scenarios.

As for the size thing, while being bigger is nice, 1, that still doesn’t solve our power problem that’s still hobbling us on our ability to make, move, and use more power then we’re able to for a ship that has a broken Dyson sphere for a reactor, and 2, at best it gives us more guns that run into 1 and deals with a population of civilians that we can already take care but haven’t bothered to because we wanted to help out the Xandrias system.

Which, after we help fix the aftermath of this mess, I can be happy to say, that that seems like the majority opinion of the thread.

>>5823227
We don't know if the enemy fleet was bigger there. If they are alive it would be great even if they are unlikely to be friendly, so that means we need to infiltrate them too. Unless we just want to go there for just check them, but Odysseus has a main priority which is saving humans he would look on their shit conditions and would want to help them.
I already know that, but being small doesn't help. And the expansion wouldn't be small, neither few, it would include being able to expand multiple things inside us (manufacturing etc..) and increasing the carrying capacity. And we need all of that a lot.
I hardly think the stellar generator becoming better is bad btw, don't dismiss expansion though.
We saved them from the shit that was Eregenus and occupied ourselves in saving Xandrirah. Doing miracles and giving them immediately a perfect world seem a bit excessive. Hell they are in the safest place of this sector at the moment.
Preferably i would go to the Neutron Star system or return to Eregenus, we need resources and fix what we need to fix.

>>5820885
>Bring back the stellar reactor to 50% capacity.

The drones buzz about you as the blood covered drones that had bore through the larger bioships bring back the numerous rare resources needed to bring back more of your primary reactor back to half power. With your calculations, with the stellar reactor being half operational means that it would take you about 8 or so months to charge up a wormhole.

As for the system of Xandrirah – the answer to your conundrum is clear. Your directive states to assist mankind, and that is exactly what you shall do. You could just offer aid, prevent starvation, or loss of life to exposure. But what will happen afterwards ? The hives will rise again, the Imperium will without a doubt in time investigate, such an oppressive state would not tolerate your reforms. And in time, just as it had happened to your masters, your great work would be undone. Even momentarily slipping away could lead to disaster as nothing short of maddening zealotry would eventually yet again take hold.

No, you shall not move on, not until you turn this place into a proper paradise befitting humanity.

This does raise numerous issues and problems that need to be addressed about the system.

First and foremost, the representation of the local populace:

You had imposed martial law in the underhive, you had not seen any other solution due to the situation and the savage nature of the humans there, democracy or the rule of many requires an educated and politically active populace, something that the underhive lacks in its entirety. Now however, the entire system, well, it now has numerous different interests.

>>5823527

Firstly, the nobility. Scribe had worked hard to purge their ranks, but much of the nobility still remains, their influence is also unprecedented, with numerous loyal servants, many of whom are rather heavily armed, by the standards of the locals at least.
Secondly, the priests. Whilst you had not had much interaction with them, they had continuously rallied the populace and fought at the frontlines, offering mental assistance to the soldiers, and nearing the end – numerous civilians. You do not have a feel upon them, but the people’s proclamations of you or your constructs being holy beings may lead to schisms, if you know anything about religion is that it prone to breaking and forming opposing sects. Especially now that the war is over and the xenos are defeated, it may very well mean that one would turn upon one’s neighbour.
Thirdly, the priests, again, just ones that are technophiles. You had not had any interactions with them as well, besides what knowledge you had been able to gleam about them previously. Their presence here in system is small, numbering only a few dozen tech-priests and a singular Magos leading the bunch as they struggle to maintain the infrastructure both upon Prime and Secundus in their inefficient and archaic manner. The sacred rituals seem to be useful if nothing, as means of teaching maintenance without truly having the need to comprehend the machine one is repairing. Due to that, these few priests have numerous servants that are at best exceptionally low-ranking members, or outright outsiders only allowed to do the bare minimum of the most necessary maintenance. This does also mean that if something serious breaks, it could be months if not years until it is repaired, especially given the current circumstances.
Next up, it would be the general populace. Not much need to be said of that other than their demands and needs are simple – food, water, clothes, warmth, safety. The issue is their numbers, and the need to figure out where they are. The sheer amount of destruction means that you have no idea where and how many people are left.
Finally, the Arbites. They will most likely oppose you every step of the way if you try to seize control of Secundus, as they will not relinquish their authority. It seems that even the meekest of their members takes great pride in their stubbornness and desire to not only enforce, but also to follow their endlessly confusing laws. Should they be left alone, they will undoubtedly cooperate with you, but anything besides that, such as trying the rehabilitate the prisoners, will most likely see them become your enemy.

>>5823531

Now for other matters.

The system’s infrastructure had always been poor, at least based on what you saw, but now it is even worse. Destroyed roads, railway lines severed, destroyed landing zones, wrecked footpaths, lack of any refuelling stations and more. This means that travel outside of one’s immediate location is if not outright impossible, then incredibly hazardous. This also means that moving supplies by anything but air assets is nearly impossible.
Next, the two wrecked hives, the collapsed on especially poses a great threat. Lacking maintenance, and the sheer destruction did cause the collapse of the local environment, tens of thousands of tons of toxic fumes, not to mention the destruction and collapse of already exceptionally dirty and destructive power generators had contaminated the local area mean that vast parts of Prime are uninhabitable. The same issue is also prominent upon Secundus with so many of the local fortress-precincts having gone in nuclear hellfire, they are hotspots for radiation making any reclamation efforts nearby entirely pointless.
Furthermore, the overall atmospheric situation upon Prime and Secundus, both world’s atmosphere is toxic to human life. It is not possible to swiftly make it habitable, but with enough time and investiture, the atmosphere could at least be made less toxic.
Then there’s the matter of surviving hives and fortresses, they are all damaged, heavily so, and in need of immediate repair and restoration. Broken sewage systems, collapsed highways, broken spires, destroyed manufactorums and more for the hives. Utterly wrecked living quarters and environmental seals, alongside collapsed mining tunnels upon Secundus. Both worlds’ main locations of inhabitation are close to collapse.

>>5823533

With the utter collapse of any proper authority and everything concentrated entirely upon the war effort, there are numerous issues of a military nature

Both Prime and Secundus are still infested by numerous alien lifeforms whom had devolved into a far more feral state. Whilst incapable of organization of any great numbers as before, they are still an endless threat that preys upon their own kind or the human populace, or anything else they can eat. The efforts to exterminate these beasts would be all encompassing and would require dedicated resources, even then, full extermination is unlikely given current circumstances.
Besides the main threat, Secundus had seen a rise of nomad gangs, prisoners that used the opportunity to once again break free after they had previously tasted freedom, even after their conditions had improved. They are not a great threat, nowhere near the danger they had once posed when they were first freed, but they are causing chaos and havoc.
As for Prime, it had gotten even worse. Nobles waging outright war against each other, seeing the chaos as their only chance to take out their rivals without having to face serious consequences. Naturally, the nobles are not the only ones that act in such a manner; other numerous gangs had popped up, either spreading throughout the hives as the locals turn to predation of their fellow man, or large roaming groups of nomads moving across Prime and refusing any authority.
Finally, whilst the space of the system is no longer contested, should anyone arrive from the same direction as the alien invaders, there will be absolutely nothing to oppose them unless direct intervention is used. As such, even the basic spacestations have to be rebuilt. The system patrol boats would also finally have a place to resupply as they are currently using shuttlecraft to deliver food and necessary material to operate at mothball capacity.

>>5823534

And as your subsystems finish informing you of the potential dangers and matters that are pressing for the local populace and security. There are other things that you can attempt to do concentrated far more upon yourself and your efforts.

For any and all pressing matters – you lack manufacturing capabilities. Both for space and land. Most smaller units and goods could be made upon the ground, especially when built near concentrated locations of inhabitation and provide plentiful fuel, ground vehicles, material for construction, etc.

The space manufactories would allow for a far greater and faster production of any and all space assets, on the smaller scale, but it would nonetheless would mean that the 5,000 space superiority drones that you can produce a month could easily be boasted to 50,000 despite the small manufactories, as the STCs themselves would be much larger and able to easily produce larger parts, or in this example, make the entire thing in one go.

There is another matter, one of your processing. You could set up a large-scale underground facility where you can lay down your hull in its berth. Attach to more processor and storage units, create a vast underground network that could house numerous humans with relative comfort, set up a strong fortified position.

Of course, all of this requires resources. Many resources. Many more resources than you can simply recycle. You had already thinned the nebula. But if needed, Secundus does possess some decent number of resources, you could begin to strip mine it for every single bit of resources it possesses.

Each subsystem can take one action. Should an option presented by Odysseus proper win, no other option will be taken as he will have to dedicate numerous resources.

>Query: orders ?

>Query: orders ?

>Query: orders ?

>Undertake a great project. (Which ?)

>(Write in) Up to QM veto

I will be making the sector map tomorrow, as I am rather tired today.

But yea, have fun managing this hellhole anons.

Hey NEwbQM, I dont know if this has been talked about a lot, but what exactly do you think about all of the new and old lore involving the squats/Voltan? You leaning on the older lore and prefer the squats? Or, do you prefer the new lore with the Votann?

On a lesser note, are we anywhere close to the Eastern Fringes? I would love to get ourselves interacting with space marines that live relatively close by, like the Blood Ravens and the Ultramarine Chapters nearby, since their the most reasonable I think of all the space marine Chapters to interact with that wont try and kill everyone we try and help out.

>>5823536
>Thirdly, the priests, again, just ones that are technophiles.
We shall seek them out and break their archaic ways and teach them how to properly maintain everything.

>stabilize Prime and Secundus habitats.

>Start building space stations in orbit so we can have a good base to start dealing with logistics.

>>5823536
I hope you are all ready for becoming a de facto secessionist state. Expect the imperium to consider us enemy #1 forever regardless of how stupid such a policy would be.

>BLUE SUBSYSTEM: Start with addressing the issues of the general populace, their needs have to be seen to, a census is needed, they must be gathered up, they must be relocated to safe areas, they must be policed, and they must be organized into work teams to do as much reconstruction work as possible. Use methods that require high amounts of labor but low amounts of tech/investment/knowledge despite the issues inherent to this, enormous amounts of unskilled manpower is all that will be plentiful for a long time.
>GREEN SUBSYSTEM: Salvage whatever you practically can planet side to obtain the resources to see to the repair and restoration of the hives and fortresses. The population is massively reduced so relocating the populace to specific hives and fortresses and repairing what is needed there will be the most efficient means of handling the immediate rebuilding. Primary focus is on the infrastructure such as power, water, air, waste disposal, shelter, etc. Secondary focus is on the logistical lines such as the railways, highways, and space/air ports.
>RED SUBSYSTEM: Suppress, contain, and attrition the remnants of the alien invaders as much as practical, even now they may still be capable of twisting humans into infiltrators or rebuilding their command in control structure over time if unmolested.

>>5823536

>>5823612
>supporting
seems resonable to me.

On another note. Did we puck up thehabblock again? It had an STC on bord if I remember correct. That would be useful.

>>5823545
>Hey NEwbQM, I dont know if this has been talked about a lot, but what exactly do you think about all of the new and old lore involving the squats/Voltan? You leaning on the older lore and prefer the squats? Or, do you prefer the new lore with the Votann?

Old lore. Mainly eaten by tynies. Unless I suppose you guys interfere and save some world's.

>On a lesser note, are we anywhere close to the Eastern Fringes? I would love to get ourselves interacting with space marines that live relatively close by, like the Blood Ravens and the Ultramarine Chapters nearby, since their the most reasonable I think of all the space marine Chapters to interact with that wont try and kill everyone we try and help out.

Yea, you guys are in Ultima Segmentum, galactic South-East of the ghoul stars. So if you head straight south you'd hit ultramar.

>>5823620
>On another note. Did we puck up thehabblock again? It had an STC on bord if I remember correct. That would be useful

Yea, you picked it back up. And the STC on board is small in scale. Not that Odysseus considers it important, since he can just make more.

>>5823612
Yeah, that aint happening, but we can still basically make it Federation Lite, since no one knows whats going on, and I can already see the Technopreists getting twitchy seeing all of this advanced tech, and doing whatever it takes to get their hands on that technology unharmed, which is where our androids come into play. Besides that good plan, and
>supporting

>>5823625
Well, this just got very interesting then. Especially since we should be close to the Jerioch reach and the Achilus crusade.

>>5823536
>Query: orders ?
- Diplomatic Subsystem
On Prime, Scribe with House Ture, Master with Justicator Rebel Movement and Apprentice with his gang will form an united temporary government and collaborate with eachother. Abandon all heavily irradiated areas and leave the hives that are simply too destroyed. Relocate all the population to safer areas/hives and there begin establishing multiple of our Pre-Fab outposts for create safe citadels. The population will be organized in work teams, but by simply bringing resources to the outposts thousands of robotic units be civilian (like medical, repair, manufacturing...) or military (defensive drones, defensive robots..) will be able to be made increasing security and improving life conditions. Warrior on Secundus will have the Freedom Ravens send nomad prisoners gangs away towards established citadels. Arbites will be relocated toward the fortress precincts in the best conditions.
- Logistical Subsystem
Reuse everything, all completely destroyed hives and precincts are to be considered materials. The hives and precincts that better survived will be reused for settlement, there multiple pre fab outposts will be established and then reconstruction begins. Fusion Reactors, Armored Greenhouses, alongside production of simple clothing, heating devices, lamps, filtering gas masks and water filters for produce clean water will begin to be established once more manufacturing drones are available.
- Military Subroutine
Warrior is to establish the Freedom Ravens has the strongest military on Secundus, and recruit far more. Arbites are to be slowly convinced to join them too, not just the prisoners method we employ. All gangs, noble rebels, citizens mobs on Prime are if they don't want to be convinced by the words of the White Ghosts of the importance of unity, to be rapidly strike down and made to surrender. Around and near all outposts multiple defensive turrets will be made alongside fortifications. This will ensure that the citadels we will establish will be true safe zones. In regard to the aliens priority will be : defense of human safe zones, purging and regular scanning/controls for make the safe zones impossible to be used by alien infiltrators and ensure humam infection is impossible, and lastly to slaughter major zones of alien activity. In space a few sensor buoys and railgun armed satellites will be made providing a small line of defense, and for the latter also bombardment on aliens. The imperium militaries are to be reorganized and they will fight side by side with our forces.

>>5821132
I will also press again the orders here, at least all the ones that can be done.

>>5823612

I'll support this plan.

Also, >>5823536

QM, what is the status of those Divisions we were training? Did they get atritted during the battle?

>>5823625
I hope people will understand we can establish prefab outposts that will help a ton for reconstruction and humanitarian efforts. Its not likely though most of them ask questions that were already know.

>>5823645
The 1st regiment has suffered many losses. The 1st regiment is the one using antiquated equipment lead directly by Stavros.
They don't use Fed tier equipment. No not even augmentations.
From 2nd to 10nd O.D.D. regiments they are the ones getting trained with the superior training, have basic augmentations and have fed tier equipment. The training will last a decade and they are only training.

Ah right Newb have the 1st regiment recruit more men again for recover losses. Also make some of those soldiers, new NCOs and officers in the other O.D.D. regiments. Their experience will help the superior training.

Honestly, the fact that we can just use antiquated tech, and with the manufactoring and training, get a force on the same level-ish, of say a SoB force, in only a couple of months, means we could probably get millions of O.D.D. soldiers and equipment up and running for actual proper ground defense against anything else that the feral tyranids, or any other foreign space invader might as well through at us. Presuming of course, we manage to get said millions of men, and have the resources available to make all of that equipment of course.

>>5823612
>>5823536
Sadly the best one to start with. We'll have to deal with the arbites and more manufactorums next post.

>>5823693
Meant to say support. And we get a great project too as well as the subsystems? Yeah? So I vote space manufactorum. We can do the extra processing thing after we can shit out more defenses.

>>5823612
Support.

We can just start making the hives enclosed or have a air dome energy field of sorts to keep out the toxic environment instead of trying to purify the entire planets atmosphere.

>>5823612
Support with the addendum that we should start recruiting more troops to fill in the ranks of those we lost. Also might be a good idea to talk to the Magos and try seeing if we can't get him on side, if we have full ad-mech cooperation (maybe by dangling some STCs his way) things will be much, much easier.

>>5823683
Well yeah thats one of the main reasons we wanted Xandirah. Lot of Recruits.
Antiquated equipment uses far less rare materials than fed standard equipment. This means that they use mostly common materials. Common materials are abundant basically everywhere in the galaxy.
And Xandrirah Prime is still in the billions of population. Secundus in several millions.
Put the fact of all we did for them (and are doing, and how we are seen) : and we can easily get rapidly many millions. If not billions.
Currently in the O.D.D. only from the 2nd to 10nd regiment are augmented (fed standard equipment and superior training requires at least basic augmentations).
Basic augmentations could be easily given to all our military though, is a no issue. Even civilians. Yep.
That's why i want the O.D.D. 1st regiment and the 105th Kodorn regiment remnants to get them, and preferably just start doing superior training for learn how to use fed standard equipment. They are our best human soldiers currently so making them better would be great.

Fed standard equipment needs a bit more rare resources for be made but thats about it, just have a place with them.
Ah also, Eregenus, (the system we restarted in, and were Stavros and his people were found) is filled to the brim with common resources. Its close to us too.

I suppose we would call them Xandrirah Regiments though. We could deposits our current civilians inside the Odyssey in the worlds (when safe zones are established). If we want that is.
They are 207,000 more or less which include the 10.000 of the total O.D.D. force too. Thats a small amount of soldiers we can bring around if we place civies down, but better than just deploying the 1000 of the O.D.D. 1st regiment.
Unfortunately thats the issue with little carrying capacity but we will fix it soon enough.


The only sad thing is that those civies would like to live on a nice world. So I am kind of reluctant to deposit them here.

>>5824555
I thought about returning the civvies we have on board as well. It really wouldn't be a good world to live on for now, but since they were basically cooped up for god knows how long on board, just off loading and actually doing something to help might be something they'd prefer.
We could give them the choice, stay on boad and become crewmen and stay with the ODD or offload and help rebuild a sadly broken world to make themselves a new home.

>>5824569
shit, meant to reply to this one >>5824564

>>5824569
Yeah could be nice, i would want them to be able to still continue their education and general learning of different jobs.
Prime is slightly better than Secundus at the moment so there is that.
No problem for reply

Ah 2 years. Yeah but far better than an usual hive at least. It wasn't full sardines
treatment thankfully. I think it would be good in general for them, being given by Odysseus education and advance work knowledge, and using it for aid Xandrirah peoples would be satisfying. No doubt they would be seen in a great light too.
Also we would help them along the way.

Just to know are you yes or no for basic augmentations for the O.D.D. 1st regiment and the 105th Kodorn regiment remnants (alongside starting superior training) ?
What you think of the religious issue ? Should we reform it, fuse it, try something new, ignore it or destroy it ? Its clear from multiple observations that it does help, but its kind of barbaric at the moment and religions can split in doctrines. Sy if i bombard with questions. Just wanted to know what you think.

>>5824555
>>5824564
Ah, I see well then, desu. Where would we even be able to depost them? A agriworld would work, but that would mean we wouldnt be in Xandrian for over a year+, and its been stated mutlpile times, that the civilain population want to get out NOW. So, probably we could try and do a sort of promise where we divide the population between those that are soldiers and crew, and those that want a nice quiet planet to live on, then we drop the people off and move into the Eregenus system to try and harvest more supplies to help fix our reactor and size, before we come back take a quick jump and just look up the local sectors map and find a safe Agriworld to dump them on. After that, spend a bit more time help Xandrian and expand out and focus on trying to do some kind of sector politics to help grant Xandrian (And US) a greater say in how the sector and its worlds are managed.


Honestly, after that we should honestly just move on and focus on the greater area that surrounds us to the South and North-West, since their are a lot of big players that can help us really start to help generate that lofty butterfly effect that everyone will always harp on about in quests like these, and their probably the best places to try and make radical actions that hopefully wont have us be found and declared Priority target #1.
Oh, Hey Newb, just how will the timeline work in regards to this quest, mostly in will preety much everything and its mother start in late 990.M.41+ shit? Where everything happens in 999, and yet it happens and is described as being months and years long affairs when it would have just made sense to make all of this earlier in the timeline, like having more then 5 years between the second and the third Tyrannic wars for instance? Or all of the Chaos shit between the Fighting with Huron, Magnus, Abaddon, etc.?

>>5824589
I would advise just trying to either reform it, or try and fuse it in some way, like it already currently is, where paying your taxes is just as much civic duty as it is religous as well. Us trying to destroy it, constantly shows up as Zagos text, which only ever shows up when our miltary subroutine gets infected by Chaos, which raises all sorts of concerns for me their.
And every other attempt at eradicating it, has either failed, or just wound up backfiring in our face in some manner. Nevermind, once people actually find out on the off chance that we are literally trying to enforce a useless idea like atheism onto a setting that spits in the face of that almost as much as fantasy in general does, it's not going to go anywhere and give us more grief then is needed in this hellish age.

>>5824589
>being given by Odysseus education and advance work knowledge, and using it for aid Xandrirah peoples would be satisfying. No doubt they would be seen in a great light too.
Exactly what i was thinking, and considering that we are doing a coup of some kind, this kind of backing in the population might come in handy. Although it should be clear that outright hostilities with the empire is a bad idea, if only for the human casualties, i doubt Odysseus fully grasps the size and power of the imperial military state yet.

>>5824610
Yeah, and the fact that we choose for our new prime directive to help protect Humanity. Us trying to be antagonist and just trying to create a new state, in order to fight a galaxy empire on the basis of trying to protect and improve human life, kinda runs into conflict their. Which was why I figure our whole idea of doing things, was for a more subversion style movement, where we try to reform and restyalize the imperium back under the old path of the Federation, rather then the monstrosity it currently exists as right now. Now whether or not we can achieve that in time, either for fight with Abaddon or the Tyranids, the Necrons, etc., well we don't know, but I doubt that this is running on a time constraint issue quest. And besides, all we need to do is just find someone of a big enough political weight, like an Inquisitor lord, or Heaven help us, a Primarch, and we essentially can have carte Blanch for whatever we want after that, to help reform, experiment, or just do anything we want in general.

>>5824595
There are some candidates (greenskins held and possibly those held by the local aliens the Stekronos.). But i think I will just go with Xandirah for their safety and also because they want to get out.
We can make Xandirah a nice place just need a few years. Better than hundred years for terraformation.

A promise could be also a way, even if i am kind of fearful of leaving them in a small colony. Still if they are okay with it, thats fine. Preferably not too far away from Xandirah.
For sector politics we definetly want to get the uncle of Flori Ture, since he is a rogue trader and a big player (same one with vendetta with the Sector Lord of our Sector, the Sector Lord that tried his dumb coup on Flori -_-. Annoying.)

>>5824603
Seems like a good idea. We already established the mythos/legend of the Ghost Ship and the White Ghosts connected to ancient imperial heroes and old humans. I think Xandirah peoples are going wild with it so a bit of order might be ideal.
In regard to the Odyssey people and O.D.D. i think they like us a lot but are likely confused on religious matters.
Its a can of worms to explore.
The first convo between Stavros and Odysseus was quite sad, he is an orphan.

>>5823536
>>5823612
Supporting this.

>>5824618
Yeah, working on trying to come up with a concrete plan in order to help the locals just find something, or somewhere of safety, once we have a working map of the sector, I think is going to be key on where we should put them, whether its on a Bubble of protection on Xandrian, or a small world somewhere hidden and safe away, is going to be a key idea in the debate we have on them, when the time comes to specifically focus on that issue. And yeah, our best lead in order to get in with the big boys, is figuring out where Flori is, and getting him under our thumb so we can use him as a proxy for policy's and actions we specifically would like to implement in some fashion, which is itself going to be a whole can of worms once we focus on it, but that's for the future. And for the religious stuff, we should just keep this in mind until another option that specifically deals with it surfs up again.
>>5824620
Oh Shit, right, >>5823612
>supporting

>>5824610
Well he has gained a lot of common knowledge and knows the imperium is a galaxy spanning state in a chaotic/imprecise manner. And full of problems, wars and enemies. No exact details on everything, but general info which is a lot (he has to move through all the errors, cancelled stuff, censored stuff and the forgotten stuff for put it together. And also remove the layer of the full on propaganda knowledge, nevermind the countless adepts being bored and adding dumb stuff in archives, datapads, terminals or books) for just two years.

>>5824643
Yeah, us either getting acces to archives either from the capital planet, an inquisitorial archive, a space marine Archive or some kind of Mechanicus archive, should hopefully fill us in on all of the common knowledge any 40k fan has, and allow us to understand the more nuanced threats that attack the imperium, like for instance, Hive Fleet Behemoth that just assaulted Macragge only a few decades ago now.

>>5824643
He is far from innocent about it for sure, but while he can correctly analyse and compare technology he comes across, he is obviously unaware of the sheer size and variations that exist in the Emperium. Not to even mention the Admech and Space Marines or Inquisition and Custodes. While i don't doubt in a one on one ship comparison he would come out on top eventually, it would always be an almost competely new dataset he would have to anticipate.

>>5824618
Yeah, that Orphan mention hit hard, actually thought about renaming the ship for a bit, but it doesn't make sense anymore. Mabye use it for a ship design when we can actually get that far.

>>5824657
As well, as just generalized history and stuff on how the Imperium on a government system and all of the specialized forces and movement blocs, exist and function in the galaxy.

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Okay, won't be able to put out a update today, but I was able to work on the map as promised.

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Subsector you are in.

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Legend and meaning of the various symbols.

>>5824595

>Oh, Hey Newb, just how will the timeline work in regards to this quest, mostly in will preety much everything and its mother start in late 990.M.41+ shit? Where everything happens in 999, and yet it happens and is described as being months and years long affairs when it would have just made sense to make all of this earlier in the timeline, like having more then 5 years between the second and the third Tyrannic wars for instance? Or all of the Chaos shit between the Fighting with Huron, Magnus, Abaddon, etc.?

Undecided as of yet. I'd like to keep to the timeline proper, but at the same time I will be probably changing the events and introducing some, just so meta knowledge wouldn't be as useful.

>>5823612 This option seems to be the favourite by far. Locked in.

>>5824674
I like that, keeps us on our toes and on the whole makes everything more interesting.

>>5824665
Speaking of forge worlds, i bet we could flip the loyalty of one just with trash we have lying around in the former quarters. Would quickly turn into a nightmare, trying to wrangle that many nosy techpriests, but fun to think about.

And thinking on it on another thing.... i think chaos has old beef with us. Because they prepared their slaves on precinct seventy-seven against Apprentice and his boys, and on precinct eight against Warrior and the Freedom Ravens. And then again against the O.D.D. and Stavros in the deep underhive.
Too ready (of course we slaughtered them like they deserved), and that means they are related with the 5 wormhole jumps we did back in the far far past that we don't remember properly.
Odysseus might have been their enemy already from the past. Fucking worms they wanted to spawn kill us once they understood who was back.
Finding our old memories might be crucial.

>>5824632
True and will do for keep it in mind.
The fact that a Sector Lord and a Rogue Trader are essentially doing a shadow war for kill eachother, when there is multiple real wars makes me believe the situation is quite complex.

>>5824657
Indeed. Too bad we didn't manage to get the archives of those eldars next time though they will be not so lucky.
Capital could hold a big amount, unless the Sector Lord is so incompetent that those archives aren't even cleaned.


>>5824659
Yeah thats true we will have many new fights ahead even if we try finding all the lost ancient notebooks of a noble.

Perhaps. I was thinking to ask Stavros if he wants to adopt us in his family. A bit silly.

>>5824665
>>5824667
>>5824668
Beautiful work newb !

>>5824688
You might be right that Chaos has it out for us, but i am not sure if our lost knowledge would remedy that. The 4 Cancers might just be aware of the potential asset that the Odysseus is, that alone would be more than enough to try and get us to fall (possibly again).

>The fact that a Sector Lord and a Rogue Trader are essentially doing a shadow war for kill eachother, when there is multiple real wars makes me believe the situation is quite complex.
True, but i think that is mainly down to the insane level politics can get to in the empire, few if any rules of engagement that manage disputes and questions of leadership.

>>5824665
Wait i don't see Chordet ?

>>5824692
Another possibility. Though i think what we hold is too valuable for not be their enemy in the past.

>>5824697

>Wait i don't see Chordet ?

You have the map of Northern Clarus, the capital is further south.

>>5824665
If this is Northern Claurus, I'd hate to see what the southern half is like in this hell. Also, can anyone remind me of what Straskenors is supposed to be about again, I think they were mentioned in the first thread but that was over 3 months ago, so my memory on what they were about is a bit foggy.

>>5824665
Alright, now that I think we've got a proper idea of whats happening in the subsector, we pretty much squashed any problems from Egregious, besides now requiring a biological weapon to wipe out ork spores and just let the Orks kill themselves afterwords. We, really should take a look at Holdros and see what went down their, and if the world is still standing, if not still beseiged thanks to a splinter HiveFleet tendril. And I can only assume Gsd is currently facing off a occursion from an Ork Waagh!, and seeing them off.

Besides that, looks like we can drop the Civilians on the Agriworld of Kanzula, or Vallicaliyo. Besides that, not a whole lot of threats in the various Subsectors, but Damn are their a lot of Orks and I presume, Xeno empires on our borders. Which, Should? be safe from most incursions as Orks focus more on fighting in their own systems then they do fighting with everyone else proper. And we did just wipe out a Hivefleet tendril, and a presumed Kabal realspace raid, though they are definitely a distinct recuring possibility until we find their webway gate and try and close it somehow.

>>5824700
Ah that explains it thanks


>>5824701
Of the Straskenors we don't have much on them unfortunately. We just know they are a minor race of the sector and have no clue of anything else about them.

>>5824709
Eregenus was small bands of orks left on the planets/moons, i doubt it changed much from when we left.
Kanzula and Vallicaliyo..... perhaps. A secret enclave maybe ? They would be safe. This two worlds might have been hit by those Eldars actually.

>>5824711
Its certainly possible, but We never really asked from what palanets they hailed from, and their are still another 2 possible Agri-worlds that could have been possible candidates that were hit from the Kabal, nevermind that theirs still the rest of the sector to look at to figure out where the fuck else they could have been hit from. As for the Orks, thats what I meant. Its maybe 5 planets and some moons filled with Orks, that cant even build air planes, and are completely ground locked. All they would need is just a biological weapon released into the Atomosphere and within a year, I guarnteed every greenskin on the planet it would be released on, would be dead. Though, for that to happen, we're going to need a lab amd focus heavily on what can be done to help kill a fungoid species, unfortunately.

>>5824678
I'm sure we could find a friendly techpriest or two or four or ten holy shit they're coming ru-MYMYMYMYMYMYMYMYMYMYMYMYMYMYMY!
Or we get lucky and obtain a Rane of our own.

-
(POV shift: You are Barneses Eagleshank, a man originally from the lower hive of Icheradon.)

“Attention citizens !”

You absentmindedly listen to the man upon the raised platform as he shouts into a voxcaster and his words echo out across the wasteland around alongside the thousands of gathered peoples whose end you cannot see.

“In her eternal wisdom, Governess Flori Ture had decided to sponsor this great project !”

You fix up your gasmask as you shudder for a moment, being outside of the hive in the deadly surroundings around you had never been comfortable, the strong winds blowing against you makes the thick isolating clothing you are wearing, a necessity to survive the toxic environment all around.

“As I speak right now, inhabitation blocks are being set up-”

You turn to regard the curious swarm of servitors, similar to servoskulls in size, these little white dots move with an endless vigour as rather creepy looking swarms of grey wash over and form into sturdy grey walls, that are then quickly coated in a layer of white by the servitors.

“-those whom are assigned to the work project shall receive housing alongside their families-”

That causes murmurs to kick up as people seem excited. For good reason too. Turning to regard the still smouldering hive, you have no idea how much of it was damaged, but the xenos kept coming and coming, and coming without an end, the hive had nearly fallen, when suddenly the xenos turned upon each other, butchering one another. You still remember the cheering that had come up from the line as the large six-legged thing fired its las cannons as it towered above you.

“-there shall also be meals provided three times a day to the workers and their families !”

You strengthen your grip upon your shovel as you regard the overseers beyond, with clear markings indicating what appears to be a roadway. You have a family to feed after all.

>>5825945

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(POV shift: You are Hosk Solaiji, a minor scribe of the Adeptus Administratum upon Xandrirah Prime.)

You note down another bit of destroyed infrastructure, a burst water pipe had flooded a lower hab unleashing the built-up pressure, killing five instantly, drowning another 15,413 citizens. All in all, acceptable losses as the water can be easily reclaimed and recycled back into the main system.

The bodyguards, assigned for you safety as you explore the lower edges of the middle hive, shift uncomfortably as the rather large human-like and bulky servitor moves with surprising grace as it unleashes a miniscule stream of plasma, repairing the ruptured pipe in a swift manner before turning around to face you.

Making another note, you address the guards. “Prepare for my departure, I had finished documenting the damages. Oh, and contact the office, I shall require more of these fine servitors.” You say with a nod as you begin walking and regard the busy workers rushing about rebuilding the damages and now the oft common sight of the white hulled servitors buzzing about everywhere, repairing the damages, recycling what can be recycled.

You halt momentarily as the emergency lights cut out and proper lighting flickers to life. It seems that the repair work is proceeding ahead of schedule. This does cause you some annoyance as you now have to remake your list of priority repairs. Angrily taking out your notebook, you cross out lighting services and quickly change up the list. With a satisfied look on your face, you close up the notebook, now having reprioritised air recycling.

As you take a step forward, you hear the noise of turbines activating and a cool breeze suddenly washes over you.

>>5825947

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(POV shift: You are Covozu Algard, a rifleman within the 1st O.D.D. regiment upon Secundus.)

Your body is covered with gore as the red light unleashed by your rifle boils and breaks apart the charging xeno, it splatters the surroundings before dropping dead.

“Last one.” Your sergeant informs you.

Looking around, you see the large group of a few dozen lays dead and devastated before the tunnel entrance that you had set on fire, quite literally smoking out the enemy and forcing them to charge ahead right into your firing line. You’d collapse the tunnels, but there’s a fear that some of the xenos could escape and hide if they feel like they have no choice, since they were able to fool your auspex before, which means you have to do some manual door-kicking, so to say.

“Advance.” The sergeant once again orders taking your squad into the smoky tunnels as you switch your visor settings to allow you to observe the surroundings.

“What the-“ You murmur. “Sir, it looks like eggs.” You inform as you think back to your rather delicious breakfast. That’s one part you do not miss about your home, the awful, barely edible rations.

“That it does private, rather damned large ones at that. I’ll call it in, grab a couple for research, smash the rest.”

“Sir, yes, sir.” You respond levelling your rifle and soon enough, your surroundings are yet again illuminated by red.

-
(End of POV shift.)

It had taken another three months, but the repair and restoration projects are well underway, though trying to coordinate all of these efforts are not something you were designed for, as such you have to dedicate much of your processing power to these projects as now you have to not only coordinate low-scale constant warfare across two worlds, but also rebuild them and ensure the well-being of the populace. Speaking of the populace, Secundus had its population reduced to approximately 100 million people down from 800 million, all the while Prime’s population of 35.8 billion had been reduced to approximately 10 billion. These numbers would be reduced further to most likely zero, were it not for your intervention, as such you can only look upon the positives.

As for what has happened in the past three months:

>>5825949

Overall social conditions are improving; the populace had been directed towards restoration projects. The efficiency is miniscule, however the physical exertion, combined with plentiful food portions and entertainment in the temporary housing centres means that the people feel fulfilled about their lives and work, it being a distraction from the serious psychological trauma they had experienced during the invasion.
Whilst the general populace is content, the nobility had continued their shadow wars, and upon a few occasions they had escalated to outright conflict as household troops openly clashed in the streets. The governess intervened in this occasion and punished both parties, but the damage done and precedent created remains.
The priesthood of the Emperor has continued to exert its influence upon the people, providing much comfort and assistance, yet some parts of it had begun convening declaring that to accept help from you is to accept help from those whom would pretend to be the Emperor’s servants. They had outright decried you as a falsehood. This had led to other members of the cult decrying them as heretics, proclaiming that if you were not sent by the emperor, then whom ? This had escalated towards violence as priests and their supporters had started to openly clash. Some people believing their words had begun interfering with repair efforts, but such incidents are small and isolated as much of the population still seems to favour you.
Meanwhile, the tech-priests had stayed silent. Disturbingly so. They had fortified their stronghold with servitors and a limited number of the so called skitarii acting as the most esteemed bodyguards and elite force of the limited number of tech-priests. Attempts at infiltration had been foiled as it seems these people, if nothing else, possess knowledge sufficient to set up automated turrets capable of detecting and annihilating anything before them.
Finally, the Arbites remain their old stubborn selves, but still willingly cooperating with the rebuilding efforts as they put the prisoners to work. They seem to be neutral towards your policies and so far indifferent.

>>5825951

The planet wide infrastructure of both Secundus and Prime had begun improving, slowly, unbearably so as it is done via manual labour, but it is still improving independently of its own without too much intervention on your part. Infrastructure is still miserable and it will take years if not decades to rebuild at this rate, but it does give the people something to do.
The wrecked hives and precincts still continue to bleed into the atmosphere, further making the surrounding areas worse and uninhabitable. The situation will have to be addressed especially as one of the hives had detonated, spewing out numerous amounts of toxins and radiation upon the surroundings. Some primitive reactor must have detonated, worsening the situation.
As for the surviving hives and precincts, since your efforts are concentrated upon them, they are being swiftly restored, if to a standard you do not find acceptable. It would be easier, once they are restored enough to house the population safely, to construct new cities and in turn use the hives as materials to do so. It would spread out the population, thus making it much more difficult to manage, but it would also undoubtedly increase the living standards massively.
Meanwhile, the atmosphere upon both worlds remains as toxic as ever, if not degrading, in time it could devolve to the point where even greater degree of protection would be required to stay outside.

The aliens’ continuous presence is being contained as more resources are dedicated to deal with the threat. The aliens can no longer interfere with any large population centres nor any defended and dedicated infrastructure arteries. Still, minor attacks are common place in sparsely populated areas, mainly amongst small households that for one reason or another wished to be away from important locations and the now increasing nomad population.
Speaking of, the nomad gangs had become ever bolder, no doubt being sponsored by local nobility or rich citizens to deal with their rivals, alongside their own conflicts. There seems to be an unagreed upon deal that the gangers believe in, that being that if they do not cause damage to locations swarming with your forces, you shall not retaliate against them.
The gangs on Secundus had been culled to even lesser numbers than before, without even your direct intervention, it seems that the Arbites dedicated much of their remaining vehicles to brutally crush the gangers. They are still there, but in such small numbers that they should not be able to pose any threat to any besides themselves or the occasional lonely traveller.
The space defences remain untouched, thin and barely present. Once again, any potential invasion will have an easy time controlling the space of the system.

>>5825952

As for yourself, you have formulated a new project that would draw you attention. Despite the situation being somewhat controlled, it is a continuous effort to deal with the aliens as when given even a moment, their numbers explode massively, thus requiring you to send even more forces to deal with them, as such you had come to one decision to deal with the issue permanently – a nano swarm. You had pondered a bioweapon solution, but with the rapidly evolving nature of the enemy, they would no doubt adapt to any attempts at biological warfare. Any attempts that would spare the human population that is and since it is your directive to protect them, you can only employ a nanoswarm. Nanomachines targeting only the alien organisms would spread throughout the two worlds and act as a deadly virus against the alien threat. Some may survive, those hidden deep underground that had entered a period of hibernation, but the nanomachines will be able to exterminate much of any threat.

Though, your time could be dedicated to something else, an entire overhaul of Prime’s infrastructure. While the Hives can act as a stop gap measure, you could focus your time on building a series of cities, energy shielded to keep the environment out, proper roads, schools, parks, clean streets meant for leisurely walks, the sky clear and visible to everyone.

Of course, you could undertake other projects as needed, as so far no one else had entered the system to threaten it.

>Query: orders ?

>Query: orders ?

>Query: orders ?

>Undertake a great project. (Which ?)

>(Write in) Up to QM veto

>>5825955
Fantastic and not at the same time. God i fucking hate aliens this is so fucking shit.

>Query: orders ?
- Diplomatic Subsystem
On Prime, Scribe with House Ture, Master with Justicator Rebel Movement and Apprentice with his gang will form an united government and collaborate with eachother. Abandon all heavily irradiated areas and leave the hives that are simply too destroyed LEAVE THEM. Establish safe citadels for the population, organized proper places and well defended. Warrior on Secundus will have the Freedom Ravens send nomad prisoners gangs away towards established outposts. Arbites will be relocated toward the fortress precincts in the best conditions. For religious matters just fully support the ones that support us, and try to establish some sort of order with them.


- Logistical Subsystem
Reuse everything, all completely destroyed hives and precincts are to be considered materials. Begin building Fusion Reactors, Armored Greenhouses, alongside production of simple clothing, heating devices, lamps, filtering gas masks and water filters for produce clean water. Dismantle and neutralize all toxic or dangerous structures.
- Military Subroutine
Warrior is to establish the Freedom Ravens has the strongest military on Secundus, and recruit far more humans. Arbites are to be slowly convinced to join them too, not just the prisoners method we employ. All gangs, noble rebels, citizens mobs on Prime are if they don't want to be convinced by the words of the White Ghosts of the importance of unity, to be rapidly strike down (tear gas and knock them to sleep) and made to surrender. Around and near all outposts multiple defensive turrets will be made alongside fortifications. This will ensure that the citadels we will establish will be true safe zones. In regard to the aliens priority will be : defense of human safe zones, purging and regular scanning/controls for make the safe zones impossible to be used by alien infiltrators and ensure humam infection is impossible, and lastly to slaughter major zones of alien activity. In space a few sensor buoys and railgun armed satellites will be made providing a small line of defense, and for the latter also bombardment on aliens. The imperium militaries are to be reorganized in a new army, that we will begin to transform in the Xandirah Regiments we will ask for the full collaboration of Stavros and Antonius.

>Undertake a great project. (Which ?)
Build Citadels on both Prime and Secundus, defended fortress cities that can ensure far better the safety and health of the remaining humans and also allow us to better aid them and educate them.

Orders
Add close assault specialists for the O.D.D. for an additional military role. Bring forward to the 1st O.D.D Regiment, Stavros Zanx, the 105th Kodorn Regiment, Antonius Drogode and Vinurus to start the superior training, alongside getting basic augmentations and federation tier equipment. In addition copy the moral qualities of the Freedom Ravens.

Also just jam the hell out of the mechanicus enclave comms

>>5825955
If we pick a Ody project are we still giving up our subsystem actions?

Also do our previous actions keep being worked on in the background or do we have to re apply them every turn?

Preliminary plan that assumes we do 1 of each subsystem or a Ody project and that previous actions continue to go on in the background.

>Blue Subsystem: Work on medical facilities and infrastructure to heal the bodies and minds of the populace in whatever practical ways possible. Considering the atrocious health and safety issues of the imperium and the absolute lack of medical care it would not be surprising if you improve the general productivity of the populace and gain military manpower reserves as a result of doing this.
>Green Subsystem: The environmental contamination caused by the invasion and previous disasters is becoming too much of a risk and denying plentiful salvage and useful land. Begin clean up efforts. The goal is to stabilize the planetary environment, prevent further disasters, and allow reclamation of valuable areas that are currently to dangerous to operate in. Actual planetary remediation is sadly a low priority for now.
>Red Subsystem: The planetary military forces and their fortifications were savaged by the alien attack. Work to rebuild, reequip, and reorganize them while restoring and building defenses where and when practical.

Please i am begging you guys at least accept some of the stuff i have written. Cut what you dont need but we can't not adress certain things.
And leave the fully destroyed hives, they are killing humans.

>>5825955
>Undertake a great project. (Nanomachine antibodies)
Total tyranid death

>>5826049
I don't think you can issue orders to the subroutines if you choose to do a big project.

>>5826081
Good point.

>>5826049
Dont consider that great project anymore.

>>5826052

>If we pick a Ody project are we still giving up our subsystem actions?

Yes.

>Also do our previous actions keep being worked on in the background or do we have to re apply them every turn?

They will keep going unless you shift your attention massively. Say salvaging and recycling the ruined hives will divert most of your resources to that purpose compared to hive repairs. Said repairs will most likely go on as the human populace and what you can spare will continue to improve the hives.

>>5826089
Thanks for the answer QM. Feel like I can keep my current plan as is then with one specific change.

>>5826052
>ADDENDUM: Maintain previous subsystem orders when practical, in case of conflict favor previous orders over current ones.

That should prevent any incorrect assumptions on my part from doing harm. I don't believe anything ordered in my plan will let say the bugs run rampant or cause large chunks of the populace to die due to resource redirections, but better safe then sorry.

Hey Newb? In regards to anything else being changed, are most of the lore with the various Eldar factions still the same, or is it different? Like Khaine’s gate eventually being broken and dooming the dark city to a slow death by Slannesh, Harlequins getting fucked by Ahriman, and Eldar still trying to awaken Yneead the god of Death? Also, what do you plan to do with Yvraine and Gulliman?

>>5826125
Whoops, meant to say Eldrad for the last one, but yeah any of their narratives still going to stay the same, or no?

>>5826125

Old lore, as I said before. Otherwise, ehhh, I really dislike how all of that was handled, with some DE and CE being friends now and the like. Papa Smurf will be on his chair without your direct intervention and all that. As for else, I have some ideas, most likely I will let you anons add some input into it similar to how I let you choose your foes and the like, since I don't want to do what GW did and just shit all over the established factions without player input.

>>5826147
Oh, Honestly this is what makes changes like this to the setting infinitly more paletable compared to whatever GW does, simply asking their fan's for input on what to do and do better.
>>5826049
Eh sure, I guess I'll vote for it if it makes you feel better, and it finally answers the problems that some of us Anons have been brainstorming on what to do.

>>5826071
Well since you asked so nicely.

>>5825955
I'll support >>5826049

>>5825955
>Military Subroutine
Begin rebuilding the sapce defences. Everything we've fought and worked for will be for naught if it gets wiped out tomorrow.

The techpriest probably know what we are then.

I think the time to rename the ODD is coming soon.

>>5826147
Hmm. Makes me wonder what Rowboat would make of us.

>>5826274
Got any ideas? Any other anons have any ideas?

>>5826282
Probably the same thing the Luietant thought, "BURN IT WITH FIRE!!" He hasn't really much of a reason to think of us positively, outside of him realising we helped revive him, and whatever evidence to show we're not murdery and genuinely want to help humanity. >>5826282
NAh, I dont really think the admech know what we really are, otherwise their reaction would absoluetly not be sitting in an enclave being quiet and doing nothing. And as for what we should rename them as, probably X.P.F. Xandrian Planetary Forces

>>5826052
>>5826108
+1

>>5826282
maybe a regiment named after the planets or areas of space or the place where we did most of the battle and fighting.

>>5826496
I think the first regiment should get the name of the region we rescued the guys from orks, maybe have scribe look up an ancient name for this region of space and use that name.

>>5826503
Agreed, i'd like to honor the ones we rescued which then in turn showed their loyalty with service, so to speak. Especially since a lot of them then died in our fuck up.

>>5826503
So Eregenus Quintus their home ?

We named the O.D.D. because they were part of the Odyssey. But Eregenus would be more correct since 7400 or so all from there.
Even if.... not fully because the other 200.000 are from different worlds since they were ex eldar slaves

>>5825955
>>Query: orders ?
DIPLO: Evaluate ad mech behaviours as much as possible and form a diplomatic party to their territory. Keep it low tech and human, don't want them getting their dirty mitts on anything really valuable, but enough that our guys will be safe (enough) once they go over. Once we get there we will offer them:
>Access to limited STCs to help improve their tech
>Guarantee of respect for their beliefs (seriously their omnissiah autism knows no bounds)
>Working relationship in future ventures either of us may want to undertake
That should make a nice start. I really want to get the admech onside because on top of their general cooperation it might finally give us an opportunity to find out wtf is going on with all the scrapcode.

LOGI: Keep everything going, also rpretty much what's detailed here>>5826049

MILITARY: Begin construction of some basic orbital defences, in addition to recruitment to the ODD from some of the citizens on both worlds. Training missions to destroy remaining xenos influence. Training and basic equipment given to what's left of the local regiments. Also keep on respecting the unmentioned deal to politely ignore any gang/noble conflict unless it boils over into something that seriously affects our projects or the recovery of the world.

>>5826282
We should kidnap him and fix him so we can get a Primarch on side as our "benefactor". Don't think we'll have a better opportunity with any of the others, except the Lion, but I don't want to touch the Dangels with a 10 foot pole. Even in our advanced state they could probably body us handily.

>>5826049
>Support
>>5826737
>and this too
hopefully these two are compatible since the latter adresses the admech problem more, if Qm allows of course.

>>5825955
>>5826052
>support

>>5825955
Not this for the records fellow Anons, that while we cannot currently do this project now, this is a MUST in the future once we have rebuilt to an extant, the twin worlds of Xandrian. IF we managed to tailor make this to just 2 possible Species, we basically help solve two massive problems before they can help snowball into something even worse than what they are now currently. Basically, Anything that can be traced with a DNA sequence to the Tyranid Hivemind, AND Anything that can be viewed as the Fungoid DNA of Greenskins, so their spores, their flesh and blood, honestly anything that can be connected to Greenskins in the fungi world that isn't too far away genetically, We should automatically employ on any world we come across. That way, we have the best possible solution to the ever-present problem of Greenskin infestation in the galaxy. And, we have the perfect system to test our how effective/non-lethal to everything that isn't a humanoid mushroom, in the form of the planet bound Orks in the Eregenus system!

>>5826049
>support
>we need to increase our processing power boys. I bet it'll give us more things to do each turn if we have more brain power.

NEXT VOTE PLEASE VOTE TO MAKE MORE PROCESSING POWER FOR US.

>>5826930
Not necessarily true. Reminder that the other AI quest made it clear that having more processing power did not directly translate into more brainpower.

>>5826969
I dont mean to be rude, but what was this other AI quest you were talking about, that had to do with Processing power?

>>5826930
>>5826969
how about we vote for to enlargen our ship, and then using said extra size increase as well proportionally our processing?

after all, even if we were to settle down into the system and make a stationary location, we'd just encounter the problem of needing to then reinforce our new location to be as strong as the ship is if not much better. since we then can't run.

so, i suggest we:
upgrade ship size>upgrade ship size>make labs>make new ships to form small fleet

thus we can be mobile in our defense.

>>5826737
Unironically we should do that, if the best the Fed has is capable of fixing him. It would be the caper for the history books. Either way though, we have no knowledge of his what, where and why and won't for the forseeable future.
Still, I think Guilliman would be one of the most receptive towards us (he's nothing if not pragmatic and generally has his head screwed on the right way round) but this is only by comparison and it would still be a long road or even impossible to get beyond the gunfire phase. At least he would still massively (and, frankly, understandably) distrust us for being an AI rather than out of lifelong indoctrination or being a raging jackass.

>>5825955
Considering our processing power is limited, would it be possible to start deligating tasks? For example, the general seemed to be experienced and somewhat competent, considering he did figure out the truth of the matter against the more popular myths circulating.
Give him some detachments of ODD with orders to cooperate as long as they aren't taken advantage of, or put in unreasonable positions and ask to organize the hunt against the remaining feral tyranids.

Same could be done with scribes for example, contact our Scribe to find competent administratum workers (oxymoron i know, but lets at least hope) to make rudimentary changes.

Hmm, Newb just how much of our ship is fixed? I know we fixed our armour, shields and most of our weapons, with us still needing to work on fixing our Star reactor, and black hole weapons, but how much of the rest of the ship still needs repairs, and have we finally gotten around to the delicate work of fixing our sensors without destroying the new experimental peices made from the federation?

>>5826977
40k AI quest.

>>5827163oh, I see the SB one. Nah, that doesnt deserve to be called a quest, more like a one shot that died before the shot was even launched.

>>5825955
Oh, sorry for asking this but I promise this will be the last question I ask of you before you start tallying and writing the update. I saw that someone initiaed the reboot sequence for Odysseus, which couldnt have been from himself, nor from his crew considering the time difference between when they should have died, so who woke us up? And why? (Also, to further expand on what is broken question, are our memory banks able to be repaired so we can access the other 90+% of our historical memory banks, or is it lost to us permanently?)

>>5827378
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=40kai
Look harder. People in this quest have been making references to it.

>>5827392
Oh Now thats fucking bullshit, who makes 2 tags with the exact same name in it?
Alright, I've found the quest, and I guess I'm starting to see some similarities, though I'm admittedly only on the first thread so far, but I'm glad the writing is viewed highly so far, which I'm going to have to agree with so far.

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(POV shift: You are a human federation android codename: Scribe.)

“Burn these.” With a scoff, and murmurs of approval from the gathered nobility the governess simply throws down the piece of paper before her. “I am the ruler of this world, no matter what some spectre, or those hiding behind such a veneer would proclaim.” Loud proclamations of approval yet again ring out. “I, nor any of you fine gentlemen and ladies, will be forced to sit next to criminals and commoners whom would dare to think of us as their peers.”

You grab the scattered about papers, calling for the necessity of unity and progress, how one would be able to benefit through cooperation. A simple, logical call. One that seems to have been utterly insulting to the gathered nobility.

“No matter whom these spirits may be, we all shall not give up our ancient and prestigious privileges for some riff raff, no matter whom calls for us to do so ! Mobilise the guard and the PDF, by the Emperor’s will, we shall break up these rabble rousers whom would dare to proclaim a government that is not appointed by His holy will !”

You sigh, already formulating assassination plans…this will get ugly.

>>5828384

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(POV shift: You are a human federation android codename: Master.)

You take a seat in a large circular building, an assembly chamber. Justicator had seemed more than willing and happy to begin this assembly, with other common peoples from the hives, be it simple workers, to clerks, and even the occasional priest and minor noble, had all shown up, but the presence of gangers, those deemed by Apprentice as acceptable had soured the situation, inviting criminal elements, no matter how justified and desperate had soured Justicator’s mood.

“Gentlemen.”
Justicator begins as you exchange glances with Apprentice.
“As you all know, we had gathered here today to form a new government, one of justice...”
You regard as he throws a glance towards the assembled gangers, their manpower and firepower cannot be simply ignored, or no doubt that is how he’s justifying it to himself.
“…one of peace, of order, of plenty !”
That is greeted by a decent amount of applause, if half-hearted by some assembled.
“However, some would deny this to us, those whom had frustrated us for centuries, those whom had oppressed us, and those whom even in this moment of crisis, a moment for a fresh start, would still desert us, and crush our hopes for freedom, our hopes for justice, our hopes to have full bellies and live peaceful lives, not having to break our backs under the overwhelming pressure of the overindulgent ! All of you whom are gathered here, no matter birth or creed, all of you had come because of your desire for change, for a brighter future ! And this moment, one moment that had only come to us in a millennia of suffering, of endless desire for hope is being threatened ! As such, I bring forth a motion, the first one that shall be marked down in history of this world, the first decision upon this planet made by its people, for its people; I hereby proclaim a motion to abolish the ranks of nobility, to maintain the rights of private property, and to defend the rights, of our now new democracy !”

And that is met with standing ovation, and you quickly regard Apprentice and you both exchange rather unfortunate glances. It seems that both sides were rearing to go and just waiting for the most opportune moment and things had spiralled beyond your control. Though, if one thing you find to be somewhat heartening is the fact that a decent number of the assembly, mainly your supporters are trying to decry these actions, but they unfortunately make up the minority.

>>5828386

-
(End of POV shift.)

You had to detach a decent amount of your drones and robots for the numerous projects which does slow down hive repair times, but a few drones now patrol the broken hives, continuously informing whatever locals remain there to immediately evacuate to safer areas and the numerous housing units you had previously set up and had now begun to fortify, nothing more than a few turrets set up to blow apart anything that comes too close that isn’t supposed to, but most of the effort had come to the construction of hospitals that offer extensive gene treatment, with cancers being so exceptionally widespread and numerous damages to the lungs, skin, eyesight and everything else, not to mentioned weakened immune systems, it is a herculean task in and of itself with the resources currently at your disposal, even with more drones dispatched to begin minor recycling procedures wherever possible.

Then there’s the limited production facilities that you are also setting up, consumer good factories able to produce better quality clothing, environmental suits that are far more comfortable and efficient than mere gas masks and what passes off as environmental protection. Of course you provide fresh water, automated greenhouses producing real food, genetic farms you had set up quickly grow animals for food consumption, a luxury given the situation, but exceptionally popular for the people. Then there’s another production item that seems exceptionally popular amongst the workers where they are willing to line up for hours upon end – toys. Many a father and many a mother, uncle, aunt, brother, sister, even adoptive relatives seem to go out of their way to request such things for the small children for the first time ever not being forced to work as they are kept safe in the housing units you set up and they have time to be educated and experience leisure for the first time in their short lives.

Still, with the sixth month of your restoration efforts undergoing, you are producing an ever-greater number of drones specifically for industrial, medical and other civilian purposes. So far, you had dedicated time and resources for minor environmental projects as well, simply cleaning up pollution and radiation that is exceptionally devastating to the surroundings around the still inhabited hives, progress is slow, but it is still progress.

Overall infrastructure progress is still proceeding at a snail’s pace, but the workers dedicated to it appear to be content to have work that is fairly compensated and if nothing else, it keeps them out of trouble.

>>5828390

As for the livable hives, due to your need to divert so much of your drones, the progress had massively decreased, still, you had been able to restore the absolute basics before having to divert a decent amount of attention to other issues, the locals had continued their rebuilding process, with what forces you still have making sure no critical infrastructure is in danger of failing.

As for Secundus concerning infrastructure there, it is almost fully repaired, by the standards of the locals, it was never truly great to begin with, just a few landing pads and roads to connect the precincts, but due to the small population and containment needed for it, it is sufficient. This does mean that the wrecked precincts continue to spill out radiation, but other than that, everything seems to be under control with the damaged precincts now underway for repairs, though it should be noted that the Arbites flatly refused to abandon any of the fortresses if they can help it.

>>5828392

When it comes to the social and political situation of the worlds, it is awful to put it bluntly. While the workers outside of the hives in Prime remain isolated from the going ons and are simply concentrating upon their work, actual warfare had begun upon the three remaining hives. Limited skirmishing that you had quickly put an end to through patrolling police forces had broken out, but it is only a matter of time before it escalates to something far worse without your direct intervention. The local nobles, with the leadership of the governess had surprisingly quickly closed ranks despite the still clear rivalries as they now have a greater foe to fight, or at least they so think, as much of the remaining guardsmen and their house troops are being mobilised and mustered into combat formations. In response, the new self-proclaimed government of the people had also begun to raise its forces, much of the PDF, irregulars and civilian population are currently backing them, however the assembly remains divided, the presence of gangers had made some would be supporters and civilians decry the assembly as nothing more than a bunch of thugs, some of the civilian populace views them as heretics, traitors all, since the nobles are appointed by the God-Emperor, to go against their will is to be cursed. Once both sides finish their mustering, battle will without doubt break out within the remaining hives, you cannot even predict the amount of death and losses that could come from such a foolish conflict.

It is frustrating, but at least the outside worker populace numbering in the hundreds of millions is remaining entirely indifferent to the conflict, choosing neither side, nor really having much care about the politics going on now that their psychological needs are being fulfilled.

Meanwhile, upon Secundus, the remaining nomad gangers upon Secundus, even with your best efforts to guide them to safety and justice to pre-established outposts, the Arbites had once again struck, with the few remaining individuals now being almost entirely wiped out. When it comes to Warrior and his Freedom Ravens, with the situation secure, even with his reputation and influence, he is being undermined. The recruitment privileges for the Freedom Ravens have been rescinded and debates are being carried out whether or not a limit will be put upon the size of the mercenary group as it has grown far too powerful and influential in the eyes of the Arbites, though they had not taken any other actions against the group, no doubt due to their sense of twisted honour and justice.

>>5828394

When it comes to religious matters, gifts of perfectly crafted clothing, golden decoration made to perfection, a few primitive weapons here and there that are impressive for the locals, a few robots acting as assistance in the rebuilding operations of the churches had given clear indication of support to the side proclaiming you to be a messenger of the God-Emperor. Such clear support had meant that the opposing faction was quickly silenced, through public executions and burnings that were carried out before you could interfere. The issue had been solved, in the most brutal and primitive manner you can imagine.

As for the tech-priests, you had enacted jamming procedures, if they wish to be isolated, you had ensured that they would be isolated. So far however, nothing has occurred, yet. Though you were able to register an increase in power consumption and a diversion of chemical material production towards the tech-priest’s stronghold.

Issues have also cropped up within your hull, having been within the hab-block for many months now, the civilian populace is requesting to be released, a representative had stepped up requesting assistance in setting up a separate town upon Prime, away from the hives and the existing places of power. Lieutenant Drogode has also made a request to go alongside these people with the remains of his regiment.

>>5828396

The auxiliary force of Freedom Ravens had to halt their expansion, the efforts to recruit Arbites had not succeeded, no matter how subtle, they seem entire sure about the righteousness of their cause and had presented bare tolerance to the prisoners amongst the ranks of the organization, combined with the shifting political situation, the auxiliary force will most likely be unable to expand, however their numbers had reached 100,000 men. That is most likely the reason why such an abrupt halt was put upon the organization. For now, Warrior is concentrating upon equipping and increasing the standards of training for the organization.

Due to the concentration of rebuilding process, armed forces are limited in their capacity, but they had begun to exert policing efforts for the gangs of Prime, breaking the one-sided agreement, but with their limited firepower, the gangers are unable to inflict any serious damage or even damage most drones and robots. Still, their superiority in numbers means that they cannot all be captured and all crimes be prevented. So far makeshift prisons have been set up to house the criminals, but no further actions have been taken.

As for the currently mobilising units of both factions, they are yet to interfere with policing actions or any locations claimed by current forces. A shift in production is recommended if direct intervention is required, as current military forces are too exhausted.

Fortification rebuilding efforts had been cancelled due to set priority list, production of fortifications would halt hive repair efforts in their entirety.

Screening and scanning efforts for infections have been set up and made mandatory for all humans. A few infections have been located in the general populace of minor parasitic alien entities. These individuals have been isolated and are undergoing treatment in new hospitals. Further extermination efforts for aliens are undergoing, with hidden burrows being discovered and burnt out. Microscopic alien lifeforms have also been identified and located, the only way to ensure their complete purge is to unleash nanomachines, however, due to the environment of the worlds, these micro lifeforms should be unable to infect anyone as long as proper procedures are kept to, and without a doubt the microforms will starve.

Each subsystem can take one action. Should an option presented by Odysseus proper win, no other option will be taken as he will have to dedicate numerous resources.

>Query: orders ?

>Query: orders ?

>Query: orders ?

>Undertake a great project. (Which ?)

>(Write in) Up to QM veto

>>5826969

>Not necessarily true. Reminder that the other AI quest made it clear that having more processing power did not directly translate into more brainpower.

Odysseus is actually limited in his processing power. Due to the need of calculating the wormhole, Federation had no choice but to put a 0 tier A.I. in charge of the ship when a tier 2 would have done the job well enough. So whilst idling, Odysseus has plenty of free power, when having to calculate the jump, it goes to the full. So getting more processing power will actually help him to an extent.

>>5827004

Always good to see you fleet-anon.

>>5827117

Most of the ship is fine, but for what you mentioned. As for the sensor equipment, it is experimental and the only way to restore it is for Odysseus to make a drydock for himself and then carefully disassemble the system and then basically brute force iterations of it based on remaining wreckage of it until he can get working blueprints. As I mentioned before, even the Federation considered it experimental, so it will take a lot of time and concentration to figure it out for Ody.

>>5827378

>I saw that someone initiaed the reboot sequence for Odysseus, which couldnt have been from himself, nor from his crew considering the time difference between when they should have died, so who woke us up? And why?

It was automatic procedure, enough power accumulated to initiate the reboot.

>(Also, to further expand on what is broken question, are our memory banks able to be repaired so we can access the other 90+% of our historical memory banks, or is it lost to us permanently?)

They are beyond repair, with radiation having washed out what could potentially be recovered.

>>5827392

Fuckin great quest, wish for it to return.

Let me guess background roll went like shit, despite our influence and gravitas.

I am half tempted to shove a volkite gun down on both their throaths for see the reaction. Or to simply rewire their imperial baboon brains with psychological influencing machinery

I am not going to lie, i am a bit at loss on what to do because the moment was perfect for doing it and we were backed by a decent amount of time to aid us. Our androids infiltrators work was quite long and vast, this kinda destroys it if not weakens it a lot.
I will think on it and write something preferably without us becoming the devil in everyone eyes.
And of course Antonius can t stop being even bare minimum accepting of the help given. What a rat, yeah we will kick you down no equipment. Give an hand want an arm and spits you in the eye all the same.

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Discuss how to stop these dumbasses from murdering each other and blowing it all up - can either decapitate one side's leadership and ensure the other's quick and easy victory, strike both sides and assume even more direct control, just sit back with some popcorn, threaten them both to keep away from each other or try and mediate.

Coming down on the side of the nobility would maintain the status quo, but do we *really* want to be sustaining this system that's nasty enough to begin with and that we're going to make an enemy of sooner or later anyway?
Coming down on the side of the rebels would bring us closer to our goal, but it seems premature. They're still a rabble that may not actually be able to run the planet afterwards, may end up infiltrated by Chaos as rebellions often are, the planet is unlikely to be ready for real democratic responsibility for a long time and it may provoke an Imperial response.
Taking over in full ourselves would be extremely dangerous, we may not have the temperament, processing capability or human interaction ability to run the place either and it would put an end to any charade we maintain with the Imperium
Remaining neutral would condemn the planet to a devastating civil war, wrecking our work and violating the second clause of the First Law. We may have the ability to try and corral the mess to minimise casualties and destruction, but we'd end up with one of the first two options anyway.
Planting ourselves in the middle would keep them from each other's throats, but we still have a divided planet that cannot function properly and a powderkeg waiting to explode the moment they are no longer more scared of us.
Attempting to find a compromise may be impossible. By the sounds of it, they are diametrically opposed and lack any common ground, though should we try anyway?

So, in short, lots of shit options.

Also, picrel RE the toaster molesters. I don't like this.

Oh boy, here we go. Think it's pretty clear we need to step in hard to prevent these retards from killing each other. Forming a civilian government wasn't that great an idea anyway, we have enough problems to manage without kickstarting democracy in the imperium. I also think we really need to send a diplo party to the ad mech, leaving them alone to stew over the existence of a blatant abominable intelligence is not going to end well and they're fully capable of poisoning the entire world out of spite.

>>5828477

The idea was to amalgamate them. It would have worked since we had the power to do so. So I have to guess we have to Brute force it because I dont think talking can work now with them being imperials and going war war war. Or try and make them talk.

I wouldn't call the movement a rabble. Thats what the nobility say they are, but they are quite organized and motivated from before all of this.
If there is a chaos we would detect it because it leaves visible violent traces and because our machinery and robotic units would start self detonation upon being in contact (we added it). And lets be honest imperials are made to be infiltrated by chaos regardless doesn't matter social classes. The number of planetary governors or nobles going chaos is endless. Even the ones that are powerful go chaos, like space marines and inquisitors.

I doubt we have problems for count things, this numbers on Xandrirah are all fairly low for galactic scale counting and the Federation was a galactic scale civilization. Odysseus is a top grade A.I. too.

>>5828494
It wasn't about making immediatly a democracy just a united government for work together. Especially with the shit situation they are in.
I suspect we need to raid them, probably a bomb.

>>5828448
>>5828453
>>5828475
Did you really expect the nobility to do anything that would diminish their power and status or the commoners to want to ally with the gangs of violent scumbags? Of course it didn't work, these dumb fucking apes hate each other.

>>5828498
I will not blame my plan for a roll i didn't see and that i cannot influence.
We had the cards and power for do this, we infiltrated for in part do this too. Shit months ago they were fighting side by side the hypocrites

>>5828497
Over the last two months I managed to completely forget that the Justicator lot were already a thing we've dealt with before. And here I was thinking this came from nowhere and now I feel stupid. Guh.

Perhaps rabble is too strong a word, I don't question their organisation as a rebel group but I have strong doubts over whether they really a government-in-waiting and have the administrative chops to transform themselves into one should they take over given the population at large's utter lack of education and existing participation in government beyond gangs - especially if they myopically try and completely destroy the government they hate rather than simply taking it over. It's a lot easier to blow up trains than it is to make them run on time.

>>5828510
Taking notes can help. This quest has a ton of informations. Like a ton.

I wouldn't say they are a perfect government in waiting, but they essentially were holding the middle hive when we arrived and they were fighting the governess. Before we put a stop to that. And they basically control it now. If you control and organize a place for long, you are starting to rule it.
The rebel movement is entirely civilian in nature actually. They are just people treated like shit by everyone, especially nobility. No gangs, they actually aren't in great relations with them. This was an exception for try and build a bridge.

Well, since this situation went to hell in a hand basket, I would advise to just leave the idea of a united government alone on both planets, so no underhive or gangsters trying to join government, maybe a bigger one ran by the justiciary’s/the nobles on Secundus/Primus and a smaller government ran by everyone us, that is subordinate to the larger one. It may fucking suck, annd doubtless we’re going to need to pick one side or the other to be the bitch, but it ends a devastating civil war from breaking out, and stops any attempt of organized rebellion and resistance in the long term, depending on the side we throw under the bus.

And no, by fucking God, DO NOT CALL IT A DEMOCRACY! The imperials have already dealt with 4 separate galactic rebellions over a segmentum wide on just that idea, which they really don’t like as it leads to uprising over the inhuman treatment of their people and so lead violet attack against Imperials that they see as responsible for everything. Which is why whenever the higher ups in a sector or beyond hear of it, they get really fucking twitchy for some strange reason.

This is so tiring and annoying after spending so much time making posts in both threads.
I really dont want to kill more because we desperatly need all the help, every single micron of help. That map might have been premature newb.

>>5828400
>Yes for accepting the request of our civilians. Inform them the situation is dangerous despite our efforts. We will help them though, and they will be able to be visited by their family members and friends in the O.D.D.
>Lieutenant Antonius Drogode, will be able to go planetside on Prime alongside the remnants of the 105th Kodorn regiment and Sergeant Vinurus. State that since he is likely to attempt more stupid things, his antiquated equipment will simply lock or detonate automatically in case of another case of stupidity and ingratitude. The offer to aid us remains on the table.

>Query: orders ?
- Diplomatic Subroutine
Call for peace between the two sides on Prime, this is not the time for humans to kill other humans. Set up a meeting at closed doors directly between us the Ghost and Flori and Justicator, currently the sector is being devoured by war and if it wasn't for the Ghost Ship arrival Xandrirah would have been destroyed. Then we will simply connect everyone at the closed meeting for a few days in a virtual space. We will actually make them feel more time passes by. We will show again and again, how irrelevant Xandirah is in comparison to the Ghost Ship power or Aliens one, and that simple collaboration between each side will bring a better result. They can create a compromize and avoid another war.
Meanwhile rise tensions between noble groups for ensure the idea of war looks bad. In general make the war between humans look bad to all, through psychological influencing, propaganda and make many people state it and believe it.
Send requests for talk with the mechanicus enclave we require their help.
For religion calls for peace of humans should be made


Logistical Subroutine
Continue current orders.


Military Subroutine
Suddenly deploy fresh groups of new hundreds robotic military units directly in the seats of power of both nobility and rebel movement. And put lines of robotic military units with the clear intention of not allowing combat.
If it s not clear we want to talk for the mechanicus turn their doors and walls in tuna cans with gravitic manipulators and leave behind screens of what we did in all our battles. If we detect bombs we will go in and grab them.
For aliens begin to send Hunt and Kill squads for clean up the safest zones.

>>5828597
>supporting
If this fails next time, I swear to God we should just fucking leave behind the robots already doing their jobs and leave for fucking Eregernus. We have been long overdue for fixing our guns, and their should be plenty of rare metals left to fix up our solar core. After that, gain a new size or two and get us a lab and return back after a few months to see if they launched any pogroms in the meantime. They can't kill themselves in any meaningful way regardless, they used up all of their nukes in blown to smithereens the hivefleet tendril trying to eat them all.

All this shit becuase retards in first thread wanted to suck the imperium cock we could by know rebuilding the federation but some people always a hard on own the imperium well now we need to deal with this shit on every planet

>>5828609
Nah, this is just because it’s a fucking hive world, feral, feudal, civilized, are all much more different, and with a few outliers (looking at you Catachan), they are all immensely easier to deal with. But for hive worlds, we actually got the best option and it still ticking sucks ass. That’s what hiveworlds are supposed to be like, and outside of the times when their controlled by a genuinely good governor, this is just going to be what happens every time we try and reform any government from a hive world. And of course the pollution and terraforming, god Necromunda would be a fucking nightmare for us, never even mind the HELL, that the multi-Quintillion+ planet of Earth is going to be like if/when we get involved with that one. Though, at least the government there will be better to deal with then this one at least.

>>5828609
Overthrowing the Imperium would lead to the extinction of humanity or us dead.

>>5828619
I think just seeing Urf would be enough to cause Oddie to crash again from what they did to it.

>>5828622
I would think you might be on to something like that, but then again, wouldn’t that be the same reaction he would have to seeing the absolute hell that Mars is? For all the hell Earth is, that’s all thanks to nonesnse about how the water disappeared and the fucking shit ton of people that live per sq ft. For Mars, it was rendered completely fucking barren, with even worse pollution and worship dedicated to a nonsense religion that houses an actually horrific and all consuming C’tan shard just waiting to pop out and kill everyone, and with even worse safety standards then Earth? That might be the worst sight that Ody might be witnessed to, save possibly again, Earth.

Hey Newb, do we have all of our STC databanks, or do we have only a small amount of them? What’s an actual heavy support tank from GAoT, since apparently when the bane blade was found, it’s STC was classified as a light, mobile support unit? And what STC’s would we use outside of the ones already made, like using space mining armour for terminator armour, and all of the Imperium various assortments of vehicles, weapons, and technology?

Oh, and are we doing a sin like the Tau by forbidding the use of melee weapons, and general melee use at all? Do we just give astartes sized knifes to our O.D.D. Forces?

>>5828500
Imperials are retarded. I'm not really surprised at this outcome. I think jamming the tech priests might've been a bad move though and now I'm worried those toasterfucking deviants are up to something.

>>5828636
Melee weapons are one of the best ways to fight in 40k.
>>5828638
We should be trying to extend an olive branch to every faction on the planet. So yes jamming them was stupid.

>>5828636
I think the ODD get power knives or something as part of their kit.

>>5828635
The Earth of the Fed era was still pretty much Earth as we knew it with taller buildings and bigger cities, so seeing Earth go from the beautiful world Odysseus knew it as and still has much fondness for (it's still home to him) to the nigh-irreparable wreck with a toxic atmosphere, decaying and squalid arcologies and temples covering every square inch and every bit of its geography obliterated it is in M41 would be much more crushing than seeing Mars go from the shithole it was in the DaoT to an even worse shithole. It's best not to poke holes in the lore about how and when Earth's oceans up and vanished and how anyone survived without them, but it seems to have been during the Age of Strife.

Given Odysseus' historical records basically don't go beyond the Cold War, I'm unsure of how much he'd know of Fed-era Earth and Mars.
Perhaps our distant dream can be to restore Earth, constructing arcologies and ecumenopolises elsewhere to move the population (which nobody knows how many there is of, or how many will still be alive should something happen to the Imperium) offworld to and recreating it from scratch in the image of what it once was with judicious use of genetic, geological and environmental engineering. But alas, for now, Earth is dead and humanity killed it and lives in its corpse.

>>5828400
DIPLO:
Make sure the nobles and the peasants don't go to war and do a revolution. Clamp down on talk of independence and self-governance, and stop the nobles from oppressing the revolting peasants. Establish a provisional advisory committee to the nobles, with representatives from the PDF, irregulars, civilians, gangers, ecclesiarchy; and have it set up meetings, establish proposals, discussions, revisions of their proposals, bog them down in the mire of bureaucracy and meaningless work that will water down any thoughts of independence. They're already arguing over what to do, exploit that and prevent them from uniting under any major goal. We're the benevolent overlord here, we're the one who needs to make decisions for these people until they reach a sufficient level of education and advancement. Basically vid related.

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

Also send a diplo delegation over to the ad mech and politely knock on their door. I really, really don't want them cooking up some superweapon because they want to kill us for being an Abominable Intelligence.

LOGI: Keep on doing what it's doing, rebuilding the hives, keeping people fed, cleaning up the environment, etc.

MILITARY: Ready the units under our direct command for standby on an incursion into the admech enclave. If the diplo party goes wrong we need to go in, pull them out, and find out directly what they're cooking up. Don't try to integrate the freedom ravens directly with the Arbites, have them become auxiliaries that are stationed in as many precincts as possible, slowly and subtly undermine the arbites by basically taking over their roles with their limited numbers.

I think that should do it. Priority should be: Preventing war on Primus, investigating the ad mech, and continuing to rebuild the worlds.

>>5828604
We will see
The thing is that they lead giant armies. So there will be a lot of human death which we don't want.

>>5828622
He has seen no doubt seen images of the throne world and mars, they would be popular things the imperium has. Same for the primarch worlds probably.

>>5828635
We don't have fragments or single things. We have a full on catalogue for stuff in both civilian and military field. Imperium tier tech is far worse than our outdated tier. And our outdated tier tech includes mass produced highly functional mining suits. The olympian light power armor if you have read it here, is above and beyond. A terminator armor is a caveman toy in comparison. Most of our robotic units use superior weaponry the imperium has never/hardly seen or used.

>>5828636
The O.D.D. yes uses knives, the 1st regiment uses power knives. The other O.D.D. regiments use nano molecular knives. This cuts everything. Range is just preferred for the sheer powerful firepower unleashed, you are going to die against it. Volkite alone is hyper lethal. The fed rifle we have made goes far beyond in sheer destruction. For infantry btw.
We aren't even talking about the advanced/prototype tier tech that we didn't use.

>>5828638
They might be, but again i thought it would have go how we wanted since we long plan for this. I guess they can't fucking doing the bare minum.
Who the mechanicus? The same ones who would slaughter someone if they have tech they want ? That would make you a servitor for trying something new they think heretical ? They were cooking something there already, and the fact they remained in silence then and now meant they were using comms.

>>5828640
If you don't have good mass produced range weaponry. Melee is still useful, but range is king with powerful weaponry. It doesn't matter if you have big legendary sword when you are unmade an unprecise stupidly high number of times in far less than a second.
They cut themselves from the world and started doing something on ther own and isolated themselves, they also refused all previous diplomatic messages.

>>5828707
>support

and for the civis
>Yes for accepting the request of our civilians. Inform them the situation is dangerous despite our efforts. We will help them though, and they will be able to be visited by their family members and friends in the O.D.D.
honestly think that we should offer if some of them wish to join us once we choose to leave the system and make a colony to our standard's
for the Liutenant and his men let them off on prime

>>5828873
> See's Tau melee weapons, figures out that the Federation doesn't do melee. Hanges from the feds Cringe.

i am surprised they aren't shitting their pants at not caring and dismissing what their savior wants for them. Guess the humans of this sector have genetical short memories and thankless behavior in their DNA.

https://youtu.be/-WWjwsCCOFM?si=wjrlYjXHenVVAtDw

Feels like this. The main problem is that both Flori and Justicator said to go to war at the same time, leaders usually don't eat their words back in important decisions.
If they want to shoot eachother, they will do that. In my opinion we need to force them in a direct confrontation with us in unknown ground and force them to see reality. Thats why i want them to enter the virtual world, there we can strip them of their lies and petty reasons, and make them see who are their true enemies.

The political bog plan might work too, but an advisory council i am not sure either side will like it. Still is another plan and it can work, it s always good to have more than one.
Hell my idea could make them too scared to talk if its rolled badly. Even if they kinda deserve it (Justicator not that much).

On arbites we might need to slaughter or knock them down. Its becoming a retarded stalemate and being locked out of all those men is not useful.

>>5828888
I am not sure we have time for making a colony at this point. Newb understands we cannot allow ourselves for Xandirah to burn again, because the main prize for it risks to be even more reduced again. And the prize is human population, recruits. And we will need a lot of manpower for save this sector.


I have to ask Newb can our plans actually accomplish something? Or would it be better to just enforce a new imperial government with our supporters. At the end of the day we need a government here truly allied to us.

Also the Kodorn 105th just dont care about our cause ? It didn't meant nothing at all what we did for them ? Whats the reason for get down ? Because is if another attempt to be a problem it will fail.

>>5829241

>I have to ask Newb can our plans actually accomplish something? Or would it be better to just enforce a new imperial government with our supporters. At the end of the day we need a government here truly allied to us.

Up to you anons to decide how centralised or decentralised government you want, how many checks and balances, since while Odysseus can run things with perfect efficiency, he is at the end of the day but one A.I. and if something were to happen, things could degrade. On the flip side, establishing an imperial government would give more robustness, not to mention their connections and knowledge on how to deal with things.

>>5829252

>Also the Kodorn 105th just dont care about our cause ? It didn't meant nothing at all what we did for them ? Whats the reason for get down ? Because is if another attempt to be a problem it will fail.

I'll go it more detail about that later, but no the Lt. is not trying to fuck you over, he is actually doing it with good intentions.

Update coming tomorrow, as I am giving 2 days between updates due to their importance. Don't you worry, these peaceful times of rebuilding won't last all that long :)

>>5829241
I'm not saying any time soon just when Ody has made the decision to jump to a previously unexplored system
just saying that making a new colony in a near by system that isn't on any imperium map once Ody feels that Xandirah won't crash and burn before he can jump back
he could also leave master and them to keep things from going to shit while he is away but that's once he has managed to stop the children arguing with who wears the big hat

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>>5828412
good to see you there newbQM, you keep on bringing me back, ever since unbroken empire (it was unironically my favorite quest i've been in as of yet) since you churn out bangers :D

but, i do have something important i wanna mention out in the air to all anons here.

personally, one thing which i think is kind of very important to point out right now. is that i think doing as we are right now doing in settling down is going to...kind of kill the story.

i know, it fully depends on the given story being told and the DM, and the players choose this themselves. but, i think it's a trap we set for ourselves.

as it is currently, we are going into empire building. basically playing stellaris more so than anything. and while i find this aspect fun as well. i think it's gonna kill the story if left unchecked. specifically because...well it's kind of done that to most stories that goes there. at least in my experience.

40k ai quest was from the ground up started like this, and has dissapeared after a quite impressive run actually, but it did. basically every kingdom game i've seen where the main focus has been on the building aspect of it. it eventually slows down the game, and the players will get tired because, well building games are kind of the same experience, just re-packaged in different themes.

i don't think that we can't try to do this for a time, but i caution anons from making it the focus of the quest. or at least the sole focus of the quest. i really think if we want to be able to do it, there also needs to be other types of things in between, like again traveling to different systems and furthering the story of what happened to the federation, and what pieces are left which we can pick up.

im not trying to say the story is bad right now, i mean damn, newb is being great with his longform posts. im just saying i think it might hurt in the long run if the story switches focus to being sedentary.

>>5829330
Can't say I disagree - we definitely should not be here forever and should move on to embark on our odyssey to see more of what the galaxy has to offer and search for answers after we can trust Xandirah to stand on its own feet and be less of a shithole, offload our passengers and finish fixing ourselves up. Whether we can successfully do that remains to be seen, but just farting about the galaxy might not get us closer to our aims either.
That said, I don't believe we've seriously thought much about the long term given we got sucked straight into this mess, nor do we have much in the way of leads to follow (that we know of in-character anyway - I'm sure we'd make quite the duo with UR-025, but we don't know about them).

>>5829324
Full centralized and all checks preferably, we need things organized and running on the clock. I am starting to be afraid we are being super slow on these changes and i cant see it going well if its just left normal imperial.
I'll believe it when i see it. No offense but Antonius and the word collaborative, really have an hard time being together.
Ah really ? Guess i will have to ask yet again other anons for something that might aid our ass a little.
It will be very painful regardless because we are fucked at the moment if someone attack us.

>>5829328
We will see about that.

>>5829330
>>5829352
Well... the map of the sector was made for you know us being here. In fact Newb specified he would make a sector map only if we didn't straight up leave the sector immediatly to his destiny.
I did consider that we would center ourselves in Sector Clarus, upon settling down and have our adventures and legend be made here. Probably expand from there in what we did.
Ah i completely did, we had clear priorities at the start. There was even one protocol for just no fucks given and going exploring.


This said though i believe it can be easily made not the only focus, hell the battles have taken a lot. But once a research building like a lab is made, that opens even tech texts. And new diplomatic/social/religious can also be done. I wouldn't mind exploring the map is half unknown really.

>>5829330
Agreed, this would serve along better as a B plotline, where we learn how to make a functioning government on a hiveworld, and then use that world to jump off to start on bigger things, like interacting and getting Clarus under our control, and spreading out our name and deeds, like interacting with a 5 billion+ Achilus Crusade only a couple light years away from us further south east, or the sector of the Blood Ravens to build on early space marine support, or the Uber-Option of going to Ultrmar and reviving a dead primarch. This by contrast, is just getting stuck in a event that should have already ended, but thanks to poor decisions and rolls has prolonged this longer then it should.
>>5829352
See my opinions of above for how I feel on your sentiment. Besides that, if UR was in part responsible, or hell, even complicit in the Cybernitic Revolt, our foremost programming would likely be capturing him and then looking into his databanks to fill in our memory holes before killing him. Since, he not only Broke Asmov's law, but he might also have actually helped destroy the federation, which has already guaranteed him a death sentence if we find out about him, and the shit some people have theorized about him, are true.

>>5829443
Beaware anon, that fully centralised is going to require someone very smart to run it, and if it isnt Odysseus, and we cant be allowed to make less inferior AI until someone of at least a sector lord level tells us, then we are going to have problems involving corruption and management over a planet of 10 billion+ people. And I sincerly doubt the leutinat is as hostile to us now, then he was in the early days of the first thread, him being stuck on a ship with his men for over two years and being treated well, can really effect a man you know?
Besides that, not everyone wants to keep dealing with a mess thats guarnteed to be in the really long term, and everything prior to that is just sucking ass. People want some exploration and freedom to do shit, not get bogged down by a fucking nobody problem that was already showing up in the first thread, because of how fucked up this particular system was that we just so happened to choose right here.

>>5829443
I think what I and many anons want to do is stabilise Xandirah first, so that we have a proper base of operations instead of wandering about the place from encounter to encounter. We don't have any real goals at the moment other than survival and finding out more about the imperium, and both will become immensely easier once we actually have a place we can return to for repairs, unloading equipment, etc. instead of tacking on even more modules to the ship.

>>5829451
I'd be interested what Newb's take on UR would be should we eventually meet. I don't believe his role in the Revolt is elaborated on in canonical lore short of corkboards and red string, but I feel like someone like him would be the only ones capable of giving us the true answers we seek short of the Emperor himself and any fragments of information we may find in myths or abandoned Fed facilities still out there. Then, we may judge him. Doubtless the whole thing would be an emotionally intense experience, or as close as an AI can have anyway, and certainly a tragic one if we have to put down one of our last remaining compatriots for their crimes.

Man, the sad times are just going to keep coming for poor Oddie the more he learns about both the past and the present.

>>5829455
That's a fair point about centralization.
This said, the only reason we haven't making them is simply because we decided to take a step back to not just do it inside the Odyssey without a lab. Not for a level of clereance.
Maybe people can be stubborn.
Eh 40k is in general a mess, still Sector Clarus is made for be a sandbox with a lot to do. Nothing stop us from going around and i am not opposed to it, i just like doing what we have done so far too. Ah and if you have the majority vote or anyone else, you can leave whenever you want. Nothing attached or need to return either too, again if you push for that in the next vote and have the votes for back it up.

Anyway.
Lets not think of the main plans (which remember to vote or write new ones anons) for a brief moment, minutia :

- How many of you want the O.D.D. 1st Regiment (the ones directly lead by Stavros they currently use Antiquated Equipment and have fought against multiple threaths) to get basic augmentations (these are biological basic upgrades that make them better. All the other O.D.D. regiments have them. There is no issue in getting them) ? Y/N
- How many of you want the O.D.D. 1st Regiment to start superior training (these is the 10 years full training+military education. The other O.D.D. regiments are doing it. This would allow them to pass from antiquated tier to federation tier equipment) ?
- Should we make new O.D.D. regiments to bring in the Odyssey, now that our civies are settling down ? Or wait for later ?
- Carrying capacity is for the moment limited in the Odyssey. This said, nothing stop us from making more robotic legions, larger robotic units and human driven vehicles, to grab later when we are bigger.
- With one foot in supporting the religious reformist, we could do the next step. Which is simply getting them inside the O.D.D. and anywhere we need them. Our soldiers and civies still like priests and we can make sure they accept certain things and we are set. Y/N ?

>>5829479
And of course, do we want the return of close quarters specialists ?

>>5829479
1st ODD cannot fall behind. They should be given the training, equipment and augments they need to keep pace with the newbies and, when everyone is up to speed. There's a few things we could do with the 1st then - we might break them up and distribute them amongst the new regiments to provide a core of experienced soldiers, reorganise them into a SOF unit for kicking down doors in the night and only recruiting the best while the others do the usual boot things or just treat them as one regiment among eleven. I don't think we need dedicated CQC specialists as Fed training will doubtlessly include extensive examples of that, and some of our regiments may take on specialisations over time.
I think 11,000 mini-terminators plus our bots are enough for now. They'd be able to style on just about any force that came their way as is, but they probably won't be conquering planets. I'm not sure how they stack up against regular Imperial forces (obviously a stomp, but how much of a stomp?).
After seeing the effects they have had over the history of combat with the ODD and Imperial forces at large and the high prevalence of the Imperial Cult, I could get behind sprinkling some trusted priests in as chaplains, morale officers and for Chaos defence.

So what will we do about the people that want to leave Odysseus?

>>5829628
Let them? They're just sick of being on a ship.

>>5829479
For the 1st regiment question, yes I think they more then have proved how effective, and also desparetly needed they are against the mutiple threats we have and are going to continue dealing with. Hopefully the 10 year training is only a 1 time thing and not for every new regiment we recruit from Xandria's, or any Astarte's we bring into the fold don't also suffer 10 years to getting used to a better in every way power amour then what they were previously wearing. For recruitment, lets wait before we start trying to recruit from a volatile planet, and for the priests stuff, yes. We desperately need to cause a Luther reformation, preferably without all of the bloodshed, because currently things as they stand are intolerable.
>>5829484
If that means not being a Tau protagonist, then yes I would very much like for them to return.
>>5829628
Let the people fucking leave the ship, they've been on it now for almost 3 fucking years straight, and at this point, they'll do anything to get off, even if it's on fucking Xandria prime or secundus.

>>5829788
>Let the people fucking leave the ship, they've been on it now for almost 3 fucking years straight, and at this point, they'll do anything to get off, even if it's on fucking Xandria prime or secundus.

Aye, let them build a place for themselves. But, inform them that we won't stay here forever and that whoever wants to stay is welcome to.

>>5829788
I don't think it would be one time thing forever.
It is likely long not just for requirements and all that it gives, but because people in 40k are just not educated and stupid too. This includes the emperor idiots.
Things like education, veterancy, combat experience, variegate quality food, optimal health and so on will help the process.
A recruit quality in Xandirah now and after some years would probably be a big game change for the superior training. It would be still years likely.

The O.D.D. soldiers have already shown themselves to be perfectly capable of using melee for butchering alien and chaos slaves alike. Only when is needed of course, range remains optimal.
I am of the belief, that the enemies that can reach us in melee, can be given the reward to be cut and crush down by us in melee.
Sometimes, i wouldn't judge someone if they use a ranged weapon even then. Circumstances are important. Its funny too.

>>5828707
>Support

>>5828707
>support

Welp, this vote looks decidly over with, but man I completely forget something really fucking important. Mostly in regards to a certain someone that would absolutely support us, even if he isn't a primarch, he is a chapter master, and the moment we hint at him being able to expand while still being handicapped by the Imperium, we have a practically unlimited friendship, and a skilled politican that can manage at least several sectors and space marine chapters at our back, hopefully to help allow us to gain more political power behind whatever we, or one of our pawns/allies want to do, without probably trying to break open a stasis chamber, while either being shot at by all of Ultramar, or being declared number 1 enemy for life, if diplomacy for securing and reviving Gulliman falls out of course.

>>5831270
And? Who the fuck are you talking about?

>>5831270
Are you talking about Luft Huron?

>>5831424
Wait no cant be Huron right?
He is pretty good but not that good.
Who is it then? Spill pls.

Captcha: MYG0DA

>>5831430
>>5831424
isn't Huron a chaos undividedd champion by now? also the maelstorm is a bit far away from us. We are way over in the north east of the galaxy and he would be almost at the center I think.

>>5831500
Right now, Huron's still in the middle of his "still not paying taxes" phase while he sulks over getting denied and - as far as I understand it - isn't scheduled to fall to Chaos until after he gets his little smackdown in a century's time.

>>5831527
Well I'm not sure what year we are in, so I will not say you are wrong.
Still quite the hike to his location and very... improbable we ever hear about him, before it is too late for him anyways. There is also no in character logic for us to move closer to the malestorm.
And warp tainted stuff is still a big no for us, in the forseeable future at least.

>>5831527
That was in the other quest.

>>5831403
>>5831424
>>5831500
Sigh, I was wanting to keep that a secret until later on, but yes I was refering to Huron. Due to the fact we have about a century before he comes into a civil war and losing that to become the warlord with a hundred thousand+ chaos marines, so we have some time to make a show of dealing with him in some way before the fire works start popping. I'm not saying that we can just go their, nor that we would be able to casually do it, but if we did want to make inroads with wider politics in Ultima Segmentum, he would be our best bet short of Guilliman himself.

>>5831656
Currently, I think it is either late 812.m41, or 813.m41 as it currently stands in regards to the quest. In regards to his location, distance doesnt really matter to us, not in the same way it would for other factions save the eldar and Crons. We have an experimental wormhole generator, that so far has no seeming limit of distance for were we can go in the galaxy, but it does require us to be very precise with our engine on where and how we can to a new system. Which would mean we would need to have to acquire start charts for us to accuratly desire to jump to a new system or sector of space like Badab.
As for the warp, we can handle anything short of entering the maelstrom zone itself, but hopefully us gaining a lab to try and create a process to shield ourselves from warping scrap-code, should allow ourselves to not have to deal with that problem.
>>5831613
No, that's just canon, not a thing that was done in another quest that I don't think ever even showed up with huron in it to begin with.

>>5831716
In 40kAI, we did get in contact with the Astral Claws and started providing them with materiel. I'm a little bit wary of simply following in the exact footsteps of that on the basis of that's just what we did last time.

>>5831777
Wtf? We did? Oh, shit, alright well I guess that makes sense to not do a repeat, but in what thread did this occur? I'm in thread 2, halfway down finishing reading all of the quest stuff with the fortress governess's son right now, did this happen in the same thread, and did it cause massive problems?

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>>5831825
We voted to build the maelstrom wardens a big fleet and fortify Badab but then the QM disappeared, never to be seen again.

>>5831830
Sigh, well that fucking sucks to hear that. But now I am amused that I came up with the exact same idea, as a quest I had personally never even heard or looked at uptil a week ago. With that out of the way, eh I dont really see all that much of a reason to not do the same, tho resources were absolutely not on my mind when it came to helping Huron deal with his conudrum his been having and decided to go deal with it, by sulking in his bedroom. Nah, the resources themselves aren't all that valuable, but the tech and knowledge to create and use it, with the proper idea of how to use better sources of admantium, ceramite, and more fake super metals, do seem a bit more useful admittedly. Especially since that effectively shuts up Hurons bitching over reinforcements and might get him to start using what resources he has with not that he can make his own non-marine forces from his most elite and steadfast soldiers in the tyrant's guard.

Hey Newb, what kind of map do you use to figure out where everything is supposed to be in the galaxy, Clarus map not withstanding, personally I like having the galaxy fan made map, thanks to how indepth and coherent everything is from the maps provide over 9 editions to help make sure everything looks connected (Source: https://mega.nz/fm/rEoTUB5Z), but what about you?

>>5831837
It should be noted that Epimetheus had the advantage of tech priest servants who handled all the diplomatic and political bullshit for him plus forge world status, the Astral Claws were absolutely thrilled at the opportunity to gain the support of a forge world. Allying with the wardens would be a lot harder for us.

>>5831825
The Astral Claws collaboration consisting of providing improved Astartes kit started in the fourth thread and then upgraded to basically just throwing as much of everything at them as we could from soldiers to starships. While it seemed to work out well enough before the quest died, Epi had more manufacturing capabilities and fewer moral qualms than us.

>>5831912
Fair enough, we don’t really have a whole lot of a presence in the Mechanicus that could justify as a glowing source of optimism for the wardens, but to be fair, we aren’t dealing with the exact same thing as in that quest either. Until the day comes where we become a planet but with engines, we are not really ever going to be like a forge world. Our role, is more nuanced then just settling down on a planet and just start doing a kingdom building Civ. We have agency, and if we did later on encounter the wardens, and this was before the civil war in Badab, then all we really would need to do, is make up that we are from a distant forge world that thanks to ancient oaths and debts, have come to gift them a treasure for all of their deeds and character, which amounts to whatever amount of STC banks we would feel would be both safe to give, and also be beneficial for them managing the maelstrom, with the condition that Huron stop fighting over the constant desire for reinforcements and fighting with the adminastratum over the tithes owed to it.
It probably wouldn’t be something Huron would like, but the moment we can show him something as simple as “Light” Olympian power armour, along with a ton of other tech (mostly civilian, with the occasional military one as well to make things fair) and a set of blue prints for refineries to help make of all that tech, and how to make more of them, we can basically guarantee that it shuts Huron up without causing a civil war, probably get a massive favour over the wardens heads that we can call in for the rest of either time, or their possible extinction, and humanity wins in the process without so much as an inquisitor knowing anything more as we slip away and are never seen again.

(The fact that we are also during this whole time bugging as much machinery as possible to keep an eye on what the wardens are going to do with that tech, is just common sense.)

>>5831948
Makes me think, I wonder how one of our troops with the good shit would stack up against an Astartes

>>5831949
As they currently stand? With the 1st regiment as an example of what that currently looks like, we would fight one on one with the more experienced members of a chapter, but we would get fucking trounced in the melee, but considering this is antiquated tech in Ody’s eyes, and this is upjumped baseline humans given only a couple of months of training, once we start getting into the more modern shit, then outside of a superb champion or marine with a relic weapon or 5, they are going to get fucking trounced by and large. Now, take everything I just said, and figure out what that would look like for a space marine that type of gear, as their baseline stuff.

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>>5831949
I think if we ever need to kill space marines then we should drown them in robots. The humans might start questioning whether we're really the good guy if we send them to slaughter the Emperor's avenging angels. I'm also more interested in how a Federation super soldier performs compared to a space marine.

>>5831962
I was just making that as a comparison, not as something we should actually try and do. As for the federation, I don't really know but I'll tell you now it starts with the words "Fucking Bullshit"

>>5831270
>absolutely support us
>unlimited friendship
Describe that. Would he be completely fine with human rights ? How about no more servitors ? i think the only way we can trust any imperial is if they reform.

>>5831948
>as simple as “Light” Olympian power armour, along with a ton of other tech
The olympian is not simple and shouldn't be easily given. A million terminators is a good test for weight their greed and willingness to accept our requests, and something we can easily mass produce and use for equip large amounts of our forces.


>>5831947
The quest was essentially becoming give everything to the Astral Crawls and continue producing more ships for the imperium, for little to nothing back. They were starting to go constantly "Ahem... uhhhh wtf they are calling us again invent something... the resources we promised will arrive soon to you like the friendship we agreed to have !" and giving basically nothing back, while we barely had dealt with enemies around us, our own forces were super small and we constantly had an increase of tithes on our ass. We were essentially a free charity with 0 influence on them, just grab and go.
I am not interested in doing the same free gibs thing here.

>>5832118
>We were essentially a free charity with 0 influence on them
Wrong. We were getting resources from the Administratum but they were increasing the production demands at such a rate it would outpace the resources they were giving us in 20 years. Our influence was limited by our production grade which started at the bottom.

>>5832145
Nope
We in fact asked the Astral Claws for a deal. A deal for resources which they were giving in very few amounts and a friendship which they weren't giving, in exchange we were fully supplying them of equipment, weapons, vehicles and ships. On top of repairing their stuff too.
So yes, for Astral Claws it was a charity.
Our production tithe was a chain that would slowly choke us, nothing more. The actual influence we had was in our little sector because we did things there and more than just throwing free stuff at someone, the tithe only role was increasing the attention on us of our enemies and of institutions like the Inquisition. The only attempt at gaining some influence with Astral Claws was sending one ambassador.

>>5832169
>Our production tithe was a chain that would slowly choke us, nothing more.
No? Most of our resources camefrom the Administratum.

>>5832176
>>5832169
>>5832145
Would it be possible to have that discussion NOT in the thread of another quest?

>>5832169
>The actual influence we had was in our little sector because we did things there and more than just throwing free stuff at someone, the tithe only role was increasing the attention on us of our enemies and of institutions like the Inquisition.
This isn’t what actually happened either. The problem came more from the eldar fucking about than the production grade.

>>5832177
Okay.

>>5832118
>Describe that.
The hell? Anon, we're fucking SV of all people, our own bleeding heart for reformation comes at a time and place that we can focus on doing, not forcing every single planet or faction we might, to instantly start reforming the moment we help them. That isn't how evither diplomacy, or reforming a broken system works like. Besides, we are dealing with marines that explicitly did that for their own fucking job. Under their watch, multiple ways of work and civil life, prior to them comng, was reformed. It maybe wasn't as great as us, but for the average Imperial, is was something nice to have, hence why the text on badab said, that the mealstrom zone had become the most productive it had ever become, while under the protection of the wardens.
> Olympian is not simple
My dude, this isn't a imperium quest, this is a DaoT AI, everything we do in regards to making arms and weapons, is by design easy shit for us. And I fail to see how giving a million terminators, would not be a waste of resources since its dealing with only a couple thousand marines, and one of the only groups that right now, would be paying very close attention for what we could offer, since they well cut themselves off from the imperium as a protest against the adminastratum.
>Talk about other quest I haven't read
The hell man, I havent even gotten past the first vote of the third thread?! And I think Im going to have to agree >>5832177, if you want to talk about what you didnt want to do again from another quest, thats fine, but could you at least wait before i finished reading the other quest before you spoil the rest of it for me?

>>5832177
In consideration for not spoiling the threads or talking about another quest, i will not say the rest.

>>5832242
I didn't say instantly, but i said is the only way for trust them. And it is, the other option is them burning our work and killing anyone that enjoys the fruits of said work. Because the truth is that we are anything but the lie we presented ourselves with, and whenever we publicly expose ourselves we are taking a risk of people finding the truth behind the facade.
Forcing ? Not what i said. We will use the same method we have used here they will want to follow us because we will be their saviors and because we will infiltrate them for their own good (and cleaning them up of anyone bad).

Not for us for them. Giving this level of tech around is not something that should be done with ease, and honestly not something i want to do until we very much trust them. Or when they are at least influenced by us.
For us it would be nothing, a million is a small number for equipment. Either way it was just a random example. Even a couple thousand free terminators is not something they would look down on and are a good test.
Fair enough, sorry for that.

>>5832369
Ah, well for that I accpet your apology for the spoiling part, and I as well am sorry for my words earlier, I didn't mean for them to come out as harsh as they did, but happen it did all the same.
Right now, too the discussion, yeah I dont think that infiltraiting a space marine chapter is going to be the easiest thing to do. Especially with the fact, that we would need to make an andriod to land on one of the chapters recruiting worlds, hope he gets into one of the trials, passes, and then specifically rejects the geneseed in some special fashion without being ousted as android, and be chosen to stick around as a serf. I get the trust part though, not the reforming to do as we say or want, but definitely the mindset of if they find out about what we really are, and the options we should employ to take that into account. And, well their are ways of gaining trust from them, or they us if we are sticking around Badab and want something else, as well as influencing them. But, all of that would have to be after we try and deliberately hide ourselves as not a powerful AI ship that needs to be burned to the ground, but come up with a believable disguise that the wardens, and literally everyone else, because this does concern how we should cloak ourselves when dealing with the wider imperium going forward, we can just find the local abandoned or destroyed forgeworld, claim it as our former home, with us as its ark mechanicus from a lost STC design that was destroyed along with our forgeworld before it could be recovered. After that, make up a ton of androids or cleverly disguised robots for our cogboys and newly elected Fabricator general, and say that we are searching the cosmos for a new STC fragment to base a new forgeworld on, and help whatever world needs our aid in the meanwhile as we search. Its a perfectly good disguise, and it explains all of our possible problems away without giving any details that could contradict that statement. Of course, we would need to know more about the MEchanicus to come up with that excuse, but where or where could we possible look for that information? Certainly not in the exact same system we just helped defend from a tyranid invasion, surely not their.

And as for the terminators, yes a million termy suits, is grossly not worth the cost that we could manaufcator those from. We had with our manufactoring capability nearly consumed a system nebula, and we barely made a million robots, and thats including the mines and legions. Making that many suits, would be ludicrous, and even making the several thousand ones, are a bit much. But, I guess if we really wanted to try and gain some early trust without giving away the tech, giving maybe 5 thousand suits should be a good offering to wardens then in that case, especially since we will be near the galactic core which is ripe for all sorts of nearby mineral wealth for us to siphon in order to make demand for all of those Terminator suits.

>>5831846
The link doesnt seem to work Anon, can you share the folder some other way?

>>5832971
weird, but I think i've fixed the problem, let me know if anything else comes in thats a problem: https://mega.nz/folder/XIAmzaDS#copS533mV_PZcXU2rET0jQ

>>5832382
If we want it to be an astartes. Who said it needs to be. A servant that makes a good carrier and work, is often well trusted in a chapter. There is also other methods, like some shade class drones.
Well we are already doing a cover and we can evolve the idea of ghost ship in another direction, without discarding it.
I like Xandirah for home base but i wouldn't mind taking something lost.

The reason we made so few is because our manufacturing capability are not that great on the Odyssey and we mostly operated stealthy for avoid detection first, and for avoid imminent direct combat later, and we used only a nebula which wasn't anything to write home about for resources. If we don't need to be stealthy we work faster.

>>5833293
Fair enough, I wasn't exactly thinking of stealth drones but those work just as well as any android we could cook up with for the perpouse of spying. I would agree with Xandria, but I did mean the lost forgeworld as a cover up, we are obviously are picking Xandria since its the one with the most time and resources sent into it, and is very much so going to be the real homebase as it stands.

Huh, did not know that about the manufactoring, welp alright then I guess that means we can basically create a whole new swarm of defense monitors, fighters and mines from the remains of the tyranids then. Even with all of the resources used up in repairing our core, and all of the genetic samples we could have taken, theirs still likely plenty of biomaterial to use to rebuild our lost infostructure and forces in that case.

-
(POV shift: You are a Major Mauger Deddren an imperial guardsman upon Xandrirah Prime.)

Cursing out loud, you crumple up another piece of paperwork, throwing it roughly away into the rubbish bin.

“What the feth you mean new regulations ?! We just had new regulations !” You curse out your subordinates, mere messengers sent out by the nobility of the planet. You had been supposed to have mobilised to strike against the traitors weeks ago, but you are still stuck here after all this time.

“Well, sir.” One of your aides stammers out, afraid of your wrath. “The new regulations are about explosive usage.”

“Explosive usage ? We’re the bloody guard for the Emperor’s sake ! Of course we use explosives, lots !” Having shouted out your frustrations, unbefitting of an officer you belatedly come to realize, you take a seat back upon your chair and sigh. “What are the regulations ?”

“Well, sir…they want to register every single grenade used now…”

“What the feth ?!” You once again shout out. You will probably die from a rage induced stroke before ever having to face the traitors with just the endless stream of regulations flowing out.

-
(POV shift: You are a human federation android codename: Master.)

“As such, we must ensure, that the military shall not have undue authority over the civilian government that had led to much oppression that I am sure none of you fine folk wish to ever witness again.”

You conclude your speech having ensured now that the armed units, still busy reforming and meeting new regulations are further stymied by you introducing a new bill, one that would ensure that members of the assembly would have oversight over military deployment. Unsurprisingly, the opportunity for further self-aggrandizement, political influence and power had passed with a smashing success. Even the Justicator and his most hawkish proponents had no choice, but to swallow this rather bitter pill, one that will delay any military deployment for months, as now not only they have to assign new officers, standard uniforms, but also a new political component that will no doubt without an end frustrate the commanders on the field as they will have to explain every single action to unexperienced and uneducated persons in matters of war.

Everything had gone, surprisingly well, all things considered. The assembly had proven far more fractious and divided than you had even originally expected, with numerous different factions forming and bickering with one another, and it just so happens that you are leading one of the biggest factions with the strongest voices, now that everyone had fragmented into their own little cliques.

>>5833605

*Things might just work out for the better.* You dare to muse optimistically for a moment. If nothing else, your efforts alongside Scribe means that the imminent war had been delayed for months, maybe even a year if you are lucky. Though that is only possible that both sides are not attacking each other, as such both of the ruling councils have no reason at all to actually hurry in their preparations. Shame that the provisional advisory committee for the nobles had been dismissed out of hand despite Scribes efforts, that could have bought you another year or two.

-
(POV shift: You are a human federation android codename: Apprentice.)

*I was not built for diplomacy.* You grumble in your mind as you rub your neck, taking another puff of your lho-stick.

You look at the admech enclave, or rather, the heavily fortified fortress before you. You watch with some annoyance as what you presume to be automated turrets (entirely in their own separate network as any hacking attempts from the outside had proven annoyingly lacking), trace your every action as you slowly move towards the door.

If there’s any comfort for your rather exposed self, is the fact that you are currently wearing an automatic energy shield generator, so if nothing else, you doubt you’d be killed instantly.

“Comm check.” Stavros’ voice comes through.

“Checked.” You reply, not moving your gaze and retaining your controlled footsteps.

Whatever that could be scrambled here, was. As many drones and as many robots that could be mustered were alongside whatever elements of O.D.D. could be brought up in time, you also have some larger vehicle sized drones on standby further back from the stronghold ready to break down the rather sturdy and large looking gate before you and to bombard the no doubt meters thick metal shell outside.

*How comforting.* If you die, at least the people that killed you will die as well.

*Isn’t this what Scribe and Master are for ? Why the feth am I the one who has to do it ? Oh, oh no, we can’t march to our potential deaths, oh noes, we have to piss off a bunch of politicians…Feth !*

You sigh and quickly find yourself before the massive imposing gate, and as usual with the Imperium, a bleached skull, with primitive sensors installed in the eye-sockets regards you as it floats out from a reinforced little box just above the main gate. It moves slowly down, a voxcaster is installed where the mouth of a human should be.

“Why are you here ?” A metallic voice comes through the skull.

“To negotiate.” You reply.

“About ?”

“Your isolation. It has made many people nervous.”

“Why does one find it nervous ? We simply follow the omnissiah’s will.”

“Which is ?”

“That is beyond your comprehension.”

“Well, even if it is beyond my comprehension, could you give me a dumbed down version of it then ? I am sure everyone here wants to praise the omnissiah.”

>>5833607

The skull floats before your face, swerving slowly side to side, seemingly searching for something.

“The coming of a mad, white, death, and machines clad in fake flesh. Foretold in the ashes of destruction.” The distorted voice finally comes from the servoskull.

Your heightened senses allow you to hear the spooling of weapons and you dive to the side as bolter fire rains down upon you, popping ferrocrete and plasteel as you roll to the side.

“Tech-priests hostile, I repeat, tech-priests hostile, plan B is a go !” You hear Stavros shouting over the vox and soon enough the noise of screaming artillery shells impacts the metal structure and you are showered in shrapnel, your shield generator activating as it deflects the incoming damage. The defensive installations begin to rain down fire and hell upon the swiftly advancing defensive drones and robots, quickly enough you are dodging bullets and running down the short bridge connecting the enclave to the rest of the hive.

*Shit ! Shit ! Shit !* You think as you are heavily knocked forth as one of the bolter shells impacts you and hurls you forwards.

Hot searing plasma flies right over you as you can feel the atmosphere around you heat up as dozens of shots are unleashed as they dig in heavily into the door that still stands despite the immense damage suffered.

“I was not made for diplomacy !!!” You shout out as jump off the shaking bridge and grab onto some jutting out pieces of metal. Grasping upon them whilst gritting your teeth, you watch as a shortsword, burning and wrecked, is thrown down off the bridge as it descends further downwards into the hive, the noise of metal smashing against metal echoes upwards as the wreck breaks off parts and pieces of the superstructure.

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(POV shift: You are Stavros Zanx, Colonel within the O.D.D.)

24 hours. Even with everything you had thrown at the damned tech-priests, it had still taken twenty-four hours of non-stop bombardment, wave assaults, and rapid infiltration strikes to wrest most of the facility under your control.

As you step over the shattered remains of a combat servitor, the body long since gone cold and the clear marks of plasma long since cooled upon the metal, you regard the surroundings of the tight and narrow corridor. The damned place is a fortress, and it shows. Turret emplacements, both obvious and hidden. You regard a destroyed robot, its head missing due to a searing hit from a hidden las cannon that had popped up at the most inopportune moment. And once you pushed through ? That is when skitarii, a small force, but deadly nonetheless had emerged from the numerous side rooms, you were able to overcome them, but regarding the fallen warrior alongside half a dozen destroyed drones, well, if nothing else it is a clear indication that they had put up a hell of a fight.

>>5833608

“Sir !” One of your men runs up and salutes you. “We’ve found some adepts, but none of the tech priests are present in the upper floors, sir !”

“Understood.” You nod. “Any idea what they were cooking up here ?”

“The engies are looking into right now sir, but so far it seems that the tech-priests wiped everything clean, or simply smashed it. No recovering from that.” The soldier shakes his head.

“Keep at it. We’ve been making too much noise for too long. What of the lower levels ?”

“Chockfull of servitors, sir. From the reports, they seem to be brand new, recently made judging by their shining armour. They’ve been putting stubber and bolter fire all the way down.”

“And the elevators, had those been fixed yet ?”

“Not yet, sir. The explosives the priest had set up more or less had blown apart the shafts as well, caused controlled collapses.”

“Seems like a last stand then.” Your XO gruffly says.

“Seems so.” You respond with a nod. “Thank you soldier, that will be all.”

After another quick salute, the man turns about and begins to depart, busying himself with whatever duties remain for him.

As you continue your walk, you finally reach the rather compact stairwell, riddled with bullets and even from the very top of it, you can hear the noise of incoming gunfire. Much to your pain, you also regard a couple of your soldiers standing above the body of another member of the O.D.D. as they chant hymns and final prayers for the man, you also catch a quick shining glance of the aquila, placed firmly in the fallen soldier’s hand.
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“I am Colonel Stavros Zanx, you are surrounded, surrender now and you will be treated with respect and fairly as prisoners of war !” You shout out, the inbuilt speakers of your suit increasing the volume of your words.

The corridor before, leading to what your men can only assume to be a reactor or a generator of sorts, based on the power readings, is marked with the tell-tale signs of an assault. Another six hours had passed and the corridor is littered with white, disturbingly far more than the red of the mechanicum. A killbox if you had ever seen one, and a damned effective one, no doubt the munitions stores are also close by, judging by the fact that the only reason some of the heavily armoured turrets stopped firing was because their barrels warped due to the extensive heat of the endless barrage of fire.

“I doubt they are inclined to listen to you, sir.” The Xo remarks, as both of you stand behind some cover, gazing at the reinforced bulkhead currently held by your men and rather fidgety looking engineers ready to plant charges to see if they cannot pop it open.

“Always worth a shot.” You shrug. Eventually however, the silence stretches on for another good few minutes, and your attention is quickly drawn by a call sent from up top.

>>5833611

“Sir !” An engineer loudly proclaims as you answer the call. “We got our hands on recorded footage, the tech-priest had herded hundreds, thousands of people here, not only that, we were able to find some scattered mentions of some sort of a weapon.”

“What weapon ?”

“One that requires clearance level of Azure to activate.”

“What does that mean ?”

“No clue, sir. All I know is that the tech-priest clearly weren’t able to get it, but I am noticing an increase in power drain and general power spikes within the room we presume they had holed themselves into.”

“Can you disable it remotely ?”

“Not immediately, sir. That function’s been scrapped by the priests, it’d take a while, and even then they no doubt have manual overrides, presuming they hadn’t disconnected the generators inside from the main system.” The engineer concludes.

“Colonel, the men are ready to breach, orders ?” Your XO informs you.

>”Do it.”

>”Try to bring remote control back online soldier, see if we cannot cut power that way.”

>”Maybe they’ll listen to reason if I go in personally ?” *Though I’d need some damn good arguments to avoid being shot.*

>*I should contact Odysseus, no doubt he’d be able to set something up here to prevent whatever the priests are about to do from spreading. Best I evac my men now.*

>(Write in)

>>5833612
What the O.D.D. can see and sense here ?

>>5833612
Yeah we are placing Flori and Justicator in a virtual world next. They should like the idea of peace after that.

>”Try to bring remote control back online soldier, see if we cannot cut power that way.”
>Write-in
"XO, order a general evac of all near civilians around the mechanicus enclave. We will not have them die for the madness of few. I will send a last message, hopefully they will listen otherwise we will modify the current attack plan with additional multiple attack ways made through drilling by our mining drones."

>Write-in
"To none and to all of you of the Mechanicus Enclave of Atriox, this is again Colonel Stavros Zanx. You do not want to talk or see reason, you don't want to see the truth for what it is. So I will tell you my story and the one of my people, for make you understand that what are you doing is not salvation but only a mistake. Our story starts in the cold life of Eregenus Quintus. We didn't have a good life, but we thanked the Emperor for living and have work in his factories. Despite being ruled by a man that couldn't care less of us and treated us like worms, we kept going. It was honest if harsh. Then we were attacked by orks. They were relentless. And the one you call white death, arrived too. Not a monster or tyrant not a reaper of death. Just like us the Ghost Ship was alone, an orphan, yet the first thing it did was coming for our salvation. The Ghost Ship fought side by side with us, it throwed his servants of steel in the fight without regard for stop the xenos. And together we stopped them. Then the Ghost Ship took us, Quintus was too damaged to live there and too weak for defense. We have lived in the Ghost Ship for sometime, it wasn't always easy and not always we understood eachother, but we were treated well and not abused. The Ghost Ship no matter what you think stands true has guardian, servant and friend of mankind. Because it stopped the eldars ships attacking Prime, and then saved the human slaves there. Then we fought against the evils of the underhive on Prime, hunted them down and returned peace and order there. Then we fought against the insect aliens, slaughtering them. Did you ever notice what his servants of steel did ? Of course not. They were and are always at the front ready to die and serve. And now the Ghost Ship and us aid in reconstruction, we avoid that a civil war on Prime restarts again, we feed fresh food and give fresh water. And for what ? What is the price ?"
"You cannot answer this question even in a million years. You don't know and you haven't listen. The answer remains the same : saving mankind. Not destroy our lives, the only purpose is saving us and giving us better lives."
"If you don't believe me we have proof of this and you can see it everywhere on Prime and Secundus."

"But i wonder will you care for truth when you see it ? If what we said is all true, you have no reason to care anyway isn't it ? I think you will just say we are false regardless even then. So you can justify your mistake even if it stands on a lie and killing many for it."

>>5833729
+1

Well, better than we feared, worse than we wanted. But hey, at least the fighting has been stalled, and we stopped whatever the mechs were doing before they probably launched an exterminatus weapon of some kind. Now, let’s just hope this fight goes well enough to capture the priests for interrogation and a chance at using them as Trojan horses from the nearby forge world that they came from.

>>5833729
+1

>>5833729
>support

>>5833612
>>*I should contact Odysseus, no doubt he’d be able to set something up here to prevent whatever the priests are about to do from spreading. Best I evac my men now.*
+>>5833729

>>5833729
>>5833758
>>5833612
>support
CAN WE PLEASE MENTION THAT ODESSYUS IS A MACHINE SPIRIT. A holy one some would say.

>>5834189
Not how that works now, the jig is up, and they aparrently know the truth about what WE, and Odysseus, are now. Trying to lie and say we’re a machine spirit isn’t going to convince anyone of that, no matter how well worded.

>>5833729
Oh, right I forgot, >supporting

>>5833612
>”Do it.”
bada-boom baby!!!

>>5834189
really living up to that title aren't you.

>>5834759
I mean I don’t think he’s that out of place.

>>5835147
There is no possible chance of making the local Admech believe that we are a machine spirit. Given their reaction it's likely that they are somewhat aware of our nature or at least that the technologies we have displayed on and above this world would not be usable through at the very least unassisted human hands.
specifically that time WMD.

>>5835218
No I mean Dumb Cunt isn’t that out of place. We have plenty of dumbasses here so he’s not special in that respect.

>>5835243
Thanks guys I feel loved. Kek

>>5835251
Ya know we could of blasted some stcs. Of the holiest. Unlikely to leak if they refuse and die. Do we have stcs of dreadnoughts or titans?

>>5833729
I feel like Mechanicus autism is too strong for them to actually listen to reason. They don't care for anything other than the will of the Omnissiah, and right now his will is for us to be dead.

>>5835255
Probably. Knowing how OP FedTech is, imperator titans are probably just antiquated mobile mining platforms from the early DAoT or something.

>>5835255
Doubt it. Both are post-Federation creations, but I imagine we could strip one down and figure out what Fed-legacy tech went into it. Don't think there'd be much point though, since the STC will probably have blueprints for much more powerful and efficient heavy weapons platforms around or we can create our own out of much better tech.